Musing For Today
Someone once told me a story about a guy in the Navy who was quite disgruntled about the goings on where he was stationed.
He didn't like the incompetence among his superiors, the poor condition of the equipment he had to work with, the lack of organization and cooperation among both his fellow enlisted men, duty P.O.s, and officers.

When requesting a transfer he told his commanding officer just what he really thought of him, the base, and of the Navy in general.
Then, when his transfer finally came through, he looked at it:  Alaska! In the middle of winter.  Or, maybe, the South Pole?  Greenland?  Antarctica?

That's the risk one takes when speaking their mind and displaying any kind of candidness.  If the other person doesn't like whatever it is you have to say they seem to have the right to retaliate---and with the full backing of the system.
I know I should sometimes be more careful of what I choose to say on my site
...but, then again, it is MY site and, as such, I always feel a sense of "poetic license" about it.

                          Synchronicity
Explain something to me:

Why is it, whenever I'm walking around, every time I have to cross a side street, parking lot entrance(/exit), or alley entrance, some motorist is either turning onto the area from the main drag----or racing up to the area from around a corner or "out of nowhere" to exit onto the main drag from the side street, alley, or parking lot
....and (invariably) cutting me off in the process, causing me to have to wait for them to go by before I can continue on my way?

If these were occasional incidents I wouldn't give it much thought.  But it's EVERY DAMN TIME I walk anywhere.
What's up with these folks that they can't go by a moment earlier or a moment afterwards?  Why the convergence RIGHT AT THE VERY MOMENT I'M WALKING BY?
What's the purpose in all this?  What does this shit accomplish anyway?

  Disgusting
What is there about urban people that they lack even the slightest modicum of civic accountability?

I can't walk down the main streets without staring down broken bottles, cans, paper bags, newspapers, styrofoam containers from fast food joints, napkins and tissues all over the sidewalk and people's front lawns.

Ran across a huge pile of trash surrounding a bus stop bench, and a mere five feet away was a public trash can.  These lazy fucks couldn't even muster up the energy needed to make the "excruciating" 5-foot trip necessary to properly dispose of their nasty shit.

And why do people "have to" consume food and drink while running around?
Didn't God create restaurants and cafes for the purpose of properly consuming food and drink while out in public?  If one is outside moving around they should be free of all distractions so as to be able to properly interact with the outside environment (and that includes "no headphones or cell phones" until one is inside somewhere and stationary).

Don't ever allow me to find out the addresses of any of the pigs who do that kind of shit.  Because I'm sure to sneak over to their place of residence with a bucket of crap and just dump it all over their front porch or by their front door.  Or, maybe, all over their car
...and probably wind up being convicted of "Conspiracy To Commit Felony Vandalism" afterwards and end up doing prison time (wa-a-a-ay-y-y too much surveillance these days). 

Song Analysis: Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March

One only has to hear the first two verses of this 1969 top-30 hit by The Box Tops to realize "Hey!  Am I mistaken, or is this song actually glorifying the 'untold virtues' of the age-old 'profession' of prostitution?" (done freelance style, of course).

...think of what you're giving
to the lost and lonely people of the night.
Out of need they seek "direction" for their life.
They will "love" you in the darkness,
take advantage of your starkness,
and refuse to recognize you in the light ...

...tell the socialites to look the other way.
It's "instinctive stimulation" you convey.
It's a "necessary function",
and for those without compunction,
who get tired of "vanilla every day" ...


...and, on the final verse:

...let them satisfy "the ego of the male",
let them fabricate "success" to those who fail ...


...of course such sentiments are sure to run dry these days, due to all the horror stories surrounding the "human sex trafficking" phenomenon so omnipresent anymore.

If some lady does actually take it upon herself to provide such services of her own free will (adult-to-adult presumably) all those "concerned" will still insist on believing she's most likely being put up to it by strongarm black-market gangsters who most likely escort her back to some make-shift "Auschwitz" type environment when the night (and, thus, her "shift") is over.

Song Analysis: Let Your Yeah Mean Yeah

One thing about the early to earlier periods of what they call "the rock and roll era" is how much more knowledgeable and cultured the songs were----even the second-rate "purely commercial" entities.

...even a lot of the hard rock offerings of the late-60s/early-70s showed a certain degree of "class"----good arrangements, traditional song structure, even intelligent lyrics (or at least somewhat poetic ones anyway).  You had The Who, The Doors, even occasional social commentary by The Rolling Stones---alongside The Small Faces, and The Bubble Puppy (who were more in the "somewhat poetic" category of lyrics),

Enter this 1973 single by a throwback "60s garage-band" style group out of Ann Arbor who billed themselves as Brownsville Station----their rehashing of a Jimmy Cliff composition loosely inspired by the book of Matthew, Chapter 5:Verse 37, of the New Testament

...although the phrase itself, in this case, is being used to express a guy's sexual frustration and emotional irritation with his indecisive girlfriend who can't seem to make up her mind about whether or not she really wants to actually make out "all the way" with him.

                      "Single Causation" Syndrome
It seems every time a disaster strikes or something tragic happens the search is on to pinpoint the source of the event.  Who or what is responsible for the tragic chain of events.

Everyone's so intent on "preventing anything like this from ever happening again" they become desperate to find "the cause of" said disaster.  Their impatience and anxiety for "resolution" leads them to hastily examine conveniently available evidence by which they arrive at a "common sense" and "no-nonsense" conclusion as to what transpired leading up to said tragedy
...by which they "figure out" the primary cause or culprit.

The problem with this common approach is that the reality is anything that happens in the world is always the end result of an incremental culmination of variables which, together, produce given results.  Nothing can ever be traced back down to just one source or just one factor.
Everything that happens or exists is an end result of a multitude of causes.

But, when one is adversely affected by unpleasant circumstances or events, the need for either "revenge" or "compensation" is so strong one insists on finding out who or what the "villain" is who's "primarily responsible for" said happenstance.  There's always the need to find a "scapegoat" or "fall guy" to use as a proverbial "punching bag" by which the adversely affected can take their anger or frustrations out on.
Tragically, whoever (or whatever) is sacrificed is often only partially at fault for said tragic event.


For more on this subject go to www.google.com  and type "single causation" in the search panel for other sites which cover this subject more comprehensively  

                                      Meted out discreetly
I remember donating plasma back in the late 70s through the 80s, before they started using the automated preprogrammed machines, when the phlebotomists themselves would affix a bag to a scale and tie a tourniquet around the donor's arm to stimulate blood flow.  Then, after separating the red cells from the white ones, return the red ones to the donor, then repeat the process one more time.

Sometimes the phlebotomist would wrap the tourniquet around my arm a little too tight and it would turn purple and I'd lose the feeling in my forearm, wrist and fingers. Finally the bag would drop (at long last), I'd have to shout "Bag down!", and a phlebotomist passing by would pull the tourniquet and retrieve the bag, thus relieving me of my "moment of distress and anguish".

My feeling about a lot of laws is similar to how I felt about that tourniquet when it was wrapped around my arm too tight:  That a lot of written laws and regulations are just that---wa-a-a-ay-y-y-y "too tight".  They need to be loosened up a bit.  Not eliminated, but just not so tight to the point where they're "choking the life out of us".

     Evolution and Creationism
         ...BOTH are losers
Yes, it is possible for lions and tigers to successfully mate and produce offspring.
However, the offspring produced by such unions are always inherently sterile.  Apparently nature has its own rules about what kind of "deviant" subspecies it will allow and permit.  It has a mind of its own in so many ways.

That's but another reason I'm so dubious toward the concept of Evolution.  The way nature and the cosmos have arranged their natural environments so systematically, obviously planned out strategically to a tee, any kind of process of an interdependent inter-species evolutionary process would be unnecessary, as even terrestrial life forms would have had to have been "blueprinted" in advance as was all the other elements in the universe.

This isn't to say I necessarily support the Creationists' notion of the beginning of life and the elements as stated in Biblical scriptures.  Creationism seems too simplistic a concept to me.  Reality itself is way too involved and complicated to be explained by a mere adherence to the notions espoused by the folklore of ancient texts loosely interpreted centuries ago by those not even familiar with the language of those who wrote the originals, relying on deciphering whatever they could the best way possible.

Finding the facts is clearly the domain of a science unfettered and unblemished by the dogmas of "established facts" such as the Evolution theories, Creationism, and others like them.

                             Musing For Today
A little enlightenment on the "Me Too" issue and its mindset was given me by an anonymous source:

It was like when Jesus, when asked about his stand on taxation, stated "Render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar, and unto God that which belongs to God".

You see an attractive lady and you're pondering how to go about making her "yours"
...but if you try to "claim" her body she'll have to guard it against you and your wishes, as wherever her body goes so goes her very being.

Like it or not, "Julie" is not for you to just "take" or "borrow" at will, no matter how much you wish you could just "have her for yourself".  Unless "Julie" is willing to share part of herself with you, or even willingly "give herself away" to you, you'll just have to settle for "rendering unto 'Julie' that which belongs to 'Julie'".

...o-o-o-o--kay ...
...an interesting perspective on the concept of this issue ...
...I'll dwell a bit on it ....