Story Archives 2002

by TJ Johnston

For the past month and a half, I have been dreading the one-year anniversary of September 11. The corporate media had been building up the commemoration so much, I resolved to stay away from the televised one year post mortem. The SF Chronicle devoted front-page features on "life after 9/11." I was in a funk. Then, when version 2002 of Sept. 11 passed, my depression lifted.

It was just like Christmas.

The same phenomenon recurs each holiday season (apparently starting earlier each year). It usually takes me a movie and a Chinese dinner to while away Christmas. Plus, I have to be mindful of the other December holidays. Now with successive September 11's (deemed Patriot Day by W), a new set of holiday blues is born (accompanied by reds and whites).

That's just how the powers that be would like it. Just think: nothing happens in August in the US. There's no federal holiday or unofficial three-day weekends. The film industry would have already released their summer blockbusters. Back-to-school sales are significant only for students and parents. The only thing memorable about Labor Day is that it's the last day where wearing white is acceptable.

But Patriot Day can tap a market of 280 million. Retailers and wholesalers can escape their "dog days" and cash in. You won't see any more markdowns on American flags after Independence Day. Everything about Stars and Stripes has got go!

The automotive industry would be the first to exploit. "In remembrance of our departed, our new models are available with zero per cent financing."

The health care industry can now expect end-of summer booms. Depressives can now pinpoint their disorders on this newly fashioned occasion. Over the counter, prescription and illicit drug sales would spike. Some suicides might occur, but there are always trade-offs.

Political campaigns also would gain a month-long head start thanks to the 9/11 season. With the legislatures in recess, officeholders and seekers can campaign even more aggressively.

Television and radio outlets could also jumpstart the new season, meaning a new month of "must-see" programming. Advertising is bound to go through the roof. Did somebody say "August sweeps"?

Most of all, this would be boomtime for all things security: guns, burglar alarms, and everything else to continue our lives yet remain vigilant. How ever did we live without these late summer tidings?

by Delores Wellwood

The CPS is well known for their abuses and crimes as well as all departments connected to family courts and the juvenile courts!

About 6 years ago the San Francisco Chronicle and /or Examiner, did a story on the CPS, I believe the reporter was a woman whose last name was Kornblum or Kornblat, or something like that. The title of the article was "The Eighteenth (18) month clock". This story reported how well meaning young psychology majors fresh out of college became social workers and joined Social Services, CPS.

The story recounted how they tried to care for and help people, families, but by the time they were inducted into the CPS and put through their "training", 18 months, these well meaning young women were turned into "Dragon ladies", mean and un-caring, robots whose only care was keeping their jobs and doing whatever their superiors wanted them to do, which was fill up those shelters and bring in that big payday for each child to the county and city! (my emphasis).

Those young women who would'nt comply either left Social Services/CPS or they were moved to another department of the huge mega-structure known as the Octopus or what the public would know them by, as California Health and Human Services Sacremento, the parent branch of all Social Services departments in California!

Another feature of Social Services is their Foster Parent/child division. Their are some fine people as Foster Parents who do great things for some kids. They are not all in it to recieve a large second income, although many are.

However, there are some who abuse these kids, even still get away with rape against some of the little and not so little girls, as what happend to my daughter in a foster home. Those attrocities still occur and are still covered up. But what happens the most in Foster homes is the practice of "CHURNING", that is where you routinely rotate these kids, like cattle , from one home to another, Some of the good foster parents have complained about this for years!. They don't understand why kids are moved when everything was going so good for everyone, including the child!.

But they don't know, at least most don't know, that Social Services collects 20 thousand dollars per child, per move. I've heard that another state has uncovered this but like here nothing will happen, and you won't read about it in your local newspaper!

Next is your SHELTERS, there is the true meaning of Hell on Earth!

Beatings by other kids in the shelters, by some of the staff and by even the Police, all happen in these nightmare places.Rape, Sodomy, occur frequently. Overdoses', when the on-site doctor or nurse over medicate a child to shut them up when they won't stop crying all night to go home and the staff and other kids can't bear it anymore, Ridelin is administered like candy, making these kids like zombies, suicide is usually the choice of many of our children who grow up in shelters. many kids who won't sibmit or vow to "tell on them", end up in "EPS", EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES", thats a rubber room at your local community hospital, like ours in San Jose, Valley Medical Hospital on Bascom avenue. Sometimes "problem" children are removed fom the state and never heard from again, confidentiality, the systems greatest tool for secrecy!

Our prisons are filled with these children, (mostly boys), who grew up in these war like conditions, that is where they grew their anger and learned their violence, the girls come out either oversexed or drug addicted or both, only a few move on to something of a productive live and only a rare few will talk about it.

Well my good friends at Poor magazine that is Social Services dirty little secret in a nut shell, there is more, much, much more and I feel you have found out a little yourselves and you WILL here more and more from many other parents, not just women, this was a half a trillon dollar budget (industry) only 2 short years ago, there down to 350 billion dollars a year, but they'll bounce back and get more, more kids, more families, more lives, more shelters, more prisons, more graveyards filled.

Now you know Americas greatest secret, harvesting children and families for billions and billions of dollars, everyone gets a cut of the pie to keep their mouth shut, Congress, they will never hold hearings publicly televized about THIS, the F.B.I., knows, but they'll never issue an arrest or launch a criminal investigation. All government branches including the department of justice know this but they will not openly or otherwise discuss this anymore, their web site has been restricted in certain areas and they will meet with no one of real consequence anymore, believe me they listened for years, gathering information from all groups and individuals who contacted them about this "business of raising YOUR child".

Yes our state and federal government is guilty of their own rule of law concerning organized crime. R.I.C.O., they are raqueteering our children, our families and all of our futures for billions of dollars in their pockets today!

by Joe B.

The Noble Sex of Men or Wymin is Crud.

Let’s get something… excuse the expression "straight."

Between men, wymin there isn’t a better sex.

Better exceptional individuals of each sex (or sexes) within the society but not society as a whole.

There are many reasons why both sexes stumble they include parallel inhumane treatment of each other, using physical and threat of physical violence towards each other.

The true problem with the human species is we don’t understand each other.

Think back to when we were all kids and I mean for every generation reading this.

We have a patriarchal, reactionary, slow-to-improve system but who keeps this system in check?

We do because most of us do conform-to-the-norm as a survival tactic.

Being, thinking, different has always been difficult in most societies and continues to be.
Its how its been though change does happen slowly.

Why do men pick the easy wymin, and wymin pick rock-brained men?

The quiet, studious, sensitive, guys and girls, men and women going their own way.

These quiet rebels in their own right had the most trouble with girls and guys.

Tough guys play beat down maybe girls too.

Girls that may like them have to put on an act when part an in-group.

The brainy girls or ones with bodies, too tall, short, strong, athletic, or physically imposing have the same problems.

Young people in high schools all over America try to be different by conforming to what is commercially in fashion.

Yet true independent trend setters and individuals are set apart, called, losers, and for being true originals.

Early they and most young people learn not to be too different but just enough to fit in with the rest of their friends.

What kind of message is that?

Wymin supposedly mature earlier than men both physically and mentally.

Physically yes, psychologically, I don’t think so.

They may know how to use pre-adolescent to adolescent fem wilds on
boys or young men.

If they really knew the psychology of the opposite sex from their so-called "Sisterhood" the same errors wouldn’t be made every generation it’s the same with our so-called "Brotherhood" the same errors about how to treat wymin.

Men are not the beasts, dogs, animals of the species just as Wymin are not the pure, gentle, emotional, species of this world.

If as parent’s, friends, sisters, brothers, aunts, and uncles, wives and husbands told the younger folks the unvarnished truth.

More would know how to defend, protect, love, and honor each other there wouldn’t be so much confusion about our ever changing sex roles.

Why do men look at other wymin or wymin at other men because we like and enjoy it.

But there is a difference between a look and stare.

Mother’s and Father’s and single parents either don’t instruct or believe it’s a known fact between the two.

Is it no wonder that black folks were accused, beaten up, even killed for the notion of Eyeball Rape: where one’s eyes to the opposite sex seem like x-rays through their clothes.

Men experience few talk of it; it’s the whole wymin-can’t-rape-men argument.

They can and do but our society has a cultural blinders on.

Yes, most rapes are male on female a tragic flaw in men.

I guess if we are ever going to be equal-boys and young men may have go through the psychological traum and ridicule wymin have have endured for centures

A cosmic balence if you will.

Some wymin are saying "Not my son, brother, husband, nephew, boyfriend."

At this point the way my Karma's running I'll be a boy again and just in time to be set apon by girls or older wymin for rape.

Not a prospect I'd want to experience at all though hard fems will say men are way past due.

We cannot hear don’t or won’t listen to each other then blame the other on being insensitive.

There are lots of non maternal wymin with children and men with more maternal instincts than their lactating wives.

If both sexes were intelligent why does one good to "boob bars and the other under the surgeon’s knife for breast enlargements.

Men don’t have to go into "Gentlemen’s Clubs" and wymin don’t have to make fake watermelon, basketball floatation devices of themselves.

If they as part of society didn’t turn both her and his bodies in to an economic asset to be watched, touched, and leased out for public consumption.

Male escorts, Gigolo’s, as sex objects is as disgraceful for men.

Though many men would love to try it out for a day or two because this male dominated society says it great to be a paid, kept man or "human dildo" to a bored, housewife, female scion, maybe independently wealthy widow, business lady.

I’ll never know but for those that do I’ll bet like their counterparts the call girl or pavement queen it tends to drain and age you quicker then there’s the health issues.

Heaven forbid either a jealous boyfriend, husband, is after you or as sometimes happens the client truly falls in love wanting the stud for herself alone or stud in love for a strictly pay-for-lay on the job customer.

It would be less complex if the sexes just let the game drop, talked truth, and not listen to media droning on about what one should do with their limited life span an money.

You, me are all part of society we don’t have to adhere to the seller-consumer dictum.

Oh, as for the Gigolo example, I never experienced the life only read of it but if others who have been in that life, have gotten out or are still a part of it … explain.

The psychological and physical tolls inflicted on you and clients or customers.

As for patrons of this personal form of adult entertainment don’t reveal who you are.

I don’t need or want to know especially if there are emotional problems stemming from the experience.

But if would further help me explain why this is one of the results of not following our own muse or visa versa.

If this is what is-was wanted how has it changed for you what you first thought about ‘Gi Men?

If letters arrive fine, if not that’s ok to, this is a micro forum for this discussion.

Are Gigolo's the equivalent of human vibrating, dildo's to the women renting their services? I'd just like to know their views, honestly.

I’m probably way behind and there’s already a web site, chat-room for retired
‘Gi, Escort folks, their former clients on the web.

If not me then go on-line where you can and discuss the topics; but probably few are reading this.. Bye.

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by Joe B.

If anyone recently read my long column "Inside Track" and have been looking for it.

It has been deposted because I may have written out of bounds because of the subject matter and sponsers
that may not like the content.

For those that did read, snicker, were made angry, or had a good laugh I am glad you did see what I was tryng to say about sexual polictics and hoarding of secrets of personal natures.

All I was doing (maybe to graphically) was expressing in logical terms how such a secret if it is can be broken.

I warned my editor to look at the column and if need be take it off or talk to me about it.

In newsrooms things get hectic quicker than wet dirt turning to mud.

She didn't get to see my work and me thinking she did I posted it on the web.

Oh well, someone didn't like me talking so graphically about the doings of shall we say same sex genders and a supposed secret "Inside Track" supposedly had.

I just used some knowledge, insight, and lots of imagination, plus what I've seen on certain "Entertainment" films on how to peek through velvet curtains.

I've learned my lesson to
not be as explicit in writing.

However this does not stop readers who've read my columns or time to say something in writing.

I know my stuff is kinda warped and weird but that's how my noggin works, I also know I'm not the only one.
So send card, letters, cash
(money orders) I cannot ask for anything else that would be lewd and distasteful.

As for the S.F. Party I can only say its for the more adventurous of our citizen's.

I haven't had the pleasure time or money to check out the ultimate October party and I'll like to check it out just to comment on it but a few fem furies have decreed that I should be banned from the S.F. E.E.B.

Maybe I do not need to see or experience this annual ultimate show.
I'll as those who have been to it to tell me what they did or did not do at this function in years past or years present.

A few letters, photo's if they can be leg go of can be sent either snail or email
(snail is slower but safer).

Whatever happens all the readers should always link up, chat, staying connected and webbed. Bye.

by Joe B.

My last column was an apology about writing a little too creatively and descriptive about other lifestyles I have no inkling of.

It's on preview and off the web.

While waiting for some kid in a town called Smallville to save lives and keep his secret.

I'm 'thinkin when will he'll disobey his dead father's (Kal's) "Don't break the time barrier" to meet other super powered youngsters like himself?

That could be another show with poor Clark on 2 back to back series.

Thing is for us mortals not from Krypton or brainiac's inventing time bubbles it will take a few lifetimes to see 3-0-0-0 or the 30th century.

I was thinking off hand if an immortal woman or man had to go through the centuries how would they do it without seeming strange to those without the gift or curse?

If I had the burden my way would be to tackle all those things I'm afraid of; not that I have a death wish to be fearless but only to continue to learn, live, and enjoy a long life thrust upon me.

My worst fear is dancing, I use to dance but haven't since the late 1970's.

I'd hope to relearn all kinds of dancing from the current away from body, to tap or earlier dance and everything in between.

All kinds of mental, physical, self defense, hand to hand along with weapons, how to create, maintain, and use all kinds of offensive - defensive devices in other than what was designed for. Jobs, careers, hobbies, as actor, make up artist, stunt person, technical person, and of course learning much more than ever though possible about the opposite sex.

Being friend, rescuer, lover, father, great grand father through decades will constantly change staid attitudes of what lifestyles is good or bad.
Jewel thief, diamond smuggler, A Mormon practicing polygamy and actually able to take care of many wives economic, psychological, and physical needs without taxing ones self.

Immortal woman with many husbands or husband with wives would seem perfect if the love, companionship though perfectly match in youth will drastically change as husbands, wives, and children age and die off will have definite negative impact unless one is prepared for it.

Travel, inventing, instructing, learning to kill efficiently without anger, still having a passion for life and people.
Being a person of so much past, present, knowledge, and seeming to shed them, keeping the best of both kinds of knowing.

Improving your genome ever so carefully while tracking good mutation erasing bad increasing the survival of positive mutations.

Would I be the same man-woman, person after 500 years? What if one had time enough to study the Karma Sutra, learn the old ways of Chinese Kick Boxing, and all other kinds of combat by choice?

If one discovered that certain genes also contributes to cosmetic beauty and I rearranged both stature and features how would anyone recognized me even those few with the same gift of longevity I have.

What kind of humanity would one be after all these years?

I was thinking off this because… Life now is so iffy, short, dangerous, and few people are lucky enough to find one another and maybe my soul mate has died, is to old, too young, about be reborn or married to someone else.

I don't have any idea if immortality is in the cards for humankind in general but it is something to think of.

Who knows, a few readers out there or not just might be one of lucky or cursed folks to see and live through the 20th and 21st century and up the far 30th and 31st centuries.

So stay healthy, live well and be careful what you wish for… you may get it. Bye.