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Mr. Kerry

News reports indicate that Mr. Kerry said that he wishes people didn't know what was going on. Clearly he's taking his own advice.

The only real elites are people who really don't believe in elitism. Other than that, the attitude is very common. The result of such attitudes in a large section of the 'rulership class', to use a term that a non elitist would find offensive: ask Robespierre. That is how far it devolves when populist elitism takes over from aristocratic elitism. In both cases you wish that there wouldn't be victims. Standing off in the hinterlands you worry about the innocents down in the cities. And you hear about the senseless deaths, and constant cause mongering for people who don't really know what they are talking about, and not really saying anything real, but they go on with their rampage of mean. They blame unknown people for their cause's failures, and then find people and make them scapegoats, sometimes brutalizing them either emotionally or physically sometimes escalating to murder. Sad day for everyone. It's a mob rule of elitist toadies: people who delude that their behavior will 'help', when, in fact, by taking the poison donations of the open-sore governance (of elitist hipocracy) these 'activist groups', instead, contribute to the mayhem and actively harm the ones who the monger class (the open-sore governance) desire. The existence of the monger-class, and the existence of the puppet activist class is a grand fiction. Unfortunately life often imitates art. But it is also the other way around. We can't say which came first. Was Orwell or Kafka describing what they saw in the world around them? Or were they giving you their worst imaginings? It helps to understand that Kafka found what he wrote to be hysterical. Orwell, he'd been to Spain during the war in the late 1930's and got disillusioned by World Socialist, and felt that he'd been made a dupe.

Mr. Kerry has often displayed clueless boobish behavior.

Mr. Kerry is, and always has been, a boob. He was mostly harmless when he was just a local politician. Unfortunately he's up there lurching forward (you rang?) and now his behavior is dangerous. The character of Lurch, from classic television (was it the Addams Family, so the character actually comes from depression era fiction (I should be finding references, but this is a rant, maybe in my rewrite, if I ever get around to it (how many levels of these divigation parenthesis are allowed, oh ya, I'm in a rant and I'm the editor, so as many as I want))) Charles_Addams , the creator of Lurch, was a U.Penn guy! (So is Trump, because he went to Wharton). Hillary went to Wellesley as an undergrad.

There is a story that someone who wasn't originally from New England told me about an encounter with JFK the Secretary, while he was still a Senator. It involves a reenactment on a holiday of a major battle. The story is that this man and his wife went to the battle reenactment and got there very early,and so were in the front at the edge of where the public was allowed. And then . . . the famous person, JFK and entourage, showed up just before the event and then got in the way of the people who had been there first and then . . . but you know, this guy didn't really know who he was . . . so I can't really quote Mr. Kerry as saying 'Do you know who I am?' because I haven't talked to my friend in a long time and that was the gist of the story . . . and he told it a long time ago. The person who tells this story about his encounter with Mr. Kerry made a point of telling me how horrible Kerry was. I told him the story of my own encounter with Kerry, and explained that, yes, Kerry really is that clueless and, actually, if you know what sort he is, he's not a bad guy, of that sort.

My own personal experience with Mr. Kerry is a little bit different. I was in a phase of deluding to think that my captured videos would somehow someday be worth something. I had this old camera. The President was in town. Mr. Kerry was going to vote, in the Senate, to either impeach, or to not impeach, the president. I went down there with my Sony Hi-Eight camera and was hoping to catch a glimpse of Clinton, who was in the house (if you know where Mr. Kerry lives, it's very very accessible), and as dopey as Kerry is, he's not really that much of an elitest. Really he's not. He's rather dead common, as I have stated copiously.

So it always seemed to be a 'bit'. The whole Kerry the soldier thing. He was actually a swamp Yankee of sorts. But not a Yankee. He comes from the Forbes family. That is the clan that owns various towns, which are also Islands. And it's unfair to say that he 'represents' them, because he didn't end up with the very large trust funds, etc etc etc. Well, also the Islands that they own are mostly unpopulated, and they are mostly treated as a kind of preserve. So what can we do? People own things. Like an Island the size of Woods Hole (but just a little bit south of there) and do we have a right to ask about how their tax dollars are used to support 'local aide?' when they are apart of it? All of this is a stupid, classist aside, formed from personal jealousy. Of my own. And I wouldn't want to own an Island, maybe just be the trustee of it. And owning land often has nothing to do with politics. In any case, that is the family that Kerry comes from, and he did try to break out of the mold of old main-line society money-bags robber baron children of the children. (of the corn?)

So there were all of these people, on the street, next to the Commons, and I was observing. There were some with protests signs, hoping that they could get their message across to Mr. Clinton, who they wanted impeached. And then, from across the street, on the side where the police had set up a don't cross zone, Mr. Kerry emerged. He looked very much like a parody of a politician, but politicians always do. This was before he ran for the presidency. He crossed then he came across the street and introduced himself to various people. The batteries had run out on my camera, and so I don't believe that I have any video of him.

And so then I told Mr. Kerry that the serious nature of lying under oath, which is what they were trying to impeach Mr. Clinton for, would have put someone like myself, an ex federal employee, into a jail cell to think about it for a while. And that even though the reason for Mr. Clinton lying seems to be that the questions pertained to aspects of Mr. Clinton's proclivities, that were well known any way, which should be kept private.

And so, due to that, I suggested that Mr. Clinton did need to be impeached, and that Mr. Kerry should vote to do so. But then, inthe final vote, because they were questions that shouldn't have been asked in the first place, vote that Mr. Clinton not be convicted and removed from office. So the message would be sent not to lie under oath, but also that sexual indescretion should no longer be supported as a method of blackmailing, and that the asking of the question, in the first place, was improper. The results were exactly as I suggested, and Mr. Clinton was impeach, but not convicted. Mr. Kerry listened and he considered what I said and he was very gracious. So I have always seen Mr. Kerry as the most open minded example of a died-red socialist that I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

The Forbes family, a lot of different people, are not all dyed any particular political color. It is unfair to target them based upon their cousin being a political opportunist. In his heart Kerry is trying to do the right thing. He's just gotten into an ideological straight jacket by capitulating with the ultra left. So he's in a mine field. He has to watch what he says. Because that kind of ideological conformity often results in rather innocuous comments being used as nooses to ruin a political career. Mr. Kerry was part of the coup in 1975 when Nixon fell from heaven. And the coup plotters spent 40 years trying to get someone back there, with them in charge, and that is Mr. Obama, who acts like an heedless apparatchik ideologue. So Mr. Kerry plays ball with that. But if there are to be tribunal, and some kind of holding to account for the egregious violations of law that have occurred under this current regime, my belief is that Kerry would be like an Albert Speer, and not like an Joeseph Goebbels. Probably none of this crowd is as bad as he was! Maybe George Soros is the Hitler of this crowd, but seriously he's open about what he does, for the most part, and he at least pretends to being good for the world without a murdorous spremicist agenda, though the result might seem that way, brutal in the methods. Or maybe they are all more like Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. Maybe Soros is more like Jay Gould, only after stealing all the gold Soros decided to try and do good for the world with the money, where as Jay Gould, and his crew . . . well what exactly is available in the Historical records concerning these people?

The story of American wealth and power is a long and sordid tale. Mr. Kerry probably doesn't have criminal intent, he really is that clueless. He doesn't get how the policies of these leftists have been open warfare against anyone who holds American traditions and isn't a special-case minority or solan called a 'refugee'. To him it's always been that power is from the top, and that we must just step in line. His whole bit in Vietnam: it was a stage and public show as a preface to his political career. Oh, well, he's a boob.

there were pumpkins
past season
and the carvings
had rotted
to be even more grotesque
than intended
and a bitter sudden chill, sqawlly snow,
frozen ketchup on the picnic table where people eat lunch



Was I sad to leave myself stuck inside my yesterdays?
Inside of mind we can sometimes let the winds howl.
Windy Howls
deep within your mind
where there is no place to stay, and only
moving forward, 
onward
to the safe place.

You're there in a moment.
When the calm comes, it brings you rest
and all the troubling vapors
dissipate within the great light
darkness no more.

The Rhodium Age

We live in The Rhodium Age, a time when at some point we will be able to literally turn Carbon into Gold, or to write it as a chemical equation:

C + ? = Au

I leave it to the Chemical menshches to fill in the details of the question mark that I write as part of my mock equation. But you get the idea.

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July 24, 2016

8:29 AM

Same as it ever was.
-- David Byrne

show of hands for who that
love the police!

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What they claim is good
 for 'the environment' 
   really sucks 
  for the forest.

    
    
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love the police!
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these can get you banned from school?!:
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You can't speak in hiroglyphs

even Know-it-all-will-tell-yaa:
When people complaign about the words 
you use often they don't really want to 
hear what you have to say.

spinfont unicode-isms
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When he's crazy lonely no one reads his mind he finds himself invisible at a highway stop when it's very cold he shivers thinking that now he must move on to find a home some dream outside the dream of time

Delete and repeat, delete.

      

This period of Deconstruction
will soon end.
He'll get his new beginnings
all along the moldings, lined up.
those railings, all glisten
in the first light of the day
the sun light reaches
far within and makes it all 
clean and pure 
like petal fall
in May with
apple blossoms
showering down like snow
upon the sidewalks and cobbled walkways.

will? Maybe I've not ordered the elements properly. Well that little snippit doesn't work that well but t

 
When you're alone on the train
you aren't really alone
there are all kinds of other people
traveling on that same line,
going in a similar direction,
very many destinations
end of the line.

Destination train
moving through a forest
in a driving rain
She said he was insane
for getting on that train.

Destination 2 aim
2 AM in a driving rain
she knows he'll come back again

When you're alone
on a bus
you aren't really alone
the driver is there
all the people you can see 
out on the streets,
down the allyways
besides the buildings
sidewalks glisten
the reflection of starlight
the must be people there too,
space aliens of the long ago
so you're never really alone. 
You're never really alone.

Destination train
driving rain
Destination railway station
in the far away
through the fogs of time
the forests of lost contemplation
where the tallest trees of the forest
will swap their spots, dance around,
a square dance
of sequoias
so in the light of day
they're all OK
and back to where they were before
or who can say?

Destination 2 AM
driving rain
far away train station
freezing rain



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Here is today's pretty poem:

  

  Sunset Blue
  He's starting to cry
  Everyone at the club 
  has to know why
  He's feeling alone
  though he plays for the crowd
  and he plays so sweet
  even when loud.
  Sunset comes
  and it's starting to snow
  When the set is over
  where will he go?
   
   well we know that he sleds down the frozen gorge 
   on his guitar case . . . 
   
    

Big moon
in the midnight sky
big big moon
all across the sky
you can see the crowd
as the marching band
marches by
take the crowd a'dancing
off toward the stars.

Oh you big mouthed moon
why do you rave
about the government
while you're in your tie
you are that kind of guy
who has nothing really ready to say
but rest assured,
and he can't be cured
you'll say it any way.

Oh you big mouthed moon
  big mouthed moon
but the women swoon
becaue youre always the most kind
and the worst you do
if anyone's judging you
is to always speak your mind
so in the end you might be wrong
but the world is not harmed.
Oh you big mouthed moon 🌛 🌜
Oh you big mouthed moon  🌝
Oh you big mouthed moon 🌔
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 ♥♥?

There's a river
of infinite love
flooding from on high
through the heart of all.

There's a river
of infinite hope
flushing through the gorges
through the heart of all.

Spread your wings and fly away
off into your day
off into your all


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glossry of what's next
 ♥♥? : 

Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

Wake up!


You know I thought you was the Buddha
I must have been tripping
on a great big hootta
unn ha haa


Wake up
Wake up
Wake up while you are sleeping

Wake up
Wake up
Wake up and go to sleep

Waking
and rising
sleeping and
dying
and reincarnating
or are they just lying?

Wake up
Wake up
Wake up while you are dreaming
are you ever really awake?
Is it something you can fake?
Can you ever stop
your scheming?

Wake up
Wake up
Wake up and go to sleep
while you are dreaming
while you are resting
you'll wake up when your rested.

If I go off to dreamland
for a life time or five
Is there something wrong or the matter
if I enjoy
being alive?
If I go off to dreamland
and live a good life and stay true
does that take anything from you?

Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
when you are ready
ready and rested
and not second guested
Wake up
and be you.

wake up and be unaware of being the Buddha

♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ !!

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