Y'er Birthday Rant OH12

I Thought I'd do a little picture ranting , along with the usual complaining about getting another year older.  I also thought I'd throw some fall foliage here. Not a whole lot of color this year, least not around here.
 Still have to be thankful we have had several good rains including a three day version of post hurricane Irene. 

     

  Just like this we have a floodwall in the city and aparently some pretty decent artist's who paint it and paint it and paint it.
 



    on to Y'er birthday rant , or mine really, normally it's just another day in the life, lately the happy day is the one before the birthday, and the one after.
  The one before because it's celebrating the last day you will be that old.  the one after because well its over.
     Even though I still have a few days  before left , I got my birthday present early this year.   And I must say it so far has been undeniably the second best birthday present ever. The kayak was my present to myself , picked out by myself, even paid for in cash by myself.
         I like you hate to get hooked up in possessions but I already really like this thing, even knowing it's totally non-essential, it could be handy to have. I always try to justify almost everything I buy. Usually money is tight so I don't really have the choice I then try to live by the old folks way, "If you can't afford to buy it, then do without it.
     When this comes down to essentials, and with me it does , almost always with my living bills , I divide my money towards which is the closest to being a real problem. Worrying the gas or electric man, or worse the landlord will be knocking at the front door   is a pretty usual way of life for me.  I almost habitually pick up my phone to see if it's still turned on, I still get freaked out on the few days of the year they actually shut the power off, thats when it becomes a real problem.
         When it really hurts most is when I could of paid them like a week or so before , because I lose big , with all kinds of penalties and recconect fees. For you newbies out there , paying the bills on time is okay specially if You have it to spare .
    After you do it awhile you kind of realize the futility of paying on time. To me it came the day I had wrote a few checks to pay some bills and was on my way to mail them thinking alright paid all my bills before they were due I'm a free man. Then I looked at my mailbox and there was another pile of bills already waiting for me.
      They never stop , so I kind of took to paying as I felt it. There's some rules of course , getting to know just how long each bill will wait , and even how much will it really take?    It's hardcore but my state has laws about when the power guys can not shut you off. Mostly they have rules on the temperatures , can't shut you off when it's too cold or too hot.
    Always check for yourself but here this means global warming aside there are only a few months a year the gas or electric company can shut you off. If you pay them some like the month before your pretty much safe. During the warm periods send them small payments and in the winter spend the money on more important stuff, like the landlord.
     Now if you are getting ready to move  then yes pay them off or down as far as you can, so they will give you power in your next place. now if you own? get your own power .   Grow your own .
            That's some pretty bad advice and I hope you never have to take it.Not the growing your own of course , it's the only thing that makes sense.

         
     Looks like a good spot to remanence on the latest happenings both pro and con for an Oh12 event.      Somehow the timing isn't quite right.  While it could be an event of kablowie or a sudden big thing. Or as the The south American locals are saying  , time to get a life, and a new calender.
   Sure we have fireball meteors, one of the big signs that would coincide with a planet X Nibiru situation. I would think there would be much more evidence by now.
  It;s quite possible we are missing most of it, I have heard two or three reports of strange occurrences on our neighboring rocks.  Mostly a large meteor or comet strike on I think Jupiter that astrologers didn't see coming until it hit. Then a large storm on both Mars and Saturn.
     If there is proof that what is happening on earth is not Just man-made climet change/warming it would lie in the other planet's.   Even there we still would have to prove that it is also not the sun in maximus.
     So I still will not give up hope on planet X my little dark horse of the apocalypse.

I throw this one on for me.  I actually just bought a new 30 year old bike.    this is more for a record , because I plan on replacing almost everything.     We'll see but all I wanted was a frame, I think I will keep the rims too.   Shocking it's a Schwinn road bike 12 speed with the original shifters handle bars maybe brakes gears .   I guess I'll start at the top and replace the seat first.   I  was dreaming I'd start with a frame and paint it I kind of like the paint job, might just leave the paint on.
        I might have to put it on a different page , but I used to blog my bike rides , big shock I took a lot of video.   That was for the show back when, Still I liked writing about riding and think I'll diarize turning this bike into the one that get's me over the hundred mile ride hurdle.  A semi life goal for me is to do a 100 mile ride then a 200 kilometer.
      It wont kill me either way if it doesnt happen , or I'll be having bigger worries than being lazy.  It will be piece at a time , but I' have till spring ,  Considering of course. And right now I feel it's worth considering there will be.
     I want to concentrate on three things mostly, as my next years goals. The bike and the ride is always a goal , for the record I have done 92.6 miles on road , and 82 I think on the Katy trail a pea gravel trail .  Of all I wrote and lost over the years the post I did on this ride was My favorite. In fact my hundred miler would probably just stretch the original ride out another 8 miles.
        An aside when I did the ride I knew I was close to a hundred, and I still had gas in the tank, could of easily finished it then. Could of should of , still we are talking an incredible ride in some really nice places.Including crossing the Mississippi twice and a ferry ride . plus crossing a drawbridge over the Illinois. Through towns so small you could miss them even on a bike.   very nice places and some of the reason I so like living where I am.   This was one of the great days of my life Sadly maybe but I could see heaven as the same kind of day.

    I see the bike ride as a physical challenge while it will take some will power most of the hard work is done by the body. Before I spent the summer doing longer rides that was to build to getting up to a hundred.
   This was my fourth ride over 60 miles , which was a huge leap from the usual thirty milers I thought were tough.
     To me a big part of it was time on my bike I could average from 9 to 13 miles on average depending on terrain.
      so I spent nine hours on a bike. That's not bad but if I had a faster bike I could one cut the time on seat down so If I can get this bike into the upper teen's miles wise it could cut my time in half. Not to mention if I get that far I should be able to take on the big boys maybe enter a ride or race.
  That would be fun the skinny little geiser on the bike older than most of the riders at least making them sweat. maybe even for a second or two showing some rear tire as were going downhill. We will see, anyway the bike didn't break me or won't no matter how much I spend on it considering what A real road bike cost's.

      It takes discipline  and a lot of time to do most worthy life goals.     While this goal fits that there is my next Want to Do for my next year of life.   This one involves one day and will last an hour or less.    Remember the Kayak?   Well I have always wanted to kayak the Chain of Rocks. It's been done for sure but its scary when you get up close.   Around here if you'r not from around here you can appreciate who ever slaps the names on the places. The Chain of Rocks is a row of rocks, big rocks that the corp of engineer placed all the way across the Mississippi river.

     The Chain of Rocks bridge from above was the northern border for the city of Saint Louis, Mo.
      The rocks are there to raise the water level enough to operate the canal that goes around the river at this point.    The canal is there because this part of the river is was unnavigable due to a massive crack that runs across the river at this point. When it cracked it fell at an angle where the eastern side is about six to eight feet lower than the Missouri side.
    In the olden days the barges would of been mule train pulled up and through this area followed by coal powered trains and crains.  This was one of the worst stretches of riverboat travel , with no telling how many sunk boats are still out there not to mention the ghost's in the river.  Still though this place has a magic , it's own power that makes it unique in  the world. I'm sure the folks in Niagara know what I mean.

   There's an old gieser saying " You can never look at the same river twice" At this spot you can really feel the truth of that statement. 
   One day I might tell the story of this place including some of my stories that go from the top of that bridge to the little buildings in the middle of the river, what are called the pump house's. And yes you guessed it they at least used to pump water to the cities water plant which is the other side of the river. There are tunnels from the water plant that goes to the pump houses. Seen it but didn't go that deep.  Another missed opportunity , or another trip at least. I was pretty pleased just to get onto and then into the place . We once tried lowering ourselves down the bridge column to float out on a raft then climb into it. I say that ended in the success that nobody died. While you couldn't do it now when the river is high enough you can get a boat up it which is what we did years later.
        another story would be the top of the bridge I think that was one of the biggest test's of my invincibility that I can tell you that me and a friend sat on that highest point . The bridge is now a bike walk trail connecting the bike trails in St. L with the miles of trails in Illinois.   when I get some better shot's I'll give some history on the bridge , very cool stuff if you like useless knowledge.
    I was there last weekend so there is some fresh footage , it's scary low as for doing the rocks , however just in case the world as we know it does end I want to get this one in.  Hopefully they'ed get some rain up north or the lock and dam above it will let some water through, the higher it is the better. 
       From here I can see myself paddling out from the barrels on the right upstream singing the Pink Floyd song Fearless psyching myself up    I think a good reason I will make it is prechoosing the spot I'm going to take through the rocks.
  I feel that you should always challenge yourself to bigger and better, and never let fear get the final decision. If it's not the right day and time I won't do it. Not because I'm chicken ****. If and when I do this the plan would include someone filming so you'll know if I do.
        Then one more thing this is the mental challenge.   Stupid as it sounds I want to at least write a movie. At least write the screen play along with a storyboard this winter. I would like to even get some footage down of What I'm for now calling Son of CHUD.
  I've already started collecting the story putting it together in my mind to get down on type.  I'll  probably do that in my own Words and then post it on here occasionally. I think the story is within reach of being doable. One of the cheapest movies to make is a zombie film so I decided to start from there.
  If you read on this blog you'll notice I have written abit on the CHDU  cannabalistic humanoid underground dwellers, which is basically zombies. Its from an 80's movie , an actually pretty good movie.   Night of the living dead with a sense of humor.
    I'd like to do something similar only adding what I think are some good twists and almost inadvertant social messages.  since the story line is that the chud feed off the homeless it would be easy to highlight the real fear these people face, not just from being eaten , the real facts that they have no one to protect them.  I would love to give the whole story now but this post is long enough, specially for another birthday. To be Honest another good goal is to get to do another one of these.
      Will keep posting these as I get the pictures ,
                                          and will update the progress on the year goals. Peace B.
  

Day of the Pictures.

   I'm just going to rant a little about a few of the Pictures I have taken lately. first off I got an unusually killer deal on a new camera, welcome to the digital age .  So far this camera has proved amazing, even though I am learning it's basics I still have along way to go before figuring it out. Meanwhile I'm just going to try posting some of my practice , on the sight as a peek into the world and mind as I navigate my way through a world gone madder.

  Yes I bought a Kayak.  I worked hard this summer needed something to show for it besides really tired knees.
     What gets me most is people  here ask me where I could take a kayak. Part of the reason I wanted a self propelled water craft is the thousands of places I could explore  within a half hour of my house.   Across the river is Alton Illinois, a favorite place of mine and home of the Piasa bird.  It's also billed itself as the most haunted small city in America.   An aside the place   I'm parked at is part of what was once called Small Pox Island.

  
    It's where they took the soldiers dying from small pox during the civil war.   Alton had a hospital and prison where they kept the confederate troops.  When small pox broke out they sent the infected to an island out in the river as a quarantine.   They also of course buried the dead on the island, maybe into the thousands.   Flash forward about 80 years and the island has been forgotten and they build a lock and dam on the site.  It was now part of the
Missouri side they think.   Like a lot of the history here they never bothered to really keep tabs on the old before they built on top of it.    Forward  again to the 90's and they build a new lock and dam.   When they tore the old one out someone got interested in historical preservation of small pox island.   They consulted an expert and he said best guess was that they had built exactly on top of the gravesight . So now we have a chunk of old lock and dam to commemorate the graves of civil war soldiers. 




   This is is just typical fall foliage. This is kind of like a secret spot, its about a mile up the river on my side. Its a lake inside an island.   It's a core of engineers project from the Eighties. A beauty place called dressers Island.  It's claim to fame is in the winter the eagles hang out and fish the river from it.
   This little hunk of land is actually very  important as it is a rest stop on the migratory route of most birds in the country. 



  it's cool how small you really are , I think the view from a kayak is unique.   A little bitty boat out there with the big fellows. It makes me feel all primeval like channeling my ancestors , my inner hunter gatherer.   yet instead of primeval I think it's more pre-evil like how I would of been without the modern world society. This spot would of seen little guys like me paddling in it since the aliens? created and left us here.

These are some riverfront pics, as you can see the lows are pretty low and the highs are well  you know.

This pic last one as I ride into the sunset.

Rantoweenie

The Place to be for dec. 2012

                 Hi all I really missed you , and missed writing.   If your wondering I wasted most of the summer working, oh well something different. I haven't worked like this , everyday in the same place it's almost like having a job.In fact a guy at the mall (yes I'm working at a shopping mall)  asked me if this was now my real job, I told him "Well it's not quite that bad" I actually kind of like it working late nights just me and a few maintenance guys and the mall Zombies, and a few ghosts.
     Both of these things I decided to write about , first working has left me some cash to spend. I'm deciding that I could spend up to 500 dollars on surviving this winter, a luxury I haven't had in a long while, or needed. To be honest I'm not a stocking up type person , I even wait till I'm on my last roll of toilet paper before I buy more. i generally eat fresh as I can get vegetables you cant stock up there , so I'm pretty much a JIT guy in a jit world.
       Just in time fits with living in the now and as a huge fan of the Great Provider it is kind of a sin or lack of faith in the GP to store or hoard provisions. After all this force  has always been there for me, in ways that most people just can't appreciate. It's very true that I was born bare assed and will probably die that way , its only the in-between that I even worry about, and then only when I have to, knowing I've made it this far I can figure I'll make it this time or next time , somehow someway I hate to put it this way but the Universe seems to provide. Though extremely just in time in it's own way.
        It's really a beautiful thing to think about, How does Universe take time to worry about little old me, not only me every little and big creature in it.    on this planet alone single cell life forms have provided what they need to live their own life cycle, which when spent will provide another creature what it needs to have a life cycle got to figure if an amoeba can do it so can I.
          So if it wasn't for 2012 I'd find a better way to spend the extra do rae me. I might be buying food I'll never eat, so I want something I can give away like next summer , assuming it's the same ol same ol world gone madder as it is now.
       I'm seriously going to spend a hundred of it on TP maybe a third of what I spend, that aside I'm pretty open as to the best calorie for the buck. Rice is easy, stores well and here is pretty cheap, at least now, flour though non essential would be hoardable as well.   While they wouldn't last till summer potatoes store well and would be good eating anyway along with maybe beets and onions.
          Since I'm more a fresh as it gets guy I don't do much eating out of cans, however if I'm hungry I'll eat about anything. That's where the canned meals come in, the heat it and eat it dinners. How much of that should I spend on?   Most of it is filled with stuff I have been telling people not to eat because it is no good for you.
           I mean in calorie content your probably better off with tree bark soup, which would taste a lot better with some spices. Probably Chili powder as it can alter the taste of a lot of found foods. I don't like salt much but if as Cliff High said we are out there eating worms next year , they might go down better with some seasoning.  An aside the worms are still probably better for you than the canned raviolies.
       I think cinnamon hugely usable will also be a stocker. It's tasty and heart healthy, just because the world as we know it could end no reason to stop eating right. Then there's my big weakness   Sugar Sugar , if I'm going to Survive I'll want some sugar.  Sugar in my coffee sugar in my tea.
      Coffee is already too overpriced for me to stock up enough to survive the end of the world (as we know it) and will be one of the many things I will miss from this madder world.   It's not that good for you anyway, it will probably do me good to lay off it.
          Tea is still cheap and would help me through the withdrawals from my coffee monkey. Which leads to the bigger monkey on my back cigarettes  Unless I learn to grow my own, smoking will become a thing of the past, right if the world ends I'll give up smoking.
          As always I think the best investment for the future and as much as a third of the cash will go to seeds. Like all my cash it will turn to seed. Only I'll be better off for it, This time.   It's a total different attitude stocking up years of canned goods verses life cycles of seeds. In a way I can rationalize that I'm doing my part in carrying on future life cycles , instead of just protecting my own.
          If anyone reads this and wants to help I could surely use some good ideas on seeds to save. theres a lot to it and it might be the big thing,. As a doomer who keeps an open mind , as in the Murphie's law addendum "Anything can happen and it will right now" the only way to actually survive anything is to learn to grow.
        How do you beat the rising food prices? grow your own. Want to keep GMO's out of your life? Grow your own. Want healthy kid's ?  it goes on and on ending with the only way to beat the PTB is to be happy without them. food supply is independance, all hail the free farmer.
      As always the answers  are simple, but that dont make them easy.  we will have to learn to improvise and innovate , while learning the old ways , how it was done before machines and corporations do it for us. We also have to deal with not only the way things are, we don't really know just how Madder the world is going to get.
       Not that it isn't mad enough, what's crazy now will be normal in a few weeks. Like the weather , sunny and hot in the west and on the north pole , rainy and almost springish in Australia and Missouri.  Weird weather is the new  normal, and normal is totally madder.
      To steal a thought , or share as I was trying to explain the same theory that of course I was crazy, because there's no way I can rationalize or be sane in the world as it is. the thing that's crazy is to think this is just the way it is.   A fine line between believing and accepting, Both of them are used as tools to control and limit the minds of We the Sheeple.
        Both of them are also inhibitors to any search for the truth.  I am used to it but I have heard so many times that something can't be true because They can't believe it. If that is your best argument , you really need to rethink your position on the issue. of course they are also saying they cant accept a fact or a line of thought mentally.   Usually because it doesn't fit the belief structure we impose upon ourselves.
         So another good reason to trust no one not even yourself.   One last point against believing , think of all the crazy beliefs that supposedly guides the puppet leaders of about any government. Or the crazy with the sign, or the original sheeple in the churches of the world.
        Not to pick on them , it's too easy , and like they would read my rant, or care , which is good because I wanted to spiel on a touchy subject for most religions , and truly most people , as some one said "Rich man poor man begger king, we each must dance alone with the reaper."
 
      This is something I alluded to earlier a life cycle. Believe it or not everything dies, it's part of the cycle, a natural thing, though rarely if ever pleasant death is  a necessary part  of life.    What the 64 dollar question is what happens next.
         First off I must add that what is really important is the way you spend your blink of an eye life cycle. I believe all I want that I'm a recycled spirit, been used before hence will be used again, still it doesn't make it so.It's pretty easy to accept that the whole soul thing is part of my mind rationalizing my immortality by denial.  
      I believe that a belief should make you happy, I mean careful what you wish for, you might get it. So I prefer to believe that I do have a piece of immortality or eternalness to my being. It helps, though I already regret my death and hope I got it right, I know I've done it before , and will do it again, hopefully evolving into a more advanced creature , after having learned my life lesson from this cycle of life I'm currently in.
         I also believe that to each his own fate. So in that way your free to believe what you want , hopefully taking into account that you might get it.  The point or the goal is to get it done and move on to whatever comes next.
    Surprisingly we can do it wrong, or it just takes longer to get it done, this is where the ghost comes in. Death done the slow way. You could call it a spirit in the middle   The good thing about believing in ghosts is that it also confirms that there is a spirit that goes on.
   In that way I know that my belief is at least partially right, there is more at least. I have met a ghost so I know that there's something beyond, I still get the thrill of finding out if it's beyond or back but I'm sure I'll find out. I'm also sure to pay a high price for that information, so there is no real; hurry to Find out.

           I always tell people I have to believe in ghosts I met one.  At least one, but since this one I could see no other explanation logical or otherwise except that I encountered a real ghost. Or to be specific the manifestation of a guy who had died, and wouldn't let it go.
      I decided to tell the story the way I remember it , it's all true , even if all the truth isn't there. I can't prove it to you , there's no video  just my word. Looking forward in time I can give some good tips later for dealing with dead people.



     Once upon a time in the land of Misery in the country of US , in pretty much the different world of the 80's I used to have almost a real job , and worked for a guy who owned a construction company.  The theme of my working for him was that he would teach me carpet laying if I learned to do everything else.
     In this case he called me and told me to go to an address and paint the inside of the house. Pretty general assignment and when I asked for specifics he was kind of quiet a sure sign there was some surprise waiting for me at the Job. Even more intriguing he even threw in a little threat or pressure involving this job and my job.
        It takes awhile to really train a boss , but even then I knew a key was choosing the battles. And using the right psychology.  This boss once told me if he thought I was too happy on a job I must be getting over and wouldn't send me back there. So if I wanted to get off this job I'd just tell him how much fun I was having on it. An aside this will freak out almost any boss telling them how much fun your having.
       Another thing for you kids is work less and get paid more. Even now I have to work so before I got out of this job I thought it would be simpler to see what it was. We did a lot of commercial work but this was a house in a decent area not that far from my house , and the biggest bonus of all it was empty , no home owners why wouldn't I want to do this job?
     I got the key out of the mailbox expecting the worse and went inside. Once again shock nothing really out of the ordinary, just a house that needed paint. Not a huge mess just some spaghetti on a wall or two. I figured mystery solved my boss was just being a jerk, and I went back outside to grab my gear and get to work.
     While I could see nothing from the start things weren't quite right. Explainable but the front door would not stay open so I could carry in my tarps and tools. I naturally assumed that it had been set in the frame at an angle that it would close itself, I used to see that in older houses all the time. I grabbed a stick and wedged the door open 
        Weird is the wedge kept working itself out and everytime I went through the doorway I had to reset it . I figured there must be some kind of suction going on because the house was closed up, and plus it smelled a little like old man. So I decide to open the place up a bit and opened a window in the living room and went to open the next when the first window slid closed. I went through the house opening windows to see if I could get one to stay open.
   I agree still not ghost proof and I was thinking just weird windows too loose in the frames.  But the next thing was as I went into the bedrooms to open the windows the lights wouldn't stay on in the rooms. As I got maybe three feet away from the switch it would turn itself back off, of course just need new switches, odd that they all did it though.
        I spent most of the day this way trying to set up the painting , spending most of my time reopening doors and windows that wouldn't stay open and lights that wouldn't stay on. The next day I was prepared and bought the sticks needed to prop open the doors I wanted open. I also taped the light switches to the wall to keep them on in the rooms I was working .
    Only noticed one new thing that day , the slippery countertops. There was no funiture in the house ,just some junk. For a place to set tools I used a countertop in the kitchen, only problem whatever I put on it would fall off  it within minutes. I semi-fixed this , thinking vibration of some kind , we were near the airport? was shaking the countertop, so I put  thick layers of newspaper on the counter then placed my tools in the very middle and had little more problems.
    Another explainable thing was the noises the house made, really a natural thing as houses settle they loosten joints which then begin to creek , like a nail being pulled out of wood. Over and over . Perfectly natural even if sometimes the house can sound kinda moany, all kinds of things can make a moan I decided best way to fix it was ignore it and get some work done.
   That evening I had a quick conversation with the boss , Him wondering if I was getting the job done and me wondering who owned the fun house, and who was going to get the thrill of living in it.  There was of course no way I was going to come out and ask if he sent me to a haunted house, even though I was starting to suspect that he knew something , normally he was the kind of boss that would at least show up on a job. to at least  see if I did.
    I asked him "who owns the house? is it for sale?" and he told me that the house had been vacant for a while and the church across the street had bought it to house a priest or two. seems the church had got a good deal on it because nobody else had wanted to buy it.  Go figure I said , and mentioned he might want to come out and work on the electrical switches as they had wore out.
     Two plus two was definitely on my mind.   Nobody would buy the house either because of it's crazy builder and his sliding counter tops, or it was because something happened in the house. Usually a great way to get a discount on a house is to find one with a dead person involved. As I heard in a movie the 3 D's death divorce and destitution.
    Top of the list is death, any house is worth less , the first time it is sold after someone dies in it. Not that it had to be, the owner could of died anywhere, lots of good reasons for a house not to sell I could think of about twenty in this house , in the two days I had been there.
  A quick description of the house to clarify, first off it was not some spooky old mansion, it was a slab house( a house built no basement one story, Thousands of these were built mostly in the late 60's earl into the 70's.  I hear they still build them in Florida but what do you expect?
     I would say this one had the seventies look , so then it was not that old of a house, in fact it was just a house in a small subdivision, with twenty more just like it. I've found through the years some of the craziest construction I've ever found was done on slab houses. This one had a difference in that it had been added onto, with a room on a lower level in the back of the house.      Point is no dorm windows that looked like eyes , just another house, another job and another day.
      Day three on the job is the reason I even remember this story at all. Most of our lives ,specially as a doomer we spend our fear on what is coming, when TSHTF , how long have we waited for that? Rarely in life does it really hit the fan, hopefully.  This day it actually did.
       This was the day I had to paint the room with the spaghetti wall, that could of been cherry pie, whatever it was it had long been dried and stuck to the wall. I guess you could call this the dining room as it had an open kitchen dining room with the living room in one open area.
   Before I could paint I had to remove the cherry pie, normally I'd scrape it, wash it with a cleaner then maybe prime it before painting. That day I'm thinking get some paint on that wall. As I'm scraping I'm wondering is it cherry pie? or Spaghetti? definitely a red sauce, I knew I wasn't curious enough to taste it.
     As I  said the first two days the house had acted funny , now it was getting serious. It was giving me the whole show . Like my own private earthquake the house was shaking . every creaky board in it was sounding off. One of the paintsticks I was using to keep the windows open snapped in half and the window shut with a slam.
    Logical mind , I could not rationalize the way this house was acting, still I pressed on . and decided screw prepping the wall I would paint it and hope for the best. I told myself this was the worst part of the job just get it over and it will be all downhill from there.
     Logically I was becoming convinced that this house was haunted and of course I got that feeling I was not alone. Maybe this is why I'm more aware of spirit's when I get that feeling now I pay attention. I think a good description would be somebody breathing onto the back of your neck, even though sometimes its more subtle like the hairs on your arms raising.
       Another sign could be even a breeze in a room , usually a slightly different temperature. Mostly it's a feeling and how we react to it.   I was getting mad, all I wanted to do was get done and get out. I also was already scared . I set up my paint bucket , with paint roller and paint brush getting more nervous by the second, not to mention the house was getting louder all the time.
    Normally I use my paint brush to cut a wall in , trim it to the ceiling and floor then roll the paint on with a roller , As they say any idiot can paint. Sadly I couldn't get the guts to get that close to  the cherry pie wall . I even had the brush wet in my hand and couldn't get my feet to take me close enough to touch the wall with it.
     Not to blame just the feet, the rest of me was in no hurry either.As often is it became a battle of wills. all the different parts of me the  self trying to get my feet to move.  Even calling them and myself all the magic words didn't help. lucky me with the inventor mind said hey lets roll it first, with a long roller pole, kind of like a compromise I could use the brush after I built my courage up a bit.
      Since it meant moving away from the wall my feet were back in agreement with the rest of the Me, and I switched to a four foot pole and tried again,.  only problem was the brush in my hand , I had to set it down. Somewhere out of the way, keeping in mind the way things slid on things , I didn't want paint everywhere so I set in on a paint lid, in the middle of the kitchen counter , where I had found so far to be the safest spot as in nothing had fallen from the middle of the counter yet.
      Vibrations or slanted builder I had gotten used to watching items I placed anywhere for at least a few seconds to see if they would stay there, most of the time they wouldn't even the window sills, so after watching the the brush long enough to ascertain it wasn't going to slide off  I went to work on getting paint on the wall, or more to the point getting within four foot of it long enough to roll on the paint.
       By then as now I was totally sure that this was not right, I was also pretty sure of a lot of things, one that wasn't cherry pie, and two I wasn't alone. ' You can't see them but they are there" a favorite line from the Gods must be crazy.  I did not see it but I heard it felt it , I decided if it "Looks like a duck. swims like a duck" . it didnt take Sherlock Holmes to figure someone had died , probably by loss of brain matter in that spot.
  And they weren't happy about it. Neither was I but I'm as stubborn as that stain on the wall,or can be and turning my back on the brush I loaded the roller with as much paint as it could hold , and telling myself , bottom line, it was just a ghost whats it going to do?   With that and with arms mostly  extended and eyes mostly closed I got the roller onto the wall,    all I had to do now was move it up and down the wall ,
        I figured that once I  got moving instincts would take over and I would get it reasonably painted in one coat , with no big drips like the ones that were running down the wall from the roller sitting in the same place on the wall. I remembered my mantra "Any idiot can paint, I'm an idiot whats the problem just do it.
     My inner painter took over I had too at least get those drips and with the rest of my will I moved my arms and started the action of painting, I was amazed my arms moved and said to myself in a favorite of the famous last words category "Hey this ain't so bad". That's when it hit me , or almost hit me . the paint brush on the counter behind me flew past my shoulder and hit the wall missing me by inches.
     There's no logical or scientific explanation for this one maybe fifteen feet across a room? things dont fall that way, ,  to me even over many years of thinking on it that was a deciding factor, the next thing I heard was a crash and then a woosh of air and I was sitting in my truck with the hand on the ignition. The crash being me tossing the roller as I ran, and I was totally prepared to keep on running   I was already in gear and backing out of the driveway before I even got That Wait a minute what just happened notion.
      First thing I asked myself was did that just happen? and the answer was plainly yes, a ghost, probably had threw a paint brush at me.   Rightly so I said to myself I don't get paid enough for that kind of abuse , I'm leaving, They can have my paint tarps and tools, I'm never going back in there again.
  My whole self was pretty much in agreement there I wasn't going back in that house ever again, but first I needed to calm down so I sat in the driveway smoking and thinking  a cig then two , and then maybe something else to help me calm down , so you know I could make it to a local bar and really get a grip.
       As the minutes mounted I started listing mentally the things I would have to replace and even the brush and roller I had left behind, still I was confident that it was just stuff not worth  going back in the house for , the ghost could have it I said, or one of my I's did another one said "Okay call the boss and tell him your not going to do the job and why.
    Drat me I thought it wasn't bad enough I had to tell a guy who would ride me about it for maybe the rest of my life that I was afraid of a ghost, more importantly wouldn't do the job , meaning affecting his and my DO RAE ME. I was at least sure he wouldn't fire me over it, he would have too much fun picking on me for years.
    I already knew what I had to do, drat me again the answer was simple , just not easy.  Like most decisions, I knew I really had no choice.  I convinced myself eventually that I now Had to finish this job, or at least get my tools, or in the very least prove to myself that  wasn't I a total coward by  re-entering the house.
     Couraged up I opened the door to go in, tried the door it was locked, but I was way ahead of him, I had long been making sure the key stayed outside the house. So I unlocked the door and went in. With one foot holding the door open I faced the room and began a little speech.
      I said " look yes yuo are scaring the heck out of me , but trust me my boss does too.  I'm not sure if you get this but you have died, and someone else , has bought the house, I can understand your unhappy but I'm just the painter , I just want to paint the place , and then I'm out of here.'  I went on   "regardless of what you do I am going to paint this house,,   I would suggest that you just take it easy for now, you can save it for the people who move in when I'm gone."   I think I mentioned I was sorry that he was dead but it is what it is.
         Night and day, the house seemed to just settle down, I took my foot off the door and it stayed open, just like that I grabbed my roller and finished the cherry pie , wall before moving on and eventually finishing the job with no more conflict.
     The spirit was still there he just let me paint.  goes back to my old saying   "It won't bother me, if you don't bother me" .   By the time my boss actually showed up to the job I was finishing off the last room.   By now more worried about the ceiling I was working on than either the ghost or my boss.   I blame this one on the crazy builder but the ceiling was so rough it was determined that I would spray it with popcorn, the little dingle ball looking stuff that was popular for covering crappy tape jobs.
     As I sprayed the ceiling it got wet and heavy and began sagging towards the floor and me. I had to get the boss in on this one , and after convincing him it that no I wasn't kidding the ceiling was almost a foot lower than when I started. As we were in the room the ghost I guess got antsy with a new face and crashed something in another part of the house.
    Terry My boss then said " Whoa what was that?"  "I  replied just ignore it, trust me. "     He did, raising more suspicion that he had known the  joint was haunted ,  it also gaged my new level of fear, forget the ghost what about the ceiling?
         Fear is a funny thing ,   I've laughed about my moment out in the the truck a hundred times. I think though it helps to examine any fear , as I've said find the roots of the fear is it natural or not.    How much effect or control does that fear have on your self.?
      I'm tempted to call it rational and irrational fears , but really rational or not is the reaction we give  to the fear not the fear itself.   the fear is basically natural or not,,  Natural fear is a first reaction to a perceived  current    danger. A real fear, say something that potentially could kill or harm you and yours.  unnatural  is fear of something that hasn't happened before, fear of the possble, you could call it. It could happen so it's to be feared.
            As usual to keep a point it goes back to the main driver of life, fight or flight, In this case I did both .. Repeated exposure to the fear stimuli wore down enough that I can function rationally  enough in the presence of extra natural occurances that ghosts generally don't bother me in general. I'm not afraid of ghost's.
      Ghost's in generic terms , in the person or familiar term it's still a case by case thing, depends on the ghost.They can be kind of spooky , by design, but it can help to empathize with it. Think about it , your a ghost haunting wherever it is you died , how happy are you going to be? Think like in the movie High spirit's Where the chick ghost got to relive her being murdered every night.  even this guy was still trapped in the prison he had made of his life, a victim of hisself.  So stuck in his rut that even with death he couldn't stop his routine.        That's sad stuck in a world he spagettied his head on the wall to get out of.
               As always when I tell the story recommend highly reading a book called   "The unquiet dead"  in case your thinking as I was I could do this , a ghostbuster.      I have more or less helped clean a few houses, it's really pretty easy , of ghost's and bad  house karma , the book provides a few helpfull techniques on ridding houses, and a spookier part yourself  of the unquiet dead, that "You can't see them but they are there".
  Happy Halloween.  Peace B.
    
     

May Ranting 2012 part 2.Is this Normal?

May is into it's last week, in twenty twelve terms we are nearing the under 200 days , for the official 2012 .

   I've decided to keep on ranting and attempting to perceive of the  future and what it holds for myself as well as the world as we know it,.   At this point I can lay out some of the facts as I've seen them, as well as some of the conclusions I've been making on them.
      Pretty much I'll throw in some of my feelings on how I feel at this time, on whats to come. I believe that we have as good a guess as any expert on what will happen so for this post I will play the part, of someone with a clue.
       Though I have been writing on the subject a few years I think that this is really the third part of the series ,, starting with  "Predications on a Mad Cow".    I can even see lumping them all together and calling it a book, a snapshot of time, that might interest future generations.   Of course it will kind of be like admitting that I actually danced to disco once upon a time. Or you nexters who dressed like Micheal Jackson from Thriller.
       Being the third part at least it really isn't the time to lay out my credentials as an expert,  I think I can say I have  been a doomer since at least the second grade like seven or 8 in human years. For me it was the emergency drills they would have in class.
    Back then all emergencies involved hiding out under your desk. Mostly I felt the tests were better than study so I was okay with them until we started doing drills for nuclear bombs. Even at that age I was pretty sure a one inch piece of wood over my head was not going to do much against a nuclear bomb.

          So I have been pondering the end of man and the planet since those days under my desk at the Mark Twain Grade school. It's partially a generational thing but back then we worried about nuclear bombs, heck I doubt anyone today even remembers the Neutron bomb but this was a major proposed killing machine.
         The Neutron came later but in my lifetime man has had the capabilities to totally destroy itself seven times over. Of course over the years we first learned to Love the bomb, then forget we still have them.   Except for the suitcase bomb, or Iranian or Korean bombs, were no longer trained to fear MAD.
       A pity in a way because the only way for nukes to be effective is for everyone to have them, Mutually assured Destruction is the next best thing to nobody having them. Yes MAD is a long number 2, yet it's way to late to go back to nobody having them.
         That's a long time of loving the bomb for me, Which Of course I'm referencing Dr, Strangelove .  Mostly that an accidental bomb would be dropped, the big oops.    So my doomer qualification includes figuring  we'd have blown ourselves up by now.
    

      Which leads me to the point I have been wrong before. There's a pretty good chance I can be wrong, and even an outside chance I'm wrong right now. I figured that we would have some more definitive evidence that the world as we know it is ending.
      It's funny in a way that I'm having trouble feeling the doom, I can read the doom is out there, yet it is now what we consider normal.  In a way it is normal that we here in Missouri and most of the USA didn't have a winter I mean this is global warming?  
        It's also normal now that 700 dolphin's in Peru died of natural causes all at once. This natural cause has been working it's way up and down the food chain there from birds to fish and last I heard little crablets.
                The Fire  season has started just a little strong , just a little early, I mean no winter, no rain of course there are wildfires in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Michigan, Utah , Florida, Canada, Mexico?   I'm sure I'm missing more than a few, this is also just more of the same normal as we go through climate change. News that could change things is that I read but haven't verified that the la'Nina is over and It's El Nino's turn.                Even things like 55 and counting volcanoes going off this year and maybe 50 or more earthquakes of moderate under 7 magnitude  in strange places. I personally have even heard the planet noises being heard around the world.
      Those things used to would of worried me but now they are perfectly normal in a world gone madder.  While almost everyone now sees the world going to "Hell in a bucket"   I kind of figured it would be a lot worse I guess. I guess I must say I have my doubts.
    At this point I'm starting to worry I guess that our new normal will become a permanent thing. Instead of preparing for 2012 I'm thinking it's time to think of 13 and beyond, how to survive not only now but a future of living in a world gone madder .

        There's still some hope the sun keeps getting hotter and hotter, I am pretty sure the poles have shifted twice , I think this was why we had no winter in North America we fell to a lower latitude then around April we wobbled back up to near where it was before.
        We also went through a pretty dense patch of space junk , all misses but it keeps planet X at least in the running.

   None of that is the sign I have been looking for,  it makes me ask the bigger questions. What would be proof enough?   and still if the world as we know it ends, will we even notice?

  I'll be Posting more as the summer Solstice approaches I know I'm planning on being at woodhenge, and think this will be another good date to take a look for new signs.

Woodhenge A  Cahokian calender.  In Cahokia Illinois. This Shot is from 2010 .  It is pretty evident that we even then were seeing pole shift.

   While I am ready to see what happens I think it's important as always to live as much as you can while you can,  so have some big fun. 

  This is more personal but I got some news from my astrology  buddy and it seems that in October I start going through a change of life, and joy joy things will get hard then. I thought it was hard now so I can wait to see what comes next, and the dates are just dripping in irony Now as to change of life I guess normally I'm supposed to try to recapture my lost youth , like buy a sports car and embarrass myself in front of younger women.
      In a normally crazy world I was already thinking about some changes I have to make including even growing up just a few weeks ago. So in a weird way I guess I knew a change was coming and there's little left in the world that is easy.
         I do wonder since the normal crazy world I once knew is long gone, and it's a pretty safe bet that we are going to be living in a world gone madder , what am I going to change into?   Just like all of us adapting to a rapidly changing world we may not even recognize ourselves after its over.
         Throw in a life change cycle and it should prove interesting.

May Rant 2012 style.

        Sorry if You follow this blog , that I post very little, I have been in a writing slump, and I guess following the advice , if you have nothing to say , don't waste time yours or mine saying it.
       I find it amazing that in these fast moving times things remain the same , just more and more. As with a lot of people I probably have just become used to a world gone madder. Sadly I almost like it this way. Almost, I even find it hard to think what I will do if things were to go back to what we call normal.
               The only good definition of normal I can give would be the way things were.  The big rub is what time frame to use as a reference to call normal. If I had a choice or a time clock, or yes a wayback machine where would I take us?    One thing for sure I wouldn't take us back to the last decade, the decade from Hell. Where I'd go is fun to ponder, but not important ,  we don't need a time machine now, the future is almost here.
    The future is almost here, this is like the time of your life. Hopefully we can call it The good old days. That would be nice, as a person who has spent the last few years at least on mankinds doom, and doom related events as well as prophecies , this Is the Big One. 
                 We are now in the 2012.   As Rob Bast of 2012 connect recently posted the time frame from the June Solstice this year till the next one is the 2012 of Mayan prophecy.
  In most ways we've actually been in it our whole lifes.  And mankind has been in it's doom mode since we fell out of the trees and were bred by the Anunaki.  Its our nature, maybe the curse of having a big brain, or when we fell out of the tree we landed on our heads that we spend our life  imagining ways to die, because there aren't already enough ways to kill us.
       Consider the Pyramid builder  on the Left, .He built a series of pyramids with connecting tunnels , this place is ready for 2012, except of course that sadly the builder was run over by his bulldozer.   Not to mention the thousands of crazy deaths I have read about from the girl dying from a porta-pottie falling on her , to the no longer weird famous last words "Is this gun safe now".   Just to say there's no real hiding or escaping or surviving whatever FATE has cooked up for your personal demise.

     Maybe it's our fight or flight that rules our life, but it is kind of our duty to try , and escape fate as long as we can. Personally I've spent most of my life pushing fate as far into the future as I can. Giving it the old "It will get me someday , just hopefully not today.  Not my death pshaa   I'm way too curious about what comes next to fear it, plus it's inevitable, somewhere out there is a porta-pottie with my name on it. ( I know your thinking right just one).  

    
   In other words. really more words there's no real reason to get grumpy about it. Take fate out of the equation and what is the worst that can happen?    Isn't It that nothing happens.  I think as far as 2012ers our fear right now is we will be wrong.
    You have to consider that all those people you told to fear the day will be calling you on the phone to tell you how wrong you were.
   Personally I even have a book, as many of us do on the subject. Fortunately I made the wise decision, eventually to not sell the book,  if you read it for free , you get what you paid for right?   (Its on here somewhere Too)
       So for a tip I'd say to give good advice , even if were wrong if you tell them to treasure this moment, your right. 
 Blah de blah but our entire life Is in this moment.  Not only that it  always will be.   Or as the kid would say quit whining and do something about it. It's tough but if you can't find a way to enjoy your now, This Moment Or if you want your next moment, all the preparing  is useless. Dont prepare to be happy. Be happy then prepare, to remain happy. Enjoy the moment when they're good, while there good. If your moments are bad take solace that they will soon be in your past.
       I'm being taught this concept so I surely don't have it nailed, but not only does the now contain how we are what we are doing how we feel in the present it also contains our past , we are here now directed by our past actions and as J ( a secret GURU) would say our past and present combines and gives us our fate. Our nows are our fates.
        We like to think of fate as a porta-potty to the head but fate is also happening right now. As I grapple (Wrestle with) the concept of now I think the first thing to do is think destiny , the same as fate, but without the negative feelings.

What are you waiting for?

 It's my destiny to be where I am, It was my destiny to do what I've done as well as what I may do. 2012 these times and me being in them is and was all meant to be.   That  shouldn't be an excuse, just a reality.  We are the consequences of our reactions to internal decisions, made to external circumstances.
  I say that a lot but Popeye said it better "   I am what I am and thats all that I am.
        In more words the main importance in our lives right now should be finding your IT for the moment. Just whatever IT is to you find it, work on it. look for IT in your now. Sometimes you have to look  , you might even have to work on it, but get your now right and the future is taken care of .
 
   So I think if I tell people this, two things 1. they'll never really know what I was talking about , and 2. it really is good advice.
  Find a balance, it's getting harder everyday to not get overdoomed. If you follow it too much you go crazy, yet if you ignore it your no better than the blind sheeple you want to awake. Plus What you don't see can hurt you, ask anyone who've been hit in back of the head with a brick, they would of wished they had seen it coming.  
     As I said the now is our most urgent problem , however 2012 is here.   The Future is almost here. So for some of the newbies , in case you just heard about the end of the world as we know it I'd thought I'd post one side of the debate on being a prepper or in a specific case having a Get the Hell out of Dodge Bag.   I. E. Bugging out.
      He dont like people pasting his stuff so I''l just tell you a bit about the other side of the argument.   First off I've always thought the writer of Survival Acres is / was the king of internet doom. As long as I have been reading him , he has been the doomiest guy out there, which is why I read him.
      He makes many good arguments    for not attempting to bug out in a survival situation. I really agree that you dont want to choose to grab a bag of stuff and hit the road. Duh they call that homeless around here.  Unless your going on a religious pilgrimage you dont decide to  run like You know what..
    I guess from his side he's not a 2012er he believes, rightfully so that mankind has doomed itself , and its just a matter of math before everything fails. I hate math but long ago I figured the same thing, Unless we were to fire up the wayback machine it's too late to make changes to stop the future now.
      So add his doom to mine (Maybe ours) we have 2012 , and from almost all the possible scenarios, one thing that could be useful in any of them , cept just another day, would be the ability to RUN LIKE HELL. You not only need a bag you should be physically able. Is it going to save your life,? As we know it's only a short term aid.
     For me I can justify having a ready bag because I live in a brick building on a fault line, but tell me one place on this planet that is safe from Whatever is coming? Not to mention the everyday now, with floods quakes volcanoes, droughts, Nuclear contamination.  Just to mention one that almost every person in the northern hemisphere should be aware of , nuclear reactors. Get a Nuke map if your in America chances are your in a death zone from your local power producer. But there is like the sure death zone , then the prevailing winds death zone. Either way If you have a choice or  a chance to make a bug out , it's probably your best choice.
     Most of the other times it would not be a choice just a reaction, a reaction that millions of people this year (2012 or not) will have to do regardless of  want.  Be prepared can it hurt?   He's right though dont run till you know what to run from, but have a good idea on which directions you can run now. Again its balance how much energy and time you devote to fate.

  Just Kidding

    As far as prepping for 2012 even at this date we don't know what if anything is going to happen, how in your mind can you prep for that?   Then really think about it, when in the history of time was this not true?  Be prepared if your not thinking that good luck.
     Balance it's very personal , as a thought remember that for most of us the SHTF verses the now you have is a relative term. If it's going to hit the fan these are whats left of your good old days. A plus I think for those already getting the spray as say As Churchill said " If your going through hell keep going."
    We live our life in the now but it is constantly changing. I can't tell because its only my perspective, that times are moving faster than ever,  I also think that everyone who ever lived thinks that as they get older. Who knows though we could be in a time spiral , anything is still possible , that is not impossible.
       Considering how   important time is doing the now exersizes can actually cause the perception of slowing time down. Now if you slow it down use that for living It in your now.   Peace and Love, B. 
         A P. S.   I'll be writing semi  diary style a bit on the signs , maybe even the dooms of our destiny infects our now in the very coming months.   I just don't see it getting boring, however as prophesied by me, 2012 will be attempted to be done to death , by the media drones of the PTB. If you want fear get it from what you can see and learn. If the sky falls we will be the first to know.  As Dylan said "You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows."   Till then Good Luck Which is Another story.

      
       

12 02 07

Rusty Knight Paul in 2012 Just in case the World Doesn't End

Been wanting to do a bit of ranting practice , not that I need a topic I thought I'd try something different like having a semi-plan on something semi-important. Being of the breed who see the destruction of the ecosphere along with society as a foregone conclusion, I think another good title for the article would of been "Paul in 2012, in case the world doesn't end" .
Sure I'm taking a quick look at politics starting on Doctor Ron Paul the Libertarian Republican candidate for the GOP . Its not that I want to endorse him . I have said if he runs as an independent I would maybe vote for him.
I'd have to answer some of the questions that have been levied against him. Most importantly to me is also determine whether the questions actually matter to me. Of course I think of it as all or mostly a play written by the PTB to keep us mentally confused and involved in waiting for the new boss or sticking with the old boss. All that matters to They is that they get to give us any choice we think we have.
Or really that we turn the wheels by continuing to comply and conform into the laws of the Land for another three years two at least. 2012 will be spent making our Choice , 2013 at least seeing what the new boss actually does , or in this case odds favor waiting to see where the old boss takes us.
Maybe I should make my guess at the election which I figured is a continuation of the last election. Basically we elected a Republican as a democrat, or you could say the Republicorps AKA brand R planted millions of dollars into the campaign of Obama to unseat Clinton as the nominee, knowing that they had no chance to win the overall election , maybe holding on to the thought that we would never elect a black man to the presidency.
Still after he won the nomination brand R then went into full tanking . I mean no matter what President Obama has done or intends to do, nobody thinks we should have elected McCain and Palin. They were never intended to win. Thank God. Even though it does look like John McCain would have lived long enough to have served his term, the stress level on him might of made it a lot different and nobody in their right mind would want scary Sarah running the show.
I voted for Obama because there was no choice, just as there will end up being none this time. Its the republicorps job in the next few months to nominate one of their unelectable's so that it will seem as though we decided to dive into Fascism from our own free will.
Not that it will matter if you chose there guy you'd still lose only you would have two years or more to figure it out. Either way it don't look good. At this point their will be nothing to even study about the coming election other than the Billions that will be spent to do the PTB's dramatic farce I think Ill call it "Choice for Hope'. I've heard this somewhere about something to do with expecting the tactics that got you into your mess will work if you just keep doing them.
Or expecting the people who put us here to have a heart and let up on us. If nothing else like the cat that lets a mouse go , for the fun of catching it again. You already know how MAD society is even still thinking that the oil companies and coal companies are going to lead the way into renewable energies, I mean that would put a dent in profits right? same with expecting politicians to regulate the billions that is coming their way this year.
That has to be one of the best scams going , running for national office. Once you get going you get campaign money coming in, I mean even the losers that know they have no chance collect millions to spend on the campaign , to think you have a choice. Once you drop out the money left is basically yours to misspend. I have never heard anyone checking the financial records of the losers.
Common thought is you keep it for the next election. But I wonder. Not that I worry too much I mean not a one of them has ever gotten a dime from me they didn't steal. It is this money that is the great corrupter , nobody can come through this system without becoming a part of it , selling their soul for cash and a promise of power, along with a promise of more cash to come , after all the Bottom Line is the Bottom Line.
All of the choices we have fill this profile to a T except Ron Paul. He's basically a third party candidate using Brand R as a platform to get his message out. It's media wisdom that he has no chance to win, if you talk to die hard Republicans they all say he has no chance to win the nomination. He is for one not tall enough, he doesnt have the right hair , he's too old, and he definetly doesn't have the PCILF thing going for him.
Plus on the issues he's against everything they are told to stand for. Even that he uses issues is verboten. Later I might really have to check on what Paul's issue's are, nowadays its funny to even have them. The brand R motto is anything to beat Obama, kind of a joke on the diehards on either side is they expect there guy from brand D to really win., so they can keep the faithful paying into the pot for the 2016 debacle. If they actually win with a brand R theye'd have to come up with all new slogans.
What they really want is a candidate that if he wins will carry on the same agenda as the last two administrations , just in case. Paul at this time seems like the the only choice to have a choice. The lapdog lieing media would have the sheeple believe that people are voting for Paul as a protest vote.
Before I carry on I wanted to get into the media views or coverage of Ron Pauls campaign, Mostly what caught my eye was the glee to which they dismiss him as not worth mentioning. Unless of course its the newsletter scandal. Personally I think twenty year old newsletters is pretty small potatoes considering the attention in all media it has received.
I can see that the question is Paul a racist is a valid question. But he is a republican so the answer is more than likely yes , I mean I could get real mean and say that it would be hard to not be racist and get the brand R nomination. Yet the PTB in the form of the media especially the internet also used the same tactic against Hillary so, if it worked then it will work now, though the more they use it the more chance it will exposed. So playing it now would indicate that the PTB see Paul as a threat. Or is this what they want us to think.???
The same tactic attacking Paul with their media machine could be a way of promoting him with some free press. I'm going to paste a few comments I have read on Paul some of them so outrageous they gotta be kidding.
I think one of the more telling of the tells, in poker talk is the non-mention of Paul on the television. They believe that the television is where the next election is decided. Which to them is nice considering they own the TV. and can control everything that goes into it. Another plea to your sanity , do yourself a favor unplug your tv from its receptors. this the part of the play that will be big production stuff for the PTB. Where your money is no object. We will probably see the first million dollar campaign add this year.
I fear the "subliminal's on this one will be mesmerizing" said an unknown tv critic. Or would of if I wasn't lying, which brings me back to the commercial in today's technical world they have the tools to bring anything they can think of into tv reality. Meaning if you see it it must be true. This is as wrong as thinking if it was true they would tell us.
I've went on many times how tv is the devil ,but if they wanted to implant a message in the minds of the peoples through the use of subliminal messaging to brain train us into mass think , this is a golden opportunity, most likely to completely saturate the public they would use 2 advertisements , from both brand R and D both with the same message like Must Obey Me , and run it night and day for month's until we make our choice , to bend over and take it as the narcissist would say.
Back to the media who believe Paul has no chance are still saying it will of course be Romney anyway so suck it up get behind your brand. Paul however just doesn't fit in with the plot line. First off I'm pro anyone who is anti-war , but that was thought of as a democratic thing, up till the current warmonger in chief. So if I follow my beliefs I'm for the other guy. It would never work for them it would be like making Walter Mathow Felix Unger for most of you, it would be like people switching roles in the sequel we'll spend the whole campaign going Huh. explain that again. So brand D is now using Brand R formula and brand R is now brand D.
Better to keep it simple just spend a bunch of money on campaign adds in the primary let everybody slice up the pie and wait for brand R to nominate the right guy , somebody even more R and the R guy they secretly own the stock of. Keep it simple put up a right winger religious mulch-millionare with decent hair and then get ready for the next cycle.
Which then leads to the best story as far as their concerned how much money there is being spent on advertising. Especially on the net anybody with decent traffic to there site should get a piece of the billions to be spent once it gets down to two. I know wishful thinking that my soul might be worth cash money. but one I have no traffic here or anywhere, and two I'm hanging on to my soul as long as I can afford it. Personally I wouldn't sell my soul. maybe trade it but not for a side check to pay for me operating a website. Lots of money will be moved around influencing the way a lot of the pundits will think.
Money is Money another brand motto that we all seem to have to buy into. Its hard to argue with the feeling that the moneys there somebody is gonna get it, I could really use it. Blah blah blah back to a point is with the money going into this is their any chance of anyone involved not being corrupted by the want of all evil?
Thats probably why I thought of rusty night, not only is Paul a little old for the job ( if we ever get to the point where we put our leaders into cage matches and let them fight it out instead of the peoples Paul wouldn't be our first choice) celebrity leader death match aside he seems healthy enough to make it at least four years, the big test in the question almost always is will your candidate live to see the job through. Like Mccain this can hurt you , especially because this focuses attention on your running mate.
When Obama was elected he was young enough that nobody even remembers who his running mate was. however it will be a while before we forget the exploits of Sarah Palin, who combined the terms wing nut and dingbat into the now popular into the ding nut, a tradition carried on by Michelle my husband who used to be gay, is out shopping for dog sunglasses Bachmann. A pity she supposedly is dropping out , what will Comedy Central do without her.
Well the point was supposed to be here is the old guy who's getting ready to either get voted down by the frontrunners , or if he continues to poll high recieve huge sums of money. Nobody has ever come through this money gauntlet unchanged. the question is how much they were corrupted verses what they were to begin with. I never heard of Obama before he received billions of dollars , so I don't know maybe he was always a fascist warmonger? I didn;t see it on his campaign pamphlets,I didn't look why bother there was no choice anyway.
Which is the choice they want us to spend the next ten months making Again, who is the lesser of two evils. Except for the Clinton votes this has been the standard choice since Nixon. I think the big trick for them is out of a country of millions they like to make us think this is the best we can do.
Which makes me think is Ron Paul a real choice or as usual a puppet to make the people hope. Or is he the bat crap crazy guy the media says he is. These questions will probably answer themselves , or The money men will win the nomination and they will get off picking on each other and get to picking on the brand D guy they are in fact-ish campaigning to re-elect.

For sure this would be one of the most bizzaro world elections even with out it being 2012 , the possible end as we know it of Bizzarro land. Personally I think its all a game or a play really , still it would be interesting to see a dream three way tag team match winner take all for the head fascist of the world.
In one corner brand D the Champs Barack Obama and the guy we haven't seen Joe Biden, taking on Brand R Milt Romney the anyman millionare and his partner man on dog Rick Santorum, verses the baby faces (Wrestling term for good guy characters) Doctor Ron Paul and his partner Jesse The Body/the governor/tv host Ventura.
I think it could headline wrestlemania, and of course in a fight could you go for any of them over Ventura, not only a wrestler he was a navy seal and probably the only one of them to personally kill another human.
Unfortunately I dont think we will see a death match for the presidency , it would still make it at least interesting to throw in a third team. As they say the guys who have no chance. As an American we believe of course voting third party is throwing your vote away. This might be one of the few years when throwing your vote away is the best decision we can make. Both brands will tell us that voting for the third choice is voting against your guy , and helping their guy. Maybe they will throw in the stupidness that said Pat Buchanan running in Florida gave Bush the 2000 election.
This year I am more than willing to throw my vote away, like it matters anyway.
Not that I am what They call a Paul Fanatic, which is kind of like saying the lunatics who support Paul. Which brings me to the man himself, through the vision I would have of him if I paid attention to the media.
One thing I've noticed is except for a few doomer blogs nobody likes Dr. Paul. If they mention him its pretty much to try and discredit him, label him , and move on to the real candidates, mostly there guy. This from a left ish very good blog They gave us a Republic.http://www.theygaveusarepublic.com/diary/9875/beware-ron-pauls-radicalism
Beware Ron Paul's Radicalism No one ever said a country was going to be easy. A nation is more than flag-waving and little boys and girls putting hands to hearts to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Whenever you create anything as complex as a nation that must unite groups with very different interests and ideas you must take the good with the bad, including the corruption and coercion that goes with "politics as usual." Ron Paul is the candidate for those who want a holiday from this uglier side of politics.

Ross Douthat captures Paul's appeal as both madman and prophet in his New York Times column this week when he notes Paul's popularity is rooted in his reputation among some "as a teller of some important truths."

This appeal, says Douthat, is for those who harbor dark thoughts about the American political system and the current "era of unprecedented elite failure" where America's public institutions "are understandably distrusted" and its leadership class "justifiably despised."

Since leaders of both major parties are implicated in the present crisis, for some voters it takes "a fearless crank" like Paul to expose what neither Republicans nor Democrats are willing to admit, Douthat insists.

Thus, says Douthat, Ron Paul has stepped forward as "the only figure" willing to point the finger at the fact that both government spending and America's overseas commitments "are out of control," or that a revolving door connects K Street to Congress and Wall Street to the White House, or that there is "a long list of dubious policies and programs that both sides tacitly support."

Paul's "honest extremism," says Douthat, "has sometimes cut closer to the heart of our national predicament than the calculating partisanship of his more grounded rivals." And he is the only candidate, says Douthat, who when he says "a plague on both your houses!" actually means it.
Its hard to tell if the writer likes Paul on that one even though they never forget to tell you Paul is a loon. My guy on Survival Acres the King Of doom has some pro Paul articles http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=2288 . Not that all the doomers even like him. Good Video here sounds like it came from vets.

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1550.htm this is my Favorite Anti-Paul article from the alternet. Its From Soorcha Falls so of course its crazy, but lately I find that what She?he they say on their blog is repeated and spread through most of the doom sites only the more it's posted the more people think its true.
Its a variation on Pauls libertarian party policies that is designed to relent power to the states, which is designed to get this bring back slavery, based on the Sanatorium logic that if you let same sex people get married then the next thing you know people will be marrying their dogs. If the States were allowed to make their own laws surely the southern states would reenact slavery.
If your not from around here I kid you not this is actually an issue.

Most critical to note about Ron Paul, this report says, are the “too many comparisons to be ignored” between him and the “savior” of a defeated German Empire that brought his nation back from the brink of destruction, Adolph Hitler, most notably among the youngest members of their respective societies
That's right I won't spoil the rest of the article but Soorcha thinks he's the new Hitler.
I definitely would look at the records of the brands running for the office. So I'll have to check out Paul as things go on. As it is he is the only thing standing between us and the boring corporate state election they want us to have. It will be fun to see how long Paul stays in the fray at least, even though common wisdom tells us that if he has a real chance to be President they will kill him, or buy him , but most likely assassinate him. So if THEY kill him then we will know for real that he at least wanted to try and help us.
Thank the Chinese we will be blessed to get through this year of most interesting times. There are a few things I will be distracting myself with usually elections get real hard to ignore,this one we should embrace just for the heck of it, as I said in the title Paul in 2012, just in case the world as we know it doesn't end . Peace B.