ISIS, Al Qaeda 2.0(Improved Model to Terrify People into Supporting Never-ending Wars Profitable for Contractors, Energy Cartels, and Banks)

Who else had US-made stinger missiles? Losing Stinger Missiles and having other US arms "accidentally" fall into the wrong hands is great for business.

Sing It

Baldwin on "Looters"

Super Moon, Perseid Tails

Super Moon, Tree Branches

Super Moon, Perseid Trails

"So I get to bomb Iraq too?" "Good one Barack!" (laughter)

"I am a firestarter..."

"We're all riders on this train"

Obama and the US Congress Wholeheartedly Supports and Arms People Who Believe Genocide is "Permissible"

Super Moon Falls

For You

Chaplin, "Monsieur Verdoux"

Self Portrait with Philosopher's Stone and Cane

"Lead the mind, as by a hand, to the contemplation of invisible realities."
---Basil of Caesarea

Happy 4th

White Supremacists Block Busloads of Children and Women Arriving at Detention Center to Start Deportation Process in California

"It will confirm me bold; the child o'th'Court.
Let blushes dwell i'th'country."
Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, Act 1, Scene 3.

The Damned

"A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned in the next world, if only to justify itself for making their life a hell in this."

                  R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.

Siena

Urbs Senarum in Etruria admodum nobilis est, et agrum late patentem possidet.
--- Pope Pius II, Commentaries.

No Kidding

Plus de Miracle

The small but abiding shock 
of apprehending bodies 
dispense with agency.

Children speak love
without prompting.

Birds sing at three hands
past the witching hour.

Marvels of otherwise
unremarkable days.