STANDING THE WALL 1.2

 "the Wall" ... looking back at you ...
(read Nietzsche ... much?)

STANDING THE WALL 1.1

STANDING THE WALL 1.0

FOLLOW THE MONEY

COST / BENEFIT

WHO BENEFITS?

 

What of the TRILLIONS laundered into banking & politics?

 

RECORD LEVEL

WHAT IT MEANS

-----------------LAND OF THE FREE?-----------

DESTROYING OURSELVES

LOCKDOWN USA:

 Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt

Unpublished Papers of the Black Rose

"A Consideration of the American Harley Rider
As Being Representative of the Traditional 
Horse Culture Concept in Anthropology"

"Warfare & Culture I:  Virtual Warfare Among Sedentary Agriculturalists vs. Ritual Warfare Among Hunter-Gatherers"

"Warfare & Culture II:  Virtual Warfare Among Vertically-Organisized Societies vs. Ritual Warfare Among Horizontally-Organisized Societies"

"Warfare & Culture III:  Virtual Warfare Among Patriarchal Societies vs. Ritual Warfare Among Matriarchal Societies"

"The Fall of Icarus:  The 101st Airborne in World War II and the American Warrior-Myth:  1941 - 1945"

"De-constructing Contemporary American Historical Mythology:  1945 - 1995"

Veteran's Stories 1.0

Turlock, California - early 1950's;
     Houck's Drugstore - SE corner of West Main & South Broadway.

A legless & tattered man scuttling around on a platform cobbled together
     from discarded 2X4's & re-cycled roller-skates:  selling pencils.

Holding my father's hand, walking into the drugstore for - coffee & donuts;
     watching others - stepping-around and ignoring the legless man.

Dad always, every time ... bought one pencil for $5;
     $5 for one fucking pencil!

Whenever I asked Dad about the legless-man,
     his body seemed to become ... harder than it was
     (restraining some ... dark energy), and, then:
Modern-day war-pundits would say that my father's eyes
     took a "1000-yard stare" ... ("something that comes from
          looking for the enemy").
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!
Looking into the eyes of the legless man,
My father's eyes were "tunneling-into-his-own-past":
     seeing, SEEING and re-living NOW what was then;
          LEYTE GULF - watching legs being blown off by Japanese bombs;
               terrorfied  that his legs would be the next to go.
Dropping $5 into the legless man's empty cigar-box
     without the compensation of a pencil
          would have dishonored & diminished them both.

Now, after all of these many years later, when I look into a mirror ...
     I see my father's eyes,
          Mirroring my eyes ...
               The eyes of a veteran ...
An  infinity  of veteran's  eyes.

O'Conner (Update of 4 Jan 2010 post)

O'CONNER BEGS THE QUESTION

"Oh NO!" - your response to early 2000

election returns favoring Gore;

You speak of the responsibility of the Court -

what of the responsibility of your swing vote?

You stood at a Crossroad of History; and

History will Judge you.

You fear that which you already know:
that your entire judicial career
will be evaluated by that
single decision.

For that decision...
your president awarded you the
"Medal of Freedom"

For Betraying the Republic,
the Black Rose awards you the...

"Distinguished Wings of Icarus"

 

Chasing Ice

"Only shallow people insist upon disbelief."

Don DeLillo  Mao II 

"Do not wait for the last judgement,

it happens every day."

Albert Camus 

"Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now" 

Charles Kettering

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

William Shakespeare

BARBARA MORGAN (STS 118 - Endeavour)

Before NASA, Ms. Morgan taught at the

McCall-Donnelly Elementary School,

McCall, Idaho

After STS-118 (Endeavour)...the

 Barbara R. Morgan Elementary School,

McCall, Idaho

....................................................

 Adolphus Anheuser Busch IV

has already invested in the future of

McCall, Idaho...

Now that he no longer allegedly donates to the

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION ...

in order to protect the 2nd Amendment,

Perhaps he could shift that

deductible sum towards educating

the children of McCall (or anywhere)...

in order to protect the 1st Amendment?

McCall has the

"Douglas Manchester Skating Arena"...

 how about the

Adolphus Anheuser Busch IV Library

@

McCall College 

 

$ = Speech / $ = Silence

       ADOLPHUS ANHEUSER BUSCH IV                          RESIGNS FROM THE NRA

(NRA Looses Big Name)

(article from HuffPo)

Rehtaeh Parsons

HER FRIENDS ... RAPED HER,

HER FRIENDS ...  DENIED HER,

HER SCHOOL ... IGNORED HER,

HER LAW ... DISMISSED HER & THEN -

SHE ... HUNG HERSELF!

WOULD THAT I HAD BEEN ABLE

TO HOLD HER,

TO NURTURE HER,

TO LOVE HER ...

THEN ... PERHAPS...

PERHAPS!
Mary Vincent asked for a ride ...
Rachel Corrie defended another's ground...
Rehtaeh Parsons visited her "friends"... 

don't mean nothin'
not a thing..
the Black Rose is just doing the
PTSD thing...
don't mean nothin'?

Martin isn't hurt ...... he's fucking DEAD

Guess he shoulda hada GUN

so he coulda stood his ground?

OXYMORONIC:  Waging War to end War
and, now ... you want to ...
"Chain CPI" veteran's benefits?
lol :-{ 

Ignorance is cured by Knowledge ...

Voluntary Ignorance is cured by a 9mm!

 

"Yeah, but whut if I need muh gun

to protect muh Bahble?"

Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was murdered on 8 Dec 1980.

Media Fakes War Propaganda

Media Fakes War Propaganda

The Honorable Gabrielle Giffords ............... Casts Her Gauntlet

2nd Amendment Collateral Casualties - Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newton CT  14 Dec 2012

....."Now is not the time to talk about gun control.".....

It’s been 3 days since the Portland mall shooting.
It’s been 48 days since the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting.
It’s been 132 days since the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin.
It’s been 777 days since the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others in Arizona.
It’s been 1,136 days since the Fort Hood shooting.
It’s been 2,070 days since the Virginia Tech shooting.
It’s been 4,988 days since the Columbine shooting.

Tell me, when will be a good time to talk about gun control?

(image by the Black Rose)

Newtown Massacre Is The Price We Pay For The Second Amendment

People who ask “Well if gun control laws don’t work, why even have laws” are ignoring that that is a point brought up by Peter Kropotkin in Law and Authority. Laws don’t prevent murder. Most people won’t murder anyone for any reason, and those that would would disregard the laws against murder. Custom and compassion are what typically prevent us from breaking laws, not fear of punishment, or some moral imperative against breaking laws.  Laws don’t prevent action, they only provide the basis for punishment for that action.

DON'T THINK ... GO SHOPPING

TO SERVE AND PROTECT

"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his needs."

WE ARE LEGION

WE DON'T FORGIVE

WE DON'T FORGET

EXPECT US

Anon2Rove

Did Anonymous stop Karl Rove from Stealing Ohio again?

inter arma silent leges

(In time of war the laws are silent.)

 

"...conscience has a judicial power to be the sovereign guide of human actions, by despising whose admonitions the mind is stupefied into brutal hardness."

De Jure Belli ac Pacis

(On the Law of War and Peace)

Hugo Grotius - 1625 

(image by the Black Rose)

(image by the Black Rose)

THE LETHAL PRESIDENCY OF BARACK OBAMA

Obama's Extra-Judicial Killings

Obama's Drone Wars

Institutionalizing Extra-Judicial Killing
mm

the "OTHER"

WHEREIN LIES DISCRIMINATION?

Embedded in DNA?
.......................................

or...Created in the Mind...then

Embedded in Culture?

(hint):

thesis + antithesis = synthesis

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

(research & image by the Black Rose)

THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER IS FAR FROM OVER!
THE BIOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
UNIT #4 IS SINKING AND TILTING 

"Peace is the mark of a civilized man,

War is the mark of a barbarian."

Mahatma Gandhi

"If there weren't any violence,

there wouldn't have to be any non-violence."

Ursula Kroeber-LeGuin

"We refuse to challenge our violence because

we have the power to call it something else."

Fr. Philip Berrigan, S.J.

(image by the Black Rose)

"After the opening slice is made with the eye,

the sword slips in effortlessly." 
Myiamoto Musashi

What the Laws of War Allow

BLAMING THE VICTIM (again)

(image by the Black Rose)

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Rush Sings "I'm a Nazi!"

141 COMPANIES DUMP THE PIG-MAN

(image by the Black Rose)

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TAKE YOUR NEXT VIAGRA-VACATION
IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -
RUSH DOES.

The Dominican Republic -

where little boys & girls

are still.... little boys & girls.

IN HIS OWN WORDS:
You watch, YOU decide...

Rush, wannabe my huckleberry?...beyotch
-the Black Rose-
(From:  Tombstone [the movie] -
  Doc Holliday to Johnny Ringo:
  "You wannabe my huckleberry?" 

STUPID IS AS STUPID IS

boycottrush.org

Sandra Fluke Dismisses Limbaugh's "Apology"

Limbaugh Attacks For 4th Day

Female Iraq War Veterans called on the American Forces Network to drop Rush Limbaugh from its programming.

"I'm not going to apologize. People in my position never apologize."

GOP afraid of Limbaugh - George Will

Limbaugh can't stop insulting women

Limbaugh is an "Insincere Pig" - IMUS

Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Own's Half of Rush Limbaugh's Butt