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Re: AIDS in need of help....
Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Saturday, October 15 2005, 7:57:56 (CEST)
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>...who aids an AIDS society? Who will send them rescue? Who will step up and at least put them out of their misery? If I have to be the one to do it...okay. But I didn't ask for the job.
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>Had an interesting chat by phone with my pal Narsai today. I was at the foundry in Monterey checking on the progress of a maquette of Ashurbanipal I'm donating to his madcap event to benefit the Christians of Iraq we blow up...it's the least we can do...after all, we all LOVE BetNahrain...right?
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>This year, rather than put out a bunch of money up front casting sculptures, we thought to have only one available to be taken home...and borrow others from people who own them to display...if someone wants one, we take a deposit and then cast it for them...that way the AIDS people don't have to commit any money up front...how much more reasonable can an Enema be?
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>Being also a reasonable man, bent on actually doing what he says, Narsai had committed to the sculpture before a meeting of the AIDS Bored...apparently this meeting took place only recently and my offer was refused. Some Bored members came equipped with copies of posts they'd downloaded from here to prove to Narsai that I was unfit to be used as a means of helping "poor dear" Christians...they made sure to include some in which I had been critical of Narsai himself. He read portions over the phone and I collapsed laughing...and then realized everything I'd said about them was TRUE...that they had just made my point for me..like any chuckleheaded grairs.
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> I might add right now that out of all common sense Fred Aprim's name appears on their list of sponsors along with Diane Feinstein and several other real people. When I asked Narsai about this he said he never heard of the guy...thought a little...asked someone else and said, "isn't he a writer"? To which I had the great pleasure of replying.."sure, and I'm DaVinci". Anyway, I have no doubt some relative of Aprim's inserted his name in there to boost his status as a self-promoting, vacuous son of a bitch...my apologies to his mother but then people should really watch who they associate with. The last thing Aprim wants to see is his $19.99 "book" next to a $10,000 sculpture of mine.
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>So Narsai informed me that the decision of the Bored was that they do without any sculpture from me...and my response to that was the same as my response to all these delightful boys and dweebs...'thank you for making my case FOR me". I've made no secret of the fact that I think the AIDS society is on a fool's mission...that the people in it are serving themselves, not anybody in Iraq...that they are committed to KEEPING people in BetNahrain in order to have a "presence"...of someone ELSE...that while they all ran out or are as glad as hell that someone else took them out...they want nothing more than to make sure no one else avails themselves of the opportunity...also, there is a good deal of guilt involved..as there should be for we are all murderers in this modern age...but by eating really well for one night a year they get to polish their souls a little...a very little. Only they don't want to be TOLD that.
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>Still and for all of that, Narsai is an honest, hard working fellow who means well but has fallen in with some pretty disreputable types...I don't fault him directly for it's an emotional response...he told me once of an uncle who sent a dollar here and there back to Urmi in the 20s to help out...he said he'd read some of the letters grateful recipients had sent to him in Chicago thanking them for saving their children's lives...with two bucks.
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>But that was then...this is now...and if we don't figure out another way, but go on kissing the backsides of every Westerner who want to "save" us...we're dead and dead we should remain..if this is all we can do. The people who are "moved" by the "desperate" plight of those "poor" Christians are NOT the type to do anything in the OFF season...when no one is hunting down Christians, but all are busy loading up...they prefer to wait till after they're raped all over again to "help". That has got to change.
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>Narsai also pointed out that I had said I wanted two free tickets to the event...for family members..and then added jokingly that if I didn't get them I'd buy one myself and show up!!! That was a joke...lost on national people. Apparently they're afraid I'll come and mock,(you know how peasants feel about being mocked), Jackie or something...So I asked Narsai..."this is an event to raise money for NEEDY Christians in Iraq...will you REFUSE to accept my money and deny me a ticket"? That gave him pause...as if a dim light went on somewhere...is this event intended to help the Iraqis or is it to benefit those staging it...which was EXACTLY the point I raised earlier.
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>If your child needs the best damn surgeon around but the guy disrespects the hell out of YOU and mocks you...yet is the ONLY one who can save your child...what would you do...insist on another doctor who RESPECTS you? What about that child?
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>My sculpture isn't going to save anyone...but the first and last time they tried it they raised $10,000 from ONE piece. That was at a time when tickets cost $250 each...so you could say that I represented forty individual tickets...that's either eight or six tables. Do they have any single corporation that bought FOUR tables??? This event is supposed to raise money for IRAQ...not be run in a manner that won't give Jackie heartburn..or fry Aprim's nuts.
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>What if the surgery they planned to finance for a Christian child..one NOT killed by the bombs they sent over...needed $10,000 more dollars to be complete...are you telling me these people, in all good conscience, could REFUSE my donation because of what I say...about THEM? can't the industrial strength fools see that this PROVES MY POINT?
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>I don't agree with what AIDS is doing...I think we always react...I think if it takes someone blowing the walls off an old lady's home to get you to want to buy her a new roof...there's something wrong with YOU! This happened before and it will happen again..if all our "best and brightest" are going to do is wait until THEY are discomoded by graphic images of human suffering while doing NOTHING in between...then they can hardly claim to be DOING anything for anybody that anybody needs.
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>These people are reactionaries..they are not creative..and what's sad is that Narsai has fallen in with them...they use him and will dump on him in the end...as they sort of already did...Narsai has loaned his good name...by which he lives and thrives in American society to them, as well his time, contacts, reputation and energy, for the purposes of raising money to help Iraqis...it seems to me a slap in his face to tell him they are going to remove thousands of dollars from the total because they feel "mocked".
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>On top of that this national bullshit about Mar Bawi and the Chaldho-Assho thing, with his name appearing on the AIDS board of sponsors has pissed other jackassyrians off and there is fear that many of them will NOT buy tickets or refuse to support their efforts any longer UNLESS Mar Bawi's name is removed...once again proving my point...these people consider MOST important what is LEAST important...that's why History has them in the toilet, where they belong...that isn't MY declaration based on prejudice or dislike....it is where they have put THEMSELVES....but give them a Rolex watch and they'll never mind or notice that they're telling time from a toilet.
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>I have no desire to attend and if I did I certainly wouldn't go there to disrupt their evening...that's a bogus claim...it was the AANF itself who caused the ruckus in Chicago AND San Jose...I behaved myself well and correctly...in the end it was their own officers who had to hide from police in Chicago...same thing in San Jose..it was Jackie and Golani who caused the disturbance...I was there to WORK...as I have for 23 years past with never any problem...until I refused Jakcie's indecent proposal.
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>Besides the maquette of Ashurbanipal, worth $6,000, I was donating a Chariot of Ashurnasirpal worth $10,000, a maquette of Shumirum worth $6,500, one of Hammurabi worth $6,000, (plus one more which I wasn't able to finish in time)...and more than that...I had agreed to do so every year they hold the event as long as Narsai is president...because I believe in pluralism and the value of a "Loyal Opposition"...I oppose their efforts...but will do all I can anyway to help out. Assyrians are like that..it's this infestation of Christian fundamentalists that is killing us.
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>All together I was donating a total of $28,500 of sculpture to their evening...and all I asked for were two measely tickets, neither of which I would have used myself. Like I said...no one TOOK Assyria away from these people...they dropped it and ran all by themselves and they're STILL running scared.
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>My immediate reaction to Narsai's disinvitation was to suggest that he contact someone privately and just sell the sculpure...and turn the money over to AIDS...that thought seemed to take some of the sting off of this thing...after all, he was now going to have to pay for the casting,,.which he didn't mind doing...but the idea of making juice out of the lemon handed to us was pleasing...to us both.
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> Then I went and did a typically Christian thing, completely ignoring for a second my deep Pagan convictions...I am ashamed to admit, gentle reader, that I got pissed later and thought, "fuck THEM...why should I help them out?" Which shows you the perils of associating with lower types who will manage only to bring you down to their level... And, in a flash, I caught myself and slapped myself upside the head...we are only human after all and it is human to act like a grairs most of the time...but I realized, thank Ashur, that I was in danger of doing the same thing I was criticizing in the AIDs people, that is I was placing my own feelings above the task in hand..the SUPPOSED task in hand...this entire thing wasn't about me and my comfort level or if I was appreciated or loved...it was supposed to be about HELPING the people of Iraq...for me to refuse my help because I was pissed was as bad as what the AIDS people did...they wanted to deny thousands of dollars in aid to Iraqis because of a personality spat ten thousand miles away between people up to their arses in whipped cream who have nothing more "dangerous" to face than their own hurt feelings in a mirror.
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>Keep your eyes on the Prize...always. The goal here was supposed to be helping Iraqis...not assuaging Aprim and Jackie. the only good thing to come from this will be if Narsai begins to take a harder look at the people using him...and see just how they use him...how they just made his task thousands of dollars harder...denying him and the people of Iraq the help they all claim they are dedicated to delivering.
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>Of course Narsai can have the sculptures I promised..and I have no doubt he can find people glad to buy them and donate the money to a good cause..it's a pity the AIDS people themselves don't share those views.
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>note: I have no doubt whatsoever that Aprim...Wellfed and Jackie had a hand in this...none at all.



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