"I Wanna Kill!"

"I wanna kill!"

--from "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie

PNAC, People for the New American Century, made it clear in their think tank report that it would be necessary, or at least desired, for the U.S. to face an attack like that of Pearl Harbor in order to go to war with other nations and steal their resources. This report was made prior to the destruction of the two towers.

We all know, at least those of us who listen to news other than that owned by the big 5, that Hillary Clinton and John McCain have both displayed genocidal and war criminal behavior as senators. Both of these monsters have also proclaimed a feirce desire to slaughter as many Iranians as possible and steal their resources. I mean we've all heard Genocidal John sing "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" (sung to the tune, "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys), right? I mean that's so genocidally funny. That's as funny as genocide gets, and singing that song shows intent and planning and IS an act of genocide under the UN convention's definition.

Recently, Hillary stated she'd be willing to "obliterate" Iran should they attack Israel. Is this tough guy political verbage to make her look more genocidal and war criminal than any white man in power in the U.S.? Or, does she know something we don't and isn't saying?

Obama, who claims he wants to open up negotiations, also said that Iran would be made to pay should they attack Israel. What is this bullshit with Iran attacking Israel? Do these folks know something they aren't telling us? Is this some sort of PNAC prediction and plan?

OK, folks, let's use something called logic here. Iran knows that if they attacked Israel, their nation, people, land base, resources, etc., would face the same genocidal wrath that Iraq has faced since the illegal Bush Sr. war of '91. So, what the U.S. would need, and no doubt desires since all their other attempts at slaughtering Iranians have run into walls, would be a falsified attack.

"Oh, Eugene, you're so full of shit." Gulf of Tonkin. Operation Northwoods.

The United States empire follows certain patterns, like the pattern laid out in the PNAC report. What the U.S. would do would be to fabricate an attack on Israel, create an actual attack on Israel that they would blame on Iran, or talk Israel into allowing or fabricating an attack that may kill a few Israeli's, so then the U.S. could use this excuse to open up the genocidal gates and start slaugthering Iranians with impunity in order to steal their resources for the already wealthy.

However, such a venture, as with the occupation and genocide and resource theivery in Iraq and Afghanistan, would cost the U.S. billions and trillions of dollars. In case you haven't noticed, the U.S. economy is about to tank. The dollar is collapsing. The banks are reporting massive losses due to the mortgage crisis. Food has started to be rationed IN THE U.S. We have two wars costing the U.S. trillions of dollars. This, amigoes, I believe, would be an absolutely foolish move. But who the fuck am I other than some asshole writing his opinion on a blog.

So Hillary and John are singing their duet: "I wanna kill! I wanna kill!"

How the Frog Became Green

Froggy used to have beautiful purple skin. He used to parade down the streets showing off his beautiful purple skin to the people.

One day a woman was painting furniture in her yard. As Froggy was walking by, he felt a little tired so he sat on a curb upon an empty plastic bag for a rest. The woman liked froggy and decided to play a practical joke on the little fella. She walked over and spray painted him green.

This caught froggy by surprise, but he liked the feeling and the smell of being spray painted green. And when the woman was done, he was proud of his new green skin color. Since he was a special frog with special powers, he turned all of the frog people green so they too could enjoy their new color.

Then the humans jumped on the frog people and RIPPED off their skin. They stamped the faces of genocidal white men on them and gave these skins special powers. These skins could be traded for stuffs, and humans forgot how to collect their food and make their clothing and build their houses and what community looked like. They used the frog skins to have power over other human beings, over other life forms, they tried to take everything for the power of the frog skins. Humans had forgotten how to be humans and decided that the power of the frog skin gave humans the power of gods.

Soon, there weren't so many frogs. Folks who didn't believe in the power of the frog skins were destroyed or assimilated by those that did. There became many humans who had forgotten how to live without the green frog skins. Non-humans were sucked up by the humans who believed in the power of the green frog skin with the genocidal white mens faces on them.

Since there weren't so many frogs, there weren't so many frog skins. Since there weren't so many frogs, there weren't so many frog songs.

The leader of all the frogs was an old grandma frog. She was saddened that all of her children, her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren were disappearing. She was told that it was the humans stealing her children and taking their skins and putting the faces of dead genocidal white men on them. That the humans gave these skins special powers which they believed made humans more special than all other life forms and often many other humans. She was told that humans believed that the skins of her frog people with the dead genocidal white mens faces on them gave them the power of gods.

Grandma Frog became terribly sad and terribly ANGRY! at the behavior of the human folk. She shook the earth and smoke billowed from beneath the waters. What was left of her frog people sang a song of power and she gathered the energy of all the frog skins, all her frog people, and took it back from the humans who so terribly abused them, terribly abused other humans, terribly abused all other life forms for their lust for more of the green frog skins with dead genocidal white mens faces on them.

The humans suffered to learn they no longer had the power of the green frog skin with dead genocidal white mens faces on them. The humans grieved to know they no longer had the power of gods in their own hands using the power they gave the green frog skins with dead genocidal white mens faces stamped on them. The humans grieved at the destruction they caused the earth and all of its life forms in order to pray to the power of the green frog skins with dead genocidal white mens faces stamped on them. The humans remembered that not only is their power valid, but so are the powers of all other life forms. The humans learned that they are not gods, but humans on this earth related to all other life forms, none above or below the other, but joined together to create this world in which so many life forms live. Humans remembered who they are and their place in the world. Humans learned to keep their own power. Humans learned to love life again.




As I'm sure many of you know, one of my favorite things to do is watch and read about the impending financial CRASH that the U.S. is about to impose on the world, just like they globalized their economic system to steal from the whole world. Here are a few articles about the impending crash.

Bank of America

How Many Banks May Crash in the Next Year or Two

Did Somebody Say Crash?

If the U.S. Goes, They're Gonna Take Others With Them!

These are exciting times we live in! May we take these opportunities to recreate the world and do so in a beautiful manner that other generations may come along and live happy strong on this earth.

Last Bash of the Baby Brown Shirt Visit to the Occupied Territories Currently Known as the U.S.

Thank goodness that rotten bastard pope baby Brown Shirt is leaving the occupied territories currently known as the U.S. Part of his message was for the stupid fucking unquestioning believing this piece of shit to be infallible Americans was to make sure that abortion was stopped. Of course, no mention of the Catholic churches support of abortion into the 1970's. That's different. It helped in making money then. The anti-abortion issue helps get tithes to help fill the coffers of shit heads like PBBS so he can live a life of lavish luxury while his followers suffer.

"The unwavering truth of the Roman Catholic message, he said, guarantees respect for the dignity of all "including the most defenceless of all human beings: the unborn child in the mother's womb"."

Of course, if those women had abortions then who would the priests have to rape? What would those in the catholic heirarchy do if they didn't spend a lot of time shuffling baby rapist priests to other parishes and spend a lot of time covering up crimes committed by these priests and other crimes committed by their criminal organization. Abortion needs to be stopped so baby raping priests can have a constant influx of fresh victims and survivors.

Pope BBS also spent time at the site of 9-11. Not, of course, at Wounded Knee. Not at Sand Creek. He didn't make a sache off to Mi Lai in Vietnam. Nor the massacre sites in the Phillipines. Didn't make it to East Timor. Didn't see the suffering of the victims of paraquat in Mexico. Made no trip to Croatia to the memorial of Jasenovac. Didn't turn over the information of where Peter Brzica is to the public. But he did pray with some of the survivors of the 9-11, but the Al Jazeera article didn't mention, oddly, anything about the LACK of health care for these folks held up as heroes then discarded when the cameras are off and the reporters gone.

"Earlier on Sunday the pope blessed the site of the World Trade Centre, the two towers that were destroyed in the suicide attacks in 2001, and prayed with two dozen survivors, relatives of victims and rescue workers."

Whatever you do, Baby Brown Shirt, don't use your vast wealth to pay for health care for the rescue workers at 9-11. I'm sure you've seen "Sicko" and are well aware that those refuse can be sent to Cuba if they need health care.

And don't forget, Baby Brown Shirt...FUCK YOU!

Baby Brown Shirt at it Again!

Pope baby Brown Shirt is at it again, offering his prayers instead of justice to a meeting with half a dozen victims of his priests.

""His holiness assured them of his prayers for their intentions, for their families and for all victims of sexual abuse," a Vatican statement said." Al Jazeera

What is really being said here is: "We are gonna do as little as possible about the baby raping priests because if we actually did something, that would cut into the bottom line, and we can't have that because money is more important to us than god and any worthless victims of our rapist priests." Let's be honest folks. Offering prayers? Big Fucking Deal! No offers of justice! No offers to stop the continuing sex abuse. No mention of the rapists not only in the U.S., but systematc THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD! No mention of the SUFFERING VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF THESE RAPISTS have to go through the rest of their lives. The real concern is the wealth of the Vatican and no more. C'mon! Get Real!

"However, he also addressed the church's sex abuse problems in the wider context of secularism and the over promotion of sex in the US.

"What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" he said."

And again, not really the fault of the rapist priests, the folks that protect them, and especially not the Vatican who knew this has been happening within their organization for DECADES at the very least!

Secularism? But those priests aren't secular? In fact, many of them still work and THRIVE within the organization.

Promotion of sex in the U.S.? Excuse me! Sex is a natural desire. When it is suppressed, that seems to bring out the ultra pervert in folks instead of letting their desires be expressed with other consenting adults, it is a power over sexual desire these priests get. Children are folks that can easily be forced. If you have their trust, like these priests do, then that trust can be violated when put in a vulnerable position and you can tell them they are going to hell if they tell, as many of those priests have. Do the priests say, "It was the promotion of sex in the U.S. that made me do this!" No. They say that looking at a child gives them an erection and then they rape the child. C'MON BABY BROWN SHIRT MOTHER FUCKER! HOW ABOUT SOME FUCKING JUSTICE!?

Pornography and violence being viewed within the home? OK, if this is true, then all of us would be child rapists of victims and survivors of child rape in this nation. The ACTUAL violence carried out by the Vatican, the COMPLICITY in so many forms of violence and rape carried out by this criminal organization, I mean, c'mon folks, if we had real justice, we'd be burning that fucking place to the ground and baby brown shirt's head would be on a pike. But we don't because the excessively wealthy never have to face justice in this world.

Baby Brown Shirt is saying he will offer prayers instead of justice. He won't do a damned thing about the continuing problem because he IS NOT about to take responsibility as the leader of this criminal organization. A thin layer of frosting on a shit pie.

Let's Talk Some More About RAPE!

Pope what's his face, former member of the baby Brown Shirts during Nazi Germany, said he was deeply ashamed or some other soothing bullshit to try and get people to shut up about asking for justice. Instead of taking responsiblity as head asshole of the Catholic Church and actually doing something for his Catholic people to protect their families from pedophile priests and the assholes in the heirarchy of the church that protect these monsters, he blames pornography, secularism, and the breakdown of moral values. What he is really saying in my opinion is, "Don't come after me. It wasn't my fault. I ain't gonna do nothing about it other than say a few words and still collect all the money I can from the churches that tithe to the Vatican."

I know many people who view pornography. None of these people feel the sudden urge to rape children. Maybe some do, but if pornography were to blame, I'd say that instead of 1/3 of all girls and 1/7 of all boys being raped, about 98% would be raped. After having watched 45 minutes of "Deliver Us From Evil," a documentary about a pedophile Catholic Priest, he didn't look at pornography. He liked hanging out at playgrounds and getting aroused by looking at children. Adults didn't sexually arouse him.

Secularism? I know a lotta athiests and "non-Christians," none of them rape children to the best of my knowledge.

Moral values? Did you all know that it was a moral value of the Vatican to help fund the Italian Fascists under Mussolini and to also sign a pact with Nazi Germany bringing their rise to power? You all did know that, right? ["The Vatican Exposed," by Paul Williams]. The Vatican is also connected in helping one of the worst death camps in WWII. No, it wasn't Auschwitz, not to take away from that horrific indictment to the Vaticans support of the genocide enacted by the Nazi's during WWII against Jews, Sinti, Roma, and so many others. It was Jasenovac in Croatia. Guards from Auschwitz visited this camp and thought those fellas were fucking cruel. Jasenovac was ran by the Catholic Intelgensia under the knowledge and support of the Vatican.

Here is one of the kinder photos of a group of Ustasha about to saw the head off of a Serb. All in good Catholic fun.

Also during this time, Peter Brzica became known as "King of the Cut Troats." Jasenovac was getting a new shipment of prisoners in and they had to make room, so they had a contest to see who could cut the most Serb throats in an evening. Peter Brzica manged to cut the throats of 1360 Serbs in a single evening. Peter managed to make it to the United States in 1958 under an assumed name. Possibly he made it here with the help of the Vatican who helped many Nazi criminals escape to safer parts of the world...as long as they had enough money to pay them.

The former baby Brown Shirt Pope says nothing about the support of the Vatican behind such attrocities as bringing the fascists to power in WWII to fill their close to empty bank accounts at the time, what the fuck makes anyone think this criminal organization is actually gonna do something about the systematic rape of children within this organization? The fuckin' former Nazi isn't gonna do shit about the CRIMES ENACTED BY AND UNDER HIS ORGANIZATION!

Hey, former baby Brown Shirt Nazi type Pope fella, I hope you and the assholes in your organization that are rapists and are complicit in the acts of said rapists rot in the hell you so much believe in and so richly deserve. FUCK YOU!

Pier

PIER

Was it here
35+ years ago
where a bunch of you went fishing
come to Coos Bay
to this pier that was still standing
then?

Dark Indian faces with fishing poles
heading out to both ends of the T and along the way
tossing your lines into the water
where a young me
watched, fascinated with the water below
and the height of me above it.

Did your lines dig into the rail
and create creases as you hauled in flounders
those strange and fascinating fish
whose eyes were on the same side of their heads.

I would stare into the buckets,
the fish looking back at me
their mouths opening with each breath
their cheeks cut to release the hook.

And you were there
somewhere
dad...
I don't remember you that much
but I remember that one Indian fella
whose name I forget
whom you stopped by to visit
in his apartment
on the West end of the Ross Island Bridge
not far from the water
blocks away from the Willamette River
some 30+ years ago.

For some reason
it is his face that I remember from there
and sadly,
not yours so much,
dad.
And were these stones there
these odd concrete pipes at the time
laughing at this goofy Indian boy
and these goofy Indian folks?

Were barnacles sticking
to wood stone and pier
discarded and forgotten
by the civilization that demanded them to die
so I could sit on this pier and watch you guys fish.

Which side of the T were you on, dad?

And I remember
back at grandma's in Reedsport
the flounders left in the bucket
in that weird hallway
that went from the kitchen
to the right
then between two rooms to the outside of the house.
Their,
on the rotting floors
and the smell of mold and depression
I watched those fish
still breathing...
still clinging to life.

I checked on them later,
and they were finished.
Many days later,
they were still in the bucket
waiting to be buried in the dirt
instead of our bellies.

Salmon Fisheries Collapse

Due to the collapse of the Sacramento spring Chinook run, Pacific Marine Fisheries Council cancelled the commercial salmon fishing season which was to begin on May 1st.

There is a lot of speculation as to the decline of the fish runs, but the biggest, of course, is the dams. Dams are used for electricity and irrigation. Dams block salmon from getting upstream and juveniles from getting down stream. In electricity generating dams juveniles are often sucked into the turbines as they attempt to head down stream. Irrigation dams lower water levels to irrigate farmlands created in deserts. Lowered water levels make it difficult for salmon to get upsream, let alone past the dam. It also raises water temperatures which kill salmon and expose them to diseases like the 33,000 killed in the Klamath River in 2002 (see photo).

Now combine that with other factors: dead zones off of the West Coast, global warming, industrial trawling, military pollutants, military sonar, etc., and you have one helluva lotta dead salmon.

Oddly, it wasn't until this hemisphere became "civilized," that we started seeing plants, animals, people, insects, etc., go extinct or be driven into near extinction. A good example is the buffalo, estimated at 50,000,000 when Columbus spearheaded the invasion, to 203 in 1903.

This fishery cancellation will also impact businesses who employ people. Thousands will be out of work. Some salmon trawlers are restructuring their businesses, others are giving up. With 80,000 jobs lost in this nation last year and more manufacturing jobs being shipped overseas, I think it is safe to say that not even simplistic ideas like "retraining" is going to help. However, if these salmon dependent folks were multi-millionaire idiotsticks that ran their businesses into the ground bringing about suffering to thousands and if there were a large number of congress type folks who invested in said idiot stick ran business, it is safe to say that the fisheries would get around $30 billion, but since they aren't, they will have to struggle harder to get money for help and services.

This will also effect our salmon culture. Not just indigenous folks whom the U.S. has been forcefully fucking for the last two centuries in this area, but all of you who live in this area and USED TO enjoy eating salmon. It will put into perspective a little more the destructiveness of civilization. And still, little or nothing will REALLY be done about this. At least, that remains to be seen. But sooner or later, we will all be forced into a corner and asked "are we gonna let the giant crush us, or by sheer weight in numbers, are we gonna take it all back?"

This weekend, Shusli and I went to Celilo Village where there was a powwow and the first salmon ceremony was to be held the following day, which we couldn't stay for. We had a great time at the powwow, and when leaving, Shusli got into a conversation with a man wearing a shirt that had the name of a social organization on it. She asked what it was and he said that it is an organization he is a part of that helps feed the poor overseas, and he helped bring the program to the Indians of this nation. That's nice, Shusli said, but it is a systematic problem that keeps the Indians and others starving. It is the system that needs to be dealt with as well.

Celilo Falls some 60 years ago

Celilo Falls April 12, 2008

The WEAPON used to attempt to slaughter Celilo Falls, the salmon, and the Indians.

RAPE

Rape is always an issue ALL women are aware of. Shusli tells me she has to worry about being sexually assaulted and was almost raped a couple of times in her life. Many of my women friends have to face down regular sexual assaults from their male colleagues. Statistics state that one third of all women HAVE BEEN RAPED.

And here, we see it going on in the military as well. TruthOut has an article about the gender panel of Winter Soldier hasn't received all that much notice, and was the only panel that was argued against for this program, though they did get on.

Some American soldiers have not only raped Iraqi girls like Abeer Qasim al Janabi, but also rape many of their female comrades. Janice Karpinski came forth with information stating that at least four women under her command died of dehydration because they feared having to go to the bathroom at night for fear of getting raped, so they didn't take any liquids in the afternoons and evenings.

And this week, women will be testifying before Congress about their being raped under the watchful eye of Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR). Here, prior to taking the job, they have to sign papers stating they will not litigate against the company for any reason. I guess that means that their being raped adds to the profits gained by the company.

I won't tell you the kind of justice I think rapists deserve.

I Don't Wanna Throw Stones, I Just Wanna Pass Them

Yesterday at CNA class, I started feeling sick. I had a lot of pain coming from my abdomen, mostly my right side. I thought maybe I was constipated, having never had that problem. I got cold sweats. I couldn't hold my head up or keep my eyes open because of the pain I was in. I wound up vomitting. I had to leave two hours into the class so now I have six hours to make up on the 29th.

Although I had a bm earlier, I went and got a laxative thinking that was my problem. At home, the pain was so severe and I was thinking of the people I knew who had been constipated and they weren't having thoughts of wishing someone would kill them from the pain they were in. I couldn't get myself under the blankets without a lot of effort, so I figured it was a good idea to get myself to the hospital.

I drive myself there OK, and the pain starts to releive itself. I think maybe I'll go home, but this voice inside me tells me I should get it checked out anyway.

Inside the emergency room the pain comes and goes. They have me pee in a cup, and it is dark brown. They do a CT on me, and I have, thankfully, only 1 kidney stone. The doctor told me that most folks who come in with a kidney stone usually have about a dozen behind it waiting in line.

I come home to deal with tribal insurance...I don't have any. I live out of their service area. Thankfully, Shusli had me put on her insurance so we won't be in total financial free fall now. So, not only am I attempting to pass a stone (possible future severe pain a coming), I'm wanting to throw a couple as well.

Basically, what me and my little friend has caused us is $1000 to $1500 damage out of our pocket. We were living right on the edge and would be for a couple of months, this is probably gonna knock us off on the tough side of the fence.

I have to somehow get active in health care. I know people lose their houses because of this.

The good news, however, is that one man and his fucked up corporation are getting $30,000,000,000 bailout, Alan Schwartz of Bear Stearns, using OUR TAX DOLLARS. Oh yeah! All that money could go to do things like giving millions of poor Americans health care. But, since many members of Congress have invested in Bear Stearns, I guess it really serves the best interests of the U.S.'s ultra privileged to give that money to the company they are losing money in.

I think I just threw another stone.

DADDYZ GOTTA JOB!

I got a job at Colette's today, and I will be working on Tuesday's and Thursday's 8 hours each day. I will be a crepe cook and trained to do all sorts of things around that little store.

Combined with my heavy reading schedule, CNA class and sociology, I will still try to maintain as much time as possible writing blips here and there on this blog and occasionally adding photos. It may be less than usual, however. I am already going to be behind on my reading for my CNA class but will be caught up this weekend.

Combine that with life around a home, and the possiblity of going to The Dalles this weekend, I'm gonna be mighty busy.

I am also working on a paper for my sociology class about homelessness in the Coos Bay area. I already interviewed one man at the South Coast Gospel Mission. I will be busy with that as well.

I am not panicking. I breathe and take things at a good pace even if I am behind. Panic takes too much energy. It also helps...A WHOLE LOT...to have Shusli around who has been through this process WITHOUT the type of help she is offering me. She is amazing folks. I am telling ya, I married one of the most wonderful women in the world.

Let's give it your all for SHUSLI!

HIP HIP

HOORAY

HIP HIP

HOORAY

HIP HIP

HOORAY

Slavery

I watched the movie, "Matewan" last night. I have been wanting to see it for a long time. I thought it was a pro union movie, turned out to be more like a pro non-violence movie, but still, my understanding is that they portrayed the condetions of coal miners in West Virginia very well. A two year war after the Matewan Battle ensued between miners and detectives from Baldwin-Felts, fellas hired to keep the folks from rising up and exercising their humanity. You see, the miners were paid in company script and forced to buy their food at the company store, all owned by the folks who owned the mines. These folks were another form of slave. The company brought in Blacks and Italians as scabs, but the Blacks and Italians were taken into the union and went on strike right along with the white miners.

Shusli is reading "The Culture of Make Believe," by Derrick Jensen. In this book he describes the conditions of slave trade. Shusli was even taught about the slave trade in 7th grade in powers. The diagram of how a shit was packed to the right was the diagram she was shown of the human cost of slavery. These folks had to live in their own shit which, of course, does horrible things to your skin. If they survived the journey, conditions were differently horrific. Women were raped, folks were whipped, tortured, imprisoned, families sold off, locked up...you know...all the goodies the owning class like to impose on us working class types through folks like Baldwin-Felts, Pinkerton, Blackwater, the police, FBI...I'm sure you are all aware of the folks who protect the assetts of the owning class from those of us of the lesser classes.

You see, the owning classes brought over black slaves in ships where conditions were so horrific a Freddy Kruger movie could not do it justice. They also brought over indentured servants who were often raped, tortured, whipped, murdered, imprisoned, and many other glorious things that the owning class do to us lessers.

And in "Matewan," we see that these things still continued into the 1920's. And if you see all the union struggles, you see that these things still continue today. And if you just look around you, you will see that us working types ("beasts" as glorious white wealthy founding father James Madison would have called us) are still getting fucked. I mean they use a kinder gentler hand now thanks to the media, the education system etc. The media and education system has fucked our heads so powerfully that we believe that this is a good system to work within, even as we see our jobs go overseas, our health care turn to shit, we do nothing. They don't need the cops or the national guard anymore. We police ourselves, as it were. And as I see an increase in homelessness, increases in folks loosing their houses, we see that Alan Schwartz gets thirty billions dollars in our tax money while we get shit for health care.

I sometimes wonder if we have become the perfect slaves? Folks who think the master is so great or so powerful as the master cannot be stopped by any means. Yet, you take a rock to the master's head, and the worthless heartless mother-fucker is gonna fall down with a bloody gash in his noggin and a nasty lump. The master ain't nothin' but a human bein' that helped teach us through this great american system to take it in the ass while the wealthy elite steal OUR fucking money so that worthless fucker Alan Schwartz can keep his multi-million dollar houses and multitude of mistresses.

Aint democracy great?

And don't get me started about the occupation of our land, Indian land, upon which all this bullshit happens.

Colette's

Thursday, Shusli and I went to pay rent at the rental agency. We decided to celebrate paying rent and my acceptance into the CNA class with a little trip to the DQ and share a peanutbuster parfait. There, Shusli happened upon a flyer for a local bookstore. Some of the books were rather progressive so the place peaked our interest. We went by, talked to the owner, Jerry, a little bit, saw that it was really quite the interesting place, and noticed there was a poetry reading and open mic the next day, Friday, which peaked our interest. We decided to bring some of our poetry and read at the open mic.

Drawing of Jessica and Jerry, owners of "Colette's"

The REAL Jessica and Jerry

Doro, Local Poet and Revolutionary

Friday, we pop in, not exactly knowing what to expect. The featured poet, Candice Favilla, a teacher at SWOCC, read some pretty powerful political poetry. Throughout her 15 minutes, Shusli and I were shocked that such folks existed in Coos Bay. We kept looking at each other and high fiving as we realized we were not alone.

Doro, photo shown above, read a poem that was a letter to a cousin of her that was killed in the Vietnam war. Shusli cried, and me, who usually always cries at such powerful things, managed to hold it in...and I regretted my decision to do so.

We heard some amazing poetry around the room. Another man last name London talked of his childhood in Saudi Arabia where he was greeted at the age of five by "heads like jack-o-lanterns" on pikes in the city. That is actual peoples heads.

Shusli read her poem "Once Upon a Time" which is a really powerful poem about GETTING IT ALL BACK.

I read "God" and a few short poems.

Mary, and elder woman, read some great poems about early 20th century justice that Shusli found very inspiring.

We hung out and talked with the folks for a while, then headed home with joy in our hearts knowing we aren't the only ones.

We received a call that I had left my camera at Colette's.

Saturday, Shusli and I shared a romantic morning taking a CPR course together, then we went to Colette's to pick up the camera and share a desert and some coffee. Two cups of coffee, clam chowder, and a cinnamon roll later...along with two hours of our time rolled right on by. Jessica, Jerry, Shusli and I (especially Shusli and Jessica), are planning our parts in the Revolution here in Coos bay. FUCKIN' AWESOME.

So, when passing through Coos Bay, visit "Colette's" before looking us up and say hello to Jerry and Jessica and feel encouraged in creating Revolution:

Colette's
3229 N Broadway
North Bend, OR 97459
541-751-1475
goodfoodhungryminds.com

What a great weekend it has been, and we are looking forward to changing the world from our new home here in Coos Bay. Coos Bay is turning out to be quite the fascinating and interesting little town.

SEE YOU AT THE REVOLUTION!

Down on Your Luck?

Imagine, your behind on your bills. You're about to get kicked out of your house. Your depts are about $40,000. You brought this all on yourself. You lived beyond your means. You lost your job because you beat up your boss for looking at you funny. Do you think the U.S. government should pay you $400,000 to fix that which you fucked up or do you believe you should take responsibility and clean up the mess you made.

Now imagine, you control the assetts of a multi-billion dollar corporation and drive the fucking thing into the ground fucking thousands if not hundreds of thousands of folks into the ground and well as potentially starting a downward economic spiral that just might fuck up a massive piece of the U.S. economy. Do you think you should take responsibility for your actions and clean up the horrific fucking mess you made?

FUCK NO!

Turns out that Bear Steans CEO, Alan Schwartz, claims no responsibility for his actions. "Wasn't me, nobody saw me do it." And while this worthless asshole who has fucked up the lives of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of folks gets away with his crime scott free, there are tent cities popping up around LA and they are becoming increasingly populated but FUCK THEM, they aren't already wealthy worthless fucks like Schwartz making billions while making others suffer.

So, those assholes made to suffer and the rest of us TAX PAYING IDIOT STICKS are now footing this bill so this asshole can stay in his multi-million dollar home and fuck his mistress/es while the rest of us get fucked in the ass.

The congress, many bought by Bear Stearns through campaign contributions, have voted to give this worthless fucking piece of shit $30,000,000,000. Do you think those who got fucked by this corporation are going to benefit from that money? Of course not. They couldn't afford to purchase a congressman.

So, one of the greatest welfare recipients in the history of the United States is the worthless fucking piece of shit pictured above who has fucked up the lives of thousands if not hundreds of thousands and gets bailed out WITH OUR FUCKING TAX DOLLARS!

Still don't want to REVOLT, do you...**shit**

Arctic Challenger

I am fascinated with old and dying buildings and other such structures.

Here in Coos Bay, docked in the bay is a former stern trawler being scrapped out called the "Arctic Challenger." Having read "Four Against the Arctic" and having always wanting to be a world traveller, and being interested in big old things that are discarded and of no use anymore, I attempted to find out some background on this ship.

The folks I contacted informed me that it was built in 1975 and launched on February 13th. It was also used in helping rescue three folks from the "Girl Rona" which sank. That has been about all the information I have been able to get.

Again, too, it also makes me think of the collapse of civilization. The big things also get discarded even though they can still be of some sort of use. This fascinates me. I don't know why. I'm much weirder than you all have imagined.

The "Arctic Challeger" in its Prime.

The "Arctic Challenger" now docked in Coos Bay.

Finally Hitting the Ground on my Education

After a week of waiting and occasionally calling and bothering folks, I was called yesterday for an interview for the CNA class I was looking to get into and was told during the conversation that I was pretty much "a shoe in."

So, starting Monday, for three days a week, MWF, 8 hours a day, I will be getting educated on becoming a CNA for the next 10 weeks. Every Tuesday evening for three hours, I take a sociology course at SWOCC and receive three credits towards the 49 pre-req credits I need to get into the nursing program. Now I need to cram some sort of employment into Tuesday and Thursday and every other weekend. "Daddy needs a job!"

This weekend Shusli and I will be taking a CPR class together (also a requirement for a CNA) from the same woman who will be teaching my CNA class.

Tonight, Shusli and I will go to Collette's Bookstore for a poetry reading. There will be an open mic afterwards where I will be educating some folks and quite possibly filling their hearts with terror. Who knows what will come of that in this town.

I haven't received all that much open racism here. In fact, I've received more racism in Portland. Just one "I should kill you" type of look from a young woman has been about it, and yes, I have been getting around in this town.

I've been taking a lot of photos and will have more to post here later.

I'm Getting an Education

Yesterday evening was my first class on the road to me becoming a nurse. I am taking a sociology class. To my joy and amazment, it seems like taking a college class in activism. We watched a movie called the "Future of Food" which is about genetic engineering of food. The most horrific company in this field is Monsanto. Monsanto is doing medical experiments upon all of us and our children because there have been no real studies into the effects of genetically modified foods upon the human body. Animal studies have shown some serious side effects, however. The "Future of Food" also showed the science behind genetic modification. Part of it involves adding E-COLI to the gene splicing. Something to think about.

Here is a photograph of the enemy, one of many, of course.

This man is Hugh Grant, the current CEO of Monsanto. This man (using the UN Convention on...Genocide definition without the U.S. exemptions) is guilty of GENOCIDE. What his corporation, Monsanto, does, is destroy cultures in third world nations. This is done using his governmental access to force third world nations into purchasing his shitty and destructive products. This, of course, destroys subsistance agriculture, but that is OK because some excessively wealthy assholes like Hugh Grant are making a whole lot more money. The fact that cultures are dying, farmers here in America are suffering, people are dying all over the world because of this corporation, and America at least is now one great big medical experiment for genetically engineered foods is OK, because Hugh Grant and others are amassing wealth for themselves, and we all know that is what really matters. If you click onto this link provided, you can find out the names of all the board members of Monsanto and find their photographs. More pictures of our enemies.

Donald Rumsfeld owned Searle Pharmaceuticals, a one time subsidiary of Monsanto. Don, is also guilty of genocide as the Secretary of [War] for the U.S. government. Using his clout, he FORCED the U.S. to buy his drugs and has forced U.S. service type folks to use his drugs so that he and his cronies can have more money. Some of these drugs are unhealthy and or experimental. Searle was bought by Pfizer who has since retired the name.

"Donald Rumsfeld followed Searle as CEO, and then as President, of Searle between 1977 and 1985. During his tenure at Searle, Rumsfeld reduced the number of employees in the company by 60%. The financial turnaround of the company earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). In 1985, he played an instrumental role in the acquisition of G.D. Searle & Company by Monsanto." [from Wikipedia]

There are many folks from Monsanto who work in the U.S. government in organizations like the Food and Drug Administration. So these folks have the political clout to do all sorts of horrible things to us Americans and to folks world wide.

What are you going to do about it?

You can see, I am thoroughly enjoying my sociology class.

This weekend I'll be taking a CPR course with Shusli and I should be getting called to interview for a CNA class in the next day or so.

Since I'm thinking about it:

REVOLUTION NOW!