Who Killed Keith Olbermann? RIP~~~Countdown~~~January 21st 2011

The Smart Boys in Vegas ought to make this guy the odds on favorite~~~he's The King of Comcast~~~and being the son of the founder there has to be some dark & twisted Shakespearean plot going on here. Comcast wanted to rape Disney so bad a few years ago she had to scream as loud as she could and kick Comcast in the crouch~~~NO! And btw Comcast gave all my personal info to W and made me feel like I was a character in Brave New World. A little sleazy don't you think? And these days they pinned NBC Universal to the floor~~~and who would a thunk it? The Corporate Axe fell so very swiftly~~~chopping keith's head off in a new york minute! Well I got to admit that Keith Obermann & Johnny Miller have a similar effect on people~~~you either love 'em or hate their guts~~~so someone of them new owners musta hated keith with a vengence dont-ya-know? Conservatives love control. It gives them a hard on. Hell Cheny shot a lawyer on vacation when he was VP. Power is a drug don't you know? Well Mr. Whatshisname up there~~~Chairman of The Board of Comcast~~~Lord King of Cable~~~is by my humble estimation one strung out junkie dude and he got his olbermann fix today. So if you want to know what's going on in the world these days~~~the corporate media's Tree of Knowledge just lost one hell of a big branch today~~~and you will know a little less about the world you live in for this loss.. You know~~~it's the power junkies greatest love to bottle something up. Totally control it~~~and they're always surprised at the consequences. No imagination. I wonder if I'm wrong about Mr. Whatshisname up there. Take a real good look at him. What odds do you give him?

Today's American Values and Our Common Welfare Together

The Gipper painted a picture of~~~It's Morning In America~~~all over the American Psyche~~~when he began his presidency~~~way back when. But is the sun coming up~~~or~~~is it going down? Or may be it's just fixed up there in the sky? Morning In America is just an image you know. Nothing real. A way of spinning things that the glass is half full~~~and there is the hope~~~of new beginnings. JFK and Obama used the same tool. Nothing new here. Images don't change a thing. The sun is fixed in the sky. American Political Imagery? Empty words meant to control us. Our authority figures excel in expelling hot air~~~that creates the shifting mirages that arise above~~~the spiritually arid floor~~~of The Great American Spiritual Desert.
Perception changes everything. Seeing things as they actually are~~~or~~~as a web of illusion. If you look at America as a family~~~and all societies are extended families~~~how would you appraise her character? What if you were an American Indian living in the 1700's? Or an American Muslim these days? Or pick your own example. Families take care of their own~~~the sick ones, the old ones, the young ones, the crazy ones~~~those that need the help of others to get through this life. Dysfunctional families breed violence~~~and leave those that can't carry their own weight by the side of the road. Two ongoing wars, inner city gangster gun play, over ten thousand shooting deaths a year, and two million locked up in our prisons~~~and why is it that America is so violent? To others? And to it's self?
Life is impermanent. There is no security. All human beings have more in common~~~than differences. Our deepest experiences in this life are the common things that we all experience. Birth. Consciousness. Love. Sorrow. Suffering. Death. What we share in common are the deepest experiences~~~of all~~~our lives. So why do we leave our brother by the side of the road~~~when one day we will be in the same place?
Our Republic here in America is a beautiful thing for it sees the nature of power and divides it up~~~and democracy recognizes that we all are equal for no matter who you are~~~or think you are~~~it's one person~~~one vote. But Our American Empire? The last thing Eisenhower warned us about? The Military-Congressional-Industrial Complex? When I was young we dropped our napalm on Vietnam and now when I'm old we dropped our smart bombs on Iraq~~~and send out our drones remotely piloted over foreign lands by guys in Las Vegas. Our American Empire? What kind of family acts like this? The immortal hillbilly wars of The Hatfield's and The McCoys were probably a little more civil. Our American Empire~~~like all such power trips throughout history~~~is pure insanity. We're broke~~~and we still pay for all this military crap.
Our society is so far from any vestige of~~~Complete Acceptance and Unconditional Love of Life~~~that to be thrown into the American Marketplace~~~be it dealing in the commodities of manufactured things, personal services, esoteric thought, spirituality, or money itself~~~no matter what you accumulate or how much of it you gather~~~or~~~what you think you then become~~~it's death that lies at the end of everything. Impermanence is the way things are here on Earth. Security? We destroy That Which Is~~~the ecological balance of our planet~~~and our fellow man~~~for something that does not exist. This Life of Illusions can be a very twisted thing.
What kind of family are we Americans? What are our intrinsic values? Will our reverence for individual competition and our greedy accumulations destroy us? You know you have to give up part of your life to help another in need. So~~~having destroyed The Native American Indian Cultures and planted our flag on their shores~~~do you think our family ways can change? We Americans have immigrated here from all over this planet. We are from everywhere on the globe. Can't we identify with it all? Or are we prisoners of a false identity~~~Us Against Them? Or just Individual Egos living in a Pop Porn Cult of Personality~~~and a Culture of Fear?
The Gipper called tomato sauce a vegetable while little kids in America's Ghettos cried for they had nothing to eat. W turned the Military Industrial Complex lose on Iraq for no reason at all and killed kids standing in their front yard. The Republican Party cares not if the same kid gets health care~~~and tried to scare us with the 'pulling the plug on grandma' fiction. The American Corporate Oligarchy just gorged itself on The American Middle Class~~~laying waste to it's investments and shedding the jobs it hasn't sent overseas yet~~~leaving many families by the side of the road. No jobs. Corporate America was just getting rid of the dead wood on their balance sheets~~~improving their bottom line~~~after the latest economic fiasco. Just doing what they do~~~loving money more than people. What a family we are! It's a Culture of Fear created to control us~~~but don't be afraid~~~we're all going to die anyway. That's a fact. And what is it that saves a family? Even one so dysfunctional as ours? While we are alive? It is~~~That~~~Which Is Unconditional~~~and you won't find it in any marketplace.
Look at your own family. What is it that holds you together?

If You Were An American Indian What Would Your Name Be?

HALF RIGHT, founder and sole member of The Nobody Tribal Nation, out standing in his field

"Yeah, go ask Half Right and we'll figure out which half he got right." I can hear it now, and as this is a 'mea culpa' of sorts, it is funny how we 'miss the mark' on some very basic stuff~~~or~~~as Dylan put it (from Blood On The Tracks): "Images, Big Ideas, and Distorted Facts." Hell~~~all thought is limited~~~just some thoughts are more limited than others~~~or~~~as my friend Charley used to say to me all the time: "Thinkin' thinkin' the same Stupid Thoughts." When I was young I thought that technology had the inside track on Truth~~~the early days of TV and all that imagery and attributed meaning~~~probably the way kids now days view Facebook and Twitter and all the rest of it~~~but? The description is not the described. The word is not the thing. Imagery is like sunlight flashing off the watertop~~~a very shallow affair. Thought is just an abstraction. Oh I learned how we live here in The Great American Spiritual desert~~~how we judge one another~~~think ourselves different~~~how we see ourselves as better than the rest~~~but there are more similarities than differences among All of Us~~~All Human Beings~~~past, and present. This world that we live in is A World of Illusion~~~Maya~~~and it's impermanent too. My culture schooled me in illusion. And what is The Truth? About This Life? Life is All In This Moment~~~eternity ever flowing in The Now~~~and it's up to each of us to Live In The Here and Now. That is where All Life Is~~~the past and future are just fictions of thought. Be Here Now. Awaken In The Timeless Moment~~~for all is One~~~connected, whole, alive, sacred~~~and One. Listen to The Spirit with All Your Heart~~~and the funny thing is, like me~~~you'll still only be Half Right. But if we all truly lived so transparently together~~~we might get it more than Half Right :)

~~~~~~~~~Glenn Beck~~~~~~~~~

"The one who sings

with his tongue on fire

baptized in the rat race choir

bent out of shape by society's pliers

cares not to come up any higher

but rather drag you down

in the hole that he's in"

Bob Dylan

It's Alright Ma (i'm only bleeding)

~~~~~~~~Dear America~~~~~~~~ Can You Look In The Mirror~~~and Be Honest About What You See?

The Mayan Calendar ends on December 21st 2012~~~supposed to be The End of Days or something like that~~and they say there's One Wet & Wild Woman way up 'thar in Frozen Alaska who contracted a fatal case of Potomac Fever from some ex-soldier when she visited Arizona a few years ago~~~and Now? She wants to be The First Soap Opera Prez (and could be The First Porno-Pop Prez~~~if she 'jus let it all Hang Out:)~~~and~~~Oh My! Is it already The End Times? Really? So that's why My Billy Graham Book of Revelations Alarm Clock keeps going off? Ding Dong. Ding-a-Ling. Ding Dong. Rap. Rapa. Rapture:) Hey no way The Whore of Babylon comes from Frozen Tundra~~~right? Poor America has sold herself off to the thugs of The Corporate Oligarchy~~~they who exploit The 3rd World, dumb down 'merican citizens with their control of the news, and last but not least, believe in The Absolute Commercialization of Everything~~~and all them Corporate Boys just got a little bit fatter after consuming most of The American Middle Class~~~oh the gluttons that they are~~~but~~~Yummy! Oh how they love their $$$:) Dear America before you drink the Lukewarm Tea offered up by this Wicked Witch From The North~~~remember~~~her kind told us We Defeated Communism forever and now All Them Damn Commies own us lock, stock, and barrel. Damn Doublespeak~~~I guess they get The Berlin Wall and Great Wall mixed up or something like that? Look closely into the mirror and you might see what we really live in is~~~The Great American Spiritual Desert~~~where even W (how many people did he kill?) and Sister Sarah (how shallow can her flippant thought be?) can pretend to be real people~~~so maybe~~~The Mayans were on to something? Who knows? One thing I do know about Ted Bundy pictured up above~~~he was raised here in America~~~he was part of us~~~and not some separate evil being that popped in here on a vacation from hell. Ted Bundy was an American~~~and so were all the sociopaths and psychos~~~Unabomber, Dahlmer, McVeigh~~~you know the list 'cause it 'jus goes on & on~~~all the way to Tuscon~~~and I'm afraid that the road doesn't end there. The Killers were Americans too~~~raised here~~~part of us. Personality Disorders abound and multiply in~~~A Spiritual Wasteland~~~and as we have seen~~~this moral dementia has spread and even reflected back upon us~~~by our elected leadership (a mirror of sorts). Can a society only based on Greed, Accumulation, and Individual Competition have any Intrinsic Value? Is such a society doomed? You can tell a tree by it's fruit~~~ so why is our society condemned to produce such shallow and destructive people~~~such Bitter Fruit? Corporate America never did a Cost-Benefit Analysis on how creating a Culture of $$$ would so create so many Destructive Personality Disorders~~~that precipitate so many costs. It should be a part of their Bottom Line~~~along with environmental renting and destruction~~~the stunted personal growth in character in all the people they touch~~~international relations~~~etc, etc, etc. So? Maybe the Mayans~~~knew something~~~that we do not. Not many values left here in the Old American Gas Tank~~~we're Running On Empty~~~but the fumes should get us to December 21st 2012:) Sarah Palin and The End of The World? That would be too entertaining to be true:) End Times has to be he biggest cop out in human character~~~Ever! Look in The Mirror. Look at All of Us. America? What do you see?



~~~~~~~The Village Idiot~~~~~~~

The very fact that this Wacky & Lazy~~~Crazy-Rich-Boy-Failure~~~was inaugurated POTUS twice~~~and did what he did To Us with All That Power~~~has to be one of The Seven Seals from The Book of Revelations (that need to be broken in order to release Satan upon The Earth)~~~or maybe even something Crazier Than All That Hocus Pocus Stuff~~~Unbelievable! Watch out America~~~for all the ramifications of such a man leading any society~~~must have more time to unwind and are yet To Hit The Fan. W wasn't really the leader of the free world~~~he's more like the Pied Piper of 'Merican Crazies~~~and they're still crawling out of the woodwork. Cup of Tea anyone?

Is The American Dream Only A Castle In The Sand?

"The present civilization is based on greed and individual competition; it can not last forever because it has no intrinsic value. The individual, who has created and is dominated by this civilization, is caught up in accumulation, which is his sole incentive; that is, the individual tries to express his ambition and attain his desired social position through the accumulation of wealth and power. He has therefore set up social distinctions and such a civilization, based on ruthless selfishness, must eventually break down. It is merely a matter of time. As long as you have this conception of individuality, which is but selfishness and greed, no civilization, no structure built on it can last, nor can it free the mind from sorrow."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Early Writings, Volume 7, Radio Talks, USA and Canada 1932

"Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream." Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

You Gotta Love Minnesotans~~~If Only For Their Politicians

They reveal something boiling, hidden, deep inside our American Brothers and Sisters of The Great North Woods~~~and a great sense of humor too~~~and remember, Minnesotans also gave America Robert Zimmerman from the city of Hibbing, Minnesota~~~and although he had political skills he was as far from a politican as you can get~~~he was and is America's True Muse and The Greatest Poet of Our Times~~~you know him by his chosen name~~~Bob Dylan. There must be something in the water up yonder :)

Loving Those Symbiotic Relationships

Yee Ha I'm a riding this here dear piggie into The New Year and I want my one faithful follower to know I posted this here picture 4 u Charley :) And NO it's not pornographic, although in my extensive perusal of porn on the net I have observed Many A Monkey Riding A Pig :) Happy New Year :) And as far as symbiotic relationships go~~~it's like the John Prine song~~~Everybody~~~

"I was sailing out on the ocean

I was sailing on the sea

When I bumped into the savior

And he said: "Pardon me."

I said: "Jesus you look tired."

He said: "Jesus so do you, so sit down son we got some fat to chew."

Cause everybody needs somebody that they can talk to..."

Oh we all gotta share The Insanity

and trade beliefs like baseball cards

or corporate logos...

till we find out accumulation

ain't Living.

America's Psychotic Children~~~All Born With ASPD

Ah~~~Corporate America~~~and who among us is not a big supporter and fan of The True Blue Capitalist and The Rags To Riches American Success Story? Anyone? Besides me? And Mother Nature? I'm sure their are, and way back yonder in the middle of the 1800's America gave A Full Legal Birth to her first demented child, a supra individual entity without a trace of conscience~~~sociopath from head to toe~~~and the poor baby had a bad case of ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder). God Bless her for they named the little thing Union Pacific. Since her birth America has done what I would classify as a lot of Legal Whoring.
Damn. Thar's more Corporations in America these days than you can shake a stick at! Tons of em! Crawling out of the woodwork! And since not a one of them has a lick of Ethical or Social Responsibility~~~~they just smooth talked us 'merican citizens while they screwed The 3rd World~~~dumbing us down with jingle jangel commercials~~~and when The 3rd World had finally been pretty much used up~~~they turned their attention to what was left and finally got around to Feeding On The American Middle Class. Why oh me oh my were we surprised! Our own kin were 'a eatin' us! Houses, jobs, investments~~~whatever they could chew on~~~cause they don't really care about the town they're in, hell~~~do you really think Corporate America cares about people at all? I mean people are just a means to an end in their world. Even the employees. Even the boss. Grist for the mill. It's~~~The More~~~that they want and when people and the environment get in the way? Screw 'em. Forward we go. Just like the 1st transcontinental railroad. These demented children of America, these corporations, are also cross dressers of sorts for they like to dress themselves up in Athlete's Images, Sporting Events, and All Manner of Pop Porno Fame~~~making us Cry Uncle and Believe with their assult of dumbed down and mind numbing commercials. All for The Buck. Dear America, your sociopaths, your psychotic children, have finally turned on you. Right Tiger? Makes me feel like having A Warm Cup of Tea :)