Can you say Vagina Envy boys and girls?

March 18, in ancient times the Pagan fertility-goddess known as Sheela-na-gig was honored annually until Christianity took over and altered the deity with oversized genitalia to the mother of Saint Patrick.  That's right, we went from,

to the mother (no picture available) of this guy:

"Can you say Vagina Envy boys and girls?"

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So today is the anniversary of the 1942 Relocation Authority that took all people of Japanese descent into custody.  Yes, a dark day in history and one we all regretted historically, I mean, we were at war with Germany and Italy too yet no Germans or Italians were rounded up.  And so how does our president handle this day?  He calls the Corona Virus the Chinese Virus.  Of course this allows his Neo-Nazis followers to get their swastikas in a wad and do things like...

To which we here at EsotericDaily.com say:

 

St Patrick's Day and all quiet on the Western Front.

It's St. Patrick's Day.  Yea.  No parades in New York this year because of the Corona virus. 
 

Time Square this morning... where is everyone?

The Sidhe, or fairies, have always lived in Ireland.  Though they live beyond the veil, they protect the beauty and holiness of the land.  Woe is he who, in the name of "progress," destroys a fairy mound.  In Ulster, some years ago, an American company selected a field with a fairy tree in it to be the site of their factory.  Management could not be dissuaded, the bulldozers went to work, the factory went up, modern capitalism seemed to have won the battle.  That factory was the Delorean Automobile Company.  Does anyone remember it?  Probably not. With the current mess in the USA, one has to ask if our current president built his golf course in Ireland on a mound?  If he did he needs to take it down before the country ends up like his business casinos.  Does anyone remember the Taj Mahal?

In 1984 on this day, Katharine Hamnett attended a Brittish Fashion reception hosted by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  She wore a T-shirt of her own design that read: "58% DON'T WANT PERSHING." She was referencing Thatcher's decision to allow American Pershing cruise missiles to be based in the United Kingdom.  

 
Yes, the good-ole days when a person could make a statement against the war machine and it was fashionable. 

The first St. Patrick's Day Parade was held on this day in New York in 1762 by Irish soldiers serving in the British army.  Early Irish settlers to the American colonies, many of whom were indentured servants, brought the Irish tradition of celebrating St. Patrick's feast day to America.  And what a feast day it was, from his journal writing in 1865, the Pennsylvania-born sergeant in the Irish Brigade, recounts:

St. Patrick's Day in the morning, and it is a fine morning, weather beautiful.  This is the day of the "Irish Brigade Jubilee"....  At ten O'clock the horses and riders came in...and arranged themselves in line, and then the word was given and away they go.  Some went over the hurdles and ditches, some flew the track and ran through the crowd of soldiers.  A sergeant of the 69th New York was trampled to death and half a dozen others badly wounded.  The Ambulance was hauling dead and wounded away all day.  The second round the Black Stallion of the Dutch Col fell over a hurdle and broke his neck and both arms of the Colonel.  They sent the Colonel to the Hospital, rolled the dead horse out of the way and went ahead as if nothing had happened.  Corporal Chisholm and myself sit in the Head Quarters carriage of General Meade on top of the hill four hundred yards away and we was hardly safe there, as one horse flew the track and nearly run through the carriage we sit in...On they went, horses flying the track, running over the spectators, faffing over the hurdles, into the ditches, breaking arms, legs, etc.  We soon got tired and came back to camp.  Never did I ever see such a crazy time.  I  will have to alter my mind if I ever go to see another Irish fair.

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Oddly enough, on this day in 1883, the inventor of the word "capitalism" and arguably the world's most influential economist, Karl Marx, is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery.  The grave was virtually unmarked (a monument stands there now), and fewer than 20 people attended.  Not to fear though, in the true spirit of Marx himself, on this day in 1906, the term muckraking journalist is coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.  The origin was ironic.  Speaking against sensationalist "yellow journalism," Roosevelt borrowed the term from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress ("the Man with the Muckrake...who could look no way but downward"). However, "muckraker" soon became the nickname of great journalists who exposed the miserable abuses of the top 1 percent: forced child labor, predatory finance, marketing of unsafe food and drugs... etc.

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Good News on Kosen-rufu day!

There is so much I could write about today that is negative, but since it is Kosen-Rufu day, I won't.   Well, not much. 

First, there is another asteroid headed right for us this Wednesday at 10am Central Time, it is called 2020 EF, but not to worry, I've consulted my Chinese Fortune Sticks and confirmed that the only disaster that day is still Donald Trump.  So, there is the first good news. 

Second, Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) both agree on something.  That's right, the staunch Repbulbican -- and creepy kisser -- Ted Cruz shared a tweet from AOC that told people who weren't sick to stay home so they don't spread the virus to other  people.  This is the first time a Republican has agreed with anything a liberal has said, ever!  I guess Donald Trump is bringing us together.  Yeah!

He's Still Creepy

Third, Israel is finally moving on from it's Right Wing Commando Leader!  That's right, Israel's president has asked the moderate, Benny Gantz to form a government.  This means far right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be replaced and have to face criminal charges for bribery and fraud.  Ouch, could this mean the same for Donald Trump and the other right-wing nuts ruling the world such as Britain's Boris Brexit Johnson!   Sure looks like justice is coming to balance the scales.  

What a glorious day!

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What is Kosen-rufu?

Kosen-rufu is a Japanese phrase literally meaing "to declare and spread widely."  It refers to the process of securing lasting peace and happiness for all humankind by establishing the humanistic ideals of Nirchiren Buddhism in society.  Kosen-rufu is often used synonymously with world peace, and more broadly it could be understood as a vision of social peace brought about by the widespread acceptance of core values such as unfailing respect for the dignity of human life. 

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Nirchiren

 

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Finally, this day in 1830 was the dullest day in Wall Street history: just 31 shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange: only two issues, a total of $3,470, changed hands.  The market had been in an exteded depression that had stared in 1824.  Today the stocks have fallen again under Donald Trump.  They say it is from the Corona Virus, that might have quickened the disaster, but don't let them fool you.  This crash has been coming.  It was predicted by Richard Wolf and 70% of all economist.  It's the policies.  Cutting taxes for the rich creates a disaster every time!

Choose Your Graph!  Either we tax the rich or die in their sewers. 

 

Stop voting on fear, or else, the Ides of March prevail.

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.

 

Of course, there is the other point-of-view too.  The one that says Caesar was the first dictator of Rome who rigged elections and took control of the Senate with the help of crooked Senators who let him have his way.  

 

Sound familiar?  It should.  According to her bad-ass article written in History.com, Becky Little tells writes:

Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.E. The republic that had existed for over 400 years had finally hit a crisis it couldn’t overcome. Rome itself wouldn’t fall, but during this period it lost its republic forever.

The man who played the biggest role in disrupting Rome’s republic was Augustus Caesar, who made himself the first emperor of Rome in 27 B.C.E. By that point, the republic’s political norms had been breaking down for about a century, and Augustus was in a position to take advantage of that.

Read the whole article at History.com and you'll see that Trump and Fox News has begun the Fall of the American Empire by allowing you to close your heart to reality with their lies that there is an enemy.  The only enemy there is is the one you create.  Remember white people, there will always be an enemy if you chose to have one.  If it were possible to Make America Great Again and be an all-white population, then the enemy would be the Mormons, or Catholic's like it was.  

Stop voting on fear, or else, the Ides of March prevail. 

The death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate.

Leemage/Corbis/Getty Images

~~ Radical Sam

It Was A Wonderful LIfe, before Ronald Reagan.

It is Friday the 13th and things are bad all over because of the inept president Donald Trump who refused to do anything about the Corona Virus when he had a chance to, but didn't; instead,  he called it a "Democrat Plot" to keep him from getting reelected.  That's right, for weeks concerned people were reporting the possibility of a pandemic virus spreading in the USA and yet Trump and his cronies did nothing but blame the reports on the "liberals."

It isn't the first time nor will it be the last time they blame you and me for their failures, because blaming us has worked for them since Ronald Reagan gave us the first 1% tax cuts and promised that making the rich richer will eventually trickle down to you and me.  The fact is it never has and never will.  Conversely, after Reagan cut taxes for the 1% and gave us our first Peace Time Deficit, the bottom fell out and we loss the one financial institution that gave us a home: the Savings and Loan industry.  Before there was a Savings and Loan bank, only the rich could buy a home because the terms were too short to make the payment affordable for the average American.   Before Savings and Loan banks, only the rich owned property and you and me had to rent from their slums.  When the Savings and Loan banks started popping up in communities in the 19th century, more people started owning homes and the Banking Slum Lords, the precursor to today’s Conservative Con Artist, were pissed.  They hated the idea that you and me could buy a home and not pay rent to them. Just watch the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and you’ll see what I am talking about.  In that film James Stewart runs a Savings and Loan bank while Potter, the bad guy, owns the Investor’s bank.  Potter can’t stand the thought that Stewart is doing the “liberal” thing by helping the average Joe/Jane own a home and getting free of the banker’s control.  After eight years of Ronald Reagan and his trickle-down economics, the US debt was the highest ever in peace time and caused the stock crash of 1987, and eventually the S&L Crisis which allowed the banks to buy up all of the Savings and Loan banks using our tax money.  Yes, Ronald Reagan began the destruction of the middle class and is the main reason we have the homeless population today.   It really is that simple boys and girls: the Conservative Con Job has destroyed America.  What is happening in the world today has nothing to do with liberal policies and everything to do with trickle-down economics, or “Voodoo Economics” as George Bush Sr called it before he sold out to the Conservative Con Job to be appointed President. 

Fortunately, the truth can not be hidden forever.  The same lies they are telling you now about the Corona Virus are the lies they have been telling all along.  Wake Up!

~~ Radical Sam

Reading Trump’s LIps. Even Conservatives hate this guy.

"Booyah!"

Did you catch the president's ten-minute address to the nation last night?  Wow.  He looked like he was about to swallow his tongue a few times, or worse, explode!  The guy is definitely way in over his head.  His solution to the Corona Virus Pandemic is to stop travel from Europe.  He doesn’t say anything about the number of cases already in the US that are spreading like Fox News lies.  This was so bad that Conservatives are tweeting how bad it is.

  

So this morning stocks are way down again and the socialistic “safety-net” had to kick in again to give the wealthy 1% time to grab their balls and say, “Help, poor me, please.  I’m losing millions!  Have a heart!”  That’s right, the same bastard that just voted to remove food stamps from 700,000 because it is a waste of his tax dollars, is the first in line for his “safety-net” handout... as usual.  Funny how their socialistic programs are never talked about when they punk us again and again for their handouts. 

Finally, in case you missed the Trump televised address last night, here are a few scenes. Let's read his lips:

"I flew from the..."

"Cuckoo's nest."

The Republican Party Ends With Trump! Murdoch was Dr Frankenstein.

Isn’t that special boys and girls,  yesterday we avoided a stock crash because of a “socialistic” policy to halt trading when it looks bad for the top 1%.  That’s right, they cut their taxes to run up the debt and tell you there isn’t money for a safety net for you and me, but they don’t bat an eye on a government safety net for their stock investments.  If this doesn’t piss you off you're watching too much Fox News.

There is a thing such as good government.  Think about it.  The last time the bottom fell out like this was from our last tax-cutting president, Republican George Bush.   Then, eight years of a Democrat corrected things -- which for the last 3 years Trump has been taking credit for,  when in reality the economy Trump inherited was good, the one he is leaving us, shitty, just like every other Republican who has cut taxes for the 1%! And why don't you read about this anywhere else but here?  Well, because these facts are never told to you by the Propaganda Press. 

How appropriate I should write about this today:  the birthday of Rupert Murdoch, the creator of Propaganda Press.  Yes, Murdoch is the Dr Frankenstein who created a network of hate and lies to keep the truth hidden that Extreme Conservatism is destroying the middle class! They do this by blaming all the problems of the world on hard-working liberals like you and me.  As fate would have it, on this day in 1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published her book "Frankenstein" where a crazy doctor creates a monster out of dead bodies much as Murdoch created a network of lies out of dead ideas. 

Both Created on March 11: "It's Alive!"

Fortunately, all this comes to an end today.  People are waking up!  The Truth is easy to see. Stop cutting taxes to break the system so you can destroy the safety net for the middle class because... well, who really knows why. 

The Republican Party Ends With Trump! 

March 9th, Butter Lamp Festival and More Bad Politics.

March 9th, on this day the annual Butter Lamp Festival is held by Buddhist monks in Tibet to render demons powerless and to secure the favor of the gods.  Yak-Butter sculptures of Buddhist heroes are paraded through the streets as sacred chants are recited.  After the procession, the sculptures are then cast into the waters of a river.

On this day in history in 1979 the Japanese soldier Hiroo Onada, 51, finally gives up the fight after hiding out in the Philippines for 29 years after the end of World War II.  He did not know the war was over.  According to the book Bad Days in History, Onada's  a former commanding officer showed up to assure him that the war was really over.  "Suddenly everything went black," Onoda recalled in his book, No Surrender, "A storm raged inside me.  I felt like a fool for having been so tense and cautious on the way here (to meet the former commander)...worse than that, what had I been doing for all these years?"

Hiroo Onoda walks out of the Philippine jungle to surrender in 1974. Photograph: AFP/Getty

Finally, some good news from the Corona Virus that is sweeping American by the storm even though our fearless leader keeps telling us "everything is perfect!"  The good news is that the Texas Senator Ted Cruz is quarantining himself after he interacted briefly with a person who is infected at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last month.  This means Ted Cruz won't be kissing any children for awhile.  Can I get an amen!

 

"I'm so glad Ted Cruz can't kiss my baby no more..."

"Kiss my baby Ted Cruz..."

"Someone register that guy before I forget to have him arrested."