"My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters..."

                                             rabbits ate the rescued saguaro to death

                                            frost on the ground from this morning

                                           guess who did not get a raise for picking lettuce

when you shoot all the coyotes the rabbits get too plentiful and eat the cactus to death

temps around the freezing point in the desert last night

so i see these people working very fast when the lettuce is ready to pick...think about where your salad comes from.... 

well back in Wartsite...land of shady dealings and sunny skies...watched a movie called "Perfume" which was pretty disgusting all things considered...good production values but a bad concept...a child is born on the ground in a very disgusting place and survives...the mother is hanged...and so it goes... one implausible thing after another....in the end the child is a serial killer...and escapes the punishment and...well, dies a very implausible death...there is a very good article in the "Smithsonion" magazine from I believe august 2022...about the olfactory system in humans...very interesting...also watched "Casablanca" again...damn good movie...there is a very good line in which Louie the chief of police asks Rick why he came to Casablanca...and he says "My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters." and Louie says "What waters we are in a desert."       and Rick says "I was misinformed"...and so we are all misinformed....

 

"Nothing has changed..."

                                      bird tracks in the desert sand

women in the news...ms cinnamon goes independent as an arizona  legislator..hopefully ahead of a lot of others leaving the two parties which seem to wallow around in the sty of dysfunction...ms griner is a very lucky person to have the kind of attention paid to her incarceration for a crime to which she pleaded guilty...the rest of the worlds armaments dealer (of which there are quite a few) should take a hint that they had better be attentive to whom they sell arms and for what purpose...unless you are the CIA of course which has the cloak of secrecy attached to their fiascos...it should be pointed out that russia has long sacrificed their citizens to "the cause"... in one of my DVDs on the second world war they interview allied troops who witnessed russian troops walking arm in arm over the mine fields to explode the mines...that sort of thinking has turned even their own people against the military...USA has a very different view of individuals as individuals and not "tools of the predominant faction"...peru has snatched up their president for "Permanent Moral Incapacity"...we need that law here...listening to professor Kai talk about an audit that was done at the department of defense...1600 auditors came to the conclusion that about 61% of the departments assets are unaccounted for...i see quite a few of their assets flying over the desert every day...i think some of the assets are hidden..(DARK)...i hear that russian and china political folks have decided that there needs to be a new world order and their form of government needs to be promoted...i dont think so!

 so i have heard that the dixie chicks have changed their name to the "Chicks"...should be the "Texas Chicks"..has a better ring to it...i have couple of their music DVDs and i think they need to put out a music DVD of their current work...it's been 20 years now and i have heard that they have been through some relationship "issues" which always puts a bit of a patina on ones work...too much talent to be silent now...i only have one DVD of Ms. Swift and it is with Def Lepard and she is pretty young...but very talented also...i dont go to live concerts much but i would pay for a DVD of her performing her 10 hits on the charts...take that YE!

"Nothing has changed in Russian policy...Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole star- world domination- is immutable." Karl Marx (1867)

"There is no Frigate like a book..."

                                  some books i am reading...both are difficult...but worth the effort

well i suppose it had to happen...i finally got a medical bill....over two hundred dollars...thats a lot for a person with my income...i was looking at the several "procedures" that i have had recently...i noticed that the two CT scans were priced at one thousand dollars and 12 thousand dollars...the only difference that i could see was that for the 12 thousand dollar one i had to drink two bottles of white paint stuff...thats about 5 thousand dollars a bottle...must have been pretty expensive paint...however i will pay the bill in installments...i have read many times that during the last years of a persons life they spend almost all their money on medical bills...serious bummer...i like having a few discretionary dollars in my wallet...so now i have to decide whether the cost and discomfort of treatment for prostate cancer will be worse than leaving the cancer untreated...it is a juggling act really...as the old body begins to...well, act old...you start to wonder if you leave the dental work undone will you suffer from that...before you die...and a quite a few other systems malfunctions that occur when the body ages....usually....i talked to a man yesterday at his yard sale who said he was 93 years old...he was in great shape and very lucid...had an active life of being a bush pilot in alaska...everyone ages differently i suppose...then there is the mental aspect to aging...i dont want to be a walking vegetable...i have heard a couple of people talk about people who flew to Switzerland and paid 10 thousand dollars for a doctor to euthanize them...no muss no fuss clean and tidy...why cant we have the government pay for "effecting our transmigration" in a way we approve of...it shouldn't cost more than a couple of bucks     i think i am going to morph from a particle to a wave when i am no longer a living body...and i have read a good article about turning human bodies into compost...but it cost 7 thousand  bucks...it should be free...no muss no fuss clean and tidy...

"There is no Frigate like a Book                                                                                                                    To take us lands away                                                                                                                                    Not any Coursers like a Page                                                                                                                         Of prancing Poetry-                                                                                                                                      This Traverse may the poorest take                                                                                                               Without oppress of Toll-                                                                                                                               How frugal is the Chariot                                                                                                                             That takes the human soul.   Emily Dickinson (1873)

"Never the spirit was born;..."

                             i do not accept that i should be cheated and say nothing about it

a while back i rented a room from a man who was so lacking in basic professionalism that i feel that i should bring it to the attention of others so that they are not also victims...first of all my receipt says i was in a room that i was not in...and although he had my identification in his hand he wrote the the wrong name...i was rented a room with no microwave and there were dead insects on the floor...the towels were nicely folded however...the manager was very abrupt and yelled that i could not complain...i was rented a sub-standard room for the full price by a rude crook...

"Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;                                                                        Never was time it was not; End and beginning are dreams                                                                          Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever;                                                         Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!                                                          Who knoweth it exhaustsless, self-sustained,                                                                                             Immortal, indestructible, -shall such                                                                                                            Say, "I have killed a man, or caused to kill?"                                                                                               Nay, but as when one layeth                                                                                                                        His worn-out robes away,                                                                                                                             And, taking new ones, sayeth,                                                                                                                     "These will I wear today!"                                                                                                                           So putteth by the spirit                                                                                                                                 Lightly its garb of flesh                                                                                                                               And passeth to inherit                                                                                                                                  A residence afresh                              Bhagavad Gita

 

"A time will come..."

 snoozing under the solar panels...until i woke him up...and he woke me up too!

big news in the news again...hobbit elected governor loser has lakey breaky heart...arizona borders on the edge of a vortex which has encouraged the delusionals to call it home...but it is a harsh unforgiving environment and the weak of reason soon succumb to a deadly dose of reality...once again the Israeli intelligence apparatus  has managed to sneak bugs into the lives of...well just about everyone...thanks to the NSO group...whatever that is...super cocaine cartel loses 30 tons of their product when Dubai criminals have their communications hacked...internet cops swoop down on child pornographer in the Philippines and rescue 3 children and arrest mother who was abusing them FOR $20!...of course the daily outrages on the Ukrainians make for a good news story but i am not at all sure that the human population has fully realized that the chances of stabilizing environmental degradation are just about zero...we be gonna' die...and it ain't gonna be pretty...but i am sure that a few humans will survive to lament the human era and welcome the new age of raccoons...SAVE THE GENE POOL!...watched some pretty good movies lately one being "KILL" (1968) a film by Kihachi Okamoto...it has english sub-titles...it is about the samuri and the yakuza...and the takes place a few hundred years ago i think...the main character used to be a samuri but quit as he thought they were dumb...he is called a "vagrant" now and is an honorable fellow...also i would like to recommend some music...namely a set by Bonnie Raitt with Allen Toussaint performing "What is Success" at the 2000 New Orleans jazz and heritage festival...it shows Ms. Raitt at her funky best and Mr. Toussaint tickles the ivories superbly . I heard an interview with Mr. Toussaint once and he said something that i found so shocking i almost don't want to repeat it...but i will...he said that he found garlic and onions so revolting he didn't even like to be in the same room with them...AND HIM A NEW ORLEANS NATIVE!...just goes to show you can't never tell.

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own." H.G. Wells (1921)

"I (your name here) do solemnly swear...."

                                           vegan? potato! i dont think so!

                                           cheap wieners with a little rodent hair! much better

                                            life is good when you have a full belly...

wind's a blowin' and the sands a flyin' in the desert...neighbors still come around....

"I (your name here) do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that i will bear true faith and allegiances to the same; that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter. So help me God."        this is the oath taken by any person elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services EXCEPT FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA

So this is the "oath keepers" alleged guiding light...
 

"To insure health..."

                                    kangaroo rat takes his chances

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                                            fresh water is a nice thing to have

not a big sports fan myself but i do not equate it with non-thinking persons...Niels Bohr who got the Nobel prize in physics also go a gold medal for soccer...and i think the Qatar officials have a right to ban alcohol from the games...but i think hash is more tolerated in some middle east countries and perhaps they should provide THC for the fans or khat....one mans meat etc. etc etc....I see where the Musk Melon has gone Bi-poller...most captains don't fire the crew and then set sail...i just watched "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton (1935) and it was pretty good...i am glad that it was pointed out that the horrible captain Bligh was considered one of the best seamen to ever captain a vessel...the mutineers did not end up so well...too many murders in the news...but i picked up a good DVD lecture called "Understanding Non-verbal communications" by Prof. Mark G. Frank...he says that archeologist have determined that ancient males were victims of murder in about 30%  of the deaths...today the murder rate in New York city is about 0.0004% of the male deaths...pretty low by ancient standards...still seems like a lot of punks with guns to me...

"To insure health, a persons relation to Nature must come very near to a personal one; he must be conscious of a friendliness in her; when human friends fail or die, she must stand in the gap to them. I cannot conceive of any life which deserves the name, unless there is a certain tender relation to Nature. This it is which makes winter warm, and supplies society in the desert and wilderness. Unless Nature sympathizes with and speaks to us, as it were, the most fertile and blooming regions are barren and dreary"  Henry David Thoreau "Journal" January 1858