ELEPHANT MEMORY

ELEPHANTS are known for their long memories.

For the rest, we need periodic reminders. We remember that the world is round, culturally non-linear, and change is incessant. Elephants remember eons past when stability was enforced by cruelty and fear, but can't remember Ralph Nader's advocating car safety.

This is a small reminder: Tom DeLay's real elephant name is the formal following: Thomas William Buregard DeLay,
or for short:

Tomorrow Will B. DeLayed.

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bobby

JUSTICE DeLAYED IS BETTER THAN NONE

The DA in Austin will not have an easy life after this. I can hear Mr Rove screaming-or is he screaming for himself?

What will Ol' Tom do, now that somebody has called his hand? Probably try to procedurally squirm out of his own mess. He will maybe try to pass a law to exempt himself from accountability. Oh, he has tried that before.

He has made bipartisan enemies by his hammer-style coercion as Whip and Majority Leader. If he can't badger his supporters, some of them will just say no to his cries for help. I would hate to be next to him on pay-back day. Bullies can't really depend on friends.

We hope the DA can do what's right: catch the Honorable Most McNasty at his true profession. Making and breaking marginal law intended to trap his enemies, he is overdue for an epitaph.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving rascal.

-30- BOBBY

Elephant Safari
BUSH searches for the simple sentence structure to assemble the visible word search he is making. His speed increases when talking about lowering standards, increasing refining capacity, going nukulier, empowering providers, all corporate iconic code for pollute with no regulation.

He gets articulate about avoiding "burocratic hurdles", where paperwork hinders increased capacity. I'll believe his concern when River Oaks and his ranch get revineries.

Tapping into the Strutegic Putrolium Ruservs to control prices is killing me ironically. His party nearly lynched Jimmy Carter over its creation in the '70's, now they see it as useful.

The Flat Earth Society always sees new ideas as threats, until 20+ years later, when the concepts become theirs.

Of course Venesuela has offered low-cost supply of heating oil for winter and other forms of oil for now. Bush has to ignore them and Cuba at all costs.

Never mind that Cuba has a lower Illiteracy Rate than the US.

All ideology, all the time. Bush, an idea that won't start.

-30- BOBBY

Elephant Safari

Elephant Safari

Elephant Safari

THE RIM OF REASON IN A COUNTER CLOCK UNWISE SWIRL

WHERE'S WALDO? WHERE'S W?

Why wonder when the White House PR will tell you what to believe-pick your scandal.

When belief trumps science, fact, observation: one feels suckled in the bosom of hysteric belief.

We must believe to be sane, to function. Then there is W. C. Fields, who said, "Trust everyone, but always cut the deck."

Citizens have the duty of cutting the deck when a politician speaks.

Taxpayers: Know why they are called that? Because that , when they don't tax their brains, they pay.

Goahead'n'flagmysite, jus'don'tcomplainyouvoted when you didn't pay attention first.

-30- BOBBY

RED STATE OF MIND

THREE days after the Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, Reagan invaded Granada. The lady president at the time, who died this week, was compromised and made to accede to the wishes of Reagan. Similar to the turning of Colin Powell, who knew the lie but was made to state it as truth.

This is not a drill. In a few days or weeks we will be frightened by an external threat because that is the way of politician Republicans and other warlords.

The red herring can be real or manuffactured, but this Washington bunch of malfeasants is overdue to produce a distraction from their current crimes.

Being moraly and ethically bankrupt never hindered GWB or a dozen other bullies in his ally. Calculating the backlash, were the truth known, their team is rewriting and disapearing the factual current events.

Scream when it occurs. Make heads roll. Contact your elected officials and scream.

-30-bobby

MODEL CITIZEN

I have had many different jobs, mostly mini-careers, but invention is the core of my favorites. Sometimes I need a unique tool, or a part, or teqniquq {tek-ne-que}, so I invent it.

Better than finding out how things work: improving how is better. I would see a need in a repair or maintainence problem, tell the business owner or boss, design and fix it. Sometimes it costs more in the immediacy, but generally long-term, either lower cost or finer operation resulted.

But business people have a crudity, pronounced how you like it, that is the opposite of foresighted wisdom. Too much power weakens a peasant mind. Don't expect ethics often. Expect selfish exploitation from the Golden Rule, The Man with the Gold Rules. No matter if the arrogant klutz has mental illness overriding logic.

So I would invent, work hard, find parts, work more, come in smiling: either no, we changed our minds (?), or I'll pay tomorrow (never), or just theft with a moral excuse.

Lots of the time the invention includes theif proofing. That is what makes software very expensive, but most consumers would be too lazy to steal product intellectual property if only the purchase price were fair.

I finally sued a jerk who would not pay for simple, good plumbing work. Before the judgement could be collected, (I WON!), another creditor shot him dead.

I needed a part-time job where I walked in, made people glad to get my service, pay me, and everybody smiled.

Driving south on a wide street, I remembered that JP, my old roomate, had been a model in art school. I looked in the rearview mirror, and said to myself, "I can do that!" At the next light I turned left and applied at the local art league.

It took about four months, but the day I worked in front of fourteen ladies nekkid changed the way I looked at everything.

In the first place, the pain in military school and Army could be used to tolerate the pain models endure. Ain't easy.

Creative--you can't just molt. Ya gotta keep 'em guessin'. I will even stand on my head.

Appreciation. I feel like a teacher's aid, if not aide. I learn what and how they teach, then anticipate. If I see a student need, they get it. I help, and I do extra, sometimes working into a sweat in the warmups. Shy first-timers usually learn that there is nothing to worry about: art is good and good for you. Nude people are astounding objects, not what you think. It is the most honest job I can find. Teaching while learning.

How could the Prex Select Bush do it? Couldn't. Ain't honest.

So I found real appriciation for what I do. Often I get quiet Thank Yous from the students. They mean it.

I don't always do as well as I want. When that happens I try to adjust and do better. After the first few months of modeling I began to draw....then I could see things even better. You would think its simple to listen to some of the best teachers around and just go apply it. Not until you practice will you apply it. You actually have to teach yourself, classes just shorten the process.

Modeling is like acting, but not having to learn lines.

-30-bobby

BAD SPELLING, GOOD TELLING

When you spell good, you are believed good. Same thing for grammar, including Kelsey Grammar, who may have won some Grammies, I don't know.

When I was in the forth grade I spelled great. In Florida Military School there were good, probably college level, teachers who induced me to speak and write mostly correctly. In North Carolina and Houston the English teachers were sticklers for correct expression. Only one abused me intentionally, but I believe Thelma Dixon was very sick, hated and tortured selected students, and would have been right at home in Guantanamo.

My peers would shun and sneer (at, upon) my ability to form sentences. I was on South Texas Jr College, now U of Houston Downtown, "TALON" newspaper staff, and had a good handle on the language.

Viet Nam unscrewed everything. They had a real draft, not the back-door induction of the current Emperor, so I was sucked up and out of a full-time education, electronics and Shakespear(e) at the same time. I estimate that within six months in the Army, beginning at Ft Polk, La., my vocabulary decreased by one-forth. Started using cuss-words not before uttered.

But I still am glad for the opportunity to blog. Beats my Remington portable.

In Long Binh, HQ USARV, I fired a semi-automatic Underwood 5, not to mention an M14, M60, M79; and I hope I spelled them right.

Most folks did not get the education to function, and are abused today by the arrogant in office, their bosses, financial elites, and other jailors. So am I.

It is good to have Spell Check and the Backspace Key. No eraser dust, only a keystroke trail for the KGB or Homeland Security. Or is it der Faderland SS, smile und Heil. Not spelling Usama, USAma, right beats not thinking.

Remember that security is the opposite of freedom, even spelled wrong.

-30-bobby

STREET TALK

The other day I told a guy that Bush had cut the Corp of Engineers levee repair budget, and he said that somebody musta stole the money, cause they are always indicted for corruption in Louisiana.

I said, no, that the congress had appropriated the money to rebuild the levees, and that in 2002 Bush & Co had cut it and used it to blow up Ireq.

Bush would never do that---he wuz the only one who had ever spent a dime on the levees---and who could have predicted it, tha last hurricane to hit N' Orins was in 1940! He said that, I mean he made it up on the spot.

It was a depressing exhibition of ignorance, pure ignurnse. Before it was over, he even claimed Rush Limbaugh was'nt fat or ignorant or a druggie.

I said I had battled like this since George Wallace ran for president, before he found out they didn't allow biggots in the Democratic Party.

This guy didn't know he had switched, so I said all the best biggots had, and named afew of his heroes.

Another guy allowed that O'Reily was smarter 'cause he's Irish, and it made us laugh. A customer said youcan't tell these Republicans anything.

I get it: history began TT, Twin Towers, 11 SEP 01.

The Army only does two things right: write the date and tell time, so I use it.

-30-bobby

NIXON'S WORST DECISION?

CONSIDER that when Richard Nixon was asked to remember his greatest mistake, he said, "Appointing Renquist to the Supreem Court."

What could he have been thinking? If Renquist was a mistake to RMN, who did he think he should have appointed, Strom Thurmond?

The only bad thing is that that Bush will appoint Trent Lock, or Tom DeLay.

Renquist at least allowed the Miranda Rule, even by default. But he was no friend of anyone except Republicans.

Katrina won't be seen as bad as his replacement. RIP

Three more years, maybe a century.

-30- bobby

NOLA PAPER EDITORIALIZED FOR LEVY HELP

BUSH WAS DEAF

Bring 'em on!

SHOCK AND AWE!

TAX CUT for the Average American! ($100,000 average)
W

war on terror!

Osama is Saudi, Saddam is (was) our hit man;
we gave/sold/subsidized him his
(W E A P O N S of M A S S D I S T R U C T I O N.)

W on TERROR?

WE recruit, train, own thousands of terrorists in the American Brothel of allied dictators, generals, operatives.

It is not in our best interest to hire thugs to do the work of professional diplomats or honest soldiers. Kissinger and North were bad enough without having other rogue malcontents on salary; at least we know where they live.

This Bush uses many inherited operatives from the Cold W and Nixon and Reagan and the past CIA Director, VP, Pres: his daddy.

these people are not Conservatives in any sense. They are arrogantly reactionary in philosophy and radical regressives in action.

In short, they behave as Fundamentalists.

Like Osama bin L, except they are slightly restrained by a few laws.

Their talents in propaganda are legend. The only defense we have against them is Eternal vigilance, requiring question, answer, accountability.

If accountability on private sex is impeachment, what is the consequence for lying to start an illegal war, thousands dying, diverting money from levies and other domestic projects which are meant to safeguard life and property?

Just a simple question, perhaps to be repeated by journalists and citizens in a democracy with a free press.

Since Reagan, the independent news departments have been placed under corporate advertising or entertainment departments.

News is the backbone of Democracy, which is exactly what dictators and reactionaries understand. Why don't we?

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ASTRODOME FULL, RELIANT CENTER EMPTY

The Superdome has to be repeatedly evacuated because it keeps refilling. Thousands not evacuated by the Guvment are dying all over the city as the week drags on without an adequate first responder system.

The national news at first indicated that those who stayed in NOLA had chosen to stay. Then it became apparent that many NOLA residents lived in a community where a high number do not own cars, and had no way to voluntarily leave. Indeed, the stable community of working poor would not leave because they had no money.

Looting is going on, of course, but most must be for water and food. Where do I plug my TV in? The National Guard is sent to stop looting, to protect property, guard the water.

Near half of the La Guard is in Iraq. Or Afghanistan.

There are thousands of military helicopters, boats, barges, transports and busses not made available.

It is now Friday.

George Bush missed the last two days of vacation to deal with what he saw at ten thousand feet en route. Camp Casey was getting crowded, anyway.

Although we are focusing on NOLA, where Mississippi and Alabama are even worse in many ways, it is the tragedy of lost New Orleans that had made it through the storm until the unfinished dykes burst.

George Bush stopped funding and spent the $250+million levy improvement fund on bombing and torturing Iraqis.

If he escapes IMPEACHMENT AND OUSTER, maybe he will do the honorable thing and RESIGN FROM OFFICE, along with his staff and cabinet.

I predict that some of the administration will resign as soon as they complete the job now at hand. Many know how the President Select contributed to the tragedy, and will serve the public need until it is honorable to resign.

Don't expect the Commander-in-Chief to do the honorable thing.

-30- bobby

LEVY $$ TO GREEN ZONE, NO ZIP CODE

THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS was authorized to improve the levy system protecting New Orleans, AKA, NOLA.

In about 1995 Congress passed a law and funded the infrastructure inhancements to the NOLA levy system. This was in preparation for a situation like Katrina.

The Army Corps of Engineers has made NOLA and thousands of sites inhabitable. Some places which are below the waterline now would have to have been unnavigable or unlivable marsh plane, abandoned by commerce. It would have succumed to the natural restorative process we have circumvented in modern civilization. We engineer our exception to natural law in order to be comfortable and overpopulate the planet.

Because we cannot understand Darwinian selection we have Malthusian population control: mostly commerce and war, or religion and politics.

It would be wonderful if we would make the green selections, not the brown.
That is, to have sustainable and renewing infrastructure policies, not disposable single use waste industries which both produces and requires for its operation, disposeable populations.

But the ACE has built levies and seawalls in a political environment where the money is eeked out of Foggy Bottom through patronage and pork-barrel politics. Right here we must insert the back door war and back door draft, with back door funding of Bush in Iraq.

In 2003, I believe it was, the $251,000,000.00, American money, was cut from scheduled ACE levy improvements to fund blowing up Baghdad.

ACE is a good example of Libertarianism. It benefits primarily the flow of commerce and national security without much social intent, although there are obvious social benefits.

But a couple of years ago the Bush war administration attacked a former ally, Iraq. We had enabled Sadam to attack Iran in exchange for his own Internal Political Control, or a powerful army. When he used the army for its "lawful", I would say "awful", purpose; to commit internal terror and genocide, it was OK with Reagan and Papa Bush.

When this Baby Stalin took the wrong que and extended toward Oil in Kuwait, forgive spelling, we found another unintended consequence of patronage of convenience: rattlesnakes are not house pets.

Mr Sadam then fell victim to his own pet rattler; US policy whim.

Next, we decide we will get rid of him, yet keep his oil. Instead of removing the fangs, we declaw the tomcat. Instead of regime change, we punnish the helpless popualation by isolating commerce, except for--all together now--oil.

While the Iraqis starved and died we still enriched and enabled the dictator. Companies simply bought oil through Enron-styled facade middle actors. Even Bill Clinton, because all presidents are slaves to plutarchy, played the role which involved witholding aid and attacking Iraq almost daily. The right in America require that stance of politicians, and Clinton used hawkishness to his political advantage, end-running their criticism. He was effective, and a textbook politician.

Comes Baby Bush, who had no direction, well, except for corporate socialism in principle, until the Twin Towers thrust Him and Guliani(SP) into the role of Savior from Outside Terrorists. The local terrorists, like the Klan and clinic-bombers still function under right-wing inducement.

The TT had been indicated by the Twin Buddah affair in Feburary. The Osama Bin Ladin test of Bush will, within a month of Innauguration, was to destroy an icon: Twin Buddah cultural icons representing Twin Tower cultural icons.

When the ancient Twin Buddahs were blown up, Bush said nothing, did nothing.

Ossama, our own ally in Afghanistan, was delighted. Bush did not understand historic icon's significance to cultures other than his own. His lack of caring indicated cultural ignorance, even bigotry, if that is not redundant.

Extrapolated, it meant that Bush was unable to feel pain in other people's lives. Palistinian suffering, no pain felt in America. Iraqi and Iranian people's lives under sanctions, not painful to Bush or America. It doesn't take much for one sociopath to recognize and project his own faults to another. Therefore a racist attacked what he concluded was the icon of racism in another. Twin Buddah, Twin Towers.

Do not think that I approve of any of this. I believe both sides are out of control and selfish. I watch this nightmare knowing there is a thousand dreams blinked away.

"Bye, bye, American Pie, I drove the Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry...."

The levy was not dry: its funding was sent to the desert. The desert was dry.

-30- bobby