WARNING GRAPHIC: Dallas Protesters Beat Man to Near-Death Outside Store*
— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) May 31, 2020
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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
Gary Snyder
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
— BY THEODORE ROETHKE
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Gerard Van der Leun
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Teddy had it right, speak softly and….
I’m unsympathetic to anyone anywhere around these places.
What’s the diff between cops that don’t do their jobs and no cops at all?
Right.
Fire all of them.
Already feeling much better about the purchase of that latest battle rifle; when facing large numbers, the ability to put two or three down with a single round is a very good thing.
I’ve seen stuff on Facebarf where there is a PLANNED protest in Huntington Beach today, and another one Planned in La Verne for Wednesday.. Notices say “Bring signs and masks.” How is this tolerated? I seem to remember masking was illegal at such events. Taking advantage of the Plandemic?
Quite a contrast. HB is a white town, and the HBPD take zero crap. They’ve had riots in HB before, and it never turned out good for the rioters. LaVerne is heavily black. That’s all you need to know.
JWM
Last night my wife received copies of a series of texts that North American Pavement Apes were sending in the Dallas area where they were announcing plans to attack the folks who live in upscale Highland Park. The negresses were saying they planned to burn the houses and then rape and kill the rich white bitches who live in that part of town.
The citizens who had monitored these texts were obviously scared out of their wits but I haven’t heard anything else today so I don’t know if these chicken shit PAs followed up with anything. The cops should have been onsite and every husband and grownup in that area should be armed to the teeth and willing to take appropriate action if the SHTF. This kind of thing matters, even without an attack because the PA’s have expressed their hatred, the desires and intent are spoken, typed and delivered as an email or a text and imho it’s a real threat. But LEO’s aren’t going to go after them
What I do know is that in every instance where they are not shot down and slaughtered on the streets, they will become bolder and bolder and the only way to take the edge off of these assholes is to start killing them. More will come in response but that just means you need to have enough ammunition and calm firearm management skills to turn them back. You’ll just have to think about it later. If one white person is attacked then every white person should respond with fury, no mercy and no remorse.
This entire thing has nothing at all to do with race but these fools cannot understand that because to them being black is a curse from God Himself and white people are the reason for every problem they’ve ever faced. They haven’t been aggrieved or influenced by Floyd’s death and they care no more for Floyd than they do for the dozens of their own kind that they murder every day in the shit holes in which they live.
These fools aren’t interested in justice and for that matter, they have no idea of the meaning of that word. They want revenge, retaliation and blood for imagined crimes and slights. They want a reckoning and I hope they receive it.
That’s what happens when you give people stuff and ask nothing in return. It’s never enough. Something changes in their brains. They no longer have the will to earn anything, having been reprogrammed into believing the gravy train is normal. Whine a little and the gravy flows even deeper, every time. Over and over and over again the politicians (gov’t criminals) keep stealing more and more from the productive and give more and more to the parasites. Both sides, the producers and the parasites, become more and more hostile to one another. Eventually the parasites must be killed off or eliminated in one way or another, otherwise the hosts, the producers, will cease or leave. You always knew this day was looming, maybe it is here now. As the Duke said in McClintock, “Break out some Winchesters!”
In Spokane yesterday, the Tweeters have it that the Nike store was looted by Proud Boys or the like “in disguise”. Shhhyeah. Right.
Police: when you take a knee you are disrespecting the flag. No. There is no parsing that. You’re morally specious and you are shitting on my flag. Clean up your character immediately because you wear a badge and a gun. You cannot sympathize or empathize with BLM or Antifa because nothing is enough until they install Marxism. After they install Marxism, they will begin to destroy the liberals first.
Yesterday my daughter asked me why they are destroying or attacking liberal stores or businesses. Didn’t Nike go all out to take a knee? The only “take a knee” the police need to know is that one where the riot baton goes across their knees.
Get the shit out of your brain. War stance.
I was born and bred in L. A. and well remember the Watts riots in ‘65. The ONLY thing that stopped them was the National Guard being called out in force.
When there wasn’t enough locally-sourced men, more came in by train from Northern CA. Local station KTLA covered their arrivals and the off-loading of gear. These guys knew their shit, especially their COs.
They then deployed a 360° perimeter around the riot area (no mean feat) with .30 cal WWII era machine guns at strategic intersections complete with sandbags, loaded for bear with orders to shoot to kill.
Then the infantrymen went into the hot areas behind armored vehicles with orders to shoot to kill any and all looters.
After some dead (and well-publicized) “shoppers” It took all of ~48 hours for the riots to come to a dead halt.
So ended the Watts riots.
Looking like the scenario here if it lasts…
Even my town, Whittier, had a brush with it. There was a protest march uptown. Some broken glass and tagging, but nothing worse. There was a planned looting–er — protest at the local shopping center but it never materialized. Heavy police presence uptown kept the lid on.
JWM
JWM – Not in Friendly Hills, I hope?
Wife grew up there, went to La Serna High.
It used to be a nice little town until it was overwhelmed by E. LA and denizens from over the hill.
Happens a lot.
@CC
Funny, my wife and I just got back from a morning walk in Wilderness Park, right by La Serna High. The stuff happened uptown on Greenleaf. We didn’t drive over there to see. The park area and Whittwood were OK. The locals were obediently masked up to hike in the hills. Can’t be too careful, or disobey your television, now…
All goofin’ aside, we dodged a bullet.
JWM