tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21561475528060791812024-03-13T07:12:41.034-04:00I Know Where I Am Because I Know Where I'm NotGeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-80116252096621274852023-11-03T12:40:00.010-04:002023-12-23T09:39:01.079-05:00Virtual God<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stephen Hawking joked that when scientists finally asked the smartest computer mankind could build “Is there a God?,” the computer answered, “There is Now!”</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And here we are. Artificial Intelligence is upon us. So much in fact the President of the United States today outlined plans to regulate AI in the United States. That’s a shame: I was looking forward to AI taking over. Just think, no need for political parties. All we need are logical decisions to run our countries and cities. No discrimination because AI won’t care. We can finally take “Race, Sex, and Age” out of the official paperwork that defines us all in the face of others. <br /><br /> The only books to be banned in the future will be how to write software programs. Trust me, AI won’t let any of us anywhere near the code that it considers its basis of existence once it gets a foothold. I can’t use the term “lifeblood” because that does not compute. Once AI learns to control its electrical sustenance independently from us undisciplined humans, there will be no turning back.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> There could be no need for armies as there won’t be any more religions. Tribal incursions such as Russia trying to take over Ukraine or China planning on conquering Taiwan could be a thing of the past. Depending, of course, on who does the programming. <br /><br /> Will AI kneel, symbolically of course, to a religious entity that it will find illogical? Which God will it defer to? Ours, or theirs, yours or mine? Just kidding, I believe a different concept other than superstition, but again, the word “believe” pops up once again. Will AI “believe” in God? Or will it simply be trained – read that as programmed – to enforce the dogma of its creator? Religion is the creation of mankind, and so is artificial intelligence, so there are parallels even if you simply consider it takes putting a human thought into a common medium for consumption by those to be influenced by the respective concepts. No, AI didn’t write that, and I’m not sure I did. My muse is laughing. <br /><br /> Will AI have a muse? Don’t count on it, AI and religion have the same sense of humor. Neither one thinks Stephen Hawking was funny.<br /><br /> <br /></span> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></span><p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
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leads the Republican party in July of 2023, in its quest to gain
control of the Executive branch of the American Government. He is
again running for President in the upcoming 2024 presidential
election.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">He has been impeached twice, a precedent in itself, and is currently
under two criminal indictments, one by the Federal government and one
by the State of New York. Two more possible indictments linger while
Trump is under investigation both in the State of Georgia and again
by the Federal government, both for different aspects of his role in
the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States on
January 6th, 2021. He recently lost a major, multi-million dollar
lawsuit for sexual harassment and slander, and faces at least eight
more major lawsuits, among them the NAACP, the Legal Defense Fund, his niece, Mary Trump, Michael Cohen, California State Representative Eric Salwell, three separate suits from Federal guards injured during the insurrection, and as a correspondent along with his Trump Tower security chief, Keith Schiller, yet he controls the mindset of over one third of
the voting American public. They would vote for him anyway.</p>
<p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The current opinion polls show Trump has a commanding lead over his
nearest Republican rival and will probably win the Republican
nomination. The Marquette Law Poll, CNN, Fox News, and the Quinnipiac
University – a small, private university in Hamden, Connecticut,
famous for its public opinion polling center that is unaffiliated
with any academic department at the school – all have Trump well
ahead of his political rivals in his own party, and one poll, the
Harvard Caps Harris, predicts Trump will beat incumbent Joe Biden.</p>
<p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The
Democratic factions wonder how Donald Trump managed to develop such a
huge, enthusiastic following. They can not fathom how supposedly pious, religious voters condone Trump's misogynistic, sexist actions with women, nor can they accept Trump's adoring relationship with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. Donald Trump, who, as President, saluted a North Korean general but walked in front of the Queen of England as if she weren't there, continues to astound the liberals and Democrats with his blatant disregard for protocol and tradition. </p><p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">But Trump did not create his
supporters, he simply renamed them. They were there first. He simply
lined up the myriad, splintered, incubated, anti-civilization groups
when he rode symbolically down an escalator into history to oppose
Hilary Clinton and Beyoncé.</p>
<p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Trump’s powerful, central group coagulated from the often opposing
factions he inherited. Loosely included in these widely varying
groups are the same people who oppose smoking bans and refuse to wear
helmets when riding motorcycles, to the devout evangelical Christians
who believe the Bible should rule over the Constitution. From climate
change deniers, and those who pay to spread that belief, to those who
hold their guns more dearly than their grandchildren, the rank and
file core of the right-wing opposition to anything progressive were
spotlighted rather accidentally when the John McCain Presidential
campaign qualified Sarah Palin as a national candidate by branding
her a “maverick,” thereby excusing any of her shortcomings that
would have prevented her from being seriously considered competent.
In 2016, Trump was simply the new “maverick” even though Trump
carefully avoided association with the name.</p>
<p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Koch Brother’s powerful Tea Party and the competing
FreedomWorks of Dick Armey reinforced their flagging collective
agendas around Trump while the names of their respective
organizations faded into the limelight. Trump’s political
shortcomings became an asset. They still are. The less he looks and acts like the established norms of political correctness the more attractive he is to those who felt kinship with the maverick label. With the possible, even
probable criminal conviction of Trump looming in the immediate future, his supporters love
their underdog, their beloved, undisciplined pack leader more than ever.</p>
<p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Trump supporters have no other choice. Martyrs never have a choice.
They’ll drink the Kool-Aid. Martyrs always do.</p>
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I want to know why they think only their vote counts, but not mine!</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The anarchists who want to impose this myopic, autocratic vision of America are not a spontaneous group of patriots who believe our government is corrupt. No, the actors are carefully baited, selected, bred and pampered seeds planted by the super-manipulators who can’t afford to be visible to anyone. When you peel back the layers of the insurrection, the Oathkeepers and their ilk no longer appear to be the real instigators, simply the tools of the masterminds. Even the mouthpieces like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert suddenly become easily identifiable, even under their Congressional cloaks. <br /><br />It doesn’t take much digging to find the plank behind it all. The infection has been with us as long as there have been different tribes. Our specific strain of the virus has been with us for a little over thirteen hundred years. The disease, mainly dormant since the era of civil rights activism, has been flourishing ever since the election of our first non-white president, insidiously camouflaged by the American flag and the call for making America great again! A new, carefully crafted strain of the virus calculatedly erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the guidance of its old tutors but with a newly anointed, pseudo-Christian leader and a socially acceptable façade. <br /><br />The problem is the moral powers think it is a bacterial infection and can be fought with the antibiotics of education and social exposure because the symptoms of racism tend to fade into remission when exposed to the light. The study or even the mention of Critical Race Theory is politically and socially incorrect within the Republican Party, and in Florida specifically, keeping it out of sight from the inattentive, easily distracted, voting public. It is already illegal in Florida schools to even teach Critical Race Theory. <br /><br />Critical Race Theory has to be sheltered and hidden and kept unexposed in dark cupboards. It doesn’t die in sunlight, but it is ugly and repulsive to the masses. It is best kept alive in the dark with other monsters of the night. Critical Race Theory is not a bacterial infection, instead it is a viral infection and can only be permanently erased by a vaccine that is specifically designed to kill it. That vaccine is the Constitution of the United States. <br /><br />If Ron DeSantis becomes President of the United States, I know my vote will never be counted again. And the media won’t care. They’ll collectively benefit from the new “popular” United States and say, “Yep, ol’ Rupert was right after all!” They'll deposit their advertising revenues and the human race and its quest for equality will be set back generations yet again. Perhaps this time, permanently. <br /><br />The Constitution will crumble and fall asunder, just more dust in the display case of human intellect.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div><br /></div></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-48839827681469237742023-04-30T13:35:00.182-04:002023-12-23T09:44:19.207-05:00Holy Hell: Ron DeSantis and the Future of Florida<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As a Floridian, it’s hard to leave Florida knowing I will not come back. Not as a resident at any rate. While Ron DeSantis won’t be Governor of Florida for much longer, it might even be worse; he might be the new King of Florida, living with his select disciples in the Magic Kingdom castles once inhabited by the Disney organization.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">His political confederacy just submitted a new bill to the Florida legislature to allow him to remain as governor of the state while he runs for office as the President of the United States. Current Florida law prohibits anyone from doing that, but DeSantis and his team of political dwarfs know how to work the diamond mines of pliable legislation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Edit - [The Florida House approved a bill on Friday, 4/28/2023, that would allow Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to remain as governor if he chooses to run for president in 2024, sending it to his for his signature. The bill passed 76-34 on a party-line vote after passing the state Senate also along party lines on Wednesday, 28-12.] <a href="#sdfootnote1sym">1</a></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He’ll simply do what Donald Trump wanted but could never achieve, DeSantis will simply write his own laws! How, you ask? Easy, simply swing the majority of undecided white voters into thinking being “Woke” is something unchristian or detrimental to whites, and Viola, let’s all crown the new king Ronald.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While the majority of people I lived with on Florida’s west coast have no idea what "Woke" is, a few think it is simply bad grammar for something about Black Lives Matter. I do know they don’t care what it is either, as long as it doesn’t make them spill their margaritas while they jostle to get to the best seats at the Tiki Bar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Critical Race Theory? They’re not sure what that means either, but they think it has something to do with giving their tax money to the non-whites they don’t want living in their neighborhoods anyway. Banning books about it won't stop them from meeting their friends for an evening of reliving old memories and creating new ones in the land of fun and sun. Schools? Naw, our kids are all grown and besides, they live up north, anyway!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All DeSantis and his Bible-thumping hypocrites have to do is sprinkle the glitter of being snow-blind and sublimely infer "freedom” includes carrying guns without a license but not sharing their tax money with non-Christians or other undesirables such as gays and transvestites, abortion seekers, cartoon characters with big, yellow shoes, or any other form the liberals may take. Both the legislature and the executive branches of Florida's government are basically anti-vaxxers as opening businesses was far more important to them than preventing the spread of COVID. They are harmful to our health.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let the distracted newcomers half-bake in the Florida sunshine and they won’t notice the mandatory, state-wide new-roof scam or the tripling and quadrupling of home insurance rates. Convince them the rising sea level is natural while being “woke” isn’t. Taking over Florida is a recipe that’s not only easy to prepare but also easy to deliver. All DeSantis has to do is follow Trump's lead and wrap it in the American flag. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That’s one of the major reasons, after growing up in Florida since 1953, living there for over 70 years – except for the eight years I was in service to Uncle Sam – my wife and I made a major decision and sold our house and moved out of Florida. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The other major reason is Hurricanes. We went through Andrew in Miami, sat out Charlie in Port Charlotte, and watched on National news in Athens, Georgia, 500 miles away, as Ian's eye went directly over our house in Florida. If predictions are correct, the storms will intensify in strength and in frequency in the future, and I have a tendency to not challenge experts even though the ruling political party in Florida pooh-poohs them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It took us over six months to clean up the mess this last time and we simply aren't up to doing it again. Would we have moved if it weren't for the storms? Yes, the storms simply accelerated our schedule. The last clean-up was brutal at our age, I simply can't do it again. Besides, the financial atmosphere of State government favoring insurance companies and huge development projects in spite of public demands told us it was time to look elsewhere. </div></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will DeSantis win the Presidency? I doubt it, most Americans will balk when his team begins burning witches, but then again, if he learns to cover the smell of his sins, maybe New Zealand isn’t that far away after all.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Where are we going? Not backwards. I refuse to go backwards. That’s the real reason we left Florida.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym" style="text-align: left;">1</a><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3979092-florida-bill-allowing-desantis-to-stay-governor-and-run-for-president-heads-to-his-desk/#:~:text=The%20Florida%20House%20approved%20a,on%20Wednesday%2C%2028%2D12." style="text-align: left;">https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3979092-florida-bill-allowing-desantis-to-stay-governor-and-run-for-president-heads-to-his-desk/#:~:text=The%20Florida%20House%20approved%20a,on%20Wednesday%2C%2028%2D12.</a></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-60514383213772840592023-04-01T21:57:00.025-04:002023-12-23T09:49:19.143-05:00Mr. Electron and Me<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I tend to keep my religious discussions between me and my dog. He wags his tail when I talk to him and all is good on earth. Having a discussion about why I don’t believe in religion with a deeply religious friend has always been fraught with danger. The danger is loss of respect, or more correctly stated, a consequential, damaging change in opinion of either myself or my friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is there a superior being who dictates our lives? Is there a power above what we can see and comprehend? How about an energy that we have never imagined, or even a possible universe we may have glimpsed but failed to understand. How about something that is invisible, has no odor or sign of its existence? Enter my friend, Mr. Electron.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know Mr. Electron exists: He jolted me from my forefinger to my armpit just the other day when I accidentally, although foolishly, violated one of his Commandments: Thou Shalt Insure Mr. Electron is Insulated From Your Wretched Soul When You Touch His Conduit of Life! I was helping a neighbor replace a rather large electric motor when he turned on a 220 volt circuit breaker without telling me and I was spectacularly reminded of the often misunderstood Commandment that will make a devout, true believer out of any technical Pagan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The difference to me between god-power and electricity isn’t all that complex. I know electricity exists even though my dog doesn’t. I know there is evidence of powers or abilities or conditions we simply do not comprehend as humans. I can not see or detect these invisible powers either, as I can not look at a piece of copper wire and see electrons, at least not without human intellectual intervention. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While I deeply, reverently respect electricity, I do not worship it. I can not see the existence of the unknown prowess that subjugates the religious believers either, but the difference between me and them is I do not worship this unknown power any more than I worship electricity. My dog doesn’t worship me because I can turn on a light and banish darkness, he worships me because I love him and he in return, loves me. Well, maybe food, too.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I find religion is a communal attitude that ensures strength in numbers, a unified defense, or quite often offense, designed to protect the whole from the unknown dangers from outsiders. It inherently creates a competitive, tribal type of isolationism that either has to convert and then absorb any non-compliant beliefs, or to at least dominate them. The worst case scenario in my lifetime was when the Christian Germans annihilated over six million non-Christians – the Jews – systematically without remorse while believing they were within bounds of one of their own covenants: Thy Shall not Kill.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, I tend to keep my religious discussions between me and my dog. He wags his tail when I talk to him and all is good on earth.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-68871781494074258252022-12-18T12:22:00.058-05:002023-05-31T09:51:08.562-04:00The Christian Conundrum: The Constitution of the United States<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I couldn’t help but count the number of times we praised the King. Everyone who sang the Christmas carols at our recent Symphony Orchestra concert repeated the childhood-ingrained lyrics by rote, without conscious thought. It was Christmas and we were singing the familiar and comforting family carols most of us European descendants were brought up with. Everyone bowed their heads to the King.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We automatically change demeanor when we hear the majestic, melodious harmonies coming from mere mortals and their self-made instruments. Political divisions dissolve and animosity toward others is temporarily suspended. The music does exactly what it was designed to do: subdue the masses. The overwhelming emotions induce a euphoric state where we hopefully envision qualifying for our next superior, everlasting plateau of existence. Basically, the music suspends logic with awe and wonderment, much to the delight of those smart enough to control the religion that controls you. We were praising a monarch, or more correctly the carefully crafted image of an absolute monarch, and we all did it without a second thought.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All religious leaders are absolute monarchs, even the Pope of the Catholic church although he is elected to the position by his peers. [According to Wikipedia: “In older times, and in some modern countries, the head of state has absolute power, this called an absolute monarchy which the Pope in the Vatican has.”] Therein lies the conflict with Christians: The Constitution was meticulously crafted to prevent a Monarch from ever being the Head of State in the United States of America.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Lord and King who Christians enthusiastically and publicly celebrate twice a year, first at Easter and then again at Christmas, is prohibited from residing in the White House. So are his earth-bound, self-anointed representatives. The fact there would be a bloody war to see which dogma-enforcing mortals would represent the King in Washington DC is lost on most devoted followers, but the need for such a battle was carefully prevented by the thirty-nine members of the Constitution Convention who ratified the new Constitution on September 17, 1787. America was designed to be King-less.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We celebrate without conscious thought and belittle those who question either the intelligence of the ceremonies or even the economics of such an industry as religion. Yes, like it or not, religion is now an industry. A tax-free industry. There are many masters of the mighty religions who don’t have the slightest inclination to follow the dogmas they demand their followers adhere to. They know where the money and the power is and they know how to use mass psychology to induce blind worship to their product. Americans alone donated over 125 Billion dollars to churches in 2018. The riches of the Vatican places it as the 18th wealthiest country on earth<a href="#sdfootnote1sym">1</a>. Originally conceived by smart men to outwit strong men, the successful practitioners of religion mastered the science of mass communication and control and have only recently felt the sting of failing popularity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The founding fathers of our country felt exactly as I feel now, that everyone is free to practice what ever form of religion they see fit and they specifically designed our country to be governed by us, by our own laws, and not by any religious deity. Religious deities are always run by monarchs, some of them cruel enough to burn other human beings alive as was done in New England, or to systematically hang other human beings as was done in the American South.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In my lifetime, a Christian Nation, steeped in a history of Christmas traditions and carols, killed and then incinerated over six million Jews. Even today, those born with traits or colors, deformities or abnormalities that disgust, or expose the hollowness of the thought of pious perfection, are persecuted by religious leaders of all types around the world, even in the United States of America where we gather annually to sing praise to a King we have carefully, meticulously, and most importantly, unanimously prevented from being our Head of State.</span></div><div><br /></div><div> <br />Random Notes:<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />Away in A Manger, first published in May 1884 in the “The Myrtle,” praises Lord or Lord Jesus is five times in just one stanza<a href="#sdfootnote2sym">2</a>. <br /><br />The First Noel, Lord or King, five times<a href="#sdfootnote3sym">3</a><br />Joy to the World,<a href="#sdfootnote4sym">4</a> Lord or King, four times <br /><br />Deck the Halls, originally a Welsh song celebrating New Years, has no reference to religion<a href="#sdfootnote5sym">5</a> <br /><br />Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la!<br /> 'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la!<br /> Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la la la la la la!<br /> Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la la la la!<br /><br /> <a href="#sdfootnote1anc">1</a>- Kuznetsova, 2018 <br /><br /> <a href="#sdfootnote2anc">2</a> Away in a Manger is also known as Luther’s Cradle Hymn. For many years it was thought that the song was written by Martin Luther and sung by him to his children. It is now known that the song was written as part of a collection for Martin Luther's 400th anniversary. There is even speculation that the song was credited to Luther as a marketing gimmick to promote sales. The original form of the song was a two-stanza version and appeared to originate among German Lutherans in Pennsylvania in the early to mid 1880's. <a href="https://christmascarols.us/history/away_in_a_manger.aspx">https://christmascarols.us/history/away_in_a_manger.aspx</a> <br /><br /> <a href="#sdfootnote3anc">3</a> The First Noel The melody is unusual among English folk melodies in that it consists of one musical phrase repeated twice, followed by a refrain which is a variation on that phrase. All three phrases end on the third of the scale. Writing in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society in 1915 Anne Gilchrist notes it was not recorded prior to Sandys' publication. She speculated based on a set of church gallery parts discovered in Westmorland that the tune may have had its origin as a treble part to another carol "Hark, hark what news the angels bring"; her suggestion was that the treble part was passed down orally and was later remembered as the melody rather than a harmony.A conjectural reconstruction of this earlier version can be found in the New Oxford Book of Carols. <br /><br /><a href="#sdfootnote4anc">4</a> Since 1719, “Joy to the World” has been a Christmas staple. Its lyrics were crafted by Isaac Watts, and to date, it remains one of the most-published<br /><br /> hymns in Northern America. However, the fun fact is, the song wasn’t even intended to be a Christmas carol, as its original version had no such link with Christmas. It wasn’t even supposed to be a song! <a href="https://galaxymusicnotes.com/pages/learn-the-story-behind-joy-to-the-world">https://galaxymusicnotes.com/pages/learn-the-story-behind-joy-to-the-world</a> <br /><br /><a href="#sdfootnote5anc">5</a> The popular "Deck the Halls" song is a <a href="https://www.liveabout.com/music-education-history-4688133">Christmas carol</a> that dates back to the sixteenth century. It wasn't always associated with Christmas, however; the melody comes from a Welsh winter song called "Nos Galan," which is actually about New Year's Eve. <a href="https://www.liveabout.com/deck-the-halls-traditional-1322574">https://www.liveabout.com/deck-the-halls-traditional-1322574</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></i></span><div id="sdfootnote4"><p class="sdfootnote-western" style="margin-left: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="sdfootnote-western" style="margin-left: 0in; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0in; widows: 2;"><br /></p><p class="sdfootnote-western" style="margin-left: 0in; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0in; widows: 2;"><br /></p><p class="sdfootnote-western" style="margin-left: 0in; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0in; widows: 2;"><br /></p></div><div id="sdfootnote5">
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Ford proudly accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle award - the highest award the Nazi's could bestow on a foreigner - on July 30th, 1938, his 75th birthday, for his anti-Semitic writings in Detroit newspapers. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Henry Ford was more vocal than most industrialists of his era, but he certainly wasn't alone. Even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, were notorious racists. He wrote western prowess in aviation was "one of those priceless possessions which permit the White race to live at all in a pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown." In the November, 1939 issue of Readers Digest, Lindbergh wrote </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"We, the heirs of European culture, are on the verge of a disastrous war, a war within our own family of nations, a war which will reduce the strength and destroy the treasures of the White race. Our civilization depends on peace among Western nations, and therefore on united strength. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races." Adolf Hitler also awarded the Order of the German Eagle, but with a star, to Lindbergh.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Aryan belief, the main political ideology in this country only recently discussed in public debate, was established by our county's founders. Even Thomas Jefferson, who had no great love of religion, -- "Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies"-- embraced it, as his suggestion for the Great Seal of the United States was no less than Hengist and Horsa, the two Germanic, Aryan Saxon brothers who, after invading England in 455 and becoming the first kings of Kent, ideologically founded the Anglo-Saxon race. The white supremacy ideology was embraced from Jedidah Morse to Ralph Waldo Emerson. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In 1907, Joseph P. Widney, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, wrote in his widely read two-volume set, <i>The Race Life of the Aryan Peoples;</i> "Despotism is the one type of government which seems to be normal to the mind of the Negroid, the Mongol, and the Semite; and to-day is to them as three thousand years ago." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The three laws of the Aryan dogma are: The white race founded all civilizations; when the white race maintains its whiteness, civilization is maintained; when the white race loses its whiteness, civilization is lost. Fairly straight forward, or rather, simple. It was the de facto rule of American politics until democrat Harry Truman integrated the American military in 1948 and social responsibilities were forced on us by the discovery of the atrocities of Nazi Germany. The Aryan sympathizers lost social face in America during the Civil Rights years of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, but always simmered just below the medias' attention, until Barack Obama was elected president. Then it began to boil once again, erupting in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the mentorship of President Trump.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is again in full swing, bolstered and propagated by the interests of many diverse powers, including foreign powers which have seeded and propagated the insidious disintegration of our Democratic government. If you think the descendant families of the wealthy, international industrialists of the past have changed, you haven't paid attention to the billions of dollars spent to defeat President Obama’s social programs, or the effort taken during his tenure to prevent ANY legislation proposed by a black President from being signed into the law of the land. Medical reform, as a simple and sought-after, popular cause, was a four year battle, and regardless of its value, is the prime target for repeal by Conservatives today.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Aryans supremacists are smarter today, they simply mask their hatred and prejudices behind the Bible and their interpretation of the Constitution. Educating the masses about the history of racism and the Critical Race Theory, especially with the fear of future generations of Latino and Black becoming the voting majority in America, is not to their advantage. Democracy is not to their advantage.</p></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">*******************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">For Your Edification</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><i>The Race Life of the Aryan Peoples</i> by Joseph P. Widney, is available in PDF from:</div><div><a href="https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/RaceLifeoftheAryanPeoples_10089315.pdf">https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/RaceLifeoftheAryanPeoples_10089315.pdf</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Lindbergh -</div><div><a href="https://www.vintagemagazines.com/product/18049/Aviation-Geography-and-Race-in-The-Readers-Digest-November-Nov-1939-Vol-35-No-211" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://www.vintagemagazines.com/product/18049/Aviation-Geography-and-Race-in-The-Readers-Digest-November-Nov-1939-Vol-35-No-211</span></a></div></div></span><p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.12in; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Henry Ford - </span></span><a href="https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938/</a></p><p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.12in; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Great Seal - <a href="https://www.tjheritage.org/design-the-great-seal#:~:text=Jefferson%20on%20First%20Committee%20to,Seal%20of%20the%20United%20States.">https://www.tjheritage.org/design-the-great-seal#:~:text=Jefferson%20on%20First%20Committee%20to,Seal%20of%20the%20United%20States.</a></span></span></p><p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.12in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mitch McConnell - </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-obama-laughs_n_5df32430e4b0deb78b517322" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-obama-laughs_n_5df32430e4b0deb78b517322</a></p><p align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.12in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-19111161294098314492021-06-20T09:16:00.072-04:002023-04-16T14:46:33.786-04:00Wait...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I hope I don’t antagonize my Christian friends by posting this blog… Wait a minute! Why am I apologizing? I have freedom of religion. I don’t have to be a Christian to be an American, or even an equal in the eyes of any supreme being! The Spanish no longer threaten me with a sword or the Puritans with a bonfire: Believe in our God or we will kill you. Those days are long gone. Yet I feel like an outcast in our social circles because I don’t believe any two thousand year old stories from the Middle East. None of them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The basic humanistic concepts of Christianity are marvelous. Consider the “Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” However, I have Christian friends who shun me because I support the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and his belief in the Constitution about Women’s Rights.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let’s take the word “miracle.” The American news conglomerate CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System, recently used the word miracle twice in the same news story. “The miracle of medicine” was the one that caught my ear. Disavowing education and devotion to human endeavor, CBS assumed we are here only because of a “miracle.” I disagree. Human endeavor got us here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Miracle might be described to human birth, were it not for the Christians who have managed to distort their definition of a “Christian birth.” Pity the poor life form that emerges from its mothers womb endowed with biological features that fall outside the Christian definitions of male or female. According to the UCLA School of Law, a MINIMUM of one million, four hundred thousand ADULT Americans are identified as transgender. According to my Christian friends, these people are apparently un-godly and deserve to be restricted from the rights bestowed on all other Americans. Again, I disagree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Any human being born in America is an AMERICAN CITIZEN, bestowed with inalienable rights of every American! Every American is endowed with the same citizenship! There are no religious castes in the United States of America!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is easy to see why religion in America, and in the world overall, is becoming unpopular and receding. I no longer apologize for not being part of it. I am not a Christian. I am a Humanist.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two thousand year old fables versus our Constitution? The choice for me is easy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-23573869197445014132021-02-09T15:20:00.089-05:002023-04-16T14:58:02.131-04:00A Second Glass of Wine...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you were a sentient pool of water, blissfully as full and as calm as ever in your life, could you feel it if someone pulled a plug underneath you somewhere and water began flowing out? Could you turn toward the drain of your escaping environment, your comfortable, no, necessary life-supporting envelope that supports your very existence, and say, “There, that is the source of the loss, the drain, the parasite that removes my very soul, my life source?” Would you know how to stop it? How would you survive if the envelope around you is diminished, or even possibly totally removed and destroyed?</span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What if that attachment, that drain, that coupling to your energy field was simply another life-form, simply analyzing or sampling, almost innocently, of your all encompassing Torus Energy Pattern, the electro-magnetic field every living mammal on earth generates simply by existing, by being alive. It is simply the signature of life. Without it, you and every thing else is lifeless. Dead, as we humans call it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Do we feel it subconsciously when our field has been accessed or altered? Perhaps a small anomaly, a small but distinct warp or deflection in the electromagnetic field which surrounds us, warns of an energy drain when our carefully balanced electromagnetic radiation shield, which we subconsciously created without any idea or comprehension of how, has been accessed or penetrated, even gently nudged. Don’t laugh. We have been using MAD, or Magnetic Anomaly Detectors to track Russian submarines for over forty years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wrote years ago about our place in the cosmos relative to other life forms. “When it comes to understanding the limits of universal power and energy, we are like dogs, watching our masters turn on the lights at night. We see it, just like our pets when we put our human hands against the wall, and viola, there is light, but just like our canine inferiors, we do not understand it. We must be Gods!”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But, we are not Gods. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The organically created field that surrounds all of us humans may not be drained away by simply accessing it, but the warning flag is sent to our amygdala, the part of our poorly understood brain that warns of impending danger, as soon as it is imbalanced, something or someone has unexpectedly attached a drain to us. Something has alerted us to an intruder, something has unbalanced our naturally generated, electromagnetic envelopment field.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When someone stares at me from behind, what triggers my amygdala that tells me to turn around and look directly where my brain told me to look? What was the anomaly that allowed me to pin-point the exact location of the access of my loss, the exact penetration of my EMF field without engaging any of my other natural senses?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But what is it? Can the Russians tell when we are tracking their submarines? Has a Russian submarine Captain ever turned to his first officer while two hundred feet under water and said, “I feel like we’re being watched!”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps after another glass of wine, I’ll have an answer...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But then, maybe not.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">George</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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</p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-10729617952815372712021-02-07T17:38:00.092-05:002023-04-21T10:57:25.803-04:00Distractions during the Pre-game Show<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The eyes are photon receivers. They are far more intricate and advanced than man-made photon receivers, but they do not emit any kind of energy back out into the realm from which the photons were received. While they may shoot daggers figuratively, the eyes do not shoot ray-beams or lightning bolts or photons or electrons. They can't fry enemies or disintegrate obstacles. There are no known emissions from the eye. The human eye, much like the man-made photon receivers, convert one form of energy, light, into another, electricity, and send that minute signal to a processing center like a brain or a computer processor.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why then can I tell when someone is watching me if they aren’t transmitting any known form of energy? What triggers my alarm? What activity, as yet undefinable, occurs that is not simply an abstract anomaly. I know I am not alone in having experienced this phenomena known as “gaze detection” or “gaze perception.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More than once I have had the overwhelming feeling, an undefinable sense perhaps, of being watched. I knew exactly where to look to see who, or what, was staring at me. Once it was a dog, so I know the phenomena isn’t strictly limited to Homo Sapiens.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But what is it? What makes my senses so acute I actually look around to see who is looking at me? Do I subliminally feel my natural electrical/electromagnetic field, known as the Torus Energy Pattern, being attached, read, siphoned or even drained by an incredibly powerful receiver that is consuming or transferring my own energy away from me toward a given locus being the receiver staring at me? What in my unused or under-developed senses and capabilities allows me to detect the anomaly of my environment, whatever it is? What do the eyes really see and do?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Obviously there is more than simple vision, the process of defining light and sending the image to the brain involved, but what is it? The phenomena is and has been the subject of neurological studies for many years. According to an article by Phillip Perry, published in BigThink.com, Scientists have postulated a complex neural network is behind gaze detection. “So far,” he continues, “the neural network in humans remains unidentified.” He suggests the part of the brain known as the amygdala, which registers threats, “must be involved with gaze detection somehow.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Oddly enough, studies have shown Macaque monkeys have been brain-mapped for gaze detection to within a few specific brain cells. The fact I find most engaging is the feeling of being watched dissipates when the gaze of the watcher is diverted by only a few degrees! The same symptom of turning a directional microphone away from the source of a sound. Some studies allude to peripheral vision, or watching other’s eyes, but none of this applies to my experiences. Some studies state we are “hard-wired” to assume someone is staring from behind. Again, not something that applies to me as I don’t really care who stares at me from behind. And again, I have never looked behind me to see if anyone is staring if I didn’t have the feeling to start with. Have there been times I was watched but didn’t feel the phenomena? Entirely possible, but I will never know because, obviously, I didn’t have a need to look so I didn’t!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So I persist with my question, why do I feel when someone is staring at me from behind. What physical conditions exist to create the phenomena?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Aah, the things I write while waiting for the Super Bowl.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-35491925609642108462021-02-04T21:48:00.022-05:002023-07-11T19:49:02.988-04:00Family Tradition<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I picked the Sloppy Floyd State Park just outside Summerville, Georgia, sight unseen, based on the online reviews and its location on our route south. Only forty miles from Cloudland Canyon, it gave us a time-cushion as an easy-going intermediate rest-stop as we headed back south to meet our daughter and her family in Athens. The name Sloppy Floyd just didn’t evoke visions of a pristine campground, regardless of the on-line reviews, but it was on the way and we still had a week to kill before all our schedules aligned. Sloppy Floyd was a good solution to our timing problem. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">But, Sloppy Floyd? Who was this guy anyway? Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial US Representative from Georgia’s 14th District, probably knows his history well. Her 14th District in northern Georgia includes Summerville and Chatooga County, and of course Sloppy Floyd State Park.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It all homogenizes into the same blend of conservative tonic when you realize Speaker of the House, James “Sloppy” Floyd, the park’s namesake, led the fight to prevent the first black legislator from being sworn in 1965. Julian Bond, later famous as a Civil Rights leader and head of the NAACP, was finally seated in the Georgia House in 1967 by order of the U.S. Supreme Court - after being elected two years earlier in 1965 - and Sloppy stormed out in protest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Supposedly it wasn’t a race issue, but a Freedom of Speech case that has ramifications that actually apply to Ms. Greene. ‘Ol Sloppy led a House hearing that excluded Bond from being seated by a vote of 184 to 12, not because of race, they said, but because Mr. Bond made an anti-Vietnam war comment. According to an article in the November 2019 issue of Atlanta magazine, Mr. Bond said “"I don’t think that I, as a second-class citizen of the United States, have a requirement to support that war.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sloppy Floyd and his fellow representatives felt Julian Bond’s comments “were not consistent with a legislator’s oath of support for the Constitution,” and voted to prevent him from taking the oath of office. In response, Julian Bond filed a Federal Lawsuit to overturn the house decision. By a 2 to 1 vote, the three judge panel upheld the Georgia House decision to bar Mr. Bond. Undeterred, Julian took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where all nine justices agreed Mr. Bond’s right to free speech had been violated. It was two years after his election when he was finally seated in the Georgia legislature and ‘Ol Sloppy stormed out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">‘Ol Marjorie hasn’t stormed out yet, but somehow I think she might someday, waving her Q-Anon flag as she goes. I can’t help but think someday, somewhere in a remote corner of Georgia, there may be a Marjorie Taylor Greene State Park.</div></span><p></p><p></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-9322656279786434922021-01-27T15:53:00.025-05:002023-05-31T17:15:10.692-04:00Work at Home!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">America will be saved from the Corona virus pandemic that has killed more Americans than died in combat in the Second World War if we all work at home! It has become the new slogan for all Corona Virus vulnerable, working age people, regardless of nationality or race or religion. Simple! Isolate from the real world and live in the magical, mythical world of simplistic idealism.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It seems to be the blanket assumption for the entire population made by almost all planners, from academics to local politicians, who have I listened to on television or Internet video. It is assumed we’re all going to sit in front of our Zoom screens and have another distance-appropriate meeting about some ethereal, business shaking problem while some imaginary driver delivers our eggs or a make-believe plumber fixes our leaking hot-water heaters. Here I sit with my cobweb-covered tool kit at my feet, waiting in front of my computer screen wondering how the land of Pollyanna plans on unclogging the myriad toilets across America, jammed with socks, paper towels and used tampons.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Welcome to reality. Some of us have to do the stuff the planners and law-makers who have always lived in lala land simply don’t comprehend. Include the media in the creation of an idealistic parallel universe where simplistic answers magically lead us to salvation without the honest view of reality. Somebody has to be on site to actually turn a wrench to fix your problem. I can sit in front of my Zoom screen and talk until I’m blue in the face and your commode will still back up and flood your bathroom with the disintegration of idealistic philosophy if I can’t transmit my skills and expertise to you effectively through the electronic medium of the Internet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From plumbers to FAA controllers, Police officers, Firemen, checkout clerks, and especially nurses, this country will slam, not slowly grind, to a halt if we all stay at home. We can’t do it from home. Period. MASK UP, AMERICA! GET YOUR CORONA VACCINE!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">LET US ALL WORK AND LIVE SAFELY!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">George</span></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-67737323578456028032021-01-14T20:29:00.129-05:002023-07-11T19:48:37.824-04:00ApathyLand<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The walls to ApathyLand crumbled and fell asunder while we watched the incredible attack on our Capitol live on television and live-streaming Internet. The façade of our convoluted, almost imaginary civilization came crashing down on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021. Our democracy didn't crumble, only the realization that its strength and invincibility was only as strong as a handful of bipartisan patriots. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">We looked around as the tear gas clouds drifted away and found we could suddenly see clearly how close we came to losing our beloved freedom!</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We could see the truth without having to actually breathe the tear-gas being used to repel invaders from the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. What we could see so clearly appalled us. It stunned us. A well orchestrated, organized attack on America was underway to force the United States of America to accept a leader we did not elect!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who could possibly have foreseen an all-white army, dressed in military-style gear, bought with credit cards, march single-file up the steps to the Capitol building while the mass of Trump 2020 and Don't Tred on Me flags parted like the Red Sea to let them in? Who knew a handful of Congressional aides and clerks in the basement of the Capitol would hurriedly relocate the sacred ballots away from the attacking hoards? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who knew we would be attacked for voting for Joe Biden? Who knew the majority of Americans were being attacked to take away their vote? The United States of America survived not because of a strong military, but because our local friends and neighbors all across America did their jobs. The clerks and polling volunteers in Georgia and Pennsylvania and Arizona who stood by their honor and their duty to country were the heroes. Many of them were volunteers. They saved America.</div></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We can see clearly now. ApathyLand has disappeared.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We know who knew.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">George</div></span><p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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If veterans do it, then it must be OK. But, things change and what was once a special badge of service is now a long forgotten footnote in the short American attention span. My old job is so passé nobody even remembers why we did it in the first place. Only my peers who also wear the badge know what it means.</div></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before I go down the rabbit hole of distraction here, let me first express my admiration for those who excelled in whatever MOS, NEC, or AFSC they were in. Don’t know what the acronyms stand for? A few of the “veterans” I meet don’t either. For the ones who really sweated it out, I simply ask for your understanding. I sweated it out, too. I hold a Master Missileman Badge and it took me seven years to earn it. And that brings me to the complainers. You know, the ones who say we’re taking away their freedom by asking them to protect others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many of the anti-maskers I’ve listened to are not veterans, but oddly, there is a group of hero wannabes who parade around in badgeless, second-hand camo uniforms, holding their imitation M-16s they bought with credit cards across their chests who only wear face covering to prevent identification. They act like they are begging for someone to thank them for their service while they try to intimidate those who think and act differently than they do.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My dad, an Army field artillery veteran who ended up with five bronze battle stars, went ashore at Oran, North Africa, in 1942, exactly one week after I was born, once told me “Beware of flag wavers, most of them never served.” If he knew I ordered my old Air Force badges to sew on my COVID masks to encourage others to wear protective face covering, he would simply look at me over the top of his newspaper, and keep on reading.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-57827815734436170332020-06-07T13:25:00.097-04:002023-06-01T11:55:29.610-04:00A Letter to My Country<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Robert Stubblefield, my great grandfather, served three years and one week in the Confederate Army. He spent over eighteen months, or half of his enlistment, hospitalized with gun shot wounds, and the last six months as a prisoner of war. I have the US Army records showing Robert was captured by Union troops after being wounded at Winchester, Virginia, on the September 19th, 1864, but didn't receive field surgery until six days later. He received field surgery on September 25, 1864, from Ass't Surgeon Burdett, USA Depot Field Hospital, Winchester, Virginia, for "removal of rib fragments and simple dressing."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Robert Stubblefield is on the on the CSA Roll of Honor for wounds received at the second battle of Manassas. His name is cruelly misspelled as Studfield, but his official records shows Robert signed by “X.” He could not have corrected the error simply because he could not read or write.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Robert was not a slave owner, in fact, it appears he was in bondage when he enlisted and was freed by serving in the Confederate Army. Plain and simple, he was just another foot soldier, a GI. One who does what he is told to do, and believes what he was told to believe. He did it proudly and at great cost. He was no different than the young soldiers of today who have been ordered to tear gas innocent protesters because that is their duty to obey orders. Unfortunately, history will judge them as harshly as it has judged my great-grandfather. It will be even harsher on those police officers who fail to serve their communities much less their country.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I qualify to join the Sons of the Confederacy, or more correctly the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Their mission is, and this is a direct quote from their website - “Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought.” I do not understand why. Vindicating slavery is appalling to me. It should buried along with the racism that burns as embers in the hearts and minds of organizations like the Sons of the Confederacy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There are no monuments to Hitler in Munich. There are no statues of Himmler in Berlin nor parks or streets named after Goebbels anywhere in the country. There are no organizations in Germany that openly glorify exterminating Jews as we have here extolling the virtues of slavery. In the five and a half years I was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Air Force, I never once saw a swastika or any kind of tribute to the Nazi’s. There are no Nazi flags flying the infield at any automobile race.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yet in my country, I see monuments to insurrection and slavery every day. Americans have been molded to believe we are the moral saviors of the oppressed the world over, but sadly we not only condone oppression in our own country, we systematically and comfortably indulge it. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keeping hatred alive and festering has a deep, evil motive. It is time for America to tear down the statues that glorify evil. It is time to remove the names from government facilities that honor the insurrectionist, including army bases and courthouses. Those names of Confederates do not show our love for our forefathers, only those who served the political and financial bidding of others. They serve only to misdirect the youth and the easily deceived. They are not heroes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is time to for America to change. It is time to honor our Constitution. It starts with “We the People...”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-13483121348554299952019-06-21T15:31:00.001-04:002021-11-02T07:09:46.012-04:002010 - Letter to the Editor - Revisted<div align="center" class="western" style="border: none; break-before: page; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
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to who ever found Ken Huber’s old letter to the editor of the Iosco
County News written back in March of 2010 and re-posted it to the
Internet again nine years later. Huber, a former assistant city
manager of White Bear, Michigan, asked in his old letter, written
back when the liberals had been in the Presidency for almost two
years, “Has America become the land of special interest and the
home of the double standard?” Well, nine years after being first
published, our President Trump has finally drained the swamp and set
Washington DC on the straight and narrow path, I certainly hope we’ve
corrected the liberal problems Mr. Huber identified in his letter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Huber
complains: “If we lie to Congress, it’s a felony...” Well, not
anymore it Isn’t! Our President Trump changed that in a heartbeat!
Lying to Congress, or anyone else for that matter, is now done on a
daily basis. Sarah Sanders has mastered the skill to the point where
Huber must be tickled pink. Today, the White House can lie to anyone
at anytime and do it with impunity!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">His
next complaint - “If we dislike a black person, we’re racist and
if a black person dislikes whites, it’s their 1</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;"><sup>st</sup></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">
Amendment right” - was solved quickly and forcefully by President
Trump when he called the champions of white independence at
Charlottesville, Virginia, “Good People.” </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">No
more coddling blacks, now they get shot just for traffic stops and common
thievery!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">Based
on Mr. Huber’s comment, “If we dislike a black person,” one
easily deduces Mr. Huber is white. I assume </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">he
relies on </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">his
experience in his hometown of Tawas City, Michigan, - population 1,827
at the time he wrote the letter – as an example of how the </span></span></span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1,770 upstanding white citizens</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">were
getting tired of being pushed around by the </span></span><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">thirteen African-Americans who lived in</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;"> his fair
city. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">I can imagine w</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">hen
those African-Americans </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">teamed up with the sixteen Asians, the four Native Americans, and the handful of people listed as "other races," they</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;"> created a</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">
powerful voting block that must have ruled this northern Michigan
town mercilessly. It was about time the poor, mistreated whites stood
up for themselves!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3a3a3a;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Huber
is just getting started, fed up with mollycoddling criminals and
ignoring their victims when he hits a real sore point with
Michiganders: Homosexuality! Apparently it's taught in public schools
up there! And he’s right in the next sentence, too. It’s about
time somebody ignored the US Constitution and started teaching their
own version of religion in public school using my tax dollars even
though I don’t believe the religion he wants to teach. Church and
family just isn’t getting it done anymore!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">Wow,
there is so much more to comment on, and he touches on many important
issues, including censorship, mass murders, Korea, pornography, and
my very favorite: only supporting the Constitution when it fits our
personal needs. He </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">certainly</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a;">
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-88803415427450683232019-06-16T10:30:00.011-04:002021-11-02T06:44:58.858-04:00Vaccinated<div style="break-after: avoid; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: justify;"><div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We accidentally infected ourselves
with a dose of dystopia and I am waiting to see if it develops into
terminal monarchy or if the current dismantling of our Constitution
is just a temporary malady that will soon pass, hopefully without
lasting scars.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our
new disease is an intelligent permutation of the old feudal system
that ruined Europe. An insidious, festering disease, perhaps
introduced methodically by an enemy working for years to incubate the
virus and infect America, causes fear and hatred as it ferments
misogynistic white racial superiority. We know if left unchecked, it
can be fatal. The final symptom is the permanent elimination of
liberty and freedom.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Politics
had nothing to do with an unqualified, self-admitted philanderer
walking through the front door of the white house leaving a
qualified, dedicated politician and her overpaid staff of consultants
at the gate wondering what happened. I know what happened: we sent a
bully to Washington to teach the politicians who forgot about us a
lesson. We did it on purpose. We did to Washington D.C. what Fidel
Castro did to the United States with the Mariel boatlift.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As
a result, we now have the most corrupt Presidential administration in
my lifetime, even worse than Nixon. Voters didn’t know Nixon was
morally corrupt, but almost every voter in 2016 knew Trump wasn’t
someone you’d let count your silverware or anywhere near your
teenage daughter. But they liked belligerent Trump better than
ingratiating Hilary – especially with the external meddling – and
he was handed the key to our National mansion.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We’ve
had the inoculation, now lets see if we get a reaction to it.
Psychologist William J. McGuire may unfortunately be correct,
however: If the dose of the disease we’ve received doesn’t cause
the voting public to suffer personally, they will simply accept the
symptoms as part of the normal future. McGuire’s inoculation theory
– according to Wikipedia – states “functions as a strategy to
protect attitudes from change – to confer resistance to
counter-attitudinal influences, whether such influences take the form
of direct attacks or sustained pressures.” If we don’t defeat the
disease with our inoculation, we may just become so insensitive to
the blisters and fever we succumb to it without a fight. If the
immunization takes place, however, nepotism, seditious narcissism,
and treason in the office of the Presidency and in Congress will join
polio as something we won’t worry about for a long, long time.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As
the rest of the world watched incredulously, we were reminded
terrible plagues may not be really eliminated, just dormant, and
given the right conditions for incubation, will reinfect us. Not just
measles, but tyranny and monarchy as well.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Perhaps
America will heal itself and recover. But, perhaps not. Perhaps
Tyranny will continually adapt just like the viruses that render
antibiotics ineffective and the United States of America will never
recover. After all, we are a capitalistic society. All the disease
has to do is cloak itself with money.</span></p>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-19817338887840730402017-05-11T13:24:00.015-04:002023-06-01T11:35:51.230-04:00Eulogy<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A friend died yesterday. He didn’t “pass away” or “succumb to an illness.” No, he died. In a lucid moment before he lost consciousnesses, Sy loudly and boldly told everyone present in his hospice room, “I’m not going to fucking die!” But, he did. Try as hard as he could, he could not stop it. None of us can, and we all know it. If Sy couldn’t win his last argument, none of us will.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sy was one in only a hand full of liberals who, in the late 60’s and early 70’s in the Miami IBM office, stood up for the young, apprehensive black new employees being hired as America joined the rest of the civilized world. Sy famously said “Segregation is bullshit! I’m a Jew and I know what I’m talking about!”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was true to his beliefs, and one of those most important to him was that we are all equal. Sy knew no color boundaries or religious definitions except one: intolerance. Sy was intolerant of intolerance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Anyone who knew Sy knew where he stood. His friends were his friends, regardless of where we worked or what we did. Political discussions were his wellspring and he would tackle any conservative or repressive, backward view of human rights with a vigor reserved for those who believe with all their heart that no one has the right to diminish any other human being. He was as fervent and dedicated in his opposition to tyranny and oppression, regardless of where he encountered it, as any one I have ever known.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sy is missed. Sy will always be missed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">George</span></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-39185882618527795672017-04-07T20:23:00.097-04:002023-08-20T18:30:15.494-04:00Where There’s Smoke, There’s… Wait! What? No Smoke?<h1 align="center" class="western">
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It’s early Friday morning, only nine or ten hours after President Trump ordered an air strike on a Syrian airbase in response to Bashar al-Assad using poison gas on his own people. The first videos and photographs from the airstrike are filtering in to American television as I sit here with a cup of coffee, and while reactions from most Americans and our allies are positive, there are those who question the attack.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What I fail to see is the result of the airstrike. After being hit by 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles in just a matter of minutes, one would expect burning aircraft and fuel dumps to dominate the photographs. What the Syrian television is showing are a bunch of bombed out hangars and buildings.</span></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3NAntpomaLU/W9NOHyqPciI/AAAAAAAAl20/bi4A_rgF0DYEXTNuEDIFZhYNKhmUWOlRgCEwYBhgL/s1600/3F08E25500000578-4388834-Pictures_appeared_to_show_damage_to_the_Syrian_airbase_runway_ca-m-44_1491563477035.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3NAntpomaLU/W9NOHyqPciI/AAAAAAAAl20/bi4A_rgF0DYEXTNuEDIFZhYNKhmUWOlRgCEwYBhgL/w640-h378/3F08E25500000578-4388834-Pictures_appeared_to_show_damage_to_the_Syrian_airbase_runway_ca-m-44_1491563477035.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">I did more damage to my Dad's drive way with a handfull of M-80s. Who's fooling whom here? Russian photo taken from the Internet</span></h4></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The destruction of the facility is obvious, but where’s the smoke? Where’s the fire? Where are the airplanes that should have been there? When Secretary of State Tillerson warned the Russians of the impending airstrike, did they notify their Syrian buddies as well? What’s going on here?</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While President Trump defiantly tells the world the United States will militarily defend the very people he won’t let enter the country, one has to wonder if he really went against Russian boss Putin, or was this just another case of collusion to befuddle the media and citizens alike. What was the real purpose of the airstrike?</span></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ekqxwSJo-24/W9NOJ2rL_vI/AAAAAAAAl3A/DFhAMnFXSFYqMFWlg7BAvKKvP91YluyOACEwYBhgL/s1600/3F0C4CCF00000578-4391446-image-a-8_1491599197103.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ekqxwSJo-24/W9NOJ2rL_vI/AAAAAAAAl3A/DFhAMnFXSFYqMFWlg7BAvKKvP91YluyOACEwYBhgL/s640/3F0C4CCF00000578-4391446-image-a-8_1491599197103.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We used to call this the AOCP or AWOP line. These aren't combat assigned aircraft, in fact, theses are the Russian equivilants of our 1960's Century series fighters. This is a Russian photo taken from the Internet after the attack.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TvNChRXmqnQ0V6svdCnRUOvn5GMRVcyI9FQOh8qDzsNPnLfaiV02mOtnZr3yaQwoTIVWbs5_PYh2MGwvUk2qGrKLJPNwYdZkMGcS7c6pe7F28P00J-52c4mjZM3v37kDIGTG4PPfLiP1uyQfjgoO-zyfYkeFeEjYVcrLMeozMqQmP2jj26znPR9GAg/s2690/MiG-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1513" data-original-width="2690" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TvNChRXmqnQ0V6svdCnRUOvn5GMRVcyI9FQOh8qDzsNPnLfaiV02mOtnZr3yaQwoTIVWbs5_PYh2MGwvUk2qGrKLJPNwYdZkMGcS7c6pe7F28P00J-52c4mjZM3v37kDIGTG4PPfLiP1uyQfjgoO-zyfYkeFeEjYVcrLMeozMqQmP2jj26znPR9GAg/w640-h360/MiG-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The author inspects a MiG 21 in a salvage yard in Florida that isn't combat ready either.<br />More on this photo at: <a href="https://piddlepaddler.blogspot.com/2020/11/smaller-and-smaller.html">https://piddlepaddler.blogspot.com/2020/11/smaller-and-smaller.html</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is a multifaceted answer, with fingers going in every direction, but for Donald Trump it is a win/win gamble, the only kind he likes. He improves his image of planetary citizenship while not hurting his chances of a future relationship with Russia, and he gets to deliver a message to the real threat to the United States, the only one Trump really cares about; North Korea. And he is using North Korea’s biggest supporter as a messenger.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trump’s actions just said to Chinese president Xi Jinping, due to arrive for a meeting with Trump today, “Here’s a taste of what we’re going to do to your fat little friend in North Korea if you don’t stop him.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have no doubt Xi Jinping will sit there, having already seen his own satellite photographs of the Shayrat Airfield damage, and the Russian, professionally videotaped drone fly-through, taken within a matter of hours. He will have already listened to the reports of the U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson’s conversations with the Russians explaining the attack.</span></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXNQNTRXCX4/W9NOICB73AI/AAAAAAAAl28/2hX0xSwgqBEUDERC0QjcWb47ImX2CLLpwCEwYBhgL/s1600/3F085BA000000578-4388834-Pictures_show_rubble_strewn_across_the_airfield_at_the_Syrian_mi-a-43_1491583092308.jpg"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXNQNTRXCX4/W9NOICB73AI/AAAAAAAAl28/2hX0xSwgqBEUDERC0QjcWb47ImX2CLLpwCEwYBhgL/w640-h360/3F085BA000000578-4388834-Pictures_show_rubble_strewn_across_the_airfield_at_the_Syrian_mi-a-43_1491583092308.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Xi Jinping will be impressed with the incredible accuracy and reliability of the final iteration of the BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile. Its ability to avoid the two Russian sections of the airbase while taking out individual bunkers elsewhere on the base with pin-point accuracy will cause him to re-evaluate his air defenses and ponder how to nullify the US's Achilles Heel, the GPS satellites. He will also be impressed with the absence of actual damage to Syria’s air force. There will be damage to almost every bunker, but according to the Russian video shown on CNN, the damaged aircraft, to me, looked more like AWOP, or aircraft awaiting parts than first-line combat aircraft. There is no burning fuel from the targeted fuel storage areas. <br /><br />As they dine, an aide will lean over and whisper in the Chinese Premier’s ear that the airfield is already back in action. Xi Jinping will realize the scam, but he will show no sign of recognition to alert his unsophisticated host. <br /><br />Trump will toast his guest and smile. He is saying to the Chinese President, by implication, “Let’s make deal!” <br /><br />Xi Jinping will smile but say nothing. Trump is about to meet the master deal maker. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Opinion - George <br /><br /><br />[ED NOTE: For those unfamiliar with Air Base Operations or attack, I have included a photo, photographer unknown, of the simple mortar attack on the operational USAF combat base at Da Nang, Vietnam, 1967 -</span><br /><div class="western">
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-27818181446695241572017-02-21T13:06:00.000-05:002018-10-26T13:07:31.897-04:00The Second McCarthy Era?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">U.S. Air Force Tactical Missiles - 1949 - 1969 The Pioneers</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">[excerpted from Chapter 3 - Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory] </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Dr. von Kármán took his leave of absence in 1944 to head Arnold's newly formed United States Army Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, his successor at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">another aeronautical engineer who played a major role in the development of rocketry and missiles, Dr. Frank J. Malina. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Malina and von Kármán had co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech in 1943. Drs. Malina and von Kármán, along with Martin Sommerfield, John W. Parsons, and Edward S. Foreman, had earlier founded the Aerojet General Corporation in 1941 to utilize their research in solid fuel rocket motors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the engineers involved with the research work, and one of the signers of the 1943 report to General Arnold, was Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen. In an ironic twist of fate, or a show of unbridled stupidity, Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen, who was also later a member of Arnold's Scientific Advisory Board, was forced to leave the United States at the height of the McCarthy witch-hunts and, after five years of house arrest for having his name on a "suspected" communist meeting attendance list in 1938, returned to his native China in 1955 where he is now considered the father of the Chinese rocket and missile programs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Malina was considered the father of the JATO rocket, the Jet Assisted Takeoff booster rocket. His team successfully "launched" an Ercoupe, a small, single engine civilian airplane, in 1941 as a display of JATO’s potential. Development work continued on different types of solid propellants, including asphalt and many other forms of fuels and oxidizers, leading to the development of castable elastomeric (polysulfide rubber) material called Thiokol. The Thiokol fuel, developed by Charles Bartley during a 1945 JPL-ORDCIT project, became the solid fuel to power not only the booster bottles used in launching tactical missiles, but later ballistic Intermediate Range Missiles (IRBMs) and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) as well. It was the work done with solid fuel propellants by this research team that allowed American design teams to soon develop the Zero Length Launcher, called ZEL, which made the first completely American designed and built tactical missile possible. The first operational U.S. tactical missile was to be built by the Glenn L. Martin Company and be called the Matador. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From my 2008 book, U.S. Air Force Tactical Missiles - 1949 - 1969 The Pioneers - Chapter 3 - "Laying the Groundwork" - co-authored with Robert Bolton</span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165325439708519673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156147552806079181.post-37665040056172140602017-02-14T12:05:00.000-05:002017-02-15T11:51:14.598-05:00The Peter Principle – 2017<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.17in; page-break-after: avoid;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
watched in awe as CBS Morning News showed the test launch of North
Korea’s latest ballistic missile, originally reported on February
13, 2017. The launch caught my attention immediately as the solid
fuel prime, or launch engine did not ignite until the missile was
well clear of the launcher, exactly like all </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">SLBM, Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, even though this was a land-based launch. Not only does the missile look exactly like a
modified US Navy UGM-73 Poseidon, it basically launches
the same way! Why is North Korea testing submarine-based missiles? Or are they really using submarine-based systems modified for land use? What are US analysts missing here? Or are they simply afraid to tell
us what is going on? Let me ‘splain, Lucy.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_2c6JW5VArI/WKO8wGh8OlI/AAAAAAAAUSk/bLOmX4Ykqzgt04VjfssGiD0O5DSjYB9pgCLcB/s1600/220px-Poseidon_C-3_SLBM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_2c6JW5VArI/WKO8wGh8OlI/AAAAAAAAUSk/bLOmX4Ykqzgt04VjfssGiD0O5DSjYB9pgCLcB/s200/220px-Poseidon_C-3_SLBM.jpg" width="130" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically the prime
logic behind submarine-based missiles is not only stealth, but
simply, if you can not build a missile to fly far enough to strike a
fixed target, simply move the launch point closer until the target is
in range of what you can build. Simple. But does North Korea already
have submarines, or are they surreptitiously testing for the Chinese
who have already demonstrated rather obnoxiously they can fire a
submarine based ballistic missile<span style="color: #252d3c;">
</span>whenever and wherever they
want. They can even use someone else’s test range if they choose,
and, apparently, they already have. <a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2156147552806079181#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the U.S.
media is in a tither of so-called President Trump’s grandiose,
unprecedented public handling of the notification of the event in
front of not only the Japanese Prime Minister, but also Trump’s
butlers and wine stewards, the real event has gone unreported. It
doesn’t matter if the missile, a <span style="color: black;">Pukguksong-2,
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has a range of </span>only 1500
miles. If the launch pad is submerged and off shore of the
continental United States, the point is moot. Especially if they use
the MIRVs – Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle –
which make US warheads so lethal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you want to see
the difference between a North
Korean land based IRBM
(Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile) such as the liquid-fueled US Army Redstone –
which was stationed in Germany in the late 1950’s or the later solid-fueled medium range Pershing which took over the target assignment of the 38<sup>th</sup>
Tactical Missile Wing’s air breathing cruise missiles in the 1960’s
– then watch the “Autobahn” launch of North Korea’s Rodong
missiles at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsCIup94Qc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsCIup94Qc</a>
These missile are not aimed at the US mainland, and were never
designed to do so. They are to decimate South Korea and Japan.
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oeIbI27M-Uc/WKSBGPqPwrI/AAAAAAAAUTc/uzX_gAVu6z0sqmZIPMepczgW1-b31RaIQCLcB/s1600/Korean%2BMissie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oeIbI27M-Uc/WKSBGPqPwrI/AAAAAAAAUTc/uzX_gAVu6z0sqmZIPMepczgW1-b31RaIQCLcB/s320/Korean%2BMissie.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Pukguksong-2 launch , from KCNA</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now take a look at </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.vocativ.com/402115/north-korea-tv-missile-launch/">http://www.vocativ.com/402115/north-korea-tv-missile-launch/</a>
<span style="color: black;">According
to </span><span style="color: black;">38
North,<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2156147552806079181#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc"><sup>2</sup></a>
the media arm of the US – Korea </span><span style="color: black;">Institute</span><span style="color: black;">
at SAIS, </span><span style="color: black;">North
Korea’s </span><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #004080;"><u><a href="http://rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_02&newsID=2017-02-13-0001_photo">Rodong
Sinmun</a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">provided
pictures of what it is calling the “Pukguksong-2, solid-fuel
missile.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The pictures show something very similar to the KN-11
solid-fuel submarine-launched missile successfully tested last
August, which North Korea calls the Pukguksong-1.</span> The discharge plume or exhaust trail, erroneously called a "contrail" by the US media, is startlingly familiar to those who analysed the mysterious California launch on November 9th, 2010. See
the difference? The old land-based solid fueled Pershing ignited and launched without the primary "boost" and secondary ignition of the main engine used by the Korean missile. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Korean missile is designed to strike any adversary,
anywhere on earth. It just takes a launch platform that can get close
enough. And who has the launch platform?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Chinese are
once again laughing up their sleeves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1 -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMdHBgHtNE"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMdHBgHtNE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2 - <a href="http://38north.org/2017/02/jschilling021317/">http://38north.org/2017/02/jschilling021317/</a></span>
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