Behind the Bastards

"The school is where they put the kids when they took us from our parents. It's where we all lived from the time we were six months old. Since Chuck, the old man, said that dope fiends would just mess up their kids anyway, we were all put in a building together to become children of the universe."

"You had to listen to Chuck. We had demonstrators who were like teachers and classes and songs and I was lucky because I had a Bonnie. She would hug me every day and sing songs with me and call me son and ask me what I want for a snack."

"Most of the other kids didn't have a Bonnie though and some never even saw their moms or dads. They just never came to visit."

"Dmitri said he doesn't remember his mom's face. She was somewhere else. He didn't know where his dad was. The demonstrators say we don't need our parents because we have each other, but we don't like sharing our toys and I don't know who to talk to when I woke up with a bad dream or fell off of the monkey bars."

"Some of the kids were very sad. Tony, his brother, used to sit alone at the edge of the playground all day and his brother was a little older than him. He would turn away when one of the demonstrators tried to hug him. He doesn't trust the adults and he doesn't play with other kids that much. When mom came to visit, she would say he's just like that and he needs to learn how to deal with his anger, but maybe it's because someone did bad things to him. That happens sometimes. The kids would get hit really hard or locked in a closet and there was no mom or dad to tell because they lived somewhere else and you couldn't even remember their faces."

the school is where they put the kids when they took us from our parents. It's where we all lived from the time we were six months old.

Since Chuck, the old man, said that dope fiends would just mess up their kids anyway, we were all put in a building together to become children of the universe.

You had to listen to Chuck. We had demonstrators who were like teachers and classes and songs and I was lucky because I had a Bonnie.

She would hug me every day and sing songs with me and call me son and ask me what I want for a snack.

Most of the other kids didn't have a Bonnie though and some never even saw their moms or dads. They just never came to visit.

He also learned from the leaders that surrounded him, like the leader of the SNCC and the leaders of the Black Panthers.

He began to read literature like the autobiography of Malcolm X and Robert F. Williams' book, Negroes with Guns.

How I Found Livingston

How I Found Livingston

For the real poop on alcohol for its own sake, get granddad's wonderful book of chemistry.

Alcohol Matry starts on page 129.

We did poop used to mean something else.

You don't want the real poop on alcohol?

He's trying to keep it light.

For the real poop on alcohol for its own sake, get granddad's wonderful book of chemistry.

Plus George W. Weingart's classic on fireworks, pyrotechnie.

It gives full and simple instructions for making tear gas, explosives, firearms, silencers, poisons, zip guns, grenades, knockout drops, flamethrowers and a wide variety of weapons.

The poor man's James Bond is the undisputed leader in the field of books on improvised weaponry and do-it-yourself mayhem.

Includes fireworks and explosives like granddad used to make.

This book has hundreds of formulas and processes for making fireworks, blasting compounds, gunpowder, nitro, gun cotton, et cetera.

Plus George W. Weingart's classic on fireworks, pyrotechnie.

And he brings up his 2004 book, The Religion War.

I predicted the rise of an Islamic caliphate in the Middle East and their use of hobby sized drones for terror attacks.

In the year 2007, a brilliant and charismatic leader named Al-Z began his rise to power in the Palestinian territories.

He was the architect of the 20-year plan for eliminating Israel, the success of which started a domino effect in the Middle East as one Arab dictatorship after another fell and their territories rolled into the Great Caliphate.

he then fashioned all public works policy formation and patronage as personal gifts from the dictator to the pueblo or people with his family and a few close friends Trujillo used the state to develop a system of highly profitable economic monopolies as he gradually took over all core national industries such as meat milk sugar rice oil cement and beer he then used the law to guarantee their profitability and allocated state contracts to his family and cronies for example he prohibited the production of sea salt so the public would have to purchase salt from the Baharona mines where he could which he controlled his wife Maria Martinez was allotted a government bank for cashing state paychecks Trujillo's sister's husband was given the military pharmaceutical contract a highly lucrative enterprise given the massive expansion of the armed forces in this extreme example of pre-bindalism the appropriation of the state for private ends the state became an instrument that guaranteed flows of profit to Trujillo and his circle Trujillo initially eventually became one of the wealthiest men in Latin America under his regime there was no effective distinction between the national treasury and the dictator's own purse he also used the state as a legal screen which shielded the public from the regime's extraordinarily lawlessness and corruption he enabled his own divorce for example by altering divorce legislation

Widespread resistance to becoming part of the United States-led force meant that recruiters were forced to enlist what a witness described as the worst rascals, thieves and assassins in the country.

If the military had previously been a means of social assent for the respectable poor, it was now open to the anonymous crowd.

The show started out well, but in the second season, the network made a strategic decision to focus on shows with African-American actors.

If you're into comic, obviously, which which you are, Randy, you know how like you had those like the the the far side big collection.

Gary Larson.

He writes a bunch of stuff at the beginning and he kind of like explains different comics.

There was another one for Calvin and Hobbes.

Most of like the really big cartoonists get one of those at some point in their career.

Let's let's give just a short excerpt from the forward of Plato by William Wallace Cook.

Yeah, it begins. Picture a man and a woman walking through a thick fog in London. The year is 1926. They are in love and they are miserable.

Well, I mean, already. Yeah, I'm hooked. Tell me more.

It took him a lot longer.

You know, actually, when you read Ulysses, because one of the most famous scenes in that book that got it attacked by a lot of anti-obscenity laws is, uh, is one of the characters, uh, walking along the strand basically and masturbating through a hole in his pocket while his wife fucks some other guy.

And when you are reading a story about a man masturbating through a hole in his pocket, again, all fiction is a dialogue between reader and author.

Josie Reisman found when she interviewed his friend Dutch for her book.

When Josie talks to other kids at the military school they'd bring up, is that like, you know, we're men in a military school.

Josie Reisman's research includes uncovering arbitration documents from a separate legal case at around the same time.

The father's wisdom as imparted to the son was, 'wrestlers are like seagulls'.

In Vince's telling, he went to Ali's room and discussed the matter with him.

Josie Reisman writes that this was presumably in blackface, and I suspect she is correct there.

Reisman notes, quote, However, the picture that emerges from those who knew him is surprisingly of a kind kid who made friends with ease.

In other interviews that he gave earlier, his story is a lot more realistic. He claims that his school had to integrate while he was in 10th grade. This caused tumult and perhaps due in part to being racist, Vince no longer liked it at his school once it was integrated. His grades and behavior were bad enough that the administration decided to kick him out. So military school was one of his only options. This wound up being what ultimately made him.

I didn't say that. Vince countered in a tone that suggested a rising shield.

I really like a blog and it's also a podcast every week, Border Chronicles, Todd Miller's Border Chronicles.

I also would recommend reading all of Todd Miller's books. He is an incredible investigative journalist that does a deep dive on how we got to this militarized state of the border.

So, I would recommend starting with Border Patrol Nation and just going straight through there.

One analyst asked how the price for copper would impact earnings in the next quarter. "What the hell difference will that make?" Welch shot back. "You should be asking me where I want to take the company."

Some people think it's cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10% of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal is false kindness. False kindness is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper.

Within months of his departure, it became clear that GE was deeply troubled. And in a matter of years, the corporation was falling apart.

Had so much of the wealth created by corporations not been reverse distributed back to investors in the form of buybacks and dividends over the past 45 years and had pay kept pace with productivity, the average full-time American worker would be making about $102,000 annually, roughly double what he or she is today.

He's full of shit, Jack said. "He's a bullshitter." But Jack, I asked, "Didn't you choose Jeff?" "Yes," he conceded he had. "That's my burden and that I have to live with," he continued. "But people have been hurt. Employees, people's pensions, shareholders. It's bad." There were tears in his eyes. "I fucked up," he said again. "I fucked up."

An annual report from 1953 described how GE worked in the balanced best interests of all. The report trumpeted how much the company had paid in taxes, the virtues of paying its suppliers well and how critical it was to take care of its employees.

That year, GE proudly stated that it spent some 37 percent of its sales on pay and benefits for its workers, resulting in the biggest payroll in the company's history, with more people at work than ever before.

Next to the statistic was an illustration of a grinning factory worker walking away from the assembly line holding bags of money only after enumerating all the ways in which it was helping the government suppliers and employees.

layoff spread to other divisions as Welch amassed more responsibility. And as he toured GE's facilities around the country, he took the opportunity to remind the rank and file who was now in charge.

In Cleveland at the light bulb factory, he berated a manager for the relative high costs of GE's bulbs, screaming that competitors in communist Europe made similar products for half the price.

...murder yourself with it like Keanu Reeves fighting a giant in a library. It's the only way out for you.

This may seem a strange way to begin an autobiography, a confession I hate having to use the first person. Nearly everything I've done in my life has been accomplished with other people. Yet when you write a book like this, you're forced to use the narrative I when it's really the we that counts now.

Please remember that every time you see the word I in these pages, it refers to all those colleagues and friends and some I might have missed. Now we move on.

my mother poured her love into me as if I were a found treasure.

don't kid yourself. That's the way it is. If you don't study, you'll be nothing. Absolutely nothing. There are no shortcuts. Don't kid yourself.

she knew how to be tough with me, but also how to hug and kiss. She wanted to make sure I knew how wanted and loved I was.

So beam continued to write speeches newsletters and articles in various far-right journals of record culminating in his 1983 book essays of a clansman

He did start making other plans. Oh he continued. Oh, no Spoilers it ends with a federal building exploding actually

So beam continued to write speeches newsletters and articles in various far-right journals of record culminating in his 1983 book essays of a clansman in this book he encouraged his fellow fascist Vietnam veterans to bring the war on home to the United States

He noted that many former inmates not only insisted they'd had direct contact with Mengele, but, and this is really strange, they tended to remember him as being hot.

those who kept the machinery of murder going in Auschwitz were not devils. They were humans.

I recommend if you want to get an actual degree of personal physical context for what it was like there. Miklos Niesley's memoir, Auschwitz, a doctor's eyewitness account is short. You can finish it in an afternoon. It's not a long book and it's fucking harrowing.

The quarantine camp, C camp, D camp and the F section were terribly overcrowded, despite the quotas which were filled daily for shipment to more distant camps.

The Czech section of the Auschwitz concentration camp was liquidated. This date, due to a prevalence of typhus among the prisoners. Signed, Dr. Mengele, Hauptsturmfhrer.

his focus in this book was on what he called the engineering of consent a phrase is horrified as it is

He says is to provide leaders with the ability to quote control and regiment the masses according to our will without they're knowing about it

he says is to provide leaders with the ability to quote control and regiment the masses according to our will without they're knowing about it

look at the Catholics their priests have been molesting women and children for centuries and the governments have not been able to stop it if handled properly a church can protect us from vaccinations that we don't want from forced insurance and for many things that a government might want to use to oppress us

Look at the Catholics, their priests have been molesting women and children for centuries and the governments have not been able to stop it. If handled properly a church can protect us from vaccinations that we don't want, from forced insurance, and for many things that a government might want to use to oppress us.