Thursday, October 11, 2012

FASCISM IN ACTION












1936 style – In Spain it was serious with guns and bombs and slaughter – bullet holes in the cemetery wall – although the idea that Franco regarded the Spanish proletariat “an inferior race that had to be subjugated by sudden, uncompromising violence” has a very modern resonance..   

"The leaders of the rebellion, Generals Mola, Franco and Queipo de Llano, regarded the Spanish proletariat in the same way as they did the Moroccan, as an inferior race that had to be subjugated by sudden, uncompromising violence. Thus they applied in Spain the exemplary terror they had learned in North Africa by deploying the Spanish Foreign Legion and Moroccan mercen­aries, the Regulares, of the colonial army. Their approval of the grim violence of their men is reflected in [General] Franco's war diary of 1922, which lovingly describes Moroccan villages destroyed and their defenders decapitated. He delights in recounting how his teenage bugler boy cut off the ear of a captive. Franco himself led twelve Legionarios on a raid from which they returned carrying as trophies the bloody heads of twelve tribesmen (harquenos). The decapi­tation and mutilation of prisoners was common. When General Miguel Primo de Rivera visited Morocco in 1926, an entire battalion of the Legion awaited inspection with heads stuck on their bayonets. During the Civil War, terror by the [Spanish] African Army was similarly deployed on the Spanish mainland as the instrument of a coldly conceived project to underpin a future authoritarian regime."

2012 style – So far, in the 21st century they are mainly huffing, puffing, and mouthing off about decimating the proles. Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives has written a book called God’s Law in which amid other philosophical gems calls for the death penalty for "rebellious children." He claims that the course of action involved in sentencing a child to death is described in the Bible and would involve judicial approval.

“The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21: This passage does not give parents blanket authority to kill their children. They must follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children. I cannot think of one instance in the Scripture where parents had their child put to death. Why is this so? Other than the love Christ has for us, there is no greater love then [sic] that of a parent for their child. The last people who would want to see a child put to death would be the parents of the child. Even so, the Scrpture [sic] provides a safe guard to protect children from parents who would wrongly exercise the death penalty against them. Even though this procedure would rarely be used, if it were the law of land, it would give parents authority. Children would know that their parents had authority and it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.”

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The secret word is Stop

WILLIE SUTTON, WHERE ARE YOU NOW THAT WE NEED YOU?


A VICTIM OF THE WAR ON DRUGS















Click here for a depressingly disturbing video donated by MrMR

SPEED BY ANY OTHER NAME













And they wonder why crystal meth is so teen-attractive?

“Dr. Michael Anderson, a Georgian pediatrician, considers prescription medicine the next great equalizer. The New York Times reports on the practice of prescribing stimulants to under-performing, low-income students to help them get an edge in schools. Anderson, "one of the more outspoken proponents" of this idea, admits to falsely diagnosing children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in order to prescribe medication—namely the drug Adderall—to treat the 'true' ailment: "poor academic performance in inadequate schools." (Click here for more)

THAT’LL TEACH YOU TO JOIN A PUNK BAND













Although a Moscow City Court suspended the two-year prison sentence on Yekaterina Samutsevich, those on Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were confirmed and seemingly the two women are to be shipped off to some very unpleasant post-Soviet penal colony. The pressure must be maintained to get them freed and they must not be allowed to become the radical protest flavor of the month and quickly forgotten. 

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HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU KID


Monday, October 08, 2012

SCREW YOU AND THE CORPORATION YOU RODE IN ON















This rip of corporate capitalism by Steven Pearlstein from The Washington Post (really!) is kinda long but worth that space and the effort.

I am a corporate chief executive.
I am a business owner.
I am a private-equity fund manager.
I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles put in my way by employees, government and the media. 
I am a job creator and I am entitled.
I am entitled to complain about the economy even when my stock price, my portfolio and my profits are at record levels. 
I am entitled to a healthy and well-educated workforce, a modern and efficient transportation system and protection for my person and property, just as I am entitled to demonize the government workers who provide them. 
I am entitled to complain bitterly about taxes that are always too high, even when they are at record lows. 
I am entitled to a judicial system that efficiently enforces contracts and legal obligations on customers, suppliers and employees but does not afford them the same right in return. 
I am entitled to complain about the poor quality of service provided by government agencies even as I leave my own customers on hold for 35 minutes while repeatedly telling them how important their call is. 
I am entitled to a compensation package that is above average for my company’s size and industry, reflecting the company’s aspirations if not its performance. 
I am entitled to have the company pay for breakfasts and lunches, a luxury car and private jet travel, my country club dues and home security systems, box seats to all major sporting events, a pension equal to my current salary and a full package of insurance — life, health, dental, disability and long-term care — through retirement. 
I am entitled to have my earned income taxed as capital gains and my investment income taxed at the lowest rate anywhere in the world — or not at all. 
I am entitled to inside information and favorable investment opportunities not available to ordinary investors. I am entitled to brag about my investment returns. 
I am entitled to pass on my accumulated wealth tax-free to heirs, who in turn, are entitled to claim that they earned everything they have. 
I am entitled to use unlimited amounts of my own or company funds to buy elections without disclosing such expenditures to shareholders or the public. 
I am entitled to use company funds to burnish my own charitable reputation. 
I am entitled to provide political support to radical, uncompromising politicians and then complain about how dysfunctional Washington has become. 
Although I have no clue how government works, I am entitled to be consulted on public policy by politicians and bureaucrats who have no clue about how business works. 
I am entitled to publicly criticize the president and members of Congress, who are not entitled to criticize me. 
I am entitled to fire any worker who tries to organize a union. I am entitled to break any existing union by moving, or threatening to move, operations to a union-hostile environment. 
I am entitled to a duty of care and loyalty from employees and investors who are owed no such duty in return. 
I am entitled to operate my business free of all government regulations other than those written or approved by my industry. 
I am entitled to load companies up with debt in order to pay myself and investors big dividends — and then blame any bankruptcy on over-compensated workers. 
I am entitled to contracts, subsidies, tax breaks, loans and even bailouts from government, even as I complain about job-killing government budget deficits. 
I am entitled to federal entitlement reform.
I am entitled to take credit for all the jobs I create while ignoring any jobs I destroy. 
I am entitled to claim credit for all the profits made during a booming economy while blaming losses or setbacks on adverse market or economic conditions. 
I am entitled to deny knowledge or responsibility for any controversial decisions made after my departure from the company, even while profiting from such decisions if they enhance shareholder value. 
I am entitled to all the rights and privileges of running an American company, but owe no loyalty to American workers or taxpayers. 
I am entitled to confidential information about my employees and customers while refusing even to list the company’s phone number on its Web site. 
I am entitled to be treated with deference and respect by investors I mislead, customers I bamboozle, directors I manipulate and employees I view as expendable. 
I am entitled to be lionized in the media without answering any questions from reporters. 
I am entitled to the VIP entrance.
I am entitled to everything I have and more that I still deserve.

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The secret words are Enough and Already

CHE SEZ…


I DON’T WANT A PICKLE #1


I DON’T WANT A PICKLE #2


I DON’T WANT A PICKLE #2.5


A PICKLE








The above will probably make little sense to anyone under 60 and maybe few of them, but click here for a hint to enlightenment.

Or click here for Marlon and Marvin going at it. 

GRATUITOUS KATE WINSLETT


Sunday, October 07, 2012

SUNDAY BREAKFAST














This is a grilled cheese sandwich. Back when I was a gentleman alcoholic living in New York City I would frequently stroll down to Dave’s Diner on Canal Street – just around the corner from the legendary Mudd Club – for a grilled cheese, and maybe an egg cream (that contained neither egg nor cream.) Dave’s made about the best of both in the city and I found them a great comfort during the Reagan era and also passable hangover relief. I suspect, however, that it will take more than a grilled cheese sandwich – even if I could get a proper one in Brighton – to console me if Obama continues to fuck up and the world is placed in the care of Mitt the Multi-Millionaire Mutant Mormon. I never had much time for Harry Truman, a nasty atom-bomb-dropping little bastard, but, some time around 1950, he made this very apt summation of the Republican Party only, But I fear today it is ten times worse.        

“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.”

Click here for Buddy Holly

The secret word is Worse

MARILYN SEZ…
















“I’ve had my problems with presidents.”

“SOME COPS CAME UP SO WE HAD TO HIDE THE BEER”










Click here for a video that our pal Munz sent over as evidence that rock & roll will never die.


And if you scroll back to the item Bob Sez last Thursday, you’ll find I’ve added twenty minutes of Bob Dylan and Ron Wood in Hyde Park which is damned fab.

THE FROZDICK FAMILY


Ilsa Frozdick had been told it was a Nazi party.

GRATUITOUS MISS PAMELA


Click here for Ronnie & The Daytonas 

SPACE OPERA


Thursday, October 04, 2012

BIG BROTHER’S NEW TOY





















Our pal Munz sent over this item. If it’s true, we’re screwed. 

“Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away,” reports Gizmodo. “From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you.” The scanners have been developed by the CIA’s technology front group, In-Q-Tel. The company has continually pushed Minority Report style pre-crime technologies and is seemingly obsessed with dominating electrical appliances and turning them into tools for surveillance. The scanners are said to be millions of times faster and more sensitive than the current naked body scanners the TSA uses, and have a much more extensive range. They can potentially be used on anyone and everyone entering an airport, or any public place for that matter, much like the iris scanners in Philip K. Dick’s landmark dystopia.
Subcontractor Genia Photonics boasts that the scanners are also extremely portable and can be moved around easily. Given that the TSA and Homeland security are increasingly moving out of airports and are being seen at bus and train stations, sports events, malls, political events, and even music concerts, it is no giant leap to imagine these things being deployed at such locations. The trickle down effect would inevitably extend to law enforcement. So, next time you read another story about TSA body scanners and think “hey what’s the fuss about”, we can always opt out”, think on. The time to stand up and stop the use of such invasive technologies becoming commonplace is NOW.
  (Click here for the video)

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The secret word is Fucked 

BOB SEZ…


STOP PRESS – Added later

Click here for Bob in Hyde Park. I sure as shit hope they don't take this down. It's excellent.

JONES DUETS














How many of you remember the old Tom Jones TV show circa 1969/71? It always ended with a storming duet and here are two that storm pretty good that have lately showed up on YouTube.

Click here for Jones and Joplin
Click here for Tom and Jerry Lee


Big Jim Sullivan – RIP 

THE FROZDICK FAMILY


Miami Frozdick aided her gator.

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR...


EUGENE HAD A DAUGHTER













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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

TODD AKIN IS ONE MORE FOOL WHO MUST BE STOPPED















Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a rancid asshole of himself in August when he justified his opposition to abortion by claiming that victims of "legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." But this is not the first time the Republican congressman's made rabid fool of himself on the subject of abortion.

"It is no big surprise that we fight the terrorists because they are fundamentally un-American, and yet we have terrorists in our own culture called abortionists. One of the good pieces of news why we are winning this war is because there are not enough heartless doctors being graduated from medical schools. There is a real shortage of abortionists. Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of medical profession? And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die."

The secret word is Incredible
Click here for Cave & Harvey

WHEN COPS STOP SERVING THEIR MASTERS…

















…you know the revolution is really here. 

DOC’S PAPERBACK CLASSICS # 106


GRATUITOUS CHANDELIER


Monday, October 01, 2012

MEMO FROM MAO


“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The secret word is Rise

(This post and the one below have an unholy connection.)

MEMO FROM MANSON















This is supposedly a recent note from Charlie Manson to Marilyn Manson. Our pals at Dangerous Minds claim it's genuine, but plainly hard to understand if you don’t speak Manson. It reads…

“To Marilyn Manson –
It’s taken me a long time to get there from where I could touch M. Manson.  Now I got a card to play – you may look into my non-profit, ATWA, and give Manson what you think he’s got coming for Air, Trees, Water, and you. Or I will pay Manson what you think Manson got coming – the music has make Manson into Abraxas Devil, and I’m SURE you would want some of what I got from what I got.  It’s a far out balance.  Beyond good and bad, right, wrong.  What you don’t do is what I will do – what you did a sing-along, and let it roll and said how you saved me a lot of steps – I don’t need, it’s not a need or a want.  Couped – coup.  Ghost dancers slay together and you’re just in my grave Sunstroker Corona-coronas-coronae – you seen me from under with it all standing on me.  That’s 2 dump trucks – doing the same as CMF 000007
Charles Manson”


COLT UNDER WATER












Andrew Tuohy of Vuurwapen Blog captured this high speed shot of a .45 caliber M1911 handgun (one of my favorite pistols) being fired underwater. Did he have to modify it to fire underwater? "Nope," he writes. John Moses Browning knew what he was doing when he invented that Mike Hammer heater.

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Click here for the Dead

Wikipedia Note…
Plotting the hints from Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” trilogy of songs, one can determine approximately where to find Rosa’s Cantina. At a juncture about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) NNW of where Texas, Chihuahua, and New Mexico converge, at the bottom of a hill, with a back door from which the narrator can run, there is an actual neighborhood bar called Rosa's Cantina (3454 Doniphan Drive, El Paso TX 79922-1644 (915) 833-0402)
Its ambience lends itself to the lyrics of the three songs.


DOC’S PAPERBACK CLASSICS # 105


SPACE OPERA


Sunday, September 30, 2012

SUNDAY BREAKFAST




















Got up, got out of bed, went to the drawer and took my meds. As always I wished that I could have a smoke, but I can’t do that any more. What a drag it is getting old. What drugs one takes getting old. What would Elvis have done? But thank heavens for the NHS – in the USA I’d be dead. So I can’t complain and I cope. Refuse to mope, although processes are slowing. But I hope. It’s been hard to do all that was expected of me, write a new thread of demented fiction, write a review of Bob’s Tempest, write a bit of a song, and keep up the Doc40 posts. Oh yes my friends, I write. I write so I’m still in the vanguard of the charge but sometimes I must slow to a canter and catch my breath. Last week for example, I missed the chance to comment on Mitt Romney’s problem with the airplane window not opening. Damn! I cursed. Maybe it’s my overwhelming ego claiming that the world can’t get along with me, but, on the other hand, why should I give it the luxury?  

Click here for The Beatles

The secret word is Medicine 


MORE SUNDAY BREAKFAST


MARILYN SEZ…













“Do we always have to chose between pills and grog?”

JAMES DEAN IN THE PENNY ARCADE


GRATUITOUS BARDOT


Click here for the video. 


Herbert Lom – RIP 

Saturday, September 29, 2012

THE BALLAD OF HILLYBILLY HEROIN
















Pharmaceutical corporations may not machine gum rivals or hang them under bridges, but in most ways, their ethics are all to similar to those of illegal drug dealers.  

“With the patent on OxyContin due to expire soon and almost $3 billion in sales at stake,Motherboard looks at the insidious ways that Purdue Pharma got America hooked, from its touting of time-release effects and controversial trials for kids to a PR blitz encompassing speaker-training conferences, all-expenses-paid symposia, starter coupons, public endorsements, a website full of spin and much dubious advertising in the form of a “public service” program that sang its praises. Worst, the company once dismissed the risks of an addiction that is now known to "bring addicts to their knees," and which has seen the death rate from opioids overdoses triple in just 15 years to now surpass the combined overdose deaths of cocaine and heroin. Today, it's increasingly said Purdue had to know "what the deal was." (Click here for the whole story)

Click here for Neil Young

The secret word is Dose

THE FROZDICK FAMILY


















Wang Chung Frozdick was the only one to take a newspaper to the opium den.

JOSEPH SEZ…












"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
(Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945)

Click here for Patti

GRATUITOUS IN BLACK


I’M WATCHING YOU


Sunday, September 23, 2012

SUNDAY BREAKFAST















After years of rumor and speculation it now begins to emerge that marijuana may actually contain a cure for cancer. Doubtless, however, weed will remain illegal. Why? Because our leaders are as crazy as a box of frogs in party hats.The story was sent over by our pal Aeswiren. 

“A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever. "It took us about 20 years of research to figure this out, but we are very excited," said Pierre Desprez , one of the scientists behind the discovery. We want to get started with trials as soon as possible." (Clickhere for the whole story

Click here for The Dead Weather

Click here for Bob

The secret word is Bonkers 


MARILYN SEZ…
















“There are worse ways to start the day than smoking dope naked by a swimming pool.”

A NEW CLOUD?













There are times when I wish I didn’t write science fiction. It makes this kind of thing far too ominous.

“The 'agitated wave' or 'undulatus asperatus' which looks like a rumpled blanket covering all or part of the sky. (Such as this photo above taken over Schiehallion, in Scotland by Ken Prior.) Cloud-spotters want to add it to the official list of cloud species. But it turns out its not at all easy to have a new variety of cloud officially recognized. So how come this type of cloud has only been spotted in the last few years? Is it a really new formation never seen before? Or did generations of meteorologists simply fail to notice it?”

IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE