tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-261306222024-03-13T03:27:58.492-07:00The Daily Growler"Exclusive Delirium"------"I am a mystic at heart and I believe in nothing." BaudelaireThe Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-47216598017315201942015-02-06T00:31:00.001-08:002015-02-06T00:31:50.845-08:00Existing in New York City---I'm Retreating While the Fascists Proceed<b>I'm Pulling Back on My Jabbing At Enemies</b><br />
Politics is way beneath me these days. The ignorant, Confederate-minded, backward-thinking numbskulls currently in adorable rule of us weakling coward Americans are miles beneath me in a hell of their own creation---corporate creationism. We the People of the US are currently afraid of our own shadows. Everyone's a terrorist or a potential terrorist---and all Muslims are terrorists, of course. All thanks to that vote-stealing, lying, deceitful, sociopath, George W. "Preemptive Striking" Bush, that little vote-stealing prick who is now living the good life down in Dallas---plenty of bourbon and coke for him and plenty of high-grade pot for Pickles. What a life. And all at the taxpayers' expense. Nobody foreclosing on his Dallas home. Nobody foreclosing on his book-empty library. Nobody denying him or Pickles health care. Nobody cancelling his Presidential pay for the rest of his worthless life as a way for the backward-thinking Republicans to cut the "entitlement" budgets. Nobody is raiding his digs at night or no Dallas cops are stopping him and frisking him or no Dallas cops are shooting at G.W. when he's wearing his hoodie.<br />
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Me? Fuck all of that. I'm retreating back into my shell. I'm writing on a new novel. Leaving the American mythic false reality behind for my own fantasy and not that of Ayn Rand or Milton Friedman, those two jokers and deceivers. I'm basking in my own reality.<br />
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Of course I came out of my shell to yell it up for the Greeks. Finally tired of Germany-dominated Euro-Union loan sharking and IMF and World Bank imperialistic draconian demands on the Greek people, fuck the fact that their economic failure was brought on by the big global banks like Goldman Sachs, those pirate bastards, or as the new Minister of Finance of Greece, an Economist, by the bye, puts it, Greece was driven into bankruptcy by bankrupt banks and their derivative schemes.<br />
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We are supposed to believe the myth that crime does not pay. That is now bullshit as we look around at all these criminals getting richer and richer by the billions.<br />
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<b>Butterflies and Pig Pens </b><br />
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In a hovering splash<br />
Of vibrating color <br />
Guided by instincts<br />
It's an insect's<br />
High-flown search<br />
For perhaps a meal <br />
Over the grunting<br />
Hunger of hairy<br />
Slopping monsters <br />
But sadly<br />
This controversial flutter<br />
Reveals no<br />
Seductive pollen, only<br />
A strong whiff of degradation <br />
And like a true monarch<br />
It turns its naturally<br />
Divine nose<br />
Up at the reality below.<br />
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I'm wafting off to my fantasyland on the wings of a soured-stomached butterfly.<br />
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Of course, I know, like Huey Newton said before he was murdered, everything is politics even food.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf (writingpoetryagain)</b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b><i><b> </b></i>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-21247661616161999002015-01-15T06:40:00.000-08:002015-01-15T06:54:26.702-08:00Existing in New York City---The Fascists Are in Power<b></b><br />
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<b><i>The higher immorality can neither be narrowed to the political sphere nor understood as primarily a matter of corrupt men in fundamentally sound institutions. Political corruption is one aspect of a more general immorality; the level of moral sensibility that now prevails is not merely a matter of corrupt men. The higher immorality is a systematic feature of the American elite; its general acceptance is an essential feature of the mass society.</i></b></h4>
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<b><i>Of course, there may be corrupt men in sound institutions, but when institutions are corrupting, many of the men who live and work in them are necessarily corrupted. In the corporate era, economic relations become impersonal-and the executive feels less personal responsibility. Within the corporate worlds of business, war-making and politics, the private conscience is attenuated-and the higher immorality is institutionalized. It is not merely a question of a corrupt administration in corporation, army, or state; it is a feature of the corporate rich, as a capitalist stratum, deeply intertwined with the politics of the military state.</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> [C. Wright Mills, <i>The Power Elite, </i>1956]</span></b></h4>
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<b>Since the 60s</b><br />
Since the days of the hippy rebelion against the stupid Vietnam War, we eccentric oddballs have been yelling our heads off about this country going Fascist. When you worship the rich and famous like we do in this country, you lose a sense of reality, a reality where everyone can't be rich. In fact, there must be poor people for there to be rich people.<br />
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I'm already watching the Fascist Republicans going about actually ruining our Federal Government. They want to privatize the world---global dominance. A privatized world means there are no regulations at all protecting world citizens. The Republicans want us all poor don't you see because royals and feudal landlords and the privileged (those who practice conspicuous consumption ---read Thorstein Veblen for an explanation of "Conspicuous Consumption") need the poor to clean their shitcans, to prepare their meals, to wash their clothes, to wait on them hand and foot, to raise and pamper their worthless offspring (those who inherit their wealth). It's a revolution alright, but a right-wing revolution, our betters enslaving us so that we'll do their bidding because in poverty men and women are desperate; the Capitalist Pig way of thinking, sees desperation as opportunity to enslave.<br />
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The trouble is, Americans worship rich people. The poor hate them, but that hate stems from jealousy and not from self-defiance and rebellion. We see the wealthy constantly peddled before us as our mentors, as those who are blessed by the god Moolah with wealth, privilege, and power. Though these Power Elite are criminals, they will never be convicted of a crime because they are God-blessed and the myth surrounding them is that these criminals are needed in order for our economy to grow. Bullshit! Our economy isn't growing and will die more than grow in the coming four long years because we refuse to tax the Power Elite and the corporations they get their Power from. We are allowing our rich and their corporations to jerk us around by the nose. I figure in a few years, we'll build chapels to the Power Elites where we poor slobs can go pray to their God, Moolah. Can you imagine a Koch Brothers Chapel on Park Avenue in New York City (this is where they live, not in Wichita) with a shrine to the three disparate brothers? Or how about the Donald Trump Chapel where we all can go in and worship the bankruptcy champion of the USA as he basks in a wealth he inherited from his real-estate mogul father?<br />
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The Fascist Republicans are already at work trying to destroy our lives as we dream of living them. They are already denying future payments to the disabled. The Fascist hate the disabled because they suck money out of the system and contribute nothing to it. This cut will also include disabled veterans. Fuck 'em, right? That's how we treat our "military heroes" once they get their poor slob asses out of combat and intrigue and return home to nothing but fuck yous from our Fascist government while hypocritically they are praising these poor slobs as heroes. Only fools join the military these days. Fools with no hope after they get out or don't get out of high school of landing any kind of good-paying job so they go join the army to save their asses.<br />
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I love a certain ad on television that's been running lately in which the jest is that a soldier coming home without any legs is now better off than he was when he had legs---for you see, the example they give is a guy who is now a champ in the disabled Olympics as a wheel-chair racer. Hey, how 'bout that! What about truncates? Heroes who lost both arms and legs? You don't hear much about them.<br />
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These Fascist Republicans are so cruel, they're seriously advocating doing away with Social Security (it's the Americans workers' money but not according to these Fascist assholes), Medicare, and Medicaid. Can you imagine such gall? Millionaires who have the best health-care taxpayers' money can buy; millionaires who are set for life even if they lose their next election because they continue to get paid on into the future---and these old fossils live forever---look at the aging Koch Bros., look at old grizzled Mitch "Fuck You" McConnell. This son of the Old Plantation South hates the workingclass, a class he's never known in his life. Now these old bastards are going to try to drive us down to a Third World nation, the very thing the Neo-Con Manifesto called for back during the Reagan years.<br />
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I worked in New York City advertising (telling lies) for tons of years. Every year I paid into Social Security and after I turned fifty, I started paying into Medicare. It's my money, god-dammit, and I can't see, though fools they be, the American retired (seniors they're called) workers letting these assholes get away with what they plan: the privatization of Social Security. If these workers allow this, then the American people are stupider than I think they are now. Remember, the American people elected these assholes to office. The fact that these assholes got millions of Power Elite and corporate money in their campaigns didn't get them elected as our media trumpets; the voters had alternatives, but, no, they in their stupidity voted the worst assholes into power. The Blacks and Latinos didn't elect these draconian assholes. The racist Whites put them in power...and don't forget<i> that </i>when these Fascist fools start fucking with you.<br />
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Who will be our Hitler? Will it be Hillary? Or Jeb? After all, Jeb's family took care of Hitler's banking during his effort to conquer the world with his Napoleonic complex. <br />
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Oh well. I'm a voice in the wilderness, I know. And my words are wasted on so stupid a people as those who elected this circus of clowns as our rulers. <br />
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World War III sits like a Cheshire cat on our horizon.<br />
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<b><i>thegrowlingwolf</i></b><br />
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<b>STOP KILLING HUMANS and WOLVES and BEARS.</b>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-81645079483294813572015-01-07T20:04:00.002-08:002015-01-08T08:37:19.088-08:00Existing in New York City: CHAOS Rules<div class="boxyPaddingBig">
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<b>The Arising Automaton Military and the Coming World War III</b><br />
I watched a PBS <i>Frontline</i> presentation Wednesday (Jan. 7th) on future spying using high resolution cameras, cameras the size of the cameras we have in our cell phones that from 17,000-feet can pinpoint an area say of a city, like the corner of 34th and Broadway here in New York City, whence they can then zoom down to see every moving object on that corner---from cars to pedestrians---zooming in on a human being definite enough to see him waving his arms about. I watched this Dr. Argus (yes, a mad scientist) creating these high-definition cameras and being so proud of his advancements on this form of technological spying.<br />
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Then the show moved on to the evolution of drones and the predicted coming of an automaton military. Drones are still not completely controllable yet---they crash more than any other aircraft around today. So the evil scientists at MIT (and other Ivy League government-money-grubbers) spending oodles of Pentagon free-flowing money (and now that the idiot Republicans are in office and taking us over, the Pentagon will be sluiced another billions or trillions of dollars) are designing and redesigning current and future drones, drones that eventually will attempt to complete the Ronald-Reagan-vision of world dominance through underhanded means (the New World Order, folks)(the 1000 points of light old Pappy Bush (he's getting near a chance to meet his maker) trumpeted---1000 points of high-definition spying---I'm sorry, when it comes to the Bushes, I go off my rocker. How this sleazy Bush family and the sleazy Clinton gang have taken us over stunningly amazes me and how they are purposely leading us down a chaotic path of eventually human destruction makes me want to turn my back on the human race. (A societal death wish being fulfilled by a gang of evil sociopaths.)<br />
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D.H. Lawrence (I'm currently reading <i>The Plumed Serpent</i>) hated science because he said science had no soul, had no gods within it (a Platonic reasoning), meaning it is simply a matter of mathematical "lifeless" conjecturing. Have you ever watched a physicist writing out a complicated math equation? It's like a first language with him or her. Like the formula for quantum mechanics---that formula dominates the mind of the ladder-climbing physicist (like Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg) and he can quickly jot it out for you, an equation it took decades to invent. And that's what these humanity killing scientists are up to, the eventual moving of the human world into a chaotic free-fall situation, a situation we are currently IN. <br />
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Intrigue is the key word here. The human mind seeks intrigue in order to justify its existence. Intrigue has led us from the most primitive of mankind to what we are today, a jam-pot mess of soon 8 billion people most of whom are India Indians or Asians. Obama is on his way to India as I write this. Why is he going to India? If you recall, that idiot son of Pappy Bush's, G.W., traded India our nuclear secrets for their mangoes. Sounds insane...and it is, but it actually happened. So Obama, under orders from the Bush-Clinton gang, their hands are up his ass manipulating his presidency, is going over to bring India into his Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement, a trade agreement that some pundits claim will take away all nations' sovereignty and turn us all over to an International Body of Corporate Rulers and their own set of world courts ruled over by corporate lawyers all put in place and kept in place by Fascist military units. There is no doubt in my mind that we are now definitely a FASCIST nation. When's our Mussolini going to show his pompous face? <br />
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Turns out money really is the root of all evil. A brilliant whiz-kid person studies hard and long in order to compete in this chaotic world. The most brilliant of us get into science. The ultra-brilliant of us, those genius scientists who are currently working on Pentagon experiments of automaton warfare, who will do anything to get ahead in their fields, to me are the most evil of us. For prestige in their fields and with all that Pentagon loot under their control, they'll do anything they're told to do, like "We want you to devise a warring instrument that will eventually do away with the human race." "Yassuh, Massuh," these evilly minded scientists will reply.<br />
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I truly believe these Republican assholes to whom the stupid American people have just handed their lives will eventually use nuclear weapons as a part of their world-dominance-New-World-Order agenda (the Neo-Con Manifesto). Can you imagine a gathering of the evilest people on earth (and there are such gatherings going on 24/7) in order to program a genocide plan that will eliminate POOR people (those who suck from the system rather than contributing to it)? And I'm just nibbling at the corners of this world-dominance plan.<br />
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I'm evilly thrilled about all this. I love Chaos and entropy. I've been predicting it for years now. Check my earliest posts (2006)---satirical in nature though they were, they were actually pointing the direction in which this bunch of criminal political goons is taking us---I said our true god is Chaos (in his material form as money) and that we will eventually be bowing down to him and sacrificing virgins to him and evangelically proclaiming him our true and only God. God help us. WE ARE DEFINITELY DOOMED.<br />
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<i><b>thecynicalgrowlingwolf</b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b><i><b> </b></i><br />
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<br />The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-82952154451123878082014-12-28T12:14:00.000-08:002014-12-28T12:17:50.886-08:00Existing in New York City, Where Our Police Can Do NO Wrong; Where Only the Citizens They're Supposed to Protect Are Criminals<b>New York City Police (Under Guiliani-Appointed Dumbass Police Commish) Cry Foul</b><br />
Two NYPD officers were ambushed (or "bushwhacked" as my West Texas friends would say) and killed by a man with a Muslim-sounding name. Now the NYPD is crying its eyes out over this incident. Plus, they're crying foul. Who committed the foul? Why the protesters of police killing of unarmed Black men who have been tying up traffic, blocking tunnels, bridges, protesting in front of police headquarters, city hall.<b> </b>G.W. Bush's piece of crap administration started all of this by stamping the asses of protesters against Baby Bush's two illegal and economic destructive wars (both illegal since neither Iraq nor Afghanistan had a damn thing to do with 9/11, one of the great military invasions of all time, where 22 fanatic Islam drunken nutjobs (my psychiatrist niece castigates me for using such vicious slang) using only box-cutters took over airliners and crashed them into various "political sites" (World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the White House) around the USA in payback for Pappy Bush (is he near to meeting his maker?) using Saudi-Arabia to launch an attack against a Muslim nation, which pissed off Bin Laden and the Saudi <span class="st">Wahhabists</span> to the point they sought revenge against the US attempt to control the world's marketplace with the intentions of forcing US ways on what we call savage nonChristian nations.<br />
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And now, oh my God, all the NYC news flunkies are with tearfilled eyes talking about what a tragedy this is, It's OK for cops to shoot and kill Black boys and men but when <i>one of them</i> goes berserk and kills policeman, HOLY SHIT, the whole citizenry is blamed. Here's how our big phony Liberal (liberal, hell, he's a political hack just like all of 'em) Mayor DeBlasio had to politically word it:<br />
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"When a police officer is murdered, it tears at the foundation of our society. It is an attack on all of us," said de Blasio,
who has had a rocky relationship with rank-and-file police officers
over what they see as his lack of support. "When they are attacked, it
is an attack on the very concept of decency." <br />
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Oh, poor old political hack. He forgets NYC is a Republican stronghold---hell, the Koch Brothers live here; it's a billionaire/playboy heaven now---full of dictators out looking to take away all our Constitutional rights and our long-now-dead Bill of Rights. My question is, how does the killing of a police officer tear at the foundation of our society? Does that mean when the cops kill an unarmed teenage Black boy or a choke a Black man to death <b>they are building UP the foundation of our society? </b> "When THEY are attacked, it is an attack on the very concept of decency." Wow, that's a powerful backwards way of thinking. If the cops kill unarmed citizens, they are really being decent about it, is that what DeBlasio means?<br />
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Our local teevee stations telecasted live and stayed throughout the long cop-honor-B.S. and Praise the Lord service for slain cop, Raphael Ramos (they did not televise Eric Garner's funeral). And according to the teevee narators, you would have thought Ramos was Jesus Christ as they emphasized how tough it is being a policeman here in NYC and how harassed they are by protesters like the sorry low-lifes protesting the legal killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner on Staten Island. Michael Brown, according to our teevee mourners, cockily defied the Ferguson cops and deserved being blown away even though he was unarmed and committed no crime---he was killed because he was a Black man. Or they said Eric Garner was a sorry bastard of a Black man who deserved to be choked to death because after all he was selling loose cigarettes, which meant the sorry bastard was not paying taxes on these cigarettes. I agreed wholeheartedly after my teevee "newsspeakers" explained the cops side of that choking that led to this criminal's death and gave the boyz in blue a big tip of the hat, shouting, "Good job, men. Blow the fucking Black bastards away at will. I confess my Communist leanings and renounce them to now favor a FASCIST state where the police are meant to protect the rights of the rich and blow away any aggravating and protesting lefties, and that includes all Blacks and Latinos as well as Hippy Whites---blow 'em away with impunity. Amen. The cops are RIGHT and WE the citizens of NYC are WRONG. Case closed.<br />
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There will be I'm sure (and already are) other Black men and boys gunned down by cops probably before the end of this year and certainly all during 2015. Cops are not guilty of any crimes because they have a 007 attitude about why they carry powerful sidearms and AKAs and tear gas and pepper spray. They truly are taught they have a God-given right as cops to blow away anybody they suspect of being a threat to them. Our poor police. I think we should let them rule us. Afterall, cops are there to PROTECT US and SERVE US. What mythical bullshit, eh?<br />
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Our national hypocrisies go marching on. We live in a mythical world. There's nothing real about it except human beings are through the human race's death wish trying to kill the real world with their mythological belief systems.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf</b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b><i><b> </b></i> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-65649842340864631832014-12-12T06:34:00.001-08:002014-12-12T06:34:11.862-08:00Existing in New York City: Is That Anarchy I Smell in the Air?<b>In the Still of the Night</b><br />
I was already in bed reading Lawrence's <i>The Plumed Serpent</i> when a sound outside my opened window caught my attention. You know how you hear something and at first you know what it sounds like but you're not quite definite about it yet? That's what happened with me. I heard this sound and knew what it sounded like but thought no that can't be what it sounds like. Then, as if on cue, I heard a helicopter flying low and noisy over my building--I'm on the top floor so I got a bird's eye view of it with its exhaust belching out its annoying presence. And then it hit me. It was what I thought it was. It was the noise of people in the streets, of people chanting forcefully in that inspiring unison that then I knew was ringing all about my neighborhood as these protesters marched up Broadway toward Times Square. I immediately turned on the 11 o'clock news (news I normally don't ever watch except during catastrophes or mass protests, those sorts of things). I was wide awake to first a fairly fair reportage by the local CBS news of what was going on (the local NBC news was sarcastic and pro-police in their reportage).<br />
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This all started when Al Sharpton (I don't call him Reverend...that's a bullshit title) announced a televised press conference in which he was going to discuss the day-before exonerating of the cop who choked poor old Eric Garner to death with him hollering "I can't breathe" eleven times--it was all captured on an i-camera by a dude standing right at the edge of the action.<br />
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No problem, saith our pious police. This big Black devil was selling loose cigarettes trying to make a little street money to support his wife and 6 kids. Tough shit, Black man. The NYPD can't tolerate such law breakers. Why not shoot this crooked son of a bitch? Cops know nothing's gonna happen to 'em if they shoot someone in the "line of duty."<br />
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Since I've lived in New York City, almost every few weeks the cops shoot and kill someone, usually, a Black man, though, hell, if you remember Mrs. Bumpers (she was wielding a butcher knife for protection when cops broke down her door and invaded her home), they'll shoot to kill women, too.<br />
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Here's a Huffington Post article on a history of the New York police shooting unarmed black men.<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/killed-by-the-nypd-black-men_n_5600045.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/killed-by-the-nypd-black-men_n_5600045.html </a><br />
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Cops are basically cowards. Cowards carrying high-powered sidearms, wearing bullet-proof vests (they have to buy their own), harnessed in huge leather attire that holds handcuffs, billy club (nightstick they call it), automatic pistol, bullets, pepper spray, and their intercommunication devices (if they are in their SWAT paraphernalia then they are in military garb carrying AKA assault rifles) . When watching 9/11 on television, while the NYFD did their duty and marched into the falling straight down World Trade Centers 1 and 2 to their possible doom, the big fat overloaded cops were running like hell away from the falling buildings. Cowards, don't you see.<br />
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And, yes, it is dangerous to call an NYP officer a coward. Yet they are. Why, for instance, does it take five or six officers to take down one human being who if he or she resists arrest or asks the wrong questions about why they're being arrested or they turn and run when they see the cops, they get blown away without their side of the story or a chance to defend themselves in court)? Remember back to the famous Rodney King case how 5 or 6 LAPD beat the living crap out of the man and then said he resisted arrest (those cops were cleared of any wrongdoing by a bunch of White jurists).<br />
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No, all cops kill with impunity. Watch the cop shows on teevee where during the course of an hour, these teevee cops shoot and kill upwards of at least 3 or 4 people per episode. Some of these phony cops are brought to bear by what these shows call Internal Affairs if they've shot and killed a suspect. But, praise the Lord, even these phony cops end up with impunity in killing the evil enemies of law and order. Remember when the Republicans trumpeted "law and order" as their main concern while participating in local, state, and federal elections. I remember when SWAT teams came into being. Cop shows have always been popular, especially with males because males are taught to be competitive by playing imaginary games of good and evil, like "cowboys and Indians," "cops and robbers," "bad guys and good guys." (Little girls are taught to want to be princesses and live in fairy tale kingdoms with handsome rich princes a la Disney's concept of Utopia.)<br />
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But get used to cops ruling the roost for the Neo-Con Capitalists for many years to come, Capitalism being our true enemy but like we can't deny a God, we can't deny Capitalism is a worn-out, unfair, British-designed, Imperialist economic tool. Am I promoting Socialism or Communism? Nope! Not at all. I'm promoting reality. I'm promoting thinking positively in a mathematical/dialectical sense. I'm promoting studying history and how it never changes until the peasants get tired of being run over by the robber barons' carriages and whipped at the post by one of the boss's goons or beaten in an alley by an anti-union goon. They revolt when they get beaten down enough. When they start gathering in the streets...well, you get my drift.<br />
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So now do you understand why we need a militarized police force?<br />
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Our aristocratic Congress is voting on declaring war on ISIS. Hot damn. A chaotic world. Obama speaks backward-thinking speak by being anti-Keystone XL pipeline on Colbert's teevee show, which to me means it could be approved any day now.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-39147964178904234942014-12-03T19:48:00.001-08:002014-12-03T19:48:19.694-08:00Existing in New York City: Gotta Learn How to Think Like a Republican<b>Into the Republican Mind</b><br />
Hi, y'all. I'm Crispy Chris Righteous (not my real name), a representative from the great Confederate State of...er-ah, what'd I say? Well, dammit, it is a Confederate State, by God, and I proudly call the great State of South Carolina a Confederate state. That rebel spirit still lives on in our souls. In our WHITE souls, I might also proudly add, 'cause after all, folks, it was rich White folks, rich White plantation moguls, rich conniving representatives of both Dutch and British private equity and joint venture companies that set this country on its amazing course to rising from a British colony that had been civilized by God-fearing and God-ordained Fundamentalist Christian exiles. Like the brave and wily Puritans and Pilgrims and their believing that God had sent them to this great land to civilize it, to save it from the wildness of the savages who fought madly like wild dogs over the exploitations meant as a gift from the God Jehovah to the coming civilized and God-fearing humble but meanly sincere White men...er-ah, I don't mean to leave the gals out here, but as we men all know, some of the gals need civilizing worse than the worse savage Indian. [He waits for the guffawing laughter to die down.]<br />
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With the Republicans kicking ass in the recent midterm elections, I was swept to a big victory over my Communist-Socialist-Democrat-Terrorist-Asskissing opponent, that bitch, Mary Peeples, a lying dog protester who'll protest anything to get her mug in the media, especially on television where she tried to use her perky carnal appearance, and granted she is a perky little piece of charm, to make a monkey out of me, but with the help of God and the good White citizens of Poll Tax County, South Carolina, I put her in her place...and I wanna thank our gracious Secretary of State for removing 20,000 nigger votes...er-ah, what'd I say now? Did I say nigger? I said 'Knee-grow'--in yore prejudiced mind I said nigger, but in reality I said knee-grow, a proper White way of pronouncing that designation...why, hell, folks, I gotta admit I likes knee-grows. They can be very funny characters sometimes, but, on the other hand, they can be some contrary sons'a bitches, too...and, dammit, folks, I'm sorry, but if you see a knee-grow teen in one of them defiant hoodies, you damn right, you stand your ground just as our White hero George Zimmerman did, 'cause over in the great southern State of Florida you can legally carry a concealed weapon...hey, folks, I carry one, and so does my wife, and I'll tell you the truth, I wish I could give my two boys, 12 and 14, sidearms so they could protect themselves from these crazy Islamic bastards who under the edicts of Mohammed are out to kill all Americans. So I say, if they're out to blow you away, you blow them away first. That's the American way. That's how the White people were able to conquer this savage land and civilize it. Why, hell, folks, look how we civilized our faithful slaves. Look at that snooty, dichty, nose-in-the-air Obama, a nigger man...er-ah, what say? I said nigger. My friend, what've I gotta do to convince you knee-grow sounds like nigger to you. Let's change the subject anyway.<br />
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Let's talk about why rich folks shouldn't pay one god-damn dime in taxes. [There are "Amens" reverberating through the audience.] Rich people are our mentors. They are rich because they are smarter than the average Bubba and some of the best of them, like the Koch Brothers and Warren Buffett, both Middle-American, Silent-Majority true Capitalists, were Bubbas who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. These are the same bootstraps that the family of that great Neo-Con president, the great and spiteful G.W. Bush, pulled themselves up by...OK, so the family got beaucoup rich taking care of Adolph Hitler's finances. Hitler, by the way, wasn't as bad a guy as the communists, socialists, secularists, and atheists have made him out to be...plus, my fellow White folks, there's no real proof there was such a thing as this so-called Holocaust. Even if there was a Holocaust, the Jews brought it on themselves. Do I hear an 'Amen' on that? [Multitudes of Amens fill the room.]<br />
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Back in the glorious days before left-wing LBJ forced the Civil Rights Act on us, we called those left-wingers who came down to the South and tried to enforce that Civil Rights Act on us "outside agitators," which is exactly what they were. All protesters are ninnies, cowards, left-wingers, communists, atheists, coming from another part of the country, usually the North, Yankeeland, New York City (Jew York City), to agitate against the things that made the South great. First of all, the Old South had the cheapest labor there is in a Capitalist society: slavery. You see, folks, there's nothing wrong with slavery when it's working. Most great civilizations were built on the backs of slaves, mainly nigger...er-ah, knee-grows. You see, folks, we White Christians know from reading and studying God's word, the Holy Christian Bible, that the Sons and Daughters of Ham, Noah's son who looked upon his father's nakedness, a mortal sin in those days, according to God's laws, which are the only laws I respect, would be servants to the White man for eternity. They were banned by God to suffer living in what is now Ethiopia. Old Christians used to call Niggertowns out of respect for Biblical fairness, Ethiopiantowns.<br />
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I got into Libertarianism after meeting Ludwig Von Mises in Alabama and what a great thinker he was. On coming to the US, he was considered a liberal in Austria, but convinced that liberalism was too close to socialism and communism, he found retreat in the John Birch Society and the teachings of Ayn Rand and then especially after meeting her, promoting her philosophy as a companion way of thinking with Libertarianism, of which Von Mises along with Frederick Hayak were the founders. I consider these guys next to God.<br />
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Libertarianism believes that governments are unnecessary except for maintaining an army and a navy. Each individual, according to Libertarians, is his own government, his property being his domain, his regulations of himself being the only regulations and "laws" he needs, because in practice, only the laws of the God are the laws he follows.<br />
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I'll end my statement by saying, and I think the majority of Americans agree with me, since we have the greatest armed forces ever known, why aren't we using them to their full power? I mean, folks, stop and think about it, one nuclear bomb dropped on the borders of Iraq, Syria, and Iran would solve that crisis in a matter of minutes. Remember, how tough the Japs were until we creamed 'em with a couple of A-bombs and think how many lives we'd save by eliminating that Middle-East cesspool of Islamic fanatics. Just my thoughts but I think most Americans secretly agree with me. I mean, why have these weapons if we're not going to use them?<br />
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I must admit, I'm a radical Republican, a Libertarian first, a Conservative always. What's best for this country is discipline. Why should an employer, for instance, be responsible for his workers' health? Should the workers on their own provide their own health care? And this Social Security mess, too. Shouldn't old people provide for their own retirement? Successful people don't need Social Security only the poor and unhealthy need it and I say, hey, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps; that's what made this country great. [A standing and long applause is heard throughout the hall.]<br />
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<b>Crispy Chris Righteous (not my real name)</b><br />
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<br />The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-6467893612267195202014-11-21T18:42:00.000-08:002014-11-24T14:30:00.854-08:00Existing in New York City: Calling the US Population STUPID as a Whole<b>From Objectivist Sociologist, William Ogden: </b><b>"</b>My worship
of statistics has a somewhat religious nature, " he noted in his
journal at a time when his enthusiasm was fading. Statistics had been
his God. "But God only meets an emotional need which has little to do
with reason."<b> </b><br />
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<b>Calling the American People Stupid</b><br />
I just read a piece by Dean Baker (he calls himself the following: "macroeconomist and co-director of the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a>
in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the
Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell
University.") in which he condemns a fellow MIT Economist, Johnathan Gruber, for calling the American people stupid, in Gruber's sense having to do with the Affordable Care Act.<br />
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Baker starts out defending the American people as not being stupid but rather simply just "ill-informed." I was immediately hollering bullshit as I read the article, which in a way turned into a defense of Economists. As I have written for six years on this blog, Economics is not a science; it was once studied under Sociology departments as a tool for measuring wealth and poverty in a society using "fact"-gathering observations and statistical conclusions based on "guesstimations."<br />
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<b>[What is an Macroeconomist?</b> Well, here's the Wikipedia definition: "Macroeconomists study aggregated indicators such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#Measurement" title="Unemployment">unemployment rates</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_index" title="Price index">price indexes</a>
to understand how the whole economy functions. Macroeconomists develop
models that explain the relationship between such factors as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_income" title="National income">national income</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output_%28economics%29" title="Output (economics)">output</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_%28economics%29" title="Consumption (economics)">consumption</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings" title="Savings">savings</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment" title="Investment">investment</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_trade" title="International trade">international trade</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_finance" title="International finance">international finance</a>. In contrast, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomics" title="Microeconomics">microeconomics</a> is primarily focused on the actions of individual agents, such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_entity" title="Business entity">firms</a> and consumers, and how their behavior determines <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices" title="Prices">prices</a> and quantities in specific markets."] <br />
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Do you understand the role of statistics in this profession? The first course I took in Economics, before 101, was a course in Statistics. The first book I was given to read in Statistics was entitled, <i>How to Lie With Statistics</i>. In those days before Economics broke away from Sociology to become a part of the Schools of Business, all Sociology and Economics majors depended on calculators (the old fashion kind) to crunch numbers in their statistical studies. For my first statistical problem, I did a paper on "The Infant Death Rate in Texas." My conclusions in this paper were based on guesstimations as to what was behind the infant death rate and what was the solution to lowering the infant death rate neither of which I supplied in my "rigged" paper.<br />
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My point: I have called the American people "stupid" for many years now. And they are stupid, I don't care if they have 6 degrees from Harvard and 3 from MIT. Most Americans are stupid not because they aren't smart--there's a difference to me--but because they are full of bullshit reasoning based on their believing in the American Dream (nothing comes from a dream but confusion), believing in gods that don't exist (except in fables, myths, Holy Bibles, and fairy tales), believing we are an exceptional nation, believing that we are a democracy, believing that rich people are the smartest people on earth because they are rich...you know, dumb thinking like that. I call a person stupid who believes in lies over truth (reality is the only truth). Intelligence unused leaves the intelligent one stupid, doesn't it?<br />
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<b>The following is an excerpt from a current <i>Counterpunch</i> article</b> by Ismael Hossein-zadeh explaining how classical economic theories are "old-fashioned" (out of date) in terms of what modern economists are calling FIRE (Financial Investing and Real Estate), where investors are investing in financial markets and real estate rather than reinvesting their profits in capital improvements, borrowing to invest in the real economy, the economy of the classical economists. In classical economics, money is considered merely a means of exchange. It was in the late 80s with the advent of desktop computing, that money became a commodity.<br />
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"The following are a few additional examples of the
astronomical growth of the FIRE sector during the past three decades or
so: Between 1980 and 2005, profits in the financial sector increased by
800%, more than three times the growth in non-financial sectors. <b>In the
early 1990s there existed only a couple of hedge funds; by 2007, their
number had grown to 10,000. The number of mortgage brokers, replacing
old-style Savings & Loans and regional banks, has likewise
mushroomed in recent years/decades: 50,000 thousand of them, employing
nearly 400,000 brokers, more than the whole U.S. textile industry</b> [emphasis is mine].
As the (unusually candid) manager of the hedge fund Raymond Dalio of
Bridgewater Associates bluntly put it: “The money that’s made from
manufacturing stuff is a pittance in comparison to the amount of money
made from shuffling money around. Forty-four percent of all corporate
profits in the U.S. come from the financial sector compared with only 10
percent from the manufacturing sector."<br />
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"As noted earlier, the neoclassical “circular flow” and/or “general
equilibrium” model/theory is built on the basis of a near-barter
economic paradigm, that is, an economy where money is implicitly treated
as largely a means of exchange or circulation, not as an ideal or
ultimate repository of the accumulated or concentrated wealth. In this
model, financial cycles neatly follow real cycles: they expand when real
cycles expand, and contract when they contract. As such, there is
hardly any possibility for financial bubbles to emerge and expand
independent of the real sector of the economy—the financial sector is
treated essentially as a service or subsidiary sector to the real
sector.<br />
The circular flow model (like most other models) can, of course,
serve as a useful tool or concept for analytical purposes. It is
designed to show what happens when/if the circuit, or circular flow,
breaks down, and what to do about it. The problem is that mainstream
economists seem to have been stuck in the abstract model, in the earlier
stages of capitalism, unable to see how in the era of giant banks and
other colossal financial institutions finance capital can (and does)
grow independent of industrial capital, thereby leading to financial
inflations, followed by implosions.<br />
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"It might be argued: who cares whether a financial bubble follows a
real sector expansion or whether it is formed ab-ovo, i.e., in the
absence of such an expansion. Such a distinction, however, is critically
important to an understanding of how in the age of advanced financial
markets finance capital has become largely independent of industrial
capital, and how it has therefore undermined the neoclassical concepts
of general equilibrium, of circular flow mechanism and of national
savings as the main source of supply of money—in short, how it has
rendered the neoclassical economists’ theory of credit creation, of
investment financing and of money supply obsolete. Sucking financial
resources from the rest of the economy, as well as generating fictitious
capital out of thin air through speculation/gambling, parasitic finance
capital feeds on itself—just like a real parasite. Neoclassical
economists have not, so far, been able to reconcile the financial sector
with their circular flow and/or general equilibrium model. Sadly,
instead of trying to incorporate the financial sector into their real
sector model, they have chosen to ignore it lest it should disturb their
shipshape, convenient model."<br />
<b><i>Ismael Hossein-zadeh</i></b><i> is Professor Emeritus of Economics (Drake University).</i><br />
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<b>Have You Noticed?</b><br />
My old friend and colleague Barabbas Munn-Dayne noted this to me about how since the Republican sweep of the midterm elections, Koch Industries (yes, that's the evil Koch Brothers) ads are appearing on teevee by the droves. These ads glorify Koch Industries as a great job source, as fueling the rebirth of the American economy, and as providing research and scholarship in promoting new ideas and industries. I happened to catch one the other day during a college football game. It was sickening. What a bunch of self-promoting bullshit. Of course, the autocratic Koch brothers don't write these commercials, a bunch of silly souls like I once was (in advertising for over 30 years in NYC) brain-storming away in the war rooms of the biggest advertising agencies in the country. "How can we make these aristocrat assholes look benevolent?" the account exec swoons. "How 'bout a pack of lies emphasizing the wonders these benevolent brothers do?"<br />
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I say, "Fuck the Koch Brothers," but then they are filthy rich so they must be righteous priests in the Money Theology game, the worship of the great god Moolah. Money is the Koch Brothers' GOD; hell, MONEY is the GOD of us all.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> <b> </b> <b> </b>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-9811470859916691382014-11-15T11:23:00.000-08:002014-11-19T11:19:59.656-08:00Existing in New York City Out of Sinc With the Rest of the World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Unfolded 1956 Pacific Jazz Records Catalog showing the early LP releases that introduced the world to West Coast Jazz, which led to "Cool" Jazz, which was the partial invention of Gerry Mulligan (along with Miles Davis), the Pacific Jazz label's biggest star. Other stars on Pacific included Chet Baker, Chico Hamilton, Cy Touff, Richie Kamuca, Russ Freeman, and Pacific introduced us to the great pianist Dick Twardzik, who died at age 29 of a heroin overdose in Paris while on a European tour with Chet Baker's Quartet. Chet later said he became a heroin addict because of his depression over Twardzik's death though critics say Chet was already doing heroin when he met Twardzik. (from the <i>tgw </i>collection) "Trying to Keep Jazz Alive"</b><br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: Ray Sadecki, </b>first I remember Ray he was on the 1964 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, the team he started his career with as a "bonus baby" (remember them?) and was rookie pitcher of the year when at 19 he went 9-9. Ray was prominent along with Bob Gibson in '64 in the Cards WS victory that year. Then next I remember Ray when he turned up as a Met in 1974 as a reliever on a Mets team that had Tom Seaver as their main man on the mound that great Met year.<b> </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Sadecki" title="Ray Sadecki">Ray Sadecki</a>, 73, American baseball player (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>), blood cancer<b>.</b><br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: Alvin Dark, </b>baseball player and manager extraordinaire; originally played for the Boston Braves and the NY Giants and later the SF Giants. Alvin also managed the SF Giants and the Cleveland Indians. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark" title="Alvin Dark">Alvin Dark</a>, 92, American baseball player (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Boston Braves</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">New York Giants</a>) and manager (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>), Alzheimer's disease.<br />
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<b>"Sittin' Here Thinkin'"</b><br />
In my way of laughingly reasoning about the Republican's taking over Congress, I stumbled across something from the back of the attic of my brain I've known a long time, since my college days and my acquaintance with James Fraser's <i>The Golden Bough</i>, a book I think should be required reading for growing minds. That something that I stumbled across while reasoning on that Repug takeover was how totally ruled we are, and I include the world in this, by MYTHS, from whence come mysteries and God-almighty how human beings love mysteries. I mean most of the whole damn world believes in ghosts. I've got good friends, one a writer whose work I admire very much, who swear they've seen ghosts. With me, to believe in ghosts is nonsense. Comical stuff. OOOOOH, a ghost...run for your life! (And, F. Scott, I use that exclamation point to actually laugh at my own joke.) [And I wonder how many Americans know who F. Scott Fitzgerald is? "Isn't he a Kentucky whiskey distiller?"]<br />
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Mitch McConnell, who is going to be our supreme ruler for the next Zeus-knows how many horrid years, is a Southern Baptist, the worst kind of Old South Christian 'cause they're tricky slick. They dance and drink and make sleazy backroom business deals with divine impunity because among Old South Christians, and Mitch was born in Alabama don't forget, the Southern Baptists are stuck up and holier-than-thou or as my dad used to say, "All Baptists are going to Hell, but they don't give a damn 'cause they'll air condition it and turn it into a First Baptist Church." [The First Baptists, by the way, were the holiest of the holiest Baptist. Why? Because they were the first Baptist church in town meant they were then the richest (old wealth) Baptist in town.]<br />
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So Old Mitch, and he is an old fool, can swindle us and gas us and spoil our waters and give our public lands away and impose the Ryan Budget on We the People Who Elected Them Into Power, a budget that is inhumane and backwards in terms of the ideals that should be governing this right-now being-destroyed nation. Check out that great old tome, Gibbons' <i>The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.</i> It's all in there, except we haven't yet been taken over by a military coup, but that's certainly a possibility in these coming tragic years. And, by the way, I want to say, I'm just as scared of the weakkneed, asskissing, all-embracing Dumbocrats, and don't forget, a lot of those Hillbilly and low-populated-states Dumbos voted in lock-step with the stupid Republicans on a lot of issues.<br />
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First of all, the majority of us live under the myth that we are not animals. That we are not the results of natural evolution but rather are creatures created from a supernatural being from up in the clouds or under the seas or down in Hell. We live among ruins (and preserve them with love) of temples to Zeus, Jupiter, Mars, Dianna the Huntress, Pluto, Jehovah, Hera, Mary, Mary Magdalen, St. Paul, St. Sebastian, etc. all the Saints, and etc. to all the gods I've left out of my Pantheon. But think of how these mythical creatures have been since the beginning of human reasoning believed faithfully to be real, to be actual beings while being spirits at the same time. Would I want to have sex with a swan? Maybe that's why I never wanted to believe in any god or mythical creature.<br />
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We live lies. We have faith in our fabulous gods (and all our gods and Messiahs are fabulous) and we deeply study the writings that have accumulated over centuries that are supposedly sacred writings, interpretations of the various cultural gods' messages, messages on how and what to sacrifice in order to get favors from these gods. The Jews sacrificed lambs and goats to their god; the Aztecs and Mayans sacrificed young maidens to their gods or they cut out the hearts of their enemies and ate them. Hey, the gods demand sacrifices.<br />
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We sacrifice our people in this country and the people seem to love it. I mean by electing these Republican goons to rule us, We the People of the USA have given up for good our Bill of Rights; we've approved of Corporations becoming citizens of privilege (the Supreme Court in the late 1800s made corporations citizens--especially Rockefeller's monopolistic Standard Oil); we have OK'd a perpetual war economy; we have given up most of our civil rights and our voting rights will be purposely rigged to make Black, Latino, Asians, and senior voters inconsequential; we have agreed that Corporations and rich people will have their taxes reduced to a nil status (why should they pay any taxes at all?); we've approved a rise in the use of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, and uncontrolled fracking in every state; we have approved of a privatization of our public schools and most government services--remember, our government is supposed to be "for the people and by the people," though not according to the wealthy Republicans. To them, our government is a regulatory monster who have their hippy/Communist/Socialist boots on the necks of our heroic Power Elite as they try and swindle us out of ALL our taxes, savings accounts, bank accounts, pensions, homes, cars (the latest bank scam includes selling cars with no money down and no proof of being able to pay for these overpriced foreign automobiles (does that sound like the home mortgage scams that went south on our crooked financial industry?); we've approved of selling our public lands off to billionaire cattle herders, hunters, gold miners (how about privatizing our National Parks?); we've approved raising interest rates on student loans; we've perhaps approved of debtors' prisons; and worst of all, we've approved of the very people whose wildass backward-thinking schemes got us into this mess in the first place. Reagan's administration put us into perpetual debt; Pappy Bush then put us into deeper debt that Reagan; then came Pappy's dumbest son (which doesn't really mean the rest of the boys and the girl aren't dumbasses) and this little phony bastard put us into the worst debt ever. But, hey, folks, that's who We the People of the USA want as our rulers.<br />
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We live as though our myths are actuality. We believe God's laws are more important than humanitarian laws (the righteous Republicans calls such laws promote "Secular Humanism," a tag that riles Republican's up worst than Socialists and Communists. After all, Communist China owns us. So how did you like the way Obama (who left the country after he fucked up the Dumbocrats chances of winning) kissed Chinese Communist ass in Beijing before he went on down to rightwing Australia to another of those bullshit G20 sessions in Melbourne. [Get ready for the Ten Commandments to suddenly appear in all our courts.]<br />
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We're doomed, but, hey, the White People of the USA had rather see the country sink into Third World status (the whole trickbag in the Neo-Con Manifesto) than see equality and democracy work, especially as this country begins to turn brown and put the White man in the minority (NEVER, the White Man screams!). White people in this country hate Native Americans, Blacks, Latinos (especially Messkins), Asians, any foreigners who aren't White...IN FACT, White people in this country hate themselves.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> <br />
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Americans obviously love Chaos even more than I do. They voted in in both state and national offices the most backward-thinking Chaotic sociopaths in the game. If you thought the moderate Republicans were going to control the Teabaggers, think again. Teabaggers won big in the backward dipstick states like Gawjah, Lawsbanana, the Confederate States of South and North Carolina, Rightwing Illinois, backward-thinking Arkansas, ignorant Colorado, truly dumbass South Dakota (Native Americans should own and run South Dakota), and, of course, poor little Wendy got her ass clipped by a Texas teabagger...so what's new in the Confederate State of Texas? How about Massachusetts going Teabagger! And the Confederate State of Virginia and its Hillbilly relatives in West Virginia. And the voting idiots elected these creeps in landslide ways. Mitch McConnell conned his way into power with a victory over a very weak and Obama-ashamed woman. And Obama was the reason the Republicans took over the House in 2010 and now for the first time in a long time the Senate in 2014. Obama who has turned out to be the shuckin' and jivinist president since we thought G.W. Bush's dumbass lying and deceiving was our worst president ever. Obama beats the little phony Texas prick hands down. <br />
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The last time the Republicans had this much power was during the Hoover administration and you know how that turned out. THE STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1929. And, yes, this is the scenario We the Dumb People of the USA have locked ourselves into by putting the Republicans back in power. There will definitely be economic chaos, especially if the Republicans win the 2016 Presidential election with Jeb Bush (wanna bet me?).<br />
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Obama could have stopped all of this if he had of stood up firm against this ongoing Republican agenda (an agenda that goes back to Hoover's embarrassing loss to FDR in 1932, a loss the Republicans have never gotten over). But, no, and Obama admitted in his book that he was a fan of Ronald Reagan's, especially Reagan's free trade bullshit and his trickle-down economic theories (the theories of Milton Friedman) and the beginning of tax-breaks for the rich, who by the bye have always ruled this country. So Obama was the Republican-Democrat and his agenda was to bring the two parties together. "Yes, we can," he shouted in his best Black preacher imitation, copycatting Martin Luther King and his Black preacher method of repeating taglines over and over...three times at least..."Yes, we can...Yes, we can...Yes, we can." Of course, yes, we can meant, yes we can keep this Bush Imperial ball rolling.<br />
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The dumbest voters in the world voted in the rich bastards because from childhood in this White man's land, we're all told with the right breaks and following the Capitalist rules of the game, we can all be RICH as Rockefeller. That's the true American Dream. We the Dumb People of the USA worship the rich man. We envy the rich man; we may even hate the rich man; but we will always idolize the fact that he is rich so he must be doing something right.<br />
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<b>Again <i>The Daily Growler </i>Advises</b><br />
Now is really the time to take all your savings and whatever other monies you can scrape up...sell your house, sell your car, you dog, your wife or husband if you have to...and invest in the stock market (it will go to absurd heights until it crashes)...invest in Exxon-Mobil...invest in fracking because the Republicans will empower fracking all across the US; they will also approve of more and more pipelines (the Keystone XL will be quickly approved). You see, with the rage for natural gas in Asia, the price of natural gas will go up and the fracking boys will make more fortunes and if you ride along with them, you'll get gas rich, too.<br />
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Also, invest in the Military Industrial Complex since the Republicans
will increase military spending and keep all our current wars burning
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<br />I would invest, too, in security stocks. You think we spy on each other now, wait'll the fraidy cat Republicans get through with us.<br />
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<b>[WARNING: </b>If you're looking forward to retiring at 65, FORGET
IT. The Republicans will rip the heart out of Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid. These assholes will raise the retirement age to 70,
so you'll be working for the Yankee dollar for the rest of your
miserable lives.] <br />
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So HOT DAMN, folks, here we go. We're in for a wild ride over the next decade. I'm lucky I'll be leaving the mortal coil hopefully before the next stock market crash (it's inevitable) and another Bush becomes president.<br />
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As George Carlin said, who's responsible for these clowns getting into office? And surely you can answer that question just like George did. <br />
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The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-42991283218160959622014-10-29T01:24:00.001-07:002014-11-04T06:33:10.486-08:00Existing in New York City: Ebola Has Come to Town<b>UNDER 40% VOTER TURNOUT EXPECTED IN TODAY'S ELECTIONS</b><br />
The Teabaggers and Republicans love low turnouts because they know their hardcore White brethren and sisters will vote and make up most of that under 40% vote. When you see what lowly populated and Confederate-leaning states (like Alaska, Iowa, Colorado, Gawjah, North Carolina, New Hampshire) will maybe turn this worthless Congress over to a bunch of God-promoting, climate-change deniers, miscreants who believe our government was founded on Christian principles and respect for the Judaic God Jehovah (actually the same god as Allah), outsourcing fools, sociopathic liars out to bring our style of living down to that of a Third World nation per the Neo-Con Manifesto promoted by idiots like Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Rubin, Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers, et. al.<b> , </b>it's enough to make you head spin like Betelgeuse. If the Republicans win Congress, HOT DAMN, total Chaos is right around the corner. "I was walking down the street just the other night/I had a funny feeling that things weren't right/ I heard some heavy footsteps right behind/And I know it wasn't just my mind: A foolkiller's coming...he's getting closer everyday/A foolkiller's coming...I've got to try to make my getaway." [Mose Allison, "Foolkiller."]<br />
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<b>Ebola Comes to New York City</b><br />
I'm an outpatient at Bellevue Hospital. Sometimes I go there and a lot of the workers are wearing masks. It makes me wonder why they are wearing masks. I go on about my business without asking why they are wearing masks (and they aren't all wearing masks which makes it more confusing). But now? I'm due to go pick up meds this week at the Bellevue Pharmacy now knowing that there is an Ebola patient on the premises. And they now are saying he's in critical condition though stable. What does that mean?<br />
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In the meantime, my neighborhood is wracked with construction noise as the Communist Chinese are building a 50-story hotel one block behind me. Yes, that's right, the real estate investors of this hotel are Communist Chinese. Remember, one of the only tenants so far in the Chinese-material-built No. 1 World Trade Center, the world's most expensive office building, is the largest real estate firm in Communist China. And how do I relate this wild construction going on in New York to the Ebola crisis in West Africa? The corporate global economy cares absolutely nothing about human suffering. It is ironic, however, that Communist Cuba has now sent over 200 doctors and healthcare workers to West Africa to help fight this corporate-world neglected Ebola outbreak.<br />
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And what was President Obama's contribution to this horrible outbreak? Why he sent a bunch of military hotshots over there. We are a militaristic country; we live in a war economy. Our Commander-in-Chief sends our invincible military over there to battle disease. War is the solution to all world problems even Ebola outbreaks to our more-pious-than-thou President and his asskissing Congress.<br />
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Check out photos of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. You don't see any neighborhoods with walled estates and Mercedes and BMWs in their driveways and guys wearing Brooks Brothers suits. No. Instead, you see overall filth and uncleanliness; you see dead bodies in the muddy unpaved streets; you see children with no clothes on just sitting on the filthy ground dying; you see mothers holding their infected babies who are literally dying in their trying-to-protect arms; you see armed soldiers wearing protective gear and carrying big long sticks forcing impoverished people into quarantine areas; you see the shacks and shanties constructed of rescued woods, scrap metal, and tarpaper all sitting in muddy and corruptible squalor; over 10,000 affected; over 5,000 deaths.<br />
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In China, I've read about how they build whole cities that nobody lives in, one a city that would hold 77,000 people. Instead of building those cities in China, why couldn't they go to places like Guinea and Liberia and Sierra Leone clean them up and then build all new residences with clean running water and proper sewage systems? Little Billy Gates and Warren "Junk Bond" Buffett could with their pocket money help these affected countries by sending them boatloads of medical supplies, mobile hospital units, and armies of clean-up crews.<br />
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But the wealthy hate the poor so they'll let those Ebola-infected countries go to Holy Hell before they'll give up any of their mostly ill-gotten wealth. I mean, just think, our billionaire pharmaceutical industry, our pay-or-die health insurance industry, our big hospitals-for-profit industry could do miraculous things with doctors, healthcare workers, biochemists, free medical supplies, with free vaccines, with experimental drugs...BUT, hell no, these crooked bastards will wait until it's a worldwide epidemic then they'll all be heading for the upper floors of their hi-rise luxury apartments and office buildings guarded by their own private police forces and the regular police forces while the poor below die in the streets like pariah dogs.<br />
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But then death can be a savior.<br />
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<b>Mid-Term Elections</b><br />
There's a rightwing, dumb, stupid feeling in the air that the stupidest voters in the world, We the People of the USA, will put the Teabag Party and far right Republicans in both house majorities in these coming wasting-billions elections. Don't be surprised, you so-called progressives, if this tragedy doesn't happen. We the People of the USA...actually that should be We the White People of the USA will take our government back from the Obama Communists (the rightwing dumbass fable-believing Christian soothsayers call Obama a progressive socialist. Damn, don't we all wish this rightwing, Corporate asskissing military asskissing Uncle Tom were a progressive socialist).<br />
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for <b>The Daily Growler </b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-7569588148324193372014-10-26T17:49:00.000-07:002014-10-26T17:49:18.068-07:00Existing in New York City: Translating Intellectual Gobblygook That Is Untranslatable <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The Taj Mahal in 1930s. Photographer unknown. Collection of <i>tgw</i>.</b><br />
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<b>The Gooblygook of Intellectuals</b><br />
I just finished reading a long article on Radicalized Pedagogy and, boy, is my head spinning. I don't claim to be an intellectual. I'm a basic reasoner, which simply means, I think (or reason) common sensibly, something I deduced while in college studying Economic and Sociological Theory. Sociology to me was simply a common-sense approach to the study of society (or societies). The Sociology originators (Comte, Diderot, Marx, Proudhon, Durkheim, Weber, Sorokin, Thorstein Veblen, et. al.) were encyclopedists in that they observed societal life in purified settings. In other words, sociological observations were made free of bias (one's on particular beliefs or some outside influences, etc.) and in as pure a thinking atmosphere as could be produced.<br />
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But even Sociologists are becoming transfixed by their intellectualism and are writing radical articles that are so gummed up by intellectual verbalizing, it's really difficult to understand just what the hell their points are. I see poverty in a neighborhood and using common-sense reasoning it's easy to deduce why that neighborhood is impoverished<b>. </b>Look at the defined neighborhood's ethnic majority, whether it's workingclass (low-salaried) or not, and how distant or isolated it is from the Middle Class. Ethnically, you notice the neighborhood is a Black neighborhood. Blacks make up the most out-of-work people in this country and even when they get work, it's low-salaried work. And, of course, it's easy to deduce that since it's a Black neighborhood, by discriminating factors (like Gerrymandering), yes, it's isolated from the Middle Class (the process in White terms is called Racism).<br />
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One problem with intellectuals is they have to publish and publish frequently in order to maintain their livelihoods and intellectual presence. They are insatiable writers. So I can deduce from this that intellectuals are writing to impress other intellectuals. Not being an intellectual, of course, I find their expansive writing untranslatable into a language I understand.<br />
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<b>I'm Bitching</b><br />
I've been writing on this blog for almost ten years now. There are certain phrases and designations I use (like referring to Ronald Reagan as Ronald "Raygun" Reagan and a recent posting on Christian Reprobate John Hagee and his idiot saying that Obama's trying to divide Israel in half is the reason for the Ebola (named after a river) epidemic in West Africa) and now suddenly, I see other writers using these terms and referring to idiot characters using my sentiments. Statistics show my blog gets "looked at" over 150 times a day. Yes, I know a lot of those are spammers, probably the majority of them, but some of them are blog writers and Internet media pundits. So far, of all the people who visit my blog only a few of them list <i><b>The Daily Growler</b></i> in their blog lists. I thank these people for honestly appraising this blog as worthy of their reference to it in an acceptable way. Anyone can call Ronald Reagan Ronald Raygun; I don't hold a patent on the name, but on the other hand, give some credit where credit is due.<b> </b>Damn, I hope I'm not being paranoid.<br />
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<b>Is Obama Now the Worst of Our Long-Line of Worthless Presidents?</b><br />
I've always said over the decades I've lived, we've been ruled by poor little spoiled rich brats with Ivy League-propaganda backgrounds; an ex-haberdasher; a ex-general (Ike "I Like Golf" Eisenhower); a Texan who won his first election with the aid of voters in a cemetery in Duvall County, Texas, by 80 votes; a California Quaker crooked lawyer; a man who couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time; a peanut farmer; a Grade B actor (who shared top billing with a monkey in his most famous role); a failed oilman who also was head of the CIA (a Yale man); a Hillbilly profligate from the backward state of Arkansas (I noticed Monica Lewinsky is making a comeback lately by claiming she's being harassed unmercifully on the Internet); that failed oilman's worthless son (a Yale man) who up until President Obama came along was the worst president in the history of our worthless presidents. <br />
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Obama warned us in his book he wrote right before he was nominated to be the Dumbocratic Party candidate (that had Black people raising their hands praising God they were so hopeful) that his two heroes were Lincoln and Ronald "Raygun" Reagan. Then, after his multimillion-dollar extravagant inauguration (paid for by the taxpayers), when he met with Georgie Porgie Bush, he said he really liked the fellow and that G.W. was the kind'a guy you could have a beer with and have a fine bullshit conversation with (a Good Ol' Boy, in other words). Then, during his inauguration speech, Obama warned us that he was going to forget the past and think only futuristically. "Yes, We Can!" he bellowed in an attempted impersonation of Martin Luther King's Washington Mall speech. And that Yes We Can turned out to mean, "Yes, we can keep on keepin' on in G.W. Bush's footsteps...war, war, and more war, more wars than G.W. ever criminally started."<br />
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As I write this, the U.S. and Britain (we go together hand in hand with our former colonizers) have in a secret move pulled all but 9,000 troops out of Afghanistan and Obama has declared our involvement in Afghanistan as over. Oh yeah, over except for 9,000 troops still there and God knows how many contractors and soldiers of fortune are still there; plus the drone operators in Nevada (and God knows where else) will still be blowing away innocent civilians under the banner of killing terrorists. How many innocent civilians have had to die in order for us to kill terrorists. We kill terrorists and the next thing you know, they're stronger than ever, i.e., ISIS or ISIL<br />
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So who is the worst president ever?<br />
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<b> </b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-86007293404990788852014-10-12T22:58:00.000-07:002014-10-16T22:33:18.257-07:00Existing in New York City: Blood Moons and Christian Jibberish<a class="rg_l" href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/04/blood-moon-over-earth-600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/looming-blood-moon-5-bigger/&h=304&w=600&tbnid=KyHOFWf2okkhiM:&zoom=1&docid=ILVy1ZaaWryfRM&ei=yTI1VIT5HsKtyASWxICgBg&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CG8QMygyMDI" style="height: 160px; left: 0px; width: 313px;"><img class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQK-DwJ2_O3Gk8cMjDziM5DvZ0ALVONyPzkdbbMIiNk1Dviyv2QYA" data-sz="f" height="323" name="KyHOFWf2okkhiM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQK-DwJ2_O3Gk8cMjDziM5DvZ0ALVONyPzkdbbMIiNk1Dviyv2QYA" style="margin-left: -1px; margin-right: -2px; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /> </a><br />
<b>A Blood Moon, not a designation given it by NASA or any astronomers. A Blood Moon is the invention of two blowhard, Bible-thumping money worshipers, one that big fat putz, John Hagee (he hates anybody who doesn't kiss his God-connected ass), and the other a Jesus-hustling backward thinker, Mark Blitz, both Jesus jive artists who are selling books at $39 each to mouth-gawking Christian believers who believe everything they believe depends on the Nation of Israel, a nation whose rabbinical soothsayers don't believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah.</b><br />
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<b>NOTE: Christian Jive Artist, John Hagee (of Blood Moon fame and fortune), declares ebola the result of God punishing the world because Obama is trying to divide Israel. </b>And people truly believe in everything this Jesus-hustler says no matter how insanely nutjob it is. In fact, the nuttier the prophecy the more his flock throngs around it and starts worshiping it in ecstasy. Of course, this Christian clown takes in millions of TAX-FREE dollars every day of his hustling life.<br />
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<b>Out of Fear of Dying</b><br />
Yes, that's the reason for all these damned religions, a human's fear of dying. But all animals fear dying. I was in Jamaica many years ago and I was invited up into the mountains by a young lady to attend a barbecue where her father was killing a porker. When we arrived at her father's farm, they had not yet picked out the pig to be spiked and roasted over an open-pit fire. I sat drinking Jamaican rum and watched as the father and the pig killer went down to the pig pen to pick out the doomed porker that would be the star of the big event. When the pigs in the pen saw the men coming with the ropes (they roped the winning porker) they began to run around the pen squealing bloody murder. When at last they roped the pig they wanted and pulled him out of the pen, the rest of the pigs became silent. The pig they roped, however, resisted their pulling his several hundred pounds squealing all the way up to the big tree whose large thick lower branch they soon threw the rope over and then hoisted the pig up off the ground with his neck stretched taut. All this while this pig was squealing worse than bloody murder. He knew his fate. He knew he was soon going to be stabbed with the pig killer's big killing knife up in his neck and then that knife would be pulled hard down from his neck to gut the poor bastard at which point with spewing blood he gave up the ghost.<br />
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Later deep into the night, with the music swirling all around that mountain valley and the rum being passed around and the barbecued pig meat eaten with gusto along with big bowls of callaloo, while making out with my Jamaican girlfriend I looked up and saw the biggest baddest full-blown bloodiest moons I'd ever before seen.<br />
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<b>Blood Moons</b><br />
<b><i>From the astronomers at EarthSky:</i></b><br />
<b><b>"Why is the term Blood Moon being used to mean a full moon of a lunar tetrad?</b> </b>We can’t really tell you why more and more people are using the term <i>Blood Moon</i> to describe the four full moons of a <i>lunar tetrad</i>. We don’t know why, exactly. Here’s the definition of a lunar tetrad, again: four successive total
lunar eclipses, with no partial eclipses in between, each of which is
separated from the other by six lunar months (six full moons). <i><b>There’s
no obvious reason why Blood Moon should be associated with this term."</b></i><br />
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So there. The use of "Blood Moons" is according to big fat blowhard Jesus-selling John Hagee signs the fictitious Jesus Christ is returning to become the King of the Jews sitting on his Holy Throne in the God-designated seat of government in the divided city of Jerusalem (Jeru and Salem). By the way, this nonexistent Messiah will return from out of the clouds riding a big White horse and leading an army of angels down to make his return to earth and to take up his Jewish God-ordained role as Messiah to the Jews and King of the Christians who will first rise from the dead to meet Joshua bar Joe in the air and those still alive will be gathered up leaving behind those like I who can't believe such whoppers no matter the color of the moon during lunar eclipses.<br />
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You see Christians besides believing that the world is still flat also believe the moon gives off its own light. They really don't believe that moonlight is simply reflected sunlight. They ignore the natural fact that the Sun is in fact our true God, for without the Sun's saving light we would not have any life at all on this planet unless there perhaps are some Mole People: source: a 1950s Superman television show. The Mole People in the teevee show's case used Electrolux portable vacuum cleaners as space guns.<br />
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for <b>The Daily Growler Under Its Own Blood Moon</b> <br />
<br />The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-47477260724334895892014-09-28T20:24:00.000-07:002014-10-04T23:07:24.656-07:00Existing in New York City: Are We All Republican Assholes?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Elston Howard, the first Black to play for the New York Yankees. Ellie became one of the great ML catchers of all time, plus in his later years he was a Golden Glove outfielder. On the Yankees, he was the first Black MVP in the American League. Ellie also played in 10 World Series with the Yankees. He ended his career with the Red Sox. This is a Yankee promotional photo of Ellie down at spring training at Al Lang Field (now it's called Steinbrenner Field) in Tampa, Florida, in early 1950s. (From the collection of <i>tgw</i>)</b><br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, </b>Papa Doc's son, Baby Doc, both ruthless dictators of Haiti back in the "Good Ol' Days" or the American exploitation of Haiti. I almost got to meet Baby while I was in Haiti getting a divorce. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier" title="Jean-Claude Duvalier">Jean-Claude Duvalier</a>, 63, Haitian politician, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Haiti" title="President of Haiti">President</a> (1971–1986), heart attack.<br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: George "Shotgun" Shuba. </b>He had an arm like a shotgun. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shuba" title="George Shuba">George Shuba</a>, 89, American baseball player (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a><br />
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<b>And Speaking of the Bloody Irony of All Things American</b><br />
This is a great piece by Ben Schreiner in <i><b>Counterpunch</b></i>:<br />
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<b>High-paid Right-Wing Pundits Are Trumpeting That the Backward-Thinking Republicans Will Retake Control of the Senate in the Coming Mid-Term Elections</b><br />
Yeah, all those dumbass pundits like George Will, Georgie Boy Stephanopolis, and the Right-Wing nutjobs who appear weekly on the teevee politico shows are saying in retaliation against President Obama (all these White pundits hate Black Obama with their subconscious racist feelings even though to me Obama is more White Republican than he is a Black Democrat) the Republicans will win enough seats in the backward states to put them back in control of our already backward-thinking Senate. One pundit says Colorado and Iowa (two very divided backward states) will be the deciding states in whether this Republican takeover happens or not.<br />
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Since I am a worshiper of Chaos, I welcome such a disaster, and that's what a Republican control of both Houses would amount to. It would be a disaster for the majority of We the People, but then, as you should know, I consider Americans to be the dumbest and most easily hornswaggled people in the world; otherwise how the hell do off-the-wall Republicans like John "Failed Mission" McCain, John Bonehead Boehner, Mitch "Jock Itch" McConnell, et. al., keep getting re-elected or elected in the first place? Or Sarah "Paleface" Palin, a total wacked-out woman with her vagina for brains, and I wonder puzzlingly who the hell listens to and believes anything this backward-thinking progress-wrecking broad from the low-populated and backward state of Alaska has to say <br />
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Republicans are, like Obama and the Dumbocrats, for more and more war (we live in a war economy, folks). Some, like John "Oops, I Got Shot Down Over North Vietnam" McCain, would like a nuclear war. In fact, the Republicans are for more nuclear power plants (build them over earthquake faults like Diablo Canyon in California that is built smack-dab over the San Andreas Fault); for more fracking all over the world (the Koch Bros. benefit immensely from fracking); for building crude oil and natural gas pipelines all across the country; for the use of more coal-burning plants; for outsourcing our industries (what's left of them); for more tax breaks for the rich, the class in which a lot of these creeps (like Mitt "the Mormon" Romney) belong; for bringing back slavery, the cheapest form of labor there is; for some Republican jerks, like old Rick "The Praying Governor" Perry, they would like for their states to succeed from the Union (and I say, let 'em all go and restore the Confederacy); some Republican nutjobs are for privatizing (selling off) our National Parks and Government (the People)-owned lands and wildernesses; for continued bailing out of our crooked bankers and Wall Street pirates (a simple transfer tax on each bought and sold stock would erase a hell of a lot of our trillion-dollar debt to Communist China); for branding all Muslims terrorists and putting all American Muslims in concentration camps or putting them all before firing squads like they execute in the great backward state of Mormon-believing Utah (they gave us that nutjob Oren Hatch); for running another worthless Bush son, Jeb, against Hillbilly Hillary (who Bill Clinton, who rules the Dumbocrats, will insist on being the Dumbo candidate since he owes Hillary big time in order to maintain his profligate image).<br />
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The one up and coming presidential candidate that scares me worse than Hillbilly Hillary is Pappy and Mammy Bush's "good" son, Jeb. I'm afraid that the American voting idiots (read: White folks) love the Bushes. Why in the holiest of hells would you be on the side of the Bushes? All of them are failed snobs from a pre-Pappy Bush family that got rich off war by aiding Adolf Hitler in keeping track of his money and investing for him during World War II. Pappy's failed in every oil-business venture he tried after WWII, his family supporting him plus through marrying Mammy Babs he got his sweaty worthless hands on her inheritance (she was a St. Louis newspaper mogul's daughter). And thus popped up the head of this dumbass, one-track-minded family of pompous numbskulls, George H.W. Bush, the failed oil man living in Midland, Texas, who decided to take advantage of that old reprobate Strom Thurmond's taking his Confederate-leaning Democrats out of the beginning-to-look-like-a-nigger-loving Democratic Party, a nigger-loving bunch of White cowards the Dixiecrats blamed on F.D. Roosevelt and his New Deal politics; and remember, Southern assholes like Strom Thurmond used to hint that Eleanor looked like she had a little knee-grow blood in her. Ironically, after his death it was revealed that ol' Strom had been messin' out in his plantation's woodpile with one of his black gal servants resulting in Ol' Pure White Strom having a Black daughter. Don't you just love the ironies of life?<br />
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<b>The Same Ol' Same Ol'</b><br />
When you've lived as long as I have and have experienced what I've lived through in terms of survival, you become quite aware of how nothing ever changes except our mechanical objects and they change every six months, so rapidly that only whiz kids working in deep-thinking factories can keep up with their board-room-ruling need-for-profits pit bosse<b>s' </b>demands. "Profits are sagging, Elmo, so let's whip those young puppies into creative action...is it time for a new cell phone...you know, add a couple of apps or something...make 'em in pastel colors...do something quick...China's peones are demanding more money per hour...God-damn, why can't they be happy making three dollars-a-day?"<br />
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<i><b>theboredgrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> <br />
<b> </b>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-11519927299344826502014-09-11T10:42:00.002-07:002014-10-21T21:04:44.249-07:00Existing in New York City (the Bull's-Eye on the Terrorists' Target): When Will We Ever Learn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band in 1981 at The Ginger Man in New York City. From left to right are George James, alto; Gene Rogers, piano; Johnny Williams, bass; Al Casey, guitar; the great Eddie Durham, trombone; Bobby Williams, trumpet. Missing from the photo are Tommy Benford, drums (you can see his tom and some of him behind Bobby Williams); George James, alto. (from the collection of <i>tgw)</i></b><br />
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<b>From the Lucid Pen of C. Wright Mills (from his book, <i>The Power Elite</i> (1956)</b><br />
<b>There is still one old American value that has not markedly
declined: the value of money and of the things money can buy-these,
even in inflated times, seem as solid and enduring as stainless
steel</b>. 'I've been rich and I've been poor,' Sophie Tucker has
said, 'and believe me, rich is best.' As many other values are
weakened, the question for Americans becomes not Is there anything
that money, used with intelligence, will not buy?' but, 'How many
of the things that money will not buy are valued and desired more
than what money will buy?' <b>Money is the one unambiguous criterion
of success, and such success is still the sovereign American value.</b><br />
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Whenever the standards of the moneyed life prevail, the man
with money, no matter how he got it, will eventually be respected</b>.
A million dollars, it is said, covers a multitude of sins. It
is not only that men want money; it is that their very standards
are pecuniary. In a society in which the money-maker has had no
serious rival for repute and honor, the word 'practical' comes
to mean useful for private gain, and 'common sense,' the sense
to get ahead financially. The pursuit of the moneyed life is the
commanding value, in relation to which the influence of other
values has declined, <b>so men easily become morally ruthless in
the pursuit of easy money and fast estate-building.</b></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>A great deal of corruption is simply a part of the old effort
to get rich and then to become richer.</b> But today the context in
which the old drive must operate has changed. When both economic
and political institutions were small and scattered-as in the
simpler models of classical economics and Jeffersonian democracy-no
man had it in his power to bestow or to receive great favors.
<b>But when political institutions and economic opportunities are
at once concentrated and linked, then public office can be used
for private gain.</b></span></h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Governmental agencies contain no more of the higher immorality
than do business corporations. Political men can grant financial
favors only when there are economic men ready and willing to take
them. And economic men can seek political favors only when there
are political agents who can bestow such favors.</b> The publicity
spotlight, of course, shines brighter upon the transactions of
the men in government, for which there is good reason. Expectations
being higher, publics are more easily disappointed by public officials.
<b>Businessmen are supposed to be out for themselves, and if they
successfully skate on legally thin ice, Americans generally honor
them for having gotten away with it. But in a civilization so
thoroughly business-penetrated as America, the rules of business
are carried over into government-especially when so many businessmen
have gone into government.</b> How many executives would really fight
for a law requiring a careful and public accounting of all executive
contracts and 'expense accounts'? High income taxes have resulted
in a network of collusion between big firm and higher employee.
There are many ingenious ways to cheat the spirit of the tax laws,
as we have seen, and the standards of consumption of many high-priced
men are determined more by complicated expense accounts than by
simple take-home pay. Like prohibition, the laws of income taxes
and the regulations of wartime exist without the support of firm
business convention. It is merely illegal to cheat them, but it
is smart to get away with it. <b>Laws without supporting moral conventions
invite crime, but much more importantly, they spur the growth
of an expedient, amoral attitude. </b></span><br />
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<h4>
<b>When the Hell Will We Ever Learn</b> </h4>
Obama looked so stern as he declared war on the CIA-created ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). ISIS started off as at best a 10,000-man force; now, after we've built them up into a TERRORIST organization, they are now estimated to have a 50,000-man army. They also have a government set up; they collect taxes; they takeover banks and steal the money; they get arms from WHERE? why the U.S.A., of course. We're the biggest producers and sellers of war machinery and arms in the world. <br />
<br />
What a bunch of propaganda, scare-tactics bullshit Obama spieled out as he, again looking so damn stern (I could just see that ISIS true believer who decapitated Foley and Sotloff shaking in his U.S.-made (made in Communist China probably) boots..."Ooooh, Obama scares so much hell out of me, I'm surrendering immediately and become a Christian") roared out his war-drum-beating plans. All over the Middle East, I'm sure young hothead Washables are running as fast as their Nike sneakers can take them to the ISIS recruiting office to sign up to fight the hated Americans. And just think how Obama could have become our greatest president ever if after he beat G.W. "Lyin' Bastard and AWOL Coward" Bush if he'd simply brought all our troops home, ended these illegal wars, and offered a hand of peace to the Middle East. They were ready to accept him. Remember the scenes of the Arabs wearing Barack Obama teeshirts on the night he was elected? Instead, our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president decided to go the G.W. Bush/Cheney way, which also was the Slick Willie Clinton and Hillbilly Hillary way [how to go from a $30,000-a-year governor of the backward state of Arkansas to a multimillionaire in 8 years of hornswaggling the American people into thinking this sociopath profligate hillbilly boy was a great president, he wasn't, and is now still honored as a honorable man, he isn't]. And look at the chaotic mess these lying bastards have gotten us into. We are verging on a nuclear holocaust as we go pompously about declaring our exceptionalism while condemning all Muslims as terrorists and making gestures of defiance against Russia, a nuclear power led by a former KGB head.<b><i> </i></b><br />
<br />
Again recall Bill Moyers' 1987 report on our "Secret Government," the one that truly rules us, all its shenanigans conceived in secret backroom plans for continuous war. Every power-hungry demon out there's desire is to RULE the WORLD. That was Alexander the Great's intent. That was the Roman Empire's intent. That was the Islamic Golden Horde's (the Caliphate) intent. That was Napoleon's intent. That was the intent of the British Empire. That was Hitler's intent. And after World War II after We the People of the US got this exceptional big head our intent became to rule the world (the evil John Foster Dulles, an Ivy League-propagandized poor little rich boy, decided we were the World's Policemen).<br />
<br />
So here we go again, folks. Obama, as Commander-in-Chief, is "policing" at a pace John Foster Dulles would be proud of using of course the same tactics the bastards who started all this mess back after 9/11 used as they followed the Neo-Con (the New World Order) dictate for a backroom-planned takeover of the world and of the world's OIL, and truly, folks, this bullshit Obama is proposing is all about ISIS blocking our ownership of Iraqi oil (they now control an oil field and are shipping out black-market oil). ENERGY. We are soaking up all the world's energy. We the People of the USA rely on oil to keep our military machine roaring about the world creating havoc, destruction, despair, annihilation, corrupt regimes...throwing us lock, stock, and barrel into the throes of our Great Lord CHAOS.<br />
<br />
<b>Before He Became a Rock Star, Bob Dylan Figured It Out</b><br />
<div class="verse">
Come you masters of war<br />
You that build the big guns<br />
You that build the death planes<br />
You that build all the bombs</div>
<div class="verse">
<br /></div>
<div class="verse">
You that hide behind walls<br />
You that hide behind desks<br />
I just want you to know<br />
I can see through your masks</div>
<div class="verse">
<br /></div>
<div class="verse">
You that never done nothin'<br />
But build to destroy<br />
You play with my world<br />
Like it's your little toy</div>
<div class="verse">
<br /></div>
<div class="verse">
You put a gun in my hand<br />
And you hide from my eyes<br />
And you turn and run farther<br />
When the fast bullets fly</div>
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<br />
<div class="verse">
Well like a Judas of old<br />
You lie and deceive<br />
A world war can be won<br />
You want me to believe</div>
<div class="verse">
<br /></div>
<div class="verse">
But I see through your eyes<br />
And I see through your brain<br />
Like I see through the water<br />
That runs down my drain</div>
<div class="verse">
<br /></div>
<div class="verse">
You fasten all the triggers<br />
For the others to fire<br />
And then you sit back and watch<br />
When the death count gets higher</div>
<div class="verse">
<br /></div>
<div class="verse">
And you hide in your mansion<br />
All the young people's blood<br />
Flows out of their bodies<br />
And is buried in the mud</div>
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Read more: <a href="http://www.metrolyrics.com/masters-of-war-lyrics-bob-dylan.html#ixzz3D1v9F7nu" style="color: #003399;">Bob Dylan - Masters Of War Lyrics | MetroLyrics</a> </div>
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<b> </b> <br />
<b></b><i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b><br />
<br />
<b>As a P.S., how about a scary article from Radical Philosophy:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/deadly-algorithms" target="_blank">http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/deadly-algorithms<b> </b></a>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-86882273095137124412014-09-03T22:03:00.001-07:002014-09-03T22:03:09.941-07:00Existing in New York City (The Bull's Eye of the Target): As a Member of the Beheading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>1967 Poster of Charcoal Drawing of Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones) by San Francisco Artist Erwin Cobbs (from <i>tgw collection)</i></b><br />
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<b>A Poem by Amiri Baraka:</b><br />
<br />
<b><i> </i></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Monday in B-Flat</u></span></b><br />
<br />
I can pray<br />
all day<br />
& God<br />
wont come.<br />
<br />
But if I call<br />
911<br />
The Devil<br />
Be here<br />
in a minute!<br />
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<b><i> </i></b><br />
<b>As a Member of the Beheading</b><br />
Can you imagine being such a fervid true believer that you would have the egoistic willpower to actually cut a human being's head off with a knife not much bigger than a kitchen knife. Hacking that head off while the poor decapitation sufferer is still alive, his or her blood spurting wildly, spewing in some cases when the large arteries leading to the brain are cut. Our CIA trains its goons well. I'm sure there's a CIA stooge who would on orders decapitate a human being with a kitchen knife.<br />
<b><i></i><br /></b>
The humane and the cruel. Again the "two sides" theory of life pops into my attempt to get on down the road of life with as few obstacles and detours as possible. Two sides? Think about it. There's wealth, but in order to have wealth there has to be poverty. There's war; there's peace. Our American mightier-than-the-gods military chieftains claim our military is out to bring peace to the world through war. So far that effort has been a total failure; yet these war-in-their-blood bastards are as true believing fanatical fools as that ISIS true believer who decapitated Foley and Sotloff.<b></b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Eric Hoffer Said:</b><br />
<b>"</b>The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil<br />
<b> </b>lurking in every person."<br />
<br />
"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true." <br />
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<b>Even With My Head in the Sands of My Imagination</b><br />
Through the sands I hear the cries of pain, the cries of the dying, and the sound of approaching death, the sound of people running for their lives, the sound of drones sneaking in to blow whole families into lifeless oblivion, the sound of superjet fighters wasting millions upon millions of dollars of bombs trying to annihilate human beings, the sound of wild fanatics going about butchering people, the sound of a Congress lying like dogs as they feed like pigs at the slop troughs of our corporate dictators, the sound of police all over the USA firing multiples of high-powered bullets into the skulls and chests of Black men...killing them with impunity, the sound of our Vice President (a man with his grateful nose up the ass cracks of the DuPont high priests) ballyhooing our invincibility against the CIA-created ISIS (ISIL). <br />
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Our presidents and corporate dictators turn into killers once they get their fists around the controls of absolute power, the power to annihilate whole groups of people, the power to destroy whole countries' economies, the power to go to war on a whim, the power to assassinate your own citizens as you wish, the power to return whole work forces back into slavery, the power to lie and make their lies come true. And, look, all their lies are coming true.<br />
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<i><b>theostrich-likegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b><br />
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The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-71819874639411292292014-08-29T05:37:00.002-07:002014-08-29T11:08:50.695-07:00Existing in New York City (Among the Billionaires): Onward Christian Soldiers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Actor Tom Mix w/Fans on Hollywood lot, 1925 (photographer unknown: from <i>tgw </i>collection)</b><br />
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<b>I've Still Got My Head Buried in the Sands of My Imagination</b><br />
Considering if I were a Black man. Especially a young Black man. If you're a Black man (or woman) and you come up on a White, KKK-inspired, gaggle of cops, especially those in military garb, what the hell do you do? You can't turn and run. To cops that's a sure sign of guilt. It also gives them the right to blow your running "guilty" ass away for good. "Good riddance," the commander on the shift says to his boys as they stand around with all their AKAs smoking. "Who got the most hits on the nigger?" "I think Greg did; hit that big buck in the head with two shots." "Was the buck packin' heat...or drugs?" "No. He was clean." "Then why did we kill him?" "Cause, he was runnin', man, and we know a Black man runner is always running 'cause he's guilty.<br />
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Why do most White people hate Blacks (they also hate Mexicans, Arabs, Jews, Poor White Trash, and Atheists)? Because...and watch out, you may not like this...Black genes are dominant. Black man + White woman = Black baby. Or vice-versa: White man + Black woman = Black baby [Yes, I know about sunshine kids]. That's why southern racist Whites lynched Black men they accused of flirting, whistling at, or hitting on a White woman. Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager visiting his relatives in Mississippi, was murdered because he supposedly made a sexual remark about a White woman, the purest of women known, don't you know.<br />
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<b>Onward Christian Soldiers</b><br />
Here come the Christian soldiers back into Iraq...and some special forces have been active in Syria, too, and Commander Obama can't wait to reenter the Iraq bullshit/fuck up, to bomb our CIA-created ISIS out of existence (a futile waste of very expensive bombs). It's like a modern-day Crusades, with the Christian zealots out to shove the Muslims into Hell and take over their land and oil in the name of OUR AMERICAN GOD (also known as the Israeli God).<br />
<br />
<b> </b><br />
Has anyone discovered yet that the CIA is fomenting all this bullshit in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Libya? That the CIA not only gave us Bin Laudin, but they also have given us this ISIS bunch that's raising cane and hell in Iraq and Lower Syria these days (there are photographs of Smilin' Joe Biden meeting with this bunch looking happy as a possum eating shit). The dude who beheaded Foley spoke with a British accent. What the fuck does that mean; why wouldn't an Arab who learned British English speak with a British accent?<br />
<br />
The British are directly responsible for all this bullshit in the Middle East. It all started way back in WWI. The current Middle East crisis was started by the CIA during the early fifties after the duly elected president of Iran, Mohammed <span class="st">Mosaddegh,</span> nationalized all the British oil companies (including the evil BP) and according to a Bill Moyers report in 1987 on our "Secret Government" this nationalization totally pissed off John Foster Dulles (Sec'y of State under good ole Dwight D. Eisenhower (who played golf more than he was president)) and John's evil brother Allan who was head of the CIA. These two New England Ivy League assholes convinced Eisenhower to give the CIA permission to go in and overthrow Mosaddegh's duly elected government and install instead our old asshole buddy, the pompous egotistical schmuck, the Shah of Iran, who later the people of Iran began to hate so much, they finally drove his cancer-wracked ass out (he came to the USA supposedly for treatment of his cancer; in fact, We the People of the USA paid for this crook's hospitalization and operations) and that's when the Ayatollah Khomeini took over and why our embassy was attacked and its staff was held hostage. That lying dog and totally stupid, inept, Grade B actor, Ronald "We'll Soon Be Flying to Tokyo in 3 Hours" Reagan, gave the Iranians weapons in return for them releasing our Embassy hostages, which they did, a move that paved the way for that idiot Reagan to get elected president (what fools are We the People who vote in this country). Don't forget, too, that Iran and Iraq were at bloody war for almost a decade. War is so wasteful and so humanly devastating. But, hey, our American war philosophy is that war eventually brings on peace and power and rule.<br />
<br />
We love WAR. We love killing. Watch all these stupid copy-cat cop teevee shows. On most of them humans are killed in several excessive ways, either by machine-gunning away 10 bad guys at a time or on one NCIS, their whole headquarters were blown to bits by a gang of Arab-looking criminal entities.<br />
<br />
<b>We Now Live Under Military Rule</b><br />
One of the marvelous areas of stupidity among my fellow "Amuricans" (speaking Lyndon-Johnsonian) is the fact that I still hear them babbling about us being a democracy and not a Fascist state based on a war economy. Pundits dance all around the truth of this chaotic mess a bunch of Ivy League propagandized (mostly lawyers; G.W. being the first non-lawyer president since D. D. Eisenhower), backward-thinking presidents and their gathering-up-of-nest-eggs Congresses have gotten us into.<br />
<br />
And now, hot damn, we've got a chance at finally maybe starting World War III. And a further hot damn is in order when you think about this maybe being that nuclear war our warmongering military leaders and our warmongering Nobel Peace Prize-winning president and our asskissing Congress have been hoping and praying for. Hot damn, we finally may be able to annihilate the human race. And the Earth shivers with delight as it thinks of finally getting rid of this monkey who thinks he's created from above, blah, blah, blah, bullshit, blah.<br />
<br />
I loved listening to our UN warmonger ambassador, Samantha Power (and power is her game, too), condemning Russia for "invading" the Ukraine (a former Soviet state; Nazi sympathizers in WWII) saying the Russkies are defying the sanctity of international law by threatening the illegal Ukraine government with military intervention (I'm breaking up here; laughing my ass off at this American hypocrite's reasoning). In the meantime, look what our enforcing (via the CIA and its agents provocateurs) of our kind of democracy on Korea, Vietnam (except, of course, the North Vietnamese kicked our asses and saved their country from being divided in half), Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya (where they are now involved in a civil war), etc., did to those countries. It has left these countries in devastation, destruction, with millions of dead, divided, now either with civil wars or with potential civil wars.<br />
<br />
We truly do love war and killing. And it was all spelled out in the Neo-Con Manifesto, the ultimate goal of which has always been to drive our economy down to where We the People of this Mess of Divided States of America are forced into cheap labor situations (slavery being the cheapest) and a downgrading of our social order to that of a Third World country.<br />
<br />
Hot damn, bring 'em on.<br />
<br />
<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
<i><b> </b></i>for <b>The Daily Growler</b> <br />
<b> </b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-22494370546062796862014-08-08T08:15:00.000-07:002014-08-11T14:34:57.647-07:00Existing in New York City: WAR, WAR, OH GLORIOUS WAR!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>New York City's Times Square looking south in 1938. That's the NYTimes original building that looms in the mist in the center of photo. On the far right is the Astor Hotel and Astor Theater where Leslie Howard is starring in the movie "Pygmalion." To the left is the Loew's State Theater whose marque promotes a Vaudeville show featuring Step-'n-Fetchit. Photographer unknown. From<i> tgw </i>collection.</b><br />
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<b>Truckin' Away From the Front Lines</b><br />
So I've decided to bury my head in the sands of my own imagination. To divorce reality. Impossible, you say, and I probably agree with you, but certainly today, being outside reality makes more sense than trying to plow through the Fascistic hurdles of what reality in the Good Ol' USA has become.<br />
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One hurdle: I recently had a chance to fly with a bevy of my Michigander friends to their hometown to enjoy their participation in a jazz festival big band. OK, until I read where you weren't able to board an airliner to any destination without the equivalent of two government photo IDs or one government plus a corporate-issued photo ID. Whoaaaa.... I was stopped in my tracks. I haven't had two photo IDs in at least 10 years since I dropped out of the advertising rat race and decided to sail my ship alone (without a car so without a driver's license). "Sorry," I was told, by United Airlines, "we can't let you on our planes unless you can prove who you are, which is via two photo IDs, one issued by a government or you have a credit card with your photo on it." I asked them how a photo proves who I am and they, like my mother excused segregation when I was a kid in Texas by saying it was a shame but it was the law, said they were sorry but that was the law. And whose law was it? Turns out it started with Slick Willie Clinton's original Patriot Act after the Oklahoma City bombing. Yes, folks, Slick Willie Clinton gave us the original Patriot Act not Georgie Porgie Puddin' Pie Bush. Bush gave us Homeland Security and their version of the Patriot Act. Slick Willie also did away with habeas corpus. But don't get me started on the Clintons or the Bushes...because that will cause me to lift my head out of the sands of my own imagination and begin seeing the truth behind the many political illusionists and their so many illusions.<br />
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OK, sez I to our benevolent government, I once had a passport so I'll just renew it. Not so easy, a postal clerk who processes passport requests told me. She said I would still have to provide two current photo IDs to renew a passport since the last time I had a passport was in the 1960s when I was but a long-haired kid totally different-looking from who I am now.<br />
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Ah, to hell with it, was my final positioning on the matter. I don't like to fly anyway. Planes are some of the biggest germ breeders on earth. Just think, that airliner from Liberia to Nigeria had a man with the ebola virus on it exposing hundreds of people to the virus (it's contracted from an affected person's body fluids). It's all a matter of speed anyway. I could have traveled to Michigan by Megabus but it would have taken me a long grueling ton of hours to get there; same with Amtrak in terms of taking at least two days or longer to get there.<br />
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<b>Israel Ethnically Cleansing Palestine</b><br />
This is purely a religious war. The Jews being the Chosen People say that their God, Jehovah (Yaweh (same as Allah)), made a covenant with the poppy of the Jews, Abraham (he's ironically the poppy of the Arabs, too, don't you know), a covenant that gave Abe and his lineage all the land that now encompasses Palestine, the old Chaldean and Philistine lands (some say the Jews were first Chaldeans). The Holy Land. Besides, what a great way to let what happened to the Jews under Hitler be revenged by taking it out on the helpless Palestinian Arabs, dogs not humans to most gung-ho Israelis, and certainly in Gaza they are trapped like dogs. Religion is behind most of the world's conflicts. Can I prove such a statement. Sure, it's easy. Give it go, you'll see.<b> </b> <br />
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<b>Doing the Obama Shuffle</b><br />
How 'bout President Obama doing his Uncle Tom shuffle by glibly joking that, "Yes, we tortured some folks," said with a "yassuh boss" twinkling in his eyes. We once figured Little Georgie Porgie Bush was going to end up our worst president ever. That's when we all put our "liberal" hopes in Obama's black-preacher-chant, "Yes, we can!" Turned out Obama's "Yes, we can" simply meant "Yes, we can continue the same ol' shit, folks."<br />
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And, now, Commander-in-Chief Obama has decided to reinvade Iraq...well, he's sending in our invincible Air Force to, under the guise of flying in humanitarian aid, bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age. Well, here we go again, folks. And though 75% of We the People are against war, by God, Commander-in-Chief Obama sez, we're gonna have war whether you people or Congress want it or not. I'm pulling executive privilege on your White man asses.<br />
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Pundits are philosophically analyzing Obama's latest reentry into another mess we made: the ruining of Iraq; the turning of Iraq into a embroiled and perpetual war zone. We need Iraq, don't you see. We need it, yes, for its oil, but we also need it as we try to control the Middle East. Iraq sits dead in the middle of Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, the Baltic...in fact, the whole Middle East, from India over to the Mediterranean. All of this mentioned in the original Neo-Con Manifesto whose main author is Paul Wolfowitz who is still out there somewhere promoting the Neo-Con's New World Order that old Pappy Bush warned us was being created in his "1000 Points of Light" speech.<br />
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<b>Paul Wolfowitz Is a Psychopath/Sociopath Fool: Want Proof? Read the Following:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.thehill.com/policy/defense/214453-wolfowitz-we-won-the-iraq-war" target="_blank">www.thehill.com/policy/defense/214453-wolfowitz-we-won-the-iraq-war<b> </b> </a><br />
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We live, folks, in a War Economy. Without war and arms dealing and stealing oil without which our war machine (the world's largest) would run dry and become totally stalled, this country would go bankrupt. We'd be taken over by Chinese Communist Capitalists. We have always consistently backed repressive governments, dictators, terrorists...come on, we created Al-Queda to fight with the Mujaheddin against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan; our CIA infiltrators and agent provocateurs started the civil war in Syria; in a great revenge for Ronald Reagan, We the People, through NATO, which we control and without whose finances it would fold, attacked Libya, bombed the bejesus out of it, then when our CIA thugs found Khadaffi rather than keeping him alive and questioning him or giving him a fair trail, they instead tore his body to shreds with multiple bullets (assassination a dear stream of evil that runs through the American psyche)(remember we did the same with Osama bin Laudin and remember we hanged Saddam Hussein, a botched hanging that took several efforts to finally break his stubborn neck).<br />
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So brace yourself for more and more wars as We the World's Extraordinary Human Monkeys, the dumbest people on earth, will soon reelect a lot of Republican goons (there's a great possibility in this still-Civil-War-divided country (divided over slavery still (don't forget, the Republican agenda is all about cheap labor)) that the Republicans can take over the Senate in the coming elections). And worst of all, We the Dumbest People in the World will elect yet another do-no-wrong sociopath as our president, whether it be Hillbilly "War Lover" Clinton or the Reverend Rick Perry (yes, he's running for president) or whatever fool the Republicans run this time. And we will still have our Catholic-controlled Supreme(ly dumb) Court trashing our Bill of Rights out of existence and totally ignoring what few Constitutional rights we have left (name them?). Due to this War Economy, we have lost our right to privacy. We have a billion-plus-bucks-a-year security industry now out there working hand-in-hand with our CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, NIS, local cops tracking our every move whether in reality or on the Internet, listening to our every call, reviewing everything we write on the Internet, capturing all the photos we put up on the Internet...in fact, now our newer computers allow the government a backdoor access to all our files, hardware, software, etc. <br />
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Fuck it all, I say, as I bury my head in the sands of my imagination.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-58790425399377019022014-07-14T07:59:00.001-07:002014-08-06T22:31:14.139-07:00Existing in New York City: Are We Ready for Hillbilly Hillary?<b>Say Goodbye to: Steve Post: </b>I was still in shock over Margot Adler's death when just last night I found that Steve Post, a radio personality along with Margot on NYC's Pacifica station WBAI had died. Steve Post was then what BAI should still be, a source of parody, incisive wisdom, and bitter deconstruction of what's always been wrong with this country: its politicians. Post's favorite politician, Tricky Dick Nixon, was the man on whose head Steve poured his wry wit shit...you contradict bullshit with reversed shit. A true American cynic has died. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/steve-post-sardonic-wit-on-wnyc-is-dead-at-70.html?%20r=1" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/nyregion/steve-post-sardonic-wit-on-wnyc-is-dead-at-70.html?_r=1 </a>,<br />
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<b>Say Hello to Our Next President</b><br />
Here's a sad tale by Jeffrey St. Clair on how "flat broke" Hill and Bill picked themselves up by their bootstraps and soon after leaving the White (Man's) House, this flat-broke couple of Arkansas backwards-state hillbillies' worth zoomed up past the 35 million mark...whew! that was a close call. Read it and garner more love for Hillbilly Hillary Clinton:<br />
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/down-and-out-with-hillary-clinton/"><b>http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/down-and-out-with-hillary-clinton/</b></a><br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: Margot Adler: </b>I was quite shocked to read an NPR statement on the death of Margot Adler. I came to NYC in 1969 and one of the first WBAI-FM personalities in those days was a young Margot Adler...and, yes, I knew she was the granddaughter of Alfred Adler (and Mortimer, too?) the psychiatrist...and, yes, I knew she was a witch and seriously into that realm of the psychologically mysterious (who knows what lurks in the minds of men?). Back in the early eighties, I wrote a letter to NPR criticizing some programming that had to do with a British cat cruising around the USA opinionating on American blues. Hey, I'm an admitted Anglophobe and my criticism was blasphemous of NPR and such idiotic programming. Shortly afterwards, I got a call one afternoon. It was Margot Adler. She was calling me to thank me for my criticism of NPR programming and she confided in me that she, too, sided with me wholeheartedly in the matter. We talked for over an hour. I eventually got to tell her how much I used to dig her on BAI and her warm response to my praise encouraged me (I thought) to hit on her...OK, I simply asked her to let me take her to dinner, to which she replied that she was happily married and was a mother. I apologized and she was very sweet about the whole thing. Because of that phone call, I've since felt close to Margot in a parallel-line sense and I was transmogrified for a brief moment on reading of her death from cancer. She was 68 years old. Goodbye, to the good witch Margot. <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/28/336081618/margot-adler-an-npr-journalist-for-three-decades-dies" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/28/336081618/margot-adler-an-npr-journalist-for-three-decades-dies </a><br />
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<b>Why Hillary Should Never Be Elected President:</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">From watching the Clintons in the White House for eight
years and from Hillary’s hawkish record as Senator and Secretary of
State, there can be little doubt that her views are heartfelt. She
remains a lethal admixture of neocon and humanitarian imperialist views,
an American Exceptionalist, giddy with American military power,
arrogantly confident that “our values” are universal and determined that
no other power, however peaceful, will achieve the military or economic
might to stand up to the U.S. As China rises, peacefully so far,
consistent with its history and culture, and as Russia and Iran gain
strength, her views could plunge us into a World War. She is far too
shallow, arrogant and bellicose to be President at a time when new
thinking and considerable wisdom is needed. The Clintons have already
done quite enough damage to humanity. It is long past time to stay
their hand from doing more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>John V. Walsh at Counterpoint.com </b></span><br />
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<b>Has Anybody Asked?</b><br />
Why was a Malaysian airliner with nearly 300 people on board flying over a war zone?<br />
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<b> Say Goodbye to: Johnny Winter, </b>a fellow-Texan blues performer who was born in Beaumont, Texas, my mother's hometown. I met Johnny when I lived in Austin in 1969 when he was in a band called Shiva's Headband (I may be wrong about him being in the band, but he was always hanging around them at the Armadillo). Once on a gig in Mississippi with Muddy Waters, you hear Muddy tell Johnny, "Man, you play a lot of notes; I can't play that many notes." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Winter" title="Johnny Winter">Johnny Winter</a>, 70, American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Hall_of_Fame" title="Blues Hall of Fame">Hall of Fame</a> blues guitarist (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothin%27_but_the_Blues_%28Johnny_Winter_album%29" title="Nothin' but the Blues (Johnny Winter album)">Nothin' but the Blues</a></i>) and triple <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Ethnic_or_Traditional_Folk_Recording" title="Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording">Grammy Award</a>-winning producer (1978–1980).<br />
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<b>No Change of Any Kind in the Coming Contaminated Air</b><br />
I've been laughing my ass off watching how the media searchlights are turning on good ol' gal, Hillbilly "My Husband Shot His Wad on a Young Girl's Blue Dress" Hillary Clinton (has she dropped the Rodham?). And Hillbilly's looking a little worn these days, her ass broadening daily and her hair getting scraggly and uneven grey. She looks haggard even in makeup. At the same time, Ol' Slick Willie's looking peachy cheeked and rich (which he and Hillary now are...filthy rich...hog-wallow rich, as they'd say were they still big shots in the backward state of Arkansas. (Just think, now Bill and Hillary could buy half that damn backward state and wouldn't have to worry about making deals with their friends over Whitewater (several of their pals went to prison remember?) and the CIA over flying CIA-Contra cocaine into to Mena, Arkansas, during Ronald "Raygun" Reagan's stupid attempt to save Nicaragua from the evil Sandinistas (bad commies).<br />
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<b>It All Seems Like a Cruel Joke</b><br />
How did human two-faced clowns like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush, Ol' Pappy Bush, John "Ketchup Slurpin"" Kerry, etc., get such God-damn hypnotic control over We Americans, the Dumbest People in the World? These are White, narcissistic, sociopathic, power-hungry, spoiled-brat-types, Ivy-League-mind-controlled parasites with no sense of community, only a standing-before-a-full-length-mirror in admiration of their individual selves, those selves that would sell their children, their parents, their neighbors, their supporters down the river for a big untaxed wad of Corporate Corrupt Moolah (money most of which these corporations have stolen from the taxpayers anyway). Yet, We the Dumbest People on Earth keep electing these freaks, keep having faith in their fingers-crossed promises. Hillary knows if she gets elected president, the Slick Willie Clintons will become superrich and atop the Power Elite in a catbird seat. The Clintons are in friendly competition with the Bushes (remember, Bill Clinton said Ol' Pappy Bush was his new best friend back when they formed a way to rip off a few hundred grand for their own pleasure by starting the famous Japanese Tsunami Fund). What a bunch of truly evil people; yet, they stay at the top of the popularity polls no matter how sexually perverted, disgusting, lying, crooked, bullshitting, and backward thinking they are. Hillbilly Hillary, trust me, even though a strong woman (acc. to her popularity poll), she's as backward thinking as any politician-parasite in Washington today. No women national leaders have ever been for peace. Indira Ghandi (she was assassinated, remember?), Golda Meir, Madame Bhuto, Margaret Thatcher, et. al.<br />
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The following from Common Dreams is by Jeff Cohen and is a truth-packed article about Hillary, the Clintonistas, and how Barack and Michelle Obama coming out of the corporate ass-kissing world stabbed us all in the back in favor of their own monetary gain and Power Elite position in the future. The Obamas will leave office multimillionaires and soon their book contracts will add to their riches and so will speaking tours and corporate investing, etc. <a href="http://www.comondreams.org/view/2014/07/14" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/14 </a><br />
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You see: what peace is is a lull between wars. Consistent peace is impossible. For peace can only exist in a society that is weaponless (like Switzerland). To have true peace, you would destroy all massive destructive weapons of war and decrease standing armies to merely border patrolers or National Guarders.<b> </b>There are two sides to everything: without War we can have no Peace. And we will never EVER end wars. They're too profitable for the 1-percenters.<br />
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I once knew the world's richest man at the time (early 70s). My wife worked for him. He liked my wife; every man liked my wife; she was a Welch, Choctaw, Mexican blend of beauty and brains, a raven-haired fox who impressed every rich man she ever met. In talking to this world's richest man over cocktails one night, the table discussion turned to war...nuclear war in this case. This rich bastard...and by the way he was famous for living in one of his many jumbo jet planes and only landing to refuel...trust me, this guy did just that...said, if the Soviets, yeah they were the big buggaboo back in the 1970s with the cold war still going on, started a nuclear (of course We the People of the US can't wait to have a nuclear war) he would retire to one of his jumbo jets and fly away from where the war action was going on. That's how dumb this guy was. Because he was so rich, he thought he could avoid a nuclear holocaust by just flying above it.<br />
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The rich don't think like the average bears, folks. Even if they were born in bitter poverty, once they get rich they turn their backs on the average bears. I know. My brother got rich and I saw him become a totally different human being than he was before he got rich. He was still a good brother and he was a kind soul but when he got rich he didn't trust anybody, especially the rich men and women he socialized with in Dallas, and believe me, I've met some of the richest men and women in the world in my brother's Dallas home.<br />
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</style> <span style="font-size: small;">Is life boring? Without money, yes, life is boring. I can’t imagine what the desperately poor go
through. Yes, the poor are jealous of
the rich. That’s what keeps them
kowtowing to them. The rich hate the
poor because either they were once poor or else being born rich they were
taught to hate the poor…criminals, illegal immigrants, the imprisoned, the
dopers, the lazy, the welfare scammers, black young men wearing hoodies.
It’s two worlds: the world of the rich and the world of the poor. It always has been this way. It’s the way most societies are set up. Socialism will never be accepted because
people don’t like to share. Americans
especially believe they are rugged individualists. “You’re on your own, pal.” These are true Social Darwinian
attitudes. Survival of the fittest: I am
rich, therefore I’m going to survive. G.W. Bush, that scoundrel, said we were all
supposed to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Can you imagine this little privileged prick
giving such advice? He’s, of course,
aiming that advice at the poor. The
question was often asked this little privileged prick: “What if I don’t have
any boots?” Or, “What if the boots I have have no straps?” G.W. Bush, that
little worthless prick, looks and sees he has a scratch on his specially ordered shoes. What does he do? He orders another pair from his favorite shoe
store and the shoe dealer kisses his ass and orders him a new pair of shoes and
all’s well, little Georgie has pulled himself up by his bootstraps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Boos on the Jews</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, Net-in-Yahoo? Didn't Hitler teach you Jews about the Final Solution? So, hey, dude, why not build some hi-tech ovens (or the U.S. Government will supply them and the Zyclone B gas) and burn the god-damn Palestinians to nothing but bones and ashes. I once knew an Israeli girl who had just been discharged from the Israeli military and while we were mafficking around, the subject of the Palestinians came up. This girl looked at me and very seriously said, "We Israelis consider the Palestinians as dogs; they're not human. Even the other Arabs hate them and consider them dogs." So, hey, Net-in-Yahoo, you know what they do to stray dogs, they gas 'em. There ya go, Bebe, ol' dude. Do unto the Palestinians as the Nazis did unto you. I mean bombing a hospital for the disabled would make old Adolph proud of you. Killing 179 Palestinians, mostly women and children, when those stupid Hamas rockets haven't killed one Israeli yet is also a cool response. So go ahead and bomb the bastards back to the Stone Age...oh, wait a minute, the Israelis have already bombed the Palestinians back to a Stone-Age-like existence. So gas 'em all, Net-in-Yahoo. And speaking of gas,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">check this out: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/09/israel-war-gaza-palestine-natural-gas-energy-crisis">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/09/israel-war-gaza-palestine-natural-gas-energy-crisis</a> </span><br />
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<b>Some Truth:</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>thedoomsayinggrowlingwolf </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">for <b>The Daily Growler </b> </span></div>
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</span>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-6862514265598605152014-07-03T13:19:00.000-07:002014-07-13T13:11:10.736-07:00Existing in New York City: It's Time to Kill Some More Iraqis and Other Topics<b>Say Goodbye to: Charlie Haden, </b>bass player extraordinaire. Started playing music with the Haden Family Band as a singer. Then he contracted polio that affected his throat and jaw, which meant he could no longer sing since he couldn't control his pitch. So he took up the bass. His jump to the top of the jazz bass world came when he joined Ornette Coleman's band, where he "followed" Ornette, as Haden said, because you could not presuppose what Ornette was going to play (he didn't play melodies, had no chordal designations, and would often go off on tangents during a tune). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Haden" title="Charlie Haden">Charlie Haden</a>, 76, American jazz bassist and bandleader, three-time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Latin_Jazz_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album">Grammy Award</a> winner (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturne_%28Charlie_Haden_album%29" title="Nocturne (Charlie Haden album)">Nocturne</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Sun_%28album%29" title="Land of the Sun (album)">Land of the Sun</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Jazz_to_Come" title="The Shape of Jazz to Come">The Shape of Jazz to Come</a></i>), post-polio syndrome.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: Don Lenhardt, </b>baseball player and coach. I first remember Don back when I was a kid involved with a great interest in Texas League baseball and Don Lenhardt was one of the all-star infielders in the league with the San Antonio Missions. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lenhardt" title="Don Lenhardt">Don Lenhardt</a>, 91, American baseball player and coach (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>)<br />
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<b>Hot Damn! We Celebrate the 4th of July Preparing to Continue and Re-continue War Upon War After War</b><br />
Praise the Christian God, that merciful fabulous God of great warring love; a God who loves to just up and wipe out civilizations and wipe out whole passels of heathen disbelievers just on a whim that these people disobeyed one of <i><b>HIS</b></i> wacky orders ("Kill homosexuals!" "Kill all of those who worship false gods, like Allah (even though Allah is the same God as Jehovah, the big Daddy Jewish God...think about it: "Yaweh" "Allah"). "If thou do not believe in ME, then to hell with the lot of you"),<b> </b><br />
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<b>We the People of the USA: Our Deluxe Killing Agencies Drone On</b><br />
The almighty enemy, our greatest enemy since we had a cold war with the Soviet Union, is al-Queda (now identifying itself, according to our sociopathic keepers, as ISIS in Iraq). Al-Queda seems to be an invincible enemy that has so far been our longest hounding enemy ever (I just saw that our security agencies are saying Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen now have the capability of bringing Weapons of Mass Destruction (remember them?)(or "highly volatile explosives") on airliners thus demanding tighter security now on international flights to and from the USA). I mean Hitler never successfully attacked the USA and blew down two architecturally tacky buildings, a miraculous feat that has led to the two longest wars in our nation's great warring history, both wars against countries that were no threat whatsoever to our precious national security. What's even more miraculous about al-Queda is in spite of our president's constant trumpeting about how our forces have wiped out al-Queda leaders and combat forces only a few days later to have an al-Queda incident reappear wrapped in a new trumpeting about how we killed al-Queda leaders and supporters by drones in Yemen, where Obama found it necessary to drone-zap three American citizens living in Yemen, one a 17-year-old boy born in Denver.<br />
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<b>Bomb 'em Back to the Stone Age</b><br />
Old Obama and that idiot John "Phony Vietnam Hero" Kerry (remember how the Swift Boaters ridiculed this poor little rich boy and ex-District Attorney now reaping the rewards of having married old Charlie Heinz' widow, the Ketchup Queen; remember him coming out of the ocean wearing a fish suit?) find themselves in a dilemma with this new advent of warring factions in Iraq, what everyone with any sense warned would happen back in 2003 when 2 million of us marched in New York City against this illegal war started by our faux-president (he stole both elections, one from that wimp Kerry and the other from that wimp Al "the Bore" Gore), Georgie Porgie Bush whose reasoning for his "preemptive" strike against Iraq was truly because Saddam Hussein tried to murder his old feeble and now wobbly Pappy (the Power Elite royalty live long lives). [May I here congratulate John "Ketchup Slurpin'" Kerry on his admission in Red China that he originally was opposed to the Iraq War and thinks getting involved in Bush and Cheney's illegal little war to end all wars was a big mistake.]<br />
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Just think, if Bill Clinton, that preacher boy from Arkansas with a roving eye for his kind of playmate (like Jennifer Flowers (remember her?), Paula Jones (Slick Willie paid her $75,000 to shut her up), and Monica Lewinsky (and that big cum stain on her blue dress)), had not have started bombing the bejesus out of Iraq and then Georgie Porgie Bush-baby (who's living like a duke down in Dallas with the Dutchess Pickles (shouldn't that really piss Americans off?)) had not have preemptively invaded their sovereign territory to occupy it with killer US troops who maimed and killed tens of thousands of Iraqis and displaced another 2 million Iraqis (remember Fallujah?)(remember Blackwater's killing innocent women, children, and noncombative men with impunity). What would have happened if we had not invaded Iraq? Or what would have happened if we had not invaded and tried to occupy Afghanistan (who had nothing to do with the blowing down of the World Trade Center now replaced by the most expensive office building ever built, whose prime tenant is the People's Republic of China (that's "Red China" when they were our big enemy and not holding billions of our debt in their vaults or making 80% of our consumer goods (clothes, teevees, computers, appliances, etc.))(do you recall that George W. Bush gave China our jet plane designs; plus remember he traded nuclear secrets (a boon for General Electric (that killer company)) for mangoes (shouldn't that have pissed Americans off?).<br />
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I can't believe most Americans have their heads buried in the sands of their ongoing debts, credit card arrears, student loan swindles, bankruptcy, home foreclosures, job losses, in trouble with the IRS. Not a peep from them as their corporate-ass-kissing government goes around the world killing and maiming and displacing innocent people and making trade-pact deals that totally turn our lives over to corporate pirates and raiders, the destructive ideals of the Global Marketplace, the IMF, GATT (both the children of Slick Willie Clinton) and the World Trade Organization, etc. Americans sheepishly look the other way as a criminal killer corporation like Monsanto destroys the world's organic food supplies with their genetically modified seeds (full of other animals' DNAs, DNAs that good scientists (as opposed to scientists that do what these criminal corporations' instruct them to do) are now saying are staying in our bodies affecting our genes and our children's genes forever more)("Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'")<br />
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Again, I emphasize, as I have been doing for 6 years, We the People of the USA are stuck with a War Economy. Without wars, we won't survive since we've allowed our global-conquering corporations (no longer with allegiance to our national dilemmas but in control of our lives) take over the world full sway (i.e., Goldman-Sachs, Monsanto, General Electric, Halliburton, Bank of America, Wells-Fargo, Quicken Loans, etc.).<br />
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So have a great 4th of July. A chance to remind ourselves who our true enemy is. As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is US."<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-88036798093608702112014-06-18T07:08:00.001-07:002014-06-19T13:00:49.388-07:00Existing in New York City: Worshipping Chaos<b>Say Goodbye to: Horace Silver, </b>jazz pianist extraordinaire. I first heard Horace playing with the Miles Davis All-Stars (a 10" Prestige LP <i>Walkin'</i>). Later once intrigued by Silver's playing, I followed him from Senor Blue to Silver and Brass and all those great Silver moments like "Sister Sadie," "Filthy McNasty," "Blowin' the Blues Away," and "Doodlin'." Great compositions, great sideman. I remember when Horace arrived at Coleman Hawkins' funeral in 1969. He was wearing a blue velvet suit and was accompanied by two gorgeous foxes in splendid formal attire. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Silver" title="Horace Silver">Horace Silver</a>, 85, American jazz pianist (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_for_My_Father" title="Song for My Father">Song for My Father</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_the_Blues_Away" title="Blowin' the Blues Away">Blowin' the Blues Away</a></i>), natural causes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_June_2014#cite_note-11"><span></span></a></sup><b> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </b><br />
<b>“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not
powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers
refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and
aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are
strung across the globe. ”
<br /> ―
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6134.Arundhati_Roy">Arundhati Roy</a>,
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/12565">Public Power in the Age of Empire</a>
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<b>Chaos</b><br />
Progress in human evolution brings with it destruction. In order for man to evolve from a primitive beast into a civilized human being he has had to destroy. Enemies: whether they be other humans or wild beasts or the environment itself, our civilized intentions be they subconscious or in real time are to dominate all other forms of life and the environments in which they subsist (or exist). <br />
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Even progress in human thought is destructive. Think of how theories come and go. What once was believed as truth is now seen as unbelievable or has been replaced with supernatural theories (those theories of the ignorant who find truth in the fabulous). <br />
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President Obama recently said he believed down to his bones in America being extraordinary. This national egocentricity is destructive. The only way to prove you're superior to your fellow human beings is to go to war with them with the intention of destroying them. Peace is simply a resting period between wars.<br />
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Human beings in order to maintain their egocentricity are forced to deny natural orders (even natural science) and construct supernatural theories that prove man is not an animal. Man comes down from Heaven to rule the earth (remember, not too long ago, many human thinkers believed the earth was the center of the universe; that the sun revolved around the earth, which, by the way, they thought was flat).<br />
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I'm currently a work on a piece involving a human being being blindfolded and taken to the deepest part of a deep jungle and dropped off there to survive or perish. What I discovered as I imagined such a situation is that when a human being finds himself alone and lost in the darkness of a jungle (back to his beginnings), his civilized man is helpless; his only hope for survival is to revert back to relying solely on his instincts.<br />
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The Jungle is originally Chaos. Civilization is man-made and is therefore unnatural. The direction of all man-made civilization is entropy (or Chaos). Progress progresses but at some point enters into that realm old Economists called the law of diminishing returns.<br />
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It is interesting to see that some astute pundits are now beginning to agree with me that the American people are the dumbest people in the world, and a lot of the credit for the dumbing-down of us is thanks to the wrecking of our public school system and selling it off to the Charter School gang of hedge-fund pirates. Charter schools are corporatized to the point their main concern is mediocrity. The mediocre rise up to become our managing class. In other words, if you want to succeed from now on you must learn to be totally mediocre.<br />
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The mediocre could be said to be the new working class. And, listen to this, I include the military in this new working class configuration. Killing the enemy is an industry.<br />
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We the People of the USA are fools. We allow criminality to be rewarded. We allow our Bill of Rights to be deleted from Constitutional existence. We allow our military to murder people at will. We allow our local police to shoot children holding aluminum candy wrappers. We allow ignorant right-wing goons to shoot young black guys wearing hoodies with impunity.<br />
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<b>And Speaking of Chaos</b><br />
As we continue to impose our world-policeman role on the rest of the world and after we devastated Iraq and Obama declared us victorious as he pulled our haggard and beat up and maimed troops out of there though those of us who are messengers of the Great God Chaos predicted after our terrorist-fearing fearless leader did such a thing, Iraq would revert to civil war between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites, which is exactly what is suddenly going on over there.<br />
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We love disrupting countries. Since WW II look at the countries we've divided: Korea (this is a war that has never been resolved); Vietnam (we tried, but we lost that war badly); Pappy Bush's Gulf War (the war Pappy claimed was our first winning war since WWII), Clinton's big war in Bosnia and Serbia, and finally the two longest wars in our warring history, Afghanistan and Iraq (both as far as I'm concerned EVIL wars; stupid wars; illogical wars; economy-ruining wars), both countries that we've militarily ruined, Afghanistan and Iraq: neither country was a threat to our safety; yet, we gave these two helpless countries (with cultures we don't approve of), a taste of our brand of overseen colonizational democracy.<br />
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President Obama continues to amaze me with his trick-bagging. And I'm also amazed how he still has true progressives apologizing for him; yet, on historical paper, he looks worse than Baby Boy Bush (the sorry little worthless piece-of-shit (Grandpa Al's term) ex-faux president who's currently living the good life of a privileged Lord, he and Lady Pickles, down in Dallas near his echo-emitting presidential library). He's certainly hasn't brought any peace to the world. He's not done much in terms of diplomacy; he's accepted all of Bush's puppeteer military people and all of Bush's financial people and a gaggle of Wall Street criminals in high-paying advisory jobs...like why in the Holiest of Hells would you put at the head of the FCC a Wall Street clown who once championed doing away with Internet neutrality--and now, of course, this sleazebag and his FCC cronies have recently down away with Internet neutrality in favor the the corporate-criminal plan to tier the Internet.<br />
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Well, what do I expect of a country ruled by backwards-thinking wannabes and Power Elitist gluttons and graspers of pots of Yankee dollars at the ends of their many fabled rainbows. Doesn't it piss you off to watch teevee and see a Wells-Fargo (one of the biggest criminal banks in terms of foreclosures) commercial where they're praising themselves for creating jobs and making this country so great and how everything is rosy and bright in the criminal dens of the Wells-Fargo pirates.<br />
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I know I'm wailing against a wall with no reverb about this open crap that's ruining not only We the People of the USA but more seriously murdering, maiming, displacing hundreds of thousands of war-torn peoples running for their lives especially in places where We the People of the USA's armed forces and CIA/FBI insurgents have started wars or instigated wars or made preemptive strikes against countries that pose no threat to the precious (and so pious) United Snakes of America.<br />
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Chaos rules. <br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b><i><b> </b></i> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-85694108114242089332014-05-22T18:28:00.000-07:002014-06-10T14:44:06.900-07:00Existing in New York City: Bored to the Bone<b>Say Goodbye to: Bob Welch, </b>one of the best MLB pitchers in the 1990s with the LA Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics (he pitched in 3 World Series). He won over 200 games in 13 seasons, was a 3-time All-Star and won the Cy Young Award in 1990, when he also was the last MLB pitcher to win over 25 games (he won 27) in one season. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Welch_%28baseball%29" title="Bob Welch (baseball)">Bob Welch</a>, 57, American baseball player (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a>).<br />
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<b>I Sit Twiddling My Thumbs and Yawning</b><br />
Yes, things are becoming that boring to me. BORING. Politics is boring. The same ol' same ol' rehashed crap slung at us again and again. Our Great White Fathers force feeding us pap. Gruel crap. Tasteless gruel crap sold via lies. Every now and then, even the dumbest bullshit tastes better than this gruel crap made with lies.<b> </b><br />
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What is the purpose behind dehumanizing the earth? What is the board-room reasoning of these banks to keep on deliberately stealing money, property, savings, pensions from us dumb ass U.S. citizens who continue to put our money [not my money] in these pirate banks and continue to borrow money from them, use their credit cards, investing through them, and continuing to buy mortgages from them. But going against them is boring. Like the Occupy Movement got boring; that's why it fizzled out; there is only so much head-beating and rounded-up-and-jailed situations the rebellious can take; especially a rebellion led by spoiled rich brat White kids.<br />
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Being bored turns me cynical. And when I'm cynical, I'm hard to live with. Being cynical means you're bent in the crazy didactic-reasoning winds blowing through your furrowed mind toward pessimism.<br />
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I tried to watch Hillbilly Hillary Clinton on some rightwing-leaning network politico show Sunday but I just couldn't. I watched it long enough though to notice Hillbilly Hill is blimping up. Being hillbilly rich bloats you up like she's gotten [what a marriage, eh? Both Hillbilly Hillary and Slick Willie are politicking about the world on We the People of the US's tax dollars (they both get millions of dollars a year from we suckers who put them in the catbird seat of politics) and never see each other. Besides Hill's gone through the "'pause" and ain't into sex no more; and Slick Willie's had a heart attack so he can't cut the mustard like he once did.<br />
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Speaking of New Millionaires, our president last week or so had to reveal his worth to the accountants and he's estimated to be worth from 1 million to 7.5 million. So our political system creates another New Millionaire. How many of our worthless Federal Reserve-produced dollars do We the People of the US pay out in salaries to these bloated, pompous, ridiculous asses?<br />
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What's going on in the USA is what's called "playing the game." These Ivy League successes have the advantage on us poor boobs who went to regular old state colleges and universities. They were taught how to play the game. It's a Machiavellian World and you must have the skills of that ancient con man to play the game with contacts enough to bowl your way to strike after strike as you strive to complete a perfect game.<br />
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I'm slowing down theses days. The older I get the lazier I get. Does everyone want to be asleep when they die? That sentence just hit me between the eyes and woke me up. Yes, I think, I want to be asleep or be blindsided (like a cop's wildfiring with impunity rampage leaving an AKA slug in the back of the blown-open skull...or be run over by an eighteen-wheel asphalt truck on a lonely Texas highway. What a way to go! my friends might all cheer as they viewed my mangled body as I repose in my casket).<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Grower</b><i><b> </b></i> <br />
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<br />The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-56986622815804962902014-05-03T16:58:00.001-07:002014-05-03T17:11:33.084-07:00Existing in New York City: I'm Glad I'm Going to Die Before Chaos Ends Humankind<b>I've Got to Get the Hell Off This Planet</b><br />
I would hate to be a young person just entering adulthood in today's carnival of doom world. I have two very young and brilliantly gifted kids in my family, a grandnephew and a grandniece, absolutely charming kids, but I look at them and their passions and I tremble thinking about what chaotic crap they are going to face as they are kicked out of the nest to progress on their own on into real life.<br />
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I thought of them as I listened to President Obama a week ago trumpeting over in the Philippines his promoting of his and his corporate cronies' TransPacific Trade Pact (Japan turned him down) and on the side warning Russia and Putin that "we" (I love the way these sleazy politicians use that term when talking about the back-room secret deals they are up to) will punish Russia for its threatening the Neo-Nazi chaps in the Ukraine, a territory that has been involved in Russian history since the earliest days of the Czars. I'm thinking, what in the hell is our president doing traipsing all about the world while here at home Chaos continues to decimate this country with California now admitting it's running out of water (also the mayor of Las Vegas saying Sin City is running out of water) and still suffering the worst drought in the state's history and I'm thinking, in a stream of consciousness trip, what if Mexico amassed troops on our borders threatening to take back the territory we stole from them back in Old Slaveholding Tom Jefferson's day? You catch my drift?<br />
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And then our tornado-prone states suffered a series of town-flattening and human-killing tornadoes from Oklahoma, down through Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, and Obama (our next multimillionaire ex-President) was still flying about the Pacific Rim promoting corporate doom on the Pacific Rim countries plus he was on a mission to sell drones to Australia. Such bullshit. It's hard to contemplate the future with so much bullshit being flung daily in our stupid faces. As our rightwing nutjobs begin babbling racist crap (one the creepy billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, a team composed mostly of Black players with a Black coach), once again this country is dividing up along the old Civil War lines, the South rising again (let's hear a Rebel Yell!), promoting racist attitudes as it gerrymanders districts from all-Black to all-White and renews pre-Civil Rights anti-Black voting limitations and wants to wave the Confederate Flag and the Ten Commandments over its statehouses.<br />
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To say this country is fucked up is an understatement. Racist pigs oinking their stupid racist statements with impunity (like that asshole rancher Bundy who's deliberately cheating the American people out of rents as he uses federal lands to increase the dollars in his overflowing coffers while in the same areas Native Americans are having their sacred lands stolen from them). And I'm hollering "Hypocrites" as I watch television kissing the asses of our worthless celebrities and following wide-eyed the foppish foolishness of British royalty, especially making goo-goo eyes over the everyday habits of Prince William and his dumbass wife and Prince "Nazi-uniform Wearing" Harry, both worthless children of a failed marriage whose mother was a royal slut and whose father is a worthless piece of crap from a family (with a Prussian-Nazi past) that is draining the British economy to the tune of multimillions of Euro dollars a year as pretend rulers. And our White-controlled news media glorifies everything British, including Brit actors and actresses, Brit vaudeville on Broadway, Brit musicians, Brit writers, Brit chefs (Brit traditional food the worst food in the world), and Brit announcers (watch golf on television and most of the on-air commentators are Brits).<br />
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In the meantime, our ultra-stupid Congress people are still poised to bail out our vulgar banks as these crooks (pirates) continue to deal in derivatives and continue throwing people out of their homes and now are scheming to rent these homes back to people at sky-high prices. In the meantime, our big oil giants are given free passes to continue to defile our atmosphere and are allowed to drill, drill, drill wherever the hell they want. The excessively greedy British Petroleum who was the cause of the worst oil spill in human history are back to drilling away with impunity in our Gulf. And our Capitalist Pig class is going about either ruining our cities or rezoning them in favor of real estate developers (check out how Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg rezoned New York City in favor of his hi-rise-luxury-apartment-and-office building developers...and I recently watched a documentary on how Billionaire Mike sold off a huge chunk of Coney Island to a developer who has now allowed his purchase to go fallow for several years now).<br />
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Plus, this nation is deep in debt with the corrupt Federal Reserve printing bales of worthless dollars as it still shovels huge piles of this worthless cash into the pirate banks and our government continues to base our economy on WAR, with our truly dumbass and witless Sec'y of State, John "Ketchup Sucking" Kerry going about making a fool of himself threatening Russia over the Ukraine as if the Ukraine is really one of our territories and then going to Africa and peddling US investments that will suck all the wealth out of that continent where native peoples are starving or warring or under the rule of ruthless assholes who are totally corrupt.<br />
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I just read an article on Salon predicting the next high-tech bubble bursting and I was so taken by how dumb Salon pundits and commenters are about economics and Wall Street. Economics is not a science; it is a guessing game. Bubble-bursting predictors and stock market analysts are the same as Gypsy fortunetellers and voodoo soothsayers or Christian pseudo-prophets (who are predicting the end of time and the coming of the fictional Jewish Jesus (remember, he'll come back out of the clouds (not a part of the heavens, you idiots) riding on a gigantic White horse)). These birds can only guess at what will happen. We are in Chaos now. And in Chaos nothing is real. Inside Chaos, the reality is that we are now ruled by a Plutocratic 1% that don't give a shit if the stock market crashes or there is a high-tech bubble about to burst. These Global Marketplace worshipers are so wealthy (not in terms of cash but in terms of capital wealth) they'll make money off the majority going bankrupt.<br />
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I just watched the Kentucky Derby and saw 160, 000 pompous assholes going bananas over a bunch of rich assholes' nags running for a measly purse of 2 million dollars, which is chicken feed when it comes to owning race horses and feeding them and housing them and training them and entering them in races. I was once married to the racing secretary of the New Mexico race tracks and I know for a fact, winners are decided in the stables. I used to place bets for jockeys who are not allowed to bet on races and when I bet on the jockeys' picks, I won, but when I defied them and bet on my picks, I lost or at best broke even. Picking winning horses is the same as predicting bubbles bursting or what will happen in the stock market, though currently, I advise people to bet all their savings on oil companies (get in on the fracking boom going on right now), the military industrial complex giants, and the high-end real estate markets. Make your bonanzas and then get the hell out and move to a mansion in the Caribbean like our wealthiest assholes do.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf (as The Daily Growler soothsayer) </b></i><br />
for <b>The 8-Year-Old Daily Growler</b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-91690973502494344432014-04-21T10:25:00.000-07:002014-04-23T13:33:59.407-07:00Existing in New York City: 8 Years Old<b>The Daily Growler Is 8 Years Old</b><br />
It doesn't seem that long ago. It seems like only yesterday that we pitched our tent in the blogosphere, but it wasn't, it was instead April of 2006. Much water and its fetid content has flowed under our bridge. We came into existence during the two terms of who was then thought to be the worst president in US history, G.W. "Georgie Porgie" Bush. How ironic that this Barack Obama, the Great Black Hope, came to power promising change and a "Yes, We Can" Black preacher chant though once in power (and that's the key word to all of this political bullshit), he stabbed his constituency in the back and took a chance at becoming an even worse president than Little Georgie Bush.<br />
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<b>The Daily Growler </b>started out as a jesting and ribald dig into the ribs of the stupidest people in the whole damn world who in their worship of the Great God Moolah (better known to us as "MONEY") let go their Bill of Rights and Constitutional guarantees in favor of an unblocked (at least in the minds of the stupid) road to that fictional pot of gold at the end of all those passing rainbows (rainbows that form at the end of a deluge). Wealth is to be gained whether ill-gotten or honestly come by, which is the true salvation of this false god's promise of Eternal Life (and, yes, the wealthy do live longer than the poor). Those White men and their worthless offspring who make it to those pots of gold at the end of those rainbows become the stupidest people in the world's priests, the disciples of this God of Money. The heart of their message is: if you want a chance at wealth in this country, you must deregulate. Nothing must stand in the way of that golden brick road to fortune. As a result of this Capitalist myth, We the Stupidest People on Earth who believe we are rugged individualists have allowed 1% of us to now own and control more capital (screw wealth; their Power Elite status goes way beyond wealth) than any of the rest of us could ever hope to possess. This 1%'s capital control puts millionaires in a poverty class. The Koch Brothers alone control 100 billion dollars (with more and more coming in every day); these sleazy brothers along with the sleazy Walton Family together control 200 billions dollars of capital. Then you throw in Little Billy Gates, Warren "Junk Bond" Buffett, and ex-New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg (who as mayor went from being worth 5 billion to end his illegal third term being worth 35 billion (explain that to your buddy)) and we're talking 350 billion.<br />
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Well, hell, Mel, this is a Capitalist country and has been since the robber baron days of the Industrial Revolution. We have consistently been ruled by wealthy families and their worthless heirs: the Rockefellers, the Bootlegger Joe Kennedys, the Carnegies, the Mellons, the Morgans, the DuPonts, the Fords, et al. Our new Power Elites, however, control way more capital than those early-day robber barons could dream of.<br />
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Capitalism breeds a contemptible class of privileged priests in the temples of the great God Moolah. We the Stupidest People on Earth though envious are worshipful of these people because we dream that one day we, too, will find a pot of gold at the end of a dream rainbow, which is what our hopes are based on. Though with a handful (the 1%) of families and their worthless heirs controlling the capital, the stupid 99% haven't got a chance in 50 hells of ever even being worth more than the current debt they are in.<br />
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Our only hope lies in revolution...EXCEPT, a revolution will never happen in this now oligarchy state. Just like in the days of feudal lords when it was not easy to overthrow the ruling royalty, it is almost impossible to overthrow our ruling royalty. UNLESS...We the People get smart and pull our monies out of their banks; vote for progressive-types to take over our Congress and State governments; unless we shun buying child-labor-made Chinese (from Red China) goods...and we could babble on endlessly on the possible strategies to overthrow these robber barons who now control us hook, line, and sinker, but we hate wasting words. I cannot see any one currently, with the exception of Elizabeth Warren maybe, bold enough to stand against the 1% and their private police forces or the public police forces who now cooperate with the ruling class to protect property rights over the rights of citizens (check out the public police forces' roll in destroying the Occupy Wall Street "revolt").<br />
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Whether we'll go on another 8 years depends on how long before the 1% take over the Internet (which they are now in the process of doing through huge outsourcing-of-jobs giants like Verizon and AT&T)(if you've ever dealt with a Verizon Internet technical problem you've dealt with a person in the People's Republic of China (Red China; Communist China)), a takeover that our government has no power to protect us from being most of our Congressional millionaires are highly invested in both of these communications monopolies.<br />
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So we sing "Happy Birthday" to ourselves as we poke our ways into the coming shenanigans by our idiot and totally corrupt leaders like Paul "the Pious Catholic" Ryan; Mitch "Old South Numbskull" O'Connell; Ted "Superstupid" Cruz; the twelve dumbasses on our Supreme(ly Dumb) Court (of jesters); Hillary "Presidential Wife Turned Inept Politician" Clinton; the corrupt Bushes; John "Bonehead" Boehner; our current President; and, if We the Stupidest People on Earth elect Hillary "Hillbilly" Clinton or (God help us) Jeb "the Reb" Bush, then we'll have four more years of poking our fat cats in their bulging bellies as they go about legislating totally anti-human, inane, polluting, rewards and more tax loopholes for the rich and famous and more deregulating what little regulations are left on our criminal corporations as they close down more American factories and send them over to Red China, or Communist Vietnam, or Taiwan, or India, or Brazil or they foreclose on more of our homes in order to return them to the communities as high-end rental units...we mean, to put it precisely, more of the same old bullshit.<br />
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WARNING: our current meddling in the affairs of Putin's Russia and the mess going in the Ukraine is building up into an excuse for a nuclear war. We are meddling in a situation that has been going on for hundreds of years, that really goes directly back to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that led to the creation of the Soviet Union.<br />
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<b>The Eight-Year-Old Daily Growler</b><br />
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<b>Dig This (a Scathing Series of Revelations About True Christianity) From <i>Counterpunch:</i></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/21/christianity-guilty-as-charged/" target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/21/christianity-guilty-as-charged/ </a><b> </b>The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-69462022626060647182014-04-05T21:35:00.001-07:002014-04-05T21:35:54.970-07:00Existing in New York City: Progress Equals Kowtowing to the Rich<b>The Rich Are Immune Period</b><br />
Wake up, America. The wealthy are ruling us all. Just think, the wicked and evil right-wing nutjob Koch Bros. are worth over 100 billion dollars. The Walton Family together are worth 100 billion dollars from selling cheap child-produced Chinese goods to the millions of Americans (most in poverty) who flock to their giant stores every day of the week. On and on I could go telling you of one, two, three, four, five, six people who by controlling billions upon billions of close-to tax-free dollars rule us without fear of reprisal (you think the Koch (Cock) Bros. pay the same rate of taxes you pay? Hell no, folks. They take advantage of loopholes, like putting billions of their dollars into tax-free non-profit funds they use for trying to put their right-wing lackeys (most of whom would sell their own mothers down the river for a fistful of Koch dollars) in office). I mean, think of the influence you'd peddle if you were worth 100 billion dollars. And why are we so on our knees kissing these rich assholes' assholes in a rather God-like respect? Because we do worship (as our true God in this country) MONEY!<br />
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I watch a lot of Christian television (and, by the bye, the Supreme(ly dumb) Court (of jesters) has declared that Christian television is the same as a church so they are considered non-profits, which means they don't have to pay taxes) and show after show after show what they consistently are leading up to is peddling their "Jesus" products to the true believers at the end of their shows. After a dumbass idiot Christian doctor on one of my favorite Jesus-snake-oil peddlers's (Sid Roth) shows claims he was an atheist until one night he had a dream where he went to heaven and met Jesus, blah, blah, blah, and at the end of the show, you bet, Sid starts peddling this weirdo doctor's autobiography. In the end, God and Jesus both become moneymakers to the tune of millions of dollars a year for these creepy hucksters who live on estates in mansions, their mansions surrounded by the mansions of their worthless children, all of them driving Mercedes and having a fleet of jet planes with runways on their estates, having fleets of trucks to haul their television equipment around the country where the weak-minded pile into huge auditoriums to listen to the drivel these side-of-the-mouth louses spew forth, while though it's free to get into these "conventions" you are harassed to buy the hucksters' cds, dvds, books, special Bibles, etc., and then the 5-gallon galvanized buckets are passed around amongst these fools with their metal mouths wide-open like hungry baby birds waiting for these poor simpletons to throw in some good solid dollars and all of these God's-business transactions are either tax free or the all-righteous preachers own their own books and DVDs, etc., so that all that money goes directly to them and certainly not to God. I ask myself when I watch these tax-dodging parasites why does their God need money? It's not their God (Jehovah, the Jewish God) who needs the money, it's THEM, they need the money to support their arrogant and gaudy lifestyles.<br />
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When I was a kid and was forced to go to a Protestant church every Sunday morning/Sunday night, Monday night youth meetings, Wednesday night prayer meetings, and Friday night Bible studies, I soon figured out that why I had to sit and endure this boring bullshit was simply so that at the end of his or her preaching babble I was expected to put a little in the pot and I sadly watched my poor parents (true believers) put $20 in the Sunday morning collection plate and then put more money into several missionary scams, etc. God, like the Waltons and the Kochs, is a Capitalist!<br />
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And Capitalism, folks, is what this country is all about. And Capitalism is a system of profits. And the way to more and more profits is through CHEAP LABOR! And Republicans, once the party of good ol' Honest Abe Lincoln, since the Industrial Revolution brought outright Capitalism to this country has been on the side of the wealthy against the liberal governments, against unions, against workers, against savings by the lower classes, and against government "entitlements" (as they falsely call Social Security, which they have hated since ol' aristocrat Franklin D. Roosevelt forced it on them during the Great Depression (caused by Wall Street speculators and marginal stock buying, which still goes on today)).<br />
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As long as our God is MONEY, our religion is Capitalism.<br />
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To show you the impunity rich folks are accorded, a DuPont in Delaware (and the DuPonts own Delaware lock, stock, and barrel (and that includes Vice-President Joe "DuPont Asskisser" Biden)) who had sex with his 3-year-old daughter ("Daddy's a DuPont, sweetie, so let Daddy pull your little panties down and....") did not have to serve any jail time, the judge ruling that prison would have been too hard for a DuPont.<br />
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Also, that scumbag crook, Charles Keating, just died. This is a worthless piece of crap who bilked millions of dollars out of his customers to his American Continental Co. and his Lincoln Savings and Loan and who was caught red-handed by the Glass-Spiegel regulators. In spite of the seriousness of his crime, Little Catholic Charlie (a crusader against pornography...probably because he was a masturbator who loved porno) only got a 4-year sentence, which he was out of in no time, convicted again for further bond crimes but the judge gave him 4-years again but this time said this 4-years was suspended because Catholic Charlie had already served the sentence with his first 4-years. Charlie just died a very rich man in spite of his crimes. Charlie claimed his banks went bankrupt due to the federal regulators. Poor bastard. He still lived to be 90-years-old. The rich get to live forever.<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26130622.post-9226017186294152632014-03-25T00:47:00.001-07:002014-04-01T18:16:02.796-07:00Existing in New York City: Spring Forward While the World Spins Backwards<b>Say Goodbye to: Eddie Lawrence, </b>the Old Philosopher; when he was on, he was one funny dude; he was also an author, playwright, actor, and kiddie show host. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lawrence" title="Eddie Lawrence">Eddie Lawrence</a>, 95, American actor, comedian and singer.<br />
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<b>Say Goodbye to: Al Harewood, </b>from Brooklyn, Al's the drummer on one of the greatest albums ever made, Grant Green's <i>Idle Moments. </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Harewood" title="Al Harewood">Al Harewood</a>, 90, American jazz drummer.<br />
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<b>Looking for Robin's Red Breasts</b><br />
I'm up late on the first day of spring watching the Louisville Cardinals almost get their asses kicked by the Manhattan Jaspers. Now that that hath passed, I'm now peering into my crystal ball (actually it's an old Magic 8-Ball...Q: Will there be a World War 3? A: Without a Doubt) and seeing an ugly and very inky (the Magic 8-Ball is full of ink) future, not for me, but for the world as a whole mess. Those who know me know I worship Chaos as our true God and not the Jewish version that the idiot Christians love so heartily. Chaos is at least scientifically predictable and Chaos would never have only begotten sons miraculously birthed without fucking and spilling his (I assume Chaos is male) seed in some young Jewish damsel in a field between her house and the Roman tavern in which Hemingway claimed Mother Mary worked to make ends meet. I mean, come on, old Joe the Carpenter was 75 years old when his young bride was knocked up by Yaweh and except for an occasional building of a chair or a lean-to shed for some Nazareth ghetto neighbor, how much carpentry was he capable of producing?<br />
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Watching the idiot news, I'm wondering, what right do We the People of the USA have messing in that mess in the Ukraine? Why do we stick our fucking noses in other people's business? And John "Ketchup Sucking" Kerry, what a fucking idiot, and the Veep, Joe "Nose Up the Duponts' Asses" Biden are both in Europe making threats against Russia while back home (though he's on his way to Europe, too), President Obama is threatening "sanctions" against Russia. Idiots! What goes on in Russia and the Ukraine is none of our business unless they're directly attacking our borders. Just like Georgia the nation was none of our business while the Republican racist and anti-human legislations of our backward State of Georgia are our business and that's what we should be dealing with instead of gallivanting all over the world trying to start conflicts.<br />
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Yes, of course I know we are a military state dependent on a military economy, so hell yes we want wars, more wars, and constant rumors of potential wars. We love war. We love killing. We love massacres. We love killing in multiples of millions. We love our weapons. We love our nuclear weapons and oh how badly our sick sociopathic military leaders want to use them.<br />
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War is good even if it's just a Cold War.<br />
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<b>In the Meantime</b><br />
A lawyer in White Plains, New York, I'm hearing this spring morning on <i>Democracy Now </i>has uncovered a manual issued by the extremely gang of unfettered crooks at Wells Fargo Bank (the largest mortgage forecloser in the U.S.) that instructs its equally as crooked lawyers on how to forge documents necessary to pull off foreclosures. Later in this report, it has been revealed that We the People's Justice Department, headed by that little Wall Street-asskissing Eric Holder, lied about how it was investigating over 1 billion dollars worth of foreclosures when in fact these foreclosure crimes were actually relegated to a low priority (an almost nonexistent priority) in their primary investigations. Turns out rather than 1 billion dollars in foreclosure fraud they were investigating, the actual number was 95 million dollars in foreclosure fraud.<br />
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It is utterly amazing to me how these banker crooks (reprobates all of them) continue to exist among us and how We the People of the USA continue to bank with these crooks and continue to apply for mortgages from them. Here in New York City, the Bank of America, one of the biggest and crookedest of our crooked banks, has just built a huge multi-story building in downtown Manhattan and right across from me, in Greeley Plaza, they've just opened a big brightly lit and glassy and aluminum branch bank and I curse the people I see flocking to it to do their banking. Idiots! But then, as I've often said, We the People of the USA are the stupidest people in the world. We are like a huge flock of sheep, as a book (<i>A Nation of Sheep</i>) back in the 1950s called us, though I see us more like the proverbial lemmings who follow their leaders over the brink to certain death.<br />
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<b>Caught Reading Proudhon</b><br />
"Equality comes to us by a succession of tyrannies and governments, in which liberty is continually at grips with absolutism, like Israel and Jehovah. Thus equality is born continuously for us out of inequality; Liberty has government for its point of departure...authority was the first social idea of the human race. And the second was to work immediately for the abolition of authority, each wishing to use it as the instrument of his Liberty against the Liberty of others.<b>"</b><br />
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<b>"</b>The principle of the Revolution, we know it still, is Liberty."<br />
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<b>"</b>No more government of man by man by means of the accumulation of powers; no more exploitation of man by man by means of the accumulation of capital."<br />
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"One must beat on human brains as on an anvil, otherwise they will not listen."<br />
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"To indulge in politics is to wash one's hands in dung."<br />
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"The object of philosophy is to teach man to think for himself, to reason with method, to create sound ideas of things, to formulate the truth exactly, all with the object of ordering his life, of meriting his own respect and that of his fellows, and of ensuring himself peace of mind, bodily well-being and intellectual confidence." <br />
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"We shall never be perfect. Perfection, immobility, would be death."<br />
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<i><b>thegrowlingwolf </b></i><br />
for <b>The Daily Growler</b> The Daily Growlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052460567863294528noreply@blogger.com0