Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Looting the Giant Supermarkets

Standing in line at the grocery story Sunday, not paying much attention to my surroundings, I suddenly heard the checker in the next line saying loud - "They just ran out with their cart and didn't pay!" (They pretended they were waiting for a friend with the money for their filled up cart, but probably called to make sure the car was there for a getaway.)

I missed the action, but it certainly felt like a scene out of a catastrophe movie where people fill up their carts and some just run out, looter style.

That night, coincidentally, I read about a Church of England vicar who opined at a meeting with government officials that maybe it wasn't such a big deal if poor people stole food from Giant supermarkets.  He was banned from the priesthood almost immediately.

Yesterday, sitting around the doctors office with a dozen mostly overweight people like me, I watched several well dressed young drug pushers walking in and out like Princes and Princesses, barely announcing themselves to the receptionist. I wondered: hmmm, could it be drug companies own food companies to insure we're all poisoned with fast and crappy food so we are sick and need their drugs. Googled relevant terms and low and behold, CBS and ABC reported that drug companies and insurance companies invest billions in such companies.

Watched the film City of God yesterday and the reality of grinding poverty and crime as a way some ambitious or desperate or angry people choose to survive.  It's an ugly world out there, I'm afraid.  And current churches and states only add to the ugliness.

I have a lot of my previously used personal aphorisms (short catchy phrases) I could throw in right now, but maybe when I come up with a more effective and enlightening one, I'll add it here...

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

New terrorist tactic - calling the wrong number...

The Edward Snowden leak of more evidence the government is spying on everyone (DUH!) probably gave overseas terrorists a great idea of how to spread chaos through America.  Using your pre-paid cell phone, call up thousands of Americans a day from downtown (name your favorite city filled with alleged terrorists) and tell them something cryptic that the government is sure is related to terrorism, hang up, throw it into a dump truck heading to the dump, and let the investigations and persecutions begin!!

Hello, Mrs. Smith? Yes, I am glad your daughter is going to marry my ... he he he...my brother from Afghanistan.  The wedding party will be in .. he he he....  your city hall.  Boy will that be a surprise party!  Thanks for doing all that great planning! .... As-salamu alaykum

Hello, this is your telephone service center. Would you like to hear about a free six month offer of service from your telephone company. It will just take two minutes to explain..... Israel first, screw America....

Hello, Jones Hardware? Have you got my gardening supplies? I need to ...he he ..decorate the roof of your tallest building there. Thank you for your aid and support!!.... Accept the Jesus of the sword or else!

Hello, Green and Black, attorneys? My uncle may be needing an attorney... very hush hush... your paralegal said you were all on board when we talked about it.  You know my uncle and his crazy cooking equipment! ..... Free Syria from the Allawites and give it to the Sunni fundamentalists!

Uh, oh, have I given terrorists a new idea? Hey, I got it from some yapper at CNN. Take THEM to Guantanamo!

Of course, they'd be more interested in hearing: "I've just invented a better website than facebook and I'll close it down within a year" so they can shut down the competition.  That's what Max Keiser said today.  Below some video of relevance.



UPDATES 6/19/13: 
* I still haven't heard explicit discussion of this issue on TV. Are they that stupid? Or just following media bosses instructions, gotten from those bloodsucking politicians and bureaucrats who regulate the airwaves?
* Not to mention when one receives very strange emails that could be terrorists trying to get you in trouble for NOT immediately going to the FBI. 
* When CNN today reports on the irony of Obama speaking at Berlin Wall and having to explain his spying program, they are beating bloggers to the punch; and you KNOW it will be harder for people to call you a tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist anymore! ;-)