Happy Birthday!

My sister Roxanna turns 50 today!

Happy Birthday Roxanna!

Dear Vatican

Dear Vatican and the Nazi Pope,

What are you guys trying to hide from the Belgian raid on your child raping compound?

I read in "A Necessary Evil," that you (meaning the Vatican crime organization) have diplomatic immunity and have many child raping documents under your authority that cannot be subpoenaed because of that.

Why, Vatican Child Raping Organization, do you lie and cover up your continued crimes?

While you're at it, how about releasing some of those documents about the Jasenovac death camp in Croatia that you all had a direct hand in. And the Rat Line. And all your other crimes.

Custer

Yesterday was the 134 anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, also known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Custer had it coming, but the Indians still wound up losing the war, and we are all still struggling today.

I am listening to a book called "The Last Stand," about Custer, Sitting Bull, and the battle. What interested me most was a comment made about how the U.S. government was running out of money and needed an influx of cash. Thus, gold was "discovered" in the Black Hills, and so the Indians had to be wiped out (in one form or another) to get at it.

In a more modern context, the U.S. is deep in debt. Oil brings in lots of revenue. Kill Iraqis, Afghanis, Nigerians, Pakistanis, and attempt to kill Iranians soon (though Iran isn't as militarily weak as the U.S. likes to attack unarmed to weak nations because they are easier to kill). Kill the Indians for gold, Kill Middle Easterners and Africans for their oil.

More on this later.

Haven't been writing much...

...at least not on my blog.

I think I'm just kinda taking a rest from talking about all the horrible shit going on. However, many things have intrigued me, lately.

I have hardly heard a thing about the second flotilla in which the Israeli Attack Forces raided the Rachel Corrie and I believe another ship taking relief supplies to Gaza. I heard a bit of an interview with Dennis Halliday that people were attacked and brutalized on that flotilla with all of their video and other recording equipment stolen. Not as dramatic as the murders enacted by the Israeli Attack Forces. OK, I have to say it. I did read one alleged Peace a-holes blog posts about how basically that his idea of non-violence wasn't enforced on the first flotilla (although he was not a part of it in any way, shape, or form), and thus, basically, since he believed the Israeli's were attacked, they had the right to defend themselves, albeit their defense was extreme. It was the most disgusting piece of work I had read on the issue, especially coming from a Peace a-hole.

Massive oil leak in the Gulf...STILL HAPPENING! Jesus! Nothing I can do about it. Shusli and I have been discussing that this is not only an extinction level event, but a catastrophe that will be felt worldwide and possibly effect global weather patterns. We know animals are being slaughtered by the gazillions. Folk will be losing their livelihoods by the gazillions. There is speculation, unfounded in my opinion, that the gulf slaughter headed by BP's Tony Hayward with support from the Obomber administration, deliberately murdered those 11 folk on the rig and sank it and caused this disaster so that Obomber can impose a carbon tax or something like that. I'm not buying it.

The Obomber administration, along with Killary Clinton, are working diligently to get Iranian oil so oil companies and car companies can continue this unsustainable way of life for a few more decades, at least. So they have to sacrifice millions of Iranians with the help of their favorite genocidal ally, Israel. At least we'll be able to drive our cars for a few more decades...maybe. I kind of wonder if BP still has any influence in the region of Iran? If so, is their position weakened by BP's weakened state via the slaughter in the Gulf? Thus, in part (cause I know the U.S. has wanted to steal Iranian oil for decades, thus long prior to the Obomber and Bush II administrations), I wonder if the U.S. is taking advantage of BP's weakened position in the region in order to enact mass slaughter and environmental devastation in order to steal their oil?

Seems that the best way the Obomber administration can think of to deal with the leaks about the murderous escapades in the regions of Iraq and Afghanistan enacted by U.S. forces and their allies is to...GO AFTER THE LEAKERS! No, lets not deal with the actual murderous escapades. Murderous escapades are encouraged (unless enacted against Americans). And in dealing with uppity generals who do know how to keep their mouths shut, one must deal with keeping their mouths shut instead of dealing with the issues he is attempting to deal with which are simply made worse by the genocidal Obomber administration. Stop the leaks like they are stopping the leaks in the gulf, and everything will be OK. Everyone will throw flowers to the U.S. gods like the liberators they are.

Yeah, I'm still a bitter SOB, but I am also hopeful. Real hope, not Obomber hope. What gives me real hope is my wife. Someone who understands that there is a world we are going to have to survive in. Something that can be radically different in a short amount of time. If we survive it, we will be there to help as best we can.

"Hang on tight. It's gonna be a bumpy ride."

Killer

I listened to a couple of murder mystery books on CD recently.

The first was "A Necessary Evil," by Alex Kava.

A bunch of pedophile Catholic priests were being murdered. The main detective, a woman FBI profiler, was very adept at catching people.

It was an excellent book. I LOVED THE ENDING! Although I'm not a great solver of puzzles, I did solve this one early in the book, and even so, it was still GREAT!

The other was Joanne Fluke's, "The Apple Turnover Murder."

This one took, I figured out early in the book. It was kind of frustrating as well since the murder did not occur until about half way through the book.

The main character, Hanna Swenson, was the owner of a cookie shop. It is a fun combination of book Genre's. It is a mystery with lots of recipes, like a cookbook; lots of sexual tension, like a romance novel; animal stories.

It didn't appeal to me all that much, as I like the mystery part in mystery novels. I like a lot of that, and a little of the other stuff. This book is a good balance of all that and I think many people would enjoy it alot for its fun combination. I'm a bit more straight forward than that, however.

Where I've Been

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have listened to two books recently by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the famous 19th century Russian author.

One book I listened to "Notes from Underground." My understanding is that this was the first book written by Dostoyevsky after he was released from prison. It is a rather dark tale of an introverted clerk in the government service talking about a 20 year or so section of his life. The way this fella looked at the world seemed self-deprecating as well as a seeming self-superiority. He felt superior to others, and yet hated himself. The range of dark emotions, thoughts, actions and inactions was rather amazing in this tale.

I also listened to an unabridged version of "Crime and Punishment." I know why this is a classic. I never read his work in school, and most remember the title from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which it was used as a prop in a story. The story is of a young man in Petersburg Russia is down on his luck and decides with illusions of grandeur to murder an old pawn broker woman and make wealth for himself. The idea was that he would start out his life with this grand escapade that no one would figure out he had committed. But when he shows up late for the crime and winds up murdering the woman's sister as well, things turn rather dark.

The main character, Raskolnikov, is not only a horrible murderer, but also kind generous and compassionate. He is a fully rounded character, very complex and interesting. Intelligent and stupid. Arrogant and self-loathing. He believed this murder would help launch his stagnating life into something great, comparing how the mass murderer, Napoleon, was propelled to greatness on far worse crimes and committed far more crimes. I think of folk like George Bush, mass murderer, who seems to feel no remorse for the mass murders he committed as the stand in president who quite possibly never won an election. Come to think of it, I don't see remorse on Barack Obombers face, either. Nor Bill Clinton, nor Bush Sr., nor Reagan, nor Nixon, nor Kissinger, etc. But all these folk are held up for their greatness as well...excuse me...allegations of greatness. Rodyer Raskolnikov, however, is actually filled with remorse, or something like it. He has a conscience and is constantly torn as he wades through his self-damaged life throughout the book.

What I find quite enjoyable is the good look and good things that come his way and his families way after he commits the murder. If he had waited a week longer in his poverty, everything would have been fine. And the troubles, the metal troubles, that plague him. AMAZING!

Dostoyevsky has to be one of the best authors I have read (or in this case, listened to). I swear I could walk down the street and run into these characters he created, they seemed so real. Maybe I met Raskolnikov on the Burnside Bridge, saw him talking to his sister downtown, saw the clerks (now detectives) walking around the police station... It is an amazing book.

One thing that caught my eye was a bit of humor in the story. Dostoyevsky's work came out in serial form in periodicals. He was an author, and an extraordinary one at that. But he takes a little poke at authors early in the book as a clerk rants in the police station about them as a woman had been had by one:

"...So the literary gentleman, the writer fellow, took five roubles in the respectable house for a torn coat-tail, did he? Well, well! So that's the sort of fellows those writers are!...There was a similar incident in a pub the day before yesterday with one of those writer fellows: had his dinner but refused to pay his bill and threatened to write them up in his paper. And another author on a steamer last week used the filthiest language to the wife and daughter of a State Councillor. And another one was kicked out of a pastry-cook's the other day. That's the kind of fellows they are, these writers, authors, literary gentlemen, students - public oracles!!..."

This bit of self-deprecating humor in "Crime and Punishment" make me wonder what Fyodor Dostoyevsky was like. He had a good sense of people. He could see the dark side especially of folks, but could also describe their beauty. He could see the whole person. He could poke and prod and describe the most intimate details of a human being. He also had a sense of humor, which is obvious from the above.

So my list of favorite classics authors has expanded:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alexandre Dumas
Mark Twain
Dalton Trumbo
Herman Melville

(it's a small list, but it will get bigger)