March 5, 2026

"Somehow this Madness must Cease"

"And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to understand and respond to compassion my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak now not for the soldiers of each side, but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now. I think of them too because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution there until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries. …

“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world is aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.; A Time to Break Silence, April 4, 1967.


The above quote is from my favorite of King's speeches. He was viciously attacked by a wide range of people in the media afterwards for supposedly “straying” from Civil Rights. Yet King was intent upon telling the truth to a sick and divided nation. A year to the day later, he was murdered.

I posted it on facebook this evening. So far, only positive responses. Two days earlier, I had posted a verse from Jimi Hendrix “1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be” about the horrors of war. The lyrics are not “political.” Still, while most people liked it, I was attacked by two of the least intelligent human beings that I have encountered. And I have met some extremely ignorant fools in life.

"Oh, say can you see, it's really such a mess
Every inch of Earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick tube-shaped things
Continue to rain and cause screaming pain
And the Arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
As our feet find the sand and the sea"
-- Jimi Hendrix, 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)


As one can see, Jimi's lyrics were about the human condition, not “politics.” Yet one fool commented, “I guess it was okay when Obama...” I simply said, “You guessed wrong.” The other was a cousin who lives about a half an hour away, who I have seen twice since 1969, both times at funerals. The two are the type of sick individuals who support the attack on Iran, and view the destruction with glee.

It is a sign of ethical illness to be happy when an American president willing becomes a lap dog for a war criminal like Netanyahu, in a desperate attempt to save his administration. It is a moral failure to approve of what the felon is doing. We need to be sure this virus does not spread, and instead that the Democratic Party holds to Dr. King's righteousness.

March 3, 2026

Weird Scenes

“You remember Huston’s plan? Implement it. I want it implemented on a thievery basis. Goddamn it, get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get it.” – Richard Nixon


Why, some may ask, am I so focused upon the public get access to the Epstein Pedo files? Because without them, a criminal president and his supporters can create myths …. such as the lie that Nixon was unaware of break-ins, and only guilty of participating in the cover-up. The above quote came from a June, 1971 White House tape which was first made public by the Washington Post and Newsweek in 1997.

What was Nixon after? Documents. He thought the Brookings Institute – a Washington think tank – had records regarding his activities during the 1968 presidential election. Why did the “plumbers” break into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Lewis Fielding's office? What were the “plumbers” looking for in the Chilean embassy and the Watergate for? Nixon believed that Castro had sent Senator Ted Kennedy and others documents on attacks on him when Nixon was VP.

What is Nixon best remember as trying to hide the White House tapes. …...


I had gotten this far in an essay to remind people that a desperate president will resort to blowing things up to cover their criminal behaviors. While doing so, I saw that the criminal leaders of the U.S. and Israel were conducting a criminal attack on Iran. What could possibly go wrong?

I would not want to live in Iran. I like the concept of a wall between state and religion. That includes a “build that wall” in the context of the christian nationalists in our country. I remember Malcolm X paraphrasing Matthew 6:5, “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in synagogues and on street corners to be seen by others.” I'm not fond of bitter old men who think they speak for god when they tell females how to dress, or send males off to war.

I remember in the early 1980s, when in an interview the late Dick Gregory said that the United States had difficulties with Iran and the Muslim world because it hadn't come to understand Malcolm X. Current polls document that the majority of American citizens were opposed to the U.S. starting a war with Iran. But here we are.

I was talking with my daughter who lives in Europe. I said that I favor something that Yoko One said in 1972, after the release of the “Some Time in New York City” double-LP. Reporters questioned her about the picture of Nixon and Mao dancing naked on the cover. Yoko said she advocated that when world leaders meet, they do so in public, naked.

The release of the Epstein Pedo Files is stripping the felon of his garments. We must continue to fight on every front.

February 25, 2026

Fluff

I thought he was going to start handing out Boy Scout merit badges.

February 22, 2026

The Wobble

I was doing a radio show on a boxing match years ago, with two associates who know the sport. In between rounds six and seven, they said one guy looked to be pulling ahead and was on his way to victory. I said I disagreed, and anticipated he would get knocked out in round eight. He did. The two asked me how I had known? I said I could see it in his legs – even though he had been getting off good punches, his legs were getting weak.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision was an example of a blow that made the felon's legs wobble. While many watched the anal pore located below his nose as the felon engaged in an enraged tantrum before the press, I was seeing the legs of the administration quiver. Those legs have been looking shaky in recent weeks.

We are approaching the point where we knock the fucking legs off, and the administration tumbles down and is counted out. We know the felon is not going to honor the USSC's decision. He simply cannot, as it is not in his sociopathic nature to do so. His approval ratings were already dropping, due to everything from the economy to the Epstein Pedo Files scandal.

The legs that allow the felon & fiends to stand upright at this time are the republicans in the House and Senate. They are trapped. Double-trapped, as Malcolm would say. They were already aware that they face significant loses in the mid-terms that are potentially larger than after Nixon resigned. Puppets like Marjorie Taylor Greene were not only talking back to the puppeteer, they were jumping ship. What options do they have today? Agree that the felon can violate a Supreme Court decision? Or refuse to ignore his criminal behaviors?

Let us hope they have the wisdom to make the right choice. Either way, they lose. And we knock those fucking legs off of maga.

February 18, 2026

Cottonwood Races

An old associate that I used to meet at the Los Alamitos track in Anaheim in the early 1980s recently told me that “around the 26th it will be problematic for corrupt, demented, orange colored individuals.” He always had a way of knowing how the horse races would work out, as he knew how to read schedules. I have no idea if he is correct about the “corrupt, demented, orange colored individual.” But he has always been good at calling races.

Now, I am going to speculate – and I'm not objective here – that if it relates to Jack Smith's second report, we have a blast on this forum. We will be significantly closer to ending the orange plague's on-going rat race.

As Rev. Jesse said, “Keep hope alive!” I was lucky to see him twice. Great respect.

February 15, 2026

Hello

(I wanted to take a short break from the most difficult time in my life, to share an essay that I posted earlier today on another internet forum. Unlike DU -- my favorite site -- this one has Democrats, republicans, and independents of all sizes and flavors, and so my goal is to show there is common ground to be found here.)

" (There is a) power of the Congress to inquire into and publicize corruption, maladministration or inefficiency in agencies of the Government. That was the only kind of activity described by Woodrow Wilson in 'Congressional Government' when he wrote: 'The informing function of Congress should be preferred even to its legislative function.' From the earliest times in its history, the Congress has assiduously performed an 'informing function' of this nature.”
Watkins v. United States, 354 U.S. 178, 200 (US Supreme Court, 1957)


The above quote is from The Senate Watergate Report, also know as the Ervin Committee Report (page 40). There is also a longer quote from the Supreme Court's 1953 decision in United States v. Rumely, 345 U.S. 41,43, which states the informing function is “indispensable.” The ruling also quotes Wilson, saying: “....unless Congress both scrutinize these things and shift them by every form of discussion, the country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most important that it should understand and direct.”

In my opinion, the wide-reaching Epstein Pedo File scandal provides a powerful example of an area where an extraordinary number of democrats, republicans, and independents agree – let's put all the cards on the table. My generation grew up on the Senate's Watergate hearings. That led to the Rockefeller Commission, the Pike Committee, The Church Committee, and the Nedzi Committee hearings, which uncovered corruption that took place under administrations of both parties.

As more of the victims of Epstein et al came forward in recent years, the public listened. Julie K. Brown put the spotlight on it. Citizens from both parties recognized this went beyond mere politics. Attempts to make it such has created stumbling blocks that slow or halt the path of progressive. But citizens of all backgrounds applied Amendment 1 pressure, and a growing number of elected officials began to support the effort to release the Epstein Pedo Files.

In November, 2025, the House passed a bill directing the DOJ to make the files public. The vote was 427 to one dick voting against it. The following day, by unanimous consent, the Senate passed it. The president signed it into law. The files released thus far are already having significant impact internationally, with at least ten other countries beginning investigations of possible Epstein connections that contaminate their societies. There are issues that our country needs to consider as sources of concern.

People from both parties and no party have asked who Epstein really was? Where did he get the money to finance his life-style? Who did he work for? We know that during the years the Reagan administration was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, Epstein has a business relationship with Adnan Khashoggi.

https://deepnewz.com/middle-east/jeffrey-epstein-monitored-cia-since-1983-financial-fixer-adnan-khashoggi-iran-9d52c065


I think that alone might suggest that citizens have not only a right, but also a responsibility, to find out about the connections between Epstein and the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Israel, England, and eventually Russia. One might start with the five billionaires who initially funded Epstein, and focus on which country's intelligence agencies they were connected to.

Citizens must demand serious investigative hearings. Not ass-clowns playing “gotcha,” or the head of the Plastics reading from their burn book. Knock off the politics, and tell the public the truth.

February 10, 2026

2-10-26 Reminder

https://deepnewz.com/middle-east/jeffrey-epstein-monitored-cia-since-1983-financial-fixer-adnan-khashoggi-iran-9d52c065

February 1, 2026

Count Off

Former AG Denise George’s Allegations Against Gov. Bryan, Others Surface in Latest DOJ Epstein Release
Newly released USDOJ records include an FBI interview in which former VI AG Denise George describes alleged political pressure, Epstein-related decisions, estate negotiations, and claims by a confidential informant regarding campaign-related donations.

https://viconsortium.com/vi-federal/virgin-islands-former-ag-denise-george-s-allegations-against-gov--bryan--others-surface-in-latest-doj-epstein-release


A DOJ spokesperson initially said the three million documents released were from the six million they evaluated for release. Within hours, it was said there were 200,000 still unreleased. Even those who do not find match fascinating can recognize that the difference between three million and 200,000 unreleased documents is the exact number of lies the DOJ is currently telling the American public.

In conversations with friends and associates yesterday, the issue of what is important in the released Epstein Pedo Files kept coming up. In any investigation, there is a difference between “raw” information and documented evidence. This is true for your local police and prosecutor investigating and prosecuting a crime, to the intelligence agencies of the countries that Epstein served. Thus, while the texts between Steve Bannon and Epstein making fun of the felon may be entertaining, the only thing they document is that even two fucking creeps viewed him as an ass clown.

In almost every investigation, it is important to recognize that it includes interviews with a variety of people who may or may not be relied upon to tell what they are convinced is the truth. Obviously, jailhouse snitches are usually only focused on their own potential benefits. Co-conspirators always have reasons to lie. Witnesses against a thug may include other criminals who are less than attractive individuals.

When interviewing potential victims, it is essential to be respectful. Creeps like Epstein target vulnerable individuals, and they carry scars. The emotional damage Epstein & Fiends inflicted on girls remains intense. At the same time, serious investigation sometimes draw people who make fantastic claims, like moths to a flame. They may honestly believe what they are saying is true, or they may be trying to discredit an investigation, as we saw recently.

The interview with Denise George is solid evidence of how expansive the criminal network that Epstein operated in actually was. The article I linked documents that as the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, she filed a serious case that exposed wide-spread corruption linked with Epstein's operations there. The governor was “extremely mad,” and called her to yell about “going after people who are members of our team.” Of course she was fired immediately after she filed her case.

Wouldn't it be nice if our “team” continued to pressure the DOJ to release the documentation from Denis George's investigation, including the actual indictment she filed? And how about the files of the Miami Beach police? They were prepared to charge and convict at very least Epstein. They were furious when the DOJ took over the case, and gave Epstein and apparently twenty others besides Maxwell sweetheart deals? Deals that another court overturned, before going after Epstein and Maxwell?

It's almost like the other team can't be trusted.

January 31, 2026

Another Day

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Thanks, Neil. Now, before today's announcements, rather than asking you to stand during the Star Strangled Banner, please raise a fist for Psalm 109:8 ….

“May his days be few; may another take his place of leadeship.”

This is an ugly, brutal time in our country. We all could list a number of horrible things that the felon & co are unleashing in their attack on the Constitution and human decency. We are in the lines of Yeats' famous poem, where things are falling apart, as the center cannot hold, unleashing anarchy upon society.

When the outside world is spinning out of control, a Clan Mother once told me, go inside of yourself. That doesn't mean be afraid and totally withdraw. It means to take the time to be centered, to find balance. For it is when we are centered and balanced that we can put forth our best efforts to calm the outside storm.

When Jack Smith recently testified to the congressional committee, he quoted one of the felon's threats to his enemies: “If you come after me, I'll come after you.” No need to read between the lines. If he thinks an individual poses a problem, the felon will try to damage and destroy them. I've seen that, you've seen that. And what we are seeing now is the felon recognizing the country is turning against him, thus his attempt to damage and destroy the country.

An injured beast is a dangerous beast. I can say with 100% certainty that a hurt boxer is at their most dangerous. I had to be really careful in knocking them out if they were hurt and conscious. I needed to be centered, balanced, and absolutely calm to safely inflict the damage required to end the fight. So believe me when I say that at this time, we need to be centered, balanced, and kind of calm now, so that we can limit injury as we devastate our opposition.

We should be exercising our Amendment 1 rights. Call, write, and/or e-mail every elected representative from your state in DC. Attend rallies and public protests. Be centered, so that the emotional realities of the maga cult can not push or pull you off balance. Be both brave, and fully aware of your surroundings, including the others on the scene.

Stay informed, by way of the “news,” however you access it. Take care not to overload on it, though. I have a couple associates who, due to the very cold weather, have been staying inside for weeks, rarely leaving their homes. They have come to recognize that a bad news overload takes a toll. I recommend getting together in small groups and doing things like contacting representatives and making posters for rallies. Listen to music like Neil or Bruce or the Beatles.

We are in a tough battle. Despite the felon and his administration's constant attempts to up the ante with shrill threats and gross violence, we are actually in the best position we have been in since the felon again took office. This is the result of dedicated work by a large number of people, from the grass roots to offices in the House and Senate.

I will end with a question. Does anyone know if the new documentary on the first lady is what Alex was forced to watch – eyes taped open – in “A Clockwork Orange”?

January 26, 2026

Mid-Winter

An old friend from the Binghamton area, tired from shoveling, asked me if my driveway was in “snowed-in” condition? Surely it is, with the driveway following the pattern of seeming longer in the winter. Plus I am where I want to be, and there is no where else I need to be.

Instead I only venture out to re-fill the bird-feeder, which is the ground on the other side of the driveway. There are plenty of birds out there that I watch from a window inside. A group of eight deer also stop in more frequently for a bite in this weather.

I think of the families that lived here long ago, before electricity. Likely they were gathered around the fire places and wood stoves after doing outdoor chores, or busy preparing meals. The ancient human tradition of sitting around the fire at night, going back tens of thousands of years. As “the Preacher” taught, “The thing that has been, it is what shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1: 9)

More, I think of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. Chief Waterman taught me the names that actually match up with the general divisions in NYS archaeology that traditional Iroquois use: the ancestor, the ancestor's ancestor, and the ancient ones. While I have no idea when the Midwinter Ceremony was first practiced, it is very old.

When the new moon appeared, either in late January or early February our time, it marked the spiritual new year's beginning. For five days, one focuses on family and clan, and the needs of the very young and very old in the upcoming year. Then came nine days of fun and feasting, and numerous traditional ceremonies.

There are two ancient dances that are performed. The bear dance is for those in poor health. (It is interesting to note that archaeological, oral history, and contact-era written accounts tell of bear cubs being raised in Iroquois communities.) Bear dances were largely private events. The feather dance is an upbeat community event to ring in the new year.

There were games to play, too. One of I'm thinking of is the peach game, with peach pits ground smooth. One side is darkened, one left light. Paul said it recognizes the struggle the Creator and his evil brother engaged in when the Creator brought humans forth on earth. The ideas involve getting one's self closer thanking the Creator for all good things, and away from being influenced by the evil brother.

There is no new thing under the sun.