"Out, and About"

Speaking of Hell. I went out today for the first time in near a week. My upstairs neighbors helped out. They're a Mexican~American family so know what time it is with cops.
Jorge my pal walked me over to the local branch so I could return those library books. Those I got on the day of my event with the police. It's around the corner,...there, and back both alive. Imagine.

It was beautiful today. Spring kicking in for a bit. Near 70f, and the same tomorrow. Perhaps I'll go out on my own then,...maybe Coney Island. I'll take some pictures if I do.

"A Day in the Life"

I was stopped, and frisked today. I was surprised because I thought the police were forced to stop this sort of thing.

It happened on a subway platform. This on my way home from picking up a few library books. I was the only Black person there so of course.

I was put against the wall my legs spread. My person was thoroughly searched. Oddly they found nothing. Black, but not a criminal.

They dumped out my shoulder bag saw the books, and wanted to see the receipt from the library...which I had. It was in my pocket along with my keys, and camera. They'd already seen them, but any of these could still be a gun.

So I die. I thought this. This is my time. I'm going to be shot dead for going to the library to get two books about Emerson, and Walt Whitman.

Black men have been shot dead for far less. One of the cops reached into my inside jacket pocket, again,...gun drawn, and got the receipt. It matched my library card.

This is far from the first time, and far from the last. I'm just weary of the game is all. Still this time I was certain I was going to die going to be killed. I don't know how to communicate this to you. I'm home in my digs in a safe place with my beloved stuff.

However,...however.

This time was different. At least for me. To the cops routine, but for me I knew I would never see my family my friends the sky the rain the snow hot showers hot meals hear jokes take walks go on adventures with my dear sister sleep wake up be happy be bored be annoyed smart make mistakes listen to, and feel the wind,...all would vanish as if it never were.

I would end on a subway platform on the ground with Emerson, and Whitman, and the cops calling the incident in.

"...Amen"

This time this era these past many years. Years of the terror wars new technologies that tempt us to superstition, and meanness. The rise of fearful nationalisms. These things, and more have changed this Republic. Changed it into harsher darker place.

It is a daily struggle to hold to our better selves our better Angels. Crime plucks on crime cruelty on cruelty lies on lies. That, and now we're told to call this "Normal".

Here is another Normal we can embrace.

Be patient be aware be brave be kind. Keep your inner light alive. Keep that light of your inner selves bright. That, and encourage this in all around you. Have humor creativity, and foresight. Be of the truth as your life experience has shown you to know the truth. ...and see this in others.

Most of all do not despair. Don't be afraid because you are not alone. We have each other.

Amen.

"A Great Storm Last Night"

Nature awakens at last! Winds, and rain drum against my windows heralding Her armies. Billions of mega watts! Arcing fire!

Healing souls as she drives.
I have not seen such in so long. This we denied ourselves through poisoning the lands the seas even the Holy Sky.

I remember now long ago as a child a young, and as my mother said "peculiar boy". How during a storm as burning as this. I crept so carefully, and quietly past my sleeping parents past "Brownie" our watching dog. Into the storm.

I was bare to the winds. Embraced by nature our Mother. I 'became' the fires the winds the rain.

I was born again. Born, and baptized with lightning!

Amen.

( Forgive the melodrama. I'm a sucker for Nature, and Hope.)

"Bombs Away!"

As a public service the management of this award winning page,...in our dreams. "Bob the Bunny" has decided to begin a new helpful series.

"How to Make Stuff"
This week, "How to Make your own Nuclear Bomb"
What you'll need.

First a tea cup of kitty litter, three radium tipped wind up clocks. Two AA batteries with a half pound of butter. Then 12 not 11 not 10 or 8 or 9, but exactly 12 standard tea spoons of honey.
Next 1/2 gallon of iced tea with again no more, and no less than 12 ice cubes.

'And yes of course 1/2 ounce of gin with four slices of beef baloney.
Not that chicken or turkey nonsense, but the real thing. Beef fucking Baloney. That other underclass crap is a war crime.

Right. Finally an ounce of unleaded gasoline, and three sugar cubes. Of course this is complicated!
It's an Atomic fucking Bomb fer Christ's sakes!
Now all this happy noise into a sealed glass pitcher...not metal of any kind...glass.
That is unless you 'want' a pre-mature detonation.

...And there you are.

Next week how to make the Free Lunch.

 On a related topic.

I was asked what's "Bob the Bunny's" take on Steve Bannon.

"Bob the Bunny" knew Bannon back in the day.
They were both Black Op vets. ...that is before Bannon went rouge. He, and Bob they used to hang out in the back of decommissioned B-52's out at the "Bone Yard". Aka Davis-Monthan AFB. This just outside of Tucson.
There they'd drink laugh shoot up speed heroin sometimes cleaning fluid or root beer. Well Bob did root beer. 

Btw that drug road is written all over Bannon's face.
Anyway they had a falling out when Bannon tried to get Bob to join some secret Nazi SS assassins cult. For some weird reason they wanted to terminate all the subway conductors in Chicago. ??? "Bob" said "I only kill for the Constitution." 

Bob later passed on an invasive psych profile of that evil Bannon whack job. This to his connections in the NSA/CIA/ Mossad, Apple Microsoft, and that secret bunch that runs all the dark self aware A.I. systems. Yeah all the real power players have his number. So it was just a matter of time till they clipped his wings. 

Note how quietly, and smoothly they just ordered Trump to remove him from the NSC...National Security Council. A post to which he himself arraigned his own appointment.
Bob said, "...got to hand it to 'em...Balls." 

Trump signed the order having not read it...had no bleeping idea. He could have been ordering Thai-take out. The dance of the true power cliques is a sight to behold. A grand ballet. That Trump crowd has no idea who, and or what they'd fucking with.
Stay tuned it's about to get really entertaining...or so "Bob" tells me.

"The End of the World,...again"

The World has ended any number of times in it's history. I guess the biggest blow was when the Earth was hit by a Mars sized planet a zillion years ago. We've been having a Helluva time ever since.

Most recently about 70,000 years ago there was a volcanic decade that wiped out most of life on this hapless planet. The lack of sunlight, and the toxic air reduced Humanity of the time to perhaps 5000 individuals.

I've recently read where some smarty pants think we were down to just 500 or so women able to bear children. This is very likely where the "Adam, and Eve" myth came from.

(As for where the "Free Lunch" myth originated...well research continues.)

I bring all this jolly stuff up just to point out we're been through a lot, and still have managed to be around. We're sort of the roaches of mammals. There's no getting rid of us.

Which brings us to the main topic of our little visit today. Basically the recent "Re-Medievalization" of world affairs.

Though we mostly live in an interconnected complex Civilization. There are huge swaths of this warming planet that have been enjoying the benefits if having their heads hacked off.

...and hacked off for rather trivial reasons.

"Trivial" to us in the First, and Second worlds. Eh the dear old U. S. of A. being a new member of that Second World tribe. Still we have pizza cable, and loads of Hydrogen Bombs we can 'never' use...and everyone 'knows' we can never use them. So they might as well be ice cream cones sitting in the summer sun for all their usefulness.

'But I digress.

The People in the cage are Women, and Children waiting to be burned alive. Their crimes are varied though mostly religious, and tribal. They're Coptic Christians traditional Muslims girls, and woman that can read that sort of thing.

Identical scenes were common in Medieval Europe albeit with a slightly different cast.

However the above is happening in the highly complex world I mention. We're a species that have so far sent two count'em "Two" ships deliberately out to the Stars...the Voyagers. Google them.

Our science is almost magical. We've walked on the Moon we have robots driving around Mars. That, and millions of both stupid, and useless apps for our assorted devices we plug into ourselves.

It seems we're many things at once. Yes were Starfarers, but in the Amazon rain forests we're still cave bleeping men. In Africa parts of it we're pre-lithic hunter gathers. Also in Africa, and the middle, and far east we're ruled by feudal Medieval Warlords of varying degrees of sanity.

All this while you, and I hide behind our very locked doors in fear of post-industrial barbarians.

Not the 21st Century I was banking on. See attached images of dear old George Jetson, and assorted tomorrow land fantasies.

Alas a lost future.

Though mind you the One Percent, and most certainly that 1% of the 1% are doing just fine in our lost world plastic underwear, and jet packs.

Us we got stuck somewhere in the late 70's early 1980's or so. This when income stagnated, and the American Middle Class...the largest, and coolest in all history was slowly strangled to death.

I dunno maybe India or China will take the crown for the largest though not likely coolest Middle Class.

Anyway this is where we are now. Yeah yeah some smarty pants social scientist could do a better job. However I got to the point...we're fucked. ...well at least for now.

Social stagnation chopped off heads the collapse of public education stupid wars the climate turned decidedly against us...yeah pretty bad.

However there could be a somewhat happy ending.

We're roaches remember we survive anything. So odds are we'll survive this screwed up era like all the others. There is as unlikely as it would seem,...HOPE.

Still I really wanted that mythical 21st Century our folks promised us, and which we totally fucked up.

Anyway I'm in the middle of making dinner so I'll be back latter.

Btw, Good Passover, and Happy Easter. I went to a swell blow-out Seder at an old pal's home. The Davis's...loves ya's!!

It was seriously swell. Wonderful folks all over the place, and great eats. The reading of the service was very moving, and hilariously funny too. As only old Peaceniks could make it.

So there are 'still' good, and Holy things around...this is where that "Hope" thing comes from. We believe in a Future no matter what. For mammals we have a really very good though seriously weird sense of humor. That, and we tend to survive the worse crap anybody cares to throw at us.

"Race War"

In the context of dominate cultures persecuting smaller ones. Example White law makers making Cannabis use a crime. Though used to heal pain for thousands of years it was criminalized in the U.S. because it was commonly consumed by Red Brown, and Black people.

I see an alternate history where Pink people are a powerless minority. This, and their traditions are criminalized. Above the flag of this alternate Black dominated America.

Golf declared a criminal activity. 5 years for possession of golfing paraphernalia. 8 to15 years for first offense of active golfing. 25 years for the second...no parole. Life or the death penalty...depending on the state for the third.

Consumption of the so-called "Cheeseburger" declared a crime. Possession of paraphernalia,...pickles ketchup buns etc. 5 years. Possession of uncooked meat paddy 5 to 8 years. Possession of cooked patty with intent to consume 15 to 25 years. ...no parole. Sale of uncooked patty 15 years. Sale of cooked patty 30 years. Sale to minor,...death.

Owning multiple cars criminalized. The possession of more than one motorized vehicle for other than licensed professional reasons. Public service for two years plus social responsibility therapy. In excess of three vehicles 10 to 25 years. Sale of multiple motorized vehicles,...death.

Manufacture possession or selling any type of motor home for residential use, and manufacture of any kind of grain alcohol ,...death.

Belonging to any type of racial nationalist group. Including possession of banners of any sort. Literature or recorded nationalist/racial materials on any kind of media. Wearing of illegal nationalist racial symbols customs of 'any' kind, and possession or use of chewing tobacco, and unofficially produced alcohol of any type. 30 years hard labor.

Manufacture of any, and all such nationalist material, and conspiracy to transport, and or distribute same. Death by hanging in a public area of the convicts community. In the case of minor over the age of 10. 18 years plus the right hand to no further than halfway to the joint or elbow will be amputated without anesthesia. (...the Belgians did exactly this in the Congo.)
Parents or guardian(s) fined to no more than 2/3 of their possessions or wealth plus sterilization.

The possession of so-called "country music" instruments, and assorted paraphernalia. 25 years hard labor. The possessing of recordings on any type of media of criminal "Country Music". 5 to 20 case depending . ( If for personal private use 5 to 10 years. If played with others present even family 20 years. No parole.)

Possession Country music media with intent to duplicate no matter the number of copies. That is any quantity more than "one". 40 years hard labor as long as physically viable or again euthanasia if requested.

Composing illegally publishing on any media criminal "Country Music",...Death. Conspiracy to publish,...Death. Transporting illegally duplicated manuscripts or finished musical products. Death. Failure to report knowledge of the above. Confiscation of all personal properties, and those of family to the third cousins. Life w/o parole or euthanasia if requested.

All this sounds crazy. Well white folks have done exactly this all over the world, they stripped peoples of their cultures as a matter of social control. That, and inflicted punishment in irrational, and cruel extremes.
'This' is what it would look like if it happened to pink peoples.

If history played out just slightly differently. That is if non-European cultures advanced which they well have done, and became colonizing industrial enslaving empires. All the above in on way or another would have happened.

This is why mostly older white folks are in such a panic.

Their days of over lordship are running out...and they know it. They are soon to be a minority. They know what this will mean since they spent the last 500/600 years tormenting others with impunity.

In 2010 more technicolor babies were born than pink ones. They've been getting born by the metric ton everyday since. This is where the panic to deport 11,000,000 Brown peoples comes from.

They are in pissing terror of their just deserts.

However to us this is just a very minor rear guard action of an already defeated army. I mean Trump, and all that aged redneck I want my country back" noise.

American pink people are already a minority.

Them 2010 babies, all proper citizens, are in middle school now. Soon...very soon they'll be voting, and their younger brother's, and sisters, and cousins will be voting just a little after that. ...and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and yes... More.

However "fear not for I bring thee glad tidings"...sound familiar?

You have nothing to fear. Why? Because 'we' are not 'you'.

We ain't perfect, but we sure ain't you. We will be far more patient thoughtful kind, and generous. More than 'you' ever' were to us. You are our brethren. You are our beloved sisters, and brothers...we're funny this way. ...well most of us. We will embrace you as fellow Americans. As we already do.

Amen.