T M N T --- cause for speaking out .....

Overheard in Alabama theater during Turtle trailer preview .... audience critics watching Norbit. A guy yells out ... "That's the turtles man? They look retarded!"

Another voice responds, "That's the turtles !!!!!!!!! SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!"


And some more yelling ensued. hehe. ALL on the side of the turtles. I want the hoodie .....




Opening Friday. Buying my tickets RIGHT NOW.

E R A C I S M

ERACISM meetings are not just rap sessions; they are focused conversations.



I don't feel the racism problem. But, on the other hand I've never looked for the differences in US. In my family and friends everyone was everyone. No one was excluded unless they were just plain SWINE and even then we'd just keep an eye on them. HAHA I DO feel people trying to start it or re-start the racial conflict and I do feel people trying to hang on to it. It's UGLY. This is not a black/white thing anymore but a decency thing. I can have the identical conversation with a black or white or any person of any color or creed or any persuasion or orientation and that's all it boils down to. I still see problems on both sides but from my perspective (and yes, it's open to discussion) I see way more decent people who abhor the police state and condemn any 'bad-isms' for what they are. The Bush Regime has been great at creating more divisions than I can remember in my lifetime. I don't have the hours and hours and hours to list these.

Think of the 'debates' these people have started.

Divide and Conquer. I won't remind you again WHO this is reminiscent of. Please don't buy into it. Don't be sucked in to hatred and fear.

Don't help the twisted ones create more divisions where there aren't any. Don't let them get away with that. It's the oldest trick in the book: Divide and Conquer.

These people do what they can to move the world forward.

The goal of a conversation is not to master a topic or to learn a lot of facts, but rather to deepen understanding. This occurs when people exchange views freely and consider a variety of viewpoints. The process — democratic discussion among equals — is as important as the content.

The key elements of a good conversation are exchange and reciprocity, not competition or the attempt to impose one's views on another.

During a genuine conversation, participants will listen actively to each other and in the process expand their horizons by exploring perspectives that are different from their own. They will also be challenged to critically examine taken-for-granted assumptions.

It is important to understand that we will never agree about everything or reach definitive consensus on each topic. Instead, we try to find common ground and enough understanding of other people's ideas and feelings to move forward toward our goal: Eracism.

If all this seems a bit abstract, here are Seven Guidelines… and Four Specific Rules for Participants (in case one of us ever wanted to get this going...)

Please help when you can and where you can to LOVE EVERYONE.

It's the only rule.

If I don't say that once a week, I feel like I have not fulfilled my warranty to the world.

Just love everyone. Be kind and .... love them.

In your Face Strategy in a City NEAR you ....

This is a swell little whiff I picked up while researching to see if I could add anything less compellingly freaky/borderline acceptable for the slow seats ... about letting go our freedoms than picking on sexual predators ... because of course that's how they start it. By going after those you love to hate. Don't hate them. Be happy they got stuck with that life and not you. There but for the grace of god and such ..... (first they go after those you love to hate but eventually and then eventually and then they get to YOU -- still smiling but after YOU)

AND a PERSONAL OBSERVATION (I know these are your favorites) and I'm gonna post a pic. SOON. I actually committed to that, it's a biggie. There's a certain few gnarly places in Tampa where the drug-runner-type-uniform-gangster-wannabe-or-BE-hats on sale are THUS ... and this super underscores the WHOLE POINT I am always making in my slanted fashion (about the new people who try to kick us around when we're not even in the f'ing way -- they just want it ALLLLL) .... anyhooo hanging right next to the ILLEGAL CRACK STEMS ...(haha I wonder why we can't get a law passed about the THOUSANDS of those I guess first we have to take care of the 122 sexual predators.. only 120 for sure because the two in my hood keep it in the family)

.... okay --- the hats for sale are these in puffy-stitch cheezy ass embroidery .... hat brim = 305 or 813 or NY .. that's your only choices.
Take it however you wanna.
I go ahead and take it how it goes down.
I'm a naively styled realist.
A cool combination if I must say so myself.

It means I know what you are up to if I think about it but I don't particularly give a damn if you don't hurt anyone AT ALL. But you are so you are assholes .... yeah, when I am tired ... the run-on sentences are ... RUN ONNNNNNN... the boyfriend is a musician, see ... when he is up all night composing and messing around ... it's either roll with the changes or ... not. I'm rollin... ha. I often wonder if Roger Waters' girlfriend gets more sleep and is therefore far more beautiful .... and I'm going to go find out. This will greatly relieve many folks for a few brief moments. Damn, see above link. She IS hot, but naturally so ... AND ... she became his wife somewhere in the midst of the picture posting. Whew.

It's a very common mis-perception that circles under the eyes are from lack of sleep or from aging. In reality these are symptomatic of several other thing which may include: exposure to pesticide, respiratory interference, interference with the body's ability to carry away dead red-blood cells. Take that those of you who think I'm a complete dumb-ass. I'm merely plain-spoken by choice ... and I am impatient to post and like to edit on the fly and afterwards ... I work best under pressure, and all.

Just wait til I hook up mobile blogging and you have to deal with me completely on the fly. LOL !!! That's when I start collecting money to pay the high premiums for the fender benders ... jeez it will be highway robbery, freeway robbery ... LOL !!!

And here it IS: (the beginning, the middle and the end all rolled into ONE)

Show me your papers, please (This assumes they will say please!!!)
by Alex Eckelberry
March 5th, 2007
(if I'm not mistaken and I'm too damned tired to look or link right now, the article he pointed me to which is also posted in farmer of thoughts... is from nov 2005 and unlinked from the many fruitful links throughout. sorry maybe tomorrow or sat.)


Miami police will now will stage random shows of force, asking for IDs and generally making themselves known. (hmmm and what were they before??)

Miami police announced Monday they will stage random shows of force at hotels, banks and other public places to keep terrorists guessing and remind people to be vigilant.

Deputy Police Chief Frank Fernandez said officers might, for example, surround a bank building, check the IDs of everyone going in and out and hand out leaflets about terror threats. Link here.

At the same time, Deborah Davis refuses to show her ID while on a bus and is ticketed.

Federal prosecutors are reviewing whether to pursue charges against an Arvada woman who refused to show identification to federal police while riding an RTD bus through the Federal Center in Lakewood.

Deborah Davis, 50, was ticketed for two petty offenses Sept. 26 by officers who commonly board the RTD bus as it passes through the Federal Center and ask passengers for identification. Link here.


How do you boil a frog? You put it in a pan of cold water and slowly heat up the pot.

Our hard-fought freedoms are slowly and inexorably being reduced in the name of national security. Just like under Hitler in Nazi Germany ....

And I feel bad for the frogs karma.