Benedict Arnold Runs for President

The Dark Ages have come to America.  When a seditious lot of extremist malcontents have taken the House and with candor and honesty truly believe Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee for president in 2024, we are living in a modern Dark Ages.  In most countries a violent coup waged against the incumbent governing majority would result in death.  Donald Trump has embraced the fascist methodologies of communist dictatorships for his own ascent in politics and power, but why should he be immune from their system of justice?  The Saudis strangled dissident reporter Jamal Khashoggi at their Turkish embassy and dismembered his body carrying him out in pieces.  Moammar Gadhafi was dragged from a drain pipe, beaten, and shot in the head.  Saddam Hussein was hanged at Camp Justice and interred at his birthplace.  Donald Trump, the author and mastermind of a violent attempted coup against the United States government, lives in a gilded castle in Florida and is predicted to be the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2024?  It belies sanity; it preaches Hannity.  To assert such an absurdity is to confess to treason, and part of this treasonous consort is running our House.  We keep calm.  We remain cool.  We feign the appearance of civility, but there are two wars actively engaged.  A small civil war of attrition against democracy and World War III have begun.  It would be easier if we said it out loud.  How can America recover from a pandemic, when it was a smoke screen for Donald Trump's nefarious fascist agenda?  We are keeping him on a leash like a pet for entertainment, but he should be prosecuted.  It is not healthy to even mutter the words, "Trump as the GOP nominee," because it is absurd, berserk, and psychotic.  He is a political criminal, and he has remained free with his charm.  He is the slyest of the sly, the wiliest coyote, and the Zip Coon of legends.  Donald Trump watched his coup on television like a smug television producer, but the accurate ramifications of his pilot couldn't stand prime time democracy.  It wasn't fiction.  

Havana, Cuba - Fidel Has Gone and Obama Visited

 I am not down on the cruise industry.  I am not down on Cargill.  I am not down on the United States Army.  When you see things go awry in your lifetime, it is your responsibility to speak up.  Democracy fails when good men do nothing.  Of what do I speak?  If Fidel Castro's communist takeover of Cuba closed their borders to America, then Cuba's reopening to the world is a significant event.  An industry who capitalizes on travel by sea would be in an opportune position to exploit this political treaty.  We have Barak Obama to thank for that, the re-opening of Cuba doors to travelers circa 2016, when "The Havana Syndrome" first upon which was reported.  The civil employees in the American Embassy just down the boulevard from the cruise terminal were first to complain about the effects of infrasound.  A few studies were done and an Asian scientist reverse engineered the noise that was recorded.  It was fighter jet emissions or more likely ultrasound.  Add one plus two, multiple diesel electric prime movers hiding in the hulls of newly positioned cruise ships, and military aircraft noise and what may you get?  Something most people won't understand.  This refusal to acknowledge that because something is invisible to our sight means it isn't possible is naive.  Because you can't see something it does not exist.  Trumptistas have been exploiting this angle for two decades.  Deny science.  It was an easy tunnel for corporate America to do whatever they wanted no matter the circumstances for the American people.  More political events have transpired, and with the recognized "Technology Boom" of Google and everyone else, there are more wireless, microwave-based, pulsed energy devices than ever.  This description is what must pundits have said was the most likely source of "The Havana Syndrome."  Pulsed microwave energy.  Pulsed microwave energy has been the source of the technological boom, since Bill Clinton auctioned these frequencies to balance the federal budget.  There are a myriad of sources for this energy not to mention the Washington-based intelligence community and the U.S military.  When the FBI and CIA hedge on the probable source of the malady, you might deduce it may be their activity that is the cause.  I know a little about the cruise industry, because I worked in it for a decade.  I will tell you that ships without "Azipods" are more comfortable than ships with them.  The reason is is an azipod is a huge AC drive under the water.  It hums and it is hot.  The ocean acts as a cooling tower, but it doesn't appreciate the extra duty.  Neither does the rest of the marine life nor our coral reefs which are dying.  The oceans are getting hotter and guess why?  Again I am not down on the cruise industry, but I don't like azipods.  The very first azipod-equipped ship for Carnival was the Paradise, and it propulsion units were under the bow.  When I played production shows in the theater, the stage shook violently most of the time.  It took a while to get used to it.  Fully I understand and appreciate the novelty of a 360 degree rotating propeller pulling the ship through the water, but....   The compromise is the smoothness of the boat ride and its emissions.  How could an azipod be anything other than wonderful for the cruise industry?  Add the financial set back of 2008 to the list, and suddenly ships were traveling much slower.  These AC drives now were operating in the LF range, which means these units were producing low frequency alternating current.  This electricity was underwater, much to the "shock" of the marine life.  There also is a rotating magnetic field, heat, and vibration.  These things are not helpful to creatures beneath the sea.  Jump ahead and imagine that most railroads have converted to AC traction.  There are AC drives in the ocean and all over the continental United States and the rest of the world.  Take infrasonic emissions from the firing rate of a diesel prime mover and add these to low frequency alternating current, and you may have the end of the planet.  Let's hope not. 

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. 

 

Up Schitt Creek Without a Paddle

 Perhaps "Fayettenam" isn't representative of the rest of the nation.  Of course it isn't, because the sobriquet "Fayettenam" accurately, although cynically, describes the dynamic of Fayetteville, North Carolina.  Before BRAC, Base Realignment and Closure, Fayetteville mostly was a military town.  There was one important difference, and that difference was there were both a middle and upper social class.  Only recently like most of the rest of America has a chasm developed between the ultra rich and the poor.  Throughout the Covid pandemic we kept hearing 1-2% of Americans held most of the wealth.  Logically Covid fueled this disparity, because the all ready rich profited from this outbreak of deadly disease.  Considering this scenario it is logical to assume that this disease was not an accident.  Science concludes Covid could not be naturally occurring, because it would have taken thousands of years to develop on its own.  Covid was planned, manufactured, and whether accidentally or purposely unleashed on the world.  A specific few profited greatly from this outbreak of disease including Amazon.com.  The pharmaceutical companies who manufactured a "vaccine" also profited.  Like the rest of America they received their socialist/communist alms from Washington, DC.  Our free market system of social mobility driven by entrepreneurship has gone the way of the dinosaur.  Most wise company owners now bypass the general public and our market and go straight to Washington to receive their revenue.  It may be a swamp, but wading through the muck has replaced trying to bring a product to market, advertising it, and then selling it for a profit.  America has been socialist for a long time, and those who have been shouting, "Socialist" disparagingly are the ones receiving their incomes from Uncle Sam.  It is a disgusting display of hypocritical narcissism.  We as a nation have become brainwashed to stand in line for alms from the government.  The nature, foundation, and philosophy of American freedom is gone, and we don't even know it.  The landscape of America is but a littered barren road with most cowering in front of screens or addicted to our palms.  A1 is here, and most of us are just borgs on a conveyor belt.  It is infuriating this loss of Americanism.  We are so spoiled, lazy, and selfish that we no longer understand what it is to be human.  We are too busy interacting with man-made devices that control our free will.  This was the plan, and it has come true.  It was not that long ago that if you wanted to watch a pornographic movie you had to frequent a video store (what is that?!) and rent a VHS tape to view on your own machine at home.  The internet and Covid have tainted America almost to a point of no return.  I would like to know how it is possible that one man has been allowed to envelop the earth in his own personal network of low altitude satellites.  Is not space international?  Did Elon Musk personally travel to and meet with the leaders of every nation to ask for permission to launch and fly these invasive devices?  Who could have facilitated such an occurrence?  Could it have been the former President, and could this mysterious and undefined new branch of the armed services called the "Space Force" have been developed to aid this personal endeavor?  The answer unequivocally is, "Yes."  The entirety of America is operating in the fringe, and we no longer have control as the American people.  We are a flock of sheep grazing peacefully on our smart devices, confused about our gender, and unwilling to confront reality.  We are up Schitt Creek, and no one will admit it. 

The Lost Virtue of Physical Love

 The silence of the land line is unnerving.  Punctually for months the National Heart Association (or is it the American Cancer Society?) calls at 9:15 a.m. and at noon like clockwork and annoying.  The "beep" of the robo call and then the static crowd noise in a large room.  The salutation always is, "Hello?," spoken as a question.  When they say it this way, it creates naivete, like they are not responsible for the solicitation they are about to pander.  The Cancer Society has had cures for cancer for decades, but they will not receive federal funding if they cure cancer.  The same is true for the rest of the medical establishment.  The Socialist/Communist federal dollars will not flow if they have to labor to create a product or cure an illness.  Thus we sold America out to the highest bidder in a gross and distorted misperception of the United States Constitution.  Wall Street, our ingenious economic construct for the wealthy, is America's metaphor for not producing a product.  They are the torch that will bring down the world's most powerful free market system with narcissism, conceit, and evil.  How are we to understand what evil is, if there is no God?  The plan to eradicate God from American consciousness began three decades ago, and it began with print media.  For so long printed periodicals were the conscience of America.  The free press and their management wielded authoritarianism beyond academia, because to flourish in academic one had to be published.  The internet destroyed print media.  The internet destroyed commercial music.  The internet destroyed television and now film.  At its inception the internet was a clever subculture for academia, because it began in academia as a network of connected databases.  Only recently and perhaps with the passing of "Net Neutrality" has the internet also been sold out.  Rebranding the internet as trade and industry, its purpose or use quickly was sublimated to serve capitalist America.  Its counter-culture was cancelled in the most specific example of cancel-culture we can find.  The ensuing silence of the land line is unnerving almost like a Cold War has descended upon America.  It is quiet, dark, and solitary not unlike a communist enclave.  With this quiet comes an illusion of serenity, but if you abide by this void, the lack of will and human energy, only what is immediate and ambient will proliferate.  What is this in "Fayettenam?"  Startlingly it is very different than any other place in the nation.  The Covid 19 pandemic has cast an irreversible scar on the American landscape not unlike our wars in Korea and Viet Nam.  Instinctively I was aware of ensuing war in North America, because aside from Viet Nam my generation has escaped life threatening plight.  America's first "television war," first intimidating a weak Iraqi army and then bombing the wrong nation's life-providing  infrastructure from the sky, doesn't suffice for a generation's grievous survival.  When reflecting upon centuries of world history, pundits of 2012 predicted as much.  They were a decade off, and that margin of error is negligible.  I thought George W. Bush was Satan, but I was wrong.  It is Donald Trump.  My inquisitive factual complaints about a deregulated society have been cast as psychotic, conspiratorial, and not worth consideration.  Jesus was the example, and most of us don't understand the far-reaching scope of sacrificing your only son for the world.  With God erased from American consciousness, it is easy to cast anything that prohibits your monetary profit as bad.  The Republican Party has been using this as their political strategy as long as we can remember.  It only took Donald Trump winning the presidency to cement this ideology into place as a sitting president spewing lying rhetoric.  His charisma was so strong, and weak-minded people so gullible, it only took his words to coax a violent insurrection out of his followers.  It is Biblical in proportion, and we should understand it this way.  Donald Trump's attempted siege of American freedom, economic mobility, and enlightenment is no less than any other despotic conquering of weak people.  With the staunch Christian leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, America resisted this almost covert attempted coup.  Almost diplomatic in design, January 6th is as egregious as any bloody revolution in world history.  The good news is American fastidiousness, strength, and rebelliousness sustained us for the right reasons.  Those reasons are penned in the Constitution of the United States.  Although America has survived Trump's assault, including Covid 19, our wounds are deep and festering.  They are filled with racism, misogyny, pedophilia, radicalized homosexuality, and violence.  Trump accomplished many of his goals while president.  Our youth lost two years of education at the helm of violent internet-based video games.  Not only were they starved of moral, ethical, Christian teaching, they were indoctrinated by pop culture run awry.  One look at the days headlines, and America sees her shortcomings.  It is stark, dark, and seemingly irreversible.  The beginning of the change in America is work, but work is available.  The trouble is work, at the hands of Donald Trump for four years as president, means something different.  The quality of life for Baby Boomers is something far different than what is being offered us today.  Jim Crow Jr., the Plantation, and slave life were rejuvenated by a man who is nothing more than a Southern televangelist hawking lies and selling snake oil.  How are we to refurbish America, when the socioeconomic landscape now is run by gangsters?  Organized crime is the ambient dynamic in Fayettenam, and this is what sets us apart from the rest of America.  Fayetteville, with her anachronistic moniker, "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling," has succumbed to a murderous assault from an unknown disease.  While this pathogen has dealt mayhem to society, and while Washington has tried to provide relief, America has suffered a broken axle on the side of the world highway.  We no longer are a leading superpower.  If we had kept manufacturing at home and not sold out the American work force to cheap foreign labor, we could be.  We're not.  Corporate America chose to sell out America for the money.  They are rich, and we are poor.  Because of Covid 19, there is nothing in between.  It is Wall Street at the top, and the rest of us at the bottom.  We are living life in one big ghetto, and everyone is desperate.  We are weak from disease, undisciplined from two years of employment hiatus, and have forgotten the American Dream.  We don't remember what the good life is, so pop culture and social media are exploiting this gangsta life.  Turn on the tube and ignorance reigns.  It is because we have lost the virtue of love. 

The Spin Wheel of America

 What we don't need to see on the front page today is the appointing of  more special councils, special masters, or specialty lobbyists.  Lobbyists are controlling the country with a special strategy for controlling the swamp.  Create havoc.  Create mass chaos.  Stir up the dust.  Rabble rouse.  Throw darts.  Antagonize.  Simply when Congress is in chaos, corporate America rapes and pillages.  Protective agencies do not do their jobs, and that is lobbyists' special strategy.  Appointing special master-debators, special friends, or special needs especially specializes in smoke and mirrors.  Spin.  Spin the big wheel of America, so no one can see the rampant pollution, misconduct, and corruption of corporate America.  When Congress is bickering the machine notches into Run 8, and they never look back.  American citizens are secondary.  We are livestock lazily grazing in the field hoping things will turn out all right.  They won't, and before you know it you will be on a stock car headed to the butcher.  Persecuted Jews rode the train to Auschwitz and were guided to the shower house.  Deadly gas instead of water diffused from the plumbing.  America is being poisoned the same way, slowly, discreetly, and illegally.  If Congress was alive and well and functioning, then regulatory agencies could do their jobs overseeing corporate America.  Now regulatory agencies are another entry on the list of bribes.  New Alzheimers drug?  Fast track the clinical trials and get in on the market.  A Covid "vaccine" emerged quickly.  Is it a vaccine at all?  Maybe its an antidote, and that is why we have to keep taking it.  If it were a real vaccine it would have taken decades.  The last "vaccine" gave me Covid and maybe because, Walgreene's gave me this vaccine with the flu shot.  Flu shots have coronaviruses in them.  I won't do that again.  Special Council.  Special diversion from the real news.  Investigate Biden?  Waste more tax dollars for a country thirty trillion in debt.  Maybe Washington should begin to think about how to make money rather than spend it. 

The End of It All

There remains one constant in Americans' lives, and I am not prioritizing us from the rest of the world.  American liberty or freedom has been a separating factor of these United States since the inception of these United States.  There are other democracies in the world, but America always has been considered the pinnacle.  We are heralded as the world's great superpower.  I'm not sure if that is true anymore.  How can a country with a 30 trillion dollar national debt be a superpower?  We can't manage our own budget much less wield power over other nations.  We have neglected, disrespected, and exploited our own population to the point of possible extinction.  The great wealthy families of the world seem not to care.  They have all the money.  Today's economies are fodder for their amusement.  Perhaps some desperation and survival instinct are appropriate.  Elders today are living well into their 90's.  With this model one's last few chapters in life are confusing.  Are we winding down and have done most of what we will accomplish, or are we still to do?  I gravitate more to the latter of those two choices.  I am much more comforted to think I could die at any moment and be content with my life's work.  There are things still I would like to do, but I would not be disappointed if they did not happen.  The world is a shit storm, and anyone would feel intimidated to accomplish anything except the super rich.  With gazillions of dollars things would be easier, like sending thousands of earth-warming satellites into space.  Somewhere down the line America morphed into the surreal subspace of fantasy.  We no longer appreciate the little accomplishments which teach us morality.  Instead we are fighting armies in video games in gala Japanese anime fashion.  Good old American values, whatever they are, are gone.  The iPhone has not helped.  It is part of the reason we are living in a fantasy world, a cyber sub-conscience of unreality.  Is it possible to return to the living?  Living in reality is a much more brutal and challenging undertaking.  Best it is personified by Covid 19, a coronavirus which appeared in 2019 wreaking havoc on the world.  Today's headlines, the limited amount of them I can get via television because of horrible reception at my home, are the newest Covid variant is the most "transmissible."  What could this mean?  Does it mean somehow the Covid molecule has become more ruthless in its raping and pillaging of our ACE receptors?  Is it entering our bodies in more novel ways like a novel Coronavirus should?  Has it become sexually transmitted?  Can we get it from a dirty toilet seat?  Should I wear a condom when masturbating?  The word is it has mutated because we are being infected with multiple strains at the same time.  Fock.  That is disheartening.  I am sick of being sick.  What I have learned is the information given to the American public has been scant.  It summarizes as, "Wear a mask," and "Stay at home."  That's about it, and we have Dr. Fauci to thank for that in depth prevention help.  He didn't even tell us we can contract this virus through our eyes.  Our eyes are large, open, vulnerable mucous membranes of which any virus would be happy to infiltrate, but Dr. Fauci told us only to cover our mouths and noses.  My gas permeable contact lenses became infected, and before I understood this and disinfected them with diluted bleach, they reinfected my eyes and body for over a year.  Our eyes are a huge vulnerable weakness to disease, and it would explain the number of eye illnesses I saw during the Covid outbreak.  Fauci said nothing.  I have been able to smell twice during the last three years, and I am enjoying now.  The latest "booster" for Covid was given to me by Walgreens with the flu vaccination.  Two weeks later I had Covid again, and it was the worst bout I have experienced.  Still I am not over it.  Misinformation is and was rampant, and many corporations who said they would not donate to election deniers are doing so again.  Quietly the siege to overtake America is still active.  We are destined to become a Communist nation under autocratic rule if we are not careful.  With the sheer number of people still supporting Donald Trump, it is what they want.  A large percentage of the population of America are communists, so America's concern with this faction of people historically is and was not in vain.  It was a good idea this witch hunt for Reds.  There are those who are at peace with freedom and the solidarity of themselves, and there are those we seek to dominate because their demons are upset by our spirits.  They must conquer that which is foreign and unfamiliar rather than learning and becoming enriched.  Small minds.  Small mindedness is a synonym for lack of spirituality.  When one is spiritual he must trust someone and something bigger and more important than himself.  Usually that is God, and God in different cultures has different titles.  The conceit to think one's self is the highest probability of intelligence is pure ignorance.  Our educational system must do better, and Covid has hindered it.  Now we have become unhealthy and ignorant, a formula for extinction.  If things continue  as they are the Bible's predicted end of the world may be near.  

More of the Same for America, If?

Television news, both local and national, doesn't report much anymore.  Their editors are not familiar with the historical lineage of traditional American news agencies.  Tabloid news is their model, and because streaming has usurped television as the major source of information, television news is a shadow of its former self.  They are hanging on, but the industry is a shell.  Why?  They are controlled by corporations and their owning wealthy families.  No longer are they free to report the news as it is.  It is propagandist, biased, and manipulative.  Television commercials or advertisements are the same.  What they are selling is crap, and one needs to tell one's self this truth.  I can't watch any of them, because I am not interested in  their products.  I visited the Good Feet Store and received a demonstration of their advertised insoles.  The cost was $1,400.00.  That was alot for three sets of plastic insoles, but it was an enlightening experience.  I think there is merit to their product.  How meteorologists can look us in the eye and tell us the weather without laughing is surprising.  They must be paid a lot.  Since the onset of climate change or Global Warming, the nightly weather forecast has become a farce.  For example, and this is to prove man is responsible for climate change, a few weeks ago we had a cold snap with temperatures in the teens.  There was a massive blizzard that swept the Midwest and Northeast, and Buffalo, New York was hard hit.  On Christmas day in the South it was the usual seventy degrees.  People joke about Fayettenam, and they enjoy the unseasonal warm weather.  The reason why Fayetteville, North Carolina is unseasonably warm in winter is not because it is in a depression, the Cape Fear River Basin.  This is a common misconception for the excessive heat and humidity.  Warm Atlantic Ocean air does travel up the river basin.  What causes the unseasonably hot humid weather is military activity.  Military trains travel from Fayetteville through Pembroke to Wilmington.  The yard in Leland is a sorting place.  When massive air breathing machines suck the air out of this river valley burning it for their own power, what is left?  The answer is their residual heat and the humidity of the encroaching Atlantic Ocean air.  Operation Rolling Thunder often provides summer like temperatures the beginning of February confusing the local flora and fauna.  It is a false spring, and the azaleas and hydrangeas don't know when to bloom.  Often they are damaged by the later winter cold.  2023 was no different.  The week after Christmas after this wonderful cold snap and true winter experience, the military lets loose and wet monsoon conditions appear.  It is hot and steamy and green algae begins to grow on our concrete.  At the moment the aerial military activity has lessened somewhat, and temperatures are dropping to appropriate levels for winter.  The military is responsible for  a large part of Global Warming and Climate Change, but it goes unspoken.  We are led to believe the precedence of the Pentagon and national security cannot be questioned, and technically we are not at war.  (or are we?)  Farce has become a way of life for Americans, and we are watching a puppet of a want-to-be communist dictator try to win the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  If Kevin McCarthy does win, we are in for more of the same.  

El Gestapo

 What better democratic process is there than forcing one of our representative legislative bodies to do their jobs?  "Robert's Rules of Order" may survive in House protocol, but doing the right thing no longer is in vogue.  Now it's extremism substituting shock value for integrity.  What' integrity?  Without God and  and some tenet of religion and spirituality, we don't know thus our "Conditions of America."  Lies are the protocol.  The Media is doing a poor job objectively of reporting the news, because they have been tainted by this nefarious substitution of Extremism over truth and integrity.  The news is biased, and because they no longer by law are required to report on equal sides of an issue, biased opinion is paramount.  Lester Holt's says it each night, and it is getting worse.  Blatantly he said prosecuting Donald Trump would "Tear the nation apart."  This was speculation and opinion, and it would be thrown out by a judge in a court of law.  (unless of course it was a Trump appointed judge, wherein they are on the take)  Mob tactics were ushered into Washington, DC by Donald Trump.  He may not be the first, but Mob tactics are proving to be grievous and influential threatening our freedom and our democracy.  What's the deal?  If Kevin McCarthy doesn't merit the votes to elect him Speaker of the House, then legislative process requires finding a new candidate.  The GOP is in tatters, and Kevin McCarthy now is its metaphor.  We see it in full bloom visibly inhibiting our legislative process and preventing the functioning of our federal government.  The GOP must do their jobs.  If your candidate is not deemed worthy of leading the House, then you must select a new candidate!  Matt Gaetz voted for Donald Trump, and he is not a house member.  ?  The GOP is not qualified to lead the House or the nation, and a violent attempted coup on the Capital seems like a television show.  Kevin McCarthy supports it.  Should he be elected as Speaker of the House?  The House says, "No!" "Meanwhile," in the ephemeral words of Stephen Colbert, of whom I no longer can watch, because my over-the-air television is so limited, America is fighting a proxy war with Russia.  Shall we discuss this?  Does anyone care that the United States is fighting Vladimir Putin?  Does anyone care that World War lll has begun and  is operating incognito?  Our attention has moved from the natural resources of Afghanistan (poppies) to the natural resources of Ukraine.  It is a prudent switch considering the amount of products produced in Ukraine.  "Drugs are bad," but these military planes keep making drops.  A three state trek along the Atlantic ocean, a little touch-and-go in sunny La Florida, and back to home base.  Is it the Mob?  "Meanwhile," the railroads are raking in cash hauling munitions to Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point.  (and other more lucrative cargo)  Why does a Mexican Conglomerate own a polyester plastics plant on the Cape Fear River serviced by three different railroads?  It's a logistical Mecca!  Man, business as usual and no one notices, and the drug problem continues.  The murdering of ten thousand American teens by fentanyl deserves priority in a country who can't even remember what "the right thing" is. 

McCarthyism and the Giant Deal

 Ironically my sources of local and national news have become more limited from the same world protagonist about whom I am about to write.  Defense contractors have become leeches on the American economy.  Largely they bypass the Capitalist free market and hawk their wares directly in the swamp.  America is socialist, and by that I mean our government pays a large percentage of citizens' incomes directly or indirectly.  Our means of production certainly is not owned by the people, and we do employ a private labor force.  That means we are not socialist, but what is the system of government when the government pays for most of the public's needs?  Indirectly our needs are met by paying us salaries from which we purchase our necessities.  A government employee is an example of this.  Broadly they consider themselves free, but in reality their sustenance is provided by the government, whose resources once came from taxpayers.  Considering the United States on paper is thirty trillion dollars in debt, America lost sight of its functioning economy with blows from the "Big Short," the financial crisis of 2008, and later from the outbreak of the coronavirus.  Our government keeps spending money we don't have neglecting the system once that provided America's revenue.  Has the free market system of Capitalism really worked for us?  I believe it has, and while necessarily John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnagie,  Cornelius Vanderbilt, and J.P. Morgan all manipulated our system to its own favor with money to begin with, once the American Dream was the possibility of creating ones sustenance from intelligence, wisdom, devotion, reverence, and diligent work.  Free meant America provided social mobility and embraced competition in her financial ranks.  Sadly no longer is this true.  We have become once again a nation of trusts, and large families hold most of the wealth.  The percentage of income held by a group of billionaires has stymied our once free market system.  Why and how has this happened?  Who was in a position to profit most from a global pandemic having all ready established themselves as an online retail powerhouse?  Suddenly Americans can't go out of the house, and how do they survive without brick and mortar shopping?  With hundreds of thousands of dying Americans what industry is in place to provide a remedy for this death?  Unless smaller, grassroots, indigenous, main street businesses are enabled to thrive again, America never will be the same.  We will continue to be dependent upon our government who no longer is concerned with small business.  America has squeezed small businesses out of the formula, and now the parasites feed directly from the pond in Washington, DC.  The public is bypassed, and what little is left of our tax dollars are bid upon by lobbyists and their corporate sponsors.  The most ruthless of these lately are defense industries, who reply upon global unrest and war as their sustenance.  For their massive array of highly technological products to seem relevant, we must hate one another only want to fight.  Their focus has become ISR, fittingly just a re-arrangement of the acronym for the Internal Revenue Service.  Once this government agency was the citizen's nemesis.  Now it is "Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance."  Not only has America's free market been hobbled by large family trusts, we are being assaulted by carbon and electronic footprints of the defense industry.  (not to mention the true source of Covid 19)  Jokingly I suggest that the American military no longer needs active duty troops on the ground, nor do they even need to fire their weapons.  The targeting, networking, and strategic systems upon which they now are reliant, consisting largely of airborne electromagnetic sensors, are enough to kill the enemy with their residual refuse.  The effects of those previously illegal frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum historically are well-documented.  One only has to read a few National Institute of Health articles online to understand that infrared, ultra-violet, and millimeter wave radiation all are dangerous to the human body.  Our eyes, our skin, and our organs are under attack as long as our military uses and practices with these complex electromagnetic systems.  There are so many sensor arrays manufactured by L3/Harris it is difficult to keep up with them.  Every time a military aircraft strafes my home those infrared sensors are observing me taking a piss.  Talk about taking a piss, Kevin McCarthy.  What could be more glorious in a resurrection of the ideals of American democracy, than a Trumpian "Big Lie" supporter and election denier NOT getting elected as Speaker of the House?