The Global Outrage of an Educated Man......happy birthday Bob, 67 years young!!!

The Global Outrage of an Educated Man......vol. 69
 
 
The drumbeats of propaganda for war against Iran are getting louder and louder like hooves pounding the oncoming stampede.
 
We have a presidential campaign, an historic campaign, where only money can buy influence, but is anyone covering the issues? Is the Media asking important questions? Instead we see slow pitch softballs lobbed at the candidates and were not even at Be-Bops.
 
Did anyone know that there was a supposed suicide of the D.C Madam in her jail cell? You are probably asking yourself, who is the D.C madam? She was only the Heidi Fleiss of Washington D.C. She must have had some very important customers if not even a word of her death was given a moments attention by the major media outlets. Maybe someone on that list of her's needed it kept out of the spotlight for some time to come. Yeah, she committed suicide in her jail cell. Yeah. Right.
I may no longer believe that there was a great conspiracy to kill JFK, but I ain't buying that. Or the moon landing. Stanley Kubrick helped NASA film the moon landing shots. He was sworn to secrecy. He was paranoid. His last movie was "Eyes Wide Shut". Because the world had their eyes open but couldn't see the lie. How does the flag blow in the wind on the moon when there is no atmosphere? I could go on, but I won't.
 
The word of the year is Super delegate. Democracy is great when it's decided by 400 Super delegates. YAAAAAAY!!!
 
Finally for now, we do have some good news. Some pure news. Innocence with hooves. We have Big Brown and his busted ankle trying to be the first horse in thirty years to win the triple crown at the upcoming Belmont Stakes. It is a great thing to watch and cheer for. However, I urge all of you to watch and cry like I did to Secretariat at the 73' Belmont Stakes.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c_ylcxgCaI
 
Who says the divine doesn't exist?

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The Global Outrage of an Educated Man.......vol. 68
 
Happy birthday Bard. Happy birthday to you and your rapier wit.
The father of English literature.
The writings of which all else are to be measured by.
Happy birthday to you William, who on the same date, some 52 years later, would die mysteriously.
Here is to all of the great plays and lines of rhyme and meter you composed.
Thank you for your symphony of words that brought imaginations to life in the Middle Ages and for the year that followed. 
Thank you Mr. Shakespeare.
For we are all just players on the stage of our lives'.
 
And, congratulations to you Hillary on your win in Pennsylvania. Now what do you do?
The Republicans unknowingly or unwittingly have now successfully divided the Democratic party and are ready to conquer as old white man Mccain can sit idly back with his feet on his ottoman hands around a martini, at his favorite country club and watch the festivities.
How could the Democrats, after Iraq, Katrina and the sub-prime mortgage meltdown be in the situation they are currently in?
Stupidity?
Karl Rove couldn't have written a more Machiavellian outcome.
 
Oh, by the way, Happy post Earth Day.
Can anyone really afford to save the planet? It's so expensive. We have to dispose of those light bulbs really carefully.
I mean they are filled with mercury. 
Icky. 
It's such a nuisance.
But then again, so is clean air.
 
Did anyone else hear about the 3rd graders in Georgia, that were plotting to kill their teacher. 3rd graders!!!
Plotting to kill their teacher?! 3rd graders!!!
They were assigning fellow students tasks, such as who's going to bring the broken steaknife and who's in charge of watching the door and closing the windows.
3rd graders!!!
 
What's the price of a barrel of oil going to end at today? $120? $130?
Mahmud Ahmadinijaed says $115 is way too low, and it probably is too.
I predict that we will be paying about $5 for a gallon of gas by the end of the summer of 08' in the US.
But, when compared with England's $8 a gallon, and they have to pay $50 a day, just to drive their car into downtown London(which is a really good idea), doesn't seem so bad.
We will finally be able to point the finger at China and India and Southeast Asia as the ones who need to clean up their act.
Too bad we don't have a finely tuned mass transit infrastructure throughout the US.
We better start building one quick or build a lot more hybrid buses.
 
Finally I would like to end on a celebratory and positive note. 
On April 8th of this year, a native son of our great state of Minnesota and from the small Iron Range town of Hibbing, near Duluth, won a long deserving honorary Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Zimmerman has been writing and recording great music and art since 1961 and is still going strong.
From "Freewheelin" to "Highway 61 Revisited" to "Blonde on Blonde" to "Nashville Skyline" to "Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire" to "Time out of Mind" and "Modern Times", he still searching for and producing that "mercurial sound".
The former U of M student still performs 200-250 shows a year. The most influential musician of the 20th century.
Not bad for being a card carrying AARP member. 

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The Global Outrage of an Educated Man......vol.67

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
I apologize for the long delay between messages and it will probably happen again, but hopefully not as spaced out as they appear or myself seem to be.
I am back and ready to report the news.
The truth with consequences.
A couple of Sunday evenings ago, I had the chance to catch an episode of 60 Minutes and on that evening's episode they were detailing a new Active Denial System that is being developed by the Pentagon to help combat crowd control.
The system is a ray gun.
Yes, this isn't science fiction, a ray gun that emits an intense stream of heat and energy up to a 300 yards away which without serious harm to it's targets, will cause them to run like hell.
I got to believe Tim Pawlenty is going to want that around in St. Paul for the upcoming Republican National Convention.
This is true.
Maybe not the Pawlenty remark but check it out.
I saw it on the television.

The two headed monster that is the Democratic Party could hopefully end up being a dream ticket instead of the nightmare that it is developing into.
If Hillary and Obama keep this up, we may be looking at 4 more years of a Republican in the White House.
The Republican Party, the party that abolished slavery.
Can you believe that? I'm not making this stuff up.
Maybe Superhero Al Gore needs to step in between Hillary and Obama and for the greater good of the United States of America and declare himself the Party's nominee for President.
That would be awesome.
Or else we're going to end up with a very old white man in the oval office singing "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran."

March 3rd, 2007, Oil was at $60.00 a barrel.
March 5th, 2008, Oil was at $104.52 a barrel.
OPEC says bite me.
Guess who's over the barrel now.
Yeah, were looking into renewable sources of energy. Yeah. That's a good one.

Just like the economic stimulus package the President signed is going to really help Middle Class America. For about a week.

Client number 9? Number 9? Number 9. Number 9? Client Number 9.
That was a Beatles White Album Reference for those needing help.

Okay okay.
I will bet a Mr. Thompson that is a good friend of mine will be glad to see this next comment and know that it has been a long time coming.
Not one Muslim Cleric has issued a Fatwa against Osama Bin Laden for his role in 9/11. Not one.
An for those who don't know, a Fatwa is a verbal death warrant.
In 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a Fatwa against Islamic author Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses" because he took liberties with his fictional portrayal of the prophet Mohammed.
The hypocrisy and stupidity of radical Islamic terrorists is simply amazing.
A man writes a book. Let's kill him.
A man helps to kill 3,000 people and nothing. Silence.
You can hear crickets chirping.
And this is supposed to be a "religion of peace." Well, that may be so, but it has been hijacked by sick and twisted idiots.
I know that not all Muslim's are terrorists and not all Christians want to convert by way of military force, but come on people.
Where is the common sense and decency in the world today? It sure in the hell isn't in the majority or helps sell newspapers or get television ratings.

Will someone let the monks have Tibet? Please.
China, you can do the right thing and stop buying oil from Darfur, a government that is condoning genocide, and give the Dalai Llama what he wants, a Free Tibet.
You can keep Taiwan and have the Olympics.

Well at least we have the housing market fixed. Ha.
Adjustable rate morons.
Sorry about that ladies and gentlemen.
I helped with the whole crisis.
Giving mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.

Stay on message.
Buy stuff buy stuff buy stuff.

"The whole world is a very narrow bridge. And the most important thing is to not be afraid." Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

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The Global Outrage of an Educated Man.......vol.66
 
 
 
Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
 
 
I want each and everyone of you to check out this video of the band the Arcade Fire from the month of April 2006, before they became tied for the best band in the world with Radiohead. David Bowie as special guest, was pleased enough to join them on stage. Please watch and like the caption says, if you are not moved, then check yourself for a pulse, you may already be dead.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wEBmLht5g
 
It was nice to see the crowd by the end of the show, rocking along, as were you, hopefully.
 
Now for some news.
 
The proverbial sky is falling on the heads of investment bankers. The bubble has burst on house flippers and struggling home owners. I hate to say I told you so, but when has a one story rambler in Columbia Heights ever been worth $210,000. Please. One bedroom condos in downtown for $160,000. What??? If the lower and the middle class do what they should do with their soon to be received rebate check from good ol' Uncle Sam, which is to save it instead of spend it, then our economy just like our image of foreign policy will go right down the toilet along with our sense of complacent entitlement.
 
But don't worry, because our lame duck President wants us to be safe. He is very concerned for our safety. Just tell that to the victims of Katrina. He didn't realize that gas could hit $4 a gallon. He hadn't heard that. Too busy playing mad libs. George is begging Congress for a law to remain permanent that would give the federal government permission to eavesdrop on supposed enemy combatants without warrants. It does make sense. I mean you have nothing to hide unless your up to something evil. Right. But then again, Big Brother takes one more step into our living rooms. Next February, we will all need digital TV's. Why??? So they can manipulate our thoughts with some cold war tested mind control? Mk-Ultra baby. But don't worry. Governments can always be trusted to do the right thing.
Germans thought so too.
 
Currently I am reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas Freidman. Great book. I'm a little late on the ball on this one. But, he speaks the truth. And the truth is that the technology of the 21st century will spread Democracy and free thought to all countries, for one will not be able to stop the inherent human need to consume what is the next exciting new thing and they will be blanketed by free trade, because that sure as hell beats the slave trade, and Capitalism will give it them, whether they like it or not. You have been warned Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia.  But it will also trigger what may be the last of all wars. Because totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and due north will not allow their control to slip so easily through their fingers and they will then need a scapegoat to point their meaty war machines at. Everybody needs an opponent. Life is duality.
 
The steamroller that is growing momentum heading down the hill toward November and may be usurping the "inevitable" candidate is a feeling we call "Obama." I just hope that who may be the first ever Black President doesn't find his way into a bullet from a crazed lone gunmen. It wouldn't surprise me if he did. Or if he turns out to be the Anti-Christ. 20,000 people everywhere he goes, to listen to him speak. What has he really done? Then again, what have I done? Hopefully he is not just another in a long list of false prophets.
 
Finally, I urge you ladies and gentlemen to give a listen to an artist called Bon Iver. French for good winter. His album "For Emma, Forever Ago" is stark, simple and brilliant. It is the feeling of a winter cabin with a glowing fire place. If you like Van Morrison, Ray Lamontagne, Nick Drake or Damien Rice and even Bob Dylan, give Bon Iver a listen.
 
That is all for now. Much love peace and happiness.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Global Outrage of an Educated Man....vol.65
 
"I look at people, and I see nothing worth liking." Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) There will be Blood. My pick for Best Picture, Best Actor, Cinematography and Director for 2007.
 
 
Good morning. In honor of Dr. King and all that he did for the cause of civil and human rights I give thanks. I would love to remain overtly optimistic and positive, but because of the times we live in and despite his achievements and successes, I cannot because I've come to realize that despite the pleas for differentiation of Republican and Democrat nominees for president, which is the longest job interview of all, is that the power that controls them, is a power that we, the voter have no control over, unless, you're an old white male board member of a fortune 500 Company. Because in the end, we'll most likely be in Iran, fighting the modern day crusades of Christianity vs. Islam.
 
2008  is looking a lot like 1992 all over again. A Bush will be leaving office, we will be leaving a mess in Iraq and the economy is tanking and quite possibly a Clinton will be living in the Oval Office. A little bit of history repeating.
 
Meanwhile our good friend Israel is test firing long range nuclear missiles to the dismay of Iran. Only a week after after George W. had left the region, talking of peace and co-existence between Israel and the Arab nations. But I guess being on the receiving end of a holocaust gives a nation a free pass.
 
Has anybody been paying attention??? It's the economy stupid!! Recession??? We could be heading into a depression. The Bond insurers that have backed the banks that have backed the subprime loans now may be going in default and may be unable to pay the insurance to the banks that have made those loans. What that simply means, that if you're bank can get paid, you're not going to get paid. The federal government needs to step in and buy MBIA and AMBAC, or else, we will slide back into the 1800's. But I'm crazy. 

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The Global Outrage of an Educated Man........Vol.64





Good morning ladies and gentlemen on this grey Sunday morning, the 13th of January 2008. It's been a long time coming since my words have reached this outlet of the 21st century.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am writing this from the advice of a good friend. I am writing this because sometimes it takes others to tell you what you need to do, because you can't see the forest from the trees.

This is all original material that I've been compiling since the last time. So hopefully it will have been well worth the wait.

If some of you are confused, at least it is minus the hate.

I am writing this morning to push the blankets of the bed and the dirty sheets aside with the kindling of a fire stoked within my belly, amid the outside temperature of the barely hovering above freezing.

I am writing to inform the uninformed of the bitter sweet pain of being unable to grab the wrist and to draw her to you, as she sits indian style right in front of you, reading a book much too young for her age, as you imagine a young Audrey Hepburn reading "Harry Potter", giggling as she's whispering to her father.

She has the bare shoulders of a woman who has needed to be restrained in the past. The tilt of her neck gives an attitude of indifference and underlying anger. She is a beautiful woman that has had ugly things happen to her and she's been fed up for far too long. She is the fanaticism generated by the accumulation of wealth within the stock market that may be nearing a collapse. Sucking like an ocean's wave everybody in, and then crash. Lying stranded ashore. Alone on a barren beach. She is the opening of the window on the morning bus ride into work that helps cool my feverish mind of the having the obligation of attending the mid week Wednesday, but being reminded that it's all down hill from there.
I have an invisible shield around me that silently forces the oncoming passengers to never sit in the same seat next to me for I am protected from their negativity.

Meanwhile a woman, no more older older than 26 drives a $40k BMW SUV through a neighborhood where her vehicle or symbol of worth is more than people's yearly salary, or at least mine. Where are the children of Darfur on her mind?
It is the joy of the first time. Sitting atop of a neighbor's white suburban garage under the moonlight of a weekend and the parents are out of town.

It is every morning's bus ride with her that is another first date.
It is the street musician serenading the passers by with "Walk the Line" being played upon a flute. It is daring the audience to find the song within their absence of attention.
It is the bus ride through Northeast Minneapolis as we would talk about castles and Loch Ness. It is traveling through England and touring the Guinness brewery. It is if we are getting to know each other better, than someday we'll go together.

As if possibly we've already been and with each other would like to go again.
It is a woman that smells of grape bubble gum with an engagement ring, as she talks of hope for the future and things that will come. It is a tortuous soul, a woman in the coat the color of my car, showing enough leg and nylon to the dangerous men who are no longer boys, and I am reading of coincidences and Beethoven, the influence of novelties and fortuities grace.

She looks my way. It is the idea that her name should be Sunny Rosewater. Cursed to meet a woman I cannot get inside of without having to deal with an itch that can never be cured by a scratch.
It is being blessed by a morning of rainbows, the first of 2008 from across an ocean with a smile and a warm cup or coffee.

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The Global Outrage of an Educated Man......vol.63
 
 
It's been a long time coming and for that I have no apologies. I have been dealing with the sadness and the pain of love given, love received and love lost. I have been to the top of the mountain top and seen the rubble of what was once a proud kingdom of the proof of the almighty's omnipotence.  All of that could be said for the once proud and powerful Notre Dame football storied past.  I have been lost and found. I have been down and out. I have said goodbye to a loved one and found the strength and the beauty in the acceptance of patience and the resilience of the splendor of new starts and new relationships. The simplicity of possibilties of the morning busride and the evening concert with someone who was once your teacher. The summer has come to an end and the falling of leaves and the sounds of football and apples rolling on the lawns and leaves being shuffled through by children on their way to school and giggling and laughing and deciding which Halloween costumes to wear can be heard from block to block and household to household.  I am walking a line down which I have no idea where it will end. I am like you and that we have no answers and only questions. We only start and end and finish and begin.  I feel like a politician without a microphone. A politician without the money to get his face on the nightly news. Because if you can't raise a half a billion dollars, you can't get your point across. You cannot be a man of the people, by the people and for the people. You're just another puppet for the multinationals and their ever increasing thirst for natural resources and the wars that fund them.  Case in point people, our puppet will be speaking at the UN on Tuesday and will be ratcheting up the case for the ever increasing alarmist bell ringing endorsement of military force against Iran.  We have to realize that we are living in a world gone mad. We are in "Network" without Peter Finch. I will play that part of screaming "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!" We live in a world where evangelicals want to bring about the prophecies of the book of Revelations. They want a whore of Babylon and we just may get Hillary instead. They want to bring about Armageddon in the name of Freedom for all. Bombs in the guise of free choices. I have no qualms with any of this. I just want people to realize what is happening and why. We have no control over any of this. Or so were told. We are told that this is the way it is and that this is the way it has to be. But what about hope? What about standing up to ignorance and tyranny? Because if we don't take a stand and say enough is enough, we're all going to get the chip. They already are doing it to your pets. Your children are next. And you may say I'm crazy and that may be true, but I'd rather be crazy than stupid and paranoia isn't paranoia when it's true.
Things are changing. People are changing. Times are changing. The quickening is happening and we can't get anywhere, anything or anyone fast enough. December 22nd, 2012 is just around the corner. Be prepared. The moon is waning.

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