Not “The Streets of” but “The Sharts” of San Francisco
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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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As if Nancy Pelosi was even capable of feeling shame at this point…
…if I had her coin and cohorts I might be shameless too. And so would you.
Ghost,
I’m calling bullshit!
Some humans have principles.
The Pelosi Monster and her rotten cohorts made their “coin”, on the back of the public. Screwing every law to their advantage and without a thought of the health of the nation. Insider trading, backroom deals, conniving and manipulating every thing.
Before she goes to Guantanamo, she should be forced to live on the streets in an encampment for a month.
I enjoyed much the excerpt from Chandler’s short story RED WIND. I think your choice was very deft.
side when the big post was the “Not What America Should Look Like”
Since the day I first read the line “Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks” I have always made a set of carving knives my wedding gift when friends got married.
Tony Benett tributes the Sharts of San Fransisco
The shithole that was Haiti
It made my nostrils quail
The odors found in Qom
Are on another scale
Ive been terribly unwell
Tubercular in Qandahar
Im going home
To the sewer by the Bay
I. Left. MY. Shart (Do be da doo .. Do be da doo)
In-n-n .. San Fransisco
Atop a pile .. of tramp feces
To be where massive squalid stink
Drives me halfway to the brink
The morning logs befoul the air
They dont care
A stench wafts there (Do be da doo …Do be da doo)
In-n-n .. San Fransisco
Above the stooled and squalid STREETS
When I come home to you, San Fransisco
A squatting bum … WILL ..
Make .. Me ….. Flee!
Kevin, what are you calling bullshit on, my use of the word “might”?
Never under estimate the power of “stolen money”, for it is in the process of wrecking an entire country and perhaps the world. Gov’t thievery is not isolated to Pelosi.
Ghost,
It is your casual assurance of, “so would you” to which I object.
I understand the power of stolen money among thieves, but not everyone is a thief.
Kevin, I’m not going to educate you on the power of stolen money, if you are interested you’ll educate yourself. Looking at the power of stolen money as if it is simple everyday petty theft is the wrong approach. I’m not a thief but if I was gov’t employee and my supervisor offered me an extra $100 grand a year just because why should I turn him down? Then a few months later he asks for my “loyalty” when a certain matter comes up. Etc., etc. It starts small and balloons from there and 10, 20 years later you’re starting to pull in Pelosi levels of coin, and you STILL don’t consider yourself a thief. At some point a thief decides his thieving ways are justified or aren’t hurting anybody, or any number of reasons and excuses. It’s ALL theft and EVERYONE can become a thief under the right circumstances. Me too. And you. For me, I try to stay at least several steps away from any circumstance that could possibly lead to immoral behavior – that is, behavior that is harmful to me or others – that way it is difficult to be drawn in. So far, I have been successful with this method.
Theft is theft, whether it be at the point of a gun or by majority vote.
Never underestimate the ability of some people to rationalize their crimes.
CML, your epic song is ringing in my ears. Damn you.
Try this: zero tolerance for drug offenses. Shitters and urinals in the open air, down the medians of the streets. Soviet-style blockhouses for the derelict.
Jail time for Pelosi.
idk why I’m not in charge of everything.