Number Nine. Number 9.

Hey guys.
It’s been awhile
I’m not gonna get into my story right now.
Suffice to say it isn’t ending like I thought.
Again.
Numerolgy says this year was a #9.
That’s not like, one less than perfect.
It’s an ending.
Next year, we’re back to zero.
Then around we go again
2026 isn’t a 9 for everyone. It’s actually a 1.
But this isn’t a numerology lesson.
It’s more of a life lesson.
I basically spent the last decade fucking things up.
It’s also been a decade of loss. So much loss.

But
A new one now begins.
The energy shift is incredible.
It hurts. It’s exciting.
It feels different.
Different scary.
With the possibility of awesomeness.
The cycle of sorrow is over.
I am reborn.
Refreshed. Strong. -Ish.
Ready to get knocked down.
Again and again.
To keep rising up again.
Until my Source consumes me
Dilutes me into the Ocean of All
Until I evaporate into The Everywhere.

All poetry aside…
For now though,
I’ll probably keep fucking up
Different fuck ups.
Hopefully not harming
More than Helping
If you think about it,
That’s the truest balance
We can measure success by.

I’ma try and take Fred Rogers advice:
Be a Helper. We need helpers.

What I’m really trying to say is, our awesome country is in pain. We need real healing. We can’t let a few billionaires and mega-millionaires unite to control us.
We’re ALL Americans. We can come together and decide that The Haters must go. Or we can let them keep dividing us over STUPID false issues, while ignoring the suffering of America’s children.
We are being screwed. Exploited and now, plainly robbed, at the hands of disgusting, wealthy elite who prefer to add zeroes to their bank accounts, while their own full-time employees cannot afford to live without government assistance.
If you still even have a job.

The Ending is the beginning.

The end of two party, pay-to-play, rule by the elite. The beginning of REAL democracy. Yes, the END of The Republic. The start of The Democracy. The end of control by the elite.
I’d rather be controlled by data from experts, and close to unanimous decisions about things that matter. To The People. To US, not THEM.

It’s About everyone having food in the wealthiest nation on earth.
Medicine, without profit. Doctors and medical staff should be well paid, and research should be well funded. By our taxes, instead of funding endless war. And then medical services should be FREE. We already paid for them with our taxes.

Profit for Big Pharma doesn’t make research happen. Research makes rich people a LOT of profit. Most of our research still happens in universities, funded by government grants. We should keep doing that. But…
If our taxes fund the research, the profit should benefit the people. Free medicine. Advances in drugs. New cures for ALL, not just rich people.
But instead, it gets sold for profit. Often for corporations that pay little or no taxes on their profits. Because politicians don’t care, unless we are united.
We all need to wake up. Both parties in America don’t want that. They want us divided, so they can keep fucking us. That’s the bottom line.
So they can keep getting rich by spending our tax dollars any way they like. Then they make us blame each other for their social crimes of greed and cruelty to others.
You see…It’s about our tax dollars going to help people who need help. It’s about We The People deciding what’s important to US
Affordable food.
Good medicine for all.
Good roads
Great schools
Clean air
Guns under control. A well-regulated militia.
Promote Harmony, not blame and violence
Peace before war. ALWAYS.
Helping, not harming.
These fuckers don’t know the meaning.
They are not the magnanimous wealthy of olde, building museums and libraries
They ban books, and defund schools.
Let people suffer when they could help.
They preach violence as gospel.
Might makes right.
Sometimes they use an angry God to back them up. Then they call themselves Christians.

Don’t get me started about Christianity Vs. Jesus. That’s a whole ‘nother conversation.


I’d rather talk about the future, not History.
Don’t get me wrong, I love history.
But now it must become a guide to our future.
Truth in history is truth in our future.
Not lies, and propaganda. Spin pieces, they call em. Junk media, on both sides. Another topic I could rant on for hours. Not now.
Timing is everything.
Now is about unity.
If you hate the other side, there’s no place for you here in the New America. It’s not about blaming the other side. That “other side” is people like you. Just struggling to get by. It’s not THEM.
Know they enemy. It’s about the fucking rich bastards that won’t give back to the country that made them rich. It’s about justice. Truth.  The American Way. All that bullshit they fed you in school that really did used to mean something. In MY lifetime. I’m old, but it wasn’t THAT long ago.

So…Power to The People, America.
It’s about US.
A new American Age is rising.
From the ashes of the obviously corrupt, violent, and hateful oligarchy, our Democracy will Rise.
Not a Phoenix. That’s so cliche.
No, more like a Dragon.
Awaking from slumber. Hibernation.
Remembering we can fly.
And Yeah…breathe fire, if we must.
Emergency use only. Aim carefully.
Hate has no place in the New America.

Just another Saturday.

The world as we know it is imploding. The systems we’ve come to depend on are, one after another, coming undone, becoming irrelevant in a world of fabricated truth and altered reality.

This isn’t some scifi plot or a conspiracy theory. The American Empire is devolving, just like every colonial power that ever existed. Sooner or later, the colonized wake up. It’s usually right about the time you start taking bread off their tables to feed the wealthy. Don’t even get me started about forced indebtedness to feed medicine for profit, profit for billionaires.

Stick a fork in this mess. We’re done. The American Dream my ass. Capitalism is undemocratic. There’s nothing wrong with a privledged class. It’s something to aspire to if it’s truly attainable, under strong democratic principles. But capitalism without real democracy is just oligarchy. 

Think of oligarchy like the mob (choose your favorite mob, I don’t discriminate). If you’re in, you’re made. As long as you don’t piss off the boss. If you do piss the boss(es) off, maybe you fall off a building…or just lose everything and go to jail. Think Monopoly. Think games, because THEY think it’s all a game. For them to win.

Dog eat dog baby. Only the strong survive. That’s who these guys are. That’s what “bomb diplomacy” is. It’s not about America. It’s about money. It’s about taking more and more away from you and me, so that the REALLY rich people can get even richer. The “Owners of this country”, as George Carlin used to say.

Now they’ve come for our children. Again.

They are the machine. And now, the machine has AI. These people are dangerous. They talk about the “antichrist” like it’s a reality. I suppose it is, in a way. They are bringing A Beast into existence. The Machine has always existed, but it is much more powerful now. More more influential.

If you can’t disconnect, it’s probably time you NEED to disconnect. If you CAN’T live without the Internet, it’s time to remember what life was like before. And if you CAN remember, time to teach those of us who have never known.

Before corporate 24 hour “news” that is NOT journalism, but propaganda for two sides of an imaginary divide, created to distract us. Before instantaneous deepfakes, that imperceptibly change the viewpoints of millions who don’t know it’s fake. Distraction. More like Deception.

From the Truth. The Truth is, they don’t think we can govern ourselves. They think THEY know better, because THEY proved themselves. How? By making fucktonnes of money?

The only thing that proves is how fucking cruel they are, and how unqualified to govern. Making another billion is more important than being a decent human being. Being a decent human being who CARES about others. ALL of them.

Both sides are mostly lies. We The People must lead ourselves out of this mess, and away from the Kool aid these billionaires are serving. History forgotten is history repeated. Fuck all the Jim Jones Hitler muthafukkers who think they are better than everyone else. For whatever reason.

Clearly, they are not better. Time to evolve, cavedwellers.

July Fourth, Two Thousand Twenty Five.

Fourth of July.

I gotta say…I may grill up some burgers today and smoke a little extra weed (if that’s even possible). But this is not a year to celebrate freedom and liberty, when we have lost them both, our Capitol and government in the hands of TRAITORS.

We are victims of a Treasonous Coup.
Powered by billionaires and unlimited money to buy the mass media manipulation of America they needed to ‘win’. Now they seek to destroy everything we’ve worked to build, all so a few thousand rich people can get even richer.



The people no longer have representation. Both parties have overwhelmingly served the elite for years, and people’s voice has been routinely ignored to favor corporate profits and political corruption. Now that corruption has grown into total control by the most corrupt party. The party willing to do ANYTHING to win.
And here we are. King Trump and his MAGA court of violent trolls and fools.
Predictable. If you know history.

249 years ago we said NO on July 4th, 1776.
We said FUCK YOU to a King who sought to exploit us. Control us. Who sent military troops into our streets, to scare us into submission.

Today, masked secret police are disappearing people to concentration camps without due process. Troops are in the streets again. To scare us into submission.



A self-proclaimed king sits in the Oval Office. In OUR Whitehouse.


The People will serve No King nor Corporate Overlord.
Not ever.
Not in America.
July 4th, 2025. This year, it’s not about burgers and beer, and waving the flag.
It’s about purpose.

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”

History repeats until you fucking learn it.

Today’s solution 5-9-25

A lot of government grants go to businesses that make a profit. Some, profit directly from grants that enable those profits, and aside from any corporate taxes, those profits go back to the shareholders of the company or university doing the research. The taxpayer gets nothing. Zero. And we’re talking about billions of dollars in government grants and contracts.

If the research was done using government funds, the people should benefit. Whether it’s universities or big-pharma. Space exploration, internet app, or satellite communications. If taxpayers kicked in to help you create it, we deserve our share of the pie.

Profits from any research funded by the government should be distributed directly back to the people whose taxes paid for it.

If government funds were 50% of total funding, the people should get 50% of the profits. Apply this to drug research. Space exploration or energy research. Or ANY grant recipient.

How do the people get paid back? Profits get put into a budget that MUST be used for direct public assistance. A monthly paycheck paid directly to every citizen, prioritized inversely by income level.

When there are no more poor people, the rich get a bigger share of the funds. When everyone is wealthy, the rich get 100% of the benefits. When everyone wins, we all win.

Look, ‘Trickle-Down’ is a lie. We know that. When the poor have more, they spend more, and the rich will make more profits selling it to them. Everyone wins.

Starving people by continual, planned inflation without corresponding wage growth, in order to make an extra 2% profit per year is pure stupid. Don’t even get me started with gouging and price fixing. The wealthy have many tricks to transfer wealth from YOU to THEM. It’s evil. People suffer and die because of their bottom line.

In the end, no one can afford to buy anything, and no one wins but a few overpaid fat cat profiteers, hiding behind the faceless corporations that run our lives. The middle class disappears, and just about everyone feels like they are struggling.

Sound familiar?

America is Coming Out

At least now the United States will have a President who accurately represents the American Republic. Trump is not a symptom of American decline, but the result of it. A criminal. Mobster. Abuser of rights. Plunderer of resources.

He personifies all the worst things America does. No filter.

America has been an imperial power since WWII. Buying or taking whatever we want. Under cover story of stopping communism, we’ve invaded Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more. If we can’t win using economic warfare, like tariffs and corporate invasions, we send in the marines.

All of it “to protect vital interests”.
Like big oil and gas profits, and ensuring infinite future profits for the weapons industry.

Sold to the highest bidder. Everything is for sale. Except for peace. We sell weapons to both sides to ensure that unrest continues in the world, because a world without warfare is much harder to exploit for profit and power.

All the unrest and violence in the world also enables a nearly $1T per year military budget, further ensuring the profits and stabilty of weapon manufacturers…and their ever growing stock prices (=huge profits for the rich and shameless).

But good news…we’ve finally come out as a country. Now, our president will be a mob boss. No more hiding, pretending to do good.

Hey world: It’s who we really are. The Home of Monopolies and Organized Crime, The Land of the Deceived.

All that “protect the peace” and “promote democracy” BS is just the cover story. Again and again we make the rest of the world “an offer they can’t refuse”. Our words are backed by aircraft carriers, stealth bombers and nukes. Who’s gonna argue? Who’s gonna be the first next to get fed up, and decide to fight back?

I guess we’re gonna find out. And soon.

Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.

Time to Rock and Roll, bitches.

Unalienable

We’ve grown complacent and blase
Mainstream music, homogenized, bland
Time to teach them the meaning
Of Punk. Rock and Roll. Again.
Time to hammer the hounds of repression
Demand Freedom. Liberty for ALL.
Demand Equality. Justice and peace.
Nothing less is acceptable.
Nothing more is necessary.
Unalienable. Undeniable.

We did it in the 60s-70s. Well, I didnt. But I watched them do it. They did it without the Internet or anything. The elite fear us, so they censor our communication and divide us with propaganda.

Music will unite us again, and they won’t be able to stop it. They won’t be able to stop us, because the universal truths are on our side. All are created equal. We have Unalienable Rights, as HUMAN BEINGS.

Unalienable means the rights cannot be given or taken away, and these rich motherfuckers will NOT deny us.

Time to stand up.

Upstate NY

Upstate NY…the part we live in is actually part of Appalachia. It’s not actually as bad as the Simpsons say, and somehow, red and blue voters have always been able to get along in the past. The truth is that everyone you ask cares about the same things.

“We’re headed to the one place that will never decline, because it was never that great. Upstate New York.”
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