tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39951032011-08-08T05:28:04.117-07:00James Crystal's daily thoughtsJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.comBlogger14161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-51324120178137431502011-04-04T11:07:00.000-07:002011-04-04T11:11:22.388-07:00

The essence of the American, and “modern world”, problem is personal---politics is ALWAYS personal!Each of us, in our own karmic fashion, just plays out our unique form of Narcissus.So, what is the demographically obvious truth?America is AGING, so more and more citizens, especially voters, quicker and quicker lose their youthful élan vital, and too soon PAIN arrives. I speak from PERSONAL

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It’s not Jimmuh Carter’s 70’s that we could most usefully look at, but 1971, when tricky Dick Nixon closed the gold window. And, THAT action itself was probably inevitable, due to LBJ’s guns and butter faux pas, trying to have a big government domestically while also paying for the big war in Vietnam.Some people seem to think the Fed is controlled by Obama, and that it will print money long

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The fish rots from the head down.To kill the snake, you must cut off the head.Statement one refers to the USA, as led by Obama, who was chosen by the American people. What’s that stinky odor in D.C.? Why, it came from---all across America!Picture it---a majority of rotten, verily fat and fat headed sick citizens, from places like liberal Portland, Oregon, smugly positive in their “disease”,

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Let's go fishing! Let's go flashing!Where's the bait? When's the date? Where's the gate?Got to get DA Into my Life!How to hook 'em, horns?Constantly hard-on the scent: hardly sent in equanimity.Stand erect, lie limp, sit and shit.Slip in slit, roll out hole, skit droll.Drop your line

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It’s okay, ma, I’m only dyin’---thanks, Bobby Dylan!Everything is ALWAYS relative, and, anyway, as a wise old adult once noted, there’s a lot of ruin in a nation.The United States of America ARE easily morphing into the Disunited States of Ruin.De jure is also ever catching up with de facto, and this is easily understood by clear-eyed and open minded observation of the climaxing battle in

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America had de jure slavery, in the old South, and freedom in the North, for African Americans. We fought a civil war that fortuitously enabled Lincoln to free the slaves, and produce de jure freedom for all.Still, Jim Crow saw to it that, de facto, the South remained semi-slavery-like, until the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. Ever since, de facto has bled into de jure.In 2011 America,

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Liberalism cum socialism is dead.What ever IS begins, continues and ends. There is birth, sustaining and death.The essence of Liberalism IS death, since it’s always all about—DESTROYING.Those old enough may remember a couple of hoary and then-famous phrases from songs. The first perfectly encapsulates what’s happening in America, epitomized by the battle in Madison, Wisconsin---“They’re coming

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What ARE taxes, beneath the CW dollar understanding?So many “musts”! How many “needs to” demands can we DO at the same time, or even sequentially, that will actually reverse the accelerating trend toward an even larger percentage of GDP going to government?In a spiritual community, there are specific rules for one who chooses to join it. The uber-demand is, as a practicing devotee, to be a

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“What do you take me for, a fool?”The whole enchilada of human relationships, epitomized by the higher “art” of elite political wrangling, can be usefully understood , IMHO, by considering the many ways the concept of “fool” can be applied to them.We just (it seems to me!) endured the last great “fool” hope, from Hope, Arkansas, who enlightened us with his insightful reminder to us, “Fool me once

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The given—gift of the God of Being + Becoming?---truth is that change is constant. So, depending on the informed or misinformed state of any of us, at any given point of time, the most vital kind of change required for the most social good for the most members of society is---conversion.Every belief system, if even a little bit coherent and consistent, wants to grow, and to do this the extant

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Also, it is essential to constantly repeat “basic training”, or even complete it for the first time, and then repeat it. What is BT?Change is constant! And, probably the MOST basic defining characteristic of being humanly alive is to “never give up!”, which expresses itself in always trying to maintain---the CONSTANT. I am, that I am, and a man’s a man, for all that.However, process = change

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Does 2 + 2 = 4?Well, you’d THINK that anyone who was educated beyond caveman status would ALWAYS certainly affirm that it does.So, take the case of Juan Williams, as a “tolerable” public face, or mafia mouthpiece, for the left wing socialistic side of the political spectrum---those who advocate for the mob verses the individual.(An aside---around 50 years ago, as I ended my high school

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The teaching moments that are Obama are not only continuing, but they are continuing to accelerate in both their frequency and their pithiness.I’d say that his recent throw away line about how scared people don’t think clearly has to be about the most vital one yet. What about “fear”?Of course “No Fear!”, as a happy face attempt to throw out one’s chest AND point of the jaw by asserting,

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There are just so many distinctions without a difference, these days, that it’s hard to know where to focus. Also, since we awaken every day to a new reality---think of it as the Absolute Radiant Transcendental Reality changing like when one presses the refresh icon on a web page---which is indeed what re-incarnation is smoothly about, the thought hopper must be totally in the NOW.That

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People, who bemoan the Pledge because it’s not as specific as the Contract for America, while surely well intentioned, miss that hoary forest for the trees.What does a detail man do for your car? Making it LOOK good won’t make it run better!I once subbed for a high school class that taught me more than the students, probably. It was election season, like now, and the students were given a

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The “trend is your friend” saying just hit home for poor old moi!My social security is so low that I qualified for Medicaid that was paid for by the liberal state of Oregon---until it was stopped on September 1st!That means my cash flow has been reduced by 15%!If this kind of personal “hit” is happening all over the USA, and I think it is, maybe the tipping point has already been reached, and the

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So many clichés scream out, calling for congruent application to today’s perfect political storm!On the spectrum between optimism and pessimism, true realism was long ago nailed by the admonition to “hope for the best and expect the worst”.Too, most piquantly appropriate for the stoneheads currently ruling the rueful country is one from my own wild and crazy “youth”, “hope is for dopes”.How about

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First we find out from Barone and Rove that we may be going through a '94-like election, 1894 not 1994. And, now, Tony Blankley digs deeper into an even more radical time, circa 1855, giving us hope and a path for the demise of the very un-American 2010 version of the "Democratic" party.When he noted that slavery was the key issue in 1855, my heart soared with the realization that this is indeed

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Good on you for highlighting to vital 40/60 statistic.While we must endure the fluff of empty words about particular “news” of any moment, there is always the ultimate yes or no bottom line. So, as I’ve long been enjoying reading you, VDH, it constantly amazes me how you are able to remember and clearly write about all the still simmering-in-consciousness hot topics.As an aside, as one who

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A radical reckoning is about to irrepressibly expose most people to the bitter truth, that they are even MORE ignorant than they think!Each of us living Americans is regularly swamped by the “latest news”, the string of “right now” moments that, like the steady drip of water on our forehead when we’re lashed to a cross, necessarily create our present beliefs and Weltanschauung.So, with the latest

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Perhaps, after all the words of analysis about all things stemming from the Obama phenomenon, a few key basic components warrant outstanding and continuous awareness.First, Obama and his ilk, most definitely including his political opponents like John Boehner, are essentially just apparently different variations of Narcissus. I’m reminded of a classic sophomore-in-college bull session splitting

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Chris Coons reminds me of a “friend” from University of California, Santa Barbara, a wild and crazy New Yorker. This burly wacko loved to go into bars and pick fights. But, his signature moment was being caught on tape throwing rocks into the Bank of Amerika, in 1970 or so.Later, I heard he was pulled over for a vehicle violation when on the lam back east, and jailed when the police found

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“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”.It seems to me that the insurgent leaders of the Republicans, from extant top dogs like McConnell and Boehner, down to and most vitally including, emerging superstars like Rubio, should make the following perfect proof argument a key part of their red meat talking points---say:“I agree that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, as the Obama administration

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From nowhere, perhaps the “nichts” = nothingness of Heidegger, or the Sunyata = Voidness of Eastern religion, and indubitably stemming from Adi Da Samraj’s most basic insight that ALL forms of our human reality are essentially contraction, the simple word, “sore”, has been hanging out in my mind for about a week.As Da long ago put it, just being born is, right from the instant of the popping out

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Maybe there’s a Universal Rule, that everything splurges, diverges or lurches merely from the One and Only, so that each seemingly separately enclosed “thing” is always a lonely test.One times one equals One. When One begins parting into fractions, so that, for example, one half times two equals One, and the multiplying Pandora’s Box is wildly opened, well---and away we go! All is One equals

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“Be Consciousness. Contemplate Consciousness. Transcend everything in Consciousness. This is the Epitome of the Way of Truth.” Da Free JohnDeath IS as much Consciousness as life, even as we seem to be alive until we seem to die.Understanding that each instant of living is at once dying, to One’s and one’s core, which is Sunyata = Voidness, is the great help of a True savior. As usual, every

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What is there to “say”, to apparently separate humans who “speak” the same language, that can make the slightest difference?Perhaps one should ever aver all the variations of the most simple and true core understanding, which necessarily flows from the living demand to BE Consciousness.“One” of my favorites entered, and like a virus took over, “my” own consciousness, driving it to thus BE such

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How about the “average” human, these days?While I paradoxically seem to remain as the conventional “James”, named thus by the parents---return to what you were BEFORE your parents were born—and at once joyfully, and can’t help but, endure the ongoing foibles and dances of all other humans and their non-human Gestalt-like flows of nothingness, somehow, maybe because I regularly share space-time

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Just read something that I never knew, and which I bet hardly any of even the most informed people alive today also are ignorant about---Just before Chamberlain was in Munich appeasing Hitler, indeed AS THIS WAS GOING ON, top German generals were about to topple Der Fuhrer! They were amazed, and persuaded not to do so, after “Peace In Our Times” was proclaimed by the foolish Briton leader!Last

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It seems to me that the whole Obama-Pelosi-Reid attempt to implement their radical Left agenda is very simple to understand as the latest incarnation of the essential political dichotomy---The group verses the individual.Of course, they are the ultimate GROUPIES!And, the existentially felt understanding, at a visceral level, by those awake individuals in America must morph from a privately held

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1. SAYING it is so makes it so. 2. Those who know don't SAY, those who SAY, don't know. 3. Wherof one can't SAY, thereof one must be silent. 4. What do you SAY? 5. SAY it isn't so! 6. SAY's Law SAYS so. 7. Parting the read SAY. 8.

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I had some retiree free time yesterday, so at the library I randomly wandered into the area with back issues of magazines, and leapt back to 1960, the year when I graduated from high school, by grabbing a book with many U.S. News & World Report issues.I landed in the May 16, 1960 issue, and guess what was the lead story?The increasing cost of---HEALTH CARE!Anyway, I slowly turned each page over

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How perfectly appropriate to our crazy times!“The Sane Society”, by Erich Fromm penned in 1955, fell into my hands, for free, a couple of days ago. What a trip down memory lane---his previous book, “The Art Of Loving”, was surely vital to keeping neurotic ME sane, back in the 60’s when I read it.Consider the following quote, and apply it to the mad mullahs, Putin, Chavez, the Norks, and probably

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While we slides faster and faster down the toilet, led by the mis-leader of the free world, the insufferable Obama, it sure seems to me that a scene from a movie I saw when in high school, illustrating how an atomic chain reaction erupts into a bomb, is what’s happening, MAN!Picture a gym floor covered with mousetraps holding ping-pong balls. Set one off, and soon it hits another, and they hit

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The entire Obama play is simply the logical result of much the same foolishness that brought housing to the bubble-bursting point.The only difference is that instead of real physical buildings and all their paper props, wrt all-things-Obama, we’re dealing with the noosphere. Just as merely THINKING and BELIEVING the Earth was flat didn’t make it so, due to the perfect American political storm of

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The Islamic Candidate, hiding in plain sight ever since he became anointed as the One, who actually succeeded in conning enough fools to vote him into the office of president of the USA (and don’t discount the stolen votes and other fraudulent actions, most especially the vital role played by the fellow traveling minstrel show known as the MSM), continues to follow the Shiva-like destroying role

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Death is a perfect insult---so says the Only One Who Is.To get to “today”, to get the “now” with it, it is merely necessary to pay a modicum of attention on a daily basis to the half-black star-hole, Obama.Essentially, we are now in the presence of a growing lack of respect from the One in D.C, along with most of his enablers. All of them are absolutely out of their SANE minds, glowing with the

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The past week or more I’ve found myself falling further and further behind in my “essential” reading gleaned from various websites I read, especially the WSJ.Why?Aside from the fact that the rule and the ruler in D.C. is currently eagerly taking us all to hell, the book by von Mises, “Omnipotent Government”, continues to just BE THERE, in all its black covered glory, enticing me in. It is so

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Some recent warm weather inspired me to find as much old garbage every week to throw away and to resort the valuable keepers. Thus, I found a box of books that serendipitously exposed one of the many ten-cent purchases from libraries that I have not gotten around to reading. And, on seeing its title and author, I knew immediately that it is existentially required reading, especially for all the

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The more things change----NOT!!!I’d have to say that despite the fact that there is an ongoing “churn” in the present totality of humans, given daily deaths and births, the whole group of any tribe---especially those in the USA, these “imperial” days---always has to deal with: precedent.Thus, there is always a fight between yesterday’s news and whatever occupies the top slot of news on any day.

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“If we do not shake loose from this regime, we are going to suffer the extreme fulfillment of collective egoic destiny in a Narcissist holocaust that will either enslave mankind via a technologically robotized political and social order or else destroy mankind via technologically engineered warfare.” Attribution to follow.Check out the following quote from “Easy Death” by Da Free John, 1983---“

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"By allowing the process of world culture to develop through the conflict of self-contained systems we have, in effect and in actuality, placed the world in the hands of self-centered lunatics (as if all the madmen and madwomen who imagine themselves to be Cleopatra, Jesus, or Napoleon were given political offices in each government and institution in the world).” ---attribution to follow. Ah,

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A short burst of wild and hard wind blowing to the east with some small chunks of hail just swept across my bubble of physical being.Now it’s trying to be quiescent with some blue sky to view.The madness that has heightened in the dark wake of Obama and his type as they “won” the power to run D.C. as they see “unfit”, a basic Realization arose, again, to help us easily understand what we’re being

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Let’s be as objective as possible, NOW, as we attempt to radically understand the human “tribal” dynamics simultaneously taking place all over the earth’s crust---and, don’t forget in the sky and on the oceans!The USA and Israel have to be the key holdouts against the appeasers and their wannabe conquerors. So, consider both of their wildly dysfunctional political systems.Israel can’t form a

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In the book, “Parkinson’s Law”, the author has a chapter entitled, “Plans and Plants, or The Administration Block”. It’s basically about how the actual buildings follow the important actions of people who built the. Read the final paragraph, and laugh and/or weep about how prescient and wise Parkinson was in 1957---“It is by no means certain that an influential reader of this chapter could

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The physical universe, macro- and micro-cosmically, is just like a Ferris Wheel. NOW, today, picture it being torqued in opposite directions.As a matter of fact, all temporary physical bodies, in particular “YOUR” human one, is always striving to be thus “torqued”, in order to escape order and be at one in undifferentiated equanimity. Thus, at physical death, the trillions of “light” atoms are

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-1893831367095118752009-02-24T15:20:00.000-08:002009-02-24T15:28:38.046-08:00

This article by Thomas Sowell and this one by Mark Steyn are just devastatingly clear and ominous about the future of freedom for humans.Inspired by the above geniuses and all the rest of “It-All”, I’ve got some random thoughts about our very random world scene, for NOW.Let’s begin with the ultra-fraud, FDR. His most famous “command” to his subjects was probably “The only thing we have to fear

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-81291527332738145312009-02-22T16:20:00.000-08:002009-02-22T16:33:11.160-08:00

What is (a) room?Perhaps about the most basic pivot in the space-time physical reality that humans move and have their Being within, relative to their “housing”, is the rent-or-own either or.So, while we are currently STILL working our way back to YOU babe, in the overbuilt housing market, with supply-demand demanding that we supply some core clarity for each individual human, why don’t we

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-5433896772321747282009-02-18T16:57:00.000-08:002009-02-18T16:59:12.788-08:00

Did you see the photo of Paulsen, Bernanke and Geithner in the WSJ, today?Ah, the three “suits” amigos!As I looked more carefully at young Tim on the side, I was immediately reminded of the end of the Tom Hanks’ movie, “Big”.Remember at the end when the little boy returns home in the grown up suit?That’s our tax cheating Tim Geithner!

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-21445473644225435632009-02-16T11:34:00.000-08:002009-02-16T11:42:34.015-08:00

We are still at the beginning of the beginning of the ending of America, brought about by the troika of Obama, the far left liberal self-selected---Gerrymandered---Democratic Congress and the most powerful, currently, MSM.What a hoot! Enough voters were moved by the craziest political mantra, EVER, to take the USA, and eventually all countries, likely, on a deep-sea suicidal dive.What we have,

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-86718436388025413322009-02-14T12:38:00.000-08:002009-02-14T12:41:23.925-08:00

This call to WAKE UP by Michael Ledeen should be read, heeded, and acted on by every American who still harbors the least bit of an urge to remain free!Personally, from all my life’s observations of the dumbing down and fattening up of my fellow citizens, it ALREADY looks like it’s way too late.Our lobster “goose” is presently more than half way cooked, so much so, that the myriad majority of

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-27368067582461468562009-01-22T22:51:00.000-08:002009-01-22T23:00:18.161-08:00

All day Tuesday, that pivotal time when BHO took over as the leader of the free world, a totally simple thought kept running through my mind---Today is a black day for America.Am I racist for concluding this?After all, it was Thomas Sowell, I believe, who said it would be a catastrophe if the liberal-socialist Obama won.What a HOOT human reality is, NOW!We are told that seventy-some percent of

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-84051663551081384542008-11-13T15:05:00.000-08:002008-11-13T15:14:12.106-08:00

As today comes to a close, we have a full ten days of “news” to digest concerning the Obama takeover of America---what a God damned hostile one!---and the increasingly worsening “news” about the coming complete takeover of Congress by the far left, socialistic-Marxist wing of the old Democratic Party.Well, as one who lived through the sixties, some songs from that time randomly bubble to

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-31361993700602577012008-11-06T12:23:00.000-08:002008-11-06T12:39:13.663-08:00

Naïve: [[ Fr. fem of naïf, L nativus, natural, NATIVE ]] 1 unaffectedly, or sometimes foolishly, simple; childlike; artless 2 not suspicious, credulousThe word, “naïve”, implies a lack of worldly wisdom.Well, my “friends”, get ready for a wild ride as the “world” begins its journey into the dark night of the Age of Naivety! Oh, how many people in the fat nation of America are suicidally naïve---

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-78550709265920867632008-11-02T12:41:00.000-08:002008-11-02T12:48:12.532-08:00

What an utterly brilliant and stark black or white choice the voters face in two days!I’m positive there has NEVER been such a possible fork in the road before. Usually, the two parties present two roads, which might be understood to be maybe twenty degrees or so separated, but NOW it’s about as oppositional as you can get, say 180 degrees apart.It’s Create verses Destroy. I recently was driven

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-58984596797658970392008-10-24T15:35:00.000-07:002008-10-24T15:42:35.392-07:00

Joltin’ Joe Biden!Why didn’t I think of this before? It’s obvious that Biden’s first conclusion about Obama is the one he really believes---BO is NOT qualified to be president. So, when he told the truth in Seattle about the inevitable future disastrous response by a president Obama to a hard challenge, his inexperience will show, in BLACK spades!Therefore, it’s not (just) that Biden was

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-81958562700875623052008-10-23T01:14:00.000-07:002008-10-23T01:32:22.782-07:00

Wowzers!How did I---or anyone else miss the “open” secret in the One’s name?What we have in the case of Barrack Obama is this---Barrack the O Bomb A-merica!Yes, Obama is the most disgusting manifestation of the suicidal inversion, or is that reversion, of---Oh, say can you see---If polls are to be believed, well, America is apparently inhabited by a majority of blind bastards happily ready and

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-45411998180671553192008-10-21T11:25:00.000-07:002008-10-21T11:33:25.804-07:00

Want further proof that the state of the American citizenry is kaput?Lincoln said of General McClellan that he had a case of the “slows”.Well, remember the brouhaha back in the day when some street signs were put up to warn drivers to watch out for “slow children”, which might have been understood to mean that the kids were dumb, even retarded?NOW---fast forward to today, when those “slow”

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-79009263964651855012008-10-20T23:03:00.000-07:002008-10-20T23:09:51.292-07:00

So---WELL!Today, Thomas Sowell catches the "change" wave, and screams to any readers who are still amenable to real "change" that Obama DOES indeed at least relate to what a Jim Jones brought.Actually, his cry from the heart goes as far as possible, by tying BO to STALIN and HITLER.Welcome to the New World!Change we can believe in--to DEATH!

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-15687174011417063972008-10-20T16:23:00.000-07:002008-10-20T16:37:47.948-07:00

Over!As it seems more and more obvious that the smelly fish, rotting from the head down---that’s our masters, the MSM---B.O., is going to manage to steal the election, the thought occurred to me that there’s going to be a whole lot of “over” clichés flying around in the noosphere.First, it looks like the race is NOW “over”. It’s all “over” but the shouting, for BO et al and crying for freedom

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-63603170147159262512008-10-14T13:03:00.000-07:002008-10-14T13:08:33.374-07:00

McCain is between an Iraq rock and a hard place.His daring gamble to lead the support for the surge is well captured in the phrase that “I’d rather lose an election than a war.”Well, given his wimpy campaign epitomized by his unwillingness to use all the obvious ammunition to expose and destroy the illusory phony Obama, by pointedly failing to use Wright against the latter, guess what?By actually

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-38275171137843021992008-10-11T01:34:00.000-07:002008-10-11T01:37:19.448-07:00

We are NOW being faced with the Obama SELL OFF and SELL OUT.I don’t care about all the “experts” with their technical palliatives, which they believe will right the American stock market ship.What should be, and in my opinion, will be, absolutely understood as the primary reason for the collapse of the markets is that the SMART people with most of the money have figured out that McCain is either

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-75094447013215970112008-10-11T01:22:00.000-07:002008-10-11T01:26:49.478-07:00

We are NOW being faced with the Obama SELL OFF and SELL OUT.I don’t care about all the “experts” with their technical palliatives, which they believe will right the American stock market ship.What should be, and in my opinion, will be, absolutely understood as the primary reason for the collapse of the markets is that the SMART people with most of the money have figured out that McCain is either

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-50703138535315540372008-10-09T16:49:00.000-07:002008-10-09T16:55:06.264-07:00

Remember that hoary witticism----while you may LOOK like a fool, why remove any doubt by opening up your mouth?Well, as the Obama-Biden campaign signs start to sprout up, which one can’t help but notice when moving about town, I always suffer the realization that the person who has the gall and conviction to do this has effectively “opened their mouth”.At least those who plan to vote for the

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-230771909066910602008-10-07T23:56:00.000-07:002008-10-08T00:02:12.916-07:00

I hate to have to resort to the gross---well, maybe NOT!But, let’s simply open our eyes and notice that Barack Obama is the penultimate “tall, dark, handsome STRANGER”.Yes, he is the ultimate success, SO FAR, of Don Juan---SEDUCER.Well, I didn’t know I was going to come to this conclusion, after tonight’s debate. Actually, what set me off was a completely unsought reflexive pluck from my very

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-70801945953850242252008-10-06T11:12:00.000-07:002008-10-06T11:20:17.440-07:00

Remember the idea that there ought to be a possibility to vote for “none of the above”?So, in the case of the present vital election between the Republican McCain and the Democrat Obama, which is just the most important race atop the many others from local to Congress, guess what may be happening?With voter satisfaction for GWB and Congress at such disgusting lows, maybe what’s going on is that

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-66174341966800333432008-10-05T11:00:00.000-07:002008-10-05T11:09:41.573-07:00

Underlying, indeed, permeating and being the entire enterprise zone known as humanity, one person at a time summed up every instant by the very appearance of shining human beings, is a very simple expression of Yin-Yang.Every philosophy and religion and any other attempt to make sense of our particular manifestation of Reality as human beings always comes down to a question of truth or lies.

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-50118790532381536522008-10-04T09:36:00.000-07:002008-10-04T09:44:54.644-07:00

In exactly a month, a majority of American voters, along with an unknowable number of “illegal immigrant” fraudulent “voters”, are currently projected to launch the almost completely unknown Obama into the presidency of the last best hope for freedom for all of mankind. This is almost such an unbelievable change to contemplate, that any sane and awake person, who values what freedom they still

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-72220137943136894192008-09-29T15:14:00.000-07:002008-09-29T15:25:28.173-07:00

It sure looks like the extreme rulers of the misnamed Democratic Party have finally gotten their wish. They were predicting and very much counting on a loss in the war in Iraq, but it seems that they had a plan B in the works, all along.And, so, their putsch not only continues apace, but it looks like it’s probably passed a dangerous tipping point. That is, dangerous for freedom-loving

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-52411440859210428872008-09-25T12:50:00.000-07:002008-09-25T12:54:21.731-07:00

Let’s pretend you are from Mars-Venus and just arrived on Earth and that you are able to quickly digest all the most relevant information about McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden.Logically, there are so many disqualifying facts about the Democratic contenders, along with the lack of qualifying ones, combined with the opposite situation for the Republicans.Now, those in the full mental jacket KNOW, who

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-87369832641591487362008-09-12T15:42:00.000-07:002008-09-12T15:46:50.814-07:00

The other day I noticed something quite striking. On my regular journey to the YMCA, before the primary elections I had to endure a bunch of signs supporting Obama on various lawns. However, they’re all gone, NOW!I’ll have to randomly trip around to see if the same thing is true all over the place.In this very liberal state, I wonder what happened.

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-30158451396571701622008-08-29T12:38:00.000-07:002008-08-29T12:46:28.684-07:00

Wasn’t it Nero who fiddled while Rome burned?Well, folks, welcome to 2008 when today Nero is practically every free human who’s in power---and the more powerful, the harder they fiddle---and Rome is all the lands that are still free. The lands that are NOT free are currently charred ruins, when it comes to the political landscape----slaves abound.I believe the key person to understand is Putin.

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-66416511082791455062008-08-01T18:11:00.000-07:002008-08-01T18:16:22.060-07:00

Looking for a big intellectual challenge, I fished a book from my collection that I’ve only barely tried to read. It’s a real toughie! “The World As Will And Representation” came out in 1818, and it is Arthur Schopenhauer’s magnum opus. So far I’ve very much enjoyed only the three prefaces, especially the second one from 1844, when Art blasted away at all those who ignored his work for so many

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-62856442822522130442008-07-16T23:43:00.000-07:002008-07-16T23:48:09.506-07:00

Sometimes clichés perfectly fit.Consider “A deer in the headlights” when contemplating the current scene.First, take a close look at the new Fed chief, Ben Bernanke. Man, oh man! He and his fellow top deer types exude this presence, nicht wahr?And, of a very sad course, our very OLD president and his Rice strewn like minions are the essence of this.NOW, we all know Israel is the American, and

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-74170081171663252212008-07-05T13:05:00.000-07:002008-07-05T13:08:43.220-07:00

Ah, free time can be so edifying, if used well.Yesterday, I completely opened up to finding one of my most precious books to reread, and good OLD “Steppenwolf” by Herman Hesse perfectly met my NOW need.It’s been probably almost thirty years or more since I first absorbed this masterpiece. NOW, at the age of 66, in 2008, as I slowly take in both the beautiful writing and the messages, I can’t

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-10670577031051163502008-07-01T13:44:00.000-07:002008-07-01T13:48:07.880-07:00

Here’s something to ponder.We are currently suffering through over a THOUSAND fires in California, and elsewhere, so even here in Medford, Oregon I’m breathing in the resultant smoke.What about our mostly open borders to the north of Mexico? I believe I’ve read that some measurable portion of illegal immigrants are likely tied to terrorism.I wonder if maybe we aren’t experiencing an attack by

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-51339164720136964062008-06-19T14:54:00.000-07:002008-06-19T15:06:24.915-07:00

I wonder how many people realize that right NOW humanity is at the latest ratcheted up level of chaos on the way to THE maha crisis required to make or break it.About a week ago a columnist in the WSJ explored the idea of whether a country was “serious”. He applied this to America, and came out to a dubious conclusion.NOW, for as long as I can remember I’ve been at least randomly bemoaning how

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-28550077408950289842008-06-05T17:57:00.000-07:002008-06-05T18:07:34.879-07:00

Here’s another “fresh” try at how time---the past, present, and future---are at once useful and a unity. That is, each apparent part of the threesome flow is really identical to the others.As Heidegger claimed, in our eternal present, we are always looking ahead to the future. On the other hand, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it---in the future. Let’s keep both those ideas in

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-19018758919769554882008-05-21T15:19:00.000-07:002008-05-21T15:26:54.872-07:00

Huang Po gave the perfect advise way back in the ninth century to one such as the wannabe “talker-to-tyrants-and-murders” Barack Obama, although he meant it to apply to spiritual seekers. Read this, and Absolutely weep and laugh for Joy, as we continue to be blasted daily with ongoing insanity---“As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-89952343102175309872008-05-18T13:39:00.000-07:002008-05-18T13:52:24.570-07:00

As we all live and die, these confused and deluded days, on the skin of our teeth’s Earth, it seems to me that the dominant theme in the most vital country of America is that almost every single human within her boundary believes that this “country” is headed in the wrong direction. Be it about the war in Iraq, the economy, politics—especially at the federal level---social policy, you name it---

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-5735472276110899242008-05-10T16:31:00.000-07:002008-05-10T16:39:43.867-07:00

Here’s an astounding quote from “Breaking Ranks” by Norman Podhoretz, from 1979. He’s writing about his involvement with the 1972 primary election, when he was backing Muskie.“It was the same with the issue of growth. As nothing had been more central to the old liberalism of the Democrats---the liberalism of Kennedy and Johnson---than a belief in growth as the key to general prosperity and as

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-59249141792983233972008-05-04T13:31:00.000-07:002008-05-04T13:41:00.026-07:00

Zounds! Egads! Yikes! Or, most appropriately for today’s wordy excursion into the past, WOW, man!Ten years or so ago, I happened to be where libraries received too many books to sell, so there was always a place with interesting free ones, which I regularly perused in order to cull those that I liked. These days the situation is vastly different. Still, yesterday I marched to the local

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-89500241892364767292008-04-23T15:37:00.000-07:002008-04-23T15:46:54.603-07:00

Today, at frontpagemag.com another absolutely essential article appears. It’s “The Two Kinds of Dhimmis”, a must-read interview by Jamie Glazov of Bill Warner. Read this and you’ll really understand the true danger facing civilization.It’s definitely the best “geometric” proof I’ve ever read about Islam. When we recall all the fellow travelers who unwittingly, or not, worked to help the

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-79113700546920295992008-04-20T13:57:00.000-07:002008-04-20T14:12:20.338-07:00

I bet the overwhelming conventional wisdom is that George McGovern was the biggest loser of a presidential election in the last fifty years, and that his wing of the donkey party was proven to be far too radical for the bulk of mostly-conservative Americans to stomach.Well, guess what? As we live and DIE, these days, events and words across the USA and the whole world give the lie to that notion

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-66739857231889507212008-04-13T14:48:00.000-07:002008-04-13T15:00:36.292-07:00

For going on five years, after moving into my own little space in a 55-or-older mobile home park, I’ve had to put up with a rich neighbor with a huge yard right to my south, who had a barking German Shepard. Before winter, the old dog up and died, so I got to spend the last few months in the quiet I expected to find here.Then, as spring arrived, I spotted TWO new puppies of the same breed! I

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-39553477283666527962008-04-06T15:40:00.000-07:002008-04-06T15:49:41.604-07:00

The other day I felt the urge to reread some of my old books. So, Richard Bach’s “One” became the first, and Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” was second. However, right now I’m working through an obscure and fringe “hippie” book by Chris Griscom, published in 1987 that I read ten years ago, “Ecstasy Is A New Frequency”.Oh, how appropriate! An unsought recent encounter with a sibling

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-51352216163585053082008-03-29T15:33:00.000-07:002008-03-29T15:43:37.904-07:00

What the hell is “remembering”, especially in the Transcendental Light of Divine Ignorance?Do I remember, dismember or become an Enlightened member of the Only God club of ONE?The other day I “wasted” some more time reading a completely useless article in the WSJ describing ice climbing. The core wisdom that stood out from it, to me, was that the whole game is the playing out of PAIN and FEAR.

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-58506089248263064502008-03-16T22:46:00.000-07:002008-03-16T22:54:08.688-07:00

Here is some bottom Wisdom that cuts through all the specifics of today’s “News”. Enjoy.“The conventional disposition of human individuals in this time and place is founded on self-indulgence and self-possessed struggles for experience and survival. The social machine as a whole is geared toward the accumulation of objective knowledge, or the attainment of the ultimate power to control and

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-14194453851132093732008-03-10T16:12:00.000-07:002008-03-10T16:22:22.628-07:00

The universe is NOT a meaningless place. That is, it is ONE as Itself, which “means” that It-All is always and already perfectly understandable. There exist NO accidents.The recent passing of WFB bears some consideration, in this regard. He was definitely one of, if not THE, top humans of the last fifty years. He really made a difference.Well, or “wahl”, as he might have put it, I can vividly

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-25127079876491614492008-02-18T01:06:00.000-08:002008-02-18T01:24:10.336-08:00

What a country! What a species is man!“When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep. Above all, don’t wobble.” So goes one of my favorite old Zen admonitions.Just you dare to try to apply this to what’s currently going on, being chosen, by the chosen human beings in the US of A! As Mark Steyn reminded us, to be born in America is to win the lottery. And yet, and yet----The doubly damning and mostly

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Ah, how the human world always seems to turn out----in order to expose, indeed, Be the truth. It’s a miracle, in my view, that the old saw about the emperor’s clothes continues to have cachet. Absolutely, every visible human is essentially their own emperor, and despite ongoing attempts to cover up their Truth, all masks and clothes fail.The human realm is always---NAKED.Let’s apply this idea

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-64678673806046072782007-12-21T15:47:00.000-08:002007-12-21T15:56:44.652-08:00

What is it about Arkansas that has resulted in the people of that state throwing up such great con artists like the Clintons? And, now, to take this astonishingly bad outcome foisted on and/or chosen by foolish Americans, along comes the latest edition, one Baptist preacher named Huckabee. Can the dumbed down putative citizens of this country be fooled, or gulled, and plucked, AGAIN?!Well, with

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-2575080466061470962007-12-15T15:53:00.000-08:002007-12-15T16:09:18.014-08:00

Here is a striking, to me, way to understand every particular species of “trouble” to overcome. We underdeveloped humans resemble salmon wrt their unique (?) cyclic play over and as space-time.To wit--- the Tao that they swim upstream to their own individual birth spot to lay eggs to continue their branch of salmon reality, and then to die.The paradoxical arising of any entity, which seems to

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-71108073325118665322007-12-06T15:03:00.000-08:002007-12-06T15:34:28.190-08:00

The cycles within cycles within ever more cascading cycles---it’s turtles all the way down---never fail to arise with a real current human comedic commonality, for each of us apparently separate beings to deal with. In my own “special” case, the physical space-time of being-atop-earth as it spins around the likewise spinning sun on a yearly basis always attracts my attention to the winter

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-48252632175166379852007-11-01T17:12:00.000-07:002007-11-01T17:22:34.103-07:00

It looks like my unavoidable conclusion that spending precious life-time attention on politics is a mugs game is paying off. Indeed, the longer I dig myself out of that attention-grabbing hole, the easier and easier it gets to even eschew more of it.This was confirmed to me, big time, with the last donkey parade, ‘er’, debate, on Tuesday, wherein Madame Bloviation = Clinton finally got some

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-77911742017339540152007-10-24T15:39:00.000-07:002007-10-24T15:53:07.154-07:00

I wonder if I can make awake sense of a vivid dream from this morning, during my “normal” excursion into those crazy and wild times when I’m half awake and half asleep. Somehow, as time seems to pass through and as “me” as the apparently separate human in this lifetime, emptiness continues to find its perfect place-time as “my” very Real process and content.That is, “Sitting quietly, doing

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-12509361878039161462007-10-15T16:07:00.000-07:002007-10-15T16:08:20.534-07:00

Yesterday, on C-SPAN, I happened to catch that famous retired General, Rick Sanchez, as he gave his revealing speech taped from Friday last. Why, I couldn’t even go back to watch any NFL games until he was done.He was brilliant. Finally, SOMEONE with power truly spoke truth to the nitwits who now and for some time hold the reins of power! In essence, he---well-trained military man that he is--

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-84001791972226942102007-10-09T15:38:00.000-07:002007-10-09T15:58:10.551-07:00

It’s been almost a month since I’ve been moved to compose any thoughts about the abhorrent worldly scene that’s continuing to slide down the hill of decency into hellish chaos. There IS one undeniable and inescapable thread that has been regularly arising in my mind, no matter how much I try to avoid it.Hillary Clinton---and all of her ilk---still exists, and seems to be on the way to becoming

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-64436127554947016142007-09-12T14:52:00.000-07:002007-09-12T15:09:57.832-07:00

One of the Taos of understanding human “nature” as it plays itself out is that the accepted split into many individual selves must always be at war with their others. Thus, to be or not to be, or life verses death, is ever the bottom line with which to come to rest in freeing and free finality.Hence, as we live out our enduring freedom war against the presently clear and existentially dangerous

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211617183162682770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995103.post-8108726548629768672007-08-26T15:15:00.000-07:002007-08-26T15:33:57.709-07:00

About a week or so ago, with lots of extra free time happily arising, I decided to belly button gaze, and go back to the previous decade, starting in 1997, and read what I had written. That year was especially prominent in my coming-to-an-end life path, since it was in August of that year that I loaded up my pickup with all my stuff and moved to San Diego from Portland, after being in the latter

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