19 Comments

Facts are malleable and conform to current conditions. As new information comes in, facts change. But truth is immutable. Search for the truth and you’ll never go wrong…

Expand full comment

Frank, What you say is true, but so is the old Cossack saying, "He who tells the truth best have a foot in the stirrup."

Expand full comment

I understand why your former colleagues are upset with you. No one likes to have their grift called out. Least of all by a colleague, former or otherwise.

Expand full comment

The genesis of "Mean Truths"!

Expand full comment

> The pattern is the same: Residents complain, complete with real time, real life evidence while politicians’ denials get quoted in the press. End of story. It’s the Media and Government in lock-step, self-serving collusion.

It's why the further decline of mainstream, crony media is such good news!

Expand full comment

Since it's declining, maybe it will pick up speed...

Expand full comment

The idiotic retired engineer who lives across the street from us, has a bumper sticker on his Chevy Volt saying, "Eschew Obfuscation." Mike, the retired engineer, worked at the Geysers Geothermal Plant about 18 miles north of Healdsburg. Mike is an energetic squirrel of an engineer. He's always parking that damn red Chevy Volt in front of our gate to the back yard. He has plenty of parking on his side of the street.

Years ago, I asked him, "Why doesn't the Geysers Geothermal Plant (the largest in the world) have its own fire engine and crew? Fires keep starting up there from the crappy power lines coming down the hill."

Mike looked at me like a deer in the headlights.

So, eschew obfuscation, speak plainly, and you'll still get that blank look from the normies.

Expand full comment

So ya can't lose! (But he still won't move his car, right?)

Expand full comment

PS: About 8 years ago, Mike was really happy. He had dance parties in his driveway across the street from us. Mike was married to an older woman.

Mike fell for a pretty young thing and they had a fling. Mike's wife made him sleep outside the house in a tent.

Mike pitched his tent right in the front yard for the neighbors to see. His wife told Mike to move his tent into the side yard.

Mike and his wife made up the next day. Mike had to say good-bye to his pretty young mistress. Another tragedy of the neighborhood.

Expand full comment

Brian, The Little Squirrel has two red cars, the Chevy Volt and a Miata convertible. Mike washes them constantly and moves them almost every day in some strange parking rotation. One of them is almost always in front of our gate.

Expand full comment

You live in interesting times - or neighborhood...

Expand full comment

Brian, I haven't even told you about Trombone Barry who lives in his Blue Shack next door. He has Asperger's and loony as can be. Barry would play his trombone at 3 AM years ago. Now he's too old and broke his wrist.

Across the street from Barry is Luis, the Italian hermit who lives alone in his house that hasn't changed since 1982.

Kitty Corner from our house is St. John's School and Catholic Church.

https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2002-04-01/article/11094

The Reverend (priest) Don Kimball molested boys and girls and also stole the Parish's money. One of his accomplice priests, fled to Mexico and was never caught.

I saw Don Kimball once in a restaurant in Calistoga. He stared at me. Man! Kimball had dead, a sociopath's eyes. Sent a chill up my spine.

Kimball died in prison.

Expand full comment

At the risk of being redundant---You live in interesting times - or neighborhood...

Expand full comment

Excellent read!

Expand full comment

Lots of important thoughts, the truth is that "we the people" are at fault because we don't want to hear no bad news. The Government Behemoth was allowed to growvirtually unchallenged. The failing born with each of us. At 78 I have lived in the greatest era of mankind. It is inevitable that we would let our apathy destroy it.

Expand full comment

Good article and all too true. It's kinda sad to see a system that folks believed in back in the 1960s come to this disaster we have today. I don't trust anyone who gets a government paycheck and that includes the press (who get paid by the CIA "Operation Mockingbird.")

It is as if you hired a bodyguard and he's fucking your wife (poor Sam Kinison. May he RIP.)

Expand full comment

Loved this one!

Expand full comment

Thanks!

Expand full comment

Good post. I figured out that everything is a lie, a fraud, a manipulation and a population control measure. It started with books and ended with getting rid of the electric jew twenty years ago.

Expand full comment