lawless america

i wish i was queer

stupidity

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”


― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

the fed is dead

The Federal Reserve is down. The Treasury has taken over the task of sorting and transferring payments. The Fed's charter expired in 2012. I remember reading about that at the time. But apparently the PTBs in charge of things were content to let it continue. This PTB is not.

The new fiscal year begins October 1. I have not heard a peep out of congress about next year's budget. Without a budget, the government will shut down. At least part of it. October 1 is a Monday.

If there's a new financial situation, then there'll have to be a bank holiday. Thomas Paine of American Intelligence Media has been saying for months that the government will take over the Fed and declare all our debt to be "odious debt". Which means we don't pay it! Which is the only way we'll ever get free of that burden.

Remember the old saying: If you owe the bank 20 thousand dollars and can't pay, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 20 trillion dollars and can't pay, the bank has a problem.

Open the sealed indictments and there may be a lot of senators and representatives among them. If there's not enough for a quorum, Trump can do what Lincoln did: Declare martial law and start taking names and kicking ass.

 

So let's review what we've learned. The Federal Reserve that has been part of our lives since 1913 is dead. Imagine! Debt free currency! JFK would be so proud!

 

I'm willing to wager that we won't really know what a burden we've been under with the Fed until we're free of it. And if all this really happens, it'll be an October Surprise we'll never forget. And it will make a real contribution to our collective goal:

 

Make America Great Again

 

 

  

the room. best scenes

I cannot tell you, it's confidential. No, I can't. Anyway, how is your sex life?

"i definitely have breast cancer." "Don't worry, everything will be fine."

Wuts buvering u murk?

Everybody betray me.

I fed up with this world.


One thing I can say about The Room... Every line is memeworthy.
The movie is 100 minutes long but this clip of the very best scenes is under 20 minutes.  If you want to see the full version (God bless ya) you can find it here for free.

https://www1.1movies.is/movie/the-room/177-watch-online-free.html

Fair warning.  The Room is the worst movie ever made and makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Oscar material.

maybe i'm wrong

Unless you spend a lot of your day on Facebook, or you live in a cave, you're fully aware of Big Brother, computer hacks, identity theft, No Such Agency grabbing, storing, and analyzing every single thing you've done on the internet since you fired up your first computer or made your first phone call.  Scary shit, I know, but who gives a crap, right?  If everyone's being watched, then no one's being watched.  If it was such a big deal we'd all have a VPN or Virtual Personal Network.

I have no intentions of paying monthly fees for a VPN so I downloaded and installed the TOR browser... for free.

I did a little surfing and found my isp is somewhere in southern India and the Youtube videos are in German.  Cool!  After a language adjustment, I got an opportunity to see propaganda with fresh eyes.  See, Youtube would ordinarily recognize me and fill my home page with stuff they think I would want to see.  As an unknown, Youtube gave me the generic version that they give anyone else without an identity.  Sports, NFL, cats, current music, junk food, funny stuff, and NFL.  Nothing offensive, political, or critical.  Just a yawn fest menu.  The NFL channels feature collections of bad plays without a word about Nike, let alone any of the problems they've had since the last presidential election. 

I never thought I'd say it but the only difference between generic Youtube and television is the pause button.  I'm afraid all the networks are aware cable and conventional TV are dead and they are trying to make their dinosaur footprint on what used to be personal creator content sites.  Places like Youtube, and google wants to make it so. 

I did a Youtube search with the word "trump" and one thing about Youtube that changed dramatically since the election is the torrential shit storm the MSM pushes about how incompetent Trump is.  MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and some late night comedy pundits are the main contributers and practically fill every page with a non-stop litany of finger pointing at Trump as the single worst thing that has happened to humanity since the great flood. The Washington Post blames Trump for hurricanes.  Really?

I had a talk with a lefty the other day, who was the first progressive I could talk with about Trump without totally losing their shit.  She said, "Trump was selected by rich billionaires because he was rich and they all want the same things... more money and more control."  I said Trump is earning $1 a year as POTUS and she said "it's just a game for him, like another TV show.  They're all in on it, too."  I asked if they cleared this with Hillary first. 

I'm grateful she didn't try and twist a broken bottle in my face, like 70% of the leftards out there might do when the conversation gets to this point.  I didn't argue with her but I wondered how an intelligent, worldly, culturally astute, and broadminded girl could be so prejudicial about the motives of someone she knows absolutely nothing about.

The answer is simple.  If the only news you get is from the networks, cable or internet, all you'll get is non-stop propaganda, all coming from the same source, by way of daily 4am drops.  Journalism is dead.  It's been replaced by talking heads reading scripts written by someone else.  Non-stop.  Over and over until you believe opinions as facts.  They don't call it programming for nothing.

And yeah, I considered the possibility that I, too, am just as brainwashed as anyone else.  Could be, but I keep wondering why the same people who hate Trump also love the FBI, NSA, CIA, DOJ, IRS, antifa, endless wars, and the establishment elite and totally believe those guys can do a better job than Trump.

At least I occasionally consider the possibility I might be wrong.

How bout you?  Have you ever questioned your programming? 


 
                              

violet bubble mofo

When I heard about this violet ray bubble tech, I wasn't sure what to make of it.  How can a violet wand and an inferred light do more to passive orgonite than frequency? 

I've been playing with the mofo using Spooky2 for various frequencies to boost my immune system with mixed results.  I was getting better results with 13Hz and a few good intentions so when I got into this bubble tech I decided to give it a shot.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the mofo is made up of five gallons of resin with six mobius coils using 600' of insulated copper wire with multiple densities in an elongated toroid shape.  Putting frequency to it will keep it buzzing in passive mode for quite some time.  This is one powerful mofo, fer sure. 

I had to order the wand and inferred light, since Drucker's store just ran out.  With the miracle of 21st century online consumerism in full swing, I managed to get my stuff faster than driving to Pixley.  The wand is cool.  It shoots static, violet sparks when you crank it up and touch the end with your finger or other parts of your anatomy.  Well, I didn't get this to zap my finger, or other anatomical parts, so I hooked it up to the mofo.

I had the unit on 432Hz for a while before I did any testing.  There was a noticeable energy discharge over the top of the vortex, as usual.  After firing up the violet ray, the energy flow changed dramatically.  The noticeable energy discharge turned into an oh my god discharge.  Adding the inferred light advanced it to a you-gotta-be-fuckin-kidding-me discharge that made me a believer.  I mean, if I could see the energy flow it would look like a blue, neon double helix about four inches wide.  This wasn't just me.  I invited a few friends to judge the results and the consensus was a few degrees over holy shit.

I've had the mofo running on frequency and the violet wand since this morning and my energy levels are off the charts.  I'm not quite sure what to make of it.  Maybe I'm going through a manic episode after depression, which would be a normal cycle.  But this is different.  I'm not really manic, as far as my manic episodes normally are.  The best way to explain it is a total feeling of exhilarating normalcy with a huge amount of thoughts running through my head and not one of them diabolical in nature.  No peace and love but not hate and fury either.  A serene calmness with an eagerness for physical activity without real purpose.

I need to do more study on this.  Give me a few days.

     

why I eat one meal a day

send in the clown(s)

Send in the clown(s)

Former President Barack Obama, who made waves with a speech in South Africa in which he turned the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture into a thinly veiled rant against President Donald Trump, is making a(nother) comeback. Obama, who used the July speech to caution "strongman politics are ascending suddenly," and that "those in power seek to undermine every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning," is continuing his roadshow next week when he accepts the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government. In an event which will be closed to the general public, Obama is expected to "echo his call to reject the rising strain of authoritarian politics and policies..."

Pardon me while I pull the handbrake on the hypocrisy highway, but when did the University of Illinois turn into a Monty Python sketch? I get that President Pen'n'Phone is an Illinois homeboy, hailing from the "gun-free" paradise of Chicago and that putting a president's face on the flyer certainly helps draw the big-money donors. But giving the Douglas Award for Ethics in Government to a guy like Obama means the Douglas Award for Ethics in Government is really just a participation trophy. The plaque might as well read "To Barack Obama. At least you tried." When it comes to people who embody "ethics in government," Obama ranks right up there with Boss Tweed and Warren Harding.

It's almost worth asking the prize committee if they have the right Barack Obama. The same Barack Obama who:

• Turned the Internal Revenue Service into his own personal brute squad. Ethics Obama, aided by minions like Jon Koskinen and Lois Lerner, used what is arguably the most powerful agency in the federal government to systematically target and harass conservative-leaning groups. The settlement between 400 of them and the Feds was finally settled last year, in favor of the good guys. Obama's morally-upstanding objection to tyranny cost the U.S. taxpayers what has been described as a "substantial" amount of money.
• Turned the NSA into his personal dirt collection agency. During the Obama regime, the excesses of our digital spies got so out of hand, no one was safe from their prying; no matter how insignificant they might be. But nothing says "opposition to authoritarian government" like keeping tabs on what kind of ceramic cats your Gam-Gam buys from the Home Shopping Channel.
• Spied on — and even jailed — journalists. Wanna know how deep Obama's affinity for openness and transparency is? Ask James Risen and Dinesh D'Souza. Be forewarned, a copy of your message will likely be stored on a bathroom server somewhere.
• Left us to clean up the moldering corpse of Obamacare, a fraud-riddled and deliberately opaque bureaucratic power grab which threw the nation's health care system into chaos. The man selected by the Douglas Prize committee for his steadfast manning of the barricades against statism literally forced the entire country to buy what he commanded or face the full might of the aforementioned goons at the IRS.

This cat even went after Gibson Guitars over a minor-league violation involving imported wood that was so obviously a thank-you card to Big Labor, even Stalin would have admired the move. In what world, I ask you, does hating rock'n'roll earn you an award for being cool?

Personal Liberty^® doesn't have the bandwidth for me to list the arrogant hypocrisies which have come to define the Party of Jefferson (speaking of hypocrites — Ms. Hemmings says "hi," Mr. Jefferson). We could do this all day. They needed a lot more than a three-point turn to reverse course from Hillary Clinton's admonishment to accept the results of the election. The #MeToo movement counterpoints as well with the party's lengthy roster of powerful men who have to figure out that "no means no." For Pete's sake, the Clintons were back at Harvey Weinstein's Long Island Sound palace just two weeks ago as special guests at a party which included — if I'm lyin', I'm dyin' — circus performers and a big-top tent. Their chairhole, Tom Perez, says that "socialism is their future," and is proving it by backing bubble-headed Alexandria "Chiquita Khrushchev" Ocasio-Cortez and the policies that made Venezuela such a party. But dragging Obama out of retirement to throw them an electoral life preserver, especially considering the wreck he left of his party, is silly. To try and burnish his legacy as a champion of ethics is hilarious.

Obama is gonna be around a lot this fall. As the polling gap between the two parties has narrowed, the Democrats are waking up to the reality that "Trump sux!" isn't exactly a steamroller of a platform. The obvious ploy is to trot out the man in the great tan suit. It strikes me that counting on a 2012 all-pro to lead a 2018 party to the end zone suggests that "Trump Sux!" might be the better game plan. But it makes the opposition's job a little easier. Granted, the GOP will probably pay consultants millions to come up with "nuh-UH!," but that's not far from a winner. The Democrats are becoming a parody of themselves. Let them send in the clown(s).

— Ben Crystal

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nothing is happening

it's optics, man

She had a fierce intelligence in her eyes which was not apparent in her behavior or speech.  When you looked into those sparkling, blueish gray orbs, you couldn't help but get the impression she had something clever to say.  She did not. 

And when she favored you with a smile, you got the reassuring feeling that she understood.  She didn't.  Not a clue.  It was only later you realized her wry, knowing grin was something she unconsciously did when she was suppressing gas.

Oh, and her touch.  The way she held your arm, or delicately draped a hand on your shoulder. That simple gesture made you feel loved, made you feel as if the two of you were connected on the most intimate level.  Well, turns out, that was just her way of keeping her balance while wearing six inch stiletto heels.

And the worst part was you didn't care.  The illusion was good enough.  As long as she didn't talk, fart, or fall on her ass, you were a happy man.   

tough choice

I've been told, if you change your mind you change the world... or at least the way you experience it.  Let's take a moment to examine that.  The presumption is, if you thought the world was a hostile, ugly place full of awful people doing awful things, that is what you'd see.  Your mind would naturally seek out confirmation for its preconceived ideas.  (e.g., if you're intent on buying a red car, as you go about your day you'll see lots of red cars)  If, however, you were able to sincerely change your mind and see that we are all God in drag, that we are the conscious aspects of a perfect universe which had to create us so we can bear witness and stand in awe before it's loving magnificence, then that is the soul-shaking reality you'll be greeted with each and every moment of each and every day.  In other words, it is entirely our choice as to what kind of world to live in.  With a simple decision, we can suffer in the darkness or play in the light.  We can be angry, frightened, and enslaved, or loving, joyous, and free.

I know, it's a toughie. 

connecting some dots

Connecting some dots regarding the corrupt DOJYUUUUGE! (self.The_Donald)

submitted 1 day ago by MrZisterNZL

Here's what it looks like when all the pieces are sewn together
It smells like conspiracy and treason. Everyone needs to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it’s very important......
From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been impanelled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Look who took over this investigation in 2005: None other than James Comey; Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner. Isn’t that interesting?
But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States,
Rod Rosenstein.
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame?
Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Another coincidence, right?
Fast forward to 2009....
James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, official government business, on her own personal email server.
The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hillary.
Like all good public servants do, supposedly looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, America got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Bill Clinton goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech; then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Robert Mueller was the FBI Director during this time frame? Yep, He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland?
None other than, Rod Rosenstein. And what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Very soon after; the sale was approved!~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, - Lois Lerner.
Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?
Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary. .
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? None other than James Comey; who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer? Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and he exonerates her. Nope.... couldn’t find any crimes there.
In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury!
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Comey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hillary from any wrongdoing.
Do you see the pattern?
It goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General,Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.
FISA Abuse, political espionage..... pick a crime, any crime, chances are...... this group and a few others did it:
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves
All connected in one way or another to the Clinton's.
They are like battery acid; they corrode and corrupt everything they touch.How many lives have these two destroyed?
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Let us not forget that Comey's brother works for DLA Piper, the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation's taxes.
The person that is the common denominator to all the crimes above and still doing her evil escape legal maneuvers at the top of the 3 Letter USA Agencies?
Yep, that would be Hillary R. Clinton.
Now who is LISA BARSOOMIAN? Let’s learn a little about Mrs. Lisa H. Barsoomian’s background.
Lisa H. Barsoomian, an Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, is a protégé of James Comey and Robert Mueller.
Barsoomian, with her boss R. Craig Lawrence, represented Bill Clinton in 1998.
Lawrence also represented:
Robert Mueller three times;
James Comey five times;
Barack Obama 45 times;
Kathleen Sebelius 56 times;
Bill Clinton 40 times; and
Hillary Clinton 17 times.
Between 1998 and 2017, Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times.
You may be saying to yourself, OK, who cares? Who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman?
Apparently, someone does, because someone out there cares so much that they’ve “purged” all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals Court dockets (?). Someone out there cares so much that even the internet has been “purged” of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.
Historically, this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative. Additionally, Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community. Although Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney, her email address is Lisa Barsoomian at NIH.gov. The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health. This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities.
It’s a cover, so big deal right? What does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter?
It deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uni-party unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix …. and last but not least Mueller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and-the Russians.
Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention?
BECAUSE….
She is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s WIFE!

unknown. un-elected. unaccountable.

Something I got from Dragon today.

 

 

If you're listening to or watching the Mockingbird media - and I can't understand why anybody would - then what you are hearing on the "news" comes to you by way of a technology called AVID. We've talked about AVID before. "Someone", or a group of "someones", has decided what the "news" content is going to be. The newsreaders read what is presented to them on the teleprompter.

 

News? There are no by-lines any more. No investigative reporters on the Mockingbird media. The news readers appear to be so authoritative and knowledgeable. It's just an image, folks. The news readers could be interchangeable with any TV station's news room staff.

 

I used to listen to NPR News. It's the only radio station I can get out here in the country. I was aware that it was propaganda and twisted but I listened to see what the Other Side was doing. After Donald Trump took office, NPR changed. Even discounting the presence of subliminal programming, what passes for "news" from NPR is very thin soup.

 

Sometimes I turn it on to see what's up in the world. I can only bear to listen for about ten minutes, and then I turn it off. Sometimes, I don't listen that long. What I am hearing is blatant, and I mean blatant, perception management.

 

+There'll be a story, or a series of stories, about those poor children left at the border because their parents can't be located. And lots of comment about how it's Trump's policy.

 

+There will be a singer that no one ever heard of, almost always black and female and quite often, gay. And the news readers will be gushing over the new album. This could go on for several minutes.

 

+Whatever positive thing that Donald Trump did with the economy or foreign policy, the "news" people will bring in someone from Obama or Dubya's administration to put a negative spin on it.

 

The AVID teleprompter readers will not tell you that black unemployment is down. They won't tell you that the number of black owned businesses is up 400% in one year.

 

I read that the future of the trucking business is so bright that the trucking companies have ordered 450,000 new units.

 

The black government of South Africa has already announced that white farmers' land will be taken without compensation. Not a peep out of the Mockingbird press. If it was white folks taking over farms owned by black folks, it would be front page news and the leading story on every broadcast.

 

Putin has offered them land and asylum in Russia. You won't hear about it on the news.

 

When's the last time you got news about the war in Syria? Anyone heard from ISIS lately?

 

On today's NPR there was a story about some illegal immigrant who was taking his wife to the hospital. He was arrested when they stopped for gas. The news readers spun the story as more evidence of the Trump administration's policy against immigrants. The poor man was taken from his wife and baby. The listener is supposed to be sobbing at this point. Barely mentioned was the fact that he's wanted for murder in Mexico.

 

The news media is so biased that if Trump could cure cancer just by speaking at one of his rallies, the media would moan and groan about how many doctors were unemployed as a result.

 

I haven't had a TV in my house since 1992. And up until Trump took office, I tolerated NPR news. They've gone from bad to worse since he took office. I tune in to Betsy and Thomas' site AIM4Truth.org and listen to most of his videos. You'll get straight facts from Thomas and news you can use. Been listening for months and I haven't heard anything from Thomas about black gay singers with a new album.

 

Thomas Paine was the one who told the world that subliminal programing is part of every TV program. Which probably explains why Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters keep getting re-elected. And Diane Feinstein! The Mockingbird media won't tell you that Feinstein had a Chinese spy as a chauffeur for twenty years. Twenty years!

 

If you want to be able to think clearly, if you want to get that subliminally induced fog out of your brain, you'll stop watching all TV. It's addictive. And it will make you do things that no thinking person would ever do.

 

Remember the Borg on Star Trek? The Borg had a hive mind. That's you watching TV while someone else has taken control of your mind.

 

A word to the wise is sufficient. You've been told.

 

 

Dragon

red pill marathon

truth and art censorship

wine a little or get off my flow chart

I found this flow chart on winefolly.com.

In my humble opinion, if it's not fruit of the vine, it aint wine.

I've been pondering the proper name for wines that are made from substances other than grapes.  In Mongolia you can get fermented mares milk with a blood garnish called Kumis.  A drink made from fermented honey is called mead.  Hard cider comes from apple cider.  I wouldn't call any of these wines.  They all have their own distinctive name that separates them from other alcoholic beverages.  Why would something made from watermelon and walnuts share the same general name as Malbec, Chardonnay, or even Concord?  Truth is, they don't.  That other-than-grape fruity stuff is called country wine, to separate it from the real thing.  I tend to think it needs a few more degrees of separation, like maybe calling it country whine.  But I digress...
    
This flow chart not only gives me an idea what to make next but it sheds a little light on why some of my friends get box wines and others prefer the lollipop, tooty-fruity, "country wines" that fill the shelves of every winery around here.

Or should I say whinery?

 

themask of undoogoo

Before Undoogoo would begin to venture into the jungle on his daily hunt, he would don a mask to confuse his prey.  Not a mask to frighten.  No.  Undoogoo's mask was pleasant to look at, designed to trick his quarry that he was harmless.  In this way, Undoogoo was able to get close and strike a lethal Blow.  Which is exactly what he had in mind the day he spied a beautiful creature drinking at a watering hole.  Hiding behind his benign facade, he positioned himself alongside his intended victim and prepared to attack.  But what Undoocoo didn't know about this "beautiful creature" was she was also wearing a mask.  A mask that successfully camouflaged a fierce and merciless predator.  And so it was that Undoogoo suddenly found himself devoured, torn apart, eviscerated.  His screams echoed through the jungle.  But the jungle was accustomed to the sounds of agony, and no one came to his aid.  Bloodied and barely alive, he managed to escape and crawled back to his village where, to his horror, he discovered his tormentor had taken possession of his hut.  Now, helpless and homeless he was forced to live the rest of his days in the wild, feeding on what dung beetles feed on.

The moral of the story:

Mask or not, if you hunt without a prenup, pack some ketchup for the dung. 

a morning thought

Mornings are the worst.  The mind seems undefended, easy prey for both memories and imagination.  What happened.  What should've happened.  What might happen someday.  Your fault, my fault, no ones fault.  The only way is to get up, empty the bladder, drink the coffee, read the paper, run the treadmill, perform the animal sacrifice, paint the chicken blood on the groin and call upon the demonic spirits to bring you back.

Nights are bad too.  Once again, exhaustion makes the mind vulnerable to abscessing over woulda, coulda, shoulda.  The only thing to do is sit alone and eat the chicken which was senselessly murdered in the morning.