I pause once again to thank the goodness of my friends for helping enable the “level of success” I have achieved since returning to the US as a shell-shocked (yet surprisingly fabulous) senior citizen expat widower three years ago. One thing I’ve learned from the experience is that there are more people out there actually paying attention to my content and concerned for my well being than I would ever anticipated. They’ve been the difference between survival and what I define as surthrival, which is at least halfway up the fourth tier on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Self actualization can only be achieved in a sunny high mountain meadow sipping fire-brewed coffee and passing one of Willie’s Reserve around the tambourine circle, but I don’t want to give away all the secret society stuff. Come visit and we’ll talk.
The Hobo Heretic Has Arrived
I’m claiming my rightful throne as Hobo Heretic of the high mountain meadows. It’s the direction that providence has pushed me. A retirement position that combines talents acquired lately in the fine art of minivan living with my lifelong fight against the disruptive effects of belief in things that cannot be tested. As always, my content will reflect that which interests or concerns me, untainted by the concern of mass appeal or monetary manipulations. Expect a mix of the usual eclectic high mountain meadows magic, notes on van life along with the occasional political screed, because, well….just because. (He’s guilty as shit and everybody knows it)
I figured I would take a short break from my hectic schedule of trying to rebuild my life from scratch to do a little political blogging. We’re on the cusp of a Presidential election cycle and there’s a ton of stuff going on that needs sorting out. So let’s get to sorting.
Sy Hersh
I believe him. What he says makes perfect sense in context with what went down and the fact that the ‘mainstream’ media is piling on Hersh just adds more credibility to what he’s saying. I can’t remember the last time mainstream media got anything right on issues of the Middle East since at least the New York Times Judith Miller reach-around. It’s not like he’s saying anything that doesn’t fit exactly within the pattern of a longstanding pattern of Osama Bin Laden protectionism. You can just see the Saudi’s tossing bundles of money at Pakistan to keep him under wraps and protected. The only part I’m curious about at all is whether or not we knew he was there all along and Obama finally agreed to payoff whoever needed to be paid off to let us fly in there and take him out.
Invasion of Texas
The sooner the better IMHO. That said, isn’t it now patently obvious that the state which gave us George Bush is about as dedicated to supporting the military of this country as Jeb Bush is to being an honest politician? The speed at which these numbskulls can go from flag waving patriots to secessionist blowhards is mind numbing. Expect an “army” of mobility-assisted Medicare seniors to attempt to recreate a scene from Red Dawn in a couple of months when the US military goes to Texas for training. You’ll want to stock up on gold and seed stock. Argh. Go Wolverines!
Bernie Sanders
He’s been saying the same thing for years. Doesn’t change his position from week to week or news cycle to news cycle. The people’s candidate. Don’t let anyone tell you he can’t be elected. We elected an unknown Black guy president and then re-elected him. Bernie Sanders is a shoo-in. I wonder if Hillary would be interested in the vice-presidency? Go Bernie!
Black People
Black people are pissed. If you were Black you’d be pissed too. How about reigning in the out of control police state and prison industrial complex and give our minority citizens a break? And don’t tell me how slavery ended hundreds of years ago or that Black folks aren’t being continuously harassed and discriminated daily. Now they’re being accused of turning the country atheist. If it’s true I’m glad for their support but O’Reilly is just trying to tar and feather the Black folks with everything he envisions as evil. The country would be a helluva lot better off if Black folks actually were turning to secularism instead of wasting their time and money supporting fake ass preachers looking to buy fifty million dollar Lear Jets.
Jeb Bush
Iraq. Does he or doesn’t he? Only his pollster knows for sure. What kind of mental midget with the last name of Bush is going to think he has a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning the presidency? Only one whose last name is Bush. FFS. There must be a fund raising bonanza or a tax break involved for him to put himself through this much humiliation.
Announcing launch of The Tim Channel’s Quick News Carousel! Something I hope will amuse and edutain my audience. You’ll want to hit the pause button and peruse through these at your leisure because it’s my added captions that add “flavor” to the screen captured headlines and ledes in the slideshow.
Expect these types of posts to become a more prominent fixture. I could hyperlink to each of the original stories but it’ll suffice for now just to do the screen caps since there are all ‘hot’ news items that can be independently accounted for on the basis of personal curiosity via Google News.
The lunatic fringe known as the Mississippi Tea Party is going bonkers over their loss to Senator Thad Cochran in the recent primary runoff. There is literally no tactic they haven’t considered (legal or illegal), in their attempts to seize power. It is their complete disregard for American jurisprudence and common standards of human decency that led a handful of them to conclude that sneaking into a nursing home and photographing Thad Cochran’s Alzheimer-afflicted wife would be some kind of political coup d’etat.
The Dean of Debauchery
With the dust not yet settled from either their illegal behaviors or the loss of the Republican primary, one of the masterminds behind the ill-advised break-in recently committed suicide (so we are told). His name was Mark Mayfield (seen above) and by offing himself in such a dramatic fashion, he has ensured that his legacy will always be “the McDaniels lieutenant who killed himself rather than face justice for his crimes”. He’s not the first Tea Party idiot that I’ve known named Mark who has bought the farm. It’s safe to say that given the choice of continued living in Mississippi, or killing yourself and burning in Hell, Mr. Mayfield is indeed “in a better place” now. Take from that what you will, but for the sake of your future male children, please have the decency not to name them Mark. Everybody knows the only good Christian name worth having is Timothy!! Why else would God name two books of the Bible after me?
The Fallout
Like a wounded tiger, the uncontrolled and artificially-created beast that is the Tea Party incarnation of Fox News is lashing out in Mississippi. The overt racism which always seethed just under the collar of a ‘reconstructed’ Mississippi is on full display. What Bush did with the twisting of the definition of torture is now being applied to the definition of voter fraud! How do you know if it’s voter fraud? According to Mississippi Tea Party activists, If the voter is Black, then it’s voter fraud!!. This is how the simple-minded Tea Party people operate in an attempt to keep things simple, but the tone-deafness of their racism is simply unbelievable!!
The Tea Party Constitution
Tea Partiers are quite content to use the second amendment as their favorite masturbatory aid, but don’t be fooled into thinking they give two wanks on a dead wallabies weenie about your right to free speech. How can I be so sure? Well, I’ve put them to the test. One thing that rightwing Christian movements have in common, whether they be mid-twentieth century Germans or early twenty first century Tea Party creationists is a proclivity towards banning that which they find offensive. Not at all dissimilar to what we see their fundamentalist Muslim counterparts doing to ‘ungodly’ art in their own neighborhoods.
Banning Critical Artworks
Not content in their efforts to dominate that media in which they can buy and control, the ‘liberty loving’ Tea Party folks are hard at work trying to keep my artistic Facebook creations out of the display of their sensitive and easily swayed flock of rubes. Shown above is a McDaniels parody campaign advertisement that the Tea Party fascists tried to get banned though their dishonest attempts at silencing me. This is in line with their true character of acting in the manner we have com tp expect from the Brownshirt Faction of US politics. Their latest attempt at silencing my creative #timremix works involves a report to Facebook that the following picture contains “graphic violence”! It’s definitely as tasteless as their politics, but violent? I only created it out of ‘self defense” when I read where some of the high ranking operatives in the Mississippi Tea Party were talking about building a memorial to the late Mark Mayfield!! Just thought you should all be aware. There’s entirely too little documentary evidence of their hooliganism and thuggery for people to point and click to. Here’s the ‘graphically violent” picture in question that they just flagged on Facebook:
Profits on the sale of the Mark Mayfield memorial t-shirt are going to improve nursing home security in Mississippi.
Isn’t there a Bible verse of some significance to this bunch of religious knuckle draggers that specifically forbids bearing false witness?
Can I tell you something? I got to tell you one thing If you expect the freedom That you say is yours Prove that you deserve it Help us to preserve it Or being free will just be Words and nothing more
The Tim Channel 