Big Brother

Big Brother is watching you.

                                   "Not so Much"    by Big Dutch Nally
                                     http://outsiderfolkartgallery.1stdibs.com


Big Brother ?  Forget about it.  It is way too late to protect yourself, your privacy is gone forever.  The information you have not given away on Facebook and other sites can be stolen by hackers.  So called “smart” phones are smarter than the folks that use them and everything you do is recorded and saved somewhere.  In the early days of the internet sites added content to get you to visit and today the data you generate when you visit is the content. 

Can’t remember where you were Saturday night…..ask Google or Facebook there is a good chance they know.  And I dare you to explain the privacy policy being posted by any site…..ever clicked the “agree” button rather than read a site’s policies?  Unless you are a lawyer you have no idea what you have agreed to and if you are a lawyer there are other lawyers ready to argue the meaning of every word in the agreement. Years from now the courts will try to sort through it all but in the end the consumers rights will be limited if they exist at all.

Big Dutch got it right with his new painting “not so much”.  To see more by “Big Dutch” and Wm. B. visit the gallery links.  And don’t miss the Cigar Store Indians, a bit pricy for most of us but real treasures of Americana.

Lent begins

This year I am testing the “freedom of religion” feature of our constitution.  Or should I say freedom “ from” religion. I am giving up “Religion” for Lent. No Church, no Bible study, no money in the collection plate, no prayers, no Pope telling me what to do and no Rick Santorum.  Also no tv preachers……as much as I will miss the blessings and instruction of Pastor John Hagee, Jim Baker and the Swaggert clan, and the 700 Club, they are banished from my tv for Lent.  By Easter morning I’ll either be the first in line to get into the Church or sitting in my studio with the New York Times and a cup of espresso.  I’ll let you know how that works out. 

Primary voting today in Michigan and Arizona.

Not sure how this will turn out but It looks like Rick Santorum is the Catholic we feared when JFK ran for President.  Rick has made it clear the Pope will be guiding things when he is elected.  More about Rick later.





Mohnton F.C. Officers for 2012

Chairman………………………Wm.B.

Clubhouse Director…………….Big Dutch

Rules and Procedures…………..Monsignor Timothy

Bah-Humbug !

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving friends.  Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Big news:  David "Big Dutch" Nally and Wm.B. Nally (that's me) will have a showing of our work in 2012 at the gallery at Albright College in Reading.  Details are being taken care of by the Outsider Gallery and the College so I don't know dates yet.  As plans are developed I'll post them here. Dutch and I will be showing a lot of new work, drawings, paintings and constructions.  This winter I'll be in my studio with my cats painting, sipping espresso and enjoying the views ...... let it snow, let it snow.

                           Daybreak view from my studio.

The time allotted Herman Cain has expired.

Add Herman to the list with Rick Perry.  Nice try guys send your audition tapes to Fox news...good pay and a swell bunch to work with. Good Luck !

Penn State cover-up years in the making

No one knows anything.  Records are missing.  Police have no record of interviews or reports.  Joe Paterno did what the law required.  Coach Sandusky was just “horsing around” with the boys.  Penn State is exempt from public information disclosure requirements. The Judge that released Sandusky on bail  has been removed from the case.  The District Attorney of Center County vanishes without a trace.  The State Police can’t (or won’t) comment

                                                        Joe Pa Pope of Pennsylvania by Wm. B. Nally
And on and on it goes.  We can look forward to years of this.  Joe Paterno  ruled Penn State with God like influence for decades. The lawyers are lining up on both sides.  The alleged crimes as bad as they are can’t be allowed to interfere with Penn State football and the millions of dollars it generates.

Justice for the victims of this sick culture of football and money is years away and might never be served.

Pennsylvania…..safe haven for perverts?

By now news of the child sex scandal at Penn State has made the front pages across the country.  Add this grim news to the still boiling scandals in the Philadelphia area Catholic church and you might wonder if Pa is a pervert friendly environment. 

This fiddling with and fondling of children is not a new problem.  In the Church is has been going on for centuries.  Penn State’s problems are part of the football program that is at least 11 years in the making.
 

                                              Very Rev. James Thomas by Wm. B. Nally 2011

                                                     Father Mike by Wm. B. Nally 2011
                                                      (Mike is out on bail, awaiting trial)


The remedy for the Catholics is simple and could yield almost instant results.  My advise to the faithful is to go to mass…..go to confession…..say your prayers and  put empty envelopes  in the plate when offerings are gathered.  Trust me, even the Pope will notice.  Within weeks you will have the Pope’s attention and he will be asking the faithful what to do.

The remedy for Penn State is complicated by the politics of big time college football. Football in the Keystone state is even more powerful than the Catholic church.  The remedy however is simple.  First off…..Joe Paterno gets fired…..today.  Then cancel the rest of the football season, forfeit the remaining games and fire all the coaches, trainers and the athletic director. Honor the scholarships and get down to the biz of education.  The players can stay or transfer to a school  with a football program.  We will all be better off without the burden of training future NFL players.  Alabama is a much better place to train big guys how to play football. The weather is better down there…..and Football is one of the few things that people in Alabama have been able to figure out.

Power restored in Mohnton

Hi all............been in the dark since the storm.  New work will be posted in the next couple days.  Don't forget to turn the clock back this weekend.....once a year we get the chance to go back in time.  Sadly we only get to go back one hour, a five year reset would be nice but that ain't how it works.

OWS…What do they want ?

             "Know your role"        instructions for the working class.       by Wm.B. Nally 2011

OWS…What do they want ? 

Round 1:
Critics of the OWS protests are baffled.  The dumb questions they are asking is proof positive that they have no clue what is going on. A phrase bikers coined a few years back explains today’s situation.  “If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand”  Amen to that.  If you are so out of touch, so brainwashed or so stupid that you don’t know what the protests are about you have my sympathy.  I might add that you are going to hate the next part.

Round 2:
The bell for the second round rang when police began arresting protestors.  Charges range from disorderly conduct to arson and several other crimes designed to limit protesters rights are being dusted off and enforced.  The law enforcement action tells us that the protestors are starting to threaten business as usual.  Philadelphia protests have so far been orderly, peaceful and less than massive.  Even under these cupcake conditions the city claims the protests cost $15,000 a day in Police overtime. That bill will grow if the protests continue to grow.

Round 3:
The third round will be a test for the protestors.  Can they take the heat ?  Back in the day there were protests your parents and grandparents can tell you about.  They can tell you about snarling dogs, tear gas, formations of Police in riot gear, fire hoses and mass arrests.  It does not matter how peaceful and orderly the protests are, the more they disrupt daily life the more force will be used to control and end them. Nothing scares the powers that be the way people in the street can.

New weapons for modern times. The WWW, twitter, tweet, face book, blog, text, instant message, video, digital cameras, live feeds and cell phones allow for all manner of civil disobedience and social mischief.  Even Rupert Murdoch and his gang won’t be able deal with a few million pissed off people with smart phones.  Will the protesters take full advantage of these new weapons ?  And I wonder how the Tea Party crowd will react if  they ever discover they are being screwed just like everyone else.

Final Round:
How will this end?  Are the protesters tough enough and determined enough to really change anything. or are they just pissed off?  Time will tell.
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Herman Cain’s 999 plan.

Folks long for simple and easy solutions to complicated problems.  Herman’s 999 plan is simple but it is also stupid and won’t work.  But it does have the support of simple minded Republicans that can’t do arithmetic, and of course the support of well to do voters with  superior math skills looking for a tax cut they could only dream about before Herman came on the scene.