As oldschool the subtitle today as naive this posting: but why is it that only rich white guys are allowed fool around with nuclear weapons without interventions from - lets say the UN? And isnt it like this that rich white folks tend to forget that white is a colour too, even more than any other?

blow it up your ass
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today,
a day trip to San Juan Bautista, an original missiones small town at the edge of a teutonic plate. And a great loud noise, The Big Sky, the end of the world...maybe thats why they in this particular samlltown have live roosters walking around in the streets, like hloy cows in India. Roosters, at the gates of heaven.

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Oh lordie I am but a victim, selfinflicted…Today, my hotmail account is inacessable because Microsoft wants me to enable cookies before I can log on again. Cookies which I take pride in that I – a PC no-tech – though had being able to disable. But they want me, they want my cyber behavior-pattern, so they can trace and send me stuff that doens`t mean…stuff, more shit companies sending me more shit. And I even pay for having the account. The hotmail plus account, but now they want me to bend over and take it up the ass.
And, the joke continues, Microsoft with the said-to-be philatropic, responsible, ethic, empathic business profile are considering to weigh their support to a Washington gay rights bill.
Gay right activists and people inside and outside the company have over the past week flooded emails and posting on web-logs outraged on the companys decision not to support the bill.
Central for their protest are also the fact that one Mr. Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition and one of the most visible anti-gay activists in the States and – no surprise – a close ally of El Presidentes® administration.
Reed is advocating on the behalf of “Christian employees within the Microsoft family” which, he says, finds it deeply problematic to support the gay-right bill. The Bill himself – Bill Gates, is at a rare neutral, saying he has pulled back on the issue because he is reconsidering the bill, which would eventually prohibit discrimination against gays in employment, housing and other areas – seemingly not a problem to the Christian community.
Meanwhile Mr. Reed stays on the Microsoft payroll earning 20.000 dollars a month while rubbernecking with the affiliates of the Bush administration.

I guess I don’t have to mention that this is posting part49 is the ongoing...WHY THIS second rate poet DOESN`T LOVE BIG BUSINESS™, but there…I said it , didn´t I?

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I don`t know if or why then I would have expected it but the driver was fat. Fat as in overweight, dissolved contours, no chin, short arms no legs, you know: fat – a fat busdriver. The shuttle. So the picture was framed, but let me instead say that the guy had a weight-issue, not to rule out that the fat guy – the driver – could be an okay person. But if he wasn`t so fat and didn`t wear those shorts and hadn`t had his socks pulled all the way to his knees, if his Hawaii-shirt had been a little cleaner and just a little less tacky – a little more original, the picture might have been hangable. If it hadn`t been for the music. The white westcoast collegefunk, which I knew but luckily had forgotten about, like I entering California noticed that I also no longer remembered the lyrics of the Eagles “Hotel California” – anyhow: this funk, characterized by an overkill over a squeaky hornsection – I mean have there ver been anything more expendable than saxophones, no less saxophones solos and chases – so if it hadn`t been for the music and if it hadn`t been for his hair – had it only been shorter or had he only been younger the picture might have made sense. If it hadn`t been that he was such a talker – smooth, relentless and indifferent – constant, I might have been able to actually conversate him, but noone talks one these terms, a 16 hours flight ripping the logic of your aaparatus apart – the lingvistics, tying my tongue, a general alck of interpersonal interest, I might have tried. If only the 14 years he told me he had done this job had tought him that, then communication might have been an option although non-communication is also to be considered communication. If only he would have mirrored that I might. If it hadn`t been at 3 at night on 70 miles pitchblack frrewayride from San Francisco to Santa Cruz and everything looked alike, if he hadn`t said: “Hey, I think it`s so groovy that people come here from like…other countries..” I might have given him the benefit of the doubt, but no: I could speak but I would not talk. First you are an asshole until proven differently, and if that doesn`t happen – hey, you`re an asshole. I trhink that`s was what I was saying, silently. And I think it`s a natural reaction.
But there, in the bus, I would not talk, and even less when he looked at me and called me a “showstopper” and I looked at him and said “I give up” and he replied “But man, you havn`t even tried” – there, I had to crawl to the back of the bus to catch some shoteye, and he cranks up the stereo in the middle of a saxophonesolo, and right there the picture was all done. He is the first blow in a stupid ass storm.

Today,
Some months ago I went with an Austrian oceanographer to visit The Long Marine lab here in Santa Cruz, the facility beautiful set on the edge off a cliff above the sea. I am not an ocean-guy – in fact I am scared shitless of the ocean and in particular the Pacific, but what really lured my down there was the dolphins he said they had, alive, but in pools. Neither am I a fish guy, I am not into fish, or sea food for that matters – sushi included. But dolphins, dolphins are more than just a fish, - I don’t know – maybe for people my age it`s the oldschool tv-series “Flipper” that still plays tricks on me, for one – or the fact that it has never really been proven whether or not touching a dolphin, being intimate with a dolphin will or can actually make you more intelligent, loosen up your disabilities, highten your sensitiveness…I mean, in the late 90s they flew people in from around the world to swim with dolphins in The Red Sea – apparently to fix some unfortunate biological flaws.
Anyways, for me – I got of the whole dolphine-scene per se, when telemarketing giant Sonofon adopted the dolphin as their logo – aligning the beautiful animal with tons of shitty commercials in which silly service minded chicks with belached teeth and hair and headset promised to do anything to keep you talking. I really hated that campaign, and it is in fact another damned good reason why this second rate poet doesn’t love big business™ - which makes this posting number 47 in the ongoing…
But back to basics: The dolphins at The Long Marine Lab. There they were, in two circular pools, lazy but still squeaking the characteristic sound.
“They seem a little – hmmm doped” I noted to the Austrian, the ocean-guy.
“Yea, they are tired, taking an afternoon nap – and they old…”
“How old would that be…?” I asked
“Im not sure, but I think they are like born I 1978 and 1980, and that’s old for a dolphin..”
“Ok, but hey they are still god damned cute..” I just wanted to jump in the pool and have a go at them.
“Yea, but guess what – you aint gonna believe this. They are not only old, they are also retired…” he said
“What? What do you mean…retired…retired from what…breeding?”
“No from the fucking Marines…the Navy…”
“You´re Kidding.”
“No, no – during the last Gulf war right, they used them too track mines man, some say they could him set a mine on an enemy ship…and individually they cant be tracked on a radar…they the perfect underwater-sniper…kind of”
“That so fucking mean…I cant believe it. Navy seals dolphins…come on…so what are you gonna do with them, what mean spirited experiment are they part of here?”
“Nothing, we just keep them, the Nany didn’t know what to do with them, they were getting sloppy at their job, but were pretty sure if it got aired that they offed dolphins after end of service, it would be a major blow to their image…”
“Well it already is.. I think! Jesus…I mean its smart, but mean…”
“Yea, but they won the war didn’t they?”
“Who did? The dolphins…?2
“Fuck you, no, the states, they kicked Hussein out of Kuwait..”
“Yea, and now they are doing it again, that’s…great, any dolphins this time..?”
“Well, that I cant tell you….”

We then left, me, I regained the sympathy for the fish...

Today,
an absolute flatliner. No dreams, no links, no pictures, just the echo...

Today,
I stand corrected. In a posting a few days back on the new Pope, I wrote that ”he was a passionate member of Hitler Jugend Luftwaffe…”. Apparently, he wasn`t. Lennard, at DAMIJWH, who I consider a very trusted authority when it comes to history, and especially questions about WWII, writes at his blog today, that this – The Pope being a passionate Hitler Jugend, simply isn`t true. No further explanation from me, just ten ave marias and a recommadation of reading Lenanrds blog if you want to know how the it really went down.
The Pope do – however I`ll say defending myself – today represent approaches to moral and ethic issues that is not far awy from those of nationalsocialism per se.

So, today, I`ll pause the aggressive pessimism, flash my ambivalent relation to war, as I yesterday took the boys to “The Dream Machine” event at the Half Moon Bay Airstrip. For once it wasn’t so much the collection of beautiful musclecars that pulled me in, but more the fact that there was an airshow, including WWII fighterplanes, among those:
The Mustang P 51, Wildcat (predecessor to the Hellcat), B-25 bomber and a B-17 bomber “The Flying Fortress”, a german Messerschmidt 109, and a YAK (Russian figterplane), and then some.

It was a beautiful day. Especially the P-51`s made a spectacular show. 4 of them flying in formation, 30 feet of the ground, then acting out fighting routines higher up and so….

As I said before. who can truly be a pacifist? Yesterday I just felt...13... and lucky for having been born on the right side of the tracks.




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today,
fucking hippies! Following the strike last week, they have now set up at tent-university at the mainentrance, alternative teaching my ass.....Didgeredoos, dreadlocks, moondance, drumajms, untuned guitars, tunes of yesteryear, every concievable remnant of the 60s, an iconographic noisemachine which as only result have brought back the pouring rain. If they can do anything, thats it. Jesus! Get a haircut, sometimes I just cant believe how longhaired California is.
"But like dude man" they say, "You are not it with the groove, like the vibe man - we are the voices from the edge...". So, go ahead and jump you pathetic treehugger.

I can think of only one thing, a quote from the film "Live and die in LA", said by Willem Dafoe: "Your taste is in your ass Max!"

WHY THIS second rate poet DOESN’T LOVE BIG BUSINESS™ part 46.

Because writing this on-going … has made me an addictive reader of the business-sections of New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, and – better late than never – it has lead me to the conclusion, that if you want to get a clear picture of where El Mundo® is headed, that’s where to find out.
Moreover it can be highly entertaining, like on Monday where I stumbled upon these two pieces of cutting edge information.

1. 25% of every meal consumed in USA is consumed in a … car.
2. There are 38000 (!) nail-clinics in the Bay Area (San Francisco), but only half a dozen health-inspectors.

Today,
For a brief moment, after having neglected it and my house- mantra of “revolution starts at home” , I`ll return to the ongoing soap of WHY THIS secondrate poet doesn’t LOVE BIG BUSINESS™, this being part 45, and turn to the fuzz about the new Pope: Joseph Ratzinger aka Benedict XVl.
In an earlier posting in December 2004, I emphasized the conflation of state, big business and church, and in the same go I generally outlined the Church as being an equivalent to Big Business™, with the following three arguments:

Why is religion currently to be identified with economy = Big Business™?
There are 3 significant features.
1: With the free market religion has changed and is now anchored in three specific capitalist characteristics: competition between religion and churches, commodification and choice. This makes it a part of market economy.
2: Religious ethics makes people choose economics, that is, religion determines economic decisions.
3: The sacredness of religion is applied to the understanding of economy.

So that allows me to consider the new Pope as a CEO – Chief executive Officer – who, as a young man was a passionate Hitler Jugends Luftwaffe – reigning abusiness controlling the mindset over a vast amount of catholics worldwide, with a set of values on 6 important issues, that goes as follows:

Secularism: “We have moved from a Christian culture to aggressive an intolerant secularism. A society in which God is completely absent self-destructs.” (J. Ratzinger, November 2004)

Other religions: He has repeatedly condemned ”religious pluralism” and relativism, the idea that other religions can hold the way to salvation, and has been instrumental in blocking the advance of priests who think differently.
“This trhuth of faith does not lessen the sincere respect which the church has for the religions of the world, but at the same time it rules out, in a radical way, that mentality of indifferentism characterized by a religious relativism which leads to the belief that “one religion is as good as the another”: (J. Ratzinger in The Vatican Document “Dominus Jesus, November 2000)

The Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal: “One comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the church” (J. Ratzinger, December 2002)

Women: He is pro-prohibiting on women as priests and criticises feminism for ignoring biological differences. In a church statement august 2004 he called on governments to “mange conditions so that women do not need to neglect their families if they want to pursue a job”

Sexuality and Marriage: He is a leading voice enforcing the traditional doctrine on homosexuality, extramarital sex and artificial birthcontrol, writing a letter to American bishops in 1988, for example he critized their acceptance of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS, saying the American view supported “the classical principle of tolerance of the lesser evil”:
About homosexuality and same sex-marriage he rams on: “There is absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to Gods plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law”.

Abortion and euthanasia:
“There is a last border we cannot cross without becoming destroyers of creation itself. (J. Ratzinger, “God and the world”, October 2004)

It leaves me with only one question: What year is this?