The govt. does control the weather

When you piss on something long enough, it turns yellow.
© John Alphonse forever

How many times have I experienced small-minded Portlanders actually get angry and defensive at the thought of government intervention in weather events? I mean, actually pissed off because I've suggested the idea into the open air that once was our society, when we had one. Like I was the devil for bespeaking such inaccurate untruth when it has been documented fact since at least 1986! Do you think the Bush crew doesn't do the same thing? Do you think they're gonna' tell you? Do you notice the wonderful weather we have here most every time the Bushes are on vay-cay in K-bunk? Wake up out of your front-page tabloid or Pressed Harold stupor, people! You're not getting the truth, haven't been for quite a while now... So stop spreading what you think is true just because you see it in the sellout media who are just another business, and not a contributing societal member any more. Stop being a pawn of negativity and move your own piece.

Sadder still walking through Lincoln Park on an Easter Sunday, a stone's throw from the beloved Cathedral of Sexually-Abusive Holier-Than-Thou's: a cold, human-less remnant of a park, in a remnant of a city, in a remnant of what it was like to be a culture, a society and nation with some sense of aesthetic and pride above some dollar sign - not just an American, but a respectable human being foremost. You wonder why things are the way they are now? Just look at your "I'm so wonderful" selves of denial and stop trying to look like the "poor me" innocents while you stab people in the back behind their backs and with a smile to their faces.

The park was pigeon-less, and my illegally spread bread crumbs were met by no less than 70 or 80 seagulls and zero pigeons. Sick that a society would create such a situation as a city and then label the pigeons as dirty, disgusting undeserving leeches on our "great" system. Gee it's kind of like employers treat employees, isn't it? Or how you look down at the welfare recipient sliding their MaineCare card in line at Hannaford? You call yourselves such "nice" people when you have chosen to be judgmental rather than compassionate?

The seagulls of capitalism have devoured any sense of the common man, and apparently common pigeon, repackaged it as undesirable, lesser, undeserving, and then made it the focus of scorn, hatred and judgment.

Just as I was leaving there was a sign of hope, which there will always be until this sign becomes a billboard and then an entire sky: circled around by a gull or two was one approaching pigeon perched on a street light, joined by a second pigeon thereafter as I crossed the street.

One pigeon, two pigeons. Hope springs eternal, and hail to the goddess Esther, after whom the Easter holiday was named in the first place before the Catholics hijacked, manipulated and redefined it. Monkey see, monkey do... No, scratch that, sorry... that's actually an insult to monkeys.

Google, Yahoo, etc: Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is

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© John Alphonse

Educate from within if you are going to concede to censorship from without. If companies are willing to overlook human rights violations in dealing with corporations and governments alike, for a determined "greater good" in a competitive market, then wouldn't the logical end result of this concession be some sort of contribution to a greater exposure of and education on these censored subjects outside the borders of jurisdiction of these "gag agreements"? Isn't anything short of this practically "aiding and abetting" injustice, or misinformation at least? Voluntarily, would it strike these influential companies to apply some sort of adaptation of the "pollution credits" technique in helping to clear the waters of a Great Diked Truth (Great Wall pun initially unintended) being disseminated ultimately through American business channels? We can call them "Information Pollution Credits" measured in man-hours of lecture algorithmically spun over number of attendees/web viewers/water-cooler mentions.

For starters, maybe companies making censorship concessions for business could create an awareness among their own with some in-house lectures on these subjects censored from certain foreign affiliated sites. Why not educate the truth about Falun Gong and the Dalai Llama directly to employees of an influential corporation wielding an influential medium so as to counteract these concessions on freedom of information elsewhere? The exponential effect outside China would seem to produce more clear water than murk at that point, numbers-wise. The censorship would eventually become moot by default, displacing the negative by multiplying the positive...

It's due time that for-profit business put its mouth where its money is, meaning that, if profiting from an institution of suppression, have the integrity to advocate for justice on behalf of those who aren't in a position to do so, and use the limelight and the power of money not to favor one cause or idea over another, but to contribute to leveling the playing field with equal access to information for all.

Is doing nothing a better idea? How long can an entity turn a profit and turn its back, and still be an entity?