"The world of the future..."

                    this is the second part

                                               this is the first part

i picked up a book at the estate sale place which was called "Guns, death, terror" 1960's and 70's revolutionaries, urban guerrillas and terrorists"...edited by jack sargent the chapters were on the black panthers, the weathermen, the angry brigade, Baader Meinhof, the SPK, the PLO the SLA and Brigate Rosse i read most of the chapters...one of the most distinctive things about all of these groups is how stupid they were and how so many people were killed for no reason...i was especially interested in the black panther chapter since there is a "new black panther" group now and i am hearing a revisionist history of the old black panthers...according to the author (Michael Spann) of the chapter about these terrorists most of the founders of the black panthers were street toughs and drug dealers and extortionist who decided that the system could be changed through violence. "VIOLENCE IS NECESSARY. IT IS AS AMERICAN AS CHERRY PIE." H. Rap Brown...the history if it is accurately described in this book would indicate any attempt to clean up the reputation of these gangsters and feed it to the youth of today in public school curriculums would be a travesty of justice...i imagine that the blacks thought their situation in society was not going to improve as the prejudice was (and is ) systemic...however the light generated by the burning cities produced much more heat than light...the above demands were stupid and moreover the "reparations" which are currently being considered (not favored by any other people of color) will certainly amount to another  "Versailles Treaty" with very bad repercussions...

"The world of the future will not flourish behind walls- no matter who builds them and no matter what their purpose. A world divided economically must inevitably be a world divided politically..."William P. Rogers (1972)

"If you keep telling lies about me..."

 when i saw another perfect hole in the ground i noticed some fresh dirt near the hole(top image) perhaps this is made by a perfect mouse i thought, but when i returned with the game camera to get some images of the holes owner i saw something beneath some nearby grass...i saw it was a spider i set the camera and got 32 ,10 second videos of the waving grass but no spider...when i lifted the game camera the spider ran from beneath the board (bottom image) and i took a picture...i find it amazing that such a small animal can dig a hole in relatively hard soil (see spider above upper left nail)...pretty small for such a large hole...

i am somewhat embarrassed to say that i found out how to get radio programs on my phone as well as YouTube and google...so i spent the last few days watching and listening to some very interesting programs on the phone thingy...i highly recommend "The Ralph Nader Radio Hour"...i listened to "Reducing Gun Deaths" from sept. 16th (73 min) was astounded at how knowledgeable Mr. Nader and the person being interviewed were...at the end of the segment i had to look up how old Mr. Nader is as he was very eloquent and informed...he is 89 years old and will be 90 in February...so any mention of someone's age as a determinant in their cognitive ability is mis-guided... I also watched a segment of "Firing Line" with willian f buckley interviewing morris udall of arizona...it is a very good interview and it is amazing how wrong the predictions of what lay in the future...i also watched You Tube "Harnessing the power of Information"  which is a great documentary...i also watched and interview with Francis Fukuyama by Bryan Lamb on "Book T.V" which is a must watch every Sunday on some cable stations...there are some great interviews of authors...and anyone who says they don't really like to read can be very informed with all the information available online...when Robert Rodriguez asked his son who composes music for his films where he learned music theory he said he learned it on You Tube...who knew...

I see the DOD is asking for $842 billion bucks for their next years budget...i also see where a pilot ejected from an $80 million dollar stealth jet...he was found but it took a while to find the crashed jet...they should take the money out of the pilots pay...

there was a company that was recently investigated for fraudulent billing of the federal government and the woman that turned them in got $70 million bucks as her part of the fine...DAMN!...that a pretty good paycheck...

i heard on the nader show that there is $360 million in fraudulent medical billing in the USA...

now at the risk of showing favoritism i would like to make a comment about clothing...mine, yours, Mr. Fetterman's...I  don't wear hoodies because it restricts my peripheral vision...but when a person wants to have restrictions on their clothing they should move to Iran or China or some other authoritarian country but here in the US of A we should allow as much freedom as possible in our attire...Mr. Fetterman is correct...there are much more important issues than his clothing...as Mr. Rodriguez says "To think out of the box you have to live out of the box"...and this country is in much need of thinking out of the box...

"If you keep telling lies about me I'm going to tell the truth about you" country I lyrics heard this week

"His was the dilemma..."

                                           obsidian flaked tool-craft

                                           obsidian flaked tool- this is art

                                          fresh crop of baby short-horned lizards...third location to find them

tuesday night about ten it started to rain...first it sprinkled...then it plopped...then the rain came down harder and with more volume than i have ever seen (or heard) i know from the weather news that there is a phenomenon due to some climatic conditions which cause this...in Liberia last week it rained in 24 hours the amount which usually takes 6 months...over 5 thousand dead from the flooding...so far...i am glad i was able to experience this phenomenon as now i can somewhat apprehend what may be the result of rainfall...the entire earths surface is now subjected to the results of temperature increases...no place is exempt...

now on to a happier subject...a major political figure has decided to leave the office in the hope that younger people will fill his vacated job...(can you others take a hint?!)...in australia there is a woman named Georgie Purcell who is 31 and who is a member of parliament with the Victorian Animal Justice Party who has been chastised because she used to be a "pole dancer" (look her up she is a real hottie)...she wants to stop duck hunting in her state...i used to live on a catfish farm...i hunted ducks once...killed one duck then gave it up....the organization called Ducks unlimited went to a lot of trouble to promote the interests of wild ducks and geese (so they could hunt them) and they did such a good job there were so many more geese in the Canadian nesting areas that they nearly ruined the habitat... you have to be careful about changing animals populations or things can get bad really quickly...there is a woman named Sussana Gibson who is a nurse and she is in the house of delegates  the state of Virginia...she uses the internet to show herself and her husband engaged in sex...which viewers pay to see...it is a really big business and she is hardly alone in this business endeavor...anyhow some busy-body says that "elected officials should uphold a certain level of decorum and professionalism even in their personal lives"...like what wearing a condom?  i was watching a great utube documentary yesterday called "Atom: the Illusion of Reality" hosted by Jim Al-Khalili....it is a real mind expanding view of the atomic world...there is some good information about Richard Feynman who was a brilliant physicist who "invented" Quantum electro dynamics...which was pretty much said to be ridiculous when he presented it at a conference  ...but now is recognized as pretty accurate stuff...anyhow Dr. Feynman was a "rogue"  scientist since he dated his students and went to strip bars and is said to rather like an occasional orgy... so i dont think the sex thing is a real hindrance for someone in any endeavor.. anyhow, anyone who has even a little history knowledge knows that "decorum" is not and has never been in great supply in anyone's government...

since i came into town this morning i have been subjected to harassment...is it something i said? I hope so...

i decided to look up what the budget of the US army is since Professor Kai said that 40% of that budget is unaccounted for...the budget is reported for 2023 at $185 billion bucks...40% of that is a lot...what are they doing with the money?!  well, my theory is that they now own a lot of real estate here and abroad...i have noticed that there are more and more vehicles being sold in "military" colors...greys. khaki, greens...kinda makes ya think dont it? ..Mr. K also said recently that the return on investments in stocks and bonds and real estate is going up...and " A BIG CHUNK OF THE POPULATION THAT HAS NEITHER REAL ESTATE OR STOCK MARKET HOLDINGS..." thanks kai

so lets do the numbers...there  were 1186 ships launched, not 1000 to go fetch Helen of Troy (that face thing remember)  22 year sentence for proud boy leader trying to overthrow the U.S. government...22 and a half years for Harvey Weinstein committing criminal culinginus                                                        376 armed law enforcement personnel waited 71 minutes to enter an unlocked door to kill an 18 year old punk who had slaughtered 19 4th graders and two teachers                                                       

so that mr putin can see that his real-estate endeavors are dumb lets look at who has made the most of their countries...Vatican city=less than one square mile about 1000 people                                                 San Marino=24 square miles about 28,000 people                                                                                      Andorra=180 square miles about 75,000 people                                                                                           Monaco= one square mile about 37,000 people                                                                                          Liechtenstein=62 square miles about 32,000 people  

I also watched another real mind expanding documentary called "Chaos Theory: the science behind the miracle of life" also hosted by Jim Al-Khalili...this is a must see and needs to be viewed several times to let some of the profound ideas sink in... 

i picked up a DVD called "From Dusk to Dawn" which i had never seen before...directed by robert rodriguez and also with Quentin tarantino as a Gecko brother and writer...i watched the DVD called "Full Tilt Boogie" which is a documentary about making the movie and i also watched the "special feartures" which were about making the movie...it sort of changed my mind about the movie and I think the movie is much more entertaining after seeing where it came from...now mr. tarantino said in his "commentary" that he was really impressed with the scene when the young brother asks his sister to shoot him when the vampires are chewing on him...she says no, he asks again ,she says no, and then she shoots him and he explodes into a thousand bits...well for ME the most impressive scene is when the dancer with the snake wrapped around her (salma hayek) has five of her toes in Quentin's mouth and is pouring booze down her leg so as he can get a drink...it must be said that in this dance scene Rodriguez told Salma that if she could not dance with the snake she could not be in the movie... the commentary is a very good addition to viewing the movie...(and by the way Ms. Hayek is female voluptuousness personified)

"His was the dilemma of a religious nature without religious beliefs." said of Charles Baudelaire

               

 

"He who'd know..."

                                     art from the Indian contemporary artist book

                                       i found the base a couple of months ago and the point last week                                                                   a few miles apart...apparently the points were not discarded like the cutting                                                tools                                

                                       

                                 more contemporary (1930's) Indian art...the habit of women helping other women to groom their hair is several thousand years old and the Taliban will learn the hard way that their idea of virtue and morality is not very well received 

well to quote O'Shea "WHO'S THE MACK!?"...the people at mack rock desert "neo-pagan" festival got more than they bargained for...i have spent time in that desert after a blizzard but never after a rain storm...i wonder how many attendees have ever read Sessions Wheelers book "The Black Rock Desert"   i was amazed that they said 70,000 were there for the festivities...i heard that one of the "rules" was to have "radical inclusion"  WHOA! i dont think so!...i know the gathering used to be free and now they made so much money they have bought the town of Gerlach...a few mile south is the Smoke Creek desert which is quite beautiful and goes under water when it rains a lot...

i heard the president of egypt wants to limit the births in his country...and the city of Williams about 40 mile west of here voted to stop all residential construction for 5 or 6 years until they could upgrade their sewer system to handle more people...i am glad to hear that unbridled growth is being recondisered...

i have been accused of being XENOPHOBIC because i wrote about immigrants...you know what immigrant means...it mean "got off their butts to do something to improve their situation"...which is more than you can say about a lot of people who have been here for generations...immigrants have a goal...to improve their lives...

i hear a lot about J. Bidens less than eloquent speech...there is a condition of the brain which effects speech without effecting cognition...aphasia...mr biden lacks eloquence but not cognition../.to paraphrase t.s.eliot speaking of d.h. lawrence..."a writer who had to write often badly in order to write sometimes well..." and i suppose biden might say such things as the leader of china is a dictator and putin cannot be left to rule russia...sounds like intelligent words to me...

"He who'd know what life's about/ Three millennia must appraise;/Else he'll go in fear and doubt/ Unenlightend all his days...Goethe

so long jimmy...born in Pascagoula mississippi...i've spent time there...a good pawn shop with 25 cent DVDs and a good thrift store...and also the shipyard that built the last icebreaker for the USA...now USA has 2 and russia has 52...not good odds "only time will tell"...

Scales and clocks just can’t be trusted
Keys and locks are destined to be busted
Metaphors were never made for keeping score
And I’m feeling for the sound of time

Is it the answer or just a suggestion
Is love what we truly want or merely a protection
Is this music made to last or crumble like a shell
Is there heaven here on earth or is this really hell

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
Only time will tell is there a message in this song
Will it ever make sense will it ever ring a bell
Only time will tell

Are we destined to be ruled by a bunch of old white men
Who compare the world to football and are programmed to defend
I’d like to try a princess or a non-terrestrial
Who is neither boast nor bashful is there really such a girl

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
Only time will tell is there a message in this song
Will it ever make sense will it ever ring a bell
Only time will tell

I woke up this morning feeling absolutely grand
For nearly half a century I’ve been singing in a band
I’d like to think I’ll make it to two thousand and one
Will the party be at my house God I wonder who will come

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
Only time will tell is there a message in this song
Will it ever make sense will it ever ring a bell
Only time will tell

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
Only time will tell is there a message in this song
Will it ever make sense on this crazy carousel
Only time will tell

Only time will tell