In and of itself
Traffic does not bother me
What am I insane
I did nothing to cause it
Therefore it is not my fault
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I lost a haiku
It was just right about here
Then it disappeared
It turned into a tanka
That’s a clever place to hide
“I look inside myself and
See my heart is black
I see my red door
I must have it painted black
No colors any more,
I want them to turn black
Maybe then I’ll fade away and not
Have to face the facts
It’s not easy facing up
When your whole world is black
No more will my green sea
Go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing
Happening to you”
“Paint It Black”
– Rolling Stones
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Indicative of a projection
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Not liking what I see
The ugly reflection of me
Cast on, an unsuspecting,
President, I am projecting
Knowing my true worth
Been that way since birth
A life in it’s simplest reduction
Parents 2nd tax deduction
Compassionate I am not
Ever since being a tot
Keep it to your self
Put feelings on a shelf
What do I have to burn
So that I may unlearn
It is quite the travesty
Stripped of humanity
An idea that I must smash
Perceived value is cash
When one sees the duality
Reduced to a singularity
Do not do as we do
Do as you are told to
That was the lesson
Session after session
Ask us no questions
The automated suggestions
We will tell you no lies
Though will give many tries
A past not easily forgot
Mechanical as a robot
Need to learn to care
Not just find what is “fair”
Must not make my karma
Play out as an angry drama
Even on a tiny stage
Need let go of the rage
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“Pound the drums with martial beat
Pound the streets with marching feet
Wounded pride, distorted eyes
Paint the night with battle cries
All puffed up with vanity
We see what we want to see
To the powerful and the wise
The mirror always lies
Boys and girls together
Mistake conceit for pride
Ambition for illusion
Dreams for self-delusion
Girls and boys together
See what it is we lack
Boys and girls together
Let’s paint the mirror black
Paint it black”
“War Paint”
– Rush
Find a penny
Pick it up
All day long
Have good luck
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My first inclination is to buy a lottery ticket.
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What usually happens is, I get a $1.99 worth of insight. + .01 penny – $ 2.00 lottery ticket leads to a myriad of internal reflection. Gosh, what would I do with x million dollars?
First off, as this is being written, if I spent as much time thinking about what I’d do and replace it with doing something towards making x million dollars, I’d have it already. But hey, it is just a penny, right?
Statistically one would be placing their life on the roulette field of 50/50, either being in the red or black. Red as in finding yourself in worse debt than before you “won” or hopefully wise enough to stay in the black.
Fate’s outcome at the kinetic resistance of a spinning wheel and the gravitational drop of a little plastic ball.
After the statistical improbability of matching 6 numbers, painted on ping pong balls, pneumatically filling a transparent tube.
There would be no Goldilocks amount to be had, unless you had a crystal clear omniscient crystal ball to “see” the outcomes of each one of your choices.
If one had that kind of insight, there’d be no reason to buy a lottery ticket in the first place. Which is what you would want it to boil down to in the first place.
After paying off the immediate family’s mortgages or building them new houses, replacing vehicles with newer ones. In the end, all I’d want to do is make sure everyone is healthy and happy which can be achieved with out any money any way.
All that, for $ 1.99. Not too shabby.
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“Pennies From Heaven”
“Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You’ll find your fortune’s fallin’ all over the town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
So, when you hear it thunder, don’t run under a tree
There’ll be pennies from heaven for you and me”
– Frank Sinatra
“Manhattan Project”
“Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found it first
Would be sure to do their worst
They always had before…
Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick
But this was something more…
[Chorus:]
The big bang took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
The end was begun and it hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots tried to hold it back
Fools tried to wish it away
The hopeful depend
On a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say
Imagine a place where it all began
Gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys
More than they bargained for…
[Chorus]
Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of ‘Enola Gay’
Flying out of the shockwave
On that August day
All the powers that be
And the course of history
Would be changed forevermore”
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– Rush
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Denuclearization
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It is blatant bullying and arrogant to demand that any country has to dismantle and destroy their tools of equalization.
Who gave you know who the audacity to even suggest that?
“I think guns are the great equalizer, it puts everyone on an even keel.
Chuck Laddel, bad a$$, mixed martial arts fighter, maybe baddest guy in the world.
Put him in a cage with Hannah Montana and a twenty gauge, Vegas odds are dropping drastically.”
– Doug Stanhope
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So, why should ‘merikkka get to be the quintessential arbiter of deciding what country can have “guns”, when internally it “allegedly” wants everyone to have “guns”? While it wastes billions of dollars making guns it will never use.
When itself, is the global metaphorical equivalent of wanting to remain uninhibited to flick the ears of the scrawny country in front of them and steal their lunch (resources/”cheap” labor) money?
At what point in “time” does anyone think a real leader will emerge and actually lead? Instead of reshuffling the pieces on the spherical board, like any of that makes a difference?
Using “defense” as a pretense? Offering up vague “security”, that doesn’t exist, by taking, yes, by taking, albeit through an illusionary “voluntary” tax system to waste billions and billions of dollars on unused weaponry.
45 is not the problem, the system that produces 45 is the problem. Therefore it is fixable.
Am I the only one who thinks that if we spent that same money taking care of the people who need it the most would, not only, not harm “us”, would probably fight our battles for us. Save, there’d be no more “battles” left to fight.
Must be just me and Bill Hicks, but he’s dead now.
“I’m going to share with you a vision that I had, because I love you. And you feel it.
You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead — just play with this — if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world — and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded — we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.”
– Bill Hicks
I get it though, our “alleged” leader, is a creature of our current collective consciousness or unconsciousness.
Therefore, simply because we are mired in it, we accept it as reality.
But how hard would it be to paradigm shift into gradual enlightenment, 100th monkey theory style?
One by one to one hundred, then one million by one million, then four billion by four billion, evolving, not accepting power of tyrants and or illusionary democracies.
“Democracy is the worst kind, I am sorry, but it is. We get to pick our leaders..well…
What if I don’t want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own, I don’t want to be “led”. Is that freedom?”
– Doug Stanhope
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Even the most enlightened democracy is infiltrated with the tyranny of the majority, if what has been “chosen” doesn’t match one’s ideology of how things “should” be.
“We’ve taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It’s one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
//
Look around at this world we’ve made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man
Oh, what a nice, contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls”
“2112”
– Rush
Seeing how, less than half the population in this country votes, it is actually the tyranny of the minority, implementing their will.
Adjudicating laws from big to small, regulating and controlling how individuals perceive within that framework that they are “allowed” to live.
Therefore always keeping things out of balance. A still pendulum might be boring, however it reflects the potential of being centered and silent, free to explore new worlds and alternative dimensions.
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“Learn To Be Still”
“It’s just another day in paradise
As you stumble to your bed
You’d give anything to silence
Those voices ringing in your head
You thought you could find happiness
Just over that green hill
You thought you would be satisfied
But you never will-
Learn to be still
We are like sheep without a shepherd
We don’t know how to be alone
So we wander ’round this desert
And wind up following the wrong gods home
But the flock cries out for another
And they keep answering that bell
And one more starry-eyed messiah
Meets a violent farewell-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still
Now the flowers in your garden
They don’t smell so sweet
Maybe you’ve forgotten
The heaven lying at your feet
[Solo]
There are so many contridictions
In all these messages we send
(We keep asking)
How do I get out of here
Where do I fit in?
Though the world is torn and shaken
Even if your heart is breakin’
It’s waiting for you to awaken
And someday you will-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still
You just keep on runnin’
Keep on runnin'”
“The Eagles”
We create these monsters because somewhere back in our puny consciousness, there is a tiny part of those, that think that they would like to have that power too. Unfortunately making it acceptable to exercise control over others through fear and hate.
Not everyone, but enough of everyone which is how it manifest into a projection called Donald. Whether it be instant or infinite karma, would not want to come back and be subject to the energy he is broadcasting.
Vision is blurry
Ears are ringing
Tongue is tied
Lips are sealed
Throats is parched
Stomach is knotted
My vision must be blurry
I don’t see things how others do
The ringing in my ears
Is it tinnitus or voices interrupting you
Tongue is not so much tied
As it is tormented to communicate
Therfore tis easier the lips to seal
Than it is for me to extrapolate
The throat gets parched quick
Reminding me not to speak
Causing knots in my stomach
Making my ability to connect weak
“I don’t fit in anywhere, man, I really don’t. I don’t agree with anything either, not even what I just said so, think you see the problem here. Stranded without a clue.”
– Bill Hicks
“America Will Never Be A Socialist Country”.
“We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free”.
– 45 SOTU Speech
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Just two of over eight thousand, according to the WAPO, and these may not be considered, as they are opinions.
Just because a person can label something other than what it is, doesn’t make it so.
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“Let’s just think about this for a minute”
– Bill Hicks
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1 socialism
noun
so·cial·ism
\ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\
: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
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Full Definition
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
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*Consider the military industrial complex as a root program, feeding intentionally and unintentionally other industries for the simple sake of keeping many people employed / enslaved.
In general knowing that most weapons built, will never be used (on the positive side, it reflects we are evolving) yet, blind eyes are turned because in the grand scheme of things, it provides jobs.
“People don’t want anything near ‘em… except military bases. They don’t mind that do they? They like that. Give ‘em an army base, give ‘em a navy base, makes ‘em happy, why? Jobs! Jobs! Self-interest! Even if the base is loaded with nuclear weapons, THEY DON’T GIVE A #UCK!!!
They say “well, I’ll take a little radiation if I can get a job!” Working people have been #ucked over so long in this country, those are the kind of decisions they’re left to make.”
– George Carlin
Plus, it trickles down to other economies that would appear to be separate from it.
The person(s) getting paid to build a destroyer, wants to build a house. Needs to hire an architect, a contractor, get a loan from a bank. Etc., etc., etc
“Defense” cleverly disguised as socialism
To the tune of 700 plus billion a year for “seed” money.
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
There is no “private” property, the banks are holding the leases and the banks are controlled/regulated by the government and doled out and around by the International monetary fund.
Besides no matter what a person might think that they “own”, it is an illusion of cliché proportions.
There are no U-haul’s behind a hearse. You can not take it with you and whoever dies with the most “toys” is dead.
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
* See above.
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3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
First known use: 1833
– m-w.com
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A clever bean counter, a hedge fund manager, or currency manipulator are not productive members of society.
Not saying some good may not come out of their actions but it is a perpetual roll of the dice that they could gamble any one’s business or a country’s economy into the poor house.
“Sky scraper buildings
Corporate corridor, office suite
Executive board, high finance
Big businessman suit
Not stained by sweat or blood
Using money like perfume water
Sophistication smiles
Hide stain and decay
Realistic decisions
In columns and ledgers
Dividing profits among themselves
Spoils of war are spoils of war
Says Junk Man owner of the junk
Grafitti Man’s got something to say
Message in a scrawl message on the wall
Down with bosses
No more bosses
Something’s gotta change
Something’s gotta change”
– John Trudell
Farms subsidized because of an inept foreign trade policy is socialism
State laws requiring you to pay a partial premium to cover “uninsured motorists” is socialism
Paying to have your trash removed, which too often ends up on garbage barges, then dumped into the ocean is met with society paying to clean up the ocean, is socialism.
Not to mention it is our insatiable need to feel good about ourselves that we consume as much material products in the first place.
Thinking that if we buy the latest gizmo that is newer, shinier, faster, softer, harder, has an extra bell or whistle, then we’ll be complete.
Driven by a treadmill like news cycle that reaches the negativity of armageddon type proportions, creating a “live like there is no tomorrow” entropic attitude.
“Open spaces in shopping center walls
Middle class man middle class land
Clean enough to be a family affair
Nice place to take wide eyed child
Controlled climate temperate zones
Neat little shops all laid out
Everything by sale
By cash or plastic
Price not negotiable but payment is
Different junk man different junk
Spend some money buy some more
Grafitti Man’s got something to say
Message in a scrawl message on the wall
Put on blinders
Dull the senses
Who’s worth more than money they spend?”
– John Trudell
“We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free”
– 45 SOTU Speech
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
“Freedom
Freedom is the measurable distance, between you and your watch, wallet, phone & keys.”
– me
Unless you can, at will, transform yourself into the ether, enter and exit other dimensions, pass through liquids or solids at the drop of a hat, you are not free.
You are bound and shackled, first by gravity, oxygen and sunlight. That is just on nature’s end.
“It’s not a free country. You’re born free…
I mean, you are born absolutely free, except for the laws of nature. If you drink, you get drunk. That’s a law. If you get old, you die. That’s a law too. If you sit on a tack, you will bleed from the ass.”
“These are the only laws they that you’re born with. And any kind of government just #ucks you out of that type of freedom.”
– Doug Stanhope
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Get into the man made systems and you may as well be lying in an Iron Maiden, waiting (and / or hoping) for the lid to close.
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If you really think you’re free tonight… You, hero! Officer Bob, you’re a free man! You live in a free country!
You go upstairs… You take your own beer you risked your life for… You sit on the hood of your monster truck in a parking lot… Drink your beer. And see how long it is before actual veteran cops come by and pound on you with trudgeons on the kidneys, to show… “Why can’t I do it? I’m just having a beer.” “I don’t know.”
That’s the law, you don’t #uck around.” You can’t drive down the street without a seatbelt on, why not? Or you gotta put on a helmet.
You can’t sit in your own backyard naked, your own filthy dirty flesh that you’re born with. You know that body you carry around? “Filthy! You can’t sit out… Why not? I don’t know, that’s just the way it is. You’re not free.
You’re not free in the least. You need a dipoma in this country, to cut hair. Are you free? You need to keep your tray in an up right and locked position during take-off. That’s not just a hack premise, it’s a #ucking felony.
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“Why do I have to have…? This doesn’t make sense.”
They say if you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish….
…….Then he’s gotta get a fishing license, but he doesn’t have any money.
So he’s got to get a job, and get into the Social Security system and pay taxes, and now you’re gonna audit the poor c*#@$ucker, ’cause he’s not really good with math.
He’ll pull the IRS van up to your house, and he’ll take all your shit. He’ll take your black velvet Elvis and your Batman toothbrush, and your penis pump, and that all goes up for auction with the burden of proof on you, because you forgot to carry the one, ’cause you were just worried about…….. eating a #ucking fish, and you couldn’t even cook the fish ’cause you needed a permit for an open flame.
Then the Health Department is going to start asking you a lot of questions, about where are you going to dump the scales and the guts. ‘This is not a sanitary environment’,
And ladies and gentlemen if you get sick of it all, at the end of the day… not even legal to kill yourself in this country.
Thanks again, John Ashcroft, you weird bible addict, can’t even handle his own drug. You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and you wave a flag celebrating it.
The only true freedom you find, is when you realize and come to terms with the fact that you are completely and unapologetically #ucked, and then you are free to float around the system.”
– Doug Stanhope
Speaking of Iron Maiden
“The Prisoner”
We want information
Information
Information
Who are you?
The new number 2
Who is number 1?
You are number 6
I am not a number! I am a free man!
[Laughter]
I’m on the run, I kill to eat
I’m starving now, feeling dead on my feet
Going all the way, I’m natures beast
Do what I want and do as I please
Run – Fight – To breathe – It’s tough
Now you see me now you don’t
Break the walls I’m coming out
Not a prisoner I’m a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don’t care where the past was
I know where I’m going …out!
If you kill me it’s self defense
And if I kill ya’ then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You’ll be afraid when I call out your name
Run – Fight – To breathe –
It’s gonna be tough
Now you see me now you don’t
Break the walls I’m coming out
Not a prisoner I’m a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don’t care where the past was
I know where I’m going
I’m not a number I’m a free man
Live my life where I want to
You’d better scratch me
From your black book
Cause’ I’ll run rings around you
Want to test your freedom? Next time you are at a “sporting” event, that uselessly (for no intrinsic reason) plays the national anthem. Stand like a statue, with your hand over the heart arm, raised and “flipping the bird” (finger “swearing” oooooh) towards the flag.
See how long it takes some thick neck, arm swinging, red “MAGA” hat wearing, insecure about the size of his flag pole dude to come by and rearrange your version of freedom to his. Whilst keeping this in mind.
“We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free”
– 45 SOTU Speech
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“Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.” (and government.)
― Steven Pinker
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If society is going to expunge public officials from office for being racist, that is completely understandable.
Is dressing up in black face offensive?
Yes.
As society sloooowlllllly evolves, was it inappropriate, showing poor judgment, and insensitive. Yes, yes, yes.
Beyond the knee jerk unexamined reaction though, one ought to take into consideration, the diversity of the staff.
Also review the policies implemented, removed, or unfairly and unjustly enforced.
After all, an elected official may have never put on black face in any context, but may still surround himself with a mostly, all (pink) “white” male cabinet.
Then by executive order, implement an unconstitutional travel ban barring peoples of a specific religion from entering the country.
Likewise creating a bogeyman under the bed (across the border) fearful hysteria to coalesce a boneless base into being ardent supporters.
Because, you know, if Norway was the country at the southern “border” 45 would be declaring a “national emergency” to build a concrete, one way, four lane super highway heading north.
Plus be able to admit through confession that it’s okay to assault women when you have “celebrity” status, and get away with it.
Pile on the executive orders (that he said he’d never need to use) to deny people who have had medical procedures from volunteering to “serve” their country.
Need I go on?
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Obviously the politically correct way to get away with continuing to practice blatant racism, religious intolerance, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, treason, stealing from the lower and middle class to give to the rich, sidle up to dictators, despots, autocrats and murderers, then all you have to do, to make that behavior acceptable, is dress up in a blue suit, a white shirt, a red tie and paint on an ORANGE face.
Besides the
Fairy tale
Notion
Of an
Alpha and Omega
Existence
Energy
Can neither
Be created
Nor destroyed
Therefore
It merely
Changes shape
In
S p a c i o u s n e s s
Or density
Inertia
Or velocity
Opaqueness
Or clarity
That is
If you are looking at it
At the right moment
To even decide
If it is
A particle or a wave
Or both or neither.
Such is
The sustenance
Of our minds
At the
Perpetual crossroads
Of evolution
With no
Turning back
It is impossible
To unlearn
But never to late
To rearrange
One’s beliefs
Or perceptions
‘Twas like thunder, all thru the night
Promise to see Jesus in the morning light
Love say “Take my hand, it’ll be alright
C’mon save your soul tonight”
“Thunder”
– Prince
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During the pregame warm up to the chaotic “state of the union” speech.
Much like football, each side hyping up what “their” team is going to do, based on past performance and wishful thinking.
We think 45 is going to declare a national emergency to build a wall.
If 45 declares a national emergency just to appease his racist base, it will get clogged in the courts.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Relentlessly regurgitated, recycled, repeated and repeated with no nutritional or spiritual value.
We think Larry linebacker is going to stop the play, We think Randy receiver will fumble the ball. No, kicking Kevin can save the day and win the game. As I said.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Relentlessly regurgitated, recycled, repeated and repeated with no nutritional or spiritual value.
Just once, would like to see/hear either or both sides, speculate outside of the box, they’ve trapped themselves in and pontificate the following.
Seeing how horribly 45 failed as a negotiator, we think Potus will have had a “come to Jesus” or Buddha or Muhammad, or Kermit the frog, or Winnie the Pooh, or Oprah moment, and eloquently describe a new vision.
Maybe something like this.
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“My fellow and feminine Americans, after studying the globe and consulting with cosmologists, humanitarian and history experts, now realize, regardless of how countries are identified, how big or small they are, they all are on the same big blue green spaceship magically floating in an elliptical orbit around the sun.
Therefore it seems silly to bar any one from moving freely around the vessel. Especially since, everybody is already here. We can work on that, once it is understood we are all coming from the same place.
Might as well realize that, then collectively take care of our intergalactic traveling Winnebago just to see where it is taking us. Without it falling apart due to poor maintenance.”
– Speculation as a transformed 45
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Otherwise the collective stays mired in a thick gooey loose stool circular muddy rut, regardless of how hard it tries to get out, only gets worse.
Looking at the world through a windshield. 