"To make a just state..."

 felt bottomed sandals made for stealth in the woods....i bought two pairs for 3 bucks from the thrift store...fairly ineffective in the desert sands however....

got some very intellectually stimulating information this week from an interview with a mr. karl friston from university college london who has "free energy principal" which is still sort of vague to me...he was on a podcast from Hrvoje Kukina who is croatian i think...dr lex fridman also has an inteview with Friston from 5 years ago but this interview with Hrvoie is from a couple of weeks ago...there is so much information packed into this 41 minute presentation i recommend that you have pen and paper ready to take some reference notes...i wrote down at least a couple of dozen words and phrases that i needed to look up...i can see why dr. fridman was so enthusiastic about this mans work since it has to do with neural function and is very well suited to be used for programing a self driving vehicle which is work that dr. fridman does with tesla...if philosophy of mind described in mathematical terms is of interest to you this interview will delight you...and also enlighten you perhaps...i think Fristons explanation of consciousness is as good as any i have heard..."to seek evidence for your model of the world"...i was interested to hear that the public health service in england plans to implement gene mapping in all newborns...this may be resisted...but not by the infants...at the other end of the temporal spectrum i heard about a man in his 80s who shot and killed his wife who was in her 70's then he shot himself...they were said to have health problems which made them take this course of action...it is a damned shame that there are not better solutions to ending ones life than this rather crude method... i heard some people say that they were glad that the beautiful Nottoway plantation in south louisiana burned down since it was built by enslaved persons...as was the Acropolis, the Taj Mahal, the coliseum in rome...etc etc etc...i was excited about Deepseek r1 so i kept looking for information online and almost all the information was from 4 months ago...well it seems that the developer, the tech billionaire mr. liang wenfeng, has spent most of his fortune trying to enhance the abilities of his creation trying to have exclusive abilities...but without much success... there is a very good short biography of mr wenfeng on youtube...i see where playing chess is now a crime in Afghanistan...they should have dropped a few kinetic weapons on kabul as long as they were in the neighborhood...regime change is much needed to allow these authoritarian countries live in the 21st century...the citizens are mostly OK but the leadership is dismal at best...i have never spent any time in the city of lost angels but i figured if i ever got there i wanted to see the getty art museum and the la brea tar pits...i saw a fairly current tour of their facility at the tar pits which was quite good..."Inside the worlds most unusual fossil site- the la brea tar pits-featuring lindsay nikole" (ms. Nikole is largely absent from this presentation) unlike any other youtube presentation by the miniatureman and ms Nikole there was no cussing...and you could tell it put a cramp in their style... not to cast aspersions on this excellent presentation but i think i saw mr. miniature slip a dire wolf skull under his shirt  and at one point he tried to push ms Nikole into the tar pit...he is another heinrich schleimann...mask of Agamemnon my butt...lets move on...! The sandals in the photo above are to illustrate how much footwear is available to society...as much as i respect marketplaces Kai his loathing of birkenstocks and now "snofers" may get him in trouble...the birkenstock people have long reach and may put a hit out on on him...those danes are from viking stock and can be formidable foes...i would like to recommend some music i really liked "The high-jivers" rendition of "Look what you've done to me"...good stuff!

"To make a just state by just means."  Nehru 

"But the faithful do not invent..."

super duper go "anywhere" recreational vehicle...if you got the money to maintain it
 

every time i look at this rock i think it was chipped by a much older culture than has yet been described  in this part of the desert west...an experienced pre-history archaeologist might have a more educated idea  

 these images are from the desert a few month ago...right now i am dealing with the reality of my camera...i ran over it with my truck last week...i sort of went into shock...however if i take the memory card and put it in my D200 i can read the images but not enlarge them...ok i need to take deep breaths now...so the high temperature in the southern part of the state today will be near 116 degrees Fahrenheit...deadly...but it will be cooler in the higher elevations but the wind and heat will make the threat of fires much greater....i am sure glad that those ninnies who think there is climate change are not in charge...yeah right!...i just watched a Mr. Tavis Smiley being interviewed on c-span and he said "THEY MURDERED HIM"...speaking of the demise of mr george floyd....who is "THEY?" i believe there was only one white guy kneeling on his neck...not the whole white race...i am not going to celebrate Juneteenth today as i had no slaves or other servants...but i do hope those who want to remember the so called "emancipation" of the enslaved people will remember that it is kind of like the sign i have seen posted on the doors of some bars "FREE BEER TOMORROW"....tomorrow never comes...free your mind... one of the best interviews i have yet seen on youtube is by lex fridman of YUVAL NOAH HARARI...(where does he find all these Jewish intellectuals!) this man speaks intelligently about a number of subjects and is well worth the nearly 3 hour interview time...i watched it over several settings...i looked up a book review of kash patels tome "GOVERNMENT GANGSTERS"...if i can find the book used i will read it...but wtching the review i sort of get what it is he is complaining about...i looked up DEEP SEEK and there are only offerings from 4 month ago...was it a scam?......i need to pack up now and seek my way in the world...i will see a oncologist today and get a refill on my anti-testosterone meds.   onward thru the fog!

"But the faithful do not invent the forms of the gods: they recognize them." Andre Malraux 

"Security is a false god..."

 

 colored pencils are a good way to be creative while relaxing-price one buck 

 

 new chief of MI6 the British intelligence services...a woman...a woman named Blaise Metreweli...yea sure...obviously not her real name...SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICES...their motto is "SEMPER OCULTUS OR ALWAYS SECRET...i watched a good youtube presentation about  the history of these folks which was not very long but was very revealing...they kept changing their home office for years until now they have a permanent place to hang their hat...Stalin had a secret police organization called the NKVD... folks like these are a good reason to watch carefully any so called "Black" operations...they tend to be nasty when no one is  looking...and not always intelligent...i am watching NCIS on the television...i seem to have watched an inordinate amount of crime "entertainment" over the years...that and nature documentaries...i see where the USA is taking up the habits that are so common in Mexico...political assassination...the trajectory of events over the course of time would indicate an increasing amount of violence in this country...i will assume that the number of people who protested the many deportations would indicate that enforcing the law is unpopular in some circles so it is more of a legislative failure than a law enforcement failure...obviously someone will have to do the work that the un-legal people were doing...yeah the elected officials seem to want to blame others because the laws do not allow for realistic enforcement....many millions of people here working without legal status because the legislature simply refuses to pass laws which make it possible for workers to get their proper papers...and the PIG DUTIFUL SWILL or fatback investment bill is of little help...i will say that hungry people are more willing to break the laws than the well fed...i also see where there is a bill to cut funding to PBS and NPR because they are prejudiced against the so called "conservative" element...i have been watching public television and listening to public radio for more than half a century and i would agree that both of these are not "conservative" friendly...and it has been getting more pronounced in recent years...however...i think if all tax dollars are removed from the funding these entities will survive on private donations...and i was wondering if all these deportations will result in more affordable housing becoming available...probably not...i find that the trial of mr diddy makes me wonder how much money was spent to support the woman who was his enabler...they are both pathological...sick sick sick...there should be "KNOW KINKS" marches  in the streets...i see where a very public discussion is taking place about assassination the supreme poobah  of Iran...of course once that is in the agenda it is all bets off...it may initiate a lot of changes in leadership across the globe...i found the Julia McCoy presentation on Youtube very interesting..."The Uncomfortable Truth: Are Humans Too Dangerous To Control Earth"...where she argues that better decisions could be made by Artificial Intelligence...which is not the most popular idea by a long shot...i agree with it and would like to see it implemented more quickly...Andrea Motis and Joan Chambers Quintet with Scott Hamilton do a great rendition of "SUMMERTIME"...it has a good visual of the guitarist playing in the Wes Montgomery style of only using the thumb to pluck the strings...

"Security is a false god. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost."  Paul Bowles 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I love her more..."

green thistle

yellow pipe found on a nearby rock

yellow thistle next to green thistle

as usual much lamentation and gnashing of teeth...not me however...i cut back on the caffeine...but at the laundry a woman complained about me...i think she said i said something "unseemly"...i never said she was a fat toad and a bad mother which would have been the truth nor did i say anything else...i always recommend  that any complaints be written down and signed by the complainer as the law stipulates that there shall be no anonymous complainers...this never happens however...then i went to the medical facility and a pleasant woman brought me a package with my cancer meds...while she was explaining to me how the anti diarrhea meds worked (this was a surprise to me) she knocked my notebook and pen off the arm of my chair onto her chair...i picked up the notebook but she was nearly sitting on the pen so i had to dig it out...now she has complained that i am a pervert because i was fondling her butt...yeah the guy with no dick is interested in her butt... and so goes my life in this world...but i managed to pick up 14 good magazines for a quarter each( ...several "new yorkers" and some "SCIENCE" mags...the science mags sell for 14 bucks!)

the news is going a mile a minute what with the bellicose Israelis whoopin' on everyone ("What is the reality of Jewish Genetic Origins" about 15 minutes long is a great look at who the Jews are)  and the ruskies and the Ukrainians still whacking anyone who gets in the way of their drones...there is some good youtube about drones in warfare...but do not fret as a couple of the best and brightest artificial intelligence experts are saying that there will be a rogue computer that will "KILL US ALL"...and very soon...check out "Dangers of Super-intelligent AI" (2 hours and 15 minutes) in an interview with ROMAN YAMPOLSKY and Lex Fridman...he also interviews ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY about the same subject...this guy insists that the computers are going to kill us all AND SOON!...you know i think these alarmists are missing something in their calculations...on the oil rigs there is usually a 'BLOWOUT PREVENTER"...maybe someone can get one of these bright folks to come up with a way not to be killed off by the computers..."I can't do that Dave"....one of the more interesting people Dr. Fridman interviewed was Dr. Neri Oxman who was a tenured professor at MIT until she quit to go to new york to start her own business...she used 17,532 silkworms to spin some large sculptures...she said it takes 1000 cocoons to make a silk shirt...which she seemed to think was un-ethical or something...i was having tea with a young woman in my yard back in around 1974 when i brought out a jar of honey for the tea...she told me that i had "raped the bees" to get that honey...now i was an avid meditater and did yoga every day and was on a strict non-meat non dairy  diet...so the notion that i had abused the bees was a bit much for me... three days later i was eating steaks and sausage and ice cream every day on the oil rig i was working on...Dr. Oxman recommended a very good documentary film which is on youtube called "particle fever"(1:40)...this is a well filmed account of the large hadron collider in europe and how it got built and used to determine the weight of the Higgs Boson...i usually do not see much human endeavor which seems more constructive than destructive...this was an amazing achievement...a five story tall, 17 mile long machine built with the precision of a swiss watch...and 20 years later it was used and improved...an excellent episode of "little chinese everywhere" #124 is about africans living and working in canton, china...the amount of commerce taking place is enormous...of course they would have been unable to achieve as much in this country as we now have a fairly strict policy to exclude "the other" ...i hope the fed and the state law enforcement can keep the lid on the protests while still doing their legal obligation to remove non-citizens...ii heard on the BBC news that there are 1.6 million undocumented people in california... guess i can pick my own fruit and vegetable etc. etc etc...

  saw some good music this week...if sophistication is your thing "Solitude" by andrea motis and joan chamorro being backed up by a sinfonica del valles (5 min) is quite good...if sophistication is not at the top of your list MFC Chicken has a hillarious song called "fuck you, me" which seems to be for schizophrenic self loathers...i warn you that this is a very potent ear worm and you might find yourself humming it all day long...

"I love her more than evolution requires."

"Allow me to be frank..."

 this handsome spider was living beneath a cow turd ...maybe one inch long

there was a large colony of these black ants beneath a cow turd

                          another cow turd resident maybe half an inch long

the volatility of mr musks moods may well be due to his use of non-prescription drugs...Dr. hubermans insistence that men need to control their volatile emotions would be a good idea....however...i sure hope that mr musk will not spin out of control...(i hope!)...

 i have been targeted by the dull witted folks who seem to think that i have discredited the united states marine corp...whose job it is , by the way ,to protect my freedom of speech...one of the segments in my dangerous jobs DVD is about the Iwo Jima assault during world war two...a small island with strategic air bases from which the japanese military was conducting bombing raids...about 17,000 marines died in taking this small volcanic tunnel infested island...60 thousand u.s. troops and 20 thousand japanese troops battled to the death...these sacrifices are not to be overlooked even it some of the current stock of marines seem to have ignored the constitution which is the basis of government... 

some interesting legal cases are now in the courts...there is a woman who is suing someone because she claims she is being discriminated against because she is heterosexual...i'm sure that happens much more than people realize...it has happened to me...now i am eunuchized....so less of a threat to those folks who are aggressively queer... also i see where in oklahoma they have allocated millions of dollars for black people to be "repaired" from the destruction of a large black community many years ago...i see where c. thomas of the supreme court voted against the majority to refuse permission to mine copper on native lands...he will not likely get recognize for this by the so called "liberal" press....and one of the most absurdist lawsuits i have heard of from washington state is by a woman who claims she needs to be compensated (made whole) because her mother died due to heat exposure because those durned oil companies made the climate hotter....well if that is the case all those people who go to sports events and especially ms. t. swift concerts have put so much carbon in the air it is a wonder that we are not all dead, dead, dead...just a thought...give up some of that cash taylor!..

i am reading a very interesting memoir by andre malraux called "anti-memoirs" (1967)...he was all over the globe engaged in conversations and doing battle with various and assorted folks...as well as being imprisoned as member of the french tank corps...well written and jammed with historic accounts of important people....his account of his encounter with charles de gaulle was very revealing..."The future lasts a long time" is one of de Gaulle's observations...

i was looking at youtube last night and came across some great music...most of these folks i have never heard of....one of the better (and most startling) presentations was by "MISSIONED SOULS" cover of a led zepplin song "a whole lotta love"...the music is so note perfect i kept looking to see if these musicians were "lip syncing" the drummer is about 8 years old and the rest of the band all under 13 years old probably...there is also a name attached to this presentation called "girls rock asia"....excellent stuff...also "house of the rising sun" by gigi de luna is excellent and "hillbilly moon explosion" with a tune called "Call Me"...lots of attitude...Becca Kruger sings "Hit the road Jack" very well...and "Post modern Jukebox" with morgan jones singing "Dream on" is great....more music is more better!..."Musics Power over your brain"( 7:43)...on youtube by michael spitzer gives a scientific explanation of how humans engage with music...he says that music is linked to motion (walking, dancing, etc.) ...

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement, you will not like me, the gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled." John Wilmot as played by j. Depp in "The Libertine"...one of if not his best performance....

"If man is not willing..."

                   13 bucks for 3 pounds of boiled LOUISIANA! crawfish at walmart...and worth it!

 got to put this in first...ms. Greta is a hero(ine) along the lines of joan of arc and simone weil...weil is stephen wests favorite philosopher and she died at at around 33 years old from tuberculosis and being under-nourished because she would not eat any more food than she thought the army troops were getting...by most accounts she was very sensitive to other peoples suffering (weltsmerz?)  she is said to have embraced "poverty, hunger and exhaustion"...( i personally sought to avoid those experiences" anyhow thunberg will likely not accomplish her goal of breaking the siege in gaza...and may lose her live in the bargain....

one of the good things about the steel and aluminum tariffs is that the price of salvage metals will go up accordingly so aluminum cans and food cans will be more recyclable...yeah!...

i spent several hours looking at lex fridman/ andrew huberman podcast/interviews last week...these men who are both Ph.D college instructors and researchers have a good rapport (i don't really like the term bro-mance) and i was able to take a lot of notes for further reference...dr. fridman does a good job of showing frame in frame images to illustrate the discussion...both of these men are what i call "body nazis" as they really like to work out with exercise equipment and also they are runners...these guys were both in tears while they talked about the death of their dogs.. dr. huberman says he still wakes up crying sometimes....dr. fridman had a 200 pound newfoundland (homer) and dr.huberman had a bulldog (costello)... as i also still get sentimental about the deaths of my dogs 40 years ago i respect their emotionalism...dr. huberman told dr. fridman that "your future wife is out there" and dr. fridman said "Yeah, she is being programed"...he insists that humans can have "relationships" with their refrigerators...i was amused to hear dr. fridman talk about wearing his cowboy hat when he travels to west texas from his austin home...he  is a russian born jew who did much of his Ph.D. work at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.  as a expert on AI and programing autonomous vehicles... i would highly recommend that Dr. fridman think about traveling to Australia to go on a several weeks camel trek....he will undoubtedly recognize the personality of camels as being very like a newfoundland dog...he may even seek to acquire a couple of camels of his own...much more excitinging than a dog...or a refrigerator....and there are 5 rounds of these two brilliant minds discussing the world and all that is in it...most of these encounters are over 3 hours long but worth the time...intellectual stimulation  in abundance...these guys talk about their future families quite a lot...i recently saw a woman on youtube lamenting that dr, huberman was dating 6 women at the same time...i remember reading about one of the renowned physicist (maybe rutherford) who went to spend some time in a cabin in the woods and of course he brought along his lovely wife and also his girlfriend...the article said that he did some important physics work while on this sojourn....so maybe dr. huberman is one of those scientist who needs a lot of stimulation to work well...anyhow...one of the best music videos i saw last week was "sona jobarteh and band"..."Jabari" (9:39)...very good..

"If man is not willing to risk his life, where is his dignity.? A. Malraux

"In practice, thousands of little women..."

 

goober peas....

i have determined that this motel is not an independent business...it seems to have been influenced by what can only be described as a criminal element....every time i have stayed here i have been harassed...all last night there were loud people either conversing outside my door or stomping around above my head...this is no coincidence...i have no criminal record nor do i engage in criminal activity...thus i must conclude that due to the consistent nature of this harassment i have been targeted by criminals and ignored by those persons on the payroll who should be protecting my constitutional rights...so the place is "ate up with it' as they say...i have encountered dirty government all across the state...corruption seems to be  up one side and down the other...those mobsters who decided to leave the cold snowy eastern states and "retire to arizona",,,took a look around and saw there was not a damn thing to impede there setting up shop here...so now the state is a criminal paradise...where i grew up the old italian "businessmen" had a saying they used frequently...."we don't want no trouble" and they have been in business for over one hundred and fifty years...and profitably....anyhow after being deprived of sleep by the gangsters who seem to run this motel i no longer expect any protection....

i am a fugitive from the law of averages...have been for a long while...music..."How a two fingered man became the worlds greatest guitarist. (9:49) about django reinhart and what came to be called "JAZZ MANOUCHE"...

once when i was selling "major appliances" in a department store a guy came in and said he wanted to buy two televisions with remote...a 13 inch color and a 25 inch color...and i should deliver them to this address...so i put them in the van and headed out...i might have toked a roach on the way (probably) when i drove up the steep driveway i could see a nice house...i knocked on the door and edwin edwards answered the door and invited me into the house...he showed me where he wanted the televisions...the 25 inch in the living room and elaine wanted the 13 inch in the kitchen...when i had got them into their correct places mr edwards turned on the television to watch the newly elected governor of the state being sworn in...he asked me to have a seat on the couch...we sat there with a bowl of peanuts between us...after about 10 minutes i had to excuse myself and get back to the store...synchronicity perhaps...

"In practice, thousands of little women in their villages have lived more gentle, more equable and more constant lives than Cicero."...montaigne

"If man were wise..."

this ant is of a species which is very fast and very aggressive and can climb from the ground to the top of your head very quickly...and then bite the hell out of you...i crouched down to get some images of the stream of ants some of which were carrying eggs...but i had to give up and this was the best i could do...the other image is of an herbivore jaw with molars...this herbivore likes to eat pine tree bark...my entire blog was just deleted which is not uncommon these days...i am not popular with the local outlaw class which seem to be protected by the badges...35 years of harassment...i am not under investigation i am under harassment....the stench of corruption is getting stronger and stronger...i was met at the laundry today by the same tired people who seem to think i should respond to innuendo....lets move on....lets do the numbers...saw kashyap patel (head of the FBI) being questioned by legislators today....he had the answers....a few weeks ago i watched a whole lot of military guys sitting behind an- other military guy who was being questioned by legislators...these guys were scary...sitting straight up and unsmiling...looking blankly ahead...robo-military...whoa buddy....there is a good you-tube presentation called "the U.S. defense budgets march to $1 trillion : what does it mean?" by learningmilitary(11:21) you can see how this budget compares to  that those in the past...but to justify any budget it helps to have some solid examples of how it needs to be used....so one of the segments in my "dangerous jobs" is about the tank corps in world war two...they used medium tank M4 (sherman) which was much less powerful than the german tanks...so a lot of men were killed....if you are going to put your citizens in harms way you damn sure better provide them with the best equipment available... they are going to have to keep studying the sleep deprived students who should get several hours more sleep before they go to their classes...but they don't vote so they get shit on and their needs ignored...but patrick martin in baton rouge is starting a  pilot project to move class times from 7:10 to 8:50 AM...lets hope the evidence for improvement in student performance is enough for the entire student body to be allowed to attend school at a reasonable hour....i hope the internet will be used to educate people more...one of the best youtube presentations i have seen recently is robert sapolsky #63 (he is my beard guru) he rarely gets too excited but he did spit out a phrase about "the non-productive shit"  that seems to keep making some people money....$179.2 million dollars to be paid by the catholic church to some new orleans citizens for indiscretions....by the way George floyd is till dead...but whatever happened to the $20 bill that was supposed to be counterfeit that he was taken into custody for trying to use... I need to tie up these loose ends... a good youtube is "simon critchley examines friedrich nietzsche" (3min) some good info on nihilism...lets listen to some music...the weissenborn hollow neck guitar is used to good effect by "thomas oliver"  on "the moment" (5 min)."also i really liked storm large "universal remote" (good lyrics)...and "if ever i cease to love" by lee (little queenie) harris...i used to see her around Lafayette...nina hagen is a wild woman singer worth looking up....the lab work for the PSA test came back and the numbers are up....but now i take a pill to reduce the testosterone....the PSA may go down but i think i will need to 'FACE THE RAVEN"...

"If man were wise, he would measure the true worth of anything by its usefulness and appropriateness in his life." M. DeMontaigne

"Life is a drift dive..."

This is a lizard from the forest...the temps are going up and the reptiles are becoming more visible...if you see this image elsewhere it is because it was just hacked from this library computer...same ol' same ol'...just came from the cancer doctors office where the plan has been to bitch slap the testosterone back down and hope he PSA goes down also...whatever...i had to ask the question..."HOW LONG WILL I LIVE WITHOUT THE MEDICINE?" maybe two years...he says the chances of knocking the cancer out is good...that is what they are on the payroll to say...anyhow i have been watching some good youtube in the last week...for instance...so i saw a guy named Abubaker Abed a 21 year old journalist...i think he got the job because he was one of the only ones left alive in gaza...now in this short interview he basically has a meltdown until amy goodman of democracy now just moves on...this young fellow keeps asking the same question..."DON'T WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE?"...the short answer is "NO YOU DO NOT BECAUSE...WAIT FOR IT...MIGHT MAKES RIGHT!"...that's correct and you did not hear it here first...the leadership of the palistinian people is and has been for a long time "RETARDED"...now i also saw an iterview a few years back with a woman named Jess Housty who is a HEILTSUK native from vancouver b.c....she said that where she was was the only place on earth where her being matched the earth...she said her very molocules were from this place...and she liked the place too...now my molocules are from all over the place...it works for me, and i have strong affinity for planet earth...it is my home planet...speaking of which the LEX FRIDMAN interview with NICK LANE (probably no relation to ms nikkie lane) mr lane is an evolutionary biologist and gets into the details of how life on planet earth evolved...pretty good stuff...also there is a terrifying account of the LAOGAI prison system in china by simon whatshisface...i can certinly see this country rounding up the 'HOMELESS' folks and putting them to work...hopefully picking up trash...and not selling their organs...at least not until they get some trash picked up...so the guy who blew up the vehicle in palm springs was said to have "NIHILISTIC IDEATIONS"...nut case is easier to say...i watched a documentary in 5 parts called "The ballad of ramblin jack elliot" made by his daughter Aiyana Elliot...i saw this man play music when i was missing in missoula one summer...arlo guthrie said that there would be no bob dylan if there was no jack elliot...so there was one youtube presentation which kept me thinking a lot an is was called..."the quantum deception: why your mind is not your own" by julia McCoy...(25 min) this is about quantum AI more or less...mind bending stuff...also "The uncanny horror of AI Hallucinations" by sara davis baker (32 min)...makes you think... "LIFE IS A DRIFT DIVE...AND THEN YOU RUN OUT OF AIR." TIM CAHILL from "the entranced duck" in "hold the enlightenment" a collection of good tales

"Using his burgeoning intellegence..."

it seems to me that we need to nurture more seeds and not sow them on rocks i heard mr musk say "i think everyone will want their own humanoid robot"...i was sitting with the man who rented me my auto mobil and we were uncertaain about how far the trip was...he confidently picked up his phone and asked the non-humanoid robot how far it was...it did not understand...then he asked again and the robot recommended some information on anger...WHOA BUDDY! when the "devices" start to program the human it may be time to re-evaluate the relationship...more social commentary...as you might have heard the catholic church has chosen (democraticaly) a new bishop of rome...called the pope...you know i am pleased to see that pope bob like all of his predesessors has decided to wear the humble garb of the man who (allegedly) these folks want to emulate...the church people seem to me to be dramatically over-dressed for the occasion...and unabashed hypocrites...i hear pope bob don't like the queers and was a big do-gooder in peru...why did he get the job? i think the answer is hidden in the david bowie song "i"m afraid of americans"...yes god is an american!...the $142 billion arms deal with the saudis and the usa may come back to bite this country on the ass...what could go wrong!...the worlds poorest leader died in uruguay leaving his 1987 volkswagon bug...not a collectable but his daily ride...this from my florida wildlife and fisheries emails...89 year old man killed by black bear on monday the 5th of may...three bears in the vicinity killed...on may 1,2,4, and 6 a florida panther was killed by vehicular traffic on the roads...vehicles are winning the body count...RFK jr says sugar is poison...i think they (we) subsidize sugarcane growers...maybe they could get some of these farmers to plant bamboo instead of sugarcane...and i read where there is $1.4 billion bucks spent on "kidult" toys...toys for adults...figures..."Using his burgeoning intelligence, the most successful of all mammals exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population, in spite of disasters when civilizations have over-reached themselves that process has continued indeed accelerated even today. Now mankind is looking for food not just on this planet, but others. Perhaps the time is come to put that process in reverse. Instead of controling the environment for the benifit of the population, perhaps it's time to control the population for the benifit of the environment." David Attenborough from "The life of mammals"

"The white man goes into his church..."

the last blog was just deleted...whatever...the pregnant pronghorn antelope arrived on mothers day...appropriately...and the least chipmunks come around to eat crackers and get a drink of water...the dark eyed junko birds do also...the visit to yumertonville to get a positron emmision tomography scan (PET) cost me more than $600 bucks but was needed to see if the prostate cancer had metastisized (migrated) into any other parts of my body...the cancer seems to be in some lymph nodes now also... this is the most popular destination for cancer to travel to from the prostate...so nothing too unusual there...of course once the cancer gets the traveling bug...in a manner of speaking...they can go wherever the bloodstream goes...and usually do just that...i think the secret in this cancer industry is to balance the positive against the negative and effect your own trans-migration before your life is miserable...as i see it...i saw an old withered tall slinder woman in a wheel-chair in the cancer ward and she looked like she had one foot in the grave...but she was getting around under her own power and did not seem like she was ready to give up...pretty impressive woman...the cancer industry likes for the cancer patients to hang on as long as possible...more money made that way...i was stalked and harassed the whole time i was in yumertonville...the 3AM truck radio blasting outside my motel room door was meant to keep me awake so i would be too fatigued to drive back to the mountains safely...very common...i seem to have pissed off "the dykes" since there has been a steady stream of dykes harassing me...women in general seem to have taken a dis-like to me...a most likeable fellow...the fact that my wallet was searched while i was under the PET scanner for 25 minutes does not increase my respect for the professionalism of my health care providers...i did however manage to go to a couple of thrift stores and i picked up a great book called "the rolling stone encyclopedia of rock" 1100 pages...and as i read through the book from from the front i came across some great information about bands...such as "BLODWYN PIG" one of their better tunes is "JILL"...also i found that "ETHYL MEATPLOW" "THE DEVILS JOHNSON" is interesting..."FLASH FEARLESS VS THE ZORG WOMEN" have some interesting tunes..."REMBRANT PUSSYHORSE" by the BUTTHOLE SURFERS...has some...well different tunes..."TAKE THE SKINHEADS BOWLING" by CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN is different..."Bongo FURY" features frank zappa as well as don vann vliet (captain beefheart)...it is an aquired taste..."JUKULA" is actually quit good with johnny clegg...anyhow that's as far i've got in the rolling stone encyclopedia...i picked up a collection of DVDs about dangerous activities...many of these depict military operations...one segment is about the special marine raiders who were sent into degrade the abilities of the japanese soldiers on the pacific islands...carlsons raiders were an exceptional group because evans carlson treated all his troops the same whether officers or inlisted men...i was thinking about heros and heroics and how it is difficult to say what the merits of heroism are...there is a good movie called "1917" and is about a couple of british soldiers in WW1 who's assignment is to deliver a message to a group which is quite a distance away and there is a good chance of being killed or captured trying to deliver the message...if you can find the DVD with the documentary about how the film was made it is worth looking at...i bring this up because there was a german soldier who had the same job as these british guys...he was commended for bravery...his name was ADOLF HITLER... "The white man goes into his church and talks about Jesus, but the Indian goes into his tipi and talks to Jesus." Quanah Parker

"Its no longer an election..."

the remarkable thing about driving a 2025 model automobile after driving only a 2004 or older vehicle is that you are not likely to realize how many more features new vehicles have...i never considered owning a newer vehicle until having spent 8 hours driving one across the state...so if i win the lottery or some other financial windfall, i might consider driving a newer vehicle...but i am mostly thinking an older vehicle that i can work on or public transit...well i watched mr trump announcing his united kingdon trade deals this morning..."WHERE'S THE BEEF!...i guess it is in the usa until they buy it...the news from "OPEN AIR AUCSHWITZ" formerly know as Gaza is very grim indeed...nothing much to releive the agony of the Palistinians...police officers found not guilty of abusing unto death a citizen of tennessee...but these cops were black so i guess its just OK...watching the non-useful talking heads on the c-span station i did see a mr. steny hoyer say something that seems increasingly evident...many of these issues are a distraction and meant to keep the legislators from discussing issues that keep this nation at a standstill...not to my surprise i heard the lady attorney general announce how much drugs and guns and money has been taken from the "MONSTERS"...(this term is way over used)...she also announced that several hundred people had been arrested for sex crimes...several of these were people with badges...GET THEM OFF THE PAYROLL!...heard that $1.5 billion is spent yearly...wait for it...wait for it...on "KIDAULT" toys...toy for adults...wow...to acknowledge the 50th anniversery of the fall of saigon i thought i might illuminate a powerful photograph which has been circulating for more than half a century...the image of a vietnamese man with a pistol in his hand pushed up against the head of another vietnamese man while blowing his brains out has always been described as a bad person doing something to a good person...but a person who was there said the gunman was a vietnamese chief of police and the dead person a vietcong who had just been caught at a mass grave of civilians...i guess the fog of war takes a long time to dissipate...and i would like to comment on a comment made on the the series "Criminal Minds"...namely "spencer" is sitting at a electronic gambling machine waiting for a team member when an attractive woman sitting next to him becomes curious as his machine tallys more and more winnings...the black team member comes up and "spencer" gets up to leave with him...the woman tells "spencer" that the machine has $2000 dollars on it..."spencer" tells her to keep it...as they walk away the black guy tells "spencer" that he just gave $2000 to a prostitute, which i suppose is meant to suggest that this woman is not worthy of any kindness...this seems like it reinforces a lot of amimosity towards a sex worker and promotes negativity towards people who have historically been oppressed...too bad... "It's no longer an election...it's an auction" Troy Hebert (louisiana political pundit)

"It is interesting and probably not at all important..."

not exactly a blizzard last night in the forest but a bit of snow which was mostly melted by the time i left...now headed to the 100 degree desert...can't be helped...medical test needed to see if the cancer bugs have branched out and colonized other parts of my corporal being...i was a hero to the dark eyed junko birds when i put out some crushed crackers and cooked oatmeat...the cold weather requires more food for more energy...that is also my excuse for consuming more calories than i expend...can't be helped...the more i read in steinbecks "The log from the sea of cortez" the more genius i find...i watched a lengthy biography of steinbeck on youtube which pretty much depicted him as a seriously flawed person...can't be helped...i seem to have been targeted more acutely by a criminal element...who seem to see themselves as above the law...i keep hearing that they are the "snakes"...i know not of their origin or motives...but i imagine it has to do with the money they derive from their busineses...from what i can determine the money which evaporates from various budgets is used to invest in busneses which compete with "the dark element"...government mafia verses the various other mafias...i wonder if mr patel has recognized the extent to which the "india" element has dominated certain aspects of busineses...mainly hotels/motels...these folks house various and assorted persons who are "clandestine" so the busneses are protected as long as they keep providing free housing...unfortuneately people like me get to be known as non-supporters of the "system" and are harased...such as right now in this very hotel room...i don't think robert mueller ever quite grasped the extent of corruption in his sacred marines...semper fungus...they kept saying they were "runting" me...they are brainwashed...or conditioned, and certainly have no intention of defending the constitution of the USA...i guess the military will adjust to the removal of some of the upper echelon of their numbers...a leaner military has been talked about for a long time...one of the original requirments in the constitution was "NO STANDING ARMY"...that concept was abandoned until now we have military squeezing out civilians. i was looking at the youtube offerings and came across "STORM.INC" which is storm large videos from quite w while ago...she was a singer in a "punk" band and her presentation is as exciting as her more recent "classical" work...i kept trying to think of a term to describe what it is that characterizes her work and the term "DUENDE" seemed appropriate="a quality of passion and inspiration"...yep it all of that at least...i was impressed with "ladylike" which has several versions... "It is interesting and probably not at all important to note that when a human state is attempting collectivization one of the first steps is a frantic call by the leaders for an increased birth rate- replacement parts in a shoddy and mediocre machine." J. Steinbeck (1951) from "the log from the sea of cortez"

"...mourn the crushed..."

the photos are in order from the top= 6 strings, sky with clouds, smoke from a burn nearby, and most important the ants i discovered under a rock in the meadow...this is a mystery to me...tiny ants caring for large eggs and smaller eggs...can't figure out how this can be...anyhow i think maybe the old woman in the sci-fi story was right...the ants will rule the planet eventually...last week i rented a room at "mine quest" or something like that...very interesting goings on their...first there was a so called painter in one room who suddenly turned up his boom box to play nasty rap too loud...white guy who looked like he might have some criminal intent...the first thing i noticed was a guy on a motorcycle with saddle-bags who looked like he was going to check into the room next to mine (lots of people who ride motorcycles do so because they are very difficult to track from ABOVE...then there was the woman with florida plates on her car who was a house/pet sitter or so she said...she said she was 72 years old...maybe...maybe not...i think she was a fake...then there was a large muscular white guy smoking a cigarette in the parking lot, then there was a scruffy looking white guy who came over and said he was the guy who i had yelled at the night before, except the guy i yelled at was a black man, and this fake guy apologized for screwing with me, and then there was a guy smoking a joint in the parking lot who was pretty aggressive and was growling under his breath about all kinds of stuff, and he said that there were bad mysterious things in the woods and he had been to prison on gun charges and so on and so forth...he had read thousands of books and a bunch of non-relevant crap wasting my time...he did not have stoned eyes however...after several minutes of blather he says he had gone to get his son in some city further south and he was headed to las vegas and was going to make a lot of money blah blah blah etc...then he opens the door to his room (next to mine and out comes a little boy who looked dazed and confused...i wonder if he had eaten breakfast since stoner dad seemed a little under organized...i was tempted to call the cops when he got into his car with the kid and bust him on reckless endangerment of a child...get stoned. drive to vegas with your kid...bad plan...then the large white guy with muscles says almost out of hearing,"keep him guessing" this was a show by team stupid who seem to have more money than smarts...AND...it is probably taxpayer money...there are so many incompetent people on the payrolls it is no wonder that this country (and especially arizona) is over-run with crime families...crime family values prevail...but i am pursued all across the globe and now as i age i realize i ain't gettin no younger so i have looked at my options available for an "actionable tort"...according to a dvd discussing non-economic damages i should consider this...physical pain,humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, anxiety, mental suffering, inconvienence, emotional distress, grief, shame, embarassment, fear, feelings and loss of reputation, to name the more obvious possibilities...every time i go into a restroom i am followed by some clown who says he is checking the bathroom for kids,,,the slander which has surrounded me for a long time is that i am "interested" in children...the slander is that i am a drug dealer (pot being the most likey suspect) the slander is that i am a terrorist (due to the dollar i gave to greenpeace), the slander is that i am a violent and potentialy dangerous person...i kept hearing that i was going to be "put into a "home"..so i started looking at nice homes in the area, only to realize that there was a desire of the criminal element to have me declared unable to care for myself...and if i was kept in a controled situation i would not keep exposing the multitude of crimes and lack of government adressing these crimes...well i think if i had some of the money from damages (see the above list) i might be able to regain some joy after many years of suffering...so much for the daily trials and tribulations...when i was diagnosed with prostate cancer the woman who i spoke with on the phone said i had an agressive form of cancer...ok so several months later they decide to give me radiation treatments...so when i show up every day for the treatments two hispanic young men line me up on the machine and turn on the juice for perhaps a minute...well on a few of these sessions a couple of women were there and a couple of times one of the guys said "they did not even turn on the machine"...which may account for the evidence from the recent blood test that the cancer has returned...murder by medicine...yuma regional criminal center...no wonder they changed their name...now the oncologist wants me to have a head to toe ex-ray to see if they can spot any cancer...that is in yuma and i am here...so perhaps they could get me a flight from here to there on their nickle and then a flight from there to here after the x-ray...but i suspect that by the time i could get a lawyer to negotiate a settlement i will be dead from "complications of prostate cancer"...by the way even if the cancer ends up in the bones or the lungs it is still called prostate cancer...i wish i had had better medical personel now that i think about it... "mourn the crushed ant/and despise the reason of the heel." from a Leonard Cohen poem in "Let us compare mythologies" (1956)

"Among the sons of men..."

lots of excitement last week at the meadow site...of course the gun goober showed up to blast the large bore rifle and the handguns...these folks seem to be unable to organize themselves enough to have good shooting ranges made available to responsible participants in the shooting sports...there are golf courses, basketball courts, even skating rinks paid for by taxpayer dollars so certinly shooting ranges are not a luxury...but i have determined that the 'OUTLAW" lable is sought afte byr too many gun goobers as it makes them feel empowered and turgid...ah yes guns and turgidity...made for one another...right this minute i am watching a man who hates donald trump (MSNBC) and is blaming him for everything wrong in the world from expensive dolls to poor security in e-mails...i heard time and again that the presidents "approval rating" is the lowest of any president...well for a long time...i always remember watching the "pundits" saying that h. clinton had a 87% chance of beating mr trump...so much for accurate polls eh...anyhow, i read that rewarding people for exposing inefficiency at work produced good results...where can i get hold of elon and get him to review the BLM (department of interior) and National forest (department of agriculture) contracts to thin forests and sell the timber...we be gitten robbed!...well so much for efficiency...my raven friends at the meadow remembered me and flew fast and low vocalizing when they saw me...they are nesting in the same large tree they were in two years ago raising a family...after a couple of days i put down a mouse trap around my grocery boxes at night and caught a mouse and gave it to them which really made their day... the nightime temps got down to 14 degrees which is why my fingers got numb while making breakfast i suppose...i picked up some excellent books which i read all week...steinbecks "log of the sea of cortez" (1951) which is part science and part philosophical speculation...excellent read...also i picked up a book called "empire of the summer moon" mostly about the comanche indians in texas...not a pretty sight...also "the history of beauty" by uberto eco...i watched "to have and to have not" with lauren bacall and humphrey bogart as well as hoagland carmichael (no relation) i could not figure out why bogarts name was harry but bacall called him steve...anyhow better to re-watch good stuff than watch bad stuff...i try to end the day watching music and as usual i obsess on some presentations until i get my fill...this week i watched pink martini with storm large every day...still thrills me...i heard that due to beyonce knowels "county" album the genre is now a happening thing...hats and boots and all that goes with...i had a cowboy outfit once for busness purposes since i was asked to show up in cowboy garb for a job as a movie extra ($100 a day and a meal) i got rid of all that stuff and now i mainly wear clothes from the marked down rack at the thrift store...lots of 50 cent shirts and two dollar pants...works for me...the harassment continues and it is time for me to write about it in detail...later "Among the sons of men how few are known, who dare be just to merit not their own." Charles Churchill (1731-64) ;

"The certainty of a God..."

turned on the television to c-span this morning and listened to a fellow who was describing how many people were being removed from those government jobs which serve to help those who "served"...cuts in the veterans administration...now i am watching p. hegseth talk about putting the defense department back in the hands of the "war fighters"...a new term to me...i wonder if the "war fighters" ever take into consideration how many military vetrans commit suicide or end up washed up in the dregs of addiction or how their suicide is related to what they experienced while they "served"...also was surprised to learn of pope francis death today...obviously he was killed by v.p. vance...had an uncomfortable night after an encounter with a person who sought to harasse me...i mulled over the encounter and determined that i handled it poorly...i went into scream mode...i eventualy concluded that religion is not what a person believes but what they do...buddist think that the only thing a person owns is their actions... watched some interesting DVDs...i was amused to note that 'criminal minds" broached two subjects which are seldom discribed...necrophilia and canibalism...both probably against the law in most societies...but what about necrophilia by prior agreement or canibalism by prior agreement...can a person engage in these acts with legal impunity...just a thought. i saw an excellent interview called "Branford Marsailis on Jerry Garcia and the grateful dead" very well articulated...Branford was described as the "true musician" in the family "The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpases in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity." albert camus (1942)

"This minority is great..."

bad day for a bike ride took off yesterday to the other side of town as the snow fell...and fell...and fell some more...stopped at the pawn and bought a DVD for a buck...the new clerk said i could just have the DVD for free...she suspected i would rob her if she opened the cash register...i laughed and put a dollar on the counter and told her i had bought s lot of DVDs from this pawn shop...(not to mention cameras, guitars and other items...thats one thing about having a beard...you are suspect...any old crime will do, you may be the perpertrator...i creeped along back towards the rented room as a blizzard coated the vehicles and the road...i kept my distance from the other vehicles and made it to the grocery store and picked up victuals then to the room and safety...more or less.... i found a youtube interview with robert rodriguez on lex fridman #465...i have listened to ram dass, ken kesey, and many other pundits but this interview was one of the most interesting and helpful i have ever heard...this interview with mr rodriguez is extraodinary in the amount of useful advice he imparts...not about film making as much as about creativity and how keep it in ones life...it is 3 and a half hours long ang i watched it in two sittings and will probably watch it several times...he used the term "three pound "ME" computer" which i had never heard before...there were several things that he said that i wanted to write down but i only wrote down "record it! record it!...an extraordinary guy indeed... i also watched an interview called "How FBI undercover agents really work" with scott payne who said something i had never heard...he said L. Freeh was the best FBI director ever...and did not care much for Mueller...he said the FBI drifted away from grass roots law enforcement...sounds true to me... a great you tube documentary is "The Floating fishermen of Havana"...it is about people desperate to get food and they float at night on inflated truck tires in the ocean,,,very interesting... "This minority is great and formidable, I do not know whether, if i aimed at the total overthrow of a kingdom, I should wish to be encunbered with a large body of partisans." E.Burke

"Courage is the greatest..."

there are few things in modern america more depressing than having ones vehicle disabled...even more so when one is living out of said vehicle...i went to craigslist to the services section and found a mechanic who would come to where my vehicle sat forlorn and un-drivable...eight in the morning he showed up with his son and his tools...an interesting fellow by any standards...after removing the cam position sensor we went to the auto parts store and got one for 25 bucks...that was not the problem however...he buried himself in the youtube mechanics presentations for 30 minutes and eventually said he thought he got a clue...off to the auto parts store again...VVT solinoid for 76 bucks...i bought two...one for each side...he repalced the left side one and i had little hope for success...VIOLA! THE TRUCK WAS FIXED!..i had been ready to give up actually...we spent three hours on the truck and two hours discussing religion...he is a reformed sinner and advocate for God...and had the most well used bible i have ever seen...he could turn to passages in the bible which illustrated questons i had time and time again...he ain't no pretender like so many bible thumpers...and a determined auto mechanic...and he lives in a motorhome with his family and puts mechanics ads on craigslist whereever he happens to be...ask for Joe its snowing again outside so i may postpone my departure...i went to the thrift yesterday and bought a bicycle for $21 bucks which had been rebuilt by the thrift mechanic...i will bring my old bike to him later...now i have some emergency transportation if the truck fails to work properly...speaking of which some years ago i found a book in a thrift near Naples florida which is a history of Rolls Royce automobiles...it was signed by the author... i was amused to learn that when a Rolls stops running they don't say it "broke down" but say it "failed to proceed"... i watched about 30 minutes of ann coulter on c-span this morning...she is not entrenched in her views and has a sense of humor also...i see where bill maher has kicked up a lot of dust with his views...more diversity in opinions is more better... i found some more good music on youtube...namely..."Amado Mio" by Storm Large with Pink Martini...excellent vocals and good musicians also...she has a small tatoo on her back which i am not sure what it says...also "Please don't talk about me when i'm gone" by san lyon swing jazz...it is three women and a man...excellent vocals and superbe guitar in the mode of django...they have several good presentations...the funnel kazoo is well represented here... i came across one of the best youtube presentations i have seen in "Alone in the wilderness" by dick proenneke (57 min)...this guy was working as a diesel mechanic in anchorage alaska when he got something splashed in his eyes which may have blinded him...but he recovered and came to realize that he wanted to use his eyes for better viewing so he packed up and went to a remote place 160 miles from anchorage and used his astounding skills to build a cabin and survive in style...he brought a movie camera and documented his life alone in the wilderness...i have not been able to find his presentation again as so many people have used his life to fuel their own presentaions...his is the best presentation and is worth watching... "Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage. you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." Samuel Johnson

"The wise determine..."

early spring brave flower...elk skeleton...sunset last night...very nice had a big day planned in the city...blood test...groceries...laundry...some thrift shopping...nothing special...then out of the blue the truck which was running so well...suddenly was not running so well...but i made it to the blood lab...then i made it to the grocery store...then i made it to the post office where i cashed some money orders...i did not cry or barf even though i had to keep focused because this situation is serious but all was not lost...but on the bright side the mechanics shop which was recommended to me was near the post office and the inexpensive motel was also...so got a room and unloaded some groceries and washed two loads of laundry and now i will research transmission repairs some more online... the television had a talk, speech, communication live from joe biden...ok joe adjust the meds and stay calm... i watched some good utube stuff this week..."camel trek across australia" by outback mike (20 min.) although this man is the one who posted this he is treking with Sophie Matterson who used 5 camels which she said she trained and they were some of the nicest camels i have ever seen...fat and well muscled...she has a great deal of baggage and is very concientious about how she handles her responsibilites i am very envious of people who can achieve this level of independence from "civilization"...ms matterson says she is living on a cow ranch now...she wrote a book about her trek called "The Crossing"...along the same camel theme i saw a great utube piece called "indias military still use camels...here's why"(9 min)...i have been a great proponent of the usa using camels to patrol the US mexican border... i watched DJtrump say in front of a television camera that he had people calling him to "KISS MY ASS" because of the tariffs...i hope that channeling of dave coe is repeated many times...pretty vogue to cuss with great enthusiasm...or it is now... i must say my stalkers seem to have become more numerous and obnoxious...AND i found 2 screws in my washing when i pulled it out of the machine...i suspect this is a warning of things to come...some more...again...damn! "The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands." E. Burke

"Of all the cants..."

"...wider exposure..."

the images are the san fransisco peaks...the tallest in arizona and the other image is of me with my new (used) tripod...when i got it to the truck i realized it only has two legs...but it was on SALE!...HALF PRICE!...now i have 4 tripods, one bi-pod and two mono-pods...thats enough probably... last day in the room with a microwave and a refridgerator...no rain or snow predicted this week and warmer temperatures...got to watch a lot of C-Span and i must say my opinion of humanity did not become greater...perhaps even less...i watched a legislator named senator cotton bad-mouth "china" (the country not the dinerware) with a steady stream of accusations which sounded like the middle eastern radicals bad-mouthing the USA...first of all china has 1.3 billion people and they do not all look, think or act the same any more than the americans do the government of china does a lot to promote their own interest just like the american government does...i do not know how you can call a country with the number of billionaire capitalists they have truley communist...anyhow when i watched "little chinese everywhere today i did not see any rabid american haters...i found in my notes this information USA has 2.2 million people incarcerated or 690 out of every 100,000 citizens...china has 1.5 million incarcerated...russia has 440 citizens out of 100,000 incarcerated...damn! i think i have enemies that wish me ill...perhaps the "ROSKOMMADZOR" are the ones who mess with my blog...and me...i get stalked everywhere and now my arthritic shoulder has been targeted by being hit when someone walks by me...assault is what it is... i read that there are optical lattice clocks that are accurate to within one tenth of a second over the age of the universe...my watch is off by about 15 seconds...good enough... I picked up a DVD called "KAWEH" which is a group of excellent musicians playing international music i really like some of the documentaies i have picked up at the thrift stores etc...i finally took the time to figure out how to post videos on youtube and posted "2 TEXAS COWPUNCHER"...which is an excellent documentary about working cowboys (cowpunchers)...the best line in the documentary is..."I'm not punchy enough"...look for it... "...wider exposure gives you a keener sense that there is a war going on and you have to choose a side...which is "battlefield mentality"... if you take an even wider view you realize that you are an earthling and you do not have to choose a side!

"The nomads..."

I just finished watching the american national high school womens basketball championship...i rarely watch sports but this contest had none of the taint of money that so much of sports has...these women were expert level players and after one overtime IMG (i don't know what that stands for) outscored the other team by two points...i was going to say they beat the other team but it was a contest from begining to end...not just intertaining but engaging...probably builds character for the playes too The handsome lad in the photograph is a young Bix Beiderbecke renowned trumpet player and pretty good piano player also...he died at the age of 31 years...there is an extremely good interview called "louis Armstrong remembers Bix Beiderbecke" where armstrong is asked what killed his good friend Bix...and mr armstrong tells it without backing off...his friends killed Bix...a must hear for anyone who wants not to be a victim of "friends"... i read a good description of american consumer habits which recounted how J.C. Penny the department store decided to quit having sales and just lower prices and they dropped 4 billion dollars in sales and their stock share price dropped by half...the observation was that the psychological effect of taking advantage of a "SALE" is so powerful with shoppers that it is drives actions in a fundimental way...i have fallen victim to a lot of sales in my life and might be motivated by a few more by the way bird flu is why the price of eggs went way up...not political decisions...there is a lot of half truths and lies being bandied about these days...i heard one financial pundit call the drop in stock prices "a nasty correction"...yep it is that too... but there is still some desire for "quality" (snootyness) in some places...i saw an interview with a representative of NYC Innovates which has these health spas where you can join for $750 to $4500 per month and purchase a bottle of "Amazon water" $150...they condense the water from the air...sounds snooty to me...this spa says it helps to build better human relationships...snooty people like to hang with other snooty people and try to out-snoot one another...they should adopt a dog i highly recommend a listen to Steven West the philosphy sherpa who has posted some good presentations recently...Canus was a clear eyed "artist"(and a philosopher too) i watched the movie "Color out of Space" which is a science fiction/horror movie based on an H.P. Lovecraft story filmed in 2019 i would say staring Nicolas Cage but all the actors did remakable work and the three kids did exceptionaly well...tommy chong did a good "stoner in a cabin" act and it does not end well...not for those with a weak stomach... i also really liked "Just a dream on my mind" by the secret six jazz band...excellent vocals by the banjo player...i think the trumpet player my have taken a page from the Bix playbook as he looks wasted...but plays very well despite it... "The nomads tribal structures provided no central authority to destroy or negotiate with, and they had no cities, cities that could be taken nor crops to be burned" from "Historical Atlas of the Ancient World"