Why the name Ranch Chimp? it was in humour because, science says that humans have similar DNA to a chimpanzee,so I felt some way related biologically to a chimpanzee. 2nd, everytime I was out of Texas on a vacation or for whatever reason I’m always asked things like, do I live on a ranch?,or have cattle? so I commonly call Dallas the Ranch. "Politically Depressed" was also humour inspired by the 1993- 2002 Bill Maher TV/ tele show "Politically Incorrect".
Halloween Greeting's from the Ranch (Dallas) and Ranch Chimp ... and for this posting you can just call me "Bobo Ebolo" for my Halloween character }: ) heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. But it's that time of the year again where many American's love to be scared half to death, and there is plenty out there to give you a jolt! Below I just wanted to post some videos from a couple local haunted house hangout's "Moxley Manor" and "Thrillvania" ... and added a unique lil home decoration for the season from Mr. James Faulk of the City of University Park here in Central Dallas, which may not be in everyones taste ... but I thought it was pretty good and cool myself, some photos of Ms.Maria Jose Cristerna, and a video news piece from the house in Central Texas today of where the classic horror film "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" was filmed. Anywayz ... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! ... and Happy Birthday to Oscar (daughter's fiancee) who's birthday is October 31st! {: )
Maria Jose Cristerna (Mexico) aka "Mexican Vampire Woman" ... just wanted to add her pictures here, since she is a favourite of mine as far as this type make- up, body art and image.
Another posting that is long overdue for this journal's music/ arts honour roll society, will be to honour and look at some of the music of Lydia Lunch ... and because of her multi talent's besides her physical beauty, she will also be highlighted for the "Beautiful Girlz" series of this journal too.
Back in the 1990's I was invited to her gig in a small underground venue by a buddy and fellow musician Joe, at the time I only heard her name through the grapevine, but didnt really know too much about her or her music at that time, well ... after that experience ... I was hooked! Lydia is just a bundle of raw talent, and keep's it raw and to her root's to this day. She is out of the Empire State New York originally (Rochester & NYC), and as far as a lyricist ... she has to be one of my all time favourites along with another of mine Lou Reed also out of NYC. But Lydia is also a writer, a self empowerment speaker, musically talented as far as songwriting, instrumentally and vocalist ... with a voice that is very flexible and versatile ... from soft and sensual to raw and raunchy, she can fit into alot as far as genre, from an old school jazz style to punk rock to industrial or just about anything ... she is also an actor/ actress on top of it, so rounded all the way around in arts. A lil more as far as the array of folks she worked with in the above links.
It was a toss up for me as far as what to post on this artist as far as music, because of so much I like, so I just chose some favourites of mine below for this posting. Lydia is also like a breath of fresh air, especially here in 2014 with the saturation of backed sewage and constipation in our mainstream society from bullshit to pop- culture cultism to corporate communism to religious fundamoralism to political correctness to mass marketed homogenized and overly produced music bundles and other plastic dime a dozen psychologically programmed entertainment's, that we only like because they are force fed to us in the mainstream 24/ 7/ 365, to where they become well known and embedded in our subconscious. But Thanx a bunch to Lydia and her crew(s) for all the great work ... and best of the best for them ... some listening below ... Enjoy!
Thomas Hudson Pickering aka "Ranch Chimp", "Commie Tommie" & "Skool" (short for old school) to kid's locally
This Part 3 of "America's VOTE BOAT" is just a spontaneous posting I didnt plan, that just caught my atencion while watching and reading some general news stories in the mainstream on this beautiful sunday morning here on the Ranch. And this is one of those thing's that I didnt see coming, since so much is going on that distract's us, so I just now caught this early this morning. As I wrote on the Ebola posting, I would hope that politic's would stay out of this and how hysterical the national panic was getting ... well ... it's even more hysterical today than a week ago, and now there is politic's galore incorporated. But it's kind of easy to pick up on these thing's, once you really take a look, because we cant do anything these dayz without some mega corporate influenced politic's spoiling it, and putting some kind of spin on anything for their gain, whether it's war/ defense, healthcare, economy, job's or whatever, you name it. Since they spend so much time, money, and interest in these thing's like Ebola ... it would be great if we could send a bunch of Ebola patient's to Wall Street and Capitalism Hill, so they can take care of them first hand, eh? ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: )
Notice that the Ebola craze has now taken over all mainstream media along with this ISIS stuff ... I mean ... I seen on the news today that there is now panic in California over Ebola, which hasnt even came within a thousand miles of there, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) Notice if you live in Texas, the new political ad's against Wendy Davis (Texas Democrat Gubernatorial candidate) ... but not just in Texas, but all strong republican states in the USA ... that Wendy along with other states Democrat candidates are comparing Wendy and them to Obama, and trying to make folk's on both sides believe that every problemo in this country is because of Obama (this shit is all staged basically), then saying that folk's like Wendy are simply Obama extension's, there is also plenty of media blaming our so called failed healthcare to contain Ebola better on President Obama and other media trying to connect Obama, Africa and Ebola ... even some saying that the President is behind a masterplan to bring Ebola here to kill people. And now the fear is even spreading louder here in Texas than a week ago ... how convenient, eh? ... right less than a week before early voting here in Texas.
It appear's that this is being used to expand this mass voter suppression ... scaring people from getting out to vote on the left side that may be low income/ working classes, encouraging right wing common folk's to get out and vote with scare tactic's painting President Obama as an evil villain, telling them that Obama and the Democrat's are using ObamaCare, Ebola, and the rest to lockdown America and depopulate the masses, etc, etc. You know that the mega corporate and banking money is feeding this shit, since they have so much invested not just in the media's, but politic's today. Also this week notice that the Supreme Court upheld the new voter ID law's in Texas ... timed just right as a last minute side dish ... to suppress voting even more. Why would they focus so much on this, since both parties are being largely funded by corporate influences? ... because as I wrote throughout this journal ... we are in a football game, and now down to the last minute of the game, the left is up by 7 point's , GOP has the ball and 1st and goal from the 10 yard line with no time out's ... they got to score basically, but not just go for the touchdown, but also the 2 point conversion play after, to win with a 1 point advantage, otherwise they would tie up the game and have to go into overtime if they scored the touchdown and extra point, and their too impatient, cheap, lazy ... and screw up too much, meaning they have nothing else to offer, but cheap rehashed political spin playz. This win would give them even more of their power in Washington ... they are also pushing so hard because they are frightened to lose Texas, they know that Texas urban area's are now more liberal and they been losing ground fast ... and if they lose Texas ... they will lose a Hell of alot in Washington too.
I would love to vote for a 3rd party, I am one of million's of American's and Texan's, who is sick and tired of this 2 party game and monopoly, especially their lil bitch fight's and not getting a damn thing done, too much slacker vacation time and too many treat's, and just their overall weakness as far as leadership representation qualities, but ... I know that there isnt another party strong enough at this point .... so ... I vote for the lesser of the two evil's here, which is the Democrat Party, as I explain my reason's throughout these series and journal/ blog ... I was formerly a straight voting republican for many year's, but the republican party of today in my opinion isnt even pro- America or really conservative on much of anything. To think that you will discourage Texan American's like me and other's from voting using these cheap scare tactic's (and I would even vote in person against the GOP, if the only voting booth's were set up in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital ... that's about how much your petty shit scares folks like me/ us), or trying to make us angry enough to vote for a 3rd party who doesnt have a snowball's chance in Hell at this time ... your thinking is ill. As a matter of fact ... although I would like to vote for an alternative candidate/ party (more progressive in my taste) ... just because ya'll pulled this obvious cheap stunt ... it's going to make folk's like me support the Democrat candidates even more now! (at least this year). In fact ya'll are so damn slow and uncreative as hustler's and politician's, folk's like me can read you blindfolded your so slow. And even if you do win this round ... your bullshit is over in time, especially in Texas ... bank on it.
Word Out ... Get the VOTE OUT too this election day
***** POST NOTE (21 october 2014): I went first day of "early voting" on monday Oct. 20th, and it was pretty busy here in NW Dallas ... but it ran through real smooth too, no delayz, they did ask me for my photo ID, I gave them my drivers license, they looked at it barely and that's it ... no hassle whatsoever ... and I'm one of those longer voter's who also votes on every bond, amendment, proposal, city, county, and statewide. Also let me point out, as far as work, my dayz and hours are very flexible, there are alot of folks that do not have that option.
***** NFL SUNDAY: NY Giants will be here in Cowboys Stadium today at 3:25pm CST to take on the Cowboys ... and DONT take NY lightly because their not as strong as Seattle ... come out with every weapon kicking ass and pound them till the last minute! A stunning NFL show last sunday from the Cowboys who went to take on the World Champion Seattle Seahawks in Seattle, beating them in their home stadium, and dominating the entire game. Cowboys are now 1st place in the NFC East ... I think it's safe to say their defense improved from last year, eh? {: )
This posting to also serve 2 series of this journal ... "Police Brutality" & "Citation Violation Nation". This one will be the seat belt welt's edition to show clearly just how severe a seat belt violation can be in 2014 America, especially if your black/ African American, getting some good welt's from cop's jumping your ass. Some old school folk's like me are amazed to see where our law's have taken us, I mean ... I am one of those guyz that remember driving those large 4 barrel gas guzzling muscle car's of the 1960's and 1970's (first time I learned to drive was in 1968/ 1969, and the car was a mid- 1960's Ford Fairlane), when we paid about 40/ 50 cent's a gallon for gas, car's were so simple, you could actually do alot of your own maintenance ... no we never wore seat belt's (rarely), even hauled ass driving like 110 mph, and it was common in Texas to drive while drinking beer when you got off work, it was like culture here and normal, even cop's didnt fuck with you, there was no open container laws in Texas till maybe 2000/ 2001, and even no seat belt laws until then, if you got pulled over back in the day and had a few drinx in you, the cop would ask if you can make it home okay ... if you clearly couldnt stand straight, they would take you to jail, let you sleep it off and cut you loose in the morning is all. Now they will fine/ penalize you maybe $10,000 to $15,000 by the time your done with defense fee's and all, have you attending classes to repent and acknowledge how evil you are, crying in a group session about how awful and guilty you feel ... or are supposed to, cause if you dont, they will report you to your probation officer that you have no remorse, like they done to me once, after kicking me out of a group session, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) , spend a couple year's on probation paying monthly fee's, pissing in cup's (drug testing), and paying also monthly fee's for the device you hook up in your car that you have to blow into before you can even start your vehicle ... man, I have seen alot of changes.
Seat belt laws are no exception today ... they call it progress and safety, so there has been alot of progress, and even today they have made plenty of progress as far as getting an ass whippin on top of getting fined/ busted ... and if your a person of colour, your even more likely to get an ass whippin from law enforcement, than back in the damn 1960's at that! Today in our political correctness we talk about how colour blind we are, yet alwayz looking for folk's of colour to fine at the same time. So I first posted the video's at the scenes along with some newsread below each, which show clear as day what happened to Jamal Jones in Indiana and Lavar Jones in South Carolina, because of their crimes of not wearing a seat belt. Of course when you look at just the video's it can get you upset, and it should, because this is NOT what our democracy should be about ... but understand how the laws are wrote and what is going on, and what allow's this to happen, this is why it is very importante on our local level's as well as federal to push with our citizen review board's and group's to change these procedures. After I will add my part to this.
***** PD/ RCJ: "INCARCERATED AMERICAN" PART'S 25 THRU 1 ... a related series I wanted to include in this posting, that looks at many of the injustices against folk's incarcerated in America, and the money involved and corrupt politic's of the private prison industry in America
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Thomas Hudson Pickering aka "Ranch Chimp" & "Commie Tommie" (the car is a 2013 ZL1 Chevy Camaro convertible, with a LSA 6.2 liter supercharged V8 and 580 horsepower engine ... it dont fuck around (half- step), and neither do I : )
The case in Indiana where the car window was smashed and Jamal Jones should have never happened, the driver Lisa Mahone and Jones should have been just citated which takes a couple minutes and it's over. The excuse that police will use of course is that Jones refused to roll down the window further and step out of the vehicle when they requested him to. Okay then ... it is standard when a person cannot show a driver license/ ID (even though he showed a previous citation showing why he did not have such) that they will ask you to get out of the vehicle, because some occupant's will pull out paper's or such or even give phoney names, etc ... especially those who have active warrant's that they know of, it almost never fail's. Jamal Jones didnt have any active warrant's that I am aware of, so simply his refusal to get out was enough for the cop's ... and frankly, I dont see much of a case you can get in court against the officer's here, but just maybe some excessive force at most looking at it closely ... I mean ... I know how this shit worx fairly well, what to do and not to do, etc, etc. The thing is also, is that in Hammond (which is suburban South Chicago) has also laws that say an officer can request this even without "reasonable suspicion" (laws also slightly vary between town's), a law made recent because of cop's that were killed. If Ms.Mahone (driver) was the only one not wearing a seat belt, they would or should have only citated/ cited her and no asking to get out of the vehicle cause she presented the proper license/ ID, etc, and it would have been over (at least supposed to be), I mean, these cop's were careful to do everything legal, they did not ask Mahone to get out of the vehicle that I know of, and wouldnt have asked Jones to if he did not have a visible violation basically. So because Mr.Jones wasnt wearing it as well, is where the passenger comes into "question" ... then his refusal to comply with request's was reason for actual "cause" for extended search and question. They (officer's) also assumed is my guess, that this case was a felon who may flee, since they actually placed spikes under the tires of the vehicle, which in court will allow reasonable suspicion for arguement, and that it was not anything other on officer's Vicari and Turner's part. But ... the officer busting the window from what I gathered had previous write- up's for screwing up on the job, which should help a tad as far as the civil rights end for Jones. It's unfortunate ... but I am only telling it here like it is. So the police and City of Hammond will stick with the cop's on this one all the way I assume.
Of couse I think the use of force was "excessive" in Jamal's case ... BUT ... what so far this look's like would be a very difficult arguement to a jury in any court to find fault with the officer's response ... I mean ... they were using again ... the proceedures that they are trained and allowed to, okay? But yes, I know also that poor and minorities are more targeted when you have check point's/ road block's for random plate run's and searches, and in todayz society there is such a hunger to issue citation's anywayz, since they are a municipal cash cow of sort, rigged to make a buck in the name of safety and security. You cant argue it, because if there is a law against driving without a license, inspection sticker, registration, or seat belt, etc ... well ... you are subject to get citated/ cited, plain and simple. And traffic violation's bring in a fortune, and a large percentage of felony crimes warrant's that get apprehended, are actually accidental just from random stop's like this, where they just happened to pull over a car for a simple violation, and the occupant(s) of the vehicle they (officer's) find out later are wanted, sometimes on serious offenses too. I mean ... I seen murder suspect's that been running for a couple year's and covering their track's well, get busted by accident just from a random stop behind a tail light that was out and they didnt know it, or not wearing a seat belt even. This is where updating to law's comes in as far as proceedures that cop's should and can use. And much has to be done not just on the local level alone, but federal level as well, because of the variation's from town to town and state to state, etc ... pressing hard with citizen's review board's and other group's. The great part is that we live in an age where we can record/ video and document so much, and the outrage and response to some of these news pieces that inspire folk's to get off their ass and push for change across the land.
The other case with Lavar Jones in South Carolina, also a seat belt violation, but clear as day not only excessive force, but endangering the public as well ... notice how the officer acted so quick that he fired his weapon directly toward's the gas pump's, and even questioned if he hit his suspect Levar Jones ... this tell's you that the cop just freaked totally ... this SOB had no idea what the fuck he was doing, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) The officer was jailed almost immediately, fired and charged with felonies, etc. Lavar should sue the shit out of this SOB and department, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {: ) But as far as yelling for justice on this one, this look's to be difficult to even try to get any jail time for this officer Groubert, who previously was awarded a commendation for past action's and looked at as a hero of sort. Sure he is facing maybe 10/ 20 year's possible time, I mean, it IS a deadly assault and questionable discharge of his weapon at least ... but I seriously doubt that this guy will do any time ... here's the deal on this as far as the court end, and a trial ... he and his defense once again will simply state the situation, his fear for his life, saying something like Levar Jones "lunged" in a threatening way to get his license/ registration, etc, (regardless of what it look's like to us), and that he just freaked or whatever ... so he will get sympathy as well from any jury regardless of how brutal it may look. Maybe some counseling/ therapy, 5 or 10 year's probated to maybe 5 of probation if that (I'm not sure if he can get a deferred adjudication on this, but any defense attorney of his would try to get that as well if able to under law), and you wont hear much after, cause everything after will stay on the "low", but most likely this guy will get back into law enforcement somewheres else ... now ... local law agencies may hesitate to grab him based on that felony conviction, but there will be plenty of private security agencies that would probably grab him in a heartbeat ... I am just being honest here ... and explaining the reality. I mean looking at this with a legal/ court's perspective it look's to be a tad difficult to get any serious criminal conviction. As far as any civil damage suit against him/ officer ... unless he is insured or something or loaded with money, I dont know what can be got, the department though is who to go for on this one for a few thing's, and any civil rights violation's may be a tad difficult as well. We will just have to see.
This is why it is so importante to attack this stuff on local level's too, where these law's are made that allow these thing's to get out of control. Because with the anger in many communities these dayz, alot of folks may even challenge and defy police if/ when they get pulled over, just getting sick and tired of the bullshit and abusive tactic's, meaning that cop's will still act with the same force out of their retaliation, and what training and law's allow them to ... I mean, this shit can just go in circles and on and on, since everyone is on the edge these dayz. Understand also, without ANY indictment's, whether it is this case or the Eric Garner or Michael Brown cases or other's ... there CANNOT be any kind of trial, to at least have a jury hear out the cases and decide, you have to AT LEAST get an indictment on some kind of charge whether petty or grand, to at least get these thing's heard out in the court of law ... only then ... CAN a jury of peer's look at the case on that level and exonerate if necessary or find guilty of THAT charge or lesser or greater charges ... so technically and legally, none of these cases are even being heard out, only rigged in pre- indictment inquiries and proceedures behind closed door's. Until we address this, there will be more and more of these situation's and innocent citizen's getting killed even.
