The Broken Record of Climate Change - Yet Another "Hottest" Winter in History

 To hear the broken record sing again each year, "This will be the hottest winter on record."  It is logical that someone in the elite few, during their humble and meager lifetime on this earth, wants it to be hot.  There is no other logical inference.  What industry needs and desires heat for their manufacturing processes?  Several jump to mind.  Even with that knowledge how could it be possible that a handful of industries could or would have sway over American regulatory policy?  How did tobacco become engineered and laced with nicotine to addict its users?  It was a watershed event this discovery about "Big Tobacco," and it ruined the attorney who broke the case.  He did it anyway like a martyr.  America abolished tobacco commercials from television.  I remember this and when it happened.  It was midnight, and when the clock struck twelve, there was no more coercive dangerous rhetoric to temp you into addiction.  Today our quality of life is so compromised, you always will seek some anodyne.  That is the plan.  That is the way the select few want it.  Make life miserable for American consumers, and they will consume more.  Surprisingly economics predicate this reaction.  If you have no money, you must go cold turkey.  I can go take a shower in water laced with PFAS and other forever chemicals.  Traditionally an invigorating cleansing shower would sooth your tattered soul and mend your ills.  Clean the body of its bacteria, fungi, and algae.  Now the water is filled with these organisms, and it would appear like "The War of the Worlds" may be our demise.  Bacteria killed the aliens.  We can't get proper protection from the police.  They tend to murder isolated black men.  In Fayettenam there is no traffic regulation.  Drivers largely do whatever they want.  The food supply is mediocre as is the selection of liquor.  Once reputable and quality liquors have sold out and are hawking wood alcohol, dangerous genetically modified foods that can kill us.  (Here comes the allergy attack.)  The evil yellow snow is upon us in one day, the hottest day in February ever recorded in time.  Bueller?  Anyone?  Do you think we will survive, when those who want this heat are in control? 

The Eternal Meal Ticket of War

When you dismantle your own economy from within by forsaking domestic workers, their livelihoods, and their quality of life, when push comes to shove revenue must come from somewhere.  Now this revenue is selective into whose hands it arrives.  On a television news program a reporter was interviewing a pilot at one of many small airports which have been revitalized in the name of American defense, national security, or commerce.  North Carolina springs to mindwith her newly burgeoning aviation industry.  (If you can't remember we have tried supersonic flight before.)  This highly energetic pilot proclaimed how many billions of dollars these small airports are bringing to local communities.  Let me clarify, and this is in the shadow of "fake news."  If one looked at the facts of this blanket statement, we would find these billions of dollars only are flowing to a specific few.  The people living around the airfield, those contending with the emissions of these aircraft, will not benefit from these billions of dollars.  Instead their health, serenity, and probable happiness are being unknowingly sacrificed for the desires of a few.  This is the American economy today.  America has become an oligarchy, and the "American Dream," the potential and opportunity for social and economic advancement, has become lessened.  The idea of or philosophy of America's "Free Market" exists no more.  This has been true for decades, and as always politics determines who makes it and who doesn't.  Someone says whether or not you become successful in America's system.  You may develop a great product, build a brick and mortar store, and train a productive team, but if the higher ups on the totem pole say, "No," you won't succeed.  That is because they control the system of commerce through finance, regulation, legislation, supply, and advertising.  The internet has countered this constricted opportunity to a certain degree, but as anyone can see tech conglomerates have assumed control as corporate monopolies.  In the 80's America saw fit to break up unwieldy corporate conglomerates like the Bell telephone system and Microsoft, but that regulation systematically has been dismantled in "The Swamp" at late night hoe downs paid for by corporate lobbyists.  Today we are suffering the consequences.  It's business as usual for America, and those in the country club largely control who prospers.  We are in the midst of a backlash, and they are using technology as their vehicle.  That technology simply is the freedom (or was once) of the internet.  With Net Neutrality, a small group of internet elites control the flow of data.  The novelty of such an immediate network of information still is addictively appealing, but with the emergence of "Fake News" largely utilized by Donald Trump, the virginity of the World Wide Web has been exploited like so many other American resources.  Conservation it would seem is not of high value to the elite few.  Instead they just continue to exploit until the well runs dry.  America cannot survive, and this approach must be changed.  The problem has become we are too ignorant to solve our own problems.  Once the job of Washington was to manage the country.  That meant administering vast swaths of agencies, civil employees, regulators, and the like.  Donald Trump created the "Boob Board," a group of sycophants unqualified and unable to manage an agency or bureau.  Instead they just pander to the President with no thought, ability, or skill to implement an honest business or leadership acumen.  Literally we are up "Schitt Creek" without a paddle searching for answers amid a gaping chasm of darkness.  The usual switch hitters have become extinct, and we have neglected to train a new generation of competent civil employees.  In full tribal warfare we are fighting each other rather than focusing on what and how we can fix our system.  Largely that means eliminating Trump's boobs and restocking the pond with quality fish.  In the pinch we just play the war card, and Washington becomes an endless meal ticket of gourmet treats for the defense industry, a part of the elite few. 

It's the Simplest Things

 Chapel Hill, North Carolina once was a haven.  Past Chancellor and the nation's then youngest, Holden Thorp, held a speech in his political arsenal that eulogized his late father, Herb.  Often he spoke of the little light up on "The Hill," a place of refuge, humanity, and education.  I was lucky to be able to matriculate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  My father and his two brothers attended, and my mother went to Women's College, what later became UNC Greensboro.  I had the grades from Terry Sanford High School and was in its Honor Society, but they tell you outright that family alumni are important.  I was appreciative of this opportunity, and to this day still it was the most difficult thing I ever accomplished.  I received a Bachelor of Music Education degree, and with not much trouble became certified to teach in the state of North Carolina.  I had this license transferred to Ohio when I attended The Ohio State University. There is some turmoil at UNC-Chapel Hill, and it ain't new.  When Dr. Thorp, a research chemist, was appointed Chancellor at the behest of Erskine Bowles, there was an academic scandal.  This was the time of Michael Jordon, and college athletics were of prime importance to everyone.  In short they created non-existent courses in African-American studies, so that academically underachieving athletes could qualify to play.  I am surprised there are no books or a Hollywood film on this subject.  It would make a great movie, but great movies are becoming more rare.  Real life or human interest stories are becoming extinct, because the Covid generation is addicted to the internet and its often fictitious, radicalized, and violent content.  The net is not what it used to be when Netscape Navigator let you troll for romance in the quiet solitude of your own carrel.  I broke my ties with UNC at the onset of this athletic scandal.  Today politics still is active at UNC, and the latest news is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees has proposed a new school for the University with openly political intentions.  It would seem its intent is to counteract a too liberal bias at the university.  In my previous post I stated there have been two major events that have changed America since the Trump presidency.  One was the election of Donald Trump as President.  Specifically I did not mention the other event, and it was the outbreak of Covid 19.  It would be difficult to determine which event was more destructive to America.  It would be wise to assess that they were collaborative, and the two of them together, "The Donald" and "The 'Vid,'" became our modern domestic war.  Under the cover of Covid Donald Trump achieved a substantial and specific agenda which will continue to shape America for his purposes.  Those purposes, while a continuation of both Bush administrations, sought to deregulate big business in America.  The regulatory processes of both state and federal government always have been necessary to ensure the well being of the citizens of the United States.  Without them we have now.  Systematically in the name of economic opportunity most polluting industries have been given waivers to treat the American landscape like a garbage dump.  Deregulation of the airlines, of telecommunications, and of the railroads have industrialized a once beautiful and healthy nation not unlike the fate of the Mediterranean Sea.  When I was ported in Venice it was surprising how ugly it was.  The surviving architecture was beautiful, but the ocean was a huge superhighway of maritime commerce.  The simplest things are the most important to the sustenance of a nation, and in America "The Swamp" truly has become that.  Instead of intelligent, thoughtful, Christian leaders, Washington, DC has become a place of political crime.  Largely it is being controlled by Corporate America, and their lobby probably is more expansive and efficient than all of Congress.  Supporting agencies are being dismantled from within often by foes appointed to hurt them.  Louis Dejoy comes to mind.  The lives of everyday Americans never will improve until these problems are solved.  The problems are simple, but they are made complex by the same reasons Americans are fighting each other.  It is a  premeditated smoke screen meant to disguise corporate malfeasance.  When Americans of any ethic background are fighting one another, then we are not addressing the real issues of America.  These issues are the raping and pillaging of our nation for the wealthy.  The four years of the Trump presidency subversively undermined the legal rights of most American citizens.  How can a blanket shield be applied to the entirety of the internet protecting providers from legal action?  The internet has become more influential and relied upon as a source of information, but we have not updated this agreement.  Billions of dollars are being made from the internet, and yet there is a global "Get Out of Jail Free" card distributed to these providers.  Similarly Washington law makers are proponents of making guns of all kinds freely available to anyone, including convicted criminals.  It has reached a point of absurdity, where mostly Republican zealots openly laugh in the face of the common American citizen.  We have reached a point where bereaved parents crying over the senseless murder of their children in their own schools should and will begin to find justice of their own.  If the elected politicians in this "Swamp" are unwilling to provide the peace and security traditionally provided in America, and they continue to do harm to our families, then consequences are merited.  Again it is important that mainstream Americans pull their heads out of the sand and realize this nation is a nation governed by the people.  If Washington fails like they have, then we the people have the power to remove them.  This process isn't always civil.  A drunken bacchanal rummaging through the Capital with no clear plan does not suffice.  Instead a look back to the 1960's and the rise of the Black Panther Political Party is more appropriate.  How long are Americans willing to be murdered?  Somehow our sense of civility is inhibiting our true understanding of our problems.  It is much more grievous than we think.  The way we know is when the highest court in America, The Supreme Court of the United States, and their judgements stray from the Constitution and our laws and become politically motivated.  Cancel Culture is rendering a massive blow to the substance of America by eliminating pop culture and the arts.  Film, television, theater, and music all have lost their relevance as the social conscience of America.  What we are left with is the inane and inciting rhetoric of Fox News leftovers some now in power in Washington.  It has become a, "He said, she said," kind of America, and all of this hot air just disguises the real social strata.  Instead of the poor fighting the poor, the poor should be eye balling "The Swamp." 

Getting PFAS Out of the Watershed is the Seminal Symbolic Effort in Saving America

 Most people I talk to reiterate the same sentiment.  Without my having to prompt them (with a BLOG entry), they agree we are in egregious times.  Reconstruction is a more accurate adjective, because startlingly Reconstruction (in reference to the Civil War) encompasses many of the disparate social sensibilities at play in America now.  Thus far no one has been successful describing America's current plight, because it is new, complicated, and challenging.  Two distinct phenomena characterize this change in America.  The first was Donald Trump's stealing of the election from Hillary Clinton for the United States Presidency.  I may be the first to suggest this, because particularly egregious is this realization.  While many of the people I talk to reiterate the egregious sentiment, I feel most of them are unable to grasp the reality of its source.  Simply when given a choice they choose to have faith in America's governance, our system of elected public officials, and their duty as leaders to be honest and do the right thing for the people of America.  They choose to have faith, because the alternative is too startling, dire, and destructive to fathom.  When faced with their own moral choices, and their free right to have voted for and supported Donald Trump as our President, they cannot stomach a piece of humble pie recognizing they may have made a mistake.  Trump supporters inexplicably are a staunchly devoted and overzealous lot, and as such they were ripe and able targets for Trump's deception.  As Americans we cannot fault supporters of Donald Trump, because in our chosen system of governance he was victorious, at least in his Presidential bid.  He became President, but it was surprising.  How can a candidate win, when their opponent received almost two million more popular votes?  There was quiet mumbling about "Swing States," but our media did not sense then that something may have been amiss.  One only has to remember Al Gore's concession to George W. Bush in the state of Florida, when a Presidential election ultimately was decided in the courts.  We all should watch the Hollywood film "Recount," because it set the stage for Donald Trump's entire agenda as President.  It was not until four years later, that we saw in real time Mr. Trump's political strategy for winning.  Systematically he clogged the courts with superfluous lawsuits to disguise and misdirect from his own nefarious bribing of public state officials.  The moniker that emerged as his fight song, when his defeat became inevitable by Joe Biden, in actuality was self incriminating about his own methodology defeating Hillary Clinton.  Collectively the nation gasped in disbelief, when Mr. Trump was announced the winner.  It was a stark and brutal blow to American democracy, but we choose, like most people I talk to, to believe in and have faith in our system of governance.  The other choice then, in 2016, was to admit and understand that political corruption had upended the world's most lauded and respected democracy.  The freedom of America had been toppled, but we didn't notice.  Only when Mr. Trump's rants actualized in real time as "Newspeak," could be begin to understand his methodical, savvy, and conniving overthrow of American freedom.  As far-fetched as it seemed, a "Stolen Election,"  it was what he accomplished himself in winning against Hillary Clinton.  The weaknesses in the states' Electoral College procedures had not been scrutinized, and like an able competitor he and his campaign, legal team, and the Trump Organization solicited the favors of state politicians egging them to discard their states' popular votes and instead override their them with votes for him.  It was a miraculous feat, one which Trump had trained for his whole life in the field of Real Estate.  For him it was business as usual, and he emerged victorious.  America never questioned the outcome, because we didn't have the stomachs to concede to the truth.  Donald Trump is the adumbrative gladiator of American corruption having realized his success under the ruse and guise of honesty and  normalcy.  We are in year three of denial, but the steadfast determination of an honest America implemented by our Department of Justice and led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has kept Civil War at bay.  America has retained the image of civility and freedom, but we are festering from the inside out.  This American implosion is characterized by quiet madness accomplished discreetly by lone renegades driven to their violence by isolation, desertion, and misunderstanding.  It is a covert operation, a guerilla war, and technological masterpiece of mental manipulation via the internet.  Only Donald Rumsfeld's decimation of the life-giving infrastructure of Iraq is equatable.  Perhaps Mr. Trump seeks to play bridge with him in hell.  Until we as a nation begin to understand the true source and direness of our plight, we will not progress.  The fact is America has been forsaken by the wealthy, Wall Street, Corporate America, Big Pharma, Insurance, Transportation, Food, and the Military.  The scope of the siege is so great it is difficult to fathom, but only does it encompass socioeconomic mobility.  America is great enough that the vestiges of our free market, our lives' infrastructure, is holding steadfast.  We are becoming poor and ignored, not unlike other falling democracies which end in communist oppression.  This is how it begins, with a fallen and discredited lunatic wrought with senility and continuing delusions of grandeur.  It is wise to step around this pile of poo. 

Today's Top Ten List

 1.  Miscellaneous (U)nidentified (F)lying (O)bjects over North America characterized and satirized by Trump enthusiasts as nebulous, harmless, and mis-informulous Chinese weather balloons, could not be the most proven vehicle of dispersion for a premeditated, man-made, communist-instigated, murderous pathogen of evil genocide. (i.e. Covid 19) 

2.  Elon Musk's low-altitude, high-radiation, widely-dispersed network of phased array, microwave, electro-magnetic transmitters could not be warming the earth.

3.  Maritime, submerged, rotating, low frequency, alternating current  "pods" could not be heating our oceans and killing out coral reefs.  

4.  The "Havana Syndrome" is not created by ISR aircraft masquerading as IRS agents scrutinizing the spending habits of free citizens in an attempt to collect more federal income tax for the "The Swamp's" personal indulgences.  

5.  Pete Buttigieg is straight.  His ability to stand up to "Big" Railroad and Aeronautics is a careless whisper on the lips of George Michael.

6.  DuPont does the right thing.

7.  Roy Cooper is not a pimp.

8.  The North Carolina state "Senate" did not propose eliminating the requirement of a firearm permit for purchasing a hand gun.  (especially for underage, distraught, and mentally unstable teens)

9.  President's Day is when Bill Clinton receive a house call from  the "Chicken Ranch."

 

10.  Jim Beam bourbon still is quality whiskey, but for the Samurai. 

To Do the Right Thing

The usual February summer in "Fayettenam" is perplexing to some.  In fitting American fashion with our free market system of trade, we perpetuate lore, spin yarns and tales, and sentimentalize ills turning them into fruitful commodities.  No industry is more adept at this than Real Estate.  Given the appropriate scenario seemingly they turn straw into gold like a seasoned alchemist or magician.  Perhaps we should learn a lesson from Merlin in Arthurian legend, the soothsayer, politician, and diplomat who used deception to manipulate the masses for the good of royal monarchy.  If you are ignorant and poor, blocked from economic and social mobility by sheer poverty and lack of opportunity, our chances of survival are limited.  The inappropriate coming of spring in Februrary is sentimentalized with the Cape Fear River Basin, a depression in geography now filled with PFAS compliments of the Chinese-purchased shell company Chemours, simply a rebranding of DuPont to escape culpability for decades of irresponsible dumping into the American watershed.  Shortly the gleam of G5, instead of fading back into its manual of restricted frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, will be spun into a more convenient but expensive tanning treatment than frequenting the local spa or salon.  "Get your summer tan year round," by subscribing to yet another wireless choice for data transfer accomplished more efficiently with a traditional T3 land line.  The truth is three decades of a wireless economy have been destructive to America in myriad ways.   It sufficed as a convenient, shallow, and conceited band aid applied by the demands for "Globalism" and implemented by the North American Free Trade Agreement which failed to adhere and clogged the sewers of the entire South American economy.   Many Argentinians lost their entire savings, and the Mexican peso collapsed as millions of wet back, soon-to-be, factory Pedros made it clear they would rather nap in the sun than build American appliances.  The Coolies became a more logical choice, when federal deregulation unleashed domestic American commerce onto the world stage.  Corporate America was quick to outsource their jobs and benefits to a more willing and communist-controlled labor force slaving for pennies on the dollar on their indigenous home soil.  Hank Paulson, standing next to a newly-elected President Bill Clinton beamed with happiness, because the seeds of "Globalism" had been planted.  Thirty years later America is fighting for her life.  You only can rape and pillage planet Earth so much, before she begins to stumble.  To do the right thing and help her is so difficult after doing the wrong thing for three continuous decades.  We don't remember how to do the right thing, or even what it is.  That is because God decides, and He sent his only Son to teach us.  We forsake Jesus then as a heretic proclaiming ourselves more important and hung him on a cross to die.  Surprisingly a few days later he rose from the dead and proved us wrong.  It is the most dire sacrifice to offer your only Son to teach the human race their own sin.  It will not be long before we will learn this all over again when God's followers will be taken by him to a new planet, and the rest will be left in hellfire to fight to their deaths until the Earth perishes.  It will be a long battle.  Or we could choose to do the right thing.  

The Wuhan Clan Is an Angry Lot of Job

 If anyone in America were a thinker, then they would have thunk this. Unidentified flying objects (courtesy of China) being shot down in various places over the continental United States.  What could they be?  One friend suggested that the "weather" balloon was filled with Donald Trump's semen, and upon shooting it down (which was the goal) miscellaneous American women would become impregnated with Donald Trump's bastard children.  The contents of a Chinese "weather" balloon, either hot air or helium, could be laced with anything.  Fentanyl comes to mind.  On second thought a more likely culprit is plausible.  My medical friends would say a human host is necessary for the gestation of a coronavirus.  Me thinks viruses can live in soil, on plants, or in trees.  Shoot down a Chinese manufactured device over the continental United States?  Sounds like a trap.  Five unidentified flying objects courtesy of WuHan?  You do the math. 

Dismal Dismas for "Nam"

Jim Crow Jr. is an elusive dude.  He is more like Zip Coon, but we can't mention him.  He is one of those stereotypical "Blackface" characters who is so insulting if viewed out of context.  I don't agree with "Blackface," although I had to understand it to make the decision.  It is out of taste.  It stems from black actors not being allowed to participate in Minstrel Shows.  During reconstruction many freed slaves found it difficult to integrate into mainstream society.  In the American South and especially Louisiana, they were not allowed to become a part of white society.  The name "Jim Crow" was coined to describe the segregation laws that attempted to keep white and blacks separate.  Jim Crow was a caricature of a poor and destitute freed slave who resorted to levity in order to survive.  He had tattered clothing and a stylized appearance like a clown.  He talked "jive" and made fun of the white man with his double talk.  He was so enigmatic and challenging minstrel actors stole his soul immediately.  They had to darken their faces with shoe polish of grease paint to appear black.  Over time the caricatures became increasingly more offensive until most black personalities were stereotyped into white accessible cartoons.  It is a distasteful element of American history.  To understand it is necessary to understand the difference between good and evil.  Blues men turned preachers tried to shed their evil ways of drinking liquor and indulging in the "Sporting Life."  Instead of getting drunk and ending up passed out in the gutter, they would desire to go to bed early and visit church on Sunday in their best suits.  In life in general it is wise to stay abreast of the difference between good and evil and who participates in both.  Zip Coon by nature, all ready at a disadvantage because of his skin color, had to be that much more clever and conniving to stay alive in an American South that embraced lynchings as fodder and entertainment.  It would be understandable that the white man's law might be bent a little by Zip Coon.  Unfortunately Jim Crow Jr. is back, and instead of using "Chain Gangs" to labor for free in full view of the public, Fayetteville, North Carolina is going to build a bona fide facility to offer free labor to some lucky Cumberland County business owner.  Most citizens in Fayetteville do not support the proposed Dismas facility all ready being built on Cain Rd.  It is the largest facility of its kind in Dismas history.  Why here?  Why now?  Why are federal prisoners going to be bussed here to live in close proximity to law abiding citizens?  It doesn't make sense, or does it?  These transplanted federal criminals will be expected to work for free in exchange for their daily release from lock up.  Work for free.  A labor force of one hundred federal prisoners is being moved here, and their labor will be used by an unnamed entity responsible for lobbying our local government to provide this service.  Who would do such a thing?  It will not be paid labor.  It will not be cheap Chinese or Indian labor.  It will be free labor.  Slave labor.  Work farm labor.  Chain gang labor.  This is the kind of labor Donald Trump favored.  It would seem the sentiment of the plantation, the building of fortune on slave labor, and social inequality by law are the desired mechanism in Fayetteville commerce.  Ask yourself what business owner in Cumberland Country would sink to such depths and risk the safety and well being of their own citizens?  This is not a virtuous gesture by Mayor Mitch Colvin.  It wreaks, and it wreaks in a big way.  There will come a time when law-abiding citizens will tire of corruption and its ensuing violence.  I think Mr. Colvin may have cemented his last term.  

Untapped Youth

Fayetteville politics brings me down.  National politics are bringing me down.  "Liar!"  It is not surprising that Washington has changed.  Covid changed America.  If you look back at the Trump presidency compared to now, things were familiar.  Gas prices dropped during the Trump presidency.  They averaged $2.00 a gallon, but there was racism, discrimination, extremism, and mass shootings were common, Economically America was functioning in a way similar to our past.  Perhaps this was because Donald Trump cares strongly about revenue.  We didn't watch television and feel fear or antagonism.  Murder among ourselves was not the norm.  Since Joe Biden won and defied a calculated attempted coup and determination to stop the verification by Congress of the Electoral College, things have not been the same.  That rowdy, almost criminal, far right extreme faction responsible for this coup attempt still is alive and well, and many now are working in Washington.  It is unprecedented, but it is not surprising.  American history is sprinkled with watershed events which discard the past and forge a new ideology.  Rock 'n' Roll, a rowdy, sexually evocative, rebellious popular music usurped the ballroom-oriented swing dance music of the World War ll era.  Interestingly the Jitterbug and Lindy Hop originating in the Jazz Age are more physically demanding than the Watusi, the Go Go, and the Shag, but ballroom dancing, although romantic and physically expressive, had manners.  Congress before Joe Biden had manners.  That's the difference.  During America's Sexual Revolution, when "The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test" condoned dropping acid and riding a school bus across the country, certain outdated norms were dismantled.  This was an important time, when the sensibilities of America grew up.  There was the War in Viet Nam.  It is an era about which we remember little, or is it?  Women's Liberation.  Bra burning.  Penis envy.  Group sex.  We all ready have been through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's.  But now.  What is this?  I have been contemplating teaching school again, although North Carolina and Cumberland Country in particular have lost 35% of their teachers.  Why, and could I overcome these obstacles and attempt to provide a solid and artistic musical education for students here?  My gut reaction always has been  a resounding, "No," but I was not sure why.  This afternoon when I ate dinner at the Hibachi Grill, it became clear.  The people around me were the types of people for whom I would teach their children.  It is a mystery to me.  Many of the people in Cumberland County are military, and I don't associate them with the ghetto.  When I listen to these people converse, I am at a loss to understand whence their dialect comes.  The children do not talk like their parents.  Instead they talk like ghetto rats using the slang that is popular where?  "Oh, on the internet"  On television.  In video games.  In pop culture.  From where else could it come?  It is language that pretends to be more "in the know" than reality, and certainly post Covid the internet or television no longer are realistic.  They are living in a fantasy world they believe to be real.  This presents very real difficulties in trying to teach children, and it is this cultural divide which has become the problem.  Immediately upon entering a classroom in a public school, they will expect you, the teacher, to accommodate them.  If you speak in the King's English with proper usage, they will alienate you as out-of-date.  The politics of the school system brings me down.  I am comfortable facing a classroom full of young people, because it is obvious they need and want to learn.  They have weathered the worst American scenario in recent history, a two year black out promulgated by a human engineered pathogen which found its way inexplicably into the world's mainstream.  We are doing well to be alive, but for America to recover public education must rebound.  It will have nothing to do with a smart phone.  It will have nothing to do with the internet.  It shouldn't have anything to do with a laptop computer, because this technology is a self-absorbed, revenue earning, market tool to serve corporate America.  It has done nothing but degrade American society.  I will repeat myself.  The inclusion of the smart phone or the laptop computer in education has made us dumber.  Perhaps this is where gainful employment would be sought, in the technology field, but learning to run "apps" on a phone will not cure you illnesses, help you lose weight, or earn you an able and loyal mate.  They are illusions, and we have been fleecing our youth for two decades.  Now as the Baby Boomer generation fades, there is little to take their place.  We failed to hand the reins to our children.  We failed to invest in them and humbly step aside.  Instead in a calculated, seemingly inexorable, rowdy, extreme, and far right ideology exploited our children for our own personal gain.  God had nothing to do with, but Washington Republicans do.  In a nutshell this anti-Biden vocal faction seems to think that no one will return fire from their incessant inciting lobs.  Democrats are too peaceful, passive, and God-fearing to fight, and probably this is the best political discourse.  They seem to want a fight, but you can't argue with an ass.  You are just wasting your time.  It may be sooner than later that the American people will tire of the gun lobby, our lack of gun control, and the murder of their children from the weapons of these manufacturers who think a minor can own an assault weapon.  We could call it civil war, because supplying munitions to Ukraine all ready constitutes World War III.  We are just not saying it.  American politics, in spite of a violent coup on the Capital on January 6th, still is feigning civility and peace, and it is working.  I don't know about you, but when I think about our youth and the example we are setting for them, it makes me angry.  The tone of the news, the antagonism of tabloid television, and the low brow mud slinging is doing nothing for America.  It is wasting our time, when we could feed the world, save the Earth, and love our neighbors and ourselves.  

Killing a Horse

 The concept of a non-lethal weapon is alive and well and living North Carolina.  While the Marines are unrivaled in their unwavering commitment to defend America, "In the air, on land, or sea," the defense industry via the Department of Defense and the Pentagon have stumbled upon the most effective deterrent to hostile aggression.  Although discovered dinosaur fossils dispute that Southern "Jim Crow Jr." advocates believe they are Earth's modern gods, the cave man of the dinosaur age did cower in fear upon feeling the tremor of the earth when a large predator  was near.  It is this feeling of dread, panic, and anxiety that infrasound elicits.  Adolph Hitler utilized this tool and used it to his advantage during the Nazi reign.  Low frequency sounds have the potential to evoke substantial physical and emotional responses from human beings.  Infrasound is not alone in its potential to affect harm to humans.  For decades electromagnetic energy has been known to cause cancer.  The dichotomy of an electrical charge juxtaposed onto a magnetic field has revolutionized science and human existence but when exploited without care for its harmful side effects has the potential to kill.  Millimeter waves, the vehicle of choice for Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband, penetrates the skin deeply and is a harmful departure from previous 4G networks operating in the megahertz range.  Microwaves previously were classified as harmful to the human organism, until past President Bill Clinton decided they weren't.  By auctioning off these previously off limits frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to commercial vendors, our modern American economy was born.  Human health took a step backwards and cancer has rebounded.  The Earth has warmed, and still no one claims responsibility.  The EPA is underfunded, and staunch opponents of similar government agencies were appointed to dismantle them covertly from within.  America never has been more prone to aberrant airborne radiation.  Several decades ago cell phone towers were scrutinized and regulated keeping them away from our children.  This regulation was lobbied away, and now our water towers empty of this life-giving liquid, are glorified towers supporting microwave radio transmission.  No industry has capitalized more upon this availability of microwaves than defense.  They use infrared to surveil the enemy and target their complex airborne weapons.  These aircraft have become so complicated, like the Abrahms tank with its turbine engine, ordinary soldiers would have difficulty operating them.  Truly we have have left the age of the battlefield and are fighting the enemy with technology.  When the end comes, and God makes His second appearance on Earth, this technology will not matter.  It will be those humans who can grow a vegetable, build a shelter, or cook a meal that will live.  The majority of agnostic "gamers" killing one another in cyberspace will spend the rest of their miserable existences burning in hellfire with Satan.  I would suggest a peaceful, forgiving, loving garden of happiness would appeal more.  For the time being the DOD isn't required to fire rounds at all.  The radiation from their military defense systems is enough to kill a horse. 

Obi Wan Kenobi - Are You Our Only Hope?

White collar crime has consumed America.  Like Donald Trump white collar crime is intelligent, educated, and crafty.  A faction of America continues to love and support Donald Trump unable to understand his gifts are evil.  Have we underestimated "The Donald?"  If one reflects on his achievements, they are substantial.  Unfortunately much of his skill and talent lies in the "Dark Side."  America has faced a full frontal assault from the Dark Side, and only now are we understanding.  (My reference to this Dark Side only is a faint memory from the film "Star Wars," so I had to GOOGLE it to clarify about which I am writing.)  Quoting from the internet the disparity is defined as:  The Jedi (like Christianity) teach compassion, patience, peace, love, and self-control.  The Sith rely upon anger, jealousy, hate, fear, and greed.  (I am omitting passion, because I feel passion isn't  negative.)  This dichotomy makes sense in America today.  The Force is positive, and The Dark is evil.  (in a nutshell)  War may not be the appropriate metaphor for these negative emotions, but it is the end  result.  It is the ultimate consummation of the goal of these emotions, which is the acquisition of power and its accompanying accoutrement.  We could get lost in the swamp of darkness plagued by these negative Feelings, or we could resolve ourselves to war.  America is at war, and that accurately characterizes our current quality of life.  The media has not said it, but they are preaching it.  There are no headlines confirming domestic war, but their rhetoric and resulting news fully and accurately depict a time of war.  Like the failure of Congress and the swamp to make America economically solvent, perhaps we are not able to say aloud America is at war.  If our leaders aren't accountable for balancing our budget and managing the nation, how can they mitigate ensuing tribal wars?  Perhaps war is and has been the intent all along.  When did this siege begin?  It began with the electing of Donald Trump as the President of the United States.  Full well he understands United States history, and full well he has used the forces of the Dark Side to attempt to topple American democracy.  Because we have become too ignorant to discern cyber-fiction from reality, this brutal attack on the Capital has been a accommodated like it only was an episode of "The Walking Dead."  Slowly and surely our Department of Justice has proven their allegiance to democracy.  Systematically over time they are found, charged, and prosecuted many who participated in the January 6th attempted coup.  The event was cloaked in camp, and because Trump was the sitting President of the United States his naive and compliant cult members felt it was their duty to do his bidding.  This is the danger of free speech and of the internet.  Trump is a traitor, and it is amazing he still has not been held accountable for his treasonous leadership.  We are only two years out of his digression, and I have learned with age history is amassed in years, not days.  Civil War was Trump's agenda, and largely he succeeded.  To solve America's problems it takes great effort, intelligence, and resolve.  We sold out the systems of America, academia, commerce, and social mobility so  ignorance would spawn war.  In better times this work could yield a better quality of life in America.  There was freedom, and Washington would allow a middle class.  Over time they stacked the deck and have made it impossible for anyone to break through.  There is no need for a market, because the affluent all ready have all of the money.  They are content to ignore the other citizens of America who need this market to survive.  You can see it in the faces of politicians.  Few of them are from the lower classes, and they are out of touch with what was mainstream America.  This skewing of economic potential has ruined the free market.  For those controlling the world there is no need for economic markets, because they all ready have bilked every penny from everyone.  The rest of us, the fringe, are duking it out in the trenches.  Any effort in Washington to suggest lawmakers really care about us is a charade.  Joe Biden has accomplished some notable advancements, and we should be appreciative.  The only solution to save America is to abolish this Dark Side.  Truly it and Donald Trump are like a serpent contorting their spines, avoiding public accountability and responsibility, and raiding the bird's nests of our lives.  White collar America, white collar crime is the current culprit.  They want the common classes to be at war with one another.  With very little spiritual leadership it is almost an impossibility to succeed.  If at any time America were in need of "The Force" and Obi Wan Kenobi, it is now.