Let Business Ring!

Forget Freedom, forget the First Amendment, forget the Free Press, as long as business is good, who cares what they do in Washington?

If that’s not your attitude, you need to change it. You’ll never change the greed that feeds that raging torment of lost souls in Congress — the White House doesn’t count, because it’s Satan’s Shrine, the SOURCE of all the raging torment.

Gosh, are you wondering why you should bother?

Frankly, that’s been my position right from the start. After having spent your life blasting away at that 30 year mortgage — if banks will even LEND to you — and putting aside some money for your retirement to add to the social security checks, which don’t cover much of anything, guess what?

Social Security is closing down.

Oh, well, it wasn’t that much, anyway — all it did was keep some bread on the table, and we don’t need bread … we’ve got tons and tons of cake mix.

People — I’m using the term loosely — in Congress barely know you’re alive. To them, you’re just a vote or money, meaning a lobbyist with cash money in your pocket.

This is the time to unload and get ready to rock and roll, SELL ANYTHING THAT ISN’T NAILED DOWN, to prevent “Rear-View Mirror Syndrome” when you look back at the huge pile of stuff you had to leave behind when you became an American Immigrant.

With that in mind, I’ve put up six totally beautiful Grabhorn Press 1943 reissues of the Gauguin woodcuts — I don’t have the complete portfolio, but if I did, it would go up at Sotheby’s, not on eBay, believe me, and you wouldn’t believe what an intact one of those will bring. Continue reading

Greatest Kid’s Gift Ever

 

No matter how strapping and healthy I might be at age 76, and the issue is still in doubt, but getting better every day — I’m a short-timer on Planet Earth, and I’m not making any long-term personal plans that might involve the 22nd century.

I guess you’d place me in the “Oh, go f*ck yourself” stage of life, meaning that there’s nothing they can do to this country or to the national standards of decency and honesty that has any long-term effect on me, but Hell, that’s been true since the day I took rebirth, and it’s not likely to ever change, not now, not ever.

As for building personal wealth, I’ve had a running battle with government for years on the subject of Voluntary Poverty as a way of life that is accepted, but have not had much luck on that front.

I have no retirement fund, and no plans to build one. No medical insurance, if they take away medicare. I’m shit out of luck on that front. My only concern is that I’m not a burden, and I’ve done what I had to in order for that to happen. I’ve made sure that my personal voluntary poverty will at least do no harm.

Personal Poverty is one thing, cultural poverty quite another, and in this country, culture has gone rapidly downhill toward the days of Ancient Greece, Rome and Sumer, not to mention Babylon. Continue reading