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infantilism

"...Our greatest historian, Charles Beard, wrote in 1939:
The destiny of Europe and Asia has not been committed, under God, to the keeping of the United States; and only conceit, dreams of grandeur, vain imaginings, lust for power, or a desire to escape from our domestic perils and obligations could possibly make us suppose that Providence has appointed us his chosen people for the pacification of the earth.
Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic. They are giving evidence of sanity, not cowardice, of adult thinking as distinguished from infantilism. They intend to preserve and defend the Republic. America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America."

Copyright © by Gore Vidal

Born in Louisville, Kentucky to a middle class family, Thompson had a turbulent youth after the death of his father left the family in poverty. He was unable to formally finish high school as he was incarcerated for 60 days after abetting a robbery. He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism. He traveled frequently, including stints in Puerto Rico and Brazil, before settling in Aspen, Colorado in the early 1960s.
Thompson became internationally known with the publication of Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1967), for which he had spent a year living and riding with the Angels, experiencing their lives and hearing their stories first hand. Previously a relatively conventional journalist, with the publication in 1970 of "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" he became a counter cultural figure, with his own brand of New Journalism he termed "Gonzo", an experimental style of journalism where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. The work he remains best known for is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1972), a rumination on the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement. It was first serialized in Rolling Stone, a magazine with which Thompson would be long associated, and was released as a film starring Johnny Depp and directed by Terry Gilliam in 1998.
Politically minded, Thompson ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, in 1970, on the Freak Power ticket. He was well known for his inveterate hatred of Richard Nixon, who he claimed represented "that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character"[5] and whom he characterized in what many consider to be his greatest contribution to American literature, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. Thompson's output notably declined from the mid-1970s, as he struggled with the consequences of fame, and he complained that he could no longer merely report on events as he was too easily recognized. He was also known for his lifelong use of alcohol and illegal drugs; his love of firearms, and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism, and remarked that, "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
While suffering a bout of health problems, Thompson committed suicide at the age of 67. As per his wishes, his ashes were fired out of a cannon in a ceremony funded by his friend, Johnny Depp, and attended by a host of friends including then Senator John Kerry and Jack Nicholson. Hari Kunzru wrote that, "the true voice of Thompson is revealed to be that of American moralist ... one who often makes himself ugly to expose the ugliness he sees around him."

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Julius Marx's daughter Malinda sings!


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WHAT IS TRUE

It has been incredibly confusing for this amateur to get a hold on the actual nature of what it is that U.S. combat operations anywhere in the Middle East hope to accomplish—This interview with 3 star Gen. Michael Flynn, who strikes me as the same sort of person Lt. Col. L. Fletcher Prouty was, who spoke openly about his military service in the fifties and early sixties about how operational control of these important,vital matters has not been 100% under Pentagon control; that military experts re often vetoed by other agency with direct ties to the Executive branch of government. JFK gave instructions to the Head of the joint Chiefs of Staff that he as president regarded their advice as the final word, a policy reversed by LBJ two days after Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas.

CIA, NSA input into military operations, and the amount of money disbursed to private sector corporate players have so muddied the waters of what it is we are expecting of our sons and daughters when we send them into a shooting war, without Congress declaring war, which is the obligation conferred on Congress by the U.S. Constitution, that these police actions since WWII have no clear goal of victory.

It is also apparent that since the first Gulf War, limited journalists are allowed in combat zones in contradiction of the First Amendment; scribes are vetted by the Pentagon, CIA or who knows? The American people get very little truth, or any real awareness of what is going on overseas, certainly not the breath of information that brought the curtain down on our engagement in S.E. Asia.

Now S.W. Asia operations have languished longer than the VietNam effort that was questionable from its inception as to its final stated and/or unstated goal. President Eisenhower stated he would never send U.S. ground forces to the mainland of Asia (see: Pentagon Papers Chapter 2).

While I do not subscribe to any old conspiracy theory, the Military Industrial Complex does hold ultimate sway over the funds supplied by taxpayers and this is sad, especially when the counsel of good men and women in the uniform of our nation are not heeded.



President Eisenhower—his invention of the term Military Industrial Complex


CONSPIRACY SCOPE: Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS

Confederate Flag by Biff Bradley

I have so much that I would like to say to you, and so many other family and friends that have jumped on this recent up swelling of fervor directed at eradicating not only the flying of the Southern/Rebel/Confederate (take your pick, or add another) flag, but even almost turning into a lynch mob mentality, the same said people being the same ones that were waving their lighters at Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet, Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels, Pure Pararie League, Marshall Tucker Band, and Dixie Dreggs, plus so, so many other Southern Band's concerts,... almost to the point that it sounds like they're going to round up all of the remaining old Southern rockers, hang them from cross shape stakes, and burn them from a giant bonfire made up of all their old albums, that are ladened with all sorts of Southern symbols, and all of the old giant Confederate flag backdrops, and all of the other Southern themed concert paraphernalia. There were a lot of blacks at the concerts that I went to. I even got to witness 3 black guys beating the hell out of 1 white guy, and not a single one of these flag waving Southern rednecks were helping the guy out, even though the whites greatly out numbered the blacks, for some reason, the flag did not send all of the whites into a blind black hating fury. I have been naive most of my life, and I still can be quite so. I was totally blind to the plight of the black people for the first 15 years of my life, mainly because my Dad was over protective, and I never saw a single black person in any cotton field that I was ever in. All I ever saw in the cotton fields was me, and a whole bunch of other white people. I grew up loving the rebel flag, not because of my parents, because I don't think that it was ever mentioned. I just developed a sense of pride in being from the South, and I've always thought that it was one of the most beautiful flags in the world. Until I got older, I didn't associate it with anything other than being proud to be from the South. I also don't believe that it is we Southerners holding on to the Old South, as much as it is the northerners have held on to a somewhat rancid smugness, that makes us hold on to the flag to remind us that we weren't always on the same side as those assholes. Also, there might be some similarities in the reaction to the flags, but making a head to head comparison of the Confederate flag to the Nazi flag, is somewhat of a stretch.

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THE MORE LATER I PROMISED (UPDATED 25APR15)

THE MORE LATER I PROMISED

I DO NOT CONSIDER MYSELF AN ACADEMIC JUST SOMEONE SELF EDUCATED BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND EXPERIENCE OF LIFE AND MY EXPLORATION OF THE NOVELS, DOCUMENTS, FILMS ETC. OF OUR TIME. I claim the title of Historian, and the accumulated facts and figures I deem reliable, form the basis of my opinions.

The League of Nations and the United Nations were and are attempts to end wars of conquest. American hands are not clean, the Indian reservations are concentration camps formed for entire nations of people, clearly as advanced as we white 'settlers' but deemed “in the way”; Hitler made the statement in “Mein Kampf” that he deemed the conquest of eastern territory was akin to the American (actually U.S.) regard for 'redskin Indians'.

A interesting video I just saw today and don't have a clue of its credence but is well made:


WAR IS A RACKET
by Major general Smedley D. Butler,  two time winner of Congressional Medal of Honor


TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT
ACT OCT. 6, 1917, CH. 106, 40 STAT. 411


EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK
"TRADING WITH THE ENEMY"
by Charles Higham  (Delacorte Press, 1983)

The Versailles Treaty may have been heavy handed but the sense of outrage at the treatment of civilians at German hands (and the record of ruthlessness in WWI  by the Wehrmacht is clear,) in the age of wire serviced newspapers, photographs, motion pictures and radio. Television and now the internet can potentially make military activities even more transparent to the public and subject to the judgement and criticisms of that same public and this is as it should be.

The hope for economic cooperation is the most important struggle that exists today, attempts to bleed the foreign people, our own fellow citizens, remains the same grave moral imperitive today as it did in Grandfather Franklin Delano Roosevelt's day; recent blogging to denigrate this titan of a man and the effect his administration had on his fellow citizens is the same left vs. right and vice vrsa horseshit that does not accept the truth of the senses, those days are over; there is no dedicated ideological movement to transform or overthrow our constitutional form we live in. Think on that. The organized movement abroad to reinstate the caliphate of former days by fractional numbers of Muslim humanity has been the danger we face today, the beheading purposely presented to the public—the plotting of terror, I have read is the tactic of the impotent. The need for understanding, respect for one another, and acceptance of difference is still important. The welfare state is over, Obamacare is run by private corporations, it is the attempt to make medical care available in a sensible nuts and bolts method instead of making the insured minority pay for the uninsured majority which bancrupted GM. Can we eliminate greed, or can we just see how we are formed and fitted together alike by nature and the almighty; is “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” an in escapable destiny beyond human ingenuity to solve?

"Cosmic Consciousness"—by Dr. Richard Bucke

Woke Up this Mornin' with the Walking Blues—updated 28JAN15

Been going through a rough patch here; been in 'Hard Times' more than once but I'm alright now...you know what Ringo says, "You gotta pay your dues, if you wanna play the Blues." I appreciate all the family support, we lost two dear relations, J.O. Purcell and Laura Stafford, Uncle Robert Jr.'s girl he used to call 'Suzy'; i never knew it was a nickname, all four of his kids had nicknames, maybe all those years as a Master Sergeant in the Army has something to do with that.

 

Our dear Aunt Dene has gone home to be with the Lord, nothing will ever be the same.

Walking Blues

Roger Maris 1961

American League MVP 1960 and 1961 and the non-steroid home run king; Mr. Maris belongs in the Hall of Fame, delay of this and the admission of any steroid era ballplayer to the Hall will forever tarnish the reputation of the BWAA who do the voting—his demand for a little league park for kids as condition to return to the Bronx is character all over.

Roger Maris



1961 and Roger Maris

FDR the man

FDR THE MAN

CRIME CONSPIRACY HEADACHES OBSESSION

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the cat porch

the cat porch and a... My cat is a tremendous cat. There is little I might do to settle peace in the air, the sky, vitamin rich dog food...the woman in I love hooking at you; especially when you voice, sleet under dress shoes;help me plant a vegetable garden...

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Video: Robert Reich on 'Inequality for All'

Video: Robert Reich on 'Inequality for All'