moi with “Ignition”, which hatched on September 10, 2015
Depress ctrl and + keys together to increase text size; depress ctrl and – keys together to reduce
Amigo Rick Boettger, above, of Key West, replied to yesterday’s pawn sacrifice, Key West variations post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
Sloan, I would like to increase your chess grade from your self-reported “C-” to at least a C+. I say this as having been I would say a B- when I narrowly defeated you a few years ago, and knowing what was like having been a 16-year-old expert, basically an A-, when I was young and much smarter than I am now. Were you also a better chess player when young? Or does poetry, philosophy, and the various hard wisdom of a well-lived life clog the chess neurons, as I think. I’m glad we, after all we have lived, had our humble B- vs. C+ left to play with back then.
I replied:
Hi, Rick, hope all good with you and your lady.
I was terrified of chess most of my life, due to getting beat something awful every time I occasionally played it, so I never really took it up. Even though I knew how the pieces moved, I didn’t know whether the king started on black or white, or that the right hand square was white, right?
Likewise, I did not start out as a poet; in fact, I was terrified of poetry, because I did not understand it, and that made me feel about as stupid as chess made me feel, although sometimes in school I did have to memorize a poem, which, frankly, I didn’t really understand, which was loads of fun.
It was about 1992 that the poet in me awakened, and it was a star burst in increasing variations, tones, colors, depths and heights, but these days is only occasionally active. For a while, starting fall 2002, the soul drawings were leaping out of me, perhaps instead of poems, although some poems, which were watershed, did come still. Today, not so many poems or soul drawings come, but I feel I have a couple or three drawings rummaging down there in me, if I can get my ass in gear and give them a chance to come forth - they, like the poetry, tend to herald change for me, or they tell me something in play right now, which I see in a new way thanks to the drawing or poem.
In 2005, early January, in my sleep, I heard, “You need to learn how to play chess.” I awoke, yep, terrified. But I had been watching chess played in the late afternoons and evenings at Sippin’ Internet Cafe by pretty good local players and one street performer, and I had seen The Terminator playing at Anchors Away, the local AA chapter house, he managed the coffee bar there and took on all comers in chess, and I only saw him lose one game there.
So, I went to Anchors Away to watch and play, and was I pummeled, and my nerves were rattled, and I shook and trembled inside, and I wished I was doing something else, even as people started showing up at Sippin’ who were willing to play me, and the same internals happened, including feeling stupider than anyone I knew.
In time, my game did improve, but I really don’t have the kind of mind that can excel at chess, I’m a better bridge player, because it requires teamwork, but even that game, my mind limits my potential - I simply cannot remember all the cards, or many of them, and, in chess, I can’t see many moves ahead, or even two moves, and sometimes not even one, and that’s my moves; I’m a sitting duck for a good chess player, not seeing what he/she is cooking up for me.
As for philosophy and wisdom, I suppose my philosophy started developing before the angels abducted me in early 1987, but wherever that philosophy was headed was derailed and stripped and retooled by the angels, along with repeated demonstrations of how unwise I was, demonstrations still in progress. Perhaps the smartest thing I did was realize the angels were a heap smarter and wiser than I was, and I started looking to them to take me through whatever they were arranging for me to go through, such as, “You need to learn how to play chess.”
It took me a while to grok the angels had in mind spirit chess matches, as much, if not more than, human chess board games of wits, which, I suppose, in some derivative way, helped me move into playing spirit chess, which is another game altogether.
Sloan
This morning’s wee hours follow up from me to Rick:
P.S. In “Pawn Sacrifice”, Bobby Fisher tells a friend there is only one right next move in chess, and I have found that to be true in spirit chess, too. Today’s post at goodmorningkeywest.com will contain examples of that, in different human situations the angels arranged for me to engage.
In yesterday’s pawn sacrifice, Key West variations post, I reported:
“My friend Mike Tolbert, above, who manages KOTS, which is run by SHAL (Southern Assistance Homeless League) for the City of Key West, called and blasted me for the italicized portion of this part of yesterday’s post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
“‘In the dorms, the 3-ft-wide sleeping pads are inches or less apart. Unless you have an end pad [in one of the KOTS dormitories], you sleep next to two other homeless men. If one of them has an infectious disease, such as MRSA, influenza, hepatitis, scabies, lice, TB, you can end up with it, and I doubt you will see SHAL (Southern Assistance Homeless League), which runs KOTS for the City of Key West, or the City of Key West offer to pay your medical bills. In fact, if you make a stink about it, you could end up finding yourself banned from KOTS, for “whining.”
“Mike said, in fact, SHAL is the only agency in the Florida Keys which provides medicine to homeless people, for free, including hepatitis vaccinations. I told Mike I would publish that today. Am glad SHAL does that and will ask homeless people I know if they know about it, and what kind of experiences they have had getting free medicine from SHAL?”
So at the soup kitchen yesterday afternoon,
I sat near a woman who has been homeless, or nearly so, since I arrived here, homeless, in late 2000. Sometimes she sleeps nights at KOTS, but far more often she sleeps nights elsewhere. I asked her if she knew KOTS provides free medicine to homeless people? She said she never heard of that, but she herself goes to Social Services in the Gato Building on Simonton Street in Key West, and they provide her with free medicine, but not with medicine that is a narcotic. I think Social Services is a county agency.
A fellow sitting on the other side of me said he had only just arrived in Key West from Colorado a few days prior, and had told the monitors at KOTS of his medical problems, including severe diabetes and being on the newest kind of insulin. He said he was told to wait until 9 a.m. the next morning and explain it all to the nurse who came to KOTS that day. He was not clear if a nurse came every day. He said when the nurse came, he told her what all ailed him and the meds he was using back in Colorado, and later that morning she went somewhere and got the meds and brought them back to KOTS, where he then came back by and picked them up at no charge. He said, at a drug store, the diabetes medicine alone costs over $300 for, I think, a month’s supply, and his total medicine cost is, I think he said, a little over $500.
I asked the fellow if he thought everyone staying at KOTS knows about the free medicine they can get there? He said he thought they all knew. I didn’t know, and I had just finished staying there almost 3 months. All I had heard was Mike Tolbert telling me maybe ten nights ago, that two nurses were there to give free hepatitis vaccinations. The nurses told me the vaccination would be three different shots, some time apart. I asked the nurses if there was any way someone could get hepatitis from the vaccination? They said no, it was a dead virus that was used. I thanked them and said I would think about it and get back to them.
I found myself wondering at the soup kitchen yesterday, if people just getting by in Key West, who live inside, pay rent or a mortgage, have as good and cheap a medicine program as homeless people have here? If not, why not?
Yesterday, Dawn Bright, a Big Pine Key amiga dropped this into my Facebook chat:
Yesterday, a Key West native, known locally as a “Conch”, dropped part of my pawn sacrifice, Key West variations post yesterday into my Facebook timeline, along with some of his own remarks:
John Parker
Sloan Bashinsky Some off duty police officers provide security in Duval Street clubs, including commissioner Rossi’s clubs. A stripper, who had worked in several Duval Street clubs, told me about a year and a half ago that off duty police officers providing security in those clubs also are trafficking narcotics in those clubs. That was common knowledge in the clubs.
John Parker
John Parker Yep, you have good intelligence sources Sloan. You have great jail connections in the ‘know’. So who was plying April Dawn Thomason with narcotics?
===============================================
Sloan Bashinsky
I have yet to learn who what was. I imagine that will come out as April’s lawyer lays the blame on that doctor, for April getting hooked on heap gobs of Xanax and then trying to quit cold turkey and going nuts during the withdrawal and running over and killing that poor woman, but, as happens with you, John, you have gone totally off topic, which again causes me to think you are mentally impaired, or are just pretending to be, and you don’t give a shit.
John Parker
Sloan, talk to Dr. Jerry, not Slim Shady or Hunka Caca. BTW, I am not full of sanctimonious piffle. How come you democrat party memberx like to lie, steal, cheat, and then, fart- n -point at others?
Yesterday, this hardly unexpected showed up in online Key West the Newspaper (www.thebluepaper.com):
DEAN VOTED!
Supervisor of Elections, Joyce Griffin, confirms that FKAA Board Chairman Bob Dean voted in the City election during the early voting period that ended Saturday.
Dean was given a “provisional ballot” in light of the “Voter Challenge” filed by State Attorney Catherine Vogel last month.
This means that his vote will not be counted unless the City of Key West Canvassing Board decides to accept Dean’s proof of residency in Key West.
A State Attorneyinvestigation concluded last month that Mr. Dean resided in Key Haven and not in Key West and that he therefore should not be allowed to vote in City elections.
Vogel decided, at the time, not to prosecute Dean for voter fraud, a third degree felony, giving him the benefit of the doubt as to his possible criminal intent because, she concluded, Chairman Dean might have, in the past, relied on bad advice from former Supervisor of Elections, Harry Sawyer.
Now that Dean has voted again after being fully warned, before this election, the question remains as to whether the State Attorney is going to press criminal charges. At press time an email query sent to the State Attorney had not yet been answered.
Under Florida Statute, to remain in control of the FKAA board, Mr. Dean must be a Key West resident. In a criminal case, a jury would have to decide whether Dean committed voter fraud, with full knowledge, in an effort to keep his powerful position on the FKAA board. Voter fraud is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
Dean’s attorney, Michael Halpern, wants the issue to be decided by the Key West Canvassing Board, not in a criminal proceeding. The Canvassing Board is comprised of two City Commissioners, Jimmy Weekly and Clayton Lopez, and the City Clerk, Cheri Smith.
Dean is also a prominent figure on the Key West Housing Authority Board of Directors. Since the Housing Authority rules over the lives of a considerable number of Commissioner Clayton Lopez’ constituents in Bahama Village, we asked Commissioner Lopez, last week, if he would be concerned about getting on Mr. Dean’s “bad side.” At press time we had not yet received a response.
The Canvassing Board is expected to hear the State Attorney’s challenge to Bob Dean’s right to vote on Friday morning a the office of the Supervisor of Elections, 530 Whitehead Street, #101. The meeting is open to the public.
Stay tuned…
14 Responses to “DEAN VOTED!”
Yesterday, this howler arrived from Sancho Panza, a naturalized American Dominican Republic native living in New York City, and a retired Lucent Technologies scientist who sometimes does consulting work for them south of the boarder, he is fluent in English, Latin, Spanish and other “romance” languages:
Florida candidate for U.S. Senate admits to sacrificing goat, drinking its blood
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn’t survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood.
Now that he’s a candidate for U.S. Senate, the story is coming back to bite him.
The chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida has resigned to call attention to Invictus’ candidacy in hopes that other party leaders will denounce him. Adrian Wyllie, who was the Libertarian candidate for governor last year, says Invictus wants to lead a civil war, is trying to recruit neo-Nazis to the party and brutally and sadistically dismembered a goat.
It’s an awkward situation for the small party that’s trying to gain clout.
“He is the absolute exact opposite of a Libertarian. He’s a self-proclaimed fascist. He’s promoting a second civil war,” Wyllie said. “It’s absolute insanity. We must explain to people this is the opposite of Libertarians. This guy has no place in the Libertarian Party.”
Invictus, a 32-year-old lawyer who changed his given name — which he declines to reveal — to a Latin phrase that means “majestic unconquered sun,” says Wyllie is just running a smear campaign and is twisting his words into lies. No, he says, he’s not a white supremacist, pointing out his four children are Hispanic — though he acknowledges that some white supremacists support his campaign. No, he says he isn’t trying to start a civil war, but he says the government already is at war with its citizens and that it’s certain to escalate.
“The only question is when are the citizens going to start fighting back?” he said in a phone interview Friday. “I don’t think I’m the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I’m the only person saying it, and I think that scares people.”
Sacrifice? Yes. Brutal and sadistic? Not according to Invictus.
“I did sacrifice a goat. I know that’s probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans,” he said. “I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness … Yes, I drank the goat’s blood.”
He admits he’s been investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement. He is confident they’re still watching him, in part for a series of YouTube videos and other writings in which he discusses government. He renounced his citizenship in one paper, and in another he prophesied a great war, saying he would wander into the wilderness and return bearing revolution.
“I guess it makes me feel flattered that they think I am a threat to the stability of the system. It makes me think one man can make a difference,” Invictus said.
He insists, though, that he doesn’t advocate violence.
“You do not initiate force,” he said. “If the government is waging war on citizens, we as citizens have the right to self-defense on government.”
Invictus knows running as a Libertarian is a longshot — Wyllie was easily Florida’s most well-received Libertarian candidate and he only received 3.8 percent of the vote — and he acknowledges that being a pagan will hurt him with an electorate that tends to support Christians. But he said he is running with the hope of speaking on the Senate floor.
“If not elected, I still think there is a purpose for all of this and that is to get a message out there, waking them up,” he said. “They are the ones that control the government and not the other way around.”
Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I replied:
So, Invictus drank the blood of a dead goat he had killed. Since the early days of Christendom, people have weekly, or even more often, drank the blood, transmuted from red wine or grape juice, of a dead man their distant relations killed. I myself drank his blood many times, maybe 1,000, and look at how I turned out!
Surely some cyber twat can find out what Invictus’ real name is, after all, he had to leave a paper/electronic trail from there to becoming Invictus.
I think Invictus is right, a second civil war is coming to America, but my way of coping is to not worry about it in the least, perhaps because I’m too old now to worry about such a thing, perhaps because I would welcome it in a wry way, view it divine humor or cosmic justice.
I think it’s a howler Invictus claims to be a Libertarian and the Libertarian Party president resigned in protest and white supremacists are moving toward Invictus. Maybe Donald Trump will ask Invictus to be his running mate - if Trump ain’t a Pagan, then Pan never knew one.
Ah, but, if Invictus renounced his US Citizenship, don’t that Trump fuck him totally out of running for elected office, president, or whatever, in America?
FYI, at his request, I met with the Libertarian Party candidate Wyllie a few years ago, when he came down into the lower Keys looking for votes. I came away from our conversation thinking he was about as loony as Barack Obama and George W. Bush, but slightly different variations of loony.
Gosh darn, do you root around and rummage up entertaining shit, Sancho.
Don Q
Sancho wrote:
This story seems to have a Demonic twist to it… and since you are into politics and exorcism, I wanted to see if your Lordship had heard of this guy down there by your neck of the woods… seems as if he openly admits his familial ties.
I replied:
Your email was the first I’d heard of Invictus, but, yeah, he do have demonic ties, but then, so do G.W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama, and their successor wannabes, but they be more disguised to try to look like they be something they ain’t. Jesus told his disciples somewhere in the Gospels, if they cast a demon out of someone, a bunch of worser, bigger demons will come into that person. Perhaps better, therefore, just to shoot that person dead, if he/she be causing too much trouble, for his/her sake - mercy killing 
- or, just sit back and watch and see how dat picture show plays out, as karma and whatever make their entrances and their exits - or, try to do something that tilts the demon’s comfy zone into something like, hmmm, getting snuck up on and bit on the most tender place by, hmmm, a, hmmm, several lovely critters come to mind: brown recluse spider, electric eel, moray eel, deadly poisonous sea snake …
Right now, Bernie Sanders looks to me like the least close to the devil, of the wannabes.
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com
moi wearing my “Greetings Earthlings” baseball cap,
recently designed by a local artist amiga
just for the fun of it
I hope that the voters all see the type of man he really is. By voting he where he does not live is criminal and a felony. And if Vogel refuses to take action just might be enough to get her removed from office. Will be interesting to see if she will risk her ass to protect his. Clearly this man has no problem in breaking laws.
The bottom line is he wants to keep the seat.
He is clearly using a fake residency just to vote and keep the job. Do hope he ends up with felony. This is step 1 in cleaning up KW.
Er, JIMINKEYWEST, how do you mean that might be enough to get State Attorney Vogel removed from office? By the voters in 2012, or by some other means? If by some other means, short of grabbing Vogel and putting her on a boat and hauling her out to sea and dropping chum in the sea and hanging her over it head first with a rope tied around her feet while the sharks gather and she agrees to resign, in exchange for being taken back aboard and back to dry land, this ex-lawyer thinks it would be a long, steep, probably futile task trying to get rid of her.
Don’t you just love it that Dean and his lawyer Halpern are aiming at blaming the Supervisor of Elections for Dean lying to the Supervisor of Elections about where he really lived all this time, and in that way he was deceived by himself into believing he wasn’t doing anything wrong?
I spoke with an attorney from the Florida Division of Elections in Tallahassee by calling the Voter Fraud Hotline 1.877.868.3737. He was aware of the situation and that Dean’s vote would be reviewed by the Canvasing Board as to if the vote can count, however they do not determine if it is voter fraud.
Voter fraud is a separate issue all together and if charges are brought that is up to the State Attorney Catherine Vogel. I’m pretty sure that I read or heard somewhere that Dean his son and three others were registered to vote at the Bahama street address? One hundred gallons of water over nearly a two year period used by five people? The Dean family must be dirty… It sounds like voter fraud is rampant in KW.
How many other business owners live outside of KW and use their business address to vote on local elections that directly affect their business? It would be interesting to know the addresses of the 500 people who did the early voting. How many elections have been decided by five-hundred votes or less?
KKH, I seriously doubt, from talking with the Supervisor of Elections when I voted early last week, that she is interested in going after anybody who lives outside of Key West, and she is not interested either in going after people who live elsewhere 10-11 months a year, and owns and homesteads property in Key West, particularly, Truman Annex, and votes in Key West.
I do not believe the city canvassing board is the final authority, although it sure will make it easy for State Attorney Vogel to beg off, if the canvassing board, city commissioners Jimmy Weekley, Clayton Lopez and city clerk Cheryl Smith side with Dean.
While I don’t find this to be particularly newsworthy as breaking news, “KKH” does make a good point that there may be other non residents using their Key West business address to vote in order to affect decisions that may help their business. Maybe the business owners don’t feel they are being properly represented, which I find to be the greater issue.
But if it is indeed voter fraud, then let the chips fall where they may.
My guess is that Jimmy Weekly will have a hard time voting against him as they both go way back in politics, and Commission Lopez may feel the same regardless of the law. I suspect they are both beholden to him in various ways. It is a small town and
Dean has a lot of pull.
Mr Dean is not worried. If Florida State’s Attorney would not bring charges against Key West policemen for killing a tourist then voter fraud is like a walk in the park . How much money does this jack a__ make a year on this board?
To so nonchalantly cast his vote when everyone is watching tells me the fix must already be in.
Let’s see what the canvasing board will do on Friday! The Blue Paper needs to be there to cover the story. Have any of the canvassing board members been approached by Mr. Dean’s people? Ask them. Will Clayton stand up for the law and what is right? Should Jimmy recuse himself because Mr. Dean votes in his district – seems a conflict of interest doesn’t it? And what if the canvassing board folds – is there any recourse?
Could politics be any nore messed up on this little island? Let’s just wait and see how Election day turns out! Mr. Dean’s voting outside of the district where he actually lives may be only the tip of the iceberg. Don’t you wonder how many others vote in districts other than where they live? How would we know? And what about all the absentee ballots sent out of town or out of state – are they voting legally in Key West elections? I don’t know the answer to that. Could some people even be voting twice in different states? I think these are all important questions we need to know the answers to, so we can have confidence in the honesty of the results of our elections. Voting is handled very professionally and honestly in the precincts here, but we need to understand more about the ballots cast outside the publics eyes.
Yes. I definitely think the canvassing board’s decision has been pre-arranged. We’ll know for sure on Friday.
I hope that nobody checks to see where Ed Knight has been voting all of these years.
Mr. Knight has been voting using his address at 1 Thompson Island. The only unusual thing about his recent voting history is that he switched from Republican to Democrat in February 2014 and then back to Republican in May 2015. I’m curious what caused that shuffle.
http://flvoters.com/by_number/1138/78693_edward_b_knight.html
Quacks like voter fraud, walks like voter fraud, smells like voter fraud…Must be voter fraud….Having said that, ! sadly tend to agree with what “nyminute”as to Mr. Dean experiencing any negative consequences…
Just maybe this is the beginning of finding out why some are staying in office. Might be hundreds of fraud voters but nobody did the job of checking. Will take a lot of time and work to clean this up. Money can buy votes.
Perhaps the city commission would consider changing the people on its canvassing board at its next meeting on Wednesday so as to spare it’s current members the anxiety of having a possible conflict or friendship with Mr Dean. Appointing another commissioner like Ms Johnstown would prevent that and give voters a bit more confidence. It IS a small town,right?
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Zybop, it would take time to do what you suggest, public notice has to be given ahead of time for that kind of move at a city commission meeting. Personally, I’m glad to see this fall onto Jimmy Weekley and Clayton Lopez’s heads. They accepted the job, so they deserve the pickle they now are in. If they fold, give in to Bob Dean, then the suggestion for how to get State Attorney Catherine Vogel to resign, which I gave to JIMINKEYWEST, should work just as well for Weekley and Lopez, and city clerk Cheryl Smith.