tag:sal-tripin.com,2005:/blogs/sal-tripin-saysSal'tripin Says2020-10-23T16:09:46-06:00mine all minegoood tunesgood tunesPatrick R Jr BaloughfalsePatrick R Jr Baloughsaltrip2011@gmail.comtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64621852020-10-23T16:09:46-06:002020-10-23T16:09:46-06:00Prohibition doesnt work. The NFA, the War on "Drugs", and Alcohol Prohibition just created more crime<p>Prohibition doesnt work. The NFA, the War on "Drugs", and Alcohol Prohibition just created more crime. The way to stop crime is threw the combined approach of medical and mental healthcare for all, higher wages and better options for starting businesses, and education. All of these are hated and cried over all day by the GOP and the anti-life rightwing nutzz.. They profit off of the crime and the over-policing. They also profit off the monopolies and tax loopholes they create which we the people pay for. Meanwhile the corporate dems get their beaks wet for standing by or by taking part in the GOPs Trickle Down "Economic" BS.. When only the few are aloud a decent chance and the rest of us have to suffer for it crime is going to be a problem. If everybody is aloud a shot at a better life then crime will disappear for the most part. Trickle down "economics, Reagans "education" initiative, and the "drug" war are directly responsible for the rise in extremism and in street crime. Get the government out of the business of dictating a way of life and instead give the opportunities to create a better life and people will do what i right because they will be able and willing to. Create more laws and instead you will have more crime. End the war on we the people!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64613172020-10-22T13:17:05-06:002020-10-22T13:17:05-06:00The GOP, stealing from the poor to feed the greed that drives the rich.<p>The GOP is full of Sh-t!! Tips are down. I make 20% at best of what i made in 2015.. The GOP and their Trickle Down "Economics" have ruined the USA. Their hatred of the american people and their constant blaming of the poor is evil. The GOP wants more money and power for the few and we the people will pay for it... They want to tell you how to live and love. They want to force their religious "beliefs" on everybody. They want to take away the right to vote and all other rights, including the 2nd amendment. Their Authoritarian freedom hating "ideology" is un-American and anti-life. The GOP cares nothing for any form of life. They care only for power and their greed for more drives their every move. They hate facts and the truth. They will destroy everything to make the super rich few even richer.The GOP doesnt have Americas interest at heart. They work for the few, super rich, elitist, globalists that own everything. What kind of idiot would vote for them? Why would people vote against their own good? What drives somebody to support them when they are so anti-life? What a bunch of phonies the GOP is. Yet people are dumb enough to keep voting for them. Is it because liars vote for liars? Do they really believe the BS? Hell its in their founding "idea" Trickle Down "Economics", more for the rich and less for we the people. What idiot would fall for such a transparent lie? The GOP doesnt even believe in it or they would have called it deluge economics or down pour economics. Crooks, thats what the GOP is, stealing from the poor to feed the greed that drives the rich.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64598672020-10-20T14:51:30-06:002020-10-20T14:51:30-06:00The dumb one is Trump, his "followers" are even worse than stupid. <p>The dumb one is Trump, his "followers" are even worse than stupid. They are the ones willing to fight and die for the few. They're the ignorant tools of the elite. Living and dying so a handful of super rich crooks can get even richer.. The willingness to kill for some rich as-hole that cares nothing for them.......... Hmm? Not wearing a mask is their first tiny step into becoming the full on psycho-killers that will commit genocide for some dictator that doesnt care for any form of life on the planet excluding himself. The crowd, being part of an in crowd, or the "majority" is all they get is "acceptance" in the cult. The cult can turn on any of them at the drop of a dime. They feel part of something for once in their lonely lives. That feeling is enough to make killers out of "regular" people, well that and the threat of being ostracized and punished after they no longer garner the same clout in their precious clan. The "acceptance" of the crowd is tenuous and is really a way for the other "members" to push, pull, and manipulate things for their own good. Under the surface everybody in the clique is living a lie. Acting and pretending to be in it for the good of the cult while plotting and scheming become the full time reality less you get blindsided by some other "member" in their climb to power inside the group. The GOP has fully embraced the madness of fascist authoritarianism and has been turning the whole of society into their death cult. Their End of the World BS is their goal and they think its the way to gain power and acceptance. To fill the void in their lives where simply being a fully matured person with intellectual pursuits and ideas of their own would suffice, they want the easy way, to be given purpose instead of finding it on their own makes them weak and easy to co-oped by the few. Looking to some rich guy to give you purpose and to give your life meaning is lazy and stupid and leaves you wide open to manipulation. The powerful will take full advantage of the stupid and lazy but being smart is not enough you have to fight back. Spread the word, freedom, the arts, and science, individuality and the faith in yourself that it takes to test your ideas and look deeper into your "beliefs" and to change when you are wrong. The message of humility and knowing that you can never be smart if you think you are already smart. Dont let some PR firm hired by the few shape you into another "member" of the group. Get out their and experience life, learn, and never let down your guard. Your mind is the last place on earth the few, super rich, and powerful can own and its up to you and you alone can overcome.</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64461782020-09-30T11:41:43-06:002020-09-30T11:44:22-06:00not a single dem i know wants gun round ups or anything like it. <p>not a single dem i know wants gun round ups or anything like it. most just want background checks and there is, so whats the problem? the problem is that "education" and "healthcare" have been made the target of giant corporations and with no protection from the right or left they have been co opted by the super rich few and used to their own benefit. social and behavioral scientists hired by the few have created a idiot base to support the crimes of the few. Trickle down "economics" anybody that supports it in actions not words, should be on trail for treason. repair the Education and Healthcare systems by making them public instead of private, start to pay better than slavery wages, end the "drug" war and over policing, and we will see an end to mass shooting, less homelessness, and less crime. give people a chance and they will succeed. rip them off and treat them like crap and well we have that right now....</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64403672020-09-22T13:06:24-06:002020-09-22T13:06:24-06:00Romney is a greed driven traitor.<p>Romney is a greed driven traitor. Just like all of the crooks in the GOP. Its time for we the people to hold these crooks to account for all the death and suffering their policies create. Their BS trickle down "economics" and their authoritarian war on "drugs" are proof of their treason against we the people. The GOP is the party of the few, the elite. Not the intellectual elite, the actual elite. The handful of multi national multi billionaires and the even fewer massive corporations that own everything. These elitist crooks dont care about america. They use our countries infrastructure and get huge handouts of our tax money. The takers. This tiny number of super rich crooks must be put in their place, the dust bin of history. The fact that so few are holding all of the worlds resources does make it easy to see who the enemies of freedom and democracy are and will be easy to deal with once people stop blaming the poor for the crimes of the rich. That brings us back to Romney. A crook thats true home is south of the border. His loyalty is not to America its to a tiny cult of polygamist Mormons in Mexico. Well and to his greed. The only way to save our country from the greed driven power hungry criminals of the GOP is to show their supporters the truth. Not what they say but what they do. If they support trickle down economics, the "drug" war, over policing, welfare for billionaires, tax cuts for the wealthy, or any limits on the freedom or we the people to choose then they must be removed from office and held to face trail for treason against we the people, the true government of the USA. If their money is more important to them than the lives and freedom of Americans then they are guilty and should be punished harshly so the future political upstarts will know from out of the gate that we the people are their boss not the few...</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64402552020-09-22T10:23:52-06:002020-09-22T10:23:52-06:00the modern authoritarian leaning USA <p>In the modern authoritarian leaning USA people are more concerned with outside influences to make decisions for them. To have an intellectual pursuit that isn't dictated by an authority is unthinkable to most. When every act in life is told to you it becomes impossible for people to think and do for themselves. That is why the more laws they make the more criminals there are. When you are made to follow you lose the ability to think for yourself. Just look at the flat earthers or qanaon, they cant even see reality in front of their faces. Let alone come up with an original idea. Free thought and creativity are stifled in this kind of society. Freedom is more than a bunch of civil and criminal laws, it is the ability for one to think. The scope of our countries ability to progress is directly related to peoples ability to think for themselves. To bad with all the info available people cant use it. As long as they are not allowed to be free no amount of info will save this country for authorities that do for themselves and a populace that does for the few...</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64393912020-09-21T11:05:32-06:002020-09-21T11:05:32-06:00Elitists by definition. Crooks by trade. Traitors to we the people<p>Republicans are traitors to we the people. For years they have pushed their Trickle Down "Economics" while giving billions in handouts and tax breaks to thew few super rich and their multinational corporations.. They are liars and thieves. Stealing our resources and handing them to the few. The republicans also hate freedom. They will tell you what you can do with your own body. They will tell you who you can love and marry. They will tell you what god you can worship and how to do it. Yet they let the few destroy the land, air, and water. They will let the few take and take without making them pay taxes. They will do whatever it takes to stop we the people from voting because they hate we the people. calling us a "mob" while the few actually are a mob. The republicans are really authoritarian autocrats. They cry and cry about "the elite" when they really mean the smart successful people. An elite is what they are. The whole point of a republic is that an elite group is to rule over the rest. Elitists by definition. We the people are seen by the right as enemies not as their boss. We must not let the greed of the few ruin it for everyone. We must put them in their place, in prison. We need to open their lives up to the oversight our constitution give us. Once we start to look into their lies we will find criminal acts that are directly aimed at defrauding we the people, treason... They have sold our country to the few. Its time we send them up the river for doing it...</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64386282020-09-20T10:57:00-06:002020-09-20T10:57:00-06:00The american hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg <p>The american hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just passed away and trump and the crooks on the right cant even wait till the next day to start gloating and plotting to replace her. She will never be replaced. Her life is a life that should be celebrated. A national recognition of her gift to us. Instead of grasping at the last few tatters of our great nation, the SCOTUS we should be allowed to morn this great woman. Before the political positioning and the underhanded backroom BS that has become our once great nation maybe we should take a deeper look into Her Honor "no pun intended" a true American Hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg.</p>5:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64386212020-09-20T10:25:06-06:002020-09-20T10:25:06-06:00Greedy bastards!<p>Greedy bastards! Trump and the republicans are against we the people and for the few... The corporate dems too... Its time to put these takers in their place.. Trump the POTUS is more worried about money in his and his friends pockets then he is about you.. The litmus test is if they are for Trickle Down "Economics" .If they give handouts to corporations and billionaires. If they say things like employer based "healthcare" is best... These crooks have been siphoning off our countries resources to a handful of tyrannical elitist crooks and picking the pockets of real Americans for far to long.. The wealth gap was as small as it had ever been in the USA in the late 70s. Now its levels of magnitude greater than anybody can comprehend. The numbers and the amounts of commodities are inconceivable to the human mind.. They are literally banking on it. We do the work and they take the rewards. That is exactly the situation that our forefathers fought and died to overcome in the Revolutionary War.. Now its become our nation. Wealth worship and idolatry have overtaken individuality and freedom creating an oligarchic authoritarian dystopia where for the majority of people there is no chance to better their life. We The People are living day to day let alone payday to payday. And worst of all, if you want to get ahead you are expected to give your life over to the company. This is modern slavery. Working just to work is not what America or heck human beings are meant to live like and its sure as hell not what they went to war with the King to accomplish.</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64374432020-09-18T12:33:57-06:002020-09-18T12:33:57-06:00Barr is a crook and a liar.. <p>Barr is a crook and a liar.. The super rich are all the republicans care about. If you think the wealthy want you to stay home and not spend or earn money then you are stupid. The best form of revolution that we have is to stop taking part in their BS "economy" To stop tyranny is as easy as that. Of course the republicans and corporate dems want you to go out and risk your life to keep feeding the greed of the few. This is our chance to effect real change. Dont believe the super rich and their media companies. Look to reality, not what they say but what they do. If they are for trickle down "economics". If they are for the war on "drugs". If they want to reopen before its safe, then they do not have your interests at heart. Profit over people is a losing strategy. America has let the few do whatever they want for to long. Its time to cut the tall trees and let the rest of the forest grow.</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64364222020-09-17T12:39:03-06:002020-09-17T12:39:03-06:00Trump gives the answer a sociopath gives. <p>Trump gives the answer a sociopath gives. He has no understanding of empathy. His soul concern is to fill the emptiness that is his soul. Trump should not have ever even existed. In a just society being born into wealth would not exist. He is an idiot, and all because he never had to learn. Most people have to learn whats real and whats not in order to live, but these born rich idiots are never made to push their comprehension in order to survive. Trump has lived in a candyland phony world where its "i want ......" not "i must get ..... or die" and so he never learned how to learn. With neither the drive or the necessity Trumps mind has never progressed past the base "poor me" emotional state and then in turn he is an uncaring, self pitying asshole with a sociopathic personality disorder and a very low IQ . The people vote for the candidate they relate to and since they are either stupid, liars, or both they vote for trump. Trumps ignorance endears him to the republicans. His lies help them to relate, and their racism makes them easy prey for sociopath grifters. Trump is just an example of the massive failings of our society. The wealth worship and idolatry that has become pervasive in America creates and rewards elitist crooks like Trump. Instead of rewarding hard work and having a merit base system me have oligarchs, wannabe dictators, and wealth worshiping zealots.</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64363382020-09-17T11:26:59-06:002020-09-17T11:26:59-06:00Trickle down "economics" has destroyed America.<p>Trickle down "economics" has destroyed America. The war on "drugs" took our rights and trickle down took our upward mobility.. The republican crooks have been blaming the poor while they get billions in handouts from the federal and local governments. The gap between we the people and the few is greater than ever before. Not since the futile era has the few horded so much. The truth is that very few, around 250 families own 99% + of the worlds resources. This leaves everybody else to fight over scraps. The few dont care about America or do they care about freedom or democracy. Greed is their only motivation. The lust for more power is their religion. We have been far tp permissive of their crimes for far to long. We the people need to cut the tall trees down. By not buying their junk and working for each other not for the few, and if you work for a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a giant corporation that thinks its above America and doesnt pay sh-t for taxes and just takes then you should become a saboteur. The giant companies think they are ordained by god. They they are the holy "job creators." Well a dead end job for everyone is still a dead end job. If you work just to afford to work then you are a slave. Heck most jobs dont pay enough to even be able to afford to work. What used to be a good job is now not even close. What was an entry level position is now a dead end job for life. I do pizza delivery and they actually make money off of me, like a customer. They pay around 5$ an hour but charge a delivery fee to the customers of 3.99$ so if i take 2 orders an hour they make money. Meanwhile the customer is expected to tip. Tip have plummeted since Trump took office in 2017. I went years without seeing a tip less than 2$. Ya a stiff here or there but if they tip they would tip more than 3$. Lately 1$ and 2$ TIPS ARE ALL YOU GET. I average around 15 runs a night, thats 30$ maximum a shift. In 2014 i cleared 100$+ every shift. The economy is a set up. The whole economy is there to make the few even richer and to keep we the people desperate. The elitist republican policies have created monopolies and stifled progress. They are killing America and getting rich in the process. The right is wrong!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64264832020-09-06T12:52:37-06:002020-09-06T12:52:37-06:00The super rich and their worshipers need to go the way of the Dodo..<p>The super rich and their worshipers need to go the way of the Dodo... The republicans are for the wealth gap, monopolies, and price fixing. They are for socialism as long as its for them and their owners in the "donor" class and doesnt go to we the people... The greedy few are trying to buy up everything including you and me. Its time to stop them for good. Revolt by buying local. Stop supporting their tyranny buy cutting off their government handouts. Its time the super rich paid their fair share too. Make sure to vote for people that will cut off the super rich takers. This representation without taxation for the few and taxation without representation is the rightwing republican and corporate democrat agenda.Its time to get rid of these corrupt politicians. Right or left if you work for the few its time for you to go.. We the people must vote and if the winner dosnt reflect the actual vote tally then REVOLUTION!! In almost every POTUS election ive been around for the "winner" the guy the became POTUS didnt actually win. The "electors" made the choice not we the people. But if we didnt vote there would be no numbers to prove that America is a lie. Democracy is what they sell but what ya get is a Republic. Republic means an elite group rules over the rest. Fu-ck Republics!!! The republicans refer to democracy as "mob rule", thats what they think of we the people, just a bunch of rubes in a mob. Fu-k Republics and the republicans!! We the people are no "mob" we are America. We are the ones that pay the way for the POTUS and our taxes go to the billion dollar handouts that pay for research and infrastructure the corporations use to rip us off.. Its time to see things as they are. Stop listening to their BS and judge them on the merit of their actions. Why should they be living off of profit while we the people are supposed to live off of savings during this pandemic? They make money off of our suffering and live off the work of the many yet the poor are blamed for every ill in society. The super rich take and take, more and more all the time and the rest of us have no choice in the matter other that to stop buying from them, stop working for them, and maybe start letting them know their time is up and that they should make the change before we the people make the change for them ......</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64240642020-09-03T13:32:25-06:002020-09-03T13:32:26-06:00Mrs Trump<p>She had sex for money, still does......... sad. The 1st lady is a whore... Trump should be tested for STIs and STDs.. For a "germaphobe" he sure likes dirty whores and covid19. What phonies..... Trump is a liar. Even to himself. Its very bad for the world to have someone as nutzz as trump as POTUS... Biden sucks bad but he sure aint trump, so ill be voting straight dem as always. Sure would be nice to vote for someone the represents we the people instead of the few "donor" class billionaire crooks... Oh well. Ill suck it up and vote again even though it will not make any difference. The electors will have the final say and most likely the one that gets less votes will win. Just like every other time, we the people lose. The few will get their way again and things will get worse. Yep just like always, it is going to get worse. The powerful few are going to take until we the people put a foot down and stop them. They want to operate above the law while telling you how to live, love and worship. They get to live off of profit while you are blamed for not having any money to fall back on if things get tight. trump and fam have no clue what it is to live in the real world and should have nothing to do with the lives of real people. Born rich is anathema to american ideals. The trumps of the world are not living off the merit of good lives. They are not concerned with the suffering and death they cause. The "i dont care" jacket says it all. Its that simple. They just dont care</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64207132020-08-30T14:50:54-06:002020-08-30T14:50:54-06:00"MOB RULE" Trump just said what he thinks of "we the people."<p>"MOB RULE" Trump just said what he thinks of "we the people." We are a "mob" to him. A bunch of ignorant rubes.. Trump and the elitist Republican Party hate Democracy. They hate freedom even more. Remember what Trump said about "take their guns first. worry about the law later" He will take your rights and your money. He is unconcerned with the legalities that are involved. He is a criminally insane taker. More is all he knows. Greed and the power to destroy everything are his modus operandi. The huge rightward shift America took in the 80s has made fascism hip and hate a political ideal again. Its made the idiot followers of the powers that be think that they are rebels. They've turned schools into job prep instead of institutions of learning. The right will tell you who you can love and cry about government overreach. Cry "deregulate" while they call for arrests of people for thought crimes and for being their political opponents. The rightwing is bought and sold and think they can buy and sell you and our country. Its up to us, "we the people" to make them do their jobs and represent us not just the few super rich in the "donor" class. Let them know that we are watching and if they do not shape up then "we the people" will exercise our greatest right, the right to exercise them and have a great big revolt. Get out of the personal business of the people and start looking into the business of the few that have ripped us all off. End the war on "drugs", the war on the american citizen.</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64109132020-08-16T17:14:19-06:002020-08-16T17:14:19-06:00 American schools are crap.<p>Its all thank to Reagan and his refocus of the education system on socialization instead of education. American schools are crap. They teach to do what the boss says and to not question the super rich. The educated citizen scares the powers that be. So the republicans and corporate dems refocused the education system to make people dumber so they would be easier to control. Now we are getting our reward for letting this happen. Dumb people everywhere, in all levels of our society, dumb people making decisions and ruining everything we hold dear. Wealth worshiping Christians, End of the world death cult members in public office. They want the system to fail. What a bunch of fools. Doing for the few by hurting the many. hell they are dying to send their kids off to schools that will get them sick and turn their kids into assholes...</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64108382020-08-16T15:05:26-06:002020-08-16T15:05:26-06:00 If we can join together and act then change will come fast.<p>Here in Ut we vote by mail. Every American should be able to. Republicans hate the freedoms we have. Thats why they vote against "Gay" marriage, Freedom for women to choose what happens in their own bodies, freedom of religion (that isn't christian) , Legalizing drugs, the vote. The Republicans hate. Thats their party line. Now the Democrats. Some are okay most are just Republicans. The American "Left" is about as far left as Reagan was. The so called free society here in America lacks any real choice. Its mostly a choice of what shit job to do for less money than it takes to do the job. Working just to enrich the already rich. In the late 70s America was the most even and fair economy. Now its the most polarized economy since the futile age. The top 3 own more than the bottom half of us. CEOs make 3000x their average worker. The greed that has driven every act of the American system for decades has destroyed what made America America. No amount of voting is going to fix the damage. We the people must act. It is our duty under our constitution to reign in the out of control and to be the final form of "checks and balances." America is a revolution. A constant rolling revolution. Unless we the people are willing to fail. And it sure seems that we are. We have not only allowed these super rich crooks to steal our country, some of us have worshiped the wealth and the wealthy. This culture of wealth worship has taken over our society. Idolatry and hate of the poor have turned many against themselves and their peers. This has kneecapped the populace and embolden the powerful. The ideas of community and civic responsibility have been replaced with self-centered ignorance and greed. Blaming poor folk for being poor and making others poor when its the few takers at the top that are the cause. The only thing that we have is each other. Our numbers are our power. If we can join together and act then change will come fast. If we stay divided then its over, doomed. We are the ones that will act or we have to accept that we all are to blame for allowing the few to take so much when so many are without.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64073562020-08-11T17:04:35-06:002020-10-16T16:10:30-06:00 I thought we were in the land of the free.<p>Whats wrong with spreading communist ideology? I thought we were in the land of the free.. The "freedom" we americans "hold so dear" is B.S. Thought crimes are for authoritarian regimes not free "democratic" people. McCarthy era anti-american anti-free thought republicans and centrist "democrats spread this anti-communist fear just to cover the atrocities their crony "capitalism" and to quell fears among the few super rich of wealth redistributions. They are fine with the few owning everything yet the mere mention of "socialism" would get you deported or imprisoned. All for a thought, an idea. Should we still be in this McCarthy era mindset? In Europe they have many political parties. In America there is one. The party of the few. Democrat or Republican the real differences are tiny. When it comes to freedom they have both failed "we the people".......</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/64036302020-08-06T11:17:28-06:002020-08-06T11:17:28-06:00The liars will keep lying.<p>The liars will keep lying. The corporate owned republicans and the "centrist" dems will keep things as they have been. Its time for real change. the time for the promises of the past to be filled. Freedom, equality, representation, a fair shot, a better life/world, many times the few have dangled the carrot of democracy in front of us but still we are waiting. The longer we wait the more power and wealth is concentrated it to fewer and fewer hands. The BS is thick and its time to flush. We the people must take the power of numbers and use it. The few will take and keep taking until we stop giving. Handouts to billionaires and corporations that operate above the law and are anti-american hurt every person on earth minus the few. The few, around 250 families that own everything are traitors to america and the world. They have sucked societies down causing suffering and death on a scale beyond any criminal organization. They profit off of wars then profit off of rebuilding. They also profit from both sides too. They have no loyalty to any country or religion. Greed is their only god. The wealth worshipers and yes men that do the bidding of the few are also traitors. They turn on anyone at anytime to further the will of the few. Selling out entire communities of people for a couple zeros on a computer at some bank somewhere. Not to mention the wholesale destruction of the earth and its many ecosystems. We have to act or the human race will be the most destructive and the shortest lived species to ever call this earth home...Sad</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63985002020-07-31T11:47:03-06:002020-07-31T11:47:03-06:00TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS DOESN'T WORK!!!!!<p>TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS DOESN'T WORK!!!!! Its been proven. Alan Greenspan cried in front of congress, admitting "they were wrong" and that "trickle down doesnt work" I paraphrase... It has failed and failed over and over again and again for millions of americans. The republican trickle down has made fewer people get more and more people get less. Outrageously high prices and low pay make rich people richer and poor people sicker and hungrier. The idea of a better world has been left asunder and replaced with weath worship and idolatry. The response from the republicans "they earned it" or "its the immigrants fault" disregarding the truth of the matter. People are suffering so a very small number of very rich people can be rich. All the tax money that goes straight into the bank accounts of the few is ours. The republicans and corporate dems have given hundreds of billions even trillions of dollars in tax breaks and direct handouts to the few while coronavirus burns its way through our communities. Still the senate cant do its job. The claws of the few are so deep in their scalps that the republican senators are going to leave millions of tax paying citizens to fend for themselves while them and their rich masters make a killing, in more way than one....</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63977762020-07-30T16:25:30-06:002020-07-30T16:25:30-06:00Vote for Biden???<p>I Will..... but the rest is not going to be so easy. biden sucks and always has... and just like every election, its we lose. Its just a matter of how much...anyway my vote here in Ut will not even count.. the good old E.C. has that one all wrapped up. When will we revolt? When will mankind stop the destructive rampage? We are on track to be the shortest lived species to ever "evolve"... All the while shouting how great we are and advanced our society is. That we were made in the image of god... Well thats one stupid god.... So i'll vote for a strait Democratic ticket like everyone that cares anything for freedom should but it only because biden is not the worst of the 2 ... Just like 2016. Guess what happend.....</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63956052020-07-28T12:37:07-06:002020-07-28T12:37:07-06:00Trump is an authoritarian a-shole!! Authoritarianism is for wimps.<p>Trump is an authoritarian a-shole!! Authoritarianism is for wimps.... The right is always crying deregulate while trying to regulate who you marry/love, what you eat/smoke, and what god you worship/get high in the presence of... Bill Barr enforces Trumps wants and ignores the law ... He is representing a sociopathic, narcissist, liar that does only for the greedy and powerful while killing massive amounts of american citizens. THe tax breaks and handouts the tax write offs, and the back room deals have ruined the american economy. With higher production rates than ever and wages stuck in the starve you ass off range the executives are making more that ever. The massive bonuses and exorbitant salaries combined with unprecedented waste the system is about to explode. With right wing nutz crying that the democrats want a civil war and that BLM are trying to take over the USA its becoming aware to many that they want war and suffering as long as it makes the few even more money and sures up their hold on power for a little longer. THey are a small minority and have been over counted and over represented for decades. Most people are not Democrats or Republicans. They are most definitely not down for any kind of war. Democrats are anti fascist because they are anti violence and anti authoritarian and dont want a war either. It is the flag waving, hate mongering, anti-choice, anti-life, pro-lie party that loves war and violence. They cry about the extreme left when there is none. The lefties were jailed and deported from the land of the "free" in the 50s and has never came back. The Democrats are all trickle down. law and order, small government party the republican were in the 70s-80s. They have no stomach for wealth redistribution or civil liberties. The moneyed few are running this country down like corporate raiders they selling short america and profiting off the demise of america and the freedom it embodies.... This socialism for the rich and dog eat dog for he rest is not the america of our Constitution. Crony capitalism is undermining the system and it will not take long. To survive the coming century humankind must stop with all the destruction and learn to live in peace with all of nature and begin to clean up the messes we have already made. We must also address population, the overcrowding and overpopulation that make any chance for a new better approach imposible. The wealth worship and idolatry have tricked many. The racists are doing exactly what the few super rich want and blaming other poor folk for the crimes of the super wealthy.. Beat the Rich!!!!</p>4:07Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63938202020-07-26T12:06:48-06:002020-07-26T12:06:48-06:00The rise of death treats and the right<p>0% of that hate mail and death treats are from "lefties" The rightwing elitist nutzz are prone to violence.. Elitism or republicanism imply that there are special people that are smarter and they are "deserving" or they are "ordained" to rule over us. And the way to tell if they are special is their monetary worth or perceived material worth... In other words they think the rich are supposed to be our rulers due to market forces or natural selection. But this does not take into consideration that fact that almost all the worlds resources are "owned" by the same approximate 250 families that have "owned" everything since before any of us were even alive. The rightwing works for those few and not we the people. For a republican thats fine, i guess... But it has hurt america and may even destroy it.. The super rich don't care. Their wealth will out live countries. Why wouldn't it? It was here before america. The few are only loyal to their own. Greed is their country. Their greed is what millions fight and die for. "All created equal' is what it says but what is done is much different. Idolatry and wealth worship. Racism and prideful ignorance. The closed minded backward and downright un-american way in which the republicans and corporate dems operate is going to ruin it for everyone. All for the few. That's a real shame......Sad.....All that hate and violence just to enforce the will of the few.</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63923682020-07-24T15:33:14-06:002020-07-24T15:58:42-06:00 Vote for mail should be in all the states!!!!<p>We have been voting by mail for years here in RED Utah.... Utah sucks because of all the intrusion the "Government" makes into your life but we do get to vote. Hell i didn't vote till i was in my late 30s and it was vote by mail that got me involved. I took civics and i know voting is important. Still it has never mattered who i vote for POTUS. That vote doesn't really count for most of us, thanks to the Electoral College. It is the smaller issues, the "down ballot" issues and offices that at least kind of count. Like the recent vote for "legal weed" in Utah we voted 52.7% and it passed. What happened to that? Well. HB3001. Them HB3001 turned into SB1002 is what happend. And after various lawsuits...Well, beats me..... Heck it was just for "Medical Weed" and i cant see a doctor for the immediate life threatening issues i face daily. But without that public election nobody would know that the citizens voted and the state did something else. They will know that our "elected" officials were liar for the rest of human history, and with the numbers to prove it.... So go out and vote or if your lucky mail it in. Stand and be counted. That is the smallest act in the actual act of being a member of the human race in this place we call "America"..... Vote for mail should be in all the states!!!!</p>4:54Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63910182020-07-23T12:05:36-06:002020-07-23T12:05:36-06:00The facts are kryptonite to authoritarian wimps..<p>Crime has been at historically low rates... Don't believe the fear mongering.. The fascists are always crying about how bad it is but it is just their push toward authoritarianism... We must look at the facts. The facts are kryptonite to authoritarian wimps... And thats it they are wimps.. These gun toting "patriots" are the biggest wimps posible. They love authority and hate freedom.. They don't fight tyrants they fight and die for them.. Just like the poor whites that couldn't find work due to slavery they will go to war and fight for it, even if it is against their own interests.. When so much is owned by so few and with no hope for change its time to REVOLT!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63897922020-07-22T10:55:29-06:002020-07-22T10:55:29-06:00 Ignorance is not a virtue.. Lying doesn't mean you are smart.<p>Trump is an idiot!! His followers sinners... Ignorance is not a virtue.. Lying doesn't mean you are smart. It quite the opposite.. Being born rich doesn't make you a success.. America is about to fail and its the "patriots" and people that chant "USA USA" that have destroyed it.. The idiots they cry about having to wear a mask and don't see that a mask gives us back the privacy we used to have and a lot of us have never even known.. These "patriots" talk about the 2nd amendment and tyrants a lot but when tyranny arrives they use their guns to support it not fight it.. All of us are losing while the very few are making historical gains. Never has so few had so much. Yet the "patriots" support the few and will fight and die for them. Why? We don't need the few to rule over us. "A government of by and for the people shall not disappear from this land" unless we give it away to the few like we have been doing since reaganomics and the end of the "middle class" and the death of the "american dream"..Democracy is just about to go the way of the dodo. Its been watered down and sold off but some of us still hold it dear.. The republicans call it "Mob rule" because to them "we the people" is a mob, to be feared. And in this time when most Democrats are just republican lite its hard to see the reason for taking part and voting but it must be done. Votings and civic engagement is just the beginning. We must in a government of by and for the people have to study the issues and pay close attention to our elected "leaders" and make sure they are representing our best interests and not just the interests of the few.. Being an American is an ideal its not a flag or a pledge, its not a race or a religion. It is not a class either. Being an American is being involved and not just letting the few rule over us...</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63884172020-07-21T14:15:08-06:002020-07-21T14:15:08-06:00They are trained to shoot first. To shoot on sight.. <p>They are trained to shoot first. To shoot on sight.. To unload on sight... They are told to be in fear for their lives at all times.... They are all rightwing idiot that blame the poor and think all poor folk are criminals and that all criminals need to die..... All Americans, at least all the people i've known are poor....... The cops love it, the killing the violence. They smile ear to ear when they beat someone to death....... They pat each other on the back when they kill americans........ Cops do not stop crime. They profit off it and encourage it. Heck they get off on it.. White supremacists and nazies fill their ranks.. Thieves and rapists too.. They make things worse on purpose in order to fulfill some bias or prejudice they hold.. Authoritarianism is for wimps and wimps are dangerous. We the people have to stomp out authoritarianism in all its forms right and left..... Freedom!!!</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63884112020-07-21T13:50:46-06:002020-07-21T13:50:46-06:00They are holy people and they can do no wrong..<p>Im in Ut and it sucks. Mormons are like Nazies. They think they are chosen, holy people and they can do no wrong.. They are wrong .. They don't wash their hands either.. Heck they "believe" god is a man on a planet with billions of women there to breed with...They are quick to lie and take what they want. Wealth worship and racism are pervasive.. They are homophobic sexists and a lot of them are perverts too.. Their "faith" is phony and they "believe" the lies they tell and they hate the truth and excuse undisputed facts as supernatural trickery.. Their reality is spoon fed to them by the very elite few that enslaves them.. What fools.. How destructive and hateful their lives are. Being right all the time is the first sign of being wrong. The lack of critical thinking and wisdom is held up as vertue. The human race is nearing its end and the Mormons can't wait. They are an end of the world cult and help bring the end closer any way they can. Destruction and ignorance are their values and profits for the few and blame the poor is their montra. They claim to be Pro-Life but they care nothing for any form of life. The greedy and grasping SOBs are rude too.. Why are people so easy to fool into thinking they are rite and everyone else is wrong. Ironic aint it?</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63883772020-07-21T10:12:44-06:002020-07-21T10:12:44-06:00Handcuffs instead of Handouts..<p>Bounties on the heads of your service members......... The gop are traitors!! They support the rich few and despise "we the people" They call Democracy "Mob Rule" They see us as a "mob" yet they act like mobsters. Supporting a mobster like putin that puts hits on Americans, now thats ironic. It's time to get rid of any corporatist profit over people traitors, republicans and democrats alike. Putin and the like minded authoritarians are trying to finish off freedom once and for all. Their greed is their greatest weakness and we must act against it. Stop supporting the takers. Don't work for them. Don't buy from them. Don't fight for them. These few rich SOBs are being given billions upon billions of dollars in handouts and tax breaks and any politician that supports this must be removed from public office. Anyone that received these handouts must pay us back or be punished for breaking the social contract they have with us all. We are all held to our obligations its time they are too.. The few are allowed to live with no oversight and in anonymity. They make billions off taking away privacy yet are given privacy. Living outside of the real world with no laws to follow or loyalties to give. Yet they are few and that is another big weakness to exploit. They have to buy loyalties and don't trust anyone. So we must use this to our advantage and make them feel as alone as they truly are. They only take what we give so lets stop giving it to them and make them earn it for once. Once people remember that life in all its forms is being destroyed at a rate never seen before on earth and the few are profiting from it, then maybe they will give up the wealth worship and whataboutism and look to the real criminals and stop blaming each other. Then and only then will we start being free..</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63870132020-07-18T14:46:51-06:002020-07-18T14:50:15-06:00The american way is to be anti fascist. <p>i kick the crap out of fascistas on site... The american way is to be anti fascist. the millions of people that died fighting fascism too, you hate them too? you hate the liberals that took down the robber barons? How about the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, and safe work place. You hate that too? Liberals took up arms to stop monopolies from destroying the USA. The right only support the rich tyrants with their guns. The left actually did something with theirs. They fought battles on US soil against corporate armies tasked with forcing people to work for the company store. Read a book or Google it but whatever you are going isnt working. Stop believing all the lies the media is telling. or maybe you are just a low IQ person like trump... </p>
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<p>REPLY</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63836992020-07-12T10:15:41-06:002020-07-12T10:15:41-06:00"I love the poorly educated" Trump calls them stupid and they vote for him.......<p>Ya people should put profit over the children thats the answer.. That's what a business approach to education is. Go look at the number. Counties with strong public schools have higher test scores, smarter kids, and better long term outcomes. Countries with privatized education have a lot of stupid kids and a handful of rich businessmen that take all they can for themselves. Capitalism is good for most things but Healthcare, Education, and the Mail, along with sewers, trash, and utilities are handled much better by a government of by and for the people. Now if you think the gov. is not of by and for the people then schools are the least of your worries. You should be starting a revolution.. Trying to make profit off of everything is not alway the way. Things are always much deeper than a talking point for Fox (Faux) News or CNN. Looking into things before making decisions is something a good education system would teach. Its not. Its time to beat the rich not give them more. The billions in handouts that our taxes pay should be going to education and healthcare. Instead we have trickle down economics, a failed and utterly stupid way of doing things. "I love the poorly educated" Trump calls them stupid and they vote for him.......</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63832492020-07-11T15:58:55-06:002020-07-11T15:58:55-06:00 America was not a commodity to be bought and sold<p>Been running a very small business for 10+ years and some help any help would be life changing but there is no opportunities given to people in my place (poor)....The majority of handouts go to the wealthy. The narrative is always about poor "takers" but thats all crap. Its "socialism" for the rich and surfdome(crony capitalism) for the rest. "People over profit" is treason to the wealthy and their worshipers. This county thrived for years after the great depression due to oversight of businesses and government. Making the few pay their fair share and insuring taxes were spent on "we the peoples" best interests was an intent along with helping the poor... it wasn't happening all the time everywhere but people tried. People gave their freedom and lives to the idea that America was not a commodity to be bought and sold but a group effort that everyone is crucial to and should get back a chance for a better life..</p>4:54Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63831942020-07-11T14:43:53-06:002020-07-11T14:43:53-06:00look at the graphs everyday. It is bad, real bad..<p>Go look at the graphs everyday. It is bad, real bad.. The covid19 is not going away anytime soon and the long term effects are way worse than we know. Stay home. Its time for the super rich to pay back a little. We the people need to take it from them if they will not give it back. We give them their wealth and power and can take it if they cant fill their role in a free society. When so few have so much its only going to get worse and this is just the start. Instead of doing what is good for all, the few will use this as an opportunity to take even more . We are told to earn our money and to live off savings when times are tough while the wealthy few must live off profits and if they aren't then the entire world suffers so they dont have to. We are told to blame other poor folk for the state of things. That the "takers" are bleeding the system dry. Well its true. Only the "takers" are not the poor, they are around 250 families that own everything. These elites are the true criminals. The few super rich and the cronies that make it happen are crooks. They live above laws and countries. No patriotism, only greed and lust for power. People that have no loyalty to "we the people" are in charge and need to go. With the promise of america faded and a better world no longer an option "we the people" must do our civic duty and act. To start, the wealth worship we indulge in so fanatical these days has to stop. The me above the rest attitude too must end. Only together can we succeed and thats why they push race, realigion, and countries. Dividing us and alienating us solidifies their hold on power but also gives us the true power. The power to say "bullshit." Beat the rich!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63821812020-07-10T12:50:11-06:002020-07-10T12:50:11-06:00go ahead send them off to school<p>i wouldn't send my kid to an american school for any reason ever... they don't educate them they tear them down and hurt them.. Education is the most important thing in life next to health so why would you send them to school in schools that are only going to make them into ignorant, mean, greedy little american assholes and get them sick at the same time? Well i don't have to worry since i don't have kids and will not be having any. Having kids is the worst thing you can do. I wouldn't bring a kid into this shithole and put them threw the kind of stuff i've had to endure. Beside you double your destruction of the earth. On top of that overpopulation is stupid and shows mankind for what it is, a greedy self centered, destructive species that is on track to be no only the most destructive but the shortest existence too..We will be a flash in the pan and the world will heal but nobody will ever know why.. We are idiots of the highest order that think we are great, special, made in the image of god, well that must be one stupid god. So go ahead send them off to school in the morning, roll the dice and hope not to crap out cause that is what you'll be doing. Gambling with the lives of you children. Sickness and death for we the people so the few can continue to live of profits while the many are told to suck it up and blamed for not having a savings account or rainy day fund. It is time to do what is good for all of the world and stay home. The ultimate form of revolt, stop working , stop buying, and tell the few, the super wealthy to suck it up. Heck they can afford it... I cant. I cant afford to live, get sick, die, or leave so i guess you call that slavery and most of us are in the same boat. Revolt!!</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63787742020-07-07T13:01:24-06:002020-07-07T13:01:24-06:00Big Brother is a ................<p> The authoritarian idiots need to learn a lesson. Calling the "authorities" as a threat is wrong in a "free" society. And so is mandatory minimums, the drug laws and all thought crime legislation. Freedom may not be free but freedom is supposed to be freedom. Freedom from being told how to live by crooks that trade lives for profits daily. Freedom from dead end low wage "jobs" or in other words slavery. Freedom from sickness and scam "insurance" companies that drive costs up and deny health to everyone. Freedom from religious persecution and religious zealots.. Freedom from a traitorous president that will only do for Putin not "we the people". Heck, you get the point. Well do ya? I am not so sure, but i will never force you to try or anything else for that matter. Freedom is it and we are not. Get down from your high horse and be real for a moment. We are far from free and the powers that be need a reminder just who they get that "power" from. We the people are the "power" and we need to take it back and let the few come back to earth with the rest of us or die.. The super rich few are the problem we all share and only together can we solve it. Because either we are all free or we aren't.... i would urge everyone to read Thomas Pain . Thanks and good luck</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63726552020-07-01T12:50:47-06:002020-07-01T12:50:47-06:00Police dont stop crime! <p>Police dont stop crime! They profit off it so to stop crime would shut off their funds.. Its not in the interest of the police and "justice" system to end crime therefore they create crime. The police even go as far as helping and encouraging would be criminals.. Authoritarianism is a slippery slope and the usa fell long ago during nixon and reagan and clintons war on "drugs" The death of freedom and the continuous punishment of authoritarianism have gone unnoticed by the white mid upper classes or they may just be in mass denial but it is very real to the poor. For the majority of us the unfulfilled promise of freedom and a better life have been filled with fear of the "man". being beat down, arrested, then punished for the rest of your life for B.S thought crimes like all drug laws are. It is long past time for we the people to rise up and take back what we have given. the power and wealth they enjoy from the fruit of our labor can be taken back as quickly as its was given. went the masses stop blaming themselves and look to the true source of the strife and give up the wealth worship and envy then together we will make america rise up in a new birth of freedom and all of us will be free forever. But as long as poor blame poor and the few are left to run the world in their own favor then the suffering is are own. All of it every death. Every life not lived to its full potential, we are guilty of. as long as the sick are allowed to go without and the hungry are left to starve then we all share in the bleme. And as long as we have to count on a cop or a judge to stop crime and "keep us safe" then we can never be free. Freedom is the answer. Giving everybody the chance to better their lives threw hard work and the merit of doing no harm is only realized if we the people have universal healthcare, affordable housing, and fair employment practices. The right cry for "deregulation" yet want cops to regulate your lifes, who you can mary, what you do with your body. The "left" well their really is none in the usa. They were all arrested or deported in the 50s and since the media and the rest of the system have buried all leftwing political discussion. At best we have "centrists" in our "left" or "democratic" party. Both sides love cops and authoritarianism even if their constituents do not. And "left" "right" doesn't make any difference. It is Authoritarianism that ruins either sides argument. Freedom not more policing and more laws. Give the people a chance and crime rates will fall forever...</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63713342020-06-30T11:19:39-06:002020-06-30T11:19:39-06:00Freedom is the cure for our societal ills, not more laws.<p>the stupid idea that "lefties" hate guns is getting old. the "left" are the ones that used guns to get you the 40 hour work week, safe workplace laws" child labor laws, broke up the monopolies that had formed...... the "right" has only made monopolies and created a culture where the very few rule over the many. they don't buy guns to defeat tyrants they buy guns to create them and then fight and die for the greed of the few.... no "lefty' i know is for banning guns, most are smart enough to know that to stop gun violence we need to have universal healthcare, robust background checks, and a new invigorated focus on mental health and education. We all know that most violent acts are perpetrated by desperate and disturbed people. Take away the stresses of our current "system" and make sure that every american gets what we are promised by our constitution, Freedom. Freedom is the cure for our societal ills, not more laws.This attraction to authoritarianism is going to make things much worse. Authoritarianism is never the answer and our forefathers knew it. That is what and why america is, it is an acknowledgment that mankind is capable of doing what is best for everyone, not just the few. That through checks and balances and with civilian oversight we could have a country that "we the people" could be proud of. Instead wqe get a country ran into to ground by robber barons and wealth worshiping "republicans" that predicate their entire world view on the concept that the few the rich and powerful are better than the poor. That the poor are poor because they are bad people. Blaming poor people for being poor while they too are poor. And dont forget about the phonies they call "Democrats" they also subscribe to the notion that We the people need smarter better people to think for you and protect you, in other words they are both "republicans" "democrats" more and more looking like Authoritarianism idiots... Freedom and being able to think critically are being forgotten by Americans in favor of a tribalist kind of team based vitriol. We must start to address the heart of issues before us. If we do not change things are going to and we will be left behind. We are all in this together and we will have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness or we will have suffering, tyranny, and hate..</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63684692020-06-27T11:33:59-06:002020-06-27T11:33:59-06:00"support for Joe Biden"?<p>"support for Joe Biden"? you mean support against Trump.. Trump, Biden both ways we the people lose... Beat the super rich globalist anti-americans like Trump and Biden support and try to be?.... Born rich and corrupt old insider need to move out of the way and let some real americans run for once. We the people are not represented by these elitists. They have money all over the earth and are incapable of being patriots, can you say conflict of interest? They only have allegiance to their greed and look at we the people as a mark to take for everything or as sheep to be led to the slaughter. sacrificed to feed the overfilled bellies of the few.. Wealth worship, elitism, and false idols have become the american dream. Turning our fledgling republic into a rightwing, fascist, authoritarian nightmare where the poor blame each other for their meager existence. We need massive top to bottom change and these old SOBs are not the ones to make it happen. They represent a failed america that cares not for its moral standing before the world but only cares for it financial empire and the few that reap its rewards. Putting profit over people and destroying our ecosystems for short term gains has to stop. People and the environment have to be put above the opulent lifestyles of the very few. So if we the people are going to be free to pursue happiness and human life is to continue on earth then we must do more than making a vote for the lesser of two evils that depending on your 'electors' will not even count. Revolt!!</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63452582020-06-07T06:33:28-06:002020-06-07T06:33:28-06:002nd Amendment and the "left"<p>the left and fire arms go way back. the left used guns to fight for the 40 hour work week or to get safe workplaces. i am a "liberal" and gun owner.. Liberal actually means you think people should have liberal amounts of freedom. The right has painted the "dems" as left they aren't the "dems" are rightwing too.. The true enemy is authoritarianism. The republicans and the dems have become increasingly authoritarianism.. Quit listening to the super rich and there cnn, fox, and the like. Republicans passed those evil gun laws in california in the gov. reagan years to disarm black people.. Beat the Rich.. The 250 families that own everything need to go...</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63151382020-05-13T13:10:19-06:002020-05-13T13:10:19-06:00profit over people is a call to revolt!!<p>Ignorance is evil!! Trump is ignorant as fu----!!! He only cares about money not the usa... profit over people is the way to see who is in the "swamp" If they say the "economy" is more important than not getting covid19 then they should be forever known as traitors!! If their money is more important than the lives of "we the people" then they should be removed from our society. This covid thing is so freakin serious. The 10-15% death rates are not a fair trade for the few to get rich while the rest suffer and die.. The few super rich are going to have to make it on their savings instead of ours for a while. The rich takers will have to learn to budget and to live of their money instead of profits. They are only worried about not hitting their projected future profits. One of two of the super rich could fit the bill for all of us no problem yet we are supposed to risk our health so they don't miss out on profit. |If its so important to them why dont they go out and work for it? Oh thats just it, they dont and will never work for any of it.. The super rich takers need to go...</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63091592020-05-08T11:21:25-06:002020-05-08T11:21:25-06:00I'm a "lefty" and i am pro 2nd amendment. <p>I'm a "lefty" and i am pro 2nd amendment. Education and opportunity is the way to stop violence in the USA. Hopeless, uneducated, ill people will cause problems in society, top to bottom. The rise in mass shootings parallels the changes that were made to the education system by the Reaganites. The emphasis was taken off educating and put on "socializing" instead. "Socializing" or being a yes man or good worker is more important to the Republicans because they can control dumb "well socialized" citizens than smart self motivated, proactive citizens. Mindless mass consumption is the rightwing ideology not free health living. Now as for me, I referred to myself as a "lefty" to start this off but i am not a "Stalinist or evil communist" like the bullsh-t fake "Faux" Fox News give people nightmares about. I just believe that nobody is an island and everybody is in this together. So a "social safety net" is obviously the whole point of having government and paying taxes Heck left dont mean "Authoritarian". I own a business, am ceo of it too, I am a believer in personal freedom and social responsibility. Yep, at the same time.. Our government "of, by, and for the people" has been sold out from under us. Sold to the same few super rich people that have owned most of "western" society since the before the Revolutionary War. America was formed out of a need to have opportunities in life. To be able to work towards a better life. To form a truly merit based system. In reality America "The Land if Opportunity" was a lie. The cast system is just as real here as it is everywhere. You are to work and the few are to get the rewards. Our Revolution was sold to us by the rich so they could stop paying taxes to the King. Not to give you a better life . Hell good old Ben Franklin bragged laughingly that he had tricked people into fighting and dying for fake worthless cash he himself had printed. You see the wealthy didn't care if the world was made better. Their world was just fine already. They just wanted a little bit more. A little bit more power, status, legend, money... to add to their already rich lives. And that brings me back to the beginning, the 2nd amendment. The 2nd even as a symbol is very powerful. It gives the people a mandate to oversee our government and to overthrow it if it becomes corrupted. Nobody thinks an AR15 is going to take out the U.S Army but its the mandate, the symbolism that is. Without it we are much weaker. Even if the Revolution is fought in the mind the 2nd amendment is important if its just as a threat to those that would attempt to subvert our democracy...</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63081812020-05-07T14:39:07-06:002020-05-07T14:40:42-06:00Lights inside of people???<p><strong>Injecting disinfectant </strong>!!! Holy Sh-t !! Trump is <strong>NUTZZZZZ</strong>!!!!!! Stupid as <strong>FU-KKKKK</strong>!!!!!!!!!! His <strong>BORN RICH</strong> lazy as- is antithetical to what america is suppose to be. He is "A Taker" the republicans biggest villain, "a taker" someone that takes from the USA instead of giving. The good old <strong>USA</strong>, place where everyone is equal under the law and where you can make a better life for your family. Through the merit of hard work and moral living you can be <strong>FREE</strong> to live as you deem it fit . Do no harm and none will be done to you. But buy regulating our personal lives and criminalizing some thoughts the fascist right has handicapped the people. All in order to control them and to secure their power and fill their greedy empty souls.The rightwing is wrong! The far left is misguided but they are all about "fairness, equality, and democracy." The right on the other hand, its just plain wrong.. Wealth worship is a sin and thats their entire party line.. The only other defining factor of the republican party is their hate of the left and its selfless giving message( even if its just a front ). To the rightwinger life is "survival of the fittest" when in reality what is best for all life is best for all life. When you go all in for your own you only harm yourself and everyone else.. Beat the rich!!</p>5:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/63001002020-04-30T11:44:22-06:002020-04-30T11:44:22-06:00Profit over people <p>Profit over people is a losing proposition. The super rich multi nationals like trump, biden, bloomberg, clinton, gates, and the like need to be held to account for their treason against the people. executive orders, government policies/code are not laws but you will be held to account if you dont follow one. As long as political appointees(ATF, DEA, FDA,....) can enact policies instead of elected officials passing laws (real laws the way it says in our founding documents) the "democracy" is a lie. We the people must take back the rule of law and get this country back on track. No one is above the law no matter how rich, at least thats how it should be. In reality we have people in jail for thought crimes like weed while the super rich are getting away with murder. hell rewarded for it. Greed is the thing that will destroy us all and there is no time to lose. Beat The Rich!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/62988342020-04-29T12:04:12-06:002020-04-29T12:04:12-06:00Trumps response to COVID-19<p>Wow this guy is an idiot!! Trump has to be the dumbest person on earth. His greed and stupidity are going to destroy america and maybe the world. He is a perfect example of what is wrong with the usa. He is a born rich. That is so antithetical to the american dream. He has swindled his way thru many bankruptcies and failed businesses that profited him while the rest of the people involved like THE WORKERS were left holding to fit the bill. Meanwhile "The Swamp" that is america is worse than ever. HIs "Deep State" is more entrenched and the american dream has become a Golden Cow (orange). The "Yuppie" wealth worshiping that was looked down on and laughed at has become the new norm. While we sit in our homes trying to avoid sickness and death Trump and the rest of the elitist crooks are filling their pockets and casting their reach deeper into our lives. They are passing laws to make food workers go to work no matter what and to protect your employer if you get sick. This profit for the few at any cost mentality that the republicans and the centrist democrats propagate is criminal and should be treated as such. They are traitors. Trump, Bloomberg, Biden, Mcconnell are all the same, with money invested all over the earth and no loyalty to any country. We the people have been sold a lie and we have to stop buying it. The few super rich are not ordained by god to rule over us nor are they smarter or better than the rest of us. They didn't earn it and do not deserve it. Beat the rich!!</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/62697682020-04-02T15:09:37-06:002020-04-02T15:09:37-06:00USA "healthcare" system ???<p>USA "healthcare" system = profit for the few. death, suffering, debt for we the people.. the new american dream = to see a doctor before its to late.. corona is showing the usa for what it is, a piggy bank for globalist traitors like trump and the like, red or blue if you are invested in countries other than the usa and greed is your only defining trait then you should be shunned not revered. being born rich is antithetical to the usa. most of these super rich SOBs pay more taxes to other countries then call themselves patriots. hell trump even rails on about "globalist scum" while being just that, He even admits and flaunts his elitist "philosophy" while bitching about the "elite". They love him because he lies to them and liars love him too. Its time to put an end to the wealth worship and the idolatry. Time to come back down to earth and rethink what we build up and who we look to blame for the huge inequalities and needless suffering our "advanced" society seems to propagate. When more resources are claimed by fewer and fewer and the power is consolidated to those few then our great American experiment is failing. The only answer i know is to Beat The Rich.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/62143112020-02-13T13:33:08-07:002020-02-13T13:33:08-07:00Vape or die??<p>got old i guess. first i noticed it losing charge all of the sudden and charging fast then slow then fast. it died one day so i put it on the charger and fell asleep. about 20 mins later it exploded and flew like a rocket thru the room then turned 180 degrees hit the ground, turned, exploded, and burning a long trail across the floor it ending up under the couch. since it was white hot and was igniting everything it touched, it was quite lucky i woke up at the first loud explosion of which it made three. the first. then one when it changed direction in the air and one when it hit the ground. it nearly hit me, my bassist, my cat , dog, and any of my many guitars or hell just burned down the house killing us and ending an otherwise kick ass time on earth..</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/61996212020-02-01T09:11:16-07:002020-02-01T09:11:16-07:00Fascistic rightwing corporatist wealth worshiping sinners dont care<p>Fascistic rightwing corporatist wealth worshiping sinners dont care... they hate freedom and truth. The GOP is all a front for the multi-national super rich. Trickledown economics is the GOP ripping us all off and handing it to the few super rich "donors" that own them all. The right complain about the "elite" a lot but they mean the intellectual elite "smart people". they cry about it endlessly but not the true elitist crooks. The financial elite are the "elite" that work everyday to undermine our freedoms and our profiting off the destruction of everything.. The GOP freaks out over "socialism" but hand out billions to these multi-national freedom hating criminals as they cry about welfare, healthcare, and anything that helps the poor. Trickle down is the dumbest most backwards way of doing it that even the shameless liars of the right stopped saying it. after decades of "trickledown is their to help the masses" "it will make our economy strong" to crickets . the rightwing tradition of giving handouts to the rich and then blaming the poor for being poor is a sinful anti-christian way to think but that fits the rightwing "ideology" perfectly. They were crushes in ww2 and were pushed in to the background till in the 1980s Reagan and the GOP took over their mantel and became the USA's racist authoritarian party of the super rich master race. They think that because they are rich that they are ordained by god to rule over us all. They think they are better and smarter that the rest of us. Well they are not. The rich didnt get rich by earning it. Most of the 250 or so super rich families that own 99% + of the world resources got it threw inheritance(Rothschild)| and the most of the rest got it from war(Jeff Bezos) and killing. Yep old money and arms dealers. The right try to say that its not like that and tell lies like "Bezos got rich of selling stuff on Amazon" but he didn't. The majority of his massive wealth comes from Government contracts for war. His software and tech are in all almost of the implements of war and oppression in the armies of the world. The world is vastly over populated and the next big war will be the worst ever. Way worse than ww1/ww2 and will be fought right here in the usa. The enemies of freedom and justice are already attacking and its only a matter of time before the round ups being and the oven fire up. The rightwing has been playing it low key for a while but now that brexit and trump are fully realized it will not be long before the people will have to fight and regain the freedom our forefathers fought for so many times before...</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/61916842020-01-28T10:45:00-07:002020-01-28T10:45:00-07:00GOP=traitor<p>Been watching the trail and sorry but the republicans are really bad. They are going to turn this country into an authoritarian shit hole. Well even worse of an authoritarian shit hole than it is now. The republicans push to end any individual freedoms that are left is almost complete and when they remove the last tiny restraints from the idiot trump watch as freedom of choice is gone forever. Just look at all the thought crimes the republicans cry about. Not standing for the pledge, not standing for the anthem, getting high, prostitution, burning the flag, loving someone of the same sex, the list goes on and on. Hell i cant even worship in my own way even though it harms nobody. The republicans work for the super rich elites and against we the people. And i dont mean smart people. When i say elite i mean the financial elite. You know the real criminals. The ones that are to blame for most of the societal ills,and not just rich people i dont care about a couple million. i mean billions. Billion is a number most people cant even try to wrap their heads around. Billions is to much. Its a direct showing of our failure to provide a better wold or at least country for everyone not just the few...</p>5:14Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/61723342020-01-25T07:26:54-07:002020-01-25T07:26:54-07:00just like all the rightwing fever dreams<p>your kidding? Brett is a rapist(did you pay no attention to the hearing?). the Russia thing is no hoax(didnt you read the Mueller report? its all in there). and it was trump that made this ukraine mess( havent you been watching the impeachment investigation and now trial for removal?). man look into thing stop letting the rich tell you whats is what. i have no love for the democrats either but they are a hell of a lot better than the gop. the gop doesnt hide their disdain for the average person. they are the party of wealth worship and greed. stop blaming your fellow citizens and look to the super rich and their lackeys in the gop and dem... do you get your info for fox (faux) or info wars(liars)? they are both fronts for political agenda men. just like cnn , msnbc are too you have to look deeper. its not hard and takes little time. just remember if they are getting money from above then they are fake. look for independent news that gets the money from the people.. The gop is so anti free choice in everything. Who you love. What you do with your body. what you say/do that hurts nobody(flag burning, sitting during the pledge, not wearing a suit. having any ideas that differ from the party line thats handed down from the super rich "donors" heck just look at a list of their "donors" the republicans always take way more cash from the elites. and when i say elite i do not mean smart people i mean the actual elite. the super rich think they are our betters and that its up to them to rule over us..and it aint the immigrant that writes your check and pushes down wages. they have no say in any of that. just like all the rightwing fever dreams its the super rich once again that are guilty of paying us a fraction of what they should..</p>5:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/61722632020-01-25T04:52:27-07:002020-01-25T04:52:27-07:00Trump is a globalist traitor! <p>Trump is a globalist traitor! He cares nothing for America. He said "take their guns then worry about the law" ya'll trumpers are idiots. I cant wait till we get to start the denazification and teach you all a lesson about were the power truly lies. and its not with you precious "job creators" its with we the people not the few super rich that ya'll worship. Wealth worship is a sin! So have fun burning in hell. We will be on earth feeling a different kind of burn. The healthcare is a human right burn. The living wage for a days work burn. The freedom and liberty to be yourself as long as you dont cause harm burn. The no more racist assholes running the show burn. My grandads shot nazis in ww2 and i am so envious of them. Your GOP works against your own good and you dont even know it. I say Hang them all the republicans and the corporate dems. they are traitors to the people and the people are the government not the few super rich "donors" and giant multi national corporations.. Look in to thing dont just trust the shills on faux new or cnn. and your precious info wars is like faux news just what its name implies a war on info, or in english info wars are liars. what a bunch of gullible fools. well keep sucking off your rich masters it seems to be working great....sad</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/61544202020-01-23T11:42:43-07:002020-01-23T11:42:43-07:00support a globalist con artist crook like trump <p>Fox, GOP, InfoWars are all just tools the super rich elite use to trick the stupid and get them to blame the other poor folk for the sh-thole state of things. they get their followers to support a globalist con artist crook like trump with hateful rhetoric about evil globalists...??? and if you dont think trump is a globalist then your an idiot. he has investments all over the earth. this should and would be a major issue for anyone else. i mean the conflict of interest is outrageous in its scope.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/61398112020-01-21T12:25:27-07:002020-01-21T12:25:27-07:00Wealth worship and blaming the poor<p>the gop is squashing small businesses while giving the super rich billion in handouts and tax breaks(socialism for the rich)... they suck!!! they are against everything america was supposedly about (liberty)... they hate individual freedom and have bloated the fed to gargantuan proportions to "police" the poor of the world while giving the huge multi-nationals free reign at polluting our land, air, and water. the gop is the party of the elite. not the elite that fuax news nutzz cry about. the intellectual elite(smart people) but the true crooks the true elitists are the super rich, the very few(the elite). hell there is nothing wrong with making a lot of money but billions is more than a lot when there are so many going without.. and people like trump that have money all over the globe have no loyalty to america. they are only loyal to greed. So start a boycott(cancel culture something the phonies on the right complain about) for all i care. you are only hurting yourself and the ones you love while padding the pockets of people that are working against your interests. Wealth worship and blaming the poor are sins and it the gop party line. and the way to ruin for us all...sad</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60994342020-01-14T13:00:57-07:002020-01-14T13:00:57-07:00Healthcare is a right in most of the world but not here in the USA<p>Then whats the hold up? I sure could use some medical attention before this illness i got kills me. had Obama care and it did no good, got denied.. would rather die than give another cent to the huge multi billion multi national "healthcare" insurance co.s just to get denied again...those murdering insurance profiteers and their apologist rightwing and the "centrist" phonies are working against the good of the people. They spread suffering and death by supporting the for profit "healthcare" system. And it all for the greed of the few... The progressive democrats are the only ones saying anything worth a sh-t and seem to be the only side with any ideas at all... We can only hope the voters get out on mass this time and really make the will of the people known and put an end to the worst presidency, at that worst political party in a long time, if not ever..The GOP has been shown for what it is, a bunch of greedy, unprincipled, liars, that will do anything to make the rich richer while blaming the poor for the ills of the world..The corporate so called "centrist" democrats are almost as bad and need to be replaced by real democrats not republicans that fled their party and are now subverting the democratic ideal of progress and the natural drive of the markets to diversify and advance. All to keep the few rich. The y distract and divide. Buy up and then stymie any new tech or cutting edge ideas that might change the dynamics of the market making their old ways less profitable and giving somebody else a shot to make it big..The republicans want to give the super rich handouts. They want to let them use the infrastructure but not make them pay their share of the taxes. The right will tell you that giving welfare to the poor is evil while they give billions to the few extremely wealthy "donors" that fancy themselves our betters, the elite, or the master race. Just cause your rich dont mean you are special and just cause you are poor dont mean you shouldnt be able to see a doctor.. Nearly the rest of the world has been able to make healthcare a right for decades. Its time we caught up ... Beat the Rich!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60625842020-01-05T16:06:05-07:002020-01-05T16:06:05-07:00 one kicked me with his size 14 <p>i got in fist fights with almost every teacher i had...one real big one kicked me with his size 14 .... his last day... I got a week off, nothing more..A soccer coach in 1982, a 40 year old dude, punched me in the nose at my first soccer practice. i was like 5. nothing came of it. i was knocked out and blooded all because they all started their little mormon "prayer" and i was like "what the f-ck" then like that he hit me right in the nose. knocked me off my feet. then after that i was in shock for quite a while.. The good old days. Before the current Authoritarianism of the modern age.. And i sure do miss it..The things i did back then would get you shot by SWAT nowadays..Freedom got me beat down a few times but it was worth it to live without big-brother stepping in. It just seems to me that all the awful things that keep happening are caused by the Authoritarian way we live now. Hell before columbine there was only 1 big mass shooter anyone had ever heard of, Charley Whitman or something like that. And that was in the 60s. The more our freedom is taken, Economic or social the worse our society gets.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60600902020-01-04T11:04:20-07:002020-01-04T11:04:20-07:00can you say dirty bomb?<p>Can you say dirty bomb? Iran could f-ck us up easy without nukes. American exceptionalism and the war mongering gop would have you believe differently but the truth is plain to see, just like with all the gop lies. The gop is just the tool of the war machine and is the embodiment of the greed that drives our current age..they dont even hide it.. they kill, steal, lie, and worship wealth yet claim some very extreme righteous moral superiority. they will scoff and become disgusted by the mere mention of "socialism". While the gop pushes even more welfare for the super rich thru congress. lately the gop has taken on the white is right, send them home thing mainstream and reverted to blatant racism to bolster their lying and war mongering. the multi-national super rich, the ones that own 99.9% of the worlds resources also own the gop & "corporate dems" have used their mass media subsidiaries to spread hate and fear and tricked the weak minded among us into blaming other poor folk for all the ills perceived and otherwise. The profit from war is going to destroy us all while making a very few people (that have no loyalty to any country) even richer than they are already. Every death that is made possible by our taxes, every germ bomb and nuke, every lie told to further the destruction of norms and morals is on each one of us and the souls of those that came before us. The republicans say that government doesnt work and that the "free market" will save us all and right all wrongs. they say "capitalism" has brought more people out of poverty than any other economic system. The right is wrong!!!! Government works for the most part as long as they are held accountable to the people and the people have an unobstructed view of the government . That's what our great American experiment was sold to us as. Its what so many fought and died for, and still do. Not so the few super rich globe trotting elites (trump, bezos, gates...) can horde even more wealth. And contrary to the republican "ideal" war itself is socialism. War is a social project. A job program or even a planned economy, and the worst most evil thing in the world to a republican welfare, well welfare for the super rich, they dont seem to mind that kind of welfare.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60537182019-12-31T14:41:44-07:002019-12-31T14:41:44-07:00gullible people like UFOs<p>candles in paper bags. its a very old tradition and looks, to gullible people like UFOs. Hell if they ever claim that aliens not "illegal aliens" but space aliens are "attacking" or "invading" then its a trick, part of a cold war plan that was dreamed up to get martial law instated, besides there are no galactic or intergalactic lifeforms. Time and space are much to vast to make interstellar travel nothing near worth the effort. all the grandiose alien crap is just more sleight of hand designed to distract and confuse. the real news should be that democracy died and that their are a few very rich people that are hoarding everything while billions of people suffer. Will our species ever grow up or will we be the shortest lived and most destructive species ever? The rich and powerful few are "profiting" from the death and suffering of billions and people still worship them and their "wealth" and in turn the destruction of ourselves has become their religion. Its a self for filling end of the world cult that worships wealth and power in the name of Jesus. Yep Jesus a homeless dude from a story that had strange lights in the sky too.</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60446352019-12-24T11:55:50-07:002019-12-24T11:55:50-07:00the financial elite, the true elitists and their GOP<p>GOP is the party of the elites. not the intellectual elite the financial elite the true elite.the super rich few own the gop, trump and the corporate dems. They also own Faux News, cnn, msnbc and all big media corps. The republicans would like you to blame poor people for being poor but its obviously just another gop lie. the few super rich multinationals that the gop worships are the true crooks. They have taken more than our money. they have taken our freedom. freedom isn't free and when you cant afford it then you are a slave. If you work just to afford to work then you are a slave. profits are at all time highs but wages are stuck in the 1970s. Then there is Trump. Born rich authoritarian idiots should never be in public office. The master race mentality is prevalent in the gop. the idea that rich equals better than, smarter than, and more deserved. This worship the wealthy and blame the poor philosophy is part and parcel of their phony scheme to convince poor folk to fight and even die to protect and further enrich the few. How Much longer will we the people take to act? When the mass arrests of trumps "deep state investigation" into "corruption" start will the people do nothing? When the temperature rises and the earth starts to fight back will we change or will we kill her outright? The Human race is on track to be the shortest lived species to ever walk the earth and that might be the one thing that sets us apart, makes us special.To go extinct faster than any other form of life must be our goal as a species. Oh ya and to take as many with us as we go......</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60427672019-12-23T15:43:32-07:002019-12-23T15:43:32-07:00The End of Trump<p>yep. the mass arrests are about to begin. the rich global elites(not the smart people, the actual elites) are taking over, no more half baked democracy just Trump doing for the benefit of russian oligarchs and being putins lap dog.. The dark money that pours into the GOP has turned american "greed is good" republican ideology against it self and turned good old american wealth worshiping into a very powerful russian weapon. With the corporate democrats running the so called "left" and spending millions on squashing the progressive wing of the party and making the "2" party system is no longer the "democratic" government of by and for the people. With productivity at all time highs, profit margins rocketing to the stratosphere, and ceo pay at thousands of %s higher the worker is still working just to afford to work and thats called slavery. When 4-5 people are "worth" more than the billions of the rest of us the system has failed. This experiment in self governance failed years and years ago. Our personal freedoms lost little by ;little to the extreme expense of just survival. With no time or funds to be free and millions of petty laws to navigate. No more american dream just an endless nightmare of unpaid bills and unaddressed illnesses. Why is it that billions in welfare is doled out every year to giant companies and super rich people that have no need for countries and pay no taxes yet its some kind of sin or the end of the world to give food to the hungry or to put a roof over the heads of the homeless? What kind of backwards philosophy would drive you to put people even kids in jail indefinitely for a class b misdemeanor? This Authoritarian POTUS is the biggest wimp and so dumb he couldn't tell shit from a whole in the ground has shown the religious right for the wealth worshiping idolitors that they have always been. We can get rid of Trump and the other greedy old men but is the usa doesn't come to grips with its fascist tendencies then it will solve nothing and the world will burn on...</p>3:12Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60384302019-12-21T13:02:48-07:002019-12-21T13:02:48-07:00"conservative beliefs"?<p>"conservative beliefs"? whats that, greed, racism, blame the poor, rich get richer, what the hell do you mean beliefs? they care nothing for truth or facts they vote for republicans without knowing anything about these so called beliefs.. what is the republican philosophy? no big gov.? cause they spend more and balloon the fed bigger and bigger. much bigger than any dem.. i imagine their "conservative beliefs" are like their "belief" in christianity and they sure as shit do not follow any of what jesus said.. they don't "believe in anything except greed and fear... their beliefs are all lies and they don't care. they revel in their ignorance and despise anyone they "think" is smarter than them.. their "faith" is a fraud... and meanwhile the super rich are getting richer and our nation infrastructure falls further into disrepair. Beat the Rich!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60378962019-12-21T05:44:16-07:002019-12-21T05:44:16-07:00read bernies healthcare bill.<p>read bernies healthcare bill. they only call it medicare 4 all because thats the closest thing to it or the easiest thing to call it. its really more like what canada has...and ask a canadian how he feels about healthcare..they love it..don't trust the billionaires that own the "healthcare" system or their media co.s to tell you whats up.. look deeper.. look into things and you'll find the rich pricks, really rich pricks are the only ones benefiting from the "progress" we have all worked so hard for.. the GOP does only for the super rich. they try to rationalize it by saying that it creates opportunity but it doesn't.. any politician that takes money from billionaires is no good... have you even looked deeper than faux news into "your" party? and that map you have up is a great map of the gerrymandering and the inequality in our vote. hell my vote doesn't even count, i still do it but...... did you know that in the land of the free they arrested hundreds and deported thousands of so call "communists" over the last 1/2 of the 20th century? and why is it ok for the gop to give billions in welfare to the super rich but not give anything to the poor? wages has feel far behind the record profits. ceo used to make 50-300x the average worker. now the ceo make up to 5000x, some get 20000 and hour and more. and they didnt earn it..Beat the Rich!!</p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60289642019-12-18T11:20:35-07:002019-12-18T11:20:35-07:00Remove Trump!!!<p>Impeachment will pass, but that means nothing. The senate will bend over for trump so of course they will not remove the crook no matter what crimes he commits. If they actually cared about law and order or the constitution they wouldn't be rightwing authoritarians in the first place. Because of being impeached his worshipers will be so hurt. But that's about it. I mean he is their golden cow, well orange cow. That's right, sinners, everyone of them. Trump followers are full of themselves and full of sh-t. They are liars and the hate freedom, and just like all authoritarians they are pussies... only the biggest of pussies needs authoritarian rule. In "dealing" with their fear filled delusions the rightwing nutzz will blame and deflect but will never come up with any answers, any ideas to make the society better. Then while claiming patriotism they sell their loyalty to multinational corporations and the globalists , like trump and trump co. They also claim to be more righteous and more moral but their "philosophy" is anti-thought, anti-reality, and anti-fact. It is "bases" on whatever lies their super rich masters tell them and deep down they know it. You see freedom is for real, backbone sporting human beings not the spineless yes men that are the GOP and the corporate dems too. The wealth worshipers on the right are all going to burn in hell...and so are the super rich elites that are ruining this world for a few more dollars. And if we don't stop them they will burn the world too..... Beat the rich!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60275962019-12-17T15:57:48-07:002019-12-17T15:59:41-07:00Trump is an idiot!!<p>25th amendment!! this guy is nutzzz. trump is treasonous!! he is destroying everything that was fought and died for by all american soldiers .. the authoritarian republican party is against the people and for greed not freedom... and trump is more than stupid he is mentally stunted not just his intellect but all his brain functions are. On top of that the idea that anyone would follow or believe this bumbling buffoon is insane. he is the worst most transparent liar ever . trump is proof that the american way of building up the wealthy is wrong. having rich kids is almost guaranteed to lead to stupid adults after being kowtowed to and worshipped by so many. What an idiot Trump is. How bad will things get before the traitorous GOP will rein him in? The greed of the few is about to destroy all the gains of the last 200 years... And trump is the end for freedom and the american way.. His greed and lust for power will be the final straw that will break all of our backs..............</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60191992019-12-14T10:50:46-07:002019-12-14T11:09:15-07:00Deep State. Is this the end of democracy?<p>Trumps "deep state" "investigation" is about to be acted on.. The mass arrest of anybody Trump doesn't like. This will be the "end of corruption" according to Barr and Trump. But it will just be the death of our democracy. Or atleast the supposed democracy. The truth is that this country failed the people back in the 70s. Yep, the war on "drugs" was the end of of freedom and the American way. The feds had been given the power to search and seize or frame and intrap we the people. Since then we the people have been jailed and then punished for rest of our lives for nonviolent "crimes" thought "crimes". Punishing these citizens that were only taking part in the worlds first and only true religion, Sex, Drugs, and Music. So will Trump destroy our democracy? No, it was destroyed years ago... Beat the Rich!!</p>
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"Turn The Tide"</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/60018202019-12-10T10:26:31-07:002019-12-10T10:32:16-07:00the impeachment is going to fail....<p>the idiots on the right will never understand these charges. they dont get these high minded ideals.. the republicans have no concept of accountability , truth, or any of the deeper things like knowing the difference between a sh-t and a hole in the ground.. heck they dont even know what truth or facts are..they even think we "believe" this media corp. because they "believe" fox corp. and the 24 hour corporate commercial they run. the real dumb ones even thought a spoiled born rich a-shole like trump was going to "make america great again". what did they think it was then? so impeachment is a farce. the dems know that the republicans dont understand the weightier things. that means the dems are trying to lose.just like in 2016 the dems are trying, on purpose, to lose. when the right got so immoral and crazy a few member quit and had nowhere to go. they have joined the "left" and subverted it, maybe? or, since they are bought and paid for by the same donors then just maybe those "donation" are effectring policy? either way the "political" spectrum is not well represented in the usa. after the mass arrests and deportations of the past its no wonder the right has become the only "mainstream" way to be..the closest thing we even have to real "communists" are "progressives" and they are all pretty sold on capitalism and dont want to meddle in markets or do a "planned" society..how many laws have to be broken before they "equal" branch of gov. will act in good faith to rein in this wannabe despot before he becomes a real one?</p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59901682019-12-03T10:59:42-07:002019-12-05T15:09:11-07:00Barr needs to be removed before he does something real dumb.<p>Trump and Barr are planning to arrest all trumps detractors in congress and in the media. The "deep state" is all an excuse for Trumps "anti corruption" investigation. Barr has been traveling the world looking for anyone that will say what Trump wants. Offering "favors" for "info". Of Course that mean cash for lies. Their big plan to arrest Trumps "enemies" is about to come to it fruition. With very sketchy "informants" and questionable "proof" Barrs "Justice" system is about to undertake the most far reaching "corruption" investigation in our short history. It may sound far fetched, like it couldn't happen here but extra judiciary killings and kangaroo courts are how Trump wants his "justice" system to function. He cares nothing for the "rule of law". He only want to rule. The "Impeachment" and all the "investigations" into Trump and all the people that are still interested in freedom and democracy are doing the least, at least . The least will not be enough. While the corporate dems and the republicans try to reinforce the status quo Trump and Barr are about to act . The whole thing, our "democratic" experiment is about to fail and the consequences will be dire. If things are left to stay the same and Trump is not held to account for his many crimes. If the wealthy get to live above to law while the people are punished for their entire lives over the most inconsequential of "crimes" or just for being poor. Then we have failed. So when Trump is let off and then rounds up all his political rivals and start jailing reporters that he doesn't like. Remember that its our fault.Its our fault for not acting when our government broke the law. Like when Nixon started the "drug" war or when Bush got us in war with Iraq over phony WMDs. Then their was Trump. Let me tell you the worst is yet to come. Our country is on the edge all could be pushed over in an instant. The fate of our Freedom is at stake.</p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59855662019-11-30T11:14:46-07:002019-11-30T11:14:46-07:00this is going wrong, all wrong<p>kids in cages, millions of nonviolent "offenders" in jail and then they will be punished for the rest of their lives, wealthy criminals that cause millions of deaths are rewarded not punished, the poor being targeted by police for the most trivial "crimes" like jaywalking, failure to pay fines or show up in court, or thought crimes like getting high. or trying to control a woman's right to choose. this is what authoritarianism looks like. get the government out of the personal business of "we the people". it should be keeping the super rich inline not telling the poor how to live their lives. the rightwing is authoritarianism , no if ands or buts. They are an authoritarian/anarchist bunch that thinks government cant work yet want strict policing and an overreaching "legal system", and a giant military/military industrial complex. the right has grown the government many levels of magnitude greater than the "left" in this country would ever dream of. then their is the corporate democrats. they are just rightwing lite. owned by the same super rich "donors" that own the republicans. the real "left" just wants to give everyone a fair shake. the "left" don't care what you do in your personal life. they only get involved if you are hurting someone or causing general problems that effect us all. the right wants to tell you how to live your life down to the smallest act. they want to tell you who you can love and how you can show it. the right is also the party that fought for the big tobacco companies and helped to keep seat belts out of cars for decades while millions suffered and died. the right is also the party of child labor and unsafe working conditions. oh and dont forget the corporate armies that would enforce the "employers" wants, with violence. the only thing, the one "thought", or "ideal" the right actually believes in is greed.the one thing they act on everytime is greed. anything to make the super rich few in the "donor" class even richer is their party line. from lead in the air and water to phen phen and thalidomide their greed is destroying everything good in exchange for a number in someone's bank account. Beat The Rich!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59772622019-11-26T08:36:23-07:002019-11-26T12:45:00-07:00the impeachment is a joke and trump has to go!<p>The impeachment is the Dems to lose, and they will. Its all a trick. The wealthy are playing us all. The rich own both political parties and trump too. the rich are "above the law" so don't fall for this tripe. the wealthy have become a kind of royalty untouched by the world "we the people" live in. they can commit huge scams and defraud people from 100s of millions of their hard EARNED dollars then they pay a couple million dollar "fine" if they get "caught" they make a profit. then like magic no criminal record. no life long punishment. no inability to find a job. no background checking landlords or years of government babysitters barging in on every part of your life with more jail time in their back pocket to threaten you with. hell its probably a tax right off. and how they are worshiped by the "lower" classes. fawned over by millions of confuzed unaware peasants. and as the numbers of people grows faster and faster the wealthy masters fear grows too. will the masses act in their own interest? will they act against the owners, the few? has the time come again for "revolution"? and how to get ahead of it. Beat The Rich!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59736102019-11-25T13:13:21-07:002019-11-25T13:13:21-07:00the gop brings on the end<p>the trump administration a is about to play its hand. they will arrest anyone the disagrees with them. anyone that has wanted their to be any limits to trumps power. anyone that has looked into any of his many criminal enterprises. anybody that wrote anything he didn't like in the press. they will call it corruption, the deep state, treason. when given power se people cant give it up and this seems to be the case with trump. he has been willing his entire life to break laws, hurt people, and do basically anything to gain power over other people. so just you wait and see, trump will do it all. he will go full dictator and the gop is fine with it. the gop has been signaling their willingness to bow to king trump for a couple years now and i am sure trump has heard them loud and clear. the election of trump will be the final straw in the destruction and great reformation of the usa for better or worse. probably worse, much worse.. Beat the Rich!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59687382019-11-21T16:35:33-07:002019-11-21T16:37:11-07:002020 is the most important election in years<p>Warren or Bernie are the winners. what are all those other ones doing up there? Man if Warren and Bernie joined there campaigns (Sanders/Warren or Warren/Sanders) they would be unstoppable. So if that doesn't happen then the dems have to be trying to lose just like 2016. Medicare for all is a no brainer. Of Course M4A is the way forward. Its cheaper with better outcomes. Green New Deal too. The Greedy SOB's in the GOP will destroy everything in the pursuit of wealth. There is 1 more thing. Biden. Man that dude is so old. He is out of it and out of touch. Just remember who owns the media, the GOP, the Corporate Dems, and the POTUS. The very few super rich crooks that our country has become so enamored of. While the few live it up the many suffer indefinitely with no way to better their lives. Yet still the masses worship wealth and the wealthy. While claiming the Christ they bow before their golden cow(orange anyway). all week long worshiping Trump and blaming the poor then going to their christian church services on sunday. Its time for progress. Lets make the "Yuppies" a thing of the past. Lets take a stand and make the change. lets give everyone a chance to live upto the full potential of their lives.</p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59647642019-11-18T15:30:55-07:002019-11-18T15:30:55-07:00Mass Shootings are the Norm?<p>Everyday it seems there is another mass murder or a truck driven threw a crowd by some lonely rightwing 20 some odd year old. Why? It seem to be a hugh failing in many aspects of our community. First the Healthcare/Mental health industries. second the education system. and also the economics we are subject to. To top it all off the legal system or as i call it the injustice system. We must fix the healthcare system, end the drug war, and invest in the schools and then you will see this abhorrent trend end.. All the mass violence is an acute symptom of the gop's policies, or lack of policies. The thin "philosophy" the right claims to follow only consists of a few lies and nothing more than one liners and rehersed talking pionts. There is the old "no big government" thing over and over while they have bloated the fed more than the left would ever even dare to quietly imagine. The old deregulation mantra whilke they want to rule over your love life and who gets to pay for their wars. The anti-poor folk down with welfare tripe, while the right spends more money and gives out more handouts to the wealth few. How about the evil socialism rants the rightwingers love so much, but meanwhile the republicans love socialism for the rich. Yet welfare is a sin in their eyes. Our country is being destroyed by a very small number of super rich crooks that need to be held to account for the death and suffering that has made them rich. The greed of the few threatens to harm us all..BEAT THE RICH</p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59602522019-11-14T07:52:58-07:002019-11-14T07:52:58-07:00The "legal" system is a joke...<p>what the bidens did was wrong.. what the trumps dso is also wrong.. its time for the out of control rich to come back to reality and to live under the law, the same law the poor are beaten and killed over. a poor person will be punished for life, even though its against the" bill of rights" for the slightest of "offence". to jaywalk or run a stop sign and you are going to be made to pay and if you cant you will be in jail. yet when a "rich" person like a clinton or trump commits fraud "as in trump university" or lying to congress like clinton (both)they are let off with a profit and no "criminal" record. trump u was a massive fraud and trump was "punished" he paid a small percent of the money he stole then he was made potus. if you did that you woulds be in the pen. this country has moved to the right and a the wealth worship has become mainstream. while the rich screw the masses the masses apologize for, protect and kill for, and worship their rich masters. the human race will be the shortest lived species to ever exist at all, and we think we are special or even smart.... ha ha ha what a laugh</p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/59556582019-11-10T04:57:06-07:002022-05-17T12:40:13-06:00Hell on earth...<p>a choice? god i wish i had some of those. i have lived in a rightwing authoritarian hell for 40+. surrounded by people that want to rule over all. who are better than, yet miserable,they hate freedom and squash it wherever they find it. they hate love and deny it to those they do not understand.. if i could afford to leave, man, ide get out of here so quick your head would spin. but i cant afford to live here let alone leave. when you are the other you are f-cked and there is no choice involved. at least in this rightwing mecca. what a bunch of hate filled perverts these republican puritans are. these super "religious" "christians" are full of it. what a thin "philosophy" they claim to embrace. the lack of thought that they claim has so much wisdom. the revelry in their own ignorance, not even giving it a second thought. lair and perverts. chilid molesting racist and still "beter than", well, according to them. sabotaging the other while claiming the christ. my advise is to go to iran and see how you get along when you are the other. and all the while doing for the few, the couple hundred super rich, the slave masters. turning out their brothers, their fellow poor folk. blaming the immigrant for low wages like the immigrant signed their tiny pay checks. with their nose so far up their bosses ass they can"t see the forest for the trees. anyway the human race is on track to be thew shortest lived and most destructive animal nature ever cam up with, and we think we are so special...ha ha ha what a laugh... And push the download button and get our new single!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/56730052019-03-07T21:32:26-07:002019-11-10T05:15:50-07:00The media is a joke<p>the idea that you cant indict a president is not law its policy. you can legally go after a sitting president. don't listen to these wealth worshiping right leaning peons... we do our jobs without having to have immunity from the law, what the he-l is the potus doing at work? its time to end this charade. the whole world is owned by like 250 families and the talking heads are theirs. we don't want Biden, or any other "centrist". we want a chance to better our lives. the rich are destroying the world for profit and no one profits when there is no world. so the stupid rich f-cks and the wealth worshiping right are going to have to go. vote progressive and get money out of politics, that's the first step. the rest come a lot easier. And push the download button and get our new single!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/55929442019-01-12T11:35:18-07:002019-11-10T05:15:38-07:00Rightwing Crazies in the Republican and Democratic Parties...<p>I was watching YouTube and was inspired to reflect on WW2 and the "Anti" "Antifa" movement. And I say movement cause its crap. The whole USA is "Antifa" Antifascist is a good thing. No room for rich people that get billions in welfare while people go without. No room for rich worshiping, no room for blaming other poor folk for the crimes of the rich. no room for "pro-lifers" that care not for life in any from, no room for greedy grasping old men that profit from the destruction of the earth, no room for religious fanatics that commit every kind of sin in the name of Jesus Christ, no room for cronies that do anything for scraps from the rich, no room for people that profit from sickness, no room for self-hating poor people that act against their own interests, no room for puritanical taboos that turn people into deviants, no room for Russians in the Whitehouse..... The right is wrong.... Fascism, Authoritarianism, and all the freedom hating "ideals" are antithetical to the USA. Freedom is the answer, Freedom to think, to learn, to chose, to hear, to see, to live, to make mistakes, to change, to better your situation in life. All these things the right actively tries to take from everyone, except their rich masters. The time is now. Look into things, question the "powers that be." Let return freedom to the Americas. End the Drug War that's killing 10000s, trampling our freedoms, and destroying Latin America, all while they profit off both ends. Lets let reason and logic rule and use our brains no our guts. Guts are full of shit. Just like the rightwing crazies in the Republican and Democratic Parties. And push the download button and get our new single!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/55822762019-01-05T10:45:06-07:002019-11-10T05:15:16-07:00Been a while..<p>Still at it, living the dream.... Just in as much need as always. I work harder than anyone I've ever seen. I've had more jobs than you can imagine, for less money that you can shake a stick at(5$-12$ gross per hour take home is around half of that, no joke). Doing all kinds of things. From the Burn Plant where I burned body parts, organs, fetuses, road kill. To the factory floor pushing a button over and over. Been the CEO of a Corp. Worked 1 day at a meat packing plant, yuck that was almost as bad as the burn plant. Done concrete, stucco, sliding, framing, finish carpentry, digging diches, jetting sewers, jack hammered for a summer, pizza driver, ran a few kitchens, fry cook, dish washer, trash sorting, ran a warehouse, Been a prepper/picker/staging at a warehouse, flipped burgers at all the big fast food joints. remodeling, demolition.... And lot more. I've done it all, and always end up screwed. I am still happy and loving life but all the bill collectors seem bummed out.. Well I've got millions to make and a world to see so I am asking for a little Help. Anything anyone can think of? Well there is the band "Sal'tripin" with is the thing I have done the whole time and its the thing I am best at, even maybe "good" at. There are other things like "Sal-tripin llc" that is my musical passion combined with as much capitalism as I can pull off, and its been good and its got potential to be huge if the right people get involved. I've also been killing the stock market but with no buying power I am stuck earning dollars instead of hundreds of dollars. Anyone that knows me knows I don't mess around. I haven't lowered my ideals and I worked for the little I have. I don't want to end up old and broke but I am sure I would still be happy. I just don't think my potential is being tapped by the greater society. I just want what everyone else wants, to earn a living, less suffering, to be treated half decent, and to do no harm. And push the download button and get our new single!!!</p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/39183962015-11-07T10:35:36-07:002019-11-10T05:14:53-07:00What the H-LL<p><span class="font_large">What does it take to get people out , off their asses and to a show? We spend money on adds and nobody shows up. Sure we get 1000's of fans online, and there is always traffic on our site. But where are the real people? Where are all the bodies in the crowd, i remember from not to long ago? Comparatively we get heard ton more by a considerably larger numbers of people. Just not live. Should we advertise naked girls or free stuff? What does it take to get the people back out and fully alive? How did we get so cut of from each other? You know the part in "Dgango Unchained" were he says" Y'all want to see something" then he shoots the white slaver. Well that is what i feel like "Y'all wanta see somethin?" Well then come out and see us, Sal'tripin live! But if its impossible , and you are on the other side of the planet. Then go to our site or Google us, Sal'tripin, and see something real for once in your life.....And push the download button and get our new single!!!</span></p>4:18Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/39062972015-10-30T14:24:39-06:002015-10-30T14:24:39-06:00Come on!!<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 26pt">Wow am I ever sick of puritanical, fascist, right wingers that are fat and miserable telling me I am evil. Do they know how dumb they look? Have they forgotten why we fought the 2</font><sup><font style="font-size: 26pt">nd</font></sup><font style="font-size: 26pt"> world war? </font><font style="font-size: 26pt"><i> I know that they are a minority and its just the media blowing them up to look bigger than they are just to help control the people and hold on to the power that gives them so much pleasure. But still, how can anyone think that the rich are going to do the right thing, or that your community is your enemy? We all want pretty much the same thing. To live out our lives in as happy and non stressful manner as possible. So why all the hate? Hate takes to much effort. It will eat up you life. For hundreds if not thousands of years we have known better. Yet here we Are as separate and downtrodden as ever. We should be able to look back into history and learn but for some reason we don’t. Never again was what they said. What happened? End the war on the human spirit.</i></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/39024672015-10-18T10:32:37-06:002015-10-18T10:32:37-06:00Wow!! That's how it is done!!<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="6"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">We are always looking for reasons. Reasons for this life and the hope that goes with it. As long as things make sense everything is O.K but as soon as something unexplained comes up we go head over heals. Fear of the things we don't understand can drive us to some very crazy ends. When all of us want the same basic things, yet separated by our views we are left to struggle through alone. When we come to a fork in the road we are most likely to take the familiar rout. When a fork in the road is the difference between life and death, then what do we do? Will the path be recognizable? How do you know the way forward is not the short path to a terrible end? How is it that political/religious convictions can be so narrow? When most will gladly fight (kill/die) for them, but never take the time to study/question, learn/discover their precious beliefs (Faith). Faith is not blind obedience. It is trusting your and your philosophy enough to truly understand it. Other wise your "Faith" is just ignorance. </font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37872872015-07-22T12:53:43-06:002017-01-15T17:00:19-07:00Imagine all the .........<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.27in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="DejaVu Serif, serif"><font style="font-size: 22pt"><span style="background: transparent"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/cd810c5aab89e6ad68d3e008e61d2949b9f1b11f/medium/7billions.jpg?1437591197" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Pride breeds prejudice and the whole idea of race is crap. We no mater what we think we are, are not a race or creed we are people. The reality is that we are all mixed up figuratively and genetically. So if been pure, like the Nazis claimed to be is a myth, a "pure" race is bull. Their is no such thing and it is an impossibility. A large and diverse gene pool is what is best so the "pure" race would end up inbred. I grew up in Ut. and there were some down the street, they were all messed up. Every time i hear people boast about their race or their righteousness i think of those poor kids. If you think you are special or righteous or whatever then your are not. Being right is the first step to being wrong. Humility, empathy, understanding, and giving are not righteous acts there are just everyday life. Being a good person does not make you any better a person in the big picture. 7 billion good people on the other hand. Imagine as John Lennon put it. Wow how would that be? 7 billion good people? </span></font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37795342015-07-15T21:15:33-06:002017-01-15T17:00:19-07:00Hard Work in the Name of Love<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Andalus"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/23dbf792bd0c82f4b02db2443832071165c4d68e/medium/willworkforloveshirt.png?1437016509" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Working for ones self if the most rewarding way to go, but it is way more work. Stressing on something you love can be a very good, healthy way to make or help make a living. I have studied for 30+ years and still have so much to learn, and even more to say. I try to do that threw my music mostly. I still love to write any chance i get. I know i am probably being quite redundant but still i hope there is some worth in what i do. Seeing as I don’t expect to much. And have been doing this for years, and know pretty well what music is worth to some. Still i will never give up on the dream. It comes true a little everyday. I hope your day is full and prey your dream are still alive. Fore I know without dreams i would have nothing........ </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37686092015-07-07T10:57:59-06:002017-01-15T17:00:19-07:00The Trip..........<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/d6a8788748c68024c11de5f4e7039680a99db889/medium/goals1.jpg?1436288244" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />The world is full of apathetic, depressed, and just plain down and out people. Some are victims, others are not. Some feel entitled, some don’t. But they are all going nowhere. Being stagnate is one of the most toxic and destructive behaviors we have. Some fall into a deep depression and feel that there is way out. The way is the way out. Just having a purpose and actively trying to achieve that purpose can be a major lift and can make you feel much better. Having goals helps but it is in the attainment of those goals and the hours of work involved. Reaching for the stars can leave you disappointed some keep your feet on the ground. Keep your dreams alive and never give up. The world will not give you a free ride and it will be a lot of work. You may need help. Nothing wrong with that. Most great things take many people to make them a reality. It all starts with someones idea. Making ideas into reality is just like making a good, happy life and no one is incapable. </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37675492015-07-06T15:52:58-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00A love that lasts a lifetime <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/5c55e9301a5a566d8e396df71885ae858fb5ee34/medium/patposter.jpg?1436219535" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />How many people do you know that are doing what their set out to do when they first became aware. I played football and other sports as a kid but the guitar was there first. The guitar and music were my first real interest outside the normal spiritual ans physical act of living. I was very interested in nature before I was even 1 year old I was already conversing about the way that everything is connected, related to all else, everything that is and will be. But music was the first intellectual pursuit, and it started when I was 2 or 3 when I remember listening to music and seeing my dad “Pat Sr” play guitar and sing. I began to emulate him and the radio by strumming guitars or any stringed interment, or tennis racquet. I got my first guitar(a 53 Fender Musicmaster) around 1<sup>st</sup> grade, it was love at first sight. Playing on the other hand, now that was hard work. Hours and hours became years and years became decades, and still it is tough. There is always more to learn. At one point it becomes not what you can and cant play, it changes into play it good, whatever it is, play it good. The stress of being something, some guitar god melted away and the truth was clear. Music is the highest high and the lowest low, it is the rhythms and sounds of life, its the way I express myself the best, its the thing that makes my world go round. Thank you for everything you do for me. I hope I will do right by you. You save my life everyday. I love you, Music........</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37663022015-07-05T14:02:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00What do you think?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/836ca03d0b1179243a2057c35b814967de5cead7/medium/ideas-zps2fde4634.jpeg?1436126492" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Where does this great and ever widening disdain for original thought come from? Why are people so resistant toward anything different? Change is and will be the one thing you can count on. Even if its just varying degrees of the same it is still change. To hold on to some imaginary view of the past and to blindly ignore and subvert change and true progress is one of our most destructive tendencies. If you close you eye's and ears, and pretend everything is alright the world still goes on and the pain and suffering grow, and the movement towards change is short one more soul.. one more person that could be helping instead of being part of the problem. Just cause you arent personally burning the rain forest, dumping oil in the gulf, or fracturing the bed rock beneath our feet, if you haven’t cut your ties to the destruction then you are just as culpable. So that is well, all of us. Its original thought that will save us from ruin. The idea's that will make the difference are often “brushed under the rug” by the powers that be. Suppressing idea's , tech, meds, all kind of avenues we could have taken to end the all the suffering and put an end to the rape of the planet. Cures are not where the money is. The money is in treatment. So they go on treating instead of curing to make a buck. Just like the electric car. The suppression of the vapor cigarette is one that is very close to my chest. I smoked for 20 years then quit no problem by using vapor. It took a month of so of using the vapor and that was it, no more nicotine, smoke or vapor. Looking back I know that I would have quit smoking year back if I had vapor as an option. Opening up to new ideas can be tough for some, but if it is let me tell you,”its worth the risk. Think for yourself.” Thanks again: Sal'tripin </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37656332015-07-04T14:09:46-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00Happy 4th<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/3ad682b2d9d6c2df44c47dae99dd844197cdc012/medium/fireworks-rainbowtwostar.jpg?1436040550" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />How would it be to have the kind of great, huge publicity machines like they use in elections and for big movies? When hype is all that makes or breaks you, money is king and without money you are in for a fight. The work load it takes to live in this greed driven economy is hard as is. You know. Everyone does. Add in the expenses that go along with trying to make music. Now try and get the music heard, heard by as many people as possible, Millions.. Well that’s what I am trying to accomplish, with very little money. The numbers continue to grow and new fans are signing up to the mailing lists. The constant specter of financial ruin ever looms above my head. But money is not why I do it and it does very little to discourage me likewise. The fans have been most gracious and just that is enough to keep me going. So as always you are the reason I, we, Sal'tripin keep up the fight to keep on rockin' and rollin' . Thank you and HAPPY Independence Day from Sal'tripin, a truly Independent Band.....</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37647492015-07-03T12:17:30-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00Know You Bedfellows <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 22pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/ee8e4d19c4ddd463f840ec8e7607d8a882255cad/medium/benito-mussolini.jpg?1435947414" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Examples of right wing values and policies can be observed in history, Fascists and Nazis, Muslim extremists, the Taliban, Saddam, Saudi Arabia. The right wing also can claim Pinochet, Noriega, and even Gaddafi. You may hear Fox news and other right mouthpieces shouting about how bad some on this list are yet threw policies and dogma they share so many ideas. And beyond idea's they Republicans have supported many of the worlds worst organizations with money, arms, and even boots on the ground and training/combat observers. So the next time you hear Ted Cruz or some other rightist talking head say how evil ISIS or whomever is, just keep in mind who shares their right wing political ideals. </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37633962015-07-02T10:49:50-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00Yeah Right....<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/ee0fdbf1982249ef79f28b3707e5664d6ca99264/medium/global-warning.jpg?1435855754" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Some time back when I was a child a great shift in our culture occurred and the whole thing went spiraling off to the right. With no regard for consequence and only and massive sense of entitlement and even more greed we swerved of the near center of what was already a right leaning agenda. Things like trickle down and tax breaks for the wealthy became the way of things. No longer was empathy and compassion regarded in politics and only the needs of those whom need not are addressed while the suffering continues. As the hope was drained and the hunger grew as people started to see their lives hanging on the edge of a knife many of them began the decent into fear and hate. Petrified by what they see, large numbers of people give in, stuck in place by an extremely powerful apathy. Doomed to a fate worse than death. To live in state of total control, under the constant scrutiny of the bureaucrats the do the evil bidding’s of the rich and powerful. Freedom just another catch phrase for days gone past. As time goes on, only one outcome can be realized. The world a burnt cinder left lifeless and barren, polluted by the us, all of us, our families, ancestors, descendants. Unless we make somethings change and fast.....</font></font></p>
<div> </div>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37622722015-07-01T14:12:46-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00The most important ........................<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Sylfaen, serif"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/f921bff0d92b2b252054fc2c4ef4150ce426c74b/medium/empathy.jpg?1435781480" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />It sure seems easy these days to blame the other guy or some inanimate object for our own sins. Turning anything and everything into a crutch and constantly being the victim are the new American way. Beset on all sides by people that say we must end our destructive binge of gluttony and greed which has driven our society to the edge of ruin. Blame is a lot easier than responsibility. Each of us are to blame for the state of things. Every action spreads out far beyond the view of any one of us. Just like nothing works if we all don’t do are part, we are all to share in the rewards and losses that will inevitably occur. Once we all take that first step towards being a true individual, and at the same time realize that we are all strongly tied to one another. In a way we are all one and if one of us suffer we all suffer. Some would have you believe that they are free to do anything to make a buck, even though history has shown time and time again that greed and waste go hand in hand with decadence and the downward spiral of of culture, system that is broken and in its death-throws become dangerous and violent, not only to its neighbors but to its own. In this fascist right wing world where they claim to hate “big gov.” yet build huge police, armies, and bureaucracies on bureaucracies, where nobody goes anywhere without big brother to hold his hand. Incapable to take responsibility for the terrible things that are done for our way of life to go on like this destroying all that is good. We will find very quickly that life doesn’t work like this and if a very big, very drastic change doesn't happen soon then we will have killed our only chance for any sort of human race and a lot of other life on this planet.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37606022015-06-30T13:04:53-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00Home Sweet.................<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/05b6dbd2ce84edb933e71bf82a8261f68b7281ee/medium/home.jpg?1435691055" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />I woke with the strongest nostalgic sort of melancholic longing for home this morning that it made me want to let you all in on how great my home was and how the memories that accompany that place I our minds that we call home can be so powerful and can mean so much. I grew up in a lower mid class home in a all Mormon(except us) town in a place where the people are full of hate and greed but the actual place, the mountains , the wild places were amazing, a source of inspiration and wonder for a young outcast to escape into and leave all the mean people and the bewildering , wasteful, and decadent society behind. And in amidst all the torture and turmoil was my house. A Mid sized old house, it's a little out of place surrounded by the quite large homes of our neighbors. Though are income was substantially lower but our home was in another class from the impersonal and even unwelcoming mansions of our cold shouldered, rude neighbors. Surrounded by trees , large shrubs that were like a vast jungle were GI Joe and He Man fought the forces of evil. All type of flora adorned our yard it was a deep green. Lying on a blanket sipping cold well water on a hot summer afternoon, shaded by a great Weeping Willow and other tall trees,evergreens and deciduous. Great trees reaching up above the rooftops perfect for a young explorer the climb. Our home was a happy home not alot of fighting or harsh terms we didn’t have alot but we didn’t suffer, and we were a family not like some that are more like acquaintances , we were and still are very close. The inside like the out was very comforting. As you enter you would feel the world outside fall away, you would some how feel lighter like the weight of the world was lifted even though you knew it was just the other side of what was, for quite a long time, a great huge Forest Green door. But like all thing even this had to end. We move on and all we are left with is the memories, a smell, a feeling, a longing for something better that used to be. We all have a deep need for a place to call home. Not just for shelter but for our hearts and minds.....</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37587872015-06-29T10:03:47-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00That'll Be...........<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/b5b99152da728aafed42b9ceee2b5a1a399a7d79/medium/fame.jpg?1435593812" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />How much are you willing to pay to make your dreams come true? Is it the same when you are not recognized by your peers whether it be financial or moral support? Is your dream important to only you? For the most part my dreams have all come true said for one , and that’s the dream of recognition for my art. Sure we get a large amount of traffic on the web 1000000's of listeners(a good % is organic but mostly paid) is amassing to me but when you have to pay for people to hear you it seems a bit false. But that has not stopped me, I would and have spent my last buck so people could hear my guitar. Luckily for us (Sal'tripin) we have been blessed with a lot of fans from the get up, and more all the time. Being that I do feel somewhat obliged by the paid reach of a song or post, but it is the comments, and re-shares, and the fans that give me a feeling of accomplishment. I do understand that every band from The Beatles to P didy or whomever had to buy their success at first. Songs are bought into the charts all the time so me spending 200-1000$ on advertising to promote a song is nowhere near the kind of cash spent by the huge acts of old and a fewer and fewer huge new acts that we know as "stars" "Stars?" We think of rock stars as being quite rich yet the majority of "Rock Stars" are not anything like rich, in fact i have never met a "Rock star" that was that well to do.(and i have met a few) So what does it mean the be a success as a band? If its listeners and fans then we have arrived. If its all about making money then we are huge failures up to this point. We have started looking at this as a business and the projections are grand. Projections have never been a very good way for me to get ahead and i try to stay in the moment, but to keep Sal'tripin afloat I, We have to open our minds. In this Old West industry they call "The Music Business" it is very cruel, and can be overwhelming and quite disconcerting at times, but its the best job i ever had.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37578332015-06-28T12:40:16-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00I can do it!!!<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Andalus"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/edff69ad870a4b3c565bf9c3f55b05494654dfbd/medium/hard-work2.png?1435516772" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />I would like to explain what Sal'tripin is. Sal'tripin is an old term that means to travel south, downhill, or it can also be a journey of the soul. We are great believers of the power of music and feel that the best way for us to make the world a better place is threw our music. we also employ other means li9ke blogging, music video, and art in general to help get listeners. All of this is made possible threw much hard work. Financing this whole thing is very trying and since I(pat jr) have to pay for it all its is quite a drain on my bank account. Since i have always been poor i have had to start at the very bottom and work, work is what i have mostly to help further the band <br>(Sal'tripin). in the current pay to play, pay to be heard market its very hard to make the music pay off so we have also started "The Sal'tripin Store" to sell odds and ends to help with some of the cost of making it as a band. I have also gone as far as pan handling and begging to keep Sal'tripin afloat. The music industry is on the way down but its still a huge market with huge amounts of money involved and we are going to give it our all even if its not going to pay of like it did in the nineties when you could actually get paid to play at a club or bar. now it is getting harder and harder to find a paying gig. So once again, I will make this happen no matter what and it will be a very lucrative endeavor and if you would like to be part of Sal'tripin as an investor or as a fan we appreciate your support either way. Thank you all so much. Its been a dream come true..... </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37571462015-06-27T12:53:46-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00The Life of a Rock Star???<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Andalus"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/16cd59786a59abc24a15d74aa07401f03f5178cb/small/pat2post.jpg?1435431201" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" />It has been an extremely crazy week and i have missed a couple days of "Sal Say's" so i wanted to convey what this (Sal'tripin) is and takes to keep running. Firstly Sal'tripin is a band. We are trying to make music and get our message out. To express feelings threw music, words, and live performance. Live being the best way to get across what it is that we communicate, we have pretty much done mostly live performances. With the rise of the internet we can reach way more people than ever before, so we are naturally going to try it out. Well it has been great the numbers are huge(Hundreds of thousands). Way more people have heard us online that ever did live. So know we need recordings and content for the web, so i had to start to figure out how to use the web and have had to create all the content for the web. As a one man operation(other than Cory on Bass and Derrick on Drums) All the other stuff, and there is allot have all been up to me(Pat jr.). I am a very productive force but i can only do so much and would be very receptive to some help. So if your a Writer and want 1000s+ readers then we should talk. it will be voluntary at first but we will start to turn a profit, and when we do. Well you get the idea. I would be a great person to have on your side as a writer and things could get pretty exiting and it should be great fun, for me its been a dream come true.....</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37529562015-06-24T09:38:57-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00See the light...<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/47d2c31184f3d1a845d62bbb824d714747d967bd/medium/solarpanel.jpg?1435160289" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /> I was thinking about all the energy that we waste everyday. Energy for heating and cooling that is mostly wasted. The crazy and often dangerous way in which we make electricity like coal and nuclear to me just seen dumb. We are sitting on an almost endless supply of heat energy. Inside this planet is a boiling mass of molten rocks and metal convecting and pushing its way up towards the surface. Why don’t we tap into the earth for or power? The heat from the earth could turn the turbines at power plants allover the world. They are already powering Ice Land this way. Something like Yellowstone could power the entire country. Volcano's are huge polluters already so we may as well be using them for power creation instead of trying to burn everything the the planet and ruining the air and killing the land and polluting our water. There is also a lot of wasted energy of motion in the waves and even more in the tide and great ocean currents. This motion could be used to generate large amounts of clean and free energy. Then there is our sun. The sun makes a ton of energy and is pretty easy to harness, so why don’t we have solar panels everywhere? Greed. </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37518752015-06-23T12:28:36-06:002017-01-15T17:00:18-07:00Who's in-charge here?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Andalus"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/2d6e646a53e3269ee70ecc1ed6f390a4db897764/medium/speaker-at-podium.jpg?1435084252" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />When you look in to the eyes of any animal what do you see? I see another person, another mind thinking, feeling, and looking back at me. So how is it that we are taught that we are superior, the we are “the only feeling animal” ? The ability to empathize to feel others pain is an ability that seems lost on some. The type of person that can't understand or accept other people, other ways, or anything different may also be compelled to become a politician, public “servant”, or some other position power, even to go as far as to kill or hurt others. Taking the next step to total control of another person. Being your brothers keeper is not a good place for us to have these sick, unfeeling, overreaching power mongers. Why is it that we have created a world where the bad get rewarded and the good get stomped on? Why would we keep putting our lives in the hands of sociopaths? Poor people supporting the same rich people that have been walking allover their backs. How would a rich guy know whats best for us? I don't think any of those sick old men in the senate have any idea what's really going on or what its like to live in our country or the world. Handing our rights to “the man” on a silver platter for him to devour. Corporations are people under the law too. Yet they can't feel anything so empathy is out of the picture. What do yo think happens when you give corporations that much breathing room? They will do all manner of evil to attain the fiscal goals in their projections for the next quarter. Now does the sound like a living person to you? And giving over our home, our planet to greedy undead corporate Frankensteins can only go one way, and that’s down...........</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37504102015-06-22T11:49:55-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00The Riches of ........... <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/ebefecb41ed8c4a24ef857dfbfe94e15ff2a48ce/medium/burncash.jpg?1434995339" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Doesn’t it seem like mankind has always made the wrong choices? What we call progress is destroying the planet. Greed and hate drive us, and that is not a good path to take. Greed actually makes it so you will lose money, in the long run. The common business practices of the day are not going to make things better, they are only concerned with fast profits and easy money. Easy money is something everyone wishes for but when we get it it has been known to turn peoples lives upside down. People that win large sums of money are more likely to end up screwed and in dire straits. A perfectly fine existence as a poor man could be ruined by a windfall of money, enabling a myriad of bad choices both fiscal and personal. Money will not fix your life. You are the only one that can help yourself be a better person and to succeed at anything you want. Don’t think that getting rich is the answer to all your problems because you will find the more you have the more you lose..</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37495872015-06-21T12:11:09-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00It's Not Too Late!!!!<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Gentium Basic"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/f280a8b400dbb8022507e035250b7cbe15a1607a/medium/now-time.jpg?1434910235" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Before the big business of giant world wide religions there was the first, true, and my personal religion. It has no name or book and there is no priests or popes. Everyone is a member and its free. Judgment is left up to nature and common sense. You are not shamed, frightened, or forced to do or thinks anything. Personal choice and responsibility are celebrated along with logic, reason, and humility. No radical claims of Hell Fire or Judgment Day. Each one of us has a "Judgment Day" everyday, every second of our lives. Worship and prayer can be anything for a small showing of friendship, showing you care, too large acts of giving and Love. Worship also includes taking care of ourselves and our world. As far back as we go this "religion" this way of life has existed. The Church of, well that’s it, the Church of just being alive and aware. Looking at the questions, the mysteries that arise due to that inane fact that we are here. In this day of information and technology the things that make life important, special, even spiritual have not changed. Even with overreaching laws ans a Government that does not respect freedom in general let alone religious freedom it is more important than ever to do the right thing and be a good person. The greater or personal impact on the world around us the greater our responsibility to each other and to our planet. The celebration of life and all that is good should not be discouraged in these harsh, polluted, and outright filthy times. I believe this to be “Life After Death” and Earth can be “Heaven” or “Hell” we decide. The world of God is here and now, don't waist it.....</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37490322015-06-20T11:43:48-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00What is it that they think is going to ..................<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="David Transparent"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/fa332464dec78f99cf592b8099e4e725b913520b/medium/holding-earth-in-hands-2-copy.jpg?1434822175" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />How is it that people become so diluted, so apt to do the things we find most inexcusable, and then find it so easy to warp our perception , denying the things that we know and feel to be right and good in order to rationalize are actions? Is it a choice? Is it necessity? Or is it just life? People fall repeatedly into the cycles, those cycles of continual and massive failure of the "moral standards" the "moral structure" we have formed threw thousands of years of human behavior. You would think with the years of 'progress" that the way we live would have gotten better, more fail, purer, a distillation of good ideas and practices resulting in a better world. But this is not the case the distillate we have ended up with is quite the opposite, a purification of the greed and hate and society focused on destruction and waist. How do we sleep at night? We are all part of it, part to blame for the ultimate failure of our system and our failure to ourselves for being lazy, or dishonest, or just plain stupid. None the less hope is not dashed and there is most definitely a chance, a chance for us all to turn our lives and in turn our world into something better for all not just some..... </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37482342015-06-19T12:59:27-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00Playing the Fool..<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/c8900aac44d55c948c365f10262706469530c377/medium/ignorance.jpg?1434740344" class="size_m justify_center border_" />As he reared up, his long powerful head swung back and forth with the most staggering of speed. Only an animal of such extreme proportions could be so frightening. Like a Juggernaut plowing its way threw life, everything is left broken and unusable. The vast numbers of victims in its wake could only be eclipsed by the number of future victims yet to be devoured. The lucky go quick but most are doomed to constant chewing, then regurgitation, and more chewing. Over and over the cycle continues, more grist fro the mill, fresh meat, more fuel for the fire. Oh so readily they line up to be trampled and stepped on be the idols of their chosen. The feeling of disappointment and depression have become the norm. No hope remains, and the apathy is pervasive. Like a plague spreading over the globe, it has spread the hopelessness and feelings of failure to all the corners of the world. All of us are subject to all sorts of indignities, from the most petty little insult to the worst , most heinous torture. The constant hate and violence is an extremely dangerous and is a very prolific beast that will undermine our happiness, freedom, threaten our existence and ruin our world. The next time it raises up its head, its horribly ugly head don’t be a fool and become a hater too, don’t let it eat you alive, and don’t get caught with you pants down. Being able to recognize the truth and beauty of life and to go without being tricked into doing the dirty work of the rich and powerful can be quite the task but the pay off is huge, Freedom. </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37469682015-06-18T12:04:16-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00Teach a man to......<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Gentium Basic"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/df50457efccc4ccfb9edb72538d9babdeb6f3cf5/medium/school-clipart-clip-art-school-1404142223.jpg?1434650599" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />I have always had the hardest time writing. After years of being ridiculed by teachers and my peers for everything from bad penmanship to slow reading and misspelling, being forced to be present for their “ education “ year in and year out, I had formed a very great aversion to all academia especially reading and writing. For those of you who are familiar with my story know that I never made it threw a single grade in school. I was always being suspended or transfers for letting my feeling show. It was like they were trying to teach me to dislike learning and I am not sure if it was purposeful but the system that was in place was the antithesis of a learning environment, more like programing or brain washing. I was so messed up from all the mean spirited kids and unknowledgeable and incompetent teachers that I was practically suicidal. If not for one thing that kept my chin up and gave me the reason and the need to better myself and rise up out of the bullshi- and be alive for real. My guitar. My guitar has always been there for me. When I was feeling like nothing could ever go my way the guitar would turn those thoughts on their heels and all would be as it should. Even when I had a hard time playing a riff or some song that i just wasn’t good enough to play, I would just keep at it. Chipping away at it, learning I little bit here a little bit there. I had learned to love to learn. Studding became my life and as for my hatred for writing well as you may have noticed, that is no longer the case.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37455472015-06-17T11:59:34-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00A Letter From Sal..<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/e1dee51c1b824cf3aea58d255d539ace196a42f8/medium/penink1.jpg?1434563962" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />The new way we as artists and musician have to live in order to be able to share our wares is quite the task, the most of us have given up on making music our sole bread winner and been forced to either get day jobs or use a new approach, like selling retail along side the marketing of the band. The old days are gone and with them the days when people paid for music. And if you have ever tried to have a band you know the cash it takes, and it was not easy to get paid back when people where still paying for the music. Now we are left with the problem of getting by and making art for free. Sometimes buying gear is more important than food, but not usually. If you have ever tried to create art hungry then you know how hard it is just to be creative on an empty stomach, let alone after the stresses of being poor and being put down on and looked at as a fool, just for following your passions. No one ever encourages someone to become a pro-musician, as a carrier, and on that path you will find many people that just want to tear you down or rip you off. The world would be as lame as fu-- with no art, so we here at Sal-tripin llc are going to do everything we can to continue to make kick as- songs and put on killer shows, and we will just have to keep on keepin' on. That’s all we have. That and the fans. And they are the real reason for all the hard work and struggle. So the music will keep coming and I hope you will dig it. Have a killer day: Sal</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37441152015-06-16T11:21:19-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00Get Rich Quick!!<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/9c2c9a8c1e74614ab550f987ea22811a014ce1d2/medium/gold.jpg?1434475250" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />Wealth, I had finally become rich, and it was so easy! The struggle to attain wealth is a common and pretty well known motivation for most the worlds hate and violence. And I had arrived. I didn’t sell out or give up on my dreams, and I never tried to get ahead by underhanded or hurtful means and I was always the one getting screwed and I was not getting anywhere. Until one morning in early spring a few years back. It was a very vivid and quite an overwhelming feeling that overtook me on that fateful and life changing day. As I gazed upon the many wonders of this glorious existence the usual stresses and even the physical pain I am so accustom too, all seemed to melt away like a wax mold of all my worries had been set in the 115 degree sun in death valley, and I a had to do was watch and chill out. I was and always had been in possession of a greater wealth then all the greedy, low down, and rotten people that think wealth is in a bank statement or in a pile of cash. How is it that something so simple can be so hard for some to understand? Wealth is in the exclusivity of your thoughts, in the things you know and do that nobody else can. Wealth and status are not bought with money, they are bought with years of hard work, doing the right thing, and being a good person. True wealth can not be taken away from you. What makes you rich and cool/hip is not being like everyone else, blind obedience, or by expecting people to be like you. In excepting people for who they are not judging them include yourself, don’t be too hard on yourself. The golden rule seems to have lost the meaning it once held. Why is it that people that are so unhappy and full of hate feel they are better than others? Once you have left the misconceptions of money and material wealth behind you too can be rich beond ypur wildest dreams. I did it, you can too.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37425772015-06-15T11:11:41-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00Dreams do come true...<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.27in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/d9987870f5f2787f8a8240eccb20f14ee1c37907/medium/impossible1.jpg?1434388260" class="size_m justify_center border_" />In the fast paced, no holds barred, full contact word of the music business can an act survive on its own, with out the big record company? With all the amazing innovations in music production and broadcasting the average musician can get their songs played online for fairly cheap or even free. Since the the late 90's the means have been in place, so can a band get their music to the masses? And if so can they get compensation enough to keep it the whole thing going? I have put every dollar and every moment of my life to the pursuit of music, to play, record, study, live music. Along the way i have learned about what ever i needed to make the music better, whether it be business, tech, or the art itself the need to learn about and make music has never wavered . Now finally i have arrived at a place where it is finally a reality and the possibilities are endless. The path ahead is calling and i am ready to go and see whats possible. I am sure its going to be a trip so stick around and see, Hear. </font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37409092015-06-14T09:57:50-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00The point of everything???<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/1f8a0eb373196e83ee3f28355c3edc6e74ed0b1f/medium/bigstock-index-finger-on-black-backgrou-15348773.jpg?1434297454" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Is there anything more exciting than achievement? When you actually reach one of those sometimes lofty and unattainable goals, that’s when you are truly alive. in the instant of its inception its “creation”, at the point of conception, and in the hours of work in its completion. Those are the times in which our true potential is realized. To be willing to set yourself up for so much hardship and toil just so you can, for an instant be the person you have always felt you were meant to be. Even when you are the only soul on earth that cares or even knows or understands what it means to have done what you set out to do. Is it always going to be a walk in the park? No. But its not very interesting to live, day to day it is really quite droll and from the outside most of us look pretty lame. But sit down and have a real discussion with anyone about their dreams, their goals, or even just a bucket list and you will find a passion that sparks deep with in us all, and when you get down to gist of things, that passion keeps the whole thing going and is the closest thing we have to an answer to the age old question. What is the point of it all?</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37403202015-06-13T11:40:52-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00This is it<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font face="Comic Sans MS, cursive"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font color="#ffffff"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/f491257967f11c8b6c30538593056f1e50981db7/medium/angel.jpg?1434217189" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />I want to start by telling you all what happens when we die. At the instant of your death the universe in its entirety will end and all the time that is left will all happen at that instant and that’s as far as i can see. What is next? Is there any meaning? is there "life after death?" Well if you take of step back and look at life after death it is fairly easy to understand. The opposite of life is death so before you were alive you were dead. Now you are alive. That makes this "Life after death." is it heaven or hell? Well that’s up to us. We make the choices that make our world, and everyone has a hand in everything that occurs and are equally to blame when it goes bad. When people realize the truth about the class-ism and the what i have deemed "The War on the Human Spirit." things will change. Only by taking responsibility for all that is wrong in this world, then making it right can we create a heaven on earth. While the few ride on the backs of the many and we all dig our own graves, mother earths getting close to a major change in her treatment of our sins. Sooner than later things will go bad and we will get to see the true motives behind the power elites total disregard for logic, good, and the future of the human race.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37392332015-06-12T10:57:37-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00Hand in Hand, Together<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Comic Sans MS, cursive"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/d607973e75563f94fedadd52baf23a1cb25bf920/medium/earth-rising-431x300.jpg?1434128223" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Has our connection with nature been stretched to the breaking point or is there still a chance? I am quite often drawn into the same thought.” is it ti late, can things get better?” I really think that we do have the slightest, tiniest little remnant of a chance , hope for a better life. A life of consequence and self determination. A life of freedom and responsibility unhindered by others and their power sick, overreaching, greed driven so called religions, or the corrupt, undemocratic, and criminal form of government we have impressed upon us under the threat of violence, being permanently black balled, and incarceration. Its easy to see that things are messed up, and how, yet answers to the problems are further off that ever. Our plans for the next 100 years are not looking very promising. I don't think people relies how much change needs to occur before things will ever begin to get even the least bit better. The actual effort and involvement that people are willing to devote toward any endeavor, profitable or not is getting less and less all the time. Our grandparent generation was involved in the community in many ways. They voted first of all. They were members of clubs and groups like the rotary or the masons. They owned and operated businesses right in their own communities. Our parent too were more socially active. Protesting and being proactive in the community is what keep the system on its best behavior, not laws that govern how you live “your life.” could you imagine if all the people that do nothing for their communities started pitching in, voting and running in local and national elections, getting involved in the campaign of someone you agree with, or just helping spread the word and get others involved in the ideas that you agree with. I a world where access to information is so free and easy, its a real shame that people have just gotten lazier and more alienated from each other. Lets all try to break the cycles of apathy and greed, and start doing are share in the fight to save the human spirit.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37378122015-06-11T11:00:41-06:002017-01-15T17:00:17-07:00Sick of it...<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/91636c2c8cf9e467afa47994ed9b814e5a6db015/medium/human-digestive-system.jpg?1434041950" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></font><font color="#ffffff">“<font style="font-size: 22pt">The doctor will see you now” and so it began. Sick there alone with my thoughts. Thoughts of huge clouds and gagged pointed mountain peals. High in the air they meet. Colliding with the force of the jet stream. Sparks fly and tears fall as the two begin to embrace. Could they be more different? The rock and solid mountain with its enormous weight, seemingly stationary it grows so slowly that it is nearly imperceptible to me and you. The cloud on the other hand is a ever changing, formless, writhing, boiling, vaporous mass. Weightless in its appearance, it sails high through the air. Blown by prevailing winds at speeds more a kin to an automobile then a mist. Finally the Doctor comes in. He asks me the same old questions, “Where does it hurt, say aw, stick out your tongue”. I proceed to explain “my side hurts, the pain is inside of me and freaks me out. After a few pokes he says he will return and leaves the room. I go back to dreaming of beautiful music and wonderful views. After ten minutes the doctor returns. “I have looked at your labs and at the X-rays, and Ultrasound. And there is not a thing out of place, swollen, or missing. So your fine.” The whole time I am being denied treatment for my Hep-C because I am not going to die right now. They will wait till I have Liver cancer or worse to OK the treatment.. I have had a pain in my side for years and its the same thing every time the Doctor see me, goes and Googles Web MD or the like and charges me hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Oh well. Its only MY LIFE. Why should he care? The whole system of capitalizing on the sick is sickening.</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37366012015-06-10T12:05:18-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00Hum.........<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/e3fef83eed323483d889f35d49d7be50576c5f54/medium/golfball.jpg?1433959495" class="size_m justify_center border_" />I was a tiny dimple, a spot in an ever widening gap that lies, where the useless pile of broken and worn out old possessions that deteriorate and rust in there martial shells, in the turbulent and over laden stream that was the only life i had ever known. Could the dam hold back the raging torrent of raw and unfiltered emotional expression locked away, pitted deep in my soul from so many long years of struggle and strife? Can it be done? Has the hard work fallen softly and without notice like so many feathers blown aloft by thermally driven updrafts in the burnt heart of a sweltering death valley? The question still rings in my ears, "am i good enough?" Yet as the years pass and the knifes edge of time slowly carve their twisted branches in the canvas of skin that is draped around the glowing heart of cosmic energy which is my soul. I know that the time is short and nothing ever gets done later. I am doing it now. There is no other way, no reason to fret, just make the very best of the only life i have been given and try and see others not judge. Nature always knows what to do. All you can do is to be as good a person as you can. We have all been dead, before we were alive we were dead so that makes this life after death so enjoy it. Don’t make it worse. I think we have had enough of that already..</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37343872015-06-09T10:25:50-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00Its a Dogs -------<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/9057d51fa6ef0502fccae9c432016e0961db6a2a/medium/cutedog.jpg?1433867142" class="size_m justify_center border_" />The one thing that he kept doing whether he was happy or not was to explode. Everyday was a wash with blurred visions of bright lights and swirling colors. The wind whines like a high pitched siren almost to high to recognize as sound. More like a beam of light the din blared its laser like focus rite on to his mind. Thoughts twist and turn back and forth in his mind “should I, shouldn’t I?” like knives cut threw the thin veil which is his reality. As he takes a slow deep breath an odor sparks a flood of memories of better days, when life was so simple. Will it happen? Will success be all it is cracked up to be? Can he reach it? All at once with a speed a kin the a Gama ray, the muscles in his legs contract, his jaw fly’s open, and all at once in a slowed down, hyper aware state of being, were all is perfect, he lunges forth and lets out a sound, like the heavy foot fall of a Clydesdale, his lower jaw clasps tightly together with the upper. Over and over his mouth open wide then closes tight, gnarly yellow teeth rounded and worn inter lock like little hooks on a rusty old zipper. As he makes his case be known a feeling of pleasure wells up from deep in his heart. The one time when he feel truly alive. Free, and young again,. Ready to take on the world. Then as if not a thing had happened, the fully satisfied and gratified little lap dog finds a spot , lays down, gets comfy and drifts of to sleep. Another successful afternoon in the life of a dog...</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37326392015-06-08T13:11:10-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00The Power<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/2f478cfe226bca03a5200831c2dcbe2799990c6d/medium/crown.jpg?1433790661" class="size_m justify_center border_" />What is it about power that allows some people to justify acts of the most heinous? We are constantly blaming forces beyond our control or each other for the state of things. Meanwhile the powers that be fill their banks with our blood, sweat, and tears. While claims that we need to be controlled that we need government ring out like bells ”alarm bells” from those whom enjoy very little regulation. They have very little accountability and constantly campaign for less, under the guise that we need more laws and they need more protection from it. They want even less accountability. It seems like a politician thinks that in order to be a success they must introduce and pass more laws. We don’t need more laws, the current state of law in the world is scary. overreach is the norm. Militarized gangs of cops policing for profit. The system stretched to the max just to pay for itself, policing to pay for policing. We pay a large amount in lost dignity and trampled rights just so the few can rule over the many. It is inherent in politicians and gov types to be of a lesser ilk and to have lower standards for morality and be quicker to violence and hate than a normal everyday citizens. It's part of the job to be party and to do to all manner of antisocial inhuman acts. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Using a crutch to make it ok to do things we know are bad is getting to be ubiquitous throughout our society, it seems like everyone has some kind of excuse for everything, the dog ate it, i ran out of gas, i was never given things others had, But what is their excuse, what is the rich power elite telling itself to excuse itself for all the blood and guts? Does money absolve them of their sins?</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37323982015-06-07T14:06:30-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00Set my people free<p style="orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/e674a89999ca88389ca3ede404bdb57e9c38f3d2/medium/peyote-585x511.jpg?1433707568" class="size_m justify_center border_" />It seem s like people have forgotten what it means to be religious. Blind obedience is not religion. Judging people to be lesser is not spiritual. War is not holy, and hate is not a religious experience. The common everyday man on the street thinks religion is in a church or temple and that a man in a costume, sometimes a robe other times a suit, still a costume, has the answers and is always right. We have all heard plenty of horror stories about priests and other religious types doing terrible things. So why do we trust them in matters of spirituality but wouldn’t leave our kids with them over the weekend? I on the other hand am a member of a religion that doesn’t claim anything it cant back up and has no roster or membership. There is no fee. There has been no wars to push it and no killing in its name. Discrimination and hate are not the main aim. The church is everywhere and worship well that is, that's the problem. For some reason my form of worship is illegal. I don’t whip, burn, cut, kill, hurt, or do anything to harm anybody, animal or thing. Still one of the most important parts of my spiritual life has been outlawed. I used to do it anyway but as I got older and the threat got worse I had to stop, it became nearly impossible and I quit before something bad happened. Does anyone out there know what it feels like to have your way of worship prohibited? The threat of violence just for praying. It hurts..........</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37317312015-06-06T12:31:46-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00I little HELP Please<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.21in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/67e1fb4a7e9db66810729c32cb0ee9e5f9e9fbb7/medium/album.jpg?1433615491" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Everyone needs a hand once in a while. What do i have to do to get a album made? I have been playing guitar for my whole life 37 years and i have wanted to record all that time. I now have the songs and the tech knowledge to do it. I just need a studio. I plan on buying the stuff i need to build a studio and its not to expensive. But I have been poor my whole life. Not to lack of work. Its just that everyone is hard up. Anyway i have saved up money for years and its getting closer but still i am unable to afford it on my own. So i am looking for investors. Sal'tripin llc is ready to take over the world. We just need an album recorded. Well I am saving up and I will get there eventually. life is so short and i freaks me out. I need to get my songs recorded, "they are great songs" It would be a shame if i, well you get the idea. The music is happening and thing are bound to get done. I just really have allot of faith in the songs and i know that we can do it. Now if we can just pull it all together. "We" It is a group effort so if you would like to be a part of it let us know. Maybe together we can reach higher and do more. </font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></font><br> </p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.21in; orphans: 1"> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37308472015-06-05T13:26:15-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00Throw it all away...<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 0.21in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/957b558ebed4b125b5bb9754ad4aec4c41c185e3/medium/trash.jpg?1433532364" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />When our grandparent were young they used to maintain their stuff. Fixing, sharpening, and doing all kinds of up. Now we just "throw it in the gutter and go but another" to quote NWA. The respect given an object. The importance given to some of the things we posses has fallen away. That loss, that lack of respect has spread across our whole way of life. Just think about a razor. A razor. You use it once of twice then toss it. Back in the day they had to use one razor, and they had to keep it sharp and clean for years on end. Even big things like cars are no longer built to last. Built to fail is the norm for just about every product you buy. Mean while land fills overflow and burn plants pump our garbage into the air. While stupid arguments on climate change get repeated over and over, of-course you effect the climate. How could you not? Respect for life seems like it should be a given, but i see so much waist and the ignorance that is wasting our greatest gift. life</font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37290412015-06-04T11:26:44-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00The Will to ....<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 0.21in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/6cdc4c5d3f5bd4d8cf2610f115e597f9d5ee3c30/medium/control.jpg?1433438794" class="size_m justify_center border_" />It has been a normal thing for people to take less and less hand in running their own lives. Giving up your rights so that you will not have to take the time and effort to think and study the issues is just plain lazy. And stupid. I have always been fascinated by the greater questions in life, whats death like?, Why? Whats the point? and so on and so forth. I don’t understand how anybody could give up on figuring it all out and let some Church or organization do their religious thinking for them. Now that seems like the opposite of spirituality. The questioning is a big part of spirituality. Sure a allot more Holy than blind obedience. Nobody knows everything so don't trust anyone that claims to. Between religion and government we are under a very sinister and scary form a of control, slavery. Its amazing the system doesn’t crumble. The poor overthrow the rich. It has happens over and over but the divisions begin to widen and it is more of the same. Man against nature can only end with one conclusion. The end.....</font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37274212015-06-03T12:00:57-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00We are the Champs <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/7dd685a8bb6cdbb6e62c9a666d4be7f7fcd9bde1/medium/uphillbattle.jpg?1433354444" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />Income inequality has never been so extreme, making a buck never so hard, and music has lost its monetary value so it is extra hard to get by as a musician. Being able to afford to live is hard enough. Trying to make the bills and run a band has become nearly impossible. Even with recording costs at all-time lows. I have not been able to afford to make a record and have been trying for decades. At that we are going to finally get it together. It may take time but we are saving up and looking for financing, so it will happen. The more we have been putting in the more that we have been getting out. So it is on track. Its just that we are poor and starting at zero. I have been able to upload some of our demo tunes and have gotten a great response from all over the world, but the recordings are pretty bad </font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt">and Sal'tripin could be doing so much better given better recordings. The faith I have in the band is strong and I am sure we will be able to do it to the max, pushing the boundaries of rock music, art and business. Making Sal'tripin “the band” you have to follow!!</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37265062015-06-02T17:30:32-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00The King Of ?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="DejaVu Serif, serif"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/f9cc3e1d3ba77e98e6001411b1b8c8cfbd524167/medium/501722-michael-jackson-glove-617-409.jpg?1433287819" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />The "King of Pop" was really the king of dope. Why is it that when Jimi Hendrix is talked about its always The Drugs that took him so young? But when they talk about Michael Jackson its The Doctors fault. When i am sure that The king of Pop was a way bigger druggie than Jimi was. Its just that Jimi liked illegal mind altering drugs that are demonized by our media. The king of Pop and the King of Rock & Roll fore that matter were both took legal, doctor prescribed drugs. Why is it so hard for some people to see that its the system that is the problem. Things like prohibition have been tried and have failed before. There is no secret that laws that regulate personal choice do not work. It is not the drugs that are bad. They are inanimate objects. You are the one with the power, the power to make choices. No matter what you are into whether it Pot or Surfing, or whatever, you have to do what you think is right then you have to live with the consequences. We are all to blame. We all effect everything. So when people say " Global warming is not caused by us" or "that drugs killed someone" they are talking out their as--es. You effect the climate no matter what. You fart that effect the climate. That’s it. You loved Michael. I did. And we killed him. By not putting an end to the bullsh-t and end the war on the poor. "the drug war" is a part of a bigger more sinister war, a war on freedom, a war on choice, a war on good. </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37237082015-06-01T10:07:14-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00A Very Wide Reach<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/dd246c0e98774ddf98b4acb6bc3850b11fcd04a0/medium/johnny-cash-gold-record.png?1433174807" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />I am very pleased with the way the internet has made it easy to get our music heard and am very thankful. Yet is the internet going to pay off? Is it worth the time and money put in? I am not sure yet, so far it has been a great tool for getting the band out there but has yet to provide any real revenue streams. Mostly our internet income has been from our E-bay store. That’s not quite enough to fund the band, but it helps. Live shows have netted us very little, not even enough to really do anything. Maybe cover the gas i took to do the show. Well that brings me to the point. We need money! We need to get this album made! The cost is not that high, but the returns will be crazy. I think we could sell allot of albums. We have the whole package and the world needs it too. We are going to make a splash! So i this day of Million dollar B-movies and home studios we will be able to get it together. The infrastructure is in place, the songs are written, now it is just a matter of when we can afford to record. </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37227932015-05-31T11:39:38-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00The feeling is so ..<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/2125b5e20b2521a23f7f9f952cb81a4250722a7f/medium/musicreviews.jpg?1433093962" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />If you don’t have a passion in life your missing out. Music, art, writing, love, something, something to make it all worth while. I wake grateful to know that i can play guitar, write a song, or just jam. Being involved in the moment, pocketed in a groovy lick has to be what heaven feels like. The wonder and excitement i have for music has and will never wain. I love it more and more all the time. Knowing that i have persevered threw all the hard times and kept on trying even when life itself seems impossible makes me feel like a success even with out the money and adoration. The music is enough. The ability to share my feelings with others, making people feel something threw the music is something i hold dear. The greatest thing i could accomplish is just to be heard. So even with very little money, low grade recordings, and no experience in the "music biz" we are striking out on our musical trek threw this life. So I will synch up my bootstraps and see where it goes.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37221882015-05-30T12:27:48-06:002017-01-15T17:00:16-07:00How Many Times<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Lucida Sans, sans-serif"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/a268ee7e6891e705bdba4392261a6f4aadc19b88/medium/boss.jpg?1433010453" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Is it strange that the human race keeps doing the same stupid shit over and over? Just a quick peruse through a history book, even one of those real biased school text book will be full of thing not to do that are being done repeatedly. Like genocide or war. The way forward can be a lot less bumpy if you do just the minimum of thinking. World wide poverty, large numbers of people starving, and the constant threat of violence are not part of some natural processes they are part of a massive plot perpetrated by us against us at the pleasure of the power elite. Like pawns for their rich masters we are used for the benefit of the few, and used against ourselves at the same time. The masses are turned on themselves subverting any action toward change that may well up. Looking at history you can see that this strategy is used constantly by the power elite. Divide and conquer, its like the oldest trick in the book. So you think we would be able to recognize it and not be fooled into the same old cycles of oppression, killing, and war. Always seems like the rich get richer and the poor get screwed. </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37210742015-05-29T12:58:28-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00social dumb dumb<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/34a5eecc9e7f86548d7c65c46080f80b8f67cb53/medium/starving-child-5.jpg?1432925830" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Wow it is bad, unsympathetic, self-serving, anti-understanding. That’s how i would describe the average Joe. It seems as time goes by people are getting less enlightened, less interested in the important thing like love and compassion. Instead greed and instant pleasure with apathy and convenience all fall in together to create the modern human. Lazy thinking no ability to see the greater picture, unwilling to see that they are culpable. That the actions that they make effect others. With no thinking and no effort at all just turn on the TV and the decisions made for you. It seems like everyone is in a deep denial. Unwilling to see the facts that are so obvious. We are all to blame for the current state of the world. The only way things will ever get better is if we all take our responsibility serious and start being able to make choices and be accountable for our actions, even the rich. In this system where people are paid to think for you, and telling you what to think and do is big business. People have started losing their concept of being a good person, a sovereign, free, responsible human being.</font> Get the Gov. out of the personal lives of the people and spend some of the taxes they waist on killing and graft on creating a workable system for the survival of the human spirit.</font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37192742015-05-28T11:33:21-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00The Need for Need<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/69fbc201a7377d7d6202f35e63b9d68dcaded45c/medium/funny-fat-people-funny-fat-people-012-funnypica-com.jpg?1432834386" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Piles and piles, more than you can imagine, enough to feed the world. That’s how much food is wasted daily. And how is it that the current system that throws out more food than it sells keep it up? How is a burger from a hundred cow from all over the earth cost less than one from a cow down the street? When the food industry is regulated by the FDA with is really just a front to subvert the constitution and regulate your own sovereignty. And food manufacturers are like drug cartels, pushing there low quality wares. Some of the food additives are so totally insane, like extracting beaver and musk rat musk and putting it in food. Some of the techniques McDonald uses like soaking leftover parts of the cow( usually sick cows cause that’s cheaper) in sodium hydroxide. Some dog food producers use that technique but its bottom of the barrel and is frowned on by most. Some people call from deregulation of industry. Well industry is peaty well unregulated its us, our personal lives that are over regulated. The current system is run so far afoul of anything close to good business practice that it will fail. I don’t claim to know when. I am sure it wont be long.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37178482015-05-27T13:03:11-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00The Heat is ...<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/0a59ae3ca46957ec6d3a1ac3f77232b9d8144eff/medium/sweatcrow2.jpg?1432753378" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></font></font></font><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">My eyes filled with burning sweat, everything swirls into a burr of swirling color, knees like rubber, Dreams run in and out of reality pushing the bounds of what can be. The heat from the rocks wells up in a whoosh of steam, sizzling and popping in a hole in the center of a low domed canvas lodge. In the darkness the lines between dream and real melt away. The lodge is like a womb to be reborn from, the womb of the mother earth. One day it will be hot like that everywhere. Only a few degrees keep us from extinction. The signs of climate change are all around. Trees are dieing at faster and faster rates. People and animals are not immune, over 1000 people died this week in India due to high temperatures. In the sweat lodge your breath is hot enough to burn skin, if you blow air at your hand it will burn. Now just think about how it would be if the world keeps heating up.</font> </font></font><font style="font-size: 16pt"> </font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37159422015-05-26T12:06:07-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Musical Income outcome? <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/e3201d037899c0c68ea95c17df945560c3cde4e6/medium/cash.jpg?1432663638" class="size_m justify_center border_" />I love watching footage of band playing before MTV. Before the TV killed rock and roll and it was unimportant to have huge tits or a nice smile there was one thing that really mattered, the music. Now all the pop stars look the same and in the respective “styles” they all sound the same too. A great band like Queen would have a hell of a time getting a record deal without major dental work. Talent has been marginalized. When info and art are so accessible its a shame people have been so jaded by the industry that every new band is looked on with disdain, as if they just trying to make a buck. When being creative becomes stigmatized, artists are exercised, and business men spoon feed "art" to the public how does a musician or artist make a living? In the modern day respected perfections like photographer, writer, or guitarist are no longer viable ways of making a living. Pictures, art , and music are free and ubiquitous with make supply and demand a real laugh. We need to take a good look at intellectual property law and see if there is any way to fix the system. Being an artist is expensive, supplies are often purchased at the price of huger, just so a string can be replaced or a canvas bought on which a the next masterpiece or great anthem could be created. If we don’t do something art and music will be even harder to make and the next Picasso or the next Beatles will never have a chance.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37127352015-05-25T11:14:22-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Love and Change<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Traditional Arabic"><font size="5"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/81488dba6caca8a4320ad27b01947021f598626f/medium/seedling.jpg?1432574037" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />When I see all the injustice and strife in the world I am completely disgusted. How do the rich and powerful live with the knowledge that people are starving, animals are going extinct, and the earth is becoming a cesspool? Do they care? I have always tried to minimize my footprint on the earth. Not being part of the problem is very important to me and even with very little its still hard to keep from being complacent. Where do you begin? Recycling and using green energy are a great place to start. Not spending your money with companies that are not taking part in the solution. Just pulling your head out of the sand will start you down the path. Once you can see whats going down you will be compelled to do the right thing. You are the one you have to live with. Can you live with the weight of the world on your solders? Of-course not. You can pich in. Because together we can do anything.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37120152015-05-24T11:34:10-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Why Why Why<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/4eb9480f72a84b70972a9d3547f9c74c9c1f5284/medium/drums.jpg?1432488835" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">What ever became of the idea of being involved in something? It seems like no one has the time or need to just have fun together. Whether it be sports, a club, or a band. Actual social interaction has been getting more and more convoluted by egos and image that nobody can take criticism or even the slightest suggestion. It goes strait to " don’t tell me what to play, I play what i feel" Well you will never progress if you cant see your flaws and why spend your time figuring out what someone else already done the work. Learning a good attitude toward learning is something the schools don’t teach. You must be open to suggestion but you don’t have to be a robot. There is so many way to play any piece of music but you have to serve the song. You are not there to serve your ego. It has been so tough getting the band together. I really need a drummer that is willing to learn. I have 20+ original songs and am dying to record them. I am a good drummer but I want to record mostly live and besides we need a drummer for the shows. Do people still work on music together? Its like pulling teeth to get a band going. Anyway Cory and I are still rocking. </font></font></font></font><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37118662015-05-23T11:56:44-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00People Stink<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/31873d1d61718be8497c522f7cd7e31070abf506/medium/bnose.jpg?1432403795" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Do people really think that the smell of chemicals, V.O.C.'s is a good thing? I was driving down the street on my Ninja when a powerful odor filled the air. Even on a bike at 75 mph the smell was extreme. So with eyes watering I began searching for the source. I pass car after car finally about 6 or 7 cars ahead i came across the owner of the pungent, nose offending odor. It was an old gray haired woman in a fancy European luxury car. Soon after that, just down the road another smell, not quite as sharp but strong as can be. So i sped up and caught up to the broken down old beater of a car with 3 Mexican dudes on the way to work. The completely opposite kinds of people. The amount of soaps and smelly stuff needed to create a smell that can be that strong even on a motorcycle at freeway speeds must be copious. Now i am not saying that B.O is better just that there has to be a limit. Nobody wants to breath V.O.C.'s, and putting all this unknown chemical smelly stuff cant be good for you. Spraying large amounts of chemicals into your home, car, or self is not going to change the fact that people stink.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37117572015-05-22T15:50:38-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00The Great Reset?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/1aca46167e615b0085413d10251b68a1dcb19a7d/medium/reset.jpg?1432331429" class="size_m justify_center border_" />I heard someone say something the other day and the gist of what he said was that there is going to be a " Great Reset " in-which all the wealth of the world will be redistributed and poverty will be abolished and we can all be free, finally. How would that happen? What would the ultra rich say? Does it really get them off to see an extra zero on their bank statement? The best is the people that defend the rich even though they themselves are poor. Why do you think 1% of the world own everything? Is that fair? Of-coarse no. The fact that people die from hunger in 2015 is a freaking sin on all of us. We are all to blame for the state of the world. Don't let apathy rule your life. Do something, any thing to help. It really does work, if we all pitch in. Responsibility is not just for those that steal but for those that let the stealing happen. And you can make a difference. Everyone has hard times. But its no excuse for ruining the earth. Being a good person does not cost money. So how about a Great Reset of the way we treat each-other. Getting along is the last thing the rich want to see us do. They want us to fight each-other while they make money off us. Change will only happen if we all take part. Lets move on from this old and unfair system. The conflict is getting old and its time to make the decision and follow through with action. Find your niche, start to help, never stop learning, and you can be the person you want to be.</font> <font size="5">And the reset will just happen.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37114682015-05-21T11:34:43-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Work for ?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/1a3517b0a7cbb8db8b2a9d4eaffe01dc040faa58/medium/workingirl.jpg?1432229669" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />How does somebody give their most precious gift "their life" to some rich guy. Toiling away for some fat rich guys pleasure. Will they throw you a bone today? Have you ever had a boss that talks down to everyone even though he is the boss at a fast food dump or got his job by favor and has no knowledge or talent? Nobody wants to be working Mon. morning yet the boss has to make it worse. Think they do it to fill a void, to make them feel better about being total losers? There is a way. You don’t have to take it. I am sure if you take a step back and think about it you will find there are many different ways for you to make the change. What are you good at? An E-Bay store, guitar lessons, or whatever it is you do. It is hard work but you will never have to bend to some small time managers will. Even though it means going without, being poor with little hope for change, and allot more work(24 hours a day) I still chose to be my own boss. </font> Where do you stand? Does anyone like being a slave to micromanagement? </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37111792015-05-20T10:18:19-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Joy in life..<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/1d2b3678ea4bd1030cb6e8c903e6793dbdac86f5/medium/sunset.png?1432138685" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />Seeing the sun rise, feeling a warm breeze, smelling the flowers. How can you forget? Is it worth it to stress and strain, just to survive? Was it always this bad? Questions we have always pondered. Its not greener on the other side but the journey over there is freakin' wonderful. The trip is the point. Being in motion threw time, not stagnating,wasting the only life you have. The joy and intrigue is in the finding of new things and experiences. Do you live for you or do you live for someone else? What makes you happy? do you make others happy? So many think its fun to hate. They get a rush, or thrive of the anger. Anger is a secondary emotion. What made you angry? Don't let the rich fool you into hate and anger. Address the hurt which comes before the hate. People are mad at all kinds of stuff. Why are you angry? Most people are angry because they are poor. Finances are the source of stress for everyone, at least everyone i know. How about you? Ever met a rich person? A real rich person, not someone that has allot of stuff on credit. The bank owns most people. Who owns you?</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37109272015-05-19T11:25:48-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Loss of self..<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/325bed30c96b90b9cc36a20d3c2511d9a8130baf/original/togetherness-cropped.jpg?1432056337" class="size_l justify_center border_" />People become so attached to their imagined persona that they loss all contact with reality. Getting wrapped up in rhetoric and propaganda spouting the party line. Creating an image of ones self is totally normal and healthy but when you concern yourself with what others will think of you so much that you freak out or let it get to you and hurt you then its time for a second look. Letting others tell you who to be, lying to yourself, always trying to please. Don't be afraid of change. The way things are may not be how you see them. Be humble and don't press your views on others. Lead by example. Never follow. Figure it out. That’s the fun of life. Just because someone else is different doesn’t mean they are bad or wrong. You cant walk in someone shoes. People are so quick to judge. Even when found to be innocent you life is most likley in ruin. Allot of background checks look at arrest records, so whether or not you were guilty it doesn’t matter. How can anyone say that your pain doesn’t matter? Have you ever hurt your back? Try getting painkillers. You cant see pain and there is no test for it but it is real. Who are you to judge my pain? My religion is different. I get laughed at and ridiculed (judged) by "good" Christians all the time. Even though their church killed off most older religions and then stole their rituals. We don’t hurt anyone or break the law yet still we are treated like a criminals nonetheless. While drug companies kill millions for big profits we live in a cage treated like scum by the people we voted for and the people we employ as civil servants. We all struggle to get by. Lets stop making it worse. Lets make thing better. Solidarity between the poor is a good start. </font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37107782015-05-18T17:11:55-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Question Please....<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/17434d46d9f4486237c73b71aa84df14dbe9deb2/medium/zinnquote.jpg?1431989596" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">When you don't look into things you are doing,and saying you are doing yourself a disservice and will most surly pay. Whether it be in cash or in tears, you will pay. The there is noway that doing bad, hurtful things will make you happy. No matter how rich you get a wrong is still a wrong. Even if the law doesn’t appear to agree. The natural law will come round. All the money will not silence the cries or soften the hurt. What good is money if you are an ass and nobody cares about you? A new car or fancy dress wont fill the whole in your soul. When your actions are for your good and no others you will find you are the one that suffers. In the long run broken and alone is where you will be. Always worried about losing your power. Never sure who really cares and who just wants what you got. Part of being is figuring out who you are and where you stand. What do you think? Do you think? I hope so. How can you defend a position you don't really know about. That seems like lying. Just hearing a sound bite that sounds good doesn’t mean it right. And faith is different than blind obedience. If you had faith you would not fear questions. Prove your faith question it...</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37104712015-05-17T11:23:52-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Power Hungry. <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font size="4"><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/6dde235058e087393140acf19573d3fab0fd9a84/medium/hand-fist-power1.jpg?1431883419" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></font></font></font><font color="#ffffff"><font size="4"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">Do people really think 'open carry" laws will help curb the violence that threatens to destroy all hope for a better world? I keep seeing stories about law abiding citizens being killed for nothing. When the cops see you have a gun they will shot you. Well as long as your poor. So "open carry" laws seem to me to be a trick. To get poor people to carry so they can be targeted and killed with no recourse. No recourse. That is the problem in the first place. Does anyone believe that people in power should be accountable? I sure do. They should be held to a higher standard. Instead they put a limit on the max. IQ of a officer. I have been hassled by cops for the most completely imbecilic things, Walking down the street, and the like. I imagine had i had a gun they would have been overjoyed to shoot me. </font> </font></font><font size="4"> </font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37102852015-05-16T11:39:06-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Anyone care ......<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/0b428ab75b0d447841d81b1d2aba8968e31c5c2c/medium/human-rights-every-human-has-rights.jpg?1431797931" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />Why is it a joke to some when people care. It's like sociopaths have taken over. Everything is ME ME ME. What is so bad about helping the poor? The right wants to make poverty the norm. A better life has become a laughing stalk for the republicans. They believe in helping those that don’t need it. Giving free stuff and breaks to the rich while raping the poor and the earth. Why is it that the religious, christian right wingers are so against their fellow man? They seem to hate everything. Whats the point? Do they even know what they are doing? I think people are doomed if this current right wing gets back into the white house.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37100892015-05-15T11:03:50-06:002017-01-15T17:00:15-07:00Sugar, Sugar ....<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/a343afb94980daf1ad7998770c47f724bc0689c0/medium/sugar-consumption-graph.jpg?1431709396" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />The amount of sugar that get consumed is huge, around 22 teaspoons each everyday. Wow! Spooning it down! And i eat even more than that,“I bet.” Well anyway I am going to check. I am going to start keeping track. I don't eat fast food anymore so it should not be hard. By cooking my own meals all the time it will be easy to moderate sugar intake, easy as pie. I will be able to moderate my sugar intake by keeping track off how many 25 pound bags I buy a year. Ya I know 25 Pounds a pop! How much sugar do you eat? Ever think about keeping track? I think if we all kept track allot of us would be mind blown by the massive doses of sugar and other sweeteners we have been taking. There is sugar in everything. Well everything that is proceeded. But there are other options. Sugar is also in unprocessed food. So you can get your fix elsewhere. Fruit have sugars and fiber. A great way to get a sweat rush. Fruit can also be grown. Anyone can grow it. Planting fruit trees can help world hunger and the environment. When we eat processed sugar that comes from factories far away it is not helping anything. The sugar lobby is super powerful and has reached into a bag of tricks once employed by Big Tobacco. Government subsidies for the sugar are a very hard pill to swallow and they never end. While fruit growers are being pushed out of business more and more. Along with GMOs and Chem Farma the fruit industry is fraught with pitfalls. Good old nature is still available for some of us. I am grateful for that.</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37086522015-05-14T11:35:42-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00The hope for a ...<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 16pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/2a90027abf33675c356be08ded73ce308d33c585/medium/africaschoo-tabletasteac.jpg?1431624932" class="size_m justify_center border_" />As a child we were all told of the pursuit of happiness, freedom, and responsibility. Yet as they told us about these most important concepts they did the opposite. treating us like slaves, or future slaves, good for one thing and one thing only, to capitalize on. Under the guise of education the rich and powerful have reached into our childrens everyday life. Trying to "brand" them to their products for life. How much is it all worth? Is a dollar worth more than a life? Why? So few have so much while so many go without. And the pursuit of happiness? Try that with no money and no way to change that, no opportunities to make life better. I challenge you to think of the opportunities that you were or were not given and imagine how that could have been different if you were in another place, maybe Africa or The Arctic. Taking away the hope for change is the aim of the rich and powerful. They don't share well. That's why it's hard for a rich man to get into heaven in the Bible. the power elite loves to watch as the poor kill each other over scraps. Lets make a change. Lets remind every one that apathy and hate are not helping things. It's up to us. </font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37050622015-05-12T13:20:45-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Where does it?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/5780294fb7ba56dc445b4c974f7e1acaa93ec1de/medium/help-sign-above-water-007.jpg?1431458433" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />How does anyone get something going these days? Do you just hope or is there some secret approach to making money. I have ran my life as a business for around 7 years. Yet still i am in the dark. How do you make money when it takes money to make money. I have a business that really cant fail. Well if it does that would mean i passed on or something, my life if my job. I can see great potential for huge earnings. The commodity i have is worth tons and could be huge. So how do we make it happen? What do i have to do? I am willing.</font> </font></font><font style="font-size: 15pt"> </font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37031342015-05-11T13:58:37-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Why ask Why??<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/9fa9d27fe522fe470ae1a14ac6727d7ef23f3f2d/medium/hands.jpg?1431374296" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />More and more these days i am noticing a pattern to the way people treat each other that seems contrary to the common good, making things worse across the board. There is a very hateful and quite cynical way of being that cuts off normal social interaction and leads to arguments and in the extreme results in violence. We seem to have lost the hope we had for change and in doing so we have turned to the things that have caused the problem, precipitating the decadence of society and the ruin of the dissociated communities which we come from. Our grandparents were very social. Clubs, groups were the norm. Now a club or group could be misconstrue as a gang or cult, new laws discourage people from forming, joining any organizations. To top all of it off we have the internet. People off in their own little worlds. Each of them in a fantasy life where they can be and say things they cant in the real world. You can share ideas so much easier, but will they fall on deaf ears. In this day of fast information how do we stop and smell the roses? And in the world of personal entertainment and cut to order news can we be unbiased in our ideas?</font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/37020032015-05-10T20:02:54-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:0014 Billion Years<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/3880f8ecffbabdf164b9a4f665b9add2ac13b211/medium/toe-tag-black-white-1.jpg?1431309761" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />For some reason there is a lot of mystery around death and what its like when you are dead. Will we feel time pass, or is there a heaven? Now i don't claim to know, but I was dead for 14 billion years and i can say from that experience that i did not notice time passing, feel, or think anything till my first thought. floating in the womb i remember wiggling my toes, the feeling was calming, even pleasurable maybe. Later i remember wiggling fingers, i think it was later due to my toes forming earlier than my fingers, that’s how developed i was when i started being. So all the time since the beginning passed in an instant before that thought. Now why would i believe it to be any different after i die? It was not that long ago and my memory is quite clear. Do you remember your first thought? You have been there to. Did you feel time passing before life, when you were dead? So now when i die everything that will ever happen will and the universe will come to an end. Or will it???</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36986332015-05-07T23:50:16-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Testing 123 ???<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/82ed48366ebb57073efd35688994afe090e74ade/medium/test.jpg?1431064198" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />For some of you that know me or have read about me know about my experience with I.Q testing and other intense testing. While my stance has stayed the same all these tears later. I still think tests are an very ineffective way to . Learning to vomit up knowledge on command instead of learning , really learning is a waste of time. The truth is that the schools are not there to teach. You are not there to learn. Learning to learn, learning the join of study. This is a concept almost banned from my education, The schools i when to spent more time on fear and hate then on the joy of investigation. Behind the Pius shroud of religion they taut us to follow orders and never ask question, to have faith. What are science hating fanatics doing teaching anyway? What would the world be like if you were taught to love instead of hate and give instead of take. What happen to the Golden Rule? All this violence and greed, Money and Hoes Gots to go." Is there something wrong with feeling good? Do they want everyone to be sad and in pain? The world left burnt and dead? And soul, why did we lose soul and get Tough guys and G's. It seems like its less and less acceptable to be different, like everyone is the same. The same? Yeah right. You wish. Yea of little faith. Unable to entertain a thought without freaking out. Well thanks to pretest phobia and fear of failure many kids get a kind of PTSD. Some never get past it forever afraid of testing themselves, doomed to stay still never gaining the spark that builds the flame that is knowledge and the need for it.Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36970192015-05-07T02:00:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00You Tell Me<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.17in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 13pt"><font face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/c5d9bf0641ca44db8c46c578fc6fb345d7d45e25/medium/pigs.jpg?1430976853" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />years ago my truck was stolen. i called the cops. they did nothing. a week later a well know local "drug dealer" knocked on my door and told me he had seen what looked like my truck a few blocks away. as i walk up to my truck(shell missing) i see a truck drive by with my shell. so i call cops again. they say go ahead and drive my truck home and that's is that. i tell them about the shell and the guy driving by with it. Yet that's that they don't investigate no finger prints nothing. so i drive up the way looking for the truck with my shell and sure enough it a few block away. so i call cops again. now after explaining over and over they come and arrest the guy. they help me return my shell to my truck and they kind of look for my other missing property to no avail. Then the guy they busted goes back to mexico.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36953942015-05-06T00:38:54-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Wow it's time for<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/9c081de1bf4afbd7aa66f24b7b4b251b49aa4472/medium/ballot-box-voting-sketch.jpg?1430894309" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />We need a big change in the way we deal with each other. It seems that in rewarding greed and blowing up the rich in to gods, We have left the people that matter the people that live in the real world out to dry. For some reason we treat rich people like they are special or even better than us. Even though they are rich, they are constantly given things for free, yet if you get something for free your a slacker , or a taker. A real anti-poor attitude is prevalent in our society, even though we are all pretty much poor. There are some real screwed up and very hateful people out there, people that vote republican that make less than 6 figures. And the Dems ain’t much better. Constant catering to the rich has caused a loss of any balls they may have once been perceived to have had. So as the election gets closer I have to wonder how they will mess it up (probably on purpose like in 2000) so a extremely far right asshole can be the next president.</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36933612015-05-05T01:25:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00What's the deal?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1"><font color="#ffffff"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/88116b0f0fd35dc36260d4b73339ee8f52704460/medium/newspaper-money.jpg?1430796168" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Why is it so hard to have a good debate these days? It seems like everyone already has their mind made up yet nobody has any real reasons. Most the time people just want to sound cool or smart and the actual point seems contrary. Sometimes the arguments can be so extremely thoughtful, like "i just know, i have faith." What? Yea of little faith. Using faith as a crutch is pretty ironic. Allot of armchair know-it-alls googling any possible outcome you can think of. If you see something you don’t agree with it is real easy to search up some stats or studies that found other results, more suited to your taste. In the days of pick and choose news how does anyone know whats really going down? Who do you trust when news ='s $.....</font> </font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36925072015-05-04T13:00:42-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Dumb is as<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="4"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/7175cfc89bf05c18836e13ec07ce3de64b1e06d5/medium/brain1.jpg?1430765996" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />I know me and i know that i have faults. Nobody is perfect. The only way to get better is to acknowledge your weaknesses. If you think you know it all, then you don’t, and wont. Knowledge grows, the more ya know about the more there is to know. As you go on you realize that it is a never-ending cycle. So the next time you get all up in arms over something you think you know about, stop and remember that you don’t know shit, and if that is to change than you better stay humble. When I am getting uptight I use this little trick. I remember that no one knows everything about anything. We are all fighting an uphill battle, learning never comes without effort and you will never be all-knowing. </font></font></font></p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36884602015-05-03T14:59:13-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Gun or not to Gun<font style="font-size: 15pt"><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/130546948d93ed4652de0086a26868f4a46a0331/medium/workx.jpg?1430686740" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />When we are under the gun or there is a deadline looming we seem to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get to it, with better than usual results. Those are the times when the good ideas shine threw. The proverbial cream rises to the top. Yet many of us harbor deep fear of the unknown. While so many are so afraid of so many things it is hard to get past the fear and hate. meanwhile the mass media push fear all day, using fear and hate to get past the ego to the id where the consumer lives. Still once the fear is realized and we make our stand we find the fear unfounded and we are quite capable to cope with anything.</font></font></font>
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36866072015-05-02T01:00:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00City on Fire<font color="#ffffff"><font size="4"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/2017d2977b9a3976bab3ed4bf6526b517da02c9b/medium/baltimore.jpg?1430536486" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Baltimore is burning and so is the national hate speech that never stops. Some say the rioters are "thugs" others say they are justified. Poor on Poor hate and violence are not the answer. Solidarity between the people is the only way. Anyone that says hate and violence are the answer is part of the problem. The reason we are all so pissed is simple. Its directly connected to our cash flow. If teachers, cops , and even burger flippers could survive on their income then i bet you would see allot less strife. The wealth gap has never been greater. The power is dealt to a very small group of super wealthy, a group invisible for the most part to the rest of us, living in another world, cutoff from the rest of us. if you had some chance at making a living, a way to better things, a promotion, a raise, but no, some people will complain and say "earn a raise" but that’s old school there are less and less raises and promotions, you're lucky to even have a job. Hard work used to be enough to get by on. Now you will be digging alot of ditches and still be poor as dirt. So i can empathize with the rioters. I have been harassed more that anyone-100s if not 1000s of times. Yet i still don’t go for hate and violence. They are the problem not the solution.</font> </font></font>
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<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36851442015-05-01T01:00:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00The Best Guitarist is?<font color="#ffffff"><font face="Aharoni"><font style="font-size: 15pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/3d9f138201ca95a52d2f7437a4da412966bc3de5/medium/neil.jpg?1430457763" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" />All the time you can hear people argue Jimi or SRV, EVH, or Eric. well I have heard it put to them a couple times and it seems everyone is the best if they chose to try to ,that is, if your good at it at all... And is it bad to think of ones own playing as better than others playing? Is it? It never seems to be enough for me . I can always find something to practice, a rif that i need to work out or a chord i need to hear. i could sit and play to myself for days on end and not lose interest, Music is like food for the soul. needed as much as the food for your body. Music is a great microcosmic view of the universe and life’s meaning. Harmonies and rhythm working together to make a song into reality. As real as anything, a song has a power undeniable and amazing. Keeping the music real and not contrived is our duty “Rock 'n' Roll will never die, Hey hey My My" </font></font></font>
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<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36835472015-04-30T01:16:49-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00G G G God?<font color="#ffffff"><font size="5"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/d4c86944add771c69f0445e5fc10eeb729fa3944/medium/god-02.jpg?1430378169" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />Who decides how we can worship? How do they justify infringing on an others right to worship? I make no secret that i used to take "Entheogens" as part of my church. I also make music, and Love....I also believe it to be the first and only true " religion" Sex, Drugs .and Rock 'n' Roll. You may think it a joke. Its not. The first documented "Religion" in history is small mushroom figurines and pouches of Herbs, Psychedelic herbs found on mummies. The connection between music and "god" are also quite apparent, people sing in church and always have since before there was a church. Finally sex we all can attest to the spiritual nature of sex. Therefore 2+2=4, your church probably is some kind of offshoot or copy of mine, "The First and True Church." Yet I had to stop taking drugs one of the main tenants of my "religion" all because some government code. i didn't get popped or ruin my life. I just had to protect the other tenants of my "church" so i quit. Maybe one day “religious freedom" will be a reality but till then music and sex will do.</font> </font></font>
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36825102015-04-29T12:39:24-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Sex or not to sex<font color="#ffffff"><font face="Aharoni"><font size="4"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/d9027f484b8d40bfeaf0cc2f2bf8027fcbbd4928/medium/pat2post3.jpg?1430332835" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />The music industry has gone all screwy. You no longer need a huge record company and a hit single to get your music played. but what do you do? How do you get people to listen? We all know how it is now, you can pick and chose the music you want as you want. The music is everywhere and free so how does someone get their music to stand out and get noticed? I have been experimenting with social web sites and chatting, trying to get people interested amid all the cute puppy pics and he said she said can be quite tough. People have developed a very cynical standoffish stance towards new bands. Sex? Sex sells, maybe passing our band off ass sexy would do it? The problem is like 75%+ of our listeners are men. So at-least so far being sexy would not be the best idea. I hope after reading this you'll have so,me ideas that you can share with us. So the road forward maybe a struggle and failure always looms but the music will prevail and we shall keep on rocking.</font></font></font>
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36809712015-04-28T14:14:52-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Fooled Again and Again?<font face="Batang, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#222222"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/19a3d40a7a700180bec446f4ae50f698fe411396/medium/tarot-00-fool.jpg?1430252151" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></font></font></font><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Batang, serif"><font size="3"><b>How does it happen that poor people are always standing up for and defending the rich and powerful? How does the populous get duped into giving not on;y their money but their liberty also? The fanatical worship of the wealthy is a very sickening display. What is it that makes poor people hate other poor people? We are all in this together, we are all poor. The bank owns all even the people in the government. Constantly complaining about poor people taking everything, and that they are poor due to laziness. When their rich heroes are getting all kinds of free stuff, and doing less and less for it, Now that sounds like laziness to me. so its all right for the rich to get free stuff but not to poor people that could use a hand once in a while. Poverty has been getting more prevalent and it has gotten harder than ever to get oneself out of it. Prompting the right to call for deregulation of all industry. Can you imagine how that would turn out? Oh wait, we don't have to imagine, it already happened. History can't be denied. The best this countries economy has been was due to socialist policies of the New Deal, and WW2. Child labor, safe working conditions and pretty much all aspects of business can and have been turned into ways to capitalize on every and anything and by any means safe or moral be dammed.</b></font></font></font>
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<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36782412015-04-27T00:05:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Hate?<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/bcace837d4cf29e1909e53a672aa5e17945e5d62/medium/hate.jpg?1430106045" class="size_m justify_center border_" />The effect of mass media on pop culture is a well documented. The effect of the mass media on long established social groups and religions is not so much. Should we start with the most popular of all social occasion, Christmas. Christmas mass dwindling in pop culture of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. Till an add campaign for Coke pushed Christmas into the modern form we are all so familiar with. All the so call Religious Holidays are pretty unfamiliar from their older incarnations. What would Easter or Halloween be without all the consumerist media plastering the walls and blasted from the rooftops. Still even with all the noise does the “true” meaning for the celebration still remain? Can we find anything of the old spirit in these stress fill shopping malls? I hear allot about a “war on Christmas” from people that have ruined the spirit of not only Christmas but everyday. Even missing the most simple of the messages given by the guy their big day is supposed to be for, the message of humility and being humble. Hate is not humble. Don't let the hateful trick you into doing their will.
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36770982015-04-25T16:46:56-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Kids will be ?<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/cc7df273f0dbf414b021049b6b2336276c804669/medium/img-kidsfun.jpg?1430002004" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Things have really changed since i was a kid. Things we did for fun would end you up in prison these days. Even the things they let us get away with at school, we sold weapons, knives, throwing stars, Bow staff....... all in the open in the class or in the hall, at school in the late 80s early 90s. One day my older friend came to pick me and a friend up after school to go shooting. With a 16 gauge pump action shot gun he walked right into the school threw the main doors with the vice principal and kids all around and most of them didn't bat an eye. Try that know and it would be allot different. Now big brother is right their just a click away. Everyone has a phone/camera/network at the tip of there finger. People are scared of everything and get up in arms over the dumbest stuff. Hate speech is the new "news". In allot of ways it reminds me of those days, out on the playground, everyone screaming, running a muck. I wonder what the kids will end up like. Will they have what it takes? Will they even have a chance? We will see..Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36762462015-04-24T19:42:09-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Breathing is Great!!!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/250fd5af8df862d998d945a238041c5bf758adb9/medium/lungs.jpg?1429926226" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><strong>It has been over a year since I smoked. I feel great. I have to say that it angers me that the vapor thing was suppressed for so long be Corporate money while so many people were being killed by big tobacco. Still I hear people talking about how bad E-cigs are. Well I think they saved my life. The E-cig made it so I could first get off Tobacco then help me ween down a little then I switched to a zero nicotine e-juice, and finally quit the whole thing altogether. It was I breeze. Had this been around I would have quit years ago. Know I am hoping my story will help others quit smoking. And on top off that I hope people will stop talking smack about something that has so much good potential. </strong>
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36742432015-04-23T17:59:38-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00Freedom! <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/4e0e46d23c7c32cd19d3a0fe3867ac8689274605/medium/freedom-vs-oppression.png?1429833683" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><strong>Someone said "money is freedom" . Ya right. Money is slavery. How many people even own anything? I know very few people that actually own a home or even a car. The bank owns it all. Did you know that under U.S law the bank is considered a person along with every corp.(with special privileges like sovereignty, something you don't have) So if money is freedom then the corporations are free and we are all their slaves. So stop calling this a democracy its a republic. Witch means we are ruled by our "betters". Our in-slavers. Boycott the rich....</strong>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36707652015-04-22T00:10:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00On the Red Rocks<font color="#ffffff"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/66abeedfded63b3d2edd6b845f2a82103a746f83/medium/redrock-ab1.jpeg?1429681947" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></font>
<p><strong><font color="#ff0000">When I was about 16 I had a near death experience. Not like I died and saw god, More like I was inches from eminent death. 200 feet in the air, not tied in and on the verge of slipping in the sweat covered Las Vegas heat. It's the third time in about half an hour that I am pushing the envelope, reaching past what normal and into a fear fueled insanity that I never really got over. Even to this day, out of the blue a sound, a smell, hell I don't know what does it but all of the sudden I am there again, as real as can be. (at least my body thinks so) hanging from my fingers with nothing to stand on. Shaking, sweating, fear of …...fear of??? Hum???/ well there where two things that kept me from losing it, from freaking shit and falling to my death. They were “ I would never play guitar again.” the other was “ I didn't want my Ma to have to go through that.” Not fear of death or fear of pain. Only Mom and Guitar....It took me ten years to get back on the rock but I am a way better climber for it...</font></strong></p>
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36692122015-04-21T09:57:09-06:002017-01-15T17:00:14-07:00School Days..<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_55366fe2126d84449497135" style="display: inline;">
<strong><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/632577a7dde2667b117d3048249f6e0383a04114/medium/mathonboard-denver.jpg?1429631779" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></font></font></font> <font color="#ffffff"><font face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt">Hate and greed were an unknown experience, that is until i was introduced to Public schooling and organized religion. Ever since the first day of school when I found out there were Mormons, Republicans and HATE. Being hated, belittled, ridiculed for my views/religion was shocking. I had always known love and kindness. And it made me think. lots of time to myself, Kicked out of every grade, failed by the public schools. I had allot of time to study and question things. While they puzzled over <font face="helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif">me, hooked me up to machines. Given test, puzzles, then in-between their questions too run on a treadmill. Then telling me i am a Genius with a 162 I.Q. All the time this is telling me that i am different. Different, that could and did sometimes way on me but i persevered and made something of myself. I am a Guitarist/Vocalist.<br>The Front-man for a killer band "Sal'tripin" just about to make our first album. I think that in the long run all the prejudice and torture made me smarter, stronger, and kinder, more accepting. Thanks for having me in as a friend and a wish of peace and love too you all. Pat Jr " Sal'tripin "</font></font></font></font></strong>
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<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36655412015-04-19T01:00:00-06:002017-01-15T17:00:13-07:00A wonderful Life?<div> </div><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/f5cf7e2aa06bf8b3ee7dc29735f21bb96f4641b9/medium/happyball.jpg?1429408037" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><font color="#ffffff">Each day we awake with the choice to make the world a better place or to make it worse. Will you make someone happy or will you make someone cry? After that you can ask, will I waste and pollute or try and be green. Does it make a difference? Will it help? Of course it will. Can you imagine if everyone was an ass. Everyone pissed off and out for trouble. Well that’s what the rich and powerful love to see. The poor have it bad enough. Making it better can be so easy if you let it. Nature usually can show us the way. Instead of fighting against her lets work with nature for a change. Man is always fighting against the flow. It doesn’t work. I hope we can get past our hang ups and find the path that nature intended us to walk and quit screwing ourselves over. So when you get up try and make a conscious choice to do what's right and lets all make the world a better place, the best that we can. We are the only ones who can do it. Its up to us. The world is what you make it. What we make it.</font>
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<div><p> </p></div>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36649222015-04-18T07:41:45-06:002017-01-15T17:00:13-07:00Afterlife<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/cc3fb5e00b9cd34b91a40b19316408b22644159e/medium/510px-skull-and-crossbones-svg.png?1429364639" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><font color="#ffffff">I want to talk with you about time. Time and the relativistic nature of time, not good old Albertos theory. I mean our relatively short perception of time and our lack of experience within it. First I ask you this. Do you remember the passing of time before your birth? Think of it like this. Your first thought, I was in the whom and had just formed tows. The feeling of wiggling them is my first memory, but I don't recall the passing of any time before that. Yet I see evidence that time was passing .Now will you feel the passing of time after death? That’s debatable, but I was dead before I was born and I have no proof that it will be any different. Everyone know what it's like to be dead. We were all dead before we were alive. If I look at it from there it becomes clear that when death hits, at that instant all time will pass and the end will come to all. From the perspective of the one dieing the universe will end, and we will all be together. So some may say its a sad way to see things, but I think its kind of nice. </font>
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<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36627502015-04-17T00:34:39-06:002017-01-15T17:00:13-07:00A Society of Trolls? <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/05a1811fc7c775e4550fdf2e75a41193c8d21418/original/hobbler-trolls.jpg?1429252649" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p><font color="#ff0000">Have you noticed there are allot of people around that know it all and get real defensive when confronted on their so called knowledge? Ready to type out a hateful rant towards anyone with a view that differs from their own. In these days of pie slinging and name calling, where is the place for thoughtful debate and a respectful engagement gone? If elitists and trolls are all the chat rooms are full of, then what can we do to change that? Being humble is a prerequisite for learning, and learning for smarts. Hey wait, if your so smart then why does 1% of the people rule over you? If we network our minds and think about something together, we can figure anything out. Lets leave the sad faces and hateful words on the playground and grow out of the childish way of life we have all so easily settled into. What make the human race so great? Just because we can talk? Well verbal communication is not so tough. All you need to do is moan or grunt to let others know if you approve or not. A dog can do that. Turns out that nonverbal communication is very effective and fish even do that. Or maybe we are great cause we build things? We make allot of trash and all the building is destroying the earth. That's not smart. So now that we are past all that lets start to figure out where we went wrong, and fix it. Hate and violence are outdated concepts maintained by the rich and powerful over us to keep us poor and them rich. Boycott the rich man and his hate and you will take his power for your own. </font></p>
<p> </p>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36611982015-04-16T10:28:34-06:002017-01-15T17:00:13-07:00Shipping the world to the future <div><p><font color="#ffffff"><font face="David Transparent"><font size="4"><span class="font_small"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/96c2e6625e9b06a171fb2b1c3dcf6c4787763843/medium/globe.jpg?1429211045" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></span>I recently received a package in the mail and it brought up a question I cant seem to get around. How is it that the cheep shipping takes the longest path across the globe? I sat for a week or so and watched the tracking as my package traveled back and forth up and down sometimes going the other way and even over shooting SLC. All that and its the cheap shipping. Now doesn’t it seem like going the wrong way around the planet then zigzagging across the USA would use more fuel and more people therefore being more expensive. With carbon, limited fuel, and the cost of peoples time should we be sending things hither tither across the globe? A product sold in china then sent around the world is cheaper than one built here and not shipped? How? Why is it cheaper to get a hamburger from 100 cows, from all over the world, than a burger from one cow from down the street? Is it? Its not. With the invisible costs, pollution, and human suffering figured in the price, you find that it is not cheaper. So I ask you “is the system acceptable to you? Do you care about the real cost of doing business or are you just worried about your pocket book? Because if you do the math it is not a sustainable business model. It's only logical that if your interested in long term profit you must also be interested in the long term effects of your business will have on the ability to make profit in the future. Also as consumers if you look at the prices. Buy it cheaper now and in a few years when the system is even further taxed by unsustainable consumption everything will cost much more. Pay more to keep using "green" practices? No way. The cost is way lower for "Green" practices when you think about it. All that money wasted destroying the earth so we will be not be able to make any money in the future, and it won't take long.</font></font></font></p></div>Patrick R Jr Baloughtag:sal-tripin.com,2005:Post/36595342015-04-15T12:36:37-06:002017-01-15T17:00:13-07:00On the way of the world and a living wage<div style="text-align: center;">
<font face="BatangChe, monospace"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/104655/89541aa0b58cbdd2c75fed81617e53548c0dc166/original/bad-economy.jpg?1429252997" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Everyday we as tax paying citizens have a responsibility to know were our hard earned money is going and if it is being used wisely. So I ask you this( and it may seem crazy) “ Why is it O.K to pay someones way in life but only if they are being punished?” Every year millions are spent on prisons to house more and more “criminals” that may have been spent elsewhere more effectively. It costs </font><font face="David, sans-serif">(</font><font color="#404040"><font face="David, sans-serif">New York's annual costs dwarf the annual per-inmate costs in other big cities. Los Angeles spent $128.94 a day, or $47,063 a year, for 17,400 inmates in fiscal year 2011-12, its sheriff's office said.</font></font><font face="Andalus"><font size="3"> </font></font><font face="Dotum, sans-serif">Fox news ). </font><font face="Gulim, sans-serif">Wow that’s allot!! Now couldn’t that money have been spent better? Lets get one thing clear. There are bad people that should be punished. Things like Murder and Rape or Stealing even things like Polluting should be criminal due to one major fact they all share. Someone gets hurt. A victim. So lets look at how many “Criminals” hurt someone and I mean for real not having there feeling hurt. According to</font><font face="Andalus"> <a href="http://www.drugwarfacts.org/">http://www.drugwarfacts.org/</a> </font><font color="#ffffff"><font face="David Transparent, sans-serif">On September 30, 2013 (the end of the most recent fiscal year for which federal offense data were available), 98,200 inmates (51% of the federal prison population) were imprisoned for possession, trafficking, or other drug crimes." Then there is the fact that most “crime” is committed by poor people. (meaning the 99% of us) and many studies have linked crime to poverty.(google it) “So the guy robbed the bank for money?” Like is there any other reason anything happens nowadays? What would happen if they where given the 40+ thousand before they got desperate enough to commit a crime. A living wage? Right wingers be freaking out saying “if you give them money they will learn to be lazy” then locking them up so they can sit on their asses isn’t? and “they are poor because they chose to be.” and most the time the person saying this is poor too. Fooled be the rich? Yeah right. If you get rid of all they wasted tax revenue from drug laws then relieve the pervasive poverty faced by some many then if you address the divisions the rich and powerful have placed on us whether fiscal or spiritual. Do away with racism and hate. We are all going to die soon so start treating life with respect not locking it up for no good reason...</font></font>
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