If it bleeds it leads sensation
Easy to manifest a distraction
Having denied 14 an education
Plus 3 with no more vacation
Take heat off the investigation
Steer away from the correlation
That weapons and ammunition
Used to attack a sovereign nation
Paid through excessive taxation
Under the guise of democratization
Rather profits for many a corporation
Stealing resources actualization
Protecting freedom hyperbolization
Acceptable murder the rationalization
Preventive attack justification
Pretending there’ll be no retaliation
Spiraling down goes civilization
Trump first to suggest confiscation
Befuddled the NRA organization
Who needs, the mental evaluation
Putting his base in a conflagration
Students giving best demonstration
To pass reasonable legislation
Thomas Jefferson made proclamation
Tis okay to change the constitution
As a result of a growing evolution
Hopefully with a peaceful revolution
It is a flawed interpretation
Believing a few guns registration
Will impede tyrannical occupation
Caused by thinking cessation
Cognitive dissonance manipulation
“If the President wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I’m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association.
You want to know something? It doesn’t matter, because I already know. Thirty million dollars. And divided by the number of gunshot victims in the United States in the one and one-half months in 2018 alone, that comes out to being $5,800. Is that how much these people are worth to you, Trump? If you don’t do anything to prevent this from continuing to occur, that number of gunshot victims will go up and the number that they are worth will go down. And we will be worthless to you.
To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.”
– Emma Gonzalez
“If you want to know how your congressman and senators are going to vote, maybe they should be like NASCAR drivers, they should actually have to have jackets with the names of all the people who are sponsoring them, wouldn’t that be cool.”
– Robin Williams
Nietzsche did not kill God
Clichés did.
In God We Trust
God bless you
God bless America
God bless our troops
God is on our side
She is with God now
He is with God now
God is smiling down on them
Pray to God
God help us
God save us
God protect us
Either you’re with God
Or you’re against God
God “sacrificed” his only son
It is God’s will
By the grace of God
Swear to God
God hates _________
One nation under God
God made Adam and Eve
Not Adam and Steve
(BTW If it is to be accepted, the notion that God “created” everything, you have to include Steve)
(Plus, everything under that creating everything umbrella, includes evil.)
Put that in your cavernous Dantes inferno pipe and smoke it.
“God bless America”
Now… now… If people wanna say “God Bless America”, that’s their business, I don’t care, but here’s what I don’t understand: If they say “God Bless America”, presumably, they believe in God and if they do, they must have heard, God loved everyone! That’s what he said, he loved everyone and loved them equally!
So why would these people ask God to do something that went against his own teachings?
You know what these “God Bless America” people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they’re so crazy about.
They’re always talking about “What would Jesus do?” They don’t wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!
Well, I’ll tell you what Jesus would have done. I’ll tell you what Jesus would have done!
He would have gone up on the top of the Empire State Building and said:
“GOD BLESS EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD, FOREVER AND EVER ’TILL THE END OF TIME!”
That’s what Jesus would have done, and that’s what these people should do, or else they should admit that “God Bless America” is really just some sort of an empty slogan, with no real meaning except for something vague like “good luck!”
Good luck, America! You’re on your own!… which is a little bit closer to the truth!”
~ George Carlin
Either you’re with God
Or you’re against God
“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits, anyone who questions God’s infinite love.
That’s the message we’re brought up with, isn’t it? Believe or die! “Thank you, for giving Lord, for all those options.”
– Bill Hicks
Promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.
As if God wasn’t busy enough, this all powerful all knowing invisible entity, besides already being pseudo responsible for everything, has, because of those 17 words been put in the position of being the unlikely defender of whether or not someone in a criminal court is putting words together in the proper sequence to be decided by at least 17 people as to if, that is the truth or not.
Before observing the judge handing down some recidivism prone ineffectual draconian sentence. In the frighteningly apt description of the realm in which all cases are tried.
The “Criminal” “Justice” system.
“Hello McFly”, “Criminal” system???
Wouldn’t want a fair or compassionate one, now would we.
“That might be something Christ would do.”
– George Carlin
Meanwhile…..
“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.
And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!.
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! “
– George Carlin
Wait, this gets worse before it gets better.
Continued in part 2
Limbo of a Salesman.
Continued from Death of a salesman.
The worst cliché.
God “sacrificed” his only son
Stretches the infinite elastic band of cognitive dissonance to its breaking point, trying to wrap any kind of awareness that that phrase invokes any truth or reasons why.
“God sounds kinda like a shitty father to me. If God was so powerful why’d he have to give his son up?
It sounds like God owed someone some money and they couldn’t get to him, so they murked his son. That’s what I really think happened.
Jesus got stabbed up in an alley… but it’s easier to sell crucifixes. You can’t sell a pendant of someone getting shanked up In the alley. It’s a marketing scheme.”
Hannibal Buress
Before writing these posts (Which, started in one direction, it had actually taken a political turn, but ended up here.) I only barely had a vague idea of why Jesus was crucified, except it is a dramatic scene in Jesus Christ Superstar.
After Googling it, I am even more confused. Perhaps I am just getting hung up on the language used. Words like “according”. According to “x”, Jesus was crucified for eating with tax collectors and thieves. (One in the same, essentially)
“Biblically attributed”, boils down to according to a book, which was not written, anywhere near the time it occurred rather years later after being aurally passed down “telephone game” style.
Also, that it was originally written in at least three different languages Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek . Darn that tower of Babel incident. Any chance that some of those “facts”, were lost in translation?
“I was over in Australia during easter, which was intersting. Interesting to note they celebrate Easter the same way we do; commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night.
Now, I wonder why we’re #ucked up as a race, anybody? Anybody got any clues out there?
Where do you get this shit from you know? Why those two things you know?
Why not ‘Goldfish left Lincoln Logs in your sock drawer’ you know? As long as we’re making shit up, go hog wild you know. At least a goldfish with a Lincoln Log on it’s back goin’ across your floor to your sock drawer has a miraculous conotation to it.
‘Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer!’.
‘That’s the story of Jesus’.
Who comes up with this shit?! I’ve read the Bible. I can’t find the words ‘bunny’ or ‘chocolate’ anywhere in that #ucking book”.
– Bill Hicks
I’ve listened to a large portion of the Bible via the “Bible in 90 Days”, haven’t heard that reference either. Still waiting for the suspended disbelief to come down, so I can finish it.
“A hell doesn’t exist.”
– Pope Francis
Whew, maybe now I can finish listening.
There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Continued in part 3 Resurrection of a salesperson.
Continued from “Limbo of a salesman”
“You know there is a living God that will talk directly to you – not through the pages of a Bible that forgot to mention dinosaurs.”
– Bill Hicks
Neither a he or a she, that voice must be allowed to rise from within. Silencing out the social narrative that has imbued the culture into believing the double think process that an *APAKALOB would drown “His” children, or “sacrifice” “His” son.
* (All Powerful All Knowing All Loving Omniscient Being)
There must be some way to transcend the din of the dissonant diabolical dialogue that is destroying our divinity.
Making us creatures of consumption, vehicles of violence, and instigators of ignorance and intolerance.
Causing also, the collective to be divided over ideologies of taught faith. Indoctrinated near birth as too what to believe, largely based on geography. Also, surrounding and competing religions.
That to my best understanding, all have similar base lines to their story, just different lead characters. At least according to mythology experts like Joseph Campbell.
Which, if the story of the death and resurrection of a teacher of peace is true, it is completely lost in the mindlessness of buying petroleum based plastic eggs, chocolate bunnies, and whatever else can be sold with Easter themes as the vehicle.
“If Jesus died of heart disease, would people wear gold pendants of French fries?”
– Unknown
“I’m just a dreamer
I dream my life away oh yeah
I’m just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
Your higher power may be
God or Jesus Christ
It doesn’t really matter much to me
Without each others help
there ain’t no hope for us
I’m living in a dream of fantasy
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah”
– Ozzy Osborne
If we are all just tiny sparks of the divine, wouldn’t it behoove us to behave that way. Rather than what we do, like building walls, scapegoating other sparks, thinking other sparks can be extinguished when we are all part of the same flame.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
– Albert Einstein
Since he’s such a genius here’s a fitting chorus.
This little light of mine,
I’m gonna let it shine
This little light of mine,
I’m gonna let it shine
This little light of mine,
I’m gonna let it shine
Let it shine, shine, shine
Let it shine!
I suspect if we were to brighten up our own light, the collective lumens would shine even brighter and we could see better where we are going.
“Rant and roll heartspeak from the spirit
Say it loud so everyone can hear it
Say what you mean mean what you say
Rant and roll when you feel that way
Religions of men heavy with fear
Industrial war against the land
Every woman knows the fugitive
Rich men keep living off the poor
The soul is what’s left
After they eat your spirit
When every act is an act of self-defense
We have to do something
Or perish in the pretense”
//
“Predator views are way too tragic
Mother Earth gives us power
Father Sky makes us magic
Life doesn’t have to be bitter
Even when its not always sweet
Synchronicity is the rendezvous
When magic and power meet”
– John Trudell
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…”
– John Lennon
Here’s what it boils down to……
“We teach best, what we need to learn most ourselves.”
Richard Bach. “Illusions”
“Sure could use, a little good news today”
– Anne Murray
Icky:
: having a very unpleasant quality
: offensive to the senses or sensibilities.
: distasteful
M-W.com
In some artificial quantification of pretending to be informed in this alleged democracy, I find myself scanning the news stations (mostly satellite radio) for information.
Only to find my soul scathed from the transmitted toxicity of deceptive diatribes of putrid political pontificators and prognostications using surreptitious speculation liquidating loose language to mold a malignant maelstrom of malice.
Taking information in from three perspectives, CNN, FOX, MSNBC like incorporating, being the three blind guys trying to describe the elephant to myself hoping to “see” what it is and what is going on.
Finding that if “facts” are reported, there is so much post spin on those “facts” anything substantial that could have been gleened, is lost in the blur.
Leaving me feeling, icky, at best.
Nauseated to the point where I would probably lose less brain cells if I were drinking.
Now, they are simply opining an agenda that is based purely on deception and manipulation of information to create an outcome that best suits their needs.
Which, if you follow news cycles, regardless the source, their sponsorship is based on the consumption of tangibles and intangibles.
For example, mattresses, what is promoted is, a better nights sleep. The intangible (there seems to be a growing list of mattress makers whose product will do everything, but make love to you and cook you breakfast).
All for that better night’s sleep. Which one could probably get if not for listening and watching talking heads catastrophizing every minute detail about an ineffectual and deceptive corrupt political system.
“We the people” ? My happy ass. An awake and aware population would not allow these shenanigans to continue.
Invisible money buying invisible products wasting the earth’s resources feeding the illusion of either safety and security or something you can not obtain simply after watching the “bad” news.
The world may end……Sleep tight.
What “new” bed, can compete with that?
I can appreciate opposing perspectives of the same scene. However, when information that is only meant to deceive and distract from actualities, it is disturbing and icky, at best.
I guess Faux news was still getting their feet wet in 2001 (They started in 1996) when they took the sensational regurgitation of bad news and played well with others, following the script.
Not presenting any dissonant information like non existent planes at Shanksville or the Pentagon. Nor covering how the evidence was scooped up and shipped to China for “recycling”.
Where was contradictory reporting then when we really needed it?
Faux, for sure didn’t mind when the Warren Commission oops the 9 11 commission gave an unprecedented blind eye and no record of Bush and Cheyney’s handheld testimony.
Now, they want to disparage Mueller?
“I have this feeling man, ’cause you know, it’s just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that’s true, it’s provable. It’s not … I’m not a fucking conspiracy nut, it’s provable.
A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media.”
– Bill Hicks
Now, unless Faux is kissing the emperor’s arse they have nothing to report. I’ve heard them take trivial information and make a “news” guessing game out of it. Plus pushing a platform that they are not a media outlet. WTF?
Completely ignoring that 45 was the first one to suggest confiscating their precious weapons. Oh, yeah on that, is what he meant to say was……oh shit. They’ll ignore that, kkknowing he rarely speaks a “truth”.
It just doesn’t feel like we are anywhere near where our (bi-pedal oxygen breathing, monoxide exhaling, red-blooded, skeleton supported, solar powered, carbon-based, large brained, earth inhabitant omnivores) priorities could be.
“They don’t want the voice of reason spoken, folks, ‘cause otherwise we’d be free.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t believe their fucking horseshit lies, nor the fucking propaganda machine of the mainstream media and buy their horseshit products that we don’t fucking need and become a third world consumer fucking plantation which is what we’re becoming.
Fuck them! They are liars and murderers. All governments are liars and murderers,”
– Bill Hicks
As long as we are willing to elect someone with absolutely no political experience, let us elect a ship captain.
Someone who knows how to navigate rough waters. Who is in charge of many departments through delegation, by qualified people who want to be doing what they are doing.
Thereby making sure the ship is well maintained. Every one is fed, if they are sick or get sea sick, they are medically attended to, with no additional expense as it is included in the ticket price.
Knows there is no need for weapons to defend or attack as all the other ships, crews and passengers are all floating around on the same sphere on the same waters trying to have a good time and relax.
Be able to communicate well with other ports for permission to dock, resupply necessities, giving plenty of time to visit and absorb the interesting cultures, the different sites, food and language.
Leave with mindful souvenirs that make one appreciate their home life and clever peaceful ways to improve their lives.
If nothing else, in light of our current captain, would at least realize that no ship can stop or turn on a dime just because the petulant placating Putin puppet posturing to the proletariat tweets it so.
“Closer To The Heart”
By Rush
And the men (or women)
who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Philosophers and ploughmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
You can be the captain
I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart
Makes a Meritocracy seem possible.
Republicans do not want
to fund Planned Parenthood
However,
they don’t mind funding
Planned *Un-parenthood
The human factor in the
Military Industrial Complex’s
War machine
Usually by generals
And capitalists
Under the guise of
Freedom and democracy
Covering for
Resource looting
And profiteering
Sending in
Out of the womb
Fully grown
Weapon toting fetuses
To perform late, late
72nd trimester
Unnecessary
Post natal abortions
While being at risk
To have the same
Operation
Performed on them
“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own.
Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.
Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want LIVE BABIES so they can raise them to be DEAD SOLDIERS.”
– George Carlin
* Newspeak Dictionary
Un-parent:
n) the condition of no longer being a parent. usually because offspring has become an unperson
n) the state of being an unperson and not being able to raise a child in a nonviolent peaceful world
v) the act causing the cessation of a parent to exist that if it was not engaged in a government funded post natal abortion operation would have been able to do so.
How is it that we haven’t hit the evolutionary tipping point on that subject where the blatant transparent metaphorical representation couldn’t be any clearer.
Those post natal abortions are rarely or insignificantly protested because….oh yeah, hey it is good for the economy.
“Conservatives want LIVE BABIES so they can raise them to be DEAD SOLDIERS.”
– George Carlin
AS CHARGED
Guilty……
Just based on behavior
If you do not
Do anything wrong
You can not
Get caught
Ooopsie!!
“Just because your are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.”
– Henry Kissinger
“Big Money”
Rush
Big money goes around the world
Big money underground
Big money got a mighty voice
Big money make no sound
Big money pull a million strings
Big money hold the prize
Big money weave a mighty web
Big money draw the flies
Sometimes pushing people around
Sometimes pulling out the rug
Sometimes pushing all the buttons
Sometimes pulling out the plug
It’s the power and the glory
It’s a war in paradise
A Cinderella story
On a tumble of the dice
Big money goes around the world
Big money take a cruise
Big money leave a mighty wake
Big money leave a bruise
Big money make a million dreams
Big money spin big deals
Big money make a mighty head
Big money spin big wheels
Sometimes building ivory towers
Sometimes knocking castles down
Sometimes building you a stairway
Lock you underground
It’s that old-time religion
It’s the kingdom they would rule
It’s the fool on television
Getting paid to play the fool
It’s the power and the glory
It’s a war in paradise
A Cinderella story
On a tumble of the dice
Big money goes around the world
Big money give and take
Big money done a power of good
Big money make mistakes
Big money got a heavy hand
Big money take control
Big money got a mean streak
BIG MONEY GOT NO SOUL
Need I say more? ?
Schoolroom Roulette
I know I’m beating a silent drum
In more ways than one
Watching from our sanguine seats
How soon till the violence repeats
The student’s passion is very inspiring
All because one had some loose wiring
Unfortunately their work will not be done
Based on how easy it is to get a gun
Blaming a video game has no merits
When responsibilities lie on the parents
Scapegoating games is for alarmers
Otherwise we’d have more farmers
Okay, enough bad rhyming for a moment.
How is it, that on one hand, it is entirely acceptable to take a volunteer (dangle enough college carrot cash in front of a high school graduate / GED recipient with perceived minimum alternative options and a minimal risk of life and limb, roll of the dice, you will get your volunteers) feed, house, train and pay him or her to get in good shape.
Then teach some of them how to use, clean and fire, similar assault rifles. Send them off to some sovereign citizens section of the sphere to selectively steal their resident resources and if they refuse, empty ballistic bullets into bodies and onto buildings.
Yet, on the other hand, when a loose cannon does it here for no reason or resources to steal from students, we are left scratching our heads trying desperately to hide the hypocrisy. When our taxes support it over wherever and are paid out here trying to prevent it.
Maybe that is why no agency or agent wants to restrict their use. It would wake up too many people.
That would be dangerous.
“Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control.”
– Bill Hicks
I have GPS for driving
Need one for writing
The title is my map
Which subsequently
Gets thrown in the
Glove compartment
Leaving me trying
To remember where
I planned on going
With any particular post
Find after stopping
For coffee and peeing
Donuts and distraction
Subsequently end up
Taking the wrong on ramp
Am still on pavement
Just in a different direction
Could use the
“Authorized” vehicles only
Turnaround but don’t
Want to lose my
Poetic license
Besides it is not a
Good road / screen trip
Without a little
Side adventure
Also, the back seat
Drivers (voices in my head)
Are all feeding me
Way, way, way way
Way too much information
Would need a fourth
Or fifth set of hands
To stenographically
Capture the suggestions
To get to a destination
Any destination
Regardless the original
Blog post road map
Which is still lying
Dormant in the glove box
Which may or may not
Be a Good Thing
Looking at the world through a windshield. 