"There is no point in being overwhelmed..."

 this is a bird that has a beak which has grown much too large but has managed to survive anyhow

went to mexico to have a tooth pulled last friday... they asked me if i wanted to save it...hell no pull it out..out it came with no problems...as long a my mouth was numb i had them clean the teeth also...they charge was $40 for the extraction and $30 for the cleaning...well done "...i reached into my wallet and found three twenties and a ten...it feels so good feeling good again..." (thanks robert!)

"There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human suffering; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable." Jorge Luis Borges

"FOR WHAT ARE THE TRIUMPHS OF WAR..."

      my raven buddies visit most days

just had my blog deleted by the mafias in the library...will try again

my comments had to do with the irony of the outrage at the dirty dealings of the russian military with their indesciminant bombings...the u s a bombed cambodia and laos as well as vietnam in the 1960's the allied forces bombed dresden germany for no apparent reason and destroyed a beautiful city...the russians have suffered for centuries at the hands of their government and are suffering now...the russian culture has produced some of the best literature and music ever...the russians are not to blame...the russian leadership is to blame...the difference between the u s a and russia is that there were hundreds of thousands of american citizens in the street protesting the war in vietnam...in russia they are being jailed...it is a time in the history of the human species that it must be recognized that the wars are going to result in the inevitable deaths of millions due to extreme climatic conditions. those responsible for the wars must be eliminated from the decision making process by whatever means needed..you might wonder what course of action mr putin is following...NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527) a man who wrote "The Prince" about how to rule and win...basically he said that one must learn how not to be good...he said the republic must be aggressive and expansionist...he also said that soldiers who are fighting for their homeland and not for profit are more reliable and fearsome...in short anything goes to increase ones power and land size...so putins doing exactly the right thing...for the 13th century! in todays world there are other considerations...so we must consider whether we have evolved as a species and can we survive...I recommend a great lecture i downloaded from the internet called "Endless Forms Most Beautiful." about how evolution works... it is about 43 minutes long and was made by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and there is a part about the Rock Pocket Mouse which lives in the desert USA and evolved forms that were black when they were all sandy colored for millions of years...very good explanations...

also i would like to discuss some DVDs..."The Tudors" first season was very good...and "London Spy" with 5 episodes was a farce...the camera work was good (queer eyes for the queer guys) but the characters had the personalities of a damp towel...and not a nice big fluffy towel but a thin scratchy towel...these folks try to convince us that the MI6 is all knowing all powerful and omnivorous..they are not'..."Inception" with leonardo di caprio was real head breaker and good..."Boardwalk Empire"3rd season was outstanding...go Nucky! and "Broken Swords" was so bizarre as to need comment...this is a make-up artist dream come true...all dozen characters are hold up in a barn and are covered with dirt and blood and have strange weapons...the bows are like high school archery class bows and could not hurt a mouse...it is raining outside but it never occurs to them to stick their heads out and wash their face...but wait...they need a damp towel...so maybe the london spies can get work with them! 

" WHAT ARE THE TRIUMPHS OF WAR, PLANNED BY AMBITION, EXECUTED BY VIOLENCE, AND CONSUMMATED BY DEVASTATION? THE MEANS ARE THE SACRIFICE OF THE MANY, THE END, THE BLOATED AGGRANDIZEMENT OF THE FEW." Charles Caleb Colton

"I have not loved the world..."

                                   HOW WE WILL ALL END...probably coyote bones

so someone said that there are too many foxes in the desert...but the only animals that eat the foxes are the coyotes and they are able to be killed all day and night every day of the year...the only animals that eat the coyotes in the desert are the wolves and they have been killed relentlessly for thousand of years...so a balance must be found...i awoke this morning to hear the fox neighbor yelping around the truck...i lay there in " beggars tomb" and after a few minutes the fox trickster moved away...probably thanking me for the water i had left in the bowl...then the raven began to caw caw caw in the nearby tree...i dropped the tailgate (yes a new tailgate!) and there was the raven couple where they like to sit in the top of the small tree vocalizing...i crawled out of the tomb and put on my desert coveralls and moccasins and they said goodbye and flew away...nice to have neighbors who are concerned about you... i figured i would walk to the bathroom and look in the mirror and comb my hair..but i dont have a bathroom or a mirror and the hair aint much either...i crank up the stove and heat water for the tea and then heat up the sauce-pan to toast the English muffins...tea and a slice...ate the banana just minutes before it was too soft to eat...new reptile found in Madagascar a tiny chameleon...just big enough to perch on a fingertip..."Brookesia nana" is the scientific name...they found a male and a female...may be the smallest reptile in the world...   

"I have not loved the World, nor the World me;/ I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed/ To its odolatries a patient knee/ Nor coined my cheek to smiles-/nor cried aloud/ in worship of an echo."   Byron                                                                                           

                                      FIRST IMAGE EVER SENT VIA PHONE

News flash news flash new flash

POOTIN CLAIMS NEW TERRITORIES IN USA

at a special news conference held moments ago Mr. V. Pootin announced that Moscow, Idaho and St. Petersburg, Florida  actually belong to Russia! interview below...

Mr. Pootin as you know these cities have long been a part of the USA  "Well we also want Alaska back! We was robbed! and we see those torch light marches near the gulf coast and those are obviously fascist trouble makers!"  Mr. Pootin that is New Orleans and they are having Mardi Gras parades..."Heathen cults! they need to be eliminated from the wholesome people! The Borsch belt obviously is Russian in spirit and we will soon liberate them from the clutches of rampant capitalism!" Mr. Pootin anyone who is interested in moving to Russia is free to do so but we rather prefer to keep the United States united. "That democracy stuff is too slow! force and terror is whats needed to rule effectively! Interview over."

"Vory V Zakone"  
 

"A resolution to avoid an evil..."

                               

erratum...so to clarify the 4 wheeler comment...my experience has been that 98% of the people  that i see on 4 wheel vehicles are law abiding and conscientious...they do not litter and they enjoy the desert...i actually see more cars, trucks, vans and motor-homes driving on restricted land...usually because there are no signs to indicate that it is against the law...the sign people are remiss in their responsibilities...also i have realized that i have made a mistake in some of my activities to obtain game camera images...the food which i have put out has conditioned some of the animals to prefer digging in my possessions all night rather than digging out the kangaroo rats and other rodents which they usually feed on...i have made Frankenstein foxes from hell...not to mention that they poop on everything...in looking at the cottonwood water-trough game camera pictures i realize that all those animals drinking from a small water source have been subjected to hundreds of time as much exposure to deadly germs than they would usually be...imagine that you were with a hundred people and one small glass of water was passed around to for everyone to have a sip...i dont think so! anyhow i resolve to be more responsible to the animals welfare rather than to my desire to "get a good picture"...

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make  avoidance impossible." Thomas Hardy

                             psycho foxes from hell...woe is me!

"I am stunned..."

                                  here's looking at you kid...

i wonder what the odds are in Las Vegas on whether Putin will invade his neighbor                                   and even more interesting how many european nations will invest their "blood and treasure"                    to defend the invaded country...the smart money says Putin will bitch slap any country that                    tries to stop him from reassembling the old soviet union...its that testosterone poisoning combined          with his mid-life crisis and general lack of respect he is shown for being a tyrant...as far as  the                testosterone thing goes i heard about a research project that had young men do child care all day             and their testosterone dropped by more than 50%...who knew! that's the secret to avert the inevitable      demise of the planet due to inguinal aggression resulting in environmental disaster...too late!...damn!      now i hear there are  folks who follow me around to hack my cheap computer ($30)  and download           all my game camera images while i am charging the computer...well all of the game camera images    are going to be put online for anyone to access as soon as i figure out how to do it...there are several      thousand so this blog is probably not the place...I do not want to sell these images as I seek                      "To function primarily as a pointer rather than a seller." (stated purpose of "The Last Whole Earth"          catalogue)...it is in the best interest of all concerned to try to upgrade their grasp of the world by            reading and viewing more science and less blather..."I am stunned by how much data we have and how little of it we use. For me it's trying to build that bridge between data and information." Kristian Hammand computer scientist at Northwest University

 

"Those who think..."

                                     sign of the times....too bad for us all

big news in the news...for starters the republican leadership has declared that the sept.6th                               USA national capital...what was it? a riot? an armed insurrection? mostly a very poorly thought out forcefully implemented occupation of the seat of government...but the republican leadership has declared it a legitimate political protest...they seem to be lacking in higher cortical processes...to say the least...so in my travels through the desert i came across this sign which was undoubtedly ripped from the ground and destroyed by some anarchist 4 wheeler of which there is a large supply...the reason that riding across the desert just any ol' where is bad because it destroys wildlife habitat...and many a cactus has been destroyed by these these marauding poot heads...now in this part of the world there is what is called the "county supremacy movement" which adheres to the belief that the sheriffs are the highest legal authority in the land...and it was so back in the days of knights and castles in england...but not now...i see where the next supreme court nominee will be a Black woman...i was hoping it would be Whoope Goldberg...but she has gotten in a crufuffle of some sort...i just looked up her comment and one of the things that seldom gets mention about the nazi program to rid society of "impure" genetics is that people thought to be of jewish heritage were by far the largest number of victims of murder there were also jehovas witnesses, gypsies , Blacks and many others...but mostly jews...anyhow it is alarming that so much emphasis is placed on what may appear to some people to be an anti jewish remark (not anti semitic as there are non jewish semites) speaking of slavery i came across a book which may shed some light on the other slaves..."The other Slavery: The Uncovered story of Indian Enslavement in America" by andres resendez (2016)   in the world of natural history i just heard about an expedition to several asian countries which i think took place in 2020 and a new species of primate was discovered...a langur the Popa langur...on the not too good side of these expeditions i also read that the black plague originated from fleas found in the fur of a rodent from central asia called the tarbagns...we can only hope that people are careful about what gets transported around the world...last week my tangerines were inspected as i went through an agricultural checkpoint as in florida half of the citrus crop has been destroyed by a blight and they don't want it to end up in the western states...i just looked at an orange in wally world for 83 cents...whoa buddy!  i think a third political party may be needed in the USA as both parties seem to be overly strict in their doctrine..."Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes: they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state".    so says aristotle in "politics"

on another point someone mentioned that some of my blogs have been deleted...i haven't taken the time to look at all the blogs and I am not sure if i would notice if any were deleted..however in the event that any of the  characters in my stories are eliminated i would like to go on record as allowing anyone to reproduce my blogs on non-commercial sites...i do not think that Mr. Teatsqueezer and his friends and family will go extinct as they have too many friends who liked them...regards michael