tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84619341316279247372024-03-13T07:04:23.393-07:00UnrepentantcowboyUnrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.comBlogger542125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-80418970289646965202016-09-22T06:15:00.000-07:002016-09-22T06:16:33.854-07:00Marijuana: Legalization vs. Decriminalization<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
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movie, Kingdom of Shadows, placed me squarely in the center of the debate on
drugs. I found myself sitting on stages, in front of crowds, like some wild indigenous
specimen: <i>see there are white people who
do this shit</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was uneasy
throughout filming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I did not know
what Bernardo was after. I was sick of retelling tired stories. I’d been out of
the business a quarter century. I read the same shit you do. And the same shit
lazy, fearful reporters read and regurgitate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m screaming, <i>I am not qualified</i>, all the while,
telling them what I think I know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And then I sit
on a stage like a wooden Indian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reporters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am about as
close as they’ll get to interviewing a real smuggler. Those guys are dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I feel like a
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I saw this one
long-haired Mexican man in the crowd after a San Antonio screening. Quanah
Parker. He looked at me. I looked at
him. Fake people all around and here’s this Shaman and I got to talk to
reporters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since, I took a
look around. Talked to the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am now, once
again, an expert. I am not in the business. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I did what reporters are supposed to. Listened to those that know, without threat or coercion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What I know
is fresh and real and I know more than the cops. They don’t believe this, but I
do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You lost the
war, motherfuckers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You have no idea
how bad you lost this war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am going to
stop asking for legalization of marijuana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Legalization
sounds like some gift you have to offer. You were wrong to establish this law
in the first place and it remains wrong today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Marijuana is a
medicinal herb placed on this planet by your creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Its’ uses are so
wide and varied, remain so un-explored, that I envision entirely new fields of
medical research that will arise once explored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Truth is, it’s the
spiritual applications that scare white Europeans. (if you’re white, you’re
probably European [non-Native American]). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jamaican
Rastafarians, Mexican Shaman, Colombian healers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Feel that hair start
to rise, feel that flesh crawl?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What was that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-326262326114527592016-09-20T07:10:00.000-07:002016-09-20T07:23:28.699-07:00Life after Kingdom of Shadows<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I watched last
night as Kingdom of Shadows aired nationwide on PBS stations. I said something
at the end of the film I now regret. It was true and it was sincere at the time,
but I see things differently today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I see a sick man
in that film. Tired. Weak. Hanging on to sobriety like it’s the last sacrament
on earth. I see a man beat down by the laws of our society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Life has kicked
my ass since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At one point I
suffered what I thought was a heart attack and was hospitalized only to learn
that nothing was wrong with my heart; I was stressed to the point of breaking
and my body shut down.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I left that
hospital, after two days without a single prescription or treatment. Later, a
local doctor issued me a prescription for Zanex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t take
that shit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So it went into
the cabinet. I’d had dizzy spells, warning signs, preceding the event for
several weeks. The signs returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I tried half a low-dose
Zanex. First and last time. It does not work for me. I don’t like the way it
makes me feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shortly after
New Year’s Day, 2016, while everyone else was swearing off drugs and habits, I
smoked a joint. 29 years without a drink or a puff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since, I have
tried a sip of whiskey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They work and
that’s why people use them. Both present harmful side effects, especially in an
industrial environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I also got off my ass and went back to working hard, physically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I feel better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s not drugs I
hate, it’s the goddamned business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am sick of the
way we as a society treat drug users.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am sick of
cops and judges and lawyers and probation officers and prisons. I am sick of
slimy fucks preying on immigrants, addicts. I am sick of cartels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am sick of apathetic people that allow this evil to persist among us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The war on drugs
is a war on ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">End it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-35790566905669498162016-08-13T07:26:00.002-07:002016-08-14T04:25:20.510-07:00Hunger games for ranchers, farmers and cowboys: Thoroughbred horse racingSabbath day.<br />
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I send my horses to the racetrack like a mother offers her child to war.<br />
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I know the costs.<br />
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I know the risks.<br />
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I love horses.<br />
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I also know certain is the control if you play by <i>their </i>rules.<br />
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Fuck assembly line industrial agriculture. I will not be your slave.<br />
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Let the games begin.<br />
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<br />Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-35483089598781405002016-06-24T05:07:00.000-07:002016-06-24T05:07:00.695-07:00Gaff<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
Despite not having a stakes winner (yet), derived from today's Bloodhorse sire list for Thoroughbred horses standing in Texas:</div>
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From the top ten, Gaff ranks 8th by gross winnings.</div>
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He ranks 1st by earnings per starter.<br />He ranks 1st by winners per starter.<br />He ranks 1st by repeat winners per starter.</div>
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The year ain't over.</div>
Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-48898151201853314352016-06-16T07:01:00.001-07:002016-06-16T07:35:00.609-07:00A book of proverbsStarting today, good Lord willing, I begin a new book.<br />
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It's not exactly new. Version one began to take form a few months back. I began the book ala Chuck Bowden, my writing mentor, in a small note pad, hand written, as thoughts occur.<br />
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Alas: version one of the book suffered an ill fate and got left in the wash. The remains were unintelligible.<br />
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Ya'll ain't yet saved.<br />
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Anything you say or do in my presence is not only your experience but mine as well.<br />
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You are warned.<br />
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The title:<br />
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A Book of Proverbs.Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-11128644001901934632016-06-16T04:59:00.001-07:002016-06-16T04:59:22.020-07:00Time to take out the trash<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Time to take out the trash.</div>
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Libertarian purists don't have answers for running an orderly society.</div>
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But theirs is the medicine prescribed for our current ailment.</div>
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The old must be removed to make room for the new.</div>
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Establishment parties will not remove themselves willingly.</div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-82402527189109597042016-06-15T06:42:00.000-07:002016-06-15T06:42:16.515-07:00Mr Obama....Declare a moratorium, effective immediately.<br />
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Given the current state of affairs, where entire states have in effect, legalized the use of cannabis<br />
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all the while federal law continues to classify this herb as a schedule-1 drug<br />
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large numbers of inmates remain locked up for marijuana offenses.<br />
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No more arrests until this law is changed.<br />
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Revisit the cases of all locked up for marijuana offenses.<br />
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All of them.<br />
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Now, please.Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-50885492676867277772016-06-05T07:48:00.002-07:002016-06-05T07:48:48.532-07:00Don't fret: we'll be all right<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OtGb5MPCMlg?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-12103363935944403742016-05-17T09:23:00.002-07:002016-05-17T09:23:24.529-07:00My generation: a parable<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
A parable:</div>
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My generation.</div>
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The box arrives. 101 yellow chicks, hungry, aside from one which lays dead. Hard to tell it was once a chick.</div>
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They are placed in a Hilton Hotel of sorts, where chickens are concerned.</div>
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Food, the best Purina makes, light, heat, temperature all controlled.</div>
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They eat.</div>
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They shit.</div>
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They grow.</div>
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At about five weeks the provider culls 50 of these almost five pound birds.</div>
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They go to the low rent neighborhood.</div>
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Near my house.</div>
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He gives them away. No way in hell he'd accept the full value of a prepared meal made from one of these animals in exchange for killing, plucking, gutting the bird.</div>
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He has never known hunger.</div>
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His birds, now my birds, live in a makeshift coop made from pallets, baling wire and scraps of mesh wire.</div>
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I have known hunger.</div>
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Meanwhile, the few remaining birds from the Hilton sit in a cage, 8 pounds already. Winners at the livestock show. Never mind they cannot walk.</div>
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Back in low rent village, someone shows up and picks up all the birds that cannot walk.</div>
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They are taken, killed and gutted, one by one.</div>
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Over the next few weeks, more become immobile, unable to support their weight.</div>
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I open the door to the cage and leave a space large enough for them to come and go.</div>
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Many die.</div>
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Their carcasses mostly fed dogs or pigs.</div>
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Some were so nasty that not even the dogs were interested.</div>
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Today there are fifteen healthy birds from the original one hundred, healthy, active, coming and going.</div>
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Fifteen more sit, immobile, depressed.</div>
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Waiting.</div>
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This is my generation.</div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-27239687719389812022016-05-09T10:33:00.000-07:002016-05-09T10:33:12.950-07:00This river runs red<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5wLF1Fe01uU?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-66893022889303167512016-05-08T07:51:00.002-07:002016-05-08T07:52:04.991-07:00Augustus McRaeAlways wanted to be Augustus McCrae.<br />
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Had to settle for Captain Call.Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-88148357335205789392016-03-16T06:52:00.004-07:002016-03-16T06:52:56.345-07:00PoliticsThis person pretty much sums up <a href="http://parrishmiller.com/blog/beating-system-counter-economics/" target="_blank">my take on politics</a>.Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-8477817176385940312016-02-25T08:13:00.002-08:002016-02-25T08:13:20.340-08:00Dylan<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NGJFxpTOE2Y?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-60676389666724094162016-02-23T04:27:00.003-08:002016-02-23T04:27:49.926-08:00Lungs<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2yaJT_BFhDo?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-54118430793799299512016-02-14T04:26:00.000-08:002016-02-14T04:28:33.945-08:00Ruminations from the garden: segundo<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have begun another book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ruminations from the garden, segundo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; line-height: 16.08px;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">I may well just put copies on the counter at the <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=203599523326718&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/Belmont-General-Store-203599523326718/?hc_location=ufi" saprocessedanchor="true" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Belmont General Store</a>, previously referred to as the Red Rock store, adjacent to <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1335639649&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/leah.dawson1?hc_location=ufi" saprocessedanchor="true" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leah Dawson Ford</a>'s <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=477234849015522&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/RedHenPotteryStudioAndGallery/?hc_location=ufi" saprocessedanchor="true" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Red Hen Pottery Studio and Gallery</a>, for any one that arrives in a living body and wants to claim one. Tear off the proper number of pages you can level a table up to a little better than 3/4 inch off kelter. Work for starting fires or after the morning constitutional should Putin prove his claim, (some shit about being able to destroy us in 30 minutes... Which triggers stories Edward Zehandalaar told me about nuclear weapons--the dude is a nuclear physicist in on trumped up charges because "they" question his loyalty, Jewish daddy. Persian mom. Persian rather than Iranian. Poor sob born on the island of Java during WWII only EZ is a kid. They all get carted off to the interment camp by the Japanese. EZ, this little kid is hungry. No food. He's watching his mom shrink into a skeleton with a gap in the crotch big enough to throw a volleyball through. And there's no food and he's hungry as hell, and the Japanese guard, well he picks out a pregnant woman and they put up the money. What's the sex of the baby? And then a guards slashes her belly and the unborn infant spills to the ground as the woman grasps. Anyhow, they don't trust EZ so they trump up charges and keep him in a safe place. The man can build a nuclear weapon. And, he knows the threat. He worked on a system to protect our own nuclear arsenal from EMP attack. You know, when you blow up a thermonuclear devise some 200 kilometers into the atmosphere, and an electronic pulse fries the unprotected American electric grid because no one would listen to that crazy green/conservative Roscoe Bartlett when he told us faraday cages are cheap to build and we needed them. Anyhow, this crazy motherfucker Putin knows this, as do his handlers in Europe where the biggest of the big still maintain control. And we are over there jabbing this dude with a sharp stick.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; line-height: 16.08px;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; line-height: 16.08px;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;">This is not a joke. Not a practice run. Knowledge will be worth more than money. World debt requires a sacrifice, a reset. Cancellation of debt which means loss of money for all calling themselves American, a terrible deflationary depression. You and I</span><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"> are like a fattened calf. The dollar must be destroyed to make way for a new reserve currency. It's not really personal for them, we're the bastard children anyhow.....</span></span></span></span></div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-57554105528007033082016-02-08T11:53:00.002-08:002016-02-08T11:53:31.127-08:00Illegal smile<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5eccz7D0QK0?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-4245347706233518442016-02-03T08:00:00.002-08:002016-02-03T08:07:23.325-08:00Inventory<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Did an inventory.</div>
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I am at heart, an anarchist.</div>
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Waiting on a king that serves, rather than leads.<br />
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In the meantime.....</div>
Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-44955032156680465692016-01-05T17:37:00.001-08:002016-01-05T17:40:56.574-08:00Concerning marijuana<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If you follow my
Facebook page, you will notice a number of links to articles discussing marijuana
legalization. And if you haven’t yet figured it out, I am a proponent of
legalization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That is not to
say implementing such laws will not create legal complications in the real
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s easy to say
you’re an anarchist, or a libertarian, until something someone else does affects
you also. And just about anything anyone else does affects you to some degree
or another. We live in a crowded world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many say marijuana
should be treated as is alcohol or tobacco, and I more or less agree. However,
there are differences between these substances, rather profound differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Alcohol in very
low doses, let’s say a single beer or glass of wine is a mild drug. It hits
rather quickly and clears from the system in fairly short order. It’s easy to
regulate how high you get, how incapacitated, also. One does this, two, this,
and three that. More than three and you are quite fucked up and incapacitated,
a danger to be around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It can be, in
low dose, a beneficial, stress relieving and enjoyable drug (and yes, it is a
drug).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In high doses,
it’s a proven killer, a raging, mocking, indiscriminate killer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some will say
the marijuana of today ain’t the stuff you smoked as a youngster. Well, maybe
not you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In my case, however, I knew people on the cutting edge and they were
producing a similar herb many years ago. I smoked my share of the same damn
stuff you think is new to the world, sativa, indica and even ruderalis. The
difference now is that quality herb is now widespread among domestic producers;
what was once the stuff of legend and a few connoisseurs can now be had in
multiple choices and flavors at legal dispensaries or from illegal sources
throughout the land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The potency of
this modern high end weed is such that a user needn’t smoke a joint to get
high. One puff, you’re all in. And you are going to be there for a while.
Furthermore, especially if you’re not accustomed to using the stuff, some
effects will linger, to a mild degree, for up to a couple of days thereafter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Don’t throw
rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I know what I am
talking about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However, the
drug and its effect is much different than alcohol and therefore can’t be
treated exactly the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A person driving,
high on pot and unaccustomed to being so, probably won’t swerve on the road or drive to
excess speed like someone inebriated on alcohol might. But he or she might well
drive well below the speed limit, or feel the need to park that car and hide in
a safe secure place. A seasoned smoker will likely drive pretty much like anyone
else, even when high, not unlike someone that has taken their prescription
anti-depressant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Marijuana is a
powerful medicinal herb, with many profound uses. Tell me otherwise and I will
tell you that you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. I speak from
personal experience, my own and that of others I know on an intimate basis that have used and continue to use the drug for these purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No other drug on
the planet rivals its effect on controlling nausea. Not even close. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is also an
appetite stimulant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Those two
properties combined make it very useful for someone suffering side
effects of chemotherapy and or radiation treatments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pot is a stress
reliever and can be useful for those suffering from PSTD or other stress
related ailments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">There are
reports that the cannibidiol resin, found mostly in marijuana leaves,
suppresses cancer cell growth and also is a powerful medicine for those
suffering </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">epileptic</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> seizures, once again, unrivaled by any pharmaceutical
on the market. For what it’s worth, ingestion of this will not get you high, it’s
the THC in marijuana that provides the psychotropic effect, and there are
strains of marijuana that contain little or almost no THC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The herb has
another effect that scares the hell out of those in charge.
Somehow or other, it alters perception of a user and can radically change a
person’s way of seeing this world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Imagine a war
when people throw down their guns and say fuck this shit. I ain’t fighting no
more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Only you don’t have to imagine it. It happened, in hundreds, thousands of
cases, during the Viet Nam war. And guess what; enough people stood up and said
enough is enough to stop that war, cold in its tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You may think
otherwise, but this is what happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And this scared
the hell out of the cocksucking warmongers sending someone else’s kids off to
expend massive amounts of ordnance and kill people, or conversely, to die in their goddamned war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, the part
the pot smokers ain’t going to like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s customary,
while watching commercials on some prescription drug to hear a long laundry
list of potential side effects, while some good looking actor walks through
life in an apparent state of bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Among the side
effects a commercial on marijuana might list would be the following: Some
people report short term memory loss (where did I put the fucking keys? Did I
miss that appointment? Etc.). Coughing, perhaps to the point of rolling on the
floor as you try to hold in that hit. Chest congestion with extensive use.
Maybe shortness of breath, also with extensive use. The stuff has tar in it.
This is not good for your lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This altered perception,
(or distorted reality for those in the opposing camp), tends to make a user not
give much of a fuck about making a shit pot of money or climbing the ranks in
society. People often become “dropouts” for lack of a better word. Detractors
would say this is a bad thing, pot heads would say this is an
anti-brainwashing, anti-indoctrination effect that makes people more laid back
and yes, even more caring about the things that really matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Which may
include eating a whole damn sack of chips or a carton of ice cream while listening,
really listening, to some music while staring at your navel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But it ain’t
like it’s the end of the world when your neighbor sets about doing any of the
above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The bottom line
is this: I think you are a hypocrite if you drink alcohol, smoke tobacco or
take pharmaceutical drugs for you ailments, both physical and mental, and feel
the need to put others in jail for using marijuana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Legalize the
stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, please.</span></div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-66375219847587534052015-12-17T04:59:00.002-08:002015-12-17T04:59:54.840-08:00Verizon, Microsoft, Windows 10I've been getting notices, more like demands that I upgrade to Windows 10.<br />
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I hate to mess with something that is working so I have avoided doing so, but I also know that when computer software manufacturers move on they abandon old platforms which eventually cease to be compatible with newer versions. I also suspect that each successive version of these devices is a more effective surveillance tool so "my government can protect me against terrorists". Yeah, team.<br />
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I got a notice from Verizon the 15th saying we had used 75% of our allotted data for the month and that it was due to reset on the 16th. Our phone and internet use all is applied to the same account.<br />
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Leah had done the upgrade without any apparent complications, so yesterday I decided to give in.<br />
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I started the download. It seemed to be slow loading so I decided to eat some breakfast. When I came back, I noticed that the attempt had failed. I tried again.<br />
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My phone alerted me that we had used 90% of our monthly data.<br />
<br />
Second attempt failed.<br />
<br />
My phone alerted me that we had used 100% of our data, and each additional gig would cost us $15.<br />
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By the time I got the goddamned thing shut down we went at least two of these increments over for the month, meaning an additional $30 charge.<br />
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I still have not successfully downloaded Windows 10.<br />
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Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Verizon. Fuck you very much.Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-48521619154720517802015-12-15T06:59:00.000-08:002015-12-15T06:59:49.617-08:00The thirteenth apostle<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I recently
bought and am currently reading a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=christ%27s+ventriloquists+the+event+that+created+christianity&sprefix=Christ%27s+ven%2Caps%2C252" target="_blank">Christ's Ventriloquists</a>: The
Event that Created Christianity, written by Eric Zuesse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The premise of
the book is this: Modern Christianity is based largely on the teachings of the
Apostle Paul, (or is it the self-appointed (un)apostle Paul) rather than the
teachings of Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Zuesse suggests
that James, Jesus’ brother was left to take the place of Jesus after the demise
of Judas Iscariot. He points out that a rift developed between James and the
remaining original apostles and Paul, who claimed apostleship after being
struck and temporarily blinded by something approximating a bolt of lightning
while pursuing his job of killing heretical followers of Jesus the Jewish Rabbi. And
that, in the end, Paul won.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Zuesse proffers
that Jesus did not intend to start a new religion, that instead he came to fix
an ancient but flawed one, that of Abraham. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Left out of
Zuesse’s argument (at least to the point I have read) is the story of Matthias,
chosen by Peter and a group of believers to replace Judas as described in the
Acts of the Apostles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some might ask
why any of this matters. Other books, including the book of Revelations
describe the New Jerusalem. It is said to have 12 gates, each to be manned by
one of the 12 apostles. Not 13, or 26. 12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So is the 12<sup>th</sup>
apostle Judas? James? Paul? Mathias? Who mans that 12<sup>th</sup> gate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Allow me to
further muddle the equation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There could be
another, none of the above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mary of Magdala: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps, Jesus’
closest confidant. Perhaps also his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Mary-Magdala-Jesus-Apostle/dp/0944344585/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450191414&sr=1-1&keywords=mary+of+magdala" target="_blank">Her book</a> was
excluded from the Bible. Most Christians don’t even know the book exists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">According to her, the remaining Apostles could not accept that Jesus would return first to
a woman, and furthermore, to instruct her with teachings that appear to supersede
their own understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was Mary,
Jesus’ mother, and Mary of Magdala to which Jesus first appeared, according
even to the books accepted into the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The more I
learn, the less I know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-23066393990188741742015-12-08T05:53:00.002-08:002015-12-08T05:53:20.725-08:00Gluten intolerance<br />
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Some 12 years or so ago, I developed acid reflux disease and then a couple of patches of skin rash on my ankles and my hips.</div>
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I controlled the acid reflux with acid blockers, but got to the point where I could not afford to go a single day without taking them.</div>
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I tried everything I could find for the rash. About the only thing that helped was diaper rash medicine.</div>
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Some 7 years ago, my dad was diagnosed with Coeliac (Celiac) disease. Gluten intolerance. Celiac Sprue</div>
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Thinking that I might also have inherited the condition, I quit eating foods containing gluten. The acid reflux went away. As did the rash.</div>
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I just found <a href="http://www.gmofreepa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Glyphosate-II-Samsel-Seneff-Toxicology_FNL.pdf" target="_blank">a link (pdf)</a> between the rise of gluten intolerance and the use of glyphosate. Damn it.</div>
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Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-84826183919031250972015-12-06T05:13:00.000-08:002015-12-06T05:13:15.027-08:00Politics<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
When I was a kid, I'd see carnival games. They looked easy to win. Throw a ball into a basket. Toss a ring over a bottle. Shoot out all the colored portion of a star with a bb gun.</div>
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Over time, I learned the game was rigged. I'd ignore the con artists as they tried to wave me in and keep walking.</div>
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Politics has become the same for me as an old man.</div>
Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-83442683587939415922015-11-30T05:30:00.000-08:002015-11-30T05:30:34.691-08:00My Ancestry<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
My brother Bill sent off a DNA sample to Ancestry(dot)com and shared the results with me.</div>
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For a brief moment, I wondered if I should also.</div>
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Sorry, mom.</div>
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But I know better. This is the people from which I descend. And before you tell me we're all African--obviously this test doesn't go back that far. (And I'd submit that it's highly possible that white Europeans carry Neanderthal blood, unlike the more highly evolved African strain....)</div>
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I don't offer this to make any point, or to express any kind of pride in a matter of which I had absolutely no choice.</div>
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But it is what it is and the facts dispel some family myths:</div>
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Results as follows:</div>
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100% European (damnit).<br />39% British Isles (damnit).<br />28% Irish<br />17% Scandinavian<br />5% Roman/Greek (Italian)<br />5% Iberian (Spanish)<br />4% Western Europe<br /><1 br="" eastern="" europe=""><1 br="" finnish="" ussian="">0% European Jewish<br />0% African<br />0% Asian<br />0% American Indian<br />I think he also said 0% Middle Eastern as well, but I failed to write it down.</1></1></div>
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Pretty much pure white trash, I suppose.</div>
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I had absolutely nothing to do with this.</div>
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I hope to rise above it.</div>
Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-70086289670303647172015-10-22T12:25:00.000-07:002015-10-22T12:25:15.922-07:00Matt Savinar interviewLast year. In case you missed it:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bJGKIOEnQnc?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8461934131627924737.post-85764288376367870032015-10-15T07:34:00.001-07:002015-10-15T10:44:04.262-07:00Coup d'etat: Radical realignment of power <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was among those watching for some sort of catastrophe at the end of the shmita/beginning of the jubilee last month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The season came and went with no apparent difficulties, aside from the norm (which happen to be quite serious if you're paying attention).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, I am seeing something unfold now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There has been a radical realignment of power in world politics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For some time, the United States has taken a position of leadership in world affairs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">During the meeting of the United Nations held last month, a notable group of leaders addressed the assembly, among them the pope, President Obama, and Russian President Putin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama reminded the world that the United States has the most powerful military and the largest economy of any nation on earth and then began to describe current events filtered through his prism. In other words, he lied his ass off and everyone in the room knew it, despite the bobbing of heads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Putin presented a rational view of the world and politics, if you count yourself among those that believe a thinking body of adults from around the world should be in charge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly thereafter, Russia began an intervention in Syria, where we (the United States) have been supporting Islamic terrorists fighting the Assad regime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I learned, if <a href="http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20151014/1028520153/russia-isil-syria-military-campaign.html#ixzz3oYNsfsdc" target="_blank">Sputnik is to be believed</a>, that even Israel was consulted before attacks began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are those that say Russia and Putin stand against the New World Order.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I suspect quite the opposite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Putin has become the new de facto leader of that body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meaning Obama and the US have become odd man out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't be surprised to see an attack on this nation within the next year, whether militarily, or economically (both, in my opinion).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This will prove quite a convenient reset; by trashing the reserve currency, which happens to be the dollar and creating a new world currency, the worlds gets the debt relief it needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blame will then be piled upon the burning trash heap left of the American Empire. It was all our fault, don't you know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The friends you thought you had in Europe will dance with a new partner and look from a distance at the smoke, lamenting the loss of their old lover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Putin will not be your friend on that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Unrepentantcowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348152020479469764noreply@blogger.com2