THE IMPORTANCE BETWEEN STARS

This is that commercial famous (Justin) Mac. guy on the left, and Drew somebody on the right. I believe they are both movie stars. It is the older guy in the middle that this blog is about(in this post). I do find both stars to be what one might call sweet or charming in much of their work.

The guy in the middle is a friend of mine by relationship; he is my partners sisters husband. He is also a lot more than that.

He is a natural host and entertainer. He has been high up in corporate America. He has both wit and intelligence, plus the sense of warmth that you see the stars perhaps responding to. They are their for the opening of a movie his son is in.

He is an excellent cook who made the best Thanksgiving dinner I have ever had, years ago in south Texas. He and his wife have been recreational pilots, and can be said to both help companies get their acts together. In fact, he is an excellent Web site developer. He has also had to endure many physical challenges in his life and repeatedly come back fighting for the best.

I once suggested to him he could have a show on the Food Network. I know of his passion for food and his willingness to share all his knowledge on a subject with intelligence, humor, and entertaining finesse. I have not known him (in my understanding) to stretch or go beyond the facts. That is always appealing to anyone interested in the truth, no matter what it is. Being interested in the world and people, like a good host would be, he often has something relevant to offer on any topic.

I really do not know how the two side stars are in their everyday lives, but the guy you see there in the middle, is a real one.

(That guy in the middle sent us this photo with others, being glad and there for his sons achievements.

I have mentioned on my post how I have been both mistaken as certain movie stars, or told I could or should be one. That ain’t going to happen, but I am kinda glad to know some people do work hard in the acting profession who I get to keep tabs on. Their families can be glad for them and encouraging of their development, as in any other way we encourage someone to follow their bliss, as Joseph Campbell implored.

I do not worship “stars” or even wish I had become one, but you will notice that I have managed to make someone elses success, somehow rub off on my post!

Some people probably think I am the most humble and understated person they know in the public sense. But on my blog. I am the decider. Humility, be quiet there backstage.)

{NOTE:

Anyone who appears in photos on my site do not necessarily know of or share the opinions therein.}

PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE PRIMARY QUALIFICATIONS

TOP 10 PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE PRIMARY QUALIFICATIONS

{the unwritten but understood bottom lines sifting democracy out to sea}

(My comments are essentially a one note song. My opinion of this is; the truth bares repeating, because falsehoods are proliferating like E.coli in a petri dish. That is my point of view that is.)

10 Qualifications:

1. Do not fundamentally challenge the status quo.

Well who are they?

The powers that be in your town, your state, your church (assumed majority). In other words; status vested individuals and cliques, especially moneys freedom to keep itself to itself, and increase itself as much as possible. More or less the cancer philosophy, consume until nothing is left, then die. Hopefully you will be gone by then.

2. Allow the office (government) to atrophy, along with the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Bible or other books and papers if need be. They are just papers after all.

Well what good is that?

The chief executive is not to hold corporations accountable for dominator based globalization and its world wide impacts. The exploitation of the underclasses always required to do the hard work, the kind with real stench, sweat and grueling hours to boost the profits of CEOs and shareholders is to be condoned. That is our lifestyle, or more popularly; vital national interest.

All of government associated with social welfare and health (aside from the violence (terror) supported institutions) are to be strangled in the proverbial bathtub, UNLESS YOU HAVE A SUPPORTER THAT CLAIMS PRIVATIZATION WILL MAKE THEM (AND SO YOU) RICH. MR OR MS HEAD OF NATIONS CEO.

3. Pressure “lesser” nations for their resources to maintain your societal stability.

This may require pre-emptive actions, and historically, much behind the scenes subversion of democracy and authoritarian regimes. Pay-offs and promises of support, monetarily or militarily, handles, lets say 95% of this task. Elimination or invasion, the rest.

4. At home, or Homeland, Fatherland, Motherland, Christianland, wherever and whatever Orwellian time you are in, media companies will subconsciously always present their profit making bottom line philosophy ahead of any other population segments interest.

Fourth Estate down for the count and out of the way.

But that is the free press?

Right. Free in what respect? Not the free flow of ideas and information regardless of political impact. But free to make money any way they can by having you read or watch their stuff, and be stuffed with it. This is cancers way, I meant to say, the way of growth and prosperity. Yea! That’s the ticket!

5. Preside over, and not interfere with the continuing segmenting of society;

Red or blue, soccer moms and Nascar dads, people of faith or secular heathens, Bible belters or coastal elites, generation X-Y-Z or the greatest one, hawk or dove, militarist or terrorist enabler, tree hugger or pro business, and on and on. You name it and we will get an opposite for you to sap your energy away.

There you go. Feel helpless enough yet? We are going for apathy here, so many can just feel democracy is not about some melting pot and collective optimism for all. That’s it. The more things change the more they stay the same. All politicians lie. Disenchantment. Perfecto!

6. Claim you won the election to unite the country to address our common needs. Ask for the support of all to fix and return our country to its promised land.

That being said; you purportedly have just 100 days to try to get your agenda through. Then all special interest are to have at it. From now on you blame the other party for everything that goes wrong. All seemingly going well is to be claimed all to your credit. This is the Law of converting loss into diversion to gain in the smoke and mirrors screen game.

The “free press” then is engaged with an apparent tug of war between conflicting interest. That gets old! Sports and entertainment become the exciting venues of change that seem important. The media then, consumes you with these diversions.

7. Develop potential to freeze that newfangled collection of Internets tubes, Internet bloggers and pundits use, who can be said to be undermining the nations (your top elite donors or voters) cause.

“Is that legal under the Bill of Rights? Hello! Haven’t you been listening? That’s just another piece of paper, like a ballot used to be. Duh!”

No one was allowed to stand up for long to the documented 935 distortions of a presidency in just two years time. After a terrorist incident, (real or imaginary) you are tared as a traitor, or leftist, or fanatic, to question. Corporate media bias is to reinforce the side perceived to control their privilege and purse strings. Censorship and propaganda merge into the consensus viewpoint.

Citizens then have to seem to themselves to go against what they hear and see. Usually this feeling only goes so far, before it seems inherently self defeating. How many are willing to stand up in front of a tank as that guy in Tienanmen Square did? I’ll tell you. You probably do not know anyone who would. Who stood up for the two compromised and manipulated elections of recent history? How about if suddenly your credit or money was refused everywhere you went? Point made. Bye, bye Bill of Rights.

You know what control of you will look like? It is invisible! Censorship like it is in China, but better. Everyone else will not notice your deprivations. For a while people thought the Web would become the new Fourth Estate, where direct information flow would enhance both truth and government. That had to be neutralized eventually.

On the Internet, for instance, your stuff will vanish from site(s), eventually won’t even leave your keyboard. The same for anyone else who uses your cue words or questions. Most voices will shrink from implied terror as they always have. We are going for the best control factors of all; survival fear and paranoia. In this land of collaborative citizen cowardice, we know who I am.

Uh. I’m going to stop here at that one.

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….and that students, is just one found example of a personal view at the time, of how the land of the free and home of the brave, became the land of the completely controlled (subconsciously) and home of the constantly fearful. We must understand how fear altered reality perception for our ancestors, to the point of reversing their values and substitution of insecurity based reactions; the food for opportunist and predators alike. They became as putty in manipulators hands.

For instance; the liberalism of Jesus Christ was turned on its head to such a degree, that empathy and compassion for all, and turning the other cheek or loving ones enemies, were considered by many Christians to be the workings of Satan.

It was a stunningly deceptive time.

That is why we now have the understanding of these manipulative technologies mandatory in all school settings. We must inoculate ourselves from deception, or by hook or by crook it will come back to haunt us. You don’t want to become the target of some predatory interest that has you set up like sitting ducks do you?

Thanks for that loud; No way!

That will be all for today.

Remember tomorrow to bring your book on Contrapuntal Reverse Psychology Logic Strategies. Also the pamphlet on The Use Of Emotion To Divert Attention Via Contextual Relativism Of Facts And Statistics.

There is some written homework.

In your own words, write one page, with an example, on how Rationalist can use empirical evidence to promote their own existential ends as proof of a fact that is, in actuality, a fallacy. Please make it convincing, as if you were looking for converts. That means make me a believer.

Do not forget to read the compilation of articles in the file; ALTERING INDIVIDUAL IDENTITIES IN ORDER TO MANIPULATE THE APPEARANCE OF FREE WILL INTEREST TO CONFORM TO ANOTHER’S DESIRED IMPRESSION. Read this by tomorrow! It is essential reading for proceeding toward the test on Social and Cultural Matrix Manipulation coming up the end of next week.

Have some fun before this class tomorrow!

Have even more this weekend if you have signed up for the ferry to Disney’s Moon-Base; Earth View. Maybe next year the school will get a field trip to; Dark Side Rover Wild. We’ll see.

But get those study periods in!

WITHOUT MONEY–YOU ARE CUT OFF AT THE WAIST COME ELECTIONS

TRUE

We no longer have any guarantee that our vote will be counted= not a true democracy

There is no fair platform for the consideration of governing principles= not a real democracy

The fourth estate (implied above) has no need to consider the poor or disenfranchised= no democracy

If is fair to say that volume and repetition, can load ideas to one side while seeming balanced= undermining democracy.

It is about money and how our future will be as servants to those interest, and not those of the Bible, the Constitution, or any Bill of Rights, or whatever your high ideals are grounded in, be you conservative, liberal, libertarian or from that great middle of nowhere.

Either we understand the pollutive effects of our attention diverted by moneyed interest upon our own consciousness, or we pave the way to you know where. All with outstanding intentions, or just ordinary fear based greed.

Insecurity feeds the mother of all deception. Ignorance impregnates her with offspring who are the carriers of darkness. There lanterns seeming bright as hate. Illuminating negative pathways, convoluted and leading to the the way of persecution.

Where am I walking?

BLIND TOURIST GUIDES OF DEMOCRACY

Who are the blind tourist of which I speak? They are the one issue voter tourist, the special interest voter tourist. They are blind and being lead by the same, to the cliff of democracy voting tourist. Their vote is that next step off of what we might call the free (relatively that is) individual.

Their political, and thus social and constitutional myopia, is so severe, just one issue determines who they vote for; the man, the woman, the tax cutter, the balanced budget promise, the one who chainsaws, the one who looks like he prays with our crowd, the business man-woman one, the one who poses for pictures with someone who looks like my kind of friend, the one who has a dog like mine, the one who smiles a lot, the serious looking one, the one my favorite interest group endorses, the one the paper says is the best. All these and more are the blind tourist guides of what is left of American freedom, liberty and collective responsibility. Those essential ingredients of a true democracy.

Issues that are presented to us by a compromised media are not the only issues facing our nation at all. Amazingly, as I write this, the first vote counts are coming in from Florida’s Republican contest. These come with one interest only caveats; McCain will benefit from the ex military living here, Huckabee by the evangelicals living there. What a way to make a vote choice? If we remain about how many interest our country can be divided into, well, there is the recipe for conquering. How in the world am I a responsible citizen if I only will vote for someone who, lets say; had the same job as I? Where is the ship of democracies lighthouse? It is in you.

I receive some replies to my post that mention; ‘Well I am voting for the one who, (fake issue) who washes its own dishes after eating. Anyone who does not do that is not worthy of my vote.’ Another proud American opinion with a cloth wrapped over the eyes, pin in hand to chad dangling tail on the donkey-elephant. Spun several times, then pointed forward into the abyss.

We have issues so fundamentally relevant to the value left in our supposed democracy, that being willingly guided by our pet issue is tantamount to surrender to whomever you like; the monarchy, the communist, the fascist (same as corporatist), the theocracist, tag the authoritarian/totalitarian one, cause that is what we will find at the bottom of the ledge, shatter boned and numb dumb struck.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

It was once said that money is the root of all evil. There remains insight in that statement.

It can lead us to greed and envy, a sense of lack and neediness, a feeling of failure or euphoric entitlement. Kept just poor enough, and we have no time for discussing the sell out of the fourth estate. With empty pockets and bills to pay, I can have no time for musing over whether my vote is being counted at all. Working two jobs, when does one have time to read past the newspaper or the news show? Aren’t they covering the news?

And oh how I can resent being taxed, when someone seems to be getting something from the government that I had to work for! I resent it no matter how rich I get. Seem to resent it more and more the more I have. How easy a mark I am then, for anyone knowing how to take advantage of my money ideology all wrapped up around my eyes and life. How simple for them to point the way.

HUMANKIND BLIND IS AS HUMANKIND BLIND DOES

If we do not comprehend how money influences our views of the world and ourselves, we are indeed in the dark. We are then the prey buried in the sand, blindfolded head not knowing what the little bites are. The rope that lands near us is of the one throwing the noose around democracies neck. When pain is so close, it is even more tempting to grab the life line, later to find; I had been fooled again.

So vote your gut? Not at first sing of unqueasiness. Listen to the candidates code words; are they a conglomeration of special interest or a more inclusive vision? Do they seem capable of doing what they say with a passionate heart, and not the Kremlin kind? Does their plea to you go beyond asking you to open up even to those you would rather not think of? Do they do this, not when just holding your pocket book as bottom line, but holding your heart to heart, to care for other lives? Are they trying to keep you in perpetual fear? If so, you will so be kept blinded to the light and afraid.

If you have no time to do these kinds of reflections, search in your communities for someone(s) who might be willing to enlighten you. At least that is a start to return back up the legacy of what has been eroded under our watch.

Find the time to care about the value of your vote before it is just considered, as a president once said; “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a g-d- piece of paper!”

HOME SNOW PHOTOS

MY FRONT YARD

OUR DOG IN HER ELEMENT

WINTERS WHITE SHADOW (ABOVE)

OVER THE FENCE AND FAR AWAY

FIRST REAL EVIDENCE OF SANTA’S SLEIGH SNOWKING GUN?

NOT. SANTA WOULD USE AN ATV LIKE THE BOARDER PATROL HERE

THESE ARE THE RECYCLING CONTAINERS ROLLER MARKS

IF YOU ARE NOT FOR THE FIRST VIABLE WOMAN CANDIDATE YOU ARE AGAINST WOMEN?

I just read an angry post allegedly by;{ The New York chapter of NOW just released this press release about Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama:}

To make a long story short. They claim to have both thanked Kennedy for some of his support and had forgiven him for many of his poor moves and compromises. Now he is against women for picking a guy over a woman period, with exclamation points!

There is something terribly wrong with “progressive” politically correct politics, if race or gender is the only criterion for voting for a candidate. We already have people, good people, who vote for their(?) religious candidate, proclaimed by some authority as authentic, just over a claim.

NOWs NY chapter goes on to call Kennedy’s endorsement of a guy, a betrayal. Is it now a betrayal for a Jew to vote for a Christian or the other way around? Perhaps voters over and under 50 should not vote for those on the other side of that fence.

Frankly, I believe Kennedy would endorse Obama over Bill if he was running, that would then be a betrayal of what, your own race?

Now my opinion of the two candidates has its ambiguities; both represent barriers in need of breaking. No offense to Obama, but I am of the mind that we would all be better off if women ran most of the government, overall they prove themselves much more responsible for life than men in general. I have a slight suspicion of Obamas on high speaking tone, oratory hints of Kerry, I wonder who they think they are impressing, or talking down to?

I am even more suspicious of the political style and associations of Clinton. The campaign has made me both more sympathetic to her as an individual, yet more suspicious of her ways of manipulating logical connections in debate (not looking forward to many years of that!) and her glowing promises so representative of Mr. Clinton. Doomed to the same fate?

Now don’t mistake my opinion overall; conservative interest of the world feed of of their turf conflicts. That Republican notion that the terrorist win if you vote Democratic, is actually the opposite of the case. It is the surety of no understanding, thank you very much, between vying conservative dominator ideologies, religious, socio-economic, or political, that generate converts to each sides cause. Keep fear alive! This guarantees perpetual conflict instead of working on the underlying solutions to the conditions that breed the fanatic mindset. How are these groups going to fit in with the corporations, and religious attempts at globalization, guiding the battles over earths resources; human and material?

Even though I believe Obama would break two barriers in the US that would be symbolically helpful in the general war on terror and inspire some who felt permanently left out of the presidency (as would Ms Clinton’s), democracies public remains water-boarded; with elections compromise by hidden techniques and unverifiable recording; control of ideas deemed valid, manipulated by wealth’s access to social functions of society; and money determining candidate access to the public to a great degree. Just three things overthrowing democracy that I hear nothing from the candidates about. Not to mentioned the undermined, compromised, and so, failed fourth estate, which was to be our guarantor of free flowing information and ideas necessary for a free and forthright nation.

But betrayal for valuing your reasons over what one thinks you owe them for their alleged loyalty to you? What has that to do with the truth we are in so desperate need of to live from facts rather than fiction?

DAM !

I built a small concrete dam late this afternoon. A side wash is constantly cutting a deeper canyon which threatens to leave some of the side yard high and dry. I will probably build two more. They will at times create temporary tiny lakes which will eventually fill up with sand and rock but be good water reservoirs.

I am making these dams to look natural, with rock and water falls, so when the small stream does flow it will make a bit more water music while terracing the stream.

I will possibly add photos to this post in the not so near future.

SOAP OPERA ENLIGHTENMENT

AS THE PROPAGANDA TURNS

I would come home at lunch from grammar school in the late 1950s and watch “Love of Life”, I believe the soap opera was. It seemed like you could get closer to the life of actors and narratives that you were not fully aware of in your own life. I also liked seeing the pretty women. Before you knew it, you knew who were the good guys and who were the bad.

I did not revisit the soap opera phenomenon until the early 1980s. It was even more clear what the basic reoccurring lesson from them was; when bad people manipulate, things go bad; when good people manipulate others and situations, things can easily go bad.

It is an addictive scenario if you identify with the narrative personally, some actors have even been assaulted for playing the bad guy, fans thinking the narrative is accurate to who they see.

I got tired of having my emotional strings repeatedly pulled this way, same reason I stopped watching almost all sports ages ago, I did not want my testosterone strings pulled up or down over narratives that amount to nothing in the real world. I have my own real life to lead and there’s not that much time. I know, these phenomenon do direct their influence into the real world, but I am not the addict supporting the habit.

I do wish that the worlds political leaders were soap opera connoisseurs however. They might have learned something about manipulation of power relations and how it inevitably backfires. But on the soaps, you can see the power of manipulations seduction as believable emotional fantasy: When someone tells another on the soap; “I won’t let any harm come to you! Darling. My Love!” It means, not only will that promise be broken (future cannot be guaranteed), but it probably will be directly related to some action from the loved one with the promise. As in politics; promises, promises, promises, especially after we manipulate the situation to teach someone a lesson.

Unfortunately for the lure of manipulation, it has a snake eating its tail like inspiration of the benzine ring, it becomes hard to tell which action started the linking reaction. Around and round we go until what is true begins to seem like a dream.

THE TATTLE-TALES FATE

Remember how in childhood, the one called a tattle-tale was not popular. This individuals emotional narrative is one of insecurity, perhaps an impression they were always to relay the truth, and maybe persecution real or imagined. They tell an authority figure to gain respect and honor points. Even if true, authority gives them a point for relaying a truth, but might tell them not to be such a tattle tale! Why? They know how the other kids are adding up negative points for them, and one day may be that negative payback.

In grammar school I was in the extreme troublemaker class, known to drive the lay teachers to extinction, leaving the room in tears. On occasion, the next days were spent with everyone writing lines all day long, cause we would not “squeal” on a gang of boys who we knew would “get even” with us.

(This classroom was like the riotous ones in movies. After the thrown pencils, rulers and books, overthrown desk and vile words on the blackboard, chalk and papers everywhere, it would seem as if we had endured a tornado, something that room would actually one day experience.)

The authorities (teachers) manipulation was; everyone deserves punishment for not, in effect, bringing vindictiveness upon themselves. We then lost most all respect for that authority, even if they were the boys real target—-to pick at a perceived weakness=their manipulation. That class was my 8 years of same classmates, just another year of hell at school. That lay teacher one year allegedly left education as a profession after her breakdown. The bad boys remained triumphant, proving life is not fair?

But what have they learned? They did not know or care how the rest of us (and they!) were punished or held back in our missing education. They did not care, seemingly, what we thought of them (except that we did not “cross” them), but I bet if they have not changed from this kind of gang loyalty reasoning they had, it is their lives that remained in hell, even if they have a big white house, titile and fancy car.

SEEING THROUGH BULLY TACTICS INHERENT SELF DECEPTIONS

A small but right portion of the population in 2003, knew from what they had seen and heard as proof, that the upcoming war was bound to backfire from professed abstract emotionalized narrative. That small number, knew the ways of the bully and the ways of deception, they were right out in the open! If you knew how to pay attention to what is true and what is manipulation masquerading as fear based truth, a kind of shame was felt for the easy followers of overt deceptive tactics. Those followers considered the truth itself–anti-American. Cable networks became the reverberating megaphone of false associations, and finger pointing and innuendo as to those who questioned trickery called authority.

We were set up like soap opera characters or fans who think the script is real, or wed to “our team” allegiance, to believe in something false as factual, if we felt bound to the characters narrative. Transfer that narrative to the nations own alleged security interest, and the might makes right plotters plot was hard to resist.

Citizens seem to have come to their senses some, too much is set up against them(us) to not fall victim to false narratives again. They will look so compelling. A promise to keep harm from us, or some other fundamentally flawed extension into the future, that our insecurities might mistake as a ladder, out of a bottomless black hole we had some part in manifesting.

CHANNEL SURFING OUT OF PROPAGANDA’S LIES

Check the dial please! Stand back from propaganda impersonating the truth, and Jingoism dressed in patriotism’s flag. Those bullies are aways out there. It is your patriotic duty to question authority, by having a healthy critical mind. It is up to you and I to clear our heads of a seeming narratives fog of attachment to what seems near, reliable and full of promises only a God could give. Change the channel, clear the mind, research the facts in the attempt to discern truth from smoke and mirrors called your interest. Get out of the addictive cult and act like the free and independent light you were meant to be.

If we do not do this, we will go down with the lie, only this will not be a trivial TV show or other entertainment competition. It will be our lives, and those of the future.

IT IS LIFE

Life is as fragile as truth.  Certain but, too easy to mistake, it is egg shell thin and thinner yet.  A simple membrane, where a guard screens atom and molecule…………. There is much strong talk about ending lives.  A great power is believed to be possessed by stopping a most fragile thing.  It is life, simple and direct, unmistakable until it is gone………… We see the boast of protecting our innocence, by obliterating others whom we have come against.  Other lives just as fragile and just as simple.  In such talk there is no recompense, only the promise of shattered shell and broken bone, but these are not alone………… They come with decimated lives and hearts beyond stitch or hope of being sown.  Life is so simple, it never comes or goes alone………… Life is as fragile as truth, we seem to know when old but not when youth.  The takers of innocence cannot abide this truth, nor the life they lost someway, when most tender youth…………It is Love we end in honoring hate, a last chance to know its flowered gate.  To try and make amends, lets forgiveness flow.  Life cracks open its shell, lights illumination streaming out.  Love shining everywhere in a total rout.  It is what truth always was, all about………………………………………………………………………..    

BULB PLANTING ON RAINY DAY

Today at the border, I planted bulbs. I noticed a few daffodils coming up.These new bulbs will be a surprise to my companion. We still have some verbena flowering. They continue to spread like wildflowers. Now they are all over the yards.In the desert, gray rainy days can mean big excitement for gardeners. You have endless energy, then notice you may need more compost, or plants. Gardeners can be greedy about growing.Just in case you were not aware. In the desert some “weeds” sprout in winter if you have a few wet days. They will hunker down nearly invisible for months of warm, dry spring and hot summer weather until the counted on monsoon season arrives. Depending on the amount and timing of the rain, they may become small little inch plants or sometimes some many feet tall.End of nations edge report.          

CHEMICAL CHANCE—–ETERNITY IN A NUTSHELL

We are under chemical directivity

they are what we are, you see

DNA winds environment and history

but to us it is a blind mystery

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In youth the chemicals

turn our eyes into shape envy

we see things old now differently

when the spiral ladder so decrees

time for that chemical dance; 1,2,3

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They find our signature stuffed indifferently

scattered way out in distant Milky Way seas

suitcases floating spectographic identity

islands the same as in you and me

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Chemicals have liked to claim a soul

as in love they are able to do so easily

for how has so much exact serendipity

so much perfect compatibility

come into we to be?

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Some might say we chemicals

are on our own doubt indefinitely

Ideas, just happening to appear to be

found near hydrogen and oxygen’s

tide bound Mother Sea.

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We live in what we call reality

and every part would need to be

purely coincidental culpability

which seems like purest improbability

that formulas would change perfectly

with a puzzle fit to unveil this diversity

all from the same redefined energy.

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Chemicals are typing

this tales on-line plea

vibrating string theories

quarky quantum quintessence

M-brane theory

I feel my ego head swells

with idea based encephalopathy.

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I dream of friends

in gray simple rain

I am closer to love

when nearest to pain

I am just like you

you have your own name

but how unique are we

we do not type the same?

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Words make us as one

but who is it to blame

when a coconut holds its future

its open shell, the rain.

THE WINDOWS FULL—–ADOBE WALL PATIO WINDOW

JUST SWINGEN’ IN THE RAIN

Unfinished patio during 2″ rain

THE PRESIDENTIAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO TRUTH

WHY IS THIS QUESTION NOT ASKED OF CANDIDATES FOR HIGH OFFICE?

I know they raise their hands over the Bible or something, in front of a robed character, swearing to uphold the Constitution, when it is in effect too late and they are being sworn in. That appears to be not good enough according to our history.

We should be well aware that the presidents, perhaps as commander-in-chief(?), seem to give an order to themselves that anything goes when it comes to guiding the public to believe in things that are factually not true. The truth, it has been proven, they need not even pursue. Part of being a hard decision making god like leader I imagine?

Well this situation has proved fatal to so many, and itself seditious to our country, our reputation, and our present and future. Treason has even become a political tool of manipulation (with immunity with one parties control and a failed fourth estate), something no free country can endure and keep its decency, let alone universal rights or freedoms. Something must be done.

WE THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE OUR ANSWER

We need a Presidential Pledge of Allegiance to Truth, one made to the public during the campaign. The pledge needs the teeth of sworn acknowledgement and eventual enforcement; that when any harm ensues by the president knowingly, in the face of contrary evidence or doubt, declares something that produces documented harm to be true, when in fact that “truth” is not unquestionably certifiable; that she or he be held to account.

(National security issues under question will be handled by defense and or intelligence committees, sworn to secrecy, their evidence and access on the topic not to be interfered with. Those findings will be presented to the team of judges also so sworn to secrecy, with most severe consequences to be applied to any breaching of the nations private information.)

The Presidential Pledge of Allegiance to Truth Committee, made up of a balanced representation of the US, will demand that congress appoint an independent team of experts on the alleged untruth to determine the validity of the claim held against the chief executive, or they shall themselves so appoint it. If it is found that the president was willfully largess in stating something as true, indicating the truth was not held as the measure of policy, they will be impeached on such offense or resign their post, and a new election be immediately declared to occur in a month(?).  While the line of succession to the presidency steps up in the interim.

This is a simple Pledge of Honesty, not the kind we currently hear about taxes or whatever. We cannot be electing the head of the most powerful, and thus potentially destructive or constructive nation on earth, and allow that person to deceive us openly and at will. Congress does not uphold its authority, it has forfeit it. We are left to our own devices to see who will promise not to deceive us for any reason, and be held accountable for so doing. How can we not, and survive? Are we to represent to ourselves, our military service, and the world as the country that defends deception?

MAKE IT CLEAR, CLEAN AND STRAIGHT

In essence, it is a simple statement; will you not lie, obfuscate, cheery pick facts, irresponsibly plant or accept false stories and information, seek out only your own viewpoint, or in any other way deceive us, the nation whose constitution you swore to uphold? Yes or no, no caveats.

Will you swear to be immediately held accountable for such misinformation being used to manipulate our nation? And will you promise, not to be excused and never do it again, but to step out of the way of the truth, that we have an honest and forthright government. And not one, of characters and ideologies that seek to remake it into their own false image, by employing falsehoods as the fabric of our American creed, hidden behind the Cause of our nations flag. Democracy defeated.

This pledge sworn to the public will be construed as the candidates prime directive, to be implied as supreme law upon swearing in. It will thus be considered a retroactive mandate by the candidate to the Committee on Presidential Honesty, its court and team of judges. Our hearing the Pledge of Allegiance to Truth to the United States, by the candidate, will be construed as fact applying to their office.

This is a matter of saving out nation (and world) from totalitarian ruin. We have witnessed the lack of any authority to uphold the truth in and for high public office. The spirit of this pledge should also apply to any party in office manipulating the nation to benefit its own interest above the interest of a free and fully informed democracy.

MONSOON MUSHROOM BLOOM

This was a small beginning thunderstorm during monsoon season

5 or so miles away.

They can move off from this state to many times this size.

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Strong storm coming into town.

CLOUD FORMATION DURING AFTERNOON STORMINESS

RULES OF DERANGEMENT

Compartmentalization; first law of separation

Divert attention; first law of bait and switch

Wedge issues; first law of divide and conquer political opponents base

False analogy; first law of stupidity

Contextual incongruity; first law of brain washing

Repetition, repetition; first law of echo chamber bias

Bound reality matrix; first law of Zeitgeist control

I’m just rattling off some obvious means of deception and manipulation. Most have to do with controlling others thoughts of themselves, who they identify with, then solidifying the perceptual deal. Now your interest comes from my interest.

Naturally what one calls the controlling interest in society, have the huge edge in employing methods of thought and perception control. Usually in childhood we are imprinted with our parents or some respected elders notions of what is right and wrong, and how we serve the former and defeat the latter. This is kinda rational in evolutionary Darwinian terms. Does not, however, imply implicit rightness.

For the political and social manipulators of their own interest advantage, reality cues outside of their ideology will be ignored or put down if they do not prop up the belief system. We hear the notions of tax or welfare selectively employed to bias perceptions this way and that. These days we have much personality pedaling influence or apparent charismatic surety to load the impressions in a predetermined direction. This means we are not looking for consensus in a tempered view of reality, but rather the higher validity of our sides own viewpoints.

Well and good on a small scale. There is or has been room for, competing viewpoints to battle it out over elections or other authority staking sermons. But now, with world systems integration and environmental impacts off the scale of human institutions to address compartmentally. A new paradigm must raise its integrating notions to center stage.

“Supporting business above a particular social groups need, is more truthful at benefiting society than tax and spend.” This is a popular notion of rising wealthy ships spending more money, which workers or somebody then can put in their canoe. It sides explicity with the welfare of the rich above the rest. The old trickle down theory has become leaky. These days it is a Faustian bargains shell game of deception chosen for the predeceived.

Not only might your rich yacht go and keep its loot in someone elses land, but the whole integral effect of expansion as the philosophy of cancer if off the budding opportunist radar.

We are using up earth resources at a dramatically unsustainable rate. We keep pushing the calamitous reckoning into the future. And now some of that future is here. In spite of this we see the true believers in unlimited expansion, mocking those who wish to learn from our mistakes.

Conservatives, in particular, look to no integrative reality check. They denied global warming in spite of the stunning ice core correlations between greenhouse gases and temperature rise. In their ideological bubble, they never see the pin. You can go to innumerable pundit sites on the right and feel the sneer at reality, the seeming contempt for inclusion of any contraindication. As conservatives are want to do; they will hang onto their rising ship delusion until it sits near the Titanic.

I grew up with how we were fixing the world by providing food (bread basket of the world) and big ways to mass produce it. Now we have a massive world population in teeming cities, disease, rampant pollution, desertification, and political turmoil from population and resource pressures; who, if they follow our bigger is better ways, we will be all gravely ill; and by the way have you bought the latest trinket or are you going to fall to the wayside. How is that wayside compared to extinction?

We should have a growth stage name to determining what economic cancers time limits are. We might be at stage three of four? But you will not hear of it from the ideologues on the right. You will hear such notions called (reach into their bag) lack of vision, extremist Luddites, leftist propaganda-socialism, class warfare, free riders, ignorance of how economic reality works, anti-Americanism, cave men mentality, and whatever cult reinforcing buzz word or phrase that is meant to have you ignore the reality that there is an illness, it needs treatment, or we all will suffer a convulsive end.

There is a kind of vast conspiracy going on in America. It is to keep us in the collective dark, that we not realize what our responsibilities truly are, and what responsibilities corporations and leaders should be honestly held to account to.

I DIDN’T DO IT!————————yet

I have not viewed the news this morning. Would not dare turn on the cable news circular conveyor belt. If there was live coverage of a bear walking through suburbia, with helicopters crashing overhead in the news maker ambush. I am sorry. I missed it.

I have not heard which presidential candidate suddenly came back, or which one slipped back of the pack of presidential wanna-bees. Without even looking, I am of the mind that there should be a mental disorder called; “I want to run your country as president, thus bringing heaven on earth syndrome.”

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a vote of confidence control over the president? Congress doesn’t have it. We could change them like rolls of toilet paper. This one is out, time for a new one. The trouble with that is that we would then even spend more time getting informed, no work would get done, but we could argue politics a lot more in the open, I think.

I guess then we should at least break the chief executive office down to manageable proportions; the president of business and the economy; the president of foreign affairs and the military; the president of domestic issues and national social health. That way if we decided one told us a lie or something, we could boot him or her out, while other things still kept going relatively smoothly.

One thing has proved solid and sure as the ground we walk on. By being kept in various stages of relative ignorance as we currently are, it is we and the future that get a spanking over the barrel.

The barrel of oil, the barrel of laughing monkeys, whatever barrel you like.

HORSES THAT VISIT BELOW OUR DAM

Some post down you see water flowing over the small dam at my house.

These horses and at times cattle, graze on the aftermath of grass.

SILENT TRESPASS

It is heard around the world

in ancient flute and shell

stretched skins and string

a sound skimming across the waters

across time

It whispers in fall winds

can be as transient as a sound

of snowflake landing on your shoulder

or come yearning as a wolfs lone howl

repeating from invisible distance

a receding train whistle

leaving the past in night echoing

some music has such a call

The composer may be

buried now beneath the city

or under a stone in a glen

yet they speak in pure feeling

the musician translates and creates

and we lose time across a membrane

the sounds bypass words inhibitions

slipping through ethereal channels

we listen and know not how

someone knows our private soul

they streetch it out in public

and they tell us of love and joy

stranded from some place we are without them

they speak in vowels of deepest pain

come and gone in eternal longing

they have seen into our lonely heart

we are left in a stunned stasis

an ambiguity of what we are

time and space and person

blur into omniscient sound

sound does have that presence

atoms carry it across a room unintentional?

while holding electron hands

in space

a meeting place

between our own ears

with many lives tucked under planks

a bridge is crossed which we never think of

a mote we know not from where

surrounds our lives on an island

kept this knowing away

yet we yearn for the visitor

it dwells in continuum’s

of sound and silence

notes that make realities fouth dimention

the known from the unknown

a stranger closer to who we are

whispers into our ears

a name

I cannot speak

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(a poem by Benafia online)

IT’S ALL VISABLE;——AND IT IS A SHAME

It is not what the world will think about the USA. They know of something fishy going on with the US. It is what the future will think; our future.

ELECTIONS AS MEASUREMENTS OF NATIONAL ADVANCEMENT

How is it that we got in this energy bind? Imagine it. President Reagan actually took down the solar collectors president Carter had put up on the White House. Must have been an aesthetic decision right? We had a Mazda car decades ago that got 40+mph on the highway, now we have to struggle to move into the 30mph range, over years of course.

President Kennedy was ready to start World War Three, since the paranoids in his administration could not allow Russia to do to us what we were doing to them. As it turns out, it seems a Russian naval commander of a submarine, I believe the story goes, chose not to initiate a retaliation for the assault he was under, when he had weapons the US did not know they had, letting both you and I use this Internet for our personal use. Thanks, good sense of Commie Naval guy.
(By the way. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was a kid digging a large tunnel to shield us from radiation and wondering how to decide who and how many people could come in. This is the same Cuban Missile Crisis that the current administrations Press Secretary apparently HAD NOT HEARD OF!)

But lets go back a bit. Courageous blacks fought during World War Two to defend this nation, where they had been “freed” nearly a century before, and still certain conservatives where persecuting them and keeping them from voting. Isn’t that special.

Then we had president LBJ who seemed party to the fake Gulf of Tonkin attack on us that never happened; another attack excuse to get into a war.

The we had president Nixon, who didn’t mind undermining democracy by invading the other parties offices.

Let us remember Republican president “IKE”, who was gravely concerned over a military/industrial/(congressional) complex, and the fate of our nation. Who said a president could not speak the truth!

(This is no thorough review of presidents as stooges for someone or other.)

Then we had president Clinton, an apparently clueless genius, who would pedantically drone on and on until we wondered where our bread crumbs where. He also was easy sucker bait to a young cutie, as if he were in college and not the chief executive of our country.

Now we have personalities, quite like chameleons, who change views by poll numbers and focus groups, until we have a growing suspicion that they might be Frankenstein.

And president Ford was kinda anonymous.

Then in 2000 we had an overthrow of our way of government, probably aided greatly by the CIA time tested techniques in influencing elections abroad, that someones father was aware of, just my theory. The media playing blind, deaf and dumb, apparently their new job.

We witnessed allegedly losing Democratic candidates, stumble and mumble and fumble the ball, but still arguably get elected and then ejected. Studies indicating; well he really did win, and another time, well the odds are 250,000,000 or so to one that one candidate would have all these discrepancies fall to their side. Sign of an act of God. Right. God wants you to intimidate voters, not have enough ballots or machines for your opponents. That is how God works now?

THE MEDIA IS THE MESSAGE

We are slaves to the media to a great degree. I don’t have investigators anywhere. Media consolidation continues to atrophy investigative news sources and local coverage. It seems now after our stellar next competitors are chosen, the woodwork will begin speaking about how questionable they may be. Hearsay will be equal to facts in context. Seems like a miracle again. Facts have been greatly overrated, when tar can blind you to the truth. Oops. It will be to late by then.

BACKING UP TO THE FUTURE

But I was talking about the future. They will surely wonder (if they are allowed to. If wondering is not treasonous or serving the devil), they will wonder where we had our heads stuck up. With the coastal cities migrating inward from the wrath of the sea. The future will wonder; where were their heads stuck up? All those candidates kissing babies. All those candidates saying we do this for our children and their children. Those children will wonder; what were our ancestors not thinking. And why?

Our near future will have candidates telling us how we are the best; the most charitable, the most caring, the most sacrificial and misunderstood non misanthropes the world has ever seen. Praise be to us. World be on guard cause we are the greatest.

We will be shown poor needy individuals who are to be saved if you do not vote for the other guy. These sacrificial lambs will barter their future for this act of acknowledgement. Our candidate will say this is personal; this is for the defense of innocence.

If only history proved this were really true.

GOOD MORNING BELIEVERS! THE SUN HAS RISEN! Well, actually the earth has rotated,

Reading tags is quite refreshing as I drink my morning coffee. There are a lot of sincere folks out there who are bright and creative. Now that we have more free memory, there will be no senility. Darn, I’m sure that is wrong. But I even find illumination in reading pieces from those who make that sort of non logical connection. On occasion, inspiration can come from connecting two disparate facts who on the surface might seem to make sense. Of course, many political or other manipulators, use obvious facts to connect dots that are not real.

Tags are fun when you notice some one reaching into the gray area of speculation with utter certainty. I try to indicate some lack of accurate known context in some of my own speculations, sometimes I do not even know I am speculating, like with beliefs, not knowing one is doing that can be scary to others if they notice the leap of unfounded faith. Faith itself is often construed as this blind leaping off of the cliffs of fact.

Beware of those who say you do not need that (God?) given mind of yours to determine accuracy or truthfulness for yourself. They may say that questioning is a trick by the enemy; be that Satan, the other tribe, liberals, conservatives, those other kinds of believers or non believers.

There is nothing noble about philosophies that ask us to ignore our questions, or one another because we are different. When some one says your own inquiring mind given to you by (God) is somehow always working to undermine your life, something is skewed.

I (we) can and do engage in self defeating behaviors often stemming from our self image or beliefs, that can work against our higher interest of a more truthful, forthright and honestly faced life. Such mistaken self identities seem to be the aberration, possibly absorbed by culture or some environmental assault, that twisted original being into one in some ways, “under fire”.

Many religious traditions seem to try to help the individual to address inner contradictions to gain a closer relationship to authentic self, some have evolved into preserving that sense of “a fallen one” to preserve your dependency on their experts on some future salvation (closer next Sunday). They link you to their effort, whatever it actually is, and hope to keep you on line.

I can not imagine a religion, that says you are finished in your learning and need not come by anymore. (Except Buddhism, which is sometimes not called a real religion, because it is about how your manage your own state of consciousness, and can presumably attain enlightenment/purification to Creation by your eventual clearing of all illusion.) Not ever being perfect enough seems to be a given expectation in most groups. It is a great position to have someone in, if you wish to keep serving them by teaching ways to truths, or manipulating your dependence on an institution and your status in it, be it as minister or follower.

Tags that question the nature of things, are an education in the debates over reason going on in the world; the big world and the individuals inner world. I attempt to merge some of these crossover points between the two, as I believe they are in my own life, on this blog. Do not expect complete, obvious continuity from post to post. It may be political one minute, slide into spiritual, then have a life photo of images I have seen, mostly around my home. Just letting you know that if the next blog seems way off this topic, do not be alarmed. I have not joined a cult!

Been there. Done that.

Good morning from the nations edge.