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Going Sideways

“Going sideways is a way of life” – el Loco Gringo

Going sideways is more than just a parlor trick to gain an entrance to the sub-conscious, It is a philosophy, a world view, a way of life. It is taking the path less traveled, pushing the envelope, reaching down inside yourself to pull out a greatness you didn’t know existed. To be more than you can be. To know that when you die the world will be a better place because you have lived in it. To witness the judges face when, after spending 3 days in jail for calling an asshole judge an asshole, you can say, “I wasn’t trying to insult you your honor, just informing you of a fact, no more, no less.”(one of the other inmates commented “Jesus, you called the judge an asshole? All I did was rob a convenience store. You bad, man.) Priceless! Knowing that I always tried to do the right thing, even when no-one was watching.

To know that no joke has been un-laughed at, no road un-traveled, no adventure un-taken, no joy un-celebrated, no sorrow un-mourned, no friend abandoned, no victim of injustice un-defended. To be proud of your children and doting on your grandchildren. To be able to pass on family traditions, like teaching him to write his name in the snow. He even crossed the t. I’m so proud. How to make that disgusting noise under his armpit with his palm that women hate. How to burp the first 12 notes of the “star spangled banner”. My daughter says I’m a bad influence on them, but she smiles when she says it. To hear her quote me to her kids, word for word, what I told her as a child.

Reading Ayn Rand opened my eyes to an explosion of opportunity. In my myopic male viewpoint on life I had been sniping assholes for years. With her female viewpoint a myriad of opportunities opened up. I can go after them all. In one swell foop.

So many assholes, so little time

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Revenge

“Revenge is a dish best served cold” – unk

Cosmic kharma? ex post facto revenge? devine retribution? who gives a shit?

Feels good, doesn’t it? knowing that my nemisis, the former governor of NC is going to get cavity searched for the rest of his life warms the cockles of my heart every time I think about it. To envision him being cell mate with a sex offender named “Slam Dunk”. The prison bitch comes to mind. In a bizzare twist of fate, Mike Easley signed into law the repeal of the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. Is that karma, or what? What goes around, comes around. I’m lovin it.

Burn, baby, burn

The following is from the Raleigh newspaper, the clown picture is theirs, not mine.> “Mike Easley- Clown, Crook, Liar”, “Corruption is bred in Raleigh like mosquitoes breed on swamp water, and yet our esteemed AG has done nothing about it. Where are you Roy? Roy Cooper as the AG who was surrounded by a bunch of corrupt assholes who went to jail or ought to.” found here>Carolina Politics

*Note Those who follow me will know that I am not capable of such acerbic comments. These are direct quotes. I accept no responsible for the boorish dialogue. I am, after all, a gentleman, modest and soft spoken, not the “full on battle tank, in all it’s brutal glory, seeking out and destroying bullshit” I have been maligned with. I am shocked, shocked that such allegations can be made.
The following is exerpted from Religious Tolerance > “1980 to 1995: Two types of trials were held in North America, which repeated many of the same features of earlier Witch trials: Staff at some pre-schools, day care facilities and Sunday schools were accused of ritual abuse of children. Evidence was based on faulty medical diagnoses and memories of non-existent abuse implanted in the minds of very young children.
Tens of thousands of adults, victimized by Recovered Memory Therapy, developed false memories of having been abused during childhood. In about 17% of the cases, these memories escalated to recollections of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Hundreds of parents were charged with criminal acts. Almost all of them were innocent. Most of the charges involved acts that never actually happened.” LittleRascals Edenton 7 “In the Little Rascals day-care-abuse case in North Carolina, one mother told reporters that it took 10 months before her child was able to “reveal” the molestation. No one at the time considered the idea that the child might have been remarkably courageous to persist in telling the truth for so long.” Carol Tavris

Sanity has since prevailed. Most of the accused have been released from jail. Those held in the state of Massachusetts are an exception.
McMartin is the most famous of these cases although an even more bizzare one was in Asheville, NC . A man in a single wide trailor was accused of satanic ritual abuse. Inside of said trailor was a castle surrounded by a moat filled with alligators and sharks. He would lure children into the dungeon where he would take the them into outer space in a flying saucer and melt them down into baby candles to be used in satanic rituals. This is the evidence presented, and he was convicted. As his defense attorney commented, “If this were true the landscape would be littered with dead babies.” The charges have since been dropped.

As in the previous witch trials wherever the inquisitors went is where the witches were found. A self proclaimed “expert” on interviewing child victims of sexual abuse she used narcotherapy and hypnosis. (In the military we called that brainwashing) She was a member of Believe the children a christian fundamentalist group sponsored by Eric Prince, (he also founded blackwater) a fundamentalist christian who believed his mission in life was to rid the world of heathens. (Isn’t he a charming fellow?)

Ofra Bikel, who at the time was a reporter for Swedish public television, was on vacation in the US touring the east coast when she came to the small NC town of Edenton. She was shocked. She produced a series (innocence lost) which received widespread coverage in Europe. She received the Pulitzer for the series. Ofra Bikel’s work has freed more innocent prisoners than many professionals in the criminal justice system. She is obviously a sheepdog.Consider the English Sheepdog, the pseudo sheep
“This animal I find fascinating. Unique among the drovers, it bonds with the sheep not the shepherd. It even looks like a sheep and waits in line to be sheared. A heavy muscular dog it can dispatch a wolf with ease. When the flock is threatened it rushes to defend his flock. Surprise! But he frightens the sheep, like the wolf he has teeth and knows how to use them, and they can’t tell the difference. Yet He is the one the sheep huddle behind when the wolf comes to the door.” – el Loco Gringo

The Woman and the starfish

I recall the story of the woman, walking down a beach littered with starfish which had been swept ashore after a storm. occasionally she would bend over, pick one up and fling it back into the ocean. An onlooker berated her “you can’t save them all lady”. She bent over, picked up another and gave it a fling. “I saved that one” she replied, and continued on her journey.

To know I had a big part the making of his misery fills me with pride. I love it, god help me, I love it. Sometimes, just sometimes, the windmills do topple. Don Quixote warrior