"Students Fight for their Lives."

All over the former industrial world there are serious cut backs in social services. Education, health, housing, and so on.

Indeed some years ago the Republican party here in the land of the free abolished the Department of Health Education, and Welfare. They saw it as a subversive socialist wedge.

The same now seems to be happening in the U.K. The Tories,..aka Republicans raised higher education cost by a factor of three. Thereby cutting out the better part of a generation from ever getting even a basic degree.

Btw in this era a B.A. is needed even to be a clerk in a department store. So this act will condemn hundreds of thousands of Brits to a life of low income employment.

A grand social reformation is happening in the West. The question is if it will be be back towards a pre-ww2 standard of living or something slightly better. Say a 1955/'60 level of liberal democracy.

Not as wealthy as late 20th century lifestyles, but it's at least civilized. I remember because I was there. Be nice to have the milk delivered again. That, and the schools will actually teach kids to read, and write.

Stay Tuned.

"This is who We are"

"Pontiac on Mars"

Okay it's not really a Pontiac, but it's one of six American cars in space. That is Our Empire sent three buggies to the moon to haul the astronauts around, and three rovers to Mars.

How's that for Car Culture.

Anyway's there one of our rovers up there tooling about Mars, and apparently eating dirt. (???) Makes me proud in a weird surreal sort of way. In fact them old surrealists from 100 years ago would have loved all this stuff.

Stay Tuned.

"Noctilucent Clouds"

"We'll have to Try Again"

The Dream lives. It's still in our Hearts. We just have to try again.

"It's WAR!!"

At last we will have a final showdown with "Americanus Stupidus", and their corporate enablers! Well actually we're so stupid in this country that we don't realize that we just cut our own throats in this last mid-term election.


Even Obama is finally freaked out.

Ah well business as usual till the end. Which isn't as far off for this Republic of dummies as some think. Every time this country gets a chance to get it right we blow it. Last time we shot everybody that could have led us out of the darkness.

This time, well gee I don't even know what to call it. People that have lost everything or are about to just voted to restore the crooks that sent their jobs, and futures to China. Did it glad too.

Truly a historic, and stunning act of civil stupidity.

I sit here in disbelief. Their retirement money is gone. Their kids will never go to university or remain in the middle class. We're 'already' slipping into second world status. Yet the morons are actually celebrating.

Books will be written, plays, maybe even movies like "JFK" which will show the corporate origins of this disaster. I remember during the Obama campaign I said that this is the 'last' time I'll give the system a chance. The last time I'll vote. This after that stolen election by the republicans in 2000.

Btw if Bush had lost, which he did, but if he hadn't been put in office by the Supreme Court. The Iraq War 'may' not have happened, and the economy 'may' not have imploded. At least we wouldn't be in the Second Great Depression.

So now what.



Me I'm just drawing Angels, and posting them on my Queer blog. That, and working on my little house, and learning to cook.

Life is good, especially if you're alive to notice.

Stay Tuned.

(...Civil War? Been there, done that.)

"Door Knob from Hell"

This is the little bastard that gave me the concussion when I slipped the other day. As you can see from the bottom snap it was a cheap piece of crap,..thank the G-ddess! If it had been a 'real' knob I wouldn't be here so gleefully reporting this noise.

The details are on my post, "My house is trying to Kill Me" or something like that. Scroll down for that.

Otherwise I'm, fine.


Well okay the dreaded American voter proved their amazing stupidity again. This by electing people that 'openly said' that they would be shills for the wealthiest one percent. 'And btw "we'll make sure you never get National Heath",..not ever!

These guys are living in their cars now, but just restored the gangsters that put them there. What am I thinking they also said they'd impeach Obama.

Hummm,

Ya don't suppose this all might be some sort of white fear thing about having that Brown guy in the White House?

Nawwww, it must be something else.

"Great Recession Eats Pontiac"

If there ever was a symbol of the American Empire it was our seriously cool big cars. Pontiac was one of these, and a doorway symbol into the middle class.


Sort of like being first generation university student, first suburban house, all that. Well ya can kiss all that gleefull noise goodbye.

Pontiac from General Motors is toast. After 84 years of tempting Yank working stiffs onto the Interstates it's gone. Like the American Dream that it symbolized for generations Pontiac is History.

Ah!,...the wonderful giant gas guzzlers that could barely fit into your garage or any reasonable sized parking spots are vaporized. I remember riding around in my uncle's 1959 Pontiac.

It was like be driven about in an vast aircraft carrier with stereo radio, air conditioning, and automatic windshield washer. Course there were no safety features whatever.

That sort of thing was for the French, and librarians.

So if we were in even a 'minor' accident me, and uncle would fly through the windshield, getting shredded, beheaded, and set on fire all at the same time.

'But hey the Interstates ain't for sissies!













I loved it.

Yeah my extended family, my aunts, uncles, assorted cousins, my mom 'n dad were finally at the entry level of the Grand Post War American Middle Class.

This btw at the absolute peak of the American Empire! (..eat ya hearts out you selfish, uneducated millennials.) We owned the the damned planet, and they could kiss our nuclear powered butt if they didn't like it.

Oh we shall never see such days again.












Aw well,..time to learn Mandarin.



Oh, cute runabout,..I'll take two!