LARRY SINCLAIR

OMG OMG OMG

There's a woman crying!

OMG OMG OMG

What's the Matter?

I have a repressed memory of 35 years ago of being assaulted and groped.

OMG OMG OMG

Do you remember who did it?

Yes, it's HIM!

OMG OMG OMG

How do you know?

He's the only white, heterosexual, Christian male in the room.

OMG OMG OMG

Is that the slut from high school? She sure don't look the same.

OMG OMG OMG

The most important job interview of my life and she shows up today.

OMG OMG OMG

I wish they would ask me questions about my legal career.

OMG OMG OMG

Seven previous FBI background checks don't hold a candle to this actress.

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Room With A View II*

Room With A View

I went to Labor Notes in Dearborn, MI this year. I was last there to promote labor/working class television to the labor movement 12 years ago. I was still trying to sell them on the wonderful technology of The Television over the weekend. I'll be back in 12 years to deliver the same message, I'm afraid. I understand the "How to Make a Flyer" workshop was well attended.

There is a stressful undercurrent among these folks. From the system tweakers to the bread and butter unionists to the Anarchist party on the Penthouse 14th floor because, after all, "they have the biggest vision.". A beautiful suite overlooking west Detroit, it was.

I went to the Building Trades bitch-a-thon. I'm glad I did because when it came time for me to speak, I vented 25 years of disgust of the way tradesmen treat each other. I informed them that their worst advertisement was themselves and asked, "Did you ever see you yahoos out in public with your union jackets and phony, tough guy, rude attitude?" This meme I held all weekend was to promote the idea the American working class is mentally ill, in the grips of some Child Abuse Syndrome, siblings quieting any dissent, dysfunction should be behind closed doors, systemic internal abuse in the hazing of apprenticeship, or the stated fact of Lisa, (I believe an IBEW electrician from Boston), that "after thirty years on a career track they hated, 55 year old white men are miserable." It was nice for a Sister to have my back after I had just told the lot (and they still think they are in a union) that they are mentally ill.

The discussion did spur some interesting stories as there were several women of the trades, apprentices and even a contractor from NYC. (... does not compute...) A brave ironworker apprentice from Nevada (?) told an awful story of an abusive teacher at the apprenticeship school and how she, and only she of a class of 28, stuck up for the one sorry target that this Bully choose to isolate. I called her classmates "cowards" (I knew I should have shut up then and there, but oh no) and stressed that this category is the most emotionally beat down group of workers at this conference. I mentioned the work of Kevin Lynch and Dr Donohue at the 134 IBEW and the 6hrs of seminars on "Emotional Intelligence" taught to the 3rd year apprentices.

Far and away, trying to change construction culture is the most neglected work being done. The labor movement doesn't need more members, it needs better quality of people and the Building Trades has a long way to go to be an asset if there ever is a "movement" in labor.

It felt good to vent, and I let out a blast of hot air at the Pension worry-a-thon. There is still a deep faith, especially among the State workers that pensions just need to be reformed. These gentle folks don't see a Ponzi Scheme when it slaps a wet mackeral across their chops. It's flipped, people with pensions are to be resented in this New World Economic Order. The ship has sailed on this issue, it's all swirling down the toilet in my opinion, and I agreed with the UE rep that wanted to form financial institutions of our own, sans Wall Street, and go back to pre-Taft Hartley Proudhonian thinking. It was interesting learning how through long process in the beginning of the century having health care and, possibly, a pension if tied you to your paycheck. It doesn't have to be that way. These patronizing dependence wage packages make a slave. You earn it, The Trust steal a clip on every hour worked. Put it all on the check, me and my friends in Mutual Aid will take care of ourselves, thank you.

After two hours of this jabber, it occurred to me that no one brought up the idea that stopping war funding might be a stimulus package and save their Golden Years assess. It worries me still how little the wars were even mentioned throughout the conference. Antiwar buttons and a workshop, for sure, but no out and out End The Wars appeal. It could be that I just wasn't there, too. US Labor Against the War (USLAW) did represent but the madness continues as the International Longshoreman and Wharehouse Union (ILWA) is forcing locals on the West Coast to handle Hot (Scab) Cargo. It seems further away from the idea of labor having any impact on the War Machine. If they are forced to handle hot cargo, they will be handing munitions and supplies for the duration, it seems to me. Antiwar group should be aware of the details in this case.

Always in the lib/lab/lefty event world, a swirl of absurdity held center stage. The organizers of the event held a protest against the Hyatt Hotel chain on behalf of the scabbed-out 100 Hyatt Hotel workers from Boston, in the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel of Dearborn, MI where the conference was being held.

The bi-annual Labor Notes conference should be credited in its promoting face-to-face interaction of like minded people that have some deep seated need to fight the alienation of the modern workplace. Small personal stories of bravery were quite inspirational. It takes a bit of diplomacy and presence to be with so many people all with different spots on the political time line. It was good for me to define myself amongst them, talking verbally with inflection and nuance, enjoying the facial expression of whom I'm speaking, and wonder how and when the next generation will slip down the digital matrix. When their personalities will merge through the USB port in the back of their heads. The final Tweet rapture.

When will the idea of computer software programs saving the working class wear out its shine?Another e-mail on the way to the Revolution ain't making it happen. The military created the Internet, they can make it all go away, too. Big Brother is here and the IBEW installed it. Cyberspace is so nebulous, making the photo erasures eliminating the foes of Uncle Joe historical narrative, seem like crayons in literature. Digital imagery is pure illusion, filter what you see and hear, doubt your senses. Data can go away to NoWhereLand, JeeBus, I'm still digging 10 year old Labor Note rags out of the back of my desk drawer. The difference of a good handshake/hug and a FaceBook friend is an issue and a reflection on what is needed in future struggles. So much of technology has alienated us from each other ever more, seemingly while emancipating us. The illusion is complete.

Only one place for discussion for what the world is going to look like in the future and I had to take the freight elevator to the 14th floor to find it. One obvious anarchist lifestyle attendee from Madison, WI stated he was in the Socialist Party branch. Asked politely, "How does that work?" He said he and his two friends joined and immediately had a majority and took over the group. This is an example of the great Red Threat existing in America today.

(Re-published from 2010, EWS)

TOUGHEN UP

TOUGHEN UP

RAISE YOUR HAND UP HIGH

WHEN YOU FEEL ALL ALONE

PLACE IT ON YOUR BACK

REDISCOVER YOUR BACKBONE

TOUGHEN UP TOUGHEN UP

WHEN YOU GET DOWN

SAT ON BY A TEN TON CLOWN

NO SMILES ONLY FROWNS

BE THE TOUGHEST MAN IN TOWN

TOUGHEN UP TOUGHEN UP

PUT THAT BULLY IN HER PLACE

INVADE HER SPACE

GET UP IN HER FACE

BE WARY OF THE MACE

TOUGHEN UP TOUGHEN UP

ANOTHER BAD DAY AT WORK

WHEN YOU ARE WORKING WITH A JERK

IT'S HE GO OR I GO

DON'T BE AFRAID TO HIT THE ROAD

TOUGHEN UP TOUGHEN UP

AIN'T NO ONE GOING TO FIGHT YOUR FIGHT

IF YOU WANT TO SLEEP THRU THE NIGHT

LOOK INSIDE, NOT ABOVE

CAUSE YOU GOTTA FIGHT BACK WITH LOVE

THE BASTARDS WILL GRIND YOU DOWN

IN ANGER YOU WILL BE DROWNED

FLOATING ON THE STORMS OF LIFE

TAKES SOME HONESTY AND INNER STRIFE

IF YOU WANT SOME INNER PEACE

YOU WILL HAVE TO LEARN TO LET IT BE

TOUGHEN UP TOUGHEN UP

MAKE YOUR BODY STRONGER

INTEND ON LIVING LONGER

EAT AND THINK WELL AS YOU GO

BECAUSE YOU REAP JUST WHAT YOU SOW

Absurdisms*

Absurdisms

Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil.― Voltaire

1) 100 story buildings falling in 10 seconds because of an explosion on the 80th floor.

2) "I know with certainty where I was and who I was in the last 80 trillion years." - L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman

3) I'm an XX trapped in an XY body. Or vice versa.

4) Water doesn't stick to a spinning ball.

5) Dinosaurs

6) The apple fell on Newton's head, inspiring his theory of gravity. No one asked how the apple got up there.

7) Pictures from Mars

8) How does a rocket propulsion system work in the vacuum of "space"?

9) "Pinpoint" missile attacks

10) Good government

Full Moon Give Aways

Full Moon Out/New Moon In

1) MSM "news"

2) NBA basketball

3) Recorded music

4) Celebrities covering one eye

5) Murder as entertainment

6) Anything "Rap"

7) White Sox pennant hopes

8) Carpal tunnel/arthritic knee, aches and pains

9) Life's overall constant electronic induced historical bullshit.

10) Swearing inside my head

Political thoughts... 02

1) I'd like to hear one good thing about Pol Pot.

2) Castro 'liberated' his people by not allowing them to leave the island.

3)  The Bolsheviks made the Nazis look like pikers when it came to killing.

4) National Socialism or International Socialism both lead to death camps.

5) No Borders means No Nation.

6) After the Russian Revolution 1917, piecework (production slavery) was instituted to create the capital to repay Loeb and Kuhn of Wall Street.

7) So-called "leaders" who turn their army on their own people tend to have an awful end - Trotsky, Lincoln, Michael Collins - to name a few.

8) Fidel Castro is listed in the IMDb (https://m.imdb.com/) as an actor. He was.

9) Isn't the "Chosen Ones" philosophy of the Tribe just another Master Race scenario?

10) United Nations - why?

Quotes... 03

 1)  A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic - Uncle Joe  

2) "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone
3) Measure a man's mental health by his ability to say No to a woman - Paul Elam

4) There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press” - Mark Twain

5) In the United States, the working class are Democrats.  The middle class are Republicans.  The upper class are Communists. - Whittaker Chambers

6) Conspiracy theorist - Someone who discovers he is mouse in someone's lab experiment, a passenger on a bus driven by psychopaths - Makow

7) Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance - George Carlin

8) There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn't true the other is to refuse to accept what is true. - Kirkegaard

9) When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic - Dresden James

10) The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.  If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use words. - Philip K Dick

LAYING IN

LAYING IN

I'VE SCRUBBED THE BUGS OUT OF THE GRILL,

I'VE WASHED THE DESERT DUST FROM THE WHEEL WELL.

SAW THE PAINT CHIPS FROM THAT TIME IN THE GRAVEL…

BABY, IT LOOKS LIKE SUMMER IS OVER 

LET'S LAY IN FOR THE WINTER

AND TAKE A BREAK FROM TRAVEL.

STORIES, AND PICTURES, GOD KNOWS, PICTURES

FROM THE DONNER PASS TO THE IOWA BUTTES

TO THE RESTFUL MICHIGAN LAKE

BUCKING THE WIND, RUSHING INTO THE FIRE

COMING HOME FOR AUTUMN AND WINTER

IN THE SPRING WE WILL AWAKE.

THE SUN WILL ARRIVE ONE APRIL MORNING 

THE HANKERING WILL START TO COMMENCE

THE DAY TRIPS BECOME LONGER

THE DESIRE TO CLIMB THEM MOUNTAINS 

SURVIVE THAT RAINSTORM

RATION THE WATER

AND SEE THE SUNSET ON A FAR HORIZON

RETURNS.

"I'VE NEVER BEEN TO VERMONT

OR SOUTH CAROLINA, EITHER."

DLTBGYD*

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN

"[They] were not fighting this perpetual war for victory, they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism."- George Orwell, 1984

This country is on a razor's edge. There will be an explosion or implosion, which may be worse. The course will be made day by day, solutions to large public problems pointed at society's structures seem so lame. As much as "throwing money" at a problem is degraded that is exactly what we do with hurricanes or financial meltdowns. Of course, getting the money out of the working persons' hide must happen first before the throwing can begin.

What is happening now is a squeezing by higher forces of our bank accounts, our integrity and our balanced mental make-ups. In the economic world, very little comfort exists for any but the elite and it forebodes to get worse. In our daily lives we are assaulted by news and observations of corruption and our emotional and interpersonal relationships deteriorate as these destructive instances invade a happier life. It takes an incredible amount of awareness, self and worldly, to be on top and ahead of depression in all its forms.

Your job (if you have one) stinks. Your spouse is a louse. Your pension plan is swirling down Wall Street's toilet. Getting older, unappreciated and peace seems like such a fantastic prospect. Where do you go from here? I'd suggest to be thankful for the roof that is, hopefully, over your head every night. To be grateful for the state of health, hopefully well, that you are in today. And to tell any loved ones that, hopefully you be with, their importance in your life. It's absolutely essential to train your mind to see the wonder of the world around you and negate the misery so prevalent today with honesty and empathy. If any tools of kindness are available its' time to use them.

Health*

1) For good health, one needs a solid nights' sleep and a solid evacuation everyday.

2) What goes in, comes out. One way or another.

3) Nutrition is not taught at AMA Medical schools.

4) Vaccinations bypass the immune system putting foreign bodies into your system. Unprotected anal sex does the same thing.

5) Drink more water. It will dilute your blood lowering your blood pressure, give lubrication to your joints, make your intestines supple and working, vacate your stomach issues and relieve asthma symptoms by giving liquid to your dried lungs.

6) Stop your addiction to man-made fructose.

7) Doctors prolong sickness for profit. Heal yourself.

8) Understand stress, the source and damage it does. Don't be proud of it.

9) Relearn to breathe correctly, deep, slowly with intention.

10) Be honest with yourself, difficult but worth it.

DEMONS OUT

DEMONS OUT

IT'S JUST A LITTLE DRINK 

FOR FUN, NO ONE WILL TELL

BUT THE UNSEEN KNOW

DEMONS ARE ONLY HAPPY IN HELL

IT'S JUST A LITTLE SMOKE

HARMLESS AS FAR AS I CAN TELL

BUT BETWEEN THE TOKES

DEMONS ARE ONLY HAPPY IN HELL

GET OUT OF ME DEMONS

I DEMAND IT OF ME

GET OUT OF ME DEMONS

I MUST CLEARLY SEE

IT'S JUST  LITTLE SNORT

OF THE FINEST WHITE SNOW

AND WITH IT I JOIN 

THE HAPPY DEMONS, I GO

TO HELL AS I LIVE 

ON THIS PARADISE ON EARTH

MISSING THE LIVING PART

DEAD AFTER BIRTH

GET OUT OF ME DEMONS

I DEMAND IT OF ME

GET OUT OF ME DEMONS

I MUST CLEARLY SEE

Some Are More Equal

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,

Beasts of every land and clime,

Hearken to my joyful tidings

Of the golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,

Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,

And the fruitful fields of England

Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses,

And the harness from our back,

Bit and spur shall rust forever,

Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,

Wheat and barley, oats and hay,

Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels

Shall be ours upon the day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,

Purer shall its waters be,

Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes

On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,

Though we die before it break;

Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,

All must toil for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,

Beasts of every land and clime,

Hearken well and spread my tidings

Of the golden future time.

-Animal Farm, George Orwell