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The space/tech age, the hunt for hospitable planets, and the heavy (doom) metal prophets that were talking about it 50 years ago.

That familiar itch was begging to be scratched again. The Amazon fires, SpaceX, plastic sealife, trade wars, racial tensions, you know every-day-kinda shit in the year 2019 brought it on.

Then it hit me. I bought the album when I was 13 years old. The words now ringing more clear than ever before (aside from references to Satan). I'd practically forgotten.

Sure, there were many protest songs. Eve of destruction, Big Yellow Taxi, etc. But this one really grasped the present day in a way not many others did, imo. This is prophecy! Or not, but it scratched the itch goddammit!





Black Sabbath: Into The Void

Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the night sky they blast
Through the universe the engines whine
Could it be the end of man and time?
Back on earth the flame of life burns low
Everywhere is misery and woe
Pollution kills the air, the land, the sea
Man prepares to meet his destiny, yeah
Rocket engines burning fuel so fast
Up into the black sky so vast
Burning metal through the atmosphere
Earth remains in worry, hate and fear
With the hateful battles raging on
Rockets flying to the glowing sun
Through the empires of eternal void
Freedom from the final suicide
Freedom fighters sent out to the sun
Escape from brainwashed winds and pollution
Leave the earth to all it's sin and hate
Find another world where freedom waits, yeah
Past the stars in fields of ancient void
Through the shields of darkness where they find
Love upon a land a world unknown
Where the sons of freedom make their home
Leave the earth to Satan and his slaves
Leave them to their future in their graves
Make a home where love is there to stay
Peace and happiness in every day

...Just sizing up the usual world news, and hearing about the death of that young student in Hong Kong. I'd like my fellowess/fellow CS folks to think a bit about all the stufff we place on line here,--- much of it harshly/truthfully political. My rants topping any list. Without naming any country, who doubts the list is long, of places where much of what we write here, could lead to jail terms,....or worse. Sure, even in the places we live in, ya shouldn't falsely shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater. But c'mon peebles, for most of us, and by many historical comparisons, we enjoy a huge dose of political/personal freedoms.

That is the first time I've admitted it 'out loud' on here.

At first I did not want to steal.
I really didn't.

But, my friends felt I would be good at it
and encouraged me to do it.
Now, although I was young, when I started, I do not blame others.
It was ultimately my choice to do it or not.
No one forced me to do it.

The first few times I was quite nervous about it
and I definitely feared being caught.
But, my friends were right.
I was very good at it, and even got much better at it the more I did it.
No one could catch me.

Thus, I led my baseball league in stolen bases many years.

What ?

I also stole signs.
I did this once I was on base, or when I coached a base.
It was easy. I would root the batter on continually, whether I got the sign or not.
Once the sign for which type of pitch was given (usually 1 finger for a fastball, 2 fingers for a curve, etc..) from the catcher, I would root;
"Come on (batter's name, i.e. Paul) stroke that ball" (if the pitch was going to be a fastball)
and "(batter's name) come on lets get some bingo going" if it was going to be an off speed pitch(i.e. a curveball).
If I didn't get the sign, I will still say something like "You're da man (batter's name) pick out a sweet one."
I let my team know what key words to listen for (i.e. stroke = fastball, bingo = offspeed, man = didn't get it) and I would change it to different words the next time we played the same team.

Since I played in a league that had some ex-pro players and college players in it, a couple of catcher's
eventually figured out, that I was stealing signs (it's part of the game).
They would walk out to the pitcher's mound to tell the pitcher,
that I was doing so and then would change the signs.
But it only took me a couple of pitches to figure out the new signs.
Sometimes the pitchers would retaliate by throwing a fastball at me,
when I was at bat. I didn't mind. I was quick enough to get out of the way
and got a lot of walks that way, after which I would steal a base or two.

Yeah, I was a thief.

The Houston Astros went much too far with it though.
While stealing signs is permitted, you're not allowed
to use any technology to steal signs.
They Astros used zoom cameras from the outfield fences at home games
focused on the catcher and would then beat loudly on a garbage can,
if it was going to be a fastball.
This was recently admitted by a pitcher who used to pitch for the Astros.
The Astros are now in trouble with the league for this.

...to keep track of the many long overdue and important, VERY important, kept campaign promisses by our Brilliant President Trump. Must we now begin using all ten toes, and eventually, trend continuing, Bravo's long black claws for the counts? But I digress. The aptly named, US (numero uno), Mexico, Canada (Loonie, ooouuut, Eh?) agreement, updating and greatly upgrading the previous NAFTA disasters for US factory workers, first hoisted on them by the likes of disbarred liar cigar plunging Clinton and affirmative action life long free ride nearly illiterate POTUS Hussein O (57 states, and they speak Austrian in Oesterreich). Even the lefties in Congress are on board, with our Illustrious and divine President, so it's as bi partisan as the front and back sides of my pubic/posterior nether regions, oh you wanton CS dolls. He and colleagues finally got the caballerros grandes to agree to a much higher wage for the workers in the proto narco state, and get this, even to allow inspectors into the factories. In one swipe improving the lives of workers on both sides of the daily more secure formerly democrat porous frontera. And lots more. Hey, how about those unemployment and interest rates? All merely from the policies of the affirmative action, do little POTUS, ---spin no doubt to follow, in line with TD-HDS. Can't make this stuff up, peebles.

Had my human rights complaint sustained due to lack of evidence of a scumlord landlord and junk Mobil home rentals I filed from neglect of maintence and failure to repair as I ended up in a hospital for five weeks (furnace rigged like a deathtrap wouldn't run properly )and pics of it and the rest of the building showing neglected rental unit long story goes to prove who you know and who they know.worthless system

My story I rented a Mobil home wasn't there two weeks and ended up in hospital for five weeks the punk landlord wouldn't repair the furnace and he knew it was junk of last tentants told him they fixed it by jiggling the wall thermostat which there was more needed repaired within it long story short he doesn't didn't maintain the place looking around you can see it the pigs are as crooked as him as he also stole my Walker and a few other items then I filed a complaint with Illinois Dept of human Rights when it came to investigating and putting the problem is proper perspective look a bunch of thief's using the clout for themselves not wanting to step on there toes for themselves really a joke I had endless pics to prove such but this joker's been around knows who's on the lying end to get away with it I almost want to root for the evil sometimes ..lol

...sure, they will soon lack drinking water, and that nervous one party state, and control by party elites, augers less than ideal for the long term. Hong Kong and Taiwan. Much more to be concerned about, in the general neighborhood as well, as we see in the South China Seas. But the changes from failed attempts at communism, to China's form of free market economies, bring with them troubling demographic shifts as wel. Wealthy, entrepreneurial business women, now in their 40's and 50's, with vanishing chances for marriage and children, and enormous family and cultural pressures for both, to name just one. Slight modifications of the one child policies, might help. But real political freedom ain't too shabby either.

When I was at junior school, we used to buy bubble gum that came with picture cards. The ones I remember were a series about World War 2, Mars Attacks and the American Civil War. Some of the pictures were very gory, many of them depicting scenes of extreme violence. Such images would certainly not be sold to children nowadays, although, strange as it might seem, being exposed to them neither caused anyone any trauma nor produced any homicidal maniacs in later life.

The American Civil War series is the one I remember most clearly. In the little pack would be a flat, square piece of pink bubble gum, several picture cards and a pretend US bank note. The subject of the American Civil War certainly captured our schoolboy imaginations for the duration of their being on sale. For the playground bullies, they were like a gift from the gods. They would run up to some defenceless little soul and demand to know if he was “Union or Confederate”. There was no way of knowing where the bully’s allegiance lay, and if yours happened not to coincide with it, there were consequences. I don’t remember exactly what the consequences were, but I’m pretty sure it involved a measure of being roughed up.

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