On Your On

As I listen to Mr. Joel, Billy the Joel, aka Billy Joel, the Piano Man, only can I think "genius."  I never absorbed the Beatles, until I was in my mid 30's, because I never listened to American popular music.  I was a classically trained pianist, although my reading skills were underdeveloped.  A classical pianist is forged with the eyes.  There is no other way.  How much complex classical music can you absorb by ear?  Tangible melodies can be copped by ear, but Chopin's notes, as are other Romantic composers, are dense and complicated.  So many notes!  Clumps of grapes they are called fondly by the commercial music community.  It takes a special musician to read this material, and it is dependent upon visual acuity.  You must be able to read dense music well, grand staff, concentrated content.  It is possible to be an excellent musician without this talent as proven by American popular music.  Although Early Jazz surprisingly to me was reading music (who knew?), Louis Armstrong would prove that aural skill equally was as important.  Listeners can't discern how accurately you are realizing these clumps of grapes.  What they do know is if your musical product, your rendering of sound and feeling, is original, expressive, and communicative.  I would say without feeling and a keen ear, your music will fall on deaf ears.  Let's say the classical idiom is reserved for those blessed with exceptional eyesight, and American popular music forged a new path.  Louis Armstrong could not read music.  Erroll Garner could not read music, and yet they were ground-breaking prodigious musicians.  The visual notation of music is secondary to the music itself, and with its need comes a vast expanse of musical politics.  The interpretation or rendering of written music may be one of the grayest and most contentious areas in humanity.  Most often it is realized poorly and with pretension by those with little musical talent.  Billy Joel's German-born father was a classical pianist, and Billy was born in the Bronx.  They moved to Long Island where he grew up.  My only question is whence did his vocabulary come?  His whole style of music, the rhythmic groove, the melodies, the piano riffs, and the lyrics.  Holy cow!  It is no wonder he is one of the best selling artists of all time.  160 million albums sold.  I did listen to Billy Joel in high school, one particular album on a cassette tape.  That was enough.  It had Rosalinda's Eyes on it.  That marimba!  I have tried to  tighten up, and from Youtube I have been expanding my historical knowledge of American popular music.  There is a plentitude of music, and it is rife for appreciation and learning.  I guess you are born with such a musical perspective.  Lucky you!  Pops, or Satchmo, or Louis didn't read music.  Instead he absorbed what was around him and interpreted it musically.  Louis Armstrong was sent to a "Waif's Home" in NOLA after firing his father's .38 revolver into the air in celebration of New Year's Eve.  He was determined to get out of there and quickly learned how to play the trumpet.  Some people are blessed.  I had to work diligently to become a competent trumpeter.  It took six weeks at Governor's School East at St. Andrew's College in Laurinburg for it to happen.  Playing the trumpet five hours a day will make you a better player quickly.  It was not fun a first, but as we learned the more sophisticated wind ensemble literature, trumpet took on a new meaning.  We had six in our section, because there weren't enough strings to fill two orchestras.  They made us a Wind Ensemble lucky for me.  I didn't make it the first cut.  Only after they expanded the trumpet section was I offered this opportunity of a lifetime.   Over the course of six weeks finally I was able to play lead on the Charles Ives Symphony.  It is my greatest triumph as a trumpeter, and I listen to this recording often of my ability to lead the ensemble.  My tonguing became my best skill, and with it I defined the rhythmic time feel of the group.  It was years later I discovered I was tonguing between my teeth, a no no.  I had a tangible musical interpretation which came from twelve years of piano lessons, and consequently the ensemble developed an emotionally mature interpretation of our performances.  You must be able to play time to be a musician, and modern day American pop music ignores this.  The "feel" that has been championed in American popular music does not require real time and the ability to internalize quarter notes at different tempos.  This ability is what creates the possibility of feeling in music.  The continuity and steadfastness of these quarter notes without straying allow the creation of a mood.  Upon listening to one of my first Billy Joel CD's, a live in the studio recording, all I could think is that the technology has speed up the performances like a turntable turning at the wrong speed.  "Live at Sigma Sound Studios" was a complete surprise, because Mr. Joel, Mr. Wonderful, sounded so young (and so full of coke).  Oops!  Did I say that?  We are listening to music from a different era, and there is no more appropriate time.  I have forgotten all my preconceptions about American music and am trying to absorb it for the first time.  It is unsettling, because America always has been rife with controversy and oppression.  There were drugs in the 1980's, and cocaine was one of them.  Cocaine also was readily available to Louis Armstrong, although history says he was chose marijuana.  Supposedly he smoked three blunts a day.  That is telling to realize this was common activity in the 1920's, the "Roaring Twenties."  You could get cocaine at the local drug store.  Today it is illicit fentanyl imported from other countries via the "Dark Web."  It is a shame what America has become, and most of it is at the behest of communist infiltrators.  They would like nothing more than the fall of the free world.  Communist practices sneaked into America unnoticed and set up shop in the middle of our lives.  I am ashamed to call myself American at the moment.  (so Republicans would say, "Leave.")  I say Mr. Trump should move to Russia to be with his lover.  We have not survived two years of Covid, and these two years have turned us into complicit, docile, complacent servants of "The Man."  This attack has been as egregious as the Holocaust.  Manufacturing an often deadly pathogen which robs you of your sense of taste and smell?  I have not been able to cook, because I have not been able to smell for two years.  I have had Covid thrice!  Damn this enemy, and damn those who created it!  It was manufactured and released upon us, and the "vaccine" isn't a vaccine at all.  It is an antidote.  When your country forsakes you or drops the ball center field, you know you are on your on.  Probably American through the centuries have been on their own as well, so it is best we figured it out.  

Coronavirus Revelation

Everything about Covid 19 is disheartening.  The only upside of the pandemic perhaps is learning something.  If you want to live, you better learn something.  The public information we have been offered has been scant.  To put it more succinctly we have received very little relevant information at all.  It has been a snipe hunt.  Two years later we still do not know what hit us.  After having lived through this disease and its ramifications, I am convinced there is no way it can be naturally occurring.  This leads me to suspect that the AIDS virus also was manufactured.  Wasn't it convenient that a deadly disease emerged which targeted homosexuals and intravenous drug users?  If you believe Judy Mikovits, the life saving drugs were withheld for several years to obtain patents for profit.  Now the most knowledgeable doctor America has is saying immunity  for Covid wanes.  After a vaccination and two boosters, immunity to Covid wanes.  It is a simple realization.  Covid affects the nervous system.  How can a simple virus do this?  There are dangerous viruses in existence, and one America knows is the poliovirus.  Poliomyelitis destroys nerve cells in the spinal cord, but we developed an effective vaccine for this disease.  We have yet to develop an effective vaccine for Covid 19, because those who conceived, manufactured, and dispersed the disease don't want it.  They want to maintain control, and a vaccine will defeat that purpose.  What could be better in the ongoing Cold War of Vladimir Putin, military invasions, and assassination by nerve toxins?  Release a biological/chemical weapon from aircraft, and instead of finding a real vaccine offer antidotes to ease the suffering.  What we have been given in America is an antidote, not a vaccine.  As such the pharmaceutical companies are complicit.  The bigger picture and what completes this evil dichotomy is the Big Lie.  The Republican Party's treasonous conspiracy is coming to light only now.  They had their constituents duped.  As I begin to understand this caucus from within North Carolina by examining the state General Assembly, it becomes clearer.  The metaphor for the conspiracy is district gerrymandering.  At a grassroots level and locally fudging boundaries to get your buddies to win may not seem severe.  At the core of politics this would be the most egregious act.  You don't win from truth by honestly representing your district.  You win because you manipulate the system to exclude your opponents and include your friends and supporters unfairly.  If you represent a particular geographical district that seems to include those who don't support your agenda, then you move the boundaries of the district to exclude those people and include people who do.  This is what the Republican majority General Assembly  has been doing in North Carolina.  Finally after multiple lawsuits which have proven these drawn boundaries violate the state constitution, judges are continuing to strike down the maps.  This will happen again this week.  This proves that even under public scrutiny, the Republican Party thinks is is cavalier and maverick to break the law if it means you win.  Trump has set the example for this wrongdoing.  He does it in your face and with style, and consequently he gets away with it.  This cannot continue, because democracy in America will not sustain if this Republican Party, having proven this propensity to err, remains in control.  They do not care about anyone except the people in their group.  This turns out to be many of the industrialists who are causing grievous irreparable harm to the planet Earth not to mention poisoning us.  Chemours has the audacity to run a television ad which says they are our friendly neighbors.  They have been dumping their carcinogenic waste into our air and the Cape Fear River for years, and they see themselves as our friendly neighbors.  If you keep biting on the Trump hook, you will be dead soon enough. 

The Republican Masquerade

I don't get it.  Last week, only a week ago, the six o'clock evening news, both local and national, was a barrage of  Coronavirus.  "We need more tests!"  Free tests are being purchased and distributed.  Only can I ask myself, "Why?"  Who cares about being tested for a disease, when the results of contracting that disease often are deadly?  You will know it when you have "the vid."  Many end up in the hospital, and some on ventilators.  Many die.  Those who don't have symptoms of the flu, "A stringent flu," in the ephemeral words of the former president.  The bottom line is you will know it when you contract Covid 19.  Who cares about taking an inaccurate test formerly that would take a week for Labcorp to process?  Home tests.  Overnight tests.  It's all a heap of rubbish.  Why?  Because the only people concerned with taking a test are those who refuse to take the vaccine.  Certain events now require proof of a negative test, so now tests become fodder.  "Get your test here!  Five dollars!  Tests on the downlow.  Tests in your pocket.  Step right up and get your tests from the pusher man."  Only a week ago on the six o'clock evening news, both local and national, was a barrage of Coronavirus.  It was all upon which they could report.  Coronavirus.  Coronavirus.  Omicron was omnipresent, and hospitals were at full capacity.  It was a national tragedy worse then before.  Overnight with the seeming flip of a switch Covid cases are down 35%.  People mask up, while the Republican Party is screaming about unmasking?  People get vaccinated, when the Republican Party is screaming about the right to choose?  It doesn't make sense.  What does make sense is that someone is controlling the Coronovirus for political reasons.  Flip a switch, record Omicron cases.  Hospitals at capacity.  Flip the switch the other way, Covid cases are down 35%.  Life does not work that way.  People do not work that way.  Fascists work that way designing and implementing an often fatal pathogen to implement for political purposes.  Not enough drama?  Flip the switch.  Too much drama?  Flip the switch.  Things going the way of red?  Flip off the switch.  Things turning blue?  Turn on the switch.  Politicization of a disease?  The only answer is Covid 19 is a terrorist assault.  It was planned, manufactured, and implemented, and it is being dispersed from the air by infiltrated aircraft who in proceeding American history had no reason to fly over the tops of your neighborhoods.  They do now.  They do in Boulder.  They do here.  Commercial and private aircraft freely strafe our homes unabated flying just above the treetops.  I watch it occur daily, one plane after another.  Many are hidden from scrutiny.  "No information available."  "Data blocked."  "No public registration."  Aberrant unabated private aircraft free to do as they please.  Why is it important that commercial jets should be able to fly over our homes?  How could the lobby be so strong to justify such an unusual practice?  Why would PSA insist their "Blue Streak" must turn and fly directly above your neighborhood at only 2000 feet?  It doesn't make sense.  It doesn't make sense unless there is a reason for it, and it is not saving fuel.  

Red Richard Hudson

 Our everyday lives today belie explanation.  It is like a spell has been cast over humankind, and witch hunting has become normal.  Upon glancing at the Fayetteville publication "Up and Coming," the editorial was by Congressman Richard Hudson.  As a member of the Republican party in the red state of North Carolina, it could not be expected his words would be anything other than Trump rhetoric.  The Republican Party, in the words of minority leader Mitch McConnell, wants to run in the mid term elections, "With no issues."  Let me clarify these words.  The Republicans want to run for leadership positions in state and federal offices without voicing any concerns, goals, or clarifications.  They do not want to address issues of any kind.  They want to be elected in the same way we choose student body officers in junior high school.  There is little to do except hold power, have notoriety, and stand above others.  They are not required to address immigration into America.  They are not required to balance the federal budget.  Certainly they are not responsible for assuring all Americans are treated equally and have secure voting rights.  The Republican Party en mass is passing restrictive legislation making it more difficult to vote, not easier.  Mitch feels we should elect our public leaders without listening to their opinions and for good reason.  Evidently they are too stupid to have an idea about anything.  They are too busy feeding from the golden teat of Mr. Trump.  We ask ourselves why and how our elected officials look so unofficial.  It is because "Political Action Committees" or PAC's are picking and funding our candidates.  They pick the most compliant and unaware person available to be a puppet for their needs.  Address the issues of Campaign Finance Reform?  Limit the amount of influence outside bodies have on elected leaders?  America in a century has not been in such a dire place.  Mr. Hudson's issue, the thing he chose to write about, was the mask wearing of Stacy Abrams.  He said, she said.  Of all of the things this Congressman could address in a penned letter to the people, he chose to write about whether a gubernatorial candidate in another state chose to wear a mask or not.  "We like things the way they are.  We like for those in power to stay in power.  Those with the money get to keep the money.  It is not important if we lie or gerrymander voting districts."  Mr. Hudson has shown his true colors, red. 

Screwminations of N.C. (Trying to make sense of it all)

 While I did grow up in North Carolina, I found respite for a brief time in the wonderful city of Columbia, South Carolina.  When my tenure came to an end, I was thrust back into military life now which defines most of the Carolinas.  I survived for a year but searched for another living destination more appropriate for musical productivity.  My move to  "Cowtown," (Columbus, Ohio) was inspired by a pattern by the late Dr. John Emche.  Dr. Emche was the Director of Jazz Studies and my cooperating professor, while I completed a masters degree in jazz and commercial music at USC.  After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill with a music education degree, I was awarded a GTA in this jazz program.  It financed my secondary college education.  It has taken many years fully to understand "jazz life" is fleeting.  Columbia was a haven for jazz.  It was an enclave of warmth and creativity, and the jazz music scene was rich nurtured by the presence of a young saxophonist, Chris Potter.  Traditionally it would be the other way around; the local jazz did influence Chris.  A strong presentation of Bebop from the Terry Rosen group, featuring Johnny Helms, Teddy Linder, and Frank DuVall was ferocious.  These musicians loved jazz, and they transformed Pugs at Five Points into the jazz club of the city.  I spent many evenings in this below the sidewalk bar, and it smelled like beer and cigarettes.  The jazz spirit was strong and loving, and I learned much.  When it came time to leave, I went through severe jazz withdrawal.  This phenomenon is common, and is why jazz disappeared from American consciousness.  Jazz cannot exist of itself.  It must have a support system.  When that support system wanes or disappears completely, jazz will follow.  I am in the throes of trying to discover the appropriate American music which is independent and self-sustaining.  This means the feeling of this music will be an innate part of current American consciousness.  Currently this music does not exist.  The intellect of American folks no longer has the ability to process complex issues.  Is it because we are more stupid?  Is it because we don't care about such issues?  Is it because our brain and its ability to synthesize complex thought has regressed in function?  Have we devolved as a species?  If one looks at the current "Conditions of America," it is clear America, or at least the folk quorum of America, seems not capable of such thought.  Is it possible the potential of the human mind genetically has been altered?  Considering genetically altered foods have become standard without our consent, and Monsanto was sold to the Chinese, we have no idea what we are eating.  People concur the sabotage of our food system is one root of our problems.  How has this happened?  The answer is the same for most of our problems as a nation, and it is the absence of oversight and regulation.  The private sector of America has proven they cannot be trusted with the health of the nation.  Government oversight is required.  We must have regulatory agencies to canvas and police corporate America.  Slowly over the last two decades this oversight has been minimized by an overt lobby on Washingtonian elected officials.  Deep pockets set up shop in our nation's capital and wine and dine naive politicians coercing them into passing legislation to favor their profits no matter what the cost to human health.  The health of the human species and the planet eart now are at risk.  This cavalier behavior by industry is incomprehensible, and Donald Trump is proving mental illness is a viable and volatile American weakness.  It has reached a level where psychosis is being made to appear normal for political gain.  This is called "gaslighting."  Much of this sentiment can be understood by watching one Hollywood film.  The movie is "The Campaign."   It is a 2012 political satire based on the fourteenth Congressional district of my home state, North Carolina.  District 14 is the district of my home.  Because I opted out of the North Carolina experience soon after college, I missed some of the carnage of the metamorphosis of Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde.  When I lived in Chapel Hill for four years as a music student at UNC, then Governor Jim Hunt ran a tight state  Before I arrived at UNC, Chapel Hill held a record for the most beer consumed in the United States.  Jim Hunt changed that statistic with one stroke of his pen.  "DUI," driving under the influence, became "DWI," driving while impaired, and if you were caught it was a mandatory two nights in jail plus the loss of your license.  The same was true for passing a stopped school bus.  If you were caught, you lost your license.  The "P.C." climate of America, whence it came nobody knows, prevents us from governing ourselves in the most primitive of hazardous situations.  Still we are driving while texting.  America cannot even tell herself what kind of mask to wear during a pandemic.  The political climate of North Carolina capsulized in the film "The Campaign," has become truth.  It seems too rude, offensive, and over-the-top to be true, but this methodology won Donald Trump the White House.  North Carolina has become a big, fat, compliant whore, and although Governor Roy Cooper has a heart, his "Good Old Boy" genes render him incapable of fighting the Republican Machine.  The Chinese own Chemours.  DuPont changed the name of the disease causing, 3M manufactured chemical and sold its Teflon unit to China.  It is called Chemours, and it is in Cumberland County, District 14 about which is this political parody.  It was a lot to digest Will Ferrell's portrayal of Cam Brady.  When you connect the dots and add his "Hank the Tank" and "W." characters, the aesthetic of this southern villain becomes clearer.  North Carolina truly is represented accurately in these farce depictions, and it isn't good.  The concept is simple.  The more ignorant are the people, the more wealth can control their geographic region.  The more gullible are the folks, the more lobbyists can line their pockets.  The more naive are the electors, the more the Trump Campaign can bribe them.  How does wealth via politics oppress a geographic populace?  Let's take roll.  Contaminated drinking and bathing water via "Chemours."  (Thank China for this)  Tainted air to breath via "Chemours."  (Thank China for this)  Judicious amounts of EMF and infrasonic radiation via "CSX."  (Thank the railroads)  Chemtrails of soot and smog directly over our neighborhoods via commercial air traffic.  (Thank PSA Airlines, Delta, Piedmont, and the rest)  Infrasound is a never ceasing carrier wave of pollution rendering your personal privacy moot.  (Thanks to the diesel engine, and its EPA exempt graven image of profit)  Like the film says, North Carolina is a mess.  We wonder why our children overdose on drugs, and returning veterans commit suicide.  Try living at Fort Bragg.  The housing market would have you believe North Carolina is the destination because of affordable housing.  District 14 is the Theater of the Absurd, and an overtly homosexual contingency wants national recognition for their tepid drag tendencies.  Wake up and smell the coffee!  America does not give it away for free.  No one gives it away for free.  You have to work for it, and that the Koch Brothers have done. 

Dr. Dre's Return

I am bold enough to embrace the Super Bowl half time show, touted before it premiered as "The greatest half time show ever!"  Those are strong words, but how could we know if they are true?  As a nation we have been listening to strong words from past President Donald Trump for four years, and most were lies.  He set the example for untruth in America.  The Republicans eagerly embraced lying as a kind of sensationalism, because before his supporters knew they were lies, they believed them and voted for him. Two years and a many felonies later, we realize this.  It is difficult to digest, a recent President pulling the wool over our eyes.  It is called, "Eating humble pie."  For those who bit on his hook, this is challenging.  Lying and misinformation have become commonplace in America.  It is everywhere, mostly on the internet and now television.  Television is a soiled medium, and there is not much to believe.  Take caution!  It was announced this would be the greatest half time show ever.  Okay.  That is good Afro-centric marketing; I am not being racist.  I am being realistic.  Think back to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and the artists who played there.  James Brown decided his people should collect the door and keep the money rather than forfeiting it to a mob boss.  He had the strong arms to enforce this idea.  Black culture is different than white culture, and black music proved throughout our history many American whites were more comfortable with it.  Black music is the history of America, and yet we fail to recognize and apprciate jazz.  Emotional expression isn't racially universal.  There are those  emotionally stunted not possessing the genes necessary to experience deep emotionality.  We used to call them "tight ass."  With
"Political Correctness" things in America which were accurate became inappropriate.  No longer could you call a Jew a Jew.  No more ethnic jokes.  We became sensitive and entitled, and now this particular generation won't make it, because their skin is too thin.  Life never has been easy, and the quicker you grow that tough skin the more likely you will succeed and be happy.  America does not give it away.  No one gives it away.  You must work for it.  Dr. Dre has worked for it, but at one particular point those controlling America decided it was over.  Hip Hop and black popular culture came to a screeching halt.  MTV, VH-1, and BET stopped playing music, and the music video died.  Pop Country came in, and we have not been the same since.  I did not follow Hip Hop music personally, but its influence was everywhere in my job.  I was a ship pianist from 2003 until 2013, and the music we played could not escape the influence of Rap and Hip Hop.  I am not be a fan of Gangsta Rap or  its misogynist content.  I don't abuse women, smoke dope, or shoot up the neighborhood.  What I did like was the musical integrity and groove of Hip Hop, because it picks up where jazz left off.  Hip Hop swings like jazz, and before we knew it this music became its modern equivalent.  Before I left for ships I became well-versed in funk and Hip Hop, because I played in a band.  I spent hours trying to understand these styles of music and how to execute them on keyboards.  There are a myriad of nuances and concepts in this music, and I made sense of them with my analytical mind.  This is when I discovered Hip Hop swings, and it became second nature to me.  "Shuffle Funk."  I didn't pay attention to the profane lyric content; I just enjoyed the rhythmic feel and the sonic satisfaction it provided.  As I continued on ships this music was the underlying fabric that held things together.  There was music in the shows, the white man's interpretation of life, and there was music played in the crew bar late at night.  Hip Hop was the predominant style, because it was the music which if you allowed it, fulfilled your soul.  That is a deep concept, and I am too tired to discuss it now.  Suffice it to say, Dr. Dre.  Poet and don't know it.  I feel it was the appropriate choice for this half time.  First the recent history of these shows is controversial, not musical.  Like Trump's lies we have lost sight of the reality of music.  Musical artist.  They lip sync to prerecorded tracks.  That's all.  That is not the case with Dr. Dre, the first American musician and producer to become a billionaire.  It wasn't Elvis.  It wasn't Hendrix.  It wasn't Madonna.  It was Dr. Dre, and that is because he is an accomplished producer and visionary with very large and musical ears.  I have been listening to "What's My Name, Part 2" for a long time, and still it is artistic.  Dr. Dre's appearance at the Super Bowl was like an appropriate protest of the Civil Rights Movement.  He has worked his ass off producing in the music industry (and has made a lot of money), but he as a black man has been denied national recognition.  With going on three years of Covid and a disgraced white President, Dr. Dre's appearance was, "Why don't we try this on for size again?  It was working before, and it will work now."  Not everyone is a tight ass hillbilly extremist.  There are the rest of us who are able to understand the groove of the music and enjoy it.  Comparatively it was a well-produced show.  They were  having fun doing what they do best.  There was no jive.  There was no scandal.  There was no Trump.  It was just, "We are going to have a good time and enjoy this music."  Fully I understand those not embracing a street dressed white boy with a hoody.  If you have seen any of Eminem's Dr. Dre produced videos, you have a different opinion.  Those videos were the pinnacle of protest, anger, sexuality, art, and expression in America.  The bar had risen so high there was no where else to go, so the white men just wiped the slate clean.  We have not recovered.  Dr. Dre said, "We are still here doing what we always have done."  Still it has power, love, and spirituality, and still it entertains.  Watch the Eve and Gwen Stefani video, " I Wanna Blow Your Mind," and you will see integration at its best.  America knows how to live together in peace and harmony, but that doesn't make money for Donald Trump.  

What Really is "The Blue Streak?"

"It's always something you don't want to do," in the immortal words of Wynton Marsalis.  Speaking about race relations and civil rights in the history of America, "There is always something you must do, muster the sheer willpower to persevere."  To me it's writing about Covid.  I can't say it's not my responsibility to think about Covid.  It is, like it is for every living soul.  We all must think about Covid, whether we want to or not.  We don't have a choice, because it is still here.   The news reports today Covid infections are down 35 percent.  That's because Covid infections go down, when they quit dropping it out of the sky.  No assault with a chemical or biological weapon, infections go down.  It's simple.  Does it seem conspiratorial?  Does it seem radical?  Does it seem demented to think something has created a weapon and is assaulting us with it?  When the lower Saudi royals masterminded the attack on the World Trade Centers, and the twin towers collapsed in rubble, it felt conspiratorial.  It felt radical.  It felt demented.  How could anyone have done such a thing?  The only attack on America's homeland in decades happened on Wall Street in lower Manhattan.  Think about that for a minute.  Someone, actually many, took the time to immigrate to the United States and slowly infiltrate our society.  These men became pilots for major airlines and in the blink of our eyes flew commercial jetliners into skyscrapers in New York City.  Almost it was inconceivable, but it happened.  You must give George W. Bush credit, because although the Department of Homeland Security is bureaucratic and cumbersome, his administration did keep America safe until now.  We have been safe until Covid 19.  For some uncanny reason there has been no speculation that the outbreak of Covid could be a terrorist attack.  Why?  Bill Maher said it succinctly tonight on his HBO program.  The medical establishment has lost all of their rights and privileges.  The response to Covid has been so convoluted, mysterious, and rhetorical, it is like they really don't want to cure the illness.  They want to prolong it, the way the American Cancer Society does to keep their funding.  In brutal reality they don't want to cure cancer.  The medical profession has become this way, and it began with the onset of HMO's and insurances companies controlling your health care.  Who ever thought this was a good idea?  Insurance, as I am learning, commoditized our health care system in a way that that would reward shareholders, not guarantee a fair price of treatment for American citizens.  It is an interesting concept, marketing.  I do believe it is the American way, an important and revenue earning tenant of our economic system, Capitalism.  For example, there is a wonderful jazz singer Melody Gardot.  Unbeknownst to most she was in a serious accident which left her severely disabled and sensitive to light and sound.  With few options for happiness in your recovery, she turned to music.  Necessarily the music needed to be quiet and sensitive to abide her new sensitivity.  She performed for a while in this manner producing a startling and moving communication with people through music.  Now when I Google her name I see glamour shots.  It is like no one knows the roots of her musical inspiration and language.  They just want to tart her up and sell records with a sexy image.  Welcome to the new world of American music.  It's not music.  It's disgusting, but I guess when Hip Hop spun out from gang violence, something had to fill that sexual hole.  (so to speak!)  Pop Country has been tooling around for a while, and I can't watch or listen to it.  I am not an adolescent.  I did have a Farrah Faucet poster when I was a teenager, but she didn't try to sing.  Making something out of nothing is what marketing has become, because America has so few products.  The infrastructure to spawn new ideas has been monopolized by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.  Trying to nuture small business was tossed to the wayside years back.  It has to be big.  It has to make millions to satisfy shareholders.  Shareholders don't do anything but buy stock.  America has lost her core.  In all of this technological haze we have lost reality, and the reality is Covid is a terrorist attack.  My idea of it coming from the sky isn't farfetched.  It is the only way such a pathogen could be dispersed.  It has been done many times before in many countries, but the fog of the Republican Siege, the gaslighting, and the disinformation have done their job.  They have distracted us from real learning.  I have been writing about global warming and industrial pollution for twenty years, and the method of discounting my words simply was to say, "He's crazy.  There is no science.  There is no religion."  In fact the humanities are the core of our existence and the explanation of our planet and solar system.  Science is the only thing that is real and what will save us.  We just have to jail the naysayers in due time.  In this ruse of distraction and deception, inexplicably the FAA allowed the airlines to redraw their flight paths to account for a shift to GPA guidance.  The industry was moving from flight-based radar to satellites.  Overnight commercial jets now were flying over our neighborhoods at extremely low altitudes to save fuel.  They were not required to do what had been the standard since the inception of commercial jet travel.  This has been happening in our neighborhood, and I only can drop my jaw in disbelief when we get strafed by a commercial jet flying just above the tree line.  In addition at certain times on certain days, a magic carpet of jet exhaust blankets our neighborhood.  If you drove around the city you can see this gift, layers of black soot so consciencously laid just above the tree tops and only on our specific neighborhood.  These are flat chem trails, not ascending or descending commercial flights, and they surprisingly stick like taffy.  I understand we are the home of the 82nd Airborne Division, and I understand deployment.  I understand maneuvers.  They fly fighter jets through here on occasion.  This action, this mysteriously appearing blanket in the sky only over our neighborhood is unusual.  I have photographed it, and when it appears I grit my teeth and spew profanities at an industry who has obviously has become selfrighteous and profane.  To think your company has the right to spew chemtrails over neighborhoods to save on fuel?  I don't believe it.  I believe this solicitation to change flight paths was as concerted as the 9/11 attacks.  It was planned and implemented in a slow and savvy campaign of patience and terrorist fortitude.  When the time came and no one was looking, they began dropping Covid from the sky.  At first I could not help but suspect collusion from the military, but that is a far stretch.  I did not want to entertain such a conspiracy.  The more logical explanation under the unregulated and everychanging aircraft industry, is any rogue airline could be infiltrated easily.  They shift planes.  They have blanket companies.  They have partnerships.  They fly under the logo of this with the name of that.  It is so convuluted no one could keep up.  I have a backlog of aircraft data from the Flightaware website, and the planes and airlines are ever changing.  If I had a rocket propelled grenade and I knew which plane it was dropping Covid on Americans, I'd do what the Afghans did to Russian helicopters.  I don't have an RPG, but there is no other logical explanation.  I wish PSA would stop flying the "Blue Streak" over our house.  I'm tired of being sick.