The Pitchforks and Torches log

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Seems the peeps might have had enough. The evidence is in the number of increasing violent attacks against the system that the prez likes to call violent outbursts--as if to say they might be random and perpetrated by nut cases.

But, what if they aren't.

Seems recent events might actually be understandable given the desperation and limited alternatives some of these 'violent' individuals were faced with...

Like the guy from Florida who shot his previous employer....

"ORLANDO, Fla. - Jason Rodriguez's marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. It was a "stress overload" for the man accused of a deadly shooting rampage at his former office, his lawyer said Saturday.
The 40-year-old man whose life seemed to just keep getting worse was charged Saturday with first-degree murder, accused of killing one and wounding five Friday at his former office. He said nothing in his brief court appearance Saturday, but his attorney portrayed him as a mentally ill man who fell victim to countless problems."

Then, there is the couple who have been charged with 'torturing' a couple of loan modification scammers...

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they suspected of fraud, authorities said on Monday."

And we all know what happened when the army asked a muslim to go to his 'homeland' and kill his own people. Too bad they couldn't hear his objections.

Anyway...

Here's a good article on the reason we'll be seeing a lot more those violent outbursts in the future.

As Foreclosure Nightmares Increase, Will More Homeowners Pay Off Th...

"The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it."

Or maybe they're beginning to see the entire government as the criminal enterprise it has become, and realize that that's why there's no justice for them. Maybe they now realize that the only way they'll ever experience justice is to take it by force. As Bush once said..."freedom isn't pretty." Maybe the 'war for freedom', has finally come home.

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HALOOO??  ANYBODY ALIVE IN HERE??  Here is thecleaned-up wordpress virgin of this month so far.  

Scobbling to get my next.last Mr.Toad Machine, and what do these assholes do as soon as I look away from Dixie Head Krakkkerland?  Why theReligious Freedom Restoration Act...same Rebluck of Dummfukk that bought the Textbook Morality Act and rounding up Pi to 3.15.  The genius fucks that brought you Mark Sauder and Dan Quayle.  

[BO]

There be good manholes...

...and there be bad manholes.

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Speaking of slip craft and manholes, I get to have my ten year anniversary colonoscopy day after tomorrow. What fun! Gotta drink a whole gallon of poop inducing juice tomorrow. Not looking forward to it. 

In related news, I may be buying a compost toilet pretty soon. Remodeling a 400 sq. ft. shed for my son to live in. No plumbing services --- so he'll have to tote water and poop. Having a lot of fun exploring options. Been keeping me busy.

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I'm on the five year cycle because the first one found a few polyps.  Oh joy!

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Colonoscopy yeah. Decided to sit that one out. More things that I do not want to know..

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What-- did somebody fall down one?  Manholes.  wow.  Had enough people sticking scopes into mine.  

We been talking about finishing a tree bog.  Stopped reading about composting pottys a couple of years ago.  Kid must be reaching the age of interest in man holes.  Is there a connection?

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I think my picture-post my have been a little obscure. It was my visual response to the article you posted about Indiana politicians ignoring their exploding manhole problem and concentrating thier efforts on attacking the gay and lesbian community.

Like you, I prefer living in denile when it comes to my health. But a bout with seminella poisoning -- contracted from a local Denny's -- forced me to see a digestive specialist. Hard to see a digestive specialist without committing to a coloscope. It's their bread and butter.

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"Die Wichtelmänner"   few story smack you upside da head like dis one do.  Shumaker and the ELFs.  

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timing off here gone into slow motion several years ago, how can you move faster with a small hand pulling you into their pages and as for dear dog she
stands still behind my knees to take me on the turn. felling the unwary a second before, too late to fall I was still standing. drugging her so she might not mind the door closing, the pile driving, the snipers schooling and the arms manufacturers down the road sharing playthings. cupboards. the press, the dresser, the wooden thing with doors, we face it together, leaning against each others's legs.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech...

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Spent a week in Greeley, CO for the American College Dance Association.  "This is not a contest!  And, as a reminder, don't talk to the adjudicators about your dance or let them know where you come from and, if they know they will have to recuse themselves....but This is not a contest!"  Gawdawful hegemonic view of what dance can and cannot be:  Virtuoustic and with a linear narrative that follows an Aristotelian rise and fall.  Nothing else can be seen by the adjudicators and they will spend their allotted time faking it by mentioning things that are so obvious even the blind would have known.  Yuck!

Then a week in the Utah desert with our two favorite collaborators/members of Callous Physical Theatre to work on Pareidolia.  Three ghost towns, six nights camping in a wonderful primitive site by the Colorado River.  Sometimes it is great being me.

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Simply, the facts unfolding are bringing out torches and pitchforks of another sort:  the collapse of coloring-book theology.  Like a cow pie dropped off a barn, it is collapsing like a whoopee-cushion under a cement truck.  It's making the same noise in Krakkerland, and you can hear it all over the world.  And two of the biggest fork-holes in that big bleating bag are Authoritarianism and Cruelty.  

Authoritarianism is kissing the boss' ass... and anybody who has been around knows bosses who need their asses kissed should not be bosses.  Now we know the sun does not die at night and come to life each morning.  That's chicken thinking.  More accurately-- rooster thinking.  "Patriarchy" is a favorite word among bosses who think they are feminists.  Now they are more authoritarian then the good old boys ever were.   

Cruelty is what we do when our chicken-thinking world breaks down.  Cattle cars are cruel.  Slaughter houses are cruel.  We consume cruelty every day... usually without thinking about it.  Bible thumpers are offended by the sodomites... so go ahead and call them Sodomites, Bible Thumper.  What did Jesus say about homosexualty and abortion?  Nothing?  That's odd.  Jesus had a lot to say about hypocrisy.  

Maybe the thumpers will stop thumping the Bible to make noise and start reading it to make sense.  Probably not.  When their lips aint parked on the boss' patoot, they should be putting down anybody who makes the boss insecure.  Here's a clue for the coloring book crowd:  God does not need praise.  God does not plan.  People need praise because of insecurity.  People plan because they are insecure about time.  

 

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Authoritarianism is kissing the boss' ass...

I was told that the way to earn tenure is to find out who is on your committee and to firmly put your nose as far up their asses as you can.  Academic freedom is a lie.