Open Sesame 08/20/16

So yesterday I developed a great Hate for the Law. Because I was sitting here working on a brief, and I decided to take a break, to bake some cookies, so I could fortify myself with chocolate, a known and recognized Medicine, and so I made the cookies, and I put them in the oven, and then I came back in here, and went back into the law, and I got lost in there, in the law, had no idea where I was, or what I was about, just floating, in the immortal words of Justice Frankfurter, as "a derelict on the waters of the law," forgetting all about the cookies, until the bad smell, it started pumping out of the oven, and then, in a panic, I rushed into the kitchen, to pull the cookies out, and then, when once they had cooled, the cookies, they were harder than diamonds, useless as anything but weapons, to hurl, like those sharpened metal stars in the true-life documentary film Full Metal Ninja, at the people of The Hairball, if, ever, my home, they try, to Invade.

But, yesterday, there was also a Happiness, in by far and for sure the coolest and most insightful tubular thing I experienced all week: some Canadian human, he put a GoPro on the ground, and a squirrel, s/he came along, and snatched it up, ran off with it, and then proceeded to film the world, as it is experienced, squirrelwise:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6I_Zic29VQ]

I am thinking, that it would be very illuminating. To have one of these squirrels, that live around here, GoPro this place. So I could then contrast. How this particular world. It is experienced. When one is squirrely. As compared to how it is experienced. Humanly.

But then, I quickly realized, there are some Hurdles, that must be overcome, before this can be achieved. The first, being: I do not know. What is a "GoPro."

Speaking of Hurdles, are the Olympics still happening? I tuned them out, before they began, when I encountered this story, reporting that "US intelligence has assigned more than 1000 spies to Olympic security as part of a highly classified effort to protect the Rio 2016 Summer Games and American athletes and staff."

Alright. I don't care what it is. If you are a nation, and you feel you have to dispatch 1000 spies, in order to protect your people, at whatever it is, then your people, they should just stay home, from whatever it is, and do something full.pngpeaceful, and useful, and safe. Like bake cookies.

And then I thought, well, since the spies are already down there, anyway, then, once the athletes, they are sent home, to bake the cookies, then the spies, they could have a sort of Spy Olympics. For, no doubt, many other nations, they felt compelled to send their spies down there, to Rio, too. And so, all these spies, they could come out of their spy closets, and then participate, in some Games.

There could be a hurdle event, where the spies, they run down a track, periodically leaping over hurdles, while meanwhile trying to stab each other with poison-tipped umbrellas.

There could be a shotput-like thingie, where the spies, instead of hurling some heavy lead ball, instead throw off an exploding conch shell, like was once employed by the Americans to try to kill Fidel Castro. Great distances, will no doubt be achieved, as the conch-shells, they will be primed and timed to, indeed, explode.

There could be a water sport, wherein the Spy Men, they will jump into a pool, writhing with electric eels, which the Spy Men will then be required to grab, and form into letters, spelling out some special Spy Man Code.

There could be an expanded triathlon, where the Spy Men, they would run and swim and bike and crawl and fly and submarine and row and be waterboarded and burst through multiple Maginot Lines, in order to deliver, unto a president, a top secret Spy Man document: the president will receive it, shrug, say, "All right. You've covered your ass, now. Now watch this drive."

The paramilitary versions of the Spy Men, they, of course, will compete in the traditional March And Chant Penis-Grab:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U]

We know that the Olympics, they are a total Menace, to the national security of the Americans. Because some of the humans, at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, in the unliveable B. F. Skinner experiment of NYC, they were looking at the Olympics, on some tubes. And they were clapping. And some other humans, there at the airport, they heard the clapping, and they thought the claps, they were actually gunshots. And so soon all the humans, they were racing around, in an absolute panic. Like the politics people, when a herd of drug-maddened wild boar, is suddenly set loose, in one of their Meetings.

Passengers described scenes of panic and chaos. Demetrius Pipkin was in Terminal 1 awaiting a Norwegian Airlines flight when he heard rumors that shots had been fired. "We were previously told to get on the floor and take cover behind any and everything we could find," said Pipkin, who told WPIX-TV that the area was a "madhouse."

[F]ormer Navy SEAL and CEO of Force12 Media Brandon Webb apparently took it upon himself to lead people to safety, then boasted of his special force-style tactics, as though he had actually protected civilians from a terror attack. "I told a group I was with that we could climb the fence and get out of the area," he wrote. "I pulled my black North Face rain jacket out of my pack and threw it over the razor wire and encouraged a lady to go up first. She insisted I climb so she could watch how I did it."

Joe Pentangelo, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, declared, "At this time, no firearm, rounds or shell casings or other evidence of shots fired has been found."

Maybe the Americans, they could have a pants-wetting Olympics. They could compete to see who could flood their underpants with the most fear-crazed urine, for No Real Reason, at all.

For sure, there are going to need to be, some Olympics, of Fristian Phrenology.

Fristian Phrenelogy, this is the suddenly widespread practice of diagnosing serious medical conditions in a human by looking into a tube, rather than by physically examining the human, as a medical professional.

In the Fristian Phrenology Olympics, tubular athletes, they will 5171.jpgintensively gaze into some tubes, and then pronounce, What Is Really Wrong, with the person, that they have been, tubularly, Looking at.

Since this Fristian Phrenology thing, it is now such a ravenous fad—almost as popular as Pokeman Go, and just as fanciful—I thought maybe I'd try my hand at it. I mean, why not?

I begin with Patti Davis. Kind of an interesting human. She is the daughter of Ronald "Where's The Brain Of Me?" Reagan. During the period when Reagan was trying to be, and then was, the president, Davis, she was off being a Real human, enjoying sex, drugs, and rocknroll.

During some of this period, one of the penises that Davis accommodated into her body, it was attached to Bernie Leadon, who, during some of this period, was attached to the band known as the Eagles. Together, Patti and Bernie, they wrote a song, "I Wish You Peace" which appeared on the Eagles' One Of These Nights album.

Davis, I believe, is the only presidential daughter, to have ever written a song. (It is true that Lolita Hairball, she claims to be the author of "The Horst Wessel Song." But that copyright is disputed, and in any event she is not a presidential daughter. Yet.)

Dare I embed here this "I Wish You Peace" song? Why not? I imagine most people here. Have plenty of Medicine.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0aRpLqWgGU]

Don Henley, he would later bitterly complain, that this song is "smarmy cocktail music and certainly not something the Eagles are proud of," that "nobody else [but Leadon] wanted it. We didn't feel it was up to the band's standards, but we put it on anyway as a gesture to keep the band together."

In truth, the song was hastily slapped on the album, at the insistence of Lawyers, to replace a Henley composition baldly describing the great joys of getting nekkid with 15-year-olds, and then ODing them on cocaine and quaaludes.

Davis also wrote a rather youngish autobiography, in which she disclosed that her mother, Nancy Reagan, was such a vicious and savage child abuser—her favorite weapon on Patti a hairbrush—that Davis had herself sterilized before the age of 25, in fear she, in turn, might abuse her own children. Davis later gave Mommie Dearest a bit of a pass, when she learned that Nancy had been addicted to prescription pills for well over 40 years. Yes, Ms. "Just Say No," she was, herself, a junkie.

Anyway. When The Hairball, he recently chundered his putrid bits about "second amendment people" maybe unloading on The Mad Bomber and some judges, Davis, she was not amused. She took to her twit machine, and there wrote this:

To The Hairball: I am the daughter of a man who was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie, someone who believed if he killed the President the actress from that movie would notice him. Your glib and horrifying comment about "Second Amendment people" was heard around the world. It was heard by sane and decent people who shudder at your fondness for verbal violence. It was heard by your supporters, many of whom gleefully and angrily yell, "Lock her up!" at your rallies. It was heard by the person sitting alone in a room, locked in his own dark fantasies, who sees unbridled violence as a way to make his mark in the world, and is just looking for ideas. Yes, Mr. Hairball, words matter. But then you know that, which makes this all even more horrifying.

Now, John Hinckley, the guy who took a shot at Davis' dad, the Ronster, he was one of those people, who just didn't get the movie.

This is a common problem: the humans, not getting the movie.

For instance, Francis Coppola, in his true-life documentary film Apocalypse Now, he intended the "Ride Of The Valkyries" sequence, to repulse people, to viscerally pound home the horrors of war. But, by the time Operation Panty Shield roiled around, taxi-driver.jpgstonebrained serial killers in the United States Marine Corps, they were beating their meat to those images, using them to jack themselves off and up, to go out and kill them some brown people.

Similarly, in Martin Scorsese's true-life documentary film Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, he is a man, with many, many, screws, that are very, very, loose. He decides he will shoot a politics man, because a woman who worked for the politics man, she Spurned him. But Travis, he cannot get close to the politics man, because he is too fucking weird. And the security people, of the politics man, they run Travis off. So, instead, Travis, he goes and shoots a pimp, and some pimp-like people. And, thereby, becomes a Hero. Even the young woman, who Spurned, once upon a time, Travis, she is Impressed.

So, Hinckley, if he had been paying attention, and truly wanted to Learn from this movie, he would have gone out and shot a pimp, and some pimp-like people. But no. He took a shot at a president. And, then, he was not a Hero. And no one was Impressed. And he went to the loonbin.

(Just as a sidenote: very shortly before The Hairball chundered his "second amendment" solution, Hinckley, he was let loose from outta the loonbin, and he now walks among us. Coincidence? I think not.)

Now, Robert De Niro, he played Travis Bickle. And De Niro, he says: "I don't know, it's crazy that people like The Hairball. He shouldn't even be where he is, so God help us. What he's been saying is really totally crazy, ridiculous. He is totally nuts."

Okay. So here's where we wrap up the Fristian Phrenology. Robert De Niro, he played a crazy person. And, his playing, it inspired a Real crazy person, to, in Real Life, shoot at a Real president. So, De Niro, he, demonstrably, knows crazy. And De Niro, he says The Hairball, is "totally nuts." He knows whereof he speaks, does De Niro. Therefore, and pursuant to the Laws and principles of Fristian Phrenology, The Hairball, he is, unequivocally, "totally nuts." Case closed.

Meanwhile, there is The Mad Bomber. I have come upon a Fristian Phrenologist, who has run his hands, over some tubes, and thereby produced, and presented, powerful evidence, that she is: wait for it: a synthetic clone reptilian demon.

Witness:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P23HLWtro0E]

The Mad Bomber, she is a synthetic clone reptilian demon. Without doubt. Case closed.

Now. We can all move on.

One thing that can be said about The Hairball, is that he has inspired some fine writing.

To wit, Garrison Keillor.

And so a large contingent of people who sat way in back in high school history class and now need to blame foreigners for their lack of progress in the world have nominated a bloated megalomaniac for president, running on a platform of contempt and fantasy.

When the rational fails to satisfy, then why not the counterintuitive? If your car won't start and you don't know why, push it over a cliff and watch it blow up. If you're tired of the same old same old in Washington, why not elect Bob Barker, former host of The Price Is Right? It's like having a walrus in church Sunday morning. The minister tries to explain the parable of the vineyard and the walrus says, "BLEAUGHHHHHH." Which one do you remember for weeks afterward?

Like David Remnick:

You have to say this for the crooked demagogues and reactionary populists of the American past: they may have stirred the bitter soup of nativist resentment with as much zeal as The Hairball, but their family counselors did not take time out from politics to cruise the Aegean on a plutocrat's yacht; their rhetorical counselors did not attempt, for decades, to instill fear in their employees through the most squalid sort of sexual terror; and their political counselors never worked in the cpa.jpginterest of Slavic autocrats. Oh, Father Coughlin, we hardly knew ye!

Like Billmon:

—The Hairball has passed beyond most vile POTUS candidate in history, even beyond most vile pol. Bucking for most vile human being in U.S. history. Kissinger is the 800-pound gorilla in The Hairball's way.

—When he's really wound up, The Hairball can do a pretty good carny geek show. Now he's just pitiful, but without pathos. Just ugliness.

—Just pure repulsiveness, unrelieved by any emotional empathy or sense of tragedy. Just want it to be over.

—He's oozing failure now. Saturated with it. Stinks of it. But it only puts him closer in touch with his loser audience.

—This is The Hairball to the T: Says He'll never forgive the VOTERS if he loses. Like [GODWIN REDACTION] in the bunker, blaming the German people for being too weak to win his war for him.

—He's a political suicide bomber. Just can't figure out who he's really trying to blow up—other than himself.

The Mad Bomber, she does not inspire fine writing. Because she is so fucking dull. I am a person who has literally watched paint dry, and I can tell you, from personal experience, that drying paint, it is infinitely more interesting, than is she. She is like a dried booger, there on the floor. Faintly disgusting, but you can just pick it up with a kleenex, toss it in the trash, and be on your way. You know how in that true-life non-fiction story "It's A Good Life," the boy transports the whole little town to some unknown floating disattached somewhere, and surrounding the town is nothing but a dull gray impenetrable haze? That dull gray impenetrable haze, that is The Mad Bomber.

The Hairball, he is more like a werewolf, walking the streets of Soho in the rain, stiil dripping blood from the little old lady he mutilated late last night. Kinda attracts, that sorta thing does, one's attention.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFtg0wX_jkI]

and his hair
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Harvey Weinstein, he is another creature, who has inspired some fine wordsmithing.

Like The Hairball, Weinstein, he is a Monster. And, also like The Hairball, Weinstein squirted out from the rat bowels of the B.F. Skinner experiment of New York. But, unlike The Hairball, he did not remain in that anushole. Instead, he came out here, west, where we did not want him, in order to further ruin the movies. He is known as Harvey Scissorhands, for his uncontrollable penchant for butchering films, and is prone to addressing anyone, who disagrees with him, on anything, with such endearments as "I am Ariel Sharon! You are the Palestinians with sticks and stones!" Or "I am the tank commander! And you are the infantry, and you're about to get run over!"

The filmmaking team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, they once made the mistake of working with Weinstein. After, Ivory, he observed:

He's passionate about films in the same way a dog is passionate about meat. Harvey has a canine appetite for dismembering his own movies.

While Merchant, he said:

He doesn't know what he has in his films. He's like a savage in the jungle walking along, and he sees some bright, shiny thing down on the ground, and he stops to pick it up, he looks at it, he doesn't know what it is, but he knows it's valuable, so he puts it in his pocket and goes on his way.

I just put those quotes in here because they're so Vivid, and so Right, and I've been waiting months, to insert them somehow, idling till there seemed a place they'd well fit, and, tonight, I just ran out of patience, and, figured, now, was as good a time, as any.

Another thing for which The Hairball, he must be credited, is for showing us, every day, and in every way, just how unutterably, and homer_brain_scan.jpgtitanically, stupid, are so many, of the Americans. That is: his people. The people of The Hairball.

Like: take a look at this. After The Hairball, like the eternally tantruming child he is, squirmed and screamed, there in his diaper, pounding his fist on his highchair, hurling his rattle, howling that the only way he could lose to The Mad Bomber, is if the election were to be "rigged," some 40% of the people of The Hairball, there in North Carolina, they said they believed that ACORN will steal the election, for The Mad Bomber, while 42% were "not sure." Meanwhile, some 41% of these people, they agreed, that The Mad Bomber, she is "the devil."

Where are the Fristian Phrenologists, with these people? The 81% of the people of The Hairball, who either firmly believe, or are "not sure," that ACORN will Steal the Election? Do they, even, these people, like, have, brains? Are there maybe just Cheerios, rattling around up there? Are their brainpans perhaps pretty much completely empty? Like that of Terri Schiavo, the original victim of Fristing?

These people, the people of The Hairball, they are completely unmoored from the Sane. They are derelicts, whirlpooling, there on the Waters of Madness. Because ACORN, that thing never stole any elections. And it certainly isn't going to be stealing any now. Now, that it has been completely extinct, and for more than six years. ACORN, it is no more capable of stealing an election, than is Judge Crater. Or Alley Oop, the dodo, or the marsupial lion. Or any other, extinct, creature.

And what, you may reasonably ask, is a marsupial lion?

According to the Science Men, it was a dude, and a dudette, who roamed around the planet, about 18 million years ago. It was small—about the size of a squirrel—but it was fierce, and it could rip your lungs out, Jim: just like a werewolf of London. Or The Hairball.

The Science Men, they claim they now know all sorts of shit, about this marsupial lion, because they dug up a tooth, and they Looked at it.

It was in reading this article, that I decided, definitively, that 01-microleo.adapt_.768.1.jpgScience Men, all they Say, is mostly just shit made up.

Because you just can't. Sit there and Look. At a tooth. Or two. And then Decree. That you know, all and every, about somebody. Any more, than you can know all and every, about somebody, by roaming your hands, across their image, on a tube.

I now think that the Science Men. They mostly just go back to some Lab. And there get heavily into the nitrous. And get all giggly. And then just make shit up.

How the fuck, would we rest, even Know?

As Orwell once wrote, he could not, independently, on his own, definitively prove, even that the world is round. He, basically, just took that, together with a shit-ton of other "facts," on faith. Faith, in Science Men. As the humans, they once had faith. In Priests.

But. I want to believe. In the marsupial lions. And, I think, the Science Men, they are saying, that they can now drag DNA, out of really old and dead shit, and revivify it, and bring long-dead creatures, back to life. And so I want them. To do that. With marsupial lions. Because I want them to ship a couple, to this place.

And when they arrive, the marsupial lions, I will endeavor to Learn, what is a GoPro. And I will give this GoPro—whatever that might be—to these revivified lions. And then I will, "respectfully suggest," as we say in the Law, that these revivified lions, then film, all and every, of what all and every, is, around here.

Including me. A derelict. Upon the waters. Of the Law.

And then I will put that footage, including that of me, out onto the tubes.

So that all the Fristian Phrenologists. They can Look. At me. And they can run their hands. All over the images. Of me. A ghost. From out of their tubes.

And then. I guess. They can go tell it on the mountain. And all over. All and every tube.

About what it is. With me. That is Really Wrong.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdZLTnRnHs8]

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Redstella's picture

I love this -it is the only thing I can concentrate on these hot hot early mornings when it is expected to go up to 110 degrees-I mean, what kind of a planet will we have to live on? Let's ask the good people of Louisiana -ask them right now.

So, whatever else you do, Hecate, write briefs, bake cookies, whatever, please keep writing to us. You make sense - in this kind of world.

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are just the means by which in comes the money to pay for the cookies that feed the corporeal container so that there can be the writing that can seek to reach at least the general vicinity of the Feel of the Knowing.

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question everything

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the software, ut not if they are recommended, so I have attempted to preserve this one. Bet it says.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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even (no subject) but nothing in the body, is labeled that way by the user who had written it up and didn't want it to say anything. Now I get confused. Nobody can delete a comment other than JtC.

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Appeared after I posted the first comment and I can't figure how to delete it. I think I did nothing but post the first comment. But it was very early in the morning before the tea had actually started. I think it is a real verifiable glitch.

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with Weinstein as the (likely rabid) squirrel. They make vaccines against rabies (I had one, once). A vaccine, not a rabid squirrel. I have had no recent titer-test; if it's part of a $20 copay, I can probably wing it. I think there is eagle-thief footage flying into a tree. So with GoPro we can fly and climb trees--if only they did chain-sawing.

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they have no rabies. A skunk did, though. Maybe the saddest thing I ever saw. Stumbling into its last. Nothing I could do.

A human, can go out, on rabies. On anything. At all.

So. Enjoy. Every breath.

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If so, send to Louisiana. There was an image I saw yesterday of a mountain of life vests, from Syria? Sad. Sorry, looked it up, on Lesbos http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/12/life-jacket-mountain-m...

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Lesobs, and Kos, here, a year ago. No one, much, then, cared.

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for inserting that rifle/gun video. Oh, yeah, I didn't have to click and watch. I forgive you then. I can't forgive myself, yet, for watching all 26 seconds of it.

Have a beautiful Saturday, my friends! Bye

edited for yet another typo. Blush

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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that is Real. Imprinted on all the serial killers. Who sell their souls. Upon entering the United States military.

And no other military. Anywhere in the world. Is. In any way. Appreciably. Different.

They're all. Bloody. Killing. Bastards.

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It is forged in my brain. Only we can stop the madness, somehow. Will they let us? Not so far...

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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is how we stop the madness. It is not at all about what "they let us." It is only about, we, all, just saying no. None of us. Are going. To pick up any gun. Go to any war. Ever. Anywhere.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A50lVLtSQik]

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Where do I start? Rec'd for:
"people of the Hairball..."
"the Mad Bomber..."
"Phrenology..." I haven't seen that word in a long time.
"Werewolves of London"--one of the greatest tunes ever written.
And many more gems. Thank you, Hecate!! BTW, are you a lawyer?

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

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That would mean I would have to show up in court every weekday morning at 8:00 a.m., dressed in a monkey suit, and pretend to make nice, with lying incompetent soul-crippled rat-bastard cops, district attorneys, judges.

No.

I just write shit—briefs—for the lawyers. Get close to clients. Hold their hands. Plunge down to zero: when the clients, the human beings, they go into the prison. Into the cage.

Down to zero. Down to the ground.

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5' tall in real life and no stage is big enough to contain her as an artist. THE Best Performance Ever imo.
Sad Chuckle, as always, on the post.

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

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have become such a trajesty. Every time they come around, they represent another place where a bunch of rich people go to have fun, while poor people literally die from neglect a few miles away. London was an exception to that, but since then every games is this festival of horror.

There is just no limit to how far we will go to make certain that a few wealthy people have a good time. Fuck everybody else.

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It isn't as if the athletes are glorified for their contribution to making the world better. The opposite can actually be argued. How many poor people are displaced to build the arenas? I notice it isn't areas equivalent to Bel Air that are razed to build the stadia. And you know those living in the Bel Air areas are raking in cash from the Olympics. And the people least able to afford to pay are expected to foot the bill for the arenas and everything else. How many people are working free or nearly free to make Rio successful? And when it is all over, everything built just goes to rot and is unusable.
I'll even lump Expos and World Fairs into that category.

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garbed in two pistols/guns. What to do? Most of his page is in Arabic. Ayee!!

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I only respond to people I know.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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can you ever get to know, the guy in Iraq, with the two pistols, unless you respond?

Many of the Americans. They have way more guns. Than but two pistols. ; )

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Assange's lawyer committed "suicide" jumping in from of a train? Anyone know if this is true? RL, have you had you life insurance policy revoked for linking that?
/snark (kinda, sorta, but maybe not really)

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from April. Frank and Claire Underwood, together with Charles Taylor, George Clooney, and Abdullah al-Senussi, they did it. I saw it, through a tube, in a phrenological bump, on The Mad Bomber's head.

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Thought it was another one.

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There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.

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fun and games. Until it's someone you know. I knew Gary Webb. He took his life. People saw it coming. But now, today, I can, all day, every day, in every way, read, and in a thousand tubes, from people who did not know him, who don't know shit from shinola, the law from a leachfield, an anus-hole from a groundhog-hole, that he was murdered. By Hebraic Illuminati "neocons." From out of the sixth dimension.

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mimi's picture

even if it were a suicide, why would a person shoot himself twice in the head?

Just read about it a little bit.

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determines to put bullets into their body, it is not unprecedented for them to put more than one. When you get diverted, into much of your life circling the drain—journalism, PI work, the law—like I have, you learn these things. There is actually a literature about it. Multiple gunshots. Even to the head. In suicide.

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couldn't have been suicide. Darn. I feel so "not living in the real world" so much lack of knowing things. Embarrassing.

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about it. Most people think it's not possible to shoot yourself twice in the head. But, it is. Some of the literature, it is out there on the tubes. I'm not going to link to it, because it's grisly, and anyway it can be pretty easily found.

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"life insurance"?

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than alive. And I have heard of parents taking out life insurance policies for their college-educating children for the cost of loans. So if Student dies while the loans are unpaid, parents are not on the hook for the debt. Creepy to me. My husband had one on himself (the business he worked for had a policy on him until he was 'let go') and we cancels a policy up to $700K by then. A year later, he died. Also creepy.

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take out policies on their employees. I think it was outlawed a few years ago when it was realized the employees had no knowledge of the policies and the employers were giving the most hazardous jobs to those they had policies on.

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There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.

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Viewing the world through the tiny, narrow, stunted, straw. Of money.

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instead of the arms sales and other funnie munnies numbers. But noooooooooo.

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is stupid and larval. As are the numbers. As are the arms.

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you had the "Donate Thermometer" in your sig line. I wished I could give you a tip.

Never know what to say to your Open Threads, just know I like them a lot and think there are outstanding nuggets of truth in them.

Thank You.

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I'm tipped enough, but by your words.

I'm here twice a week. Try the squirrels. Ride their seesaw.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LflC_zm_zCY]

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the day. Have a good weekend.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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a number song. And thought of you. I think, it might be a Spy Man Code.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEzR3gox3Ek]

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To our heads, climb up a tree and steal back those shiny objects the Marsupial lions have been squirreling away. Along with your cookies.

Nice find, btw, of the Homer Simpson x-Ray. I see you put it to good use.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

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a true-life X-ray, of a head of the people of The Hairball. It is real!

When the marsupial lions, they secret shiny objects in the trees, the crows, they come along, and snatch them, before we can Get up there.

This morning, I decided to Test, one of the cookies. I threw it, at my truck. It made a Dent.

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And least they can be used to pelt enemies incoming. Wink

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Have called forth the crows to find their next shiny object. Let us pray they know not of this man called Hitchcock.

Cookies are not to be used to hurl at your truck. Save them, and when the time is right, we shall offer them to Hephaestus in exchange for some marshmallows and a good campfire.

Sticks we will need to bring on our own.

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tested the one cookie. To determine its Power. The rest, I am saving. For when the people of The Hairball, fully maddened, come rushing across my lawn, towards me, as I smoke, on the elevated porch, demanding I cease touching brown people, and fall to my knees in worship—immediately, and at once—of The Master.

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I'm always exhausted by the end of your OTs. Kinda like riding a squirrel through the trees. Wink

PS. Stumbled on this Garcia meme with a quote from an interview in Rollingstone 1989. My how times haven't changed.

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From that interview, I like this one:

In primitive cultures the state of the shaman is a desirable state. In our society, we somehow are trying to not have that. That's a real problem. We need the visions.

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and madness. Jerry was always articulate and never afraid to point them out. He's so right. Anything that doesn't grow monetary profits is discounted as wasted time. People who believe that have missed out on the gift of life.

"I've opted for fun in this lifetime." Jerry Garcia

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know what it was like to be a squirrel climbing and leaping. Made me dizzy watching it.

I hate the city. More and more everyday. Yesterday all of the people in my city went nuts in their big SUV's because of the heat. We drove across town to shop for healthy bread and even Shah drove crazy. When it cooled down a bit I drove the backstreet 6 blocks to our local 'progressive' grocery store. I noticed cop cars blocking off the main street. When I came out of the store the cop cars had blocked off Hawthorne the thoroughfare street. I asked people on the sidewalk what this was about. Apparently some crazed driver hit and killed a teenage girl who was crossing the street.

This is a main street that used to be for people to walk on. The people they amble across it and the cars they used to go slow and stop for the people who walk the street to get across with there coffee or rice bowls. It freaked me right out. What freaked me out more was when I went to the Boregonian to see what had happened and made the mistake of reading the comments. They blamed the girl. They all seemed to hate people that walk around on streets. I had to go home another back route and the drivers who could not get through were pissed off and driving crazy fast on narrow tiny streets that wind around and were built for horses. They have horse rings on the curbs.

I was glad to be home and was all depressed about the dead teenager and went to my back yard to chill. There was a huge shouting crowd of people that sounded like it was down the block on Hawthorne. It sounded like the Democratic convention. USA,USA,USA. I think it was people in the bar patio on the corner watching the Olympic's. It did not sound good.

I really do not want to live here anymore because even in my backyard world I cannot see the stars and I have to listen to fascist's chanting and maniac drivers who have no regard for human life walking on the streets. People here used to make signs that said 20 (mph) is Plenty. We used to pull over to let cars coming the other direction pass each other on the narrow streets. It is sad and scary.

This morning when I got up and made some delicious coffee I saw the blackboard sign my granddaughter wrote for me. Don't Worry. Be Happy. That helped but still... I'm still stuck here in crazy land. I'm worried today because Shah is going to play music on a blacktop parking lot in 101 degrees at some local pop fest. All the musicians will liguify and become fused with the blacktop. I don't want to see it.

Thanks for the Open Sesame. It cheered me up.

I want to live here

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People are so full of rage and anger. I hear a fraction of the hate my husband hears and gets simply for riding a bike to work.

If you aren't in a car, you aren't worth shit. It's your fault if I hit you while I'm on the phone, yelling at my kids in the back who are watching a video while I eat a McFatty while driving 15 miles over the speed limit in my gas guzzling Hummer.

I hope to see you. Taking Wesley in with me today. Wayne is staying in Bton.

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Holdover from bad old East German socialism or not, public transit here is excellent.

Okay, maybe their double-entendre advertising slogan is a bit icky: “Nur Casanova kam öfter / Only Casanova came more often.”

Around Frankfurt, my previous haunt, this was the planners’ philosophy from start to finish:

If you aren't in a car, you aren't worth shit.

Even building the Frankfurt U-Bahn (= subway / metro / undeground) came about only because the Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats (laissez-faire capitalist, free-market “liberals” in the European sense of the word) thought they could then close down the streetcar system and tear up the tram tracks, making more room for cars.

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gutted the bike lanes and public transit system. He HATED bikes. Toronto had a lovely system and then he destroyed it. People are now dying due to his stupidity. Which cost Toronto MORE money to undo.

But more and more you see the versus mentality of drivers. They are being primed to hate bikes. We have a hate radio talk show ass here in my town who starts his shows off usually with "get in their bike lanes, they are yours." Well bikers pay taxes, too. Those lanes are ours.

Bikes vs Cars can be Netflixed. It shows how horrible Toronto is now due to Ford. Ford the politician who just recently died. That Ford.

As to our transit here.. only poor people with zero choice seem to be able to uttlize them. Working people can't afford to ride them because they never run on time and it takes 4 times as long to get anywhere here on a damn bus. I can't afford to be late due to our shitty system. My husband commutes by bike. He's done 5,125 miles August to August. He's 58. Never late. His car buddies are all fat and always late and full of rage... and most seem to hate bicyclists.

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wrote you and it would help a little.. Please don't be depressed. Crazy land is everywhere. You would have to go far, far away to find Shangri La and you would feel homesick and lonely.

Do you accompany your Shah when he performs? May be it's good to be near him than worrying alone at home.

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with him when his bands played . After 20 something years I do not like nightclub or dive bars. I would have to go early as musicians have to be there a couple of hours before they perform to unload there equipment and have sound checks. He doesn't want to leave after his set as he's friends with all of the other bands and it's rude to walk out. Being stuck in a club for 6 hrs is no longer something I want to do. I've never been into that scene. I could take a cab home but I think I've spent enough time in my life in clubs. I don't like the vibes, it throws me back to adolescence and going to the cool kids parties that I would crash occasionally as I was a misfit. I do go to some of their performances if they are in the neighborhood and are small friendly places.

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I so get the feeling I am not fitting in into anything here ... I was and am not now anything close what is a hippy and close to that time. I misunderstood how difficult it would be to integrate.

But I don't want you to be depressed. It's not a good place to be in.

With baking and burning cookies ... I do that all the time when I cook. I forget that I still have something cooking on the stove. It all started the last two to three years ago. I was never really, really depressed, nor really, really forgetful and easily to be distracted before. Now I am more of it. Though I remember that I started to not remember, where I parked my car more than 15 years ago. The next car I buy will have a very eye-catching color, that's for sure.

I hope the heat will be over soon.

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I hope you see it that way also. And it is funny. I recently saw a car that was an orangey bronze. It was ugly, but undeniably unforgettable. I was recently in a parking lot where I saw an elderly woman looking around hopelessly. I asked her if she was looking for her car. She replied, yes. I asked what colour? She said pink! We finally found a light golden coloured car, that in the sun looked pinkish.

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And, here, experienced. If you are not of the band, it all becomes, eventually, an Effort. And, finally, a Pain.

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they are not meant to live in cities. That's just the way it is. A wrong turning: cities, money, jobs.

If, you are a human, and, where you are, you can't see the stars, you are in the wrong place.

Other than here, on this site . . . well, out on the intertubes, I never read the comments. Ever. For they display the humans, at their absolute worst. The tubes, they were invented by literally insane people, as a means of communication for siloed serial killers, who had already crisped the planet. That insanity. Dwells to this day. In every comment thread. On every tube.

When, my young daughter, she would be blue, I would pick her up, and I would hold her, and we would softly sway, to this song. She and I, we are doing that, now, with, for, shaz, you.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03uXQiz6eY]

And, shah, he will be okay. Even out there in the heat-fused parking lot. For he is immortally protected. By the Merseybeat. ; )

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I didn't see your reply to Shaz before I wrote mine, but I see we were thinking the same things.

I lived in NYC for 20 years, and while it was a very exciting place to live for a 20-something, as the years passed, the concrete could not sustain my need for nature. I now live in an area near the foothills of a National Forest surrounded by mountains, deodars, and wildflowers. Was it Wordsworth who said God was found in Nature? I don't remember, but it does restore my humanity.

Great song. Poignant image. Nicely done.

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water! (101 degrees is right!)

A man with a herring on his head goes into a bar. The bartender says "what'll it be?" The herring says "water! water!"

Anyway, yeah, protected by the Merseybeat we had an enjoyable time. 86 degrees when I arrived at 12:30, 97 when I left at 1:40.

And now, some Merseybeat, from the Escorts!

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the bad heat, the musicians should play from 12:30 a.m. to 1:40 a.m., rather than 12:30 p.m. to 1:40 p.m.

I am glad you survived. I knew the Merseybeat, would see you through. ; )

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There are a lot of us out there feeling lousy these days, and I try to remind myself that it's normal to feel rotten when people do rotten things.

Lately, I've been overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling of doom and hopelessness that I attribute to this election. To offset curling up into a fetal position, I've found feeding the "good wolf" helps me from feeling like the lone wolf all the time.

Sometimes I can find this with the work I do with organizations that are fighting fracking here in California. Sometimes I can find it through my writing, or reaching out to help a friend or another human. Sometimes it can be as simple as flirting with a baby. Round head, big smile, and fat little baby toes.

So maybe you can find yourself some babies to flirt with? Smile

Or anything that will give you some joy. I think it is so important when we are feeling this way to actively SEEK OUT what is GOOD in this world. Because we are human we need things to remind us of our humanity.

But, yeah. I hear ya Sister.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

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regularly go on vacations with this Kissinger person.

From The New Yorker: Does Henry Kissinger have a conscience?

In Errol Morris’s remarkable 2003 documentary “The Fog of War,” we saw that McNamara, who was an octogenarian at the time, was a tormented man who was attempting to come to terms, unsuccessfully, with the immense moral burden of his actions as the U.S. defense secretary during Vietnam. McNamara had recently written a memoir in which he attempted to grapple with his legacy. Around that time, a journalist named Stephen Talbot interviewed McNamara, and then also secured an interview with Kissinger. As he later wrote about his initial meeting with Kissinger, “I told him I had just interviewed Robert McNamara in Washington. That got his attention. He stopped badgering me, and then he did an extraordinary thing. He began to cry. But no, not real tears. Before my eyes, Henry Kissinger was acting. ‘Boohoo, boohoo,’ Kissinger said, pretending to cry and rub his eyes. ‘He’s still beating his breast, right? Still feeling guilty.’ He spoke in a mocking, singsong voice and patted his heart for emphasis.”

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in the Sesame, Billmon, he says:

The Hairball has passed beyond most vile POTUS candidate in history, even beyond most vile pol. Bucking for most vile human being in U.S. history. Kissinger is the 800-pound gorilla in The Hairball's way.

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Hey Kissinger has a Peace prize too doesn't he? How come Hitler didn't get one?

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Reading your open sesames make me feel like I am straddling two distinct planets - one with unquestionable gravity, and one devoid of anything grounding. I laugh my way through the reading, and then I begin to question my lucidity in context of the reality expressed. Ultimately it is quite a satisfying and thought provoking experience. Thanks for taking us on your creative journey.

[video:https://youtu.be/2WENXCJqpDk]

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Mr. Zimmerman, he knows, that nobody stays atop the wheel, for long. Because the wheel, it keeps on turning. And that's true, of the magic. Too.

He wrote, or received, my favorite line, in all the English:

the ghost of electricity
howls in the bones of her face

Once, having heard that, I, ever after, see it.

As for gravity, as was reviewed recently in the Tummler, that is one of the four preliminary forces. But, it can be surmounted. By the fifth element. Love.
fifth-element-leeloo-nova-white-beam-of-divine-light-still_0.jpg

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5th dimension ...

[video:https://youtu.be/lEmLqH2gTd8]

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across time. Here is some poetry. Thank you Bob Dylan. We are all doing our best to deny it. What happened to Bob Dylan is that his visions still resonate. We saw him at an affordable price about 5 years ago and he was still magical. Nothing happened to him he and his magic lives on.

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I love the squirrel with the Go Pro. In some of the frames you could see its nose and occasionally its little claws. Squirrels are aliens, a higher life form sent to harass our bird feeders. They are also great gymnasts. They belong in the Olympics.

I am back to walking at least three miles every day. I walk often with a neighbor. I used to be an athlete, a distance runner, but the operative word is past tense. My friend walks in regular shoes while I am walking in running shoes. She can beat me up the hills every time, but I am getting somewhat back into shape. My goal is to keep up with her and her street shoes on the steep hills. Biggrin

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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about the squirrels as gymnasts, and, yes, I think there should be a whole squirrel Olympics. ; )

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I really liked that video, too. I am ready now for a whole squirrel cinema.

And those dreams of yours, sound wonderful.

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mimi's picture

so shocked it started praying TC 1:05-1:15 and at TC 1:20 as if it would die.
What a poker face and con artist of a squirrel...amazing..

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What it did after, is classic squirrel. They are smart, conniving, spirited little creatures. They love to mess with dogs!

During winter, they live in my attic. When I hear them gnawing away at wood up there, as I use the toilet, I'll flip on the fart fan, just to mess with them back.

They (one, at least), likes to jack with my dog, from the front porch, right outside the window. Her incessant barking and whining earns the fart fan, IMO. Smile

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about it. In Germany we have very few squirrels and they are mostly mid-brown in color and larger than the grey ones here. actually very pretty little creatures.

So, if you see one in your garden, you always enjoy it a lot, because it's rare. Here they are like gangs and all over the place. My neighbor even feeds them peanuts. And now we have even more. Sigh. I have changed my opinion about squirrels now. Messing with doggies... no way. Wink

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like that part, either. But then the squirrel, it totally attacked the camera. It was Mad.

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that squirrel. I would attack that camera. We do not mess with the squirrels that live in our yard. We once tried to clean out a nest they built on our porch. We did not know the squirrel had babies in this nest. Eric turned and I decided to flush the squirrel out with the hose. He found the babies at the bottom of the nest and stopped. while all this was going on the mother squirrel ran into a tree in the neighbors yard and keened. I have never heard anything liker her keening she was beside herself.It was heart breaking We stopped immediately put the nest back and covered her babies. She came back during the night and moved them . I think she and her children live in the backyard giant Cecile Brunner rose tree and do not hold a grudge for our cruel insanity. Now crows they are grudge holders they have communal memory that passes down through generations of crows.

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mimi's picture

understand why everyone is still talking politics. It's over with that. We can wait til November. I mean all that talking and talking and talking and talking and talking .... it's not going to do anyhing other than to drive us crazy.

I boycott that talk.

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