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1) “Go Ahead; Piss All Over the Poor Angelic Editor” by Arthur

Blasingame

2) “It’s SOP, Cretinous Ingrate” by Arthur Blasingame

3) “Fuck You All; Eat Shit and Die” by Arthur Blasingame

4) “God Will Get You Someday” by Arthur Blasingame

Please paypal funds to the usual destination; $5.00 for one,

$9.50 for two, $13.50 for three, and $16.00 for all four,

including a computer-ready personal greeting and author

signature.

................

Dear Mr. Blasingame:

I’d just like to let you know that you’re a jerk. My poem which

you rejected for your big deal and appropriately named “Terror,

Scandal, and Rubbish,”(TSR) “That’s Too Big For a Bird,” was

accepted by and now is on the front page of “Incestuous Inter-

Species Orgies and Fuckery.” In fact you can click here to be

reminded of your blunder; www//in2specorfuk.com. They get

thirty-three times as many hits as TSR, and I guess your paltry

literary education ended before you got to Leda, ape fart.

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And just to further your F/Y/I, writing overt perversion does

not equal truth or honesty. If you won’t take my word, look the

words up in your Funk and Wagnalls. It’s just another tiny niche

genre aimed at a tiny niche market most will outgrow when they

get their high school diplomas or GED’s.

Your zine invites a sincere “fuck you.” So, in consideration of

that ruse, here is an insincere version of “FU,” with which you

are invited to do with as you will, the ultimate “choice,” a

possible re-do of a time worn plot, this time told in the

“innovation” ascribed to photographed, decorative undies.

Do you have any idea of what the f*** you’re doing? No

contradiction intended here, but expectantly taken there; your

zine is becoming so old school mainstream that I bet you

regularly read “PJ’s Rapturous WordWealth for Dweebs.”

Asshole.

Very truly yours,

Hipster Rene

“Bleak House”

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By Charles Dickens

“Bleak House”; public domain.

Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Honoria live on his estate at

Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, before she married, Lady

Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, and had a daughter by him.

Lady Dedlock believes her daughter is dead.

The daughter, Esther, is in fact alive and being raised by Miss

Barbary, Lady Dedlock's sister. Esther does not know Miss

Barbary is her aunt. After Miss Barbary dies, John Jarndyce

becomes Esther's guardian and assigns the Chancery lawyer

"Conversation" Kenge to take charge of her future. After

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attending school for six years, Esther moves in with him at

Bleak House.

Jarndyce simultaneously assumes custody of two other wards,

Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, who are both his and one

another's distant cousins. They are beneficiaries in one of the

wills at issue in Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce. Their guardian is a

beneficiary under another will, and the two wills conflict.

Richard and Ada soon fall in love, but though Mr. Jarndyce does

not oppose the match, he stipulates that Richard must first

choose a profession. Richard first tries a career in medicine,

and Esther meets Allan Woodcourt, a physician, at the house of

Richard's tutor. When Richard mentions the prospect of gaining

from the resolution of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, John Jarndyce

beseeches him never to put faith in what he calls "the family

curse".

Meanwhile, Lady Dedlock is also a beneficiary under one of the

wills. Early in the book, while listening to the reading of an

affidavit by the family solicitor, Mr. Tulkinghorn, she

recognises the handwriting on the copy. The sight affects her so

much she almost faints, which Tulkinghorn notices and

investigates. He traces the copyist, a pauper known only as

"Nemo", in London. Nemo has recently died, and the only person

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to identify him is a street-sweeper, a poor homeless boy named

Jo, who lives in a particularly grim and poverty-stricken part

of the city known as Tom-All-Alone's. "Nemo" is Latin for

"nobody.”

Lady Dedlock is also investigating, disguised as her maid,

Mademoiselle Hortense. Lady Dedlock pays Jo to take her to

Nemo's grave. Meanwhile, Tulkinghorn is concerned Lady Dedlock's

secret could threaten the interests of Sir Leicester and watches

her constantly, even enlisting her maid to spy on her. He also

enlists Inspector Bucket to run Jo out of town, to eliminate any

loose ends that might connect Nemo to the Dedlocks.

Esther sees Lady Dedlock at church and talks with her later at

Chesney Wold; though neither woman recognises their connection.

Later, Lady Dedlock does discover that Esther is her child.

However, Esther has become sick; possibly with smallpox, since

it severely disfigures her; after nursing the homeless boy Jo.

Lady Dedlock waits until Esther has recovered before telling her

the truth. Though Esther and Lady Dedlock are happy to be

reunited, Lady Dedlock tells Esther they must never acknowledge

their connection again.

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Upon her recovery, Esther finds that Richard, having failed at

several professions, has disobeyed his guardian and is trying to

push Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce to conclusion in his and Ada's

favour. In the process, Richard loses all his money and declines

in health. He and Ada have secretly married, and Ada is

pregnant. Esther has her own romance when Mr. Woodcourt returns

to England, having survived a shipwreck, and continues to seek

her company despite her disfigurement. Unfortunately, Esther has

already agreed to marry her guardian, John Jarndyce.

Hortense and Tulkinghorn discover the truth about Lady Dedlock's

past. After a confrontation with Tulkinghorn, Lady Dedlock flees

her home, leaving a note apologizing for her conduct.

Tulkinghorn dismisses Hortense, who is no longer of any use to

him. Feeling abandoned and betrayed, Hortense kills Tulkinghorn

and seeks to frame Lady Dedlock for his murder. Sir Leicester,

discovering his lawyer's death and his wife's flight, suffers a

catastrophic stroke, but he manages to communicate that he

forgives his wife and wants her to return.

Inspector Bucket, who has previously investigated several

matters related to Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, accepts Sir

Leicester's commission to find Lady Dedlock. At first he

suspects Lady Dedlock of the murder but is able to clear her of

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suspicion after discovering Hortense's guilt, and he requests

Esther's help to find her. Lady Dedlock has no way to know of

her husband's forgiveness or that she has been cleared of

suspicion, and she wanders the country in cold weather before

dying at the cemetery of her former lover, Captain Hawdon

(Nemo). Esther and Bucket find her there.

Progress in Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce seems to take a turn for the

better when a later will is found, which revokes all previous

wills and leaves the bulk of the estate to Richard and Ada.

Meanwhile, John Jarndyce cancels his engagement to Esther, who

becomes engaged to Mr Woodcourt. They go to Chancery to find

Richard. On their arrival, they learn that the case of Jarndyce

vs. Jarndyce is finally over, but the costs of litigation have

entirely consumed the estate. Richard collapses, and Mr.

Woodcourt diagnoses him as being in the last stages of

tuberculosis. Richard apologises to John Jarndyce and dies. John

Jarndyce takes in Ada and her child, a boy whom she names

Richard. Esther and Woodcourt marry and live in a Yorkshire

house which Jarndyce gives to them. The couple later raise two

daughters.

Many of the novel's subplots focus on minor characters. One such

subplot is the hard life and happy, though difficult, marriage

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of Caddy Jellyby and Prince Turveydrop. Another plot focuses on

George Rouncewell's rediscovery of his family, and his reunion

with his mother and brother.

The Goodreads top reviewer, Posie Pickett-Park, presented this

167 years later, the result of an unsolicited ARC;

*************************

Goodreads “Topnotch” Observation

This is a very clever book, even if one is blind to Dickens’

humorous insight; primarily because the main issue with it is

exactly the point Dickens is making; it is so long and dragged

out. In that respect, I didn’t like it at all. Reality be

damned; magical reality the bookish diversion.

“Bleak House” is quite the achievement. It's a 900+ page monster made up a thousand different subplots with a large cast of

characters. It also fanned the flames that led to a huge

overhaul of the legal system in England. Buried beneath and

entwined with the many subplots is the case of Jarndyce vs.

Jarndyce; Dickens's parody of the Chancery Court system, because

the case is dragged out over many years.

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I like Dickens, and I can appreciate what “Bleak House” does, but I'm sorry to say I won't be joining the ranks who consider

this their favorite of his. His best work objectively? Maybe.

Who even knows what that means? But definitely not my favorite.

That would be “Great Expectations,” a novel that just rips my heart out and stomps all over it.

I really do understand that this is the whole point, but so many

chapters and events in this book were extended needlessly,

padded out with waffle and meanderings that seemed to have

nothing to do with the novel at large. That's very clever and

all; given that this is a critique of a court system that

extends everything needlessly and gets nothing done; but it's a

bit of a chore to read. It's a shorter book than “Les

Misérables,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and “War and Peace,”

but it truly doesn't feel like it.

The characters, too, were not as memorable as many of Dickens

others. Having read it, I can now see why the “Bleak House”

characters are not household names like Miss Havisham or Bill

Sykes. I found them bland in comparison. I also think it was a

mistake to have the simpering "I'm so modest and unintelligent"

Esther Summerson as a narrator, Dickens's only female narrator.

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It's unfortunate because I think Dickens usually excels at first

person narration, but Esther's constant need to reiterate her

modesty and lack of intelligence is frustrating.

If I were rating this book based on how well it achieved what it

set out to do, it would be an easy five stars. If you believe

classics are not there for enjoyment but for self-flagellation,

this is an easy five stars. Dickens successfully wrote a long

and slow book to show how the legal system is so long and slow.

Some of the subplots and character dramas were interesting; many

were not.

I do look forward to seeing more, albeit condensed and edited,

from this promising author. Did I mention how this long and slow

book mimics the court system, which I also abhor; especially at

the appeals level.

Message 28: by Isaac

As usual, your astute comments have kindled some fires. To the

point, I have enjoyed reading many of your reviews and despite

periodic redundancy have recommended same to both of my on-line

friends. Your lengthy, meandering, inconsistent, and tertiary

take on Dickens’ subject was truly clever if not the product of

an instinctive gift. Indeed, books are no place for artistic

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pretensions. I especially appreciate your complete like-

measured-defeat of that Arab phony who posts 7 synopses per day

in ostensible hope of overtaking a competent Brit, through sock

puppets. Thank you.

However, I will now stop reading and recommending your reviews

to my crew as I just don't like your face. It's no doubt my

fault, as many find it quite attractive, and I hope and trust

that this puts minimal dent in your ace GR career as well as

your fine psychological balance.

Cheers.

“The Man Who Loved Children”

By Christina Stead

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“The Man Who Loved Children” by Christina Stead” ; modified public domain.

This revived novel centers on one very strange family which is

dominated by the patriarch. Sam may be the weirdest dad you've

ever encountered. He makes up his own language, and is a self-

important ass who is at war with his wife Henny, a spiteful

wife. The children Sam so loves are the battleground; it

debatable whether his affection for them is real or a concoction

used to compete with Henny. This would be wholly terrible if

they both weren't hilarious as all get out, and undeniably real.

As the family's situation devolves into poverty, debt, and

misery, Louie, the eldest daughter emerges as an artist in the

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making; blossoming into a world of literature and creativity

which is largely spurred by her absurd family and her reality.

“The Dying Grass’

By William T Vollmann

Stylized cover of “The Dying Grass”; property of the author.

William T. Vollmann's, 1376 page “The Dying Grass” is an avant

garde novel which precociously exposes the white male plunder of

the Native Americans. It was subsequently expanded to 2094

pages, the extra 718 the restoration of an originally

ostentatious publisher cut, and is now available at ostentatious

prices, and the revised edition includes 87 photos of dead

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horses and small animals, supplied courtesy of the author’s

personal collection.

Thematically, WTV’s new, much awaited, and most avantist of

gardes imaginable, 2,812 page revelation expands upon his timely

assault on the little known white male plunder of Native

Americans, which will be shortly further enhanced with an even

more contemporary follow-up cogent ramble about the little known

white male plunder of the Yellow man, titled “Seen on a Slant,”

ranging from cruel, privileged rickshaw rides, through the

Marshall Plan, through North Korean slave labor, ending for now

in torn Indochina and a well thought, impassioned, and heart

capturing demand that the US leave Viet Nam immediately.

Factually based and researched, purely authorial, and counter-

traditional-publishing bourgeois restraints, his unedited dreams

again provide the evidence that whitey has been a very, very bad

man. Mr. Vollmann, though allegedly white, thereby with presumed

inside knowledge of the matter, and further alleged to be a

graduate of Harvard, righteously disdains all notions of

personal privilege, especially those based on the biases

inherent in all notions of “merit,” as they are white-biased

calculations which are distributed through racist fake news

sources, but is gallantly susceptible to grants issued by any of

the learned species; as is also true of his oncologist wife.

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Borrowing from WTV’s immortal; “Learned professorially granted

university grants are the learned wave of the future” a

regionally based marginalization is chanted from Cambridge, to

Champaign, to the south side of Chicago, where revolutionary

devotees sport red when the Crips aren’t looking. 328 pictures

decorate the novel, courtesy of the Viet Nam Board of Tourism.

“Seen on a Slant”; property of the author.

Get this first edition as a prelude to the future release, of

which you are most welcome to buy, of “Seen on a Slant; Book

Two; the Racist Conspiracy of High Screened Comedy,” and thereby

attain another valuable and investment grade worthy first

edition, which will add approximately 1,500 pages of dream

induced WTV pure unedited, fact-un-checked fact, the obvious

implication of another publisher censorship married to another

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publisher attempt to make a profit through partnership with

another writer who has spent three fruitful decades in

attracting a miniscule, but special market. Join the exclusive

set for only an amount likely less than your monthly electric

bill plus shipping.

As a sportive additional attraction, the back of the jacket has

a full color photo of WTV in his wife's clothing, with a hint of

pale lipstick, suitable for framing. If this isn't Nobel

material, those Swedes have to be racist misogynists.

Jacket back; courtesy of Ms. WT Vollmann.

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“I Just Happened to be There, That’s All”

By A Face in the Crowd

“I Just Happened to be There, That’s All,” by A Face in the Crowd; property of the author.

A brown girl dreams of being a dancer, but has no talent as

that is viewed by honky producers. Undeterred, she nurtures her

ideas about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black

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music, about what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly

free.

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, “I Just Happened to be

There, That’s All” is a story about music and stubborn roots,

about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive

the naysayers. Moving from Raleigh, North Carolina to the

bastions of informed assessment in Manhattan, it is an

exuberant dance to the music of time.

“If the structure is built reasonably well, the only honest

criticism possibly made by one bent toward that disposition is

to say that; ‘It’s confused and I have no idea what it is or

‘intended to be,’ thereby confirming what everyone else already

knew of the bent critic (BC). Continuing from BC’s needed point

of view, their best possible options are threefold;

1) Totally ignore the structure.

2) Incorrecly paraphrase an aspect or aspects of the structure,

criticize their own incorrect paraphrase, the incorrectness

intentional or not (sarcasm), thereby criticizing one’s self.

This procedure generally makes for a good public display, as

most of the public does not take the trouble to personally make

the comparison and thereby notice the mis-statements, and those

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who kind-heartedly do refrain from comment, and attribute the

error to an honest mistake or lack of ability.

3) Subject the structure to one’s own biased idea of

‘surrealism.’

The reasonably proficient builder may or may not hear the voices

of his critics, but if she does she takes solace in the

statement; ‘Some don’t like it. Oh well,’ that an appropriate

add-on to anything that came before it, which fully retains or

perhaps enhances the negligible degree of truth which preceded

it.”

But, that’s not what the book is about. Or maybe it is. Depends.

If those kinds of thoughts get your moat bridged, find out even

more for $19.99 plus tax, plus shipping.

Stylized version of artless cover of “Ulysses” by James Joyce; property of the author.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE WITH JAMES JOYCE *****

Note; Admittedly, it could have been a while back, but I might

have been given a free hard copy of this book; “The Ocean Over

the Septic Tank,” in return for an honest review. I might have

no financial interest in its sales, unless you click right here,

in which case I’ll get an inconsequential gratuity. Since I’ve

been writing reviews on this site for a year, which all tend to

be five starred ones, I’ve been inundated with free books from

authors and publishers. I’ve got about forty piled up on the

dining room floor and another 800 on my computer. Jeez, I’ll

never catch up. I didn’t know how they got my home or personal

e-mail address until last week when one of them called me. He

started yelling at me. I found out that he paid $15 to my

Goofreads friend who promised him he’d have a five star review

in a week and gave him my personal information, telling him to

just send it directly. Well, I’ll tell you that I straightened

him right out, the guy on the phone that is, and told him I’d do

it next, not wanting to offend my friend, who will remain un-

named.

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Anyway, I was a bit fatigued this morning after driving my two

kids to school. They got into their old argument about who is

getting the front seat and all of that. Yes, we still have that

alternating-days system which I mentioned in other reviews, but

Jimmy was sick on Friday, his front seat day, so Michelle sat

there. Michelle insisted that Monday was her day and that it

wasn’t her fault when Jimmy gets sick. So, they both got in the

front seat and wouldn’t budge. I didn’t know what to do, so I

just drove them and hoped that some cop wouldn’t make a big deal

about the seat belt thing. That turned out to be cool, but

halfway there they started jostling for position and Jimmy must

have not been completely better as he hurled all over, including

on Michelle’s dress. I was going to bring them both back home,

but Michelle insisted on going to school saying that she didn’t

want to be stuck in the house with sick barf boy as it might be

catchy, and that “with all the gross shit on the internet,

nobody’s going to give a flying fuck over a little vomit.” It’s

okay. I told her that she could use those kinds of words when

she turned ten, like her boyfriend next door.

So, I dropped her off and drove Jimmy back home. I got him

changed, put him to bed and cleaned up the car, trying not to

puke myself. So, I’m sitting here tired, disgusted, pissed and

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rebellious. Just to show everybody who’s boss I picked up this

other, very fat book. It’ll put those nasty fifteen buck writers

back a while. I also figured that since he’s dead Joyce won’t be

calling me or complaining to the GR librarians. It doesn’t look

new. Damn, the phone’s ringing. Be right back.

That was the goddam school. I’ve got to go bring Michelle back

home. No, they didn’t object to the vomit; at least not the

vomit itself, as least as far as I understand it. It was that my

little angel has been bombarding the neat and fastidious boy who

sits beside her with the big chunks. You know, that kid is such

a wimp. Any real boy would just throw them back at her, but the

sissy is crying. Christ.

I’m outta here. Oh yeah, Ulysses is a great, great book. I’d

like to give it six stars. Great plot, moves right along.

Recommended to anyone over ten years of age with strong arms.

Maybe will update. It’s heavy. Ha ha ha.”

A Fictional Review of an Imaginary Flop

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Stylized cover of Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller”; property of the author.

Beware or don’t. Your choice. This review contains transient,

un-needed spoilers of incomplete nothingness, inclusive of

double negatives, convincing in a mathematically “proven”

positive logic, which totally proceeds to again redundantly

double negate in its squaring; that ostensibly a function of the

squarers penchant and point of view, and also the identical

procedure with which a personally confusing function of another

innate inability of the math freaks to differentiate Laurence

Olivier from “Richard III,” not to complicate that with the

Archie Rice of “The Entertainer,” seemingly played as an old

time talent contemporarily overlooked and even catcalled, and in

pursuit of a living for he and his family, cares, as may be

surfacely discernable, to be unaware of his detractors; the

complication from other viewpoints that they refuse to

understand that Laurence-Richie-Archie does not give a flying

fuck in any perceived posture, even had he chosen to focus on

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the myriad of perceptions available, most openly displayed in a

crude arena, vaingloriously seen as chicly reminiscent of 17th

century British theater, the vocal sound that of a whistle or

squeaking instrument used to express disapproval or a need to be

noticed in a public place, except not in Portland, Oregon where

audiences are so averse to disapproving appearances that no

matter what they see, a standing ovation is offered, that cruel

in its “encouragement” in a sense, as it gave temporary rise to

the Bizarro “literary” genre, practitioners of that soon to be a

financial disaster story.

Much too soon and also prematurely excusing myself politely from

the entertaining and amusing confines of Laurence, Archie,

Portland, and various other imposed errata, I returned to the

stultifying confines of Italo, the programmed subject at hand,

and the tertiary source of this badinage, who was inadequately

posing as an innocent victim of the rampant jocularity.

Unrequested, this book was strongly suggested to me by an income

challenged writer with whom I am awkwardly somewhat familiar

through my brief interlude at the internationally expanding,

stay-at-home-pastime, commonly referred to as Goodreads.

Apparently, it was recommended to me as the result of my

offhand, socially banal and intended to be meaningless comment

regarding her work as “awesome,” which the author didn’t see as

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dismissive and/or disinterested, but rather interpreted or chose

to desperately interpret as excellent. In an act of once removed

kindness, I have purchased this book for $11.99 plus tax and

intend to do an honest review; even if the result is later to be

determined as trolling. I have no financial interest in its

future royalties. Even if sales are commanded on a tablet, I’m

confident that rational people will voluntarily enter purgatory

rather than subject themselves to the hellacious subject and

writing of this book.

Blurring invisible lines, the one called Reader, presumably the

Writer in this case, I perused the establishment’s fashionable

new book section. The book in question was not an official

member of any of the fleeting, various and sundry top ten lists,

and thereby sat in a bin devoid of number; that word applicable

in all five of the Merriam defined possibilities.

It was openly displayed and one could not help but take notice

of it; evidenced by the dirty fingerprints highlighted even in

the most indirect of lights. As a lover of content and words I

was ashamed to admit, even to myself, that it was the bright,

multi-hued cover, depicting a Pollack-like splashing image;

unclear as to whether it was trying to convey rainbow movement

or the regurgitation of last night’s, microwave heated, “Supreme

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Three Meat Great Value Pizza, with sausage, pepperoni, ham,

onions, peppers and undisclosed additives,” either of which

would have first gotten my attention.

The book opened with the self-important, contradictory

exhortation of the “Writer,” whose forward opened with; "Relax.

Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around

you fade," which a cynical Reader could easily paraphrase as;

“Pay attention only to me. Let nothing else matter. I am your

life.”

On this day, this Reader sought to temporarily suspend his weary

cynicism. He felt inwardly giddy and sought something new and

different, or the humor provided by that which purported to be

so, despite the patented complimentary blurbs of the po-mo

reviewers only known to the elite. Up until now his repertoire

has been purposely confined to genre duplicative offerings, as

far as he knows. He inwardly smiled at the sheer audacity of the

Writer, paid for the discounted, hardcover novella and brought

it home.

Alas and it’s grinning cousin alack, after 23 pages, our gentle

Reader discovered that his copy has been ruined; ostensibly in

the printing process. It consisted of nothing but the first

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sections of various un-related books, repeated over and over.

This might have been satisfactory for a short story, essay or

poetry slam, but he had paid for and expected a novella. The

Reader thought that this kind of petty annoyance was much too

trite in its inferences and assumed that there must have been

some kind of mistake.

Upon return to the bookshop, he discovered that the volume,

which he thought was written surreptitiously by his GDR

correspondent, inferred but not clearly stated on the glossy

jacket, that it was actually by a different writer known only as

“The Lady Traveler.”

Given the seeming choice between the two, he went for the

Traveler. He is quickly joined by the Other Reader, known as

Valeria. The Reader is annoyed, but not deterred. But, after he

has returned home this copy turns out to be by yet another

writer and contains 23 pages of incompleted stories being

repeated over and over, as does the next, and the next

................... .

Posed with a difficulty, the Writer considered trying to do a

GDR-type of review patterned after the ultimate one done by one

of Goodreads’ highest rated reviewers. The exalted one had

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covered the final Christopher Hitchens’ book, which concerned

God, the devil, right, wrong, death, everlasting life, and all

those things with which we know people have been beating to

death since they learned how to write; never adding much to the

subjects. The reviewer started his review by eruditely giving

his unsolicited views on each of the subjects. In the middle of

the 5,000 word review he was still doing so. His consistency

continued to the very end. Understandably, I was impressed. Not

only had he managed to write a review of a book whose lack of

subject matter can clear out a room more rapidly than a series

of wet farts blown from a black hole, he had done it in kind,

without once making reference to the book reviewed. It’s so

meta, the words float away. This man had done something-nothing

which can never be topped. He is my hero and I can only wonder

why Salon has not stolen him away from the confines of social

networking.

In the adjoining room the Reader thought that he precociously

read and the Writer thought that she childishly anticipated and

wrote. Considerations, soon to be carried away by a windstorm,

now weigh most heavily upon all else as they concerned

themselves with an insoluble, futile, and pointless chicken-or-

egg type of deliberation.

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If he could successfully convey what had previously transpired,

the Reader thought it possible that his review would outdo the

best of the GFR star; if it wasn’t written in invisible ink; or

perhaps if it was.

Reflections on My Keyboard

By William H Gass and Steven Moore

Cover of “Reflections on my Keyboard” by William H Gass and Steven Moore; property of the author.

A work in progress at the time of his demise, and seemingly a

sequel to “My Chair,” taken from miles of notes Gass left when

he died. Steven Moore was posthumously commissioned, that is to

Gass, to finish the work and edit it. The result is a

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pleasurable mix of erudite keyboard musings and rather plain,

though clear keyboard musings upon those musings. Perfect for

your bi-polar Christmas obligation.

“Crap: A Compilation of Interviews” with 48 full color photos

By George Curiouso

Cover of “Crap” by George Curious; property of the author.

The author, a simian with a short-brimmed red hat, who has

written one hit book; that being a low brow crime noir about a

bungling hit man, its value critically consigned to the most

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familiar and ill-mannered dungeons of mere gross entertainment

and duplicative commercialism has compiled the personally

annotated “literary” and psychologically induced interview

reasons for his work on lucrative TV utilizing the transcripts

of same. Prodded along toward detailing his assessment of humbug

authors necessitating carefully chosen words and a falsely

acquired taste, US foreign policy, the US school system, western

conspiracies, terrorism, random shootings, as well as concocting

his un-remembered early feelings about his parents, the author

is simultaneously and cannily stage silent about how the $10,000

per show TV payment was most instrumental in coming up with that

much bullshit, initially almost impromptu, later regurgitated as

needed. The bullshit is preserved for posterity herein and is of

undoubted use to the pretentious farts not a part of his earlier

market base. If you have any intellectual interest in truth,

post-truth, truth relativity, or skillfully managed badinage,

consider this an entertaining primer, likely humorous to first

level flatulents.

40 Anarcho Nulib Conspiracy Theories

by Carl Markson

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“40 Anarcho Nulib Conspiracy Theories” by Karl Markson; property of the author.

Whether you know it or not, the man has you up ahainst the wall.

This reprint of the novel that shook the world one hundred years

ago is as relevant now as it was then, primarily but not only

because the forty allegations remain theories; none having been

proven, further evidence of collusion and obstruction by the

man. This anti-western, anti-capitalism regurgitation cleverly

manages to impart “popular” hatred while also avoiding the

accusation of having used hate words hated by the righteous non-

hating Nulibs. He accomplishes this through directing his hatred

toward the US, UK, and to a lesser extent all countries where

whites still represent more than 50% of the population, and

thereby collectively exert total influence over what their

country does. Not a book to stand on its past laurels of

successful implementation in Russia, China, India and smaller

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chasers of the Yankee dollarm, this edition is updated through a

forward written by Raul Castro which goes on to strongly suggest

that for the world’s good the US, UK, and Israel should be

subjected to attack by multi nukes.

The Secrets of the Loved

By Sympathy Seeker

“The Secrets of the Loved” by Sympathy Seeker; property of the author.

If you’d truly like to take your place among the world’s

beautiful people and get gazillions of social media likes,

Sympathy Seeker has researched and identified characteristics of

the truly loved which you can easily adopt. To list them all

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here would defeat the purpose of Ms. Seeker’s book, but to give

you an idea of how easy they are to implement, we’ll consider

one. Lovers live alone with periodic returns to their parent’s

house of financial necessity induced by thinking lovely thoughts

rather than doing the claptrap a job requires. That is probably

not what you’re trying to do, and you’ve been encouraged to do

the opposite, especially by your parents. “Wrong” says Sympathy;

“Always think those lovely thoughts. That is what we are here

for. Being independent takes away that attractive vulnerability.

People always fall for the sick, dying mutt lying in a pathetic

lump, while no particular positive feeling is generated through

contact with a healthy, well-kept pure breed. In fact, when

there is any feeling at all, it is likely one of resentment and

a desire to lay in a good hard kick.” Buy this book and learn

how to be a well-loved burden on society.

Crabs in a Bucket

By Art Program

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“Crabs in a Bucket” by Art Program; property of the author.

Crab mentality or crabs in a bucket, barrel, basket, or pot is a

way of thinking best described by the phrase "If I can't have

it, neither can you". The metaphor refers to a pattern of

behaviour noted in crabs when they are trapped in a bucket,

usually the result of being placed there by by a hominid

crabber, with dog in tow, employing the “trickery” and

physicality associated with a trapped door iron cage though the

particulars can range widely from silver coated chain link to

pewter. In any case, the point is that while any one crab could

easily escape by using one or two others as a “ladder,” its

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efforts will always be undermined by the others, pulling said

crab back down, thereby ensuring the group's collective demise

of soon being dinner for the hominid if the dog doesn’t gobble

them first. Commercial interests may briefly postpone the crab’s

self-imposed inevitability.

The too painfully obvious analogy in hominid behaviour is

compellingly claimed to be that members of a group, ersatz or

genuine, will attempt to directly sabotage, if possessed with

the necessary balls, or for those immersed in what passes for

the “science” of psychology, indirectly try to reduce the self-

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confidence of any member who strives to possibly achieve

“success,” insofar as they solipsistically “understand” this

term, beyond the others, out of poorly hidden envy, resentment,

spite, conspiracy, or competitive feelings, to halt their progress.

This book purports to examine one manifestation of this dynamic;

that being the rather simplistic hominid methodologies used to

deny others, utilizing tactics which are only not obvious to

themselves. This book is flaccidly recommended for those not on

the honor roll in grades not exceeding twelve.

Crabs in a Bucket;

the Little Known Goodreads Form

By Art Program

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“Crabs in a Bucket; the Little Known Goodreads Form” by Art Program; property of the author.

This shortly awaited follow-up to Program’s initial “Crabs in a

Bucket” generalistic, and Wikipedia available offering of “Crabs

in a Bucket” successfully provides a micro-niche nuance laced

with specific modus operandi. For the uninitiated, Goodreads is

a compromised-to-useless website, ostensibly established for

readers to exchange thoughts on books, which has, like the way

of all flesh, cyber subset, evolved into a site in which

s***hole writers either straight up pay or worm their way around

through writing crappy reviews or dispensing “witty” thread

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commentary, hawking their wares freely and getting what they

paid for.

Impressing few book purchasers with their sad-ass attempts to

impress, the failed writer denizens of the degraded site take

their last seeming pleasure by collectively hampering one who

has actually registered a few sales, utilizing various

methodologies, all representational of the jealousy endemic to

failures.

Sophisticated techniques, ranging from purposefully chosen

misquotes, out-of-context doxing, slyly indirect innuendo,

useless thieving small publishers, and worst of all, rabid feral

librarian deletion and amending of anything in the corrupt data

base. The “wolfpacks” have also been known to descend en masse,

apparently intending to bluster some denigration, though this

practice has been substantially curtailed due to its tendency to

incompetently backfire.

This book is recommended to all aficionados of obscure attempts

at humorous failure and back-biting.

The Recognitions

By William Gaddis

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Stylized cover, as it were, of “The Recognitions” by William Gaddis; property of the author.

Modern critics admit that they find this book intimidating and

are fearful of criticizing it. It might be noted that upon

release it was criticized by all 38 of the 38 professional

critics who looked at it. The "ideas" contained seem an un-

entertaining re-do of the prior Raymond Chandler, who managed to

make his books very entertaining, and wrote them well, perhaps a

po-mo sin. Below, I have taken some quotes which flabbergasted a

Goodreads reviewer-worshipper, replete with his five stars, and

added a note to each.

“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”

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I guess no shit.

“Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I

want to be. Why do we treat people that way?”

We can't find anybody else more blameworthy.

“He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this

heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any

instant you wish?”

Obviously. Do you need to be told when to start?

“I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the

room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can

prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing

in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you

never went to college, and you resent education, you resent

social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you

resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ,

you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God,

you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none

of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that

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isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of

social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real

life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've

never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized

ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself

against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced

anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard.”

Well okay, but do you think that's a nice thing to say when the

pomo's like you so much?

“Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge

that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only

one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others,

or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the

world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and

brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what

the heart dare not surrender.”

Don't give me that do good good bullshit.

Facially Imposed Misery Gladly Accepted

By WH Asshead

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“Facially Imposed Misery Gladly Accepted” by WH Asshead; property of the author.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Space limitations preclude any more extensive book descriptions,

but you might also enjoy these:

1) “Rumpole Has Conspired to Occupy All My Books” by Michael

Wolff

2) “I’ll Second That” by Bob Woodward

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3) “One Must be a Genius to Sound This Stupid” by Braaack

Obomber

4) “The Delightful Raspberry” by Ihav Gass

5) “Coming of Age with Phone Sex” by Philip Roth

6) “Candid Camera in the Toilet” by Sol Asch

7) “Terror Twat” by James Baldwin

8) “Buttface, a Memior” by Gertrude Stein

9) “Piss Off” by Henry David Thoreau

10)”One World Equals Russian Federation” by Slick Willy

11)”Helpless Victim Requests Coddling” by Sad Sack

12)”Helpless Victim Demands Compensation” by Sweet Chucky

Palanooked

13)”Anti-US ISIS Finks Control Goodreads” by Andrew Dice Clay

14)”To Find One’s Self One Must First Get Lost” by Mark Leyner

15)”Snags Presented by the GPS Conspiracy” by Mark Leyner

16)”Yes, We Have No Bunanas by Ellen Degenerate

17)”Potumo’s Typeos” by Joseph Campbell

18)”How to Use Every Hate Word in One Book” by Ed Drew

19)”Fellini’s Grotesques Seen in Undecipherable Braille” by

Gorgeous Borges

20)”Night and Day, Ostensibly You Might Be the Two” by Thomas

Pynchon

21)”If There’s an Edge, It Can’t be Round, Stupid” by Max

Tegmark

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22)”Suicide Poetry” by Betty Boop Posthumously

23)”Suicide Poetry” by Sad Sack Longevity

24)”Suicide Poetry” by Mark Et Share

25)”Suicide Poetry” by Rupert Pupkin

26)”Self-Publishing for Dummies” by Rbrt Dnne

27)"My Battles with Post-Crocker Identity Crisis" by Kojak

28)"Martin Amis as a Huge Example of Little Man Syndrome" by

Muggsy Bogues

29)”Every Love Story is a Butt Plug Story” by Cornhole Melnick

III, with a “new” epilogue by BP Konrath

30)”Stand by Your Can” by Trailer Park Tammy

31)”Death of the Novelist and other short stories” by Hollywood

32)”You Don’t Need a Big Nose to Know Who Farted in the

Elevator” by Jonathan Franzen

33)”The Sausage Defectives” by James Baldwin

34)”The Adventures of Katzman and Rabin”

35)“Pinch Me When the Incessantly Terminal Gravity Subsides”

36)“Social Proprieties Analyzed as Deference to the Insistently

Vulgar”

37)“Middle Aged Lolita in Therapy”

38)“The Thinker Assumed the Defecatory Position”

39)“Atlas Stoned in the Defecatory Position”

40)“Frosty’s Refrigerated Survival Trip; for Children of All

Ages”

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41)“Youth is Wasted on the Senile”

42)“Remembrances of a Future Long Passed”

43)“The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet”

44)“Infinite Scams”

45)“Green; a Short Story Collection in Braille”

46)“Dante Unearthed at the Center”

47)“The Pale Prince Proffers a Preference for the Onanistic

Arts”

48)“Jay Gatsby Ponders Religion and Name Changes”

49)“The Roth All Night Diner”

50)“Ellis in a Dior Rejected Dress”

51)“Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Old Farts Club; A Sequel to ‘The

White Album’”

52)“Magical Mystery Con; a sequel to ‘Norwegian Wood’”

53)“Truman Evokes a Dream and Then Drops It”

54)“Fifty Shades of Dowager Porn”

55)“What Seuss Might Have Said to Rothfuss and Other One Sided

Confrontations”

56)“All About Lilith”

57)“A Bitch in the Crowd”

58)“No Little Shit Indie Critic is an Island”

59)“If Ocular Observation Produced Perfect Vision and Other

Futile Speculations”

60)“A Portrait of the Artist as a Crotchety Codger”

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61)“Confusing Anger with Amused Disgust; Beyond Semantics and

Sophistry”

63)“Tender is the Knife”

63)“In Pursuit of J.R.’s Elusive Tertiary Aspects”

64)“thethingysnotworkingright; The Importance of Being

Capitalized, Spaced, and Punctuated”

65)“Absurdity Trying to Hide a Fundamental Lack of Talent”

66)“Less than Affected Dullness”

67)“Futile American Closet Case Cover”

68)“Divergent from Zero”

69)“Dickin’ Jane in Less Than Three Syllables”

70)“Bart’ll Be the Scribbler”

71)“Homer’s: The Oddity”

72)“Look What Happens When You Name Your Boy Joyce”

73)“100 New Recipes for Cannibals”

74)“Monty Still Can’t Get Over It, But Has Learned to Use It For

Personal Advantage; a Sequel to Lemonade”

75)“Mesmerized by the Dark”

76)“Fitty Charades of Abu Guraib”

77)“Remedial Sex Education for ‘Special’ Students”

78)“One Hundred New and Inexpensive Roadkill Recipes for Geeks”

79)“The Six Five People Who Could Not Have Possibly Killed JFK”

80)“Henry Kissinger Differentiates Boring Depression from Joyous

Infinite Wisdom”

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81)“A Comprehensive List of People and Animals Alleged to Have

Been Assassinated by the CIA- a Five Volume Set with Updates

Available Annually”

82)“The Truth Finally Revealed #1; Shrimp are Microwavable”

83)“Lyricism in Contemporary Fantasy Literature; an Extremely

Brief Essay”

84)“The Rebellious Deviant and the Outlaw Lobotomist”

85)“Benny P’s U”

86)“The Incredible Lightness of Overcooked Tomatoes”

87)“More Dilettantish Musings from Benny the Dip”

88)“The Truth Finally Revealed #2; The Sabers did IT”

89)“You Wanna See a Real Bomb”

90)“A Tediously Extended Version of a Petite Masked Ball,

Drearily Chronicled Within the Bounds of the Mischaracterized

Non-Framework of Finnegan’s Wake”

91)“They Didn’t Catch IT in the Rye”

92)"100 Morbidly Obese Weirdo Books to Read Before You Die" by

Stephanoupolis P More, with an imaginary and unattributed

forward by WH Gaddis

93)”Stillborn” by Sandor Brandenburg

94)”A Poor Squatter’s Life in Tenesmus” by John Steinbeck

95) “Krapp’s Last Defecatory Squat” by William Beckett

96) “One Day Me Talk Pretty” by William Faulkner

97) “Menopausal Squirts” by Captain Melldrick III

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98) “The Annoted Annotations of Anatoly Antonioni’s ‘Zabriskie

Point,’ containing a brand new annotated backward by Tom

LeClaire,” an absolute must for those stubbornly inclined, if

not linguistically addicted, to the correct and corrected PCP

faux literary pretension inclusive of exclusive annotation-ism,

by Stephen Moore

99) “The Painted Word” by Tom Wolfe

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Plane Crash

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Picasso’s “Still life with liquer bottle”; public domain.

News – 6-8-22

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Street Closed; property of the author.

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Crime scene, do not cross.

Maine’s Daily Undertaker

“Diggin’ it up since they been layin’ it down.”

June 8, 2022.

War and Rumors of War

Ukraine Explosions Prove Catchy

by Sven Gustafson, No Go Zone, Sweden

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Ukraine blast; property of the author.

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UKRAINE EXPLODES

Russian air strikes kill hundreds in Kiev as the long term

conflict has once again been escalated, like a ZZZ-ZZ-ZZ, ZZ Top

inspired reprise repete with performer ‘cool’ beard, once

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radical, and now sadly standard in it’s pyrotechnically required

deivation of the sway, Hatfield-McCoy mountain engagement,

arguably reduced or enhanced by the largesse attenuated by the

inconsequential award-gatherings applauded by a few bats, the

usual function of the best to ignore, dit-dit-dit overwhelmnance

of an MFA credentialed predisposition toward yet another story

which finds ‘new’ and NYTimes regnizant complaisance in the

‘sophisticated’ nuance almost detailed within, and gloriously

so, even attendant to the release of a prognastic, insofar as

that can and will always be determined by non-participants, as

an overly rude flatulence which momentarily over-rides, in a

wish some would attribute to the failure of being one more

Johnny Rotten, semi confirmed. Of those deigning to grant,

respectful of irreelevant rewards only by a state, or even more

impressive federally credentialed, as may be mistakenly opposed

to the popular and incorrect notion of common which goes on a

required but at the same time bearing all of the ADD inflicted

restraints invariably attendant to 21st century attempts at

discourse, the reported Russian air strikes in historically

vague, yet unble-to-reind-the-totality-of-histoticifally

limited-not-a-disparaging-inductive-inducing-call-for the

‘modern’ relevance presently alligned with a Ukraine

dysfunctional and as financilly untenable as an ass tethered by,

and welcoming of the master’s binding yolk.

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These unverified events have exacerbated an unverified

humanitarian crisis in the country, this unverified aspect

primarily due to not enough hospitals to take care of the

wounded. The dead seem more or less settled, dispersed, or

splattered; no matter the precise classification; quiet and un-

complaining. Jealousy understood.

A destroyed building in Kiev, Ukdaine.

The Russian Federation has escalated its battle against the

alliance-shifting factions within the Ukraine, apparently

deciding that attempts to indentify Ukranian supporters is at

best difficult, usually futile, and is much more of an ass pain

than obliterating all of them. It should be noted that these

unconfirmed and unconfirmable reports have been supplied by the

“Stern Gang” faction of the of the rebel seperatists, as

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“official” channels continue to be closed to any verifiable act

or statement. “Not tolerated shall be two hundred and counting

dead Jews,” said Yitzhak Shamwitz, Commander of Operations for

the Party Ukranian Independence (PUI). “Never again.”

Vladimir Rasputin claimed no knowledge of the attacks, saying;

“Slept I through the whole allegation spurious. Those PUI Jews

are just trying to world stage sympathy garner. Don’t bother me

without verifiable facts. Until then, it’s just more US based

fake news, that business one in which which Russia has no

current participation as may be easily recognized from the

resurrects of YouTube plants.”

Beleagured US President, Bailey Post Rumpole had been recently

paying lip service to scaling back operations against similar

Russian insurgencies elsewhere in the world, places not

specified, though oil lacking France and Germany have been the

objects of most speculation. Rumpole said; “Scale back or up

what? Postures indicative of anti-US, anti-white, as well as the

absurdity of of stand-on-line-for-everything, anti-capitalist

We have no Ukraine operations, unless the Democrat controlled

deep state has initiated one clandestinely. It’s a goddam swamp

here. Sad. Disgraceful.”

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Politically beleagured, as perhaps as un-necessaily, in what one

might down-shift suppose as being in the agenda and standard

cirriculum of those college prof’s similarly attired, that well

within the vague, seemingly conveniently so, innuendo of an

activity, an un-prosecutable financial financial dealing,

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, with a s***-zine-deniable

nod to absurdity, who’s a question for the thrown-away-

observant; “Israel will tolerate no further strikes upon

innocent Jews. Response shall be swift,” though he also

proceeded to note, during his bankrupt “Waffle House” breakfast

of waitress-supplied-smiley-pourings on his waffles that there

weren’t any Jews in the Ukraine, they having been unfairly

decimated or otherwise disposed of by ‘underground’ operators

during WWII.

The UK’s Theresa May continued her well-admired posture of not

stepping beyond her bounds. The BS she has been destined to deal

with, and be blamed for is not the Ukraine, but is her

implementation of the Brexit vote, farcically induced, yet in

implementation conveniently now presenting itself as an

historically valid test of personal competence and good tidings,

aimed at aphony lack thereof, quarter-assed, also in the

contemptible half “happy-facedly,” provided Sasquatch smiled by

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her political detractors, resplendent in their demonstrated

acumen which makes decision and work totally un-necessary.

Neither “Maine’s Daily Undertaker” nor this writer could verify

the number of civilians killed, but if the air strikes were

real, and if they were in populous Kiev, then the number should

be appalling. “People need to pay attention to the fact that

there is this massive war going on,” said Brittany Brown, who is

one of 3,267 sophomore prodigies identified as being at Loisina

State University (LSU,) Ms. Brown freely gracing this magazine

through valuable free internship. Indeed, her visions are much

worthy of note. “The war in Ukraine appears to be ‘on

autopilot,’ she added, “that perhaps a consequence of drones,

and one that is drawing the United States significantly deeper into an armed conflict without much public debate. The

intensifying bombing campaign undercuts the Rumpole

administration’s intended pivot to not confront threats from

great powers like China and Russia, and away from long

counterinsurgency and counterterrorism campaigns that have been

the Pentagon’s focus since 2001, excepting where there is a

clalculable monetary benefit.”

End of article. Click here to see related topics.

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incorrectly see and thereby permit, as your own.

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“Eschaton” aspirant and current middling “Blue Billywig” video

player, Four Star US Army General, Thomas D. Waldheimer, head of himself and one bimbo secretary, whose “antics” have elicited a

few obligatory liasons from the customary ineffectual others at

“large,” in her homebase of “Eastern Europe Desertion” (EED),

said planned cutbacks elsewhere would not affect what the

military was doing in Russia .......... err, Ukraine. “We’ll

maintain our capability and capacity there, whatever that is and

not really necessarilly outside of ‘unpopular’ pomo-fomo blurbs,

as they may be interpreted by their un-discerning adherants, but

inevitably suggestive of a most sincere interest, if not yet

rendered a farce, in which we seek to share our position with

the god displayed through one of five or so incarnations as the

Military-Industrial Complex (MIC). I mean look, there is no

escaping the fact that god kills or tolerates killing, the

latter step-down if he-she heard the psych BS which requires

having a comforting distance, so the bombs Pynchon made a

literary career upon, no oxymoron intended nor rescinded, have

‘real’ relevance when not viewed by the inordinately

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susceptible, inclusionary only in obviously contradictory,

radical chic worship grudgingly granted by MFA’s from f***ing

Iowa or some other remote and out-of-it s***. I mean like, if

you know the parts you know the whole; and if you don’t you

don’t, and then your view is bombed as much as you wish, and say

that you are horrified. Tiresome. No?”

There’s something about this spot which makes me feel like I’m

16 and on holiday in Aruba or the approved segments of Jamaica,

purple Byrd shades totes paid for. Those memories are not

welcomed. Key in for further nebulous updates, this reporter and

Maine’s Daily Undertaker” management committed to truth in

reporting, a market share soon to climb to the top of your

charts, “Wooly Bully,” one of many dancable inspirations thereto

or therof. You don’t believe me, but it’s really not the least

bit personal. Oh, f***ing well. To be misunderstood is such a

compounding burden that I just might deign to oh so sadly

survive. Ciao. Sorry? Sincere? I’ll fill with needless, silly

errata, that incompetent approach designed to shut off the pain.

It works. It really does. You got a better idea? ......... I

wished otherwise, but you don’t. Our loss.

Any unlikely possibility exists on that elusive ledge, the one

which that one no longer seen or denied if minorily seen. It’s

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better as a joke. Right? Crying was kind of old school, no

longer something with which a 2022 hipster can deal. No? .....

See the flashes in the black. I do. I still do though I think

that they’re fading out in a blend of sorts; not that I am

averse to blends generally, but am unable to participate in one

in which my dreams are intended as being for the benefit of my

loved other; that a construct, yes a construct, aimed devoid of

target at those who hate or disregard me, that an understanding

I often find a perverse solace in its comforting shade, in which

the other finds the place they want, while I revel in my ability

to provide that, less the parts which are instinctive to her,

always in the hope that she has some tolerance for the spaces

resultantly induced by the lack of a warm mommy. And yet, not

that, just another series of letters in failing search of a

meaning. True, but to think that guarantees the most

unsatisfactory of results. Ephemeral. Ephhemeral. E has the most

life sustaining of traits, nafs as characterized in the ancient

esoteric East, positive traits in the sense that their

imperfection causes the physical, but lacking, existence we all

know and share on this time subservient planet. If I keep

writing putrid crap like this, there is little doubt that my

next step will be doomed to making “poetry” submissions to un-

differentiating on-line zines of the most crude sort. To gather

sympathetic attention, the Ukranian inhabitants and their

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spokes-people would do well to invoke the banal sympathhies in

abundance afforded to devotees of “Happy Days’ and mostly the

Fonz, as it is not to either subterfuge of the on or the off, to

which a contented camper lusts. Either are perfect and complete

manifestations of a universal principle imbued with joy in the

comtinuum of continuums which permeate all; the white on and

black off, an imperfect world’s necessary means of indequate

depiction; the calculated in-between the source of non-existence

vis-à-vis proximity to the center.

This infomercial is once again brought to you by your good and

helpful friends at Microsoft. Better living through better

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**39**

Joe Biden Has a Dream

The Washington Past

Public Service Announcement

June 5, 2022

I have a dream. By now, you all must know that I’m running for

President of the United States in 2020. My dream is that you

will elect me. My qualifications are unmatched and impeccable;

as I have never been accused, much less convicted, of any

felony. I do not need a cognitive test. I know what time it is.

There was also some early rhubarb concerning plagiarism, but

history has since shown that plagiarism is no crime. Later, a

big deal was made of the $200,000 I supposedly received for

making a GOP supportive speech. Nonsense. This is part of the

false news; correct that; false innuendo perpetrated by the

colluding, conservative, competitors contrary to candor. And all

that malarkey about Hunter, Ukraine, Burisma, and China is just

conservative misinformation.

I have a dream. No longer will the cold cash, tax free

corporations and their owners run this nation. My support comes

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from you, the people; with a generous two dollars here and

there. I am not beholden to any fat cat, never have been, and

never will be.

I have a dream. Join with me today in what will go down in

history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history

of our nation. Under me, the federal government will reach the

maximum level of transparency. No more covert deals. No more

secrecy. Excepting no more than 1% classified as the highest

security, we will release all documents to the public as soon as

they are created. Further we will release to the public all old

documents previously withheld under the guise of national

security. FBI, CIA, Deepstate, Military Intelligence, whatever.

I have a dream. The good Mexicans, Haitians, Muslims, and

Canadians desiring to come here and make this country great

again will no longer have any impediment put before them.

Boundaries are ridiculous constructs which benefit only the

elite tricksters. We will once again be America, and welcome all

refugees and migrants gracing our doors; convictions in kangaroo

courts disregarded. They will vote, regardless of any archaic

notions of citizenship. Yes, vote. And be entitled to all Social

Service benefits accruing to those who happened to be born in

this now ridiculously nationalistic state. My fellow Mexicans,

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you have my clear word that you can continue to use your local

Social Services center when needed with no fear of being

reported to the authorities. The law will continue penalizing

them with fines and jail time if they leave your kids un-

attended.

I have a dream. The meta manacles of slavery and disrespect will

once and for all, be totally removed from the backs of all

minorities residing in America; whether they be black, brown,

red, yellow, green, women, or LBG&TQ. Yes, this is what I and we

Dems bravely stand for, in the face of constant media delivered

assaults upon our very magnaminity, as if that was some sort of

weakness.

I have a dream. I have come to this nation’s capital to cash a

check; our check. And cash it I will.

I have a dream. In this hopeful year of 2023, I am 81 young and

healthy years of age, and will be 82 by the time of the next

2024 election. Don’t be fooled by my mean spirited detractors.

Senility, Alzheimer’s, dementia, and senior childishness are no

part of this package. I have survived. We have survived, as now

there is only one year remaining to this backward, corrupt

Rumpole regime. Seven eighths, eighty-seven point five percent

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of the cruel farce is done, and we have survived. Indeed, what

my detrartors are trying to distract you from are my

accomplishments; 48 years in the Senate, only ended through my

Vice Presidency under our un-criticizable, first black President

Barack Obama. Don’t read the hate blogs about me. Don’t even

believe me. Check my voting record. It’s a long one and you’ll

like what you find.

I have a dream. No longer will our foreign friends have to worry

over the possibility of restreint being imposed upon them by the

Rumpole supported facists in charge of Russia. We will give all

funds and troops necessary to NATO to make sure that they retain

their right to be as surly and un-disciplined as they were

before this authoritarian Rumpole regime came out of the depths

of foul, dirty, and crooked New York City. Freedom to be rude

shall soon be restored to our friends in Europe.

I have a dream. I refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is

bankrupt. If you want to get technical about it, maybe the Bank

of America and Wells Fargo, but not the Bank of Justice.

I have a dream. And that is something that I must say to my

people who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the

palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place

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we must not he guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not "seek to

satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bile

and hatred.” We must forever conduct our struggle on the high

plane of dignity and dicipline. We must not allow our creative

protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again

we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force

with righteous soul force.

I have a dream. I am not unmindful that some of you have come

here out of great trials and tribulation. Some of you have come

fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have oome from areas

where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of

persecution and the weapons of evangelical zealots. I say this

is no more.

I have a dream. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I

say to you today, my friends, even though we face the

difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is

a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that

one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of

its creed; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all

men are created equal. What they do after that is the primary

source of unwanted differentiation.”

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I have a dream. Even if I can’t get there with you, this

platform will serve as the standard to which all public

officials will be accountable.

I have a dream. We have survived this crooked asshole, and

better days are soon coming. Vote Biden 2024.

Boxing Match

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I’m Lindsay Graham here

with my colleague Spartacus Booker, and we have the big one for

you. The one you’ve all been waiting for. Undefeated James “The

Truth” Watson, WBA heavyweight champ fighting out of Nashville,

Tennesse and Moostfafa Hamhand, undefeated IBF heavyweight champ

fighting out of Fallujah, Iraq. Never thought this would happen.

Spartacus?”

“Right you are Lindsay. Look at that crowd still pouring in. The

promoters must have sold more tickets than there are seats.

Classic fight. Truth is an aggressor and Hamhand excels at the

counter punch, so fast they are called clusters, the first since

Tyson. And Truth has announced that win or lose, this will be

his last fight.”

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“Yes, sir. We’re told that Truth has been training like he never

previously did for this one. What we’re going to find out

tonight is if a top notch 36 year old puncher can get through to

a top notch 23 year old defensive specialist. Hamhand hasn’t yet

reached his prime, but this will likely be the biggest fight

that he ever is in. What can one do? My mama used to tell me;

‘The damn thing about life is that you have to do everything

before you know how, as if you wait time passes you by.”

“Don’t sell Moostfafa short. When need be he has demonstrated an

ability to take it to his opponent; like when EU champ, Alain

Marchand tried a non-aggressive strategy, and was gone on cuts

in two. I mean like he was bleeding not only all over those at

ringside, but all the way into the cheap seats.”

“Of course you know that Hamhand has yet to get in the ring with

anyone the WBA has ranked in the top ten. Marchand’s a tomato

can who at 31-15 is just one who people must pass through before

entering the big leagues; boxing’s Mendoza line.”

“Well, you know politics plays its part in the rankings. Truth

has only fought one in the IBF top ten, and had to go to a

decision with Puva Bhadra, while Moostfafa stopped him in four.

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That’s the only fighter they have in common, and the result

favors Moostfafa.”

“Well, look. When Truth fought him, Bhadra was an undefeated

young man, and by the time Hamhand got to him, he was a five

time beaten journeyman hanging on for another paycheck. But,

forget that. Of course, we all know that style comes into play.

Truth is 50-0. That’s a lot of contenders he’s dispatched with,

if not all of them. Moostfafa is 18-0, and some pundits say that

his management has done a great job of picking opponents.”

“Lindsay, Lindsay. Hear your own words. ‘Truth is 50-0.’ ......

He’s been around a long time, and his best days ended with that

‘Bonecrusher’ Kyoung fight three years ago. Good God, he almost

lost to undersized Pol Pot after that, some saying he got the

benefit of a home town decision. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not out

to knock a great champion. All due respect given. In his youth I

wouldn’t have been surprised if he made mincemeat of Hamhand

without even training. But, time marches on.”

“Vegas has it at 9-5 Truth. So, the people are putting their

hard earned money on the Truth. There hasn’t been anything the

fans so relate to since Louis - Schmeling.”

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“Can’t argue with that, Mr. G. But, it’s Americans doing the

betting and ........ “

“Neither of us know who’s doing the betting.”

“Okay. Fair enough. Could be George Soros for all I know. The

point I was trying to make is that it was 9-5 Hamhand until

Wednesday, when Rumpole tweeted that he was putting his money on

Truth, and Zohar Ben-Yahu followed that by saying that Hamhand

wasn’t any good and that Truth should be in the ring with Yuri

Ben-Mizrahi, Israeli champion. It was then the heavy money came

in on Truth.”

“Yes, Mr. Booker. We’ve only got about two minutes before

Hamhand is scheduled to walk in. Let’s get a little more real

here. You were a great welterweight champ, and I was there the

day you pulled out that 14th round kayo of favored Norm Nixon.

Quite some stuff. Please tell me and our many fans what it was

like for you at moments like this, just before the fight

started.”

“Whew, Lindsay, you brought out a tough one in a limited time.

Nervous is the simple answer, and anyone who doesn’t say that is

a liar. I mean, you’re sitting there and everybody’s in your

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face with last minute instructions; your trainer, your manager,

your money men. Even your waterboy keeps shoving a bottle at

you. They’re pals in your corner. But, what you really need to

be doing is to focus on your opponent. Replay all those films of

him you’ve watched in your head. See his preferred tendencies,

so you can anticipate them. But instead you’re nodding ‘yes’

every two seconds at someone who you don’t want to offend, as

they’re true friends meaning well, but each wants to be

acknowledged as being heard and having a part. And they should

know that they did, but they want to hear that approval from

you. A step further down the line, to tell you the truth, I

don’t even remember any of those long walks down to the ring,

except waving hi to the former champs in the audience. And for

me, I was still nervous and kind of blank when the ref was

reading the instructions, because I didn’t know how hard this

guy might hit, and it would be so embarrassing to get put away

with one punch. Then the bell rings and he hits you. You find

out no big thing. You’re still there. But, it dawns on you that

this bastard is trying to hurt you. So, all the nervousness

disappears. The instructions disappear. Even the crowd

disappears. And all you want to do is nail this sumbitch before

he can nail you.”

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“Thank you for the inside view, Spartacus. And, here he comes.

He’s the IBF champ, but he’s entering first, in some apparently

pre-negotiated deference to the increased magnitude of the WBA.

The crowd is screaming, the boos mingled with the yays resulting

in a cacophony of indecipherable, ear-splitting noise. Moostfafa

Hamhand is at the center of his entourage, and is making his way

down to the ring. He’s wearing a red robe with gold trimming,

emblazoned with gold lettering, with what we’ve been told is his

name in Sumerian Arabic script. He is surrounded by his crew of

8-9, also jogging attendants, almost in place. He’s punching at

the air. I hope he’s careful enough not to hit one of his

people.”

“Hey, Lindsay. Doesn’t look like there’s much margin for error,

but I’d bet on him handling it. And look at this. Just look at

this. While Moostfafa is waving in his direction, Muhammed Ali

is scratching his nose, with his head down, looking the other

way. And whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a first. Here

comes James “The Truth” Watson and his entourage before Hamhand

has reached the ring to enjoy the cheers while he does his

standard preening. Truth seems stoic and serious. He’s walking

slowly with head to the ground. His robe is deep purple, and

look, just look at this! The back has white letters saying; “I

really care. Don’t you?”

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“I’ll tell ya who really cares, Lindsay. Moostfafa. Truth cut

his show off before he could dance around the ring, throwing

more air punches. Hehehe. I can see the mind games starting

before the bell. Truth would say that his early arrival was out

of respect for the title holder, but Truth is probably trying to

piss Moostfafa off, hoping that it will take him out of his best

defensive posture, and come out the aggressor. Moostfafa’s got

to be unaffected and stick with his plan, or he’s going to be

playing right into Truth’s game.”

“Game or not, Truth and his crew continue their measured and

leisurely walk, taking most eyes off the Moostfafa show, them

now fixated on this curious methodical display.”

“This is just great, Lindsay. It’s like Bob Marley. Most all

performers try to be outgoing and get your attention. Not many

can but Bob quietly drew you in. Look, look. Ali’s nose

affliction has apparently subsided, and he’s waving to Truth

with a fist in the air.

“And Truth has responded with his own fist accompanied by a

smile and a two step. What’s going on here, Spartacus?”

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“I don’t know man. Politics make strange bedfellows. Looks like

Muslim Ali is favoring the American or has something up his

nose.”

“The theatrics continue. As Truth moves through the ropes,

Moostfafa dances dangerously near still throwing those air

punches. He almost hit Truth’s trainer, Alfie Jacqueman, who

returns the favor with a half-hearted air assault of his own,

pretending to be restrained from further strikes by his buddy,

the manager, Nick Haley. If the fight’s half as good as the

preliminaries, we’re in for a memorable one.”

The over-the-hill crooner, still tuxedoed ring announcer read

out the stuff sold to the vacationing codgers not yet

mathematically fleeced from the loose change they had brought

in. “Are you ready? Are you ready? .............. I say are you

ready?” With each word, either the crowd, those using stimulants

mingled with those yay-booed out, or the pre-recording

increasingly sounds as if it is. 150 decibels impresses the

$99.99 plus tax, premium home viewers if not those in need of a

hearing device ringside. “Yay. Yay. YAAAAAY. Sis boom ba.”

Staccato basss drum likely not thumped by a percussive Krupa

type.

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Isaac turns off the sound as the fight starts, as he preferred a

modified solipsistic approach to being swayed by the verbal

commentary. He saw things this way.

Round 1 – Truth walked to the center of the ring and stood there

with his hands at chest level. Moostfafa utilized fancy footwork

to move around, forcing Truth to keep turning to face him.

Moostfafa threw off the first jab, a foot short. He kept doing

that while Truth threw nothing and didn’t have to block

anything. Truth motioned with his hands for Moostfafa to come in

closer; a move usually associated with disrespect or

frustration. Moostfafa surprised Truth and did, throwing a

flurry of 3-4 punches, the last getting through, but an

undamaging, glancing blow to Truth’s forehead, which Truth

countered with a hard overhand right which Moostfafa took on the

gloves, those gloves driven back into his own head. The round

continued in a similar manner. The surprise was that Moostfafa’s

approach took him out of what was traditionally his signature

style, counter punching, while his constant movement emphasized

his youth against Truth’s lesser mobile age, though that was

also his style when he was Moostfafa’s age. Overall a

disappointing round with little action. Isaac didn’t think

anyone won it, so scored it even at 10-10.

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Round 2 – Truth came out more aggressively. He chased Moostfafa

around, using his left to paw at him or pull down his gloves and

follow with a hard right. Moostfafa got cornered a few times,

glancingly hit but unhurt, used his rapid counter punching

skills to get the better of the exchanges. Isaac scored another

10-10, the hits favoring Moostfafa, but the aggression favoring

Truth.

Round 3 – Moostfafa contined to fight more like a young Ali than

his prior self. Truth lumbered around like a Foreman, and took

more punches to get in a few power shots which didn’t seem to

phase Moostfafa. 10-9 Moostfafa, a close call.

Round 4 – A repeat of Round 3. To even things out, so to speak,

Isaac scored it 10-9 Truth, this time weighing the power shots

heavier.

Round 5 – Whenever Truth chased Moostfafa enough to get in

close, Moostfafa tied him up after a missed shot, necessitating

countless referee breakups and verbal instructions to fight.

This was beginning to look more like “Dancing with the Stars.”

10-10. Isaac would have preferred 0-0.

Isaac flipped the sound back on and heard;

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“I’ll tell you Lindsay. If this keeps going like this people are

going to call it the stinker of the century.”

“So, what’s going on?”

“That’s a good question. I don’t know. Moostfafa is dictating

the pace of the fight by acting out of character. But, he’s not

gaining anything by it because he’s got little ability to score

from a distance.”

“Can’t Truth make some adjustment?”

“Well, he’s been trying. But a puncher can’t do much if his

opponent keeps his distance or ties him up.”

Isaac turned the volume off again.

Round 6 – Instead of merely evading, Moostfafa would start to

evade, then stop short, and engage the off balance Truth in an

exchange, usually getting the better of it. 10-9 Moostfafa.

Round 7 – Moostfafa continued his Round 6 tactics, but this time

Truth pursued more cautiously. He retained his balance, and

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while taking a few rib shots, he got in just as many power shots

to Moostfafa’s head. One in particular seemed to glaze

Moostfafa’s eyes over for a second or two, making him desperate

to hold on. 10-9 Truth, a 10-8 possible. Isaac was beginning to

think that he was watching a good tactical fight which would be

loved by rabid boxing fanatics and hated by fans.

Round 8 – Truth intended to continue his cautious pursuit

tactics, but Moostfafa reverted to his “normal” style. He ceased

running, and allowed Truth to get inside, where he effectively

countered. 10-9 Moostfafa. Overall 78-77 Moostfafa.

Round 9 – A continuation of Round 8; this time with Truth going

to the body for some hard shots under Moostfafa’s raised elbows.

10-9 Truth.

Round 10 – Moostfafa came out flailing high and low, getting in

so close that Truth tried to back off to get himself some

punching room. Moostfafa landed a low blow and got a warning

from the referee. When it happened a second time, the ref

temporarily stopped the fight and instructed the official

scorers to deduct a point from Moostfafa. 9-9, utilizing the

point deduction.

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Isaac again turned up the sound fot the minute between rounds.

“We got a close one, my friend.”

“I’m so surprised that the ref took a point from Hamhand. They

almost never do that in a championship fight. That could prove

to be the deciding factor.”

“If Truth is up to going the full fifteen.”

“Well, I’m not worried about that, as Hamhand’s slow pace and

the the lack of action isn’t going to tax him all that much. And

he’s not exactly ready to get on ‘AARP Magazine”s mailing list

yet.”

“Hehehe.”

Isaac shut off the sound saying to no one but the Google spies;

“They tax action. They tax non-action. And they tax whatever is

in between.”

Round 11 – If part of Moostfafa’s strategy was to pick things up

after Truth had tired, his execution left something to be

desired as not being able to make him move, left Truth feeling

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as good entering the 11th as he did when he was 28. Both

returned to traditional form down the stretch. “Use what got ya

there” is the old saying. Moostfafa continually taunted Truth by

getting close enough to attract a punch, then countered with his

own flurry. The fans were now seeing what they had come to see.

Neither showed any sign of being hurt. 10-10.

Round 12 – Same as round 11. A lot of noise, no real damage to

either, and another 10-10. Overall 116-116.

Round 13 – Truth pranced out to center. Moostfafa engaged him

there, and Truth circled left. Moostfafa was thrown off some as

this made him move right, throwing off his right handed

alignment. Perhaps, concentrating too much on that, Moostfafa

crossed up his footwork, which resulted in a slight stumble.

Truth saw his opportunity, and used his now closer right hand to

lead with a smash on Moostfafa’s unbalanced chin and Moostfafa

went down. On Moostfafa’s way down Truth used the opportunity to

smash his head again with a perfectly legal left. Truth gloated

a second before the referee could push him toward his corner.

Moostfafa was up at the count of five, but his eyes weren’t. The

ref checked him at 8, but let the fight go on, only because it’s

not wise to stop a championship fight. Moostfafa had sufficient

presence of mind to cover his head, in the meantime taking body

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shot after body shot when he couldn’t lurch into a holding

position. With his head later more clear, he realized that he

was in serious danger of losing if he held or countered, and

went on the attack only to be nailed with another Truth hard

right. He went down and though he could have gotten right back

up this time, stayed there until the count of 8 when he rose to

be greeted by the sound of the bell. Isaac scored it 10-7 Truth,

fully aware that most pro scorer’s would go 10-8.

Round 14 – Truth appeared to be complacent and/or tired. He made

a few cursory efforts to take Moostfafa’s head off, but failing

that at the expense of a few middling force counters to his own

head, he settled back into an un-natural-for-him defensive

posture which traditionally only marginally detracted from a

judge’s scoring. He took a few small shots, but avoided the

heavy rights, which by round end Moostfafa seemed to be throwing

in un-necessarily abandoned desperation. Isaac scored it 10-10,

fully realizing that some judges might see it as 10-9 Moostfafa.

Round 15 – Truth must either have wanted to go out on a big one,

or he thought that the fight was close enough for him to have to

win the round, though Isaac thought it was the former as he had

it 135-133 Truth. He came out throwing combinations, ending each

with a hard right. Moostfafa slipped them all, and on the third

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series nailed Truth with a left-right of his own. Truth was more

embarrassed than hurt, and he went right back to his

combinations, and again wound up taking a Moostfafa left-right

counter. Hamhand, also feeling that he needed a big round to

win, pursued, looking to get in one which might stagger Truth,

but instead, got clocked himself with both ends of a Truth

combo, and then another. Woozy, he rested against the ropes and

used his defensive skills to avoid taking the big one, while

Truth flailed away. Apparently frustrated at not being able to

get to Hamhand’s head, he went low to the body, and one went too

low. The referee stopped the fight after the first and only one,

instructing the scorers to deduct a point from Truth. By the

time he signaled the fight to resume, the final bell sounded.

Isaac thought that Truth had the upper hand prior to the low

blow deduction, so scored it even at 9-9, ending with a final

total of 144-142 in favor of Truth.

Isaac re-engaged the sound.

“Was that what you expected to see, Spartacus?”

“Frankly no, Lindsay. Any expectation is a regurgitation of the

standard previously seen. But, what we have witnessed here

tonight was a series of attempted adjustments, and adjustments

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to those adjustments which didn’t initially work well. .......

To some extent that happens with many of the great fights, but

here it was exaggerated.”

“The 15th was what I had expected ......... “

“Yes, yes, Lindsay. I couldn’t agree more. When it came right

down to the end, both went with what got them there. That quick

ref call of the low blow may come to have more significance than

a ref’s call should. When it was on the other side, he warned on

the first, but didn’t point deduct until the second.”

“So, recognizing all of that, who do you think won it? I got

Truth by just a point.”

“I’m with you, Lindsay. In fact, if there prove to be any

differentiations in the close calls, I’ve actually got Truth by

three, allowing some margin for unofficial ‘error.’ Besides, the

tradition is that if you’re going to take the title away from

the incumbent, the burden is on you to clearly do that, at one

time requiring a knock-out.”

“Yeah, Spartacus. But, that’s been eroded in recent years, and

has been complicated to a minimal extent by the newer and lesser

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authorities granting championship status. But, truth be told,

the WBA is still it. So, on that level, Moostfafa just didn’t do

it. I mean like irrespective of the close calls, he never put

Truth down, while going down twice himself. Truth is not even

bleeding. Truth doesn’t even have a puffy eye or a need for the

Vaseline anywhere.”

“Lindsay, Lindsay, you take my words away, though also in

recognition of the fact that those are not the same words which

will be issued by the three judges. And the problem for Truth is

that in order to get the big bucks this fight granted, he had to

give away the judges, two of which were as of yet un-discredited

cronies of the IBF-Hamhand camp.”

“Politics as usual?”

“Sort of. Maybe. Not exactly. As is guessed by those who have a

horse in the race. I mean that recently this entire industry has

been unduly influenced, though note that I did not say entirely

controlled, by Don King, and prior to that, by his predecessors.

King’s concern is not in seeing that the best fighter or winner

is champ, but that the one who is most popular with the general

public is. It’s lucrative. And the general public gets what they

want. Duh? So in this particular in context of history, this

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fight has been almost close enough to go the way of expected

future moolah, as it is mysteriously calculated and

‘credentialed’ by the King flunkies.”

“Look at them. They’re so different. Truth is in his corner,

kind of laughing at whatever is being said, affable, and at this

point without a concern in the world; while 180 degrees away, in

a space of twenty feet, Moosfafa is nervously prancing, like the

best of pedestrians, while holding up the glove which when

needed evaded him. He’s acting as if he has won, in a sense

greater than bloody loser Rocky’s way of celebrating the dubious

distinction of having gone the distance, Adrian lovingly

confirming his ridiculous, blind, and bleeding posture. Look,

Hamhand is now resorting to pre-fight tactics of no further

consequence, and has been dancing toward the Truth corner, in

what must be either a demonstration of comic book bravado, or a

pragmatic ‘interlude’ designed to sway the judges through a

demonstration of ostensibly being ‘alive,’ insofar as that term

works for the majority of ticket purchasers.”

“Whatever; no insult intended Lindsay, my pal; the history

‘irrelevant’ stuff, the rest of the BS still buried at a level

yet to be reached by the slow moving Khazarian excavators of

what suits their funding master’s purposes, is soon to be

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recorded by three judges; the nuances of what may have led to

their determinations, a matter for the prognostications of a few

watchers at the pond, that the substance provisional of a few

follower notes seen by a singularly digited and time worn

accumulation. Bottom line, the ‘official’ books will record the

results ‘officially’ chosen, as if that was some sort of

accurate account of the event. ......... Please pardon me, while

I unsuccessfully try to restrain an inappropriate laugh. .......

Thank you. So look! Truth is registering total disdain for his

opponent, to the point of not even recognizing his supposed

existence, while Hamhand plays right into that construct, by

seeming to seek to be recognized by the Truth camp. ......

Funny, if inferior sadness is not disallowed by the Politically

Correct police. .................... “

“Hate to interrupt your most recent diatribe, champ; but the

bell is ringing and we’re apparently in store for the

announcement. Let’s go down to our colleague, Borneo

Minutemanshai at ringside. Take it, Borneo.”

“The bells are ringing, so let me turn it over to the ring

announcer, who seems to be claiming to have something momentous

to say.”

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Cheers and boos intersperse this announcement at various times

with varying intensities. “Ladies and gentleman, we have a split

decision. Judge Brett Kavanaugh has it 147 James (The Truth)

Watson, and 139 Moostfafa Hamhand, decision Truth. Judge Ichmael

Beydoun has it 143 Hamhand and 142 Watson, decision Hamhand.

Judge Bethany Begin has it 145 for Truth, and 146 for the winner

and new WBA heavyweight champion, Moostfafa Hamhand.

“Borneo Minutemanshai at ringside here again. I’m here with a

grinning and curiously subdued James, the Truth, Watson. Champ,

champ. They’re already saying that the judges stole your title.

What do you say?”

“Look, I’m not going to get into that. I trust that they called

it as they saw it. Besides, if my dad was here I know just what

he’d say; ‘If you were that good you would have knocked him out.

Then you wouldn’t have to worry about judges.’”

“Rematch?”

“No. I said no before the fight and I meant it. I’m getting out

before I get my head scrambled. You know if you keep on hanging

on too long, that’s exactly what will happen. I have other

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interests and thanks to boxing I can now pursue them for the

rest of my days.”

“This loss sullies your record.”

“Well, come on. 50-1 or 51-0. Either is pretty good, if I do say

so myself. This is as close to a criticism as you’ll get me to

make. True fans of the game can look at the films of this one,

and make up their own minds if I was undefeated or not. It’ll be

on YouTube forever. That’s not any whine. A split decision means

some expert thought I won.”

“Will Hamhand be a great champ?”

“He’s got a lot of skills and time will tell.”

“No chance for a comeback? Everyone else has.”

“Nothing is impossible, but I sincerely hope not. Look, with

every day that passes Moostfafa is going to be getting better,

and I’m going to be getting worse.”

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Truth’s wife, Bonnie bounded into camera view, and led with;

“You really fucked that up in the 15th. You had it. All you had

to do was hold and dance. What were you thinking?”

Truth looked to the interviewer and said; “Everybody’s a critic

these days. But, she’s right you know. I just wanted to go out

with a final bang, when I probably didn’t need that for a win.

....... Shut up, Bonnie. .......... Well, at least tone down.

Hey Borneo. Thanks for the interest. Be good.”

Truth left with Bonnie nodding the “Yes, yes. I know” routine to

complement her 15th round assault. It was a marriage made in the

heaven no one had yet seen.

“There goes a great champ. Back to you two, Lindsay and

Spartacus.”

“After a slow start, the fans got their money’s worth. I’ll let

you have the last word, Spartacus.”

“The champ is dead. Long live the champ.”

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**40**

Intended Article

“Homep Topen Road”; property of the author.

After a work day of which continuously required surface

“tolerance,” also known as going on neutral which is actually

much more taxing than the words could suggest, from the entirety

of nine to five, of Merrillee’s harangueing, centered around how

his latest rejection was written in non-compliance with the

policy established by page of Book 1, pages of Book 2, and

rumored to be coming as part of revised Book 3, while on a more

elemental level it was within shards of full agreement with what

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Fitz had strongly hinted at, Isaac was sufficiently pissed to

bravely take it out on his acquiescent keyboard and moreso, the

unobservant dolts who will soon receive its output. “F***ing

Merrillee with her f***ing manuals, and she didn’t even write

the bullshit, just maintains one of them like a fucking child

abusing priest. Fuckety, fuck, fuck, fuck, fock. Ugly bitch too.

Must give Fitz some really good head to get away with being an

otherwise useless pain in the fucking ass. ........ Shit.”

Isaac typed, having put it off for far too long, now very

very very in the mood, intending to send the results to each of

the top ten circulating zines in the US.

“Dear Mr. Publisher;

In the tradition of great, enduring, ancient language, it is the

writer’s intent to write this backwards. The conclusion is here

first for a good reason. The writer has estimated that 98% of

you, that a number chosen to err on the low side, will stop

reading if a few of the knee jerk, alarm triggering words, like

Zionism or Israel appears first. The simple in principle, though

subjected to a contradictory Merriam word incapacitated

difficulty, exacerbated by a self-survivalist penchant to avoid

any set of words, numbers, or combination thereof which might

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produce an aneurism, is plainly that what we currently are

prevented from referring to as Israel as a detriment to true

Jews and to the world. True or not, as long as that entity

falsely acts as a Jewish, whatever that is, incorrectly operated

state, as opposed to one which represents not only its current

inhabitants with the ‘proper’ religion, but also as well as

those unfairly deported, sequestered, discouraged, and killed,

the question of 21st century immigration deferred to a more

encompassing study; one which focuses more on the point of view

of the native citizens than the immigrants, in this case the

preponderance of them immigrating Jews. The methodology herein

employed is to state accepted ‘facts’ as facts, to state areas

of dispute or unknown as such, and to fill in the gaps with a

speculation consistent with both reverse engineering, i.e. ‘What

monstrosity might have produced this?’ and an inordinate level

of momentary and thereby criticizably fleeting level of vino

consumption.

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Well. Let me attempt to ring your chimes. Folks, you may have

noticed that for more than the last half century, the worlds’

and the Jews’ worst problems have consistently had something in

common; unrest in the Middle East which also includes the

embattled and SECULARLY decreed state of Israel, here and there

flip-flopping, though mostly flopping as a religious thing.

And it is not the fault of the true Jews. Please allow me to

emphasize that it is not the fault of the true Jews. Farshteyn?

You do farshteyn, but find it most convenient to appear as if

you don’t, and say that this idea is anti-Semitic, though you

mean to say anti-Jew, which it is not. Anti-Zionism, especially

as that term is confused with anti-Israel, does not equal anti-

Jew. No matter, no present relevance, anyway. However, one must

historically note that the true Jews have been used as

sacrificial pawns en masse, that atrocity merely regarded as the

required modus operandi by those terroristic creatures armed

with teeth of bullets and bombs, and whose actions would

eventually serve as a ‘reason’ for what was left of the true

Jews to occupy and give credence to the land which the “false”

and Khazarian descended tribe, or more exactly, and all so

convenient for mass confusion, tribes, to govern and ally with

the US to be a state-of-the-art-militarily-equipped world power.

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If there is any present relevance to this communication, it is

in that which suggests that a slight variation on the same

‘successful’ WWII game is currently being played by the Khazar

descendents at the peril of the descendants of the true Jews

which Israel has sent to the Ukraine, at the risk of WW III. The

specifics of the Khazar-Jewish-conversion-disapearance-Irgun-

Lehi-Herut-Likud name changes are quite involved, yet can be

provided in a medium accepting of a much longer story, primarily

because the recognized experts on the subject have exascerbated

the difficulty through breaking it down into more than a score

of sub-sections, to which their shifting conclusions cannot

agree, despite their current methodologies which they, in a

display of self-congratulation, hilariously and audaciously term

‘advanced,’ despite having had to historically wind their

‘merotorious’ way through seemingly continuous, bi-decadial

revisions, each ‘new’ fallacy, one to be finessed through

another ‘enhancement’ aided by another machine which will

shortly be outmoded.

In an appeal to the most common of senses, the protagonist of

such a confused scenario, would have to admit that his

hypothesis would not hold water in a court with a bar of ‘beyond

a reasonable doubt,’ but would have a shot in one which makes

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their determination based on ‘the preponderance of the

evidence.’

It would be much too self-congratulatory to for me to say that I

‘dicovered’ this myself, as I didn’t. At first I thought so, but

then disvcovered that my findings were entirely consistent with

the learned findings of the Naturei Karta, a 5,000 member strong

subset of Orthodox Jewry, and not an insignificant number when

one takes into account how much anyone knows of circumstances

which truly have sonme significance, while simultaneously

addicted to the myriad of ‘sexy’ affairs, as has been

consistently displayed through a popular fascination with the

Kardashians; prime time and all over the airwaves; while the

Naturei Karta and their adherents get their thoughts deleted

from much less visited, yet heavily censored net sites with even

less relevance than the daily banal ads found on the likes of

FaceBook and their worshipper wannabees. The bottom line is that

the deletions of the most often retarded, but extremely popular

broadcasts by the Tubby Jones’s of the world, serve as a

distraction from the deletions of the message of the Naturei

Karta, which is anathema to every known power that be. This

dynamic has always been the case in prime time media, but has

seemingly now become a phenomenon in lesser sources of

entertainment-news. The trend is that which suggests that they

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will soon be at the level of personal communication, which you

currently still find comfy and safe.

Why isn’t the point of view of the Naturei Karta given the media

time, prime or inferior, of the ‘racially’ discriminated against

Muslim woman who lost an entire half hour of her life, by being

required to go through US airport security, not once, but twice.

............. This is useless, and if acknowledged will be

bombarded from all directions including those with no point of

view or knowledge as having something wrong with it, when the

writer is just trying to say, in a situation which has done

everything it can to make that impossible, that you people might

do well to use your own good common sense when evaluating

information, and definitely not accept the changing, double-

talking word of ‘disagreeing’ experts.’ ..................... Is

an ‘evaluate and search’ redundant? Or, will that take too much

time away from the ‘fun’ gathered through watching the speedy

‘Flash?’ Don’t bother to answer. Your actions have already done

that for you.

In tricky continuance of a preceding paragraph, as it may have

now been revised, censored, or become another victim of

substitution, it is that the current state of Israel was founded

and is still controlled by descendants of the false Jews-Khazars

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through various incarnations such as Irgun, The Lehi Group

(A/K/A The Stern Gang), Herut, and Likud. To facilitate this

land grab the Khazars, under changing titles, assisted in the

sacrifice of true Jews during WWII, in order to unfairly gain

world sympathetic approval for their own non-sacrificial ‘tie’

to those sacrificed, which culminated in the choiceless

relocation of many of the survivors to their Israel. This is not

to say that current Israel should be demolished. It is to say

that for the benefit of true Jews and indeed, the world it would

be preferable to recognize this entity as the manifestation of a

secular 1948 UN decree, and not the Israel promised to the

original and true Jews/Israelites by the God of the religion

based Old Testament.

As a matter of simple practicality, this secular Israel would be

of infinitely more benefit to true Jews and the world if it was

not operated as a ‘Jewish’ state; that to be yet established by

the tardy messiah. In further substantiation of this theory, the

writer can truly claim well researched and complete agreement

from an overlooked, derided, and deleted segment of the Hasidic

community, alleged to number as many as 5,000. It isapparently

not conducive to anyone’s business interest to allow the posting

of a minority Jewish opinion that Israel should be operated as a

non-religiously based state, thereby accepting Palestinians and

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Arabs as full fledged citizens. (SLOPPY. DUPLICATIVE. INTEGRATE

OR ELIMINATE PARAGRAPH.)

To say that some of the Khazars abandoned Paganism to adopt

Judaism around the 8th century and migrated to Europe in the

11th, is NOT the same thing as saying that the Biblical God's

prior promise of a homeland to the earlier Jews of Palestine is

false. THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT EVENTS AND THOUGHTS. Each can be

true or false with no effect upon the other. In addition, it is

not very likely, according to consensus geneticists, for

whatever that is worth. But, in practical terms, as opposed to

theoretical, they do have another effect upon each other; that

in how they are mass misinterpretd; and is possibly a tertiary

key to an extremely-well-constructed false flag operation. You

might call it a ‘conspiracy theory,’ and you might be right

insofar as conspiracy exists on a spectrum with fact at the

other end, these particulars in my judgement, sufficient to put

the ball back in fact’s court. But, wherever its rightful place,

it is not a story covered by any of the numerous and growing

conspiracy theorist brigade. Of course not. It’s a bit more

dangerous than postulating about aliens landing in Roswell, New

Mexico in 1947 and programmed killers trained in the MK-ULTRA

‘program;’ and it could actually do some good if widely known.

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(ELIMINATE MOST OR ALL. LEAN REJECT. TOO ’NUTTY’ FOR EVEN THE

LIKES OF THE ALIEN ABDUCTION AND RULING REPTILIAN BELEIVERS.)

One problem is that individual aspects have been studied and

studied, providing a wealth of information which is far from

being consistent. Yet, despite the interest gathered by the

minutiae, no one in possession of a scientific ‘credential’ has

attempted to piece together the bigger picture; until Arthur

Koestler tried after having obtained the ‘status’ of a best-

selling writer. Whether or not to recognize that the supposed

mass Khazar migration is pro-Jewish, pro-Israel, or pro-Zionism

became confused through the publication of Koestler’s 1976 book,

“The Thirteenth Tribe,” the first one receiving any attention at

all. Koestler said, I believe mistakenly, that ‘Ashkenazi Jews

were descendants of the Khazars,’ and proceeded to be criticized

from all directions, but mostly ignored, for being anti

everything Jewish-related. It might have been fairer to simply

say that he was wrong. (BEGINNING A PROBLEM.)

That probably sounds silly to you; a play on words, a mixed

metaphor, a mis-statement, a mis-understanding, a simplification

of a complex issue, or a myriad of other possible errors. It is

not. Consider. What if it is an accurate assessment? What if

Occam’s simple razor is again correct? What if we projected that

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possibility back in time, at least as far as the spell of

Hitler? What if both Koestler and the current Israeli government

are both wrong in substance, but each partially right in

particularized detail, no political pun intended? What if there

are ‘True Jews’ who had been promised a homeland by God well

before the 8th or 11th centuries? And what if there are good

poseurs? And what if the poseurs helped sacrifice the true Jews

for their own gain? I’m getting well ahead of myself, though

this subject makes it difficult not to, and would like to take a

song break.

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Abraham, Desolate Highway and portions of “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan; property of the

author, the latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.

The ‘facts’ of this case, most still buried in time, are open to

question for varying reasons and have varying inferred

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probabilities of being totally correct or wrongful; the degree

entirely dependent upon who you have not read and thereby chosen

to believe. Yet this is all we have to work with, and with the

inevitable doctoring of specifics, that will likely always be

the case. However, there is only one story which can be

consistent with all of these ‘facts,’ without negating any of

them in entirety. The First Original Jews, today’s ‘True Torah

Jews’ believe that in BC days their God promised them a homeland

sometime in the future. That is a religious thought, though that

doesn’t disqualify it in the modern belief that everyone is

entitled to a home. The aforementioned ‘Jews’ is a reference to

religion, and not a race. Conventional wisdom has it that their

race was probably mixed. Further conventional wisdom suggests

that the Khazars were the fierce and prosperous inhabitants of

an ancient area called Khazaria. They were Pagans until having

adopted Judaism in the 8th century under the command of a king,

and not necessarily adopted by all. That seems an overly obvious

overstatement as the Khazars were members of separate semi-

nomadic tribes. It does not seem likely to assume that they all

adopted a new faith, just because the land’s King said that they

should, any more than it is believable that the 2019 US adopted

conservatism, just because Rumpole said they should. By all

accounts, for whatever that adds to the argument, the Khazars

disappeared during the 11th century of their own account, and by

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others the result of being over-run by the Russians. In any

event no one knows where they went, and for this story that is

irrelevant, as their 1940’s reappearance in Palestine is what is

of most significance to the world. (HARD TO CUT, BUT LENGTHENS

LETTER FOR ADD’S.)

The only possible absolute refutation of this 8th century Pagan

conversion to Judaism requires saying that the land of Khazaria

became entirely occupied by the original Jews; that further

supposing that it was empty before they arrived, and is

suggestive of a ‘conversion’ to what already existed. This

doesn’t meet any intuitive logic as this also requires one to

say that they collectively became Pagans on their way there,

again an error of 100% generalization. This is common among

academic historians who seek to know little of the people, and

overwhelmingly assume their reactions bear some relationship to

what the powers-that-be dictate. (OUT. TOTALLY META, AND LIKELY

TO OPEN UNPRODUCTIVE QUESTIONS AND OPINIONS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT

TO THE MAIN ISSUE.)

The Khazar “Jews” next appear in 1940’s Palestine. They called

themselves Irgun, which evolved to the Lehi Group, which evolved

to or was synonymous with the Stern Gang, which evolved to

Herut, which evolved to Likud ....... , which evolved to Prime

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Minister, members of the Knesset, (Like US Congress) and control

of Mossad, (Like US CIA.) As management level members of Israeli

and world condemned terrorist organizations, that condemnation

later officially refuted by the Khazar-descended Israeli

government, then rewarded by same, Irgun-Lehi, et al, Menachem

Begin and Yitzhack Shamir, were participnts in and planners of

history’s first known terrorist attacks, that against the

Palestinians in a non-war situation. The Lehi Group offered

their services to both Mussolini and Hitler, long after it was

known what was being done to European Jews. Letters confirming

those offers exist, while the type of ‘help’ performed seems

much too conveniently undocumented. At war’s end European Jews

were welcomed to Palestine, soon to become known as Israel. How

many choices did these broken people have, even if aware of

their having been used in the nation grabbing intent of their

overseas ‘benefactors?’ (DEFINITELY KEEP FASCIST ALIGNMENT.)

Israel was to become a state of the US in the eyes of the world,

though an Israeli would be insulted to hear that and stress

their independence. Whatever the semantics, they have the full

support of the US military and have been granted much US

military equipment. One can debate, but not totally dismiss most

of the ‘facts.’ Not that some of the events are in doubt, but

because they can be misleading without a lengthy context. Or

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they may stand alone. What seems inescapable is that the Khazars

disappeared in the 11th century. If that doesn’t strike you as

odd, consider that the dinosaurs disappeared long before that,

but their tracks and bones have been found. It appears logical

to think that these adept businessmen and warriors did not want

to be found, and made a concerted effort to remain in the

shadows. Accounts now exist of their having migrated to Europe,

but DNA tests do not bear that out. Further, the accounts

presenting information are at total odds with other accounts

which say that nothing was known of them until archeological

diggings which commenced only fifty years ago, and are a century

from completion. The diggings go on. That these tribes were

pagan until adopting Judaism in the 8th century has some merit,

insofar as one can make generalizations about 26 diverse tribes,

due to coinage excavated. That they are not the original Jews of

Covenant days seems virtually certain.

Utilizing the unappreciated difference between Jewish as a

religion and Jewish as an ethnicity, I find it distinctly

possible, given the ‘facts’ and considering the alternative

viewpoints, that the warlike Khazars resurfaced as supposed

original Jews in the Palestine of the 1930’s and using the

peaceful true Jews as sacrificial lambs, made a land grab which

has proven uncontestable, because of rightful world sympathies

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for the true Jews sacrificed, disagreeing ‘specialists’ in

various aspects of the issue at the expense of one with an

overview, as well as the complications presented by incomplete

information in regard to ‘facts,’ too much information in regard

to ‘expert’ assessments, and the confusion inherent in the

contradictory definitions of relevant words. Indeed, in most

circles, to merely use the word Khazar is the same as announcing

that one is ant-Jewish. Witness the treatment of Arthur

Koestler, which complicates the point because he was wrong, but

well intended. The denied logical interpretation should be taken

as pro-Jewish and anti-Khazar.

What good would it do to recognize that in 2019? Religion might

have some use for this theory, but on a secular basis it doesn’t

matter much until you see that Israeli dictated actions of the

second decade of the 21st century fit a similar pattern and pose

the same risks. The Israeli leadership has no compunctions about

risking another world war and the lives of Jews to re-take part

of the Ukraine, and has already started to stock it with

‘fighters,’ US weapons, and the US has provide ‘advisors, ‘ just

as they did in the days of Viet Nam.

This is getting personally confusing. For my part, I’m much too

tired to further pursue these ghosts. I’d just like to add that

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I’m certain that most of you will say; ‘I already knew that. So

what?’ You always do. Rather than try to answer a question which

takes volumes, I would just turn around the question by asking;

‘If there wasn’t some game going on, why are these peaceful

people continually at war or the victims of it?’

Please consider this another un-credentialed article submitted

for your kind consideration. If not acceptable as the glorious

article, please consider it as a letter to the editor. If

neither, a very sincere f*** you, too is extended.’

It goes without saying that you have my unrequired permission to

extrapolate from, misquote, censor, amend, selectively

misreport, or totally ignore this intended essay-letter. It’s

your s***ty zine and it’s sort of expected, longstanding,

standard operating procedure. Isn’t it? What matters to you is

your market share, as your flunkies calculate that through

phony, one-issue polls, with its attendant, advertiser provided

bottom line; and what matters to me is that I almost did my

infinitesimal, inconsequential part, that the amount you have

taught me time and again as being what is to be allowed by you

mainstreamed ‘winners.’ Oh, yeah, so, smiley face, have a nice

day, and if I’ve been remiss in not having previously stated it;

‘F*** you all the way up. Burn.’

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Cordially,

Isaac Leibowitz”

Liking certain aspects of this intended communication, but

not others, especially as it seemed to induce a personally un-

desired reaction from a reader, and with a mind directed toward

ersatz necessarily, in a dismissed portent of self-importance,

toward the ‘easy’part of making a complicated, lengthy story

succinct Isaac was too tired to add to it, delete from it, or

edit it on this evening of the day of tiresome Merrillee. So, he

turned in, lost in the entertainment provided by the over-

dubbing words, semi-expectant of fixing the inadequacies

contained in his own, likely ignored, exhibition, in the

irrelevance of a dreamed tomorrow, likely never to come, thereby

seemingly faulted or not, a function of Catholicism, through its

partial repetition of the comforting past, though not yet

anywhere near as confused as a semi-competent skimmer, primarily

motivated by their appearance, as it is judged by their dollar

dispensing god, might conclude.

In this pictorial simplicity, Isaac once again entered the

soothing land bi-sected by the river Styxx; totally relaxed

despite his uninterested recognition of old-time issues of

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‘significance’ to the damaged lame, the possible fodder of a

banal recapitulation of the recapitulantly challenged Moore,

that non-issue today again gone and tomorrow a museum quality

abstraction in requirement of a tedious history lesson, which

his redundant anti-muse, Gadddis might have clumsily intended,

but probably was totally unaware of; not recognizing that “Piss

Christ” was drought-suggestant needy of a refill. Warm again

now, matters once again soothing, simple, and amusing, Isaac

happily slept like a rock.

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Shock and Awe

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Stylized War Pigs and “War Pigs” written by Ozzy Osbourne, Terence Michael Butler, William T

Ward, and F FrankIommi; property of the author, the latter under both the “fair use” and

“transformative” doctrines.

Isaac contentedly stayed under his blankets. He was in no

rush to emerge as it was still early, he had his work situation

well in hand, and he would soon have the credentials to return

home and be considered for top level Washington State commercial

banking jobs. “Wouldn’t cranky-ass, old Bill Bogardus just shit

a brick if he had to answer to me?” If that didn’t pan out there

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was always the National Bank Examiners (NBX) with the chance for

that top level job postponed in the present, yet further

enhanced in the future. He had completed the most difficult part

of his essay the day prior and was in no rush to finish it off,

and find out where to send it in the “proper” format, attaching

the requisite humble suck-up half-pager. “There must be one

decent obsequious ‘Please consider poor little me’ letter on the

net I can copy,” Isaac thought in minimally discursive absentia.

His family life still had a few, very few, re-adjusting snags

remaining to go through, but that is the nature of families; the

“snags” always overstated by those without one. If he had been

old enough to know more unwritten pop history, he might have

felt even more contented and semi-elated, as the family “snags”

had been raised in direct proportion to the circulation of

“Psychology Today” and the Dr. Phil Nielsen TV ratings, both now

finally in precipitous descent, begging management massage. But

no matter the degree, it is obvious that the family “snags” can

only be completely avoided by becoming a hermit, and Isaac had

no inclination to get baked in grime through the occupation of

an abandoned silver mine in New Mexico. A little reward was in

order today. Just a little dawn lollygagging didn’t seem much to

ask. It was nice, warm, clean, and effortless just where he was.

His dream, in temporary, soon ending abeyance, of Chloe, Mark,

and Abigail back in Gig Harbor was still vivid in his mind.

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He recalled last spring’s holdout. It was just before he

left Gig Harbor in his pursuit of the piracy known as Chase

Morgan in the biggest of apples. The maple tree they had made a

family project of planting out front ten years prior was then

foty-one and one half feet tall, and thirty feet wide with empty

branches going in all directions; empty except for one

fluttering red leaf even now holding on. Isaac had wondered how

it managed to pulsate on that still, windless day; as it was

doing virtual cartwheels, while defiantly flaunting its dancing,

ruddy body, in a last celebration before the new green of

another spring chased it to the ground where all his former

friends waited to be dispersed by lawnmowers and the spring sun.

Isaac liked to think that the pirouetting survivor held on and

kept dancing into the new seasons. Thinking of that, he rolled

onto his belly and put his arms under the pillow, hoping to doze

back off; right back to Gig Harbor. It seemed to be only a

matter of seconds before his worst fear materialized. He should

have known, as this was not the first time. He moved around like

that had jarred something in his previously inert, contented

body, as now Isaac felt the annoying urge to get up and go to

the bathroom. He defiantly remained still and put up the

resistance a Ukranian freedom fighter might have admired; the

chosen stasis merely a deferral.

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When rising became no longer an issue of if, but when,

Isaac’s good day got off to a shaky start. He was compelled to

look out his western window and saw the vestiges of an

apparently selective fire in the sky. Still groggy on his feet,

he was nonetheless calmly able to conjure up the required

recollection that it was much too early in the day for one of

those pretty, pink sunsets, and the NYC area wasn’t prone to

them anyway. Just to make sure that his inner clock didn’t have

its AM’s reversed with its PM’s he turned on his computer and

found that it was indeed 6AM. He again went to the window and

with clearer eyes saw that parts of downtown Manhattan were in

flames. Isaac used his binoculars to determine that the JP

Morgan Chase building was doing its best to imitate an illegal-

in-NY Roman candle, the penalty of possible significance to one

not in the process of being converted to ashes. He hoped that

good old Fitz wasn’t doing one of his sleep overs. His Mr.

Coffee machine had done its programmed job, and he filled his

cup with black and again went to his laptop trying to find out

what had happened, within the caveat of what had erroneously

been written of it.

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“Old Screw Times”; property of the author.

News - 6-9-22

Old Screw Times - June 9, 2022

Courtesy of Reuters

WAR!

Confirming the worst fears of numerous ersatz pundits, the war

in the Ukraine today spread to the world stage. Bombs exploded

in what appears to have been a measured, tactical strike on Wall

Street, decimating the main office of JP Morgan Chase, The

Blackstone Group, Morgan Stanley, and Houlihan Lokey, as well as

many lesser known firms occupying the area. Unofficial Russian

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deep state sources claim full responsibility, as does ISIS in

conformance with their standardized operating procedure,

ostensibly designed to mimic a croaking frog’s claim of

importance during an extended drought, in seeming conformance to

and consistent with their standardized operating procedure,

ostensibly designed to mimic a croaking, dehydrated frog’s

vociferous and gaudy claim of prominence, while sequesterd well

within the confines dictated by a Southwestern, always moisture

challenged, US drought.

US President Bailey Post Rumpole denied any knowledge of the

circumstances surrounding this event or the supposed event

itself, as it had not yet been on TV; but in a conciliatory

offering, attributed it, if later intelligence verified, to the

work of the conspiratorial anti-US Democratic deep state, and

that he was firing that stupid redneck Attorney General for

dereliction of duties. When reminded that he had already done

that, Rumpole said; “Hahaha. Well, well. He must have quit

without filing resignation papers with me. It doesn’t matter as

whatever the cause, we have some nukes, which if need be, can be

laid on them Rooskies make Tunguska look like a Halloween

firecracker; pretty good pun, eh?”

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Tel Aviv, Israel got hit by bombs they say were sent their way

by the Russia supporting Ukranian faction, using rockets

supplied by illegal arms dealers in Vladimir Rasputin’s inner

circle, in a suggestion of that being a deviation from official

policy.

Avi Gur, spokesperson for the normally secretive Ukranian

“rebels” said; “Fighting we know. Imposed on us for decades,

it’s been. Beat Russia and pro-Russia Ukranian traitors we can.

From Israel and US no gvad helfn is needed or existent. Meshugas

is claim of flag false.”

London papers report rioting and cries of “insanity” after Prime

Minister Victoria May announced that her government supports

both the US, Israel, Russia, and Brexit revision, the latter as

might be gleaned as an end run on the majority supporters of the

border recognizing departure. Disregarded protestors point out

that the UK has not had a diplomatic relationship with Israel

since 1949, and that this is not the best time to establish one,

Victoria May’s “failure” to satisfactorily implement an un-

required and impossible Brexit document a source of diversionary

internal strife, and no more.

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“The Israeli Times” ran an op-ed piece which belittled London’s

protestors as those who are living in the past.

Russia claims that an unspecified “big” border city got bombed

by US rockets launched from the Ukraine, and that ”they hold the

US and Israel, it’s 51st state, responsible.” Vladimir Rasputin

was quoted in “Moscow Today” as saying; “Like dogs, play with

us, they do. News for them we have. In our weapon, hear and feel

it, they will.”

Israel claims to have bombed Iran, and Iran claims to have

bombed Israel, or neither not depending upon the official

assessment of the targeted reader’s limitation, which is much

too over-conveniently attributed to a clandestine in intent if

not well executed point of view drearily consistent with any

biased, advocacy point-of-view which has hit the airwaves since

like 1959; Millennials not a likely source of further

“enlightenment,” insofar as the dearth of non-nulib-anarcho

opinion, in an apparent confession to their being totally devoid

of policy, and thereby logically supports and seeks to be seen

as electably “nice,” one-world, and anti-boundaries, white one,

through anything which corresponds to “I’m against whatever

Rumpole said,” help coming from every “comedic” TV host allowed

in the liberal media, and dependant upon the “funny stuff”

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provided by a staff of uninspired Johnny Paycheck writers,

obligatory laughs, seeming all too obviously so, from the black

band head provided on camera as an un-specific testimony to the

popularity of the SOS, Rumpole now a seemingly easy target, but

not yet competently exploited.

Is this a war or the manifestation of a posthumous Derrida

influence upon difficulties with self, other, and identity?

Whatever, it seems a good bet to say that Jacques is now

laughing his ass off.

Ukranian anti-Russia forces claim 300 casualties from illegal

Russian gas attacks as well as claiming that they neither have

nor need the support of Israeli troops and US and Israeli

weaponry.

War breaks out in the rest of Europe

Soldiers of the Russian army tearing down the border crossing into the Ukraine; June 20, 2022.

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Under likely guidance from Russia, its primary supplier of oil

and gas, Germany invaded Poland after having staged several

false flag border incidents as a pretext to initiate the attack.

The United Kingdom responded with an ultimatum to Germany to

cease military operations. This morning, after the ultimatum was

ignored, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand

declared war on Germany. This alliance was joined an hour later

by South Africa and Canada. The alliance provided no direct

military support to Poland, outside of a cautious French probe

into activities in the Saarland. The Western Allies also began a

naval blockade of Germany, which aimed to damage the country's

economy and war capabilities. Germany responded by ordering

submarines, at least sometimes nuclear capable, to be used

against Allied merchant ships, and to the country issuing the

flag.

Soldiers of the Polish Army during the defense of Poland.

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After signing a militarily un-necessary cease-fire agreement

with Finland, prompting the happy Finns to be, if possible, even more pro-Russian than previously, the Soviets invaded Belarus

under the pretext that the state had ceased to exist as anything

other than a haven for Islamic terrorists, drawing approval, in

that regard, from US President Bailey Post Rumpole who sought to

dispel the internal US confusion by saying; “As Rasputin said;

‘Bedfellow strange politic make.’”

The “Ukranian government in exile,” whichever that one is today,

ostensibly one not yet convicted of financial fraud, possibly

under the guidance of Fridman, also established an Underground

State and a resistance movement; with a mission statement highlighting their policy of absentia and abstention in regard

to Russian claims to oil off the coast of Ukraine in return for

a 5% fee off the top to be donated to the establishment of a

Jewish state in Crimea. Rasputin avoided or deflected the issue

by saying; “What means Jewish?”

Russia has deployed batteries of nuclear capable ballistic

missiles close to the Ukrainian border, according to new

satellite images. The photos, taken by ImageSat International,

show a deployment of short range, nuclear capable Iskander

ballistic missiles near the city of Krasnodar, which is about

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270 miles southeast of the Ukrainian border, Fox News reported.

ImageSat is a professional commercial satellite imaging

provider. Its imaging is regularly used by governments and

defense agencies for security analysis purposes. In apparent

consistency with their recently announced Belarus doctrine,

Russia said that the Ukrine no longer exists as a country,

though unlike Belarusian claims, made no clarifying statement as

to whether or not that meant annexation, obliteration, or abject

disregard would be the stated potential source of Ukraine

existence, as opposed to their terrorist harboring, as defined

by trusting compatriot, now defunct Dubya. Vladimir Rasputin,

displaying bulging eye bags consistent with the condition of

untreated, late stage sleep apnea, or untreated early to mid-

stage uranium poisoning as can be visually detected and

therefore subject to revision, ominously said; “Ours is it. All

is that.” The detailed satellite images show a missile compound

with several bunkers and a second nearby compound with multiple

hangars. An Iskander launcher could be seen close to a

transloader vehicle used to rapidly reload fresh missiles into

the launcher. Another transloader vehicle could be seen leaving

a bunker close by, the door of which was open, the broadcaster

added. Imagset International suggested the drill could be seen

as a “signal from Russia to the US as escalation preparatory,” a

rather sfe statement in light of other reports. Another similar

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drill was held at an Iskander site near the Siberian city of

Ulan-Ude. Israeli Prime Minister Zohar Ben-Yahu accidentally

spit on his tie when he said; “Such a show of bupkes maiksh,

excuse me, for another backward goyishe threat with a limp uncut

noodle backup,” some think echoing the unspoken words of

affiliated parent, Bailey Post Rumpole. The Iskander missile has

a range of up to 310 miles, putting the war-torn Donbass region

of eastern Ukraine within striking distance. Pro-Russian

militants have been fighting government forces there since 2014

in an effort to establish an independent state. Russian forces,

perhaps vainly attemting to replay their successful Rus bashing

of the Khazarians centuries prior in a popularly believed

misinterpretation of the carelessly vague, yet undeniably

mounting, have provided both indirect and direct military

support to the militants. The war is ongoing, and its intensity

has, despite propaganda attesting to it having been waning, been

increased steadily since the front lines transmuted upward, its

alleged demise senselessly attributed to a cease fire which has

been violated almost every day since it was signed in early

2015. But tensions rose again in what is still considered to be

eastern Europe, following a naval clash in the Black Sea.

Russian vessels and helicopters pursued, fired upon and seized

three Ukranian vessels they claimed violated Russian territorial

waters. Twenty-four sailors were also detained. A Moscow court

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announced this week that eight seamen would be detained for an

extended period, despite continued protests from Kiev and the

West. Ukraine has maintained that its vessels were using

international waters and blamed Russia for purposefully

instigating the incident. On paper, Russia annexed the Crimean

Peninsula in 2014 after Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin president was

deposed by mass protests. Moscow has since constructed a mammoth

bridge linking Crimea to Russia across the Kerch Strait, and has

reportedly been harassing Ukrainian vessels using the waterways

to travel between the country’s eastern and western ports.

Earlier this week, a senior Russian defense official delivered a

message intended to be an eye-opening warning to Kiev, suggesting its cooperation with western powers put its

sovereignty at risk, ostensibly as if it wasn’t in that

condition already. “Everything to split Ukraine is doing the

Kiev authorities, therein implementing the West's scenario for

separating Ukraine from Russia, while their own people have

ignored interests,” Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev

told Russian newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gazeta .” “Like a bum in the

end, split effectively was the country,” he added. “The

continuation of such a policy by the Kiev authorities may

contribute to Ukraine's loss of statehood, as if it wasn’t in

already that condition.” Washington and Moscow are currently at

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odds over the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF)

Treaty, which banned ground-launched nuclear or conventional

ballistic missiles with ranges of 310 miles to 3,417 miles.

A conscripted faceless soldier of indeterminate origin and belief is obliged to do his best to

herald the next incoming weapon of war; property of the author.

Within the guise of private courier easily denied entreaties,

Germany made a peace overture to the United Kingdom and France,

but said that the future of Poland, Belarus, and the Ukraine was

to be determined exclusively by Germany and the Soviet Union,

effectively contradicting itself for the benefit of “being on

record” as a testimony to their reasonability. The proposal was

rejected, and Rasputin ordered an immediate offensive against

France, which would be postponed until the summer due to bad

weather, which existed only in northern Russia.

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Kindly stated, the precocious Finnish machine gun nest aimed at neighboring Soviet “Red” Army

positions in a doctored photo, intended to appease hoth the Russians and their detractors.

If the existing fear inducing events engendered were not

sufficient; it is rumored that the Russians aided by the Germans

intend to annex Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the disputed

Romanian regions of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertza.

Geography seems to place the advantage in any such maneuver with

the Russians. However, Reuters considers it fair to point out

that it may not be privy to clandestine revenue sharing

agreements. Bailey Post Rumpole said; “No one ever even heard of

those shithole places. If Rasputin wants them, let him be my

guest at the bankruptcy awards dinner he knows so well. Of

course, if any Jews are there, it’s a whole different story.”

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Ignored minorities have issued ignored warnings since the

days of “Harriet and Ozzie,” as is stated by one who reads right

to left, and finally the shit has hit the unseen fan. Leibowitz

tried to belatedly explode the story. He was late, deficient,

lazy, un-motivated, etc. etc. etc., but most of all it wasn’t

his job. It should be noted that no matter the precise nature of

the world upheaval, it is not yet his or his tiny family’s

problem, and likely never will be. If that sounds self-serving,

please consider the fact that if everyone took care of one

person, just one, as he had, the world would be a heavenly

ideal. When not sleepy or amused, Isaac was probably now more

self-righteous than sorry, as this was none of his doing, and

his wishes had no relevance, thereby his largest regret being a

personal pragmatic one; that Fitz might have had his ass blown

away before having made him a Senior Vice President. “The delays

prompted by over-study can be quite a killer. Can’t they?”

Isaac went back to bed hoping against hope that it was all a bad

dream. His sleep was prevented by the pre-dawn flickering lights

hitting the window sill, the cold glow of his laptop, and the

wind howling like a canon outdoing the best of fantods causing

what seemed to be a difficult to ignore, creaky tremble in the

Brooklyn Bridge.

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Picasso’s “Guernica”; public domain.

Providing garish choral accompaniment to the principal and

pivotal pyrotechnic presentation, the sirens were blaring,

preventing his return to slumber. Isaac became certain that this

was the real thing; no dream bailout available; coming from too

many directions at once to be coincidental. He decided to leave

and go back to Gig Harbor, recognizing that if Manhattan was now

considered an acceptable target by the “official” powers that

be; he was much too close for comfort.

He sent Chloe an e-mail saying; “I’m OK. Hope you are too. I’m

driving back right now. Should be there in a few days.”

Concerned for her, one piece of luggage in hand, he stopped at

Joyce’s and to his liking, she opened the door just enough for

Isaac to see that she had Shmuel there. Joyce virtually giggled

when she said; “He has a pouch of cut stones. We’ll be fine.

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Heading out to Huntington Beach in a few minutes. Right after

sunrise.”

Isaac slowly coerced his not-designed-for-city and initially

balky SUV through a few local Brooklyn streets. A drizzle began

so softly one might have taken it for a mist or a fog. Isaac

turned on his wipers and cut the frontal high beams down to rear

fog lights. Though still difficult, his vision improved over

that provided by the reflecting high beams bouncing off the many

miniscule drops of moisture. He got to the well lit highway, cut

the now un-necessary fog lights, decided that his name was

presently Isaac Weston, and took it west. Initially tentative,

for some unfathomable reason with every gas pedal push, he was

increasingly certain that he’d make it home.

“I’ve lost all interest in the sordid world affairs which I

never really had except in obligatory sociability. I have

nothing more to say. I’m headed home.”

He pushed the button to find that the car radio was still

working. Pre-set to a classic oldies station, it provided much

needed peace and solace.

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War and “Suicide is Painless” by Johnny Mandel and Michael B Altman; property of the author, the

latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.

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Highway West and “Let It Be” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney; property of the author,

the latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.

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**41½**

Back!

Their Gig Harbor house; property of the author.

Gig Harbor view; property of the author.

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Abby’s kitten Ball; property of the author.

Abby and Mark; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license; modified.

Ventura Highway

America

Chewin' on a piece of grass, walkin' down the road

Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, Joe?

Some people say this town don't look good in snow

You don't care, I know

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Ventura Highway in the sunshine

Where the days are longer

The nights are stronger than moonshine

You're gonna go, I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

And the days surround your daylight there

Seasons crying no despair

Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Wishin' on a falling star, waitin' for the early train

Sorry boy, but I've been hit by a purple rain

Aw, c'mon Joe, you can always change your name

Thanks a lot son, just the same

Ventura Highway in the sunshine

Where the days are longer

The nights are stronger than moonshine

You're gonna go, I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

And the days surround your daylight there

Seasons crying no despair

Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

“Ventura Highway” by Dewey Bunnell.

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Just as the song hit the half way mark, Isaac made a right

onto the Pacific Lane he sometimes thought he’d never see again.

He slowed down to 5 MPH to celebrate and savor every inch.

The houses all looked the same as when he had left, and the

Collins’ white labbie, Rex, was chasing a ball thrown by eight

year old Timmy. They were having too good a time to make any

note of him.

Isaac continued to the end of the road where his jointly

owned western styled Gothic stood. There was a lone deer on the

front lawn, nibbling at something in the grass. The maple tree

they had made a family project of planting out front ten years

prior was healthy, tall, and wearing its full, thick, summer

green palmate leaves, with branches going in all directions.

Mark and Abby were lost in thought on the side swing, her kitten

Ball napping in her lap.

Chloe was the first to see Isaac, she smiling and standing

in the front entryway she had just opened. She said; “Look! The

maple tree that we all planted ten years ago is now OVER forty-

two feet tall!”

Isaac was home again.

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Chloe; property of Chloe.

End of Part 2 of 2

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