- Round and round and round we go ... and where we stop,
nobody knows.
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- Medicine. Advertised now on TV and radio. "If you
suffer from psoriasis, liver dysfunction, weak willy or hang nail, ask
your doctor about "Decorum" the medicine that makes you feel
gooooood ... again."
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- Yes ... the time for weeping is nigh. Weep for the people
dying in wars all over the world. "Wars and rumors of war," was
the way Mary, the mother of Jesus, put it when describing the end times.
War. Pestilence. Diseases which twenty-five years ago would have shocked
us are now commonplace. I am reminded of the fifties and sixties, when
rumors of cigarette smoking causing cancer were beginning to emerge. Then,
the Kent commercials hawked, "Smoke Kents. It's good for the digestion."
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- Right.
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- Back then, we thought that perhaps the paper from the
cigarette caused cancer. Or the match, or Zippo Lighter fluid. But we didn't
even THINK about maybe the tobacco causing the cancers. No. Not a chance
of that. It must have been the advertising. Or else we were just acting
like lemmings. But they were innocent times. And innocence can be forgiven.
Until the loss of innocence. Until now.
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- Now ... mad cow, aids, Lyme disease, West Nile and all
the rest. Someone a year or so back said, "It's the destruction of
the rain forests. All these diseases come from the jungle."
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- Well, they do come from a jungle. But the jungle is not
the one we think. It's the jungle of pestilence made by the hand of mankind.
The military. The governments of the world. You realize, of course, that
we are all nuts, do you not? Nuts. Because we make the most ludicrous of
excuses for that which should be patently obvious. A good definition of
culpable ignorance, of mental illness, paranoia, asocial behavior ... may
be found in the following description ...
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- At first we lie to ourselves. We know it's a lie we are
telling ourselves but we don't give it a second thought. Because in a very
short period of time, we begin to believe the lie. And that belief is what
makes us one the complete sociopath.
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- Lemmings of the world, just lay back and say, "Gimme
more, I like what you're doing to me."
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- In New York City, people of color and vastly different
racial, social and religious backgrounds went to seek their fortunes ...
Italian, Greek, Jewish, Irish. They brought not only their own brand of
culture but their essence. Each giving some of theirs to the rest of us.
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- It's no longer that way. Think about how it used to be
in our nation, about your neighbors and the way we lived forty or fifty
years ago. Was there such rage in our society then? No. Rage on the road
was rare. Rage in general was rare. People just did not scream at each
other the way we do these days. Everything has changed. And not for the
better. Nothing good has happened in our society. Change has only brought
out the worst of what we are.
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- I've wondered why this has happened to us. Frankly speaking,
I just don't know why. But there are causative factors which are extant,
factors which have made us the worst of what we are. For example, just
what ever happened to things like, Morality, Family Values, Extended Family,
Virtue,
- and the open practice and display of our faith?
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- When I was young, in high school, the best way for me
to unwind was to take a ride in Dad's 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook. Three on
the column. Not counting reverse. Out on the Bronx River Parkway for about
a half hour and I was refreshed. Ready for another few hours of hitting
the books.
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- These days, drives are definitely not refreshing. Going
for a ride anywhere can be a major catastrostroke. Road rage. The newest
bane in our society. Once, on the way to a medical center with ten pints
of much needed blood from the Red Cross, I passed a vehicle on the right
whilst in the center lane. No problem. I had emergency lights on and a
Red Cross Emergency sign saying, "Human Blood, Do Not Delay!"
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- But I made the mistake of cutting in front of another
car which was about ten car lengths behind me. He was going so darn fast
that by the time I cut into the left lane to pass someone else, he was
at my rear bumper. Frankly, I had no idea he was there. He was going too
darned fast. See, he did not like being passed. So he sped up to "get
me!"
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- Both of us were making an error. However I had a Ford
Mustang with wig wags, red and blue lights on a light bar and strobes.
He should have seen me. Not to mention the antennas my car was carrying.
So, the gentleman had plenty of notice that this was an emergency vehicle
on an emergency call.
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- Well, he followed me for ten miles, hanging so close
to my bumper that had I touched the brakes, there would have been trouble.
OK, no problem. I just went about my business and on my merry way. But
he cut me off at a traffic light on the parkway and jumped out of the car
flashing a tin badge. Mine was gold.
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- I explained the situation, thinking he was a cop, but
he was too busy screaming madly at me. I had to call for a backup. The
man was eventually pulled over as I left the scene. He was NOT a cop. The
shield was bogus. But his gun was real. He did not have a license to carry
one. I pressed charges for menacing and anything else I could think of.
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- Rage. Was a time when people who today are acting "normal"
would have been considered threats to society twenty years ago. Why? Chemtrails?
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- Nah!
- It's our society. There is no longer a day of rest for
everyone; Christian and Jew and everyone else. Stores are open nearly 24/7.
Crime is up, in spite of the FBI uniform crime reports. The kind of crime
which is not punishable or not easily discernible by the average police
officer. Drugs. Low self esteem. Insufficient parenting. Alcoholism. Rampant
anger exhibiting as hate and rage. And even the crime of bank robbery.
No guns. Just the taking of money. In New York City. Where crime is supposedly
down.
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- An interesting example. After 911, after the shock was
over, Americans became angry. They WANTED blood. Afghanistani blood. Iraqi
blood. Now, we've had some time to calm down. We no longer want blood.
Now we want peace. It is, alas, too late for that. We've gone too far with
our anger, with our own hatreds; we've gone too far for revenge.
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- Perhaps our own government is responsible for at least
capitalizing on our anger and hatred. Perhaps. Perhaps they had a level
of responsibility in all of this. Perhaps they will go further. It sure
is a different world, those of you who can remember the fifties. And it
doesn't matter that evil existed then, but was hidden from us. No Internet
then. No instant reporting of news. We were innocent. Besides which, things
were never as bad as they are now.
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- Speaking of news the media has a hold on us. They toe
the company line. And sites such as Rense and any reasonable alternative
news site, are lunatics. It's what they want us to believe. But we know
better.
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- "Ladies and gentlemen and good evening to you. John
Cameron Swazey with the news...."
- Gone. Along with the philosophy of reporting truth.
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- Now, it's politics on radio. AM and FM. On TV. Everywhere.
Conservative politics. As if that were not enough, the libs are ready to
begin their exercise in futility. Crimey! There'll be nothing to listen
to any longer.
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- Except Rense. You can always listen to Rense. What other
web site is there, what other radio show is there? None of this caliber.
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- So, what's next? Do we go back to simpler days and begin
all over again? Maybe. But maybe the hard way. Because this writer believes
with a passion that something, some monumental event, will bring us down.
Down to a level where we at least realize how bad we've been, how we've
ruined our lives and the lives of our children, how we've nearly and irretrievably
destroyed our environment.
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- A period of horror is what I expect. It's not a prediction.
It's a feeling. But it persists. And nothing changes it. Nothing.
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- What is to happen to us? To U.S.? Nothing good. There
is only the fear of fascism. Of military rule. Of terrorism. It'd be enough
to fear real terrorism. But the fear stems more from the terrorism which
will stem from terrorism. And, pray tell, what are we, the American Citizens,
doing about our fear? Nothing. We bury our heads.
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- I once asked this question of someone in authority, "What's
the temperature of the sand?" "What sand?" he answered.
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- The sand you have your head buried in. That sand. Wake
up, America. Your children will inherit what you leave for them. And what
will you leave your children? What you call inevitable? Or will you fight,
using your vote, using your legal and Constitutional rights, to get what
you deserve? Not what "they" think you deserve. Wake up! Or,
someday you may find yourself in a concentration camp, wondering just what
the hell happened to you. Wondering were your children are. Wondering how
you will survive this insanity.
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- Jim Mortellaro
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- Comment
- From Matt Rosiere
- 1-5-4
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- Jeff, and to Jim,
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- I agree with what Jim has expressed here 100%. Things
have completely gone mad for the Human Species. Mad, and there are no two
ways about it. Our world, our way of life, they are dying, and we are killing
them ourselves. It's like a slow and inevitable suicide.
-
- I've always been a firm believer that there is no such
thing as race; white, black, red, brown, yellow, green, or orange. There
is only humanity. We are all of the same. And it baffles me that the Human
Race is so childish, and so underdeveloped that we are unable to accept
this obvious truth, obvious fact.
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- I agree with Jim, in that, I, too, have a persistent
sinking feeling, an energy, broiling from within, something dark, full
of sadness. It tells me that something bad is coming. Something terrible,
something none of us will be able to make excuses for.
-
- I want you all to think about something. Think about
how long we've been here and been able-bodied, able to think on our own,
and able to create. It may seem like a long haul, but it really hasn't
been. We're infants, and it shows. I'd say that we're in our terrible 2's,
close to 3. And the way we're headed, we're not going to live beyond 4.
We've only been technologically "advanced" for about 150 years,
give or take, and here we are, thinking that we are the cream of the crop,
that we are superior to all, and all is inferior but us. This thinking,
this logic, is our downfall. If in the 300 or so years that we've been
capable, fighting wars, killing each other, and destroying, we have not
learned to live together in harmony, will we ever? At this point it seems
unlikely, as though all hope is lost. But as long as hope is there, there
is hope for mankind, at least some of us, however minute that may be.
-
- The bottom line is, if we wish to survive as a species,
we need to understand that we are just that, a species. We are Humans.
We need to learn to live together, and grow up, otherwise, we will all
die together, having attained nothing, and having nothing for what we have
so far achieved as a species.
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- Matt
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- Comment
- From Matt Rosiere
- 1-5-4
-
- Jeff, and to Jim,
-
- I agree with what Jim has expressed here 100%. Things
have completely gone mad for the Human Species. Mad, and there are no two
ways about it. Our world, our way of life, they are dying, and we are killing
them ourselves. It's like a slow and inevitable suicide.
-
- I've always been a firm believer that there is no such
thing as race; white, black, red, brown, yellow, green, or orange. There
is only humanity. We are all of the same. And it baffles me that the Human
Race is so childish, and so underdeveloped that we are unable to accept
this obvious truth, obvious fact.
-
- I agree with Jim, in that, I, too, have a persistent
sinking feeling, an energy, broiling from within, something dark, full
of sadness. It tells me that something bad is coming. Something terrible,
something none of us will be able to make excuses for.
-
- I want you all to think about something. Think about
how long we've been here and been able-bodied, able to think on our own,
and able to create. It may seem like a long haul, but it really hasn't
been. We're infants, and it shows. I'd say that we're in our terrible 2's,
close to 3. And the way we're headed, we're not going to live beyond 4.
We've only been technologically "advanced" for about 150 years,
give or take, and here we are, thinking that we are the cream of the crop,
that we are superior to all, and all is inferior but us. This thinking,
this logic, is our downfall. If in the 300 or so years that we've been
capable, fighting wars, killing each other, and destroying, we have not
learned to live together in harmony, will we ever? At this point it seems
unlikely, as though all hope is lost. But as long as hope is there, there
is hope for mankind, at least some of us, however minute that may be.
-
- The bottom line is, if we wish to survive as a species,
we need to understand that we are just that, a species. We are Humans.
We need to learn to live together, and grow up, otherwise, we will all
die together, having attained nothing, and having nothing for what we have
so far achieved as a species.
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- Matt
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