the only good poet
One retreat after another without peace.
is Ross Runfola one of the poet/lawyers you speak of? and the one on this forum, do they reside in new york? just like to know if my intuition is correct. :)
Charles Bukowski's Take On Presidents
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is Ross Runfola one of the poet/lawyers you speak of? and the one on this forum, do they reside in new york? just like to know if my intuition is correct. :)
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Hi,
If it is Ross, I would not say as I know that he is humble and would not want any big deal made out of it... ;)
BEst,
Bill
If it is Ross, I would not say as I know that he is humble and would not want any big deal made out of it... ;)
BEst,
Bill
I recently received a $2400 settlement made possible by a female lawyer who works for a gov't agency. This amount came to me in addition to the money I received from my car insurance company because my parked car was hit by two ridiculous and unglamorous drunks riding together, and the driver was uninsured. She moved heaven and earth to get me these funds and kept me informed on every step of the process, and she's believes in the importance of the service work she's doing. So it should come as no surprise that I hardly think of her as the dregs of the earth. It's convenient to write off an entire group as worthless until you need their services, and some of them are going to pick up on that sour attitude unless you stay open to the possibility that he or she just might be the exception to the rule. I've met just as many shitty doctors and business people as lawyers. But when a lawyer goes truly bad, it's definitely not good. If possible, it's better to screen for a lawyer before you actually need one. "”Poptop.
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Can one man make a difference?
I'm usually not inspired to vote because I'm no longer inspired by the candidates. I'm trying to remember the last time any one of them seemed to stand for something whether it was politically expedient or not.
The politicians I loved that might have made a difference have all been assassinated, and I see the evidence created by this political vacuum every day I split the newspaper down the middle with my fingernails. Without going into the specifics, I view the nefarious events behind 9/11 as a replay of the JFK assassination and the fact that US citizens continues to be treated like a small child who is unable to cope with something called Reality, or "national security," or whatever, and the politicians and businessmen who are actually behind such catastrophic events continue to remain in power.
The behind-the-scenes cause of such events are not questioned because the vast majority of the general public are evidently not willing to look beneath the surface of these unsettlingly events and look at primary source evidence, such as films, videos and first-hand eye-witness accounts. (How many know of the 100 year silent conspiracy to keep blacks out of baseball? And yet people will say, "Well, how could you keep something like under cover with so many people in the leagues involved?" But such things can happen by an unstated, tacit agreement...) The evidence is easily available on YouTube and elsewhere. But even then, people sometimes won't believe their eyes because the ugly reality clashes with their belief that it's impossible for the country's leaders to stoop that low"”and that's exactly what the perpetrators of these criminal acts count on to begin with. In many ways, they're a hell of a lot smarter and more audacious than the rest of us.
Even though I'm not in a position to bring some of these people to justice, I feel that I damn well know what's going on, and that offers some measure of, let's call it, "psychic" protection, even if some of these bastards were to round me up tomorrow.
But why should I expect an uneducated public to have the initiative to investigate such shenanigans on their own when the school systems, at least at the lower levels, have been systematically gutted and you have high-schoolers who are graduating and unable to read something as basic as the classified ads in the "help wanted" section?
So the best you can do is self-education and maybe be lucky enough to get a few Bukowski titles under your belt as an eye-opener. Then go from there and view the world anew with eyes that see and ears that hear, before the whole shit house goes up in flames.
Nevertheless, I continue to believe that one person can make a positive difference in the destiny of Man and some decent leadership will finally emerge from the ranks. May it happen soon, because I've yet to see anyone fortified strongly enough from within to withstand the corrupting influences of outside pressures, perhaps even threats of death, and hold to their conscience of what's right, whether there's anything in it for them or not. "”Poptop.
I'm usually not inspired to vote because I'm no longer inspired by the candidates. I'm trying to remember the last time any one of them seemed to stand for something whether it was politically expedient or not.
The politicians I loved that might have made a difference have all been assassinated, and I see the evidence created by this political vacuum every day I split the newspaper down the middle with my fingernails. Without going into the specifics, I view the nefarious events behind 9/11 as a replay of the JFK assassination and the fact that US citizens continues to be treated like a small child who is unable to cope with something called Reality, or "national security," or whatever, and the politicians and businessmen who are actually behind such catastrophic events continue to remain in power.
The behind-the-scenes cause of such events are not questioned because the vast majority of the general public are evidently not willing to look beneath the surface of these unsettlingly events and look at primary source evidence, such as films, videos and first-hand eye-witness accounts. (How many know of the 100 year silent conspiracy to keep blacks out of baseball? And yet people will say, "Well, how could you keep something like under cover with so many people in the leagues involved?" But such things can happen by an unstated, tacit agreement...) The evidence is easily available on YouTube and elsewhere. But even then, people sometimes won't believe their eyes because the ugly reality clashes with their belief that it's impossible for the country's leaders to stoop that low"”and that's exactly what the perpetrators of these criminal acts count on to begin with. In many ways, they're a hell of a lot smarter and more audacious than the rest of us.
Even though I'm not in a position to bring some of these people to justice, I feel that I damn well know what's going on, and that offers some measure of, let's call it, "psychic" protection, even if some of these bastards were to round me up tomorrow.
But why should I expect an uneducated public to have the initiative to investigate such shenanigans on their own when the school systems, at least at the lower levels, have been systematically gutted and you have high-schoolers who are graduating and unable to read something as basic as the classified ads in the "help wanted" section?
So the best you can do is self-education and maybe be lucky enough to get a few Bukowski titles under your belt as an eye-opener. Then go from there and view the world anew with eyes that see and ears that hear, before the whole shit house goes up in flames.
Nevertheless, I continue to believe that one person can make a positive difference in the destiny of Man and some decent leadership will finally emerge from the ranks. May it happen soon, because I've yet to see anyone fortified strongly enough from within to withstand the corrupting influences of outside pressures, perhaps even threats of death, and hold to their conscience of what's right, whether there's anything in it for them or not. "”Poptop.
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the only good poet
One retreat after another without peace.
yes, like charity-based laywers involved in immigration/asylum issues, trying to extricate the poorest members of a divided world from an insane bureaucracy. (and that's even difficult to spell!) :confused: