From 2006

Meanwhile

 it is darkening up here and I am going to go now. May Our Lady, the Lady Arianrhod, The Lady Cerridwen, the Woman Artemis, the Mother Hera, the Great Demeter, the Darling Lover Isis, May She hold us close and take us home when it is time. May She look upon us with love and with mercy. May She watch closely over my children, Paige, and Piper and Joel and Tricia, and over my darling grand-daughters Morgan and Sabrina. May she sleep in peace this night in the arms of her parents. Take care all of you.

Endings

I intend to take this blog down. But, I have been asked to leave it up for a period of time, for some people I know to review the material. So in six months, at the Winter Solstice, I will delete this blog after nine years. I don this because of an old friend's desire for privacy.  One needs to be free to write honestly. I no longer feel free to say what I have to say.  If I were a complete asshole I would just do what I need to do to make my art, but I have loved this person for forty years, in ways that he clearly has not loved me. So it goes. In any case, if you are passing through you have until the Winter Solstice to review the material. Peace. Tim Osburn

Carmen Ortiz, Another Bullshit Lawyer

There is something intrinsically sad about the way law is practiced in the United States (and maybe every where). It really isn't about truth, or justice. It's about winning. That's why Carmen Ortiz, the woman who drove Aaron Swartz to commit suicide, did what she did. She didn't give a rat's ass about the case, the fact that the law is shaky about the new technologies, or that the kid she was after was someone with ideals who was certainly not trying to make any money off of what he did.

No, she was all about Carmen. Getting a big win. Getting her name in the books for taking down one of the net's genius citizens. It was all about Carmen's ego.

And frankly, it will tell us a lot about the White House and the Obama administration as to how they react to the petition calling for her ouster. It has pretty much 50,000 signatures now and this is far from over.

What will Holder and Obama and the gang do about Carmen? They are, after all, all about winning too. Lawyer think. Let's be crafty. Let's chalk up the win.

That poor bastard, being told he faced decades in prison for little more then a prank.

Really, I can't think of any thing really harsh enough to say about this woman. She'll probably become semi-famous from this and end up a politician, lying easily abut everything.

If I ever meet her I'm just going to say, Hey, I'm Aaron Swartz. You owe me a life.

Bitter Fruit: John McCain's Teeny Tiny Dick

John McCain is getting all het up over  pretty much everything these days. It just makes me wonder if his dick has finally quit working al together. You look at him and you know that having a hardon is something that once mattered to him and the level os his crazy bitterness just brings up that sad sad scene of Cindy mouthing his little petrified worm, trying to get something started. And there he is, imagining Barack Obama, in the White House, nailing that unimaginably beautiful woman he is married to, no money changed hands on that one.

Yes, John McCain is a said old man who's dick is done for. He can't get it hard any more and he's trying to take it out on that young black dude that showed him the door. It is of course, like so much of Arizona;'s population: still limp, and still pissed about it. This is America aging: John McCain.

Aren't we glad that bastard didn't win? Who'd he be bombing right  now if he had his hand on the trigger?

John McCain, John McCain's penis, Barak Obama's Penis, Cindy McCain

Perspective

Something from online that demonstrates it is all "perspective:"

• And the funny thing is that if Reagan were running today, he'd be too liberal for them. He gave blanket amnesty to 3 million illegals, some of them my relatives, who now vote Democrat. He raised taxes 11 times. He gave lip service to reproductive rights, but he passed the most liberal abortion law in California and selected Sandra O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, two moderate Justices, to the Supreme Court, which has kept Roe vs. Wade from being overturned for thirty years. He also tolerated the religious right, but hardly ever went to church and was divorced plus he was a Hollywood insider and had a daughter that posed for Playboy and a son that was a ballerina. Not to mention that he cut and ran in Beirut when over 200 of our Marines were killed by terrorists and he sold weapons to terrorists himself. Nice guy that they worship, except that I really like his kids except for the azzhole one that's a radio talk show host

Glad Obama won, but realistic: the Republicans haven't learned anything from this and will continue to re-fight the civil war and a religious war as long as it makes some of them millions of dollars. When Limbaugh dies and passes over, his road will be one of the hardest to travel in this lifetime because of the vast damage he can be held accountable for. I love ending sentences with prepositions. It's the rebel in me.

Mitt Romney Stirring Up Religious War

Is it even possible to be a worse American politician than that simply evil creep who calls himself Mitt, though his actual name is Willard?

Last night, while Americans were dying in North Africa, at the hands of fundamentalist religionists, instead of taking them on Mitt attacked the Obama Whitehouse for sending tweets it did not send, and actually completely disavowed. Then he said it again, even after all this was clear.

And worse then that, some Republicans supported him. Evil little scumbags like Jim DeMint. Listen people, if you want a religious war with the Islamists that will scuttle this country, energy-wise and influence-wise in the whole world, vote this stupid evil twit into office.

I guarantee you, he will pull the switch and start the war that will end everything. Hey, you wanna commit suicide? Vote for Romney. I myself have children and grandchildren. I want them to have something of a world left, but the old white people are determined to ignore the truth and vote their stupid prejudices.

May the Lady's mercy keep this from happening. May the Lady's love see us through this darkness.

What Are the Rich Guys Buying from Romney?

It's an election year and of course that tends to make me sick and nauseous. When you hear the out right lies that Romney and Ryan tell, over and over again, because they know that quite a few people will believe them because they support their worldview, it becomes difficult to understand how this democracy can continue to exist.

I guess the actual question is, will the rich billionaires and the other oligarchs of this country be able to buy the election of our president in November? Will we be able to tell if this election is actually stolen?

The voter suppression tactics of the GOP are in evidence every where and there is some truth to the idea that whoever runs local voting can mess with the results. It has happened before. Certainly Richard Daley messed with the results in 1960. Certainly the GOP messed with the results in Florida in 2000.

So, if the election turns out to be saleable, who's fault will it be? Clearly it is the fault of those stupid democrats who joined the gang of seven to prevent a filibuster of John Roberts and Samuel Alito's nominations to the Supreme Court. Once they were aboard the Citizens United decision should have surprised no one. And of course the rich always support the GOP, for the obvious reason that they are not interested in the USA, but in themselves. Their fortunes. Rich people vote and support only their pocketbooks.

SO, let's see what they will have bought if Romney wins:
1. the stock market reforms will be rolled back so the financial guys can rape us again
2. the oil companies will get to keep a great deal more of the money they extort from the rest of us
3. Adelson, the Jew who owns casinos that strip money from people, will have bought that war with Iran he can almost taste in his Israel-is-more-important-then-the-USA mouth
4. Global Warming will pick up the pace as more coal plants go online
and
5. more kids will fall into that category of being "food insecure" as they put it these days

Let's hear it for the rich. What they do not understand is that there truly is a structure in reality that the hindus called Kharma. The rich can be rich and be okay, but only if they have taken care to be part of the rest of the species. Any time any of us does things purely for our own gain, there is a price. Maybe not in this phenomenol reality, but in existence as a whole. But, people like the Koch Brothers really don't believe this, nor do they understand what they are creating for themselves. If they did, they wouldn't be on that side at all.

And right now Ayn Rand is, not burning in hell, no. She's been confronted with all the pain her work has created and now she is sharing that pain, personally. Waiting for another chance on the wheel.

The Lady loves us all. She will give Ayn that chance eventually. After her kharma has been leveled. I am, as always, grateful, for the Lady's love, and especially at this time, for Her mercy. Perhaps if we embrace Her mercy we will see the collapse of the Republican effort to destroy the world Franklin Roosevelt built. Could happen.