Mortality

I'm fine just couldnt poop. Early morning thoughts from a hospital bed in a rare moment of relative quiet. Only the machines designed to keep people alive can be heard whirring and blipping, beeping away the seconds as they pass. It all starts with Imagination and creativity. Out of the darkness came a voice, "Let there be light". (We will skip the whole creation part and go directly to the practical portion of or program)...
Authenticity is the goal, being real is the key. Discovering your true self and being faithful to it. Recognizing that everything evolves and must change, grow, decline and die. We are multifaceted, constantly evolving and shouldn't resist. We are given limited opportunities to have this portion of our experience.
Knowing ourselves is probably the best we can do. Sharing ourselves is the best we can offer. Being ourself is the objective. Not what others want or expect of us, but what is consistent with what we know about who we are, remembering we are in a constant state of flux and may want to do some remodeling every once in a while. In fact for me it has been a consistent necessity.

Life is good. Death isn't so bad. It reminds you; you only have a limited time! Be real.

E-mail back to yet another plea for me to do their job.. And send money to stop the madness.

Dear Jon:
Exactly how is it that a clearly out numbered faction of American society can hold the Government hostage. Where's LBJ when you need him?  OK, your incompetent.  I get that.  So why am I going to send you money again?  My voice obviously means nothing to you or them. What you are really after is my money.  Well guess what?  I'm done with supporting a party that cannot deliver.  You do not need to feed the media consultants and grease the wheel of the PR machine to get this done.  We are paying attention!  You are flailing like a child who can't swim whose fallen in a moving stream. If politicians would stop holding their hands to their face and rolling their eyes like the apocalypse is around the corner unless I chip in $100 bucks and do what you were elected to do, none of this would be necessary.  Instead of feeding the oligarchs and the sucker fish that have attached themselves to the body politic, get off your asses and take them on. Ohh no that would upset too many apple carts, would it?  So what?  The whole system is corrupt to its core.  you see it happening all around you yet you cannot see it in your own back yard.  We are tired of incompetence and excuses as to why some elements of our society do very well even when they rob everyone else and bring the economy to its knees; politicians especially must like it there... on their knees.  Oh how much did you say you needed to fix this mess you just created by sucking the wealth out of everything around you? $3 trillion? No problem here you are sir and please let us know if we need to take more away from the middle class so that you keep us afloat.
Sent from my mind...

On Sep 21, 2013, at 1:24 PM, "Jon Carson, BarackObama.com" wrote:



Rudolfo --

You need to know what Speaker Boehner is trying to get away with.

He knows how dangerous a government shutdown is -- and yet, right now, that's where he's trying to take us.

You can't sit back and let this happen without getting involved -- add your name right now, and tell John Boehner we've had more than enough of these political games:

http://my.barackobama.com/Tell-John-Boehner-Enough-Already

Thanks,

Jon

If I suddenly disappear just do a FOI request with the NSA asking them what ever happened to the Viejo

We are the biggest, baddest, most powerful, richest, best at knowing what's good for you country in the world. We have this enormous military machine that has become necessary to keep in constant motion or it will begin to choke on itself as the material and equipment going in must be relieved by what is expended in destructive ways going out. I mean what are enormous stockpiles of weapons and ammunition and vehicles to transport them and all the rest of it going to do if we don't use them to keep the pipeline open. Those industries cannot close their doors because we no longer are using their products. Imagine what that would do to the economy. It may be the only domestic manufacturing still going on.

Wait! Please don't tell me we are buying all our military stuff from China... Wait again. We could totally ruin their economy by not buying anymore weapons and military stuff. Oh, oh then they would find a reason to threaten us so that we would have to defend ourselves. What would we do? Bomb their military industries and deprive both sides of the weapons and material they need to continue? That would be weird. Anyway we diverge from the point.

 We've got an enormous perpetual motion machine to feed. We need to bomb stuff, send aircraft carriers and cruise missile destroyers to new places and use them. We've spent trillions of dollars equipping the most powerful military force ever known to man (who can't seemingly fight it's way out of any ground wars anymore, but that's another subject). And we are being promised that we are going to wind down the one in Afghanistan. It's not that good of a war anyway. No big targets to bomb. Just sheep and mujaheddin living in the mountains. They don't even have a real army, with tanks and jets and missiles. Syria does though. So we could bomb the shit out of that country. Blow up all kinds of Chinese manufactured military equipment with some of our own. Everyone's over supply of military stuff would be lessened and there would of course now be more incentive to resupply.

It's a win, win except for those people who get killed. But hey. Who really wants to live in Syria anyway. I mean 2 million have already left. So yeah, let's bomb the shit out of em. No boots on the ground though. We'll just let them sort through the rubble and figure out which faction has more weapons left to stay in power. Oh wait! I'm not thinking this through. Then we go in with those big ginormous military transports that we have just sitting around, filled with a bunch of new weapons, that we then give to the factions we think we can manipulate.

Perfect! Now we've got a whole new ally in the Middle East whom we can count on to support Israel. Hey this strategy could work everywhere! Humanitarian military strikes throughout the Middle East, well anywhere really, wherever there are unfriendly regimes that just don't get the American Way of treating people. Blow them up, put in puppet regimes, treat them like they deserve to be treated until they come around to appreciating all we have done for them and protect Israel (now the second most powerful nation in the world, because the first does whatever they want). And of course root the "American Way" firmly in the minds of the rest of the world as the best possible way...or else.

USA, USA, USA

Geopolitical disciplinarian extraordinaire. I guess we are the Big Boy in the world playground. Hey Syria! You listening? Don't be killing your own people with Gas. You must blow them up, or at least apart with machine gun fire. Much more civilized, haven't you seen Snowden's videos? OK, now you've forced our hand. We are going to kick your ass, but remotely. Nothing personal, keep on killing each other, just do it according to the established rules. We'll show you how by blowing up some of your stuff and lots of people, using the latest explosive and delivery technology. Absolutely no Gas needed. We'll even refrain from using Napalm or herbicides like we did, very indiscriminately in the past. We are simply going to blow up people and stuff as a way of encouraging you to do the same. So get on board. Putin and China will be very happy to sell you all the bombs and missiles and tanks and rocket launchers you need. So take that Assad, you'll be sorry you started using that Gas. Don't do it again!

Having a dream

Wait a minute! I know I have memory problems, but it looks like the whole country does too. We just "celebrated" 50 years since the March on Washington and not once was there any mention of Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Angela Davis? No mention of angry black voices? Are they whitewashing the civil rights movement? Ohhh, Kennedy was so pleased that nothing happened, he invited the Rev. MLK and friends for a photo op. Why do you think that is? Because people like Malcolm and Eldridge, etc had them scared shitless. Let's tell the real story of the civil rights movement America. It wasn't all that peaceful, a lot of strange fruit hanging from Southern trees and angry black men carrying guns, and cops with dogs and fire hoses and national guard troops shooting at people on hill tops. Oooh, that's all behind us now. We can all hold hands and sing cumbaya now, while Sheriff Joe and Mayor Bloomberg continue the traditions of killing the dream.

Red Lines or Red Vines

Hey, never mind the almost 2 million people who have been displaced and are now refugees, dependent on the good will of their foreign neighbors, or the 100,000 plus killed by gunfire, air attacks, conventional missiles, bombs, and assorted explosive devices that have not discriminated in dismembering and slaughtering untold numbers of women and children, on top of the total destruction of homes, businesses and means of self support. Somebody used a chemical weapon and now by golly we are going to do something about it. How about killing some more people with cruise missiles that only kill the bad guys and destroy their mechanisms of war? That will make Assad feel bad for sure. And it will mean our arsenal of expensive, smart, no kill of innocent people weapons, will be depleted and we'll have to crank up the war machine to make some more, only these will be even better at not killing women and children at a slightly increased cost. (I hear they have developed a new gas that only kills people with beards). Does anyone know what a cruise missile goes for these days? Might as well throw in another nuclear powered Carrier or Destroyer, (don't you just love it - build a Destroyer for peace) can't ever have too many. Who knows what horrible thing some country might do to its own people that we will have to go straighten out in the name of humanitarian decency, by killing lots more people and blowing things up. Then of course Halliburton will have to go in and rebuild everything at a huge profit and Congress will take the money out of Social Security to pay for it. "War is Peace"

State of Affairs

Gee, what a surprise!  One group hates another and is willing to abuse, discriminate and if necessary massacre them to ensure their own self interests. Interesting angle is that this is usually driven by a perceived economic disadvantage/advantage couched in religious  or racial/ethnic terms.  It's not only OK to have a Crusade/Jihad; it's seen as  doing God's will.  Mix in racial/ethnic identity and all stops are open.  It's not only seen as acceptable to violate the Constitution and target a whole race and generation in New York, or Florida, or anywhere really; it's essential to do so; and for those with short memories, been going on everywhere from the very beginning.  "It's in their own best interests", whites proclaim.  "Look how many lives it saves and crime is down".  Am I hearing echoes of the justifications for slavery?  Before being enslaved, they were naked savages you know.  In fact: elimination of indigenous peoples was a fundamental principle of the conquest of the "New World".  "New"  to the European invaders.  Too bad the "old" inhabitants didn't have gun powder and canons, horses and chicken pox.  Oh, well, that's progress.

Interesting though how the world is rapidly deteriorating into waring camps.  It's nothing new.  It has been going on forever, but there does seem to be an acceleration taking place around the globe.  People are much more willing to blow each other up in the name of their own particular tribe.  Everybody now has access to the tools of mass destruction and they seem more than willing, if not anxious to use them.  Vehicles of all sorts being used as bombs targeting the general public is rampant.  We already are hearing reports of the use of chemical/biological weapons, how long will it be before the unthinkable becomes doable?  After all the people in Egypt are at war with their own military.  The military doesn't seem to have any compunctions against slaughtering crowds with machine-gun fire or "suffocating" prisoners with tear gas while incarcerated.  Insurgents, seem to have a penchant for blowing up churches, occupied or not and I'd be careful about gathering too many police or soldiers together without securing the perimeter in the future.

So what am I driving at?  Simply that this is nothing new, but something that seems to be gaining momentum everywhere.  I'm not sure what is driving it, but as I said at the beginning: economic self interests always seems to be playing a significant role.  Unless governments learn how to spread the wealth, it seems to me we are headed  in the direction of greater polarization and that seems to lead to either violent turmoil or heavy handed oppression.  We can see an extended period of both that only seems to lead to more of the same.  Maybe, Mayor Bloomberg and other apologists for fascism, the reason crime went down in the neighborhoods is because there were more jobs available to young people who were otherwise left hanging out on the streets?