On February 4th, 1803, in Guatemala City, the criminal court (church) began prosecuting Juana Aguilar for the crime of double concubinage with men and women. As the court pursued the case against Aguilar, whose sexual ambiguity quickly came to the fore, the judge referred the matter to the court of the Royal Protomedicato, the bureaucracy that regulated medical and health issues in the colonies. The Protomedicato requested that the physician Narciso Esparragosa examine Juana Aguilar, called by the court “a suspected hermaphrodite,” and present his findings.

She became know as Juana the Long for her persecution, and after the examination, the scandalous size of her clitoris.

Fitting, that on this day in 1967 the US launched the Lunar Orbiter #3 which looked like a woman’s...

I’m just saying.

Okay then, I’m a Socialist.

Warning:  I Support Me Some Bernie!  There, I said it. 

And if you are going to call him a Socialist, then so be it:  I’m a Socialist.  

Take a look at the world right now.  If you have a good job, then everything looks good, if you don’t, you see the world for what it is:  Unsustainable.  The rich are getting richer, the poor, poorer, and all of you who have a job now, are being fooled into believing that tax cuts for the rich is good for you.  It isn’t and deep down inside you know it.  You know that their tax revenue that use to pay for roads for us all, has now been converted to tollways.  Look at your tool bill, it’s a tax on you.   You know that the tax revenue that use to pay for a good public education has been pulled out of the system and if you have a kid in public school, you are paying for everything from sports jerseys to books.   All of which use to be included in the public school system.  Now, by cutting the tax on the wealthy, you are left paying more of the bill so their well-groomed kids can feel even more privilege when they drive by you with their heads raised in the air.  Here’s the kicker, if you are a self-employed slob like me making around 50k a year, you are paying more taxes than someone making 500k a year because they are the only ones with a voice in today’s Disinformation reality.

Bernie wants to change this, and so do I. 

So call me a Socialist, that’s fine.  I’m a Socialist, a “Democratic Socialist” as Bernies calls it.  The way things use to be in American before the Wealthily bastards bought up all the news outlets and told you it wasn’t.  In 1950’s they paid their taxes.  Today they don’t.   Call me a Socialist, fine, just don’t call me late for dinner. 

Don’t let them fool you. Be an educated flea, wake up America. Stop buying Conservative Republican bullshit. It’s destroying America

I hate to be an alarmist but what the heck, someone needs to be.  The Republicans are supporting the biggest debt president in history and yet remain silent.  For those of us in the know, we know their plan is to bankrupt the system so they can rebuild it without any regulations or support for those not willing to worship the Money Jesus.  Think I’m kidding? Ronald Reagan ran the debt up like crazy, then the Democrats balanced it, George Bush ran the debt up like crazy and did bankrupt the country and had the plan ready to implement, all he had to do was let the banks fail and not bail them out.  Bush was too stupid to complete their plan and so Obama became president and put a band aide on the the issue by saving the banks and auto manufactures.  He wasn’t suppose to do that.  Actually, on day one of Obama’s presidency the Republicans went crazy about the debt he had inherited; they actually blamed him for the debt and so crafted the Tea Party.  The Tea Party was suppose to be a balance-the-budget/save-the-planet conservative movement who had had enough — of course, if you went to any of their rallies you saw the beginnings of the White Supremacists movement now supporting Donald Trump.  And now that they have their guy in office, it is obvious that they don’t give a shit about balancing the budget or saving America.  

In a recent report the US Debt has hit the point-of-no-return.  They know it, you know it, and even educated fleas know it.  We’re fucked.  

US debt surpasses $23 trillion for first time

Here’s the really, really, crazy thing:  next year at this time they will be blaming Bernie Sanders for this debt as he raises taxes to pay for it.  

Don’t let them fool you.  Be an educated flea, wake up America.  Stop buying the Conservative Republican bullshit; it’s killing America! 

The Secret is Nichiren Buddhism

"You Hold In Your Hands The Way To A Magical Life." 

Is this opening sentence the blurb from the film and book series called "The Secret," or is it the Mystic Law of my Buddhist faith?  It's both!

I have been practicing Buddhism for many years now and this journey has taken me from New Age Meditation, to Tibetan Mysticism, to my most recent and rewarding Buddhist experience: the Lotus Sutra, more precisely, Nichiren Buddhism and the Soka Gakkai organization.

Years ago, like most open-minded soul seeking people in the free world -- which doesn't include Russia for you Trump supporters -- I streamed The Secret and thought I was on my way to being happy.  Like all self-help, however, after a few weeks I went back to my default ways of being.  

A few weeks ago I went on a business trip and needed a book to read and so picked up the book The Magic, which is part of The Secret series.  I realized at immediately that The Secret was nothing more than the Nichiren Buddhism I was practicing.  In the book "The Magic," the author narrows The Secret down to one thing:  gratitude.  This blew me away because I had just gotten done doing my evening chants and prayers and realized that the way we begin our prayers in the Soka Gakkai is with 'gratitude.'  

Yes, The Secret to life is gratitude, and this is exactly what Nichiren Daishonin gave us over 800 years ago.  It is also what we do twice a day as a Nichiren Buddhist and member of the Soka Gakkai.  

Thank you for reading!  Thank you, thank you, thank you....

Cactus On The Wall Poem

Cactus on the wall,
Who’s the fairest of them all?

Is it you, the wall, or me?
Who cries to be free?

Before we were here,
The wall was bare

Three things in God's USA that have amazed me most in my life time:

1.  Gas Lines When I Was A Kid.  I didn't then, nor do I now really understand them.  I knew there wasn't a shortage of gas, and to see my dad stand in line for three hours to get enough gas in his F150 so he could go to the work for the week, really messed with my eleven-year old brain. 

2.  The Military Lay Offs.  I went in the Navy in the early 80's.  They were promising us the world.  There was a shortage of volunteers.  I figured that was just the way it was.  After the fall of Donald Trump's homeland -- The Soviet Union -- we started closing bases and laying off soldiers and sailors.  That blew my mind.  

 3.  Donald Trump.  Need I say more.  The guy is a lunatic-fringe using divisive politics for his personal gain.  That on its own doesn't mess with my head, but his followers do.  Don't they see the destruction this guy is causing?  In today's news Trump is planning on joining in on the March against Women's Abortion Rights.  He'll be the first president to do something so UN-American.  

 

That's all I got to say today.  Enjoy our first UN-American president.  

~~ Dr TV Boogie 

 

The New Republican Party: Ridicluelessim — New Word

Okay, so the Republicans have declared war on transgender folks by making it a felony for doctors to  prescribe  “puberty blockers” to minors.  That’s right, the once great Conservative party that believed in less government has introduced another law regarding someone’s body.  That’s Big Government Folks!  I’m talking Huge government.  Long gone are the days when a good conservative was concerned with less government.  This modern Republican Party loves big government when it has something to do with what is growing between your legs.  

And it doesn’t stop there, they are now coming up with a new government program to force your child to pray in school.  No shit.  That’s not conservatism folks, that’s ridicluelessim  — new word.  

~~ Dr TV Boogie. (Now doing to the conservatives what they have done to us for years:  telling it like I want to believe it instead of how it really is).

  

New Year Mood for 2020

Holiday For The Homeless 2019

Trump's Twilight Zone Fake News and His Chairman Mao Zedong followers. The Death Astroid Is Here!

I've been warning you that it is coming, and I hate to tell you this: but it is here.  I have consulting my Chinese magic sticks and they say that an Asteroid will hit the earth within the next two days.  

So I searched online and found this story: 

Massive Asteroid That Could Cause Impact Event Approaching Earth Tomorrow, NASA Warns

• The biggest asteroid to approach Earth this month is arriving tomorrow
• The asteroid has been labeled by NASA as potentially hazardous due to its size and natural orbit
• The asteroid is big enough to wipe out an entire city upon impact

So prepare yourself. 


~~ Eso Terry


Trump's Twilight Zone Fake News and His Chairman Mao Zedong followers. 

I normally don't get into political conversations anymore; why bother?  People are going to believe what they believe.  But when it comes to people who are suffering I can't stay silent.  Case in point: I was talking to a Trump Supporter who said the DACA individuals should be sent back to Mexico to get in line and wait their turn.   To which I said:  the people who come to the USA to escape poverty are only doing what any father or mother would do for their children, and for a politician to lock them up in cages or send them to a country they have never been to in their adult life is a political system I can't support.  The problem with the world is not undocumented people looking for a better life, the problem is greed, climate denial and the 1%.  What is happening in the USA today is similar to the Chinese Nationalism movement that eventually led to the destruction of their country and gave them communism.  It won't be called Communism here but it will be the same.  Communism has always had a wealthy 1% who owned everything, and today they call themselves a capitalist society in China, but they are still the same Protect-The-Wealthy-At-The-Expense-Of-The-Poor government they have always been and it has the wealthy 1% in the USA salivating.  China is controlled by fake news, and not the Twilight Zone Fake News Donald Trump uses to keep his uneducated supporters ready to raise their red Chairman Mao Zedong flag every chance they get.  Only it's not Chairman Mao Zedong, it's Make America Great Again.  

Chairman Mao Zedong
Make America Great Again.

Chairman Mao Zedong
Make America Great Again.

Chairman Mao Zedong
Make America Great Again.

Chairman Mao Zedong
Make America Great Again.
(repeat and fade.) 

~~ Radical Sam

A Documentary Called GW Reboot

Capitlaism Killed the Druids and the Native Americans by gosh by golly, and the Druid Roots of Chistmas!

So, it is a fact that the Christmas we celebrate today begun with the Druids, and so let's have a look at the Druids.  First of all, most of the historical facts we have about the Druids are bull crap because they were written by the Greeks and Romans who were extremely hostile to the Celtic people, and so reading those accounts of the Druid people written in the history books is like reading Davy Crockett's writings to understand the Native Americans.  

 "We shot them like dogs," Crockett said after he had slaughtered 186 men, woman, and children in the Creek War.  

The Romans confiscated the lives of the Druid people much as the European Settlers confiscated the lives of Native Americans. In both cases a spiritually dead group of people took over a spiritually alive people.  The Romans were materialistic, the Druids spiritual. The American Settlers were greedy-land grabbers, the Native people, spiritual.  For the Romans and Americans Settlers the State was a monolithic structure spread over territories deliberately organized into a hierarchy.  With the Druids and Native Americans the State was a freely consented moral order with an entirely mythical central idea.  The Romans and American Settlers based their law on the private ownership of land, with property rights entirely vested in the head of the family; the Druids and Native Americans considered ownership COLLECTIVE.  The Romans and American Settlers looked upon women as bearers of children and objects of pleasure, while the Druids and Native Americans included women in their political and religious life.  Is it any wonder that the spiritual peoples would have to be "Christianized" in the name of God, or slaughtered.  

That's right, Capitalized: the gift that keeps giving.  

And, least we forget, here is the Druid roots of Christmas:

The roots of the Christmas traditions that we recognize today can be traced back to pre-Christian celebrations of the Winter solstice. The solstice is the twice yearly event when the sun appears to be at its highest or lowest point above the horizon. In the northern hemisphere the Winter solstice usually occurs annually between December 20 and December 23.

The Winter solstice was seen by the ancient Celts as one of the most significant times of the year. The Neolithic monuments of Newgrange in Éire, Maes Howe in Orkney, Scotland and Bryn Celli Ddu in Ynys Môn, Wales are examples of burial chambers scattered throughout the Celtic nations constructed to capture the full impact of sun’s rays during the solstices.

Druids, the priestly class in ancient Celtic society, celebrated the festival of Alban Arthuan (also known as Yule) at the time of the Winter solstice.  It was on this day that they ceremonially gathered mistletoe from oak trees.  A practice described in the writings of Roman historian Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus AD 23 – August 25, AD 79).

The name Christmas is from the Mass of Christ (Christ-Mass).  The actual date of the birth of Jesus is not given in the Bible.  The spread of Christianity during the first millennium (January 1st AD to December 1000 AD of the Julian calendar) was aided by the new religion adapting to the ceremonies and traditions of the existing religions.  At times the early Christians also adopted existing deities to ease the transition from old beliefs to new ones, as is thought to be the case with Brigid the Celtic fertility goddess who became known to Christians as Saint Brigid.

So when celebrating Christmas the traditional trappings that go with this festive season have roots that go far back into Celtic history.  The Mistletoe gathered by the Druids for its magical and health giving properties.  The Yule log burnt by the Celts to counter the darkness of mid-Winter when they thought the sun stood still for twelve days and to bring good luck.  The Holly and Ivy; evergreens that Celts saw as important to keep evil spirits at bay. The Tree decorated with symbols of solar objects and gifts to Celtic gods and goddesses.

 

 

For years I have had this dream where a room I am in is possessed by a spirit who does tricks like move furniture around and turn lights on and off.  These are the craziest of crazy dreams for they seem so real.  In the dream I'm in a house from my past and the spirit moves things around when I ask her to.  I'll say, "Show me you are here!"  And something in the room will always move.  Sometimes it is frightening. Sometimes she moves things to freak me out.  Sometimes I’m very scared. 

Last night she introduced herself to me as "Lisa."  I think.   I say 'think' because there was another woman in the room who told me, "That's Lisa."  Lisa wouldn't do any tricks for the 'other woman,' but when the ‘other woman’ saw me asking the spirit to do something, the ‘other woman’ said, “I know she is here.  Her name is Lisa.”  

The next thing I knew me and the ‘other woman’ were in what I thought was the living room of the house but turned out to be an old music store where I worked when I was in my twenties.  As dream so often do, the next thing I knew I was outside of the store and saw it was an abandoned building with broken windows and holes in the ceiling that allowed you to see the rotting wood inside.   

This morning I was going to write about the dream and tell you that for the first time the spirit was gone.  For she never really showed herself last night.  The only way I knew she was in the dream was when the 'other woman' told me the spirit’s name was 'Lisa.'  Now, I realize, the ‘other woman’ was the spirit.  There is no 'Lisa.'  She's a tricky devil that one. 

~~ Eso Terry