My good friend of 40 years, Lace Haug, left the planet yesterday. He was at the end stages of a horribly painful and hopeless condition. He asked me to take him to the hospital for what he undoubtedly knew was the end. And he thanked me.
Lace was a hell of a musician, a great friend, and a seeker. He was never satisfied with mere scientific or religious explanations for why, and continuously studied and searched all paths available to him. In the end he achieved a peace he probably never saw during his life.
One of his last statements to me was that he was disappointed in the behavior of humanity, especially the Western world. He said, "I can't accept the rampant bald-face lying by those in power, who only want more power and wealth. It's gotten way out of hand. If this is the way the world is evolving, I would rather die now than see it get worse." He, like I, was disgusted with greed, bigotry and intolerance. These are sentiments that my children have recently echoed as they tell me they will not bring children into an evil world.
Perhaps this is a final lesson: The gentle and pacific people of the Earth must leave and let the dull-witted and evil to inherit this existence and accelerate its destruction.
Farewell, Lace. You're already missed. And farewell to the hope for the transformation and ascension of humanity. Still, some of us will maintain hope. I just can't see how.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Pitchforks, Hell! Grab your Ankles!
This is a follow-up to my last posting about the greedy rich fleecing the citizens of the good ol' USA.
Perhaps you haven't heard the recent news; During the financial crisis of the last two years, the Federal Reserve made nine trillion dollars in profit from emergency loans made to the Wall Street too-big-to-fail entities like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to name just two. See the CNN Money article.
Nine Trillion Dollars. Isn't that several times greater than the deficit and all projected shortfalls? Wouldn't that provide enough money to flow back to the neighborhood banks so Main Street folks and small businesses could obtain workable loans? It looks like this: $9,000,000,000,000,000. You'd think they would have run out of zeroes by now.
Yet, it's become painfully obvious that the Fed and its buddies are totally unwilling to move that money back into circulation. They're hoarding it as if it actually belonged to them and they earned it fair-and square. The audacity!
It's hard to march on the mansion with pitchforks and torches when you're bent over a barrel getting serviced up the kiester by some fat cat bastard you don't even know.
Perhaps you haven't heard the recent news; During the financial crisis of the last two years, the Federal Reserve made nine trillion dollars in profit from emergency loans made to the Wall Street too-big-to-fail entities like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to name just two. See the CNN Money article.
Nine Trillion Dollars. Isn't that several times greater than the deficit and all projected shortfalls? Wouldn't that provide enough money to flow back to the neighborhood banks so Main Street folks and small businesses could obtain workable loans? It looks like this: $9,000,000,000,000,000. You'd think they would have run out of zeroes by now.
Yet, it's become painfully obvious that the Fed and its buddies are totally unwilling to move that money back into circulation. They're hoarding it as if it actually belonged to them and they earned it fair-and square. The audacity!
It's hard to march on the mansion with pitchforks and torches when you're bent over a barrel getting serviced up the kiester by some fat cat bastard you don't even know.
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