"Neither snow nor rain..."

                                          orlando in the desert

                                                my 3 dollar therapy instrument

                                              looks like a good place for an airy b and b

 watching the farm report this morning...cattle doubled in price in the last two years...hogs down in price...good to know...while trans people are all over the news trans-portation should be getting a lot more attention...in La Paz Bolivia they built a cable car which allowed people to cut their commuter times by 80% and  commerce is much greater...they do not have to drive around the crowded mountain roads...why in the hell is there virtually no attention paid to mass transit in this country...also i see where a cargo ship ran into a fuel tanker THAT WAS NOT EVEN MOVING! i have spent some hours in a ships wheelhouse and i cannot even imagine an entire crew ignoring a fuel tanker in their course...the captain of the cargo ship was russian the fuel was headed to the american military...go figure...the ruined environment is english...damn

!...got a great business idea...gonna make a fortune...going to call it "AIRY B AND B'...i'm going to rent people a sleeping bag and feed them oatmeal for breakfast in the desert...this is going to be BIG BIG BIG!...already have a sleeping bag and oatmeal so i need very little start-up capital...water will be extra...and it ain't gonna be cheap....

so i have been thinking about law enforcement in this border area (mexican border) first of all the difficulty of enforcing the law in a place where 10's of thousands of people come to escape the winter weather where they are from and being on the border...it is a made to order crime scene...so the incidence of people moving contraband north is probably much greater than any other place in this country...or most countries...AND! now there are powerful and violent "CARTELS" that seek to control as much of the border areas as possible...if that were not enough there are at least 4 US special forces trained former military working for the cartels...the body count is rising...a while back i heard a report about the number of military veterans who joined the border patrol only to resign within a year or so,,,i suspect that a lot of those people just got the lay of the land and then went off to join the smugglers...one of the more detailed youtube presentations is "Sicario Warfare" by Ironclad...very depressing...also CJNG is a criminal organization run by young man named Nemesio Ruben Osequrea Cervantes or El Mencho...there is a 15 million dollar price on his head in chicago alone!...

on a happier note i found a great musical talent named Muireann Bradley who plays guitar (very well) and sings (very well)...

one of my history DVDs talks about the "Royal Road" of Cyrus the Great who built this road from one side of his kingdom to the other...they had a sort of pony express that had 110 stations and they could get from one side to the other in 6 days...now that's good transportation planning... the historian Herodotus described the official couriers..."Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." sound familiar? it was adopted in 1912 by the james a farley post office in new york...

"In the boundless panorama..."

rock found in the desert...tool?...

praying mantis found in the desert...2 inches long

coyote appears to be on it's last leg...but they are pretty tough

large hole next to a rock...who decided this location?

this creosote bush was in bloom even after a severe lack of rain...these plants are tough too

rained in the desert yesterday...but not much...cloudy today in town and some rain...not too much...big news from the government...as usual...4500 transgender humans fired from the military...according to the internet there are 1.6 million humans who identify as transgender in the USA or 0.6% of the population...the city of washington .d.c is removing the "black lives matter" verbiage from the street...i found a DVD called "Bomb It-street art is revolution" about so called graffiti artist...it was very exciting...i see where the entire documentary is available on the youtube...yea!...they might hire leon keer from the netherlands who does amazing "anamorphic" art...i was amazed at the trump/zilinsky meeting and the thug who asked zilinsky why he did not wear a neck tie...they never ask e.musk that!...i found "Where did neck ties come from" by ben bowlin of "brainstuff" (3 min.) i heard on the radio that on march 9th 1945 the USA military firebombed japan and killed over 100,000 people...the most deadly bombing raid of the war...i have been watching "Criminal Minds" on my DVD's and was confronted by a moral/ethical decision when one of the FBI agents named Elle confronted a fellow who was suspected of half a dozens rapes and more but was not held in custody so Elle followed him and pretty much caught him preparing to commit another rape...she put 3 bullets in his chest and rather than be subjected to intense interrogation quit her job...so the question is "was she wrong"...dead people are in the news a lot lately old gene hackman was just too damned old...his wife however died from hunta virus which is usually transmitted from mice poop dust in the air and kills in less than 48 hours...i listend to an interview with sister helen prejean who advocates for death row inmates in louisiana i was amazed to learn that when a person is executed in the prison a death certificate must be filled out and under "cause of death" they must put "homicide"...

some good youtube i watched was "little chinese everywhere" "china's steepest mountain" she and her baobao flo do a lot of hiking and as usual the drone footage is great...speaking of drones "The killer ground drones hunting russians in ukrain" (21 min) is pretty damned scary...as they kept saying...this is not war in the future...it is war today...i don't want to see dead russians any more than dead ukrainians..

.I really liked "london cafe blues" by the secret six... mellifluous! 

"In the boundless panorama of the existing and visible universe, whatever shapes appear, whatever consciousness cognize, all are the play of manifestation of the Tri-Kaya the three-fold principle of the cause of all causes, the Primordial Trinity. Impenetrating  all, is the All Pervading Essence of Spirit, which is Mind. It is uncreated, impersonal, self-existing, immaterial, and indestructible.                                                                                                                        Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup  

 

"Guerrilas win..."

way out in the desert livin' in a truck...must be nice!...it is!

i wondered why this creature needed two entrance holes...

a while back i saw a fig in the parking lot and realized that this is a fig tree usually found in the tropics...just add monkeys!

yep, its a hula-baloo in government now...musk the monster is firing people from the largest employer in the USA...about time!...i heard that the FBI building is up for sale...how is it that the executive branch of government can eliminate the judicial branch of government?...i guess as long as they keep paying my social security i won't have to go feral and start eating critters from the animal rescue...i have been watching the hog eliminator youtube presentations...way too many feral pigs and not enough folks eating them...and the non-native birds, and the iguanas , and lets not forget the nutria..etc....this country is "determined to be starved before it is hungry"...the best hog cleaning video i watch was "How to clean a wild hog" by Jman Random (40min) he insists the skin must be left on the hog for the best grilling so he burns the hair off with a propane torch,(A. Bourdain would agree)  another good youtube i watched was "Amazing process of making 4 axes from a leaf spring"...if you want to know what "can do" attitude is, this is it...ralph naders latest radio hour came down pretty hard on the honesty (or lack there-of) of the Israeli government...in the title it is inferred that the Palestinians will never give up...that is a suicidal approach to their problem...i was in central america once and was talking to a Finnish woman who had just come from nicaruagua where she talked to the folks there and she said most of them could give a fat rats ass about the form of government since they had been at war for nearly two decades... i just read a great book called "Vietcong Memoir) by Truong Nhu Tang (1985) it is interesting how the upper echelon of any government seems to not care too much what hardships the common folks endure...i am listening to some DVD's about the life of the common folk in ancient times...it was even worse then...the ancient greeks abused about half of the citizens as they were hardly even seen as humans...not very enlightened!

so i typed out "Teatsqueezer" on youtube and there is a colored boy who seems to have been pretty busy using the name and recommending videos...no crime in that...i watched the first one and was not favorably impressed. my observation is that first of all so called "hiphop" has largely lost it's vitality...it is banal and non-creative and emphasizes stupid stuff like bling and sex and drugs, alcohol and toughness...well now that i think about it the country western music seems to have the same things...with some patriotism thrown in sometimes...anyhow. the colored boy who is blowing smoke at the camera and I imagine he had a lot of help in putting together this collection..(possibly government ).i think there are some "black folks" who want to "sample" (steal) all of my "intellectual property"...insofar as i have never made a dime from any of it and except for my characters in my writing i relinquished the copyrite i will be dead and gone soon enough and i don't want to see Styrofoam "Teatsqueezers" in the walmart...i read that "Hello Kitty" makes about 4 billion dollars a year...i don't care for that character at all...miss moo i like however..

well now i have to pee so i will sign off

"Guerrillas win if they don't loose. A standard army loses if it does not win" Henry Kissinger (1968)