Nagasaki Day 2025 Gaza Now

The day after Hiroshima Japanese scientists returned to Tokyo and informed the Imperial Cabinet that the bomb had been atomic. The Army possessed intelligence that the US possessed two to three more bombs and they as samurai should fight to the bitter end to satisfy the bushi dignity of war. THe US received no message from the Japanese about peace negotiations. On August 9, 1945 the Bockscar B-29 was loaded with a Fat Man on Tinian Island and flew north from Tinian Island with escorts to Kokura, a large source of munitions.. That ancient fotress city was shrouded by a morning fog and the bomber proceeded to thhe secondary target, Nagasaki, an industrial center on the southern island of Kyoshu.

At 11:01 the clouds cleared beneath the bomber and the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of over 200,000 people. The explosion cupped by the hills surrounding Nagasaki intensifying the destruction. The US reported 60,000. Mostly workers and civilians. Only one hundred and fifty soldiers died on the ground.

On August 9, the Imperial Cabinet met to discuss surrender. The Imperial Army argued against capitulation. The Emperor had the final say. As long as Kokutai or Japanese sovereignty could be preserved, he realized that surrender was the only honorable way out of this war without asking his people to die rather than accept defeat. Truman was bound to drop more bombs as they began available. The next for August 19. The Emperor accepted reality.

"Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization."

After announcing the cessation of war, die-hard militarists staged a coup. Their insurrection failed and peace has reigned in Japan from 1945 to 2026. Eighty-one years. But not so for the USA, trapped as the world's superpower in Endless Wars everywhere in the world, especially in Gaza, where the Azraelis have killed over 300,000 Palestinians in revenge for the twelve hundred dead from Hamas' October 6, 2021 Attack. And they aren't stopping yet or in Syria or Yemen or the West Bank. And Azrael has yet to use a Nuclear Bomb. Of curse they can't, since they are basically bombing that which they want for themselves. Judah, and secondly Zion does not possess a nuclear bomb.

One day there will be peace.

Diversity

My father's side of the family came over on the Mayflower. My Irish Nana sailed across the Atlantic on a cow boat from Ireland. My older sister's husband is Jewish. My younger sister is married to an African American with Indian blood. My next-door neighbors in my old hometown were Neapolitans who emigrated from Argentina. I have friends from every race, religion, and nation.

"Whence came all these people?" wrote J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer.

We came from everywhere and we still come from everywhere, because that is the American way.

Happy July 4th

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God Save the Queen and Her Fascist Regime - 2012

A NOTE FROM HER ROYAL HIGHNESS QEII In light of your repeated failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA therefore not be able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
(You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated sometime next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.' Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').
2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S.English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of '-ize.'
3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist,then you're not ready to shoot grouse.
5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. Australian beer is also acceptable, as Australia is pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
11. You will cease playing American football. There are only three kinds of proper football; one you call soccer, Australian Rules and rugby (dominated by the Australians). Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the Australians (again World dominators) first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!
PS: Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!

From my good friend Nick, A Tottenham Spurs devotee.

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Happy Gun Shooting Freedom Day -2014

Today the USA celebrates the Declaration of Independence freedom.

24 hours of traffic jams, bbq, flag-waving, chest-thumping, nascar, bad beer, fighting, and fixing a crapped out car on the highway causing a miles-long traffic jam.

As well as American ingenuity.

Belly flops.

Flip flops

A house in the country.

And the right to be a man.

We so rule.

Tears For Venezuela

Since Columbus Americas north and south has always been a land of newcomers. The Spanish, Portugese, English and French displaced fhe native people through disease and extermination. The humanity of Africa was plundered by empires and the American Republuc. The First People disappeared through wars to free the sea to sea for the industrial exploitation of the masses from Europe. Ptge upper classes thrived off the misety of the others, but still people risked all to escape the hopelessness of their home to reach the Land of the Free.

And still they came.

By the millions to the USA, BUT ALSO Columbia, Peru, other other Latin American countries.

Most recently from Senegal and Venezuela. There was no stopping them and Trump won the 2024 election by appealing to the fears of 31% of the electorate. GOP governors shipped the illegals from the border states to the North. Plenty of them.

New York City housed thousands.

In Clinton Hill several warehouses were transformed into shelters. Senegalese men and large Venezuelan families. Their voyages were long and dangerous often financed by debts to the human traffickers, but I was surprised by the size of Venezuelan families. As many as fivr children parented by short Indios. All fundamentalist Christian and I asked myself how were they able to finance this trip.

Only one answer came to mind.

Their churches. Catholics throughout the Americas have abandoned the Old Religion to worship the fundamentalist faith. And the churches are financed by the rabid rightwing Bible thumpers.

Venezuela sits on the greatest oil reserves in the world, but reaped about $4 billion in 2023, while Saudi Arabia earned a hundred times that amount thanks to the longstanding US embargo, which has impoverished the nation. There would be no refugees, if we believed in a free market.

More Than 500,000

Over 500,000 Americans have died from Covid.

My friends, Ro and Doctor Bertoni, were two of them.

As was Dakota Pittman and many others.

Last year this time I was atop Kilimanjaro. The 2021 team of Kili Initiative descended from the summit. I got an internet connection on the Saddle. Reports from the Guardian and BBCNews informed us of a deadly situation in Italy. Thousands were dying across that country and my Kenyan friends asked, "What do you think will happen?"

"I have no idea."

I certainly hadn't thought 500,000 dead.

That is more than the population of Kansas City, Cleveland, or New Orleans and the next year promises more of the same for a nation half-dedicated to the Trump story line on Covid fraud. Rest in Peace all of you.

What Snow?

The US Meteorological Survey has reported that New York City received a little over twenty inches of snow this winter. All I saw were a few dustings, then again throughout February I was in Kenya and Tanzania.

Snow topped Mount Kilimanjaro and some days ran down the slopes, however the equatorial sun melted the snow cover by noon.

The temperature at the Maranzi Hut was around freezing at night, but my sleeping bag kept me warm, so I spend another winter without snow.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Flat Earth USA

Only 2% of Americans believe in a flat Earth.

This would be heartening, except 69% have faith in Guardian Angels.

Go figure.

7 Million and Counting

Charles Manson died in California penal system as punishment for the 1969 murders at the Sharon Tate home along with several other mass murder punctuating the end of the Summer of Love. The state never really proved that the ex-convict personally killed any of the victims, yet the LA DA convinced a jury that this guitar-playing drifter was the mastermind behind these diabolical slayings.

With the help of LAPD.

Experts of linking A to B.

Millions of other Americans have been prosecuted by a vigilant criminal system intent on jailing 5% of the population in order to compete with Russia as the # 1 nation for punishing its populace with jail time and even worse rural communities in America have expanded their role as penal colonies.

More prison.

Less schools.

Bust reefer smokers.

Throw meth heads into purgatory.

That is the new industry of America thanks to the law and order motherfuckers.

Dying towns in the hinterland are begging for prisons.

Close a New Hampshire paper mill. 220 jobs gone. Open a prison. Plus another 330 jobs.

Crime pays the state.

Dunkin' Donuts loves jail.

Nothing says cop better than the smell of a honey-dipped donut on a cop.

Book em Dano.

The Ferocity of the Fat Front

Obesity is a human dietary condition, in which over-eating threatens a human with heart disease, type 2 diabetes, the failure to breathe, cancer, and osteoarthritis according to Wikipedia. Obesity is determined by Body Mass Index or BMI = kilograms in weight divided by your height in meters squared.

18.5 is considered underweight
18.5–24.9 is normal weight
25.0–29.9 qualifies as overweight

Any BMI breaking 30.0 is considered obese.

At 93 kilos and 1.80 meters tall I fit into the upper echelon of overweight.

Last night I walked into Frank's Lounge and the rattlesnake-thin bartender Lola commented, "Pete, you put on some weight in Alaska?"

"Good eye." I smiled thinking that the last thing a bartender was supposed to say was how bad you look. "I'll have a Stella with ice."

Only one and I was out the door.

It was time for regain my girlish figure. New York was due for a heat wave. Some of my bloat could be attributed to beer bloat.

No problem, however the Fat Front has actively combated any strategy to slimize America and the fast food chains, Big Farm, and for years their media flacks attacked the First Lady Obama's program to create a new concept of nutrition for the young of this country.

Michele Obama's effort was strictly triage. The fat adults have lost to the Beast. Their love of potato chips and ice cream excluded any hope of rescue, but the same way the crack epidemic died after the high attrition rates of murder and incarceration, these mor-obs or morbidly obese Americans will extinct themselves with their eating binges, creating salvation for the young.

Big Farm sees the future and their executives recognize their existence depends on new recruits.

Sugar-coated cereal is the first dose of crack food for kids. Saturday morning cartoons are financed by Big Farm. Mickey Ds and Lucky Charms drenched in Coca-Cola are slung like Casper the ghost crack to eager devotees to Fat and this week the powers of obesity hired a former Obama White House communications director to front their junk food assault on the young.

The Sensible Food Policy Coalition includes General Mills, Kellogg, PepsiCo, and Time Warner. They are buying support with millions of dollars to congressmen and TV. The US Chamber of Commerce and Viacom are also members of this cabal to fat up America's young.

The former White House comm-ad is fat. She had to defend her kind. Without more fat people her race will die, because they are incapable of sustaining their numbers by procreation. Big Food is the enemy. I know. At 29 BMI I am on the edge and I'm praying to a record heat wave.

ps Trump is a tubby and he won because tubbies voted for him.>

Thai Impotency hit 40% - Europe 50% - USA 80%

"Fear is the first time you can get an erection for the second time. Terror is the second time you can't get it up for the first time."

New Year's Eve 1980. NYC. 6am-5pm Jan.2. I played domino with three girls in fur bikinis and a PR ye-ho dealer. Mario of 'Mario can you get me into Studio' fame. The windows were glazed with aluminum foil against the progression of time. I left with the prettiest of the girls.

Nina.

I wanted to make love with her for months. We shared the same last name. It was almost incest.

Except I couldn't get it up.

Cock-blocked by coke.

Several years later I stopped in LA.

On the way to Asia.

Nina was living there. High-power stylist. In with the in crowd.

We went out. We drank. We didn't make it to a hotel.

Just a car.

Once more I suffered softitis as extreme was Michelangelo's David.

"She told me it happens to men."

"Not to me. Not with you."

"Don't worry. It's normal."

But it wasn't. Nina snitched about my no-show to her girlfriends, who told the tale till every woman in America had heard, "He don't got game."

Cursed.

But I'm not alone.

Every day millions of men over 40 are stricken by penile dysfunction.

Thailand 30%. Europe 50%. The USA 80%.

No one is having children in Europe and American men are too fat to have sex with even fatter women. Thai men are only impotent because they drink too much.

Impotency tends to get blamed on such diseases as diabetes and heart conditions along with stress and anxiety, however perfectly healthy men finds themselves short of testerone at the moment of truth and have to fake a headache or worst a hangover to avoid the shame of not getting it up.

Of course in America this failure rarely gets faulted to the obesity of the female or in Thailand that the women are shrews. This talk is banned by doctors and women alike, because for every beautiful woman there's a man down the street tired of having sex with her. Think about the men stuck with fat hags and skinny bitches. Almost enough to turn them gay, except thanks to the advances in DSL connections men around the world can find relief through XXX porno sites.

Viagra (real and fake), sperm load enhancers, and size enlargers are offered along with hair growth pills and online pornography.

From the spam ads sprouting on my email address I would almostbe afraid to unzip my fly at a Yankee stadium men's room, unless my penis was longer than John Holmes' schlong. I have personally tested over 200 different penis enlargement products and gained about 1mm of extra length. Strangely the only part of a man's body that doesn't gain size as he gets fatter is the penis. So I've resigned myself to never ever dropping my trousers and hearing a woman or man say, "Not with that you don't."

'Small penis syndrome' is another effect of watching too much porno, although those more polite people might refer to it as "genital body almost be".

Size size size and if it's not size then it's hardness and I've tried chemical libido aids. Cialis is much more preferable to Viagra, since blue boys' side effects produce pounding headaches and hot flashes like you're entering terminal stages of male menopause.

The drug companies have been raking in billions with blue boys and the like. No one is talking about the dangers. It's rumored that scores of westerners are brought to the Pattaya hospitals monthly with heart attacks due to over-doing their exercises.

Mostly push-ups on Soi 6.

Worst than Blue boys are the Indian gels.

A friend of mine swore by the gels and he now complains about his eyesight failing and the doctor said it was from the capillaries being expanded by these gels. Most doctors in Thailand are specialists so if it wasn't an eye doctors then there is a good chance the MD didn't know what he was talking about, still it's a concern.

Personally I don't fancy touring the fleshpots of the world with a Seeing Eye dog.

Not being bald I've focused my last effort of increasing my money shot, because some of these XXX studs can dump buckets of sperm into the eager mouths of wanton western world.

There seems to be millions of these harlots on the internet, yet none in America. Accordingly a recent study reported that 60% of US males spend 2-3 hours a night before a computer screen downloading porno. The sicker the better for flogging the dolphin, yet this year for the first time the industry experienced a drop in sales.

Impotency has hit masturbation too.

Will they resort to the Chinese cuisine of virility?

Chinese will eat anything to achieve potency. Monkey brains, crocodiles penises, tiger balls, and bear spleens without ever taking into consideration that there are 100 million more men in China than women.

Once more it's to the computer screen.

Except in Pattaya where someone is always willing to take you on for a price.

Whatever you do be careful with these marital aids.

Blindness or impotency.

That's the gamble

But most men think so much about sex that when they get the chance to have sex they freeze up unless the circumstances mirror their fantasies. Comes from watching too much porno. Adonia. The inability to experience pleasure. And this is in Thailand where everything is available. What hope is there for the UK? Or America? It's surprising they even have children.

Amazing that men have so much trouble performing what comes so natural to other animals if the female is in the mood. I was back in the States recently and asked my friends when the last time they had sex and none of them said within a month. Few hadn't for six months. And this had nothing to do with dysfunction.

They had lost interest.

Except for when they are on the internet surfing porn

But they wouldn't admit to that malaise.

I only suffer no wood when I'm with someone I don't really desire, especially if sex is an after-thought to drinking. All night you drink beer and the blood goes to your stomach. You go home. Your wife takes one look at you and says, "You have to be kidding."

Not exactly motivation for an erection. Then you look in the mirror. You drunk idiot. More negativity. And you sit in front of the TV rather than face your wife or girlfriend.

End of story.

Where's The Peace?

My step-father's farm lies about 200 kilometers north of Bangkok. Den annually harvests one rice crop. The rest of the year he tends to his roaming cattle.

His house is small. A solar panel provides energy for a small TV, radio, light bulb, and fan. The sun falls fast on the rice fields and at night my father-in-law drinks lao khao or rice whiskey, while speaking with the ghosts of the past.

They have long conversations and Den couldn't be more happy in this peaceful setting.

He rarely comes home to the main house.

No one listens to him after too much lao khao, but the ghosts have no choice.

They are his prisoners.

Even Preta, the hungry ghost.

Not much meat on Den.

Lao khao is the old man's main source of nutrition and hungry ghosts are not heavy drinkers.

A happy man indeed.

The serenity of the Chao Phyra river is an illusion.

Thailand as a nation is not so fortunate according to the World Peace Index.

Insurgency, corrupt police, and a political military are never a good recipe for peace.

See this URL; http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankings/compare/

Back in 2008 the Land of Smiles stood 118 out of 140 countries bracketed by Kenya and the Congo, 140th unsurprisingly being Iraq. This low ranking was the result of the government's failed suppression of the restive South.

Yala.

I actually spent a month there in 1994.

It was very peaceful.

Not anymore.

Siam's 2016 standing has dropped to 125 and Thailand's status will not improve until a wise Thai asks his country end the power elite, "What about a little peace?"

Not that the Muslim separatists are interested in peace.

They want a land of their own, but Thailand is not interested in that solution.

So Siam should be in triple digits for the years to come.

In 2008 the USA was 97th.

Present ranking 103.

It feels more like 1003.

I guess the World Peace Index doesn't count when you export violence.

And import your dead.

Is a little peace too much to ask?

Really?

Steve McQueen thought it was cool and no one was cooler than Steve for a while.

Top Ten US States For Corruption

No surprise at # 1

1. Mississippi 2. Louisiana 3. Tennessee 4. Illinois 5. Pennsylvania 6. Alabama 7. Alaska 8. South Dakota 9. Kentucky 10. Florida

But where was New Jersey?

Olympic Boycott

The Sochi Olympics are nearing its final days. I have watched no live events in accord with a personal ban against Russia's hardline against homosexuality and free speech. Putin has instituted draconian measures against any protests. Yesterday Cossacks attacked members of Pussy Riot with whips. They were dragged down to the police station and thankfully released after several hours.

As much as I love hockey, I have missed the USA's epic shoot-out win against Russia and tomorrow I'll shunned the gold medal match between the USA and Canada.

A boycott is a boycott and I'm in it to the end, unless it's close in the 3rd period, then my love for hockey will win over the boycott.

Being a Gemini I'm very gifted at being a hypocrite.

Eyes In The Sky

The FAA announced plans to allow Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia to test drones for commercial use starting in 2015.

The BBC reported that the head of the FAA, Michael Huerta, said safety would be the priority as it considers approval for unleashing the unmanned aircraft into US skies to provide luxury realtors to show off multi-million properties with aerial views, deliver beer to music festival-goers, and make movies such as the recent SMURFS PART 2.

I like the idea of beer delivery, however my Chinese take-out delivery man will stop at the bodega en route with my moo she pork.

Truthfully drones will be used to spray poisonous pesticide over farmlands and aid police surveilling the public.

Hundreds of thousands of young men have already been trained as drone pilots thanks to AR PURSUIT and their kill counts number in the billions each day.

Drones, stay-at-home video geeks, Diet-Pepsi, and fast food are a perfect formula for the new fascist state.

"We see all, we hear all, and we are all."

Jeff Bezos of Amazon loves the idea of drones.

Drones will cut out Fed Ex and UPS.

Less humans = more profit.

The ACLU complained that, "Giving drones access to US skies would only ensure "our every move is monitored, tracked, recorded and scrutinized by the authorities."

Not that anyone listens to the ACLU.

"We are Devo."

To hear MONGOLOID, please go to the following URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2tZqXWa7no

Hotter Than Before Almost

The Friends of Science actively refute the majority of scientists churning out warnings about the threat of Global Warming. The Hoaxist website disputes the claims of the radical rise in temperatures, the danger of man's carbon footprint on the planet, global warming's adverse effect on weather patterns as well as the shrinkage of glaciers and polar ice packs by stating that Earth's atmosphere is in a constant state of flux with Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe leading the charge as a member of the Senate's Standing Committee on Environment. Last summer when a relentless heat wave scorched the South and central states with a merciless stretch on triple-digit temperatures, Senator Inhofe argued on the floor of the Senate that global warming was a hoax. Several of his opponents booed his assessment as denialism.

According to the New Times a third of the nation’s population experienced 10 or more days of summer temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Among the cities that set temperature records in 2012 were Nashville; Athens, Ga.; and Cairo, Ill., all of which hit 109 degrees on June 29; Greenville, S.C., which hit 107 degrees on July 1; and Lamar, Colo., which hit 112 degrees on June 27. The City's Observer Newspaper argued that New York surpassed the previous record of 106F from 1934 with thermometers topping 107 on July 7, 2012. I was in Thailand on that day, so I cannot verify that information, but I am a believer in Global Warming, however have differed from the majority consensus on the causes of climate change. My good friend Jamie Parker avowed that the planetary increase in temperature was a result from our Solar System passing through a warmer region of space. I theorized that sweating fat people added to the problem. Both of conjectures were trumped by my counterpart in religion, the ex-model from Paris, has sent a damning email claiming the prime reason for global warming is that many people have lost their faith in God and after dying they are sent to Hell. "More sinners to burn, the warmer the planet, plus people are fatter than before so they burn in Hell hotter." Jamie and I agreed that this made sense, if you believed in an after-life. So repent sinners and save the world. There will be no smoothies in Hell.

A Little Racist

After the Obamaslide a GOP friend complained about the electoral college system, saying, "Romney won nearly half the states and still lose the election." "Obama won 26 states and Mitt only had 24. That's less than half and he lost the popular vote too. The math adds up the same way. My guy got more votes than your guy." "Not via the electoral college. Obama won the most populous states with the excpetion of Texas." Mitt's constituency was the Deep South and square states in the West with the least population density in the nation. "Well, it's wrong." "You didn't feel that way in 2000." Even with Florida stolen from the Gore camp, the VP had more popular votes than his opponent, the ill-fated GW Bush. "So suck it up and act like an American for once. E pluribus unum." "Out of one many." My Republican friend was better educated than most voters. Former GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan agreed with my friend in a recent interview, "President Barack Obama got turnout. The president should get credit for achieving record-breaking turnout numbers from urban areas for the most part, and that did win the election for him, but it was close." It wasn't close and I propose a Pax Obama to heal the chasm created by the right-wing pundits fearmongering race war to their aging audience, however hundreds of thousands of these listeners have mailed requests for their states to secede from the Union. Over 100,000 letters have deluged the Texas State Capitol in Austin. Troughout my adult life I have fled the USA whenever the GOP have been in power. Europe in the 80s. Asia in the 90s. Thailand during the GW Bush years. So to those dissenters I say, "If you don't love this America, leave it." Not that they could survive in Mexico or socialist Canada.

Nope to the Dope With No Hope

Phillie.com reported that 13 wards in the City of Obama Love cast 99% of their vote for the President. The GOP won in the traditional strongholds of the South and West, although the Republicans lost Florida, Virigina, Nevada, and Colorado due to demographics changes in the population. The country remains divided on a thin ideological batttleground, because in my eyes the nation is 90% conservative. But at least it isn't going to be run by Mitt Romney and that is a good feeling.

One Of Millions

The protracted economic depression plaguing the world has led Hallmark to introduce a line of greeting cards at offering condolences to the jobless. America's unemployment level is stagnant at 8.2%. Neither of my nephew could find a job this summer and I'm faced with the same fate this month as I return to the States after a long writing sabbatical. My nephew said over thirty-million people are unemployed in America. The number is more like twelve million with another million or so giving up on ever working again. According to the NY Times' Paul Krugman, President Obama has worked hard to help the job market, which has lost almost a million jobs since his becoming president. GW Bush lost about four million during his first three years, but the GOP are constantly throwing out two million as the number of job losses and no one is talking about the yawning maw of income inequality, as the rich get richer and the poor get more numerous, as the Dow Jones rose from 8500 in 2008 to its present 13,000. Me? I'm just a statistic. Same as everyone else. We are not nobody.

Permanent Record

My permanent record began with my name written in the birth certificate from Boston's Lying-In Hospital. Vaccination dates were added in my childhood without my knowledge, however the nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills were fast to warn their students that any wrongdoings in the classroom were indelibly noted in our 'permanent records'.

I was smart. I knew what permanent meant. Permanent was forever.

I tried to be good and my classmates tried to be good, but a chasm existed between our view of good and the nun's irrefutable good. Talking in class, passing notes, looking at the ceiling, reading ahead of the lesson were written into a notebook, which was locked in the teacher's desk at the end of the class day. Any transgressions outside of school were to be confessed to the priest, but none of us snitched out our souls.

Permanent records were stacked in the principal's office with transcripts filled with our name, address, births, grades, test scores, IQ tests, honors, awards, sports achievements et al.

State laws require schools to save records almost forever. California says "perpetually" or "indefinitely," and Illinois is satisfied with 60 years. Mine must be someplace in Boston gathering dust with the rest of the baby boomers' permanent records. I was a good student according to the report cards saved by my mother, so I'm not to worried about my childhood history, however I've skated on both sides of the law since graduating from Our Lady of the Foothills.

A movie actor friend of mine was filming in Louisiana's Angola Prison and asked over the phone whether I had ever been behind bars.

"Three times and the longest was for a few hours." The longest was following an arrest for working at the Jefferson, an after-hour club run by the famed prince of the night Arthur Weinstein. "I'm not a criminal really."

My friend didn't argue my status and after he hung up I went online to http://www.instantcheckmate.com and entered my name into their search engine.

My name is common and this warning popped up on the screen:

NOTICE: This site contains real arrest records dating back several decades. Please use caution when conducting a search to ensure all the information entered is accurate. Learning the truth about the history of your friends and family can be shocking, so please be cautious when using this tool.

A minute passed before the my arrest record appeared with hundreds of other names.

Nothing.

I had no arrest record in the USA.

And that's the type of permanent record that I intend of preserving to the end of my days.