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WebDate I.Q. HELP! SLOWLY BEING PULLED INTO CYBERDATE/SEX WORLD!

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Still 'doin it wrong, so
what else is new?

Will my Dates forgive me telling
for their Secrets?

Course Not So I Won't.

by Joe B.

If people look at a certain online web date site they might see or not a double listing from California.

That simpleton is I, first getting on the site then not knowing I did twice finally not knowing how to eliminate its twin with an error it off the site.

From the first night of March 6 to now I’ve consistently fouled up my electronic dating game.

A problem with creativity is doing to much which is what I’ve done on at least 4 sites why 4?

Well, I figured four times the chances of getting dates.

Then the creative factor cursed me in that not writing down user/password names then making more up causes difficulty in getting back on especially when the programs dutifully memorized them its not their fault the owner forgets lots of ‘freakin times.

The first ad wasn’t thought out but honesty is uppermost in my mind wanting to get rejections over with.

Then there’s the photo snafu I’ve got a few but most are to large and not wallet sized.

Now more people will look at someone who sends a photo than one who doesn’t; chock another stupid mistake.

Recently sent another one this time pointing out where I can be seen.

I’ll get a photo after sprucing myself up a bit and it might as well be digital not film.

Its been a long, bad, frustrating week but slowly I’m getting the hand of online dating I might try that phone-date-on-T.V. thing.

My Web Date I.Q. is so low its half of a zero.

I know eventually I’ll get the hang of it but I’d like to do it within this decade before technology changes again.

Folks, what’s the best way to place digital photo’s online?

The first posted ad has so much stuff and too much medically speaking maybe I should’ve kept that to myself but being truthful was what counted to me at the time.

The second ad is much better, crisper, and had more of my true self in it aside medical stuff.

I check email to see if someone sent me something I don’t expect images because I haven’t sent my own its only fare that they see image as I’ll see them so I hope for now they write without sending photo’s.

Travel may help me, along with massage and kinds Yoga, Tai Chi, to keep bodies, brains, spirits, and souls balanced, quiet, and calm.

Meanwhile at the Utah to song write and sing is another talent I didn’t I had until recently.

Got to pain phone and
p.o. box bills.

Looking at the women online in semi or full nude poses with other folks makes me again think maybe I should just go to a bar with my 1 wine, 2 drink minimum taking my chance with ladies who most likely will turn me down on looks alone.

I can take a few rejections as long as one yes caresses my ears.

You know the rules guys.

1,000 no’s does not equal 1 yes or is that 1000, realities doesn’t equal 1 dream?

Either way just as women kiss many frogs to find their prince I must go through many a snickering women who will wait for me to gather courage to talk to them so they can take their time for public snubbing humiliation be they straight, bi, lesbian or other orientations besides straight.

Does it always sting?

A bit yes because the old beauty and the beast fable isn’t true.

Many a rich beast can have beauty dangling on their arm while frog prince’s in beast clothes must always have other attributes going for them to compensate for outer looks.

Just a metaphor? How many women at first go for surface looks and only after a time see the real soul shine through.

Gladly most women aren’t shallow and only a few would enjoy public humiliation displays.

If I can make a few friends, get a few dates lasting more than once, or simply bed mates otherwise know as booty calls I’m alright with that.

I don’t mind having a booty call or being one some of us have to really "work it" not blessed in looks, money, body, talent, or social strata like a certain rent a car company most of us slobs must try harder for what some other lucky guys take for granted.

I’m just a guy slowly improving body and mind wanting a few women in his life or if I’m honest a loved one beyond any price.

What do ‘ya think girls, young, Grrrr’s women, wimin, wymyn, or a particular woman wanting to write me tell what you think and be honest.

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The Truth behind Saturday's March, 15th, Police Breakaway Tactic!

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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What's a POLICE WEDGGIE,
Blue Wedge, Cop Split Gambit?

There are ways to beat cops
without getting beat.

I have some answers to this
you out there supply the rest.

by Joe B.

I had just gotten back from my Optometrist’s appointment in Berkeley.

Before calling my friend I see protesters and police across the street as I was almost in my apartment I saw police run ahead of the anti war marchers I didn’t know why they did that until a few minutes after they were a little ahead.

Walking toward the anti war marchers I saw the police form a line in the street split protestors in two groups! I already have an answer for what the cops did.

They used the human line or wedge to prevent protesters from entering their objective on mass and also if reporter in helicopters or news vans can say there are less people in the march while in reality there was always more there not counting the cops Blue Wedggie tactics.

Here’s where C.B.M. Critical Brain Mass comes into play.
1.

There are more citizens than cops.

2. People knowing the area’s side streets, corners, and or short cuts can be utilized.
Cops are as ants surrounded by sand, we the people, are the sand.

What happens sand is swept by wind or picked up in fingers?

It splits in different directions.
3. When cops try splitting protester again; don’t make the cops work hard.
4. Before cops do their Blue Split or Police Wedggie the protester themselves split into other groups making their way to the main area.
5.

All these self split groups use these and other contingency plans going to multiple areas of protest instead of just one main one.

Cops, National Guards, G-folks cannot cover all of ‘em at once.

Spread the word folks, this and other plans will frustrate cops, gov. folks to no end and this is just one guys plan off the top of his head imagine what will happen if we used our brains collectively in these and other efforts.

You know we can do this and more.

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Luck's Aftermath, An Appointment, Big Car, and a Speech.

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Sometime life gives you
a double whammy.

Its up to us to choose
which to take a whack at.

by Joe B.

I had just gotten back from my Optometrist’s appointment in Berkeley.

Before calling my friend I see protesters and police across the street as I was almost in my apartment I saw police run ahead of the anti war marchers I didn’t know why they did that until a few minutes after they were a little ahead.

Walking toward the anti war marchers I saw the police form a line in the street split protestors in two groups! I already have an answer for what the cops did.

They used the human line or wedge to prevent protesters from entering their objective on mass and also if reporter in helicopters or news vans can say there are less people in the march while in reality there was always more there not counting the cops Blue Weggie tactics.

Here’s where C. B. M. Critical Brain Mass
comes into play.
1.

There are more citizens than cops.
2. People knowing the area’s side streets, corners, and or short cuts can be utilized.
Cops are as ants surrounded by sand, we the people, are the sand.

What happens sand is swept by wind or picked up in fingers? It splits in different directions.
3.

When cops try splitting protester again; don’t make the cops work hard.
4.

Before cops do their Blue Split or Police Weggie the protester themselves split into other groups making their way to the main area.

5.

All these self split groups use these and other contingency plans going to multiple areas of protest instead of just one main one. Cops, National Guards, G-folks cannot cover all of ‘em at once.

Spread the word folks, this and other plans will frustrate cops, gov. folks to no end and this is just one guys plan off the top of his head imagine what will happen if we used our brains collectively in these and other efforts.

You know we can do this and more.

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PNN calls For a Boycott of Corporate War Sponsors

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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PNN calls for a boycott of Commercial Sponsors of Corporate Media War Coverage

by Dee, Co-editor POOR Magazine

PNN is calling for a boycott of all of the Companies who advertise on corporate media that is “in bed” with the corporate war created by the Selected administration of GW Bush Inc.

Based on ficticious “polls” gathered by the media affiliates themselves, the Corporate Media, aka, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC and even NPR ( M.C.R.- Mostly Corporate Radio) have been broadcasting continuous biased coverage of The war against IRAQ by the US. One of the ways to affect these ficticious broadcast media machines is through their funding sources, ie, their advertisers…..So we are starting the list of sponsors on this week’s PNN and will update it each week… we are also asking PNN readers to help us by sending in your own list of advertisers that you have seen appearing on these corporate media stations – I know its hard to watch – but grit your teeth and tune in so we can all make an impact ….!!

The List

1. AOL.Com

2. Stamina RX(?!)

3.Gateway Computers

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Breakfast At Willie’s

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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New California Media sponsors a breakfast with San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to address the 'State of the City'

by Tiny/PoorNewsNetwork

The room was light - sort of light and fluffy like one of the brightly
colored donuts neatly piled on a side table along with juice and coffee. As
a member of The New California Media (NCM) I was invited to a very odd
breakfast - a newsmaker briefing and breakfast with Willie Brown sponsored
by New California Media - I had originally had a lot of reticence about
going to the conference at all due to the way I have seen Mayor Brown
handle issues related to racist and classist police policies, housing,
homelessness, and specifically his role in the gentrification of San
Francisco and its impact on communities of color and poor folks. But I
agreed in the spirit of journalism to be a part of the process of making
news.

My next red flag came in the form of an email by MCM representative
Michael Lee as he required that the mayor preview the questions from the
press in attendance, "you know just to get a sense...." I relented and shot
off two questions via email - my first one being one of my most important:
Will Mayor Brown urge his police chief to reopen any of the many cases of
Police brutality in San Francisco against disabled folks and poor folks of
color such as Idriss Stelly and Joseph Tims
- I heard no response to my
questions and they didn't bar me from the door, so here i sat watching
donuts and letting the sun dance on my shoulders through the broad windows
that surrounded the NCM conference room.

"So we are here today with Mayor Brown because polls show that..." The NCM host began the introduction at exactly 9:00 am with a series of statistics
about the increase in media by communities of color in California as well
the readership by communities of color, I wondered as he spoke if in fact
he would touch on the statement listed on the original press release put
out by MCM stating that There is an enormous demand in San Francisco’s communities from
the mayor on racism, discrimination, budget cuts etc.
He did not instead keeping everything rather general and closing with a gentle reminder to all of us that “this was the Mayors birthday – so please start you comments with a Happy Birthday” and then introducing Mayor Brown, "We will start with a brief presentation by The
Mayor on the State of the City.."

" The State of the city is challenged like all cities across the nation -
currently our budget is dealing with a 340 Million deficit - this is a
challenge because people never believe the government when the government
says how much in the red it is.." Mayor Brown began a 10 minute speech
about the budget and its ills and concluded with a very sad story about a
woman who called him up at 6:00 am and complained that several disabled
people hired by Independent Living Resource Center(ILRC) from a city grant
were being laid off due to budget cuts and that he personally attended
these people's graduation- could he please do something about this
situation - he remarked that he tried to make her understand but in the end
she hung up on him..people just don't understand" I wondered if they would
understand a little better if the police and fire depts or the mayors
personal assistants would be affected like this poor woman’s disabled
low-income friends

Notwithstanding my controversial questions I was chosen second to speak, "I
repeated my questions about Idriss STelly and other disabled and poor people
of color harassed and beat down by the SFPD,

"Well I don't know about either of those two cases, but I ( and i then i
screamed inside for all the pain of disabled and poor folks in this city who
have been at the other end of a racist, classist, disablist cops' gun and
all the tears and sorrow shed for Idriss STelly in this city and all the
rallies and actions and media that POOR Magazine, DAMO, (Leroy Moore) The
SF Bayview, KPFA, BayArea Police Watch and indymedia did on the steps of
City Hall in SF done in the name of Idriss and all of his beat down
harassed and attacked brothers and sisters of color and i tried to listen
and i tried to keep writing and i tried to stay still in my seat and i
tried to breathe..." But I will make sure that anyone I hire will in fact
be a qualified person who will lead in qualified way and of course we have
established the OCC to do just what you are saying and that is why they are
there .."

Kevin Weston from Pacific News Service was called on next, " Mayor Brown what
legacy will you leave black folks in this city what will you say that you
have done for Black people" My sad ears perked up as i heard his question,
yea what will you do i thought.

"Well I feel responsible for bringing African American's into SF city
government in particular, notwithstanding all the screaming by activists
and progressives I brought Jerrold Green in to lead the San Francisco
Planning Department who is a fine example of a great leader. Later that day
I spoke to Antonio Diaz from PODER - who stated calmly, " Jerrold Green is
a Brown Appointee, need I say more," When i pressed on he added, " even
though he is African American, he is all to willing to bend to the will of
big developers in this city which is counter to any of the needs of very
low-income communities of color trying to live in this city"

Mayor Brown went on to add that he was responsible for tearing down the
unsightly public housing in this city and building real housing" Once again
as a poor person who has lived in public housing and in lived in no housing
- public housing was better - who took part in the fight to get Housing
Authority in SF to release the vacant perfectly good units in Sunnyvale to
all the poor, houseless families who are stuck in unsightly, uninhabitable
shelters with bug infestations I was incredulous and shocked - he is
actually proud of that -

"I was also so thrilled to be part of a group photo of all the people of
color who are in City Government" , I tuned back in to Mayor Brown who was
now going on and on about how he was part of a group photo that was of at
least 400 people and that he was so proud so he had it "blown up and put
right in the center of his main office for Black History Month" I small
smile crossed my face at this point as I thought -i wondered if he also
turned the photo into a t-shirt so then i could get one and say i came to
Mayor Brown for truth and justice and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

There were a few more questions about the war and his feelings about the
protestors, to which he responded, "I'm just as anti-war as the next guy ,
but I don't agree with shutting down the city - banks were closed -
businesses lost money - and these aren't even San Franciscans - that makes
no sense.."

finally, they came around a second time, I raised my hand I was in a
dilemma i wanted to ask about the implementation of harassment cloaked in
the guise of Homeland Security which is hitting alot of activists locally
and nationally such as the SF Bayview and POOR but I couldn't let his
egregious housing comment just float into thin air without being challenged

" I need some clarification - can you please comment on the fact that in
this city over 40,000 black folks have left and a countless number of those
folks lived in public housing that was torn down with no replacement housing
just a section 8 voucher in an impossible housing market- are you saying
there is no connection"

"well I don't believe that those are that closely connected and in all the
cases it was well worth the wait - from someone who lived in The Hayes
Valley Housing Projects several years ago I can say it was well worth the
Sacrifice - now of course I am sorry that we don't have some replacement
Housing in place for people but the progressive and activist community just won't let that happen"

I tried to raise my hand again to ask him if he was sure he wanted to go on
record as not knowing of The Idriss Stelly case but the veneer of corporate
kindness was a lock on the room and before I knew it we were being pushed
into a happy Mayor Brown group photo - i overheard another agressive media
maker from PNS ask him privately who he would be supporting for Mayor and
he replied " "Gavin Newsome"

"why?" the man asked, pushing further -

"well, Mayor Brown paused to smile for the camera, " because I appointed
him- he is a friend - he's my man.... "

The cameras flashed. Breakfast was over. I went to breakfast with the mayor
and all I got was this silly photo......

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48hrs. The Sequel, Another Sounds Like A Movie... But Its Real Life And Death.

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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No time for fun.

This Un elected/Selected
Uncrowned King of USA has gone to far.

by Joe B.

Another 48 hrs.

This isn’t the Eddie Murphy/ Nick Nolte unlike 1982 and its 1990 s sequel this doesn’t star two street wise people from different sides of the law.

We’ve got a father-son double bill in the White house.

‘Prez Bush Jr. second 48 hrs. rule will not be met and jr. will have a war in the Middle East.

Curses usually take incantations, magic words and animal or human sacrifice maybe added occult sex magic spicing up the magic’s of person(s) doing the cursing.

Ordinary people have magic to it’s the magic of vengeance of the soul. Its said from the heart and soul of a those dying, near death, or pure will of the living.

Ancient is the Arab Peoples, the first ones with higher math, surgery, (or was that Egypt?) translation of written language freeing people’s of the world to read other foreign works.

And some odd hidden half myth/half real legend of "The Philosopher’s Stone" with the death of untold millions some of them dying cursing America on their lips and as more die, are wounded, the curses increase increasing a cursed America.

How many more families, children, men, and women on all sides of the conflict.
We, in America have become an accursed anathema to many civilized nations.

Anyone siding with America is also cursed.

Do we so called modern people still believe our selves as a cursed nation, people?

I for one do believe as a nation we are cursed though not as individual people.

But curses are all encompassing cursing America does translate to people wanting war.

I don’t know but I’m looking for blessed lambs blood to spread on my families, friends, and my own for sacred protection against first born deaths or other plagues this un-elected, selected president has caused.

As for me I pray for all Middle Eastern People and will not curse them as they have in righteous, justice, cursed us.

This blood-oil war as cover to control and dictate our so called American way of life over there.

I don’t know what we’ll do when war begins all I know is since I’ve never left this land of plenty I should and learn even though I carry Americanism in me.

There are lessons to learn and a few can no longer be learned in this land of my forced birth.

Being a Black Man/Woman in America is and has up to now always been concentrated hell.
Yet I as every other true American would never betray this alien though still my country.

Travel broadens the mind is a saying I’ve heard many times.

This time I will travel for a few years, immersion into other cultures, languages, music, stories, songs, and ways of thinking and being.

That’s my way of coping, surviving, living, and staying sane to actually go among other peoples to learn other -ness of living. My way is to keep learning, growing, improving, evolving.

If America stops this madness in the last instant before going over the brink we may become the people we always wanted to be.

If not America survives its soul might be gutted, half alive, ghoul, vampire like in its blood sucking off other weaker nations of their resources instead of inventing new applied sciences for better lives they way America had always has done in its recent past.

I may not know the answer but may have to do my own razor’s edge, quest-of-self in other lands across the sea.

An in their faces I might find America again.

Anyone with ideas write me or POOR Magazine.

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War's Brink Broken, Just because war is here doesn't mean we stop and let it go on.

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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I'm one guy with a few
ideas.

Imagine more folks with
better ones.



Critical Brain Mass?

Folks is no concept, its real and
up to everyone of us to keep it going.

by Joe B.

I was shortly in the Wednesday’s Anti War Protest.

Police in riot gear are there supposedly keeping hooligans from knocking over newspaper racks or causing other disturbances.

Loud, and clear "No Blood For Oil, No Oil Or Blood an anti war protest says through a bullhorn.

All during 5 pm’s Bush’s speech.

If you’ve read my column before you know I write strangely, yes and I’ll continue; here’s a few lessons learned from civil rights, anti war, and personal freedoms protests.

1. Non white’s [Red, Black's & Brown's] demanding equal rights met with brutal suppression, murder, lies, and media propaganda.

2. Placing men, women, and children in jail at first make people fearful then becomes a celebration and badge of courage.

Also when all the jails are filled in the south, north, west, or east all the jails the protesting geometrically increased.

3. Few women burned their bra’s in garbage can’s but news footage made it seem more, the perception was lots of women did it when this wasn’t so.

4. Men burned draft card in public protest, played homosexual, or acted mentally ill to get out of serving in the military.

5. When soldiers returned many told what really happened in Viet Nam, Desert Storm/Shield.

6. Make Love, well safe sex now could be an option as long as lovers or casual partners escape to parts unknown until this insane war ends.

7. Soldiers might hijack planes in a massive kidnapping effort to save their friends and themselves.

If caught possible court-martial, firing squad or thrown in a military brig for a few years.

8. Flying to another country to apply for citizenship in one country giving up American citizenship in protest.

9. C.B.M.[Critical Brain Mass]A geometrical weapon as citizens, groups come together brainstorm, plan, strategize, and put into action multiple anti war actions that is ongoing and continue to gum up, slow down the war’s efforts.

10. People should relieve each other preventing protest burnout. While fresh minds can relieve others. Demonstrators take turn relieving each others at protests.

11. The Police’s new "Protest Splitters" or Blue Wedggie can be blunted by voluntarily splitting of to multiple areas of anti war protests leaving the police in by themselves without anyone to corral, "accidental" running over of people with motor cycles, or beating head with billy clubs.

12. Find which multi-corps are making money and dis-invest, buy not their products, send letters, find alternative green products or some of them are on deaths payroll do the same to them.

Economic backlash against corps can be slow or quick and effective.

They’re always greedy for our money but think us mere programmed consumer’s;
Let’s show 'em how we feel, who really has control.

That’s only some ideas however since I’m only one poor slob I know many more of you out there around the globe have better more efficient ways of hampering this slaughter disguised as a war.

I’m sorry not to be of more help but as I’ve said along.

Link up, join up, organize, FUCK UP this war machine.

Grind it down, slow it, stop it in its tracks.

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO PEOPLE, WE’VE HAD THIS HAPPEN BEFORE, NOW LETS MOBILIZE AND END THIS WAR!!

Any other ideas writers, websters, cyberfolk men, women, youth leaders, their advisers, and mentors time to do a global hookup and keep the web open so better ideas can flow to all of us and then be implemented quicksilver warp speed. Bye.

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A Friend, A Protest. Sometimes A Deed For A Friend Can Test It.

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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I avoid Anti War Rally.

A good friend woman or man means
trust when few others will
...

Will I Do This Again?
Cannot answer that right now.

by Joe B.

Anti War protest/rallies not my favorite pastime.

A friend told be about it and is worried about being arrested actually not that only to have someone there in the sharing of it.

Didn’t want to do it, always avoided it, finally say yes plus time and place it’ll begin."

"Justin Herman Plaza Monday, 24, 7 am.

I still have misgiving but what kind of friend am I if one friends leaves another in the lurch and a critical time so I said "Ok."

I try the "wormy dance" one last time trying to get out of it by asking "Don’t you have other friends who will go with you?"

Silence on the other end of the phone until "Yes, but they could flake at the last minute, you wouldn’t."

My fate is sealed if my friend was a guy I’d say he’d have to take his chances with blue goon squads.

However a young woman is a different story because they can very well be hurt from police, other demonstrators against the peace marchers and for "S" President Bush’s and the Washingtoon blobs of talking heads sharpening swords, sabers, guns, and bombs for war in IRAQ.

As the days dwindle from Saturday to Sunday I found that she was out of the city and would return in time for the protest at Embarcadero.

I did lots of calling Saturday and especially Sunday night and began to get anxious way before 2 am in the morning.

Her cell phone is out of range and her home phone has angry anti war speech on it.

I didn’t like this.

Going to this Anti War rally is not my thing at all but my friends lives for this stuff.

By 6:03 I’m out of the building walking down Market Street because my funds are zero.

I see a group of 14 policemen riding by on fast light motorcycles the kind you see in motor cross events.

I get there, looking for my friend, she would be wearing black except there are lots of young women wearing black, yogi’s, young and elderly together as cops sip coffee and donuts outside a Noah’s Bagel shop.

While walking I notice more cops than protesters and informed participants of that fact.

Finally after circling the place twice seeing KRON 4, NBC 11, and other media folks with mikes, camera’s and people interviewing people.

Inside the Plaza I take time looking at the Armand, Vaillancourt and the Vaillancourt Fountain of precast aggregate concrete.

I quickly study the form of this giant combo sculpture/architecture pigeons alight on it make it seem more permanent than it is in reality.

I am suppose to be in group 1 headed for a federal building I didn’t know which because my concentration wasn’t on the protest but one person who I didn’t want thinking I blew them off.

I had an announcer give her whole name in case she was her but among the crowd not able to see or hear me. No one came forward.

The Protesters are ready taking their places where to go as I edged away heading back down Market Street to my apartment. Using BART as a P. R. T. or
pedestrian rapid transit walking ahead of the anti war crowd.

Soon I’m home calling both my friend and job number. She had not made it to the protest because of being extremely tired and she sounded it too.

I wish she had told me that in the early morning when there was time instead of waiting later maybe she’s so overworked that she went into a deep sleep and couldn’t be shaken awake from.

I did as my friend asked, went to a protest /rally at the beginning, tried to find her so she would have someone and be or feel so alone in a group especially if police act up. Well she didn’t show and I am only at the protest because she asked me too I’ve never go on my own I don’t mind jail time but a pre jail beat down isn’t part of the deal for me.

She’s alright, regaining strength, knowledge, and strategies but I don’t know about if or when she calls for help next time it may have been a fluke, accident, mistake or all of the above and she may have to find a few of her friends to be by her side.

I’ll talk with her soon as possible and hash it out.
This is why I am not a reporter doing the up close and personal let someone else take their lumps for an award willing Pulitzer.

Me, I need my noggin and all my parts in working order.

Today I’m lucky but next time I don’t.

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Wrong Assumptions, Because People and Opinons Change.

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Men, Women, And O/S/O's.

What the 'Heck is an O/S/O?

by Joe B.

Over the years I’ve written good and not so good things.

Stuff like telling straight guys to look a lesbian porn for better ways of pleasing women.

That was wrong in that erotica not porn is best.

Let’s face women are naturally better at this but does not rule out improvement of "S" men’s learning curve.

The Bio logical cheat term is harsh and wrong even if I’m miffed at the built-in bias, same sex or other orientation has gives me no right in using the term, some things just are what they are.

As for Unattainable Men/Women argument it was false on it face because most Women/Men will go for that near impossible goal and women certainly won’t.

Difficult yes, problematic certainly, but gay men who are accessible is delicious to them I guess because its like picking forbidden fruit.

Straight becoming unattainable is not a game straight men should play but less chasing and more balance of themselves seems to be the way.

An odd thing happens when straight men begin taking better physical care of themselves, relax, and concentrate on interests other than women, not constantly having ‘em objectified or underfoot but doing their own thing for them alone.

Women seem to appear, want to know them, and these former underfoot males are more interesting exactly because they have broader interests and no longer look for women or their men friends for approval; sometimes being sexy is a byproduct of being open and aware.

It is then straight males are under a feminine gaze and blissfully unaware of their power.

I’ve been thinking of traveling across America and then the world freeing my mind of assumptions, past errors, and regrets then returning to the States from my travels older, wiser, less worries and then or if I already have finally settle down with a loved one.

All these other sexual orientations confused me like lesbians who did straight men and gay men with straight women, Trans gender folks and
hermaphrodite humanity.

It struck me: with all their exotic orientation making straight men and women dull, stale, and redundant.

The O/S/O [other sexual orientations].

All the hoopla and "We Are Who We Are Get Use To It" is not to stay other worldly but to enter parts if not all of the mainstream and be just folks as straight people are already.

Its not that being straight is dull as its we can live our ordinary lives without few constant threats to them.

All the O/S/O’s really want is to do is live regular lives as straight people have without getting pounced on, beat up, or killed for simply not being what other or the majority folks are.

The everybody’s BI, or other sexed among their straight lives. The OS’ s being ambiguous, not quite truthful, or little white lies to tell people thing so as not to hurt feelings works fine up to a point.

That may be the main difference straight people try being real and actually say what their orientation is but for O S’s when they do this irrational violence and anger begins so being ambiguous is a weapon of survival when being different literally can mean ones death.

Me, with my flawed lazy left eye cannot hide from taunts of either men or women and its women who’ve wounded me most but balanced through the years have bolstered my self esteem so that others of their sister’s still in the [he’s ugly, ignore him or laugh in his face].

They’ll always be young or older women who are surface not looking deeper than physical face value.

Those are the thousand negative slights, no, hell no folks that I never count but the one or two yes’s they are the worth all the past pains.

Women want balance that is for men to cry, show joy, ask questions, express emotions, be strong, weak, and be able to lean and be leaned on.

The problem is always balancing all the above. You see women themselves may know these balances but don’t tell, don’t know, or may unconsciously want to keep men off balance so they always seem right.

Its hard for women to admit that for all men’s faults they have virtues too and are as nurturing as mothers.

The "Your just a sperm donor, we really don’t need you anymore." Is psychic anger that feels fine and right when said but in truth won’t work in reality. Women are no more complex as men are and both contribute child birth.

Women carry embryo’s to term and with that power believe they are stronger, emotionally more stable, more sensitive, and bond with the child more in their early lives.

Another false assumption men too are every bit as important to childbirth and raising of children and if a mother is not with her child and the father is guess who the child bonds with?

No matter that women physically nourish and carry children to term if they are with their child and any male is and it is they doing the changing of diapers, cooing, snuggling, washing, and up all hours of day or night caring for the infant that male becomes the primary caregiver and the child will respond to him more than rare visiting mother.

Men, Women remain mysteries to each, each are equally unique aside from more nerve endings for enhanced pleasure in women what men don’t feel they don’t miss.

Hence some women purposely bring up that pleasure principle in men’s faces what men do is work with what they have until science and technology can someday increase what they lack now.

Men, Fem.’s, and O/S/O’s what do you all think?"


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Women Marching against War and Poverty

09/24/2021 - 11:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Every Mother is a Working Mother organizes a march against War and corporate globalization of Women

by Mike Vizcarra/PNN Community Journalist

There was a brisk chill in the air as I walked towards the Bechtel Corporation building on Beale Street. Armed with my camera, pen and paper I was ready to join the protest against the corporation, which was organized by a global network of women’s organizations. Today, of course, is Saturday, March 9, International Women’s Day and women have been organizing protests here in San Francisco for the past four years on this day.

As I approached the crowd, I was surprised to see the small amount of people who turned up for the protest. A quick scan showed about 60 to 70 people gathered. I have been to protests before but never something this small in scope. I definitely expected more.

When I arrived, Lori, the M.C., was speaking about the long history of crimes that Bechtel, based here in San Francisco, had committed, particularly against Bolivia. In 2000, Bechtel took over the public water system of Bolivia’s third largest city, Cochabamba and within weeks raised rates by as much as 200 percent, far more than what families there could afford. With the average family making the local minimum wage of $60 per month, they were charged up to 25 percent of their monthly income. When Bechtel refused to lower rates, massive citywide protests ensued which prompted the government to declare a state of martial law. Thousands of soldiers and police were deployed and more than a thousand people were injured and one 17 year-old boy was killed.

In November 2001, Bechtel Corporation sued the country of Bolivia, South America’s poorest nation, for $25 million dollars. They are seeking to regain the money they used to invest in the country as well as potential profits they lost. But Bechtel did not invest anything close to $25 million in Bolivia in the few months it operated there. The $25 million Bechtel seeks is what the corporation earns in half a day! Also, in one year in Bolivia, a country where 70 percent of its population is below the poverty line, $25 million can hire 3,000 rural doctors, 12,000 public school teachers, and give access to the public water distribution system for 125,000 Bolivian families.

Rachel West, from Every Mother Is A Working Mother organization, also spoke to the crowd. Every Mother Is A Working Mother is a national organization of women pushing for “caring work” (full-time mothers) to be recognized as a job. Her soft-spoken demeanor did not lesson the impact of her message. She also called for more money for welfare instead of war.

Chandra Redack, from the Global Women’s Strike Committee, sang songs to the crowd. “We want to get women to go on strike,” she says, “It can be anything from protesting to taking a longer lunch break to putting a broom out on your doorstep. Any form of resistance contributes.”

After the protest in front of Bechtel, the crowd continued to the Venezuelan consulate. From there, it was off to City Hall, where more protesters were expected to join, including Women In Black, an international peace network of women dressed in black who stand in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses all over the world.

As a writer for POOR Magazine, I can empathize with what families in Bolivia are going through. Poor folks have always been exploited; whether if it’s by a corporation or the government or law enforcement or any combination of the above. It does not matter where you live in the world. As Americans, we are sheltered from the global community. We do not see or hear, in the mainstream media, how people are mistreated throughout the world by corporations that carry the “American” tag. It is becoming clear to me that this is a global epidemic, far more than I imagined, than just a local or national issue. Perhaps I was too quick to judge the impact this small crowd would have. Chandra Redack was right, any form of resistance, no matter how small, helps.

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