England’s Trump in a brilliant ad.
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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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Cute… but still… pretty weird. You’d never see Eisenhower or Truman squirting whipped cream into the mouths of willing, kneeling sycophants. And they sure as hell wouldn’t do a commercial like this one. And what IS IT with the interracial couplings… like this is the new norm? I don’t watch TV but friends tell me the commercials have gotten surreal with all of the chummy diversity these days. This is not for real.
Like Tom, I don’t watch TV, but even the clips I see here and there are amusingly diverse.
Boris Johnson is smart. He has the potential to be the British Trump: The guy who shoves the Overton Window right out of the frame. Heaven knows the UK needs it. They’ve tossed away their birthright, their free speech rights, their rights to self defense and their children’s futures to appease the demon of diversity.
Imagine if Boris wins, and tells the First Sea Lord that he can either stop the boats bringing illegals from France, or he can resign. Then all of those people on that little list, the one that MI-5 has, start disappearing from the streets of Birmingham and appearing in Lahore, Pakistan, pissing and moaning about being kidnapped. Then he announces that everyone with “Diversity” or “Health and Safety” in their job description is now redundant, and the savings will be invested in making the country’s religion, the National Health Service, responsive and efficient.
We watch Jeopardy at suppertime but the diversity commercials are causing the remote buttons to work overtime. If an outsider were to watch “over the air” TV today they’d get the distinct impression the US is at least 90% negro and all the white women are attracted to the negro males.
The heads of the media and all of it’s underlings are the enemy and should be rounded up and dragged in mass while doused and burning. It’s easy to believe there is something behind all of this but no one thus far has been able to draw a distinct proveable line between A and B. Just suspicions.
The “provable line” is as obvious as ever. Government, and the deep pocket deep state, creates crimes and criminals by breaking down the fabric of human connectedness. The family is being killed and the heterosexual male is the hunted. It’s a well known fact that most murder, in America, is black on black. But the family unit of every color is being destroyed. The endgame is a population confused by their sexuality and encouraged to switch genetic direction at age 4. The endgame is rampant depression, suicide/murder and chaos embraced as normal that can only be fixed with more laws, more government. YAY!!! Government wins! Please mommy government, stop me before I hurt myself. YAY!!
The provable line between A and B is more obvious than ever. The objective is more control and less freedom. By destroying the family unit… mom, dad & kids… conflict, depression, violence and murder will result. Children are prompted to switch their genetic formula at age 4. Children are instructed in sexual abnormality and punished if they show disrespect. Children become criminals if they point a finger that means “invisible gun.” Though most murder in America is black on black, the family unit of every color is being destroyed. As depression/suicide/murder increases only government can intervene with more laws and less freedom. YAY!! Government wins! Please mommy government, save me before I hurt myself. YAY!!
Gerard, is your comment mechanism broken? I’ve written two previous answers to ghostsniper’s inquiry and when I hit “submit” the items disappeared.
[GV: Tom, please forgive me for this. The comment/spam guarding machine every so often kicks out comments to a holding place. I do not know why it does this. I’ve looked into in some detail and cannot understand why. What I can do is monitor comments 3-6 times a day and approve them manually. In this case the comment came in before I was awake but as you can see I restored it. I wish I knew why it does this but it seems to hit one comment out of every twenty or so.]
Tom, I don’t disagree with anything you wrote there, but I’m looking for a more pointed answer.
The way you explained it it seems that all of this nonsense is unplanned and simply the result of random politician behavior.
For example, why the upsurge over the past year or two of unnatural occurrence of so many negro’s in the media and especially the TV commercials. Are the politicians behind this?
BTW, many of my posts have vanished into the spam filter only to be rescued later by Gerard.
Tom, agree that Ike or Truman would not have done an ad like this. The thing is, the people they were talking to are not the people Johnson (or Trump) need to reach.
It’s planned, ghostsniper… believe me… IT’S PLANNED. Do you like to do a good job? Like designing and fabricating excellence and getting paid deservedly for it? Me too. I design and paint and carve and fabricate and my job is making folk’s businesses look like a class act. Everybody likes to do a good job. How gummint folks feel all warm and fuzzy at the end of the day is when they have asserted more control and stolen away more freedom. Their position is strengthened by laws they write for us and which they personally don’t have to obey. That’s why practically everything is a crime if you haven’t paid permission to do it. Our “framers”… a popular phrase this week… understood very well the type of human slime that is attracted to gummint, thus, these are the very creatures that have to raise their claws upright and swear they aren’t going to violate our Rights. But they DO VILE anyway.
Undermining the fabric of the organic human family is a war against civilization and it’s plays into the interests of the control freaks. The mass media makes money reporting hysteria and violence. The entertainment industry… Hollywood and their putrid spawn… pander to the lowest base human reflexes… telling us ANYTHING GOES… just don’t get caught. The gummint supervised education departments punish children for independent thinking and failing to succumb to the slave mode. There is a world wide war on America. The American male is being disappeared, the family is dying, the children are being mind fucked. I want Trump to build that wall so high and impenetrable. Let’s watch the impeachment scam fail so the most important tasks at hand may receive undivided attention.
Well said, Tom.