The Ides of March and Donald Trump's many paper cuts.

Well boys and girls, today, March 15th is the day one of our first liberal leaders was murdered by the top 1%.  That's right, The Ides of March and Julius Caesar.  What's that, you didn't know he was a liberal?  Well, yes he was.  He actually took money from the rich and gave to the poor by increasing taxes on them.  He gave the people food, pensions, and most of all dignity.  And like today's top 1% they didn't like it.  So, the wealthy bastards had him killed.  

"Beware the Ides of March!" the augur Spurinna had warned Caesar some days earlier.  But, Caesar didn't listen.  And so, mid-morning on the 15th of March Caesar set off for Pompey's theater, where the Senate was meeting.  En route a friend handed Caesar a note with the details of the assassination plot, but Caesar simply put it with the other letters he was carrying, having no time to read it. 

Entering the theater Caesar saw Spurinna among the crowd. "The Ides of March have come," he mocked.  "Yes," replied the augur, "but they have not yet gone." 

Caesar took his seat, quickly to be surrounded by conspirators who pretended to be paying their respects.  One seized him by the shoulder, and Caesar shook him off, but as he turned away one of the wealthy Casca brothers central to the conspiracy stabbed him just below the throat.  The rest is history.  Taxes were cut and Rome failed.  Kind of like America today under Republican tax cuts.

  
So, let's see how this Ides of March, 2019 goes.  Reading this morning news, Donald Trump betrayed by a Trio of Republicans who dared to talk during a dinner regarding Trumps stupid Emergency Declaration to Build A Wall, it could be a rough day for the fearless leader.  I mean, how many paper cuts can he survive.  

Hail Caesar!

Stupid Republicans Pretending to Lead.

Thank You Alan Watts

 Alan Watts was an interesting guy; he said a lot of things like: "What's up is not necessarily up and what's down is not necessarily down, it all depends if you're standing on your head or not." 

He had a ragged smile and raspy 20th century one-pack-a-day cigarette voice blessed by a proper English accent.  Definitely a man of his time, sexist/racist by today's standards but liberal in his time.  

While in his 20's, Watts had practiced Zen from a Japaneses teacher; after several months of being challenged in solving a koan, a riddle given to him by the Buddhist Monk, Watts said 'fuck it' and quit.  What a day that must have been for Watts, for he had claimed himself as a Buddhist since he had been 15, and now, in his early 20's, challenged by the very faith he professed to be, he quit.

Fortunately for us all, Watts went on to bring Zen to America.  He never claimed to be a guru or saint, only a man who didn't know up from down, but did no heaven from hell.  His watered-down version of Zen is everywhere in the Western world today, from crossed-legged meditations in Christian churches to heated Yoga mats in health spas, the ways of the Buddha are as American as apple pie and hot dogs.

Thank You Alan Watts.

Trump signs Bibles?

Wake up! Rouse yourself from the collective coma you mistake for
'real life. See through the illusion of separateness and recognize that
we are all essentially one. Although we appear to be isolated
individuals, in reality there is one awareness dreaming itself to be
everyone and everything. This is our shared essential nature. The
simple secret to enjoying this dream we call 'life' is to wake up to
oneness. Because, knowing you are one with all, you will find
yourself in love with all. You will fall in love with living. This is the
message of the original Christians, who symbolized this awakened
state with the enigmatic figure of 'the laughing Jesus'.

Have you ever seen a picture of Jesus laughing? Probably not,
because we have inherited a distorted form of Christianity created by
the Roman Church in the fourth century, which focuses exclusively
on Jesus the 'man of sorrows'. The image that has dominated our
culture is that of a man being tortured to death on a cross.  But the
original Christians didn't see Jesus as an historical man who 'suffered
for our sins.' They viewed Jesus as the mythical hero of a symbolic
teaching story, which represents the spiritual journey leading to the
experience of awakening they called 'gnosis', or 'knowing'.

The original Christians were inspired men and women who saw
how good life could he if we would just wake up and live in love.
They imagined a new world that would no longer be divided into
slaves or citizens, men or women, Gentiles or Jews, But inadvertently,
this band of non-conformists gave birth to a totalitarian
regime that would rule Europe with an iron fist for over a thousand
years. The result was not Heaven on Earth, but the Holy Roman
Empire, The dream became a nightmare and has resulted in today's
Christian Mess that has now given us our first president ever to sign
Bibles for people.
  

Yes, not the devoted Christians in the past like Jimmy Carter or George
Bush, but Donald Trump.  Self confessed Porn Star adulterous,  Donald
Trump(?)

Now, I have said that the Donald Trump madness is the last grasp of
power by the White Majority who sees their majority slipping away.
This is obvious, but what I didn't expect to see was the Christian
Church go down with it.

Good news, is once this is all over, we will all be better.

And so I leave you words written by another powerful leader who
signed Bibles:


   

 I believe I am acting today in the spirit of the Almighty Creator.
By Standing guard against the Jew,  I am defending the work of the
Lord.
                                                         ~~ Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf

 

They win, we're winning(?)

Simon de Montfort

It's funny that on this day in 1265 Simon de Montfort led a rebellion against Henry III and came de facto ruler.  Montfort gathered together some peers of the land, a sprinkling of bishops, two knights from each shire and two to four "good and loyal men" from each city and borough.  This was the first time in history that ordinary citizens had met to discuss the government and to give opinions regarding the laws they were to live under.  Historians consider this the first parliament democracy.   

Paul Manafort, aka Traitor

Another "fort" will go down in history on this day, his name slightly changed,  instead of "Mont" we have "Mana" as in "Manafort," trader of US secrets, protector of varment, greedy puppet to a  king.   Where the Montfort of 1265 gave us power to the people, today's Manafort has taken it away, given it back to the judges.  

Democracy is dead, long live Trump, Fox News, and the concord Republican party!  

They win.  

On a happier note, Manafort now has to pay taxes on the millions of dollars he dodged paying taxes on from his "consulting" job with the Russians while Donald Trump was running for president, which means means school lunch programs will be upgraded from Reagan catsup packages of fruit to real apples for a day.  Yea!  We're winning! 

Zen: Trumps will give us our first Liberal President since FDR!

As most of you know by now, I've been getting my "Zen" on.  Unlike past tries, this time I'm doing it with straight meditation, not smoke, mushroom, or tantric sex,  as I so often have in the past, but, this meditation was pure, old-fashion, sitting in lotus position, meditation.  And I have to tell you a focus came to me:

If Donald Trump was supporting liberal policies we would be defending him just as tightly as the Republicans are.  

My un-meditated mind, however, says, "But liberals didn't support President Lydon Johnson in the end because of his escalation of the Vietnam War, remember, 'Hey, Hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today.'" It's true that by killing off LBJ, liberals cleared the way for Richard Nixon which has cleared the way for Roger Stone? and Geez, Weez, Louise, we are all fucked!   

 On the other hand, I also saw how we accused President George Bush (43) of being a criminal, and compared to President Donald Trump, he definitely wasn't, and so now we have to wonder if we didn't project this evil onto ourselves?  

Wooo, too much for you?  Yes, this Zen stuff can be.  Not to fear because, I also realized that just as how we got our first Black president out of the failed policies of Bush 43, we will certainly get our first Liberal president after Trump.  And when we do have our first liberal president since FDR...

Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again,
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!
Altogether shout it now,
There's no one who can doubt it now,
Let us tell the world about it now,
Happy days are here again!
Your cares and troubles are gone
There'll be no more from now on! This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again!
So long sad times, go long bad times,
We are rid of you at last;
Howdy gay times, cloudy gray times
You are now a thing of the past.
Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again! This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
Your cares and troubles are gone
There'll be no more from now on!
Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again!

The Buddhist Wheel of Life and Donald Trump: advise for the president.

Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means wandering or world, with the connotation of a cyclic, circuitous change.  It also refers to the concept of rebirth into the cycles of life, matter, and existence.  

Why am I starting the blog with this statement this morning?  Well, it is because I've decided to go back to our roots here on Liberal Bohemian and talk about The Wheel of Life.  I do this instead of writing about more Donald Trump news which has us all weak in the knees.  Trump is like one of those crazy, loud, outgoing friends you can only take when your in the mood to be out and seen.  If you are in a contemplated mood you avoid him to the extent of not answering your phone and closing your blinds.  "Not today," you think when you hear the phone ring or his knocking at your door.  "I need a rest." 

There is no rest from Donald Trump, even in today's meditation glimpses of Trump crept out from behind my mental Bonzai tree.  And, when I saw the Wheel of Life I am writing about today, I saw Trump.  Allow me to explain. 

 

The Buddhist Wheel of Life

The wheel is held by a terrifying monster and is divided into three concentric circles.  It is at its hub, however, that we find the Donald Trump connection -- to be honest, this describes us all, but it is only noticeable in Trump than any one else I've seen in modern times.  As I was saying, the hub is divided into three concentric circles:  a cock, a snake, and a pig.  These represent greed, anger, and ignorance: the driving forces that keep the whole system in motion.  I am sure you see the Donald Trump connection there, but we here at Liberal Heroes Bohemian Daily -- or something like that -- are bigger than this and so will look at the whole wheel and its purpose, not just the ignorance hub in the middle of us all.  

Around the hub of greed, anger, and ignorance, are the six segments representing the realms of cyclical existence into which we are all born into according to our karma.  This is a real mind fuck because it is so simple, but true, for instance, we are born in the Human Realm, which is fortunate for us because we have a chance to get it right and move up the wheel, if we get it wrong, as Donald Trump -- and me for judging him in this post today -- are doing, we come back on a lower realm like the Animal Realm or Hungry Ghost Realm.  Of course, I meditate every day and this does help my karma, and of course, my advise to our president is he needs to meditate more to avoid coming back as a full-fledged pig... but I digress.  

On the outer rim of the wheel are the twelve sections showing the circle of life from birth to death.  It's nice to know where we are on this wheel for as you see in the picture, we begin and end in the terrifying monster's mouth.  

Now you know the Buddhist Wheel of Life.  

~~ Eso Joe.

Thanks Capitalism

Pledge Allegiance Poem

Headaches come to those who wait

don't let them tell you otherwise

dreaming, seeming on a Saturday night

with, without, alibis


Is there a future after Donald Trump?

A future with liberty and justice for all?

A future run without racist words?

A future without a wall?


A future that makes America Great?

The future that Kennedy saw?

I doubt it, sadly

As I place my hand on my heart

And Pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,

one nation under many Gods,  indivisible by power ties, 

with liberty and justice for all.


                                                          ~~ Eso Terry Joe 
                                                             (in his garden, January 2019)

Renoir was born on this day. He was a liberal.

Renoir Painting.

Taking a break from it all, here's some shit and you're gonna' love it.  On this day in 1841 one of France's greatest painters was born, and that person was Pierre Renoir.  Unlike our president today this guy was great and actually respected woman.  In his old age he painted a lot of nudes and once said, "Woman make life bearable."  Not quite, "Hand me another Tic-Tac as Donald Trump once famously said. 

Diane Rehm

Today's post, however isn't about the Trumper.  No, it's about how sometimes doing what we love is painful but we must continue on; why?  I think of Diane Rehm, the NPR talk show host who had a great talk show, but also, an illness that tried to kill her voice.  She stayed with it.  Renoir was the same, in is later years his hands were so crippled with arthritis that the brushes had to be bandaged to his hands so he could paint. 

Self portrait at a young age.

By the way, his nudes were classy not smut, Christian porn if you will. 

Renoir quote:  " What are paiitngs for, after all, to decorate walls."

"I'll never be a great artist on the grounds that I am not syphilitic, homosexual or insane." 

Have a great week!  Be strong, Truth will prevail.  The revolution is coming.  It's all good.

Dr TV Boogie

That's not socialism folks. It's decency.

Sick and tired?  Fed up?  Run for president.  The more the merrier. 

"Me thinks you protest too much," The other-side says and we're left feeling less adequate because we're liberals. 

FDR's plan, before the gods took him back because progress was threatening their rule, was right for today.  They will call it Socialism.  It isn't.  And if it is, so what.  Here it is in outline:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
• The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
• The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
• The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
• The right of every family to a decent home;
• The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
• The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
• The right to a good education.

That's not socialism folks.  It's decency. 

I Heart FDR!

Evil is easy to see in a face.

So I've been having stomach issues.  I go see the VA doctor and they can't find anything. "Is it my age?" I ask, "I mean, I've never been 59 before."

I don't think he got it.  I'm talking in any of my past lives.  Living this long is new to me, or should I say knew, to me. 

And the Donald Trump madness continues and I ask, what happened to his villain eyebrows.   The ones his father gave him. 

Speaking of villains in American politics.  How about these shots:

Evil is easy to see in a face, now isn't it. 

~~ Scary Terry

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is today's Thomas Paine, and they are feeling the pain.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must undergo the fatigues of supporting freedom.  Those who are sincere in defending their freedom, will feel concern with every threat against their freedom.

And I mean, Every Threat!

With the recent attack on the United States by the Russian government interfering with our free election process, which they and their dictator leader despise wholeheartedly, war has been declared against us.   The very demands for Independence I outlaid in my Common Sense pamphlet over 200 hundred years ago are now under attack, and most alarming, there is a large number of US citizens who are supporting the enemy because they think it benefits them.  The enemy has found our weakness and the politicians not willing to stand up and demand our election process be protected are selling us out as much as Benedict Arnold and the Quakers did in 1776.

As I wrote back in 1776,  it is distressing to see an enemy advancing into our country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them whenever they made the attempt.  In other words:  The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. 

I can’t believe I have to say this today, but I do:  the legitimacy of our government rests upon the freely given consent of the governed, any government that is imposed upon the people by conquest or fraud, no matter how benevolent its intention or beneficial its rule, is morally illegitimate.  The people have a moral right to overthrow it and to act on that right whenever their discretion and judgment deems it wise to do so. 

The Russian invasion is winning by giving a majority response to a  minority voice in the US.  If you look at the news, elected officials, and even search results on the internet, you would think they the right-wing/Neo-Con/Racist -- sorry for the slashes, they keep progressing in definition thought -- were not the "minority" of the thought of the people.  This is no accident.  It has been made to seem this way by the billionaires protecting their interests with right-wing news and talk.  We’ve seen what the Russian disinformation has done to our election, but it’s not only there.  For instance, in researching this work on Thomas Paine, one of the top hits is a Conservative Idiot trying to tell you that Paine was conservative.  Come on, Paine has been swept under the rug of history because because he was a liberal.  So, how could he appear in a Conservative post on Thomas Paine Election search?  Money, for one, and also search-engine fraud.  And just like the Russians infiltrated the NRA as proven by the NRA's own admission, the Russians have definitely infiltrated Fox News and the Republican Party.  


We’ve been sold out.

Our current president and his attacks on the media because he disagrees with it, is a warning sign.  I must remind you that in Paine's original pamphlet he stated that one must be free to say, read, and to print what they believe about the existing government, and to make any proposals to change or modify this is the first sign of tyranny and should be pause for alarm no matter if you agree with the policies of the person or not.  And for a leader to even mention the possibility of closing down a news organization he disagrees with, should be a call to arms for every Freedom Loving American. 

Remember as Paine wrote: ...men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are usually the most ignorant and unfit of any thought the dominions.

 Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom.  It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.  Monarchy is ranked in the scripture as one of the sins of the Jews, for which a curse in reserve is denounced against them.  The children of Israel being oppressed by the Midianites,  Gideon marched against them with a small army, and victory, thro’ the divine interposition, decided in his favor.  The Jews, elate with success, and attributing it to the generalship of Gideon, proposed making him a king, saying, Rule thou over us, thou and thy son and thy son’s son.  Here was temptation in its fullest extent; not a kingdom only, but an hereditary one, but Gideon in the piety of his soul replied, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, The Lord Shall Rule Over You.

The thing most disturbing to me at this time is that our president and his elected followers seem to have forgotten, or never knew, the definition of the oath they took.  Like most things in this world they have bought where they go to a summer resort for crimes and we go to piss-holes with no electricity, "oaths" don't matter to them either.  When I was in the military I swore an oath to this country to defend and protect it, and to obey my Commander In Chief.  Donald Trump and the Republicans took the same oath: The oath of allegiance to the United States, not the business interest of Donald Trump and Russia.  Putting any individual person or party's need over that of the country is a real crime.   The only meaning to this oath is to the happiness of this nation as a whole, not the wishes of Fox News Talking Dicks like Sean Hannity.  

So, the revolution is here, and we of loving, kind, and free minds know this.  They can fix all the elections they want and stack all the judges in their favor, but in the end the majority will will be done or their will be a revolution.  It’s only a matter of time.  Hopefully this can be done through elections, because if not, than it could get ugly for them and they know it.  This is why they offer up a Clinton or Obamma to keep us fooled.  

We won't get fooled again. 



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is today's Thomas Paine, and they know it. 




~~ Dr TV B00gie

                                           

Nothing is Real

Is anything real, really?  It is obvious we don't have free will or things would be much better.  We are victims of our environments, period.  I am liberal because I am sensitive and feel things for others.  If I wasn't, let's say if I were more confident in myself and felt my importance mattered, I would probably be more conservative. 

I don't have a lot of stuff to lose so don't feel like the system is working for me; however, I do know that I am more fortunate than many and so don't dwell on it.  Or do I?  Am I dwelling now?  Perhaps.  Still, I have to ask the question: is anything real?  

I reach out and touch, and matter is there.  But what about the air in-between the matter that connects us all?  What is it?   What is the "nothing" my hand passes through before it meets the surface of a wall or knob of a door?   Isn't it this "nothingness" that connects us all?  

It must be this "nothingness" that stores our collective data.  Seems we spend too much time looking at the material things we see when we should be looking at the "nothingness" in-between.  For it has to be the wires connecting us.  The "nothingness" has to be the mass holding us together, it's the majority of the room we are in?

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What is our coding then?  Why hasn't someone come up with the coding of the space between us?  Tesla knew there was something there.  Russell observed that our sense perceptions are not what we are really seeing.  Socrates wondered if we weren't all chained together in a cave with our sights set on a cave wall where powerful people were using cutouts reflected against candlelight to represent the life we are experiencing, and if we could only somehow turn our heads around we would see the whole production enslaving us into this experience we believe is real.  

Is anything real, really?  It is obvious we don't have free will or things would be much better.  We are victims of our environments, period.  

                                                                                                                                 ~~ Demian