Nostrodamus never saw this coming.

This past month I have become a news addict. The idea that our economy may fail, is failing, is , well should be , an idea that fills one with dread, worry, nail- biting, insomnia, drunkenness, fear, titters, reading and re-reading Barbara Tuchman, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Nostrodomus, the track winnings, horoscopes, Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall"; the thought that our society is on the verge of collapse should make us sweat... So sayeth the pundits, the hucksters, the tear- mongers. But, I don't sweat. I care. I do. Don't get me wrong, I just don't care if America crashes. Every "civilization" is thrust out of the muck and babel of a cultures aspirations. Every empire strives to be important, provocative, cutting edge. In Britain, the sun was called democracy, cultured, advanced. Civilized. The Soviet Unions revolutionary sun was "progress". Britain and the CCCP , France, America, Habsburgian Vienna, the Incas, Belgium, Germany, Spain, China, Japan, etc...built their empires with the bones of "outsiders", the blood of "others". In America, there will not be a mass Native rebellion. We are barely here. From NYC to San Francisco, whole nations were exterminated while the Great White Father spoke of the Constitution, the Declaration. "All men are created....crack!" Bullets, not ballots, created America. Stolen land. Lies and disease, not Lincoln and Jefferson, made America what it is.
An empire that spends more on space research than it's rural poor, urban poor. An empire not unlike so many before it----but, minus the gilded laughs and curtsies of the Habsburgs, an empire foul, but nevertheless an empire that gave us the Pleiades of Music, Klimt, Freud, Herzl, and much more. Strauss is enough. But, us? What, in the name of Beulah, have we given to the world?Eminem?Madonna? Bob Dylan?Donald Trump, Oprah, a crooked mouthed Empress with biceps of a lesbian bricklayer, our "cultured" president? People forget that Wiemar Germany was also very literate---so what? The Constitution, while not perfect, is not perfect...ok, pal, it isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's what we call a wish list, from men who were human, meaning they were good and bad.
Jefferson spoke Greek, yet likened the American Indian to vermin. Empires are built on lies. Lies told on a grand scale. Believed by millions. Retold. But, I think that it is the ghosts that Empire murdered which kill empires.The Ghost Dance was invented to rid this land of a pest: us.
Whites thought it was a joke, and at the same time, were scared it may work. Ergo, Wounded Knee. Americas Kristallnacht. Night of the Long Knives. As a boy, I often wondered if it actually might work, this Ghost Dance.
As we spend billions to find dirt on other planets, we still have no clue as to why we dream, why we act more like monkeys than humans, more like savages than a cultured population.
As Emperor Obama gives trillions to corporations and banks that don't deserve a helping hand, rural counties revert to wildernesses, people flock to cities. One need not consult the stars, nor the bones to see what lies ahead.

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Its 2011, Ive left the Tea Party and wander, partyless, no man on the left or the right to feel aligned with. I take nothing back. Except, I would like to add that when confronted with a Eurocitizen, I can become very patriotic and make Palin blush a nice Chippewa Red.However, I do remain unpatriotic, matriotic? Maybe. The gummint aint moi. I aint the gummint. The ideas of America, the ideas haphazardly implemented and stopped and chopped up, I believe in----yet, if 100% freedom creates the robots I see around me, what good is this?The pudgy Tea Party folks spitting out the words "socialism" and "tyrrany" like they know what the hell they're talking about? I was part of this little clique. I was. I am ashamed to admit it, just as Im ashamed to admit I was a Communist , or that I voted for Bush 1. Now, Im back to my little odd self, part anarchist, part right wing dictator, Christian, pagan, white trash riff raff, ruffian and tatterdemallion, raconteur extraordinaire. A palaverer. Thats my party: The Palaverer Party. We have soothsayers, prophets, madmen, artistes, poets, whores, hermits, junkies and were-manatees schlocking around in our steampunk Party. Not the hipster goggle wearing shite, no, uh-huh....no, we're steamdriven, like an old Steamdonkey, we're punk, as in curmudgeonly rebelling against nothing. Anarch,as Ernst Junger says. We're too cool to vote, too fine to care, too busy keeping up appearances to even read a goddamned book.We are dumb as a water buffalo. We want you to come and join our party. It sounds like a circus here, an orgy of chatter and laughter, not to mention coitus. We play a chipper song as the White Line ship "Americanic", sinks down,down,down to the depths of Davey Jone's locker, where we will rest up against other Imperial ships. I cross my fingers and pray to Alaskan mosquitos that we nudge up against the Habsburg Empire. Franz Ferdinand and George Bush will have much of nothing to talk about.The ghost of Richard Strauss will fly from the ghost of Michael Jackson and Michael Jacksons nose.I will find Geza Csath and smoke opium, we will greet Herr Kraus and Herr Salten. Coffee will be ordered, Turkish style. Or, Serbian. We will jibberjabber in half German, half English. We will walk among starfish, as the sun above becomes weaker and darker.

Fear, folly, frappucino skinned fuhrers

Reading an old friends blog about Obama, about how people dislike him, dislike his associatians, his past, his duplicity, lies and pandering to the prevailing mood, disliking Obama isnt "fear based"(as if ones reaction to politicians is part of some California Buddhist/shamanistic/holistic/organic formulae) just as disliking the flu is fear based. Disliking Obama is pragmatic. Its a natural response in the people who think. He is the same as Bush, no? Lets put some of your hallucinations down, shall we? Think of my sentences as bullets to your wide-eyed Bambis: first, Obama kept Gates, the Sec. of Defence under "W". Second, his choice of Hillary and Biden. Not the change many of us were looking for. Had he chose, say, Nader for Treasury....maybe we'd see some change. Bushs stimulus is now repeated by Obama. Bushs failed, so , too, will Obamas.
So, we now have a dark skinned prez, who is doing the same things as Bush. The same. Exactly. But, the failing economy is bigger than lil Ol Obama and the witch, Pelosi. The nearly 20,000 troops going to Afghanistan, a place not even Alexander the Great , the Moghuls, the Soviets, no one could conquer, will be Obamas Iraq. But, rather than think for themselves, liberals will ignore this, they have hope, wide eyed hope. So much hope, that they cant notice that Obama , like Bush, is a mere pawn of the corporations. See, liberals are afraid to recognize this. Why? Because it means there is no hope. Politics in America is dead. So, who is running on fear? Ah, yes, the liberals who hold Obama to a different standard, who hold him aloft and hold their criticisms. I have hope: not in Obama, in less than a moons age, he's shown he is Bush Part Two, only more suave and handsome. The American people will solve Americas problems...but, first, men like Madoff and Stamford need to be executed. Obama needs to execute these scum, publicly. Don't rush to your phones to call the FBI or CIA, Im not advocating any friends to do it, or even my little old self to do it, but Im advocating that the cretinous Chicago politician act a little more like Nero.
17,000 troops sent to Afghanistan? Its simply amazing---where the hell are the whining liberals?Code Pink?Fuck me silly. So, obviously, these so-called pacifists are only concerned when a Texas peckerwood goes to war, eh?
Democrats and Republicans are the same people. Indistinguishable. But, millions of Murkans are like cows, really, or some were-coyote, they go from dead carcass to dead carcass, from liberal to conservative, looking for sustenance, finding none, they move to the other one. Voting. One rich cunt for another. No, Im not a Marxist, not a socialist, yet I do find the incumbency of US politicians(99%) bizarre and unsettling. I find the fact that 95% of all politicians are millionaires...well, fucking disgraceful. Nah, we need more fear. The right fear. Fear of lawyers, odd concepts like "the people". We need more eccentrics, free thinkers. Freaks. As it is , we have an empire on the edge of collapse, an empire rife with drug addled fucktards, religious whackos, a nation glued to "American Idol"...nevermind. Really. I don't mean any of this. Go back to your ridiculous lives. Obama has the wheel. No fear.Not one drop.
We need a more conservative party, more libertarian minded.

The Rushin' soul

...imagine, if you will, a man in his late 40's with no job, 2-3 Mercedes, expensive clothes, a jailhouse swagger, a grimace of contempt, puffed out chest, Russian curse words mixed with English curse words, add two kickable lapdogs, footballs with legs, add last night: At 3am, the Russian neighbor across the street began pounding on his door, yelling in his masculine drunken drawl,"Let Meeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeennnnnn!!!!Let me in my home, over and over ad nauseum. This pounding and yelling went on for eons, until it evolved into a noticeable vodka born weeping and the kind of oratory that alcohol produces...not to dis anyone with Downs Syndrome or the way they speak, but, in this state of intoxication, the drunken moron sounds as if he has Downs Syndrome. But, its self inflicted. Ergo, it is disgusting. I wanted the police to come and beat him on his calves, just a little massage, you know. Put a muzzle on him and strip him naked, handcuff him to a pole.He kept crying that he was cold. I wanted to scream, "So what, you frickin puss---buck up and get a motel room". His wife, whom I oughtta have compassion for but don't, obviously let the bastard in...minutes before the police came. 3-4 cruisers, lights roamin', radios. We've been here over a year and the police have been at this nuts house at least half a dozen times. I dream of the night this Russian dipsomaniac is tazed into silence. Right between his red eyes. Right on his smirk. Don't forget his lapdogs, too. Maybe , Ivan Fuckov can strap his doglets with Semtex , so they can chase after his Mercedes, a la the WW 2 anti-tank dogs used by Russians against the Nazis? Just a thought. Another thought: drink water , take your meds, move to Siberia, scream as loud as your Russian soul can possibly scream.Don't drink.Keep screaming, hear those growls? Wolves.