"Jasper - and a mighty good dog too..."

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two months till election day
got the election on my mind
listening to the money party
the mongrel fat puppy party
the republican party
what could be called the
piltdown party
digging up stuff and then
claiming it to be what it aint
and intending to spend no money
to help anybody but themselves
bad policy

"Mere parsimony is not economy...Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy." 
                                                                                                                           Edmund Burke

i like old edmund
but he was eventually
scourged by his supporters
typical

i will not vote in this election
no address
un-homed
wat ja gonna do
oh well
still got an opinion though

in my opinion
this nations failure
to express
honestly
the so called
racial
ethnic
national origin
aspect of a person
in the highest office
in the land
is
delusional

i was looking in a magazine
newsmax
january 2012
and saw a picture of the
president
he looked strange
i finally figured out
they had darkened the
president
and lightened
the background
how funny is that

the president
has a
mixed
racial
ethnic
genetic
heritage
he is a
composite of the best
our human
genes have to offer
he
aint
black
an that is the truth
now
 that fact
being ignored
 gives some idea
about how much
in denial
this country  is

and if they will deny
something that obvious
what the hell else
is being ignored
glossed over
buried

lots
and lots
and lots more

wake up

so thats the political blog
for this election

"Jasper- and a mighty good dog too;
 he wasn't no common dog, he was a composite.
 A composite dog is a dog that's made up of all
 the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-
 kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made
 of the riff-raff that's let over.         Mark Twain

politics is a circus
mostly of clowns
mr cayetano

"I am not a number- I am a free man..."

in the history of coercieon

the gathering of information has

always been important
black mail is a very important tool
in total-itarian governments
such as ours has become
not very different from
syria
china
north korea
and some others

do not wonder what all the information
is going to be used for
to keep you in line

i heard a fellow calling himself
a catholic
deer hunter
like that was why he should have
a position of power
and responsibility
what about a buddhist
bird watcher
is that a person who should
be given responsibility
i think perhaps it  would be
helpful to better state what
it is that a person would do
with the responsibility
which their elected position
would give them

we are governed by
a three part government
such as it is
and they often do not
co-operate well
or effectively

i listened to a person say
he was strong on national
defence
well
that there
defence is obviously pretty weak
given the
reality that there are
12 million folks here
in the usa
who are not here
in accordance with
our legal system
our defence is weak indeed
our offense however
is very offensive
about 900 billion bucks
sloshing around in that bucket
and what gets sloshed out and
lost
seems to be of little concern to
anyone in governent
but the tax payer
we kind of wonder
if any will slosh our way

are we stupid or what

i read an article about
coral reefs a few days ago
the author says
due to
enertia and
speed
there is no hope of
saving coral reefs
from destruction
within about 30 years
acidification of the oceans
are sure to stop the live coral
from living
see them now or
forever hold your peace
maybe your grand children would
like to hear your first hand
accounts of what a coral reef
was like

soon enough we will be a country
consisting of the
hads
and the
had nots

the hippies were right

got to go
time to clean up
the circus
mr cayetano

"I am not a number- I am a free man. I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered."  Partick McGoohan #6   "The Prisoner"

"Few men have virtue..."

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for many years now
i have tried to stick to a
fifty percent clause
in my life
basically it is this
once the untruths
reach a fifty percent level
it is time to vacate
the relationship

 i have noticed that
there is now a political
party which says it would like to
have
am er i ca
come back

from where is
anybodies guess

if these jolly fellows
would accept
seven dollars
and twenty five cents
per hour
as their
living
wages
i would be more
incline to believe
that what they propose
in their budget
is workable

the bottom one percent
of the economy
are being forced into
a life of marginal
legality
this country is better
than what these candidates
propose to do to the
bottom of the economic strata

the thin man was right
if you are successful
you had some help
he was brave
but perhaps
impetuous to mention
that truth


"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." George Washington


got to go
it is an economic circus out there
mr cayetano

"The art of losing isn't hard..."

lost the bootleg i am told
the bootleg was bootlegged
sort of an alice in wonderland thing
perhaps
if i write about it
maybe it will return

began laboring in ernest
a few weeks ago
it is important to be ernest
when laboring

escaped the sally at 4 thirty in the morning
on my last legal day
headed to the laboring job
and who should i meet in the parking lot
of the sally
at 4 thirty in the morning
but the local television news crew
number nine number nine number nine
and the bright lights of the crew
were suddenly turned on me as i walked to
the suite van
quite a joke on me
so i
grabbed my camera and began
getting a few shots of my own
film at eleven

went down town
peopled by plastic folks
trying to stay fashionable
labored on the 17th and 18th
floor of the bank building
construction clean-up
worked hard
real hard
but not hard enough
just got turned down
for opening an account at said bank
too un-unhomed

labored today at the school
resurfacing bathroom floors
piss really takes a toll
i should know
over-heard lots of gossip from the teachers
they seemed to be fascinated with
pornography
all damned day
porn this
and porn that
guess some of them must not get many offers
you know
some of them are a little
how shall i say this
porcine
if thats not to much a word
associated with livestock

well rumors being what they are
and everyone loves intrigue
me as much as anyone
there is apparently some fellow who
has been investigated for
years and years and  years
and whose life has been ruined
i mean what a crying fuckin shame
eh
better him than me i suppose

and then there is the possibility of murder
not to mention theft
and the implication of
the federal bureau of investigation
the united states attorneys office
the state police
the sheriffs department
and the city police
who would have thought

unfortunately i seem to have lost
actually had stolen from me
my notebook
my quote book
both of my garbage picker uppers
two bottles of dermatologist cream
and a few days ago my knife
nothing fatal
just annoying

rented a cheap room
and was able to watch some of the
classic movies i bought
notorious by alfred hitchcock
with cary grant and ingrid bergman
damn good movie
she was being poisoned too

so life goes on
until it doesn't i suppose

i had a picture to post with this
but i lost it

"The art of losing isn't hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost
That their loss is no disaster."  Elizabeth Bishop
                                         "One art"
                                           Geography III

mr cayetano

"Niggerization is the result of oppression-..."

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folks are getting preyed upon
did you notice
the banks
the landlords
everybody wants to burn the poor people

i think the usa forgot to look at the triage aspect
of our war effort
priorities ya know

i have been hearing about becoming a citizen in the usa
if you sign up for the military
you get a good shot of being allowed to stay

four dollars and thirty one cents american dollars
or fifty seven mexican pesos
that is the 2011 legal minimum wage in mexico
per day
i looked it up

it seems to me that if mexico were to get some
legitimate help from the usa
like maybe help rooting out violent gangsters
that would be a very fine country to be in
i would like to spend some time there
all the beaches are tropical beaches
the mountains are nice
the people are nice
but the damned violence
no
hell no

so if you enlisted the persons from mexico
who are here
to join the military
and agree to return to mexico
to fight for their country
it might make the place livable
those other countries where we have
spent so much time and money
are not our neighbor
we are in a hell of a fix now
but not too late to help
mexico and ourselves

canada seems to be o k

i was listening some of the current ideas
coming from the candidates for the
commander
in chief
job
not really very inspiring
michell obama seems to have the only
sustainable plan
exercise
organic gardening
can not hardly go wrong with that

candidate
mmit robbed-me
has
right answers
wrong questions

the thin man
has
got to stay the course

better stay with
michell's husband

"Niggerization is the result of oppression-and it doesn't just apply to black people. Old people poor people, and students can also get niggerized."  Florynce R. Kennedy

got to go
mr. cayetano

" The thirsty of soul..."

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vote for me and
i will set you free
remember those lyrics
do not believe it

got sent to a job today
kind of surprised me
got there
did not want me
drove 11 miles
used too much of
my gas
multi million dollar companies
both ends
sending and receiving
i have about 60 bucks
but i had to spend my money
for nothing

so i looked up the companies online
and i have the ceo e-mails
and i will ask them if they might
want to try to
bring the worker
into the picture

remember us

one website says they have 7881 temp
agencies listed
and every one making money
who in the hell are these people
these octopuses

i wonder if the re-pubic-lan
candidate for president
has ever considered the worker

ever

this rich fellow seems like
ronald reagan
on estrogen
and
the high priest of money

 i went to the library and learned
one million and sixty two thousand
people came into the usa
last year
legally
to stay
which is about average
and
they will have offspring
and their offspring
will have offspring
eventually we will be like china
too many people
too little wilderness

i say we trade people
for every person that enters
one leaves

i see where mac crystal the
military guy wants everyone to
serve this country
and he says you can opt for
civil work
cleaning parks and stuff
for $15,000 a year
or military but not fighting
for $15,000 a year
or go for the gusto
and be on the trigger team
and get paid much better
and everyone gets free college

sounds good to me

"The thirsty of soul soon learn to know
The moistureless froth of the social show,
The vulgar sham of the pompous feast
Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest;
The organized charity, scrimped and iced,
In the name of the cautious, statistical Christ.
                            John Boyle O'Reilly

welcome to the employment circus
its all politics

mr caytano

"There is no such thing as the State..."

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spent the fourth day of july outside
and also the third and the fifth
did some reading and writing and
listening and looking
 swatting at some bugs
and welcoming others

thought about what some people
call
serving their country
and the different ways folks do that

read this article on
w w one
what they call the great war
and how some historians view it today

"It may be that no one can write military history
 without the language of mandarin euphemism;
when Shelby Foote writes of 'hard fighting' on
Stonewall Jacksons flank, or Strachan of  a
'sanguinary engagement', it requires a determined
mental act to recall that what happened was not an
entry on a tally sheet but a violent death of a human
being, loved and cared for by a mother and a father,
and full of hope and possibility, torn apart by lead
balls or shreds of sharp metal, his intestines hanging
open, or his mouth coughing blood, in a last paroxysm
 of pain and fear. And then to recall that any justification
 for a war has to be justification for this reality. Any other
 calculation about German militarism or the possible fate
 of French colonies has to incorporate this image into its
 nucleus and accept it as justified."
        Adam Gopnik  "The Big One"  New Yorker -8/23/04

i thought it was a pretty vivid
account of considerations which are
seldom thought about when someone says
we support our troops

i guess you can support troops
but not support war

or can you

"There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die."
  Wystan Hugh Auden


got to go,
mr cayetano