…The sequel …Ralph the Stone Cutter, Part II

From; http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MasonGarrettPredictions/610642
Friday, May 8, 2009

THERE ARE ALWAYS RETROGRADE MERCURY PROBLEMS…
In a recent post (April 30th) I wrote a satire about Ralph of Galilee and his crew of stone cutters getting ripped off by the high rise condo developers… and subsequent embezzlers of the ‘Tower of Babel’ construction site fiasco… three or four millennia ago…

Being that curiosity is a big part of my nature… and I’m not a stupid cat who gets killed for it… and Mercury retrograde cycles (like the one we’re in) are good for research… I often jump on my search engine during these times and speed through the cyber world… researching this and that… humm, stone cutters?… what are they and what are their lives really like? …and what is a good example of renegotiation of contracts due to problems? …a common activity of retrograde Mercury.

Astrologically the basic inclinations for stone cutters would naturally be the earth signs. Strong placements in the earth signs of Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn would be possible inclinations of that sort of employment. Taurus indicates the strong labor and artistic embellishments. Virgo would be the detail and finishers, and planners. Capricorn would indicate the leadership, organization of labor, laborers, and planners of buildings and monuments.

They have a long and interesting history. They are basically the ones who have built everything… the Stonehenge, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Egyptian Pyramids, the Parthenon, the Roman Coliseum, Norte Dame… and thousands of castles through out the world, a lot of the Government buildings, like the Pentagon, and thousands of commercial buildings like the Empire State Building…

And today just look around at any state or federal building, court house, bank… just wherever there is a polished marble or granite slab of stone… the stone cutters are the ones who put it there.

Throughout recorded history they have always had good wages and their skills in demand. Another interesting point is they always had free passage across any border… the Journeyman Stonecutter Guild card being their passport to anywhere someone needed a castle, or fortress, or Cathedral, or any sort of big building built.

Due to the constant wars and natural disasters like earth quakes… there was also demand for the re-construction of castles, fortresses, buildings, etc.

If you could cut, carve, polish, set, level and plumb stone… you could always find work… with some drawbacks, like construction site accidents and stone dust related lung ailments.

…and what ever happened to Ralph of Galilee and his crew of stone cutters? They made out okay… Ralph got a writ of permission from the Sheriff and they retrieved their two tons of premium stone from the demolished Tower of Babel construction site.

Ralph is a savvy guy… he knows people… he has a business meeting, then dinner, a little wine, some belly dancers… and he sells the whole lot to a big supplier’s traveling rep… who is going to ship the premium stone to India… with a futures contract for delivery in six months of 20 more tons to be shipped to some big development where some sort of shrine/palace/hotel/casino/nightclub… being touted as the ‘Taj Mahal’… is being built… here’s one of their trade publication advertisements



The Taj Mahal Development

…Good business for Stone cutters and Tile & Brick makers…
Best buy prices/ Future contracts/ Delivery terms
Contact: ‘Charlie’ Hotep
Sales Representative
International Stone, Brick, & Tile Suppliers
Import/Export
555 W. Nile Delta Road
Cairo, Egypt

…like they say, “One door closes… and another one opens…” you just have to hustle… and re-negotiate… and re-sell… like our pal, Ralph of Galilee, who honchos his own small stone company with a crew of freelance stone cutters.

A PARABLE ABOUT REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER SCAMS

I posted an article and prediction on April 30th 2009, as the DJIA was beginning its rally back in April-May 2009 from the bottom of the crash at 6500 to where it peaked recently a few days after the January 15th 2010 Eclipse at 10,725… the prediction and results don’t matter… that’s in my other column…

What came out of the article was a short story… and a few days later a sequel…

In this new column devoted to fiction and drawing… some stories will be illustrated with my drawings, pictures, and or famous art that is public domain… I want to share some of these past stories with new readers… and I hope you old readers will enjoy the re-read…

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Eventually the world leaders will get together and probably try some sort of one world currency or credit system… which then leads to a one world bank, government, religion, police, etc… which has probably been the secret and manipulated plan all along… for centuries now…

Will their plan work? ...probably not. …they’ve been at it for a long time now… ever since the disastrous real estate speculation bubble of the ‘Tower Of Babel’ development …touted as ‘The Luxurious High Rise Condos On The Stair Steps To Heaven’ …the whole thing collapsed …very poor public relations and communication (too many tongues… and undocumented foreign workers, bribes, kick backs, etc)… shoddily built with a faulty foundation on top of a sand covered toxic landfill… the Sheriff shut down the construction site… and the developers skipped town with most of the investor’s money… it’s all in the Bible, Old Testament… Genesis: 11… Google it… it’s an interesting read.



Painting by Pieter Brueghel (the Elder) 1563 [click image for details]

…now of course what you’re going to read is the propaganda of the religio/politico dummied up press release… for the controlled media re-writes… what I’m telling you is the real deal about what really went down… it was a cover up… and they blamed it all on God… and with the help of corrupt politicians… the embezzler’s partners in crime… the crooks skipped the country with the investor’s money…

In Pieter Brughel’s AP picture of the construction site shut down… in the lower left corner you can see the stone cutters giving it up to the Sheriff and his posse,

“Haven’t seen any of them since last Tuesday, sir… we just cut the stone, sir… that’s all we know, sir… in fact, they still owe us for last Tuesday’s shipment… I have the invoice right here, sir… two tons of premium stone, plus labor...”

“Well, stone cutter… I regret to inform you… you may not collect on that shipment… I have warrants for their arrest… on suspicion of embezzlement… may I have a copy of that invoice?”

“Take it, sir …it is worthless to us now…”

“Thank you… It’s all part of the parchment trail with which we’ll catch and convict these heinous infidel perps. If you hear of anything that may be of help finding them… contact me or one of my deputies…”

It's always the little guy who gets hurt... the independent sub-contractors like Ralph of Galilee, and his crew of stone cutters... they're out two tons of premium inventory and a week's pay... and these are local family guys from the villages in the background of Pieter Brueghel (The Elder)'s AP picture...

Now look to the right side of the picture… at the harbor and marina area… it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure it out… last Tuesday night the con men real estate embezzlers made their payoffs… loaded up their luxury yacht and split… and made their getaway by sailing down the river to the open sea… and by now the investor’s money is in a secret numbered bank account… somewhere in Switzerland or Dubai.

…it was just another corrupt political/real estate scam… with the required extensive investigation… and then the usual cover up… with the classic cop out… “…It was no one’s fault… It was an act of God.”

…and now some of the Deputies are riding very expensive white horses?… and the Sheriff suddenly has a new gold trimmed sport chariot drawn by another expensive white horse?... and the building code inspector has been seen cavorting with a popular night club belly dancer?… all of this… on government salaries?...

…are you kidding me? …they’re all on the take! …and they got away with it!… and they framed God! …who ‘allegedly’ had nothing better to do while busy creating an unending cosmos… but to tumble ‘The Tower of Babel’… a faulty high rise condo development being built on top of a toxic landfill?… bought for pennies on the dollar?… by scam real estate developers?… from corrupt government officials?… on this small planet in a rather small and mediocre solar system? …yeah, right…

Earth… The Karmic School of Hard Knocks… for evolving souls… good luck… and try to play nice…

A SILLY RAINY DAY STORY ABOUT THE REALLY BIG FLOOD…

…well, children …not to worry, we’ve called all the mommies and daddies on our cell phones …the SUVs are on the way …we can’t play outside with so much rain …so, we’ll just sit by the warm fire here and I’ll tell you the story of the really big flood… back about maybe around 18,239 BCE…

…It happened all of a sudden like… and folks had to scramble for whatever boats and ships were available… and then they were cast about over the various raging seas… as the forces of nature rained… and stormed… and flooded… the entire planet for forty days and forty nights…

…media meteorologists were mystified… as to the how or why… and were caught like deer in the headlights as the deluge washed them away… along with their green screen special effects maps and teleprompters… a few managed to swim for it… and scrambled up into broken off and floating large satellite dishes… but… tragically… they soon were swamped by large waves… and they sank…

…Escaping from nearby marinas and private yacht moorings …a large group of rich artists, actors, musicians, athletes, dope dealers, managers, agents, lawyers, televangelists, concubines and various children of all …of various genders …and sexual preferences …with their pets …hung together as a large small yacht and deluxe cruise ship fleet…

…another group of rich actors were already on board the ‘Sciencolongy’ (Scientific stuff and magic colon stuff combined which was a pyramid scam that made them all mega wealthy)… private cruise ship… named the ‘Black Ark’ with ‘ZZ’ painted on the side… so, yet another major religion cult survives… with their dynamic and really crazy actor leaders…

…and off the coast of what was San Diego …A Marine General with his Brigade of Expeditionary Force Marines… just happen to be on maneuvers and on board troop ships with an Admiral’s attack fleet… with aircraft carrier support… so… they made it through the high waters alright…

…and so, the rain storms and floods raged …for forty days …and forty nights …and then it began to clear …and land was sighted! The former peaks of mountain ranges began to form small to large islands… with wet but recovering vegetation… and some animals species huddled and burrowed in mountain peak crevices… we live… hoorah! And they sang, ‘…Rain, rain, go away and come again some other day…’

The navy ships surrounded a large emerging mountain peak ridge… now a 500 square mile island… the Marines landed and conquered it immediately… and established a forward command post.. and planted their Fleet and Brigade flags and standards… and declared it… ‘Macholand’

…the rich fleet …and assembled company …with their fabulous pets …found themselves a lovely former mountain peak… now a fabulous tropical island paradise… which, with inflatable hover craft and jet skies… they occupied… and they set up colorful temporary tents… and declared their lovely discovery ‘Lalaland’

…the ‘Sciencolongy’ folks had plenty of food on board their ship… and they just cruised around waiting for other folks to get settled and to get business going… then they planned to ‘miraculously’ arrive on the established civilization as “the word” of… the ‘whatever’… that caused all this flooding…

…now get this …this is where the next really crazy part starts… The story they will tell the folks is sort of like this,

“Ye, verily …with our magic gizmo we talk to him …and he told us what to tell you to do …and if you don’t do what we say he says to do… he will burn you with fire the next time… he wrote it all down on these stone tablets… and there will be four horsemen, one on a green horse, wearing a crown…” …wait!… I can’t help it… that part just cracks me up!… a green horse!... what do you think of that, Bettie?

…a green horse! …that’s silly, uncle wiz!

…and the wizard uncle Mason… and his nieces and nephews… laugh and giggle for a minute or so… then the wizard continues…

…anyway… they got all sorts of crazy old yarns from the ship library… that they plagiarize from… to write their ‘new gospel’…

…and then they make up other special effects stories… really wild scary stories… then they put them on their ‘scientific-magic’ hologram scary stories videos … which they then edit… and enhance to look even more real and scary… and then they burn the stories onto CDs and bring them ashore and distribute them among the various new island nation sovereign states …

…so now …there is an hedonistic stoned ego flattering island nation… with an actor for a Governor King… known as Lalaland… the people there live happily stoned… and everybody screws everybody… and then they eat… and they get it all on ‘reality’ video tape… which they then control all the reproduction and distribution rights of… thus they develop a flourishing economy by exporting CD’s and magazines of themselves to the always horny and masturbating navy and marine island-fortress-nation of ‘Macholand’

…then there’s the tense situation on ‘Macholand’ …they are getting extremely horny and bored… they’re frustrated and without direction or release… they have no one to conquer… and they’re afraid that they’re going to turn gay… and some already have… and they’re just sitting around… really… really edgy… and bored… and with loaded weapons… and that can be… dangerous…

…and then the off shore ‘Sciencolongy’ secret agents infiltrate the military island stronghold… as naked lap dancer and pole dancer traveling shows for the troops with … ‘USO - good for the morale tours’ …and all of them are from the clandestine off shore secret …’Sciencolongy’ secret-ship-nation.

Then… on the sly… the secret agent naked dancers start to leave ‘Sciencolongy’ CD’s and propaganda books lying around here and there… and well… bored sailors and marines will read it and listen to it… if only because they’ve already read everything in the racks of the recreation room…

…and so life began again …in various ways …here and there …on the small planet …in a mediocre sized solar system …that the inhabitants refer to as…‘Mama Dirt’

…to be continued on another rainy day…

…now it’s clearing up, children …let’s put on our rain coats and galoshes… and go outside and play… pick up the trash the wind blew into the yard… I’ll turn back up the trash can that the wind blew over… yes, Bobby… put it in there, that’s a good fellow… now keep an eye on each other… and play where uncle Mason can see you from the window… and stay inside the yard! …and don’t go near the river!

…and the mommies and daddies arrived in their SUVs and gathered up their children… and they offered the uncle wizard money which he refused… then they offered him cigars, as another son-in-law slips a paper sacked pint of Jack Daniel into the kitchen cabinet, and sweet cakes, and a crock pot of warm beef stew… all of which he happily accepted… and then all the mommies, and daddies, and all the nieces and nephews went home… and all were happy that day…