Greetings from Calico Blackie!
This was the concert. Bob Dylan and Neil Young played there too. Jeez, I’m gettin’ old!
I see there were three people shot at the big “420″ pot rally in Colorado this past Saturday.
Heh.
I’ll bet that REALLY harshed their mellow.
It’s easy to read this news and remark: “What’s this world coming to when people can’t even get together for a pot rally without violence occurring”?
Yet…..
It’s been going on forever. Some people are just predisposed to violence.
Back in 1975, I attended a benefit outdoor rock concert in San Francisco and watched an almost surreal scene unfold there.
While Joan Baez was up on the stage singing her very beautiful and peaceful version of the hymn “Amazing Grace”, a big brawl between about 20 people suddenly erupted in the stands. I mean, there were punches being landed and people were getting thrown down the concrete stairs of good ol’ Kezar Stadium.
Dylan and Young performing that day
It could have been a lot worse, but the concert was put on by “Bill Graham Presents” and their security people DID NOT mess around.
Those security people all wore T-shirts emblazoned with the word “PLEASE” in big letters on the front, and the rules were written on the back of the shirts.
They didn’t care if you smoked dope. They didn’t care if you danced like a maniac. They didn’t care if you were drunk. Heck, they didn’t care if you wandered around on your hands and knees eating paper and barking like a dog (yes, I saw that once at Winterland during a show).
They were there to make sure the peace was kept.
It just doesn’t make sense anymore!
Get out of line with them and you were assured of an extreme ass-kicking and ejection from the show.
I would imagine those days are gone now because now some idiot would sue the venue over the ass-kicking they got which they so richly deserved.
Anyway…..
What the fuck are people rallying over pot for these days anyway?
The country (and world) is going to hell, and they’re rallying for pot?
I weep for America.
Meanwhile, we’re all a’drool over the latest news coming from Boston, so here ya go….
THE LATEST…..
The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews.
The answer should be obvious to all of us. And no, I’m not posting a picture of “bomber twat” here. I’m sick of looking at the little prick every time I see the news
From his hospital bed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in planting the explosives near the marathon finish line on April 15, the officials said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation, said Dzhokhar and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed by police as the two attempted to avoid capture, do not appear to have been directed by a foreign terrorist organization.
Calico Blackie says:
Hopefully, people are also reading the rest of the news instead of just following the events in Boston. If you live in Southern California, this should get your attention…..
Santa Susana groundwater cleanup could take centuries, official says
No, he’s not drunk. He’s just been drinking the tap water in Simi Valley and Moorpark! (ever spell “Moorpark” backwards?)
The groundwater cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, the site of a 1959 partial nuclear meltdown, could take centuries, a state official said Wednesday night.
The soil decontamination will take far less time, a few or more years, but might not be finished by a 2017 deadline, Mark Malinowski of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control told about 100 people during a cleanup update at the Grand Vista Hotel in Simi Valley.
“It’s a very aggressive schedule to get to 2017, and many things have to happen correctly in order to get there,” said Malinowski, the department’s cleanup team manager.
The groundwater cleanup will take “a lot longer … decades, possibly centuries to complete,” Malinowski said. “Groundwater is an extremely difficult thing to clean up. This contamination we’re dealing with did not happen overnight.”
Malinowski said the investigation into what and where the contaminants are could be largely done by next year. Cleanup plans would then be formulated, and once they are approved, the decontamination would start.
NASA, the Energy Department and the Boeing Co. had information tables at the event.
Boeing owns most of the 2,850-acre site, formerly the Rocketdyne nuclear and rocket engine test facility, in the hills between Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley. The rest of the site is owned by the federal government and administered by NASA.
But, don’t worry about your drinking water. Worry about them goddam IMMYGRINTS!
During a question-and- answer period, cleanup activists sharply questioned Malinowski’s statement that no significant contamination has been found beyond the site’s boundaries.
“I had to remind him that in 2008, they removed three football fields of contaminated soil off the adjacent Sage Ranch Park property,” William Bowling said. “And then last year, the EPA found radioactivity in a well on the campus owned by the American Jewish University, which also adjoins the site.
“They’re not giving the public the clear picture, which is that there is off-site contamination,” Bowling said.
But Malinowski said the EPA’s finding is in doubt.
“Our evaluation of the EPA evaluation showed that was a questionable result,” he said. “So it could be false positive. One of the things we are reassessing is: Do we need to resample that location?”
Link is here: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/apr/18/santa-susana-soil-cleanup-may-not-make-2017-deadli/
Never mind all that. Might as well get high!
Calico Blackie says:
“Cleanup could take centuries?????” WOW! Just think, there’s still people pushing for nuclear power and for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site.
You know….
The type of nuclear waste with a half-life of over 500,000 YEARS.
The nuclear proponents always rant on about how safe nuclear power is, yet they NEVER talk about how to get rid of spent fuel rods.
Their solution?
Bury it all in the Nevada Desert and let it sit there for a million years. Let our descendants worry about it.
THAT HARSHES MY MELLOW!
Never mind the fact that the climate is ever-changing, or that the Sahara was once a lush tropical forest. Never mind that in 10,000 years, the Nevada desert could be a woodland containing the last habitable place on earth. Never mind all of that.
While we’re busy with Boston, here’s another little “thing” that has been happening to us as a result of Congress not being able to do a damn thing for “We, the People”……..
Flight Delays Continue For Third Day At LAX
Ahhhhh…The good old days!
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Flight delays continued Tuesday for a third day at LAX and other Southland airports due to forced furloughs of air traffic controllers.
As of 5 a.m., approximately 60 percent of flights departing LAX and 20 percent of arrivals were delayed, according to flightview.com.
The delays carried over from Monday night when about 25 percent of flights were delayed.
The interruptions in service are a result of a nationwide furlough of air traffic controllers due to federal budget cuts.
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring all workers to take one unpaid day off of every 10-day period through Sept. 30, and that goes beyond control towers in airports, officials said.
On Sunday, LAX experienced an average delay of more than three hours.
Link is here: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/23/flight-delays-continue-for-third-day-at-lax/#.UXZ-g8aBg-M.twitter
Who’s got time to worry about anything else besides: “OH MY GOD. THEY’RE LETTING QUEERS INTO THE BOY SCOUTS NOW!” We gotta protest that!
Calico Blackie says:
As usual, our government cuts the lean and not the fat. Why can’t we freeze congressional perks, pensions and paychecks until they get off their asses and start doing their jobs?
Why?
Because “Power to the People” is just a phrase. A fairy tale told to us by the politicians and banksters to give us an illusion that we actually matter to them. They don’t give a damn about our safety and they never did. We’re just milk cows to be milked dry until we’re no longer useful to them.
THAT HARSHES MY MELLOW!
Here’s another good one I read this morning……
Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts
Sabino Fuentes-Sanchez hid $25,000 all around his house because he didn’t trust banks. Lasonia Christon receives her Wal-Mart salary on a pre-paid debit card.
This article misses the point. Screw the banks. Use them as little as possible. When you use the banks, you’re playing THEIR rigged game
Kim James was homeless for most of the past decade in part because she had no place to save money.
There are plenty of reasons people still live all-cash lives, but the sheer number who do it might surprise you.
At a time when the majority of Americans use online banking, and some even deposit checks using their cellphone cameras, roughly eight percent of America’s 115 million households don’t have a checking or savings account, according to census data compiled by the FDIC.
The numbers are far higher among minorities: More than 20 percent of African-Americans and Hispanics are essentially left out of the American banking system.
Frozen in the cash-only past, they face myriad “kick-them-while-they-are-down” situations where getting money costs money. Banks typically charge $6 to cash checks. Want to secure an apartment? Fee-based money orders are the only option. Without credit cards, they must turn to triple-digit interest rate payday loans for emergencies.
“Corporate control of the government is called FASCISM.” THIS IS WHERE WE’RE HEADED. But, does anyone care? HECK NO. They’re more worried about GAY SCOUTS
Calico Blackie says:
Have you ever tried to rent a car without a credit card? Slowly but surely it’s becoming a requirement of life to have a bank account.
Who made it that way? Why?
Have you ever wondered where these usurious loan companies, some of them offshore agencies, get the money to loan to you? They don’t just go out back and pluck it from the money tree. It doesn’t just magically materialize out of thin air. Besides, the “money to loan” and offshore loan agencies charge interest rates that would be illegal for a bank to charge.
So…..
Where does the money come from?
THEY GET IT FROM THE BANKS.
THAT HARSHES MY MELLOW!
The banks provide the money for these shysters in the same manner that a Mafia Don hires a hit man to do his dirty work. That way, the Don can swear that he never killed anyone and the banks can swear they don’t charge illegal rates.
The “dirty little secret.” A parody from almost 40 years ago. THIS has been going on for decades, but we just never heard about it. Gays in the Boy Scouts? There’s always been gays in the Boy Scouts. It’s just never been officially accepted.
The game is rigged, folks.
And you and I are the marks. The sheep to be fleeced.
DON’T PEOPLE JUST HATE HEARING THE TRUTH?
It harshes their mellow.
It bursts their bubbles.They’d rather worry about gays in the Boy Scouts.
Well, guess what?
THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN GAYS IN THE BOY SCOUTS JUST LIKE THE BANKSTERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SCREWING US.
Which do you think is the bigger problem?
Reality, what a concept!
Maybe I’ll never understand the human race. Why do I tend to think that the same people who would be appalled by walking in on a Boy Scout campfire circle-jerk would be perfectly alright with a mother walking in on her daughter “experimenting” with one of her female friends?
Why are people repulsed by male homosexuality and yet aroused by lesbianism? I’ll never figure it out.
I’ll also never figure out why we become so concerned with “causes” that should’ve never been an issue in the first place.
Why are they even issues and causes?
Why are some of the very same people opposed to gay Boy Scouts alright with this scenario? I’ll bet mom was surprised!
Who gives a damn?
Oh yeah…..
Human rights.
The world is full of people who will deny people’s basic needs and rights to suit their own agendas.
Isn’t that what it’s all about?
Sorry about harshing the mellow for today.
KEEP THE FAITH
Calico Blackie @kidakita
