Thursday, April 30, 2020

One Piece At A Time


One Piece At A Time
- recorded by Johnny Cash

Well, I left Kentucky back in forty nine An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs 
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry 'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black. 
One day I devised myself a plan That should be the envy of most any man I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.


I'd get it one piece at a time And it wouldn't cost me a dime 
You'll know it's me when I come through your town 
I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. 


So the very next day when I punched in With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends 
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears 
I've never considered myself a thief But GM wouldn't miss just one little piece Especially if I strung it out over several years. 
The first day I got me a fuel pump And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk Then I got me a transmission and all the chrome 
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home. 
Now, up to now my plan went all right 'Til we tried to put it all together one night And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong. 
The transmission was a fifty three And the motor turned out to be a seventy three And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would fit And with a little bit of help with an adapter kit We had that engine runnin' just like a song 
Now the headlight' was another sight We had two on the left and one on the right But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on. 
The back end looked kinda funny too But we put it together and when we got through Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin 
About that time my wife walked out And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin." 
So we drove up town just to get the tags And I headed her right on down main drag I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh 'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds. 


I got it one piece at a time And it didn't cost me a dime 
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild 
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. 


Ugh! Yeah, RED RYDER This is the COTTON MOUTH In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on Huh, 
This is the COTTON MOUTH And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER You might say I went right up to the factory And picked it up, it's cheaper that way 
Ugh!, what model is it? 
Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 automobile.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

CELL PHONE


CELL PHONE 

YOU TAKE A PICTURE FIRST, DON’T EVEN ASK 

I’M GOING TO TAKE THAT FUCKING CELL PHONE AND JAM IT UP YOUR ASS 

TALKING TO YOU, YOU USE IT TO CHECK MY FACTS 

I’M GOING TO TAKE THAT CELL PHONE AND JAM IT UP YOUR ASS 

BE HUMAN. LOOK ME IN THE EYE. HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION. YOU WON’T DIE. 


HEAR IT RING, YOU BETTER PASS 

OR I’M GOING TO JAM THAT FUCKING CELL PHONE UP YOUR ASS 

TRY TO SHOW ME A PICTURE OF A PRETTY LASS 

I’M GOING TO JAM THAT CELL PHONE UP YOUR ASS 

BE HUMAN. LOOK ME IN THE EYE. HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION. YOU WON’T DIE. 


I KNOW WE ARE LIVING IN DAYS FUTURE PAST, 

I DON’T CARE 

I’M GOING TO JAM THAT FUCKING CELL PHONE UP YOUR ASS 

I’VE GOT A MISSION, I’M UP TO THE TASK 

TO SHOVE ALL YOUR CELL PHONES UP YOUR ASS 

BE HUMAN. LOOK ME IN THE EYE. HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION. YOU WON’T DIE. 


Saturday, April 25, 2020

Bff Reports ... 004 Hand Shake*


Black-footed Ferret Reports: 
Dispatch 4 from DumbFuck Nation, United States of Absurdia 

As usual, I was up and out as soon as the morning sun shown. I got a tip that seven miles outside Taos is the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge and I just have to see it. Very early in the morning, I toodled around Taos, a very attractive town square with gazebo, drank my coffee and glommed on the WIFi of the hotel until a police officer slowly cruised by. Once again, the CA plates defy my undercover desire. He made me nervous, so I slipped away. Maybe I’ll meet Miles Mathis another time. 

I drove out to the Bridge and was glad to see a Rest Area at the sight, I needed a little wipe down. No one seemed to be there, so I wandered and took in the view. (Incidentally, all my time in New Mexico, the earth seemed pretty flat. We will leave that discussion for another time.) I was cracking up a bit from the loneliness. There probably weren’t ten people in this county. I played my guitar on the bench and cried through some of my favorite love songs. I really missed her. 

Suddenly a man appeared, a groundskeeper or custodian, as he started to do the morning chores and unlocked the bathrooms. He came over to me and listened, said he’d be back to show me a few licks after his duties. Sure enough, a little later he sat right next to me and asked to play my guitar. I always hate handing my guitar to someone else. They either bang on it too strongly or never intend to give it back. He had those qualities, but I relented. 

Julien was his name and I introduced myself. He had a unique style and was a very good player. He did a love song he wrote, a real rocking cover of the Beatles' One after 909, and another original about the virus, very dark. He then wanted to get back to work, but I made him listen to my song, BUNNY HUTCH. 


About the third verse I could see his jaw was on his chest and wanted to escape. I finished and said, “Now you shake my hand.” I could see him back away; he had on his work gloves. I said, “Now you shake my hand. You got your germs all over my guitar, I didn’t question you. Now, shake my hand.” A big, bright smile formed and he took his right glove off, we shook hands, wished each other the best in these troubled times. It would be another week before I had the pleasure to do that again. 

It was a beautiful, warm sun, clear day at the top and end of the world as far as I was concerned. I meditated quietly on a bench a half mile hike away for what seemed like the longest time. I cried for the state of this country. I was in a glorious cathedral and I felt like shit. 

I took off about noon to take the Corona Cure… 

Dispatch 5 of the Black-footed ferret Reports in DumbFuck Nation coming soon…

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Friday, April 24, 2020

BLACK-FOOTED FERRET


THE BALLAD OF THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET 


THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET IS HIS CB NAME, YOU SEE 

CRISS-CROSSING THE COUNTRY TRYING TO BE FREE AS CAN BE 

BUT ALL ABOUT HIM ARE FUTURE NOOSES IN THE TREE 

THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET CARRIES FREEDOM FOR YOU AND ME 



HIT NEEDLES, CALIFORNIA ABOUT 5AM 

THE LOCK-DOWN COMMENCED, DIDN’T SEE WHEN IT WOULD END 

THEIR MINDS WERE TAKEN WHEN THE GOVERNOR FLIPPED A SWITCH 

NOW EVERY WOMAN I SEE ACTS LIKE A TOTAL BITCH 



THEY STAND IN LINE MOST GRACIOUSLY AT EVERY TRUCK STOP 

COUNTER PEOPLE ARE A-SCARED OF YOU AT THEIR STORE 

THE WASHROOMS ARE CLEAN, THAT’S FOR SURE 

MY GOD, THEY ARE EVEN MOPPING THE FLOOR 



GERMS ARE’NT NEW,  SOMETHING ELSE GREW IN THE HIVE MIND 

A SPELL WAS CAST, THIS COULD BE THE LAST 

OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY LINE 

SPEAK OUT AND ASSEMBLE, CARRY A GUN, AND FIGHT FOR LIBERTY 



THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET IS HIS CB NAME, YOU SEE 

CRISS CROSSING THE COUNTRY TRYING TO BE FREE AS CAN BE 

BUT ALL ABOUT HIM ARE FUTURE NOOSES IN THE TREE 

THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET CARRIES FREEDOM FOR YOU AND ME

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Announcement!


1) Stress brings out desert flowers. 

2) I love my freedom. When pussy fellow citizens give it away on my behalf, I get angry. 

3) Soon, this blog will be interrupted for a need of a pulled-pork sandwich from somewhere near Keokuk, Iowa. Any recommendations welcome.

4) Black-footed Ferret may be riding again. 

5) Common sense. I demand Common Sense. 

6) Millions of Americans let their dogs lick their faces every day, several times a day. Dogs eat their own poop. 


7) Perhaps this country should have a frank discussion on what freedom is. 

8) These recent times have explained, definitively, who your friends are. 


9) I have found people more attached to animals than people, are not my people. 

10) Open air prisons are not where I want to live.


See you in Keokuk

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COVID-19 lockdowns are killing thousands of Americans
By Christopher Paslay

The hysteria drummed up by the mainstream media over COVID-19, in conjunction with the draconian lockdown measures being employed by many governors, is costing thousands of American lives. In light of horrific job losses and a crashing economy, calls to suicide hotlines are up over 40 percent nationwide. Although an increase in suicide calls does not necessarily translate to an increase in deaths, the fact that 132 Americans die by suicide daily is concerning. A 40-percent uptick would mean an increase of 53 deaths per day, if the calls indeed correlate to suicides. This translates to 1,590 deaths per month.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/covid19_lockdowns_are_killing_thousands_of_americans.html


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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Bff Reports ...003 Rest Stop*


Black-footed Ferret Reports: 
Dispatch 3 from DumbFuck Nation, United States of Absurdia 

I drove too much, too late, I vowed to get my resting spot about 4PM, now I’m driving around dark Santa Fe, tired and road hypnotized looking for a safe landing. I chose a risky spot on a residential side street. Strange van, CA plates might get a phone call to the police. I was tired and took a chance, parked. I tried to stay under radar. 

I got 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep. As soon as the morning light came shining through, I was on my way. 


At the Speedway for gas and breakfast a little later, I found my first human encounter with a gentleman living in the Taos Pueblo. We got to laughing together at the silliness of the square on the floor and the bossy female managers' very cursive signs about “So Sorry for the Inconvenience”. We were goofing like schoolboys as we moved up a square at a time. Then he said, “The State said they would de-fund the Pueblo if we did not comply with the lock-down. I remember the Hanta virus, where were they then?” The Hanta virus ran through this area in the mid-90’s and killed hundreds. I met him later in the day, by chance, and we had another good laugh over the stupidity of it all. Sanity recognizes each other, I believe. 

Along the road a Jiffy Lube was offering Free WiFi and I had to catch up with some mail and news. I parked next to the building and as the two fellas showed up for work, they were accommodating as could be, even brought me coffee. More humanity, not everyone is a DFian. Figuring I would be driving a few more thousand miles, an oil change and inspection might be a good thing. 

I drove about 60 miles towards Taos and came upon a boat launch into the Quartzite River. It was 10:30 AM, but when I found a parking spot tucked under the road, under the trees, out of the wind, with a picnic table, I knew I was there all day and night. I needed good rest. 


I was living my idol’s life – living in a van down by the river. 

I did some yoga, played my guitar, wrote HEAD FOR THE HILLS, read my book on Katrina, The Great Deluge and took a good long look at a map. I’m glad I did because I found my next destination – Corona, New Mexico! 

I watched the blood red full moon rise up over the hills and went to sleep for the night.  The Passover week and Good Friday symbolism spooked the hell out of me.

Dispatch 4 of the Black-footed ferret Reports in DumbFuck Nation coming soon…

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http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-08-sick-and-tired.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-007-wall.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-006-earnest-tubb-lives_13.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-005-cure.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-004-hand-shake.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-003-rest-stop.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-002-silence.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-report-001.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/black-footed-ferret.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/head-for-hills.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/announcement.html

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COVID: The projection of a mass illusion 

In his 1976 film masterpiece, Network, Paddy Chayefsky’s unhinged newsman, Howard Beale, broadcasts this message to his audience on national television—

“So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television’s a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business… We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God’s name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion.”

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Sac Rally for Freedom*




Freedom Rally
Sacramento, CA April 20, 2020

I saw there was Gridlock Rally scheduled for Sacramento today, so I headed the van in that direction.  Of the 38 million people in California, I’d like to see the quality of protest, the quality of people who think House Arrest is not a government policy. I was pleasantly surprised in some aspects, profoundly disappointed in others.

I wasn’t too keen on the honeypot of protest, that is drive your car around the Capital several times and make sure your license plate gets photographed enough so they know where to come and get you.  I parked a half mile away and hoofed it in.  Scheduled for Noon, I was there before 11:30.

Why is there such annoying loud music at these kinds of events? 'Imagine' by John Lennon, c’mon, let it go.  American military music? These people are going to stomp on your backs. “This Is God’s Country”, afraid not Mr. DJ, the devil is running rampant. So, I moved behind the speakers for some ear relief and watched things unfold.


I have a long history of documenting protests.  I have been in a lot of crowds of protesters.  I have been in on the planning of fairly large protests. I have to say by the disorganization, the lack of program besides wave your American flag, and the general wandering around by all involved this was an ad hoc Facebook called protest;  Leaderless, no speakers or sycophant seal clappers like in a lefty event. White gas on concrete, as A. Cockburn once told me, but I'm sure there was a hand stirring the pot. No designated minority representation.  In fact, the only person screaming for their freedom were white people.  I saw no black, Mexican, Asians at all.  Yes, I would have admit some may have been there, but this was what those Diversity People call, a totally white event.  I think the blacks in this country want to be slaves, the Mexicans would never challenge El Chefe and the Asians are always frightened little assholes.


When the dozen or so bicycle cops, with masks on, roll up – they get an ovation.  Masked men with weapons are not usually acknowledged with applause.

I must say I was heartened by the role of the women in calling for the end of the lock-down.  Hysterical Women for Freedom. There were some very strong voices, one cynical might even consider them paid actors, but they were there.  Then there were the constantly muddled-headed variety, wanting to be so rebellious as to put their toe in the water.  So, she would have her American flag face mask (still not so sure the pandemic isn’t real, and obviously very fashionable) her complete outfit of Red White and Blue tennis shoes, scarf, hat and anything else, her signs of pleading (Please, give us back our Freedoms, please), and, of course, a Trump 2020 sign.  So, the guy that is holding you in jail is your Savior.

Don’t tell me the Stockholm Syndrome isn’t alive in well in the Good Ole USA.  This is one confused populace.


One of the more disturbing aspects of this, all protests have side issues that glue to the main point, but this call for the ending of the lock-down becomes a Donald Trump rally.  The guy that puts you under Martial Law, borrows 2.2 Trillion dollars to fund do-nothing white elephant programs or plain giveaways, through the advice of his Swamp Creature ‘expert’ is supposed to release us from our bondage.  One Trump supporter said to me, “It was Governor Newsome that put us under house arrest.” And, I guess, he was right. 

Just what I needed today - more stupid, delusional thinking.

The women and their muddle-headed thinking were represented by the ‘Recall Newsome’ signs, 100% held by women.  Still believing the system only needs better cogs and switches, they have no concept the next petty tyrant is going to be worse. 


As the afternoon went on and I started to stroll around the entire Capital Park, I realized the protest was much larger than it seemed.  One of the little things that make me laugh internally was the fact all the honking rebellious drivers refused to go against a One Way traffic sign.  Instead of completely circling the Capital and Park, the cars were serpentine around the city. ‘Go with flow’ certainly helped their Operation Gridlock campaign, in a city that wasn't going to be disrupted because they were hiding in their homes.

It heartened me to see the joyousness in coming together.  I saw hugging, hand shaking, greetings and salutations of kindred spirits.  All in all it did my spirit good.  I can complain about the muddled-thinking. I can see the holes in their arguments, and I’m scared as hell as where it is all going.  But I did see people walking on their hind legs and for that it was worth the trip.

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Latest CDC COVID-19 Numbers Make the Doom-and-Gloom Cult Look Like Complete Idiots


The CDC recently released coronavirus numbers from February 1, 2020 to April 18, 2020.

With each day it is getting harder and harder for these so-called experts to defend their complete destruction of the American economy.

Since February there have been 17,229 COVID-19 deaths.

Another 7,676 died from COVID-19 and pneumonia.

During this same time period 49,013 Americans died from pneumonia.

And then there is the age gap.

There were 20 deaths under the age of 25.
That comes out to 0.1% of all coronavirus deaths.

There were 13,518 deaths over 65 years of age.


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In a National Emergency, Does the Constitution Still Apply?

President Trump proclaimed a national state of emergency under the National Emergencies Act on March 13, 2020. However, nothing in that proclamation closed any businesses, confined anyone in their homes or infringed on any other constitutional rights or liberties. That, and other actions by the federal government merely cleared away certain regulatory roadblocks that could interfere with the government’s response to the pandemic.

By contrast, the orders issued at the state and local level have dramatically restricted the civil liberties of ordinary law-abiding Americans, shutting down all “non-essential” businesses, causing, at last count, 22 million Americans to lose their jobs, and confining the vast majority of the nation to their homes.

Monday, April 20, 2020

Bff Reports... 002 Silence*


Black-footed Ferret Reports: 
Dispatch 2 from DumbFuck Nation, United States of Absurdia

I drove on… my thinking was in a real bad way. I didn’t have a plan. How crazy I was thinking is the example I thought Texas was going to be a safe haven. They have guns, maybe some will protect me. It also became apparent that I was to subsist on McDonalds or truck stop Subway sandwiches. It is eerie to see the economic suicide this country is under first hand. Then I thought AAA wouldn’t even come if I called. The loneliness was thick, in my van, in vacant Northern Arizona.

The car radio was Corona Virus, all day, all the time, from every direction. Doom and gloom. Lies, lies, lies, can’t anyone even discern the truth? NPR is absolutely the most lying-est shit bag bunch. All propaganda, all the time, with female after female reporter testifying about the emotional wreckage brought on by the Virus. First story – a father can’t be with the expectant mother during delivery. Second story – No matter, it’s all under the “We’ll never know” mystery variety. Third story – the tiger at the Bronx zoo has the Corona. Oh! My heart just bleeds for that tiger. Death totals always rise as the segments continues, 7,000 then 8,000 then 13,000. They are reporters with no respect for the dead. No attempt to report 7,342 or 8,567 or 12,733, just flat numbers always rising. I rode in silence.


My quest didn’t improve entering New Mexico with, yet again, another female Governor using the scary voice to enforce a ‘lock-down’, (her words), for public safety. They also had the unique Big Brother ability to send a screeching warning signal through your car radio, your CB, and your cell phone simultaneously every 30 minutes or so, with a text warning, also. I got into Gallup and slept for a while at a Love’s Truck Stop. There is nothing like a Love’s washroom smell at 8AM, an open cattle car on a hot August day wouldn’t do it justice, but bless them, they keep the place clean and I appreciate it. They got a lot of my business the next few days.


A little bit of rest and I came up with a destination. I have an old friend, Mac, wintering in New Orleans. I gave him a call and like a true friend he said, “I’d love to see you. Come on down.” Mac didn’t hesitate a second or question me on my ‘social distancing policy’. Out of blue I received a call from an old work mate living in his cabin in Northern Wisconsin and he invited me to stay with him. So, these two human beings, non-DFians, heartened my day, (as it turned out, one. I’ll explain later.)  I was on my way to New Orleans, but I still wanted to wander for few days, a $1.30/gal can take you places.  I have never been to Taos… maybe I’ll bump into Miles Mathis!

Dispatch 3 of the Black-footed ferret Reports in DumbFuck Nation coming soon…

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http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-08-sick-and-tired.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-007-wall.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-006-earnest-tubb-lives_13.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-005-cure.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-004-hand-shake.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-003-rest-stop.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-002-silence.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-report-001.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/black-footed-ferret.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/head-for-hills.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/announcement.html

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America's Huddled Masses Yearn to Breathe Free

Emma Lazarus could not imagine, when writing the 1883 sonnet inscribed on the Statute of Liberty, that the words of lines 10 and 11 -- “Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” -- would bear such relevance to the situation now being endured by American citizens under government lockdown thanks to a global pandemic midwifed by scientists in a Chinese viral research lab in Wuhan.

... Americans are tired of an oppressive government that, for our own good, they tell us, locks us in our homes based on computer models that have never been right from day one and health guidelines that keep changing so much they might as well be written on an Etch-a-Sketch. They want to “flatten the curve” by crushing our hopes and dreams. They seek treatments and a cure for a virus, ignoring the health-care costs of crushed lives and dreams, the human costs of lost jobs and careers, of nest eggs broken on the ground, of people who used to provide for their families fighting in stores over rolls of toilet paper. We are being guided by the best infectious disease experts in the world, we are told, experts so smart they didn’t anticipate or consider the lives lost from depression, suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, and despair in a land where abortion is considered an essential procedure but heart stints and CT scans not so much.


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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Not Mass Hysteria. No.*


Not Mass Hysteria, not a chance… 

1) Do you realize one segment of government is releasing violent criminals to the public and another segment of government is demanding they wear masks? 

2) If the Government demanded you wear a silly hat, would you? 


3) Anyone walking in public with a face mask on is a) a Miss Bossypants b) snitch c) ass-kisser d) soon to be unknown it me e) now, a criminal. 

4) Our Founding Father, Fhomas Fefferson, writing the Constitution stated, “In order to form a more perfect union… we stand six feet apart.” 

5) Our glorious WW II vets didn’t practice social distancing. They were only facing 1000 mph red hot bits of lead. Thankfully, they stood “shoulder-to-shoulder” defeating Fascism (… or did they, reeeaally?) 


6) Antifa were real fashion trendsetters. 

7) Has anyone noticed the Revolution has happened? 

8) People are petrified of a germ and , yet, live with filthy dogs, cats, fish, all kinds of animals that shit in the house. Wear that face mask outdoors and take it off inside. 


9) Everyday I’m in a Twilight Zone episode. 

10) SOCIAL DISTANCERS - you wouldn't help me up if I stumbled and fell.  Expect the same from me towards you for eternity.

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He's lurking... LURKING!...

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Gang Violence Continues Even Under Coronavirus
There’s no social distancing for criminals.
Mon Apr 20, 2020 

While the authorities are cracking down on miscreants attending drive-in church services or surfing in the ocean, urban gangs are practicing social distancing by shooting their victims from passing cars.

With 4 dead and 19 wounded over the weekend, Chicago’s gangs made it clear that they weren’t staying home. Either that or they thought that shooting rival drug dealers was an essential activity.

And for them it probably is.

While local media broadcast pictures of a deserted Windy City, the shootings paralleled those of previous years. Orders to stay at home, like most laws, don’t apply to criminals.

In one single day in early April, Chicago thugs killed 6 people and shot 21. So far this year, 117 people have been killed, and 522 were wounded. By the time you read this, the numbers will be higher.

Only 86 people in Chicago, so far, have died of the coronavirus.

Chicago’s thugs can give any pandemic a run for its money. And then shoot it in the back.


Pastor Michael Pfleger, Chicago's other clerical Obama mentor, blamed, "anger, frustration, and depression." Depression takes many forms. Like the two gentlemen who were shooting at each other from two different cars. Now that’s social distancing. Or the man who shot a 5-year-old girl in the foot.

That isn’t depression. It’s evil.

Meanwhile, Cook County freed 300 inmates. Toni Preckwinkle, the president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, has said that she wants to figure out how to get 1,000 criminals "back into the community safely". And once they’re safely there, they can safely shoot some more people.

And that comes at a time when 200 Chicago cops have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Preckwinkle, who is also the Chair of the Cook County Democratic Party, had previously attacked Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago for suggesting that releasing repeat offenders in any way causes shootings.

Since not nearly enough people and 5-year-old girls are being shot in Chicago, Preckwinkle is determined to reduce the prison population by a third. That means potentially freeing 2,000 criminals.

And the gunshots will speak for themselves.


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’37 Minutes Later’: Inmates Released From Jail Due To Coronavirus Fears Keep Getting Arrested Again


Oakland, California, police officers arrested 32-year-old Rocky Music on Sunday for allegedly carrying out one carjacking and attempting another.

Music’s alleged crime spree came less than an hour after he was released in relation to another alleged car theft, thanks to an emergency court order forbidding so-called low-level offenders from being booked into county jails due to coronavirus fears. It took him just 37 minutes after his release to start committing crimes again, according to local authorities.


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Saturday, April 18, 2020

HEAD FOR THE HILLS


HEAD FOR THE HILLS 


IT’S JUST AN INCONVENIENCE, A SUGGESTION, NOT AN ORDER 

I KNOW I COULD GET A TICKET, BUT HE’S JUST DOING HIS JOB, SORT OF 

I’LL STAND IN LINE AT THE GROCERY STORE AND EYE EACH OTHER SUSPICIOUSLY 

BUT IT’S ALL FOR GOOD, DON’T YOU SEE, IT’S A REAL THREAT, C’MON NOW, NOT A STORY 

MOST FICTITIOUSLY 


 HEAD FOR THE HILLS, I HEARD YOU SAY 

BUT I DON’T THINK IT’LL BE THAT WAY 

THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THEY HAVE OUR BACKS 

MY FRIENDS ARE HERE, MY HOME IS HERE, AND MY OLD CAT, ‘BLACK JACK’ 


MANY PEOPLE DIED 100 YEARS AGO IN THE DISTANT PAST 

THEY CAUGHT A BUG, HACKED AND SHIVERED AND BREATHED THEIR LAST 

THE SPANISH FLU WAS GLOBAL, A DAMNED HORRIBLE SIGHT 

NO REASON FOR ANYONE TO DIE TODAY OUR MEDICINES ARE JUST RIGHT 


HEAD FOR THE HILLS, I HEARD YOU SAY 

BUT I DON’T THINK IT’LL BE THAT WAY 

THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THEY HAVE OUR BACKS 

MY FRIENDS ARE HERE, MY HOME IS HERE, AND MY OLD CAT, ‘BLACK JACK’ 


I WISH YOU LUCK, YOU’LL BE BACK, JUST A TOUCH OF LIBERTY 

CHAINED TOGETHER IN A BOX CAR, CHAINED TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY 

IT WASN’T ME, IT WASN’T YOU, IT WAS THAT NO ONE GAVE A CRAP 

I’M HAPPY TO SEE, THAT YOU AND ME, WILL BE TOGETHER, AT THE LAST ACT 


HEAD FOR THE HILLS, I HEARD YOU SAY 

BUT I DON’T THINK IT’LL BE THAT WAY 

THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THEY HAVE OUR BACKS 

MY FRIENDS ARE HERE, MY HOME IS HERE, AND MY OLD CAT, ‘BLACK JACK’


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Friday, April 17, 2020

Bff Reports... 001 Escape*


Black-footed Ferret Reports: 
Dispatch 1 from DumbFuck Nation, United States of Absurdia

I’m back. I tried to leave this insane asylum called California. I drove until I hit a wall. It was a thick wall of DumbFuckedness that I could not get through.

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Saturday, April 4, I had enough. I melted down and had to leave. I wasn’t thinking too clearly, I was terrified and had no one to share my fears. Very alone, I threw some clothes, water, and camping equipment in my van and headed out of town, to the desert, anywhere in the desert. I felt like an escaped con.

I wanted to social distance myself from those practicing social distancing by miles and miles. What a heartless, mean country we live in. Forced loneliness is now a national policy. Shunning is fully accepted and not thought of as inhumane. Where do the AA people go? Online? What a sad time we live in. My friend’s father died at age 92. A most well respected man, the town doctor for 50 years. A large family, close knit, has to view Grandpa’s remains behind glass or on a computer screen. How sick can it get, I’m afraid to ask.


I’m here to report the magic spell is set very, very deep into the American consciousness. Rational thought, common sense, thinking with cognition belongs only to a few. Obedience to authority, snitching, and fear rule the day. Get used to it, it’s going to get worse. The DumbFuckians (DFians) hold sway.

I drove all night quite distraught. I was leaving, not coming back. I was going to find people, someone, anyone who is human and a comfortable place to live with them. All I knew was the  Governor snapped his fingers and 38 million people turned into thoughtless robots.   I’m still searching. I got lost in the tangle of highways around Bakersfield and fell a little short of escape, near Barstow I pulled over and slept for a bit. I breezed through Needles about 5am, I got away but I certainly wasn’t free.


The first indication was turning the car radio on, immediately I hear the scare warnings delivered by the female Governor of Arizona. All the public health warnings are in a quivering, doom is on the horizon, female voice I have noticed. So, I didn’t intend to stay in AZ any more than necessary. I drove on, getting away from California wasn’t enough, obviously.


My first indication of real State power was contemplating the closing of Las Vegas. Where are the howling protests of the gamblers? They are supposed to be addicts. Given the 30 day dry out period given by the State, now they are all cured of their ’illness’. No more State dollars directed to their ‘recovery’. The billions of chump money uncollected by those casinos is just amazing.

I also came to understand God doesn’t want the casinos closed. He always wants to test you, and it does bring a certain amount of joy to the player. Only the devil wants to remove joy and relish in the pain. That’s the only entity that could close Las Vegas.


My next moment of the awesome power of the State of DumbFuck was the closing of the Grand Canyon. How do you close the Grand Canyon? People go there to get away from other people. Are you going to catch the bug at the Grand Canyon? It is as astounding as making a plant illegal. The DFians will put up with anything.

I drove on, angry, confused,… Dispatch 2 from Black footed-ferret in DumbFuck Nation soon.

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http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-007-wall.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-006-earnest-tubb-lives_13.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/08/bff-reports-005-cure.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-004-hand-shake.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-003-rest-stop.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-reports-002-silence.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/bff-report-001.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/black-footed-ferret.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/head-for-hills.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2020/04/announcement.html

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“I Took an Oath to Uphold the Constitution” – Racine Sheriff Will Not Enforce Wisconsin’s Authoritarian Stay-at-Home Order

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling announced on Friday his department will not be enforcing Wisconsin’s Draconian stay-at-home order.

... Four sheriffs in Michigan are also defying the Governor’s authoritarian stay-at-home order.

“Each of us took an oath to uphold and defend the Michigan Constitution, as well as the US Constitution, and to ensure that your God given rights are not violated. We believe that we are the last line of defense in protecting your civil liberties,” the Michigan sheriffs said.