interesting week around here and beyond...a couple of "gunners" came out to the meadow and set up a target and fired a rifle from a prone position...sounded like maybe a 270cal. and then a single shot from a 50cal...DAMN! that be a loud gun! anyhow why they chose to do their shooting so close to me is not really a mystery...to be annoying...unfortunately they were very stupid in the placement of their target and were firing directly into the woods and road...yikes!...otherwise there was a proposal to open a firing range somewhere in this county but the neighboring residents opposed it and i guess not enough shooting sports advocates defended the idea...so it's back to shooting up the woods...
i keep forgetting to recommend some youtube music i have found enjoyable..."The Knack" has long been one of my favorite bands and there are a several renditions of "Good Girls Don't(but I do)." one is in the studio and has the better sound but the other is at Carnegie hall with the better lyrics and is a tribute to teen lust... but one of the best videos is the knack at cbgb's and the first song is not one i have ever heard...but they bad mouth andy warhole...which is a good thing...and the lead guitarist get to show his chops...which are considerable...good retro video
also i found this 12 episode television show called "the fixer" which is quite good and european and has to do with "fixing" problems by using "extra-judicial" means''
so do you ever wonder why so many thousands of people are lined up at the US border to get in by whatever means possible....nigeria just raised their minimum wage to $40 a month ...i think i heard that Venezuela pays their government workers about 4 buck a month ...if you look at the wages paid around the world you can see why those folks are lined up to get in here...and if you think the economy can stand to have millions of hard workers (legal or not)tossed out of this country think again...India has this program where everyone in the country has an identification card...some people have eight...they have been able to cut out billions of dollars of graft and theft of government funds by having no anonymous people...
i thought that i should explain my recent suggestion to get involved in political expression...in ancient greece there was a term "idiota" from which the word idiot is derived...an idiota is a "private" person or a person who has no civic engagement...and they were thought to be stupid...therefore as i have not voted since about jimmy carters term in office i thought that i should express some political and or civic opinions this "election cycle"...i looks like Delusional Donald is doing a good job of turning some folks against him...showing up in a room of black educated women and bad mouthing ms. harris is not a good idea... nor is questioning her "blackness"...i do not think she is anymore "black: than Obama was...Indian americans are not the same "ethnicity" as African americans...and anyone who wants to deny any part of their genetics does so with the reality of genetic testing...i embrace my neanderthal and denisovin heritage...i identify as an earthling...makes me less inclined to be dismissive of others...
Thucydides says that the "imponderables" effect the course of history...in his lifetime it was the plague which wiped out the population of athens and killed Pericles their illustrious leader...it was all downhill after that... of course the covid disease had its toll in our times and the climate changes and of course the possibility of wars all around the globe effect our mindset...whoa buddy...
"He raves; his words are loose as heaps of sand, and scattered wide from sense.- So high he's mounted on his airy throne, that now the wind has got into his head, and turns his brain to frenzy." Dryden
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