It’s true. Weapons without courage are nothing more than Toys For Boys.
Gunz Without Ballz Ain’t Dick
June 7th, 2009Grande Half-Caff Revolution, Easy Whip
May 31st, 2009Fuck me, if the Bitter Clingers aren’t a hard room to work.
Scratch that — swearing is verboten.
God damn, if the Bitter Clingers aren’t a stiff-necked people.
Scratch that — blasphemy is verboten.
Yessirree, you gotta mind your p’s and q’s around them what tote guns and thump Bibles. Still, you gotta mind p’s and q’s with the Bitter Clingers less than you gotta mind p’s and q’s and regs and queues with the Ruling Elite.
There is no doubt in my mind, none whatsoever, that the gazillions of forms that we are compelled to complete and the gazillions of waits/lines/holds/delays that we are compelled to endure are not only wasteful and unnecessary, but also deliberate and sinister. Obviously, the forms and lines speak to bureaucratic bullsh, er, ridiculousness — the mindless paper pushing that accounts for an obscene percentage of our workforce — but more and worse than that, I will argue that they are crafted to generate Revenue and instill Inertia. An overwhelmed citizenry is a tamed and lamed citizenry.
Mission accomplished.
I swear to Christ . . . I mean, honest to God . . . I mean, like, for real, WHAT WE WAITING FOR?
That was commonly heard when I was coming up, “What’re ya waitin’ for, Christmas?” And come to think of it, that phrase was typically hurled when someone was shirking their lot or delaying the inevitable.
And another thing (Was Colombo a great show, or what?), I am decided that all this resentful but nevertheless complete compliance with idiocy and larceny is contributory to the BULLYING that is unmistakably on the rise. I am decided that compliance with idiocy and larceny — going along to get along, peace at any price, please don’t hurt me — is emasculating American Men who, this is hardly an elastic stretch, are taking it out on women.
Particularly are single women getting caught in the crosshairs of this steady, corrosive capitulation of Guy’s Guy Testosterone to Effete Napoleonic Complexity. Think of the children, no child left behind, child protective services, ad nauseum. Children come from women as surely as apples come from the trees away from which they roll. A truly disturbing number of American Men of variant stripes seem prepared to leave unattached women to fend for themselves but, somehow, it is more heartbreaking to discover a lack of chivalry among Rednecks.
God does not approve, this much I know.
Not on my watch, this much I also know.
I’m gonna write to Governor Schweitzer up there in Montana, where get-er-done guys live, and pray his forbearance on the founding of a new and unincorporated Big Sky township that caters to and protects single women. I am imagining that an all-girl Militia would not only be the sort of novelty that generates tourism dollars, it would not only provide the township’s voluntary law enforcement, it could train Girl Power for export to colleges and universities around whose campuses a procession of co-ed “slayings” goes unchecked. Economic stimulus with an egalitarian twist.
My own mother says he’ll think I’m a “crackpot” if I write that letter. Oh, well. If an Official concurs, perhaps it will leapfrog me to the front of the line forming to collect taxpayer-funded largesse for post-traumatic embitterment disorder. In the meantime, I maintain that if Palestinians and Israelis are sufficiently entitled to safe homelands that American Officialdom will spare no expense in dollars or lives to secure them, then I am likewise entitled.
Hatfields & McCoys, If You Wish
February 4th, 2009I stand apprised — therefore Rednecks as a class stand apprised — that the substitute-k-for-c krowd is NOT on board with my methodologies.
Be not fooled that they don’t post the comments here. But that I intend whenever possible NOT to link traffik to sites that are unfriendly to my purposes and unfriendlier to my person, I KOULD provide the names of online posters who substitute k-for-c, logikal or not, but I won’t. Only as it suits MY purpose, not theirs, will I relay samples of their gutter-snipery. I know that, if push comes to shove legally, I have all the documentation I require to substantiate my claims.
No, no, no indeed, I shall NOT name these Bullies publicly. I even bought the BoardThatShallNotBeNamed and the PosterWhoShallNotBeNamed domain names, in case I want to set up the internet equivalent of a public stockade. WHO WILL STAND FORTH AND OWN THESE WORDS?
I will ALWAYS own my words. I may change my views as realities change, or my knowledge of realities changes. I may end up owing an apology, which I am not afraid to issue. I don’t LIKE being wrong. I don’t LIKE eating crow. But I am OFTEN wrong — hey, I like to get it over with as early in the day as possible, then hope it’s the ONLY mistake of the day. Flexibility, adaptability, open-mindedness, development . . . these are good things.
Not so, capriciously flip flopping with each swing of the power pendulum. Not so, saying baseless or even false things, just ‘kuz it’s a Zinger. Not so, saying unkind and even false things, just ‘kuz it’s anonymous.
In the Type-by=Drive-by mentality of anonymous posting, let’s get a few things straight, shall we? Think of it as one of those cockamamie, (not-pointy) white-hatted, self-appointed sheriffs riding into town in the Wild West. It IS gettin’ kinda Wild West-y out here.
Me and mine gotta live SOMEWHERE, and if might-makes-right is the only way to live in peace and security, well then, Right is gonna acquire itself some might and set about meeting force with force-plus-enough to establish a meaningful peace in a meaningful space in the meaningful future. I define that latter as my lifetime. Now, I “just” gotta find my peeps. The internet is one tough room to work, I am here to attest.
It is ALWAYS a troublesome Few that cause a disproportionate amount of the Trouble. DISTURBED PEOPLE CAUSE DISTURBANCES. That’s bankable. Look around at who’s getting away with what, and compare that with the savings that you were SUPPOSED to have for playing by the rules, and know that I SPEAK TRUTH.
I will be Goddamned, literally, if I will stand down because a FEW well-armed, closed-minded, capital-r-Racist, capital-s-Sexist WHITE GUYS skulk around like the BULLIES that they and try to intimidate the rest of us BACKWARD into a yesteryear notion of LANDED WHITE GENTRY. Whereupon they call all the shots but, in turn, magnanimously “protect” us.
At the moment, I will provide only two recent snippets-more-like-snipettes for your contemplation — these from one of the k-for-c krowd, made to me at an ostensibly Liberty-oriented message board. When reading them, bear in mind that I have made direkt good-faith overtures (plural) toward alliance. More than that, I have made unmistakable gestures of conciliation, thereby exposing my soft underbelly, in an environment in which Detractors (see, I GET IT that preaching to the choir gets us precisely NOWHERE) are free and easy about hurling insults. These responses do not constitute who-goes-there prudence but nail-in-the-coffin rebuffs. This is not where this man and I BEGIN a konversation, this is where we part ways.
“Seeing how xxxxxxxxxx is answering his own posts, I finally see what happens when people talk to themselves and start getting answers. With people like that, the militia will need to hide.”
“Based on your conduct here, I would not even touch you with someone elses 10 foot pole.”
Lucky for them, I GET IT that we’re on the same side. I’m not out to HARM them. But I AM out to marginalize them. For sure, I’m gonna give ‘em what-for on that board, in front of their peeps . . . challenge the oaf to define my conduct, after I demonstrate compliance by defining HIS conduct sufficiently articulately that it will be recognized by right-minded citizens as CONDUCT UNBECOMING AN OFFICER.
Bullies are NEVER talked out of being Bullies. Sometimes falling in love Changes them, but falling in love is no guarantee. Sometimes they resent the falling part, the threat to their perceived kontrol, and they are even BIGGER Bullies with their alleged Loved One(s). In school dayz, the Bully’s family might move away — thank God, or YOURS might. But usually, Bullies have to be beaten into a state of reasonableness. Sometimes they are punished out of it, sometimes they are punished into being BIGGER Bullies. Que sera, sera. But as a rule of thumb, Bullies are not TALKED into being Good Guys.
The Rule of Thumb, by the by, is inconclusively but nevertheless stubbornly tied to the thickness of instrument with which a man might lawfully strike “his” wife and/or the degree of “correction” he might deliver. Rule of Thumb, Etymology Old English bullshit, MORE Landed White Gentry crap. Our ally.
In my world view, this is Crunch Time. In my world view, Crunch Time DOES NOT EQUAL (/=/) the South Rises Again With Women & Minorities In Their Proper Places, Which Is To Say Beneath White Men.
Because malevolent diktatorship can only be held by force, in the fullness of time, that which is Good and Right inevitably prevails and advances. Not to say that malevolence and dark-heartedness will not fight to re-assert itself. Look to history. Hell, look to the bible.
Water seeks its own level. Cream rises to the top. Good and Right — God’s Will, if you will — ALWAYS endeavors to BE what it is, Good and Right. But over Time, “one way or another,” Truth will be victorious. Truth is Truth. Truth is not always Good. K-grade Racism and Sexism is True, I stand apprised.
And I am saying right back, K-grade Racism and Sexism is NOT Good and NOT Right. It is Bad and Wrong.
The good news, ‘kuz we’re Good, is that we will not leave K-grade Rakists and Sexist behind. We will not relegate them to menial labor or lower pay. We will not establish kauses to lock them up, nor infringe upon their tending to their business their way. But we will not AKKOMMODATE them. Just like we’re done accommodating lifetime, cyklikal Free Loaders. Just like we’re done akkommodating OTHER KOUNTRIES.
We kannot FEAR them. They are not in the Right. Bekause I was not raised in the Deep South but in kutting-edge Northern Kalifornia, you know who the Super Skary Guys were? Hell’s Angels. And they WERE scary. Look at ‘em now. Extraordinarily sukkessful businessmen. Extra Ordinary. Harley Davidson’s are now the Kadllacs of motorcycles, yes? But the pointy-hat krowd NEVER leans toward the mainstream — why is that, except that their views and ways are NOT mainstream?
Middle Class = Mainstream. Do we want a large and robust one, comprised of AMERIKANS-the-majority-of-whom-are-NOT-white-men-and-who-do-NOT-substitute-k-for-c? Or do we want to dissolve into bloodshed, AGAIN, with the best-armed among us thinking that we will REGRESS to Landed White Gentry ruling the roost (with self-serving and idiosynkratic Libertarianism), featuring an aggressive and expeditious Taking Charge of those pesky women and minorities, enforced by an Old Boy Network Police State that will paternalistically replace the Big Brother Nanny Police State?
K-grade Racists and Sexists are the world’s AND Amerika’s newest minority. It’s like gettin’ old, it is NOT for sissies. Seriously, someone should have WARNED me about Middle Age. Diskovering that you are in the Minority is like learning that you’re an alkoholic or a diabetic or losing a limb. Some shit is NOT reversible. We are at the point at which we are, it is what it is. Landed White Gentry does NOT have the numbers to back up chauvinistik and rakist bravado. Weapons, yes. Numbers, no.
It is not kowardice to bow to inevitability. It is not weakness to work with the Truth. We KANNOT turn back the clock. Amerika cannot prevail as a radically Balkanized land. Russia and China would have a FIELD DAY.
Global dominance by a handful of WHITE MEN is already over. Observe how OUR Big Shots are all invested overseas. At the FIRST indikation that the well-protekted asses of our Big Shot White Guys are on the line, they will be on private jets outta here just as fast as their bullet-proof limos get speed them to the air fields where their private planes are parked and primed for travel.
The days of AMERIKA being dominated by a handful of WHITE MEN is ALSO over. Make peace with it, or go down fighting, but K-Graders are pissing at the moon trying to make it more yellow. They are WAY WAY WAY outnumbered, AND they are diskouraging MORE Average Americans from swelling the ranks of the Resistance. They are a LIABILITY.
I’m am resolved to make the Appleseed Project circuit. I am going to learn Riflery and Marksmanship. I am going to arm myself to defend myself, my principles, my neighbor and my country, and I am going to enkourage every other RED-BLOODED Amerikan to do the same. EVERY Amerikan has red blood, not just the macho White Guys.
The k-for-c krowd will be my poster brats for what’s wrong with the Militia. Sekond Amendment rights and RESPONSIBILITIES and a WELL REGULATED Militia are INDISPENSABLE to preservation of freedom and justice. That will be my battle cry. I will kall on good-ol’-reglar Rednecks . . . with whom I invariably get along swell, once we git past the I-am-not-your-Mama’s-Christian thing . . . to SNAP OUT OF IT and rekognize hard-kore White Supremakists for what they are.
Yeah, yeah, I KNOW it’s only the hard c’s that “want” substitution. Tough shit, I’m not playin’ by their self-serving rules. Hard-kore White Supremakist Sexists are FRINGE.
Read that…Extremist. Read that…part o’ the problem, not part o’ the solution.
Not only are K-grade Rakists and Sexists not part of the solution, they are counterproduktive to the kause of meaningful and komprehensive reform. I respektfully suggest that Amerikan politiks, Amerikan politikians, and Amerika itself — if we would kall ourselves Christian — are as in need of meaningful and komprehensive reform as dying men are of forgiveness.
Permission To Speak Freely?
January 28th, 2009Soooo, are we good?
Can we at least agree on that much? That way-out-there-beyond-Bircher Racism will not be a prevailing influence in American governance? If a thing is an exists, it is an influence — end of story. But not everything is a prevailing or directional influence.
And are we agreed that our hard core Racists will not harass, harm or kill me for endeavoring to rally the rank-and-file around a message that includes as-absolute-as-possible non-discrimination? The good news is, I also promote understanding of the Truth that people who don’t like each other are NOT obliged to live upside each other and associate with each other. That’s ridiculous. Affirmative Action? Nada mas.
I mean to set off into the wild blue yonder of America just as quickly as I can close up a quarter-century run in Los Angeles, and I’m gonna see if we can’t hammer out a basic consensus platform that serves as the People’s Grievances. ‘Cuz what’s goin’ down in Washington is bull shit and more shit — with a lot of those B.S.’s and M.S.’s being issued by our most “prestigious” universities, it bears mention and investigation.
Forget the American Dream. They are changing the rules of the American Game, and I cry foul. Every person with whom I speak vigorously agrees. The People’s Protest only wants organization in order to be mounted. The passion is there — passion by way of contempt. That’s not good. I refuse to be forced into wrong behavior. I make enough mistakes of my own, thank you very much. You mean to plow into that wall, then this is where I get off.
We are broadcasting to the world and to our next generation that CRIME PAYS IN AMERICA. It is capital letter Wrong, there aren’t two ways about that. It is incumbent upon us to at least TRY to put a stop to it.
We do NOT have to live like this. There is a big, formerly-inviting world out there and I, for one, ought to be enjoying traveling it at this stage of my life. All productive people should be able to afford to travel if they wish. Most people haven’t even seen much of THIS country. Alternatively, all productive people should be left to themselves and their own judgments, if THAT is their druthers.
Let’s scale it ALL the way back to basics. Your life is yours, though you’re not allowed to bushwhack others while doin’ your thing. The only thing that’s rocket science is rocket science. All this bedlam is about Power & Money. More specifically, this is about people behaving badly over Power & Money and other people doing nuthin’ about it.
Government is completely outta hand. You know it, and I know it. And grown people have crushes on a Stranger who could absolutely make this Crisis very much worse.
Lickety split, WHY NOT?
1.) Nationwide Appleseed Shoots on April 19th
2.) Patriot Faire over Memorial Day weekend (I recommend one of the California counties of the Jefferson State Project)
3.) Independence Day barbeque of the century over the Fourth of July, in Washington DC.
As a noted procrastinator and a slacker, I see this as eminently doable.
Short, Not Sweet
January 27th, 2009Yes, I DO know that Rednecks are folks of few words. I am not. I am a VERY wordy person. Words, words, words - I can’t get enuf of ‘em.
Yes, I DO realize that I should set my own preferences aside and tailor my writing to please the audience, the better to encourage them to occasionally click on the Donate button in a tip-the-bartender kinda way. And I WILL make a particular point to keep the Redneck entries brief.
But a few things need to be clarified. Better to have it all at once, with enough said, than to revisit it in icky dribs and inflammatory drabs. Klan-grade Racism, capital S Sexism, Moneychangers in the Temples, blind loyalty . . . these are not okay. The broadcloth of conservatives must cut bait with the Extremists, if they would strengthen their ranks by influx of large numbers.
IS it Enough said? I realize that “we need to talk” is right up there with “Where have you been” and “It was on sale” as phrases that Redneck men do NOT want to hear but — since it seems we’re pickin’ sides — if I’m to stick my neck out for Liberty and Justice, I’d like to feel reasonably assured that I not gonna get caught in the crosshairs of our OWN homegrown Fundamentalists and Extremists.
There Is No White In Redneck
January 25th, 2009We know that, right? We know that only an albino’s skin is MAYBE white. And I suspect that up against a sheet of 28-pound, 96-brightness laser printer paper, even an albino’s skin won’t look white/white. Take a look at paint samples for variations on the theme of white.
The neck of a Redneck is red from working with his back bent under an unforgiving sun. Technically, Rednecks are Working Stiffs. Technically, Rednecks have more in common with working Blacks than they will EVER have with Aristocratic Whites.
I come from Rednecks. As long and as steady a source of amazement as that has been to me, to them and to others, it is nevertheless true that I count a mesmerizing number of Rednecks among my relatives. Be assured, then, that I do not address Rednecks without having SOME sense of whom I am addressing. Beyond that, if we will be honest, no person can ever really be inside another person’s head.
In addition to background familiarity with Rednecks, I purposefully spent on toward twelve weeks of the Campaign Season staying with Southern Money. I am genuinely proud to say that I can provide born-and-raised Deep South references upon request. I can provide better Deep South references than I can Family References, truth be told - for now, it will suffice to recall that family represents more challenge than choice.
I need to have a word about Racism with Rednecks.
Yeah yeah, I know I know . . . the Great Non-White Hope already made a straight-to-you-tube speech on Race Relations. That’s what Barack Obama does best, deliver melodic and memorable speeches. Melodic and memorable speeches plus $4.10 will buy you a poured-short triple venti whole-milk latte at Starbucks, the ailing coffee behemoth that is unabashedly trading on Obamamania.
Pepsi is also trading on Obamamania. No one brainwashes better’n Madison Avenue. Madison Avenue = Big Advertising. I am addicted to Starbucks and I much prefer Pepsi to Coke but, as of tomorrow, I will boycott both. You know whose presence hovers above populations? Superstars and Dictators.
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Big Advertising and Big Law been bery bery good to Barack Obama, and I urge no-nonsense Rednecks to pay close heed to that.
Among the very LAST things that America needs is more pimping of products and services. Ditto, more lawyering. Every bill, every regulation, every law, every tax, every fine, every hearing, every investigation, every bill, every regulation, every law, every tax, every fee and every fine constitutes Billable Hours for attorneys. Attorneys are a big part of our problem.
I jump around when I write, and I apologize for that. I am thinking too fast (because the BULLSHIT comes at me so fast), and I am trying to connect dots that High Flyers pay big money to keep us from connecting. If my words strike a chord, tolerate my eccentricities in order to grasp the gist. Or find someone else whose writing DOES work for you, and read along there. But read along, somewhere, by all means. Bad Guys are driving our country into the crapper, you know in your heart of hearts that this is true. It is incumbent upon us to DO something more than “ride it out.”
I am a smart and ethical person whose checkered past speaks directly to the dastardly machinations of Big Money. I know what I know. I believe what I believe. I’m done trying to talk anyone into anything. ”A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” I’ve made as much progress as I can by words alone. I know where I stand with whom - as best I can in a society that has officially sanctioned lying, cheating and stealing.
I am moving into action. But before I do, we need to have a word about racism/Racism and racists/Racists.
And capital-S Sexists. We need to have a word about them, too. Barack Obama tosses out the ol’ Slavery Card like a riverboat gambler with a full house. But being a Sexist himself, he treats Women’s Suffrage like an unmatched two - a discard.
My old-school Southern references are just as racist as they can be. It is a product of where and to whom they were born and how they were raised, and that’s that. It gets diluted with each generation, but you no more legislate it away than you do the color of my eyes.
Having said that they are racist — that they have a bedrock supposition that blacks are inferior to whites — the black nanny/housekeeper who raised their sons has lifetime security by their largesse. She lives in a house and drives a car, both of which they bought and insure. When the black woman who cared for their sons and their home for decades needs to go to the doctor, she goes to their doctors and they pay the tab. They look out for their own.
In their posh subdivision outside of Atlanta, I remark upon a particularly smart-looking house . . freshly painted white with crisp red shutters . . . and she, in Gladys Kravitz mode, informs me that it is owned by a black family, the first in the neighborhood. He’s a surgeon, she says approvingly. They give credit where credit is due, not hand-outs where someone else says a freebie is deserved.
This racism is above-board and straightforward, and diminishing with each generation. I’m not saying it’s right, it just IS. By the same token, these and other racist Southerners HIRE blacks. Not so in fake-not-racist Southern California, where the Moneyed Class is AFRAID of blacks and hires Latinos. Many of them illegal. Driving down the wages at the low end of the totem pole. Driving down the wages of the Servant Class constitutes MOVING BACKWARD.
Lower case racists exist. Period. As such, as citizens, they are entitled to representation in the governance of their states and of this country. Otherwise, what? We line them up and shoot them?
But Racism is not morally right, this must be conceded. It is irrational, for starters. Garden variety racists oughtn’t to be in top banana leadership positions, for they would lead in the wrong direction. But that their interests ought to be represented in a representative government is unambiguous. I stridently people’s right to associate with and not associate with whomever they please. I sure as hell don’t want to be ordered to like Obama. My mind reels to think how many fewer problems we might have if politicos didn’t provoke people into fighting for the right to live right up beside people who don’t like them. It’s perverse.
But upper case Racists are another kettle of fish. Klan-grade Racism is extremist and malevolent with a sadistic kicker, and it has no place in governance. Just like Anarchist-grade Radicalism has a place in governance. White-robed, pointy-hatted, skin-headed, swastika-waving Racism is Fringe. It is marginal. It is OUT THERE. It belongs unto itself. It feeds on itself. It lives or dies by its own design. Like black magic and devil worship.
If regular ordinary have-a-nice-day-supposed-to-be-comfortably-middle-and-upper-middle-class-born-and-raised-in-America Americans mean to stop the runaway, brakeless Spend-Our-Way-To-Socialism locomotive, the good ol’ boys ‘n girls that are commonly known as Rednecks are gonna have to cut bait with nut-period-case-period Racists. Similarly, bona fide Christians are challenged to distinguish between Prophets and Moneychangers. Blacks are challenged to distinguish between liberty/justice for all and free O.J./elect Obama. Women are challenged to distinguish between bona fide Accomplishment and strategically-married Manipulators.
Capital-S Sexists are ALSO Fringe Extremists. It is ALSO an influence with no place in wise governance. I hasten to add that Chivalry is NOT the same thing as Chauvinis, and that any -ism which defies common sense is bullshit. Women and men are equal, but they are NOT the same.
Capital-letter Racists and Sexists had better move into this millennium, too. Capital-letter Racists and Sexists are grossly outnumbered in this country. Well-armed and uber intimidating, I’ll be the first to grant, but grossly outnumbered just the same. As with our Conscienceless Uber Rich, no good can come from such imbalance.
If Americans will take back America, they will first suck up whatever they need to suck up in order to define bedrock Solidarity with other Americans. THE QUICKER, THE BETTER is the phrase that comes to mind. Divide and conquer is a strategy as old as dirt and as effective as poison. Divide and conquer would be just as effective the other way around, too. Are you kidding me? There is no honor among thieves — it is EASIER to play Bad Guys one against the other. But rank-and-file folk will have to quit allowing themselves to BE divided and conquered by Bad Guys who divide and conquer for power and profit.
Total non-discrimination is the name of the game. The Individual is top banana, each person their own personal God’s Right Hand on earth. Discriminatory Subjectivity is the genesis and lifeblood of Special Interests = Earmarks = Pork.
Time to trim the fat. Time to lighten the load. Time to shovel the shit.
Think of it as training for the turning of tables that constitutes free-market Redistribution of Wealth = Reversal of Fortune.
If Americans do NOT mean to take back America, then I will carve me a piece of peace off the grid, and leave y’all to fight to the death. I’ll read and write about you in the funny papers.
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