Once Upon A Time........

     

...there was a country founded on the concept that "all men are created equal (and free)".
Well, almost all men.  Basically, white English speaking men.  The rest of the lot had to wait a while to even be CONSIDERED  human, men.  No, I'm not making that up, and you know that.  But we were and are constantly bombarded with the words "all men created equal", and gloss over the fact that  all black men, weren't even considered men, let alone free men.   And to those of you who are shouting "that was only in the redneck SOUTH!!".....um.....no, it wasn't.  In fact, just when the notion of slavery being wrong (and insanely so)  was really catching on thanks to  the works of William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas and others, the united states (all men are created equal) gov't, passed THIS law.  Two states forward, the whole country goes backwards.  Long about this time, we had a civil war, WHICH, we are told, was to free those black people from "southern" slavery.   Yeeeeah not so much.  I know, because I live and grew up in a very white, very "regular folk" part of the north, and in the 1960's and 70's and 80's when I was growing up, there was NO WAY IN HELL, that ANY of the people/families I knew, would have gone off to war, to free black people.  In 1960.   I can't imagine that the people in the north in 1860 were 180 degrees on the enlightened scale, away from the people I grew up with and know today.  No way in hell.  And sure as hell the (all men are created equal) gov't of the united states didn't see it that way either, as evidenced by all the laws that kept black people, quite lower on the "all men are created equal"  scale, for the next hundred years AFTER the war that supposedly freed them.  
Ok, at this point you are thinking that this is just a "black lives matter" rambling.  It ain't.  Its a different kind of rambling.  I'm merely pointing out how you have been told one thing, and reality is quite different.  BUT, you've been told by EVERYONE all the years of your life, so it HAS to be true, right??  Nope.  Eerrrrrrnt . It ain't.  
Movin on.   To the Melting Pot.  
Want to know why we became a melting pot?   (that means all kinds of people coming here from all kinds of countries, just to be part of the "all men are created equal" society)  ?     They (we) were "allowed" to come here, because worker drones were needed to man the mines, and the expanding factories that were really expanding the economy of the (all men are created equal) land.    Tweren't enough regular americans to fill all those jobs that had to be done.  So what was the solution?   "Bring me your tired huddled masses (who will work for peanuts and shop at the company stores and live in company housing and........) Voila.  The American Dream.     There was a lot of discontent in the (white English speaking America) over the number of immigrants being allowed into the country.  But, as with the original constitution drafters, the Golden rule applied.  That being, He who has the gold, makes the rules.  And he who needs the worker drones,  tells the politicians which laws to pass.  Immigration laws included.  Like when we had enough Chinese workers to build the railroads. 
But you cling to your (beat into your brain since old enough to understand words) notion that America wanted immigrants to come here so they could enjoy a better life.   Its nicer and gentler.  I get it .   The same people who ran the original constitutional congress, ran the country a hundred years later, and they always get what the hell they want.  Always.  Sure you can come here and work.  for 16 hours a day for just enough wages to keep yourself and your family in survival mode. Hell, that was better than where they came from.  I get it.  But.   That doesn't change the fact that they were treated hardly better than the original "not so created equal" folks.   (and I didn't even mention the people who used to OWN the "land of the Free".  Talk about getting the shaft.  Oy. )
I digress. 
Still with me?   (I'm barely here).      I'm gonna skip over the facts of two world wars with the evidences that the govt of the united states allowed major corporate leaders here, to do open market trading with the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan.  Its there if you want to read about it.  Kinda puts a dent into the notion of us-good, them-bad, that most Americans have of the world wars. 
Suffice to say, We The People have been told all of our lives what's real, when exactly the opposite, is.   And now, its done nonstop, 24-7-365, ad nauseam.   We get bombarded of every "news" story, from the second it happens, and we are told what happened (even when what we are told doesn't make sense with regards to what we are seeing, more on that), and we are told what to THINK about what we were told happened.  And what to think about those who don't think what we were told to think about it.   
I've said this before, and I'll go to my grave saying it.  You can't understand ANYTHING, until you understand EVERYTHING.   Unfortunately, we hardly have room in our brains for EVERYTHING, what with tweets and The Bachelor and our sports teams and posting where we're going out to eat tonight.....sheesh. Who the hell has time to understand EVERYTHING?!     
I'll explain.   I used to be what's generally categorized as a conservative.  That means, I knew all the good conservative news sources and facts and judged pretty much everything, through my beliefs/categorization.   And that's exactly how everybody is.  Liberals can't see the facts the conservatives see, and verse vice-a.     We take the image of what we believe in (pin it to a party candidate), and then accept/reject all facts related to said candidate accordingly.     You really can't understand or see anything, until you step back and away from the nonsense that keeps us apart.    Don't believe me?  Watch a talking heads political show, and listen to the answers given to questions.  Questions like, "Is that tree green?"  "Well, I like green because in my district I have consistently voted for making green businesses stronger and I support any legislation that has the best interest of the green industries in mind.."   And we accept those answers from the people we call our "leaders", because hell, they could say "poopy headed banana fish heads", and we would pretend like we believe it and understand.  Hell, they're the leaders, so if we don't get it, must mean that WE'RE the stupid ones, so we go along for the ride. 
Which can be quite troublesome when it comes to things like wars.  And laws like The Patriot Act.  And the (god help me its really called this) the USA Freedom Act.   What the laws are, are completely irrelevant, so long as they title them like that, and then tell us "poopy headed banana fish heads, and its for our GOOD!   Oh, and everyone who DOESNT believe its good, is BAAAD!!"
Oh hell, if its for our good, then I'm all for it.  And I never liked bad people much anyways.  they tend to not know too much like us informed voters.

We are lied to, constantly.  We are told bad people are out to take our freedoms (all men are created equal, remember?) so we NEED to send our army half way around the goddam world for 5 or 10 years to destroy the shit out of a country(s) there, onaconna we love freedom and all men are created equal.  And the news people repeat exactly what the gov't says (and nobody since 1985 has a problem wit dat), and anybody who disagrees, well they just don't support the troops protectin our freedoms so GIT THE HELL OUT IF YOU DON'T LIKE MURICA!  I wish it weren't true.  I wish I were wrong , but the more I see, the more crazy what YOU believe, becomes to me. 
Things like this woke me up.  what I saw, became very different from what we were told happened.  And the lies go on to this day.  And the extent of the beliefs that the people who trust and believe in the "all men are created equal" country, is no less staggering than the Church of Scientology is to a Quaker.   
Thats my point.  You can't see, or understand, so long as you clutch to the belief you've had drilled into your brain since you stood  in class and muttered..."I pledge Legience to da flag......"
You have been drilled and brainwashed to BELIEVE.  Land of the Free.  All men are created equal.   We're the GOOD guys.  Despite, everything.  Cuz its what we've been told, forever.  And we are now told on a constant basis, from the time we wake up till the time our eyes close on our blinking phone screen.  We're TOLD what to think, and  how to think.   How to react to what we are told is happening.   Here's a perfect example of what I speak of.     "all of it fell down into the ground, it pulverized".   In other words, "poopy headed banana fish heads".   And we believe it.  But it doesn't stop here.  Hell, its just getting warmed up here.  All kinds of experts seem all too eager to convince us why a steel and concrete building fell at freefall speed, perfectly straight down.  A third of the time when buildings are imploded on purpose, they don't fall so perfectly.  Yet we are told by gobs of science-y experts, that this time, yuh-huh, it did. 
Well, I'm going to prove them, and you wrong, with ONE word.  One word to prove that in fact, the media is nothing more than part of the machine used to keep you believing whateverthehell you are supposed to believe.  And you HAVE to believe me.  You can't argue this one, not with opposing science-y info or official explanations, or nuthin. 
One word.  

Fukushima.

You see, there are three nuclear reactors that have been in 100% meltdown for over 5 years now, and its being reported by NOT ONE media outlet.  Not one.  Oh sure PBS did a 5 year anniversary story where they focused on the tragedy and the cleanup efforts.   Problem is, when the worlds greatest and brightest engineers and physicists assembled in Tokyo soon after the disaster, their conclusion was
"we don't know what to do.  The technology doesn't exist to fix this".
The radiation and specifically the spent fuel rods that blew "sky fucking high" from reactor #3 continue to leak into the ground water and into the pacific ocean, and into the air.  Which, by the by, has been circumnavigating the globe for about....oh 4 years and 10 months now.   Non stop.  Non decreasing.   I could go on with stories and links and 8X10 color glossys regarding what your EPA did to fix this.  Um, they increased the acceptable levels of radiation by 300% .  Ok, that's not true.  I meant 3000 %.  Poof like a fairy, you are magically able to absorb 3000% more radiation now than before Fukushima.  Oh, and the FDA ordered NO radiation testing for Alaskan seafood.  ORDERED it.   Just a few weeks ago, TEPCO said "um.   yep.    its a meltdown.  Sorry for covering it up and saying it wasn't a meltdown, but yeah, its a meltdown."    I'm SURE you saw all the reports on it.  I'm sure you remember the horror on the reporters faces when told that nuclear reactors have been melting down for 5 years now.    No?   You must be watchin the wrong news.
I was just in a discussion online with a conservative flag waving believer, and when I presented this fact to her, the reply was, "oh, that's from a LIBERAL source."   I guess being told by a liberal that nuclear reactors are in 100% meltdown, its not so scary.
You can't understand ANYTHING, until you understand everything, folks.  And you can't understand that your country and pretty much everything you believe in and has been drilled into your brain since birth, is a goddamed lie.  All of it. 
The fact that NO news source is reporting what it undeniably happening, is all the proof you need, but unless and until you can get your mind around that, you will stay in your matrix.
I'm sorry.  Its true.    

We Need To Talk

About Sandy Hook.   Actually, that's a title of a video on youtube.   I watched it, twice.    The significance of that is, its 2+ hrs long, and I have the attention span of horny gnat.   There was a lot of information in it, and some of it makes watching the whole thing worthwhile.      I'm writing about this now because a recent event on the news was brought to my attention.   A professor from Florida Atlantic U. wrote a book titled "Nobody died At Sandy Hook".     And that got the guy fired.   And, Amazon.com has banned his book from their website.  Now Amazon has plenty of bat-shit crazy books for sale on their site, many about 9-11 and alternative versions of the official story.   Why ban THIS book, is my question?  The link I posted blames Amazon for "not allowing non-government versions", but like I said, amazon has plenty of non-gov't version 9-11 books for sale there.   This is different.  Sandy Hook was different.   One of the liberal mantras I've heard repeatedly is "If Sandy Hook didn't change us, what will???"    (and I HATE using that label, because labels like conservative and liberal are just words to keep us all apart and at each other's throats, BUT, libs ARE the ones on the side of gun control measures.....so its applicable)    Sandy Hook was THE heart string tugging event that should have changed America, for the better (in some people's opinions).    But it seems the only thing it changed, was Conn. laws regarding the release of information related to "anyone murdered in the state, to non-law enforcement personnel."     In fact, its a mandatory 5 yr. prison term for just ASKING for records of murder victims in the state.   See above picture.    That's what we are experiencing.    Now look at the picture here. 

THIS, is what we believe, and what we believe we live in.   Oh wait. 

There.  That's what we believe.  

What's real, is at the top of this page, and what's perceived, is what's directly above.        Imagine a mass shooting where dozens of victims, mostly little kids, were supposedly shot.  Now imagine that NOT ONE of those victims, were taken by ambulance to hospitals.   Not one.  Ambulances were parked on the access road to the school, and NEVER moved to take any victims anywhere.   And no one questioned that, because no one except the crazy folk out there knew that.  The rest of the world was busy wringing their hands and holding burning candles and lamenting over the horror of the events there.  We have to do SOMETHING, was the cry heard all across the country.   Well, we do.  We have to finally talk about Sandy Hook.    The only thing crazy about it, is what you believe, and how much you've been fooled.   Why?    That's easy.   We're much more malable when we're an emotional mess.  

 

You've gotta trust me on this one.   And, You've gotta watch this video.                         

 

 

Korea, Cuba, and the rest of it

I wish I were like you(se).
I wish I believed the News.  I wish I believed in Christmas, other than a revenue generating season of giving (buying).   We're exchanging gifts like usual, but for me, its VERY different than it used to be.   The Santa Claus hawking cars commercials this year are more than I can stand.  Everything is different.  Everything.
 I wish this never happened, or at least that I'd never seen it.  I wish I still believed in everything I used to believe in.  
One of my best friend's sons recently became a state trooper, which even I think is a good thing, but I've noticed (with no imagination inserted whatsoever) that we are very definitely on different "sides" now.  My beliefs, which are known by them, are not as trusting or as warm and fuzzy regarding our great nation. When you're a cop, you're IN the recipie.  The badge means more, the flag means more, the whole mixture becomes a black and white stained glass picture framed in steel bars.  Its bad for both of us, because both of us know the other is wrong.  They don't question anything, and I don't believe anything.   The middle innocuous ground still exists, like dogs and seasons and work.  Life goes on (I guess), just with lots of broken glass around to walk on.

From the moment the story of N. Korea (allegedly, supposedly, possibly, sorta-kinda-maybe) hacking into Sony studio computers was broke, I smelled the distinct  odor or heavy  induced bullshit around it.  From what we know and see, N. Korea is a backwards starving nation ruled by a iron fisted loon.  We KNOW that, because that's what we are told it is.   THEY, we are told, are told the U.S. is an evil money worshipping war mongering nuclear weapon wielding nation of meddlers and sovereign nation destroying narcissists.
At least one of the stories is right, eh?  Well we're the good guys and they're the bad guys.  They, with ONE ISP for the whole 3 goat and 11 chicken country, hacked into Sony Studios computer systems because Sony made a movie about assassinating Korea's beloved leader.  We can't tell the public HOW we know what we know, (that alone should have the American braindead public mumbling,  WTF!?) but we are told by none other than OUR beloved leader, that N. Korea is the badguy here.   Yuh-huh, the president said it.
This is one of those areas where the believers (most all americans), and people like me, part ways.   Believers can't imagine NOT believing network news or heaven forbid the president, while people like me stopped believing them a long time ago.  People like me are CRAZY, and believers are just plain old good and normal.  
It took 2 or three days for me to get an idear of what the hell was going on here, but then a little story surfaced about an "internet security bill", that died a couple times in session.    Then a light bulb went on.   now the stories of "well if Sony studios can be hacked, whats NEXT!?!?!?!  Our INFRASTRUCTURE!!!!!"  Good frickin grief get that bill PASSED!!!!  NOW!!!!!! we don't care what the hell is in it, we just want to be SAFE!!!
You know, like the Patriot act, and Obamacare, which NO ONE read or understood before voting on.
The lobbyists told the politicians, "THIS is what you think, this is how you vote", and they did.   A couple loons spoke out (cuz they READ the bills), but they were and are just rabble rousing trouble making America-non-lovers.  You know, BAD guys.   Like N. Korea.

The internet security  bill is a now considered a "zombie bill.  A  kinda un-dead thing, just waiting to be revived by a Murican-loving god-fearin-public-protectin-politician, or an  AMC network executive.
It seems that hardy anything gets done in this country anymore without great fear predicating its doing. (again, read the patriot act).  This is Standard Operating Procedure anymore, and its working swimmingly.  
Make an event that scares the public and the legislators, pump the story in the news with every angle covered, with obligatory arguments on Foxnews and CNN, and let the Murica-lovers do the rest.

It matters, because, well, everything matters, eventually.  
But as long as you think your gov't is good and wants to PROTECT you, you won't see or hear ANYTHING, until its either too late, or it doesn't matter anymore.

Just watch the story with a bit of suspicion.  Ask "who has something to GAIN from this story?"
In other words, follow the money, or the control.   Who gets $$$$, or Control, because of this story?
STOP believing (like a goddam child) that your voted for politicians are thinking of YOU and your safety and security in Washington D.C.    Its no less or more a fairy tale, than the story of santy-claus.

Same with the story of Cuba.
The embargo was a symbol of everything that's wrong with America (especially since the fall of the soviet union), and its' ending now, is not for why we are being told.   Not completely, anyways.
The day of the story, we were told "banks would benefit because debit cards and credit cards could be used there ....."
Just a 5 second blip but it speaks volumes.
Banks run the world.  Banks run the gov't(s). 

Banks run your life.

Think I'm exagurating?  Not only do they run it, you cant seem to let them run it enough!
Your "credit rating", is YOU.
It affects what kind of home you can rent, or buy.
It affects what kind of job you can get. 
It affects how much you pay for Insurance.
You can't do SHIT without it, and you (collectively) are now taught that you MUST have an app on your phone that enables you to access and check your credit rating, while walking in the park, or eating lunch.  You have been taught to make it your priority, just so you can become MORE indebted to, you guessed it, the bank system.
A good citizen has a GOOD credit rating.  And that sounds normal and right, doesn't it.  Logical even.  Its for your own benefit, right? 
right?

Well I won't change you and you surely know I'm hopelessly beyond changing back to the numb side.

Just wake up.  Wake the frick up a little bit at least.

Insane ramblings from insane-ville

Why stop now eh?
I'm on vacation.  1st one in 4 or 5 yrs.  Not the south of France, but it sure is a nice change from the castle on the dirt road that I currently call my bunker. 
I just said goodbye to my oldest (married) child and sent her on her way on life's adventure highway which for now will end in London.  England. 
Lots of emotions on this one, not the least of which is a sense of relief that she is getting the hell out of NYC, which isnt fit for man nor beast to live properly and sanely, IMO.   As I drove her to her bus we talked about similar goodbyes we've had in the past, and how this one ranks with them.  Maybe its age, maybe its from having the mental shit kicked out of my head for the past few yrs., I dunno.   This one, as seemingly permanent and distancing as it seems, wasn't as hard as the time I drove her to her new home with her mother half a state away.  Had to stop the car a few times to regain my vision on that trip.  
I told her the good news is, you ARE going to be across a pretty big ocean from your mother.   So there's that. 
The greatest sense of loss I felt this morning, was for her siblings, who while not having seen her much since she got all grown up and moved to the big city and all, they still weren't an ocean away.   And the very positive very feminine impact she had (especially on her sisters, will be very missed indeed. 
Of course there was talk of visiting and such, but good bye does mean goodbye, even if it isn't totally permanent, and unless you are hanging up on an Ex, it usually is acompanied by a bit of a sting. 

And so it goes.   Vacation continues with the other kids, even on a gray drizzly day by the lake.  

A good day to sit and ramble.
And reflect.

And be sad.

Its good to know I'm not totally dead inside, even if its cuz I feel such loss.  

who do you trust, the dog or the tail wagging the dog?

Life in a rabbit hole isn't nearly as much fun as one might think it is.  For starters, you don't know if what you see is real, and if it is, you don't really know what to make of what you are seeing.   
Kinda like watching television.  
"the U.S State dept. accuses Russia (and vladamir putin) of staging the insurrection in The Ukraine, for the purposes of becoming involved militarily there....."
Um, and where do you think Mr Putin might have learned THAT trick?    I suggest by watching CNN, and american policy of the past few decades.   No?   You might want to read up on Syria, Libya, Iraq, et al.


Atty Gen. Eric Holder, after being "grilled" by congressman yesterday, spoke before a sympathetic crowd and asked (repeatedly) "When was the last time a U.S. atty gen. was treated like that!?!?!"
Um, when was the last time a U.S. atty gen. ACTED like that, mr Holder!?!?!?  was my response.       Thats like that blade runner chap, on trial for shooting his supermodel girlfriend through a bathroom door, asking the jury, "yeah, but what about my bleeding bathroom door!?!?  Who is going to see to it that IT gets repaired properly!?!?"
Oh yes it is.    Holder completely discounted everything he has been accused and charged with, (like contempt, f'rinstance)  and instead whined about being picked on. 


Houdini airlines flight 3-7-0.
I couldn't even have made up this story.     Like I've previously said, this one made my rabbit hole sensors go off from the git go.   Maybe its me.   Maybe I can see bullshit more clearly now, or maybe bullshit isnt as camoflauged as it used to be.    Nothing about what we have been told, has been true.  We have been TOLD its true, and experts have even painstakingly said so, but it aint so.   
Like f'rinstance, did YOU know that all boeing 777's have fly by wire capability?   Fly by wire, is the ability to fly the plane, remotely.  Like from Langley Va.      But experts (ON AIRCRAFT RELATED TECH SITES) have stated that it would take someone with "extensive knowledge of aircraft computer systems" to be able to hack into an aircraft and take over controls of said aircraft.
Oh, THAT makes me feel better.    Good thing there aren't any of THEM out there, huh?   Places like the pentagon and the CIA and even the frickin white house can and HAVE been hacked, but boeing's airplanes???  Nah.   Impossible.    they're MUCH more difficult to hack into than say.......the NSA.  
 
Flag waving veteran-centered websites expertly point out the obvious, that it was a plane from a muslim country piloted by muslims.   Nuff said.
Pointy headtechno geeks said we need MORE technology to protect us more better.   Yeah thats it.  
Fly by wire, sheep.   fly by wire.    Look into that, the most highly ignored secret of the past 15 minutes.

And...........we have a current love affair with Lyndon B. Johnson.  The president who "reluctently" assumed power after JFK was shot by those miracle bullets.   
Current focus is centered on LBJ's pushing forward of the civil rights agenda that JFK  championed.    You would think that LBJ was the greatest thing to happen to black americans since Popeye's chicken.  
It makes a nice story, and evidently a pretty good broadway play too, but the devil is indeed in the details on this one.   JFK was "presented" a plan, in which American military forces would get incrementally involved in S.E. Asia, and JFK wasn't too receptive of said plan. 
In fact, if he were Vladimir Putin, he would have said HELL NYET!   Well it seems that the CIA and the people who run THEM, didnt like JFK's answer to their plan, and JFK was shot 6 months later by some guy.   Wasn't a muslim though.  
LBJ, on the otherhand, was balls to the walls enthusiastic about crushing the dire threat in S.E Asia, posed by the (muslim of that day) communist movement.   
So here's my take on mr-civil-rights-president-post-mortem-tony-award winner-LBJ.
Civil rights?
58,000 american servicemen were killed in Vietnam.   roughly 8,000 were african-americans.    viva la freedom.

Oh yeah.  And we lost.  And now our clothes are made in vietnam.   But that has nothing to do with the war there.   It never does, does it.  
I've written this before, and I'm gonna write it again because the three of you(se) need to understand it.   Its pretty much everything.
In his farewell address, Dwight Eisenhower stated that the "greatest threat America faces in the 20th century, was the AMERICAN military industrial complex".
You know, the people who brought you viet nam a few short years after Ike wrote that.  After JFK  said america would NOT get into an extensive prolonged military action in vietnam.   And he was shot shortly thereafter.   By some guy.  Obviously crazy, but not a muslim.

Anybody watch the Stock Market channel?  I dont know what the hell its called, CBNBSMSBC or somethin,  but its one of the funniest networks on tv today.   Watch the experts opine on what is what, and keep an eye on the DOW numbers as they are happening.   First of all you should notice that while sounding all expert-y and informative, if you REALLY listen, you will hear nothing but a white noise that could easily be coming from your clothes dryer exhaust vent.  
My point?   Opinions, moods and messages change  there almost as fast as the direction of the DOW nowadays.   And much like atty gen. eric holder, being ghastly wrong 3 minutes previous is of no matter.   They're still experts dammit, and that other thing....well......naaah thats them damn balsams.

At the end of the Not-A-War in Vietnam, some infamous videos were shot (along with a million or so vietnamese) that sum up life in these united states.
Helicopters, tanks, trucks, equiptment of all kinds (expensive as hell and bought and paid for, to boot) were jetisoned off of ships and into the briny deep as american troops pulled out of Vietnam.   Millions and millions (and millions) of dollars worth of equipment scuttled because, well, we didn't need it anymore.
No, Northrup Grummen didnt send the american people a rebate check for any of it.   Hell, America was glad to be out of that damn place, and the cost of a few (thousand) expensive vehicles being sent to their grave ala Osama Bin Laden, was of little importance then, or now.   Splash, glug glug glug.   Thanks for the gumball america.  See you next war.
The only difference between Vietnam and Afghanistan, is the cheerleading on the sidelines nowadays.  Everybody in a military uniform is a hero, praised and applauded at every sporting event and national newscast.    Why, they're there to protect US, thats why!  OUR way of life.
Uh huh.  
And to think I used to buy that line of bullshit.   


Google pallets of money, and afghanistan, and tell me Im wrong.
Its patriotic to bitch about govt waste and whats wrong with the system, but by god dont you dare say its the system itself!
Problem is, the system is camoflauged under a mountain of bullshit, all covered by multiple layers of american flags.

NOTHING, is as it appears.   
Nothing.  





But you can trust me, because I dont want anything.   Not a goddam thing.

much ado about nuthin.............

Forgive me for writing about nothing at all but if the MSM can do it relentlessly for almost two weeks straight then some shlep in podunk pa. can do it too.  
As with the Boston "bombing" of a year or so ago, as soon as I heard the stories of the missing malaysia airlines boeing 777, my bullshit alarms went off, and havent stopped since.  In the very first report on tv just hours into the mystery, knowledge was had of "2 passengers on board the aircraft with stolen passports".    It rang as true as "its a group called AlQeda from some cave in Pakistan..." just MINUTES into the 9-11 report-a-thon.   Not as good as the "Boston Globe tweets that there is going to be a bomb squad exercise @ 1pm today...." the day of the boston marathon bombing.  
Like the title says.   It just doesnt add up.   
Most interesting to me in the missing airliner, is the daily tidbits of useless info that seems to get reported on ad nauseum, with equal fervor and interest to both the reporters and the report-ees.   By that, I mean that the idjits talking about the non-news is equalled by the idjits watching/reading/listening/hoping on it.    I have seen everyone ever associated with Boeing, pilots, the NTSB, the US Navy, and every person who has ever ridden more than twice on a jet, paraded out on CNN and the rest of the networks, as "experts".    NPR even went a step further and quoted "most talked about theories on social media and around the office water cooler", as news.    No, they weren't kidding.   

I'm tired of a lot of things,  most of all being sold a load of bullshit packaged as truth.  
One thing I'm absolutely certain of in my old age, is that nothing is as it seems, that more and more people are easier and easier to get to believe that it is.    

I don't have any stupid theories, save for the one about Al Sharpton's mothership (which is being piloted by L. Ron Hubbard with Timothy Leary as his first officer) used a ION cannon and kablooey-blasted the Malysian airliner out of the sky, just because.

I just want you to think about why you believe what you do, and what you see and hear, just because people deemed experts tell you it is so.

Lewis and Clarke meet the Fockers

Just when I thought it was safe, or at least tolerable, to deal with the general nit-wittery of people that I have to suffer, an event occurred that had me shaking my head.   And believe me, that is saying something.
My local PBS station just re-ran the Ken Burns mini-series on the Lewis and Clark expedition.   It was fascinating in many aspects, besides the obvious.   The most obvious and least emphasised to me, was how different we are today in our click and paste and google to learn society, as compared to the drag the big-ass boat upriver for a couple of hundred miles and see what's there mentality, of their time.   Besides mountains, praries, rivers, grizzlys, waterfalls, mosquito swarms thick enough to challenge sanity, and hostile Injuns, there were the timeless challenges of frustration, disease, boredom, hopelessness, tiredness and well........no women folk.
Oh.  And slavery.  More on that later.
Not two out of the ten thousand people I've met in my life would be able to achieve anything like what those people did back then. I'd like to think I could.  My friend Chris Cole could too. I know its a different time, but we as mentally stunted humans cant even comprehend embarking on a trip without making reservations ahead of time for lodging and such.   Imagine not even knowing what to expect when you set out!   I thought I was adventurous when I set out with a backpack and my labrador into the Bob Marshall wilderness area.  (google it idiots)   By mydamnself.  There were no injuns when I did it, and I was probably too stupid to know how stupid it was, but I did it.  By myself.
      When I was in my 20's, not knowing was part of the trip.

I had an adventure, and I probably could have twisted my ankle and never been found.   That didn't stop me from going.  

Ah yes, the event that had me shaking my head.
My 12 yr old started football practice this week, 90 degree temps and all.  After the first practice, he wanted to ride in the back of the truck the two miles back home, and it didnt seem like an earth altering event to me, so I said sure.
Well, someone thought differently, and called the local authorities and expressed her concerns for my childrens' well-being.   Not completely insane on the surface.........well.....to me maybe, but not unreasonable by reasonable standards.
The problem lies with the concerned parent  being friends with my EX wife, whoslike  a Purple Minion (you have to see Despicable Me 2 to understand that one), .................and ...............well............its not a pretty picture.    Everyone who's been deceived by the dark side (through the prompting of the purple minion), thinks  I'M the monster who is wreckless with my kids.   I could write a frickin war and peace sized novel  (without the peace part)   regarding stupid-child destructive behavior on HER part.  
Heres a newsflash to anyone who is most certainly going to be shown this post.
Just today, friday, july 19th, when she came to pick up my kids, she allowed my son who has neither a license nor a permit nor insurance, to drive HER van, WITH the kids in it, from my house.
Now.
I personally think its no big deal because like I said its a desolate quiet country road.
BUT, I'M not the one saying I'M the stickler for rules and permits and such.  I admit I am not.
She is.
So.    If you want to play this game, I will.  



My only message to the concerned parent who felt the need to call the police on me out of fear for my childrens' safety, is to take the log out of your own damn eye, as someone once said.
If you're too stupid to safely drive your kids slowly down a quiet country road, then don't do it.
Oh, and before you start screaming "ITS THE LAW!!!"...............
Women not being able to vote was the law too.
As was slavery.  We've had a lot of stupid WRONG laws in this country.    Some laws are stupid, and some are put there now because we have become a nation of nitwits and ninnies incapable of anything that isn't liked on facebook.  I and everyone I grew up with , grew up riding in the back of pickup trucks.  On HIGHWAYS, not on slow quiet country roads.  

And if Obamacare goes through, twinkies will be illegal too.
I'm just saying.

People are as blind as Lewis and Clark were when they started their journey, but people believe they know things now because, well, they were TOLD something, or they googled something.  
I've been to court twice, and won twice.  I will go back 3 or 30 times.  All I want is a peaceful life for me and my kids.    And I will not give up.


At the end of the Lewis and Clark journey, each member of the team was awarded 360 acres of land, save for the captains.  They were given 1600 acres each for their accomplishment.
Exeeeeeeeeeeeeeeept for this one member.
A black man who was a slave when the journey started.  HE was rewarded with his old job back when he returned to civilization.  
A teensy weensy byline in the history books, but it SCREAMS volumes.  
Land of the Free, home of the Brave.  And the Brave, even when they're NOT free.



And I'm the crazy one.

That picture, by the by, is of the great china wall in the bob marshall wilderness area in montana.

Its worth the effort to see it.

More Stupidity from the people who brought you

buildings falling down when nothing hit them (you know, like airplanes).

An update on the mysterious carjacking victim involved in the barnum and bailey man hunt that took place last week in boston, ma.
(insert doot-doot-dooty-dooty-doot-doot-doooooooooit....music here)
The mysterious heretofore not heard of or identified carjacking victim from the boston "terror attack" has FINALLY surfaced. And he has told his story!!!
to....one reporter from One outlet.
The boston globe.
How quaint.
So, and Im going to remember this as best as I can but I was spending much of the time laughing, cursing, and throwing objects at my radio as I listened to the story on NPR.

Here goes.
Carjacking victim decided at approx. 12:30 that fateful night to go for a "joyride". I kid you not, those were the words used on air. So victim A goes for a joyride around boston (mind you when the city was GRIPPED with terror and uncertainty in the week after the terror bombings)....and as he was driving in no particular direction, he gets a text message.
So, and this is EXACTLY what the Globe reporter said " Her got a text message, and this tells you what kind of person this man is, because........HE PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD TO ANSWER THE TEXT!!!!!"
And the silly ass reporter was being serious!!! Ok, picture painted. The guys probably got out to reverse some carbon molecules he just created also so as to make the earth a healthier place too, while he was not drivin while texting.
While he was pulled over , an older model sedan type car (read, junky P.O.S. so it MUST have been occupied by Bad PEOPLE, y'know those citizens who DONT pull over while texting), and the next thing he knows, ....

I cant make this shit up...but somebody did....


A MAN comes up to his car and says, "we're the boston bombers and we just killed a cop a coupla minutes ago!!!! Got any money!?!?!?"

Oh, you think I'm making this up. Like I said, I couldnt, but someone did. He only had 45 dollars (cuz he loves the planet and doesnt want to carry around too much cash and appear austentatious while driving his mercedes suv or somethin... So they took his ATM card and tried to use it, but they punched in the wrong PIN number. Second attempt got them 800 dollars, which was good, cuz these terrorist bastards were almost out of gas, AND they were still one gun short of being both called armed and dangerous. I imagine the tension was pretty high.
So they take the money, and drive off to a gas station to get gas. To PAY for gas. After....nevermind. While the younger terrorist is PAYING for the gas, the victim hatches a plan. Here's how he said it played out in his mind......
"The older terrorist was in the suv, but the gun wasnt in the terrorists hand, it was in the pocket in the door. So I thought I'd take my seatbelt off (I guess he didnt want the driver to get a ticket for driving without his passengers being buckled), open the door, SLAM the door, and run across the street to the convenience store there. The terrorist would have to grab the gun and shoot backwards over his shoulder while I ran". um. Well, he's the only one who's talking so we HAVE to believe his version, right?
The victim said the younger terrorist seemed not so threatening. He was "goofy". But the OLDER one, why HE was the BAD seed. He was all serious. And he was the one with the gun. Yeah. One gun. Even though they supposedly killed the MIT officer for his gun, with their gun, they still only had one gun. Want to know WHY they still only had one gun? Because these two terrorists who crippled an entire city and maimed hundreds of people with their home made bombs,..............couldn't figure out how to get the officers gun, out of the dead officers holster.
Again, I can't make this up. They could make a bomb that WORKS, but they cant find the button on the holster that releases the gun. Yep. That makes sense. But seeing how there was a funeral with thousands of lawr enfortcement types all lined neat and pretty and saluting and respectful, you are not allowed to question the official story. Just be remorseful and respectful dammit. No questions asked.
Oh, and shazzzam. Like I mentioned in my previous rant/post/take on the week's events, the victim "remembered" that his cellphone was in his car. And the good 9-11 call taker told him that his CAR had a gps tracking device on it as well.
The frazzled Mercedes owner said "it DOES?!" Well, now the chase was easier than tracking O.J. driving on the san bernadino hwy in a white bronco @ 20 mph. They could watch the pretty blinking red dot on a map, in real time. No helicopters or breaking news needed.
Well, they did that anyways, but AFTER the cops and robbers (bad guys/terrorists/wanna be jihadists) did a reenactment of the OK corral shootout. Helluva shoot out considering the bad guys only had one GUN, and the victim who was painstakingly detailed in his script, DIDN'T mention a stockpile of extra ammo or magazines (those things that the ammo goes into).
Huh. Big time gunfight with the cops firing a coupla hundred rounds, and the bad guys had one gun and one magazine. 15 rounds, max. They did have bombs though. And flung them at the officers (who were firing furiously at the bad guys). Hum. The victim didnt mention the stockpile of home made bombs being transferred into his SUV when they carjacked it.
Oh well. His mind was probably preoccupied with "slamming the door" details of his story. He was there, not me.
I believe every word of what he and the news media said happened. Every word. All those nuts that say the older brother was arrested, stripped nekked and placed in custody, BEFORE being shot and killed and run over by his brother, well, they're just nuts.
Even IF they are CNN reporters. That story changed, like so many stories change over time.
I believe it all.

On a happier upbeat note, this morning on NPR's news, there was a line about "The Taliban in Afghanistan ANNOUNCED that they would be starting their spring campaign soon".

um.

okaaaaaaay. MY mind went to........Since when do groups like The Taliban make ANNOUNCEMENTS about "starting their spring campaign"!?!?!? It sounds like a new spring fashion line. "over heah we have AllyBoobah in a light but suprisingly comfortable assault gown......"
I dunno. doesn't make sense to me.
It would make a great skit on saturday night live though.
Have a Taliban lookin announcer standing outside a cave opening in the Hindu-Kush Mts with a mike and a smoke machine, and ..........well......

".....AAAAAAAAAnd HERE'S you STARTING lineup for the Spring 2013 campoaign!!!!! Starting at Suicidebomber, HIS whole family was blown to smithereenes while attending a wedding reception in Pakistan........at 6 ft. 2 in......number forty SEVEN...........Aaaaaaaaaaachmed Shlazoooooooooomeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! (haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)
....AND .at 15 years old, recently orphaned by a freedom spreading drone in Khandahar........starting as first machine gunner in the back of a modified Toyota pick up truck.........NUMber TWENTY TWO............... ShraZHACK TZmoook..zl....ah.
ahem (haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)

.......And returning for his FORTY EIGTH spring campaign..............at 84 years of Allah Blessed age..............The Talliban's Taliban man.............NUMber 99.........Osaaaaaaaaaama BIN LAAAAAAAAAAADENNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!........." ( fistpumping with one hand, dragging dialysis machine with the other......)


You have to do the visual part yourself. Mine was pretty funny.
Not as funny as listening to the news, but pretty funny.

Oh. One more thing m'am. It seems there was a piece of a jetliner found. In NYC. A coupla blocks from ground zero. Last week. Investigators wore HAZMAT suits while investigating the heretofore missed piece of wreckage from that horrific day, 12 years ago. The investigators were worried about potential radioctivity in the piece of wreckage. And nobody batted an eye over that comment. The whole concept is preposterous enough, but WHY would a piece of plane wreckage from a plane crash 12 years ago be contaminated with radiation!?!?

carry on. Try to think while you're carrying, though.

USA!! USA!!!! USA!!!!!

I can't take it anymore.  
Whats sillier than claiming to find a drivers license of one of the supposed hijackers in the rubble of a collapsed skyscraper??  Well, nothing actually, but this is close.    50,000 (whatever the actual number, anything above a thousand and it gets silly exponentially) cops, soldiers, agents, tanks helicopters,.......for ONE 19 year old "suspect". 
This wasn't Jason frickin Bourne, folks.    A 19 yr old college student who by all accounts wasn't what the "evidence" makes him out to be.  
Time to put on your tinfoil thinking caps.   Why did the Boston Globe tweet this?   Does this make sense to ANYONE out there?   Seems a teensy bit coincidental.  
How smart are you?   Lemme ax you somethin.  If you just placed a bomb somewhere, would you stay in the area?  would you don a baseball cap and walk around knowing that there are cameras everywhere, especially in big cities in the land of the (buy one get one) free?  THINK.  How smart ARE you?   Smart enough to not walk out in front of a bus zooming by?  
story part B.   The suspects allegedly placed the pressure cooker bombs (which, were being called that MINUTES after they went off.   hmmmmmmmmm), then they walked away calmly and went about their lives.    4 days later the federallies released photos of the suspects, and the chase is on.  Supposedly they robbed a convenience store.  then they didnt rob the convenience store.  Then they supposedly shot a MIT police officer who was sitting in his car (bravely and heroicly we are told) because they were afraid he might identify them.  THEN they supposedly carjacked a mercedes suv, supposedly stole the suv's owners debit card and went to three different places to empty his account.   THEN, they just let the mercedes owner walk away, unharmed save for  emotional wear and tear.   Minutes after supposedly assasinating a police officer out of fear of being identified.  They let walk away the guy who could identify them, AND tell the federallies what kind of car they are driving, HELL, they could call onstar and track the goddam car in REALTIME!!!!
Yeah, that makes sense.  Oh, and before they let the guy go free, they told him (ala richard pryor and gene wilder)...."yeah, we BAD.....AND, we're the marathon bombers!!!"
Yeah, that makes sense too.   
Oh, and the supposed carjacking victim, is nowhere to be found.  Seems he doesnt want to be identified.  Hes hidden better than a 70 yr old terror mastermind draggin a dialysis machine through the hindu-kush mts.........
FUCK "privacy".  If I were a reporter, I'd find that guy and ask him what the hell exactly happened and why is he hiding?    Hell in this current climate of being a hero cuz you're sitting in your car, this guy could be on mt rushmore in a coupla years.   Or at the least have box seats at fenway in perpetuity.  
Doesn't add up.
And I'm not the first one to say that, either.
3 different people interviewed on the night of the big chase/manhunt in boston, all said that the federallies version of who these guys were didnt match up with the personal accounts of 10 years of association.  Not in the least.  The most damning bit of social media evidence they could come up with (and televise) was "I've been in america 10 yrs and I dont have a single american friend"      Gee, what a threat.
But wait, I'm just getting started here.    So the federallies announced a lockdown "request" that shut ALL boston businesses (except for the dunkin donut in watertown where it looked like a lawr enforcement convention.  I kid you not.  Can't have 50,000 cops without a goddam donut shop in sight, now can we?  They also cancelled all sporting events in Boston, and told residents to stay in their houses and lock their doors and don't open them unless there was a uniformed lawr enforcement officer (or a navy seal assault team) at the door.    Around 6 pm on friday, they must have run out of creme filling or jelly donuts or something, because the order ....um....request was lifted, and the good heroic citizens were told they were allowed to.....um.......without contrary requests, I guess,  leave their homes.   The federalli in charge said the suspect must not be in the area, so go ahead and take fido for a walk or do what it is you do when the city isnt shut down because of one guy on the run.....
Minutes later newsmen and busloads of lawr enforcement types and donut makers were making haste for a house ONE BLOCK away from where they were, because some brave heroic compliant citizen noticed a man fitting the discription of suspect #2, hiding in his boat.  In his driveway.   A block away.      DOZENS of gunshots and small explosions are heard coming from the area of the getaway boat, and then a request is made for a "fbi negotiator".     I guess the explosions and bullets softened him enough to want to talk to an official negotiator.   An hr or so later, a request is made for medical assistance.  
The brave officers (20 or 30 combat soldiers) stormed the boat with flash bang grenades and a hail of bullets (from their direction) and the suspect is taken into custody.   
And not read his miranda rights.   Well, because the white house says  theres this clause that  if the public is in danger or threatned then they dont have to..........
John Ashcroft said the next day that they didnt have to mmirandize the suspect cuz hell, the govt has enough evidence anyways to get a conviction, so we dont even NEED his statement!!!!
And the goddam idjit newsperson took that as a reasonable answer, from a reasonable expert!!!!! 
Last time I checked, Miranda rights weren't something set up to provide the govt with a surefire way to obtrain evidence, was it?!?!?!?
And I'm the crazy one. 
Not so much.

Now.  But wait, there's more.

Suspect in custody, guns are put away (for now), and the good brave heroic tight knit citizens of Boston come out of their homes, and what  do they do after a harrowing day of watching tv and playing on their computers and x-boxes!?!!?
They cheer and sing for the brave 50,000 soldiers/lawr enforcement officers and federallie agents who protected them so well in the past 24 hrs.   USA!!  USA!!!!  USA!!!!!!
My son saw that and said, what, did we win a game or something?
I replied, not exactly, but 50,000 cops soldiers with tanks and machine guns and helicopters and trained dogs and half the suburbans chevy ever produced, just caught a wounded 19 year old college kid who was hiding in a boat.
And they shot the shit out of him, too.

Other than that, its all good.
Well, they won't let anyone see him or let him have a lawyer or let a reporter or his family  see him or talk to him. 
Other than THAT, its all good.
And he can't talk, but he can write. 
I guess they needed a fbi negotiator/stenographer the other day.   The guy can't talk, but he needed a negotiator.
Oh,   I'm told that was BEFORE the 30 or 40 rounds of negotiation the brave heroes sent in the wounded 19 yr old college kid's direction.

Yep.  Thats how it went down. 
Now we have kumbayah moment of silences all over america and we sing the national anthem a little bit louder with a little straighter stance......cuz we won't let the terrorists win here in America DAMMIT!!!!!

Thats the FBI's job.  
They're the good guys.

 

Of Drones, and building a smarter planet

It seems the more I learn the less I know.  On CBS's morning show the other day they did a story on black box type devices already installed in most cars.   Seems there was a politician who wrecked his car and blamed it on a patch of black ice, but the nice insurance adjusters checked the car's recording device (which NOBODY knows are there) and found a different story.  The guy was going over a hundred mph.  and he wasn't wearing his seat belt, among other things.    The talking heads on the show, and for morning shows its the least giddy and annoying of them all, just shook their heads in disapproval and were resigned to the fact that there really IS no privacy anymore.   The black boxes are already instoalled on most cars today.   Funny how that didn't get much fanfare.      
Progressive Insurance has commercials promoting a device that one plugs into the cars memory, or black box, and by giving progressive the info contained in it, you can maybe get a discount.   Oh goody.   I can save ten or 30 dollars a year, and all I have to do is tell the insurance company everything about my driving and my whereabouts??  Whadda deal.   The commercial promotes the concept as a "cool idea".  Now I don't know what the hell is so cool about  giving away information that no on e REALLY needs to know, but in this age of facebook and tweeting ones bowel movements for all the world to see, I can see that I am in the minority.   Uncool, as it were.
Hey on a good note the city of Santa Clara California   now has free outdoor wi-fi!  The wi-fi is necessary to collect the data from the "smart" meters (you know, building a smarter planet, and all that...) that have replaced the OLD fashioned electrical and water meters that actually had to be READ by a PERSON.  Now, these newfangled SMART meters automatically SEND the information of how much and when you use and how you use you electricity and water to.....well.....the water and electricity authorities.   And the same crazy people who say this is just another step in the troglodyte trudge to total monitoring and control, say that the smart meters actually give off some pretty unhealthy vibes.  At least thats what this guy says.  The good news is, those nice really smart people at the huff post say its a lot of hooey.   And if you can't believe Arianna Huffington, who the hell CAN you believe??     You decide.   And post what you believe on facebook, please.   Somebody out there gives a shit.
4 years ago when I first started to wake  up everybody thought I was crazy with my wild ideas and talk of doom and gloom.   My crazy ideas have since evolved into a crazier realm, which are mostly based on a "take a look around" philosophy.   Just watch and learn and tell me what you see.    I don't see the sky falling anymore, mostly because it isn't.  What IS happening, is something called geoengineering, which has been talked about at length and in pretty eye possing detail, by the sciencey-types in charge of making the planet smarter.     I knew somebody was doing SOMETHING, but didnt know who or what.
At least I could SEE what was in front of us all, but most viewed my eyesight as crazy talk.   Thats ok.     Except for the part where it was being done without telling any of us.  You know, like the black boxes being installed into our cars.  
 Maybe I just need to be a little more trusting of the authorities who run things like, everything, and just let them do whatever it is they deem necessary, and just get on with my facebookin and tweetin and dancin with the stars-a-watchin.    Life is sure simpler that way.    Sure is easier than wondering who the hell has a drone bullseye on their head and whether or not its warranted or justified or legal or any of those icky questions.  
Or worrying about those eeeeeevil terrorist types who are "detained" in Gitmo and are now in the middle of hunger strikes.   Protesting their captivity!!! the NERVE!!!!  So we haven't charged them with any crimes or anything, we're just detaining them.   um........for 10 years.   and those rules apply to ANYONE we deem a terrorist threat to our great freedom spreading via drones nation of ours.   Watch what blasty the drone has to say about this stuff.    Its a cartoon, you'll love it.   And cartoons aren't real, so you can go back to facebookin and tweetin afterwards with no worries about nuthin.

In conclusion, like paul simon said, and I couldn't have said it better.

someone always says it better anyways

cant top this

the road less traveled

That picture pretty much exemplifies my life to this point.  Lotta traveling, but not really going anywhere.   

     I was even on this one for a while....... well.....one like it, in similar conditions.
                                         

              This one I was on, with my motorcycle, too.  As usual, alone on 99% of the ride, but met some people on the way up to the top.   Its mt washington, by the way.  There's a reason why they sell bumper stickers that say "this car climbed mt washington".         No other Mt in the eastern U.S. like that one.                           

                                       This one?  Ive been on many times.  MOST of the time, actually.  
                                          

                                        
                    Now it seems Im here.   Or close to it.     I know where each road leads to, thats all that matters.  This is my blog, after all. I only have to explain the things I want you to understand.  The rest of what I write here, is for me.  

                                                                    
                                    Know what this road is called?  Its in Montana.  It has a very fitting name.
            

                                     


                                     This one is too obvious.






                                   Im tired.     

                                          

                                     and I feel like this.  

                                     
                                     

                                         Everything can be beautiful.  Out of context.



                                        

of evolution and the Desperate Housewives

Its a quaint subject, and I could post for days on the subject of evolution and its secondary originator, Charles Darwin , but I won't.  This is where smart people comment about me writing stupid phrases like "secondary originator", and then scurry off to google to see what they don't know about charles darwin and all "his" idears about evolution............
Ok. We all have a basic idea about the concept of evolution.  Start as a amoeba or zygote and emerge from a smoldering hurling through space fireball of toxic supernova aftermath,  and after three weeks less than an eternity of time, change due to adaptive abilities into an inconceivably complex myriad of organisims and ecosystems and beings.................  yeah thats a pretty good summary.

I'm speaking of evolution on a much more personal level.  Mine.  
The problem with evolution , and I'm speaking here of evolution of thought and beliefs, is that it doesn't go like climbing a ladder from (at least for me) one level of awareness to another higher level of awareness.    Its much more like that scene from Monsters Inc, where Scully and mike grabowski and Boo jumped from  one magic closet door conveyor track to another.  Hundreds of tracks with millions of doors on them, all traveling in different levels and directions of travel, at very high speeds.
If you dont have kids and never saw the movie, imagine suspending a dozen hand grenades in a large warehouse, at different levels of height and in different locations throughout the warehouse, which by the way, is empty.
Now set them off. Simultaniously.The thousands of  fragments of steel chards would travel in different directions on different planes.  Got it?  Imagine riding on one of those pieces, then deciding at some point to jump off the one your riding on and leap to one traveling near yours, but going in a totally different direction. 
THATS what its been like.
And if you cant draw a mental picture from that, you have no business here.
Is it just me, or is everything changing like that? 
Do you still watch the news on tv, or listen to what they tell us is news, on tv (or the radio?)  Now I know this is nothing new in the bitch about life dept., but its gotten REALLY bad in the past few years, and it seems to be getting worse almost daily.
Or is it just me?
My tolerance to let the tv stay on in the backround is almost nonexistant anymore.  In a few short years I went from believing everything I wanted to know was on the right channel or show or network, to believing each one is as retarded as the next, and  worse than the last.  Now I turn it on to see if the tv news in the morning has video of europe in smoking ruins or california being called the new atlantis, or something along those lines, and thats pretty much it. 
Once I hear the people start to talk about a story of a house fire in Mcadoo or the latest run/walk/jog/'all-you-can-eat-fest to end breast cancer, or the 18 minute description of todays weather.......*click* goes the clicker.   Alls right with the world.  For another day at least.
I used to love and believe in, america.
I don't anymore.
I used to love and believe politics was important and more important than important, that it was REAL. 
I cant believe I used to believe that anymore.
I used to think I believed In God.
But it was like saying "I don't believe in gravity", while deciding to NOT jump off the cliff. 
What you believe is what you DO.  I just told that to my daughter today.  As a counter to what she was being told by her mother. 
"If you love something, set it free, if it comes back to you it is yours".....blah blah blah.  You know the phrase.  Its pasted on a piece of shellacked pecan wood in the spare bedroom of your moms house.

What the plaque DOESNT say, is "If you love something, curse it and do everything you can to destroy it completely, and at the same time, tell your little girl that you still love, "it".  That, is just twisted.    

I used to watch the show Desperate Housewives, back in the day when all was right with the world.  I even used to discuss the previous night's episode with a guy I worked with. I liked it back then.   Of course I liked a lot back then.  Even so,  it had some interesting story lines and..............well we talked about  it while working, not sharing a hot tub together.  Lets let it go at that.
A few weeks ago the series finalle was on, and I watched it.
Seems one of the shows primary couples, Tom and Linette, were split up.  Seems Tom went and got himself a new and improved life partner, and even moved in with her, or verse-vice-a.  It also seems that despite this fact Linette still loved Tom, and ACTED like she did.   At the end of the show, Tom and Linette got back together in made for tv dramatic fashion, and lived happily ever after in our imaginations.
and I KNOW, the dots I connected with Lynettes actions, and Tom's Re-actions, weren't connected by anyone watching, except me.  I turned to my new and improved life partner and told her what I got out of the show, and she licked me.  Then I let her go outside to go pee.

The more I examine myself and what I think and believe, the more I realize how wrong Ive been and how much more I need to know.    But I know that I was on the right track, cuz I was moving.  You cant sit with your arms folded tightly and your mind folded even tighter, and expect to learn anything.
gotta keep moving.

evolving, so to speak.

Judo tactics in the War of The Roses.

Johnathan Kay wrote a book debunking in a very logical very intellectual way, conspiracy theories in the west.  His comments can be heard here.  http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/305586-1   Evidently its ok for Syrians or people in "that kind of a closed society" to believe that THEIR government is less than honorable, but here in the west, where we have an open and independent media, its a preposterous concept.   Basically, its nothing more than
"theres nothing to see here folks, there is nothing behind the curtain to see, just move along and believe what you are told."  ANY thought regarding reality, that is anything other that what we are told by our government and/or our media sources, is silly nonsense.  One can't even inspect or research any ideas other than mainstream, because to do so is wacked-out idiocy.  To entertain ideas  other than mainstream, IS other than mainstream, and that can only be categorized as loony.  Insane.  Mal-adjusted irrational unbalanced unhealthy conspiracy theories.  
I have posted a lot of thoughts here in the past few years.  A lot of things that amateurs have tried to debunk, and others have tried to discredit me for.  Ok, more than tried.  Just giving to  others what I have posted here  to READ is enough to discredit me in some circles.   To believe what I have written and purport to believe is evidence enough  for 99.999% of people in America today.   Most of the stuff I've written about is easily debunked, for people that want to debunk it.   For non-believers that is.  As I have stated on numerous occasions building seven was the lynchpin of paradigm shifts for me, and there is no government or media evidence to change my mind regarding it.  At least none that I have seen.   And anyone who knows me knows that I too poo-poohed 9-11 conspiracy theories up until just a few years ago.   Vehemently. The evidence and facts surrounding building seven at ground zero, things like  the BBC reporter reporting building seven has collapsed on live tv, while building seven still stood in the background in her video report, make it insane FOR ME, to believe that what we were told, is the truth.  You can't look at the evidence and conclude, UNLESS YOU WANT TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU WERE TOLD, that it was in fact, truth.
As with most conspiracy theorists, my train of thinking evolved from the "well if they lied to us about (X), then what ELSE are they lying to us about???   Once you stick your  head down the proverbial rabbit hole, there really is no turning back. All bets are off and everything is open to inspection and re-thinking.  
I have written on false flags, 9-11,  and eeeeevil conspiracies of all types sizes and origins.   A few who read my opinions, out of the few who actually do, have attempted to debunk with easily googled-retorts.  It didnt work.  They went back to their corner of reality where everything is as they  believe and are told it is, and I went back to my reality of "holy frick.  what IF....."  
In the video debate (C-SPAN) that I linked above, webster tarpley detailed WHY the conspiracy theory of 9-11 isn't as preposterous as people think it is.  BUT, it won't matter.   It is so very hard to flip that switch that changes EVERYTHING in one's life.   Everything.  Trust me, I know.  Its safer and cozier in la-la land, where one does and believes what they are told, where life is as its always been. 
I am writing this here and now because my beliefs and my posts here, are going to be used in an attempt to discredit me, as a father and as a rational thinking human being.   
In typical mob mentality fashion, presenting what I write and believe, and then saying ANYTHING one feels like saying, makes what they are saying more credible, and me less so.   "lookit what he wrote here!!! THEN he said and did........"
See how it works?   
I'm BEGGING for this to be brought up, and in case you didn't notice, my mind is a veritable cornucopia of information,  filled with a zillion lit wires and lightbulbs pointing  in a zillion different directions, yet all somehow connected.  I DARE you to bring this up.  I don't need google or wikileaks to respond to questions or accusations, the magazine is locked and loaded and ready to go.   And so am I.
You won't listen to the interviews on the link I posted here, because there is facebook to update and angry birds to play and dancing with the stars to watch.   So yet again, you don't know what you're getting into.   All you know is what you are told.  
Yeah yeah yeah.  You still think I'M the crazy one.  Lemme ax you sumtin. 
What religion do you belong to?  I mean, what church, denomination, or sub-demonination do you belong to? 
Christianity?  Catholic? Evangelical?
So you believe that a 40 somethin year old man was bethrothed to a 15 year old girl, the girl became miraculously preggers, the old man bought the story, because of a visit from a magical being in a dream?   The baby grew up to perform miracles and teach people about God in the sky?  He also talked about, and TO, so called "demonic" beings affecting and inhabiting other peoples??  That he was killed than he came back to life and walked around for 40 days and then was whisked up into the sky???    That the earth is supposedly only 6 or so thousand years old, and that The God who is the father of the baby born under miraculous circumstances made EVERYTHING in 6 days!?!?!?!?!?    That 2 people named adam and eve were the beginning of human beings on earth, and of their first two offspring, one killed the other??????   WHO did they breed with to populate the earth????  Why did adam cry out to The God because he was scared of WHO was outside the garden,  when The God ordered him out of the garden of eden???  Who WHO?!?!?  He and his wife were the only ones around!!!
YOU subscribe to THAT, and you call ME, crazy?  Or is it because you don't believe EVERYTHING about the church or religious denomination you belong to.  You BELONG to it, but you pick and choose what you believe about it.  Or more likely, you don't THINK about what it is you purport to believe in.  You hold a general "god is a nice benovolent Uncle-kinda guy in the sky who we turn to when we need a raise or a vacation or cancer cured or when buildings get hit by planes".     You know,  god.  You know, what EVERYBODY believes in about god.  What won't get you ostracised or laughed at or criticized or banned from facebook.  
You may go to a church and go through the motions and hope for the best and even DO your pretty close to good enough, best.  Most catholics under 50 or 60 have NEVER believed in the catholic church's stance on birth control, or even sex for that matter.  Yet they remained catholics.  I guess they(we) knew better than the designers of the faith.  Or at least that denomination. 
Huh.   You came to a different conclusion than what you were told.  By officials.   I suspect its because sex feels so dammed good and it CAN'T be something a uncle-kinda-guy-in-the-sky-we-turn-to would EVER label a BAD thing, right???  So we came to a different conclusion because it affected us so dammed personally.  And it feels so good. 
Amazing what influences our decisions. 
We can't take shampoo or bottled water on an airplane, for our safety. We  have to take our shoes off and have your naked body viewed by less than professional, officials of the government, for our safety.  Pretty soon, as per statements and proclomations by official homeland security officials, we are ALL going to be subjected to intrusive extreme levels of inspection, to enter shopping malls and bus terminals and sports arenas..........all in the name of our safety. 
And all of this is because of 9-11.  Yet to link the idiocy of the former with the latter, is considered lunacy.  Kinda like virgin birth stories and angel and demon stories, heyna?  Its a good thing homeland security doesn't outlaw sex.  THEN the enlightment would begin in earnest in this country.
So we moderate our beliefs.  A little of this, a little of that..........and we have OUR faith.  At least one that we can kinda sometimes unless it interferes with our goals, adhere to.  
Oh, you don't have a faith?  At least not one lumped into a major religion category?
Oh, you're one of the really enlightened folks, arentcha??
The faith of goodness of people or at least, SMART people.  The ones who sit around big wooden tables on sunday mornings sipping coffee and discussing enlightened ideas. 
Doesn't matter.  One cancer diagnosis usually turns enlightened believers in the goodness of mankind, into pretty strong believers in a good uncle in the sky, god religion. 
Doesn't matter.  Pick a religion.  ANY religion.   Muhammed married a 9 year old.  Waited till she was 12 to have sex with her, but he married her when she was in 2nd grade.  (oh fer cryin out loud you KNOW what I mean).  Buddha named his son garbage.  And Buddah never claimed to be anyone or anything.  It'd be like naming Dick Clark a god and studying all of his wonderful philosophies, if he had any.  Point is, Dick Clark never claimed to be a god. 
Pick a religion any religion, and I can pick it apart for you believing in it.
And if you are an atheist, then you're the stupid-est of the bunch, because to not believe in anything, is the stupid-est belief of all.  Yeah, humans are a hundred zillion years old and we haven't wiped ourselves out yet.  The 6,000 year old scenario seems more realistic when you look at how we seem so hell-bent on destroying each other. 6,000 years seems to be a stretch of the imagination when it comes to humans allowing other humans to exist on earth.  Oldest civilization on earth is the Chinese, and they ENSLAVE their citizens.  
Yeah.  Evolution.  Thats it.

So there you have it.  You're as crazy as I am, maybe moreso.  Or, you don't even really know what it is you believe about what you believe.  At least I know and can talk about what I believe.  Most of you would never state what it is you believe, for moderations sake.  To not offend or appear to be an extremist.  To not stand out. I'm not like you.  
We (you) live for what we (you) are told to live for.  The weekend.  Vacations.    Holidays that are for "families getting together".   Retirement at the end of the long green line.   Or our children. 
Sounds reasonable. And of course we go to church sometimes  and pray when its 4th and goal and like I said, when we get a cancer diagnosis. 

There is nothing crazier in what I have posted here, about anything, than there is about the so called faith you so called believe in.   The only difference is, I know more about both what I have written about, and what you supposedly believe in.  And I dont have a church full of like minded believers to hide behind.   Not on some of the so called conspiracy  stuff. 




Use the momentum of your opponents actions to defeat him.  Use what HE does, to defeat him.