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Friday, February 6, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
V-B Day
Our grandparents had V-E Day and V-J day. We'll never have V-I day or V-A day. NEVER!
But we do have a V-B day. Victory over Bush. We survived his rule. HE said his main concern was over protecting Americans (from Muslims with box cutters) but more kids died from handgun wounds in Los Angeles than at the Pentagon on 9-11. So his excuses don't fly with me. If terrorists had destroyed New Orleans then are we to assume he would have actually rebuilt the levees? He's a liar and a thief and while some people did not survive his presidency, we can declare V-B Day here and gone.
Listening to the inauguration I heard someone say that America is the best this and that and look, a black guy became president near a coffee shop where he couldn't eat in 1960. "It's never happened anywhere else." they said.
I thought, never? Like a Jew has never visited the pyramids? Or Berlin? Mandela didn't become president of South Africa? Then I thought, yeah, those things have happened, and they were big deals...when the first Jew visited the pyramids and wasn't there to push rock. That was big deal. And remember when Mandela became president of South Africa? That was a huge deal. And think about how long it took for Mandela to go from possible slave to president. The Dutch were stealing people in the 13th century. Who knows how long after the pyramids were built was a Jewish person allowed to visit them. I mean, a thousand years? Two thousand years? But America is brand new comparatively. Right? And slavery was just abolished in 1865. Like 150 years ago, not even 100 years after the Revolution. Two generations ago. So the swing in public opinion has been substantially the same as Egypt enslaving Jews to build pyramids and then taking their tourist dollars to visit those same pyramids, or Mandela becoming an leader of South Africa after the Dutch basically treated blacks like exportable cattle for 600 years...but the difference is that it only took The united states (It was a colony before 1776) 230 years to reach some kind of political, ideological, philosophic equality...even if the practical situation isn't much different than 1692. Now a black person can gain access to the elite, ruling class. And it didn't take as long as Egypt. And really, those pyramids still keep the tombs of the slave masters. If the analogy was accurate, a Jewish person would be buried in one of those pyramids. Or maybe a bunch of Egyptians would build a new pyramid for a Jewish person. That would be equality...because Obama isn't just visiting the White House. No. He's living there and he's calling the shots and white people have to obey or they get the whip. Now that's some crazy swing...and maybe they're right...it hasn't happened anywhere else.
But we do have a V-B day. Victory over Bush. We survived his rule. HE said his main concern was over protecting Americans (from Muslims with box cutters) but more kids died from handgun wounds in Los Angeles than at the Pentagon on 9-11. So his excuses don't fly with me. If terrorists had destroyed New Orleans then are we to assume he would have actually rebuilt the levees? He's a liar and a thief and while some people did not survive his presidency, we can declare V-B Day here and gone.
Listening to the inauguration I heard someone say that America is the best this and that and look, a black guy became president near a coffee shop where he couldn't eat in 1960. "It's never happened anywhere else." they said.
I thought, never? Like a Jew has never visited the pyramids? Or Berlin? Mandela didn't become president of South Africa? Then I thought, yeah, those things have happened, and they were big deals...when the first Jew visited the pyramids and wasn't there to push rock. That was big deal. And remember when Mandela became president of South Africa? That was a huge deal. And think about how long it took for Mandela to go from possible slave to president. The Dutch were stealing people in the 13th century. Who knows how long after the pyramids were built was a Jewish person allowed to visit them. I mean, a thousand years? Two thousand years? But America is brand new comparatively. Right? And slavery was just abolished in 1865. Like 150 years ago, not even 100 years after the Revolution. Two generations ago. So the swing in public opinion has been substantially the same as Egypt enslaving Jews to build pyramids and then taking their tourist dollars to visit those same pyramids, or Mandela becoming an leader of South Africa after the Dutch basically treated blacks like exportable cattle for 600 years...but the difference is that it only took The united states (It was a colony before 1776) 230 years to reach some kind of political, ideological, philosophic equality...even if the practical situation isn't much different than 1692. Now a black person can gain access to the elite, ruling class. And it didn't take as long as Egypt. And really, those pyramids still keep the tombs of the slave masters. If the analogy was accurate, a Jewish person would be buried in one of those pyramids. Or maybe a bunch of Egyptians would build a new pyramid for a Jewish person. That would be equality...because Obama isn't just visiting the White House. No. He's living there and he's calling the shots and white people have to obey or they get the whip. Now that's some crazy swing...and maybe they're right...it hasn't happened anywhere else.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
laptop
this old IBM laptop computer has finally played its last porn clip. So the man in the van will soon be signing off this blog. I wanted to unplug this year anyway. No more wires and digital communication and batteries. It's gotten completely crazy. So if I find another laptop then I'll post some more but I won't be looking. What more could I say anyway? Oh look at the ocean. look at the Mexican people. boring.
I don't foresee myself riding a moped to an internet cafe so I can post about riding a moped to an internet cafe. that makes no sense. there is no internet connectivity on remote beaches in Baja. and no power.
better to just live day to day and no more virtual history that only gets mocked to begin with.
and no one should be wasting their time looking at these rants either. I mean really. You have to be ashamed of yourself to watch these inane rants. Or you have to be like Eddie and have a job that pays you to be unproductive...in which case you should still be ashamed of yourself. look at the state of America. we're a third world nation...we're slaves to so many different Ponzi schemes, the biggest one is called social security...but who cares as long as the fake pay checks still cash out? California is flat broke but proudly still feeds prisoners with food that even the richest governor can't actually afford...because his money doesn't exist. Instead of wasting your time looking at the internet go read Atlas Shrugged. What is money really worth? What does it actually represent? Go find out something useful that will do your kids some good in 2050. Go learn a skill like farming. Don't believe anyone with a rolex on. Believe a man with dirt under his nails. Or learn to believe in yourself. Be self reliant.
I don't foresee myself riding a moped to an internet cafe so I can post about riding a moped to an internet cafe. that makes no sense. there is no internet connectivity on remote beaches in Baja. and no power.
better to just live day to day and no more virtual history that only gets mocked to begin with.
and no one should be wasting their time looking at these rants either. I mean really. You have to be ashamed of yourself to watch these inane rants. Or you have to be like Eddie and have a job that pays you to be unproductive...in which case you should still be ashamed of yourself. look at the state of America. we're a third world nation...we're slaves to so many different Ponzi schemes, the biggest one is called social security...but who cares as long as the fake pay checks still cash out? California is flat broke but proudly still feeds prisoners with food that even the richest governor can't actually afford...because his money doesn't exist. Instead of wasting your time looking at the internet go read Atlas Shrugged. What is money really worth? What does it actually represent? Go find out something useful that will do your kids some good in 2050. Go learn a skill like farming. Don't believe anyone with a rolex on. Believe a man with dirt under his nails. Or learn to believe in yourself. Be self reliant.
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