17 Seconds of dead air
17 Families in despair
17 Pools of dried blood
17 From neighborhood
17 Caskets sold to soon
17 Rather be in classroom
17 Minutes to purchase
17 Under the surface
17 Lives so varied
17 Bodies six foot buried
17 One last breaths
17 Premature deaths
17 Warnings to ignore
17 It could have been more
17 Souls lost
17 Funerals cost
17 Mostly that age
17 Killed in a cage
17 Hopes diminished
17 Life’s plans unfinished
17 Artists extinguished
But wait, it wasn’t 17 seconds of dead air.
It was 17 x 21 seconds of
Assault rifle rattling
Bullets blasting
Bodies slamming
Voices screaming
Lungs heaving
Eyes scanning
Flesh tearing
Bones breaking
Hearts beating
Books falling
Parents calling
Sirens wailing
Tires screeching
Ricochet’s echoing
Feet stomping
Ears hearing
Thumbs typing
Phones ringing
Helicopters whirring
News broadcasting
System Failing
“When we’ve had our say with the government — and maybe the adults have gotten used to saying ‘it is what it is,’ but if us students have learned anything, it’s that if you don’t study, you will fail. And in this case if you actively do nothing, people continually end up dead, so it’s time to start doing something.”
– Emma Gonzalez
Anyone to blame
In the kill and mame
Of the NRA’S game
Having no shame
Which is insane
It will happen again
Even with poor aim
The numbers gain
No refrain
Blood red stain
Excuses lame
Culprit the brain
Madness tame
Lies are the same
Try to complain
Violence abstain
Life down drain
Memory’s in pain
Hard to contain
Guns remain
Easy to obtain
“Revolution”
“You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright
Alright, alright
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re all doing what we can
But if you want money for people
with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother
you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright
Alright, alright, al…
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You’d better free your mind instead”
– The Beatles
Of Donald’s trade war.
No longer will Mall Wart, be using the slogan, “New Lower Prices”
However, in keeping with deceptive marketing and hype, will be using.
“New Enhanced Pricing”
Which will be about a nickel to a dollar higher on each plastic fall apart, didn’t need that in the first place product.
But it is too late, as our insatiable appetite has been whetted. Born consumers into a life of consumption, regardless the cost.
Induced by product shininess, the lights it has, the noise it makes, or the “work” it may save you.
For example, why else would someone purchase a coffee maker for $100.00 that makes a 75 cent cup of coffee?
When for about the same amount of plastic, glass and tin you can get a 15 cent cup of coffee out of a $30.00 machine, that produces less waste.
If we really wanted to balance the scales, we could just not buy so much.
Oops, can’t do that, the economy would collapse and we might evolve. Therefore all we will have to do is modify, ignore or abolish this country’s child labor laws.
Which could inadvertently solve another problem. Without schools, there would be more school shootings.
I’m sure that the armed guards keeping those adolescents and teenagers in their windowless sweaty freedom factories, will not let anyone in to harm the pained profit producers.
Just think, then “we” could win the trade wars.
We’re # 1, We’re # 1, We’re # 1!!
We have memed and over populated ourselves out of anything reflecting “the sanctity of life”.
We went from
Cave paintings to hieroglyphics
Papyrus to paper
Books to bibles
Definitions to dictionaries
Rules to laws
Smoke signals to radio waves
Coins to cash
Telephones to television
War department to defense department
Truth to euphemism
The Moon to Mars
Encyclopedias to infinite information
Satellites to cell phones
Typing to touch screens
Banks to bytes
Beliefs to perceptions
Talking to texting
Tiny towns to manic megalopolises
Farms to food factories
Serenity to surveillance
Protection to brutality
Corruption to collusion
Legislation to concentration
Objective news to obnoxious opinions
Misinformation to manipulation
Recidivism to for profit prisons
Leaders to puppets
Talking heads to talking trash
People to polluters
Mother Earth to leaking landfills
“Is This The World We Created?”
– Queen
Just look at all those hungry
Mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the
Suffering we breed
So many lonely faces
Scattered all around
Searching for what they need.
Is this the world we created?
What did we do it for?
Is this the world we invaded
Against the law?
So it seems in the end.
Is this what we’re all living for today?
The world that we created.
You know that every day
A helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care
Inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man
Is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by.
Is this the world we created?
We made it on our own.
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there’s a God in the sky looking down,
What can (S)he think of what we’ve done
To the world that (S)he created?
“So at best, the sanctity of life is kind of a selective thing. We get to choose which forms of life we feel are sacred, and we get to kill the rest.
Pretty neat deal, huh? You know how we got it? We made the whole fucking thing up!
Made it up, the same way we made up the death penalty. We made them both up, the sanctity of life and the death penalty.
Aren’t we versatile?!”
– George Carlin
“Collusion is not illegal”
– Shawn Hannity
After referencing, that even if Donald was involved in collusion, it would not matter, because collusion is not illegal.
Hmmmmm?
“Collusion :
secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose”
– M-W.com
Methinks there is Kool-aid in the water cooler over at Faw(n) Ox.
Orange flavored.
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.
