Gatekeeper, here!  Sorry, it’s been a while, but I’ve finally had some thoughts worth posting.

There are two major factors when it comes to the control or lack of control of a populace. Fear and Need. I have come up with an equation to illustrate this:

If F (Fear) > N (Needs) then C (Control) > R (Revolt)

If F (Fear) < N (Needs) then C (Control) < R (Revolt)

The current capitalistic dynamic is not meeting the needs of everyone, and in order to actually provide what everyone needs, some sacrifices on the behalf of those who own most of this country need to be made. In lieu of the willingness of those in control to provide what everyone needs (from top to bottom), another force must be exerted – FEAR. Fear is spread via the media, everyone is told what they ought to be afraid of, thus distracting them from revolting for their own needs, because the belief is instilled that we are being protected from something worse than our predicament.

Minor efforts are made to appease the most needful to keep them from the absolute bottom, but today, even these programs are being stripped bare, and the homeless population continues to swell, all because of some finagling by the most wealthy, those who want nothing more than just that – MORE.

In addition, there is another wild force than must be reigned in to maintain control. That wild force is youth. Youth sees idealism, and believes that idealism is possible. Youth sees the predicament we’re in and asks why. Youth will even, in its “hopeless” idealism, propose better ways to live. Youth rebells in the face of hopelessness, because Youth knows no hopelessness. Youth perceives less boundaries. Youth experiments. Sometimes with drugs. Sometimes those drugs expand the possibilities within the mind of those who partake of them. That is dangerous to those in control. Hence, the war on drugs. The Achilles’ heel of rebellious youth.

Thus, the more daring, bold, experimental youth are jailed for their troubles, kept in control by absolute force.

Another force, which is to be avoided by both sides, ideally, is Despair. Despair is the absolute bottom. Despair is devoid of hope. Despair is not a weapon that can be used by a populace, it is a disease. In the worse cases, however, Despair IS a weapon of the power structure. It is a last resort. A false admission that “we the powerful cannot do anything for you peasants, things are just too fucked up right now, so you ought to start fending for yourselves.”

I don’t think we’ve totally gotten there as a nation but I believe we’re seeing it in places like Detroit, New Orleans, and others. The blueprint of the rich and powerful is in use now, and if we the people don’t demand a change – perhaps even fight for change – then we’re all destined to be victims of that blueprint. When entire neighborhoods are boarded up and abandoned by the power structure, it is a false admission that “We, the powerful, cannot do anything for you. Move on, there is no hope here.”

Why, amongst all this hopelessness, are the rich still getting richer? I’m not talking about the average small business owner, I’m talking Corporate Officers/Major shareholders and the like. I’m talking Federal Reserve Bank giving handouts to their friends/member banks. OUR MONEY. No strings. Buh-Bye!!! With all this, we’re in a recession and on the brink of depression? Something doesn’t fit. There is a big problem with this kind of Greed. I wonder, when will we reach the breaking point? When will be throw down our shit shovels and scream “ENOUGH!” Is everyone blind or just broken?

This may sound extreme or flat out wacky depending on the reader, but in this type of situation, strength can be gained from thinking/acting less as a civilization and more like a tribe. When the structure of our “grand” civilization fails to meet the needs of all people, a tribe can form to fill in the gaps and eliminate the need for an external power structure all together.

If we start fending for each other instead of for ourselves, maybe we can truly change things for the better.

In a tribe, everyone fights against outside threats – real threats, not imagined threats to cast as fear spells on the populace. In a tribe, everyone eats, or no one eats – and everyone does their part to ensure that. We are all in it together from beginning to end. A tribe shelters each other, counsels each other, fends for each other. Leaders are chosen for their ability to guide, not necessarily dictate. They are chosen for their wisdom and their compassion. They’re not elected because they’re aligned with a party, there are no parties, there’s just “us.” If those leaders take advantage, a civilization is helpless to change. A tribe takes immediate action.

The current system has been designed to keep the power in the hands of the few. The only thing we have against them is our vote, and assuming that our elections are fair (can we assume that?), then we the people are always supposed to have the option to make change. So, what’s the problem? Well, there are several, and I have a problem choosing where to begin, but I’ll try.

We’ve been convinced that there are two major opposing forces in this country – the two major parties. These two parties, for the most part, are only different in rhetoric. When it comes to action, neither party can seem to follow those ideals without being hindered by something… there’s always an issue to divide. Lines are drawn and signs are painted. We can scream at each other from opposite sides of a protest line, and guess what? The ones in power are laughing their asses off, regardless of the issue. Why? Because it’s the perfect distraction. How better to distract a populace than to convince them that a) The issues that divide them are concrete reasons to mistrust and even hate the “others,” and b) That their convictions, their issues, actually make a major difference in how this country is run.

Look at the “wedge” issues, and over the last three decades, tell me what has really changed? There are certain accomplishments that have made a difference, but by and far, the wedge issues are still wedge issues, and not a whole lot has changed. Look at the current regime… A black man is the President and still, you have paranoid racists making slanderous statements about his race, his religion, his upbringing, questioning whether he’s American, questioning whether he’s Muslim… all of these things point to a sickness that still exists despite the civil rights movement.

Most people, I’d like to believe, are past this sort of thing, but there is a real interest in keeping people focused on their personal differences rather than uniting them through their common struggle.

Even so-called enlightened progressives get stuck in the mud fighting for things that in the long run are not as important as survival. The problem is, most people don’t realize what is happening, what’s really at stake. They believe that for the most part things are fine, so instead of fighting against the root of the problem, they’re distracted into fighting a problem that the power structure is completely fine with them fighting – again – distraction from the true disease that is rotting the core of this nation.

If a nation is its people, then those who are pulling the strings truly do not love this nation, they are merely interested in exploiting the masses for personal gain. Do they even love themselves, or are they completely blinded and mislead by their sickness? They seem to look out for their families and friends, but that’s where their allegiance to humanity ends. The allegiances they form are not out of love, it seems, but more of convenience.

People need to realize that the power structure doesn’t give a damn about them. Politicians act like they do, but it’s hard to argue where their priorities are when most of them are on the take from Corporate interests. If you knew what was going on with preferential loan practices that are extended to lawmakers by major financial institutions, it would make you sick. It’s all to keep their pockets lined and in luxury. The more you have the less you want to give up, so when you’re sucking the tits of big money, you keep on sucking unless you want to get cut off or worse. Big money wants to stay big money and anything that stands in the way of big money gets squashed.

It’s not “Free Enterprise.” That’s a lie. Laws are written (and regulations eliminated) to favor big money, and keep them as the top dogs. What we are facing is a new aristocracy, and it is all about wealth and power. Don’t be fooled, this is the new peasant state. The top 1% wealthiest Americans own more than 95% of the population put together.

This begs the question: What is the end game? How much do they want? When will big money be satisfied?

The Answer: NEVER. A sickness finds new and insidious ways to propagate itself. Greed is a never ending cycle of vampires feeding on the weak and exploiting the ignorant.

Look at the current trend of financial institutions feeding on our elderly. Once you stop working you still need income to pay your housing taxes, right? So when you run out, what happens? You lose your house – or do you? BANKS to the rescue! We’ll give you money if you’ll just sign a portion of your house over to us… and by the way, we’re gonna give you a sweet introductory rate, but what we’re not gonna tell you is in a year or so, we’re gonna heist you, legally. We’ll keep jacking up your APR until you cannot possibly keep up! We’ll blame it on the “housing bubble” which we created, and we’ll probably end up stealing – I mean, repossessing your property. Your hard earned legacy.

We never really own anything, do we?

A tribe would never put its own out in the cold because of some financial debt. Our nation, however, does, and will continue to do so, at the behest of those who line our lawmakers’ pockets. Most tribes don’t even have a sense of ownership like we “enlightened” folk do. We draw lines. See? That’s clever. We plant flags. Oooh, impressive! We draw maps which dictate our boundaries, and tell us who owns what. But again, “ownership” is bullshit even in our capitalistic society. As long as you continue to pay taxes for the home you “own,” you don’t own it at all. As soon as your family cannot keep up with the outrageous protection money – I mean, housing taxes – then the property goes back into the hands of the financial institution(s) that was/were “nice” enough to extend you credit so you could achieve your own personal American Dream. What a sham.

This is the truth and many of you don’t want to admit it. You’ve been duped by the illusion of a so-called free society.

True, there’s freedom of speech… as long as you’re saying something that doesn’t perturb big brother.

There’s freedom of the press… but the press is now owned by a handful of corporate conglomerates. So a free press? Also an illusion.

There’s the right to keep and bear arms – as long as you don’t hold beliefs that are contrary to the power structures desires, because if you do, the FBI and the ATF will be knocking your door down and storming your castle.

We have protection against unreasonable search and seizure… unless you’re one of the many types of offenders that the Patriot Act specifies as Fourth Amendment waivers (mostly minor drug offenses, not anything to do with terrorism).

We have the right to due process… unless you’re declared an “enemy combatant” by the state. Who can be declared an enemy combatant? ANYONE. Citizen or not. All it requires is a corrupt judge’s signature and it’s a done deal, your ass is locked up with no rights. You’ll also probably be locked up somewhere where torture is institutionalized, so they will attempt to violate your 5th Amendment rights by coercing confessions through torture or threat on your family, those confessions extracted being false or otherwise. Doesn’t matter as long as you scream like a baby and demonstrate absolute obedience.

Trial by jury? Forget it. If you’re an enemy combatant, you get a military tribunal if anything.

Protection against cruel and unusual punishment? I believe we’ve already gone over enough to prove that doesn’t really hold true anymore. Even if you’re not declared an enemy combatant, is state or federal prison a place where you’re going to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment? I think not. In fact, our prison system is increasingly becoming a “for profit” industry, and with all the rhetoric about the free market system, you’d think that industry could provide better than the government, right? Wrong. Often times corporate run prisons are much worse than government run institutions. Our former Vice President Darth “No Pulse” Cheney has a significant stake in a texas based for-profit prison system that was recently under investigation for cruel and unusual punishment – punishment encouraged by the management and propagated by guard cronies.

That hardly sounds like the American Dream, but it is the American Dream of the powerful, the rich… the “elite” class. It’s the new Aristocracy, and they don’t give a shit about you or your family, unless you happen to be one of their close friends, family members, or a person in a position of power who’s in line with their agenda of absolute ownership and control.

If F > N, then C > R

If fear instilled in our society exceeds our sense of need, then the control exerted over us is more powerful than our impulse for revolt.

If F < N, then C < R

If our needs exceed the impact intended by the fear mongers, then the impulse to revolt then overwhelms the attempted control exerted by the powerful…

What happens then?

We, the people, truly become the power. We stop responding to the threats and boogie man shenanigans of the media, and we take control of our destiny. If we are going to overcome this heap of shit, we have to have the resolve and conviction to do so, and we have to treat each other better, or it’s all for nothing. Greed will prevail again, and we’re back to nothing.

If we can overcome greed and the allure of power, we can make the changes that we all know must be made for the benefit of the people. Something like this would be a fine test for humanity, to see if we can truly “rise above” the muck and mire of materialism, and forge ahead to a new age of enlightenment.

~Gatekeeper.

According to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the Times-Picayune, and several other news sources, the Coast Guard has put new restrictions that prevent the public — including members of the media — from approaching within 65-feet of response vessels or booms on the water or beaches.

And since booms are often placed more than forty feet from islands or marshlands, this means that photographers, blogger s, reporters, and even volunteers, won’t be able to get close enough to oil-drenched wildlife to bear witness. To report. To help.

Violators will face a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a Class D felony.

Welcome to 1984. This is the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. History. Eleven lives were lost in the initial blow-out and the death toll of wildlife — birds, dolphins, sea turtles, fish, and sharks — cannot be tallied. B.P., and now the Coast Guard, want to make sure it stays that way.

OK now that you’ve had a chance to digest that what is the first thing that comes to your mind?….?…..?…..? Well I’ll tell you what comes to mine! This is worse than we thought. You don’t keep Media out unless you really don’t want anyone to know the truth! what has our country come to? Up is down, Bad issssss.… Ohh yeah what was that famous line from that movie Wall Street with Michel Douglas?? Greed is Good… Wow! Are we there yet?

I am not sure just how we will meet our demise, but if these rat bastards stay in control much longer we are all screwed.I mean how convenient for BP not to have to worry about any real documentation of the real damage caused… And I think I’ve made up my mind about Obama. Looooooooosssseeeerrr with a capital L and a Jim Cary flair...This guys inability to pull the trigger on important issues. Freakin frack! and I voted for him, should have voted with my heart and soul instead of my wishful thinking and a prayer. They fooled us again, throw em a black guy to liven up their dispirited souls, He sucks just like the rest and spends money faster than…….. God! Dare I say it?! George W B.B.B.B.B.B.Bush!!! Egaaaads How embarrassing and How many of you know that last month we passed more banks  that went belly up  than all of last year? Yeah just keep throwing those useless worthless plummeting dollars all over the place and not deal with the real issue.. Jobs.. and how it seems right now that every company in the world is farming their business to under paid overworked third world countries where they don’t have to worry about child labor laws. WE NO LONGER HAVE REGARD FOR HUMAN DECENCY……………We are supposed to champion that belief, not step all over it with corporate boots?!

Did you know that the European Union members and several other countries of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) to make the $10 billion abuse-ridden cocoa industry more sustainable and fair to workers (the U.S. was still conspicuously absent from this organization). This agreement will largely be wishful thinking until the United States, the largest consumer of cocoa, signs on to such agreements or guarantees its chocolate as Fair Trade. Which of course they haven’t!

I don’t know! I get this quizzy feeling in my stomach, we used to be a super power and did the right things most of the time or was that an illusion as well?! Now we can’t even do anything. Like Lewis Black said! ” I mean lie to me or something, go down to Kinko’s and Xerox a photo showing a camel with a missile strapped to its back”

God you don’t even bother to lie to us anymore! Have we become so pathetic as a nation, and so immersed in apathetic numbness that nothing really matters anymore????!!! This country needs more than a face lift, it needs some serious rehab. The era of quick fix was over in the 90s yet we stayed the course. Like a giant merry go-round we keep spinning no where, but man we sure are going fast! Wooohoooo!

Back to the main topic. How will we know what damages BP has to pay? If can not record the truth, see the truth, tell the truth, or simply know the real truth???

Again I say! ” How convenient! “

Peace and double out!

~ZenTwist

I’m sure many of you have wondered why I haven’t said anything yet of this on going crisis in the gulf..

Honestly I really didn’t think it was going to go on this long. Then as Each day went by, while millions of gallons more oil,  just bled into our ocean, Or is that “The Ocean?” I became numb.

Numb from the simplicity of a gigantic problem, numb from the very fact that since this had happened before back in the 70’s. One would think, the oil company’s had a solution in hand?! That they would have been more prepared?! would have capped that puppy within days of the incident?! I mean but really what the fuck does BP care of this problem really? they don’t even live over here and lawsuits won’t be settled until 2030, and who will remember then what really happened today? BP refused to shut down oil wells even though it would make it easier to plug the hole, simply because only 20 percent was being lost and we’ve got a schedule to keep and some how this thing will just work itself out?! “No! Keep on pumping boys” Who gives a rats ass, if the fishing industries take a colossal hit! England is happy eating their sausages. But wait what about fish and chips? Jesus man, they will feel the fall out! Or is that oil out? Would you like some oil on your Mayo dear? Now their saying by august, that is a whole month and a half away has anyone really thought how much more oil will have spilled? that is not good enough. That’s like uncle Ernie who’s Liver is so bloated, he’s got stretch marks on his nipples telling you he checking into rehab a couple of months from now
Just got to have a few last shots with the boys.

Bloody Hell, what the absolute freaking kind of madness is occurring? Priorities are officially out of complete fucking Wackedness. Seriously it was like some comedic spoof except that it was real, bumbling, stumbling idiots, who have lost touch with reality! The Military said they could help. Oh great that’s wonderful! Oh wait! Whats that? Uhh it seems that they don’t want to reveal their top secret, scooby dooby doo shit, so they can’t help us, national security and all.. Holy crap Hold on I think my brain just split in two…AArrrrgggg.. I swear I’m having a Lewis Black attack in my living room… I believe this is the first time I really wished I was President.. Want to know why? I don’t care if you don’t want to know! I’m gonna tell yah anyway.

Because first I would have ordered all of my biggest finest battle ships to go to every oil rig and basically ordered them to shut down and if they refused I would have taken the oil rig by force and shut it down myself.. Then since I was the commanding Chief I would have ordered those ass in their ear officers to go get what ever we had that was sooooooo secretly important Scooby Dooby Doo butt fuck gear, and go fix the God damn thing before the first week had passed…

Sadly……… I am not President! And all we really had was a bunch of guys standing around with their fingers in their ass waiting for someone else to do something. Sadly as well, is, this is the state of the entire world, thinking somehow it will all get fixed by someone else. I also wondered to myself is this the beginning of the end? Didn’t think it could end this way did yah.. A big bang or some deadly disease, probably manufactured by some real insecure rotten freak..

Mother Earth is bleeding because they “BP” ripped a gaping hole in her under belly, and the best that BP has to offer, is a ship to sit over the top of the spill still sopping up the spillage with some hood. With the standard we cant say for a few weeks how much we are actually getting this way, “Zen Translation” not to fucking much, but by the time we release that info it won’t really matter anymore it will have passed by with only a whisper, an after thought, oh hey! What was that number? How many gallons now? You would have thought that some law should have been in place that didn’t allow any drilling past a depth that we couldn’t go and fix..

You know? as a whole we really are not very bright, and it is this type of thinking or non thinking that will be our undoing, and that may have already happened. Whats most disturbing is the lack of urgency! This isn’t going away any time soon, even if it was shut down today, it is a horrific blunder which will have cascading side effects over the rest of our life time.

This world is now run by those who have no care or emotion for the wonder and beauty of this lovely planet. Whether it is the Ocean or Forrest or the vast mountains, all they see are dollar signs and their hearts bleed from greed as they strip, gouge and cut and burn all that is good and once plentiful, and give nothing in return. If they could bottle the Sun Rise and sell it they would, even if it it meant never having another one..

Peace and love but know that the time has come to fight for her right to survive.

~ZenTwist

Welcome!  I’ve seen several people register over the last couple weeks, a good dozen or so.  Sure, some of those are probably bots or spammers, but there have got to be SOME of you who are real people and at least a little interested in what’s going on here.

Maybe there are a few of you who have considered responding and getting involved but you might feel intimidated about being the newbie in a new land.  Fear not!  We await your contributions.

So stop lurking and start sharing!  Don’t be afraid to agree or disagree, or even put an entirely new spin on something.

Your move, lurkers!

~Gatekeeper.

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I answered to new person Panic attack PTSD. Been meaning to write a part 2 anyway, so here it is.

Well thank you Panic attack PTSD!

It was a heartfelt piece that I wrote…

I’m glad I could be of any help to you.

One thing I hadn’t mentioned was, I have a Nephew who was there,……………. (IRAQ) and recently just went back.. I failed to mention, that I was also worried for him. Because he, has bought the bullshit..

He became so enraged one night during a Thanksgiving dinner, all because we started dissing, how stupid, Bush really is. ( Heavy Democratic family) And He really is not, a very intelligent man. I think George Senior purposely dropped him on his head, any time anyone was not looking.

My nephew really took this personally. He was so angry he left. I felt bad for him, because nothing of what we said, had anything to do with him, and that concerned me. As well as he really missed some funny shit, Don’t believe me just watch some of the bloopers on Utube.

These kids are brain washed. Just cuz you joined the military service, doesn’t mean you have to agree with the President’s policy’s\Lies. You may be enforcing them and I get, how that just brings up a whole lot of controversy for someone in the middle of a fire fight. I think that also, qualifies one, as a conscientious objector. Yet for someone in the military to accept fact, without research, is already doomed, to being a nonthinking robot.

I love to ask this question. If any of you serviceman\woman were asked to do all of the things that you did over there, to do over here, to your own people, in your own country. Would you do it? Just because someone else gave you an order??  Without question or reason? Could you find a way, to justify, inside your head, the way you find a way over there, if it was against your own people? Because that could be the case one day, if Real Americans, ever wake up one day, and realize how corrupt and devious, our own government has become. And decide enough is enough.

Seriously it has become Taboo to talk of revolution as if that some how that makes you a traitor to your own country. When it is an American freaking right. What bullshit it is, that we now can be rendered down to  ( Pick One ) Commies, Terrorist, Vigilantes, Non Americans, Non-supporters of our troops, Sympathizers, Bleeding heart liberals, Hippies, Guppies, Yuppies…. All because I disagree with my governments policies and refuse to be a mutated, blind smelly crusty SHEEP!

It is my, dare I say it, God Given Right! As an American, by the freedom of speech act! To criticize, scrutinize, and publicize, as well as protest for, my very own beliefs on every and any subject I choose……….. Amen! Amen brother Zen! Amen!

That American Flag, has become just a warm blanket of shit, stuffed with lies, greed, murder, and calculated chaos, which you tuck yourselves into each and every night. How do you sleep so soundly? Amongst the cries and screams, of the dying innocents? I’m not saying there are not bad people out there, Problem is some of them are our own countrymen…

Who doesn’t get, that this is about oil? And control of that oil, and closely following, are the religious zealots, who seem to forget violence begets violence and truly think that we need to control those Arab’s………. before it is too late.. Scary!!!

I recently spoke with another Veteran of this Iraqi War, and its more of the same bullshit… Know what his job was? Escorting, giant empty, corporate trucks, ( Non Military Vehicles…) Back and forth, across the desert, from one base to another. Sometimes one of the trucks, would be loaded with ice, which was insane, because every base had their own means of making it, besides since this was in the day time, can anyone use their imagination??? ( lets see iceeeee and 120 to 130 degrees heat, how much ice do you think made it? ) Oh shiiitt now we gotta go back and get more ice dammit! ) Therefore rendering, that particular journey irrelevant.

This all at a whopping cost, to us tax payers of ??!! ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PER TRUCK… PER TRIP….WTF?

As my boy Zacky said ” I risked my life to protect nothing! If I had died, I would have died for nothing. Guarding those trucks had nothing to do with Honor, or Protecting the Freedom and rights of American People! It had everything to do, with lining the pockets of some greasy fat Pigs, who hide behind the American flag calling themselves Patriots” To which I will add while raping and pillaging another country,while charging the great Ole USA a hefty bill… Simply because we have the best weapons, all the while saying that we are bringing peace and good will, to a country that was out of control.

I believe we are out of control, and have lost the ability to see the difference anymore.

JUSTICE? OR JUST U.S.???

Peace and stay strong, and aware… Be fooled not, by the Wolves who clamor at your door, offering soggy wet bandages, to cover your wounds and your pride, of the heartaches, of the losses you have recently endured. For they care not, for you personally, they just have this growing fear, which is creeping up slowly inside them. For instinctively they know, this time, they may have gone to far..

~ZenTwist

1 archaic : helpless, weak
2 a : rustic, plain b obsolete : lowly in station : humble
3 a : weak in intellect : foolish b : exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment <a very silly mistake> c : trifling, frivolous
4 : being stunned or dazed <scared silly> <knocked me silly>

Silly, in addition to its dictionary definitions, may refer to:

• Silly, Belgium, a town in Belgium
• Silly Department, a department or commune of Sissili Province in southern Burkina Faso.
• Silly (band), an East German rock group from the 1970s
• Silly (album), the 2008 debut album by Taiwanese singer and songwriter Queen Wei
• Silly, a fielding position in the sport of Cricket

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3 a : weak in intellect : foolish b : exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment <a very silly mistake> c : trifling, frivolous
4 : being stunned or dazed <scared silly> <knocked me silly>

( Check it out! “Knocked me Silly” Well of course, Wikepedia isn’t going to say ( Fucked Me Silly! ) Close though!

Why I choose to write about this, is not for spotlight or fame! Unlike most, I sat in anguish for Tiger. My mind raced with horrible visions of his wife and kids being dragged through the quagmire of mucky shit. All the lies and bull, that they will have to endure, from so many, who will heap, upon the the pile, while fired by contemptuous jealousy! Snorting hordes, of greedy, greasy, slim ball’s, whom have been waiting, stalking patiently, to take the Tiger down. I bet their palms filled with sweat, and their hearts raced, with anticipation, on the very verge of climatic orgasm! My God! I get to slay a dragon! More like cook him to a crisp! I can hear them saying it! I truly think they are a sad society of men and women, who think nothing of destroying another’s life, under the guise of smart reporting, yet fueled by the profit and sensationalism, they will achieve! Shame! Shame! Shame! on you All!!!!!!!!!

I say this not because I think Tiger is such a great person. I don’t even know him.It is not because I believe in infidelity, anymore, than I believe in monogamy! The point is I don’t think it is anyone’s else’s business, period. How someone chooses, to live their life, is a very personnel thing! Who am I to judge?! How does this affect me in my daily affairs? I mean will it affect whether I purchase, another Gillette Razor??!!“ Oh my God I can’t put this own my face! I mean it’s probably been near one of those bitch home wreckers vagina’s! Honestly?! I really Don’t care!

I don’t care that he is in the spotlight. I don’t care if he made bad choices! I don’t have to live with them he does! I don’t care, if he does it sideways, backwards, or forwards, I don’t need to know! I don’t need to know how he feels or what he thinks! And honestly I’ve never needed to know these things! I don’t even have that desire to want too!

I’ve never said to my child hey see that guy Tiger?! I want you to be just like him! It makes me wonder, do people say that? And just what does that mean? The longer I am around, the more I hate what TV has become. It creates phony people, out of good people. Shows phony worlds, and phony ideals, try’s to get me, to compare my life, to it! Where are these bullshit values coming from anyway? And who wants them to be there? Does anyone think God has his own television show? I don’t think God has time to watch, and neither do I!

Whores and sluts! To all of you who teach, and promote, false values! That willingly incriminate others, for pleasure and profit! Yes! I said Pleasure! For surely one doesn’t do it, because they feel it is their moral duty?! That it is an obligation to the public?! Public Service with a price tag?! I’ll take public incrimination, bye humiliation for 100,000 Bob! How convenient! Hah! Your all full of shit I’m sure that’s what Jesus would have said or probably did say that day! The famous! “ He who has no sin, cast the first stone! “ He who never shits, chuck the first turd. is definitely more like it!

Whether Jesus did or didn’t exist, is not up for debate here! Just in case you zealots, have been itching, for me to cross that road! What is up for discussion issss?!……… Thaaaaaaaaaat!………… Isss! The point! That Quote! Puts it in it’s proper perspective! So…….The real question is?! Why? Why is it so important to reveal how another person lives their life? Or more to the point when “ WE “ Think they fuck up?! To expose their secrets?! To embarrass them on a national, no! Global level.

No one knows for sure, what their arrangement was, and we shouldn’t. We all have that natural curious interest, yet I am tired and bored, even embarrassed for those who ran with it! Spewed useless information, to the mass media. The great tattle taler’s! Oh please tell me more????!!!!!! Irrelevant journalism, at its finest! Well! I refuse to watch, or listen. I actually never listened to any of it.

OK! Almost none, but seriously, it was hard to escape, it was literally on everything and  every program, everywhere ! There was no peace, I mean this had coverage like the Iraq War, and it was just as meaningless, made me wonder what else was really going on, in the world that, our view was being distracted, by such debauchery!

I was in a restaurant, which had a bar, the screen was across the room, silent. I saw Tigers face, I could barely read, but it was obvious soon, that it was not about golf, the wife is never shown after a game! Not a still picture anyway. This eerie sick feeling came over me. Honestly?! I am annoyed by beat writers, I have experiences that are hard and painful, rarely is the truth reported anymore, on any level, whether it is Afghanistan, Iraq, 911, or the stories more local in yours and, my area! They want a story! The trick word here is! “ Embellish! “ Can you say that kids?

Its like the whole world has been turned into one giant reality tv show. Where we get to judge, criticize, peek into, invade, hey look Tiger leaves track marks in his underwear! Oh God! This is so sad!

What has happened to us, to the world? these things are meaningless, mindless drivel, selfish, pointless acts, of an offending nature! They offend my, sense of integrity, kindness and spiritual focus and purpose! They invade, my being, like some alien virus, attacking, my altruistic self!

We live in a era where lies are really sold as truth, it doesn’t even matter anymore, News! Imitates Reality?!………………… More like Reality TV! That’s crazy! Bottom line is? What does that say about the rest of the world, if this is where things, have really gone? Is this crap just turning everyone, into over bloated, hypocritical, pompous, judgmental asses??!!! Get a Life! Please?!

Like I said, I refuse to watch, to participate, to gloat or judge. Because again who am I to say anything about anyone, I don’t even know? Someone I’ve only seen on TV who seems to really hit the shit out of a Golf ball! The only thing I know out of this is?! He’s human just like me, and the rest of the world, we all have our greatness and we all have weakness and I’m not going to participate, in what to me is a feeding frenzy!

Again! Shame! Shame! SHAME ON YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Truly peaceful wishes and stay real and true to yourself!!!

~ZenTwist

I am reminded from time to time just why I started this blog site to begin with. Speaking my mind, and I have always been good at that! My first inspiration for looking for  the truth although in its fledgling state came from my senior political science teacher Jerry! We called him Teenhh! Because when he laughed, his tongue sort of stuck to the rough of his mouth thus producing the pronounced Teenhh!!

Anyways! His words struck deep into my very core when he said! ” I am going to teach you how to read between the lines! How to decipher what is really going on and what is bullshit ” I like it when a teacher is not afraid to use expletives!

So why do I bring this all up? Well I am on another journey, and as I travel across this once great nation, (If it ever really was remember thats just what we’ve been told ! ) I was passing through a town when I came bye a mall, and I saw a new bank. I was absolutely taken back bye the name, Guarantee Bank! I am not kidding. So curious was I it took everything not for me to stop and walk in and ask, Hey! What makes you so great?! And just what do you guarantee! The name brings rumblings in my gut and shows the desperation of an organizations attempt at restoring faith, to a broken nation while meanwhile continuing to farm out more and more business across the Atlantic and Pacific, Why are not the American people infuriated bye this! I come from a time when we stood up and showed how pissed off we were. The only people with balls who had enough, was the Mexicans!

I watched a video the other day that some nut sent me about how the Muslims are taking over the world bye basically screwing, and having more babies than the rest of the world, obviously created bye one church or another, seriously racist in it´s proclaimed content Though slightly amusing in one of it´s facts that based percentile births per country when it came to the USA we qualified for Muslim take over except when you added the Mexicans birth rate it put us over the safe margin!

OMG!!!!……….. Too freaking funny. I really want to talk to one of these religious Zealots! Ohhh wait I already did! Yeah I remember when a good girlfriend of mine asked me years ago to go with her and attend a meeting at of all places Dennys! She just wanted me there for moral support so for the first hour I just listened to this guy ramble on, quietly supported bye what I could only figure was his mentor: long and short it was a predictable diatribe followed bye lots of shame and fear and very animated gestures all to scare the crap out of someone.

When he though this piece was convincingly finished, he finally shut up! except really he didn’t  for anytime he, disagreed, with anything she had to say he would rudely interrupt. Until I had enough I calmly explained to him there are many different ways to see God and the god that I had was loving not punishing, I don´t go around trying to change peoples beliefs! maybe just their perceptions a little. Well I bet even you can see where this was headed?! I mean even his mentor nodded from time to time in agreement with me this poor guy became enraged, I thought to myself what does it matter to you what I choose to believe? Yet, is this not the state of the world as a whole?

I thought this guys heads was going to rupture into many pieces! his lack of understanding or the unwillingness to accept another persons reality  was ruining his whole image of himself, that he could not convince me through so many different tactics. He saw this as failure..

My friend and I finally had enough said our goodbyes  and made our way out to the parking lot soon to find ourselves in each others arms and  explore God in all his lovingness. As we headed to the car we had been exchanging our views of the whole experience, when she  said the weirdest thing of all was during the whole thing he kept putting his hand on her leg and trying to feel her up…….

Peaceful Loving From Mexico

-ZenTwist

To all those who claim to unanimously support and would gladly rip apart anyone who stood against the war! Let me tell you about a guy named Stan.

He fought in Viet Nam, he was a mechanic/machine gunner for helicopters, sounds cool huh?! Not when he describes how it was for him I’ll get to that in a minute. This is one of the most honest. sincere, intelligent, down to earth guys you ever want to meet, and he is my friend! He unfortunately is also one of the most extremely messed up individuals you will ever meet as well, and he knows this!

He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and for anyone who thinks for a moment this is some fancy bullshit syndrome?!!, Surely hasn’t a clue, about what sort of damage, and pure waste, war really is , and what it can do to a young mans or woman’s soul. Stan was  all of 16 when he joined, so he could fight for his country, he lied about his age, I’m sure the recruiter didn’t care to ask, those guys are worse than car salesman and that’s lower than low. And yes I have had my own, all to myself, personal experience with those idiots. They literally will tell you what you want to hear, flat out liars. Slimy slugs with stripes!

Stan on the other hand, is the opposite, and on more than one occasion, has stood out in front of recruiters post, or gone to high schools when he gets word that they are coming and try’s to tell the kids the real truth! One has to simply sit,  just once with Stan and forever will your views on war change. He’ll tell you how insane the rules of engagement were, some absolutely absurd.

You can’t attack an enemy’s base that’s under construction only after it was complete. ( OK!!!…. yeah, that’s fine,  just move those soldiers and mortars inside and we’ll get this little war started!!, OK!!………….everybody ready??!! ) ……You weren’t allowed to use a 60 caliber machine gun on humans, It was only for aircraft. Yeah right Stan once exclaimed I’m in the middle of a fire fight in a helicopter, when people on the ground start shooting, I gotta switch to a 30 caliber gun cuz of Geneva convention rules, like anybody from either side ever did that! Ever seen ” Saving Private Ryan? “

He’ll tell you the war was about oil and drugs! ( Opium and pot ) When they found that there wasn’t enough oil available to take it, we pulled out. He’s had friends brains spattered on his face and clothing. He has shit in his pants from pure fear, and this guy can be intense, sometimes down right scary in person! So just to set the record straight, shitting in your pants has nothing to do with bravery or courage, most vets if they saw action, are familiar with this experience!

More than once, Stan puked in a helicopter, while witnessing the shear damage a 60 caliber can wrack on a human body! Simply because he really didn’t have time to switch.

Death and mayhem, hatred for a country and a people you know nothing about. People wounded, missing body parts and, or dying! For what? That is the ugly question and truth.

War isn’t even close, to how we may of played it as kids. Its grisly and evil, and it brings out the worst in all of us. Only in the movies is there poetic justice and lessons of bravery and courage.
In the real world there guys like Stan. Who near the end was discharged, broken and bitter. He had been shipped out to another location, and as was the practice, in Nam, you never saluted the higher ranking officers so as the snipers didn’t know whom to shoot.

Some Noob Officer fresh from the mainland took indignation of this slight even after Stan tried to explain, he saw his rank lowered, that seemed to be the last straw for Stan, pushed him right over that ragged edge, after all he had been through, all that he survived, Some guy who hadn’t fought one day, certainly hadn’t crapped his pants, takes away the last thread of dignity, Stan had achieved. It was the last insult upon insults.

So Stan lost it, That night he spray painted the officers car with Nazi insignias and KKK logos. Stan was promptly discharged Only to come home to people at the airport spitting on him calling him baby killer. It is a typical story for most, yet that in itself is what is wrong.

This country did a poor job of accepting what we did. That era, treated soldiers coming home like garbage, people were not ready to see the truth. War sucks period, and I feel sorry for those that bought the bullshit once more to go and kill foreigners in their own homes. More kids like Stan have gone to Iraq, thinking they are doing the right thing, and that infuriates me, because they have been lied to, manipulated bye our former president and military leaders. For other special interests groups!

What is going on in Iraq has nothing to do with freedom its about corporate power and when it is all over there will be more kids like Stan broken and disillusioned about themselves and this once great country
Quite simply veterans are treated like disposable trash. We Use them kids up and forget em, when they have nothing, left to contribute. We’ll take care of that nasty cough you got there if you just sign off on that whole agent orange thing you’ve been complaining about! ( True story! )

It’s a lie that they are taken care of, in many ways they get less care than the worthless generations of welfare and food stamp whores. Harsh?! Maybe! True?! Most definitely!

Stan was diagnosed years ago, would you think he has gotten anything close to treatment? Sorry Stan! rooms are full. Try us next month hey meanwhile lets stick you in a room down in the tenderloin! Nothin tender about that area [ Thank you Dave Chappel! ] When I say room! That’s all there is, not even a kitchen, Stan cooks his meals on a hot plate mmmmm…. Sure loves those cheese samiches..Government cheese at that!

As an American and a tax payer I am embarrassed! As a friend! I was horrified at the lack of care. It is an embarrassment of monumental proportions. It is a gaff no matter what one thinks, these people, both men and women deserve  better treatment and a better life. They gave on the highest accord and they paid with their minds, bodies, and souls.

It is time to bring to the forefront, what has been hidden for many years. These people should not be treated like rotten food, Whats the matter America? Why aren’t these people treated with the respect they deserve? Is our government afraid if they get too close we might smell the funk?!

Maybe then we just might shit our own pants!

As usual Peace and goodwill, and a safe return to all of our service.

~ZenTwist