Golden Flake dumped its clown many years ago

    A very close friend of my younger brother, Major, commented under The Golden Flake Clown's Tale post at my Facebook page yesterday.

Jack
Deep !!!
Thank you for sharing this!

Sloan Bashinsky
De nada, old friend, who’d have thunk or imagined when you and me lived across the street from each other, what all adventures, intrigue and often hilarious as well as grotesque and mystifying adventures lay ahead?

Jack
I remember. You were always good to me. The Nash Rambler [my first car, which my father bought]. Flying in GF plane. Florida Keys. Bryant Field. Going to Nasau with your Dad as copilot. Him buying the whole tray of daquris at landing. Grumps. As we reffered to him. Nelle best in the world. Thomas. Cha [the two black servants]. Thanks for all the good! Our divers found Major at Highlands. FBI talked at length ...

Sloan Bashinsky
I didn't know it was your divers, I figured it was part of Birmingham PD or FBI. I offered myself to BPD and FBI, if they wished to speak with me, but no reply. The chapter about Major, around the middle of the book, The Golden Flake Clown's Younger Brother, R.I.P, contains extensive recount of what I found in the FBI report, which was never reported by the new media, which left zero doubt Major took his own l life. Af first, the FBI was reluctant to provide its report to me, but after I told them I was the oldest member of my father's family and the family still had questions, they got a redacted report to me pretty quickly. There also is a good bit in that chapter about the Legal Schnauzer blog/blogger, who had his own views of what happened, including suggesting I might have been in on having Major killed. The chapter begins with how I learned of Major going missing from Birmingham friends, and within an hour of learning of it, I "heard" what had happened, but of course could not prove it. A Birmingham News journalist called me to do an interview about Golden Flake and Major. The journalist told me cold chills were running up and down his spine after I told him my premonition, and then he told me his same premonition, which had occurred around the same time, nearly 1,000 miles apart.

Jack
I was president of the Hoover City Council, it was our divers. My wife's father was kidnapped and killed at hospital. For drugs. Major came and flew with me. My father was missing 3 months. Major died exactly40 years latter to the date. Gun in pond was your Dad's from WW2? He was not gunny. Highland Pond was where first murder in Bham was.
Your family was Great to me. Thank you!!

Sloan Bashinsky

Major met both of his wives at the Highland Racquet Club, when they were the tennis pro in residence. 

Someone who married one of my first cousins just emailed me about the Clown's Tale:

"I am about 3/4 finished reading this book that I literally started as soon as I got it and am totally enamored. My son is on his way over here now, so I have to stop reading for awhile, but there are three things I must tell you. I, too, was molested, by my father at a young age (my parents divorced twice/he was an alcoholic) and my mother would spank ME with a hairbrush, but it was a sterling silver one that hurt like hell. Lastly, I took a one semester typing course from Mr. Hamilton my frosh year of HIGH SCHOOL, and told him years later it was the most beneficial course I ever had other than a phonetics course in college. Just some fyi's. More later." 

 

I replied to her: 

 

"Totally enamored? Perhaps they should reopen Bryce in Tuscaloosa? The fellow who does The Redneck Mystic Lawyer podcasts with me is putting the clown book into an internet library, archive.org, which already has several of my digitized books. The Clown Tale will be easier to to read and bookmark there. Toward the end of the book, perhaps the 4th to last chapter, is a hilarious explanation of why we decided not to submit the book to a book agent or book publisher and get Bryce reopened just for me. [Bryce was the Alabama State Mental Hospital.]

Jack
I got an insurance appt with your Dad. Suggested Bashinsky School of Buis. At Samford and Alabama!!

Sloan Bashinsky
The gun in the pond was a Browning .32 automatic, rare piece. In the FBI report, which I never saw reported in the Bham news media, there was a pistol just like it in a plastic display in the den of my father and mother's home- my stepmother Joann's home after my father passed in 2005. I thought it was just like Major to see that pistol at his father's home and want one just like it. I don't know where the gun in my father's home came from. I never knew him to have a gun other than a Browning 16-gauge shotgun he used when he sometimes went on a dove or quail hunt with me. The fellow who does The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast with me, and who created it for me, started reading my blog after Major went missing in early 2010. The fellow would not contact me until 2017. He knew guns, and he told me that he thought he knew the gun dealer in Birmingham, who sold Major the gun found under his body in the Highland Golf Course pond. He drove a ways to Birmingham and spoke with that gun dealer and the dealer said, yes, Major had wanted that gun really bad, and he found it for him, and changed him a lot for it.

Jack 
Now Leo Bashinsky Field House. And Bashinsky School of B at Al

Sloan Bashinsky
I knew nothing of your dealings with my father.
Perhaps from your vantage, that at Samford and Alabama is important, but not from my side of it. The reason it was named Samford University, and not Bashinsky University, is Frank Samford gave Howard Collage, it then was called, more money that Leo Bashinsky gave it. Frank and Leo were childhood friends in Troy, and they both moved to Birmingham, and they were in a competition to get the school named after them. Samford won. My father, who never graduated from college, later gave a lot of money to Alabama, Auburn and Samford. He dropped out of Princeton to marry my mother, because she threatened, if he didn't do it, she would marry the first man who would have her and save her from her Puritan parents. My father came to view Princeton as run by eggheads, even though his father had graduated from there and it was the crowning moment of his life, based on all I knew about him. He tried to persuade all of his grandsons to go to Princeton on his dime, and none of us took him up on it.

Jack
Don't expect you to. Just family lore. Green Turtle Inn was fun. Sylvia Hichcock Miss USA. Boston Whaler at Fish House [my father's 2nd home on Lower Matecumbe Key]. Caught 50 Grunts. Found a painting of Bashinsky Mansion at Art display in Troy. Got it for Major. Was over the mantel on Co Club [Major's home]. Lot of fantastic Bashinsky memories

Sloan Bashinsky
I know you do, and I am glad you do. Alas, you did not grow up in my family, which Major and I and our sister did, and you may have heard things, but you were not living it, and that's so very different, as was what it became like after my mother died and my father remarried. One chapter in the book is "ALL That Glitter Is Not Gold." While that chapter is about the awful litigation early this decade, the title applies generally as well. I loved the Florida Keys so much that I wanted to live there, and finally I did live there, and oh what an adventure that was, which I never would have imagined beforehand. Some of that's in the book, too.

Jack
Never knew!
Well could have been Bashinsky U. But now Leo Bashinsky Field House.
Bash, I love you and family thru thick and thin!!

Sloan Bashinsky
The fieldhouse was named after my grandfather because of money my father gave Samford. Tell you something Samford will not likely say publicly. Howard College brought Cumberland Law School with it to Birmingham. Cumberland was a private law school and its tuition was a lot more than University of Alabama Law School's tuition. U of A Law School funked out 2/3s of each freshman class by graduation time. Nearly all Cumberland Law School students graduated. The Baptists liked getting the tuitions. 95 percent of U of A Law grads passed the Alabama Bar exam, about 50 percent of Cumberland Law grads passed. I don't know if that changed, or not. That was a long, long time ago, in a universe far away.

Jack
I'm on your side!💔

Sloan Bashinsky
You haven't finished the book yet, so keep reading😎

Jack
Yes sir, correct👍
My wife had a premonition Major was in water

Sloan Bashinsky
There you go, three premonitions kinda locks it up, don't it? Keep reading. I have a problem maybe I inherited from my father's older brother, Leo, who called a spade a spade.

Jack today
Very Heavy. Not done yet. Front one side. Back. Best things about The Clown. Might be Best Seller. The Bashinsky Family did a Ton of Good! Too

Sloan Bashinsky
My father and his father's money gifts helped a lot of college students. My father helped initially fund Big Oak Ranch, and continued to fund it, and it became very important to Joann, who kept funding it. I heard a couple of years ago that Big Oak was accepting boys and girls, whose parents didn't like their sexual orientation, and Big Oak was doing conversion therapy on those children. Don't know if that was rumor or fact. I think conversion therapy is a product of religious fanaticism totally out of touch with reality and God. My father and his father gave their churches a good bit of money. I leave for God to say if that did any good. My father and his father destroyed their families, and so were they giving money away to try to buy their way into heaven? I leave for God to answer that, as well.

Jack
?? Don't know
Clown Tale, best seller?

Sloan Bashinsky
Maybe you haven’t gotten to the Breaking News chapter?

Jack
👍

Sloan Bashinsky
Golden Flake dumped the clown many years ago. The clown never gave money to colleges, Big Oak. He gave to people and places my father and his father would have nothing to do with. He gave his life to humanity many times, and he’s still at it, and very few people grokked it.

Jack
👍💔

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Why the Golden Flake Clown's Tale won't be a best$eller

    Yesterday morning, I introduced THE GOLDEN FLAKE CLOWN'S TALE at goldenflakeclownstale.blogspot.com. Yesterday afternoon, it became available at a free internet library, archive.org, where it can be read on most any modern device. 

    Here's a link: 

 

    https://archive.org/details/goldenflakeclownstale

    

    It's written from the perspective of my father's presumed oldest son, me, the other Bashinsky who learned Golden Flake from the ground up, about my father, his family, my mother, her family, my father's second wife and her family, my father's company, Golden Flake, and its history and demise, and two awful lawyer-feast lawsuits that helped kill my father's second wife and made his blood heirs wish their father had never remarried. I also tell a good bit about my childhood and college and and law school years, and later years, and even later years, which became more and more stranger than fiction. I tell it from the perspective of the family black sheep and keeper of the family skeletons. 

    The general public has no clue how my family came to own Golden Flake, or what it was like working at Golden Flake, or what it was like having a stepmother, who became known as The Golden Flake Queen, whose grandson received about 8 times more from my father than his three blood children each received. The public has no clue what happened in the 2nd lawyer-feast lawsuit, because it was sealed due to two of the defendants being minor children of my younger brother, Major, and his second wife. I review and examine both lawsuits. I also review Major taking his own life and provide information the news media never reported.

    A fellow who grew up across the street from my family and was a very good friend of Major, private messaged me this morning that the Clown's Tale is heavy, he's almost done reading it, and it could be a best-seller. I thought he had not read the chapter in which I tell why the book will not be a bestseller.

    No literary agent or publishing house will accept a manuscript containing material previously published on a blog. 

    Nor will a literary agent or publishing house accept a manuscript from an elderly person, who claims he has experiences with and hears from Biblical beings - angels; and if a publishing house receives such manuscripts, they contact the elder protection agency of the author's state and ask them to investigate and examine the author for his own protection.

    The reason I considered trying to use a literary agent or publishing house was that might make the book more available and more people would read it, and if it sold well, what I made in royalties could fund causes I think do God's work and help people in need. 

    Thanks to what I inherited from my father after the second awful lawyer-feast lawsuit ended, I don't need a best seller's royalties. When I needed such royalties was when I was homeless 2000-2005 and 2016-2107.

    Last night, my tech buddy, who created The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast, and I did a podcast about THE GOLDEN FLAKE CLOWN'S TALE. During our discussion, I said, in the Torrent system, we are getting 80,000 plus complete watches per episode, world wide, which makes us a mega church - but wait! We don't pass a collection plate, we don't ask for donations, so we are not a church.

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Was E. Jean Carrol's civil rape/sexual abuse lawsuit against Donald Trump barred by New York's statute of limitations?

    A retired Birmingham, Alabama lawyer friend, who grew up in The Tiny Kingdom, asked me what I think about New York's Adult Survivor's Act (ASA), which allowed E. Jean Carroll to sue Donald Trump for rape and sexual abuse in a United District Court in New York long after the regular New York statute of limitations had run for such civil lawsuits.

    I found this online about New York's ASA:

The Adult Survivors Act (ASA) is New York State legislation enacted in May 2022 which amends state law to allow alleged victims of sexual offenses for which the statute of limitations has lapsed to file civil suits for a one-year period, from November 24, 2022, to November 24, 2023. The act thus expands the ability of plaintiffs to sue for sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact in the workplace.[1]

Background and enactment

Before 2019, a three-year statute of limitations applied to civil suits for sexual misconduct in New York. In 2019, New York extended the statute of limitations for civil suits arising from sex crimes against adults to 20 years, but this extension was not retroactive.[2]

In 2022, the ASA was enacted. The bill was sponsored by state Senator Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal.[3] It unanimously passed the Senate in April 2022, passed the Assembly on a 140–3 vote in May 2022,[4] and was signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul.[5]

Provisions

The ASA amended New York's Civil Practice Law and Rules to allow alleged victims of sexual offenses for which the statute of limitations had lapsed to file civil suits for a one-year period (the "lookback window"), from November 24, 2022, to November 24, 2023.[1][6] The ASA is modeled after the New York Child Victims Act of 2019, which established a one-year window (later extended by an additional year) for victims of child sexual abuse to sue, raising claims that otherwise would have been barred by the statute of limitations.[2]

    Ass-u-me Trump's lawyers filed a pleading objecting to Carrol's lawsuit, because the NY regular statute of limitations had run, and ass-u-me they also argued NY's ASA was ex-post facto, thus illegal.

    I think Trump's lawyers can argue on appeal that NY's ASA is unconstitutional, because it is retroactive - ex post facto. NY's ASA gives someone a cause of acton that ceased to exist because she didn't timely file a lawsuit within the regular statute of limitations time.

    I think Carrol's lawyers might counter that by arguing Trump wasn't living in NY and so the regular statute of limitations is tolled. But Trump's lawyers would argue, what prevented Carrol from suing Trump in Florida, where he lived?

    As much as I dislike Trump, I think the NY ASA is unconstitutional and the jury verdict should be overturned by a federal appellate court.

    Carrol's defamation charges in her lawsuit hinged on the jury finding Trump had raped or sexually assaulted/abused her. For if he had not, how did he defame her by calling her a liar?

    So, if a federal appellate court rules NY's ASA is unconstitutional, and the US Supreme Court affirms that ruling, Carrol's defamation verdict also is overruled, and anything Trump later said about Carrol being a liar, or having made it all up, probably won't fly well in a subsequent defamation lawsuit she prosecutes against Trump.

    I posted that at my Facebook page, and a man living in Chattanooga, who, like me attended Vanderbilt, replied:

EC

The important thing to remember here is that a jury, after hearing the evidence, concluded that Trump did, in fact, sexually assault Ms. Carroll. With that in mind, it does not speak well of a political party to support such a person for ANY political office, much less the Presidency of the United States.

Sloan Bashinsky

There are many reasons Trump is unfit for office, and you named one of those reasons. However, that is not what this Facebook post is about. It is about the rule of law, which Trump seems to have flouted all of his life. And yet, ironically, it looks to this Alabama lawyer, who once clerked for a Federal Judge in Birmingham, that the Federal Court in New York City messed up. Or, Trump's lawyers did not argue the NY ASA law was ex post facto, thus illegal, and they waived that argument and cannot make it on appeal. I have a hard time believing they did not make the ex post facto argument in the Federal Court in NY City. As for what you and I think about Trump's fitness for office, that is irrelevant to people who back him. I am pretty well convinced there is nothing he might do that would cause them not to. vote for him. That, I think, is the most important issue.

As for Carrol, I wonder why she could not remember the year when she claimed Trump assaulted her? And, why did she wait so long to go public with it? Why didn't she go public with it when Trump ran for president in 2016? If she had gone public with it then, would that have affected the outcome? Would Hillary Clinton have won not only the popular vote, but also the electoral college vote? Not that I cared for Hillary. I thought she and Trump both should have been locked up, in adjoining cells. 

 

Peggy 
Sloan, the mind does great things to one's memory sometimes. I was raped in 1960 and the detectives I worked with in the late '70s said I empathized so well with all the survivors that I must have had a similar experience and I said no. Then driving past a certain business in downtown West Palm with a man I was dating in the early '80s, I just started shaking and when he questioned me, I said the owner of that business raped me in 1960 a few weeks after I moved to Florida. Until that moment, my mind shut down about the whole thing, so I can very well understand why a woman could not say exactly when the rape occurred, because the mind just shuts down on some factors of such an assault sometimes.

Sloan Bashinsky
I know some women get amnesia and don't remember being sexually abused, and sometimes something happens that triggers some or total remembering of it. Carrol did not claim that kind of amnesia, she said she remembered it vividly. But not the year. Trump had bragged about getting away with grabbing women’s pussies, and he did not attend the trial, and I think that’s why the jury sided with Carrol. I’m glad the jury did that, yet I can’t understand how a law passed many years later, to bypass an existing statute of limitations, is legal in cases where the woman does not claim she had total amnesia for many years, and then she suddenly remembered it. I also can’t understand why Carrol didn’t make the claim when Trump ran in 2016, when making the claim really mattered, in the bigger scheme of things. Anyway, it’s in a federal appeal now, and will be decided there.

Peggy

Some remember parts of it and not others. I probably remembered the year, and actually the month (June), because it happened just a couple weeks after I came to Florida from Ohio. I can't say why she couldn't remember the year but I think it's likely she was telling the truth. Had it not been such a drastic change for me, I might not have remembered the month and year, either. It happened to me at the beach and I was a girl from southern Ohio who'd never seen the ocean before, much less been right there at the edges of it.

 

Sloan Bashinsky
I believe you, and I believe Carrol. I think her very long delay in speaking publicly about it, given who assaulted her, did not win her any gold stars in Heaven, and, as a lawyer, I think the new retroactive NY law ,which gave her a way around the NY statute of limitations, is illegal. Trump is a SPOS, I think he should be in prison. Too bad Carrol didn’t go to NY law enforcement right after it occurred. She instead finally got around to trying to make money off it.  

 

Peggy

Could be, Sloan, but I'd put it way down the list of reasons.

Sloan Bashinsky
I think her publishing company and her trial lawyer might disagree. 

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feather talk

Tiny Kingdom native E, featured in the previous post at this blog, continued her elucidation of my male ignorance about pretty much nearly all things:

You have shared your podcast with me.

Most countries, usually poor with finite resources, the males equate their masculinity with proliferation of off spring.(They do not have money to purchase their gilded influence via needless consumerism, ie, status) This of course comes from religion and culture where men can do as they please to a woman, wife, lover, female slave, daughters IF the female does not open her legs. Beatings, burnings, honor killings, rape, incest, an endless list, are used as brutal control through fear. The US is one of the most violent. Denmark, one of the least. Show me a woman who comes into a grammar school with an AR-15 slaughtering 6 year olds. 

Education. That’s fucked as funds are cut n cut n cut

A suggestion such as your PodCast is futile to stop men from fucking and taking what they want when they want. Grab ‘em by the pussy. They have to take the birth control or be clipped.  I don’t see a long line of volunteers wrapping its way around miles of NY blocks.  Then there is China, imposing by law a limited # of procreations allowed….or, fines, imprisonment, ostracization. 

That’s not worked out so well for China. 

Hoards of unmarried testosterone inflamed men.

Like a Revolution. You can have one but they fail because no one creates and implements toute suite a peaceful plan of transition to alleviate the consequences of chaos and mayhem. The “winners” sit around with their thumbs up their arses wonder what to do now. Military might takes over and it all starts again. 

The poem by Shelley, Ozymandias, describes it all as it happens again and again and again.

That’s enough for today.

You asked a question about why the trinity was all male. 

I gave you (THE) an answer and you just let it fall into the abyss of silence. Why ask then?

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Birth Rate (per 1000 people, CIA WorldFactbook 2021 estimate)

    1.  Niger - 47.28
    2.  Angola - 42.22
    3.  Mali - 41.60 (tie)
    4.  Uganda - 41.60 (tie)
    5.  Benin - 41.55
    6.  Chad - 41.05
    7.  Congo (Dem Rep of) - 40.53
    8.  South Sudan - 38.26
    9.  Somalia - 38.25
    10.  Mozambique - 38.03

Top 10 Countries with the Lowest Birth Rate (per 1000 people, CIA World Factbook 2021 estimate)

    1.  Monaco - 6.63
    2.  South Korea - 6.89
    3.  Andorra - 6.91
    4.  Japan - 7.00
    5.  Taiwan (limited recognition) - 7.43
    6.  Greece - 7.72
    7.  Puerto Rico - 7.90
    8.  Portugal - 8.02
    9.  Spain - 8.05
    10.  Bulgaria - 8.15

ECONOMICS of your no babies. 

“Problems associated with population decline include a slowed economy, which can lead to the closing of businesses from restaurants to public transportation to schools to medical facilities. To help counteract these concerns, some governments offer financial incentives to encourage citizens to have children.” 

Btw. My daughter had her tubes tied. I supported her and paid for it. Yours and your buddies female children and grandchildren.????  Stones and Glass Houses. 

I replied:

Sorry, Elizabeth, I only just saw this email from you. 

The question about the Trinity being all male was rhetorical.

Given how fucked up humanity is, there are only two ways for humans to fix it. Stop making babies and go extinct, or keep making babies and kill Gaia and go extinct. I'd be nuts if I thought humanity would agree with me.

Women have a great deal more power than they are willing to deploy. Yes, crossing their legs until men change their ways is risky, and lots of women who did it, would suffer horribly at the hands of men. So, women don't cross their lelgs and nothing changes, and they blame men for it, even though they are complicit.

I came to my views late in life, after seeing absolutely nothing was working, humanity was terminally stupid and there was no cure for stupidity, not even God can cure it, nor can Goddess, nor can ETs, nor can anyone. 

My dilemma is, I was trained by angels known in the Bible  for a very long time. The training was very rough, stood me before endless mirrors, and eventually I was sent into the world to, apparently, rock the boat, poke where I'm not welcome, and paint bullseyes all over me even. I've been doing it for a long time. Mostly via writing, but also talking. It's part of my metabolism, bio-rythym. I don't expect to have any effect on the course humanity is taking. Occasionally, someone tells me that something I said or wrote changed how they looked at something. 

The podcast below, the last one we launched onto YouTube, and then we put it into the Torrent system, has gotten over 100,000 complete watches world wide. People I will never know or hear from.

Homeless outlaw cowgirl shaman with the blues saved Key West from Hurricane Irma obliteration

Homeless outlaw cowgirl shaman with the blues saved Key West from Hurric...

E replied:

Non-edited….which always leads to miscommunication., leading to ?

Why waste time on a rhetorical question. People in all cultures do not put that together.  

We’ll keep on trying Sloan. 

I tip my hat.

Yes some females are complicit but mostly not out of intentional maneuvering but because of fear and non thinking I.e., fear of thinking, and obeying the men, as they allow their male children to continue bad behavior into adulthood. This is Global. I already wrote on this to you and you side stepped it. Stoning. Honor killings.  Grab that pussy…. Not writing it again. 

I believe that this “complicit-ness” which it is not purely, has to do with deep survival fear, and this is global.  How will they survive in their older age without a male child going forth into the pre ordained global maelstrom protecting them.  It’s only in my generation where US women were beginning to be able to educate themselves. What female did you know that had a profession and was self sustaining? 

I knew 3. Evelyn Allen was the first female on radio in Bham. Our former First Lady’s mother whom I knew since 5th grade spending the night in their home. Bertha Munger(camp Mary Munger)Anderson(Carl and Donald’s mom)  and Iris Parker(close with my parents, were both foraging forward as the only women in real estate. Everyone else played Bridge and Volunteered. 

No pay. 

No future security. 

Dependent on male children or marriage of their female children on the auctioning block starting as young Debutants to be married into a “good” family…. Which at that time with such few families in Mt. Brook, was everyone. 

Angels. 

Dont have a clue. Ask them to stop the horror in Ukraine. But if you want people to take you seriously, my opinion without asking if you desired it, not my usual MO, ending a conversation or debate with stories on your angels will dilute intellectually the path of gender balance…. Especially since angels in religious books are pro-ported  to be non gender. Non binary for a wooptedo term. 

I have died …. Almost…. and brought back by my own will, intellect and sense of humor. 

I won’t go into my story. 

I was 22.  

No angels. 

No religious iconic apparitions or symbols. 

Space. 

Hyper hyper warp speed. 

Ok

Enough.  

I have spent 50 years on this theme. I usually say start by reading Dawkins. Read Chomsky. Then go on to  Read “The Fifth Child”, Lessing. Read “Guns Germs and Steel”. Read “Surveillance Capitalism”, 

Read Naomi Klein “Shock Doctrine”. 

Read “Chasing The Flame”, Samantha Power.  

Cure stupidity through education in critical thinking and non religious compassion and empathy. 

Gaia will not be killed. She needs parasitic humans off her body. 

She is set to thrive with us extinct.

Love and more,

em

 

 

Greece

I replied to E:

You have had a remarkable life. A life few women could imagine, and perhaps no men, including me. 

It is not angels' job to fix what humanity keeps fucking up. In Ukraine, or anywhere, say Uvalde, Texas. Children are no longer safe in America. Yet, partents keep sending them to unguarded schools, even though parents kept their children home during Covid-19, which was not much threat to children, but was a big threat to adults. School boards and local, state and national government do not put armed guards in schools to protect school children and their teachers. Ukraine is in America. 

 

Religious freaks force unwilling mothers to have babies they do not want to have, and to raise those babies all by themselves, if necessary, regardless of how those mothers will treat their unwanted babies. 

 

The religious freaks have no clue when a fetus becomes a living soul. They worship a lump of tissue, which reminds them of themselves when they were mistreated by their own parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, etc., and no one saved them. 

 

Humanity is an experiment, and each person's life is their own experiment, and like all experiments, there is an end.

Angels are part of what I experience, and If I pretend otherwise in my relationships with other people, then I am a liar.  

 

I was with several women, one at a time, who knew for a fact that God and angels exist, and it was a severe struggle for each of those women, as it was and is a struggle for me. 

 

Last below is a link to yesterday's blog post, which has a comical macabre warm up act featuring two booze-loving Tiny Kingdom lawyers I once knew pretty well, and then comes the main attraction, you.  

 

Attached is a soul drawing, "Feather Talk", of the woman in the homeless cowgirl shaman podcast. The drawing fell out of me 8 years before I met her.  

 

The Feminine and her Art, Beauty and Creativity are dying, humanity is fucked

The Feminine and her Art, Beauty and Creativity are dying, humanity is ...

E told me several years ago that she, like me, gets by on the remains of wealth her father earned the old fashioned way.

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The Feminine and her Art, Beauty and Creativity are dying, humanity is fucked

I emailed yesterday's  Mother's Day question; Why is the Christian Trinity all male? post to several people I know, and three of the recipients made replies that led to further discussion. All three grew up in The Tiny Kingdom, aka Mt. Brook, Alabama. I knew two of them when I was a kid. Unlike me, they were really smart and went on to become lawyers and then partners in a prominent, respected Birmingham law firm. They ran with a crowd, who met daily in designated watering holes after work, to drink and talk about life. Sometimes I joined them at their watering holes. I understand they still drink and talk about life. 

Here is their and my discussion, a grubby "warm up act" for the main event - my discussion with the third responder, a renown artist and sculptress, who was born and raised in The Tiny Kingdom, and escaped.

Lawyer 1

I haven't heard anyone mention the "Trinity" for years, which is a good thing since that bizarre concept makes about as much sense as "original sin"🤐

Me 

You must not have been in a church for years? :-)

I haven't, but I know nothing's changed. 

 

Superstition competes vigorously with God in all religions.

Lawyer 1 

 

Religion IS a superstition😉

Me: 

 

That is not totally Accurate. God is in all religions, but human beings, mostly the male variation, have made God into their own image. 

 

Lawyer 2 

 

Interesting speculations about gender in religion.

My Mother announced at one of our last Christmas parties that she was convinced that Jesus was actually a woman. Many  of the Judaism and Christian 

tenets seem so inclined. This is Mothers Day by the way.

I’m in agreement that our democracy would be better led by a qualified woman in lieu of current prospects. One of my favorite nations, Finland, leaves the government and corporate leadership to women while the men are concerned with more important pursuits like hunting and fishing.

Now we can discuss how many angels can dance on the point of a needle.

Lawyer 1 to Lawyer 2

Your mother was a fireball, and obviously broad-minded as well. And a great sense of humor!

Me to the lawyers:

The men had many opportunities to run America, and look at how that turned out. 

Look at the Declaration of Independence - 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

All white men, and nothing about women. The African slaves were freed and black men could vote decades before any women could vote.

I don't see a woman in national politics, whom I think is right for the White House. I wish I did see such a woman, because I don't see any men I think are right for the White House.

This the first time I heard someone thought Jesus was a woman. I imagine that would be a sight, a naked crucified woman.

Meanwhile, if you guys lived in my skin for a little while, say, a week, you would have an entirely different view of your present views and everything else :-).

Lawyer 1 to me:

I would modify that by making it "Gods" are in all religions. Monotheism came late to the party, and with it came the "male" kingpin- back in the plural-gods days the "mother goddess" was the central figure.

Me to lawyer 1:

Whatever religious people want to call what I was raised to call God, has as many names as there are stars in the heavens, but for some people, leaving this life is the only way they can accept that, whiie others believe it will all their heart, mind and being, and others, such as the Swiss Psychiatrist C.G. Jung, when asked at a party if he believed in God, Jung is said to have replied: "Believe? I know."  

 

I once had a good friend named Dora Kalff, who invented Sandplay Therapy, after she had trained under Jung, who had encouraged her to work with children. Dora and Jung both lived in Zurich. 

In the summer of 1988, I spent a month in Zurich with my 3rd wife, who was one of Dora's students. My wife was a licensed clinical social worker. Dora  had for students: psychiatrists, psychologists, Jungian analysts, clinical social workers, etc. Dora told her students, I heard it, that the Dalai Lama told her, that Sandplay was applied Buddhism. Dora, and her students actually doing their inner work, all knew God existed. 

Most of her students were women, and they seemed uncomfortable every time Dora told them, for any real change to occur in the world, the women will have to go first. I argued with her about that, and she told me it was true never the less. When I asked Dora why the Jung Institute had not embraced Sandplay, she told me that she thought it was because they had not embraced the feminine. My wife with me when that happened, looked like she wanted to crawl under a rock and hide. 

If you lived in my skin for one day, you would know God exists, and there would be nothing religious or superstitious about it. It is as real as hitting your thumb with a hammer or having an orgasm or simply breathing. It cannot be imagined by the mind. It can only be known by experiencing it. 

Sloan 

Lawyer 1

I am a pantheist, and I suppose that's my equivalent of "god".

Me to Lawyer 1

pantheist

noun [ C ]

    RELIGION    specialized

US  

 /ˈpæn.θi.ɪst/ UK  

 /ˈpæn.θi.ɪst/

 

someone who believes in many or all gods, or believes that God exists in, and is the same as, all things, animals, and people within the universe:

There is an unfathomable chasm between belief and actual experience.

For example, Christians believe God exists, and Jesus existed, and he saved them, even though they were not born yet. But do they know God exists? Have they actually met Jesus? Some of them did move past belief, into knowing, and when that happened, everything changed for them. They were no longer like anyone around them. 

A timeless movie about Francis of Assisi, Brother Sun Sister Moon, is about that shift.

Lawyer 2

Spinoza was great but we should never lose sight of the significance of

W C Fields. “Everybody has to believe in something, so I believe I’ll have

another drink”.

Lawyer 1 

 

…and for his choice of drink, WC memorably chose alcohol over water, reciting that fishes swim in and poop in water all day.

Me 

 

And there you have it, God Bacchus. 

The third responder, E, is about 10 years behind me, I knew one of her older brothers and her parents. E became a remarkable sculptress. She was commissioned to do a statue for Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, also known as The Civil Rights Park, where statues memorialize how Birmingham city police brutalized back people marching for the same rights as white people had. Brutalized them with water cannons, German police dogs and night sticks. 

I found this online:

Elizabeth MacQueen's statue, "Four Spirits", is a moving tribute to the four girls

who were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 16, 1963. Located on the corner closest to the church, the four girls are represented around a bench: Cynthia Wesley sits on one end of the bench with a Bible in her lap. Carol Denise McNair, the youngest girl killed, releases doves into the air while Addie Mae Collins ties a sash around her dress. The fourth girl, Carole Robertson, stands apart from the bench, in motion as she beckons the girls to church. The sculpture is a beautiful tribute to the innocence of the victims, with the release of the doves symbolizing the hope for peace or the release of these four spirits to heaven. There is a pair of shoes on the ground by the bench under McNair and Collins. Both figures are barefoot in the sculpture, so it is not clear whose shoes they are. However, the shoes that McNair was wearing when she was killed are on display at the Civil Rights Institute, along with other personal effects she had on her that day and the piece of shrapnel found in her skull.

E told me a few years ago that she lost popularity in Mt. Brook after she did that sculpture, and she didn't care what those people thought of her. 

Here is E's and my conversation yesterday.

E

S…..

Because it was handed down orally and eventually written, then re-written multiple times, even today, by self serving misogynistic men.

Why any woman would follow a book written by all males, about male hierarchy, controlled oppression of females and children, promoting vengeance thru murder, is an enigma to me. 

Why anyone, especially women, would follow “a God”

who punished a wife and mother hearing screams of her family, cousins, neighbors, women, children, babies and all animals while smelling the stench of flesh burning and billowing smoke swirling through the desert sky, with her heart filled with the horror of everything she knew and loved tortured, turned for one last anguished moment, to be murdered by “a God” by turning her into a pillar of salt…… and to continue this brutality, leaving her children motherless. 

That is only one of hundreds of brutal  “how to keep your females and children in line” stories. 

Misogyny has a “How to Manuel.”

And you promote it…..still. 

It might interest you to read how and by whom Mother’s Day originated.

Gaia

Me

I promote it? 

E 

Yes.

You are a “Christian”.

Did you ever count how many humans the Bible’s God

Killed, murdered, tortured?

Statistics are around.

I read one time somewhere, more than all the wars BCE

and AD combined. Nice guy, dad, “father”.  Insane.

Kindness.

Where is it?

I don’t talk write about this. Incredibly boring and useless. 

Art, Beauty, Creativity.  

It is getting more and more difficult to stay in my bubble. 

Good trying on your side. 

We are fucked.

Me

After reading your firrst email, I did look up and read how Mother's Day got started. I think being a mother is the most important job on this planet, and I have said so from time to time at my blogs. What I wrote today was aimed at the Christian religion. Were I to go into a Christian church Sunday School class and say those things, it would cause a disturbance. Regardless of how I feel about Christianity today, it is very important in America, especially to the red spectrum, and so I poke it where it least likes to be poked. 

You did that statue? If so, can I spread it around?

M

Why would I send someone elses’ work?

6’. 230-50lbs

On her way to me from getting a beautiful patina,

Ferric gold at foundry in Berkeley.

She needs a home. 

Just got back from Mexico.

Had to laugh seeing Manuel 

for manual. Spanish auto correct🙄

Use my few paragraphs for your sheep.

None of them think. 

To think

To think

St. Luke’s you know 

But this insanity is global

at least the Koran before it’s gutted and abused by the likes of the Taliban and other male sadists,

supports  knowledge, science while  education is first given to the females( they raise the children…so first instilled pablum of propaganda).

Then Rome with its male horrors brought down the shared male/female Pharaohs of worship in North Africa spreading more oppressive Christianity…..and still going strong. 

Nothing you aren’t aware. 

Good luck.

We are on the end road.

Not a lot of productive time left.

xxx

em

E

Me

That's a beautiful sculpture. 

No, I'm not a Christian. Since early 1987, my ongoing direct experiences with angels known in the Bible is God is so much bigger than the Bible that Christendom is clueless. The Bible's Old Testament God was a pretty rough dude at times. Those angels never displayed to me any kind of physical threat to human beings. The ego, that's another matter altogether.

As for my sheep, looking at the analytics for the blog where I posted this column, nobody reads the blog regularly and only a few people have read it.

A friend and I do The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast, which averages 80,000 complete watches world wide per episode. Unlike YouTube, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, etc. the Torrent platform owners, which accept the podcast for their subscribers, like stuff that is different and is free and has no advertising and no soliciting. We address lots of topics and we are controversial relative to the status quo.

We recently told the audience that humanity is fucked and is no longer capable of unfucking itself. The cause of it is two things. Demonic influence and loss of the feminine essense in the species. We recommended people of child-bearing age stop making babies and do their best to be true to themselves and the planet. We suggested that all of humanity stop making babies because the species is fucked, and why bring new babies into that?  Better for the species do die itself off, before it kills the planet and thus itself. 

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