Non Post

Greetings good citizen, again the schedule conspires to keep me AFK for the bulk of the day, really should be scrambling right now but this environment is 'publish or perish' and I want to post something even if all I tell you is 'no post today'.

Thanks for stopping by, browse some of my earlier entries, always amusing!

Gegner

One more time

Greetings good citizen, some of you are filled with dread, others with jubilation. The showman who ran as a Republican and got elected on a 'old school Democratic platform' [which means he lied from the start] is merely a 'bird in a cage', a puppet on a string.

He's promising to 'bring jobs back' but he doesn't have that kind of authority. He can't 'order' formerly US based companies to return their operations to the US...pronto!

He COULD [and probably WILL 'poison the well' by making it 'cost prohibitive' to sell into the US market...but that ship has sailed as well.

When the jobs 'left' here, SO DID THE EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO DO THEM! Worse, the 'old stuff' was used to 'transition' while new, automated, 'idiot-proof' processes were developed. Now the equipment that left here has been MELTED FOR SCRAP!

Reality check number 2 is there is nobody here that knows how to run this equipment anymore. The US has been a manufacturing wasteland for more than forty years. Those of us that used to know how to do what needs doin' are too old to do it!

So we have no equipment AND no 'talent'. For an entire generation people that would have followed their fathers onto the shop floor have become waiters or truck drivers...or stocked shelves with stuff made elsewhere.

Again, the LYING LIARS continue to tell us that 'globalization' was done for us...but in reality it was done TO US!

REMOVE 'Mother Nature's cash register' and it 'costs' no more to feed, clothe and shelter an American than it does a Chinaman. The 'Cheaper there' is and ALWAYS HAS BEEN A 'MENTAL CONSTRUCT'! [AN IDEA for those of you sitting there with your jaw in your lap like a buffalo hit by a stun gun!]

Why is the, er, 'globalized economy' falling apart? Economics 101, NOBODY can't live in an economic wasteland.

We'd all [in our heads anyway] LOVE to live up Maine or maybe get our own 'reality TV show' in Alaska except there are already TOO MANY PEOPLE trying [and failing] to do exactly that. Without modern methodologies, the land just can't support 'free range living' these people are attempting.

Too many people hunting too few resources.

What most of you aren't aware of is what the 'endgame' of globalization is all about.

It is (and always was) about THE CONSOLIDATION OF 'MARKET SHARE'.

Most of you can't wrap your head around what that means, the ongoing 'gobbling up' of competitors so, in the end only a handful remain.

When there isn't another source [like, say razor blades...] your stuck paying what the 'sole survivor' demands.

Even the 'upstarts' pushing to fill the void created by a, er, 'monolith' haven't competed on 'price', they're still in the same insane ballpark as the 'market leader' and the price ISN'T justified...but nobody's doing anything about the defacto monopoly either.

Avis may have 'tried harder' but when it was revealed they were BOTH [Hertz was number one] owned by the SAME CORPORATE PARENT, charges of 'malfeasance' and corporate wrong-doing emerged.

Chances are 'monopolies' have 're-emerged' with the advent of 'supranational corporations' that are 'accountable' to no sovereign nation but themselves. The, er, 'puzzling' razor blade situation is the first to rear it's head. We don't have the 'legal horsepower' to track who, specifically owns what, where on a global basis.

So 'monopolies' will flourish while governments are powerless to rein them in and the 'global economy' continues to suck pond water because the feckless few still have much more than THEY need, the rest of us can go twist in the wind! [Money...we're doing it WRONG!]

Your eyes have glazed over...most of you don't give a crap about this 'economics stuff', you just want somebody to 'fix' this broken system...worse, you DON'T CARE how they do it.

Well, HOW LONG ARE YOU WILLING TO WAIT?

The hope is until after your DEAD...is that soon enough? WTF!

It ain't gonna change UNTIL YOU CHANGE IT!

In the mean time I suggest you buckle up, it's gonna be one hell of a bumpy ride!

It's gonna go sideways...the only question remaining is 'when'?

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Civil rights?

Greetings good citizen, with 'hard line' conservatives being appointed at every cabinet post, the only question left unasked is 'What the hell did you expect?'

Hanging in the balance are your rights. Civil rights, what rights?

Understand good citizen, Civil rights aren't just for 'minorities', they're YOUR RIGHTS TOO!

While I've been on a 'mimic' tear the last few posts, how many of you have noticed the disturbing tendency to 'go along' with the, er, 'tantrums' of the 'defenders' of INJUSTICE? [If you follow the link you will find some very disturbing points of view attributed to the nominee for US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. [R - Alabama]

Especially disturbing is his views on WHOSE COURT/JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS IT?

Because he's 'White like me' doesn't automatically make him on YOUR SIDE!

Look at the last Republican president, W. He stripped us of protection from usury [loan sharking] besides the beyond intrusive Patriot Act. What was the 'logic' behind that move?

Apparently homelessness.

And Barry neither re-instated usury legislation nor Glass-Stiegel for that matter and he didn't prosecute W & his boss Cheney for War Crimes! Still wondering what his 'legacy' is?

Is treason too strong a word? [Um, some think he committed treason just because he's not white but, truth be told he's 'whiter' on the inside than most of us. Just like what the Asians call their 'Americanized' counterparts, 'Twinkies', yellow on the outside but white on the inside!

Naturally, most of you are [not] aware of the 'honorary white' list, peoples who are 'considered white' even though they're not?

Never heard of that? Google is your friend! Look it up.

Besides being racist as all hell, truth be told all it did for the people this 'honor' was bestowed upon is mark them as traitors.

Ever notice that traitor goes hand in hand with 'treason'? Well, they both sprung from the same 'crime'. Problem is most 'HUMANS' think it's a crime ONLY if goes against people 'like them'.

So treason is (classically) a crime against YOUR OWN KIND! We're all human but the denizens of Richistan don't consider themselves part of 'our kind'. [No se habla 'hired help'...]

[Guess who is responsible for the term 'White Trash'? Ironically it as other poor (white) people PRETENDING to be 'better' than they actually were...]

So when they put the screws to us to the bulk of us, it's not 'treason' because none of their 'peers' are harmed.

Did I mention the folks running things are more than a little off in the head? They hold some downright disturbing beliefs...worse, they believe we think the SAME WAY because we're WHITE LIKE THEM! (understand, other than that our whiteness is NOTHING to them.)

Now, now, don't get discouraged. Just because some of us are nut bags doesn't mean YOU are! [Not that you need to be born with a silver whatever protruding from your [fill-in-the-blank.] Many 'pretend' they are 'better' than they really are out of sheer IGNORANCE!

One of life's rich comedies only the wise can appreciate. [Apparently the media is devoid of wisdom but we already knew that!]

We've come a long way tearing down racial barriers but the class barriers, those pesky rascals remain obstinate [truth be told, downright bulletproof!]

Will it take the complete removal of the now ancient order to relieve humanity of this antiquated thinking [where only the 'privileged' have rights?]

Face it good citizen, we are still living with remnants of the 'Dark Ages'.

Are you ready to sweep aside 'antiquated thinking' and embrace a world where we're all members of THE SAME TEAM?

No more US vs THEM.

It's possible but only if YOU think so.

Classically, this is where if you're not 'part of the solution' then you're PART OF THE PROBLEM! [If your 'whiteness' matters more to you than human decency then you have none!]

Examine Mr. Sessions words and if they resonate with you, you may soon sleep with the dinosaurs!

How does a man like that succeed in politics? Only the One Percent knows...

Time for them to 'go' too!

Will you fight for your children's right (since you no longer have any?)

If you have to scratch your head over that one you're already too far gone, go back to sleep...(and TRY to stay out of the way!) [If you can't figure that one out then you deserve what's coming.]

Note to the wise, civil rights are YOUR RIGHTS too!

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Back-up Plan

Greetings good citizen, it's news to no-one whos been around the block a time or two that most of us are but a single 'disaster' from penury.

Our parents always warned us to save for that inevitable 'rainy day'...but our parents were blessedly ignorant of the fact they'd need 2 million behind them to even consider retiring 'comfortably'.

Again, for the vast majority of us, that figure represents every penny we ever [legally] earned over our entire working career. [Who among you has lived on LOVE for forty-five years?]

How sad is it to ponder that only the well-born, ultra successful or criminals among us might be in possession of that much wealth?

Show of hands people! How many of you have taken the precaution of learning which flavor of [store brand, naturally] cat-food is tastiest?

Oh the joys of old age and living on a fixed income where eating pet food is the answer to the 'heat or eat' puzzle.

So it is that the charge of 'mis-management' is once again in the crosshairs because it's not about YOU, it's about THEM!

Sadder, people living on their cars are also faced with this 'choice' where we substitute paying rent for the price of the mailbox where their SSI/assistance checks are sent takes top priority and still nobody thinks we're doing this wrong...

How much more evidence do you need that we are 'ruled' by truly evil people? [Sing the refrain: "Hard to believe we need a place called Hell..."

Understand, this is not a 'lack of awareness' it is a psychopathic lack of caring that not only produces these outcomes but then commands it minions in the media to totally IGNORE the situation. [Although, truth be told, I did read another article, one of many, belaboring the obvious...most people have ZERO savings thanks to relentless price manipulations intended to do precisely that.

You CAN'T SAVE because you're barely making enough to live on...

So what's YOUR 'back-up plan' when something vital [like your car] suddenly requires major repairs? Insurance? Warranty? your already max'ed out credit cards?

What are you going to do when health facilities [a.k.a. hospitals] start pulling the 'no insurance, no service' BS?

Depending on how bad whatever sent you there in the first place is you might just want to join the growing pile of corpses on the curb.

Worse, when the bodies start piling up only then will anybody 'do something' [probably patently unfair to boot] because Tea-tards will start protesting the 'rationing' of healthcare that even THEY can't afford!

[Part-in-parcel with being neck-deep in stupid...unfortunately.]

But I digress, disasters come in all shapes and sizes and their unfortunate 'common denominator' is heartbreak.

How do we get a 'more equitable' deal?

Already told you...STRIKE! [WAR is NEVER the answer!] You can't hope to 'outgun' the armed and armored cops...[how many of you remember that cops in body armor came along BEFORE 9/11 but after 'Morning in America?'

How many of you are registered Independent but vote Republican? [Deduct 50 IQ points! You're officially a moron!]

You're not going to go 'toe to toe' with 'The Blue Wall' unless you resort to their tactics [which are get 'em while they're sleeping!]

You won't strike because you 'fear' strikebreakers BUT those crossing non-existent 'picket lines' can be easily dealt with. They don't have body armor nor are they armed. If any of them are stupid enough to fire on the enforcers of the strike, the only option for them and their family is Jonestown Kool Aid!

Too squeamish to end it yourself? The vigilantes will do it for you...but hanging from the neck until dead is a horrible death. You might want to re-consider the Kool-Aid.

Like driving, you have to 'protest' [NOT IN THE STREETS} like you MEAN IT! Zero tolerance for strike breaking and that goes double for 'denizens of the law'! They break the strike, they (and their families) pay the price.

When I say 'we're ALL in this TOGETHER, I mean ALL. You job doesn't exempt you from society. The STRIKE is intended to let EVERYBODY KNOW just where their allegedly 'divided' peers stand.

We are a society of 'mimics' once the, er, 'uncaring' see how much the 'disenfranchised' outnumber them by, it will be a 'no-brainer'.

But ya have to make the first move! No ticky, no washy! [Which is another way of saying without YOU there won't be a revolution that saves humanity...and without a revolt, humanity is DOOMED.]

If I keep leveling the heavy guns at you it's because in the end, it's all up to you.

United We STAND!

Divided, we perish!

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Rah, rah, sis-boom-bah!

Greetings good citizen, like a lot of things that roll off our backs, pretty much unnoticed, the relentless, ever-present 'cheerleading' is probably chief among them.

So it's more than a little ironic, depending on what rung of the economic ladder you've been stuck with, you end up asking yourself 'Again? When was it EVER?'

There is the 'pitchman's America' and then there's the place you wake up in every morning.

Most of us are convinced that if you're not 'desperate', America is the LAST place on the planet you want to be. If you WANT TO BE DESPERATE, you picked EXACTLY the right place because the world's finest 'desperadoes' live here!

Go ahead and tell me you don't wonder what the hell they're talking about when the 'pep boys/girls' start waxing poetic about this WONDERFUL nation of ours...[and oxymoron in itself...this ain't YOUR COUNTRY, you're just 'leasing space' while you're here. After you're gone and forgotten they're going to re-sell your cemetery plot!

Waste not, want not! [combined with 'f' em all and the dumb ones twice!]

If there's a buck to be had there are NO LIMITS to how LOW we'll stoop! [Making the fact that ALL money is FUNNY (as in counterfeit) that much more ironic...will the depravity ever end?]

Again, I paint our species in the dimmest of lights but defend you because you have been purposefully DELUDED by the same salesmen that take what you have and give you 'fluff' in return.

They don't refer to us as 'Sheep' for nothing. It is 'deserved'.

Thing is, we're NOT sheep! Gullible beyond belief, yeah but 'sheep'...only to the extent we habitually 'obey' herd behavior.

Actually it is the mimic part of our behavior that betrays us. If the other 'sheep/monkees' don't RUN, we won't either!

The bad news is by the time we figure out we SHOULD BE RUNNING it's already too late.

Worse, it is our own kind that deceives us, making the ruse that much more difficult to detect.

Did you ever wonder why 'treachery' [formally known as 'treason'] is a 'capitol crime' [carries the death penalty?]

The treacherous monkeys among us want you to believe 'treason' is restricted to 'betraying the State' but it really applies to BETRAYING YOUR OWN KIND!

Which is to say were we to dial it all the way back to the founders, they'd all have been hung several times over! [Once to kill them, the other six to make an example of 'em!]

I rage constantly at 'man's inhumanity to his fellow man' but [optimist/sucker] that I am, I also chalk this up to the 'exploiters' among us, the opportunists that take advantage of the 'trust' placed in them.

Which is why I devised A Simple Plan, it is 'designed' to be 'bulletproof' because EVERYBODY is a 'cop'.

WHAT?

Yeah, NOBODY is ABOVE THE LAW BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LAW! [Premise: much harder to engage in illicit behavior when EVERYBODY KNOWS what the law is!]

Do YOU know the law? Good citizen...only what you can't do without the long arm of the law slapping YOU down. [if you're rich enough the list of stuff you can't do gets real short!]

Safe bet that you DON'T even know your rights anymore, here in post 9/11 Richistan [Home of W's constituents, the HAVES and the HAVE MORE'S]...Miranda? Worthless. Habeus? Worthless. Equal protection? Worthless...and the list goes on. Hard to say, under the circumstances, if you have ANY remaining 'rights'.

Comply or Die, comprende?

[When I write 'worthless' I am saying they are routinely 'ignored' WITH IMPUNITY, The very judges you'd appeal to would lose their seats on the bench if they sided with you.]

So, why all the 'cheerleading'? Seems as though somebody is trying to 'cover up the stench' of something gone very bad.

Doesn't help that YOU keep turning your head, pretending not to notice...when the stink could knock a buzzard off a S*** Wagon!

But don't let that bother you, it's time to join the rest of the 'sheeple' and wrap yourself in the stars and bars, heart in hand, as we sing the National Anthem.

Go team USA, Land of the Free [the whole dozen or so of 'em] and the home of the terminally stupid...[for which their masters are eternally grateful!]

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Land of Broken Dreams

Greetings good citizen, despite the 'platitudes' of the tastemakers/opinion leaders and their ilk, the types that tell you 'you become what you believe' meaning people like ME who are always, er, 'negative' are that way because of our beliefs.

Like this is paradise and it's me who is 'imagining things'...

The saltpeter here is most of you think I am exaggerating UNTIL IT COMES HOME TO ROOST!

Only then do you suddenly consider that I might have a point. For my 'peers',[The 50 to 70 crowd] most of you look at your lives and think, could have been worse' (juxtaposed against the reality that things aren't even remotely like you planned they'd work out.) If there were a prize for falling short of the mark, you'd win.

Where are those nut-jobs that tell you, 'you become what you believe!' Now?

You are being manipulated good citizen. Part of the media's 'disinformation campaign' is convincing you your 'dissatisfaction' is caused by your 'lack of perspective.'

Things could be a lot worse (as you will soon see for yourself.)

While I crank about the baloney-boppers currently in charge, I am an advocate for positive change!

It's the cesspool the greed-heads have created that needs desperately to be addressed. I don't think I'd get much dissent when I opine that The Donald has yet to display even a fraction of the 'mental horsepower' necessary to tackle the task...even if I 'solve' the problem for him!

Simple equation, paychecks cut, expenses slashed as well. Housing and transportation must become 'freebies' and what work there is must be 'shared'.

See, didn't even work up a sweat doing that so it's not that the 'problems' are insoluble, the will to solve them doesn't exist!

How 'short-sighted' is that?

Here's an interesting question...how many of you find the idea that since we are [currently] the dominant species on this planet, the care of this planet becomes our responsibility?

Most of us would subscribe to such a belief.

With that as a given, what 'report card' would you provide to those currently charged with the task?

How many of you gave an F-minus?

If you won't fight to save your own helpless children, would you at least join the fight to save the planet from the 'exploiters'?

The battle ahead centers on our need to reproduce countered against the, er, 'diminished need' for more humans. If we fail to expand into space it is very likely we will 'extinguish ourselves.

One thing is certain [as hinted at in yesterday's piece titled 'Crossroads'] the current path leads to extinction.

Since the 'strongest' feature that makes co-operative civilization possible is trust, how will that trust be maintained knowing half of us are murderers you don't dare turn your back on?

Naturally, that's the last thing the media wants you pondering. Today's general 'prevailing opinion' is we belong to a society of murderous thieves...we might well think extinction isn't a bad thing. Only because the 'wrong type' [temporarily] have the upper hand.

We need to demonstrate to the, er, 'greenhouse orchids' [a.k.a. children raised in a bubble thanks to the ruthless acts of their parents] that they are NOT all that AND a bag of chips!

Can't keep breaking things, expecting them to fix themselves because society doesn't allow us that much 'wiggle room'.

Makes sense to me, the trick is getting it to make sense to you too!

Thanks once again for letting me inside YOUR head,

Gegner

The Crossroads

Greetings good citizen, I often tax your patience as well as your imagination (depending on how deeply 'rose tinted' your goggles are.

Once again 'the Futurist' reminds you that the past is never far behind us and if it happened even once it can happen AGAIN!

HISTORY IS TO BE LEARNED. FAIL TO LEARN AND THE LESSON WILL BE REPEATED!

This, er, is government we have come to recognize [you don't think the people working for our president elect wouldn't give the same order? Make no mistake about it, this is a 'warning shot' across the bow of anyone with a notion of organizing resistance to the 'almost there' Nanny State.

In this 'protection at any cost' gambit, the government is enforcing it's 'comply or die' mandate given to it by it's overlords.

Many of us believe we have 'lost control' of the government. If you add one plus one, where does that leave us?

[If we don't control the government and the government takes a non-negotiation position there is but ONE possible outcome, comply or die.

I know many of you didn't see this coming but welcome to 'Morning in America'. The latest election was a steamroller intended to knock down any and all resistance to what comes next. [Sidebar: Didn't get my NY Times this morning, today's headline was lifted from the MSN homepage in a tiny 'blink and you'd miss it' post.] Pay no attention to the people [foolishly] marching in the streets, they are Haters who just want things 'their way'.

What will you think when it's your child, cut down by police for taking part in an 'illegal demonstration'? [all because his/her buddies were there...]

Will you grieve your child's senseless death or will you suddenly realize this is YOUR FAULT for not acting when you had a chance?

Understand, the 'War on Terra' will NOT end. Again, the only possible outcomes [under the comply or die rubric] are ALL terrorists will be 'eradicated' or civilization itself will collapse.

The latter may seem 'unlikely' to you but that is only because you are still equating 'terrorist = Muslim'...bad meme, Terrorist actually = Non-One Percenter...a.k.a. YOU, [comply or die mofo...do you get it now?]

All things being even we are already pretty far gone down the 'primrose path', the die is cast and we'll have the Devil's own breaking free of it.

Still, many of you will sit there with your hands in your laps, waiting for the worms to come.

Under the rubric of 'if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem'

The crossroads referred to in the title represent the decision facing us all. Do we rise up and restore our liberty or do we stand there with our hands in our pockets, piss and moaning about why the ballot box didn't give us 'better choices'.

Really wanna see how 'scroomed' we are? Wait until they unveil the candidates for 2020! Hillary will be pushing 75 by then but that won't stop her!

So well have a repeat on our hands. Hillary's 'dying gasp' and The Donald's improbable second term...(if he makes it that far.)

Grimmer still will be the 'running battles' in the streets between the 'armies of the unemployed' and too stupid to live cops. [Civilians against cops...even cops equipped with military hardware, isn't considered 'civil war' although it would be closer to the mark than just labeling it 'civil unrest'.

Will you fight?

Probably not.

Still, it's worth considering given this latest indication of where those who have seized control of what was originally established to keep them in check.

Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,

Gegner