Cultural oddities

Visited a mosque with church group last Friday.  Voice inside head asked "Shy service in Arabic".  Louder other voice answered Latin dood

Heard about funeral  on Mexican side of Texas boarder.  Saw in my head incense and vestments.    Stage manager in my head said, "They're Mormon".

Thawts on Chelsea Manning

Heard a blurb on Adrian Lamo yesterday.  Read medical examiners  5 word summary report today.  Bizare set of drugs / medications found in his body.  Adrian had a history of seizures. 
     --  Wish we could blame that for tRumps behaviour.   --
He lived his last days in Wichita Ks..  That is sad enough.

Hackers often have personality issues .  They donn't do the stability thing all that well.  Hence, though they can bring down nations with a few key strokes, on Monday morning, one has no certainly you'll find them at their work station Monday afternoon., 


Adrian couldn't keep his stuff together.

As to Chelsea,  bless her / his heart , one passes secrets through a number of cut outs.  One never relies on the good will of the guv'ment.  Tell me Chelsea's at Levenworth? 

Neutral Against Whom?

I heard this evening an Israeli spokes mench   said China was a friend to Israel.  Lambs have said that about tigers just before lunch.  Like smell their breath.  Read their 2,400 years of history.  

Could it be that I look upon Israel as a creature of the U. S.,  U. K.  and the E. U[i].  Am I still lost in that Hollywood fantasy Exodus with Paul Newman[ii]

Fall semester  1964 John Pa.m teacher 1^st semester International Politics “Natural against whom?”

In 1938, at the inception of hostilities Belbin and The Netherlands declared themselves neutral. Yeah.  See where that got them?   

Same thing in the 70’s.  India, and many of the African states came up with the non-aligned idea.  Although, these nations did not get trampled the way Belbin did,  the big ugly bear and the viscous eagle had at ‘em in subtle ways. 

It amounted to, If ya ain’t with me yer again me.  Gravity does recognize a third position. Neither does electricity.

I hope the majority of folk in Israel  can overcome  their understandabl revulsion and disgust at having to deal with the big sloppy goy.

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[i]Is that enough avreviations for you?  

[ii] Only his hair dresser knows fr sure.

a proposal for a phone for the blind

I've tried to master this free gov'ment  ?smart? phone.  Nope.  No way.  Can't train the Google speech app to my voice.  It stops there.   

A bunch of other apps which I can't see / use jump up and get in the way.  No way to shut them off.  

How about this?  a smaller device that opens up and speaks first.  It gives me a .imited menu of  tasks I can do.  Thhis might include dial a telephone number.  Set up a contnact. Record incriminating material. 
Notice the options do not include popular apps that require vision.  

I keep seeing a plastic device that looks like a small dumbell.  It can connect by Bluetooth or usb to a computer from which connection / position on may edit on screen the contents of address books / contact lists.

different blind me

I just finished consulting a web site which deals with low vision products. The guy who runs it has faced that challenge himself. So, he sells and distributes the stuff that helps.

This just freaks me out. I'm not handicapped I want to scream. I'm not gay either with just as much screaming. I'm not .... well .... I dont know what. But, in a way that has formed my approach to life. I run and twist from anything that threatens to get close to me. I want to be alone.

That's interesting. That freaked out thing brings up trapped, smothered mothered and how many years have I been in therapy so far?

U Tub

In the past three days, a social scientist made a point. The scientist claimed that electronic platforms , youtube or facebook, in an attempt to get us to click. The platforms will present the user with more of the same type of content. To ensure continued clicking the platform operator will steer increasingly provocative material. In this way, the user will only reinforce their own prejudices and fantasies, Questions of truth will suffer.

This lament and fear fails to include one factor. So many of the radical groups quarrel with each other over fine points of whatever passes for doctrine. The groups dissipate their power In this way, these groups fashion their own end.

Given this background, we can click away. We should avoid complacency and obsession.

Simper something or other.

C4 H2 O

A fair number of people who should know say that the U S A has too much corn. .   Farmers can’t  sell the stuff.  

Why not take the GMO corn and make ethanol out of it.   

Have you seen what a premium bourbon  goes for?    

Have we exhausted our supply of oaken barrels?

Tap Dance Through The Tulips

For a while now, I have failed to develop intense hostility to tRump.

Why? 

 tRump has tap danced his way through things.  He faked it.   

I, sometimes, feel that I’ve tap danced.   But, I’ve also done a buck & wing. I've also been in a kick line or two.  That's how I started my back troubles. 

Pity, I didn’t have a dad to bail me out.

Homeless II More From The Two Wise Folk

Back in the day --  2007  to  8 --  the real estate fantasy began it’s spectacular crumble.  Banks repossessed homes of people who could not make the mortage payments. 

Soon, many banks found themselves holding large numbers of houses.  Soon public radio reports spoke of foreclosed houses sitting vacant, deteriorating from neglect, and the banks not quite sure of what to do. 

The two wise ones asked yesterday what would have happened if, instead of foreclosing on the mortgage holder the banks would have made arrangements for and renegotiated monthly payments and interest rates.  Banks would have thereby keep houses occupied instead of neglected.

Now why didn’t I think of that at the time.  Who says I didn’t?  I can’t remember.

Aren’t you all proud of me.    I refrained from in inveighing against bankers.  I also did not rant on about the utterly contemptable bourgeois reactionary  nuts who blamed anybody but the banks and their foolishness.

Yeah TawM!

Homeless

Two wise people provoked this.  Often the homeless adapt so well to their circumstances.   These adapted folk frequently resist  a change in their circumstances.   In so doing they free themselves from coping with  the decisions that go with apartments or homes.   

These thoughts occurred.  Men, at least,, get into camping, boys scouts, and even the army.  Especially in the army the systems makes a bunch of descisions for the soldier.  The system also feeds the soldier.  So, doesn’t homelessness resemble however slightly the army. 

In addition, homelessness  resembles the hunting – gathering period humans  went though prior to domesticating animals and developing agriculture.