The Circus Left Town (with one exception)

 Time to blog.  Back in the day adolescents wrote in paper diaries.  When we got to school sometimes we were required to pen a journal. When I was asked to prepare a journal for an academic class, I never did.  At UNC-Chapel Hill my music education program was hindered by the hiring of a new professor whose major responsibility was to conduct the Wind Ensemble.  At this he did well.  He was an accomplished conductor, and he had an affable southern demeanor which resonated with the Sandhills Carolina students.  A few students were from out-of-state, so a mitigation took place.  This mitigation is at play in North Carolina now, and it is getting ugly.  North Carolina has deep grassroots heritage.  Back in the day our state was known for this.  Furniture manufacturing in High Point and this Market's annual show were well known.  Tobacco was the most well known indigenous state product, and R.J. Reynolds was head-quartered in Winston Salem.  (or was it Greensboro?)  Tourism was an important slice of the pie graph in North Carolina's domestic product, and her wonderful sandy beaches were notable.  You could even snow ski in the winter in the Appalachian Mountains.  North Carolina was known for having both beaches and mountains within a days drive.  There are cultural roots too like music, pottery, basket-weaving, and other things.  The formula has changed, and "The Electronic Age" has usurped most of the American national economy.  Think "Nationwide 5G Coverage."  Nationwide this and that.  The Furniture Market left Burlington, so hand made, quality, wood furniture is rare.  Our furniture today is cheap Chinese-made junk.  (I really don't know where it is made, but I wouldn't buy it)  This change in available goods has made me begin to appreciate what I all ready have.  Our kitchen needs a facelift, but as a quality carpenter pointed out our cabinets, built in 1962, are better than anything you get today.  A refurbishment is better.  Repair any weaknesses in your wood and paint.  You come out ahead.  April makes the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  (It seems like longer.)  The bug out this week (and readily they don't inform civilians because of the "Hush Hush" nature of military operations), must have been the 525th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade under the 18th Airborne Corp.  It makes sense, because their preparatory activity makes Fayettenam the guinea pig of foreign combat.  We are not.  Residents of Fayetteville are not the enemy, but how can they tell the difference?  After 9/11 the Patriot Act made available everyone's personal information, and the NSA still is collecting data on innocent Americans.  Social Media has become a pariah, a predator, and a promiscuous lover forsaking the secrets of her exploited prey.  Rapidly "Big Brother" is sewing a biofilm of scrutiny with polysaccharides, and average Americans are obese with this addictive sugar.  If one looks closely there is an expansive, sticky, enveloping canopy smothering Americans.  It is foodborne, internetborne, and television borne.  The soil, air, and human hosts are rife with invading pollutants, but finally health care and nutritional specialists are realizing.  Can I get off omeprazole?  Life has been more trying and difficult than in our lifetimes, so I felt it was time for this challenge.  We escaped bloody foreign  war on the home front, but our enemies have become ourselves.  It has been a slick, covert, strategic assault on our democratic republic, and it has come from within.  America all ready is overtaken (McCarthy), but because freedom has been preserved the fight rages.  In a nutshell the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution was enacted for this reason.  When the nation and its governance becomes so corrupt then:  "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."  It is the responsibility of local and state governments to limit the legal and honest sale of firearms to those citizens deemed incapable of acting maturely, responsibly, honestly, and possessing acknowledgement and empathy for their fellow citizens.  Government is the logical institution to oversee the people, if government still is good, honest, and free of corruption.  When our government is overwrought with parasites gaming the system, it becomes our own responsibility to make these decisions.  It is unfortunate that mental health in America has been neglected, and paranoid, overzealous, extreme citizens are killing innocent neighbors.  Probably the way it was in "The Old West" (if ever there was such a thing) your family had to function as its own judicial and legislative bodies upholding a broad interpretation of American ideals.  God plays a major role in this governance, and the absence of His teachings through church are the major void in our domestic civility.  If Americans sought to pattern ourselves after God through lessons learned from his Disciples, then many of the problems of our modern society would resolve.  We could live in peace and serenity.  Someone or something has a different agenda, and his name is Satan.  The only way to defeat him is to bring God closer into our lives.  Religion was not my chosen topic today.  My chosen topic is the continual, enveloping, sticky, smothering blanket of ISR in today's military and the whore of an aviation industry in North Carolina.  Why do we need supersonic jets?  Who is in such a hurry that we need to get somewhere ten minutes sooner than before?  We as a planet need to wean ourselves off of the burning of fossil fuels, so supersonic flight is counter productive.  Our daily lives are invaded by airborne surveillance, and this microwave based radio interferes and hijacks our own purchased, paid-for, wireless products.  I for one am glad that the 525th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade has left the building, because Fayetteville and Cumberland Country are reeling like a spent prostitute.  Exploited.  Might I say Fayetteville Block, once  I-295 is completed, will be all dressed up and no place to go.  All of the expansion at that concrete plant on the CBD Loop, and once those federal, pentagon, DOD dollars dry up for the construction of this massive outer loop, whence will the contracts come?  You could build a huge concrete dome over Fayetteville to shield us from the Army's ISR planes and satellites.  I foresee many cement trucks hitting the road, because there will be nothing in Cumberland Country except Fort Liberty that could use that much cement.  They will sell the company to the Chinese or a Mexican conglomerate.