"Rules of conduct, whatever they may be..."

bugs and an insect on a thistle

 i thought there was a herd or capybara under the hood...but just a very large rat&friends...the ravens love this addition to their diet...and awoke me every morning at dawn to see if the trap-line was productive...

well now the democratic party has a candidate they can work for...i hope ms. harris et.al. pick mr kelly as the v.p. choice...for several reasons...first they can say to the republicans..."we see your marine lawyer and raise you a marine colonel ASTRONAUT!...even all your friends who "smell like weed and little babies" will  vote for an astronaut...AND...if anything puts the VP out of commission there is his twin brother who can take over (put that in the contract!) i anticipate the republicans will enlist the "brown-shirts" to intimidate anyone who voices favor for the democratic ticket...the label "ultra liberal" to describe ms. harris is not consistent with the information in a lengthy article i believe in new yorker which describes the dissatisfaction with harris in california as she was in favor or the three strikes rule and did not favor legalized pot among some other decisions she made which were definitely not ultra liberal ...anyhow i was thinking about the constant text messages which would like for me to give money to defeat the republican candidate...i think i will do my own campaigning as i can better spend the money than some distant persons...i am thinking i might make some stencils which say "DUMP TRUMP" and do the guerilla thing by stenciling every dumpster and trash can i can find...do the BANKSY method of social commentary...

i have looked at quite a lot of utube commentators in the last week and one thing i have noticed is that every male commentator says "if i were her campaign coordinator" and then proceeds to give advice which was dug out of the remote swamp of their brain which is about as relevant as "i like ike"...mr. o'reilly seemed unable to even consider two women on the same ticket at the same time...ditto for mr, carville...what say let a "contemporary" female consider the situation and make her views known...anyhow the same ol' same ol' will not succeed this time...it is likely to be a slug-fest and perhaps more "cheatle ear" in the future...

governor of california says no more urban campers in his state...yeah right! suddenly all the tent dwellers will go back to their abandoned palatial estates...what is this man thinking!?...as i have said for many years...the homeless industry is BOOMING!...billions of dollars is going to be invested in housing and billions of dollars will be squandered and stolen...yep the governor must have seen which side of his toast is buttered and now the prospects of cashing in on the "homeless" looms large...

well i hear the great island country of granada says they want money to "REBUILD" the property which was destroyed in the last storm...they say they did not contribute to climate change and were only singing and dancing when those horrible "first world" countries caused climate change...and they want MONEY MONEY MONEY!

i watched some good documentaries this week...one of the better ones was "Lou Harrison- an american original"...this guy is a music composer who stepped way out of the box...lots of percussion and some of it very pleasant...

 

"Rules of conduct, whatever they may be, are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good."  Bertrand Russell 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

"At least to pray..."

     

wired world

 

                           

washtub abbs

a trio of pronghorn from a herd of about 15...

the day after i sighted this herd of about 15 pronghorn antelope a couple of rifle shots rang out from a newly arrived travel trailer nearby...then less than an hour later a shotgun blast was heard not too far from the trailer...my theory based on experience is that cops (who often seek to harass me) carry shotguns as well as rifles and pistols...of course the wildlife viewing goes to shit when these gun goobers show up... i have encountered so much ORGANIZED CRIME in the state of arizona that it amazes me that the government paid individuals who are supposed to be SERVING AND PROTECTING the public apparently do not believe that it is a priority...victims like myself would disagree...now i have been told that i am ALL SET...i have certainly heard that phrase before...i am being targeted because i do not wear the colors of the tribe and do not respond to the various hand signals and body language signs appropriately...like most trained capuchin monkeys  do...anyhow yesterday i was told that THEY have DECLARED WAR on me...damn! and that i was getting too close (two close) this happens all the time...well i'll certainly try harder to be compliant with the local mobs....not really...just one more reason to SUBVERT THE DOMINANT PARADIGM...

well i need to make some apology's according to some of the suggestions which i have a great deal of respect for...one of 12 which recommends to make amends whenever possible...in the past on this blog i have suggested that anthony bourdain drank and used pot addictively... (i have all of bourdains DVDs and am a fan) i am a drunk and a pothead...i have no right to speak to anyone elses habits...it is called taking someones inventory...not a good thing...i also  suggested that nathaniel rateliff was a drunk because of his great song SOB...that was my mis-interpretation of his work...i am a drunk and a pothead and have no legitimate right to judge him...also ms ferrell was mentioned as having nearly died of some drugs she took...i do not know this great musician and have no right to suggest anything about her private life...i am a drunk and an pothead...and my own life is my concern...i watched the death and destruction of so many tantalized musical performers in my lifetime that i am always dismayed to see anyone struggle with addiction...i am a drunk and a pothead and my own life and those around me was negatively effected by my own habits... even after 36 years with no alcohol i see myself as a drunk who is not drinking today...one day at a time... 

"At least -to pray -is left-is left- /Oh Jesus-in-the Air/ I know not which thy chamber is-/I'm knocking -everywhere-/Thou settest Earthquake in the South- /And Maelstrom, in the sea-/Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth-/ Hast thou no arm for Me?" Emily Dickenson (1862)                                                                                   

 

"...these empires rise and fall..."

 this  is where i spent my birthday this year...beginning my eighth decade

excitement this week...now we have vincent van trump to appreciate...or not...i listened to about 10 minutes of the candidates speech at the nominating circus...i was stunned by the contents of the speech...the man has not changed much..."ARGUMENTUM AD BACULUM"...old as human speech...well the democratic candidate got the sniffles and flew home and the republican candidate got part of his ear blown off and puts a bandage on it and keeps on keeping on...well as bill clinton is alleged to have said "strong and wrong beats right and weak"  

as for assassinations...since i spend much time within a stones throw of the US/Mexican border in the winter months i like to keep up with what is happening in that country...a mr. david frum who writes for the "atlantic" magazine says there is a "CRIMINAL INSURGENCY" happening in mexico...for instance...by april first this year 127 candidates for public office had been victims of political violence...24 dead candidates by the presidential election...82 candidates murdered...this country has made a serious mistake to let mexico become a narco empire...and dozens of environmental activists have been murdered...

i listened to e.musk talking about his business relationship with china...he respects the chinese for their being smart and industrious...i watch all of the "little chinese everywhere" blog...i was told it was "propaganda"...perhaps it is not showing all of the country...but that is why the VERY RESTRICTIVE government lets her produce her blog...she has a Ph,D in "geographic tourism" which she got at a university in switzerland so she  can speak with authority about much of what she shows in the various countries she visits ...i do not see any litter in the streets...maybe they pick it all up for the video...probably not..but one can see how there are people living everywhere...which is probably why she calls it what she does...i was somewhat amazed at a short encounter she had in tibet with some small children who showed her some cute songs and hand motions...she asked if they learned that in school and they said they had no school in their village...they learned it on TIC TOK...amazing!...i read that 600 million chinese citizens live on $137 a month! i also read a good article (i think in the new yorker magazine} about the chinese fishing fleet...several thousand fishing ships which pretty much scour every part of the world for fish...legal or not...using abusive treatment of their sailors...many of whom are north korean almost slaves...(i spent my 40th birthday being worked 20 hours a days on a swedish owned salmon processor in alaska)....no thanks...i looked at some crawfish tails in the walmart freezer and the chinese produced tails (called boudreaux's) were nearly half the price of the louisiana produced tails...i have done commercial crawfishing and it ain't no joke...tough work...it would be helpful if there was more tariffs on the chinese tails so the USA product could compete...

read an article in audubon magazine about a guy who could no longer hear the birds as well as when he was younger so he went to a fellow who built electronic audio devices and they made a device which would boost the notes that he could no longer hear...he was delighted to regain that lost birdsong...the engineers name was harald bode...whom i looked up...which led to john schneider who plays "micro-tonal" guitars and that led to an aussi band called "KING GIZZARD" who has a micro-tonal guitar player in their band and that led to "KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD" which was played at KEXP radio station...very good tunes

 

"...those empires rise and fall not because of anonymous social and economic forces but because of individual decisions by individual leaders..." prof. j. rufus  fears

"Old style thinking..."

never ending confrontations with the humanoid segment of society

much of the news i hear recently has to do with whether the current chief executive and commander in chief is..WHAT!...some say the man is too old...age has nothing to do with the mans in-articulate mutterings...i suggest you go the the ralph nader radio hour and listen to mr nader speak articulately...and while you are at it listen to what mr nader has to say about the industrial hemp business and how many chinese are in this country working on farms...without green cards i assume...i also read that 30 million acres of farmland in this country is owned by non-americans...and there are about 30,000 people from Senegal who have come here in the last 2 years....serious over site on the part of national security... i read the immigrants are 37% more likely to start a business...thats good...for business i suppose...i heard the former head of NATO (i think) talking about the election and she kept referring to D.Trump as if he was already elected president...this morning NPR commentators kept saying that the POLLS show the two candidates (dont you hate that..two! damned candidates) were almost tied...well i remember very well the day of the 2016 election and the same radio people said the polls showed that ms. clinton had a 85% chance of winning...but when i awoke at midnight mr trump was stepping up to the podium to take the prize...you know stephen hawking was well respected and he did not speak at all...but he was pretty damned bright...i am reminded of the two knights in a monty python skit where one of the knights gets his arm cut off,,,then his other arm...then one leg and he is hopping around screaming that it is "only a flesh wound".... yep biden aint hurt bad it is only a flesh wound...and maybe a head wound too....

"Old style thinking insists on fixed concepts, certainties and absolutes. These are processed by means of traditional logic, and the answers are treated with the logic as such, but the emphasis is on the perfection of the processing and not on the basic concepts used, Another important danger is the smugness that follows perfect logic and excludes the search for new ideas and better approaches."       PO: beyond yes and no (1972)

 

"The only reason..."

                                                                  

              i got bugs crawlin' all over me!...but these are just some ants

                             a nice looking bird that decided to brave the ashes

it is too bad that humans do not age into things of beauty like old wood

big music week ...i have been studying my new book..."The Listeners Dictionary of Musical Terms"...it is a small book but packed with lots of information,,,most of which i will never use...however i believe many of these terms can apply to other than musical situations...for instance to describe Bidens performance at the debate "ENTSCHLAFEN"...I was noticing some of the tunes that seem to awaken my slumbering psyche...such as a couple by mr. Rateliff..."S.O.B" which has a definite "spiritual" aspect to it...sort of like the "Golden Gate Quartet";...except like Brother Dave Gardner he is preaching FOR it...special credit must be paid to Roo Lewis...and "I need never Grow Old"...which seems to have a "bubblegum" sort of flavor...this is superb video...both of these tunes have some of the best music videos on the internet today...also i came across ms. Ester Rose whose tune "Handyman" is one of the better videos and tunes...this woman is supposed to be from Louisiana and i suppose the lyrics about the levee are genuine...ishe is an amalgum of Jewel, Nikkie Lane and iris dement...I was astounded by Sierra Ferrell and her exquisite voice and guitar (the Gibson guitar she is playing is probably three times as old as she is) ..."Jeremiah" is very well presented as is "Hey me, Hey Mama"...it seems that this woman has a large self destructive streak and she may flame out like Amy Winehouse...addiction steps aside for NOBODY...i watched a documentary about a fellow named Don Cherry who was a musical genius with his little pawn shop horn as well as many primitive instruments and the piano...well worth looking into...also a fellow who calls himself "Shakey Graves" has a very creative suitcase percussion apparatus as well as a good guitar style...

some bad news on the horizon it seems.... i looked into "Project 25" which is being promoted by "The Heritage Foundation" which must be some covert outfit sent over from north korea or there-a-bouts...these people have assembled a 900 page plan to kick the USA into the order that they would like to see...very, very totalitarian...AND we are lucky enough that they say they can implement this plan without bloodshed...if we will allow it....nope i think it is time to lock and load and find out if those persons who are armed and forceful and on the government payroll have any intention of keeping this country free....these folks make the capital rioters look like a sunday school class...we be in a heap of trouble if the government allows this "Project 25" to go into effect...i also recommend that you listen to an episode of "philosophize this' called "are you left or right" which kind of puts into perspective the reality that these are just words and really have no bearing on a persons world view...thanks to stephen west for this great 205 lectures on philosophy...

so i was sort of having a bad day today since both of my truck batteries failed to start the truck this morning so i had to unpack the generator and charge the better battery and the 4:33 am wake-up time went right out the window and the heat of the day battered me until i dived into the library and brought the body temperature down a few degrees...but all the chores got done and it is good to keep these things in perspective...70 years old next week...unless the fates have clipped my thread...

"The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once." A. Einstein

 

 

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