"The Patriot" | Good to the Closing Chord

"The Patriot" is known for the inspiration in it and delivers that so perfectly since we know Ben Martin was a good man, working the farm with his family.  He had done some shitty things but it was understandable why he did them and it a kind of atonement to live in that peaceful way.

Then the Brits came to start wantonly killing with one of his boys going down from it so immediately we absolutely hate those bastard Brits.  Unknown how much historical truth there was to that much brutality but it doesn't seem credible Gibson just pulled it out of the air.

There's all sorts of guerrilla war with the Brits and son, Gabriel, was sewing together the blown up parts of the thirteen-star flag.  Martin and his militia crew had a great time bushwhacking those bastard Brits in multiple engagements.  We're diggin' it with this guy, Martin, since he's highly-intelligent, well-versed in law and on the battlefield, crazy cool, and brave beyond belief.

Immense tragedies take place since Martin's militia take their losses in the troops and their families.  We start hearing stay the course quite a bit.  They did and they had to with Cornwallis finally falling apart at the hands of the Americans and the French and what a grand moment to be American.

There's not even a small problem with the movie since it must have been grand.



Long after the movie, we started hearing stay the course so frequently it became cliche in the context of any military conflict and the reason that's a false extension is there has never been another American war like that one.  The people were fighting for freedom from the invader and they have never had to do that again although the Confederates may try to make the case they were doing the same thing.

Taking that partial Revolution to an extension, it would have wound up with two independent countries and I suspect they would never have stopped fighting.  Unknown how that would have actually played but the countries in Europe are in close contact and they have delighted in fighting each other for centuries.

That's a marginally-relevant side note since the primary thesis is regarding the transmogrification of staying the course for the purpose of Independence and doing it for any other military purpose when they are specifically not the same.  That's in part why the Rockhouse decries the use of fake news when news with that type of thematic distortion in it is inherently fake but that would never get filtered by any of these posturing clowns who say they will protect against it.

Staying the course meant nothing in the context of the Middle East since it was always a possible to turn around to go back home.  Staying the course has ultimate relevance when you're fighting for Independence and you can't go back to home because the Brits fucking burned it.


On the basis of that which it presents, I love the movie and have watched it multiple times since of course it's inspiring to see the people fighting to be free along with the side story about a black man earning his freedom.  He fought for that and then he continued fighting for America.  The movie is riddled with all manner of inspiration.  Mel Gibson is strongly religious and that showed at various points but so was America at that time and I didn't think he was heavy-handed about it so the combination of all these things was exceptionally inspiring.

I do have a problem with distortion of staying the course and that case is already made.

There's no need for some extended editorial since you can readily infer it.

Then Israel Came to Visit

Maybe the first thought is, uh oh, they're seriously not going to like this place but don't forget there's a liberal minority in Israel and they want peace too.  We may differ on how the Occupied Territories will be managed (or not) but the desire is the same with stop the aggression and make peace.

Most important for me to hold clear is dealing with Israel is not about dealing with Judaism since you know anywhere in the world someone is touting religion it will always be for power unless it's a truly religious person and he or she is doing what she is supposed to do (i.e. without politics).

To my knowledge, it doesn't take a politician to get you to Heaven or wherever else you may want to go.


The Rockhouse can be friends with anyone anywhere ... but not before they put down the guns and stop the ridiculous pretense they stop the problem when they are the problem.


That Israel is largely Jewish, I don't care; my only interest in any state is whether it behaves well with others.  Right now, Israel does not.


In this or practically any other thing, the Rockhouse is not defensive since every word I've written has been true and there's nothing anywhere in Ithaka which inspires anti-Semitism; hopefully it's quite the opposite.

I know that kind of hatefulness exists in America but it doesn't come from us.  We suspect the vandals who do it also desecrate mosques and sometimes burn churches so long as it's one black people attend.  All of that has happened in America and more than once but the Rockhouse has nothing to do with it and we do not condone it.

Fundamental to just about everything here is we don't care what you believe, just don't be an asshole about it.  We don't like missionaries but we do think Pope Francis is a grand fellow since he doesn't come to me; I need to go to him.  OK and fair enough.  If I feel like it, I will.


There's just one request from Ithaka and it's never changed in all my life.  Put down the guns and then we can talk.  When we start doing that, we can make anything happen and it's almost always going to come out well when we all want the same thing anyway ... to watch the games on Sunday afternoons and no-one gives us any shit while we're doing it.


It's not a hard thing;
we don't think it's much to ask
when it isn't so difficult
to accomplish this task
since really it's about stopping
something you already do
so the question of whether to end it
comes right back to you

- Colonel Abuthnot Jones


Ed:  will you be putting this crap poetry in everything you write?

Good chance of it.  Any other questions?

Growin' Boobies Might Have Been a Bit Much After Joining Code Pink

The Rockhouse is always proud of the things Code Pink represents and the things it does toward making them happen.  However, that pride did not extend to any wish to possess boobies of my own.

The Med Man I saw today said we've got to slow this prostate and the way to do that is to cut off the testosterone.  There's one tiny side effect since it may get you growing boobies and there are more but that one I thought was particularly charming.

Doc, this shit will do fucking what?

He said for a skinny feller like you then it probably won't happen and that's good because he said there's more about any boobie enlargement since that may cause pain.

At that point I knew I was dancing in Heaven.  Man, I will grow boobies ... and they will hurt.

I swear I am not making this up.


The lab rat idea is interesting to me, tho.  We hear all the time about testosterone makes men crazy and the premise, presumably, is estrogen doesn't do that to women.  Unknown how that logic goes but that's the general pitch so I'm curious to see what happens.

Regrettably for any porno monkeys, there's no instant gratification since it seems this stuff takes six months to have an effect although possibly sooner.


That gets me a bit creeped since wtf does this stuff have to jack so much that it takes six months to do anything.  I'm in anyway since I was warned about the enlargement eight or nine years ago.  It amused me there was snark over that on the home front but, wtf, it's a strange world so now it's escalated to growing boobies and that takes strange to a new dimension but, after some years, it's clear life will continue getting stranger.

So now it will be strange with boobies ... well ...


Ed:  you will be like Caitlyn Jenner!

Nah, since she did finally go through with the procedure but she can't defeat her chromosomes since they don't just work at birth and then stop.

Ed:  like your tallywhacker is such a prize now!

I have one simple philosophy on that, Billy Bob.  If it came with the package then it fuckin' stays with the package.  Are you hearin' me, Jethro?

Ed:  so now you can't do drag ... bummer

I've already done it a few times and it was funny but not a long-term thighslapper although I do miss those fishnet hose.  (Some of you yahoos may even remember that stunt the Grand Hosea Cocaine Festival)

Ed:  and there you are all preachy about narcotics!

I never denied I've done some bad shit.  If you have your shit together in any kind of way then you'll recognize it's bad shit and you won't do it anymore.  I tooted a few times later in life but didn't particularly enjoy it since, wtf, I'm wired already and that's from the first moment rolling off the sofa.


Boobies ... this shit just cannot possibly be fuckin' real (larfs).

Dagwood:  will you pole dance for tips?

Fuck you, Dagwood

"Set the Beast Free" #Poetry #Marijuana #Ganja

The Rockhouse loves the ganja
and has smoked it for fifty years
through all of it we've seen the game
as junkies have fallen in tears
The Feds see what they want to see
and blamed it all on me
because any fool already knows it
ganja monkeys set the beast free

The State will find those bastards
and kill this filthy, crawling snakes
and we'll bring out the entire goon squad
or whatever force it takes
but we don't do a thing about narcotics
despite all our big talk
we saw some words about Big Pharma
but it was just another balk

Pills rain down on us from across the sky
like they're miracles from Heaven
so they eat those little miracles
playin' seven comes eleven
but they only wind up junkies
and crying themselves to sleep
and they don't need to ask the Lord
they have no souls to keep

Ganja monkeys didn't do that
and we're not at all defensive
but it's something you should know
before you start this grand offensive
because the junkies are already dying
in so many numbers we don't know
but where is any type of act
to try to make that slow

There's no way you can kill a snake
unless you nail its head
but the ones who say they'll do it
spend all their time in bed
with the ones who make that evil
and sell it everywhere
but that doesn't seem to matter
and the State just doesn't care

We don't care if you like ganja
since that just means more for us
but if you want to start a war
then you're riding the wrong bus
We don't know any junkies
and would not bring one home
when you already know the reason
they'll steal when they're alone

We don't see any help for addicts
without killing the problem at the source
since anything else we've ever seen
has only made it worse
There's a plague from those evil drugs
and you know that word is real
so if you really will be worrying
you need to think more than just feel

Ganja monkeys didn't do it
and we're not at all defensive
but it's something you should know
before you start this grand offensive

- Colonel Abuthnot Jones

Sorry About the News | There Still Ain't Nothin' in It

Yep, Trump is going to make the air much dirtier but he said he would and he's doing it.  Next move is to pump up coal burning as if that will revive an industry which isn't already dead.

He was selling weapons to Saudis and that was supposed to be different from Clinton / Obama doing the same thing to help whack the people of Yemen.

Jeff Sessions wants to go back to 1940 with Harry Anzinger and there's another shocker, huh.

Maybe he will move Washington to Bethlehem to stop the pretense.

The Rockhouse doesn't get the surprise when all of this was predictable.


Trump tried to play the Big Deal Negotiator over the Paris Accord but people saw immediately he was a bullshitter since he had said already he would push for coal burning in US.

Surprise, surprise


Macron was trash talking Moscow but then he said they could be his friends so yet another Flip Flop King is born (snore).


Theresa May is too freaked to show up for debates.  She's yet another Chatty Cathy doll.  Just pull the string and hear the party platform, at least the parts she hasn't changed from last week.

The Tory Establishment has been trying to crush Jeremy Corbyn the same way they did Sanders over here and who knows what comes of it.  Hopefully May gets thrown out on her conniving dumpy ass but it's unclear.


Merkel emerges as the Queen of the West since she's one of the few leaders who isn't grasping for power and sucking up for money.  I'm sure she's well-compensated but the trash election we just saw in America was nothing but embarrassment when it was never about anything except money.

If she has the Major Stones then she will tell America to pack up NATO and get the fuck out.  Most likely the rest of Europe would follow.  If Trump continues being such an arrogant fuck it's conceivable that could happen since the only way that continues is by hyping some mythical invasion from Russia.  Any damn fool can see Russia isn't doing anything of that nature so eventually the pitch will fall flat.


We see the same people decrying Trump are also touting the dangers of Putin so there's nothing much you can do with that lot except throw them Frisbees.


There's the Millionaire Victims Tour which is a completely boring drag.  It's like Facebook with a massive dose of Benzedrine and shitty haircuts.


There it goes so sorry, mates; there just ain't anything in it. All the Rockhouse is seeing is another stupid Punch & Judy show to amuse the kids ... but it's not that amusing.

I Missed International Children's Day

Heihe, China

Children from Chinese and Russian schools parade during a carnival to mark International Children’s Day

Photograph: VCG via Getty Images


Sure there's an implied editorial in the countries doing this but we're just diggin' the kid.  We have no idea what she's portraying but she looks grand doing it.

The Guardian is Such a Precious Victim

The Rockhouse regards The Guardian as useless expect for the pictures and the following article shows one of them.

At the top of the tabloid sheet for The Guardian, there's a scream about how Trump sold out the world for Big Oil.  Oh, it's horrific since now everyone in the world is a victim ... especially us.

Lower down there's a ponderous article from Jill Abramson about What this Fucking Means.

This crap is written by children since anyone else already knows what it means and does not need one more fucking sermon on that matter.

Yah, it smells.  Get the fuck over it.


The Guardian sold out Bernie Sanders for Big Money Clinton so now I'm a victim too.

We're all fucking victims.

Everyone is a fucking victim.

Oh, oh, oh, woe is me.


This Queen of the Victims bullshit started a few days ago with Clinton doing a big bucks speech about, oh, I'm a victim and I was so fucking robbed ... while she hustles her new book.

There's a Pretender to the Crown since I saw Megyn Kelly on the TV at VA and I did try to find somewhere else to sit but she was on the other one as well.  Even better, this was the Dr Oz show for yet another Queen of Some Dumb Ass Thing.

Kelly was going on about being such a Victim with all her millions of dollars and, guess what, she was hustling her fucking book.

She said, "No-one's going to come and no-one's going to help."

Of course she's right since, wtf, she didn't ... but ... thank the dear Lord she has a book.


Fuckin' people.


Then there was the Harry show and who the fuck is Harry.  He looked like an attractive, dark-haired, bearded man and he spoke with Ricky Martin, another attractive, dark-haired, bearded man, and so the attractive, dark-haired, bearded men spoke with each about, you know, dark-haired things and all the women in the audience laughed.

Kee-rist


There are many one-name people on television but none of them are Pink.  There's one I think named Wendy and, dayum, she may be the most flatulent judgmental fucktard on any channel.

Sometimes I see this crap when I'm a captive and that's when I stop worrying.

Sure, I'm crazy ... but no fuckin' way am I that far gone.


Ed:  you're screwed anyway since that will be on the TV in any nursing home.

There are only two things besides shitty TV in a nursing home:  enemas and preaching.  Ain't ever goin' happen.

Sometimes a Florence Nightingale comes through but she probably won't last because those places are brutal in the background.  They usually don't pay the nursing aides worth a damn.

I ain't fuckin' goin' and, yes, do shoot me.  I'd be croaked before I even knew it happened with a good head shot and good night, Irene.

Yah, I'm terrified of nursing homes.  Sue me (larfs).

Note:  I probably can't get a gun since I don't have a drivers license.  Getting a drivers license means jury duty and I don't care to be hassled about why I can't do it.  I fuckin' can't.  Move along.

I have considered the matter of painless croakage but I don't have any particularly good answer although I did come up with one which would be effective but probably leave a nastier mess than a head shot.  That's a shitty thing to do to anyone I love so that's out.

Note:  I won't say what it was since maybe some crazy out there would do it.

Those considerations will come but I spend vastly more time considering getting cellphone coverage. There were four MetroPCS places I saw going in and out of Fort Worth today.  The first I saw when I was outbound so no time at that stage but I saw three others coming back ... but ... that was during the gullywasher part (i.e. rain) so I took that to be a Sign.

All in good time.


Must close with being a Victim of something ... but ... wtf ... why bother when I'm not trying to hustle a book, huh?

Tell Me this Cat Did Not Set the Stage Afire

Barcelona, Spain

US singer Miguel performs on stage during a concert at the Primavera Sound Festival at the Forum Park

Photograph: Marta Perez/EPA


Anyone with only a first name we regard as dodgy from the start but seems to have a clear talent for incendiary music.

Code Pink is Guaranteed to Repel Vampires

Count on me to find a way to drive the numbers down and I sure accomplished that.  It probably wasn't Code Pink but shitty poetry which did it but I get a smile either way.

See, look at that big smile.

That's a Philippine Eagle and that's a land of terrorists governed by terrorists so this bird knows it's goin' kill something but it doesn't remotely care who it may be.

Maybe you think you would be safe inside your car.

The bird probably couldn't break the windows so instead it would just take the roof in its beak and pull the whole damn thing off.  Presto, sardines!


There's some science pending and there's one with some news about sperm.  I know the gist of the article and it's not particularly funny but there's got to be a comedy way to write about those li'l wrigglers.

Ed:  do you think that will draw anyone?

Nope

No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin' falsely now
The hour's getting late, hey

- Hendrix


Life isn't a joke but there's still comedy in it although maybe not so much with a Philippine Eagle since I imagine even one can hurt you bad.  If they hunt in pairs, maybe even humans become dinner.

Reinhold Hanning, SS Guard at Auschwitz, Died a Free Man at Ninety-Five

© Reuters


The Rockhouse won't roll any horror pics of Auschwitz since, if you have any kind of heart, you have already seen them or perhaps you saw "Schindler's List" which was, in part, at Auschwitz.


A Nazi SS sergeant convicted of accessory to murder of 170,000 people at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp has died at the age of 95 – without spending a single day behind bars.
Former guard Reinhold Hanning died Thursday, a year after he was convicted for his part in the systematic murder of hundreds of thousands of people at the notorious death camp.

Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison, but never served time in prison due to an ongoing appeal against his conviction.

RT:  Nazi accessory to murder of 170,000 Auschwitz prisoners dies a free man


Yah, yah, yah, you're getting frothy but nothing is ever so simple as it seems.


Witness testimonies claimed Hanning watched how prisoners were selected for the gas chambers and was aware of the regular mass executions of inmates, as well as their starvation.

Hanning’s defense demanded his acquittal, saying that at no time did he have people killed, beaten or aided in their deaths, despite being a guard. Hanning apologised to the victims.

- RT

Apologies from a serial killer don't mean anything but he wasn't.  There's the 23-year-old kid swept into the most overtly oppressive regime the modern world has experienced and this is where we get to the Milgram obedience experiments.  (WIKI: Milgram experiment)

Rather than flogging the science, it was a clever way to demonstrate some subset of humans will inflict pain on other humans if we believe the order to do so came from someone with sufficient authority.


The Rockhouse is not building a cop for the man but we do try to understand.  We will accept his contention he did not actually beat or kill anyone but it happened with his tacit approval.  The Milgram Experiments to add a twist to that since the strength of will to protest the foul things he was saying would have been confounded by an apparently inherent drive to obey.

When the authority came only from some med tech in a lab coat, the subject in the experiment was willing to inflict pain and seemingly quite a lot of it on a shill in another room.  Of course it was all fake but the subject did not know that.

Now we see young Reini (?) and the authority comes from one of the most heinously despotic regimes ever so what does that do to his Milgram other than flip it off the charts, we imagine.


Again, I am absolutely not making an excuse for him but we see Auschwitz and go wtf ... wtf ... how could anyone do something so vicious it still brings tears of shame to everyone seventy years later.

I still don't understand and I doubt I ever will but it makes a tiny bit of sense in a system within which protest will only get you killed.

Statement about Freedom

The Rockhouse won't accept anything when it's not actively working for peace and more than writing bullshit blog articles.  I don't much like engaging with people since I really suck at it and we probably won't get along.  That's not a failing in them since I've been busted like that since birth although maybe it isn't broken at all.

Nevertheless, I engage with Code Pink and I will support them however I can.  I have little money but I can send a little that way when it's possible.  It's not that I'm so easily swayed but I finally found some True Believers after many, many years.  I found a few here and there and some of them are the regulars but Code Pink brings the same thing and there are millions.


The Rockhouse also will not tolerate in any way the state getting into my face or anyone else's.  You can see how they're gearing up in Washington to bring the machine controls down on just about anything.  I don't care if they get their science from ouija boards or leprechauns since it doesn't make any difference and is only used as a tool for the thumbscrews.

You can see it with Jeff Sessions since that boy is just about as vacant as anyone you may ever find and he's the closest thing I know to a human seashell since you can hold his head up to listen in his ear to hear the ocean.


The Rockhouse is fed-up to the gills with fake science, fake morality, and fake goodness from a government which only wants to help.  Apparently none of them remember a word from Reagan since he said specifically that's what the government won't do.  That simple fuck thought he was being funny but Tories often do since they always laugh at their own jokes.

After over thirty years of overt Tory oppression, the Rockhouse has absolutely fucking had it.


Going to VA so close to Memorial Day before that fetid stink has passed didn't anger me and there was no anger from there either.  VA is never like that and those flags I'll salute because that part of America did not forget.  I know Memorial Day is not for me or any living vet but almost everyone who helps there is another vet.  These are the patriots and I don't have much use for any others.  I hardly ever see them (shrug).

The Rockhouse has lost two in the last three months and they won't be coming back because they can't.  One of them was a vet and I remember you, my brother.  As with you this wasn't the first but no-one is forgotten and there's no-one waving flags ... except the car dealers.

The other was Thor and the regulars may remember.  He was sometimes a singer and loved to scream those blues.  We first jammed together years ago with his last band in Yevette's other end of the Rockhouse.

The Rockhouse doesn't do eulogies since we don't think they matter much since you already know for whom the bell tolls.

Note:  I couldn't shoot any footage at VA but I might have tried along the way so I can show the truth of the appalling flags which hang over all the car dealers but not over anything else.  How much disgrace can some Toyota stinkfuck car manager possibly bring to it when he only plays it to sell his fucking cars.

I did not see the risk as valid to shoot while I was driving although it would not have been a problem to do it.  I also pull the discipline for pushing out any verse in my head since things have been flowing that way but that distraction isn't allowed either.  Believe it or not as you like but the Texas drivers are too stupid to allow distraction when they're anywhere close, particularly in the Big MUFFmobiles.


A note about the Big Man is you know without me saying it his life was hard and getting worse but he was always cheerful and bringing a good vibe which lights the same thing in everyone he sees.  He was a caring, giving man and he will be missed.  Salute, my fallen brother.

Yah, it's fucking sad.  You probably don't even know how sad but that's how it goes out in this world. You take it and you roll but I mustn't let it stop me smiling.

I remember you too, Miss June, and she probably won't remember but she saw me smiling back.  You can meet her yourself if you like since she's at the Belt Line Road Waffle House on I-20 near Dallas.  She knows how to treat a vet right ... she's married to one.  Tell her the Colonel sent you ... and it won't mean anything at all (larfs).

And don't you give those girls in Waffle House a hard time since I've heard already of one who was packin'.  Someone gave her some hard shit, maybe robbing the place, and she finished it with some whackin'.  She went Dirty Harry on his ass.  wtf, it was self-defense and that's not Gandhi but she's alive and the robber ain't.

Note:  I don't think that was in Texas but I did read of it in some news blurb.


The Waffle House is the only place I go to eat out and that's almost always on the way back from VA.

There Was One Thing Accomplished in the Video

Even if the video for "The Flooded Streets" showed nothing else, it showed Silas can appear; he just doesn't particularly want to do it.  Plus I had just taken a fresh bath and thought wtf.

I just noticed Cadillac Man online and I haven't seen him for about a week.  The politics are kind of sparse but there's a tidbit in the poem about "The Patriot" about the arrival of the French in support of the Revolution.  It seems the Revolution would have died without them but movies dramatize so that will take a bit of dialog to find if the telling is really straight.


Flip it around to "Braveheart," if you like, since this was the reverse of the Battle of Falkirk in which the Scottish (cough) nobility turned to ride away from William Wallace, leaving him to die on the battlefield.  He didn't but it wasn't much longer.

It had to be the French nobility deeply-engaged with sending a flotilla of warships to save the day for the American Revolution and that makes it another point in time since this was after the French Revolution (or one of them) so who were the new nobility who did it.

All that goes much deeper than the online articles but the talk often comes back to the articles in some form after talking about them with C.M.  I'm no expert on history but I do have some knowledge whereas Cadillac Man knows it authoritatively so only a fool would second guess him.


Henrietta is an ongoing story but I need to be careful with that rabbit since it's not entirely clear what that dumb ass rabbit is doing but it mustn't be or then it's just a documentary about invisible giant rabbits.  It would be obvious to some but the movie, "Harvey," is quite old and I'm not even sure I've actually seen all of it but the story revolves around Jimmy Stewart and his giant invisible rabbit.  The idea of Henrietta is stolen from that but the story isn't even close, at least as much as I know of it.

Ed:  you just went from the American Revolution to Giant Invisible Rabbits without even a segue or a thank you, ma'am

Um, yes.  I did that.

Would you like to meet Henrietta?