JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

I was a paid gallery member on the television show Judge Judy circa 1998. She gave me scrutiny, but after a quick shot back, gave me a pass. Judge Judy S. had fans of women who I screwed or would have like to have screwed.

I’d rather have the job this time.

John Rubens@raftofwater·5mReplying to @tedlieu and @robportman“Fi-ting for our survival.”–abridged #PeterGabriel@955KLOS….to keep me safe and alive. @petergabrielJohn Rubens@raftofwater·2mto keep us safe and alive. All my [#righteous] instincts, they return. The grand facade, about my pride, I reach out from the inside.–interpretation by @raftofwater@pontifex@KremlinRussia_E#KIMJONGUN: I don’t get no respect! @POTUS: “Haven’t I given you the utmost #respect?”

“…for our survival…”.–#PeterGabriel

“It’s wonderful!”–Fictional Kim Jong Un in space.

John Rubens@raftofwater·2mReplying to @AlwayzSusanDear @normanjewison re: #WilliamHarrison‘s #Rollerball: Did you know we’ve had a quarter’s game at our Church Harvest Festival for decades called “ROLLERBALL”? It works like roulette. One kid asked me for a tip. I was wrong and he lost his quarters. Boy was the El Salvadorian kidSweet James@SweetJames·7mHuntington Beach Restaurant Owner ‘Fighting for His Life’ After Oktoberfest Electrical Explosion That Injured 4 Others http://on.ktla.com/FpHha via @ktlaHuntington Beach Restaurant Owner ‘Fighting for His Life’ After Oktoberfest Electrical Explosion…A Huntington Beach restaurant owner who asked patrons to leave the area near the site of a transformer before it exploded and rattled a crowded Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday night was “badly…ktla.com

John Paul II

Poland Solidarity Vaclev Havel., Hungarian Unionists

Is Jonesy at the #PeterFrampton family reunion in #SanFrancisco tonight? @TheTubesGroup Fictional #CliveDavis: I am suckers. #EdSnowden: You may know how to hurt my feelings, but the @scorpions came to #GorkyPark.

John Rubens@raftofwater·2mReplying to @AlwayzSusanDear @normanjewison re: #WilliamHarrison‘s #Rollerball: Did you know we’ve had a quarter’s game at our Church Harvest Festival for decades called “ROLLERBALL”? It works like roulette. One kid asked me for a tip. I was wrong and he lost his quarters. Boy was the El Salvadorian kidSweet James@SweetJames·7mHuntington Beach Restaurant Owner ‘Fighting for His Life’ After Oktoberfest Electrical Explosion That Injured 4 Others http://on.ktla.com/FpHha via @ktlaHuntington Beach Restaurant Owner ‘Fighting for His Life’ After Oktoberfest Electrical Explosion…A Huntington Beach restaurant owner who asked patrons to leave the area near the site of a transformer before it exploded and rattled a crowded Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday night was “badly…ktla.com

#EddieTheJesuit I met at http://blessedsacramenthollywood.org said something similar in one of his homilies, “[Jesus said, “Go forth!” {I’m not going to coddle you. I am who I am. Get out of the church and into the streets?} Eddie had hip surgery. Never saw him again].

A hundred and fifty million dollars can buy a lot of bash.

NATO overreaching their bounds?

Off-shore balancing act like Mel Gibson’s Braveheart. Mel Gibson for a free people, and where the threshold breakers are the Irish. Mel Gibson portrays William Wallace for the Scots. See also, articles on “off-shore balancing” to save money on the NATO alliance in the periodical, Foreign Affairs.

Commentary

by John Rubens

October 7, 2019

P.S. Peter Frampton plays San Francisco, meets-up with family at reunion concert.

The Price of Confidentiality

John Rubens@raftofwater·1mReplying to @JudgeJeanine and @TomFittonPeople seem to complain more now. Old men are screwed if not bosses. Anecdotal: The empowered have their own tabloid mag., social media and administrative courts especially vested #federalemployees, e.g., @CIA. The @uscensusbureau is a little different. Where the rubber meets the road so to speak. #Complaints#Complainants are the minority report.

modified from original @twitter (online 6:30pm PT Oct. 5, 2019). Peter Frampton plays the LA Forum tonight.

#TrappedByMuzak In the elevator, at the supermarket, that old favorite…burn me an earwurm…COMES NOW [at Christmas]: The Alert: “You’re attention please. This is an actual emergency. I repeat, this is an ACTUAL emergency…’The Eagle Has Landed’.” Don’t believe it is Christ?

#SPECULATIVEFICTION by

John Rubens

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October 4, 2019

Doris Kearns-Goodwin on why we shouldn’t strive for Civil War but unified healing.

Roman Catholic

#Whistleblow my way to riches and power!

More of the same hypocrisy? #EnronBlonde #LadyMacBeth Tattle-tale society. #ChineseWalls Lawyers, Guns and Money–#WarrenZevon. #CHINA #KOREA #JAPAN

We don’t like lawyers.

“Neither do I generally.” @Stanford

If you can’t beat ’em, #me2種

Move over USC

#Diversity is a hypocritical lie! The employed of the rich are all yes people–or “You’re fired.”

“I didn’t make it up, @NBC did.”

“I’m a @CBS man.”–#BobFeerick, GM, @warriors 1975 “We needed affirmative action back then. Nate Thurmond was/is a class human being.”–John Rubens, downtrodden sixty-something who worked on thirty-something outside the boxing ring with Melanie Mayron et al.