Wanna take a ride???

Wow.. sometimes it takes a while for things to really gel.. well, different people gel differently than others.. shuh..viva le difference!!

So anyhooo.. …for some reason, ‘thunder road’ has been insisting itself on me. And afterall, who am I to not be insisted on???
“poor man wanna be rich rich man wanna be king and a king aint satisfied til he owns everygthing...”

It’s really a simple understanding between two organic creatures. Eat or be eaten. Rule or be ruled.

And really, stop bitching about your role, and where in the heiarchy you might find you and yours.

Is there a liberal out there who wouldn’t become stingy when sitting atop Midas’ gold?

Is there really a conservative out there that wouldn’t demand that welfare is God’s ‘way’ if / when he’s down on his luck (or knees?)

So, we know, we are what we are.

Higher angels and darker demons notwithstanding, really honesty is the final salvation. It really is, at the end of the day, all that Jesus Christ preached. Just be honest. The antithesis of the Hebrew culture from which he sprang.

And we are biological creatures struggling to survive. And hopefully evolve.

On the basest level, we evolove with an extra thumb.
On the highest level, we evolve to equlality, compassion, ….humanity.

But, it is the nature of evolution that the old try to preserve itself, while the new inveitably kicks it to the dustbin of Dubai’s future revenue stream.

And it’s all good.

And it’s what rolls us all out of bed every morning .. some of us before the cock crows (apparently we set the terms of our consciousness, not a clock or cock – yes - I could indeed go on for sometime on THAT tangent, but that’s yet another rant -)

In the final analysis, please, spare us all your angst and agony…the world is what it is…a dirty motherfucker.
Our place in it is ensured once we realize that.
Our contribution to making it less painful…for ourselves first and others second…is contingent upon realizing that and figuring out how to get a little less dirt on us, and how best to get it off once we do - and we always do – we always will.

Realize that everyone is going to vote for the same homely bitch as homecoming queen. Be one of those who counts the vote and change it all.

Isnt Diebold a wholly owned subsidiary of Hadden Industries???

With my last breath, I stab at thee..

(04-08) 18:19 PDT Waco, Texas (AP) --

A man was stabbed after causing a stink — literally — in a motel room while eating with a friend, police said. Five men from the Houston area were sharing a Waco motel room Tuesday night, and two were inside the room eating when one had a flatulence problem, Waco police Officer Steve Anderson said. One man was so upset about the gas that he threw a large knife at him, cutting his leg, and then stabbed him in the chest, Anderson said.

The 35-year-old man was transported to a Waco hospital, where he was treated for what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries, Anderson said.

Jose Braule Ramirez, 33, of Houston, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said. He was arraigned Wednesday and was being held in the McLennan County Jail on $15,000 bond and placed on an immigration hold, according to jail records. He cannot be released, even if he posts bond, until authorities verify he is in the country legally.

A jail spokeswoman who declined to give her name said she was not allowed to release information on whether Ramirez had an attorney.

Husbands, beware!

Is this the party to whom I am speaking?

Last year, AT&T recorded $12.8 billion in profits. This year they’re planning the layoffs of 10s of thousands of employees. Their struggle not to remain profitable, but to remain obscenely so at the expense of workers who built the company, and the economy on which it depends, should come as no surprise to anyone. These are the people after all, who plead before Congress that if they were to be held accountable for breaking the law and helping w spy on American citizens BEFORE the Patriot Act was signed, BEFORE 9/11/2001, that surely they would go bankrupt. Immunity, they claimed, was essential in preserving the most fundamental of infrastructures in the U.S. – The Phone Company.
So how obscene is $13 billion in profits? It’s more money than the porn industry generated in whole (pun intended) last year - $11billion – which turns out interestingly enough to be more than Hollywood generated last year in both box office receipts and rentals combined.
It’s enough to keep GM afloat for another year.
Or the War in Iraq going for another 2 weeks.
Or enough to pay for 10s of thousands of employees to keep their jobs – and then some.

Buddy can you spare a trillion

I love this. Geithner and Obama have decided to finally call bull on corporate handouts.

By capping exec wages, and ousting corrupt and ineffective ceos, obama has made it crystal clear - dont put your hand out for money unless you really need it -

A number of buisnesses who've witnessed the control Geithner and Obama are exerting on those taking the handouts are re-thinking their 'need for emergency capital'...

The message seems to be getting through. Already, a number of those with their hands stretched out have suddenly realized they don’t really need the money afterall. They’ll get by.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/05/national/w094622D23.DTL&tsp=1

The Chairman at Chase has even said he’ll write a check right now to pay back what was given, with interest, to avoid the strings the Obama Administration is attaching.

Imagine that. Guess Chase didn’t really need those 10s of billions of taxpayer dollars afterall.

Good work Barry!

Picture, if you will...

The queen of england...an anachronism indulged by far too may people..has, on the eve of an economic summit as important as any since Yalta, somehow, beyond the realm of all that is rational in heaven and on earth, decided to give the POTUS, leader not only of the Free World, but leader of all economies in the world (sorry China, you really are nothing more than a bit player) a signed portrait.
How nice for Her.
How nice for Him.
How nice for Everybody!!!

And yet, here at home, the 'loyal opposition', - that is, the republican party and their lapdog pundits, choose to focus on his gift to her - an ipod.

The duly and democratically elected leader of the most technologically advanced and most powerful economy in the world, has chosen to to offer unto an anachronism, an emblematic token of both the 21st century and of the ingenuity of 'American can doism'.
And for this, he is chided.
And for her arrogance, she is lauded.
And for all of this, I offer, FUCK YOU!
Not since the Beatles offered a sing-song approach to world affairs has the British Empire been relevant. And yet, for some strange and inexplicable reason, an anachronism from an empire long since past its due date, somehow believes that an autographed picture of herself, should be received with the kind of swooning gratitude a groupie would offer their favorite rock star for the same.
No.
Not in this world.
Not in the 2st century.
Not in a world where little tin soldiers no longer line up on a battlefield to be cut down like overgrown grass.
Please refer to an earlier post referrencing 1215!

The ipod-gate is a stark and refreshing reminder not only of WHY Obama won, but of what his winning means.
I'll leave you to think about that, and to comment accordingly.
And in the interim, I suspect your ipod will entertain you far more than a moldy portrait of a moldy anachronism.