The Collapse

[pan]

OK, I'm an idiot - how do you upload video?

Watch this

[Mouse]

We put the box away in a cupboard, wrapped it in cloth and put it away in the dark, back in the dark.

[waldopaper]

9/11 - Why the Facts of 911 are Suppressed - John McMurtry.   

[Mouse]

who would have thought that being an old fashioned lover of truth and beauty would be so frightening here in the home of so many good ideas where kindness and courtesy were once much findable.

the mouse you know has paid another year's rent on her studio in the sky that was before her systems went down in 2012 and last year her father died without wanting to see her and now that is said say nothing nothing nothing on that subject nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing said.

we are only ourselves leaving a trail in the ether, a splash in the waves, a flash in the pan, a splurge in the wurzle, a teasle in the tussle, sometimes tired and terrified, with quiet tears, sometimes singing wordless songs that linger.

http://painterpoet.com/Alan-Hart-Frontline-Club.html

[pan]

We don't talk much here anymore......

[Mouse]

just got connection back, that is true, Pan. this is the place where all my meanderings are, have found it difficult to speak at all, anywhere. do wander if we should attempt a telephone sort of thing some time.

have a cold and photographed the rain on the window a few nights ago, the nucleus so very tiny. my email blocks most things these days, and a tiny nucleus like that speaks of pollution surely.

[pan]

I always love your attachments - you have such a wonderful aesthetic - and your words are full of poesy.

[BO]

Too much social media keeping us busy. But this is the only place left where I feel safe to express a radical opinion. Too many family members on facebook who would be shocked to hear anything resembling the truth.

Waldo, how you doin'?

[waldopaper]

"...hours of total boredom laced with seconds of pure terror."        

Had a brother Dave too once. Sorry for your loss, brother. Not many good old boys left standing these days. And it hurts. See you on the other side.

(more from da local fishwrap)  

Sen. Dan Coats is a ditto-machine for ALEC. 
Indiana is a state where "citizens" will "vote" for a cheese log if it has a "conservative" label on it. Guess what... it's not even "cheese."   Dan forgot, rolled up his bible and thumped his constitution with it. Dan back ass words. 

Teabaggers' mirror image on ditto-machine's grimacing service. 

Wasn't Kongressman Kanoodle yer golden boy back in the family values day? You could write puff pieces about your relatives and get paid.

Too bad that crashed and burned like the war on drugs and crime and god nose what all else. Try a salami next time and put a conservative label on it. And guess what... it's not a salami. It's not even "baloney".

It's "conservative" fiscal policy hiding in the popcorn box. And guess what... "entitlement reform" is gibberish. *Whose* entitlement... to *what?* The poors and the olds? The richest war-toy makers on Earth?

Santa's workshop is doing fine. The elves... not so good. They had to eat all the reindeer.

[BO]

The age of stupid. Every day a new train wreck to examine. And right after reading your post, I discover this: Trump appears to be ready to publish nude pictures of Ted Cuz's wife. 

“My wife is smoking hot, that’s no secret,” Trump boasted. “She was a super model, for God’s sake. Ted’s wife, on the other hand, not so much. I think we all agree on that one. But be that as it may, I’d like to say that Ted Cruz better watch how personal he gets with Melania because he forgot to clean up his own backyard. I mean, I have friends everywhere, in the business world, in media, now also in politics. I can dig up anything about anyone, literally anything about anyone. And let me tell you, Heidi Cruz looks like a woman who likes to take pictures. Combine that with her daddy issues, which she obviously has since she’s married to a pathological liar and traditionalist like Ted Cruz, and you’ve got yourself a selfie-crazy wife, I’m telling you.”

I've been particularly interested in the Flint poisoning as an allegory about where we are now. Amazed that an entire city can be poisoned without anyone being charged with criminal negligence. Oh yeah, I forget...it was caused by environmental injustice. Some lawyer got paid big bucks to come up with that one. I guess if you're a Flint resident, you can now go take your anger out on a tree.

Evil vs the Stupids. It's a sad thing to watch.

[waldopaper]

"If you’re tired of these “free speech” protesters disrupting and provoking at our Donald Trump rallies join the Lions Guard and be part of the solution!"  (from the local fishwrap no i didn't write it and no i don't think it's satire)  

um... see a pattern here?  god nose i dont want to violate godwin slaw.  

of course we all we saw this coming some while back.  how long ago did the Chimp start... where we all met on line.  yall rapidly started to become the only sane fuckers on earth.  my family not only got absorbed in the hologram... they stripped and dived right in.  who am i kidding. me too.  i stayed upstairs absorbed and on-line while the rest of the house deteriorated into the Gerry Springer show.  

However, the Trump shit i just got from you BO is the most lizard-brained shit i have read in the last 30 years.  

[pan]

Just saw a thing on Facebook claiming that Sanders supporters are misogynistic because they claim that Clinton is "establishment" because she is a woman and women aren't allowed into the establishment and therefore to claim she is is misogynist.

Stupids.

[BO]

I can't believe the shit going on related to this election. The idiocy, corruption, and slander add up to a country that's essentially -- as my brother says -- a failed state. 

I admit, it is entertaining in a very perverse sense. But it's also extremely frightening. Feeling like a jew wondering when I should flee Nazi germany.