"Superfluous branches..."

                                    moral dilemma-had to compromise...

awoke in the campsite next to the road above the lake on the edge of the ravine...                                          and there were kittens in my campsite...according to the bird people cats eat at least                                   a billion birds a year...not to mention rodents, lizards and insects....my general attitude is                     that for wildlife to live...cats must die...however the theory is easier to expound than the practice            of killing cats is to implement...so I was weak and just put out some food and water before I drove away...i hear a lot of coyotes at night here so they will probably be eaten before long...

now i don't want to sound like a person enthralled with death...but after listening to a couple of weeks of the climate summit in glasgow the one thing i never heard anyone mention is the possibility                     that the human population is going to have to be reduced for any of the goals to be met that will         result in less carbon in the atmosphere thereby alleviating the rise in temperatures and...well you            know...making things nice again...yeah right....so there was a lot of the little people wailing about            the fact that they did not spew the carbon into the air but they will suffer the most....blah blah and blah    i think the big people who they want to cough up a hundred billion bucks to give to the little people        to...? what? buy boats? insurance? what what what! i know of a famous animal trainer who used             to say "i can train any animal that has to eat"...and I say that all money should be tied to the stipulation that the "endangered" people will have to reduce their numbers...until this basic reality is accommodated there is not a snowballs chance in the sahara that the temperatures are likely to be               moderated for the better...now i think that since replication of our genes is what got us into this                pile of do do governments should start a gene bank so that when the human population gets down           to a survivable number...a hundred million? a billion? 5 billion? 3?...whatever it is having a lot of genetic material will be good for the gene pool...SAVE THE GENE POOL!

"Superfluous branches                                                                                                                                  We lop away, that bearing boughs may live" Shakespeare "Richard second"                 

 
 

"All spiritual interests..."

 looks like baby foxes on the way

as anticipated the flat screen world has expanded to META-L world  NOTHING ALIVE EVER!  3 damned dimensions...time will make it four...no need to walk the sidewalks move...but there is no door         the entire human culture is based on our relationship to nature...until now...      

heard that 1500 white sided porpoises were in killed in Norway during a "re-enactrment  of a viking ritual...only meant to kill 25 but the kill lust just took over i guess...how disgusting...                                   

"All spiritual interests are supported by animal life." George Santayana                                                 

"He has made his weapons his Gods..."

 this is the hole in the rock and what was ground in the hole in the rock...long ago

guns guns guns in the news....17 year old on trial...bad judgement as is common with 17 year olds               senseless death in new mexico...claudine longet killed spider sabich with a single shot from a 22 short ..    happens all the time...guns do kill people...30,100 veterans died by suicide since 2001...most with  guns I would imagine...4 times as many as died in combat...before guns it was harder to               kill I would imagine...just watch a whole series of Dr. Who...never seen it before...fascinating...I saw where Dr. Who is unarmed....go figure...still reading the American Rifleman mag. from NRA  good       mag ...NRA needs to change leadership...about timed out...got to go

"He has made his weapons his gods                                                                                                                when his weapons win he is defeated himself."  Rabindranath Tagore                                                                                                           

"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied..."

                          awoke to find slipper missing-suspect caught on camera sticking out tongue

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH

Horace Hogwash demands end to systemic bias against hogs

in recent news release it was announced that a pig kidney has kept a human alive for 32 hours                   the human was already "brain dead" according to the report                                                                     the pig was probably cooked and eaten                                                                                                        Horace hog has been subjected to unspeakable prejudice due to the systemic and historic                           hog hatred which has been promoted by two major religions...the patron saint of hogs                               Saint Anthony (Bourdain) has always spoken well of all things pig...cooked pig mostly                     and the historical importance of pigs cannot be understated...many cultures respect and even                    worship pigs...cooked mostly....however there are some very serious problems with feral pigs                  around the world as they are rooting up the ground and releasing much carbon into the air                        like maybe as much as many million automobiles...so if more people worshiped pigs...cooked               is of course the best form of pig worship... there would be more chance of pigs becoming less                    abundant in the wild...and that would be a good thing....

"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."  John Stuart Mills (how would he know!)
 

'The joint is jumping all around me and my mood is really not in style,,,'

                                the garbage that goes with purchasing weed...not acceptable

after 52 days of cannabis consumption on a daily basis it was only after I had                                            quit for 21 days that I had my first dream...and it was pretty tiny...after 4 weeks                                         much of my cognitive ability had returned...but not all...perhaps the speech and                                        memory faculties have been permanently damage...fatigue amplifies the problems                                    having read  a lot about "neural plasticity" I knew that the reading and guitar was                                     helping to realign my cognition...perhaps my senescence has been accelerated by                                      the consumption of weed...but 9 grams in 52 days hardly seems excessive....Snoop                                 and Willy don't act like retards... one of the things that...where was I?...oh yeah...back                             in the 70"s I was a pothead...now I have "cannabis use disorder"...disorder being the                                operative word here....also I remembered also that once you have a habit of taking                                    something into your system you are very at risk for being poisoned by your enemies                                anyhow I somewhat cured me as the pain was far worse than the pleasure....

found a DVD in the junk store of Rory Gallagher at Montreaux  from 1974 to 1995                                    this has has to be one of the best guitar players in the business...he died from complications                       of a liver transplant....too damned bad!  one of my favorite songs is one he wrote called 

"A MILLION MILES AWAY"                        

 The joint is jumping all around me and my mood is really not in style

Right now the blues want to surround me but I'll break out after a while

Well, I'm a million miles away, I'm a million miles away
I'm sailing like a driftwood on a windy bay

Why ask how I feel, well, how does it look to you?
I feel hook line and sinker, I lost my captain and my crew
I'm standing on the landing and there's no one there but me
That's where you'll find me, looking out on the deep blue see

There's a song on the lips of everybody, there's a smile all around the room
There's conversation overflowing, so why must I sit here in the gloom?

This hotel bar lost all it's people, the piano man has caught the last bus home
The old bartender is asleep in the corner, so why must I still be here, I don't know

Well, I'm a million miles away, I'm a million miles away
I'm sailing like a driftwood on a windy bay  

"Good!..."

                                                               water is not a luxury...

picked up a copy of J.J. Rousseau's "Confessions" at the library book store...thought                                        I had read it but don't remember much of it...a good read and bold look at a mans                                         life and times...maybe too bold...J.J. was not held in high regard by some of his fellow                                citizens and had to move to avoid harassment...I know the feeling!                                                              when he was 16 years old he went to work for a woman who was dying and he was in the room                          when she died...her last words according to him were.... after a big poot...                                                           "Good! a woman who can fart is not dead!"   then she died 

"The narrowness of a generation..."

 Just thought I would show the names of those men who died                                                                      on the SEACOR Power when it capsized in the Gulf of Mexico                                                                  I spent a year with SEACOR on the San Jose an oil supply boat                                                                  and know the dangers associated with being in that line of work.                                                                Most people dont think much about what it takes to put gasoline                                                                 into their gas tanks...                          

• Dylan Daspit, 30, of Breaux Bridge
• Jay Guevara, of Lafayette
• Quinon Pitre, 31, of the Lawtell area
• Chaz Morales, 37, of Slidell
• Gregory Walcott, 62, of Abbeville
• Jason Krell, of Texas
• Darren Encalade, of Belle Chasse
• Cooper Rozands, of Houma
• Capt. David Ledet
• Ernest Williams
• Anthony Hartford
• Tracy Wallingford
• Lawrence Warrens

"The narrowness of a generation writes not with a pen,                                  but with an erasure."