American Splendor

A woman, behind my house, sleeping in the alley. We regularly find dead bodies there.

 

I Could Probably Make It To The Age Of 100 (If Y'all Could Only Make It Worth It)

I want to see is a little more logic applied to American life, now, and I'll be happy:

Cities may not prosecute homeless people for sleeping outside if they have no access to shelter, appeals court rules

The good guys get what's coming to 'em, and bad guys (or gals) get theirs, too:

Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

Don't arrest Elizabeth Holmes for sleeping outside, that's not asking that much:

Juicero is still the greatest example of Silicon Valley stupidity

Just use your heads, and make the madness stop.

You Got This (Don't Give It Back)

After all the times it's been written (and I've written) yoga and meditation trains fools to sit in their shit and declare it "gold", it's painful to read this headline:

  "Why Is San Francisco … Covered In Human Feces?" 

Maybe it's because the homeless have already reached a "higher state of consciousness" from San Francisco's free yoga classes? If so, that means they'll only need astrology to keep their pants up. O.K., that's not what it means.

But know this: we're told (with a straight face and no questions) on the Left is a "Yoga Vote" while the Right's got a "Pizzagate Audience" - so, cult-and-conspiracy watchers, recognize you're shit out of luck if you're rational. And you may be, with:

Something About Blacks Eating Is Driving Whites Crazy

Showing their true colors - over food

Sigh. Seeing a black “offering food to homeless people" enraged a California white man, to the point of committing vehicular-assault, before he "got out of the truck and kicked the injured man multiple times in the head with steel-toed boots." Once the police arrived, he had this comment:

“Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special.”

And - clearly - anyone thinking they're special, other than whites, is enough to make caucasians lose their motherfucking minds.

Another dead black body (post-Trayvon, how many is that now?) but - whites keep assuring us - we're not still in the Jim Crow era. Sure we're not:

This is just normal white behavior - actually it is - with us blacks, race-baiting,...

Reasons White Supremacist America's The Greatest I

 

How whites are obsessed with recycling inanimate objects while trashing black citizens:

The Nazis would be impressed with such,...efficiency,..

 

"Quote Of The Day" On White America's Distractions From The Problems White America's Made For Others

The last thing white Americans think of as an "important topic" is what they do to Americans

"There are more experts on CNN right now, talking about ebola in America, than people with ebola in America."

- Nick Bilton 

 If it's not ebola, then - clearly - it's "the profound loserosity of Martha Coakley" that's deserving of our utmost attention,...

 

What Everyone Is So Proud Of - As They Worry About China And Ebola And Anything Else The "News" Media Demands We Focus On - Instead Of Each Other's Fates

According to those who follow the media's lead, anything - everything - is more important than Americans living like this,...

Conservatives Give Killers Big Money (Not The Poor,...)

Oh BOY, being a poor guy running a blog that lives by donations, do I know this scene well - big bite quote ahead: 

It was inevitable that when Zimmerman was arrested and charged with murder, he had only one thing on his mind: how to pay for a private criminal defense lawyer. Knowing that his phone calls were being recorded while he was in jail pending bond (for a grand total of seven weeks) Zimmerman and his family spoke in code. They were all very grateful for the “support from SH”.

You didn’t need a crypto-analyst to figure out that “SH” was Sean Hannity. In July 2012, the Miami Herald reported that the anchor was believed to be financially backing Zimmerman’s defense.

It was kind of true. But Hannity, himself, did not shell out. He got a bunch of other people to pony up. On his nightly TV show, the Fox News man would furrow his brow and rant about what would become of America if we lost the right to shoot and kill people who scare us. Then Hannity would, helpfully, mention TheRealGeorge Zimmerman.com, a website that the real George Zimmerman had set up after he shot Trayvon Martin to death. The site, helpfully, accepted PayPal. Nearly half a million dollars double-clicked right in,....

...Of course, not every accused felon can get Sean Hannity as his personal cheerleader/rainmaker,...MaryJane, in Lansing, Michigan, is apparently fighting criminal cannabis growing charges. She says she needs weed because she has Lupus. She posts a photo of herself out-and-proud wearing a marijuana leaf necklace. She has raised $1,450. Gordon Smith, of Delmar, Delaware says that he has been falsely accused of domestic violence 24 times. He offers a video – “False Allegation Awareness: The Gordon Smith Story” – and he has raised $290. Darren Wilson, of St Charles, Missouri, has done a lot better. He has raised $433,000 ... because maybe some day he’ll be charged with something.

Wilson, of course, is the police officer who shot to death 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr, whose own family’s GoFundMe site has raised $339,000. As officer Wilson’s (currently inactive) fundraising sites promised: “All proceeds will be sent directly to Darren Wilson and his family for any financial needs they may have including legal fees.”

If he ever has legal fees. Right now, all Darren Wilson has is a lot of money because he killed someone.

Yep - as long as I went along with the folks who revealed themselves to be racists, some money rolled in. But - as soon as I called them on it - that shit dried up so fast, it might as well have never occurred. (I've been essentially homeless, for months, but do they care? Nope. They've told me to die - directly - for disagreeing, which is all I need to know to further judge them, and their politics,...) Meanwhile, I watch the Zimmerman's and the Wilson's raking in millions overnight - along with the politicians everyone (supposedly) hates or distrusts.

And they still wonder why I, and others like me, say - as Americans -  they're cruel and their priorities are all wrong,...

 

A Country With It's Priorities Right Is Ga-Ga For A Watch

This is what Steve Jobs really hoped for Americans

The calculator watch is such an old idea, Apple could've brought back slavery and been more contemporary,...

 

Crack's Nocturnal Emissions (In The Full Light Of Day)

The new motto of American life

So, now the state of California has frozen my bank account over a tax bill I paid three years ago, which required a previous year-and-a-half of dealing with them. They have no record of any of it. Luckily, I have an accountant who does, but still, I am now officially screwed. San Francisco's "generosity" in light of this only goes as far as allowing me a week's extension to clear up their mistake.

I have only the money that's on me now.

Why "acting white" isn't a real thing

Things have gotten so tight, I don't even have time for my daily dose of Diet Racism at Althouse, though I do still look and - since it's just isolated white folks talking about blacks to each other - I find it, easily, every time. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, now that I can't actually get inside.

The effects of slave ownership are many and long-lasting

I heard a black woman today, screaming "Why have you abandoned me?" over and over again, probably speaking for us all.

I.C.U. Baby

The streets of San Francisco are a unique observation point for witnessing the callousness of Americans, or humans, take your pick. Rich caucasians, navigating junkies with their pants down to openly shoot heroin in their legs - and dealers loudly selling "Roxies" - stupidly risking everything they have for a cute new "eclectic" restaurant mentioned in a hotel brochure. Walking by them, they, too, are engaged in Diet Racism and I pass them without comment. I know the ignorance in this country all too well and I, too, have to eat.

I already had too much on my plate anyway

Except for fast food, no place is open I can afford, until I find a little diner run by a Thai couple. I sit, and in the next booth are a prostitute and her john, negotiating terms over coffee. I'm in the center of The City, but also the poorest section, so there's no Wi-Fi connection. Fuck. My phone's almost out of a charge, too. FUCK. Forget about it. I dive into a meal I'm happy to get, because it's huge, and under $9.00 on a Sunday.

Your average police WANTED poster

A friend, working as a doorman, caught some Diet Racism last night. A drunk guy had to be thrown out and threw out the meta-racism that, because of his size, my friend was "dangerous" and "deserved to be in prison." Rather than break the guy in two, he talked with moi a while, because I'm older, and we ended up laughing it off - after my warning he should always remember that's how many whites still think, so watch himself. I'd so hate for him to be Michael Brown.

Our blood is already on his hands

Like so much about America these days, that would be a real let-down,...

 

Invisible Man (Blacks From Our Future Can't Be Seen)

EMD said...

"Crack must be in the hospital or something. How else to explain his lack of presence on this topic?"

"Homeless. Because of you. And Republicans."

And, there you have it, white America's message of morality to disagreement and/or blame. Translation:

They Care. 

And they do. As long as you agree with them on things no sane person could agree with. Otherwise, homelessness, banishment, abandonment, or - my favorite from talking to white high schoolers about their parents - being "disowned". Scientologists "disconnect" people from their families, too, so there's that to ponder, as well. 

They don't get much whiter than L. Ron.

Little wonder that blacks, sticking together, freak the sociopathic "post-racial" crowd out. We just refuse to be like the rest. Cold. Unfeeling. Seeing people as discardable. Disposable. Willing to hide the bodies - and the guilt - under years of lies, right or wrong. 

Decades go by. Centuries. But look the other way. "Time heals all" they think. Everything but the truth. And anyone but them. They'll die first - or watch millions do so. They don't mind. You didn't agree. 

White culture's been this way since slavery.

It's America - not as a meritocracy - but a meat grinder.

Salute the flag.

"For them to turn on someone this way is wrong." 

 -- Geoffrey Moore (quoted by Ann Althouse) on gays and Brendan Eich, April 4, 2014

  "Justice Thomas Was Right/Citizens United and the defenestration of Brendan Eich." 

--  James Taranto (quoted by Ann Althouse) April 4, 2014

  "If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out.

"If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us." 

 -- Andrew Sullivan (quoted by Ann Althouse) April 3, 2014

  "I took a dissenting position [to Ann Althouse] - not because I hate gays or gay marriage, or openness in public affairs, but because of the ridiculous reaction gays have had to losing in the recent past - which I thought was ugly and don't want to see again." 

 -- TMR (not quoted by anybody paler, or living more comfortably, than I am) January 22, 2010

Yes, indeed - only four years old and even my right-on-the-bullseye ideas are "homeless. Because of you. And Republicans." 

And, apparently because of my race, the right and wrong - of, repeatedly, ignoring a *correct* black voice - will never come into it.

Almost like it never even happened,...

 

I'll Never Marry Again But, If I Did, I'd Listen To Freeman

Freeman Hunt did a post, right before I found this photo and decided - if I'm going to be homeless anyway - I'll walk the planet, looking for that woman:

  "Frank Advice for a Male Relative on Finding a Mate" 

 It's a test of wills!

 

If I Hear This Guy Wants His Donation Back I'll Scream

You can help keep me from joining him here,...

Right Now. They Were Before. I Don't Know About After.

I can still remember Americans attacking me for "lying about France" when they'd never lived there or visited more than Paris. 

Compared to the U.S. (they said) France was a paradise, and I was another crazy nigger who should just shut my open-faced pie hole because,...because,...whether I'd traveled the place or not,…or even then,...and even if,...I just couldn't know! I just couldn't! 

But know, the Gaulic version of Charades,, I do - AND (in some cases) the evidence keeps growing that I, also, know better:

  "France's growing problem of homelessness was laid bare by new figures released this week, which show that a person living on the streets dies every 20 hours."

Here's something else, I've learned, that's not necessarily "good" but "good to know" - and not just about the French, but people: 

They're not worth the truth - and just might get you killed,….