Are Goats the New Face of the Left?

There have been recent takeovers of conservative Facebook pages by herds of goats. In one report 232 goats were reported to have been placed on the wall of one Colonel Foghorn Leghorn.

It would seem this type of  goat-sharing is confused with some sort of passive-aggressive leftist harassment.
I will eat @Subway when I want, which is seldom. I applaud (clap clap clap) the FLOTUS for making a no fryer meal plan, which is one step in the right direction. As for those who are just anti O, go now and walk, don't run get the McRibs. Eat them in your car. You can feel fulfilled knowing you are not in obeisance to the un-elected Czar/Empress(tie) of politically correct food. What ever floats your soft-serve/Slurpee(tie).

The House of the Setting Sun

Chogyam Trungpa wrote that we should look not to the West but East facing the future and never looking back on the day as finished nor done. I have viewed this many ways since the first time I read Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. As a pathological pessimist the East seems the solution, yet that inward navel gazing will not do the job. Always gazing West is also pathological as the sun also rises and never sets therefore endless summer of the evangelical polarity, an extroversion predatory capitalist personae.
As I watch the sun go South and add to the sunset effect I dread the evening sun. I lie waiting for light to come again. Now until February. The long dark night only tempered by the warrior facing always the Western sun. What has the Summer left? What have I gathered to weather this time of cold and barren earth.
Dare I speak now here of the oceans the glaciers and our fellow beings dying in such numbers? I will be that soon enough. Thank you Universe for this day to stay free to dance and to weep.

Why is there so much resistance to healthcare?

Polarity is the rule in American society. I guess we can blame this on a lack of leadership. But not in the same perspective of the conservatives who blame things on PBO not leading us as they deem fit, I lay blame clearly on the corporadoes who bought enough democrats to detour single-payer Medicare for all and sell us the hedge deal (ACA)made  that there will be no limits on lifetime  expenses and elimination of "pre-existing" exclusions.

 I understand it is not a sweet deal for those(unions) who have theirs.  To others, the ones who only have the "death or emergency healthcare option D", anything is an improvement. To those who feel the pinch, I recognize your suffering. It does not excuse our collective responsibility to the 50 million who have no healthcare.Be holy,(Holy) call on whatever religious tradition you choose, but do not ever say to me that the system is just fine as it is. The "Man" fears universal health care  not because Juan Valdez has a an anchor baby on your dime but because the worker wins, the young win and the Man gets to pay his tab finally after 30 years of Reaganomics. Get on the right side, The Left.

Buck 65 9-26-13

Yesterday I drove many miles across a barren landscape to see a man with a word and a beat. I am not a regular at hip-hop clubs but taking exception here  to have the experience. I first heard of Buck 65 on the internet listening to CBC radio and thought “wow this white guy is throwing down about 50cent´ and then the …banjo while rapping about poverty and drug addiction. Totally unique and true artistry, just what a poet does, reflects upon the socio-political environment , in his case the province of Nova Scotia and Eastern Canada.

 Central/Eastern Oregon highway 97 in fall is a brown and dreary place on a cloudy day. The four-hour drive on mostly two-lane roads was broken by frequent stops to alleviate Toetoe Martin’s(picture) anxiety on her very first road trip.

I had tweeted to Buck 65 about attending the 9-26-13 show at the Annex in Bend, OR.  I had planned to see him two years ago @ the Doug Fir Lounge.  He was to play in PDX and cancelled that part of tour. This time I had a rehearsal on the night he played in PDX so Bend was my only choice.

Propane is now Kamen Pink.

I arrived too early (like 2 hours old man in the club syndrome) and got to know the bartender and asked about maybe playing a little flute. The sound man said, “that’s up to Buck.” I left it at that, ate my cookie, drank another latte, and watched the opening acts.

 (insert videos here) The first guy (Driftwood Insomnia) link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ph7T3-Zus&feature=youtu.be  “local guy that opens for major acts,” got up and dropped about 387 f-bombs about hypocrisy, posing, and the class wars of today’s youth.  

The second  guy , Open Face Mike, had effects pedals he punched by hand. He live-mixed and looped as he rapped with amazing facility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqtaE_MmNE&feature=youtu.be

Mr Buck65 had taken the stage while I was outside getting my camera. His crowd was small and very  enthusiastic (cute too) and knew every song that he spit out except a few surprise bits and jabs(Coco) at his roots and life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCaqRgJ8p3g&feature=youtu.be   I filmed and watched him perfom while playing a few riffs on the flute.  The mix was not that loud and the crowd started to react to the flute and on one tune he came over with the mic and I got to be inside with the mighty One. All those years in the practice room gave me a passport. Grace they call it. 

 Happy I could do that. Travel, see live music, and be part of the hip-hop phenomena named Buck 65. I hope the video turns out.

It was a welcome relief to forget  my mother’s  death for a while. Music is an awesome salve but it needs to be applied often and in my case, generously. I was served a generous portion of LOVE last night. That man, that thin thin man from down East, delivered.  Not sex. Better. Much better. BCM

Arrivederci Pope Benedict

Good Good Bye to a man not quite as infallible as the church doctrine would force you to believe. Under his leadership over 100 priests have been ex-communicated for teaching liberation theology. The Church of the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Office of the Inquisition will get Mr Ratzinger back because, rumors abound, he is charged (EU/Italy) for multiple charges of facilitating child abuse and covering up priests by moving them to different dioceses to avoid legal problems. Now he must "enter a life of prayer within the Vatican". Or else, risk being arrested and tried Pope of the pedophile. That ends the notion of infallibility slipped in unbeknownst to our lord and Savior JC of Nazareth. This is what bothers me about religion. The books are holy and complete works of G*D but need "councils and colleges of Cardinals" to perfect the doctrine. Bullshit. Benedict is a disgrace to all catholics and Christians as well. Fundamentalism and nostalgia for the "old ways of the church" are only signs of a dying role of religion in the establishment of power and justice long since lost and blamed on liberation theology and leftist ideology. We who think outside the Book think the Crusades and the Inquisition are not suitable endeavors for our leaders. Unfortunately, these power systems are integrated into our courts, our schools, and ultimately who works and teaches in our society.

IDF Finds Colbert's Rectum in Gaza

In the course of searching Gaza for terrorists, IDF forces have discovered Stephen Colbert's rectum which he has allegedly stated to be in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. "We saw his rectum and immediately called for drone support. This ass was too much for ground forces to "reckon" with," said IDF spokesman Ira Glass of Tel Aviv. A representative for the Colbert Report declined making a statement, but did remark that Mr Colbert's rectum is definitely still "up there" in Windsor. City of Windsor,Ontario Mayor-----, who asked to remain anonymous, stated "We are very concerned that terrorists will be targeting us for allegedly providing a sanctuary for the Colbert rectum." He continued," We are not nor have we ever been the protectors of the rectum of Stephen Colbert and let me state emphatically,the city of Windsor is absolutely not the rectum of the planet earth."

Mental Health Out West

Today PEN holds its' annual "Suicide Walk." 18 year-old boys like to die in Eastern Oregon because its a man's world here. None of that pussy-man shit. You fight a lot, you drink a lot preferably as a binge drinker and you are a patriot who likes guns, girls, and God. God sometimes does not bless the young man with a job which can earn a girl, a gun, and God's grace. So they take the gun and make sure no one knows that they are afraid to say they are depressed feeling hopeless and have no one to turn to.The adults have also been downsized and sent back to school to "re-tool" for jobs that do not exist.The youth who are called lazy no-good for not accepting dead-end jobs and certain indebtedness to "gain" a "life". The land is owned the schools are filled with "educators" who cannot possibly keep up with current technologies and trends so the graduates achieve meaningless degrees for jobs that are easily exported and soon will be automated. So the dream is dead. This is what is killing us slowly and predictably. The weak ones who can't bear the oppression in the workplace/unemployed/underemployed serfitude(sic)find suicide to be a very tempting option. Endless hopelessness coupled with the finger pointing we see every generation against the new one. We have socialism for the disabled the aged and the wealthy but not for medicine and mental health and this is why Condon loses a child each year. The only thing that separates us from SF besides population density is a nice bridge to jump off. We have plenty of guns and pesticides if ammo gets too expensive. The happy hunting grounds are the killing fields of our youth who are told they will have to accept minimum wages as a fact of life as the Waltons gather$21k a minute in profits and we pay $420K for each Walmart store for food stamps for the low-paid employees. I am not walking today. A futile gesture in a land where youth is cheap and life is for the taking.The blame also rides on the APA who has no programs for rural mental health. It is no wonder the rates of suicide reflects economics and the denial of the suffering in our society. Emmett Smith died and all BMCC got was a toll-free number with no back-up of services. Ask and the world says, "sorry". We worry about inheritance taxes. What are we inheriting by allowing medicine to give eastern Oregon the middle finger?

Newt Sucks Blood of the Dead

http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LV1JSD6K50YD01-3AAFC4U13OJKS56R4Q4KOVLVDN

At the same time he spoke against Obamacare single-payer and Government Death Panels, Mr Newton "Tiffany" Gingrich was fattening himself at the Health Insurance Lobby Pig Trough.14,000 people die every year from being uninsured due to inadequate care. This is pure profits for health care not paid by the same people who pay Newt to denigrate poor people and the working class. How does the Newt sleep at night? Very well thank you. Big Pharma has made sure he is always "comfortable" and since he has government health care from his last "job" he needs no "government handouts". Bless you Newton for all you do for the wealthiest people who need people just like you who use their liberal education for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.
Turkey stuffer.

Threat of the Day x2

#1The "Secret" "Giveaway" "territory" and "hostile foreign power" stealing our land? You will have to narrow that down a little. How are they stealing if we are giving it away? Can I just send you a blank check?
#2Barack is just trying to help Michele to stay alive in the race for 2012. You know, "Just chill I got this."
Surprise they both think sending them money will improve something. What that is I am afraid to even imagine.

More Acorn Mail(Judicial Watch)

My mom got this one today. I like the fact that you can "vote" without even opening the envelope. What will they think of next? People(read people of color and youth) might vote. This is frightening to the ultra-right. OMG. The American Center Opposing Republican Nazis (ACORN) is back in business. No wait a minute. That's not what ACORN stands for. They stood for outlawing redlining by banks in poor neighborhoods AND voter registration. Going after predatory banksters(historically the mission) which is something I guess the letter is for as well as taking money from my mother. Makes sense now. Snidely Whiplash is not in for ACORN.

Birther Mail

As if they could use money as a non-profit .org to better the world by spreading this crap. My comment is "Who is asking for another round of birther ads to fatten the wallets of the racists?"

Do you Work for the Anti-Fox Government?

Just arrived to help sort out opinions about the government attacks on "Fair and Balanced" Fox News Corporation. This survey for people on a GOP mailing list will help them pick talking points for the 2012 election cycle in which they will recieve unlimited funds (Citizens United 2010) from the Koch Bros who saw their fortunes increase a whoppping 40% this year. I am so glad the SCOTUS has looked out for them I am sure Mr Clarence Thomas will be getting free barbecue from them for the forseeable future.I guess now that I am on the payroll, I contribute to the anti-Fox government(sic). Thanks State Department Watch LLC for doing this hard research on the Obamaites who have attacked free speech from our beloved Fox und Freunds. Sig Heil der Hannity Sig Heil Der Bolling Sig Heil O Reichy.

Is Toby Keith Really Right Enough for SCOTUS???

It might have been the faint voice of my ancestors today I heard and...

I realized that the warning 2001 from our great ex-secretary of War Mr Donald Rumsfeld in a press conference spoke of "unknown unknowns".Today, being 9/11/11 aka 10x9/11 day and all,I remembered the part of the historical demand for "vigilance" I was given a warning vision about the future. Vigilant against the dreaded SCOTUS being overthrown.

In that possible future which, if we do not re-elect Barack Obama, pbuh*, most assuredly we shall inherit Mr Toby Keith as a replacement for the 103 year-old Ruth Bader-Ginsburg after said Mr GOP candidate becomes Mr GOP Pres in 2013. I am not as frightened of that as I am concerned Mr Keith may be a Manchurian, just as Mr McCain, ready to throw the world away in a fit of passion. Is it just me or have we really fully vetted Mr K? Just singing a nice song about being right and all that, or actually possessing the stone bone fides to rule a little(or more if possible) to the right of Fat Tony Scalia? I think a vote for Barack Obama will guarantee this closet liberal(unknown known) will never again be considered for a job at SCOTU$ aka the activist judge home for the repressed conservative.
Hang in there Ruth, We(as opposed to Rush Limbaugh) are rooting for you until these(those?) people wake up and see the world as it is, an eternally dangerous and precarious place where we, fortunately, are safe from all harm because we are "vigilant" against enemies foreign and domestic even in our sleep.

*peace be upon him

The Power of Truth

Angelo, my activist friend, has brought a little hope to my progressive old wounded heart. Mr Glenn Beck is no longer selling hate and gold on FoxTV. Today my right wing 88-year-old mom gets this letter with Glenny on the outside and "henny-penny the sky is falling" on the inside, because most people don't like his brand of "entertainment" which is designed to activate the amygdala before the ideas ever get to the pre-frontal cortex(liberals use that part of the brain). Fear is not selling as well as the right wing would like you to believe.
Thanks Angelo
twitter @StopBeck @Drop_Fox and http://stopbeck.com

Donny Osmond Put Me On the Fence

I was always a little confused about who was attractive. Men didn't like certain types of attention and playing dolls was not an accepted method of getting to the meat of the matter. My TV times which allowed me to see the Donny and Marie Show did nothing to alleviate this confusion. I was fine with Marie and then it was puppy love. I was torn. Never to decide, now I realize those years in therapy were based on my need to have one of each. One for this and one for that. Not going to happen so I blame my ambivalence gender-wise on those pure mormon kids who touched me deeply and put me up on the fence. So I accept it now that I understand Donny and Marie(and the Hollywood Mormon mystique) ruined me.

The Last Chance for Fundamentalists

The passing of a marriage equality law in NY state last week helps the right-wing fundamentalists to raise once more the false fears of the falling of our nation due to liberal laws that allow what is practiced by the majority of adults which is heterosexual and not exactly evangelical or Mormon as they would like us to believe or for that matter, Agnus Dei wouldn't like their pastors marrying the little girls they molest either if they were women. The practice which is referred to as "sodomy" is done mostly by straight people. But since anything not designed to promote the reproduction of said straight heterosexual sodomites is labelled as sodomy I assume they only think motss can actually commit these now legal acts and wish to criminalize these acts again as this will make the gay go away since it just an urge just like sodomizing your husband.wife/other.
Now legal in most of America

100 Years Later

I stumbled upon this. A bit of serendipity I think as I am often inspired by what is right in my face. I have never been in want of the basics in life. I feel my experience of Dukka has not always related to my lack of accumulation of material possessions. Yet WD Wattles makes it a matter of seeking wealth to be some sort of divine purpose which parallels closely the interests of the bourgeoisie. Perhaps I will never be able to identify personal spirituality with the acquisition of power and prestige though I am quite sure it produces much of the same neuropeptide streams as the religious and sometimes self-righteous high. But to the Anglican(WASP) it is our divine right and glory to be sated in all our wants.
Sorry I do not have the source code for this citation of a 20th century philosopher.
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The Science of Getting Rich
by Wallace Delois Wattles, [1910]



CHAPTER 1
The Right To Be Rich

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.


A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich.


The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.


Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.


In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful.


The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.


There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.


There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.


We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.


Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter; and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life .


He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.


To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.


To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty.


A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.


It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

Nationalism

The term "patriot" has been used to create a false sense of pride in a nation which systematically and decisively neglects and abuses our most vulnerable citizens. First the economy puts us against each other by whatever makes it appear we are different(prejudice). Whether it is race gender age race or ethnicity we are turned against each other for resources and in some cases to survive. I have little hope for a change which will help as long as there are such lies told about us which serve the powers and principalities of a nation of idiots and bigots(sic).
I am happy my state is #1 in how badly we treat the homeless.
Yeah We're Number 1!!!

Keith Olbermann

I heard last night that Keith Olbermann of MSNBC has been "suspended without pay" after it was disclosed he had not revealed political contributions as suggested in his contract with GE/NBC INC. It reveals that even though he has been an unrelenting voice against the policies of the right-wing dating back to the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the 2010 election he is the only one put out as being unethical and suspect as biased to the point of being unprofessional. It would also reveal that the right-wing (FOX) has no qualms about being a shill for the GOP and the Tea Party. Actual solicitation for contributions on-air by the likes of Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly are just fine but Olbermann has to be silenced and punished for being on the left.
I am disheartened as I ask myself, "Who will be next?" Will it be Rachel Maddow? Chris Matthews? Will we reach a point where the media is right wing only(sic) with not a single dissenting voice allowed on the left? I hope not as this will only expedite the slow lurch into corporate fascism and a society devoid of dissenting voices except those who resist anything which takes away from the have mores and the multinationals. A full discourse and a free media is our only chance for justice to return to this great(once great?) nation. Justice requires a free press. If Keith Olbermann can no longer present a voice crying in the wilderness against the powers of money over ideals, how long can we expect other essentials of democracy to persist?

My Liberal Relations

This is my friend Nicole who was a professional musician for 37 years and until recently was a regular performer at Johnny Foley's Irish House in SF. I met her in 1999 about three months after moving to Oakland to attend Naropa's satellite campus. She had a personal ad which said,"If music rocks your world let's rock." We met on xmas day 1999 and played at the corner of Haight and Ashbury on the steps of Ben and Jerry's. It was unrehearsed and unchoreographed yet as the morning sun came out it was a mystical day which started our deep friendship. She always tried to keep me around with a place to play in East Bay playing at Beckett's Irish Pub for 7 years but health problems that have just been diagnosed as lymphoma left her little choice as to limited her hours to recover her strength and lead a long and full life. She gave me the diagnosis which gives adds a prognosis of less than one year to live. She has chosen not to do chemo nor radiation treatment. She worked all her life paying her own payroll and SSI taxes and will never retire. She believes education should be free. Liberal ideas get to the masses and then it becomes harder to manipulate and corral them. This is what I will miss the most is the reminders that Mr Greed will always try to get it all and we will always have to say no, nyet, nada.
Keep singing Nikki as long as you desire and breathe. In my heart I will always hear the wonderful harmony we made.