CRANKING UP

CRANKS ARE A UNIVERSAL SOURCE OF PROBLEMS AND WISDOM

The normal crank is a nutcase on a tangent only part-time.

Most days he or she passes for normal, then somebody hits the button.

They, the cranks, start in on pet peeves or opinions that sound a lot like radical spewouts.

Mostly there is enough subjective irony or truth to make some of the noise useful.

Mostly there is enough frustration that is concealed to hide and distort the message.

Look for what is not said under the label, and vintage wisdom may have fermented.

Unfortunately, g w bush is Kool-Aid.

-30-bobby

WHAT NEXT-SUDISTA INDEPENDENCE?

HOW LONG BEFORE THE SUDISTA BANANAS BUNCH UP IN THEIR OWN INTERESTS?

Not long.

These Washington dolts think in the mercantile terms of bigotry which has kept the people of the south in ignorance and impoverishment for centuries.

The European imperial masters had to give up most influence in that area due to the Monroe Doctrine. Mostly the local bigot learned and applied autocracy and military force to the indigenous peoples of Mexico (North America), Central America, and South America.

With some good leadership, Poder Sud may pull off a democratic coup for a change.

Then, even with politicians in charge, the concepts of democracy might trickle Norte.

-30-bobby

ELEPHANTITUS AU MEXICALI

....OR, HOW FLORIDA WENT TO MEXICO ON AN ELECTIVE DIBOLD EX-CURSION

Nobody cares becouse it is not being reported.

diBOLD. What a Wizard of Oz it is to watch.

DiBold is a boon to oligar=elephar=despar-ate.

If you don't trust democracy, there is a reason.

There is also a reason that you can't trust anyone elected by the controllers of the ballot place.

There are companies who will deliver, and it ain't UPS.

They were in Florida, Ohio, and DF.

Watch for the Accion del Sur to oppose la Compania.

CIA is the abreviation of compania-company-in Spanish.

You've got company.

Let freedom ring in DF.

-30-bobby

READING IS FUN

INFORMS, ESCAPES, TRANSCENDS, CONTROLS

We read novels and manuals and newspapers and the funnies. We can't read everything that is serious and informative, so we escape.

Every day since 1969 I read the comics in The Houston Post until it folded up. Since then the funnies went over to the Houston Chronicle, and there were lots of 'em until they got pared back as the contracts dropped.

The funnies are the best part of a newspaper because they make sense and you laugh.

The news thinks of itself as serious.

People reading it actually get the idea that it is the only reality, like they believe that its all there is. Well, there are natural occurrences, but the reporters even skew the reportage. They can't help it: human political reporting is selective and off-center.

You would think, to listen to most folks, that all news-bringers are liberal. The only liberal things about our news is that messengers are somewhat literate, and that freedom of information is anathema to authority. In that sense it is not conservative, but in the sense of controlled content it is a powerful conservative tool. Follow the money and follow the slant: the reports favor the established order on the take.

Professional and non-offensive, the reports treat the public like Kinder-Readers, simple peasantry. Mush, ignoring causal and resultant facts, and Pablum, pureeing and purifying the facts is the result of skillful reporting in the royal prop-scape.

Corporate ownership of everything makes PR the truth in everyday life. Truth is a story based on actual fact.

Like punch made with real fruit nearby.

-30-bobby

REMEMBER THE SIEGE OF LEBANON

...OR THE ALAMO, IF IT IS ANY DIFFERENT

The problem with these little truces is that the original bully has time to regroup and retell the story and try to figure out how the victim didn't lose yet.

Right now what matters is that Lebanese civilians are not being attacked by one of the world's best equipped armies. It is good that Israelis are not worried by random rockets.

The whole matter could be made better if Israel would release the thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians it has kidnapped and held for years, and stop quibbling over two army guys.

Any adult can see that the two were only an excuse for the invasion. It has failed, so stop it.

Lebanon and Palestine have the right to self defense, too.

-30-bobby

STEINBECK SEARCHED WITH A DOG

THERE IS A LADY IN A SMALL CAR FOLLOWING STEINBECK AND A DOG NAMED CHARLIE

One time the lady was the host of a radio show in Houston. It was a very good show and never repeated itself. The best comparison with that show is today's Turner Classic Movies, where there is a theme on a daily basis.

The lady influenced me in many ways and frustrated me in many.

But there was always an excitement, theoretical or presential or imagined that was not always realistic. Sometimes reality happened later.

The reason I am a model is she did that thirty years ago: it gave me the idea one day when I needed a part-time job.

It may happen that the result of the recent trip will be a common resource.

Watch and see.

-30-bobby

ELEPHANT SAFARI: Leapfrog Lieberman

WE HAVE PINK ELEPHANTS IN A BLUE STATE

Lieberman the Dem courted by w.

Pink elephant.

-30-bobby

INHALE AND EXHALE

ELEPHANT SAFARI: hunting with a mouse-trap

Tonight I was at a reunion of a few high school friends when I made reference to this bloggy place, hoping to open thought, maybe debate.

I only want to make people think objectively--a little of the inverse of the hair of the dog that bit you.

Thirty years ago or more I discovered RADIAL PLY TIRES. I was ridiculed. I advocated seatbelts before Ralph Nader. Laughed at for it. I had Electronic Ignition when you had to buy and build and install a kit modification. Ridiculed. Disc brakes and silicone break fluid and four-wheel disc brakes and I drove a real SAAB before GM ran it down. I said GM meant "Junk Machinery", and they can't spell, either. People thought I was radical.

Today I recommend nitrogen tire inflation and outlawing war on the entire planet, and outlawing capital punishment except for those public servants who start or advocate actions killing civilians with public resources.

Would that in twenty or thirty years I would feel normal, like with life-saving radial tires filled with nitrogen.

Life should be so long.

-30-bobby

MOUSE WARS FOR ELEPHANTS

THE TIME HAS COME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO STOP WAR

Its not too soon to start saving the human race to the bottom by looking up. War is a cussword. Those who advocate its practice should practice their advocacy: yet those are profiteers on the odds on death, not by action on their own. War is a nasty form of slave-driving human murder.

Not just that we are using Israel, and they us, for world domination, but the whole set of actors are making money-in a business sense-on death and depraved human rape.

The idea of a country who has not really "defended" itself since the nineteen-sixties to attack and destroy its human and sovereign neighbor countries in the name of "the right of self defense".

Israel is the world master of the self-fulfilling prophesy.

We are ignoble and cowardly for allowing and financing it for a profit.

We the Western Allies are allowing Israel to perform a service like Hitler, who attacked Communism for us when we were too cowardly: we "let" them defend by attacking out from the center until the radial sovereignties are under the Vichy-like heel of fatherland/homeland domination.

It is a war of land and human domination for profit.

Stop it. Then stop the rest.

-30-bobby

WE ARE POOR EXAMPLES OF FREEDOM

MY EARS HURT FROM NOT HEARING PROTEST

The war crime against Lebanon is not being protested.

Our Secretary of Status Quo is not bothered by racial murder in Beirut or Palestine, even though it is worse and more frequent than what happened in the South. Amnesia a la Condi-Lilly.

Our voting? population, ever eager to know stock market prices, ignore everything not related to reality TV and IPOD accessories.

Politicians don't ever know what to say until the lobbyist throws a cruise party.

Allowing any government to have license to kill any citizen is how racists get power to kill who they want.

Capital punishment should be reserved for incumbent politicians and working diplomats. No statute of limitations, no diplomatic immunity, no sanctuary. You order death or war, you are the first casualty. You kill a citizen, you die.

Israel is behaving like Germany in 1939. Neuremburg (sp). We are the enablers.

-30-bobby