For all the chaos at the border.
It is going to be at least three months before some bullied or abused kid with too much access to wmd’s can divert the attention momentarily of children being separated from their family and held in cages. Maybe never to be reunited.
“You see it in their faces
The saddness in their tears
The desperation and the anger
Madness and the fear
No hope, no life, just pain and fear
No food, no love, just greed is here
Starvation and the hunger
The suffering and the pain
The agonies of all-out war
When will it come again?
The struggle for the power
A tyrant tries again
Just what the hell is going on?
When will it ever end? //”
– Iron Maiden “Childhood’s End”
Or the head chef stirs the NFL pot to focus on trivialities and divide people, over symbolism vs. symbolism.
(Taking a knee, to indicate fellow planetary players are being hurt and killed)
vs.
(Standing to face a piece of cloth while music plays because the government demands it.)(There, that’s free dumb.)
Rather substance over the substanceless.
Let’s see, hmm what else??
A wall, yeah a bigger wall, oops, that’s not working, since it can be gotten over or around, by airplane or boat. Darn.
No wait, a dome, a big dome the biggest best dome ever in the history of domes, no one builds domes like I build domes.
Believe me. Please believe me, please. The fantasy of illusion works better. Kinda like clapping your hands so tinker bell heals. It only works if you believe.
Plus, since we are starting our space military, we’re going to make the aliens pay for the dome, yeah yeah, the murdering Martians and vile Venusians.
Them…..Or the Canadians or Jhina
Be not afraid earthlings, the dictator of distractions will protect all of you with the new global security policy..
If, …sniff….you’ll just pay a little more attention to me…. I. ….sniff…cough….sob.
I can be loved right, so that maybe I won’t have to align myself with deadly dictators who are in the same emotional boat.
A presidential pedophile molesting the minds of migrant minors by breaking their biological bonds, traumatizing their trust, depriving dignity, assaulting their autonomy.
“Ever wonder why we’re #ucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
“We will pay the price
But we will not count the cost”
– Rush “Bravado”
Not by the 3:00 pm
Alarm bell
But the violent
Cacophony of
Shots being fired
Terrifying decibels
To identify
Each school’s
Early dismissal
System
Santa Fe Texas
Is (1)Clack clack
Poom wa
Clack clack
Poom wa
Where Parkland
Was more
Like Las Vegas
Ratatatat
Tdbtdbtdb
Ratatatat
Tdbtdbtdb
Every student
For themselves
In
A run for your life
Free for all
But wait
It’s not a
Free for all
It’s a mind #uck
Prison
Living in fear
That the
Next school
Your school
Or concert
Will be the one
For
The ensuing slaughter
Taking place
Senselessly
Unless it is worked
Into the
Math curriculum
As a word problem
500 students
Plus 20 teachers
Minus (x) amount
Of each
In the
Wrong place
At the
Right time
Bipedal
Earthling
Artists
Equals
A plethora of
On the NRA take
Administrators
Governors
Representatives
Congress persons
And
Presidents
Who
Apparently
Sit around
Between shootings
To conjure up
The improbable
And impossible
Solutions
Like
Arrrrming thuuu teeeeach errrrs
Brilliant just #ucking brilliant
Or
The latest show
Of just how stooopid
They think
The public is
By suggesting
(2)Less doors
Ta da
There’s a slogan
The “right” (wrong)
Can hide behind
Till the next massacre
Occurs
Less doors, more guns
Problem solved
Oh wait
If there is only
One door
And a shooter
Blockades the one door
With one of those
School
Targeted marketing
No pun intended
Of “safety”
(In the case of a school shooting
Rotocloser door arm
Movement impediment device
Or impenetrable
Door jambs
Or in room
(3)Safety shelters)
That would only
Increase
The body count
Since help
Could not get
Through the door
Except in the
Form of
Hopes and prayers
That there isn’t
Enough ammunition
To go around
And around
In blood red rounds
Brass casings in mounds
Students felled to the ground
Wailing weeping loud sounds
Captured by news bloodhounds
Of second amendment
Tyranny
Allegedly protecting
A freedom
That doesn’t exist
In the first place
“Shut up! Go back to bed, America.
Your government is in control.”
– Bill Hicks
The shooter was not defending himself against an overt tyrannical regime. So that argument is lost in the sauce.
Merely a subversive system keeping the population deep in weapons that can be used at any time by any one at any age.
In any caliber in any state for any reason in any modification w/out any restrictions.
Against who, oh yeah fellow citizens, basically encouraged by corporments (corporations and governments) to flail distraction at all possible costs (human life) so a reasonable solution can not be found.
With an underlying tag line to each of the recent mass shootings is that the guns were all purchased “legally”. Am sure that is comforting to the parents burying their dead loved ones. Scarring the rest with PTSD (Shell Shock) invisible wounds.
How free can you be in any true sense of the word, if even a fraction of your mind space has a compartment dedicated to sleeping with one eye open and ears tuned in 24/7 as to when whizzing bullets and gravity is going to bring you or a loved one down?
Less doors. WTF? How long before they suggest Jedi Knight training with light sabres, that will deflect the random bullets. Plus how cool as long as the sound effects can be heard.
(1) Doug Stanhope inspired sound effect
From “School Shooting”
“After every school shooting, parents come on television and say: ‘Rap music is the problem. And drugs. And the lack of metal detectors.’ No.
The problem is that a lot of your kids are aggressive dicks and you won’t do shit about it. That’s the **problem.”
You never hear these parents say: ‘It’s terrible that Andy Williams shot up Santana High School, but I accept it was also our boy Ethan’s fault, because he was a sadistic prick to that kid,'”
(4)’Tell that to the cameras, Ethan. Tell them how you pulled Andy’s pants down, then pushed his head down the toilet.’
I never hear that on the news.”
– Doug Stanhope
That, and an unfettered access to wmds and you have a toxic cocktail of death waiting to be shaken, not stirred.
(4)(CNN)The father of the teenager accused of killing 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Texas says his son was a “good boy,” and he believes bullying drove him to perpetrate last week’s deadly rampage.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, an evangelical Christian and Republican former radio talk-show host who has been a strong proponent of expanding gun liberties in the state, spoke with a cadre of officials on Friday, pointing out that though Santa Fe High School had been given a safety award from the state and enjoyed the regular protection of two police officers, it still fell victim to horrific violence at the hands of an armed teenager.
(2)“We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built. And what I mean by that is there are too many entrances and too many exits to our more than 8,000 campuses in Texas,” he said, citing security at office buildings and courthouses. “Had there been one single entrance possibly for every student, maybe he would have been stopped.”
As long as I’m playing
Air ride seat psychologist
Think
Maybe
In that house
Paranoia
And the only
Knowledge of the
Constitution is the
Second ammendment
That
Was passed on
With
Wmds
In an
Unsecured location
(3) In room safety shelters
Could these criminal corporations not find something more practical to make than cashing in on a collective fear to make a product that in all practical purposes is never going to be used in the first place?
Save wasting the earth’s resources to occupy an already overcrowded classroom with a bullet proof cage to lure in the already fear stricken into a ready made booby trap.
That if a crazed killer was trying real hard to several dozen “one up” the last murderer he would have his fish in each barrel in each classroom.
When the best solution is through the attritional reduction of targets in the first place.
At least until we can wash the blood off of the world’s hands. Long enough to learn how to get along with each other in what is essentially a finite space that is getting more and more crowded, warmer and terribly toxic.
“Blood On The World’s Hands”
“Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened
Always it makes me angry but…
When you can see it happening
The madness that’s all around you
Nobody seems to worry
The world seems so powerless to act…
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day a new toll
Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings…
One day another killing
Somewhere there’s someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there’s someone
Laughing at us
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day it goes on
Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid
Praying for a ceasefire
They say things are getting better
No need to be complacent
There’s chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
It’s our epitaph
It’s out of control
Someone should know
Blood on the world’s hands
Someone Should”
– Iron Maiden
Do to schadenfreudenistic tendencies
It is that we find ourselves practically
In a perpetual state of rubber necking
At the politically derailing train wreck
Destruction & decency dismemberment
Of daily hijinks, distraction and deceit
When with just a little bit more focus
We could keep our eyes on the road
With a new destination in mind & heart
One that brings us to the realization
That we are all of one consciousness
“No tree has branches so foolish
as to fight amongst themselves.”
~ Native American Proverb
The
Removal
Or
Impeachment
Or
Incarceration
Of the
Current President
Rather the
Transformation of
The
Vile ugliness
From within
That reflects back
In those traits
That I see
In myself
That I
Do not
Like
Such as
Narcissism
Deception
Blame shifting
Arrogance
In
Varying degrees
Of
Intensity
At
Different times
Under completely
Dissimilar circumstances
Perhaps with
A little
Karma / Spiritual
Glass cleansing
That image
And
Nightmare
Will
Disappear
And
I can
Look
Into the
Mirror / Void
And
Once
And for all
See
The
Beauty
That
Resides in
Every glimpse
Of every
Spark of
The divinity
Emanating
From
Each bipedal
Earthling artist
Regardless
Whether
They are
Janitor or
Dictator
Prisoner or
Poet
Oppressor or
Oppressed
Immigrant or
Imperialist
Pauper or
Prince
Kid or
Curmudgeon
What do you
Seek?
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions.
A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
– Bill Hicks
Making something illegal, doesn’t prevent it from happening, it merely sets up a mind construct for control, profit and manipulation, violence and death.
Especially if you are the head muckity muck in the Executive Execution branch, manipulating and infecting the diseased and dying Judicial and Legislative branches being a sparrow hawk, flitting around the media offshoot, to tweet your alleged innocence.
Before actually being charged with a crime. If you do not do anything wrong you can not get caught.
Am quite sure Stephon Clark would have liked the same protracted public prosecution to prove that he was only carrying a cell phone.
Perhaps he was trying to tweet that before getting shot at 20 times, landing (brutally piercing) 6 (six) in the BACK.
“Stephon Clark was shot and killed on the evening of March 18, 2018, by two officers of the Sacramento Police Department in Sacramento, California, United States.
The officers were looking for a suspect who was breaking windows in the Meadowview neighborhood, and confronted Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man whom they found in the yard of his grandmother’s house, where he resided.”
– Wikipedia
RIDICULOUS ONLY HAVE CELL PHONE
NO GUN, OBVIOUSLY NO GUN FOUND
Was just inside at grandmas having pie
Unfair, delivering justice on an instant whim WHY TURN OFF SOUND ON BODY CAMERAS ? If you do not do anything wrong you can not get caught.
*”My lifeblood spills over……..”
*Rush “2112”
“Half penny, two penny, ashes to dust
The almighty dollar says
“In God we trust”
Justice for money
How much more can I pay
We all know it’s the American Way”
– Styx
“Half penny, Two penny”
Priorities
Stephon Clark shot to death for allegedly breaking windows. Seems a tad harsh.
(For the sake of argument, windows can be replaced. Unlike breaking up families at the border as is the administration’s immigration policy, might be a little harder to fix, or replace if they can be reunited at all.)
DJT rewriting the tax code so he has more and you have less is stealing.
Those white collar criminals sure are savvy sunsabitches aren’t they??
Theft is theft, right? An election perhaps, so immediate family can manipulate international policy (Qatar) geared towards clearing up “Inside Man” style. Pretty Kushy deal.
“As a result, Kushner should have fully recused himself from participating in US foreign policy matters involving Qatar,” wrote an ethics expert for CNN this March.
Kushner was key in advising Trump on the U.S. response to the blockade of Qatar by its Saudi and United Arab Emirates only a month after the Kushner Cos. unsuccessfully solicited funding from the Qatar finance minister for the 666 Fifth Ave.”
https://www-haaretz-com
Or altering up another country’s tariff that they might (okay, actually did) loan (give) you money on the sly to keep a business afloat.
“Then there is a darker imputed motive, based on the fact that a Chinese state-controlled company loaned US$500-million to an Indonesian theme park that will feature hotels, a golf course and a residence branded with the Trump name. The news came just days before the President’s tweet.
Coincidence or not, it looks bad because Mr. Trump refuses to divest himself of his business interests.”
– www-theglobeandmail-com.
Oops
Where is the Sacramento police to stop those crimes?
Nevermind they’re too trigger happy around guys carrying cell phones.
This is just as good as any place to drop in once again Ayn Rand’s law quote.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against…
We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“People want me to make fun of Sean Hannity tonight, but I just could not do that,” she said. “This dinner is for journalists.”
– Michelle Wolf
Integrity supercedes “legality”
Can you say Daniel Elsburg?
Pen……ta……gon Pa……pers.
If the Vietnam War was going
On today, Sean Hannity would
Not want any whistle blowers
Around saving lives, cause the
Information is “Classified”, boy
He sure tried to keep his name
Classified, so no one would know
How much he was on the
Proverbial take and why every
Story was pro Trump and Cohen
Which is when you realize Sean
Is a propagandist not a journalist
Fox news is definitely trying to
Force the truth rabbit down
The Orwellian memory hole.
Deceptively distributing dialogue
In conversational cups of Kool-aid
To a ceaseless stream of sycophants
Which is not to say lives are at stake
Like they were in Vietnam per se
But rather the fragility of your sanity
As you are subjected to it constantly
Because 45 may or may not have
Colluded with Russia or perhaps to
Pay back some loans he defaulted on
We will never know or definitively prove
Like whom may have shot Kennedy
What really happened to 3 NY buildings
(That Rudy quickly shipped off to China,
Recycled evidence is hard to sift through)
Or nonexistent planes in DC and PA
All being completely lost in the ether
* “The answer is blowing in the wind”
And why as an allegedly civil society
We can’t stop the proliferation of WMD’s
A gun or an assult rifle is a WMD too
Feed and house the homeless and
Take care of all our fellow space travelers
However, what we do know is that
His leadership is not really leadership
It is riding a “brand” that had an image
Of lifestyles of the rich and famous
Propagated into a TV reality *porn “star”
Feeding an illusion he was successful
That kept non-pinks out of his buildings
Mal-reported revenues cheating taxes
Objectified, assaulted women, allegedly
Very sure he violates the vocabulary
Definitely destroys decent dialogue
Confuses chaotic content for context
And finally since this went off the rails
Superficiality supercedes normality
Or reality
Or humanity
Or humility
*
“How many roads
must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas
must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times
must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend,
is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
Yes, and how many years
can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years
can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times
can a man turn his head
And pretending that he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend,
is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
Yes, and how many times
must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears
must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths
will it take ’til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend,
is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind”
– Bob Dylan
* Porn:
3 : the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction.
– m-w.com
While
It may be entertaining to
Sit back and watch the show
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
His dialogue degrades civility it also
Races to the bottom of depravity
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
Rome is burning and the
Institutions are collapsing
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
No one is actually harmed
By childish name calling
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
A money grab thru tax reform
Might be easy, legal and unnoticed
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
Half the cost of the weapons used
On Syria could have fixed Flint’s pipes
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
Out of the womb fetuses are aborted
From classrooms, that could be stopped
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
While
As emperor king you solely try to decide
Who can enter your fiefdom or thief dumb
One, must ask themselves
If that was me as President
Would I behave like that?
Mean
While
As long as the economy keeps plugging along, it’s a laissez-faire free for all, so we consume everything the corporations can kick out of their factories with higher and higher prices.
To the same degree that health care turns malignant and education is dumbed down.
Fueled in every household by the telescreens playing out the suspense, drama, comedy, tragedy whodunit mystery with constant chaotic commentators, some giving clues, some distracting from same clues.
With the bulk of the content provided by the same advertisers. On eve channel.
The big ones sponsoring every angle by friends, hoping to get in the last word before the eleventh hour spinning around 360 degrees, separated in 60 minute increments, before getting all tuckered out from the calamity in the shadows.
“Since Trump became president, cable news networks have enjoyed strong ratings. With late-breaking news from Washington seemingly a daily occurrence,”
– Forbes
By calling it news, we can only delude ourselves that we are being informed. If “news” was called “speculation and hyperbole”, which is closer to the truth.
The collective would realize they are simple pawns in an unwitting game of consumerism.
“You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him.
I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn’t sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric, but he has helped you.
He’s helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster, and now you’re profiting off him.
And if you’re going to profit off Trump, you should at least give him some money, because he doesn’t have any.”
– Michelle Wolf
Guess we could kind of blame MTV, Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly for initiating this pseudo reality watchable train wreck, smoke and mirrors, faux danger, debilitating distraction into a heady conglomeration tangled and torn spool of fishing line so messed up there is no place to start to maybe straighten it out, without tossing in the towel and buying a new reel to begin anew.
Trumping all other reality shows merely by its 24/7 programming ad nauseum schedule. Regurgitated and repeated. Feeding the narcissistic nightmare beast, a daily diet of exaggerated inflated incompetent ego.
“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”
“Put on blinders
Dull the senses
Who’s worth more
than money they spend?
Sky scraper buildings
Corporate corridor office suite
Executive board high finance
Big businessman suit
Not stained by sweat or blood
Using money like perfumed 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
“Graffiti Man”
No Bell
Need be rung.
Regardless the mindless chants (No-bel, No-bel, Nobel, Nobel) of the easily manipulated, who must also believe in Tinker Bell, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Dumbo’s magic feather.
Those, that can also be easily caught up in an Orwellian two minutes hate of “lock her up”, “lock her up”, shift easily like a well oiled weather vane in a light breeze.
If you broker a “peace” deal through insults, arrogance, manipulation, hyperbole and fear, that, is neither peaceful or a deal. Merely an optics moment of one tyrannical bully out maneuvering another tyrannical bully.
Not to mention, 45 hasn’t even gotten involved yet. Save being in the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” category.
As his rhetoric was putting the south in a perilously precarious position of being circumstantially wiped out, by geography.
Laying out his mad man prick waving, “my nuclear button is bigger than your nuclear button” adolescent small dick fear insecurities.
A petulant president vs. “Rocket Man”
Like the presidential peace prize recipients Roosevelt, Wilson, Carter and Obama, who could also, all have been charged as war criminals ought not to have gotten any prize with the word “peace” in it.
“Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the commander-in-chief of a nation in the midst of two wars,”
– Barack Obama
– Reuters.com
Perhaps 45 should be given * “the all-being master of time, space and dimension” award.
Then he could retire, having accomplished everything possible that is possible, go home and go golfing.
Wear an “I made the cosmos great again” hat. Putter around on a golf cart. Call his “friends” @ Fox who won’t have to kindly kick him off the air to salvage his reign.
Granted, we will have Pence for a while, but methinks he at least has a functional vocabulary.
Will probably be just as entertaining politically, and selfishly, my ears might stop bleeding from my cranium cringing at 45’s dull deceptive diabolical dialogue.
* Inspired by Steve Martin’s bit on goals.
“You gotta have a series of smaller goals, that you can accomplish, and slowly work your way up. And this is what I have done.
That’s why I’m so happy.
My goal: right now, I want to be the all-being master of time, space and dimension.
Then, I want to go to Europe – I think.”
It is as if I have
Something to say
And
No one to say it to
Or
Nothing to say
And
No one to say it to
Still
The fingers keep moving
Emptying my brain
Of
Profundity and nonsense
Pride and humility
Answers to
No questions
Questions
To
Know answers
Knowing
In the scheme of things
In the infinity
Of
The infinite
It makes
Nary
A
Difference
Save
For the brief
Moment
It transfers
From
Skull to screen
I’ve accomplished
Something useful
Nanoseconds
Of
Nirvana
If the bowler up before you throws
A slow, but deliberate strike and
Confidently returns to their seat
Because it is no longer their turn
Then you get up and watch the
10 Pins fall because you stepped up
You do not get the credit for that.
Regardless of where you stand and
Tout the accomplishment as yours
Telling teammates to take the big X
Because the economy is buying drinks
And the other team will ignore you
Since they are getting drunk to forget
How obnoxious you have become
Distracting them with NFL stories
And the fence you intend to build
You say your neighbor is paying for
Though to all, the truth is known
As it’s obvious you have no balls
Where this should have quit rolling
It gets dark in the back of the alley
“There is time to be dainty and there is time to be a pig”
– Doug Stanhope’s Mother
Proven easily as the only place you
Usually reach to grab has one hole
Hopefully this is one collective hangover
That when we recover from we will quit
Drinking and never bowl with that guy
Should probably dump that game anyway
Looking at the world through a windshield. 