SYCOPHANTISM'S GRAND PARADE?

Okay. So it's not the last thing I want to do. Endlessly harp on  

George W. Bush's martyrdom on our behalves. Claiming God told him to continue the cycle of revenge you should apologize for, sir. Yes sir. I'm repeating myself and there's no reason you'd listen. However. In light of recent torture revelations, you visited the 9/11 Memorial Sunday evening, December 14th, around 6:30 PM for an hour on a low key basis according to the next morning's radio news. The 9/11 tragedy is everyone's grief whether they believe it or not. While we, humanity are smarter than this. The idea people hate each other so much they won't stop at anything, does not excuse crossing an objective line and insinuating any holy war mattered more than any other. Poppycock. 

People are wrong blaming anything about this on God. Unless these hatreds are solved perverse cycles of revenge won't be. You, George W. Bush have to apologize because everyone needs to get a grip. Oooo, Isis formed. No kidding. Even NBC's Meet The Press traced Dick Cheney's warning of ramifications on C-Span to 1994. 

The strategy of overwhelming the public with pragmatic patriotism was never a secret. The cat was never in the bag. Yes sir. Essentially invading the Middle East was another flaw in the cycle of revenge. Not right for them or us either. Pride shouldn't doom us to this paraphrasing of Samuel Johnson's warning - PATRIOTISM IS THE REFUGE OF THE SCOUNDREL 

Now. It's foolish contradicting someone elected twice. Also the United States tried running the fairest war the world has ever seen, despite discrepancies, including billions of dollars flowing for capital means if the money only learned to land. The yang, of course, corruption. So what. It's offensive but how money flows till fluid while even America's revenue streams have eccentric patterns. The point is, the reality of this nonsense was resentment wasn't altered. Hatred that hadn't changed for centuries you jumped in feet first. This quicksand of animosity. Just more "hate you to kingdom come" ridiculousness from the dark ages. Everything about terrorism is offensive. The battle shouldn't include any of us. Yet you went ahead and essentially said, jihad for everybody. When its hardly anyone's right to claim stupid prejudice is God's reality. Defending America? None of this Terror War nonsense even defends Allah. None.  

Our martyrdom is more sacred than yours is the cycle of revenge tragedy that caused September Eleventh. Misguided reactionaries? Ring a bell, sir? Xenophobia? Have you ever at least heard that word describe nationalism's flaw? Or has your life been so politically carved, the absurdity of the cycle of revenge wasn't enough for you to have restraint. 

For God? When we are God's suffering and smarter than this. Apologize. You did it, sir, and you keep doing it. No matter what imagery your people sell you, we're living with something else. People blinded by smite. An apology from you would really go a long way toward solving this. What's this? An unconscionable, soulless, bigotry. Visiting our shrine to a crime in a solemn hour and only shaking hands with a few on-duty security people may be an act of noble humility. Still, apologies' missing. 

I know. In this instance I should show more deference to a President of the United States. More grief in light of 9/11's tragedy. Or outrage for the victims? STOP THE HYSTERIA! Its impossible all this was ever Allah's/God's wish. For Pete's sake. 

C'mon dude. Preferring non-partisanship I'm writing this against the grain in this way because this out of proportion anti-Americanism issue must be addressed. What'dya say Mr. President? Iron out the façade? Please, Mr. Bush, sir. Life can be seen with brighter eyes. Please?

Here. Watch this. 

The Time of Your Life, 1948 - JAMES CAGNEY 

H.C. Potter | William Saroyan

Take a break. Don't be anyone's sycophant. How much more possibly outlandish an eccentric rant could this become, anyway? The film deals with life under the surface and how grace, tolerance and understanding plus spine combine organically, from the roots, building a better world. Stage Play takes place entirely in a bar.

 The Presidency's Honor Requires An Apology, Sir? Mr. President. 

Political Momentum

If I can't say what anyone might be afraid to hear. 

I have no business writing The Soapbox View.

A little tune to read to from the Jingoistic Nationalism By Every And All Means is The World's Biggest Flaw of All Catalogue. 

Well here we are as usual. Where the more stably unstable the most powerful are, the more the world is misled to believe that power in our names is pure patriotism and not really that far out of whack. The Ukraine debate has been fashioned such that 

President Putin is characterized as on the simple path of ruthless nationalism. OK, but barriers are rising to curb that goal in Ukraine so now there's this pseudo short-term appearance militarism is on hold. Except, as noted before, and William J. Broad pointed out in The New York Times, Sunday, May 18, 2014, In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains A Sea Of Fuel Reserves. Why would Russia want all of Ukraine's problems when their profit is primarily concerned with supplying the world's owners who were so darn contentedly complacent over-polluting the planet, they have held back our progress both environmentally and economic? Shareholders my ___! Bait and switch psuedo-conservative hysteria for simple-minded market-share when it's past time people woke to the mess financial circulation remains because of petty political jargon. Can't pour oil across the US from Canada? President Putin could drill tubes underground anywhere he wants so who's driving now? 

How can powerful disinterested self-interests face the truth? By everyone taking responsibility so we somehow also find how to put on hold the demonizing of this poor wealthy man, Vladimir Putin, who's just a Chester pounding his chest atop the tip of a darn cold iceberg. Soapbox View The associations of individuals (hey) conspiring to funnel the world's financial flow instead of letting it go for everyone. Getting ourselves beyond this contrived lazy worked-up nonsense of blaming a lazy economic class for not having more access to opportunity because there really is a massive cornering of wealth away from where it could more righteously flow. For example: The New York Times, Sunday May 18, 2014, by Elizabeth Rosenthal, Medicine's Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s examines the numbers of how the business of medicine was actually coerced from the actual practitioners in The Medical Industrial Complex. Soapbox View

As criminal as legally stealing health care and blaming the public has been, let's address the other charade - the 21St Century precedent set by former President George W. Bush inserting jingoistic self-righteousness into the cyclically misunderstood holy war of revenge over all of our one Allah/God. So of course following that Chester-ish lead, why shouldn't any nation assert sovereignty across borders? Any revolutionary carry out violence against women when power for its' own sake is the real worshipped evil. Sure. The toughest can always win but no mere mortal can just assert they're right and be correct. 

CIVILIZATION'S HIGHEST CALLING? 

The point is critics will criticize and compliment ANY statesmanship. But where was President Putin supposed to learn civilized law and order is not a decree? From George the Grinner's post-presidential interview comfortably facing his daughter? (It's ok honey, detractors are just nobodies.)

Image makers? It's like no one has to give a da_n. Claiming to let history decide? No one besides actual terrorists deserves that. No shame? Believe me. I'd prefer to write around this opinion and not offend sycophants. But this is my country too and I feel the shame of your cohort of bandwagon jumpers' satisfaction as mere manipulators. Apologize, or whine to God. Your choice. 

If George W. Bush apologized would that get the ball rolling? Because politics shouldn't just be the art of using people. As wild as it sounds, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a perfect precedent for the position the whole world is in. Not just Russia, Mr. Presidents.  

Everyone Has Real Choices?

Fictionalized Biography
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Fix The Sidewalks Party

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I apologize for my redundancy concerning this topic. I'd prefer to not offend law abiding citizens. But these three films confront the immorality of the

Criminal Enterprise System

A.K.A TOMMY CHONG

Jack Herer - The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Sanjay Gupta "systematically misled" Interview

Moral Totems Should Be Risen To, Not Fallen From?
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So where's President Obama's criticism? 
Isn't recognizing all politicians blow in the wind enough? 

The Soapbox View Satirical Twist pursues the 

Twin Legacies Andy Rooney and I.F. Stone?

INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS

ACT II

Alphabetical Soapbox View

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Yurmony's response to the file included "Chatter doesn't matter" and uncrossing a leg to recross the other. And his agreement, "When people have the end of the line drawn for them, you can stretch it however you want. But ultimately? Citizens don't care." Then his right eyebrow rose questioning whether I understood normal is following the rest in line with the façade?

So I pointed out for the lawyer that, "Ruthless jargon rules the world. Mere layers of more nonsense. Everything's just Goofy ruled by subterfuge and espionage. If evil's the problem? Stop raising it. Except for the various conspiracies of individuals' benefit, bitter rivalry hasn't been the solution for countless generations. Prosperity and patriotism shouldn't just be signaled by the ability to make and threaten war. Because as things cluelessly stand, we've proven to have not advanced past the Medieval Age. The future's here and we're a shameful lot. Crying shame. But, suitingly, look darn good on the business page." 

Imagine lawyers getting digitally shortchanged but for a minute? Lighting out of there. Running away. Getting lost. Were my best options to elude repercussions. If there were any? While Yurmony's look just meant this should cost me. So he smirked, "Goofy's all you are," and waited a response. 

Squirm my eye. 

He sighed shutting off his screen. Then inserted finality in his voice, pausing after, "Well. It'll go this way." 

But I interrupted, "Sure it does. But by always going that way. Things can be turned a bit. Or there's no point. Unless it's the conspiracy that manipulates most has all the power. Where's the consent of the governed in that?" 

The attitude was all there in his answering me. The grinning self-assured mockery. Accusingly asking, "And you call others' jargon?" 

So I gave him his shrug back. 

He smiled, "Uh huh. Be realistic. Management is controlling people. Not what dissent fabricates and convolutes to mean tyranny."

"Ditto," I said because whatever he meant was questionable too. Power running roughshod.

"Uh huh," Yurmony pretended to have heard what I thought. "Individuals aren't successes by themselves."

"Why everything's a conspiracy." 

"Except for nothings." 

"Ah. You mean it's fruitless encouraging voters not to be sycophants?" 

He said, "I'm telling you. Twisting logic doesn't make you correct. Makes you a muddler." 

Nice to hear at least. 

But he continued. "To the point. Since this makes no difference. Why bother? It's impossible to be in everyone's corner disagreeing with both sides. Look"

"Look? Lawyers profit defending everyone. Even pro bono's good for business. Plus I don't advocate poaching. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating crime. Our problems are deeper than the rule of law. Cultural and perhaps chemical, the way people, beneath the skin, always bother each other."

"O-kay. Let's stick to not making a case of this."

"There's no case," I replied. 

While Yurmony'd moved on and smiling, waved me through the Sliding Glass Door onto the balcony. Even designating a lounge chair, opposite him, where I sat on the edge. 

Grinning he, started a cigar and, waving it around, asked if I knew, "why people confer with lawyers?" 

"Paid to keep their mouths shut."

"Besides that, cynic. People need someone doubting them on their side to come to grips with the truth."

"You're psychiatrists?"

"Dude. The law supervises people's shortcomings in dealing with others."

"Noble calling. But The Fine Society? Culture by punishment. Crime should end because it's really not polite. There are solutions for problem people. Among which is releasing them from the internal cages their anger's in. 

"I can't help feeling one thing could help with disharmony. Start at the top and see how it trickles down. George W. Bush should apologize for opening the floodgates on aggression and prejudice. More permission to go off the deep end. 

"It was just bullcrap blaming God for any facet of our endless cycles of revenge. Revenge, the attitude that raises every generation's criminality in the first place. No one can actually pay for crime and we live with that result every day. Viciously recycling The Criminal Enterprise System's Criminal Industrial Complex. Supporting this cockamamy idea that not only fools go to war. Civilization's not war."

"Okay there," he said. "There you go. Whether you are or not. You're a hard case. Anyway. You can't land or shed light on anything critically when you sporadically, but consistently, use, but never criticize, The New York Times."

Theodore Roosevelt

"That's not sarcasm? You mean never bring up something like the May 23rd essay in The New York Times, The Making of a Great Ex-President? Where the author, Boise State University's Justin S. Vaughn, slipped in a humble reference to Ronald Reagan's consideration among the near-great presidents. Presidents are important. 

"Yesterday even, David Leonhardt's A Ruling Even Reagan Could Embrace began a paragraph with - Reagan, whose political instincts were generally fabulous, understood this point. To, maybe lighten the blow for a paragraph later lead with - What Reagan got wrong, however, was the definition of socialism.

"Capitalism is socialism is the truth. And it would be nice if people weren't so numb to the meaning of ideology they're hoodwinked by the catchphrase, 'socialism doesn't work.' Private companies are social cells. The Fire Department is socialist. Reagan rode a bandwagon contraption that defined political debate as narrowly as possible. A game of ping-pong really. This idea of conservatism vs. liberalism. Caging each others' ideals in warped senses of righteousness. Intellectually lazy and not at all what the public could understand. But what's simple to sell. There's really no freedom from the slant.

"Basically all of history's notorious ride their era's crest. Ivan The Terrible rode the military state that held off the Mongol Horde and made Moscow king. President Reagan kept intolerance profitable while Californians re-wired the world. Cut. 

"I'm past hoping it helps America to understand its' political veneers perpetuate simplistic façades. A joy ride of hype in a propaganda store. Meaning nothing's getting us through this obstinacy power has towards being influenced by substance of depth. 

"What history keeps repeating at a poundingly numb rate is, we're so far, far advanced and happy that, for the most part, things falling apart's profit and loss too. Because there's already tickets to the moon and beyond for anyone feeling threatened enough to get away from any deep thinking going on about planet Earth. No matter anyone's status. We're all a bunch of losers when it comes to handling money. Everyone working their hearts out for something worth less every day. End inflation or the madness never will. Because otherwise pretending to catch up seems to have irrevocably damaged us forever already."

"Listen," he said.

So I retraced, saying, "This is that Justin S. Vaughn quote. 'Favorites like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy died as presidents, and others, including near-greats Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan and Lyndon B. Johnson, suffered health problems that severely constrained their post-presidential activities.'  

"Heavier than sound-bytes. The consolidating appraisal's meant to leave marks. Everything matters. But it's beginning to look a lot like history's become the number of times it's published you're an idiot." 

Yurmony grinned like I wouldn't shut up.

So I said, "What about Theodore Roosevelt's picture in that Professor Vaughn piece?" I threw up my hands. "He didn't like that name Teddy they used for the caption. Yet there the name sat under his picture in The Times. Naming him exactly against what he'd wish. Characterized. A small isolated incident. Yet there it was in The New York Times. A fact. In effigy over the Manifest Destiny attitude toward life and war that he hadn't created but built 19th Century America that raised him. Plus he even came to regret that warrior mentality after his son, Quentin died a WWI hero. But to conquer a nation you have to break a few heads and have no room for shame on the mantelpiece? That's what our world's been taught their elites thrive on for victory. Why I'm willing to lose repeating don't be anyone's sycophant.

"Meaning where there's a bandwagon? I prefer getting off. George W. Bush Should Apologize. Our American military has an obligation to go to war only as last resort. What's at question from my point of view is God was blamed for deciding this holy war nonsense could handle escalation. Beaten to submission never works except for those without a conscience. George W. Bush Should Apologize

"I can accept Reagan was an adequate president. But not when it comes to pinning responsibility for the forward progress many are responsible for achieving. Near-great denies the obvious. Permission for the hard____s to persecute life-style choices is on Reagan's mantelpiece and to take it off is lying. Exploiting America's flaws is not a sign of greatness but the petty opportunism all America hopes and wishes were out of the boardrooms and our lives. Tough enough to thrive has been made a joke when political identity's proven a comedy. Saying we're lost without presidents is like claiming William Henry Harrison contributed much more meaning than symbolizing a military general's reward coming late in public life." 

Yurmony was stupefied. 

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Governor Gateway favors Criminal Enterprise System. 

Quick. Take a look. Is your view asphalt as far as the eye sees?

c/o Paul Kotas

The roads of America built this country one journey at a time. Still what's right for the future is right now. Bicycles and trains or smart cars for the perpetually entertained traffic living the excuse they're too rich to sit next to the poor? 

Hopelessness lashes out. - literal propaganda

Patriotic purity? As if there's no clue how nationalism's been historically used to cover the public's eyes to blind ambition. The pragmatic jargon that's marginalized concerns for centuries. But what today's modern world's meaning for history, will mean to the future, is that with the potential for so much, we failed to deliver ourselves from profiting from evil. For instance, Pope on Weapons Industry.

Forget the dystopian future. 

It's this present pragmatic one heads will shake about. Perhaps laugh at our well-rewarded, laurel-sitting, generation that let festering passions fester on when we're smarter than this.

Criticism of Soapbox View South Carolina flag comment.

As musicians reminded, America's home of the red, white and blues. 

Enjoy the hope.

Soapbox View
Thank you, Chris Squire.

A Top Executive, Of Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, Charged in British Hacking Case

  Rebekah Brooks was formally charged on Tuesday, along with her husband and four others, in the phone hacking scandal jeopardizing Rupert Murdoch‘s global empire. The New York Times states there’s evidence Ms. Brooks and the others tried to hide or destroy files that has resulted in about 50 people being arrested and released on bail by Scotland Yard. Legal experts said Tuesday’s charges of concealing documents, computers, electronic devices and archive material from Scotland Yard investigators would almost certainly lead to a trial, in nine months or so.

  Leaving The Times to their duty to repeat the obvious that Ms. Brooks prosecution was a major blow to Rupert Murdoch since she was a major player in his corporation. Major blow? Who’s taking a nap? The likable poor entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch has been under this intense fire, a close year, because others in his employ were too ambitious. The major blow just might be another drop in the bucket on closer examination, because the numbers just don’t add up. 

  For instance, the investigation spent $65 million involving 185 police officers. Prosecutors said on Tuesday, that Ms. Brooks, her husband and the four others, including her private assistant at News International, her chauffeur and bodyguard, were engaged in concealing from Scotland Yard investigators. The phone hackings themselves involved as victims at least 800 politicians, celebrities, crime victims and others, plus many editors, reporters and investigators at the two Murdoch tabloids.

  Well? Don’t tell me this many involved don’t expect to be caught. What is this nonsense? Editors forced into a corner to compete such that they encourage and steal private, hacked phone information. Again power allows the temptation to feel you can get away with anything. That’s what’s in the numbers. How these crimes evolved from accepted customs of small gifts or favors that became bribes.

  Maybe as CEO Mr. Murdoch would have been a better executive by spying on his employees himself. So employees would have been supervised more thoroughly as a liberal faction of British government wants to do with Mr. Murdoch. So technically if Rupert did not approve funding bribes, employees stole from him unless the fancy executives and fattened reporters paid from their own pockets. Though siphoned from Rupert’s gracious expense accounts seems more likely. 

  Ms. Brooks and her husband’s statement deplored the case as a “witch hunt” and an “expensive sideshow.” While The Times speculated their defense would rest on claims they are high-profile scapegoats as the trial is an attempt to deflect pressure the scandal placed on politicians and police.

  Proving once again, jurisprudence is good work if you can get it, as at least those jobs are seemingly civilized. But, again look closer and you might see no one should really be telling Rupert Murdoch how to run a newspaper. Yet, in the business of justice it’s in the lawyer’s hands as judges just hold cases awhile.. 

5/16/2012

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A Top Executive, Of Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, Charged in British Hacking Case

5/16/2012 concluded: Yet, in the business of justice it’s in the lawyer’s hands as judges just hold cases awhile..

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December  21 - 27, 2015

  This essay reached its stride so bear with me as I never intend to lead a reader on as I noticed happened, 12/21/2015, on a local CBS Radio News broadcast referring to Tim Cook's Apple statements on the previous night's 60 Minutes when the gall-darned report was a repeat and had nothing to do with a currently published statement. They have me spinning and I'm not even in a grave. 

  And something else was stuck in my craw. The political effort to gain or retain American acceptance by pointing to George W. Bush's early, after 9/11, statement that his revenge was not against Muslims, despite his actions to the contrary. No shame. The current president even saying Muslims need to face why ISIS grew out of the nonsense. Presidential candidates right on down the line as well. Uh huh. What about the fact of the ages of those children that points to the Bush child's responsibility when after all, a previous American President, Harry S. Truman said that's where the buck stops. False gods? The news is God/Allah's the only one patiently waiting for this planet to grow up.

GEORGE W. BUSH 

SHOULD PLEASE APOLOGIZE

  So if there's some confusion, I'll be clear. Jews would rather not hear my belief I see the whole world as God/Allah's chosen people? Christians would dispute me for my belief God WOULD NOT condemn people for not believing what they can't see? And Muslims disregard my not respecting designating women as secondary citizens for men's temptation by sin? 

  Of course Rupert Murdoch could care less and isn't quaking in his boots over what I'd conjecture about him or Rebekah Brooks. But good luck with that, Mr. Murdoch. Such as, for instance, Australia had laws curtailing monopoly so News Corp's global diversification led to Australia's becoming a mere trinket in the belief if the strong circulate prosperity properly among themselves the image of the weak as fully responsible for their own lost foothold can endure. Be forewarned Australian politicians. As strong as alliances are, reputations' realities endure. As great as Napoleon's memory of a strong France is portrayed, parasitic militarism is a fate a real future will not survive. Rumor is King Rupert's children might not want the negative fate losers are credited to rationalize. After all John D. Rockefeller made many rich MEN and only destroyed those who wouldn't succumb. Andrew Carnegie was quoted commenting that to pay employees meant they'd only get drunker. But all their charity-charity that still survives can't erase the fact John D. was thrilled throwing dimes to poor children and amused he wasn't bothered by only educating those deemed deserving extra while others deserved too much less. Too powerful for the desperate to ever destroy them while the so-called fiction, further below, will portray what it's like when the desperate use whatever wicked means are thought necessary to claw for money. 

  The Criminal Enterprise System is a source of pride for many. Its that if publicly portrayed as morally superior, God has no choice but to recognize that moral superiority. Yep. The heart's only a physical organ so God can't search it for the truth. Naw. Minorities weren't exploited by William Randolph Hearst wanting rational marijuana use destroyed for his right to exploit, for paper, trees on his properties that would have done better for all of us if left in the ground. Cops are supposed to be the umpires, not the personification of a militarized state that's responsible for the violence. I want the police out of this mess and not reduced to a vicious cycle of enemies vs. civilian enemies because there's more profit in criminality than civility. The alcohol industry loses market share to market diversity. Gambling's profit's reduced by diversity in the entertainment market. That's what this is about. We allow people as young adults to be trapped by alcoholism their bodies are capable of succumbing to, but won't end this nonsense. Criminals could possibly smoke joints after a crime to relax but statistics prove its alcohol they drink to perform those criminal acts.

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NOT WHAT'S EXPECTED TO BE READ 

FROM A FINISHING LAST NICE GUY  

or

IF WONDERING WHEN THE AGE(S) OF RUTHLESSNESS WILL EVER END, IT'S NOW THAT IT'S REALLY ONLY JUST BEGUN

  The writer, moi?, supposed he'd only thought of tackling his personal story as contrived fictionally. But, as follows, having just finished reading Candace Bushnell's One Fifth Avenue and being impressed and inspired by how much more insightfully the novelist's craft was used than in her famous success Sex and the City, the inspiration to try was complete. But without the earlier book's successful experience there's no doubt she'd have never written One Fifth. While without her fictional exposé, this as a written story might not have ever been, yet is. Dag gum. 
  Said writer could have been much more despondent as it gets so very old when everyone's experience seems the self-reaffirmation of how to win in their own eyes, (e.g., Bush above), without facing the ramifications of what life really means to be both right and wrong. 

  So with a good many petty years having piled up, when Facebook did their gimmick of asking if a person wants a post, from years back, reposted, and a friend commented on that post with the remark, "You should see a psychiatrist ... ," patience would hit the fan when moderation was additionally shown disdain. Because having said years before that a remark such as that wasn't tolerated. I started an explanation why it was tasteless in my case. But instead left it at the simple crack about hearing from lawyers that wasn't taken well. As if the humorous stab about a psychiatrist was only that as claimed. Though later the conversational thread included the biting dig, "You need help" that only the braindead would not realize as significant. So a friendship of years was thrown at me landing under the bus as being my fault for ending. (Though New Year's Day we made up.) But that next day after the falling out my wife explained that I had to get over Elizabeth's subterfuge as she's dead. So I had to disclose how my first, and only other, girlfriend was thrown into a shattered state because Elizabeth had, almost successfully, planted in her head the conspiracy of how this writer should have been put away. All the while never truthfully explaining to anyone how our family fortune, not really as it was my uncle's and not ours at all, was left to a humongous university so beyond her grasp and she'd tried to destroy me for the paltry $15,000 left of my share my aunt skimmed from that fortune by leaving it to the children of my father. Knowing it was only about money somehow makes it easier to take and also not so easy as well. 

  It's impossible not to forgive understanding a woman would want revenge against me, the bastard, because our parents had a lawyer legally place their names on my birth certificate. But then people never like others being smarter or shrewder first. I even got to thank the lawyer at about age thirteen, saying I thought he did a good thing and he agreed as my real mother had done such a good job with my preparatory education. Something Elizabeth always saw as an embarrassment to compete against. My mother apologized to me for that fact as well. So how would I not speculate a friend's crack wasn't completely innocent, having had other people admit to me that woman had pestered them about me for years. I'd been warned by my mother as a child while watching Perry Mason. Because she said we watched that series together so I'd see how money is at the root of the secrecy that goes into how and why people destroy each other. The secrecy at the heart, and explanation of why and how everyone who have or want money destroy themselves and those around them for it. When money's just a system and its people that are corrupt. How insignificant I'd been made in others' eyes by refusing to make money my most important goal, though my plans for spreading it, if attained, are considered amusing or perhaps too lofty. How I must deserve a weak fate rather than the one of creating possibilities for humanity to actually see our real reflections in the mirror. 
  Seven years ago, at that great university, before I went to the private desk to look at the file of my uncle who'd left them his fortune, the archive director asked, "What about Elizabeth?" So I'd told her I didn't answer the home phone to avoid her and only saw her once in twenty-three years because I'd promised my mother to keep in touch with her grandchildren that Elizabeth maneuvered to coerce me to politely see her, as, she was, in my eyes, my mother's daughter. Whereupon she acted as innocent as usual as if whatever happened had been all my fault. It was my fault being not yet fully mature that I'd lost friends and families because mothers had to defend her poor mistreated motherly-ish soul. I'd told the manuscript director, "We'd all loved Elizabeth too much and its now up to me to put her in her place." And how "now I" could "face my uncle" and the director smiled and nodded for me to enter the room and view the record of his career alone. No doubt the men Elizabeth had her affairs with have died, as well, as my wish was shattered to somehow have her see how much revenge I was capable of towards her. Making it publicly clear that not only was it obvious I was manipulated, but most likely everyone she'd ever known. All because she couldn't have the fortune I'm proud wasn't just given to me, that characters in One Fifth would trade their souls for as well. Maybe? She was that shallow. 
  My father died a month before I turned 12 and my mother two months after my 16th. I remember at age 21, Elizabeth's confidence at feeling how I could be dealt with after my telling her I'd figured out how I'd go about attaining my goals because the newly forming adult had aspired "to save the world" since childhood. Christians were brought against me as the ideas were already planted in their heads about a child's confusion because only Jesus had saved the world and no one wanted to realize the English language consisted of more than one meaning of virtually all its words. People I love(d) died hating me for that woman because she couldn't share motherhood with her mother when it's been made more than obvious, at least to me, that it was really only about the money. A paltry 15 to 30,000, though a fortune a century ago. Even her own children would now admit it if they had to be honest without protecting the feelings of people who'd never concede they'd been deceived by such a charming charlatan. 

  My editor even asked once why I was so bad, and remain so, at making first impressions with people. Because I'd seen and felt the pain of one who'd portray being everyone's friend while using that ability to only sharpen the knife and make sure the blade's pointed straight in the back. The world's greatest tragedy is not liking those we love. 
  While the experience is perhaps why I so treasure my blade's sharp incisions into the world's game of politics. An art of attaining a majority of friendly acquaintances who vote, or otherwise revealed as the manipulating of those referendums such that they don't matter. Ba dump bump. 
  If this has still been confusing? Well I'm only explaining, not twisting reality. If uncomfortable? Hell, Ms. Bushnell had me writhing in discomfort not wanting to feel more of how ruthless people are capable of being and mostly because they just don't know any better. Someday in the words of Crosby, Stills and Nash, written by Graham, we may Teach (Y)Our Children Well because, for sure, from personal experience, exposing them to our successes, faults and failures is exactly why the planet's where we are now. An Earth's that's changing by adapting to us rather than our adaptation to our home.

"Political Ends, As Sad Remains, Will Die"

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The Miss Stein's Drawing Room Interview

Syndicated in 

Obviously what I think stands as the opinion of The Soapbox View. ... 

Happy Birthdays, Jesus Christ.

To Allah/God

Awaken Gentle Mass Touch

Supper's Ready 

Happy Too!

Sincerely,

Charles M. (for Malcolm X) Fraser

P.S. "Hurt people hurt people." Susan Taylor