"We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork..."

 robert service was a good poet and not always politically correct...which is very poetic....

more rain in the last week here in the pondorosa pine forests than i have ever seen...the so called extremes in weather events are becoming the new normal...everywhere...i have been watching a collection of DVD's that i bought about the vietnam war...23 hours worth...it does not tell the same story that i heard from most media back in the 60's and 70's...i would like to know how much money was spent on food clothing and medicine as well as building projects for the people of south vietnam by the US military...you hardly ever hear about the good things that the US government tried to do for the people of south vietnam...i also watched "Platoon" a movie by oliver stone which did not hardly show a good side to the military in vietnam...it sort of makes one wonder about the notion of americans being in a far away country doing battle with people in their own homeland...no easy answers...

the news is pretty interesting these days...biden had to disappear for 3 days after coming back from overseas...i imagine they kept him dosed him with Provigil which is probably the best stimulant in the world...but still will wreck you health if used too much...i suppose getting the oil flowing out of the middle east was the main objective of the trip...now i hear that raccoon dogs and foxes at the wet market in wu han china was the likely vector for covid..raccoon dogs are not legal in this country because thry reproduce so fast..now we have monkey virus to contend with...they want to rename it...i recommend MONKEY BUTT virus...has a nice ring to it....thought of a good name for a radical girl group..."DIXIE GYPSY SQUAWS"...has a nice ring to it...well 8 billion people on the planet in november...got to start eating "KHASHOGGI SAUSAGE"...has a nice ring to it...the new space telescope is turning out some good images now...i picked up a couple of DVD's about the Hubble space telescope...lectures by a very good lecturer professor david m myer of northwestern university...very informative...there was fellow named VESTO SLIPHER (1875-1969) who worked at the lowell telescope in flafstaff, az....he also talked about a guy named MILTON HUMASON (1891-1922) who used to haul supplies up to the mount wilson telescope with mules and a wagon...then he became a handyman, then a janitor, then a night assistant then a staff astronomer...he was especially good at long exposure photography of the sky...only goes to show if you are interested in something you can often find a way to participate...well haven't died yet so i guess i'll go back to the forest...still looking for a way to put all my photos online so people can download them...this being hacked and robbed every time i go to a library or get a motel room is a bad plan...

"We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action."  R.W. Emerson

"In a culture based on consumption..."

                               this is a very interesting article from the american rifleman mag.(NRA)

lots of gun action in the news of late...too many shots fired or not enough...latest is of a gun punk who was going to wreak havoc at a food court...killed three but an armed man killed him dead...they are saying he is a hero...of course every person that needs to be a hero now expects to "get his man" and they are mostly incompetent ninnies with guns...oregon has introduced legislation that requires firearms training before you can get a gun...now lets see the guy on the roof in las vegas was extremely familiar with his large collection of guns and he murdered a lot of people...the "well regulated militia" clause in amendment #2 is largely ignored...if one is actually in a well regulated militia you are for ever under surveillance for being a radical...something has to be changed...too many guns in the hands of people who are a danger to society...and not enough consideration for those people who can be an asset to society by being armed and responsible...not all guns and gun owners are bad or dangerous

i see where the musk mellon wants out of his 44 billion dollar twitter purchase...bad investment anyhow but i see where argentina is 44 billion dollars in the hole...maybe musk mellon can buy argentina and be made the CEO and straighten that country out...might make a great trend where big money people purchase an ailing country and make them prosperous...the Rockefellers did it in west virginia and arkansas ans actually helped the states...

was reading about putins $500,000 wrist watch...what a sicko...i have a 3 dollar casio thrift store watch which loses a minute a month...i have several actually...i recently bought a magazine in the thrift store which is  about the "trending" things to own...there were a dozen watch advertisements...a watch fetish to be sure...we have gun fetishists, car fetishists and i suppose guitar fetishist too...we need tombe in group therapy...you go first....

"In a culture based on consumption rather than production, the meaning of an object derives not from its use but from its acquisition." from an article about Jean Baudrillard 

"He that listens... "

 gray fox-Urocyon cinereoargenteus...i thought is was a new species of orange fox...just the light

i saw this animal on three days and suppose it has a house nearby

guns guns guns in the news a lot...gun goobers with goober guns...the 90 shot killing of a fellow in ohio is a sort of sickness...a pathology...i was thinking of the most dangerous animals in the zoo when i worked there and i suppose the female polar bear and the jaguars would eat your face pretty quick...but i could not imagine anyone firing 90 rounds of pistol shots at them...sick sick sick...of course the gun goobers took to the woods near me and blasted all one day and half the next...thanks to the management stealing the money from NRA they don't have money to build legit shooting ranges for the shooting sports so people have to go down back roads and do the best they can...i read a lot of magazine articles and newspapers in the last week...there was a good article on the chinese governments surveillance of the people in china...and everywhere else i suppose...this is what the leader of china had to say about the information that is obtained by monitoring every move of its citizens..."Big data should be used as an engine to power the innovative development of public security work and a new growth point nurturing combat capabilities..." combat capabilities!? what the hell does that mean...it made me kind of wonder if i could get the FBI to take the monitor out of my truck...i asked once but they said they did not put it in there...damn! i guess i will go to my grave as a person in a box...way back in about 1991 a fellow on a job that i went to in Colorado Springs said that i was to spend the rest of my life in a box...i must be a pretty high profile "enemy of the state"...and it turns out that the box seems to be ever present...i turned it into a "soap box" where i get to express my views and always have and audience...despite the declining social health of USA i put my american flag out on the 4th...resist!

"He that listens after what people say of him shall never have peace." Thomas Fuller