EUGENEWEEKENS.COM— “THIS WEEK: ALL THE ORGANIC, EXPENSIVE, LOCAL , BI-COASTAL, SUSTAINIBLE, HIPPIE-APPROVED FOOD AT EUGENE FARMERS’ MARKETS!!! 2016 ” JUNE 16″

Eugene Grapples with Orlando Massacre, decides to make everyone in Eugene gay!

“We thought it was the least we could do,” stated a LBGFPT gay member of “gay men who don’t want to be women, Local Union”. “It’s the only way we know, to make everyone non-homophobic, and have bigger, better party-bashes at the same time!! We party better than “breeders”, so why not share the fun, while protesting against violence?” The gay groups’ rep. did state to this reporter, that all the “breeders” in Eugene, who were to be transformed into either sex. did have a  choice of sexes..”We want everyone to have freedom of choice,” said their leader, proudly.”That’s what Eugene is about, freedom of the individual!!  We know that will stop any more terrorist homo-phobes from wreaking violence on any community.”

Eugene Weekens’ ORGANIC SATURDAY FARMERS’ MARKETS MAKE YOUR FOOD!!!!–SO EAT UP, AND PAY UP!!!

Granola is a munch-food, and a symbol of the organic food movement, and along with organically-made beer, wine,

beer-nuts,snacks and dips, Eugene businesses have made all this junk-food legitimate as REAL FOOD, and not just

something to give you a beer-belly. (ALL this junk is now good for you, even the carbs, because its all organic.)

Even Oregon doctors agree,”Hey, man, this is happening food! You diabetics and food-allergy people can eat ANY &

ALL of the wonderful local organic food, and not have any bad effects, because its sanctified by the Goddess of

Naturalness and Compost-ability! That makes Lane COUNTY a “sanctified-organic-Holy-sustainabill Reighteous

Vindicated- Superior Expensive-Gentrified-Wowie-Pretencious PLACE!!” The doctors did say, that proof of rotten or

fungus-laden produce from organic farmers was a huge lie, dictated by mass-farming GMO-POO-POO-

Corporations, who make poisoned grain and food, and have killed thousands of people with GMO-POO-POO grains.

“ALL FOODS, other than organic,are bad for you,” stated the Eugene doctors, “You should STARVE unless you can get

organic food!!  YES, stop eating, if you have no money for ORGANIC!! IT’s so much better for you!!–your bones will

thank you!!!”

Completely messy oil- Canvas, Lets EX-NYC resident

Think Herself into a State of Artiness:

 

Terella Roosevelt Vanderbilt Howard-Hughes, a transplant from the upper-east side of NYC  a graduate of hi-toned art and music schools of the east coast, moved to paltry little town of Eugene, out of the goodness of her heart.”i had to find myself, express my anguish!!!” the renegade pacifist-vegan-radical-feminist-lesbian-organic-Marc Jacob-Neo-Liberal artist, who was surrounded by her art forms, paintings, and copies of WIN-Co grocery carts, transformed into miniatures, expansively  –er..–expanded herself in her chic, hippie-art-goache-coated liv. room. “Those upper-east side fiends of New York wouldn’t let me have my anguish.””__she paused. “But now, ” she giggled, “they all moved to PORTLAND, and took it over!! HEE HEE HEE!”

SALVAGE LOVE:  by Mikey Salvage

Dykes Redux

Dear Mikey: I’m a 21-year-old gay lesbian-nurtering-Trash Lover, who’s loved garbage and trash all her life. Now that I’m an adult,I am confused about the contemporary state of sex in the United States. Is this a gay nation? Or a pusedo-masochist society now? Where do I fit in? I mean, I go to lesbian bars, and illegal,black-market lesbian Sak’s 5th Avenue dept. store cocktail parties, (you’d be amazed at how many women who frequent Saks and Bergdorf’s, are just cruising for ladies rather than Dior dresses. But, often, we have to settle for Marc Jacobs, cause that’s all they have. I refuse to wear the requisite BEARD, however.).

I just don’t get it, Mikey!! I have been with women,and men,and old cucumbers; I have tried animal-love and fish-love, and gotten sea-sick and a bad yeast infection. I went to orgies for men,orgies for women,and orgies for bi-sexuals, and those were REALLY CONFUSING!!Bi-sexual orgies are dull, they stand around for hours, trying to make up their minds.Everyone usually gives up, and just gets drunk!!What I can’t find is, another trash-lover who doesn’t “compact”, and feels the same way I do about TRASH.

But I can only find “hoarders” who like to watch “Hoarder-Country” on t.v., and can’t clean out their closets. It’s just not the SAME as a trash-fetish. We Trash-lovers only want garbage and trash, and we don’t hoard; hoarders are a whole different disorder.

–one I just don’t want to get dragged into!  But real Trash-lovers are hard to find. THEY don’t jump in the garbage-piles with just ANYONE!!! Amazingly, there are no Trash & Garbage-Lovers websites, they don’t like them.—You can’t get that “smell & slime-feel” unless you meet someone in the flesh.

I’m tired of being alone every night, sifting thru my cat’s kitty-litter, dreaming & hoping for “The One,” to show up.—-

sign me, “All Out of Litter”.

 I can’t think why, AOL, you don’t frequent the Whit District more often; don’t you realize they have a great bunch of Trash-lovers down there? And I don’t mean those pedestrian Hoarders!! But as for your complaining about bi-sexuals; that’s very unfair,and not true.They CAN make up their minds when they want to. Bi-sexuals are picky too. (Well, maybe a little.) You just need to give one time, to make up her/his mind. I think once you cruise the garbage-bins of the Whit, you’ll lock eyes some time, with the filthy-face of your true love. Or, maybe just some good, dirty sex. Here’s smelling you!!—Mikey Salvage

    

(TRY the salvagelove-podcast/ and email us at “salvage-love/don’tthrowitaway!.com  ” /find us at DISNEY-WORLD

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“TRUMP RUNS FOR PREZ; HILARY DEMANDS FEMINISTS’ VOTES, AND NO MORE GOOD WATERMELON IN EUGENE, OR”

(ART BY MENTALLY ILL VOLUNTEER)

.”is that, that painting called “the potato eaters”?” Asked Carolyn, as she looked at my latest blog entry. “No,” I answered her, taking a lot of pain killer for my joints, “it’s called “very crazily colored painting by very crazily – colored artist”, why do you ask?” “Nothing,” she finally replied, giving it up.

I had just been trying to call the long-distance number for the post office, trying to get my package rerouted so it would be picked up at my local post office, instead of being delivered to me on a day when I couldn’t stay home to get it. It actually took me two hours, calling and calling, and calling and waiting on their wait line,before the long-distance post office said, “no, you have to call up your local post office to arrange for them to keep your package there so you can pick it up.”

Thanks so much, federal post office department!the next time any of the states decide to secede from the union, and become independents, countries, themselves, I’ll remember this, and support them.they couldn’t be any worse getting a hold of individual post offices, at individual tiny countries post offices, any worse than our own big federal post office. So what the hell?

Back to the pony express, YAHOO!

besides the fact that Trump was running for president on the Republican ticket of, “I am just so much better than Obama could possibly be, and I’ll probably get rid of Obama care –” there wasn’t much chance that Obama could one up him. Not that I like Republicans or believe them, it was just that, all my experience with Obama and Obama care, was pretty much similar to dealing with a autistic three-year-old boy, who didn’t realize the world was round, and usually spent most of his days holed up in a ball in a drain pipe.

there was no doubt at this point that ANYONE could do the presidency better than Obama, and maybe not lie so much as well. – – Plus, “INACTION” was Obama’s middle name. Who could do worse than that?

HILLARY!! HILLARY! ONE TWO – THREE – HILLARY! (LOL)

Caroline was saying, over a cold drink,while all this manure was being discussed, “I can’t find any REGULAR WATERMELON!” With a sob. “That’s because,” I replied, swigging down awhiskey and pineapple juice, “there IS NO REGULAR WATERMELON anymore! I found that out myself, I can’t find them either. There is nothing except seedless genetically manipulated watermelon!”

“AND,all the seedless watermelon taste like crap, like cardboard, no sweetness, no flavor, nothing that leads me to think it’s a piece of fruit. And NOBODY has any regular old-fashioned watermelon now! I never thought I would get so old, I would see the death of watermelon. But that’s what happened. “

“These things we are supposed to call watermelon, taste like flavorless turnips.”

“I have lived too long,” I replied, sitting down very hard. “When a woman can run for president, and I refuse to vote for her; watermelon all tastes like-year-old turnips; the Republican might get into the White House, just because the present Commander-in-Chief was ALSO ACTING like a year-old turnip rotting away in a deathly bad old garden.

“–Any of our diplomats or officials overseas are no longer physically safe because our federal government refuses to send troops to rescue them, and China can just zonk right into all the federal employees’ records and all information, just by using a couple of XBOXES.– – because the federal government’s computers are no longer able to stop them or to encrypt all the information.”

“are you trying to call us a Third World, or fourth world, or even a fifth world country,now?” Asked Carolyn, slurping some more pineapple juice/Whiskey. “yes, I guess I am,” I said, yawning in the heat of the day. “Then,” replied Carolyn drowsily, “you’re absolutely correct. We’re more like some desert in Africa, then any United States I ever heard of. – – And I bet they’ve got better watermelon then we do now,also! “

talk about having the worst of both worlds, instead of the best. High tech watermelon, low-tech, Washington DC.nobody had their priorities straight.

not that Eugene, or Lane County had its priorities straight, either. The Oregon Legislature decided to ignore the Oregon drought, in favor of making all the guns in Oregon completely ill legal, or registered, or, if they passed another cute little anti-firearm bill, requiring you to take out federal insurance on your firearm, or face a $10,000 fine if you didn’t.

okay, that was another Obama – Bill against firearms. How was it supposed to help us keep from getting invaded eventually by ISIS,which was rushing its way through every country it encountered, heading eventually for our shores?so that any ISIS , secret agents hidden in America, would have a very tough time paying the insurance on their firearms, thus rendering them disabled?

Caroline looked out at my backyard, and all the huge amounts of overgrown blackberry bushes, high weeds, and high grass, and asked me “aren’t you ever going to get your junky yard cut, ever, this summer?” “Are you volunteering?” I replied, looking for the whiskey bottle, and the lemons, and a CD of “baby doll”. “NO,” replied Carolyn hissing at me, “I just want to know if you’re going to finally get declared totally ill legal by the County, and get your whole place condemned?! It would definitely happen!”

“yes,” I sighed, “I know it’s going to happen, I just don’t have the money to do it, and all my joints are in so much pain, I can’t make up a huge amount of oxbow, and go out and spray them all myself right now. And don’t tell me to hire high school kids, they refuse to do that work anymore! They all want white-collar jobs in offices tapping on keyboards, even for the summer!”and I turned and looked at her – – “and don’t say I should hire a bunch of Mexican or Latin American wet backs, ill –legally, because all I have to do, is hire some poor, unemployed schnook -adult who can’t get a job here to save his life!”

“so, continued Caroline, looking up at the sun with one hand over her eyes, tentatively, “I think you’re probably going to let all the bushes, weeds, grass, and even the blackberry bushes DIE in the heat of the sun, in July instead, are you? So you don’t have to kill them yourself? Like some third world or fourth world peasant who has no money, has gotten old, and still is required to kill the weeds on his place by his dictatorship?”

“YOU GOT IT!” I said happily, finding the whiskey bottle, and making myself a lemonade and whiskey sour. “Welcome to the new third and fourth and fifth world country!hi Tec watermelons, and low-tech people! Low money, low politics, low action, and most of all low ethics and morals!Brazil is sending all of its unwanted criminal-peones to Oregon, I hear, because that countries getting too high tech filled with middle-class jobs, and hard up Europeans! Oh, and also lots of Chinese.”

“EVERY COUNTRY has lots of Chinese now,” replied Caroline, finally remembering to put on her sun–hat, although her nose had already burnt to a crisp. “They’re everywhere except in China. The only Chinese in China, are the ones who can’t afford to get out, and the ones who were running the factories.” She looked at me quizzically. “Is it true you’re trying to make some business deal with Ali Baba, the Chinese business website? What the hell are you up to? You’re not going to get some little tiny factory to manufacture quilted checkbook covers for you, are you? And sell them on eBay? Are you that much of a copycat?”

“NO! NO!”I replied vehemently, throwing the whiskey bottle into large blackberry bush, now that it was empty. “I’m not doing that at all! It’s a completely new invention, it’ll make us wealthy!” And Carolyn looked at me with the sick look in her eye, as this, “he finally gone off her rocker for good!”

“it’s just this,” I said, picking up a knife and slicing off a long length of blackberries vine, and shredding off all the leaves and thorns, and showing it happily to Carolyn. “I’ve invented a way to make shepherds hooks, ear rings, out of the matter of Oregon blackberry vines, the don’t have any metal in them, and are completely allergenic! They’ll revolutionize the ear wire industry! I just have to get some factory in China, to take all the vines, and manufacture the ear rings out of them! You could hang anything you want from ORGANIC – BLACKBERRY – VINE – EAR – WIRES!” I can hear Caroline gasped behind me.

“Sandramina,”she said my name slowly, as if trying not to scare me or upset me. “Maybe we should take you on some kind of vacation, like an ocean cruise to Alaska? Maybe you’ve been thinking too hard lately?and all that cold would take down the inflammation of your brain? What do you think?” I didn’t pay any attention to her, I kept talking about my new invention, ORGANIC – EAR––WIRES!

For women who could not wear any kind of metal in their ears! And MEN!ANYBODY could wear organic ear wires, even little babies, because they were made out of any kind of metal anymore! Not even titanium! And whoever heard of an Oregon blackberry vine hurting somebody’s ears? No way!

“you can’t take me, Hillary will hear about this! HILLARY will save me! I’m a feminist, Hillary loves feminists!Hillary loves all working people, middle-class, and all the good people of America! She’s going to get into office and reward us all! She’s going to get rid of BenGhazi, she’s going to get rid of Isis, she’s the GOOD FAIRY! she should’ve gotten into office, instead of Obama, she would’ve fixed all the whole country by now!”

– – I yelled, as the guys in white jackets from the mental health department, dragged me away, while I was wearing a very nice, totally locked up white jacket myself. Carolyn got in the back of the ambulance, and held my hand. “Don’t worry, it’s going to be okay,” she said soothingly,”it’s just the heat of the summer in this drought,the strain of not having any good watermelon anymore,not being able to vote feminist, and having your country designated fifth -rate-below Africa and Canada and the Sahara Desert, and smelling all the high=potency pot blowing off your new neighbors’ porch next door”, finished Carolyn.

“OH,” added my friend, “also having your latest chiropractor leave the United States, for Australia, and not being able to find another one in the United States on Medicare. That could be a lot for ANY SENIOR with back problems, having to put up with, and wigging out on narcotic painkillers, and newly bought marijuana – derivative – pain products.” Carolyn nodded sadly, as they took me away. “Was she ever be okay again?” She asked, but they looked at her and replied, “WAS SHE EVER ALL right?”

that’s a hard question to answer, if you live in Oregon, home of the fifth rate, fifth world – country and state, and even the Sahara desert is starting to look a lot better for watermelon than here.

(Sandraminadotty, being written for by her best friend, Carolyn, who is noncompus-mentis-temporarily, probably in the slightly disturbed wing of peace health Hospital, as it’s way too hot and way too dried out, and way too “Third -World -country to the- max.” In Eugene, Oregon. no longer the home of summer fruits and vegetables; cuz we only get ours from Mexico, Chile,Latin  America, New Jersey, and Baltimore now.

Nobody DOES ANYTHING in Eugene, Oregon, or Lane County now, except steal transportation-grants from the fed. govt. and use them to land-blast-all the business and sidewalks on 7th Ave., take all the traffic off, and put a big green bus on 7th; so all the rush-hour traffiic will spill over onto 3 lanes, hit passengers, and conjur gridlock for 3 hrs. that is usually only ONE HOUR!!  

CELEBRATE EUGENE!!  WE GOT THE DUMBEST COUNTY, THE MOST RUTHLESS MAYOR, AND THE MOST CHICKEN-SHIT VOTERS AND TAX-PAYERS IN THESE HERE CRUMBLING U.S. STATES!!   and no watermelon, fruit, produce, or MAIL!!!

HAIL THE PACIFIC-NORTHWEST-FLOOSIE-STATE!!   “HOOKERS-R-US-WE VOTE THEM INTO MAYOR!!”…

NO MORE BLOG–SOFTWARE TOO SCREWED UP”– (but everything is screwed up anyway, in Eugene Oregon)

(representational piece of modern art, trying to represent GO DUCKS – – bought from Oregon artists)

The reason I am bitching and moaning and saying that I’m dumping my word press blog , are the following raisins: (snicker snicker).

In the first place,I can’t find any way to fix this stupid word press frame on my blog, which is way too wide now, and I can’t fix it so that I can type on it properly.

Plus, when you try to leave the page,the sticker comes on:”You don’t want to leave the page do you?DON’T GO!! You will erase any changes!(which is what I was trying to do.) NO!! do not leave the page!:” and when i hit the button”leave the page,”it REFUSES TO LEAVE THE PAGE!!

YEAH. it freezes my whole screen, so I cannot leave the page! I cannot turn off the computer,or close it!!HA HA. WORDPRESS, you really fixed it, so no one can leave the page–you’re so scared they will erase their changes—which is what we’re trying to do! If we leave the page,we can erase the wrong changes we made, you dumpkoffs!! But you think we’re the ones screwing up!! So you fixed the “do not leave the page or you’ll erase your changes” so we cannot LEAVE the page at all!! We cannot turn off the computer screen!! Wow, what power and knowledge you guys have!! You made up our minds for us.  You wankers. (more raisins for you, snicker.)  I finally had to force the computer to close. ha ha. No, I’m not mad–yet. But I’m going in that direction.  🙂

That is a big bad Wolf of my WordPress,.org, totally un- read by anybody on the web blog. Which they did not warn me about, when they gave me a WordPress.org blog. They never told me, nobody would ever read it because it was.org.

So now I have the whole job literally of transferring the whole thing over to WordPress.com. Which is still free supposedly. But, if you look up all your instructions for doing this, you may as well go out and get a degree in computer software. Which I don’t want to do right now I am too old and I would die before it was done. Plus, the arthritis in my hands would not hold up for that.

So let’s start complaining about WordPress right now.I think that would be a very good idea. In the first place, okay word press, why didn’t you tell me that if I use.org, for WordPress nobody the hell would ever read it? And it’s definitely not getting read. It’s probably because it’s not a very good blog, but it’s also not in the mainstream of WordPress.com anyway that’s what somebody recently told me and gave me a message on the blog. Supposedly write from WordPress. “Dear lady, please transfer all of your blog over to WordPress.com. Nobody is reading your blog at all because you’re stuck on WordPress.org! – You idiot.”

so if I’m that much of an idiot, why am I supposed to be able to transfer all of my blog through your witty and simple instructions, over to WordPress.com? Of course that’s going to be very easy to do. Especially since I can’t even figure out how to fix my margins, so that I can see the updates sign anymore. 

HOW THE HELL DO I TRANSFER MY BLOG OVER TO WORDPRESS. COM? The good fairies are just going to come over and fly it over?…

And also that’s another thing; what happened to update? The little sign on your page that lets you update when you type? I mean, that’s supposed to be there, right? Or wrong? So how I update this stupid thing? When there’s no update? So you went and changed something else on this dumb thing and didn’t tell me, as usual.

That’s what I get for having a free blog on WordPress. It’s kind of like having only extended basic service on cable TV; you can watch all those channels, but believe me if you’ve watched TV lately, you know that there’s absolutely nothing on. NOTHING.you’re not going to be able to get anything watchable, until you upgrade to a couple of movie channels. – And pay extra.

The last time they actually wrote any good TV shows, was when they had that huge flood of science fiction shows on all the channels. That was it. And I’m not going to count all the stupid “lost” episodes. Do you remember the way they ended that show? COP OUT!  That was an absolute copout. That’s the way you get out of not knowing what the fuck to do with your ending; kill everybody off. No, Shakespeare did not do that because he was a good writer, he did that because it was the fashion. You’re not getting away with that excuse.TV writers have no relationship whatsoever to Shakespeare.

and let’s not forget the latest fiasco of that wonderful series called “MAD MEN”. Did that sucker end or not? I can’t tell. They’re not making any more. But they did not say that! Or at least not when I was watching. So I don’t know whether it’s off or not. But it is off. Ended.and there wasn’t even any ENDING. Unless the ending was supposed to be, that the main madman went off into the sunset, drinking his little alcoholic butt to oblivion. That’s not much of an ending. And  that show was definitely not “days of Wine and roses”. It was all about very risqué old-fashioned underwear and women’s girdles, and nylons, and how women were supposed to be just sex objects in the office. and men really really liked it.

Aww, the good old days!! when men were men, and they drank lots of liquor and didn’t worry about their livers.

that’s been happening a lot on TV; TV series that end without a boom, or a notice that they’re ending. So you’re up in the air, and asking your neighbors, or your friends, “say, is that show over? Or are they just haggling about wages again? And they’re always late getting the episodes out say, about a whole year?  and is Dr. who over?cause I don’t see any new episodes of that either?

“Boy do I miss the TARDIS. It Looks just like that out- house we used to have in the back.”

now let’s keep complaining and not slack off. All right, I’m going to complain about something political;HEY THERE!MR..PRESIDENT!. PRESIDENT OBAMA! Do you have any excuse for THROWING ALL  THOSE PEOPLE  OFF  OF MEDICARE  PART D WHO TAKE PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION?    (DARLING? Sweetie?)

You think we’re all going to be very well supplied by our LOCAL mental health Department and state government?and that all those schizophrenic and psychotic people, including the ones who are dangerously criminal, criminals, on psychiatric medicine are just going to be taken care of by the local mental health department because they have plenty of funds ? And the state governments are going to be able to medicate all those dangerously psychotic, and often homeless, schizophrenics, because all the state governments have so much money?

Wonderful.

you know that  one of them already got that Sen. in the head with a bullet. So does Pres. Obama think that he is completely protected and immune from getting one also from a very very crazy psychotic person off their medication? The medication that president Obama himself decided to stop? Because it cost too much money? And he wants to put all that money into Obama care, so you have to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for your deductible or else you can’t use it? Isn’t that intelligent?

so let’s go on with our not slacking off complaint; if president Obama should get hit in the head by a bullet from a very crazy person or a very overly political person (not much difference),WHO IS he going to blame? Is he going to blame our local mental health Department, because they didn’t have to enough money to give the poor person medication? Is he going to complain about our state government because they didn’t have enough money for mental health?

No, president Obama from his sick bed, while his brain is embedded with a couple of bullets, is going to have to complain about his own program, where he decided to cut all of that psychiatric medicine out of Medicare part D. And that’s the truth.

WHY? There’s no reason a lot of our senior citizens are not particularly un – crazy themselves.after all, president Obama has really inflamed seniors in every corner of our country, by cutting $700 billion out of their Medicare. If that’s not enough to make somebody crazy, I don’t know what is.after all, my age is about 67, and I am actually riddled with neurological antidepressant medication, or else I go crazy, go down to the local gun store, buy a whole bunch of handguns and rifles, and ammunition, get a little training from the National Rifle Association, and jump on a bus to Washington DC.

who says the elderly are jovial and mature? I say they are not jovial and mature. You should see some of the people in Eugene Oregon – a lot less mature than perhaps Hades. I have known and talk to or tried to talk to, so the extremely monstrously extreme left-wing liberals, in Eugene, who have ranted and raved horrendously, so badly, that I think president Obama should start worrying now. And those were middle-aged or elderly people.

They still had a lot of steam left in them. I know that those people happen to be very angry about the extreme non-left-wing stances that president Obama has been taking, (according to them anyhow) and if you cut off their medication, they’re probably going to take the next flying saucer, gray rabbit bus, or volkswagen bus to Washington DC, and probably shoot your head off. – If you can manage to get away from one of your Hawaiian  vacations with your wife and kiddies, or failed foreign visits, and actually BE in Washington DC.minding the business.

(did you know that Hitler actually invented the Volkswagen bus? (The “People’s car”?)and I’m sure that he also approved of the Mercedes-Benz.)”that German engineering.”

I forgot, Obama; you don’t really mind the business, you actually REINVENT all the LAWS of the federal government in the country. That’s what your true job is. And you also REINVENT the Constitution of the United States. I guess that is a pretty big job. That’s why when people look on the map of the world, for the United States of America, they can’t find it anymore. It’s listed as OBAMAVILLE.

the funny thing is, I just looked up some history, of 1776. The basic reasons that the colonists revolted against Britain and went to war, were the following: Taxation without representation, by Britain.the British were taxing the colonists to death. Also, if you were a colonist, you had no rights, you could be hauled away, to prison or what ever, without any trial or jury. No phone call. It was legal.thank God that could never happen now.

(Raisins, snicker snicker.) Plenty of raisins.

it is true,that suddenly I feel lighthearted and light shouldered, because there are no burdens and worries and stress on my shoulders now that I have written this great and wonderful blog episode. It really does make you feel free and better, to get all those worries off your mind, and transfer them onto everybody else on the web.

that is, until I get plenty of visits from the FBI and CIA, if I can manage to get them to read this blog, because they now think that, as a senior citizen I am extremely dangerous. DARN. and the last time the FBI visited me, they sent really big, tall, heavy duty young guys, with scowls on their faces. all over some ranting and raving on the web, where people usually rant and rave and nobody takes it seriously.but somehow, these great agents missed out completely on all signs of the forthcoming Boston bombing. Tsk tsk. What a bad day to miss.

After all, nobody’s reading my blog!that’s what I get for being.org. Instead of.com.I can never get any real terrorists on here, reading it, to make any comments.

but who cares, all that matters is, now I feel good. And relaxed. That must be the real secret of writing a blog it makes YOU feel better, never mind the people who read or don’t read it. They’re not the main purpose of it after all. 🙂    

(   🙂   Signing off, Sandramina, in Whoville homeless village, Eugene, OR,  kicking homeless people in the shins, stepping on their dogs’ paws, and raiding their bottles of “Boone’s Farm Apple-Cherry Wine”. I am such a MEAN old lady, I still want my Medicare part D!!  Why should I let Obamacare have it?? He’s still getting bribes from insurance-companies to screw the public. And THAT is a lotta dough.  $$$$$$$$) …

“WHY ARE THERE FEW BLACK PEOPLE IN OREGON? A SECRET HISTORY”–( WHERE THEY TRY TO SKEWER THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, AND OREGON ITSELF)

                                                         

(SUPER-OPTICAL MOVEMENT-FACILLITATOR -GIZMO-MEDITATOR)

I was on the telephone, with my friend Ronni, who lives in Portland, when I was reading a copy of “Northwest Boomer and senior newsletter”. My eyes lit on the meeting at the Eugene city library, February 23rd, 2 PM, that said “why are there few black people in Oregon? A secret history.” And that was what their meeting was about. “It looks like you’re not supposed to be here, and you don’t exist,” I said to my friend who  is black. “According to this, there aren’t any of you in Oregon. Only white people.”

“who the hell said that?” Replied my friend, very irritated;” so I don’t exist? And the rest of my friends don’t either? Who the hell do these people think they are? A secret history? What are they blabbing about?” “I know what they’re going to talk about,” I replied. “They’re going to tell about how the University of Oregon was founded by members of the Klu Klux Klan; and that Oregon was terribly racist and had lots of Klu Klux Klan members here, OH! – – And the reason why there are not huge numbers of black people here (the way they are supposed to be) is because we’re still very racist in Oregon, and the university is still really racist. I also saw these people’s video on YouTube, describing how segregated the very old university was.” 

my friends laughing, very loud, resounded in my ear; “oh my, that is absolutely hysterical! Like all those black organizations at the University, don’t exist? And all the black student body especially during the 60s, didn’t exist?  I guess that would leave out affirmative-action also;and all those African American political groups that were so active and involved in the University. And I guess the African-American PROFESSORS in the college don’t exist either?”

“Yes, and I guess the African-American studies programs don’t exist either.  Wow! I guess these people in this group are running on hallucinatory mushrooms or something. Gee,Ronni,I guess you don’t exist after all!how you feel about that? At least you don’t have to pay taxes I guess, ha ha ha ha ha!”we laughed for a couple of more minutes.it was really a gas, what this “very discriminated against group” was agitating about.

What were they agitating about? THE PAST.the old and ancient past of Oregon, where there truly were Klu Klux Klan operating, and lots of members that were here. But, Oregon was typical among quite a few states in the United States that had very active Ku Klux Klan and segregation of black people.there was no mention in the propaganda of this meeting, about all the other states at that time in history who had even more active Klu Klux Klan, especially in the deep South.for some reason, this group had decided that little old OREGON, and the University of Oregon, were far worse than any of the other southern states, as far as discrimination of black people, and that’s why there were so few black people in Oregon. We were absolutely still racist to the edge.

I did call up this group, later on, to try and find out just exactly what its motives were, as to digging up the old past and skewering Oregon and the University with it. Just what were it’s motives anyway? I mean,  history is one thing and it’s a good thing to read up on it. But as far as saying that “there are so few black people in Oregon, because it has such a horrible racist past, and it’s still racist and bad bad bad!” – – And deliberately not mentioning how racist the other states were, except for this one.

And that title was really misleading; “why are there so few black people in Oregon?” – Because of the very racist and Ku Klux Klan past in this state? Except that, all of that was completely gone. Vanished into the past. Oregon was one of the most liberal and left-wing and Democrats, and pro-ethnic diversity states and universities in the whole United States. so it was a little odd that they were accusing a very liberal left wing and Democrat state, of being anti-black?

I talked to the leader of the group, but I still couldn’t get any real answers. What was the reason for dredging all this up, and smearing Oregon with it? The only thing I could get out of them was, “Oregon is still completely racist, against black people, and all their disgusting past has to be dug up and exhibited to everybody.” I had to admit that it really did exist in history. But why, oh, why, was it to blame for tons of black people not coming here en masse, to enjoy the rain, freezing cold weather, snow, hail, and lots of GLOOM that they would absolutely just love instead of California or Miami?

so according to this group, the only thing that kept so many black people from flocking here, to enjoy all the snow and snow storms, frozen streets, broken pipes, rain, sleet, months of GLOOM without sunshine, was that nasty old Oregon and the also nasty University of Oregon, had such a bad nasty naughty anti-black person past. And that was still going on! Oh my oh my! 

I had never thought about that before; was it really obvious that African American people just love all that nasty lovely wet and cold weather,and it seemed they wanted to come here in large groups and settle?among all the hippies? And all the unemployed and homeless? With the very high jobless rate, unemployment, and complete lack of jobs?and all the white trash? And the huge abundant amount of working poor? And they really longed to pay high prices for food, never see the sunshine all winter, watch their gardens get destroyed by super slugs, never be able to raise tomatoes instead of accidentally raising lots of banana slugs instead?

You know Black people just LOVE BANANA SLUGS; better than corn-bread.I  had ignored  all these facts.  

It just really never occurred to me before. I guess I had been blocking it out. And the fact that I had African American friends, here Kept me from realizing just how much all the other Black folk in California, and warmer climates were being kept  From moving here, and getting used to all that wonderful freezing weather we had. It just never occurred to me, DARN! I didn’t really want to think that they too, desired to get up in the morning, put on huge fluffy coats, and shovel out 6 feet of snow hindering their cars and blocking their driveways.plus, skidding  all over the icy black freezing highways, ending up in snowbanks, having to be pulled out by American automobile Association tow trucks.

To think that we were somehow keeping them from this paradise. Tsk tsk.

I suppose they were tiring of lovely and warm, exotic and special Louisiana and St. Louis by now; and that they wanted so much to dessert all their family, and move here to this strange wonderful and not exotic or lovely, but somewhat green, state.not to mention all the great restaurants and cooking and FOOD. After all, Oregon has such great restaurants, full of vegetarianism, raw food, odd food, fast food. The South just couldn’t hold a candle with its Paul Prudomme, Cajun and Creole cooking, crawfish and seafood. Sigh. Corn bread, fried chicken, and other yummy yummys of the South, well, they were getting so tired of that – – they wanted to rough it in Oregon and go to Carl’s Junior instead.

I talked to some of my other friends about this, and they thought I was crazy.”why in hell would African-Americans want to move to Oregon in large groups? What the heck for? There wasn’t any employment, the welfare was all gone as or no food stamps here either. The government saw to that.” I guess they were just itching to compete with all that lower white trash here, for welfare and stuff like that? Sure, I’m sure they were. It was just our terrible discriminating segregating anti-black person past that was holding them back.

“I don’t think that a lot of my friends would want to dessert meat,  barbecue, and go all vegan instead,” one of my African-American acquaintances,” sure, I like greens; but nothing but Greens, and no MEAT? In favor of “all organic vegetables”, macrobiotic diets, brown rice and veggie-burgers?? Your town is pretty low-down on food, if you ask me.”Gluten-free diets”?  No bread??” He did some colorful language here, and I had to chuckle.”Damn, your town is taken over by YUPPIES!! “he continued.”Those self-important, “save the world instead of the U.S.”-type, who think it makes them Queen of the May to save all of Africa?!! OH, YEAH, I’d just LOVE to live among those snot-noses!!  Not to mention–“he lowered his voice-“You got the whole population of GAY SAN FRANCISCO THERE!! SHIT, MAN. ”   “Not really your cup of tea,then?” I replied. “No, I’ll pass on that. heh heh.”  I had forgotten that he really liked WOMEN. And that did not include lesbian women. 

It appeared that a few of my African-American friends had no desire to move to Eugene, or Lane County, or even visit here. “You got nothing there, honey. Those organic-range-chicken-eggs aren’t enough reason.”  “Not the small organic boutique farms either?”  “Boutique “organic” small farms, a good reason to not live there or go there. Not in my budget, Sandramina!”

 And I had to agree that the COOKING HERE could not hold up to the Southern parts of the United States. Eugene Oregon thought that CUP-CAKES or TOFU were the be all and end all of cuisine; did I mention they have cake made out of BEETS HERE?   

No wonder my diet was working so well; hm…”beet-cake” was not so alluring to the palate.

“I am not surprised you’re losing some weight, “said Ronni, from Portland.”Yeah, cake made of beets just somehow misses out compared to black bottom pie. mud pie. or black-bottom cupcakes. Or even Oreos.  Sheet.” She then invited me to come up some time to Portland. cause she still knew old-time good cooking, and was pretty handy with an oven or a skillet. “Want me to bring anything?” I asked. “Just your appetite, sugar, “and she laughed that hearty laugh of hers. What was such a really good cook, doing in PORTLAND? The hipster city was lucky to have her. 

What were the few black people doing in Oregon? Just unlucky I guess. They just were not aware of how racist Oregon and the university of Oregon was, nasty, segregationist, and heavily into that vanished KKK that used to be, and no longer was.  UH…that is, “Why Are there so few black people in Oregon?”-group was well into it , being obsessed by it. The rest of us could easily live without it. 

I was heavily into fried chicken myself.   🙂  

(Sincerely, Sandraminda, in racist and liberal-left–wing Democrat Eugene Oregon, home of “beet-cake” and other lovely organic tidbits. )  > :O    GAG!!!

“I THROW EXPENSIVE COST-CO GARBAGE CAN,AND GARBAGE BAGS, OUT OF KITCHEN, I HAVE FLIES ALL OVER THEM, NEITHER IS SANITARY!–IN EUGENE OREGON VALLEY OF SICKNESS”

(PICTURE OF COST-CO CUSTOMER SERVICE ON COKE AND METH)

I do not care if I have missed spelling, and  I spell things wrong or don’t get the typing okay; this is an important passage to all people who go to Costco in your Eugene Oregon, and have also bought a big expensive automatic garbage can,, that stops working after a while, and no longer work once you put a new battery in. It also other wise as the great qualities of leaking all over your kitchen floor, and having flies in the garbage bags (we are using glad garbage bag they leak like HELL) so that’s what were going to do here today:

COMPLAIN about glad garbage bags, which leak like crazy, and Cost-Co expensive garbage cans which also leak like crazy and don’t work.

Since I found out that GLAD GARBAGE BAGS LEAK like a bunch of oil tankers, all over the damn kitchen, I’m not going to buy any more. I’m also not going to buy any fancy stuff from Costco’s store or online. I deliberately paid $70 for a very fancy garbage can, from Costco, it stopped working right away, the batteries didn’t work, it didn’t do any good to replace them, and now I have Clorox leaking all over my floor, just to get rid of all the flies.

It took me a while to figure this out. I don’t know why; I assumed that it was my fault they were leaking, and it’s not. So here goes the next rule  for you seniors who don’t want to catch bad diseases from flies and garbage:

DO NOT BUY GLAD GARBAGE BAGS, they all LEAK.

DO NOT BUY ANY EXPENSIVE APPLIANCES OF ANY  KIND (especially fancy garbage cans) FROM COSTS –CO!

“Why did you buy that expensive garbage can from Cost-co, anyway?” Asked Caroline; I replied, “none of the cheap garbage cans actually close their lives so I resorted to an expensive one from Costco. It ended up leaking like hell through the bottom, and it stopped working, it was supposed to be automatic,  and once you got a new battery in, it didn’t function anymore.”

“Also,” I resumed, “it seems as if the expensive glad garbage bags also leak! Right through the can! Right onto the floor all the time! It wasn’t summer that was giving me all those flies in my FOOD and everywhere in the house, it was glad garbage bags and Costco garbage cans! It looks like now you have to go to consumer research, just to buy a garbage can and garbage bags!”the stupid garbage can originally cost $70. I never buy garbage cans that expensive but I figured it would hold up better than the cheapo plastic ones, they didn’t even close the lid.

Forget it; ALL GARBAGE CANS in the United States leak!

(does that say something very clear about the current state of technology in the United States? Not only does Microsoft and Windows screw us,  but even our garbage cans and bags FUCK US  OVER! Not just the government, and the Corporations, the IRS, and the federal government and the state, and our political parties and everybody in power!

Even the garbage  FUCKS US UP!

(If any of you readers find better garbage cans and better garbage bags, brands, please comment on this page I would be very appreciative. Glad is supposed to be the top brand isn’t it? I guess it’s garbage!)

as for Costco, I’m not putting my little stupid feet in there store ever again!yes, happy readers, do not buy any appliances from Costco; if they can’t make a garbage can that even functions, I would hate to think about any of the other appliances!)

“what if you can’t find a decent garbage can it doesn’t leak or doesn’t close its lid?” Asked Carolyn. “Why do you think I bought that expensive one?” I replied. It was supposed to  close completely lid, and not leak and it did all the opposite! I can see that $70 burning up in flames in hell!””why don’t you complain to them?” Asked Carolyn, surprised.

“I really tried to complain,” I said infuriated, “is like trying to complain to a huge corporation or to the federal government;  they don’t want to hear you, there is no way you can get to them unless you put a bomb under them that’s really big!” And I might add to you gentle readers, itis not worth it to put me in prison, just because of a bomb so, obviously I’m not going to do that. Other infuriated Americans might have to do it instead. I’m too old. Ha ha.

and, this does not mean I encourage other people to set bombs. I also like ice cream bombes, in large globs,s made out of cake, covered with Italian meringue.that is the best BOMBE I can think of. Thank the French!Tout sweet!

SO, what can you do, oh, frustrated consumer? Just what  all other frustrated consumers do:

do not buy the product don’t go near the Corporation and buy anything that belongs to it. Don’t give them your$$$$..tell Costco to go to Hades.

Get out there on the web and BITCH LIKE CRAZY! Just bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch! And then keep doing it some more!let us all know about it! Come on the comments, here, and we’ll write it up for you!  etc.

as usual Carolyn and I ended up at Dairy Queen,stuffing ice cream in our faces, and try to figure out what I was going to do without any garbage can in the house. “Put it out on the outside, one of those huge big metal ones with a real lid, and don’t bother keeping garbage in the house,” commented Carolyn, licking the ice cream. “I know, all the other cheap plastic garbage cans don’t actually close the lid either. That’s what I do; don’t even keep it in the house. use the one that the guys who clean up all the garbage, use. “Professional garbage cans”. The big ones. They don’t come in small.”

all right, gentle reader if this is what we advise; if there’s no way to find something you can put the garbage in,that leaks or has no real lid, then just don’t have it in your house,. Let the federal government have it in theirs. They probably have special ones made just for White House, that have the stars and stripes painted on the side.

it is the only way you could ever get the garbage to get out of the White House.

(Sandraminadotty, without any can, without any garbage, thank God I am free at last!)   🙂

“ONCE AGAIN; THE TIME-DISHONORED QUESTION””WHY ARE THERE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN OREGON?”–INCLUDES THE WIT & WISDOM OF FOLKS WHO DON’T CARE.”‘IN EUGENE OREGON

(OREGON, AS SEEN BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN-ENTHUSIASTS: “TOO DARK GREEN, BUT NOT BLACK ENOUGH”STOLEN OFF THE WEB)

if there is one thing that the very great African-American race excels at, it is this: not rock ‘n roll, soul, and all that wonderful music that black people are able to write and sing and play. Instead, they have taken up a different creative hobby. Feeling sorry for themselves 24 hours a day.

it would be kind to say that the music they make and have made, is what African-Americans in the United States will always be remembered for. Unfortunately, that might not be true. Because, in stead of recognizing just all the talent, and good stuff they have got, we’re getting a whole bunch of  “Redux of Burning up WA DC,under Lyndon Johnson” which you might remember.happened  while Lyndon Johnson was trying to pass the whole socialization thing in government called “the great Society” which meant that a lot of social programs would be thrown at black people, their neighborhood, and their family, to hopefully give them plenty of money and care, to get them up higher in the world like everybody else.

unfortunately, while Lyndon Johnson was making all these great plans, and showing them to America, an unfortunate thing happened; Black protests, riots, extreme violence, and burning of buildings in all of downtown in other areas of Washington DC were also happening. And with all this being done by the black population. In retaliation, the rest of white America, looked at all riots and burning buildings, and said to  Johnson “why the hell are we supposed to give kind of money for social programs for black populations, while they are burning down Washington DC? No, we don’t want all those big fat social programs for black people! forget it! NO MORE “great Society!”—-and it petered out.

I have decided that along with all the other races of mankind, black races have definitely, in America, not learned from any of their mistakes, or learned what white reactions were, when they started rioting, killing police, taking over neighborhood (killing lots of cops, and innocent people)  and yelling “only black lives matter!” And then defending that statement, even killing off black policeman as well.— And then daring us to be racist against them. “Oh no, you better not be racist against us, even though we kill all the police, riot, burn buildings, kill other people, and generally act like ass holes!” -pause – – “if you get against us now, after we get all this stuff, that means you’re racist!”

it’s become a big fat double standard – – white people can’t say anything against black people  nor can Asian people either,or, that means everybody who doesn’t like what criminal black people do, is  “racist!” RACIST RACIST RACIST!

so now, in Oregon we have this big fat question,that  lots of black people who don’t live here, bring out, “why are there so few people in Oregon  who are black?” Long ago, it was that, there weren’t any other black people here, so lots of black populations stayed away. Also, it rained night and day at least 10 months out of the year; if I were black I wouldn’t want to live in Oregon either.it was never WARM, except maybe one month out of the year. Most of the time it was freezing, frosted, black frosts, and tons of rain, mud, low wages, bad breathing in the Williamette Valley, because of the mill pollution of the Valley, making tons of smog. There were no good paying jobs here. There wasn’t much here except logging. That would be what black people would have had to do here. Also, I don’t know that many black people like to do logging. – – Which means hanging out in lots of very wet weather all the time.—-

OK, let’s also ask this question: “why have so many white liberals, Democrats, from California, New York City, back east, Midwest, and San Francisco all move here? –since this was a known part of the country which had NO  ETHNIC–CICITY?  HUH?  MEANING, NO OTHER ETHNIC RACES but  WHITES?   WHY? I would expect, non-liberals, right-wingers, and Republicans to move to Oregon, en mass, because right wing whites hate blacks.—THERE WERE FEW BLACKS HERE.”

IT has become just the opposite; instead of fleeing Republicans and right wing-whites, we got just about WHOLE ENCLAVES of whites from New York City, California, San Francisco(really very liberal)Back  East,L.A. and other large cities; and the mass of the whites who moved here,to Lane county,Eugene, & Oregon are almost wholly Liberal and Democrats? we have ALL LIBERAL,DEMOCRAT STATE GOVT., Lane County, * Eugene govts., that are EXTREMELY LIBERAL AND DEMOCRAT-whites.

There are VERY FEW REPUBLICAN OR RIGHT   WING VOTERS HERE.YEAH!   It didn’t used to be  that way.We figure an entire layer or 2 of middle-class and work class whites MOVED AWAY from Oregon, mostly to find good jobs elsewhere. (very good reason for an ethnic group to not come here; very low paying jobs, mostly.)We LOST a great deal of the Oregon middle class.(Now.I read, doctors, & psychiatrists are all leaving Oregon.NO MONEY HERE. –Nothing but Medicare, and Medicaid—no CASH.)   WHAT all those liberal whites are working at here, is mostly the  University of Oregon, and other “hired-big-wages-jobs-gotten-long-distance” which avoided the general job population of low wages.Well to do whites retire here. –Many of them liberals. —

YES, MOSTLY LIBERAL WHITES AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATS MOVED HERE—where there are few black people.Also, many Latinos have moved here. ???–they all did it, knowing there is a very light population of blacks.In fact, other states in the Union, tell me, white people move to the Pacific Northwest  cause there are no big black populations.–like its a well-known fact. WHY WOULD inhabitants of San Francisco move here?

GUYS, ITS WHITE-BREAD-ALLEY HERE! it”s BORING WHITE. ORGANIC,FARM-LOVING,VEGETARIANS-NUDISTS all here!  There are hardly any Asian communities, rendering Eugene triple-deluxe-boring. White  Liberals! —espousing all their white liberal bullshit!  These are some of the most UNCOOL people known to man!  They all go to the BACH FESTIVAL. (he’s ok, but not so cool.) They have rejected eating meat!  They are totally GREEN! They never heard of FUNK, or they ignored it; they use mayonaise. Most of them don’t care about GOOD FOOD,& they don’t even fry chicken!(bad for you.)–They don’t realize that being cooL, has to mean you don’t TRY REALLY HARD to be cool!  THAT KILLS COOL!

I am an old white lady, and if I think white liberals and their populace are UNCOOL, and BORING, what must African-Americans think of them? DOUBLEY–UNCOOL and phony, man!  BAD FOOD. ugh. UNCOOL politics and liberal white–idiocy everywhere. asnine conformism. Hey, man, that turns me off white-liberal bullshit any day!  “Political Correctness.”oh, shit, MAKES ME  sing the blues!  You really think black  people want to live in Oregon, with honky, crazy mutherfucker-white liberals? I DON’T EVEN LIKE people that white!!

And my skin is so white, its blue! I only moved back here, cause I had to; I miss big cities with different people in them..I miss decent cooking! i miss my half-Mexican, half-Japanese room mate! I miss my best-friend-forever who was a Jewish gay man! Like a sister!  I am BORED living among PC, phony-environmentalists, phony-liberal-dumb-ass-politics, phony HIPPIES, and espec. PHONY-WHITE LIBERALS!  –

WHY DID THE LIBERALS all move to a totally white-bread state?Do they REALLY DISLIKE black-rye bread   that much?–and chitlins, great fried chicken with greens so much?And they only want MAYONAISE (?) on their bread? And a little Mexican food once in a while?(hopefully, with our new Latino population, that food will get better.)

Cause I think you Oregon-haters should ask all yer liberals, from everywhere, WHY ALL THOSE TONS OF WHITE LIBERALS  deliberately moved to an all-white bread state, with few black people.--if they’re so darned liberal.

Don’t ask native Oregonians WHY there are no black people here; they really hated the WEATHER,RAIN, FREEZES, and low-wage, dead-end jobs. NO INDUSTRY-NO MANUFACTURING; very few well paying companies.—-and in the Willamette Valley, FOUL  AIR from grass-seed burning, allergies, and we seem to have had lumber mills here, polluting the air,(now we only have SMOG, car-exhaust, and grass seed burning. All the auto-exhaust makes the air even MORE potent. at–choo.

So you answer me; if they could avoid it, why would black  people MOVE HERE? For all the great low-wage-junk jobs? To enjoy the company of real honkey-white-liberals?  For all the GREAT JAZZ AND GOOD FOOD?(haw haw) To make pals of all the white-beer-guzzling-idiot low-wage guys here?Oh, yeah, to celebrate all their Gayness in the LBG?T– Community?  Hah. So they could work for private-logging companies who pay so well?  -and are so safe to work for? For the magnificent Caribbean weather and atmosphere?

yeah, sure.Eugene is the height of coolness, man.(sarcasm)

MAYBE BLACK PEOPLE ARE MORE CRAZY ABOUT TREES THAN WHITES, that’s why more blacks would come here? You think we Oregonians have been keeping all those black folk from their extreme love of PINE TREES?-and mud,and very big slugs? Then I guess I better tell all those liberal democrats to move over ,cause black people would all just LOVE TO MOVE TO OREGON!—IT’S SO COOL, MAN. (snicker) B.S.!  >:)

(Sandraminadotty, missing a good radio station of R & B in Eugene; naaah, of COURSE there’s no R & B  HERE!  sigh,–just Country-Western 😦 )   and   Muzak.

“EVERYONE OWNS OREGON FORESTS EXCEPT THE OREGON PUBLIC;HOW OREGON’S GETTING SOLD OFF TO PRIVATE LOGGING COMPANIES; WE FIND THAT OUT, IN EUGENE, OREGON”

(PRIVATELY OWNED OREGON TREES PORTRAIT, ARTIST UNKNOWN)

I was unpleasantly reminded of something every Oregonian now knows,, the other day, when this nice kid called Tony went out and bought me some popcorn because I was out.of it. I told him “that’s my Saturday night,  popcorn and olive oil with coconut butter on it, and lots of kosher salt.” Tony replied that, he was going to go camping, finally. But he said also “it’s really hard to find camping places anymore,, all the land has become privately owned, so all the campsites have been sold off.” That was the first I’d heard about that; “they even got rid of all the camping grounds? What are they doing with them?” “I don’t know, but they’re all disappearing, there aren’t any left. All of the land now in Oregon is PRIVATELY OWNED, and you can’t go and camp on that.”.

Of course I had heard the open rumor, that was true, that the Oregon legislature and the governor, had been busily selling off all of public forest land to private log cutters, just to pay for the stupid schools. And,  all my other sources said, yes it was true. How could that possibly be? These were Democrats in office, right? Democrats rule Oregon state government? So how come they’re acting like Republicans? There doesn’t seem to be any difference anymore. You may as well vote in Republicans Democrats are doing exactly the same thing. – – Selling off the public forest lands so there would be nothing left eventually for anyone to camp on, unless he was camping in his own backyard.

“That is so stupid of the Oregon State people, I mean the guys at the top,  they’re going to sell off all the public land and forest land, to support the schools, and then it will all be used up and all the forests will be gone.– – and knowing Oregon schools, those kids won’t be any smarter than they were when they started.” (I had only gone to school in Oregon, in Eugene, in the Santa Clara elementary school, which also no longer existed. But, since there were never any jobs in Oregon, my family had decamped to Sacramento California, so our dad could work in the missile industry for just about nine or 10 years, until we came back here.)

Needless to say, at those times, in those years, (I’m 69 years old, so that was about during the early and mid-60s.) Sacramento California schools of that time were excellent, very very good. I remember that Bella Vista high school had two swimming pools, art classes, and athletic program for boys and girls, music classes, extracurricular activities after school. And the teachers were really good too. It was one of the main reasons Oregonians decamped to California with their kids, was to get better schools for them.

that tells you something about how Oregon schools have always been.and I don’t think it was only the money either.

“say, Tony are there any wilderness areas left anymore, you can go out and do your own camping in that?” I asked him, mystified. “Well,” he replied, in a frustrated manner, “that’s if you can find any wilderness areas anymore, to camp in. Everybody owns it privately, they won’t let you camp on that! I’m sure they wouldn’t.” I thank him for giving me the popcorn, and thought about the good old days, at least in one manner of speaking, the good old days were when we actually had PUBLIC FORESTS, and lots of very big public parks.

I sure remember those!  They were wonderful, they didn’t cost you money either. Neither did it cost you money to go to the beaches.–but now, there were no longer any PUBLICLLY OWNED beaches, and PUBLICLY  OWNED forest land in camping and parks. I remembered all the picnics; I remembered all the cold weather picnics at the beach where you went bundled up in coats and scarves, but the god damn beach was free.

but of course now the public didn’t own a god damn thing. Since a lot of people had also lost their homes, in the declining years of Oregon, Democrats in the legislature had made very sure that no real business or manufacturing came here, but then there was no money for schools,  so they decided to start selling off all the public forest land to private lumber companies to support the schools.that was really good thinking for Democrats wasn’t it?

Weren’t they supposed to be the “environmental, carbon- foot conscious, GREEN, organic, and save– the whales–  and save -the- land – bunch”?

so,WHERE ARE  THEY, and what are they doing about this?

I asked Caroline when she came over, exactly the same question.”you’re supposed to know so much about this crowd, Carolyn, what the hell are the environmental activists doing? What are they doing about this?” She replied, “oh they’re just in the Eugene weekly newspaper, writing about junk, and doing a column called “activists” where they describe what the currently popular social – responsible activities are.. Like now, they’re very fixated on getting everybody to go to the Saturday farmersmarket, and the regular farmers market, and getting them to spend all their food stamps, even if they just amount to $15, on all the yummy , highly expensive farmers produce here, from small farms.that’s what they’re doing.”

“so there aren’t really a lot of environmental people  hopping on this,  and actually doing anything to stop this?” I asked. “Aren’t they protesting against what the Legislature is doing?” “Well, I think one bunch,” said Carolyn sadly, “were all hooked into a huge net over the Portland bridge, deciding to stay up on a huge net on the bridge, and stay there for days and days to demonstrate  – – you know, against everything.” Somehow that didn’t sound very PRACTICAL or EFFECTIVE to me. Hoisting yourself into a net over the bridge for a bunch of days, trying to impress the legislature with how masochistic you are, doesn’t sound very liable to change their minds.”not anything more useful than that?” I queried.

“well,” said Carolyn,  looking at me; “what would you do to be more effective?” “Well,” I replied, I think some more legal and political activities would be a lot more pointed in the right direction. For example, why don’t they get some legal help and sue the hell out of the legislature for selling off all the public forests? Nobody’s trying to do that! There must be plenty of legal things,, they could do because they’re breaking the law! They probably are! But nobody’s paying attention to it?” “Nobody except people like us, who were worried about it,” said Carolyn gently, “I think they’d rather demonstrate by hanging themselves up for days without eating, looking like Gandhi, and not actually doing anything effective to stop them.” “also, they could look into  legally throwing those people out of office, you know, kind of like Nixon, or what they tried to do to Clinton, for all his scandalous activities.”—“no, that would be too effective and straightforward for them, and it would not require any colorful demonstrating.”

I guess these  are not considered scandalous activities.I guess they’re just considered as “the right of the Oregon Legislature to do anything they damn well please, as usual.” BOY, would I like to get those guys alone late at night, somewhere where they didn’t have all their guards around them, and we had already sorted out a bunch of hostile angry extreme environmental people, so they could have a little party together. Nobody ever thinks of that,, whatever happened to riding people out of town tarred and feathered on a rail?”

“I think it’s considered very antisocial and politically naïve,” returned Caroline. “Righteous anger doesn’t seem to be THERE in the environmentally correct public anymore. If there ever was any..I think it’s all diverted into making small farmers feel loved and cared for by the buying public.you know, come in and use your food stamps on our LETTUCE, PLEASE, we’re “locally-grown.”,

“but I’m sure they all know about this,”I continued. There does seem to be a lack of ACTION  in the ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE public. They like to demonstrate, they like to go to big fat conventions every year,  at the University of Oregon, with all the other environmental chums; but they don’t actually do anything...they twiddle their environmental thumbs, and make themselves feel very righteous.”

“speaking of that big fat environmental conference, that goes on every year,, at the University of Oregon? – – Just exactly what do they do anyway?” “Carolyn replied that they usually got together in big meetings, and had fun talking about stuff, and they had environmentalists from Canada, and other places all meet up, and I guess they also had wonderful lunches they planned.and even the FBI  thought it was a good time, so they came secretly.”

I guess it’s lots of fun to go secretly somewhere, and pretend nobody knows who you are.– – like anybody would actually care..

“what is this all got to do with trying to keep the Oregon legislature from selling off all the public forest lands to private logging companies?” I finally demanded. “Well,” replied Carolyn mystified also, “I guess they talk a really good game at those conventions, but when it comes to doing anything practical and stopping lots of people in Oregon from chopping down all our trees, that’s not something they want to do in their game.you know, it’s, kind of very “civil disobedience”, and nowadays nobody does that. At least not very effectively.”she paused for effect;

  “I guess being an environmentalist socially,, and getting your name all over letterheads and websites,, is a lot more fun than going out with a couple of shotguns late at night, so you know you won’t be caught.. That’s too dangerous!” I replied, “yes, I can see how young people now and people in the environmentally conscious game,  kind of want to play it COOL – – and not go against the legislature or the state. Pity! Real civil disobedience can be a lot of fun and very satisfying sometimes.– – but then you have to take some kind of chances,  and I guess, that’s too much to ask now. It might hurt your reputation actually doing anything about things.– – and they probably don’t want to sue them either, too time-consuming.”

“the trouble with you,” said Carolyn, smiling, “is that you came from a different generation. People in your generation actually did get into trouble, burned their bras, and did even worse civil disobedience, you know, and now days people just aren’t like that anymore.they’re too worried about their credit rating, with their credit card company.besides, all those wonderful  environmental conferences at the University of Oregon law school, are just a lot more fun to TALK TALK TALK and have nice lunches and then TALK a lot more.. Sounds like a lot more fun to me and easier.”

YEAH, EASIER.I was very disappointed, and I felt mysteriously incredibly old. Out of it, not COOL anymore. Now, it was a lot cooler to be a small  Oregon farmer, and get everybody to use their food stamps on you. Never mind what happened to the public forests. I guess that was not  considered COOL anymore to be concerned about them.after all, if all the forests were gone, people would still have their cars, and their freeways, and their highways,and all their smog, and all their crap.  Especially all their electronic crap.

Face it, its not OREGON ANY MORE. All the natives have mostly moved away, and foreigners have invaded the land, trashed the public forests,sold them to lumber companies, and all the “environmentalists” are busy in socially-active talking-groups, where reality has been reduced to THEORY and conferences; and lynchings, barn–burnings, neck-tie parties, and KLU KLUX KLAN activities have been reduced to YAK YAK YAK, and Democrat politicians, legislature  illegal acts (and others) are ignored and disregarded by young people.

–And Old Oregon and its forests have been delegated to an old person’s MIND,the only place they will eventually  exist.—In the memory of natives.Too bad. It  really did used to be a BEAUTIFUL STATE. I could disregard the present shape of things too; as much as all those legal pot-smokers and pot-shop-owners in Oregon.I still think MINE was a more beautiful memory any how.At least at one time, it was real.

(Sandraminadotty, learning to  ignore  how Oregon gets sold off, piece by piece, until we look like the great salt flats. I am not young now, so MY civil disobedience would amt. to throwing banana peels at the Salem court-house, which just aint very effective, you-all!)   😦

“THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS; WE DISPEL A MYTH OF THE 50’S—-IN EUGENE, OREGON”

(BE BACK LATER, I’M BLIND WITH MY EYES DILATED, FROM EYE DOCTOR)

(PORTRAIT OF ARABIC OR BEDOUIN WOMAN, OFF THE WEB)

HERE COMES MY 19TH NERVOUS SINUS ALLERGIES, INFECTION, EAR JUNK:

IT  is hot summer in Eugene and Lane county; the Willamette Valley mixes grass seed burning, SMOG  from all traffic, and allergies. I fight the allergy attack and lose. I gotta go to drop in clinic  with bloody nose, pain,,headaches, dizzeness, and gooey infected ear. Summer in the Valley of Sickness really hates me.Finally, I admit I am sick, (crap)Ugh!  Is it worth it to live in the Valley? but if you live here, just TRY to sell a house or land  on River Road. You might sell it for pennies. –or possibly rent it out to U. of O. students who compete  foe cheaper housing here; its expensive in Eugene.The drop in clinic knows me by sight, I am a favorite client of damns sinus. This time, there’s “something going around.”

Besides, all the horrific pre-election parade of horror is really rattling me; I hear people say, they hate both candidates, and they really hate and no longer trust either party. –All of it is just abuse and conning of the public and tax-payers. I understand that.I read and hear so many complaints that people hate the govt/. and hate their politicians.None trusts them any more.Wow—all the under current  of anger, frustration, hate and bad feelings of extreme kinds. Some are sure the election will be RIGGED—AND its happened before.

Why vote when voting no longer has power?

We avoid whats going on,and pursue our daily lives, but  the  ghost of ISIS gives us insecurity at night.

WHO  WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE THE USA SAFE FROM THE WW3 AND TERRORISM FILLING THE WORLD?

In the mean time, before the real war gets here, we run into the myth about “the Utopia of the 50’s.”To tell the truth,not everyone was able to live in a swanky, suburban home—have a good job and do what people tried to  do,then,”Keep Up With the Jones.”If the Jones, neighbor, buys a new car,you have to keep up by buying one too.If they have their kitchen remodeled, you have to spend the money to remodel yours too.Keeping Up with the Jones was an important activity.Being middle-class was important.

The CONFORMITY  of the 50’s was so pervasive MAD MAGAZINE was born to make fun of it.–Various good artists and cartoonists satirized Madison Avenue Ad Men,and advertising. The 50’s were a matter of “dress alike ” LATER)in the same, current fashion; do grilling in the back yard like your neighbors do; have the popular food everyone makes, do the same hobbies that fashion tells your friends to do;THINK LIKE your neighbors and friends do; and most of all, THINK, TALK, AND ACT, BEHAVE, and have the same VALUES EVERYONE ELSE DOES.”

DON’T BE DIFFERENT.”  Very different people could become outcasts, say, if your family was poor, and not in the same financial, social class. –or they were scientists and “readers, people who read a lot.instead of watching tv, and are brainy,” were too darn different. Even Disney made fun of scientists and inventors by making “The Absent-minded Inventor” and “The shaggy Dog.”Inventors and scientists were made to LAUGH AT, and not take seriously. They were  FREAKS.–Their kids were too smart–and being too smart in school, as a kid made you a “freak” to laugh at.—not a socially-ok person at all.Girls or women who were SMART, BRAINY, ect. were not popular or date  material.. It was BAD to be the smart one in school. You were an OUTCAST.  –A freak.Unless you hung out with other brainy kids, you were alone.

This anti-intellegence thing of the conformist 50’s was serious.Smart people  were considered BEATNIKS,often, and they had their own social group.Even if some  qualities of the beatnik were ahead of their time, like writing very different books, espousing different society morals, expression, and thinking and discovering things ahead of their time, which can be a good thing for society, it was still not deemed Ok” by the general conformist community.

Gay people really had to hide it.—or go way underground to be among like persons.DIVERSITY was NOT OK. If you immigrated to America, you were expected to “homoganize yerself.”–become like real Americans.Stop being Yugoslavian! —learn to cook and eat American dishes. Don’t be SO ITALIAN! Go to baseball games, cheer for a team, enjoy football games, and enjoy AMERICAN SPORTS. Ditto MONEY AND MATERIALISM.Being financially successful was an absolute, necessary quality. It was REALLY AMERICAN to make MONEY.–being poor was  considered your fault, and morally wrong. And ANTI-MATERIALISTIC

STILL, life was young in the 50’s; many people had jobs—not like now.We we were not subject to terrorism yet; so what if  the 50’s were moneygrubbing? NOBODY likes being poor.Don’t blame the 50’s in America, blame the human race.We want security from hunger, a roof over our heads,and medicine when we’re sick. Even the poor hate the poor,its no way to live. In this savage dimension, survive and don’t die is the last word, and we most of our lives follow  that.Make money, eat,work, congratulate ourselves on being only an animal after all. How much truth or beauty, or thought can an animal find, when he’s too busy grubbing in the forest for his next meal?

(Sandraminadotty, sick again in Eugene OR in the Valley of Sickness. –but God and my genes will heal it,until I get too old to mend..  🙂

“WHY THE ONLY WAY I CAN GET INTO MY OWN WORD PRESS BLOG, IS TO USE A VERY OLD LINK ON A BOOKMARK??–AND NO OTHER WAY?” MORE SHITTY WORDPRESS COMPLEXITY—IN HOT EUGENE, OREGON”??

(USING ANONYMOUS ARTISTS’ WORK, FROM WEB, TO CELEBRATE GOP NOMINATION OF MR. TRUMP, TO RUN ON REPUBLICAN TICKET OF U.S.A. (FOR SEPT.) 2016 )

WARNING TO ALL YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER 18 YRS. OF AGE: WE SWEAR A LOT, ON THIS BLOG, SO TELL YER MOM WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO READ THIS:  OTHERWISE, MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WILL JUST GET BORED TO DEATH ON A SENIOR’S BITCHING WEBSITE,: YOU ARE HEREBY WARNED, YOUNG PEOPLE!  (HAH HAH_)

It is a very hot summer day, and, as usual at my place, since I live in Eugene, Oregon, I live in one of the WORST AIR, and clouded compressed valley in all the Pacific Northwest. Even my cat won’t go out the back door to eat grass, the air is so FOUL. CACKLE CACKLE!  But I have all the windows and doors closed tightly and the air-conditioner on, cause of our 80 and 89 degree weather  lately.—Willamette Valley always had BAD AIR  from the local lumber mills.–and summer grass-seed field  burning.

To put it frankly, the MOON has better air quality than Lane County.

A HISTORY OF EUGENE AND LANE COUNTY:

Since we also have the worst allergy stuff in the valley, people who CAN, flee to the coast and stay there as long as summer hits we Eugenians in the head and lungs. The lumber-mills are gone, but there’s still grass-seed burning altho this is largely a RESIDENTIAL REGION NOW, not an agricultural one.

Too bad!  The orchards here (we had one) used to be ripe with fruit; we even had our own grapes.My parents made WINE on the local “home-wine-making permit” and I remember big jugs of fruit wine set all over the  main hallway(they had to stay SOMEWHERE)  and our dad’s wine potion came up with delicious plum wine, or grape wine, which had a big KICK at the end of a sip.

This was long before all the winemakers came here. We had the first wine-exhibt in  Lane County Fair( which was a much better fair then) and we all entered art, jam, and pie in the fair contests.My sister’s pie crust got an award. She invented one of her own.My mom’s canning was great then,& we had plenty to can.I thought I was a painter, then, way before I realized that only art teachers make money, not painters or even commercial art people.  it was BEFORE the valley lost all it’s rain, and we got our perpetual drought, and stopped having rain 10 months of the year.—stopped having almost ANY RAIN.

It was before we traded horrible lumber-mill smoke and miserable  grass-seed smoke, for the auto SMOG and allergies, & massive pollen that gives us all breast cancer, asthma, and lung diseases now. Some trade off! My dad’s sinus was always bleeding, but once we caught all the tremendous SMOG FROM L.A. AND CALIFORNIA, that thousands of CA outsiders brought here with their thousands of autos, we were now set up for worse lung & sinus problems.AND the weather changed to bad-gardening weather. DARN.

WHAT A VALLEY! Touted as the “now-gentrified” Organic,GREEN, “Sustainable.” ENVIRONMENTALISTS, Carbon-Foot-Step-Aware, and NATURAL FOODIE VALLEY OF Chi-Chi-Rich-Hippie-Yuppieswho loved the very expensive produce at the Lane County Farmer’s Market, Trader Joe’s, (for sweet goodies) and avery  now-expensive Organic-Safeway Produce, the FOOD came in two different qualities; very cheap, bad,Win-Cos’ and Wal-marts, for we down-trodden natives(read, “not much money”) and Safeway,Farmer’s Market, and cute little organic farms that sold you a broccoli or kale for more than $10. a piece(EEEEK!)  , for all our new Gentrified-Royal Gentry who owned all of the Valley and Oregon now.

It was one thing to be poor in Oregon before,but now we had nothing but the very rich & chi-chi-organic invaders, who had money, leaving the majority of us even poorer than we used to be!  The middle-class left the state, to get work elsewhere, and the only Oregonians here were some old guys, and low-paid working class. I forgot to mention the thousands of HOMELESS who migrated here, or were natives, who clobbered the food stamp-and-social-services depts. to death. Plus, all the well-to-do seniors retired here, cause  their money was more than the local worker. (You DON’T want to work here, you can’t survive on the pennies-wages.)–and all these well-to-do- new seniors made it more expensive for the local worker.

Hispanics have discovered Eugene and Oregon; their Spanish flies all over my chiro-office, and every where else here. As long as they came here LEGALLY, I don’t care. But illegal aliens I do NOT WANT. We already have thousands of homeless everywhere–who are citizens, and we have no jobs or economy for THEM. –Nor do we have extra social-services money; the grapevine says that Oregon schools are broke—the state is secretly selling all public forests to private logging companies, just for school money.. The state of Oregon is BROKE—cause there is no business or capitalism here. No more lumber-mill jobs.

To put it  bluntly—.California-well-to-do and East-Coast invaders just brought all L.A. AND CALI, PLUS SMOG, down to Oregon!–and pushed out all the natives!  The cost-of-living is way UP;the rent is HIGH–and the food is unaffordable. And some of us got STUCK HERE,on low-value homes or real estate ,and we can’t sell our houses on DESTROYED RIVER ROAD.YEAH, DESTROYED-  RIVER ROAD!  The county destroyed our homes & real estate, and now our land is worth SHIT.

   I can’t even sell my destroyed, de-valued homeand land, to leave, cause the county and city destroyed all our land-value!  THANK YOU, LANE COUNTY, AND CITY, FOR destroying my land-valueand ruining everything on River Road!   You fuckers! Don’t any of you govt. leaders go out, late at night, alone, you would be mighty tempting targets to the residents and home-owners you ruined, on River Road!  You’re lucky I am very bad at rifle-shooting and making bombs.But I can’t vouch for any of my neighbors. –their homes and land are ruined too, cause you turned River Road into a mass-freeway.

(Why the Hell we didn’t all sued you for millions I will never know. –People here have no guts, and the local govt. is just a Gestapo-copy. Berlin and SS  all over again, you assholes.)

I love Gentrification—as long as its not HERE. And, boy, I do wish I were not here NOW. This town is one big STINKER—LITERALLY.

But I was going to complain about Word Press fouling up our software to log into the blog; its now “so advanced and improved” I get stuck in the new mess, and the only way I can get into my own blog, is an aged bookmark on my computer. Otherwise, without that, I could not get into my own blog.

THERE’S my major, senior, non-techie bitch today. OVER-COMPLEX-SOFTWARE AGAIN!  HEY, that used to be fun, but there’s too much of it everywhere now!  I  still can”t draw on PENCIL MADNESS website, cause I can’t log in so I can draw.(I only scribble. “Oekaki” that is.)

“OH, LORD, JUST ANOTHER RUSTYOLD SENIOR WHO CAN’T FIDDLE HIS SOFTWARE OR OPEN A CAN OF BEANS ANYMORE! ”  WHY does the Universe have us hanging around like rotten grapes on the vine, sold at Win-Co?!”

WE CONGRATULATE GOP NOMINEE MR. TRUMP!

BUT—we forgot to celebrate Mr. Trump, who gave such a spirited and forth-right GOP nomination speech, ending with, “I love you people”.—and talked about every issue that’s bothering we voters everywhere.–and was HONEST about all the govt. corruption and dying America. Mr. Trump was the only person to HONESTLY ADMIT  how screwed-over our country has become–and wants to do something about it.This is a man who knows business, and wants to apply his success to fix our economy too. And this is not some poor hick from low-class poverty in Georgia, who just wants to make his fortune from eating up all the govt. money he can get—a “professional-politician”who’s main goal is money and power. This gentleman is already successful, and wants to help our country become that way again. Everything he said made complete sense.  “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”  And finally, “Don’t send a boy, to do a man’s job!”–I think we finally got a MAN in the house again. —it feels good! 🙂 

(Sandraminadotty, this late, hot, summer in July, who is looking into doing some campaign-support locally for Mr. Trump the GOP’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE  FOR THE WHITE HOUSE 2016   🙂   )      🙂

     

“FRIGIDAIRE STOOPS TO NEW LOW, IN CUSTOMER DIS-SATISFACTION, BAD PRODUCTS, NO CUSTOMER SERVICE, AND MANUFACTURE OF NEW JUNK!!!–AND WE ARE STUCK WITH THE GODDAMED THING!!!–IN EUGENE, OR”

(summer as expressed by local artist)

Carolyn is watching me fiddle around on the computer, trying to find those pirates I used to associate with. “Why are you trying to find those pirates now?” Said Carolyn, doubtfully. “I’m going to try and find them, to ask them especially to loose hideous computer viruses on all the websites of Frigidaire company.” “Don’t do that, you’ll just get in trouble!” Replied Carolyn. “I’m not going to do it myself,” I answered, “I’m going to ask them to do it for me. Do you know that you can even find ads that say, hackers will hack anything you want to hack into,, if you pay them?”

“HOW was I to know, you can no longer buy ANY APPLIANCE now, without consulting consumer research? and Consumer Reports?And online reviews? Cause otherwise, you get ROTTEN-DUD-AMERICAN?”

“Can’t they fix your new fridge?”asked Carolyn. Said I, “Well, they don’t WANT TO FIX IT.   I am never paying the entire cost for a new fridge again; next time, slow monthly payments.AT the same time, my expensive $70. garbage can from Cost-co, is leaking all over my kitchen floor; it failed to open its lid,and now its sprung a leak, and can’t even hold a plastic bag without leaking.WHY DO  ALL THE EXPENSIVE  APPLIANCES FAIL, JUST LIKE THE CHEAP ONES? ARE THEY all made exactly the same?” I yelled.  “WHY DO I BOTHER   EVEN BUYING A NEW FRIDGE NOW? The old ones are just as good  as the new ones, maybe better!”

At the same time I am trying to relate my appliance woes, the city of Eugene tore down the City Hall while building a new one  that costs millions the city does not have.Democrats, aren’t you ashamed to be part of this Oregon liberal money-wasting county,Lane, and city, Eugene, when you purport to be “the friend of the working man”?

If these are friends, we don’t need enemies! (CUE  LARGE BROWN-RECLUSE SPIDER hanging in the wings.)

And, Mrs. Clinton is giving me tons of robot-phonecalls several times a day;(yeah, me too) why not,she’s got the millions of China, Arabia, and any other country she can sell us out to. Before you shake your head in disbelief , remind yourself that Mrs. Clinton is VERY AMBITIOUS; she wants to be president like most of us just want to breathe air every day. NECESSARY .Why not? She only sold out her country for it. Anyone ever wonder why these people don’t ever have a bullet with their name on?

Sometimes they do. –Unless they kill all of their enemies FIRST. Just remember that in the insect world, the female is often more deadly. Nobody remembers Mrs. McBeth, I suppose.—Another great Black Widow spider of history. Just cause we females don’t use guns and ammo to kill, doesn’t mean we don’t murder too. We just remember to smile and wear lipstick while we do it.

“‘Now I know WHY everyone is either puffing pot,or snorting (??) meth.It’s the “Moscow Syndrome”; your country,services, safety nets, even food and products are on a swift slide into Hell. You NEED TO PUT UP WITH IT, cause you cannot escape it.Drugs, booze,ect.—anything that gets out OUT OF REALITY.”

Generally, we’re describing the descent of a large society into Chaos also. It’s not just me; its not just Oregon,it is the whole damn stupid jerk country. I saw a documentary recently, by the English  group against Britain remaining in the EU; basically, their country and Europe is like the USA. The voters and taxpayers have completely lost control over their govts. and their functions. Everything is gone out of their control! The EU even has control over Britain’s military.–Not the Brits. No wonder they want out, it’s not even their nation any more. Remind you of any Northamerican country?   YAAASSS?.

But, still at a Liliputian level, my damn fridge and kitchen garbage- can, STILL should shuffle along, working, just so we citizens don’t slide into jungle-anarchy before the govt.s. collapse. Or, according to sociology, maybe it ALL happens  at once. (shudder.) Probably.

Basically, my fridge is junk; my garbage can  leaks! I am OLD, and for once, I am GLAD to be old. Our govt. is a joke, everyone is BANKRUPT except the  rich and powerful( (both political party heads, and the jerk in the Once-White House (once- Oval- Office now “free-form”.)

–Furthermore–

“ONLY BLACK LIVES MATTER, NOT ANYONE  ELSE’S, SUCH AS THE POLICE WHO PROTECT US.” (would you want to be young again, and put up with this crap?!)

Not me! I am going to leave not too long hence, & I refuse to come back to this planet, and this species. I don’t care how good the fridges are,I am not being “homo sapiens” again. It sucks on a creature-level even disgusts  black widow spiders.

Flies for dinner, compared to rotten fridge-food, leaking garbage, and rioting-garbage? Hey, I’ll take THAT next time! YOU BETCHA!  I would much rather SPIN TO CATCH FRESH DINNER, than eat bad, defrosted  gook!

(Sandraminadotty, blackest of black widows, and watch out for my BITE! 🙂   )   🙂

“OREGON HAS RAIN IN JULY!!! SERIOUS RAIN!!! JUST LIKE OLD OREGON!! IN EUGENE:”

“WELL, ITS ALSO  HOT NOW, IN 7/15/2016, BUT SUMMER IS SO LATE, AND THE DUMB EDITOR WON’T CHANGE THIS TITLE:”

“OK, “says Caroline to me, after I made us both big lemonaides, and then de-camped to DairyQueen for that great soft-serve ice cream. Caroline likes the chocolate  cover they dip OVER the softserve cone) but I just love the two-in-one-chocolate/vanilla swirl. Summer couldn’t be any better than this. (“Are you doing those ad–spots for  Dairy-Queen again?” asks Caroline.NO, its just my personal note on summer.Melon.watermelon, fruit, ice-cubes, lemons or limes, cold water, and a freezing diet-drink mixed in. You can DRINK your way to losing a few lbs. and stay   cool  at the same time.Let the cat into the  back-yard, to eat grass and enjoy the over-weed-back yard summer day. NICE!—And, yeah, like other homes in Eugene, I have MONSTER-GODZILLA BLACK BERRY BUSHES I have to “poison” until  next season when they all grow back.

 

“Plus, Windows won’t Show the Art I Bought Off Sketchpad  4.0 Artists , PHOOEY.”

<p style=”text-align: left;“”>”YUMMY, ” I SAID between huge gulps and slobbers,and licks of ice cream I had waited all winter for. Well, okay, maybe not all winter. It’s just that now the weather has given me a better excuse.

, “.But I had to fiddle with my software, myself It worked! The stupidest things work on computers. You know that my keyboard is so badly damaged, because it’s too heavy and it keeps falling through the table desk hole, and the number three keeps getting stuck; it keeps going 333-3333, until I take a matte knife and use the sharp end to dig up the number three Key back up again?”

Carolyn looked at me, “please pretend you never said any of those ridiculous things about your computer again.” “Okay, I promise,” I answered, “it’s time for me to get a new keyboard, or get this  really expensive big yellow thing repaired by that guy named Ken Check” at CHECK-RITE SENIOR REPAIR. But I hear he’s hiding out at Peterson’s barn on Wednesdays, and if you want him to repair something you have to get an appointment with him on Wednesday. I think it’s only once a month. He used to be a very fantastic computer repair guy, especially for seniors,, but I haven’t been able to hunt him down until now.NOW,THAT’S a  SENIOR! He used to be a computer engineer for Hewlett-Packard.he’s really smart! Even fixed my tape deck on my big big big radio, CD player. AMAZING!”

,”well,” said Carolyn, “I hope he appreciates the ad you just gave him online.” “Oh shut up,” I said to Carolyn, “you know nobody reads this blog anyway!” “Yes,” said Carolyn thoughtfully,” that really is true.”

 

“AND FURTHER GRUMBLING ABOUT THE HUGE WEBSITES, HUGE COMPANIES, AND A DEAF FED. GOVT. PROVE THAT IN THIS AGE OF SUPER-COMMUNICATION, NONE OF THESE WILL LISTEN TO YOU, THE AMERICAN. UNTIL—

–YOU STOP GIVING THEM ANY  MORE MONEY.”

“”Why are you so bitter about huge beauracracies?” Asked Caroline between slurps of ice cream.”I tried to get info. on St. Joseph MI gun laws for a friend who lives there; because they live next to Benton Harbor, a big dangerous slum.I TRIED TO FIND OUT about MI gun laws there.My friend is very disabled, if she ever got attacked,espec. at home, she could not run. The govt. websites, police, and finally NRA were so UNAVAILABLE. They ignore their citizens needs or requests. So I cannot find out this info., except for a link the NRA finally gave me. THEY at least gave me help.” “you really think that stopping the flow of money to any despotism, huge mucked up federal government, or huge big corporation that won’t listen to you, is really the way to finally get their attention?” Asked Carolyn curiously. “I don’t know.The problem is now,” I answered, “all of the things that we need, a government, a police station, any kind of company that makes something or does something, all of these INSTITUTIONS are too big to listen to any of us. They don’t really need US, we need THEM. The only way that they need us is in huge quantities, like whole country or whole state. If the whole country or state stops giving them money, successfully, THEN they have to start paying attention to you. – – You the consumer or you the citizen. OR,  you yourself have a ton of money, really , and lots of power, then they also have to pay attention to you.But, yeah ,I don’t see Americans doing any effective action.”

“But the everyday citizen, who just wants to talk to the NRA?or the federal government? Or St. Joseph Michigan government websites? Or their police department of the state of Michigan?just to get information they need?all of these big BLOATED, nonfunctional bureaucracies already have your money, so they don’t actually have to produce any work any information or do anything at all. a nonfunctional BUREAUCRACY will not change. It will only get worse. So the only thing you can do to a bureaucracy, is to completely destroy it. ALL of it. You cannot repair it. Believe me, I’ve tried a number of times  on a number of bureaucracys they won’t even listen to you. they REFUSE to listen to people. It can’t be done.”

I stopped for a moment to think. “Have you ever tried to get a hold of Adobe software company online, the big company, about some kind of product you bought from them? Well I have, and I never got any kind of customer service  or even any acknowledgment that they SOLD me the software. I stopped buying anything from Adobe. Really! No more  art programs.same with Roaman’s department store online, that makes large clothing for women. They got bought out by Lane Bryant, and now they are really shitty. they keep sending me sale catalogs, and I keep NOT BUYING  anything from them anymore. They used to be a very good company. But they dissolved into one of those buyouts, where the massive huge Lane Bryant Corporation got them, and now they’re crappy. But it hasn’t hit them yet, and probably won’t, that since they are now Crappy  Lane Bryant, a lot of us won’t buy anything from their stores online anymore.besides, I don’t need any more clothing! And the stuff they sell now is so LOW QUALITY. I can’t even take a chance of buying anything from them on a sale!”

“A MOMENT IN TIME: WHERE WE FIGURE OUT GLOBAL-CLIMATE CHANGE CAME FROM A BUREAUCRACY: CHINA.==AND OTHER CLIMATE-DESTROYERS—–AND THE BUREAUCRACY – COUNTRIES AND CORPORATIONS  WILL NOT STOP.”

“GEE,” said Carolyn, numbly. “I thought we were not going to talk about anything seriously when we had ice cream.” “Yes,” I replied, unhappily, “I didn’t mean to get into this. I just started because I tried to get hold of “the NRA – St. Joseph Michigan government departments of firearm law; and the Police Department of the state of Michigan. I went to all of their websites and e-mailed them, to find out vital information, and the only people who finally e-mailed me back, saying they would try to get it, or they gave me a link to it, was the NRA because I donate money to them. For once, they need me a little bit. – – Because of the money. And that’s the only thing that works, with these over-bloated bureaucracy  – –TONS OF MONEY that you threaten to cut off from them. And, they have to know that you mean it. its not a threat, it’s a warning.”

“but I also thought about “global CLIMATE CHANGE.  That’s also a huge big bureaucracy that you can’t stop! WHY? All these companies and governments like China, that are producing all this foul shit in the air, and the oceans, are not going to stop doing it.all the environmentalists on the planet are not going to be able to stop them.  We are not stopping all the money going to them, so they will continue  destroying the planet–they have no monetary or power-reason to motivate them to stop.  And that’s the awful truth. THEY DON’T CARE. They have not motivated them to stop.–and they won’t change until–you take away their money–power–physical safety of the leaders and their families-“& until you bomb them out of existance?, “asked Carolyn. “You saw how la bomba  got the nation of Japan to surrender in WW2. ”  “THAT is a little extreme,” said Caroline. “Yeah,”I said,”it worked didn’t it?”

I could see the wheels going around in Carolyn’s head,and she said,”I think I have found a motivation to discourage ISIS.  “”YEAH?”  “Which countries,towns, ect. do all the real FAMILIES OF ISIS LIVE IN? You know where they are?” “No,” I chuckled, “You wanta start WW3 ? WHY don’t you tell the Pentagon?HAW!  WOW,I never should have started this on “how to motivate the human being.You been reading Machiavelli?” “Mach-ee-a-WHO? ”  Groan. Now the song from Cabaret “Money Makes The World Go Round!”–was filtering thru my ice cream. “You are REALLY getting the hang of this!”I chuckled.

“And YOU really have thought about this,” said Carolyn, looking at me mysteriously.” Is it time for you to go to a psychiatrist again? Just for a little checkup?” “no,” I replied,”Someone in this state has to actually think! Too many universities, county govt. and  city govts!— SOMEONE HAS TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK–AND THINK!” Carolyn sighed–she was probably thinking of the RG  TOO. “

“You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.” 

“Besides, no one reads this blog, and no one here in Oregon thinks.most of the psychiatrists in Oregon have moved out of the state.” “Yeah, I heard that. Why do you think that is?legal marijuana now? Or, all the Californians who moved here, because they’re so crazy they are stressing out all the psychiatrists?” “They may have run out of–ONCE AGAIN–MONEY–as Oregon govt. and people are so broke.No money, no shrinks.”

But, it was summer in Eugene, the blackberry bushes were climbing all over, & we ‘re getting out our DDT, Crossbow, and every other deadly poison we could find,  and the state was air-helicopter- spraying summer pesticides ON us..All the Hispanics were visiting my chiropractor,  it was Mexico City in Eugene. We’ll soon be “La Gentricafacion de Eugene Poquito”–filled  everywhere with Hispanics,  Spanish, freeways, SMOG, crime, bumper-to-bumper noise,traffic,, and homeless on Meth. ..  I always wanted to visit L.A. but I never wanted LA to move here… (IRONY.)

And you don’t care, you’re not reading this blog! Nobody likes complaining, and REALITY is even worse. Guess what I don’t care either! “I don’t care–I don’t care–what you may think of me!”(sings)The theme song of the Oregon Country Fair, which is more like the Musical “HAIR” without talent, good music, no decent singers or dancers, and too many “weekend” fake hippies-come-Exhibitionists. –and no good wardrobes. SKIP IT. GO WATCH “HAIR” THE MUSICAL,which has no plot or meaning, but is far cheaper and thankfully shorter. .

HAVE A SMOGGY, DDT-ED, TRAFFIC-JAMMED- HISPANIC-CROWDED, DRIED-OUT SUMMER, EUGENE!!  ENJOY! YOU’RE IN HOLLYWOOD!

(Sandraminadotty, licking DairyQueen,, and staying out of the 78 degree dried-out summer, and not getting a nice tan, thank you!)  🙂    ..

“IN EUGENE OREGON; I TRY TO BUY OR ORDER ONLINE, PURE COCONUT BUTTER, AND THAT’S MY SCREAMING YOU HEAR!!!”

(sorry to foist  this old painting, by local artist, on you, it’s the only thing on food I could find a copy of, artist unknown)

technology changes our food, how we get it, how we buy it, the cost, and whether or not we can actually find it:

let me be frank with you; I am a senior and I have various disabilities not unknown to seniors. I have bad arthritis, and osteoporosis in my back.Since I used to be an artist, that is a big no no, and reasons to go out and search for lots of illegal drugs (if you know what I mean.) You can put any comments about this below if you like.Or not! 

  . To which,this is supposed to be a blog by a senior, about seniors, and for seniors.  we all have bitches that are just related to seniors.for example, both sides of my family have had Alzheimer’s patients.. But I don’t worry about it, because I’ve always had a bad memory, and it’s actually gotten BETTER. Except for one thing;

I have always had trouble even when I was young, keeping track of things in my house or apartment or room.I already had this characteristic when I was very young!It’s not a matter of being old, it’s a matter of not being able to find things when you want them. And you do not have an orderly way of organizing them, so that you know exactly where it is. That is what’s called “a well organized person”. Of which I am not.

this is a personality characteristic and problem. The devastatingly disorganized and chaotic person and their habitat.

right away, somebody is going to ask “okay I bet your a hoarder.” No, but my mom sure was. You’ve heard of those relatives related to the KENNEDY FAMILY?two of them were real hoarders, and lived with garbage until the old lady died. And the other one was a nice young woman,,fuzzy around the intelligence area. And they gave her a lobotomy. Okay I’m not one of those.

But I do fall under the personality characteristic of “A MESS.” And that is a word Dragon NaturallySpeaking can’t even spell. So I’m going to start in on technology right now. I can’t find Coconut butter! WHY? Because all those wonderful ways of communicating, and buying, and doing stuff online often don’t work. Let’s take whole foods for example.and then we shall take Google and search engines online. And the “you have to buy it” ordering software online.

it was my misconception, the day that Carolyn came over again, and she was watching me trying to find coconut butter online, and she said, over my shoulder “Eugene does not have a whole foods store.” I looked at her. “are you kidding? The register guard has been yelling and screaming and yakking about it for a long time! what happened,I thought we had it!??” It’s not like I went down and bought anything there. It’s just been SO ADVERTISED by the local newspaper, I was sure we had it by now!

sure enough I went online and looked for a Eugene Oregon, or Springfield Oregon whole foods store. NOTHING! The nearest whole foods was either in Bend, Oregon or Portland Oregon. They even have one in Tigart.just not HERE.

“WHY DON’T I ORDER IT ONLINE?”

have any of you tried to contact your local or un– local Corporation lately?then you know what I mean. They don’t talk to you. If their software online ordering is very bad, you usually have to find an 800 number, and just call them.I do this with new egg. I do this with other websites who have horrible online ordering systems.after all, “TECHNOLOGY on the web, and computers, has gotten so you can order anything you want all over the world or locally.”

ha ha ha ha ha ha – – SUCKERS. All these big corporations and the huge mammoth web, and all the software for ordering, and the hugeness of everything, even locally, when that shouldn’t be that far away, has gotten much worse about buying things. WHY? It’s more complicated. It’s more COMPLEX.

it’s become just like the federal government; really really fucked out of sight. And it doesn’t work. It just makes it harder.

Now,why is that? And I asked Carolyn that. She didn’t know right away; or, afterwards. I had to explain it to her. “Now, Carolyn, if I had shopped locally for coconut butter, I would’ve gone to one of the local health food stores around here.  Okay? Now I have been buying it online only. It’s cheaper that way. And you can get it. That used to be true.” “Then what has changed?” She asked. “It’s gotten to be a huge unmanageable disorganized mess, kind of like me!”

I answered. “When everything gets too complicated, even all the computer technology and the web, and the software online that you have to used to buy things, it stops functioning anymore. Look at Amazon.com!look at some of the major websites, that you used to go to that you don’t go to any more, because they are so crappy, confused, discombobulated, and furslurginer screwed up!

WELCOME TO CORPORATION WORLD!

 I said to Carolyn, “I’m going to do a big shout out to all the big CEOs, in all the grocery, food, health, etc., Corporation online. You guys have  really fucked us up.  “

“I looked all over the web and locally, and through all the big corporations websites, and I tried to order a simple little thing: pure coconut butter. Do you know how hard that was? It was terrible! And it really made my fibromyalgia and arthritis worse! Do you think I want to buy anything from you after that? Every time I use the coconut butter, as food,I would start remembering all the pain you put me through!”it was sold in the TAGARD STORE, but they told me, I would have to buy a whole case of it, to order it from them.

Oh God. That’s just what I need a whole case of very pure coconut butter in my house, all the time.

“on second thought, Carolyn,” I said to her, closing up the computer, “I’m going to switch to peanut butter. You know, that really good for you peanut butter. At least I can find it.. I don’t have to do a huge massive search through whole foods, through local places, and online ordering that doesn’t work. And customer service that doesn’t exist!

“I GIVE UP. I give up coconut butter! Until that time it is made easier for me to buy.or, if it is never easier again, I’ll just quit buying it, and seriously consider buying real sesame seeds if they ever come up anywhere again. And just make tahini at-home.and buy really good for you healthy , gooey peanut butter..”

(I tried making peanut butter in a blender, it’s not really that easy. And I have a small very old food processor, and that didn’t work out either. Take it from me, you really have to have a good recipe technically, for peanut butter at home.)

“But, Carolyn there is one thing I did not do and of course I realized it after ; call up a few local health food stores, and ask them, “where is the pure coconut butter, please?” And then just pay the high price. If it is.so much for globalization. I don’t think I like it. In fact, now that England is going to jump out of the EU, “WHY don’t we jump out of globalization? “

to which Carolyn replied,”I don’t think that corporations would let you. I know they wouldn’t.” “Well,” I replied, “what can we do to put a wedge between customers and corporations?”  She replied “that hasn’t been analyzed very well. For one thing, they keep telling you to “buy locally, not globally.” – – After all this wonderful “we are the world –/we are the children!”..and “IMAGINE” by John Lennon. NOW all the businesses want you to buy locally, even though it’s more expensive and very often outrageously more than you can pay.”

” THINGS MORE SERIOUS TO WORRY ABOUT:”

we’re going to end this little article, by saying, there actually are, in the United States now, much more serious things to worry about. Look at the candidates for election of president of the United States; look at the political parties. Try not to throw up, while you do this. And then consider that our little problems of not being able to buy coconut butter, unless you order a whole case from Tigard, are ridiculous. It doesn’t matter. However, it is an example of the chaos of corporations, online ordering and buying, and food in general. Yes.

Things have become way too complicated and complex and they no longer function. “hey, Bill Gates, we’re talking about you!“but that includes the United States federal government, and all those departments. They don’t function. So this is only the tip of the iceberg, in a very very frozen cold ocean. People tell me, that it’s the beginning of unraveling of civilization that we have.

“hey,” exclaimed Carolyn, grabbing her purse,” please end that or just close up, the blog, and let it turn back into tiny little zeros and ones.” “Okay,” I said, “I really am game by now. I’ve done my work, I have warned all seniors in the area of Eugene Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest: try not to buy any more coconut butter unless you can get it locally, dirt cheap. Otherwise, it just ain’t worth it.

“Or, if you’re in Portland maybe you should shuffle along – to whole foods – – but we would like you to completely ignore it and boycott it.” If you want to.”

it’s like trying to find a kosher pickle, after a major Jewish holiday; you just can’t do it. Unless you’ve canned them yourself.

Dairy Queen, here we come, coconut butter go fuck yourself! My fibromyalgia is screaming at me, so I’m going to go fill it with ice cream.and I don’t care that it’s bad for you and unhealthy, I LOVE DAIRY QUEEN!”

(insert advertisement here.) OK, it  a corporation,  its unhealthy, its a chain. but  it works.That is really a big deal in an era of a Prez. and fed. govt. that no longer function; security of a nation that fails; economies that don’t work either; and a global-chain-link that might collapse at any time. —and take us with it.

AND, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND DAIRY QUEEN!( end of corporate ad.) I remember seeing  it in Iowa a long time ago. Maybe SOME good things don’t change. 🙂 

(Sandraminadotty, considering calling the Kiva, or other  semi-organic or not, kind of coco-nutty store in this county.)  🙂

“HOW TO BE HAPPY IN LIFE,(FOR SENIORS AND YOUNGER”; THE WIT OF EUGENE, OREGON”

(ANOTHER ART WORK RIPPED OFF THE WEB, ARTIST UNKNOWN) “HILLARY CLINTON, PREZ. OF U.S.A.”

This following post in this series.of life by a senior native of Eugene, Oregon, will be a BRIEF “advertisment” not only for how superior mankind, (oh, yeah,)is, than other animals, but “how to be happy as a human being”. In no way can this method be used for elephants, whales or the Big cats, as Mankind is set on killing THEM (cougars in Oregon) all off.

DON’T BE ONE.

FIRST, you seniors (especially ones with fibromyalgia, ouch) have the hardest time being happy.You are often in physical pain from arthritis, bad feet, all problems of getting old physically, plus cancer killing you & the deaths of wives, relatives, old friends, your work-death, & your retirement-money’s death, often broke, ALONE,(see: Wall St. & “bloated govt.”) and you are now living in an inferior environment, w/expensive food, more cancer, a bleak scary future, and, maybe worst of all, you have found out this truism:

There is no wonderful, or find-able, reason for life.You are not happy, (maybe you never were) and time has run out, to transform magically into a happy person. Despite all the psychiatrists, psychologists, and wisdom of the Chabad, you never got over your child-hood, or teen-age traumas (especially if they were extreme) and now, it’s clear that you never will.You spent all that insurance, or cash, on shrinks, and you now realize that therapy was all just to make every shrink a living. You could have had a very expensive wonderful vacation with all the insurance( and cash) and been happier on vacation.

That is true. WHY did you search all your life, for the secret of life? Here is the reason: every single piece of literature mostly religious, or psychiatic, and all your  relatives and every single piece of publication,, has written that there is a magical “secret of life” that you just have to to discover.– – and then you’ll be happy. If you are very smart, intellectual, it is even worse because  you are more apt to spend  a lot of time, in philosophy and religion, searching for that secret  of life everyone assures you is there .Religions tend to be the worst of all, telling you that if you’re good, wonderful to everyone, kind to everyone, worked hard, etc., that will make you happy.– as well as  repairing the world.

to quote Cole Porter, “it ain’t necessarily so.”

here is one requirement for happiness, that my sister,, as well as  billions of others have discovered: you have to be lucky.

luck requires that you be born into certain circumstances, family, economics, era, country, continent, social and physical that greatly ensure that you’re more likely to be happy. Theologians say “Nay, nay,, nay!” But it is a fact. Being a rickshaw driver, in China, unable to get out of that particular grueling life, and only able to find brief respite by smoking opium in an opium den designates you as “unlucky”. It has nothing to do with KARMA, as it has never been proved that you’re unhappy now, because you are a very bad evil person in your past lives. There’s no proof. No one has ever come back from death, and said “I’m being punished because I was Hitler in a past lifetime.”

Karma is only a justification, for why you’re being punished now. Forget it! Like above, “there’s no proof of karma..”

to the contrary, except for right at the ending, Hitler was pretty happy with his lot. Most rich dictators, who have a lot of power and money, are mostly happy. They don’t have to be good; they only have to be  lucky, and able to become dictators.to become a super rich family or person, takes a lot of ruthlessness, lack of empathy, animal cunning, and the grit to carry through to your goal. – –  And to hang on and keep it that way.

the very richest, more successful drug dealer, is very likely to be happy with it. Why else would he do it? Don’t fall for that  old motto that says “the poor are able to be happy also.or, even more happy than the rich.” I can tell you from experience,  it’s very very miserable being poor. That’s why nobody wants to be that way! if certain religious clerics, or people, have convinced themselves that they’re all so happy with it, let them have it. Very few people are still happy being extremely poor, in the way of the world. Even a very loving affectionate family often cannot make up for it.. It is better to have a loving, affectionate family if you’re poor,but extreme poverty still makes your loving affectionate family miserable also.

here is another necessity of life, that is a sure component of being happy;you  really have to be PHYSICALLY and MENTALLY, and EMOTIONALLY WELL. And that also requires luck.if you are extremely physically disabled, it is very difficult, in this world to be extremely happy.  Some people say that they are,  but I know for certainty, knowing a lot of the disabled community, that it really is a bitch, and a lifetime hazard to happiness.  human beings were made to be physically, mentally and emotionally well, as the world is hard, competitive, and ruthless itself.disabled people are more likely to be very poor, as nobody wants to hire them, and it’s really hard to make a living.

DISCRIMINATION is a big problem for anybody disabled.even if you have very bad mental and or emotional illness,or autism, it’s very likely to lock you out of the mainstream of human society. This is an absolute truth, I’m sorry, I’ve been there and it’s TRUE. go ahead and ask a bunch of disabled people, how they like being locked out of the mainstream of human society. They don’t like it. It isolates them, and cut down their chances of being part of society and the world. also, being very mentally and or emotionally ill, you are not able as well as the luckier person, to enjoy life.

we have now discussed most of the circumstances of the human being, that contribute mostly to his chances of being happy. And, we’ve already discussed how lack of those circumstances can make you very unhappy. What then, can you still do, to be happy, even if you have the above miserable circumstances?

one way to  accomplish happiness, even with some of those worst characteristics above, is to NOT THINK. Yes,  we are advocating that you not think! DO NOT EXAMINE LIFE. Because the more you think about it, and study it, the more unhappy you get! very intelligent, or/and sensitive humans (especially artists,) are some of the unhappiest people. Being more intelligent, and REALIZING HOW HARD IT IS, TO CHANGE BAD CIRCUMSTANCES, AND HOW UNFAIR LIFE IS, —AND THE INABILITY TO CHANGE or CONTROL LIFE—CAN MAKE YOU VERY UNHAPPY. You are too smart to be fooled by dumb clap-trap about “you can control your life; You can control happiness, no matter your problems”. “Call our psychics, & find happiness!” “find happiness in God”!!!

TRY to keep your illusions and delusions .If you drink too much, and go to A.A,, and now you get dry,and realize HOW MISERABLE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, think about whether or not you want to be vulnerable now, not drinking, and is it worth it? HOW OLD are you? If you’re young enough to change some stuff, ok. But if you’re only now pelted by the misery, who cares if you drink? If you’re only responsible for yourself, (let your spouse divorce you) who says there are cures for your life? NOT a guarantee . DITTO DRUGS— chances are, you might be very happy off drugs (see: “necessities of happiness”) and not finally kill yourself. GREAT–can you manage to live off drugs, face your reality, noting how your original pain surfaces?  CAN you live with the pain, and find good enough ways to handle life,and not get snowed?  It might be more realistic to pick a “pot-liberated state,” set up residence, and  ACCEPT YOURSELF.

ACCEPTING YOURSELF, AND NOT BEATING YOURSELF UP, can make you happier. this is true.

There are ways to consider, “HOW MUCH CONTROL have you got over your life?” or how much have you EVER HAD? IT’s time to realize, how LITTLE CONTROL we have had,and have, over our life circumstances.

NO, YOU DON’T HAVE THAT MUCH CONTROL OVER LIFE!! go watch the old HBO SERIES, “SIX FEET UNDER”, and observe how much control, any of these characters had over their deaths, OR LIFE. Most of these people tried to control life, and failed.Much of of our life is already decided for us. You can TRY, but, please, be realistic. You have much LESS CONTROL than we are blamed for.

there are even people who say, BLACK PEOPLE who stick together, ARE HAPPIER. (TRUE.)–And if you noticed, yourHispanic neighbors may be  happier, with their families.White people get dumped, often, alone,old,  sick or poor, unlike the fore mentioned 2 races.When black or Hispanic folks hang together, supportive, the white person, alone, is unhappier. With this statistic looming, have white people in the U.S.A. FORGOTTEN how to be supportive families? And DUMP very disabled or old, ect., family members? It appears very possible.

Maybe all the dumped solitary, lonely white folks, should put on black face, and pretend!!!(sarcasim).

here are some very patented, and reliable,, ways that you can try to be happy.  Some of them work more than others. DON’T BE POOR, if you can help it.

ACCEPT your self the way you are. Mostly that is out of control except for the few things that you can change.it doesn’t help make you happier, to hate yourself for what you can’t do or can’t be.

ACCEPT THAT THE WORLD IS OUT OF YOUR CONTROL, and most or at least many of things in life are completely out of your control. It does not help to be a control – freak. SORRY! It’s just reality!

PICK  FRIENDS who  accept  you the way you are. Stay away from people who overly judge you, or berate you for your problems, and tell you “you could make a lot more money if you just shaped up, got over ALL those problems, and got a really good job.”– – like it’s very easy, now, to just go out, in the United States,  and get a very good job. Ha ha. Even the experts can’t do it.oh, and, you’re supposed to “just get over those  little problems, it’s so easy!”

ACCEPT that, much of your life is out of your control, and always has been,, including all the circumstances into which you were born, and which make a lot of difference  in how you are now.be realistic about it.

STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP, for not being happy. Most of the planet people are not happy, because it is a very hard world, for the majority of its inhabitants, are not very happy. It is also a fallacy that most Americans are happy. Drug addiction and alcoholism in the United States is rampant, (says one very good workbook on depression,,)  because nobody in this society is supposed to express not positive, painful feelings. According to Americanism,, you are always supposed to be HAPPY. NO UNHAPPINESS! NO NEGATIVE FEELINGS! What are you supposed to do with them? Americanism requires that you drug a lot, and/or drink a lot, and hide all of your negative feelings. It doesn’t really help, it just makes you an addict.(the above statement that it might be better to be a drunk, or be a druggie, iis really up to you..)

THERE  ARE a few things, in your life, probably even very tiny ones, that you can control. Some of them can make you happy sometimes. For example, those of us who worship at the shrine of SpongeBob Square pants, are made very happy by him. 🙂 even if only for a few minutes a day. There are also those of us who are made happy by fashion, writing, artwork, drawing, painting, sewing, and trying to knit. (Yes, I am trying it’s not as easy as you think.  SEE above: don’t expect yourself to be perfect.–this includes very difficult knitting. However, it is fun.) Maybe you like TREES! If you are an Oregon native you very likely like trees!– – and you try to do what you can to watch out for them.

BE KIND TO OTHER PEOPLE.it is not only good for them, it makes you feel like a worthwhile person. It doesn’t mean you have to be Rockefeller or have your own huge charity. Just do what you can! Especially personally!7and you also don’t have to be a member of the Chabad.–or any particular religion. Eugene,Oregon, has quite a number of very nice churches, who use their organizations, to have charities and help for the poor  and elderly who need it. But, for example you could be a complete agnostic or athiest, and still be kind to people.

“Be gentle with yourself.”–I got this one from SASS, (look it up) in Eugene, OR, and its been very helpful to me.we are usually our own worst critics and very hard on ourselves.they not only recommend this, they also recommend writing things down, like keeping a journal, (they don’t know that I publicize everything, here on my blog, and just blab blab blab, as if I knew the secrets of the universe. Good thing they don’t read this.)

AND, MOST OF ALL, DON’T EXPECT LIFE,, or GOD, TO BE PERFECT – –please, accept yourself the way you are, the world the way it is,(this typing the way it is,) and most of all, please, for God’s sake, don’t look at God and say “YOU ARE PERFECT! You can fix everything!” That is the most untrue, mythological BS of all time. If you are an intelligent person, or even if you’re not, take it from me, whatever God there is, or “evolutionary systems” that make up all of existence, you can’t expect them to be perfect the way you want.that is another religious fallacy that I very much dislike.

You can look at the world itself, and see that, this is not the work of a idealistic, all perfect, “knows what he is doing” deity of any kind.the universe and the creator are perfect, in their own way, but it’s not necessarily OUR WAY. It would be a good idea to look at everything from the eye view of the creator,  and realize that  everything is perfect the way it is.even ourselves! For all we are bastard guerrillas, with too– big– brain cases, this is as good as we can manage right now.. No, I don’t like having a nice intelligent mind, in the body of a gorilla. Not my idea of a good time!but, until a better substitute comes along, we’re stuck with this one.

this sounds like  “a whole lot of acceptance can help you be happier.” That’s probably true.after all, alcoholics anonymous, and some other distant quaint philosophies, have known this for a long time.  And, it is FAR EASIER, and MORE PRACTICAL. And,  more often than not, IT WORKS.  at least, it helps a great deal. Thank you! You may now go out, into the world, and be as unhappy or as happy as you can manage, or as you can put up with, with my permission. (Smirk) as if you needed my permission! You don’t need anybody’s permission! You should accept that also! Ha ha Ha.

Boy, if it wasn’t for a very good sense of humor, I’d never get out of misery myself! I just laugh at all of you, haw haw, and the world, AND GOD, and try to get over myself!I recommend it.  🙂

(Sandraminadotty, the psychic-net-work-substitute=-and KNOW-IT-ALL-SENIOR  OF EUGENE, OR!!!!!)