"...he bought our house..."

images from the top="someone to watch over me..."...moon rising over yuma this morning...moon rising over yuma this morning some more...liz is the only one looking forward to the 90 degree temps tomorrow...most of the desert looks like this...dry dry dry...broken plate from long ago on the desert floor

 

as can be seen from the photos the sky is not falling...much...mark twain thought a monarchy was the best form of government he had seen,,,and he saw a lot of them...one of the lecturers on history that i have on DVD...(i think is was rufus fears) said that wars could be stopped immediately when two auto-crats were warring but in a democracy the wars just went on and on and on...a good documentary on youtube is "The russian revolution; all power to the soviet" (33min) and also  "The mexican revolution-1910-1920" (25min)...those folks who keep talking up a "revolution" in the usa ain't thinkin' too well..."so you say you want a revolution, you know we all want to see the plan..." j.lennon...i have been watching all the stuff on the internet (youtube) by "The secret six"jazz band posted mostly by the new orleans jazz museum...the japanese woman trombone player is loving life (and makes me love life too!) can you guess what the secret is?..."Froggie Moore rag" is one of my favorites...

 

"he bought our house on the G.I. bill but it wasn't worth all he had to kill to get it..."david allen coe

 

"In a democracy such as ours..."

 descriptions of images in order from top to bottom...i am kneeling down and i see specks on the sand ...them i pick one of the specks up and determine that it is pretty hard...then i see more specks near by and pinch the top and realize that it is hollow beneath...and under the specks is like a piece of felt...compressed web i believe...this hole picture is a return to get a close-up with a different lens...the webbing is more noticeable...the next two images are un-identified objects in the sky which i presume are a launch if some company's rocket...there were smaller flair-ups which might have been parts of the rocket being jettison...the last image is the specks after soaking in water over night...

well hells-a-poppin in government now...bill gates who is a pretty straight shooter said he though government was about 10% to 15% too big also...i dont want to be a MUSKOVITE necessarily but musk does not not need a vote or a dollar and not many people can say that... i highly recommend that you listen to thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and "Life without Principal"...i think he would have approved of the current approach to government reduction...i read where there has been about a $260 billion dollar overpay by the federal government....that's a lot of school lunches! and the 60 million dollar snatch back from FEMA for housing "asylum seekers" in NEW YORK city is music to my ears...what the hell kind of a person goes to russia with cannabis anyhow...mr fogel has pretty bad risk to reward  judgment....i watched some pretty good science presentations on youtube this week such as "10 minute neuro-science; visual pathways" and also "synaptic pruning" by alila medical...there was a good interview called "Neil Young talks about how media divides the USA"...also "What if all the worlds biggest problems have the same solution"(24 min)

"In a democracy such as ours military policy is dependent on public opinion" G.C Marshall (1943)

"Th future of humanity..."

$3.50 ECCO YAK shoes from my savil row tailor Paul de St. Vincent

never seen this size hole before

sun rose about 5 minutes after 7 this morning

view to the west with sand dunes and mountains

saw three of these birds on the lawn at laundryvill last week...nice looking birds

lots of news this week...i guess the commander in chief really likes multi-tasking....i am keeping a backpack packed and ready just in case the poop hits the fan... watched a very good youtube presentation by PETE BEINART on DEMOCRACY NOW entitled  "Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza"...he brings in a lot of historical context and is probably not antisemitic...probably...someone said something about the Palestinians being sub-human...i think that many of them are feral...too long away from a civilized community...i was listening to a woman who wrote a book about ending the war in Ukraine which made me think of this song by Johnny Cash called "GOD BLESS ROBERT E. LEE" dont judge it until you hear it...i read the rolling stone with the interview with kid rock which was interesting...i dont have any of his music but i saw him in a willie nelson dvd with jerry lee lewis...mr lewis was very appreciative of mr rocks support...i think there was an advertisement for some shoes with a mr. s. dogg being the supporter of this brand...therefore i though it was a good idea to give an alternative option (and i don't mean to be braggadocios) but i bought 3 pairs of shoes for about ten bucks total which are very comfortable and sturdy...i keep getting an ad online to 'shop like a millionaire" TEMU...is that stupid or what!...shop around...buy used!...i watched an episode of "Nero Wolfe"  last night which indicates the time period is WW two not the 1950's...i think this current administration of the federal government will prompt the use of deep-seek of some other AI source to run most of government...

"The future of humanity depends on how many people achieve individuation"   Carl Jung