Fools - Hubert Brown - MANCHILD IN PROMISED LAND - 1965

I said a fool was somebody stupid. Dad said I was right, but there was more to it than that. He said it takes a stupid person to keep looking for something that is never there. - Hubert Brown - 1965

As true then as it is now.

Moneyless Americans

Americans don't have money. They have credit card debt. - James Steele - Fugitive

Americans are $1.8 trillion dollars in debt to banks. If there are lucky. The average credit card interest rate in America is 24.26% after the fourth straight monthly decrease in the wake of recent Federal Reserve rate cuts. Mostly spend on what they don't need or accumulating interest rates. Deconsume, children, and otherwise wait for International Write-Off Day. Realize you own nothing, but your debt which averages $6000 per Americans. Young, old, and dead.

I have no credit cards. I haven't for sixteen years. I have nothing to show for that time, except well-fed families in Thailand. Cash is freedom. Fuck cryto-currency. Just another scam by the wealthy scum.

"When your cab driver tells you about stocks, it's time to get out of the market. " JP Morgan. American Monopolist.

Aging

As you get old you forget, as you get older, you are forgotten, then you forget everything. - James Steele - International fugitive

A Bacchanalian Mirage

Associated Press - Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s 'The Last Supper' during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept behind it Sunday.

Da Vinci’s painting depicts the moment when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him. The scene during Friday’s ceremony featured the DJ flanked by drag artists and dancers.

I thought the same, but then realized the line-up on the bridge serving as a runway for the preceding fashion show had closed ranks around Barbara Butch, an LGBTQ+ icon, whose was wearing a halo crown. I clocked the Last Supper and rejoiced the blasphemy, until I thought that Da Vinci's The Last Supper was in Milan and had nothing to do with Paris or France, although Da Vinci spent his last three years in The Château du Clos Lucé in Amboise, Loire Valley under the patronage of King Francis I.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." Leonardo da Vinci.

The illusion shattered with the lifting on a huge lid to reveal French singer and actor Philippe Katerine as a blue Dionysus surrounded by fruit on a dinner plate. THe ancient god – known to the Romans as Bacchus – has a close tie to France: In Greek mythology, he is the father of Sequana, the Goddess of the River Seine according to USA Today.

This last slice of mythology was unknown to me, but I thought, "Genius."

Then again I am a non-believer.

ps no video of this event is available due to a ban on Youtube.

Que scandalle

A bas a le troiseme estate.

All life is illusion.

The Fifth Times The Chimes - Rupert Murdoch

Last week Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing propaganda media mogul, wedded for the fifth time at age 95.

“Only wealth can blind a beauty woman to a man’s baldness.” - Frederick Engels co-author of THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

"In the first marriage the ring is fake and the orgasms are fake. In the second the ring is real and the orgasms are fake." Manny Winick - 47th Street Diamond District legend.

"Any marriage after the age of eighty a man can only hope for a woman strong enough to help him walk." James Steele, ne'er-do-well

Hiding in Scandal

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. Elizabeth Taylor

Check out the man hiding his face.

He couldn't be more guilty.

And the woman is free as the wind.

Honest To Goodness Patriot

I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job. John Wayne - On John F. Kennedy's election Disgruntled GOP voters should learn from that as well as Democrats. We are one.

The Enemy

To know the enemy, you have to be the enemy - James Steele

Quote of the Day by the Dalai Lama

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. H.H. the Dalai Lama