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SEPTEMBER 2008 - JULY 2009
10.11.08 - 4:00PM PST >>
sex, death and the great new depression
birthday medication plans to fix the economy
with stars and maybe i should take a nap
feeling the peeling away of righteous anger and just kneeling
praying
please
to suspend disbelief in the presidential candidate
to vote for change since our civil liberties became something forgotten
as banks fail and america loses remembrance of things important
shaking legs as i make love to her in the future of mobile phone text messages
to find a better job
or two for revolution and drinkability
the advertising of a broken dream
i wonder who still has theirs
may they feel lucky
as they drink and fuck and drive their new cars
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death and dreams
he killed himself with his father's gun
behind the shed in a movietone cliché
hurting my mom who cries and cries with guilt she struggles to survive
with dreams that will never come true
with time marching wartime visions of hurt
how death kills something in those left alive
time to cry and believe in that better day
hell stay away
heaven follow me and light my path
to dreams come true
to love and trust and cherishing the forever in all of us
amen
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09.25.08 - 3:33PM PST >>
of presidentical candidates and genuine concern
regarding mccain's "suspension" of his campaign to deal with the economic turmoil in the american financial market:
he sits on the interstate commerce, trade and tourism committee, where his record is one of spectator. he likes foreign policy. he likes war. he has no power in the negotiations regarding a $700 billion bailout of broken financial corporations, as he proved this week in his inept and limp attempt to railroad the proceedings to his political gain. mccain proved that his ego far outweighs his common sense. he was mostly silent in public and private meetings with the likes of the president and obama and was not invited to meetings regarding the crisis besides this one, which he helped orchestrate. he, the renowned hothead, accused obama, a renowned chill dude, of turning the meeting into a shouting match at one point.
if mccain was so calm, how come he had lunch at a white house dining room alone afterward and went to his senate office alone? some president he'll be. it took him all night to schedule meetings with the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky and house minority leader john boehner from ohio. did he do anything bipartisan, as he suggests he'll do in his campaign? no. he met with no democrats.
he can't do two things at once and he couldn't get senate members to even eat with him. his ego thought he could skip the first debate with obama and demand that a solution be found to the economic crisis in congress before he would participate. one can only hope he has seen the error of his hubris. it is hubris which is endemic to a bush administration largely responsible for the crisis in the first place. mccain is a third term for bush-like mentality. i pray to god obama wins.
since stating below that i'll vote for obama, i've had a change of heart. i wish i could vote for bob barr but he has no chance. what? what a coward's way to vote. what if everyone who felt that way, that barr had no chance, went and voted for barr anyway? we need a third party, folks. vote not for the potential winner. vote for what you believe is right. get as close to what you believe in and vote. don't vote for the lesser of two evils if that is what you think you're left with. find a candidate, there are many out there, and vote. if we all did that, our voices would be heard in the ears of the congresspeople and presidents who win. the opinion of many would be heard.
i wonder if that would play out a scenario reminiscent of 2000 when nader cost gore florida? florida cost gore the presidency. i wonder what ralph nader would do about this economic problem we have? i know he wants to adopt a wall street securities speculation tax. i like that idea.
regardless, if five or six percent of florida votes for bob barr, it would be mccain that took the hit and that might give it to obama. as for ohio or another midwestern state with ten or twenty electoral college votes, same thing. barr is polling at 6 to 10% in many states. vote bob barr, remind obama about your beliefs in freedom and state rights over federal bureaucracy when he becomes president.
the woman i love is for barr. i've done my research i believe he is a decent man who has made mistakes both moral and political. the perfect man is often a liar. how many preachers need to be ashed in flames before we realize that?
just vote.
(logo for the nike corporation deleted because they didn't want to pay my $10,000 fee)
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09.13.08 - 3:20PM PST >>
power outage
power outage for the woman i love and her littlest one
to be without running water and electricity
as tears roll down my face
praying for a better day
and a miracle
she dreams nightmares of hurricanes and apocalyptic visions with post-traumatic stress syndrome
katrina changed everything and we struggle to succeed
to stop playing the lottery
to believe in that one good job coming my way
i pray every day
sometimes in the middle of the night
when i wake 20 times and remember she needs god's blessing
mercy
wisdom and understanding
to be closer to the truth
to discern between the lies
to find god smiling with open arms
or something gentle
please
the same poem over and over and i'm over the anger
over the mistrust
over the frustration and the need to be accepted
to find it within
to provide and dream peaceful visions of love
she needs me
she loves me
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09.06.08 - 2:59PM PST >>
sad poem for feeling futile
freelance dreams and full time prayers
spreading my life out before god
kneeling in the shower
crying please
the politician lies in her speeches and claims god is on her side
as if the devil is on the opponent's
with almost unbearable weight and depression
i move through my life saddened by my past decisions
how i hurt others with selfishness
carelessness
and anger
there are some blessings
today at my father's home
to read and drink a beer and swim as i worry for those who suffer
and i cannot help
praying for a blessing of a better job
and the working poor dream of winning the lottery
something
anything
that i might care for myself and the ones i love
without the need of assistance from family and friends
instead to be a man as i have been in the past
to be kinder then
to be more loving
to be wise and understanding
with dreams come true for those i weep for
those who love me
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09.01.08 - 3:13PM PST >>
coming soon
labor day. have the day off from the bail bonds job i have right now that pays my bills but not my rent. thank god for my dad and his help.
today i am worried about new orleans and hurricane gustav. as of now, there has been no levy breaks and the city seems safe. i've prayed to god to save the city i love more than any other. the city that inspired and loved and hated and was misunderstood and left on it's own in an america i grew up believing would come to it's rescue. the people did. the government didn't. still, they tax us. those who we pay to represent us left new orlans to die for days until the people of america spoke up and changed the apathy of our government that finally helped those left thirsty, hungry and dying in city of new orleans.
i've cursed george bush, dick cheney and their cronies before. i don't need to do it again today. today is a day to pray for blessings. it is a day to thank god gustav hasn't yet had a dramatic effect like katrina did. as of 2:45 p.m. in new orleans, the storm is winding down and the industrial canal, which was being overlapped by waves and flooding streets and which breached during katrina, is holding the water back and remains solid.
last week i watched a lot of the democratic convention. i felt obama's speech was tame, but he covered all the bases and made some great points. i feel he's been neutered a little by his popularity and the media stuck to him like yogi to a picnic basket and i wish he was as fiery and intellectual and talked about what he's done for communities like he has for the past 20 years.
i want him to give it the same shot he gave to chicago for america. we need it. the bush administration has devastated the middle class to enrich their upper class and i believe obama is all about the middle class. same with joe biden. joe doesn't have eight houses like mccain. he has one. obama has one. like most people if they are lucky and industrious enough.
i'd like to announce that misteradiant hereby suspends his run for president and supports barack obama and joe biden. obama has a chance to win and in my estimation he is the best chance to make a positive change for america and the world. besides, i didn't even have a vp candidate. i think if he would have had it, i'd have picked jesse ventura or al gore. let him go off on the economic boost investments in sustainable energy companies would have in america.
i think joe biden is a decent man who can be trusted to have a knowledgeable and prudent foreign policy agenda. i trust obama better to find and take alive bin laden than a mccain administration to stop the crippling our war in iraq which has wrought upon the dire financial situation america faces today. tax breaks for oil companies? not for obama. calling your opponent inexperienced while picking a candidate less experienced as your running mate? obama doesn't need to bother to even mention it. the argument is over.
i loved the blurb i saw of some chump for fox news. he said sarah palin (mccain's vp choice) surely had international experience! with alaska so close to russia she had to have it!
imagine the canned laughter from a 1980's sitcom.
new orleans seems safe today. praise god and my savior jesus christ. thank you for hearing my tearful lamentaions and prayers.
the thing about the republican convention cancelling speeches by dick and bush while scaling down proceedings to seem like they weren't partying during a disaster, all i can say is if this was when katrina hit, or if the republican convention was three years ago, they'd have partied through it all. does this mean the republican party can learn from mistakes? no. mccain is still and bush ass felcher.
did you find out about the group that was praying for obama's speech to be rained out? yeah. looks like karma struck them for performing black magic.
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i know i haven't been writing a lot lately, but i still have a year and a half months of posts in the archive. life hasn't been exceptionally inspiring but i don't suppose it is going to be for a while. still, when i do write, it isn't bad. i have something to say that might challenge you. you may enjoy it. if you go to my books page, and request to read "how to cry and still kick their ass," the collected essays and rants since the beginning of misteradiant.com in honoluolu in march of 2005, just write to let me know you're interested. it is much more radical than what i've been inspired to do here for over a year. there you will find posts about jesus being lucifer (or is it vice-versa?) and the things i wrote in new orleans and san antonio which were voluminous. see that email link above the menu? say hello.
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a little place online called bartleby snopes published something i wrote a couple of years ago. i miss writing every day. i was good at it. so is repeating pattern #1: trains.
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