Life, Death, War and Nonsense

        Life and Death
　

Geckos dwell in the caves of the ancients, and roam
through hollowed rib cages where the heart used to be.
Demons laugh as we plan for tomorrow. Predator’s dwell
in anticipation. Indeed the devils work shop is a busy
place. Near death or seized success?
Just another pawn in a soulless generation. Which gener-
ation will destroy the last of civilization? Knowledge over
powers laughter. Laughter dances on knowledge, it
dances with wisdom, it dances with folly.
                                       Izzy Schurr / Nancy Simpson Hoke
　                       

                          War III
　

Unseen enemy is near, the air charged with fear,
Heart beats unclear. Whispered violence
Echoes death.
　                        

                         Nonsense

　
Razzle dazzle, pies in the castle. Where is Miss.
Frazzle? Under da castle? Perhaps causing a
hassle? Why no, she’s eating sassle. What is
sassle? Sometimes it’s sweet, bright, and
light. Other times it’s sour, dark, and heavy.
Sassle is often like dark chocolate, and some
times it’s like white chocolate. It’s never like
hot chocolate. Mostly it’s Wokalit. Wokalit pie.
chocolate pie, sapple pie, apple pie. Scary pie,
cherry pie, pickle pie, chicken pot pie. Never eat
a mud pie like a Burf or a Wurf. Instead why not
surf. Perhaps walk with a Wurf.
                                                        Izzy Schurr

World Wide Rape is Much Too Real

In too many parts of the world it's legal to be a pedophile and rape young girls which raises the question, 'Why are some young girls born only to suffer?'

Thirty nine-thousand girls a day around the globe are forced into marriage, many of them under the age of 18 according the March article "Child brides around the world sold off like cattle." (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/08/child-brides-sold/1972905/)

The above article states that a 17-year-old girl in Juba, South Sudan Africa was beaten to death for refusing to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather. Girls as young as 12-years-old in South Sudan are forced to marry much older men. Instead of war for oil and power, how about war against forced marriages for every female in the world?

Half the women in South Sudan between the ages of 19 and 15 are forced into marriage. In west Niger, Africa 75 percent of girls are married before the age of 18. 

How many sadistic occultist use religion as a tool for raping very young girls? Twelve-year-old girls marry middle aged men who already have several wives. The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints leader Warren Jeffs who has 80 wives, including a 12-year-old girl leads a very demented cult in the U.S. Incidentally, Jeffs is currently in prison for life. Why the U.S. military does not swoop in and shut this nefarious religion down is a complete mystery to me.

An ABC news article from April; "Warren Jeffs Still Calling the Shots from Prison?"  details the horrid facts of the FLDS. (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/warren-jeffs-still-calling-the-shots-from-prison/)  The FLDS is not affiliated with the LDS, the most popular Mormon practice.

Freedom of religion is a fantastic thing and I'm all for it. However a felony is a felony, epically when adolescence girls are being raped by men in their mid-50s. As I'm typing this very second, the FLDS religion is allowing some of its men to engage in polygamy and force elementary age school girls to marry men older than 55-years old. The U.S. government allows this religion to torture very young girls because it's OK with their lame brained parents who believe Jeffs words of sheer nonsense according to the above article.

In Afghanistan girls as young as 8-years-old are forced into marriage or face brutal public flogging or even made into a suicide bomber according the web site; http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f013111_brides.

Disguised in boys' clothes, Khadija Rasoul, 13, and Basgol Sakhi, 14, traveled for two days to escape their illegal, forced marriages to much older men according to an “Upfront” magazine article on the above web page. Policeman recognized them as girls, ignored their pleas, and sent them back home, where they were publicly and viciously flogged for daring to run away from their husbands.

“What a Wonderful World," by Louis Armstrong is often not true. If I was a praying man, I'd simply pray that everyone could be safe. I got those words from one of my college professors at Dixie State College, now Dixie State University.

"More than 100 teens rescued in weekend sex-trafficking raids, FBI says," an article on the website; http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/29/19754475-more-than-100-teens-rescued-in-weekend-sex-trafficking-raids-fbi-says?lite claims an estimated 240,000 children in the U.S. are considered at risk of sexual exploitation.

"Why are little ones born only to suffer?" (Peart. N. 1991)

The Bay Area Blitz, Northern California Teams are Winners

Since 2001, Bay Area professional sports teams have amassed seven championships in multiple sports; football, baseball and soccer.

 

Surprisingly the San Francisco Giants have the least consecutive playoff appearances (two) of all the bay area pro teams according to Mark Purdy, a journalist for the Mercury News in his article “ San Jose Sharks top list of Bay Area's longest playoff streaks,” published April 28. (http://www.mercurynews.com/mark-purdy/ci_23127548/san-jose-sharks-top-list-bay-areas-longest)

 

Of course the Giants have won two of the last three World Series, the zenith in the world of baseball.

The San Jose SaberCats clinched another playoff berth this season, so stay alert for the Arena Football League playoffs which start Sat Aug, 3. ArenaBowl XXVI in Orlando, Fla. Will occur Sat Aug, 17.

 

The SaberCats have won three titles since 2002; including their last title in 2008.The San Jose soccer Earthquakes have two Major League Soccer titles in this young century. (2001; 2003)

 

The Oakland Athletics won the American League western conference title last season and missed playing the Giants in last year’s World Series by one game. Despite being 27^th out of 30 teams for the lowest payroll in Major League Baseball according to the ESPN website; (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/salaries/_/name/oak/oakland-athletics).

The A’s are riding a six consecutive series winning streak. During the team’s current streak, they are 6-3 against the teams with the three best records in baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Red Sox.

 

Incidentally the A’s have the fourth best record in baseball and only two teams in MLB have won more World Series than the A’ who are currently in first place in the AL west.

 

Although the San Jose Sharks have never won a hockey title, the Stanley Cup, they have not missed the playoffs since the 2002-2003 NHL season. Currently the Sharks lead all Bay Area teams with the most consecutive playoff appearances with nine. The 49ers are second on that list with eight according to Purdy’s article.

 

Only one team has won more Super Bowls then the 49ers. The Niners are back in the playoff picture before the cameras are even turned on. Last year’s NFC conference champs are poised for another Super Bowl run. 

 

Noteworthy are many of the Santa Rosa Junior College teams and the Petaluma Little League baseball team which was one win away from playing for the world title. Remember that game against Tennessee when they scored 10 runs in the top of the 9th to tie the game up in the national championship game? Arguably the most exciting baseball game ever played.

Eight state junior college championships have been accumulated by the JC women’s swim, soccer and basketball teams; Six of those championships coming since 2004, including a 2011 state title from the JC women’s basketball team.
(http://www.santarosa.edu/)

 

Since 2001, the JC men’s soccer, swimming and baseball teams have amassed four state titles and the 2001 soccer team has the lone national title for the SRJC. The JC men’s swimmers won the state title last year. The state title in baseball was in 2005.

Although the Golden State Warriors and the Oakland Raiders have been out of serious contention for too many years, the Warriors have established themselves as a perianal playoff team when they made it to the playoffs last year and lost to the San Antonio Spurs in six games without their lone all-star David Lee. The Warriors and Raiders have still combined to win four championships.   

Great Artist's of Music Might be Jamming in the Afterlife

Teetering on the middle ground of sanity and lunacy, hovering on the fringes of fact and fiction, pressed into the dusk before sheer darkness or weaved into the dim light after pitch night and unable to determine dreams from reality, there is another world.

Residing in the realms of science and superstation hoping to acquire a round trip ticket to rock ‘n’ roll Valhalla, a musical paradise where deceased icons live forever and dominate the senses with phenomenal music. I'm referring to an oasis where musical gods gather together and form the most extraordinary band ever.

For starters this band has John Lennon, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Freddie Mercury, Buddy Holly and Stevie Ray Vaughan writing for it. Everyone just mentioned also sings and plays various instruments including keyboards and guitar. With Lennon, hard hitting lyrics about the corruption of politics and religion are covered, Zappa provides the same with his words with an added mixture of pleasant madness and humor only he can provide. Mercury also brings a zesty lyrical punch, while hitting the critical high notes needed in certain songs. Harrison is the melodically driven vocalist who can sing leads or harmonize with the best of singers. Holly provides the dancing element to any song while Vaughan rides the wave of gratifying guitar notes.

If none of the above musicians neither writes a single word, note, plays an instrument, nor sings, there’s always Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison or Roy Orbison to produce a worthy song or two.

For hard hitting rock ‘n’ roll, there is Ronnie Montrose, Bon Scott, John Bonham, John Entwistle, Tommy Bolin, Randy Rhoads and Keith Moon. Bolin and Montrose have the voices to sing loud and heavy while also jamming on the guitar. Rhoads fuels the metal mayhem needed in various songs. Entwistle can basically (bassically) play to any instrument such as Bonham and Moon's erratic, yet structured chromatic drum beats.

The countless other blues greats from the 20s-90s, such as Sippie Wallace who birthed rock ‘n’ roll music and influenced the great musicians who departed Earth too early will also be writing and performing fantastic music in rock ‘n' roll Elysium.

There is a Solution for World Hunger

Too much selfishness and the inadequate use of big money is the number one cause for malnourishment and starvation.

It's time governments across the globe and the extremely wealthy get some soul, education and end world hunger. What the U.S. government spends in less than half a year on the war in Afghanistan, it could end world hunger. I've done the math, and the United Nations claims it would take about $300 billion a year to end world hunger.

"The Price of Hunger;" (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/23/opinion/ed-food23) also states that $300 billion is less than half of 1 percent of the world's combined gross domestic products. Hence the money is definitely there to end world hunger.  

U.S. tax payers shell out more than a $115 billion a year for the fiasco of death in Afghanistan. This is tax money for the war alone folks, not counting everything else! This information can be found in the article "Afghanistan War Costs Loom Large over Obama Troops Announcement" on the web page; http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/afghanistan-war-costs-soar-obama-troops-announcement/story?id=13902853#.Ud78ax7n-e0

According to the above article the total cost of the war in Afghanistan has billed U.S. tax payers more than $443 billion and the U.S. government has channeled well over a trillion dollars in this futile war.

The U.S. is spending $100 billion a year for the war in Afghanistan. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/18/afghanistan-war-cost_n_850293.html)  

First lady Michelle Obama displayed her compassion for the hungry in August, 2010 by vacationing abroad with 40 of her friends in a five star hotel in Spain. According to the article "Michelle Obama Criticized as "Modern-day Marie Antoinette" Over Spain Vacation," (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012789-503544.html) she and her guest occupied 60 to 70 rooms. The travel cost alone was $73,781.50 one way. This tells me that the people with power and money care nothing about the poor and hungry. F-word you, I'm living large, it sucks to be you seems to be the attitude of the first lady and all the other insanely greedy leaders with money and power.  

How about the very rich citizens of the world with the same mentality, "I'm rich, your poor, sucks being you."

If your successful, that's fantastic and there is absolutely nothing wrong with spoiling yourself, friends and family with vacations and material goods, but over doing things is just plain wrong when there are massive amounts of people, many of them children dying of starvation. 

Word around the campfire (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-most-outrageous-purchases-rich-people-bought-in-august-2012-8?op=1) states that in August of last year a signed Babe Ruth baseball and bat sold for $776,750 at an auction. Granted, I'd love to have those items, but paying well over a half a million dollars is ludicrous no matter how thick your wallet is. That kind of dough would buy a lot of canned food for food banks all over the world. At the same auction a single bidder paid 1.6 million dollars for a dime! The dime was minted in 1873.

The list goes on and on as for why world hunger will never be solved. 

Dreams, Everything and Beer IV. More Dead Poems

                        Dreams


An efficacious zephyr hovers my thoughts into the
spheres of inner space.
Madness is music, dreams, and whispered beauty.
Unfiltered emotions riding in wisdoms wave.
Separate thoughts fused forever into time. Infinite
imagination spawns creative desires. Passion to
immortalize, desire to live. To embed ones soul into
the heart of time itself.
                            

                               Everything

Everything is cold water in the desert and cold beer
on the beach. Everything is the ability to understand
human nature as well as comprehend all positive
insight from others. If I had everything right now, I’d
be living in a house that was all paid for. My entertainment
room would have a bowling ally, pool table, Ping-Pong
table, an air hockey table and quarters table. Quite simply
my entertainment room would have everything. I’d have
a swimming pool with a hot tub adjacent to it. My bank
account would enable me to travel hundreds, even
thousands of miles on any given weekend. I’d have
the power to make everyone safe.
I’d live off my dreams. Hmm… My books would
always be incisive, griping, entertaining, and lucrative.
My screenplays would be the same. I'd be married to
an intelligent and beautiful hard bodied shapely woman
who’d entice foreplay for hours. You know, everything.
　

                           Beer IV


Full of cheer and ice cold beer, now you’re pissed at
me dear. The guys just happened to stop by, even
though the Raiders had a bye. Couldn’t be rude,
after all I was in a sippn’ mood. Sipping pints,
downing shots. Am I hot? Certainly not.
Many say I’m crass, perhaps call me trash, when
after all, I’m just really smashed.
                                                                                              Mark (Izzy) Schurr

Middle Eatern Adolescents Paving the Way for Global Education?

Two teenage girls, not even old enough to legally drive are a major force for female education in the Middle East and possibly the world.

With a combined age of under 31-years old, Shazia Ramzan and her friend Malala Yousafzai survived an execution attempt from a Taliban gunman last October.

Ramzan is back in school and ignored earlier threats from the same Taliban terrorists who shot her and Yousafzai nearly a year ago according to the July, 1 article by Gordon Brown; "The story of Malala's friend: Brightening girls' lives with education." on the web page; http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/opinion/shazia-gordon-brown/index.html?

The two Pakistan girls are continuing their education in the U.K. Yousafzai, after being shot in the head and Ramzan who was shot in the neck and arm are on a mission to not only graduate college but to ensure other Pakistan girls get a full education. According to Gordon's article 40 Pakistan girls will get an education because of Yousafzai. Her goal is to get 40,000,000 girls an education.

These two amazingly brave girls have stood up to the Taliban simply because they want an education which was the sole reason they were shot in the first place. The Pakistani government has agreed for the first time to legislate compulsory free education and provided stipends for 3,000,000 children since the horrid acts where committed against Yousafzai and Ramzan.

Pakistan schools that continue to education females are under constant threats of bombing and sadistic killing of innocent teachers, staff and children. In March, 41-year-old teacher Shahnaz Nazli who'd been teaching for 24-years was shot to death in front of her son while she was on her way to teach at an all-girls school in Pakistan. For much more details you can read Gordon's article; "Teacher's murder sparks calls for school protection for Pakistan's girls." on the web page; http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/asia/pakistan-teacher-death-petition/index.html

Brown is a United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education. He was formerly the U.K.'s prime minister. Brown's goal is to have worldwide education by 2015. He claims this is very possible if all the rich governments and even the poor countries in the world channel money into this.

Currently there are 61,000,000 children shut out of primary school, 34,000,000 adolescent girls not attending school and 10,000,000 girls forced into marriage, many of them very young teenagers.

If knowledge is indeed power than the men who hold high places must be the ones who fund Browns plans for global education. I highly recommend the following two web sites;

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2013/06/17/ctw-education-for-all-gordon-brown-interview.cnn#/video/world/2013/06/17/ctw-education-for-all-gordon-brown-interview.cnn and http://educationenvoy.org/

Rape and Murder Are the Main Ingredients in the Thriller Novel "After Shock."

The thriller novel "After Shock" by Andrew Vachss exposes a rape ring in high school and the gives reason for killing.

The dark arts of deceit and manipulation are fostered in the club Ko Khai, an exclusive club for guys with no morals and who are incapable of feeling no remorse.  "After Shock," released in June is a bit long, but its originality and intense subject matter keeps the reader interested.

Mary Lou McCoy, known as Mighty Mary because of her strong pitching arm shoots the most popular guy in the school to death, Cameron Taft. McCoy, an 18-year-old with a bright future, a full scholarship to a prominent college due to her pitching prowess on the softball field is suddenly in jail facing life in prison or the death sentence.

There is no mystery from the start as to whether or not McCoy shot Taft to death. Even the reasoning is revealed relatively early in the book. McCoy was never raped, but Taft, the ring leader of the rape club Ko Khai was dating McCoy's 13-year-old sister Danielle.

Danielle is extremely smart but highly delusional in her choice to date Taft. Mary Lou even beats her little before she killed Taft. I laughed when people said it was mean of Mary Lou to beat up her little sister, but it was noted Lou did not use her strong pitching arm when she hit her little sister.

Bradley Swift, Mary Lou's lawyer never argues that she didn't kill Taft in cold blood with a .22 pistol, yet still makes a compelling case for her to be set free. It is discovered the guys of Ko Khai including Taft raped 39 girls, many of them under 14-years-old.

Anyone who reads this novel and doesn’t yearn for Mary Lou’s freedom has no conscience. Legally she is a murder, but can Swift justify morality with actual law?  

The characters could have had more flare in their personalities and the story dragged a bit, but overall it's a three star read.

Author Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. He has written more than two dozen books. 

Freedom of Speech, Really?

Words are the demise for teenager Justin Carter who’s been in jail for months and also beaten in jail.

Granted, Carter's words were wicked and tasteless, but none the less, just words. If the wrong authorities don't like what you say on Facebook, as was the case for Carter, you could end up in federal prison for several years.

Carter has been in jail since February 21, accused of making terrorist threats. He's looking at eight years in jail if found guilty. While joking around with a friend on Facebook, Carter wrote the following to a friend. ...I'm sick. Shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them." This was followed by lol.

These words from Carter who has no criminal history have landed him in a Texas prison and a $500,000 bail. His court date is July 16.  

Doug Gross's article on CNN, "Jailed Teen Finally Getting Day in Court" on the web site;

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/tech/social-media/facebook-teen-jail/index.html?hpt=us_t4 illustrates the loss of free speech in America.

Since Carter has been in prison, he's been beaten to the point of having concussions and black eyes according to the article by Gross. The wrong or so called wrong combination of words splatted innocuously on Facebook have sent an innocent young man to prison.  Meanwhile in Santa Rosa, a double murder, Mathew Beck roams free, never severing any jail time, just a decade a so in a Looney bin, and now he's free with certain stipulations.

Carter serving time in federal prison is as wise as making Jerry Sandusky a Scout Leader in the Boy Scouts of America. What more injustices lie ahead for mere words?

Legaliizing Gay Marriage in California, a Positive Future Step

Inching our way out of ancient times and slowly putting superstition on the back burner is one tiny step in the right direction with California's abandonment of Proposition 8.

California has become the 13th state to get out of the dark ages and finally legalize gay marriage. The fact that Proposition 8 was even introduced in 2008 was ludicrous. Of course big money talks. Frank Schubert, strategist for Proposition 8, helped the organization Protect Marriage raise more than $5 million in donations to fight for Proposition 8.

Alan C. Ashton, the grandson of a former president of the Mormon Church personally donated $1 million to Protect Marriage and aid in the passing of Proposition 8 according to the article "Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage" by Jesse McKinley and Kirk Johnson, Nov. 14, 2008 on the web page http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

Personally, if I could afford to shell out $1 million and expect nothing in return, it would be to something useful such as a children’s hospital or an educational system, but certainly not to fight for a primitive belief.

Gay marriage has been legal for more than 220 years if you go by the first amendment in the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion; exact wording in the first amendment written on Dec. 15, 1791. I'm fed up with the lame argument that God says it's (being gay) wrong, the Bible says so. That doltish dispute was actually a good argument about 2500-years ago for approximately ten minutes.

A very large percentage of people who oppose gay marriage are the religious, using the Bible for their convenience. If the U.S. follows God’s word (one nation under God; in God we trust), then rape is OK. Deuteronomy 22:28-29; If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay 50 pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. No mention of the woman having a say if she wants to marry her rapist or not!

As a whole, the world, especially the U.S. is living in the ancient past. To this day, 37 states are way behind the times. Why has the Constitution been written if it's not going to be used? Oh yea, money, lots of it going to lobbyist who govern everything with the almighty dollar. There are also the people who refuse to grow up and embrace diversity while clinging to prehistoric words and beliefs, thus dividing the world into a chaotic cocktail mixed by the business demons of the world.    

Dualiity of Emotions

                                                          Extreme Negativity

 

                                    Single by circumstance, not by choice. An undesirable

Entity whose façade of happiness has clasped. Debt

and despair is all there is.

Why exist? The end cannot be too soon.

Love and romance? Not a chance with my current

finance. I want to wake to no more lies, no more

corruption, no more greed. See everyone without

common needs.

Dreams dissipate into the abyss of apathy.  No

tears, no laughter. Just an empty soul waiting to fill

a six foot whole. Sweet mistress of death, get me

 

off this planet.

 

                   

                          Confidence

 

Tappin’ my feet, struttin’ my feats. Lots of lady’s

to meet. Get up off your seat. Fucking dance,

take a chance.