And nothing will change.
-One thing I do know, is that things like this touch you more when it touches your family.
My cousin's daughter was in that school as the shit was going down, and the perp was captured 1/2 block from my cousin's house. We talked last night. He's a bit shook up, of course, but grateful his daughter was now home and safe after spending a couple hours hiding in a closet.
-And, now it comes out that the FBI was tipped to this shooter guy, and they couldn't find him? This is bullshit. The FBI can find anybody they want. I can find almost anybody I want, with 1/10th of their resources. They did not want to. Maybe they were too busy trying frame President Trump?
-We've been told since 9/11. "If you see something, say something." It isn't 'we' who are guilty. The Feds could have stopped this guy. They did not. It wasn't a failure on their part. It was lack of will.
-You've all seen the official portrait of President Obama. Did you laugh out loud, too?Portrait-wise, the artist did a good good job. It looks like him, but those hands are just too big.
Add, that the artist inserted his trademark sperm cell onto The President's forehead... against the backdrop of Wrigley Field (I thought he was a White Sox fan...)... and the whole thing just seems kinda silly. It's not dignified. Not at all.
Worse thing yet, President Obama chose this artist.
His final act as President.
How fitting that he, alone, got the 'happy ending' .
-That Michelle Obama portrait?It doesn't look like her at all. That face is lacking in personal detail, and could easily represent 50% of the Black female population. (Maybe the artist thinks that they all look alike?)
I've seen faces on toast that look more like Michelle than this.
The arms,hands and fingers look like they came from an orangutan. Seriously. Look again?
I believe Michelle chose her portrait painter, as well.
But, hey... at least she doesn't have sperm on her forehead. She kept her dignity, if it's really her.
-I saw Twelve Alone. It's a good movie, really well put-together without too much suspension of belief. That's about all I can say about it. There wasn't much acting involved. Not much of a 'story'. Played like a documentary more times than not. Not much to critique when not much is offered. Go see it. It is worth well the ticket price,
-Donald Trump spent many years promoting himself as a Playboy billionaire. We all know this.
Did he bang the porn star? Who cares? It's a porn star. It's what they do.
It's not like he used his status to take advantage of/abuse a starry-eyed intern, or the White House secretary pool.
-Both of you may have noticed... I'm making an attempt to blog more often. Fact is, after all I've been through, and still going through... I sought some guidance from an expert.
He's a cool dude, more like me than I am like him.
We click, and... I recently used my expertise to unite him with his long-lost younger brother...that he spent 11 plus years looking for.
-"You can do this?" ... watch me work....
-Yeah... he thinks I'm kinda cool right now.
He advised me to resume blogging, to keep my mind straight... a discipline... take the time to do something that does not benefit anybody else. Take the time, to be you, for you.
"You have spent too much time being what others needed you to be... for them. You see the issue here?"
-He's asking questions that I do not want to answer. He's also providing answers to questions that I didn't realize were there.
- I take care of my own yard, and change my own oil. Most people pay others to do the most basic things of life for them. They might look down upon me for talking to somebody... but, at least I'm capable, and willing, to change my oil and take care of my yard, without hired help.
-most of all... I'm willing to admit that I sought help/guidance in times of trouble... I didn't pay somebody to make shit right in other peoples' eyes. I'm paying somebody to help me be right with myself. My life, and my eyes, are all that matters to me. I don't give a fuck what you think. I never should have.
6 comments:
Gino,
First things first. Good luck as you put your life together so it feels right for you. Inner demons are the hardest to bring into the light and cast aside. You will be in my thoughts and prayers on this project.
I keep meaning to see 12 Alone, although I watched it play out in real time from my safe vantage point here in the US with the daily intel briefings we had and the awards to the Airman who were part of that effort. Thanks for the review.
I agree on the probable path the shooting will take "nothing will change."
Finally, the art will stand on its own, although I think Picasso would have done a better job with either subject. As long as the principles are happy and it doesn't find its way to a coin or bill I really don't care.
Stay safe...
I'm willing to admit that I sought help/guidance in times of trouble... I didn't pay somebody to make shit right in other peoples' eyes. I'm paying somebody to help me be right with myself. My life, and my eyes, are all that matters to me. I don't give a fuck what you think. I never should have.
Sure. I agree. For what it's worth, I know a lot of people who think very highly of you, including at least three in my own domicile. And I'm glad you're making the effort to blog. I get that blogging is mostly dead -- I maybe get 1/4 of the traffic now than I used to get five years ago, but it was never about that.
thanks for your support, guys. it does mean something.
John: you are uniquely qualified to see that movie like few are. let me know how accurate it is. that was biggest suspicion. did it really go down like that?
Glad your family is safe.
The FBI isn't a monolith-- if we want to fix it, we need to find out who decided that a post with a freaking real name attached to it wasn't worth investigating, at least to the point of forwarding it to the local field office and bugging YouTube for the IP address.
It could have been a frame-up, after all. But someone didn't forward it to the field office. That someone has a name. That someone very possibly got put in that position to look for a specific flavor of threat, if you catch my meaning.
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Good to hear you done good, and are getting guidance from the guy you did good for. My only request, as a stranger you've talked to a little in the past, is to please do self-checks as well-- sometimes folks are totally right about what's wrong, but wrong about what is right, or how to fix it. Probably teaching gramdma to suck eggs, but I gotta worry. It's what I do. My whole family, we're great worriers.
i hear ya, Foxy... i'm doing the homework he assigned me. its hard, it's also valuable and rewarding.
he is challenging me... i want to meet his challenge..
and throw it back into his face...
part of me says "do not ever submit"
the other part says "you might learn something from somebody else"...
i'm not a submissive person... but i do try to be a learning person.
I am dominant. but i want to be dominate for the right reasons... does that make me a subordinate to reason?
Well, what pops to mind is a bit of Bible trivia.
The word that, in English Bibles, is rendered "meek"-- was the same word that was used for a bridled horse. Not that there isn't strength, but that it is controlled...and man is there a lot of the-horse-is-not-pissed-you're-there involved.
Strength under control.
It seems like the subtleties are different from the common use for submission.
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