Never tell God you don’t like one of his creations.—Anonymous

So, they call Sarah Palin the “Barracuda”, or at least they play that song by Heart, against Heart’s will, to describe the potential VP. Do you know how big the brain of a Barracuda is? Not very big. Vicious, not smart.

As we near 911/08, California’s unemployment rate has hit 7.3%. Last July the unemployment rate in Cal was 5.4%. Bush’s policies at work. A war economy. The Four Horseman, Conquest, War, Famine, & Death are riding high.

Children are having nightmares about Global Warming. That’s the world they will inherit and they know it. The children watch TV.

They see tsunamis drown families in Indonesia. Classrooms fall and bury students in China. Levees collapse and a major United States city, New Orleans, is staggering on its last legs. First Hurricane Kristina, then Gustave. TV news shows roads filled with refugees. In the U.S.A.

Chaos theory prevails.

Ride your bicycle instead of driving your car. Bring a cup to Dunkin Donuts instead of taking a new styrofoam cup every time. Think about it. How many styrofoam cups does Dunkin Donuts use in a day. Visualize the pile if they were all stacked together. Just one day and it’s tough to conceive the size of it.

Visualize a pitbull with lipstick on. Hey, Palin said it; what do you think it would look like?

I’m going to vote for Barack Obama and hope for the best. If McCain wins we’ll all have to go out into the streets and cut our throats and watch the blood of America run into the sewers.

Barracuda.

“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several a the same time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”—–Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862.

Sarah Palin. BARRACUDA! ! !

Friend and neighbor you have taken away, my one companion is darkness.—— Psalm 88

I understand that the Democratic and Republican conventions are carefully orchestrated for the maximum punch but still –

Call me a sucker, call me naive, call me hopeful — When Barack Obama spoke I cried with happiness; emotions washed over me like ocean water without pollutants — I knew he could (which is different than would) take the U.S.A. to a better place. I was filled with HOPE.

But I remember the Sixties — we weren’t idealists — we were a generation that got Smoked by the people in power because we were too dangerous. What we failed to realize is that the “Old Patriachs” were more dangerous.

They killed John F. Kennedy, they blasted Bobby Kennedy’s brains into pools of blood, they staggered the Civil Rights movement by blowing Dr. Martin Luther King into a pile of dead meat while his powerful soul drifted above us, crying for all we would lose.

The cities burned with rage, both figuratively and literally.

The evidence of how far the enemy would go became clearer when students at Kent State were shot down by our own National Guard.

The Black Panthers were set up and slaughtered, even after they started school lunch programs for the poor. Even in prison they were killed by angry ignorant white guards.

The Chicago Ten trials saw Bobby Seale, a Black man, tied, beaten and gagged in the courtrooms of the U.S.A.

Incidentally, there is a new DVD coming out called “Chicago Ten” which depicts what actually happened during the 60′s.

Barack Obama is a man of the world, a man who can rocket the U.S.A. back into a respected position of the world again and therein lies the danger.

The Reptiles, the CEO’s, the Lizard Kings who control the giant conglomerates that oppress the backs of the people of the world see Barack Obama as a dangerous man because they know that Barack is the man who can take the human species to New Beginnings.

Unfortunately, those “new beginnings” mean that the Lizard Kings will lose their power because the PEOPLE of the U.S.A. will get their power back. Barack Obama is not only a great leader, he is a man who is willing to be led by the people of the U.S.A. Therein lies his greatness.

Barack Obama has charisma and cares about making a better world for all of us. He is willing to put his life on the line to do it.

Believe me, his life is on the line. Somebody, somewhere, in some dark corner of his/her mind is planning to end the hope of humanity. God help us to protect Obama and move him to the leadership position he was created for.

My heart is filled with hope, just as it was in the Sixties. I just pray, this time, this time, we don’t get SMOKED.

The enemy is real.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

It’s been a long time since I’ve made an entry. Life has been quite busy. My wife had major surgery on December 3rd and it was a long difficult recovery. It appears that all is well now.

My daughter reached out and got in touch with me. That was a wonderful miracle. The last time we saw each other was in 1985. She was 6 years old, almost 7. Now she’s a grown woman, 29 years old. She has worked really hard and accomplished a great deal. I’m overwhelmed with joy at her successful endeavors.

My mental illness and drug addiction made me into an absent father. The wonder of it all is that my daughter has forgiven me and is letting me be who I am now; a very different person.

I work very hard at staying abstinent and I also treat my mental illness with the professional help. It is a wonder that I’ve come so far; once a derelict, in and out of hospitals and prisons; now I’m what one might call a “normal” citizen.

I’d tell you more but my wife just came home and I’m going to join her.

I hope you who are reading this have a happy new year and I wish you good health. Love is the most important element of life.

Peace to all of you, even those of you who don’t like what I’ve written before. I am who I am and I’m changing all the time, for the better, I hope.

The republican war room strikes; Mitt Romney, the sleek, slippery, beady-eyed pit bull makes a quote similiar to the Orwell quote in my last post, but he attributes it to himself. Theft is nothing new for this man; he has spent his entire life thinking of ways to take jobs from the working man so he could make more money.

John McCain, the Gargoyle, has designated Romney to slay the opponent with his slippery tongue. McCain lurches from stage to stage, forgetting where he came from. No Straight-Talk Express anymore; McCain wants the prize; he wants to clutch it in his webbed fingers, hold it high while he rapes what is left of the U.S.A.

I have to go now. I think the republican SWAT team is closing in.

Mitt Romney has fangs.

After a 13 year suspension, officials in South Africa approved an annual culling, that’s killing, of elephants in their some of their national parks. In the Virunga, a forested region by the eastern Congo’s borders with Rwanda and Uganda, only 350 elephants remain, but they say that’s too many.

In the meantime, in Virunga National Park, 14 elephants have been poached even before the annual “culling” went into effect, and that’s just since mid-April.

If there were only 350 humans left in Massachusetts, for example, you would say we were an endangered species.

Elephants are extremely intelligent beings. They even have dying places and they return to those places periodically to mourn those they have lost from their family.

When they do a “culling”, they usually shoot down the head elephant, the Matriarch, because the other elephants will run to protect her and then it will be an easy slaughter with the elephants all close together.

Species after species are disappearing at an alarming rate because of humanity’s ways. What the hell is wrong with us? In recorded history there have been five major species die-offs, one of them due to a giant meteor hitting the Earth and dramatically changing climates all over the world.

Some scientists say we are in the sixth major die-off. This time it is because of humanity, or the lack of it within us.

In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.—— George Orwell

The run for president has begun. This is the first year that the opposing party — the republicans — has actually put out a show of disinformation, slander, and other forms of verbal attack — while the Democratic Convention is going on.

The Democrats(and when they do I will not capitalize them either) say they will do the same. Our country is going to hell. It is falling, faster than Rome or Greece. Forget the rules. Rule number 1) There are no rules. Rule number 2) See Rule number 1.

This is the final 911 that George W. Bush will be president. I still can’t capitalize the title of the office while he remains president. I hope he’s snorting cocaine and eating pretzels today. We’ve come a long way baby.

George used 911 as an excuse to invade Iraq. This is now costing the U.S.A. over 11 billion dollars a month. The Iraqi war needs to be cut off at the knees and all our men and women brought home immediately. No excuses. It’s a disaster if we stay, and because we went, it will be a disaster if we come home. That’s the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Even if all our soldiers are brought home immediately, the medical costs from brain trauma alone, not counting all the other injuries, will continue. There’s nothing we can do about that except make sure we pay for them. We can just cut our losses, that’s all.

It’s seven years later since the planes hit the Twin Towers; since people were leaping from the buildings holding hands, screaming; since the buildings fell, killing firemen, police, and other innocents who just happened to work there.

Seven years later and the policies of George W. and Dick Cheney have isolated the U.S.A. from the rest of the world. We’re lucky that many people from other countries know that the majority of us don’t agree with their idiotic policies that have gutted our budget.

Seven years later. If I had a credit card and I spent money like our government is spending money, the company that gave me the card would take it away, toot-sweet, and they would have every reason to do so.

Bill Clinton may have cheated on his wife but at least he balanced the budget. We would be better off if George W. cheated on his wife and balanced the budget but, as far as we know, he was faithful to his wife and demolished the budget. He gave money to giant corporations; started two wars; he threw the American people some crumbs to keep them from complaining too much, but most of the money was ill-spent.

Seven years later. Now the United States owes over 9.5 trillion dollars and that black hole of debt is growing exponentially. I hate to say it but both of our candidates are proposing giveaways that the U.S.A. cannot afford.

John McCain is proposing $100 billion in tax cuts for giant corporations and has threatened to continue the war “for 100 years” if he has to do so. Come on John, who is going to pay for this out of what we no longer have? The United States is teetering on the verge of a financial tragedy so severe that our country is about to implode and no one seems to be paying attention.

Even Barack Obama, who I’m going to vote for, is proposing $80 billion in tax cuts for working families, and I’m all for that but, unfortunately George W. and his cronies have spent all the money and now they’re borrowing from God knows who to keep things going, so where is the money going to come from? Maybe that’s why the republican war room is attacking; so they can screw us all untill the end.

I’m all for the $65 billiion healthcare expansion that Obama is proposing; God knows we need it; I just don’t know where the money is going to come from unless — dare I say it — we shut the whore of a war machine off forever. What must it take for this human species to understand that we cannot continue to make war, with the energy it takes to do so and the destruction it leaves in its wake for both the defeated and the “winner”, and survive on this planet Earth.

Seven years later. Gasoline is at 4 dollars a gallon and heating oil is more than that. We are heading towards winter and many people in the U.S.A. are not going to be able to eat and heat simultaneously. It is a fact that some elderly people, because of their poor circulation, can can down with hypothermia at temperatures of 62 degrees.

Seven years later. Think of all the elderly people, the people who are financially stressed because of low pay and fixed incomes who are going to need monetary assistance just to heat their homes this winter. It was bad last winter, but since then oil has gone up over 1 and one-half dollars.

Where is the money going to come from? In the short history of George W. Bush’s life, he has run many businesses into the ground. This time it is our country running on empty. To be precise, I must say we are running below empty and the interest rates on the money we owe, as a debtor nation, are piling up at an astronomic rate.

We are calling 911. No matter who wins the presidency this year, they will look bad because they will be inheriting a crashed computer, a bankrupt company called the U.S.A. If John McCain wins, our country will spiral deeper into debt and homelessness will increase. The poor will become poorer and the middle-class will become poor. It will be like a Black Hole in space and our society will spill into it, riding the horses of Death, Destruction, Disease and Desperation.

When a society collapses, it isn’t pretty. The people who come to power when a community shatters aren’t the nice guys. Who remembers the gas lines of the 70′s? What do you think will happen when the shelves at the local supermarket are empty? Are you ready for that?

No one wants that to happen but the rope upon which our civilization hangs has become worn and tattered and, one by one, the threads that it is made of are snapping.

Oil. It is needed to make plastic, it is in our agri-conglomerates’ fertilizer and runs their machines, it brings our food to the stores where we go in our cars that use oil in the form of gasoline to get there to buy the food that is wrapped in materials made with and from oil.

During World War I and II the people of the world rationed what they used and made sacrifices so our civilization could survive. It is just 7 years after the Twin Towers fell and we have been on an oil orgy, spending our fossil fuels as if they were unlimited and spilling the waste products of our consumption into the air, into the water, into all the other species that live on our planet(the one’s we haven’t killed yet), and into ourselves.

Death is staring at us as we look into the mirror but we cannot recognize it. It is like the man or woman who one day looks into the mirror and sees grey hair, wrinkled skin, old eyes staring back at them and they are struck by the fact that they are near the end of their lives. How did it happen so fast? Just yesterday everyone was playing in their lives as if no one had to pay for their consumption.

It is seven years since the towers fell, since people leapt screaming into eternity from the heights of power, and it is time to pay the bill. Burn-out has been coming for quite some time. George W. is truly the Caesar who fiddled while the U.S.A. burned but no one cared to stop him. We took our $300 check a few years ago and just this year we took our $600 check and said “thank you very much” but did we think that this was some cheap payoff for selling our souls?

Seven years later. This is it. It is time for U.S. to call 911. Unfortunately, it looks as if no one will be there to answer the call. We might just have to pick up the phone ourselves and hope that we have done it in time. Like the heroin addict on the street, we have to ask ourselves, “Who did this to U.S.?”

The bodies float. Plain folks are bathing in the river next to the bodies that have turned white. The bodies are stuck in mangrove trees in the river. Women are scrubbing clothes near the bodies.

How many dead? Myanmar is in shock. Because of the after effects of the storm, some say over 100,000 will die.

The government blocks relief efforts in their own way.

And in Seneca, Missouri, people search for the dead after the tornadoes.

Massive shocks in weather-patterns in different parts of the world. The Earth is stressed by the human species and when it burps, the crises occur.

In the meantime, the United States has, with deadly precision, shot a satellite out of the sky with a missile. Can you hear your cell phone crackle with static.

Be afraid. Maybe just be resigned. When Rome fell, it was one pocket of civilization in a giant world.

When this civilization falls, all the links will be exposed. We are all linked together but it seems as if we just don’t get it yet.

For those of you who do, I apologize. I just saw a Bruce Willis movie last night. That’s my explanation.

Unfortunately for us, the human species and all the others that occupy our battered planet, the dots are bigger than we think, and as fast as they connect, we disconnect them. So much is happening that I don’t know what to talk about first.

First. We’ve got this Presidential primary going on where the two top Democratic contenders are in the 11th round of a 12 round boxing match and they are both battered and have been on the canvas a number of times. Yes, I favor Obama but so what? I’m watching Hillary and Obama in a fight where, at the end, there may be no man (or woman) standing.

I trust John McCain. I believe John McCain. By listening to him I realize that if he wins the Presidency, and that’s all too possible now, the war (wars) will continue, fuel prices will continue to rise, which means food prices will continue to rise and the death toll will rise, ever higher, ever higher.

What’s happening here? Is every politician so desirous of winning that they don’t care that the human species is on a humungous playground slide where, at the bottom, waits death and destruction on a scale which we have never known before. No one tells the truth because they all want to win.

Actually, I don’t know what Hillary believes, and I’m not really sure what Barack Obama believes, but I know that Deval Patrick fooled me and dammit, like the Who, a rock’n’roll band from that 60′s (that incidentally fooled me) said, “We don’t want to be fooled again.”

All right, maybe I’m being too hard on Deval Patrick. Maybe he’s just making mistake after mistake after mistake but his heart is pure. But I just don’t know anymore. That Cadillac he bought sure buried me under a ton of carbon footprint and now, that book deal Deval’s cooking up has blown me right into the Dead Zone that’s building up in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing can live there.

And that’s not the only Dead Zone in our oceans; there’s a few of them.

I try to do the right thing. I ride my bicycle instead of using my car as much as I can. Okay, okay, some of you may have caught me on my motorcycle but that gets 60 miles to the gallon because it’s only a 250cc. I’m not going to name it because I’ll be damned if I’m going to advertise for any giant corporation if I can help it.

Those giant corporations are killing us while they tell us they’re all going green. The only thing going green right now is the Hulk — no, wait a minute, the Hulk is RED now; he’s bleeding just like life on this planet Earth.

How many species will become extinct this year? Did you ever wonder, while drinking a cup of coffee in a strofoam cup, how many other people are drinking a cup of coffee in a styrofoam cup that day, and how many are going to do it again in a brand new styrofoam cup tomorrow. And how big is that pile of styrofoam cups even if they’re crushing them, whoever THEY are?

I’m guilty as charged. Part of the problem. I’m trying not to be but – – – okay, where are the dots?

One dot is ethanol, what they’re putting in your gas/our gas to stretch it. Did they tell you that ethanol comes from corn and corn is grown by giant conglomerates that use fuel to grow the corn and not only is that raising food prices all around the world but ethanol leaves a futher-mucker of a carbon foot print too.

So they use fuel to make fuel but who’s paying attention anyway. Also, almost everyone in the United States, (I’ll pick on us) has a toilet bowl which gets flushed more than once a day. That’s a lot of water for a world that’s struggling with water demand in many countries.

The one thing we have to keep in mind is all those countries are on the planet Earth so they are all connected. Dot. Dot. Dot.

There is only one source of fossil fuel. It is the planet Earth. We, as a species, are using more fossil fuel than ever before and, some scientists say, we have passed the halfway point of the fuel that is left and accessible on Earth, yet our demand for it is still growing. Dot. Dot. Dot.

Our food supply, controlled by giant conglomerates for the most part, is fertilized by fossil fuel, travels to us by fossil fuel, and is even preserved in our refrigerators powered by fossil fuel. Dot. Dot. Dot.

Everything that burns fossil fuel has an exhaust pipe somewhere and those exhaust pipes are pumping carbon wastes into our planet’s atmosphere at an astounding rate. Because of this, the Arctic ice is melting, the weather patterns are changing, and if you look over the large population centers of the world you will see a cloud of particulate matter that is tainting the very air we breathe. Dot. Dot. Dot.

Then there is WAR! Right now, as I sit at this old MacIIci computer, there are wars being waged in more areas of this planet Earth than I can name. I have an old milage ration paper with coupons from World War II and on top of it, the words read “Gasoline Powers The Attack!” The only thing that has changed since then is the use of fuel for war has grown exponentially. Iraq. Afghanistan. Israel. Palestine. Russia. The United States. Dot. Dot. Dot.

I’ll go back to the election now, just for a minute. I only have one question. Where is Al Gore right now, now that we really need him? He’s not a candidate. My friends, that is indeed “An Inconvenient Truth.” Dot. Dot. Dot.

I also want to add one more truth that much of the world is aware of but, here in the United States, I wonder if we really understand this. Food does not grow on shelves. Connect the dots.