"I (your name here) do solemnly swear...."

                                           vegan? potato! i dont think so!

                                           cheap wieners with a little rodent hair! much better

                                            life is good when you have a full belly...

wind's a blowin' and the sands a flyin' in the desert...neighbors still come around....

"I (your name here) do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that i will bear true faith and allegiances to the same; that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter. So help me God."        this is the oath taken by any person elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services EXCEPT FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA

So this is the "oath keepers" alleged guiding light...
 

"To insure health..."

                                    kangaroo rat takes his chances

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                                            fresh water is a nice thing to have

not a big sports fan myself but i do not equate it with non-thinking persons...Niels Bohr who got the Nobel prize in physics also go a gold medal for soccer...and i think the Qatar officials have a right to ban alcohol from the games...but i think hash is more tolerated in some middle east countries and perhaps they should provide THC for the fans or khat....one mans meat etc. etc etc....I see where the Musk Melon has gone Bi-poller...most captains don't fire the crew and then set sail...i just watched "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton (1935) and it was pretty good...i am glad that it was pointed out that the horrible captain Bligh was considered one of the best seamen to ever captain a vessel...the mutineers did not end up so well...too many murders in the news...but i picked up a good DVD lecture called "Understanding Non-verbal communications" by Prof. Mark G. Frank...he says that archeologist have determined that ancient males were victims of murder in about 30%  of the deaths...today the murder rate in New York city is about 0.0004% of the male deaths...pretty low by ancient standards...still seems like a lot of punks with guns to me...

"To insure health, a persons relation to Nature must come very near to a personal one; he must be conscious of a friendliness in her; when human friends fail or die, she must stand in the gap to them. I cannot conceive of any life which deserves the name, unless there is a certain tender relation to Nature. This it is which makes winter warm, and supplies society in the desert and wilderness. Unless Nature sympathizes with and speaks to us, as it were, the most fertile and blooming regions are barren and dreary"  Henry David Thoreau "Journal" January 1858

"The dogmas of the quiet past..."

                                                blood moon ...far away

                                          desert ants...up close

elections over...some observations about this are...no men running for governor of Oregon...i lived in that state for ten years and it is apparent that men are fast becoming second class citizens there...maybe third class...after listening to the news about the "JUST STOP OIL" protesters it occurs to me that  these people have directed their many energies in the wrong direction somewhat...sitting in the desert allows ones mind to unfold in many directions and explore many possibilities...perhaps a strong push to popularize cannibalism would kill two birds with one stone...so to speak...obviously human consumption of humans is not fatal as there is the story of the whale ship Essex which was sunk by a whale (go whales go!) and the survivors in the lifeboats resorted to cannibalism...at least one lifeboat did the other one ate sharks...also the infamous Donner party ate their fellows...it is interesting that only the men were eaten...go figure...so in "Getting Stoned With Savages" the author J. Maarten Troost goes to an island where there were some people who were known to have eaten humans and he asked them why they did it and they said it was because there were a lot of people but not much meat...logical answer...in some island society's that have long practiced cannibalism they refer to people as "LONG PIG"...this is not a good name to use to promote people eating as there are pig haters out there and you do not want to discourage them from the practice...i have decided that "HUMEAT" is a fine name and it can be promoted as "It tastes good and is environmentally sound!" can't beat that!

also i was listening to the representative from the island nation of the Seychelles...he was saying that the first world countries owe them a lot of money as they are responsible for the environmental problems...by the way they are also responsible for inventing computers, medicine and government and such as that...so i say we take all the Aldabra tortoises and give them luggage and rowboats...oh yeah and condoms...lots and lots of condoms...

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must dis-enthrall ourselves, and then we shall save out country." Abraham Lincoln

 

"Where ever a man goes..."

 not sure what this was that appeared over the arizona desert....it is unidentified and flying....

wind gusts to 40 miles per hour last night...the truck rocked and rolled...i was comfortably beneath the blanket in my bed (the bed of the truck that is) high temp today about 67 degrees...pretty nice for the desert...wind is moving the "dust" around...actually it is small sand...the usual stalkers sniffing around while i am in town today...you know i was asked once about "community" and i suppose whether i felt the need to "belong"...uh...no...not at all...i have been from here to there and back...i am very well acquainted with "community"....if i was seeking an elected office perhaps i would feel more compelled to belong...at least until election day...no i have never been in any "community" that i felt would not become a problem...but i do read a lot...and a lot of quotations and history and science and i feel very much like i am not isolated or a recluse...i was listening to a woman from england being interviewed about her foray into civil disobedience...she flung tomato "T soup on a painting and then glued her hands to something...she has a battle cry which is "JUST STOP OIL"...now that idea is sort of like that which a 25 year philosophy professor lectured about as he traveled the country...he thought that all use of animals by humans was wrong...food, pets, transportation...everything...both of those ideas are absurd...but they get a lot of press... i am afraid oil and animals are here for a long while...ms PLUMPER the anti-oil advocate asked what is more important art or people...well thats easy...ART IS MORE IMPORTANT!...despite the Musk Melons belief that we need more people in actual fact there is a surplus of people and a dearth of art...i have noticed recently that a lot of people who are interviewed feel compelled to disclose that they are Queer...which i think means that they have sex with people of the same gender as themselves...i have a hard time understanding why this is worthy of disclosing unless they are in bed under the sheets with a person...it seems to be a non-issue to me...but from the number of women who disclose this predilection i am beginning to think that the word is out  and men may be running a distant second place as a sex partner...admittedly women would be my first choice too...but enough of this lamenting the evolution of sex...there is a fellow named david buss who heads a research organization which studies "THE MATING HABITS OF HUMANS"...i viewed one of their DVD's and was impressed with the amount of information they have obtained and how much of it is not what one would expect...sex is a mystery and deserves the attention of the learned....i am dismayed to learn that a man who murdered 17 people will have his food, medical and clothing expenses paid for the rest of his life...at the tax-payers expense...the problem is that there is not CLOSURE for those of us in society who are traumatized by these violent acts...we had to wait decades for C. Manson to die...while our trauma festered...heard about the open air drug market which has developed in what is called "THE TENDERLOIN" in San Francisco...used to live in that part of that city...i lived across from from the largest trans-sexual/ transvestite bar in the world (allegedly) called "THE MOTHERLOAD"...it was a busy place...according to the news report most of the drug dealers are teenaged men from Honduras recruited bu a mexican cartel that operates out of oakland across the bay...very sad situation that these people are allowed to degrade a city as wonderful as san fransisco...also in the drug news...there the largest opium harvest ever in Afghanistan this year 6200 tons of opium which can be turned into about 300 tons of heroin...i highly recommend "The Accountants Story" by Roberto Escobar (yes brother of the Pablo) this book details how the money made in the drug trade is used to bribe those folks who are supposed to stop it...it ain't pretty...once again i would like to highlight "EMBODIED ENERGY"...think of a guy who gets up in the morning and has breakfast and goes to work as a brickmaker...the bricks are piled up to make a wall and the walls a house and the houses a village...each and every brick has embodied energy...so when a brick is knocked down and a wall and a house and a village...a lot of energy has been wasted...i heard this part of a Sumerian poem from about 4 thousand years ago which addresses the destruction of Lagash..."...because the men of Umma destroyed the bricks of Lagash he committed a sin against the city's God..."....time has taught humans very little...

"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can constrain him to belong to their desperate odd fellows society." H.D. Thoreau