COFFEE & TOAST

He was twenty-four, footloose and free.

Poor.

Yet not unhappy.

It was the winter of 1972.

Beautiful Boulder, Colorado was blanketed with snow and ice.

But he had to escape this season of the freezer.

He headed south.

He didn't return to Colorado until the next Spring.

 

*

After warming up in Florida, he headed back to Colorado.

He had never tried hitchiking.

He spent a long time waiting for rides.

Quite boring.

His first rides were as different as day and night.

One was from a young man who kept asking if he was a Christian, and if he had been saved.

The young man kept accelerating when no answer was given.

It started to feel like a ride to hell.

He wanted to get out.

The young man finally slowed down.

He got out.

He must have said, “Yes, I've been saved! I've accepted Jesus into my life! Praise the Lord!”

*

The other ride was from an old timer.

The old timer gave him his lunch, then said “Good luck” and “Goodbye”.

It was an apple and some kind of sandwich.

*

Denton, Texas.

A large cockroach was walking across the cement floor in a filling station.

The filling station guy STOMPED the cockroach as he was giving directions.

*

New Mexico.

He spent all day on the interstate.

No rides.

It was already night.

A car stopped.

He walked up and tapped the window.

Inside a man was looking at a map.

He jumped when the window was tapped.

He rolled down the window, and said in an English accent, “Yes?”

“Can you give me a ride?”

The man hesitated, then opened the door.

The driver said that he rarely picked up hitchikers.

He asked if it was ok if he drove fast.

He worked for People magazine, and he was in a hurry.

Whoosh!

*

Lordsburg, New Mexico.

It began to rain, so he crawled beneath one of the parked container trucks.

When the rain stopped he waited for big trucks to stop.

After a short time, a North American driver said to hop in, and that he was headed for Tuscon.

The driver offered him money, but he said, “No. Thanks for the ride.”

He had a dollar and seventeen cents.

*

 

Tuscon.

He walked into the cafeteria on the University of Arizona campus, and ordered a cup of coffee and toast.

The toast was cold and soggy, so he went to get a replacement.

One dollar and seventeen cents.

Coffee and toast.

*

 

Somehow he bumped into the same guy who had once “crashed” in his apartment in Colorado.

He was a son of the vice-president of Johnson & Johnson.

His nickname was Road.

Road loaned him ten dollars, and let him sleep on the roof of his apartment building.

While in Tuscon, and before heading back to Colorado, he met students, poets, potheads, and Satanists.

And he decided that he never wanted to hitchike again.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

Iraq

Thank you

George

W(ar)

Bush!

Thank you

Richard

“DICK”

Cheney!

Thank you both

for

NOTHING...

But

Death

Death

Death

In

Iraq!

 

 

 

 

 

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

NUMBSKULLS

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2652374/How-fights-gave-thicker-skulls-Humans-developed-strong-features-better-protect-face-punched.html

 

“Can't you get it through your thick skull?”

“You're so hard-headed!

 

 

Both are true of humans, but especially of male humans.

If you believe in evolution (“Don't monkey around with this one.”), then you might believe a recent report which indicates that humans developed thicker jaws and foreheads after they were able to curl their fists.

A curled fist was able to bash another face with much greater force.

Monkeys only did a lot of slapping.

To have more protection for their faces from the fists of others, stronger and thicker bone structure evolved:

“...fisticuffs spawned our facial structure, a phenomenon that's even more pronounced in men.”

Of course, a lot of damaging blows resulted until evolution could do its thing.

But “For the past 2 million years, the face of Homo Sapiens has gradually become less robust...”

It's good that boxing gloves and protective head gear also evolved.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

TOMORROW IN FOUR BILLION YEARS

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/science/space/andromeda-and-the-milky-way-a-merger-of-galactic-proportions.html

I'm having a rough time getting to sleep.

I'm thinking about some disturbing news concerning the future.

In about two to four billion years the Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

That's the bad news.

The good news (or maybe it isn't) is that humans will be long gone...unless future human life has continued in the form of cyborgs.

We will never know unless we can get time

travel to work.

Worrying about this prediction is like worrying about whether the sun will rise tomorrow.

I am now taking two aspirin, and will begin counting sheep.

Goodnight.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

CATS CAT LITTER---ORGANIC AND INORGANIC---AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE

 

I have owned a few cats in my lifetime.

Or I should say that they owned me.

One cat that I had was either killed or ran away.

So, I've seen---and cleaned!---shitloads of cat litter, or I should say loads and loads of shit in cat litter.

Either way it was not very pleasant, but I wanted my cats to feel comfortable, be at home, and have their special place to poop.

They never thanked me in any demonstrative way.

And it nettled me when they wanted to poop right after I had just cleaned their little house of poop.

Sometimes they chose a place outside in the dirt or sand to do their little duty, and that helped me on the cost of the the cat litter since I wouldn't need to buy as much when they were doing their duty outdoors.

I didn't worry too much about the type of litter that I bought, as long as it was the cheapest price.

I confess that I did like the kind that smelled better than the others, and I liked the kind that said on the bag or container that it was dust free.

Now I have learned that there is organic and inorganic cat litter, AND IT DOES MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE WHETHER THE LITTER IS ORGANIC OR INORGANIC, especially when radioactive waste is packed by the litter:

 

“ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico environment officials say more than 500 barrels of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory were packed with the kitty litter suspected of causing a chemical reaction and radiation release at the government's underground nuclear waste dump.”

{May 20, 2014}

 

[http://www.elpasotimes.com/latestnews/ci_25800250/new-mexico-500-barrels-questionable-nuke-waste-packed]

Humans are being killed by their own waste, whether it be plastic, radioactive, or carbon.

But we're having a jolly good time, aren't we?

We're always going places.

We're texting our asses off... well, they're actually quite large, but we are doing a lot of texting.

We're social networking!

We're watching so much television that nature and books seem dead to us.

There are exceptions.

I don't have cats anymore.

Or cat litter...

Organic, inorganic, or dust-free.

 

 

 

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

THE LAST PROPOSAL

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
-General Douglas MacArthur



What the the United States and the world ought to do to put a halt to the mad arms race was shockingly revealed in Washington last week at the annual International Conference of Amalgamated Aerospace Engineers. The conference was attended by aerospace executives, government officials and wealthy stockholders. It was closed to the Press. But fortunately one clever reporter, sporting himself as a well-to-do stockholder, slipped by security. Here is what he heard and saw.
Near the conclusion of the conference, after some very impressive and glittering speeches from all sides, a slim, old, weary-eyed gentleman stood up and took his position in front of the podium. He addressed the audience only when there was total silence.
"Gentleman, all of us here are children of the Atomic Age. Most of you cannot imagine a world devoid of earth-destroying weapons and neither can I. We have come too far to think such liberal and utopian nonsense. What I now propose, however, is the least but best option open to the international aerospace community and to the world at large. It is a proposal which can enhance profits and technology while simultaneously smooth a way for a safer earth. I propose that the United States and all nations immediately and jointly begin development of sophisticated space weapons to be used against the Aliens. You may laugh gentlemen, but mark my words, those Aliens are out there and they are fast-approaching us. Some say they are here already. They will have their weapons ready. If the nations of the world do not stop their silly shenanigans and disagreements on this planet, and soon, then those Aliens will find us like sitting ducks. It is now or never, gentlemen.
The audience, initially skeptical, now showed rising approval, and finally gave a standing ovation to the wise, old man. When the thunderous applause stopped, a listener jumped from his seat (he had not stood up like all the rest). He spoke to the old man.
"Sir, you forget, we are in a global war against terror. The aerospace industry cannot just drop its guns and stop its friendly and prosperous contract with the Pentagon. This will be disastrous! We cannot act as if we are at peace with terrorists, and that there is no war."
Then the old man spoke.
"Yes. I believe we can. We must. And the sooner the better if this world is to remain in our hands and not the Aliens."
The next day the reporter was able to get his story out. White House spokespersons were at first quiet. Then they denied such a proposal was ever given. Then they admitted that there was such a proposal. A White House official gave this report from the President on the proposal:
"The President believes that Terrorism will always be a far greater threat to our National Security than any aliens...even if they did exist. The government recognizes no enemy as permanent and irreconcilable as Terrorism. We shall, therefore, not retreat to any schemes of the far-fetched imagination. Our official policy is and shall continue to be a vigilant and strong Peace Through Strength strategy. Our national security policy for Victory in Iraq and the military defense of the Homeland will continue until the Global War on Terror is won. After that we can think about those aliens."

[I published a different version of THE LAST PROPOSAL in the Guam Tribune in 1982. It was the year that I attended the Anti-Nuclear Weapons/Great Peace March in New York City. It was also the year that my obsession with UFOS began.]


Here is an edited version I just sent to the Nation magazine:


The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
-General Douglas MacArthur



What the the United States and the world ought to do to put a halt to the nuclear arms race was shockingly revealed in Washington last week at the annual International Conference of Amalgamated Aerospace Engineers. The conference was attended by aerospace executives, government officials and wealthy stockholders. It was closed to the Press. But fortunately one clever reporter, sporting himself as a well-to-do stockholder, slipped by security. Here is what he heard and saw.
Near the conclusion of the conference, after some very impressive and glittering speeches from all sides, a slim, old, weary-eyed gentleman stood up and took his position in front of the podium. He addressed the audience only when there was total silence.
"Gentleman, all of us here are children of the Atomic Age. Most of you cannot imagine a world devoid of earth-destroying weapons and neither can I. We have come too far to think such liberal and utopian nonsense. What I now propose, however, is the best option open to the international aerospace community and to the nations of the world. It is a proposal which can enhance profits and technology while simultaneously pave a way for a safer earth. I propose that the United States and all nations immediately and jointly begin accelerated development of sophisticated space weapons to be used against the Aliens. You may laugh gentlemen, but mark my words, those Aliens are out there and they are fast-approaching us. Some say they are here already. They will have their weapons ready. If the nations of the world do not stop their silly shenanigans and disagreements on this planet, and soon, then those Aliens will find us like sitting ducks. It is now or never, gentlemen.
The audience, initially skeptical, now showed rising approval, and finally gave a standing ovation to the wise, old man. When the thunderous applause stopped, a listener jumped from his seat (he had not stood up like all the rest). He spoke to the old man.
"Sir, you forget, we are in a global war against terror. The aerospace industry cannot just drop its guns and stop its friendly and prosperous contract with the Pentagon. This would be disastrous! We cannot act as if we are at peace with terrorists, and that there is no war."
Then the old man spoke.
"Yes. I believe we can. We must. And the sooner the better if this world is to remain in our hands and not the Aliens."
The next day the reporter was able to get his story out. White House spokespersons were at first quiet. Then they denied such a proposal was ever given. Then they admitted that there was such a proposal. A White House official gave this report from the President on the proposal:
"The President believes that Nuclear Terrorism will always be a far greater threat to our National Security than any aliens...even if they did exist. The government recognizes no enemy as permanent and irreconcilable as Nuclear Terrorism. We shall, therefore, not retreat to any schemes of the far-fetched imagination. Our official policy is and shall continue to be a vigilant and strong Peace Through Strength strategy. Our national security policy, and the military defense of the Homeland, will continue. After that we will worry about aliens."

BOB DYLAN AND WILLIE NELSON ON A ROLLING STONE

 

 

Four pages of original Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-lyrics-going-up-for-auction-20140501

Bob Dylan still tours.

So does Willie Nelson.

Maybe Bob should ride along with Willie in his bus for awhile, if he can stand all the pot smoke swirling inside the entrails.

But I don't think this would be a problem, because Willy uses one of those bongs that filters the smoke, and removes the harmful heat before it goes running down through his lungs.

Does Bob still smoke cigarettes?

I think he used to smoke menthols.

Yeah, Willie and Bob.

That would be a good show.

Bob could sing Willie's songs, and Willie could sings Bob's, with an occasional duet. 

I'd pay to go to see them play together.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES WILLIE NELSON AND BOB DYLAN

THE PYRAMIDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/02/the-surprisingly-simple-way-egyptians-moved-massive-pyramid-stones-without-modern-technology/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3

The loud laughter that you hear is coming from those extraterrestrial beings who made the Egyptian pyramids .

They're laughing at a new theory explaining how those huge stones were brought across the desert.

This new theory (if it holds water) claims that the pyramid builders simply made the sand wet to allow them to easily drag, pull (push?) the giant stones.

Voila & eureka!

They then could start building their pyramids.

The wet sand decreased friction, and, thus, the stones slid smoothly across this moistened sand.

Beer that the pyramid builders drank also helped a lot.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

WATERBOARDING SARAH PALIN AND BAPTISM

 

"Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."

Sarah Palin

 

I do not remember the day that I was baptized.

I will need to be hynotized to remember that acqueous moment.

I do remember when I received a sharp smack from the bishop, delivering my confirmation.

Even the Holy Ghost was jolted by that wallop.

*

With her usual ability to amuse us, Sarah Palin recently used the rite of baptism to describe the unholy and cruel procedure of waterboarding.

Miss drill-baby-drill soccer mom is still stuck in her mire of foolishness.

Like global warming, Sarah Palin just won't go away.

But who knows? Maybe she will make another run for the White House.

Perhaps she'll run with Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, or Rick Perry.

This would give the country and talk shows something to laugh about.

Polarization in politics stays strong until a party or politician finds an issue to promote re-election....Republican or Democrat.

Sarah Palin titillated NRA members with her cute but moronic quips, but let's hope that the majority of Americans don't vote for this nonsense in 2016.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

HAPPY EASTER!

Santa:

Hello Easter Bunny! How's business?

Easter Bunny:

Hi Santa. Business is great. Thank you Jesus!

Santa:

You can say that again. Alright, I'll say it: Thank you Jesus!

Easter Bunny:

I guess we really should thank God.

Santa:

Yes, thank you Jesus and God!

Easter Bunny:

Well, I've got to get all of my eggs in a basket, and start delivering.

Santa:

Ho, ho, ho! Talk to you later. 

ITS' ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND EASTER!

BODY ODOR AND JESUS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2604264/Why-breath-smells-armpits-reek-Infographic-explains-chemistry-body-odours-including-flatulence-cheesy-feet.html

Some recent news has greatly disturbed me .

One piece of news was that Jesus might have had a wife.

Well, this is not really that disturbing, because if it is true, then it might prove that Jesus was not gay.

(I can't use the word gay without thinking that it once just meant the simple adjective happy; but I suppose homosexual is too strong, and the word fag is totally inappropriate.)

*

The other news that disturbed me was learning the chemical makeup for different body odors .

Do we really want to know this kind of stuff?

Can't we just stink and not be told what it is that makes us stink?

I guess not.

*

In other news, Justin Bieber and Lindsay Lohan are doing much better.

*

Russia and the United States may or may not be entering another COLD war; or worse yet, starting ANOTHER World war.

It all depends on how irritated Putin's mammillae become, and then just how cool Barack Obama and Congress can manage to stay if Putin's mammillae do become real distended .

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES, JESUS, BODY ODOR, AND PEACE!

HELLO MONEY GOODBYE DEMOCRACY

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith and the rest of that ghoulish clique still call the foreign policy shots for national Republicans. Despite their abject failures — both technocratically and morally — Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld remain in good standing with the people who run one of America’s only two serious political parties. If Mitt Romney were president right now, with Dan Senor by his side, the United States could be ramping up for war with Iran or Russia, preparing to once again spread freedom from the barrel of a gun as if Fallujah and Abu Ghraib never happened.
From http://www.salon.com/2014/04/05/bush_crews_deplorable_return_how_their_reemergence_sends_a_deadly_message/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow


Money does talk, and now, thanks to the Supreme Court, money will talk until the cows come home, until the chickens come home to roost, until hell freezes over...

The Almighty dollar now controls American democracy!

The love of money will now embrace our future leaders like there is no tomorrow (and there may not be after big business and super-rich, domestic  (and foreign) powers shower their money on leaders they will pay for).

Finally, we will get the government we deserve

(NOT).

Less is not more.

The more money you have, the more power you have.

Thank you United States Supreme Court!

IT'S ABOUT MONEY!

From HogueProphecy.com

There are forces, this time mostly in the West that for greed and profit would like to set free the Demon called “Cold War” once again! These infernal corporations of the war business, their puppet politicians and their media hacks fantasize that propagating the Russian Federation as some new Soviet Union to be contained will bring decades of profits and like the financially flush times of the last Cold War market, never lead to a nuclear war.

Democrat and Republican leaders alike have become converts to the Neconservative, US hegemonic philosophy that could bring this about. These agents of corporate fascism overtaking the Western World choose your leaders now. They have propped up Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, as big business’s choices. You are expected to choose one of them when you go through the motions of voting for US president in 2016. Both of these puppets have completely converted to the Neo-”Con” job. Either way, your next US president will be a channel for war market mongers!