This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

All the videos of animals-- that should be enemies-- loving on one another remind me of  the fact that we are in a specific part of the precession of the equinoxes: the great upward spiral of evolving awareness in the human zeitgeist.

We are entering the "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius", as seen here on the ceiling of the temple of Dendur, moving out of the Age of Pisces.  The guy with the staff represents attempts to organize into civil societies, and the effort represented by the UN, all of which is resisted by the right-wing war profiteers.

Outlined in yellow are Aquarius, pouring water from two vessels (the vision of what can be, and the bitter truth of what we have to overcome), and before and above/below him you see the being that is taming the beast (the monster within us that is driven by mindless fear, and prejudice, and ignorance).

Are we finally gonna act like grown-ups in regards to CUBA?!

Thank God, and President Obama!

The long, stupid embargo of Cuba is FINALLY coming to an END!

The people who supported this insanity are the families of the gangsters whose whore-houses were shut down by Castro.  They're a mean bunch of mafiosos, and even took part in the conspiracy to kill JFK.

The bullies on the right-wing support the embargo because it makes them feel like they're taking a stand for democracy.  HA!  They're perfectly happy to suck China's dick, so that "integrity" is bullshit.

The only reason Cuba became a dictatorship is because Che saw first-hand how the CIA used Guatemala's freedom's to bring down a gov't that wasn't receptive to exploitation by US corporations.  We had used the same techniques to bring down Mossadegh, the democratically-elected president of Iran, in 1954, and that bit of meddling is still haunting us.

Repugs give Jamie Dimon, Citigroup, and the Masturbators-of-the-Universe big fucking Xmas gift!

Jamie Dimon got his Xmas present: the repugs attached a couple of riders to the "CR Omnibus" spending bill.

One of them roles back Dodd/Frank, which forbid FDIC insured banks from speculating in "derivatives", which are the complex debt/betting swaps that plunged the World into the Bush depression, in '08. The changes were written by Citigroup. This means that the "masturbators of the universe" can snort cocaine and pretend they're geniuses, and anytime they fuck up we pick up the tab!!! Don't you wish you could gamble at the casino with THAT kind of quarantee?! They keep any winnings, taxpayers pick up the tab for their bad bets! Here comes another bank-bailout.

The other is a relaxation of campaign finance laws: now rich assholes can give $800,000 to the politician/whores of their chosing. 12 years ago, that limit was 2K.

Where is the outrage?

Thanks for handing the Senate to Mitch McConnell, lazy motherfuckers!!!

Guess what, lazy motherf**kers, this guy showed up and voted, and YOU DIDN'T!!!

You hear all these idiots say: "My vote won't change anything.", well, your apathy made a HUGE f**king difference.

They say: "It's just choosing the lesser of two evils." No, it's choosing between unadulterated evil and flawed human beings.

Just wait till one of the evil f**ks on the SCOTUS kicks the bucket, and Obama tries to get HIS nominee through Congress. You stupid anarchic pussies like to hide behind your cynicism in order to justify the fact that you can't get your butt out of bed one day, every two years, to do the minimum civic duty. Yeh, all those guys died on Omaha Beach so you could sit in your Mom's basement and play video games. You make me SICK!~

I hope Mitch McConnell's nasal hillbilly drone haunts you in your sleep!

Two triggers in time.

Stumbled across this gun while working in the back.  Strange, god knows how long ago some boy lost his prized cap gun.  He might even be dead now.  And then I turn on TCM and there's George C. Scott as Patton, wearing his pearl-handled revolvers.

Joan Rivers was silenced by the Puerarchy

They finally succeeded in shutting up Joan Rivers.
That's the way I look at it: come on, they were climbing down her throat, literally, performing an Endoscopy, or whatever.
There is now an investigation underway to determine if there was malpractice involved.  She was under general anesthesia.  Lots of clinics perform procedures like Endoscopies, Colonoscopies, Arthroscopic surgery, and wisdom teeth extraction, under general anesthesia, with very little regulation.
Meanwhile, 26 states have passed ALL kinds of onerous regulations designed to shut down abortion clinics.  It's all about priorities: she's dead, when maybe we could have benefited from her humor for decades more, because asshole republican males in state legislatures are more interested in regulating women's wombs!

Some of my favorite bugs of Summer.

Two Wheel Bugs (Arilus cristatus) mating.  These fabulous predators are HUGE, and they attack all kinds of nasty pests, including tomato hornworms and Japanese Beetles.  Don't ever handle them, though: they have a piercing mouthpart, which is basically a 1/4 long hypodermic syringe, and they won't hesitate to use it in defending themselves!

And look where they are: beside a mural of the winged Maat!

This is a Cicada emerging from it's larval skin.  It has spent the past year underground, sucking sap from tree roots and managing to evade moles, and other predators.

You usually will come across their discarded exoskeletons: clinging to the final earthbound perch, before they launch to spend the Summer days singing and wooing and dodging Bluejays and mating.

They also have to worry about these insects:

Cicada Killers:

Those ants are 1/4 inch long, OK?  If you've ever seen one of these take down a Cicada it's a big noisy battle.  Once on the ground, and the Cicada has been stung and paralyzed, the CK has a herculean task:  it will drag the victim to a shrub, climb to a suitable height, and then launch, furiously buzzing and trying to gain altitude.  The hapless Cicada, just like the poor bastards who got cocooned in "Aliens", is stuffed in a burrow, with an egg laid on it, to serve as junior's room service.

Flower of an Hour

This is called Fleur de l'heure, "Flower of an Hour".  So maybe it originated in France, like some of my ancestors.  It is so fragile that it can't stand direct sunlight, thus it's name.  I found some growing in the side yard of an abandoned house in Dayton, 20-some years ago.  It is an annual, so it depends upon self-sowing (dropping fully mature, fertile seeds in a suitable and safe location) in my garden/yard for survival, and yet--delicate as it is and precarious as is it's existence--it still makes a volunteer appearance every Summer.

A tale of two cabinets.

Two different Presidents, too different cabinets.  We have made SOME progress!

John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" rules!!!

John Oliver's new show: "Last Week Tonight" is excellent.  This is the second spin-off from The Daily Show, and unlike Stewart and Colbert, whom I love, Oliver does not have to deal with commercial interruptions, since he's on HBO.  So it's AMAZING how much material he can cover in 30 minutes.  In the great tradition of Lenny Bruce, and all those brilliant "crusaders" who followed him, Oliver shows that the BEST comedians find humor, irony and pathos in the truth.

No, we're NOT in Kansas anymore.

Since 2012 I've been searching for an understanding of the meaning of the fact that the Mayan's chose, in all their wisdom, to say that time ended there, and then.

It's becoming increasingly clear, with all the disappearing airliners and Sherpas and Korean ferry boat passengers and on, and on, and on....  We are NOT in Kansas, anymore.

So this is the final showdown.  Time is now.  

Driving home from a terrible morning in Dayton dealing with a client who seems to have drunken herself into early alshiemers and then straightening out the tree "men" who were purposefully dropping big ass branches on her roof to terrify the poor woman who is not well, and her kitties...that was touch and go, when I told that asshole 4 times: "You heard what I said (You're just angry old white motherf**ker!)." to answer HIS question, after the 3rd time taking off my glasses and gently folding them and sliding them into the pocket of my Dockers, all of my sinews prepared to take him on --and his back-up tobacco-spitting fat honkey motherfucker AND their chainsaws AND their chipper...yeh, they HAVE been known to eat people.  Piece of shit backed down, which was a HUGE disappointment to me cuz goddamnit I was spoiling for a FIGHT!

Driving home, along that bottomland that is peacefull and runs alongside Massey's Creek, as I was listening to my mixed tape and just enjoying the desertion roadwise of a Sunday morning--everything all blushed with the first green of Spring and the brooks running clear, and fast.  Noticing again the perfect emerald quality of this May light, then I finally realized what had happened.  This world has become OZ.

Which means MAGIC rules.  Yep, I was a bad bitch then but I'm back and meaner and badder than ever, and I'm a man.  Only this time I'm not going after little girls and their little dogs over vengeance.  Nope, this time it's all about the EARTH MOTHER, and I also HATE bullies.  

That's Amentit, the Goddess of the West.  You can always tell a Goddes's identity by the symbol above her head.  In this case: a storm cloud.   Yep, one of my Dragons took out that fucking pig farm up in Cedarville, in an EF3 white tornado, and made a shitload of sausage in the process, and they're going to do a whole lot more damage to the rapists who are plundering the fine aquamarine marble that 7 billion of us share.  This is called payback, you assholes who don't need to drive big trucks. 

I'm just going to say it here once, so I don't have to keep repeating myself in various threads where pieces of shit are spouting out gobbledy-gook they cut and pasted from the internet and resorting to personal, ad hominem attacks:

It's MY WORLD, white boy!

I don't usually support violence but in the case of the fuckers who kidnapped those Nigerian school girls I would make an exception.

Please pray for the 276 Nigerian girls kidnapped a month ago by psycopaths who couch their history of destruction and rape and murder and abuse under the header of "religious purity".  Gee, their reasoning kind of sounds like Mitch McConnell and Jon Boner and all the assholes who have been persecuting Obama since he was elected: twice!

On the right you can see the crack and khat crazed gang leaders.  I wish I could be on Seal Team 6 and put a bullet in that motherfucker's eye.  Actually...  I would...if I could...gut-shoot him and cut off his dick and make him eat it, and just let him die slowly, in the dirt.

Imagine if you were their parents, and had sent your daughter off to school that day, and then....   Awful, and now she turns up in this video.  I count about 50 girls here; the rest have already been sold off as "wives" for $12.

To my Christian friends: a bunch of these girls are Christians and have been forced to wear a fucking burkha and recite "islamic" prayers.

GO SEAL TEAM 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Issahole, where'd ya get that black shoe polish you use on your hair?!

Darrell "Issahole" is starting his 8th investigation into Benghazi.  That's great, since there were 11 embassy take-overs under Bush, where people were killed, that he never looked into!  This is all about trying to throw shit on Hillary; hope it backfires on the motherfuckers.  How many times have they tried to repeal Obamacare...50, counting?

All while they filibustered a vote on raising the minimum wage.  They say it might cost some jobs.  Oh yeh, assholes!  YOu give 20 million people 50% more money to spend and guess what?!  It's gonna CREATE jobs.  Stupid lying motherfuckers carry the water of the polluting corporations and if they don't get slammed this Fall then someone dropped the ball; or they cheated.

They voted in Afghanistan; what's your excuse?!

Participation in this weekend's presidential elections in Afghanistan were @ 60%, which is basically the same turnout we managed in our last.  The Taliban had made a lot of threats, which mostly didn't materialize.  That's what happens when you stand up to bullies: they evaporate like a bad dream.

In the US there are 70 million adults who are NOT EVEN REGISTERED TO VOTE!  Really!  We could have an entirely different House and Senate if these lazy cop-outs just did their civic duty.

Refusal to register and vote is NOT a social protest; it is an abdication, a surrender to the right-wing, the religious fanatics, and the corporate interests.

If you're not registered and don't vote you don't count, and don't have a right to complain about not being represented.  I'm not saying you have to choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.  Show up, sign in, and vote for nobody!  Or for or against tax measures or State amendments, or write in: "All these candidates suck".  Or f**king run for office yourself!  s

Mass shootings are bread and butter for the NRA.

Another shooting at Fort Hood.

Wayne Lapierre, head of the NRA, says: "They only defense against a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun." OK, this is an Army base, full of good men and women with guns, and still a psycho hits 20 people before going down! And how, exactly, are kindergartners s'posed to deal with a situation like this?!

Who will join me to create ANGR (Americans for National Gun Regulation)?!

Roberts and the other 4 traitors open the floodgates even wider.

5 to 4, the bullies on the SCOTUS further opened the floodgates for monied interests to own our gov't. Let's just review how the right-wing got this slim majority: 2000 election: Katharine Harris throws 25,000 black voters off the registers because their names sound similar to ex-cons. It's still very close, but Gore will win, so Sandra Day O'Connor (fearing Gore will choose her successor), and 4 other right-wingers impose their will over that of the voters, stopping the recount.

At some point, we have to talk about impeaching Roberts and Alito, because they are illegitimate, appointed by a regime that stole two elections.

Mary Barra gets to be the scape goats for the sins of good ole boys!

Poor Mary Barra, I guarantee you that the powers that be at GM knew the shit was about to hit the fan:

--10 years of knowing that a faulty ignition switch was killing people in terrible crashes
--50 cents to fix the problem
--Some bean-counter (undoubtedly Republican) that said "We don't want to do a recall

So of course they hired Mary Barra.  Let's hide behind a woman!  And the assholes in Congress (who no doubt played golf with the REAL guilty parties) get to do a verbal gang bang on this woman.

Remind you of anything?  Oh yeah, Obama having to come in and clean up after Bush's two failed wars and a 2nd Great Depression.

Boycott "House of Cards" until they pay their fair share of Maryland taxes!

The original, British version of House of Cards was much better than Kevin Spacey's adaptation.  What always bugged me about the American version was that the Uruquart character is a Democrat; even though his behavior is much more indicative of EVERY Republican president since Nixon.  Sure, LBJ was just as ruthless, but he was a Southern Demo and we all know that they became Repugs in response to the Civil Rights Act.

The reason I'm boycotting the 2nd season of House of Cards on Netflix is that the production company is swindling the Maryland people out of their tax dollars.  They got $18 million in tax cuts for season 2, and are now demanding $25 million or they will just do season 3 somewhere else.

Wow, KS, way to act like the kind of political manipulator you're portraying on-screen.  Pay you fair share for the roads, etc. your fucking movie-making depends one; stop asking poor black kids working at McD's to pay for your fucking 3 martini lunches!!!!!

Here's the latest on MA flight 370, with 239 souls aboard!

My latest theory on the missing Malaysian Airlines 777: they were diverted by the pilot as part of a CIA plot to see if adults could be conditioned to behave, or whether they would devolve into: "Lord of the Flies".

The argument against putting Fluorine in our drinking water.

Fluorine and the other halogens are in the tan column, on the right side of the periodic table.  This means they are one electron short of a complete outer shell.  If they can grab that electron from another element they will become a noble gas, like Neon etc. (noble gases don't react with anything).  They are HUNGRY, and highly reactive.  The easiest place to find that electron is Carbon, which has 4 electrons which it is very happy to share.  So any organic molecule is a ripe target for attack by F, thus, not a good idea to be drinking it in water.  I keep my drinking water in a glass jug in the fridge so the Cl can evaporate, which it does very quickly.

We are nothing but energy!

What it means is that "mass"/"matter" is just a huge amount of concentrated energy. That's how an atom bomb works, because enriched Uranium is very unstable and you can get a chain reaction going in it.

Water is more precious than gold.

Water is more precious than oil, or gas, and yet we pollute 5 million gallons of it every time we frack a well.  That toxic water is injected into the ground, where it is causing earthquakes.

Aside from being essential to life, water has amazing properties.  It is the only substance that expands when it freezes, this is due to the polarity of the H2O molecule, which assembles in predictable configurations, like in a cloud, becoming snowflakes.

Hydrogen is the first element to form in the ancient universe, after the Big Bang.  Oxygen has to be assembled in a star, which subsequently explodes, seeding space with the heavier elements from which everything we know is constructed.

Birds of a feather. Turds made of leather plop together.

This is John McCain in Ukraine, in December, with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of a fringe right-wing group of fascists.  OT has called for battle with "the Muscovite-Jewish mafia".  In Putin's paranoid myopia, this was the US endorsing this psycho, and thus a pretext for the Russian Army to invade Crimea and plunge us into this current crisis.

Thanks for your meddling, old man!  Maybe you should do background checks on the company you keep!

US Gov't Deficits could be eliminated tomorrow! Painlessly!

Agencies that work for the federal government spend 9%  of their budgets in the last week of their fiscal year.  They're afraid that, if they don't spend it all, their budget will get cut.  At WPAFB, they typically buy a bunch of new office furniture and throw out the stuff they bought the year before.

Ten percent!  There's your deficit right there!  How about this idea: they plow that money back and aren't penalized.  In fact, 10% of that money is randomly assigned in $2000 bonuses to some of the agencies workers.

People rush out to play Powerball; they would LOVE these odds.  I would!

Bugging the Virgin Mary

Obscenity is a very subjective thing.

The Brits call the insect a "Ladybird Beetle".  They are horrified that we call it a "Ladybug".  "Lady" always refers to the Virgin Mary, over there.  And "bug" alludes to "buggery": anal sex.  To conglomerate the two like that is just another example of our coarseness.

Vlad the inhaler's cheesy freak show.

For the most expensive Olympics in history (upwards of $50 Billion) things in Sochi sure are cheesy.  I love the cardboard bathroom door.

Even the medals have holes in them!

Julia Roberts is NOT pretty.

One word movie review:

"Pretty Woman" = horticulture.

Sci-fi Olympics!

My mind goes through a paradigm shift every time I watch Women's Speed-skating: alien robots racing down the ice are--as soon as the race is over--magically transformed back into girls!