WATCH OUT FOR THOSE DANGEROUS HOT DOGS!

http://www.norwalkreflector.com/articles/2010/02/23/front/iq_927719.txt

“Change the shape of the hot dog? Group labels it a choking hazard”

HOW ABOUT SIMPLE CHILD REARING?… LIKE… ‘EAT SLOWER AND CHEW YOUR FOOD!’

Has humanity lost all of its ordinary common sense? …we can’t even eat with out risking our lives? …and some government regulatory agency is going to fix that with a label?

Get this people… life is a constant risk from day one when you exit your mother’s protective womb… from child snatching predators… all manner of waste and toxins within an unwatched infant’s reach… speeding vehicles driven by drunk adults… other mentally disturbed children shooting up the schools… sexual predators on the street and in the churches… and as one matures into adulthood all manner of muggings and random violence… some nut case flying their airplane into the building where the temp agency sent you to do some data entry work that day… or you suddenly wake up in the middle of an 7.0 earthquake and the ceiling falls on you… or while napping on the beach a sudden tsunami washes you away… or machete wielding maniacs hack you to pieces because you’re one of the ‘enemy’ tribe… or your driving home from Kansas City and you’re picked up by a tornado and dropped off somewhere in Arkansas… or you’re eating your lunch and a ‘misguided’ guided missile from a drone aircraft blows your house up and kills everyone in it… along with legions of whackos who go about killing other people because some ‘God’ …or ‘Demon’ …or political and religious leader or other tells them to …it’s a dangerous world and it always has been… since it all started with the rather violent ‘Big Bang’ billions of years ago… and all of this rant was not channeled by any entities or guides… they’re just the facts, Mam… Google them and read it for yourselves…

…try living in the present HERE AND NOW …Mr. Death is always with us… just an arm’s reach away… and he can tap you at any time… so, try to enjoy life and play nice while you’re here on the Earth… and project as much love and compassion as you can… while you can…

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...and after all of that we find out a couple of days later the whole story was a fake and CNN fell for it and reported it as fact ...and the joke is on all of us ...and yes, the "Most trusted name in News..." did a full retraction.

WHAT CAN ONE DO WITH NEGATIVE ENERGY?

From Joe’s reality it made sense… and as Uranus moves into Aries more revolts will probably come… and Joe does an unnecessary… and tragic thing… to himself and others.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html

“Raw Data: Joseph Stack Suicide Manifesto”

Many of his statements, arguments, and frustrations have been expressed by many of us… me included. We’re all caught in the quagmire of this corrupt and greed driven… government-corporate-market-lobby run-credit-debt-tax-health-drug-insurance-war-defense… system that is beginning to crumble and fall apart all over the world.

This Mars close passage to the Earth and soon making its station will cause some individuals to snap. As these transits pass I feel the tension and the frustrations like everyone else… and rather than turn myself into a bomb and misguided martyr of madness… I choose to spend my day off in the yard…

…mowing and weed whacking my small lawn (Mars rules cutting tools)… weeding and tilling (a Saturn activity that naturally grounds the stressful energy with one’s hands on and in the Earth)… and fertilizing (positive expression of Pluto) the flower beds (Venus)… and planning (Mercury/Saturn) the soon planting (Moon)… or setting out of this season’s Roma tomato potted plants… pruning (Mars) and clean up and preparation (Saturn, practical preparation) for the predicted, by both the meteorologist and the astrologer (Uranus) …next week of rain (Moon/Neptune/Jupiter) etc.

Thus, giving all the squared up energies something positive, therapeutic, and constructive to do …and all very simple, free, or at least inexpensive… Shaman Earth Magick, that makes for some delicious tomatoes and grapes this summer …rather than sit and stew …and turn myself into a bomb …and it was fun… as it was a rather nice sunny day and the exercise felt good.

It’s all a matter of what we consciously choose to do with these energies… instead of unconsciously and habitually reacting to them.

JOHNNY SAID DIRTY WORDS… AND WE MADE HIM CRY… WHY?

I have lived through a time when one could not be openly bisexual or gay… when code phrases like, ‘I’m a friend of Dorothy’ had to be used by a gay person to communicate their needs to others of similar mind… and I have lived through four years in the US Army, and actively participated in the various civil rights and anti-war movements of the 60’s and 70’s… and the booms and busts of the 80’s and 90’s… and the current millennia boom and bust…

…and I am amazed that in many ways we haven’t progressed much farther than the 1950’s… here we are in the 21st century and still rehashing the same old… shit… about fucking words.

Words are just words… and the only problem with them… is the individual’s attitude towards them… I have found, ‘impartial’… to be an effective and much more positive attitude… about many things.

While technically brilliant… emotionally our culture has become more and more shallow as we lose touch with nature and even ourselves…

Most are unable to entertain themselves anymore… and they sit in front of their plasma screen and are fed by the cable/dish VCR/Disc Devo and/or various other electronic apparatus… like a constant drip syringe injection of their opiate… entertainment.

Without it… they’re bored and then they get angry… interrupt someone’s favorite program and you usually will get hostile… perhaps even crazy ‘junkie’ like responses… and these are law abiding citizens… who know their rights… they watch the cop shows… and they know what’s going on… and everything fits… in the ‘right’ program…

That’s the problem… the media has you programmed… They loved it when Lenny Bruce talked dirty and was funny about it… but when he stepped out of the ‘program’ and wanted to talk about his court case and the importance of the 1st Amendment… the fans dumped him… and left him on his own to hassle with the courts and the police harassment… which then spiraled into more frustrations, depression, drug abuse, and finally a tragic drug over dose death.

John Mayer is great guitarist and entertainer… but if he steps out of the ‘program’ …and publicly says dirty words about his ex-girlfriend and other ladies …the media circus and tabloid sharks go after the high ratings and profitable circulation… as one media executive said about the breaking Tiger Woods scandal, “…this is even better than Michael Jackson dying.”

If Jay Leno steps into any other time slot other than the 11:35 PM Tonight Show ‘program’… you dump him… he flops…

As long as the Icons entertain you and push your laugh buttons and turn your gah, gah dials …and they stay within the ‘program’ you have about them …you reward them with riches, fame, and status …but the first time they show themselves to be ordinary humans who simply have a “good act” going… by simply stepping out of the ‘act’ and being human for a moment… thump… you dump them for the next flashy silly act…

We have all peed in the pool at one time or another… and one might say… John Mayer simply did it from the diving board.

John, if by some miraculous synchronicity you read any of this… a possible shaman/astrology antidote to all this anguish would be to put all the energy of the frustration, hurt, and anger… into the art… the inspiration side… the music… say it with music… and in the future, it might be better to say things like, “…I have no comment… I just play my guitar…” …and just be you, the great musician you are…

AT ONE WITH EVERYTHING…

Being ‘at one’ with whatever is currently in one’s life is a Zen concept that I’ve tried to follow over the decades… Through this path I discovered… and have for over three decades lived what I call the path of… ‘The Zen of Motorcycle’ …a moving meditation of being at one with oneself, the machine, the road, and one’s ever changing and moving environment…

…or to put it another way, I’m an eccentric old biker, and I clear the clutter from my mind with long quiet meditative rides on my Triumph Bonneville… However, it is not always a passive experience… what one becomes at one with… can become a serious relationship…

…and thus blossomed a very loving and exciting relationship …between a man and a machine… Mason and his mistress machine… ‘Baby Blu’

This a reprint from my original blog site; http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MasonGarrett2398/570869

“Thursday, September 25, 2008

A GUY, AND HIS MISTRESS MACHINE



Me and 'Baby Blu'

BABY BLU A 2002 Triumph Bonneville, 800cc vertical twin

She’s all a guy could ever want… beautiful, sexy, responsive, forgiving, fast, dangerous… I gently massage turtle wax on to her lovely teardrop gas tank… and she teases and taunts me, ‘ummm, feels good… are you feeling squirrelly, bad boy? …nice day, you want to do the canyon? …yeah, come on, bad boy… fire me up.. get me hot.. and do me in the canyon..’

Our favorite spot… long straightaway going into a gentle well paved ‘S’ curve… throttle down to 50, click down to fourth, pick the line, down to third, lean far to the right, feel the gees… up and over to the left… oooh nice… at the apex power up, shift up, fourth, power out, fifth and fly down the straightway back to the valley… ‘oooh, yes, you do it to me so good, Baby Blu, I love you,loveyou,loveyou…. Ooh yeah, baby…’

Ah, but… ours is a forbidden love… here comes the highway patrol… red light..whoop, whoop… pull over…
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“….nice motor… may I see your license and registration, please…”
radio..sqwock, sqwock… scribble in his ticket pad, then he lifts up the butt of his radar gun for me to view the digital read out… 87.34mph…
“speed limit’s sixty five, ..you know that, Mister Garrett… sign here, please…”
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…while her pipes cool off I gently polish all her pretty little chrome parts… she’s quiet now, she knows we’ve been naughty… As I gently cover her lovely body with the $237 all weather nylon polyurethane lined cover, I give her fender one last affectionate fondle, and she murmurs, ‘I’m sorry I got us into trouble.. do you still love me?’

“of course, I love you… you’re the best ever… now that’s quite enough for us both today.”
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Yes… I know… I pamper her.. and I spoil her rotten… I buy her the best waxes and polishes… I indulge her taste for expensive racing oils… expensive maintenance and tuneups at only the best shops... retro stylish saddlebags... with nickel plated brads, belts, and concha tassels...

But.. what the hey…. what can I say? ….I love her…”

© Mason Garrett

IT ALL WORKS OUT OKAY… FOR RALPH OF GALILEE…

This a reprint from an article/story I wrote for my original blog at; http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MasonGarrettPredictions/s230

Within it is the final sequel to the story of the stonecutter ‘Ralph of Galilee’ and his crew…

"Tuesday, May 12, 2009
WHY PARABLES? …AND MORE RETROGRADE MERCURY…

With a parable… a story… the imagination in the minds eye… the inner 4th dimension… can more easily comprehend an abstract idea beyond one’s logical mind which is what holds the entire cosmic illusion together…

If the story is enjoyed… that is positive energy… which is all then stored in the subconscious… thus being an inner motivation to try to live the principles of the story… Life is all a story… maybe happiness is just a matter of telling a happier story?

“Row, row, row your boat… gently down the stream…
merrily, merrily, merrily… life is but a dream…”

…most of us have heard that ancient rhyme sometime during our childhood… perhaps sung to us by a parent as we fell asleep… very much like a hypnotic suggestion… and lo! …later in life the question of life being perhaps a vast illusion… begins to enter one’s mind… and you come across information through various media and or people… and one begins to see things differently and as one brilliant very funny standup comedian, the late Bill Hicks put it,

“... all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

…and… here and now… the same ideas are coming from somewhere beyond my ordinary self… and are being expressed thru the personality of my individual self being currently played out as an eccentric writer artist astrologer soothsayer urban shaman of the 21st Century CE…

Thus we have the parable of ‘Ralph of Galilee,’ a story that illustrates the realities that are created by right actions…

Ralph and his stonecutter crew faced catastrophe… possible bankruptcy… due to unscrupulous swindlers… and Ralph… a rugged charismatic leader who loves his craft… and who sees his crew as his brothers… springs into action, retrieves their rightful goods… and hustles up an even better sale and contract with Charlie Hotep from Cairo who is supplying quality stone to international developments…

Perhaps, as a child… Ralph sat with his cousins at the knee of their grandfather who told them the tale of Homer’s Odyssey… and of the crafty and heroic Ulysses and his crew… who simply play the hand they're dealt as best they can… and they win anyway… despite the odds!

…and Ralph’s story… it is life and all the players have their part… the owner of the restaurant, bar, belly dancer club… entertains the locals… and of course business men! …everybody profits, the owner, who then pays wages to the waiters, cooks, bar tenders, musicians, and the belly dancers… everybody works and gets paid… and two honest business men make a deal that profits them both…

Ralph has a quality product, the developer wants it, Charlie Hotep negotiates the contract and handles the shipping, which pays dock workers, merchant seamen, and teamsters of heavy load wagons… and Charlie takes his fair commission… it’s a win/win for everyone.

This illustrates that when honest business people are left to themselves… commerce that benefits all will flourish. Most of the problems occur when the few bad apples and corrupt politicians and religions interfere with business… and it’s been that way since we evolved out of the slime.

…what has this to do with mundane astrology?

It illustrates what is going on with the transiting Saturn opposition to Uranus aspect that is pulling apart the corrupt world economy… It is a necessary weeding out of the false… and building a sounder financial base… business will go on… The people of the world like Ralph and Charlie Hotep will work out a deal that is fair to all… and life goes on… merrily, merrily, merrily down the dream…"

…may the peace and love of the cosmos be with you, dear reader…

…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…