Rest in Peace

I had some really bad news today: Mustang Sally is dead. She died on Tuesday and I did not even know about it until today. I read it in the Obituaries.

Sally had COPD and had been in the hospital for a month before returning here to Messiah Manor. Sally was also on CPAP and had been for quite a while.

I am sad because I liked her so much before she went into the hospital and even sadder when she returned to Messiah Manor because she refused to recognize me or talk to me. I did not know what happened or why she would prefer to go inside rather than talk to me. I still do not know why or how it happened, but she is dead now and I cannot ask her. I did write her a letter and put it in her mailbox outside her door with her name on the front asking why. She got the letter but she never spoke to me again. I do hope she knew how much I missed her company and how much I cared for her and about her.

I do know her older brother, Ted, so maybe I should talk to him and ask him. I am sure he would tell me what he knows about it, but then again I do not want to put him on the spot, especially since his sister just died. Oh, well, I have had my say and I hope she was willing to forgive me for whatever she had decided about me.

No matter. She took her animosity to the grave with her and I will have to live with that knowledge. It is the one thing I never got the chance to sort all this out -- and now I will never be able to sort this out. It is yet another mystery that I will never get to the bottom of nor will I be able to make reparations on. C'est la vie.

I found out that Sally was a year younger than I am, something else I did not know. We hit it off the first time and (or so I thought) I liked her immediately. Sally is still listed in my phone as Mustang Sally just as she was Mustang Sally to me in person -- until recently when she returned from the hospital in Springfield and refused to speak to me except to tell me she would not speak to me and went into the building to keep me from speaking to her.

I do not like issues like this one and I will eventually have to go to Ted, her brother, and ask him to tell me why Sally refused to talk to me again and avoided my company even when I talked to her, saying hello and asking how she was doing. I really hate losing people which is why I contacted all my siblings and left messages on their phones. Even Dick gave in and spoke to me after telling me I would have to wait until she was ready to talk. I waited and eventually we talked.

I was happier than when the Mushroom called me and talked to me, telling me that he had gotten married and that I was not invited. Oh well. Life goes on. There will be bumps and potholes in the road and you get over them, hopefully not losing your gas tank or other parts of your vehicle. I lost a good friend and I do not know why or how and now there is a hole in my heart where Mustang Sally lived and that hole will close up and heal, but I will always miss my friend and will continue to think of her as Mustang Sally.

I miss Sally more than I missed losing my Mom and Dad, even more than missing my siblings. Some people get close to your heart and you miss them when they are gone. No doubt, Ted and his brothers will also miss Sally and they will grieve for her as I do. Maybe one of the neighbors here will take me with them when they go to the funeral on Saturday.

I was lost when Sally would not speak to me and I am even more lost now that she is gone. She was younger than I am, a year younger, but she will not get older and I will miss her more and more as time goes on.

Bless you, Sally. I remember you telling your brother, Ted, that you had to coax me into talking the first time and took you a long time to get to know me. 

I remember what Bessie and Dick told me about getting to know my neighbors -- that I must take it slow and watch my tongue. I made friends along the way and have engaged in playing Bingo and sharing communal meals as I got to know my neighbors. Maybe I should have not been so free with my tongue -- at least where Sally was concerned -- and talked with her the way I talked with Mel and Kenny and the other guys around here.

I sat down and talked with Gerry on Tuesday when we took an art class and I helped him with his perspectives on his wolf for his children's book. I eventually took a pencil and redid his drawing, showing him what I meant by fixing his perspective and where the eyes should go. I also him to teach me blacksmithing -- and he agreed to do so. Gerry is a big robust blacksmith of a man with white hair and a white beard. I imagine Gerry as the blacksmith in the poems I read in my youth with his big, brawny arms, his large hands, and his twinkling eyes as we laughed and joked and talked about art and such. He even drove me home after the class so we could continue to chat.

"The smith a mighty man is he ..."

At least Gerry did not laugh at me when he agreed to teach me blacksmithing. His wife is also a blacksmith.

I also landed an interview with the manager of the Kroger store here in Urbana at noon on Monday. I'm looking forward to that interview because it might end up with me getting a job after over two years without a job. I hope so.

Looking forward, I see a job at Kroger, maybe stocking shelves, cashiering, or working at the deli counter. I will get a discount and have a real job -- very different from my previous jobs in medicine, but a real job. I can walk to work from here and it will take about 20 minutes, but I will be employed again. Or I could end up out at Gerry's learning the blacksmith trade, something that would suit me better where I could get thinner sooner as I swing the hammer repairing horseshoes and such and/or shoeing horses and mules, getting plenty of exercise and build my muscles wielding a hammer. I have so much to look forward to doing -- but there will remain the sadness and ache I feel knowing that Mustang Sally died this week and will never come again.

I miss Sally but I enjoy trading wit with Gerry and learning blacksmithing skills just as I enjoyed teaching Gerry about perspective and art and enjoying talking with yet another polymath. Yes, I am back in society again and getting used to living with other people. I expect I will enjoy life now that I am part of the community and making friends like Gerry and the others. Even Evelyn, a Long Island native who now lives in a nursing home nearby because she has metastasized bone cancer. She prefers to be called Marilyn as in Marilyn Monroe. She has moved out of Messiah Manor and I miss talking to her and going to the Senior Center with her. The senior center is where I met Gerry and where I asked about blacksmithing lessons while I traded my art skills for his blacksmithing skills.

I still miss Mustang Sally.

Rest in peace, Sally. I will see you on the other side. Maybe then we can talk again. I certainly hope so.

That is all. Disperse.

Power your house with dirt

A couple of days ago I proposed an alternative to solar and wind energy; I said use human (man) power.

Just today, I read about a man who was being hounded by his neighbors because he was powering his house with a device he uses that employs wires stuck in the dirt. Mr. Joseph Wilkerson isn't the first to cut his energy bills by this method; he learned it from someone else in his community who shared the secret with him for saving his daughter from drowning when she broke through an icy lake and plunged in. It was a good thing Wilkerson heard her and was able to pull her to safety. Actually, it was his dog that heard her and led Wilkerson to where she fell through. He pulled her out. Where is a St. Bernard when you need one?

Wilkerson had already crossed paths with Mr. Harris who wasn't upset about the electric company because his friend who lived high up in the mountains already had his earth-powered generator in place and had shared the secret with Mr. Harris who eventually gave the secret to Wilkerson who put over $25,000 into researching the device and wants to make some of his money back now that he no longer has to pay exorbitant rates to the electric company.

I have no dog in this race and I did not buy Wilkerson's plans or put any money into this earth-powered generator, but I will still tell you about it. You can choose to contribute to Wilkerson's plans and pay his fees, but I prefer to give the information to you so you can choose which way to go for yourself.

I have done some surfing on the web and have come up with the news that MIT has teams of scientists who are researching and putting their energy into bacteria-based electricity that is available to anyone who has two wires to stick into the ground or at least a septic tank generating a whole lot of bacteria underground. MIT engineers have come up with a plan to increase the electrical output of their device and a way to boost the bacterial output of the ground and the electricity that goes into the ground every time the lightning strikes the ground.

You can save money on your electric bills and even sell your electricity back to the electric company when you have the device installed and are making enough electricity to power your home and sell back to the electric company -- or get a check in the mail or a credit on your bill when the electric company realizes that THEY owe you money instead of the other way around.

MIT engineers are also working on way to turn their bacteria-generated electricity into batteries and power the neighborhood, city, or state where you live, but it's not there yet.

I propose there are many people out there with the brains and ingenuity to figure a way to generate electricity sooner than the MIT engineers -- or not. Either way, it is your choice. Do or do not do, as Yoda famously said to Luke Skywalker.

I am a tattletale; ask my siblings. You will not have to ask; mention my name and they will tell YOU that I am a tattletale and tell all their secrets to the world. I'm a writer after all.

The link to the previous post can be found on this website or you can click on the link here. I am all about helping people. I am a tattletale after all. I have given you the information you need and you can decide whether to share my information or pay Mr. Wilkerson for his plans. Your choice.

That is all. Disperse.

Secrets are not secrets any more

I wonder how much information is too much information?

I've been watching Finding Your Roots on PBS and I wonder. I probably wonder because my siblings are always after me for telling their secrets -- or outing other family members (like I did with my dad). They are upset because they did not know or suspected or maybe because they do not want to know.

How long can you keep a secret? As long as one other person knows -- not long.

Carly Simon's grandmother told her she would never know -- probably because her grandmother did not know. Mr. Gates found out that Carly Simon and her family were considered black; they already knew they were from Cuba. Maybe that is the secret that her grandmother kept from her; that she was black. According to the DNA test, Carly and her family were more black than they (or she) thought. DNA will tell the truth when people want to keep their history secret -- or at least out of the hands of the family that write about it (as in my case).

In my case, I already knew I had some black relatives. I'd heard the story that once upon a time a slave ran away from his master and the Cherokee adopted him. The Cherokee people (or nation) were always adopting others, including runaway slaves. I'll bet there was no Emancipation Proclamation freeing the runaway slaves adopted by the Cherokee; the runaway slave was already free -- he had run away and been adopted by the Cherokee people. No Emancipation Proclamation needed to free him; he was already free.

My great grandmother was born Cherokee and is on the Cherokee rolls, so I am quarter Cherokee anyway. My youngest sister did a DNA test and found out that she is descended from an
African. It shows up in the DNA.

I remember Mom taunting Dad with her sharp tongue. There was a painting or portrait of a black man in an attic in someone's (a relative's home) and she had seen it. Could it have been of the runaway slave adopted into the Cherokee nation? I never saw the portrait, but I already knew about the tale of the runaway slave who had been adopted by the Cherokee. No surprise to me. Evidently, it was a surprise to my sister when it showed up on the DNA test.

A lot of things my siblings find so difficult to understand is why and how I can open myself up by writing about my life and the experiences I've had over the years. BB is so afraid that people will talk about her, so me talking (or rather writing) about her (and the family) is a faux pas too far.
So why bother getting your DNA since everything about your history is in your blood.

Or rather their blood.

It could be why BB does not want to get her CNA tested and find out for sure. The things I know about this family and about them is a scratch on the surface compared to giving up blood or sitting into a test tube to find out your DNA.

I wonder how Mom, especially considering she was a racist, and had racists in her family, dealt with that news? Since she married Dad and had decided he was going to marry her when she was eleven years old and met him for the first time, being prejudiced would prove a sticking point but not much of a sticking point since she married him anyway. The strange thing is that Dad was also prejudiced -- something I didn't know until he flipped out when JC, my brother's only son, wanted to take Ebony, a black girl, to the high school prom. I never realized that Dad was prejudiced until that time. I always thought Dad was a good man, an honest man, but never considered him prejudiced. It was a secret he kept to himself -- much like the fact that he was also a homosexual. I knew about that because I discovered that tidbit of information in the middle of the night when I was up watching La Cage aux Folles (the French version on HBO) and Dad was up to watch the movie. I had heard the stories about Dad's extracurricular activities and had discounted them until that night. I forgot about all that because I had put it out of my mind, pooh-poohed the tales, and went on with my life. It was not the ah-ha moment I had when I discovered that Rock Hudson was gay. I took the news as a shock to my soul. Less shocking was that Jim Nabors and several other father figures (Dick Sergent, Robert Reed, and so on -- including these actors). Who surprised you? I will bet it wasn't Paul Lynde or Liberace. I knew about Tab Hunter the same way I finally found out about Rock Hudson (no, it wasn't because I guessed but because I read it in the tabloids.)


I think Rock Hudson had to come out because he contracted AIDS/HIV. Hudson was also linked with Jim Nabors which was also tabloid fodder, but Nabors died in Honolulu and was married to Stan Cadwallader, with whom he had been living for over 30 years (38 years to be exact). Turns out both actors kept away from each other (Hudson & Nabors) in order to keep from being outed. They were just friends.

In the end, that is all. Disperse.

Not solar, not wind power, human power

I usually watch strange (to other people) programs on TV. I've been watching programs on Saturday morning that have changed my mind about the future and none of it is about solar power or wind power, but human power. In fact, the heat from our bodies can power batteries and charge our phones. It is all about human ingenuity and how humans have always changed the world -- by their own innovation and our own vision.

A girl in Canada, I believe she was adopted, created a flashlight that uses the heat of your hand to power the flashlight and her innovation may soon be patented and available to you. Guess what? That kind of human innovation use can work with a human body's heat to power things -- although I don't think that would work to power an airplane or an automobile, but that time is also coming. Sooner than we believe since we are focused on solar power and wind power instead of human power.

How about using geothermal energy for heating our homes? Why not use geothermal energy to power airplanes and automobiles? All we need is another innovative person to figure it out and patent it to make it possible to be sold to the public. It's all about us. The only thing we need is human innovation and human power.

I was watching a program about human innovation. In this case, it is the Stradivarius violin made by Antoniius Stradivari Those violins were made by a master craftsman over 300 years ago, but the tone the violins make is all about Stradivari's artistry. It is all about human innovation.

I would say the same thing about the girl who crossed the Atlantic by boat: Greta Thunberg. Yes, it is about one person's determination and it is not about solar power or wind power. No matter how badly she tanked when she went off script, she is determined to power our world by solar and wind power, but she is another cog in the wheel and not the innovator like the girl in Canada or Stradivari.

Ann Makosinski from Victoria, British Columbia (Canada) is only 15years old and she played with wires and computer parts and created her own toys as a 2-year-old. She won a science fair prize for her flashlight that is powered by the heat of a person's hand. No batteries at all. No solar power. No wind power. The heat of your hand is the power that makes the flashlight work. All human innovation.

I am sure there are violins that play as well as the Stradivarius violins, but the violins have not been found yet that produce that mellifluous sound. We all think newer and more mechanical is better, but all we really need is another Stradivari to create another mellifluous sounding violin.

It is all about human innovation. While we are all caught up in solar power and wind power we
should step aside and let another innovative human to show us the way.

That is all. Disperse.

Screwed!

As I wend my way through the process of obtaining Medicaid, I have found that money you do not get is still counted against you. The money is paid to the government or to providers, but that money is still counted against YOUR income and counted AS income. Those few dollars often can knock you out of the system though the amounts to do not come to you nor are you allowed to spend that amount. Basically, you are screwed even before you begin.

How do I know? I spoke with a state representative and she knew more than I did and do about my own finances.

Case in point, I get only $1114 a month from SSI. The details of my pittance allow me to receive a whole $16 a month for food stamps (SNAP) and that is only because I got a raise this month of $1. My food stamp benefits totaled $15 a month out of the $119.50 allotted to senior citizens like me, but according to the State of Ohio, all I get is $15 a month, or rather $16 a month with the hefty $1 raise in my benefits. Hooray me!?

According to their files and the facts on my income, I get $1458 a month from SSI (social security income). There is an added $358.30 taken out of my SSI, leaving me with the $1114 a month that I actually get from SSI. The $358.30 goes to pay the part B of my SSI, money that is not given to me. The money is listed as going to Part B of my social security, the funds that have been collected from me since I began working over 50 years ago. That is money that I paid into social security and that money that I paid in goes to pay for Part B benefits and does not come to me, but it is still money the state of Ohio considers as money that is mine in the accounting of my income, money I actually receive, but not part of the $1114 I receive in the money that is deposited to my bank account, money I do not befit from and money that is counted as part of my income. Who knows whether or not that $358.30 is actually sent to me; it goes to the doctors that treat me -- of which I have yet to benefit from or have in my hands. Yet it is still monies that the state of Ohio counts as my income and that counts against me when the state of Ohio tallies up my funds.

Is there any wonder people cheat on their taxes if this is the way their income is totaled up?

The state of Ohio, in fact, every state in the Union does business in the same way and the people who

get it in the neck are the people applying for assistance, like Medicaid, food stamps, and benefits for the dependents or the person who is ill and suffering, hoping for their share of the socialism pie that was promised to them when they go to file for their benefits.

Benefits? It looks to me like they are doing what they always do -- screwing the very people who need their assistance. It is no wonder there are Welfare cheats. It is looking more and more that the people who cheat are the people trying to get around the state representatives, caseworkers, who are supposed to help the needy and the destitute, and the poor, ailing, and/or senior citizens who are doing their best to find ways around the black and white numbers that are used to decide who is and who is not eligible for assistance. These caseworkers are drones totaling up the numbers, drones who do not have the empathy beyond what is written down. There is no way for the poor people who go to them for assistance have any chance to get what they were promised and what they expect . . . unless they cheat the system in order for the system to treat whoever applies like living, breathing people who are actually in dire straits.

No wonder there are so many people cheating the system. If only I could figure out what I need to do to get past their bottom line mentality to the people who would actually help if they did not have to follow their bottom-line mentality.

I am not trying to cheat the system, but I am caught in that limbo between what the numbers say and what is actually the truth. I am caught between a rock and a hard place and will end up with the short end of the stick they are beating me with. Remember, all I receive is $15 a month for food, or rather $16 as of October 1, 2019 now that I have been given a whole dollar more for food. Good thing I can save up a couple of months of the pittance they throw me in order to buy sufficient food to get by on. At least that works in my favor since I am doing my best to lose weight. I've lost over 200 pounds in the past 2-1/2 years. At least less food for me means I will continue to lose weight. I would prefer to make up a real grocery list instead of skimping on the list, eking out the food I do have each month since I cannot rely on the food stamp allowance ($16 a month) and I also cannot rely on the Meals on Wheels I get once a day. At least I qualify for that -- as long as I respond when they show up at the door. My phone does not connect to the board in the entryway because my phone is not the type that is able to be hooked up to the board. I didn't know that when I bought the phone. I should have read the small print and asked questions of the service that sold the phone to me. I chose a phone I could afford, an android phone, but then I should have gotten the full price phone (costing hundreds of dollars, but then again I am on a limited SSI income and cannot afford a full-price phone.)

I have what I have and I keep an eye on the television that shows me who arrives in the entryway downstairs so I can either call them to come up the stairs or go down in the elevator and meet them at the door before they go away. Luckily, the man across the hall from me also gets his meals from MOW (Meals on Wheels) and they often call him because he has a phone that hooks up the entryway board and he can buzz them through the downstairs door.

My sisters keep telling me I should have thought about this and planned for it years ago. I did not know the future and did not know that the job I did for decades would not pan out nor would I end up here back in my home state destitute, on SSI, and broke. I signed up for retirement, but have not yet reached the age of retirement, though I am still out of a job after over 30 years of transcribing doctors' reports, radiation reports, surgeries, etc.

Maybe I should have planned better. I thought I had planned better, but it is anyone's guess whether or not all the money I paid out in 401K plans will pay off for me -- or if I will be still out of luck and out of funds. I am stuck -- and stuck good. If only I had been able to count on what I paid into, I might not be where I am now.

I studied. I learned. I worked. I am still stuck and have no idea of the 401Ks will be added to my limited income. More than likely, I will be still out of luck and, like the people in Kentucky who paid into their retirement pension funds and found out the state of Kentucky used their funds to pay for the roads and the other plans that did not get voted in when those issues went on the ballot; their retirement plans were short-circuited by being used to pay for the roads and the levies the mayors, state senators, and state representatives allocated to pay for the people who paid into those retirement plans when those people voted against the levies, roads, etc. The people who paid into their retirement funds found out that their retirement was not going to happen because Kentucky took their money and paid for what the people would not and did not vote for. It is rather like getting your tail caught in the door when it shuts behind them, catching their tails (and their retirements) in the door. It hurts and it hurts in the end.

So much for good government. It is rather like having some corporate raider buying up the liquidity of a retirement plan and leaving the people who counted on the retirement when the people were ready to retire. At least someone -- a fat cat corporate raider -- will get the benefit of their hard work, but it will not be the people who paid into the retirement fund in the first place.

If the state used the retirement funds to keep the roads safe and the levies paid up, at least we can rest assured that someone -- like the sate or some fat cat corporate raider -- would be able to live well on their hard work, their sweat, and their blood and tears.

It is just like finding out that you have been sold down the river and there is no paddle in sight. If

their retirement funds are gone at least the hard-working people will be able to get the best care their hard-working doctors can provide for them -- as long as socialism can take money from the rich to spread among the poor -- or better yet, cancer will get them in the end. When they die, at least their family will grieve for them and miss them. As long as they are dead, their toil is over and their beneficiaries will benefit -- if there is anything left.

That is all. Disperse.

For the people -- so they say

I often watch the Medici on Netflix and I was watching it tonight. I was struck by how the Pazzi, another banking family in Florence, were plotting against Lorenzo and Giuliano one Sunday. The Pazzi were going to overthrow Lorenzo and the rest of the Medici family and return the rule of these tyrants back to the people. The Pazzi were plotting against the Medici and had decided to use that particular Sunday when the Medici were celebrating the Catholic mass. They were planning and plotting to murder the Medici brothers: Giuliano and Lorenzo, men the Pazzi considered tyrants during the celebration of the mass when both brothers were going to be present at the mass.

I was horrified that these tyrants, according to the Pazzis, were going to be murdered in cold blood in full view of the people the Pazzi were intent on protecting from these tyrants in order to return the rule of Florence to the people.

And so the Pazzi killed Giuliano and told the people they had killed both brothers in order to overthrow these tyrants and return the rule of the republic of Florence to the people.

Like me, the people were horrified, especially when Lorenzo walked down the street to where Jacopo Pazzi stood in front of the Palazzo Vecchio as they spoke to the people. Lorenzo's throat was obviously slashed but he was still alive and still walking toward where Jacopo Pazzi stood in front of the priory, claiming to have taken over as gonfalonier to return the rule back to the people locked out of the priory by the men Lorenzo had had the foresight to post at the priory, the same priory where Jacopo Pazzi was still locked out of as he spoke to the people.

The people Jacopo had just saved were picking up stones to throw at Jacopo as Lorenzo stood calmly bleeding as Jacopo Pazzi searched for a quick exit away from the people he had just saved from the tyrants before the people could stone him.

Some of the people told Pazzi that when Lorenzo and the Medici had been in power before the Pazzi were murdering and overthrowing the tyrants, stonemasons worked, the people had jobs and food, and the Medici made sure the people were safe and fed well. So much for protecting the people Pazzi was murdering the Medici brothers and saving the people from those tyrants, the Medici. Maybe that is why the story goes that a Pazzi was hung from that selfsame balcony where another Pazzi brother, one who had become a priest, a priest who not only sanctioned the bloody murder of the Medici brothers during mass in the Duomo that Sunday, frightening the people and setting them to picking up stones to pelt Jacopo Pazzi as he slunk away from the Palazzo Vecchio before the people stoned him for saving them and turning the rule of Florence back over to the people. Funny how it all turned out.

I am reminded of the Democrats in Washington, D. C. who have begun impeachment proceedings and impeachment hearings against President Donald J. Trump. The Democrats, much like the Pazzi claiming the Medici had to be removed because they were tyrants, are claiming the need to remove President Trump from office because he has gotten too big for his britches. Sound familiar?

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, is acting, she says, to protect the people of the United States of America. Sound familiar? She sounds, as do the rest of the Democrats, much like Jacopo Pazzi planning and executing (badly I might add) the murder of Giuliano and Lorenzo de Medici that bloody Sunday during mass in the Duomo. With the media on the side of the Democrats, we will not get to see the truth of what the Democrats are doing to pull down President Trump and give the Republic back to the people.

I have heard that Nancy Pelosi  is much like Jacopo Pazzi as the people pick up stones to hurl against Pazzi as she ducks and covers her backside since she is also on the hot seat and scampering for a safe place to hide away from the stones the people are picking up to stone Jacopo Pazzi as he scampers away from the priory to find a safe place to hide before  the people show what they feel about Pazzi pulling down the Medici, the tyrants, in order to hand the republic of Florence back to the people, as the Democrats are planning to do if they impeach President Trump.

How many people in the United States of America will stand up like the stonemason and the other people did when Pazzi showed the people how he had removed the tyrants, the Medici, from the rule of Florence in order to give the rule of Florence back to the people? How many people will stand up and say they still have jobs because Trump made good on his promise to give the people back their jobs? How many people will remind the Democrats that Trump's efforts have kept their jobs and made sure they are fed well and their livelihoods are safe?

Trump is a loose cannon and he tweets too much, but Trump has also gone to North Korea, the first sitting president who has gone to North Korea and spoken to Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un is still launching missiles, but those missiles are not targeting the USA and the talks continue. Trump has called out China and will raise tariffs, forcing China to face the rest of the world and stop stealing plans and technology from the rest of the world. Maybe that is why Hong Kong, that separate but equal Chinese city where the people have a say about what goes on in their country. China is scrambling to get Taiwan to take the deal Hong Kong was promised (separate but equal) while the people of Hong Kong chafe against the communist rule and where the communist troops are ready to remind them that communism is the government of ALL China in their separate but equal plan. Taiwan has been independent since Mao Tse Tung became the leader of all China and, though Mao is dead, mainland China is still communist and Hong Kong, with its separate but equal status, the same status that Taiwan rejects as Taiwan remains separate but democratic and not communist or under the thumb of the current Chairman of mainland China as the communist thugs do their best to strong-arm free and democratic Taiwan back into the communist fold just as Hong Kong with its separate but equal status struggles to remain separate and free and democratic.

Such is the way of force. Will Hong Kong remain free and democratic or will Hong Kong end up like the young people that demonstrated at Tiananmen Square and ended up dead? Will that also be Taiwan's fate in the end?

The Medici remained in power as the Pazzis slunk to their hidey holes. Will Pelosi remain in power as Speaker of the House or will she end up fighting for her political life before she, like Jacopo Pazzi, end up hanging from the balcony strung up by her intestines?

Only time will tell. Trump is an ass and he does tweet too much, but Trump has also done his best to

make America Great. The Democrats have been after him since just after the election. They were still upset because Trump won and the electoral college showed how well he had won against Hillary. The Democrats have been hungering for Trump's blood since he took office. The impeachment, much like Jacopo Pazzi's plot against the Medici, is just another bloody Sunday mass murder that failed.

There was no quid pro quo and the Democrats have wasted the past three years going after Trump, but their witch hunt has failed yet again. Trump is a jackass (as I have always seen). Trump has made blunders, but Trump has delivered nearly everything he promised during his campaign and the Democrats are still frothing at the mouth over Trump's win against Hillary. Trump is not a politician, but he is the President of the United Status (POTUS) and he has done nothing to warrant impeachment, but it looks like Pelosi has overstepped her boundaries.

This impeachment will not go down like the impeachment against Nixon and Trump will not resign, though Pelosi may have to resign since she has stepped so far out of bounds. Bernie is back on the stump and Elizabeth Warren, once a Republican, is running as a Democrat.

Where will this Sunday massacre end up? Will Pelosi lose her seat? Will Pelosi be impeached?
Or will Trump, like Lorenzo, stand in the street while the people pick up stones to hurl at the Democrats (or Pazzis) and back Trump for another term in office? We shall see?

In the end, it is up to the people, the same people for whom the Democrats are continuing this impeachment nonsense. Actually, I think this whole impeachment is all about the Democrats' ego and not about the people. The Pazzis planned their massacre of the Medici for the people. Are the Democrats planning their impeachment investigation for the people are they putting this whole impeachment process show on for their egos.

That is all. Disperse.

Impeachment or Gotcha?

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Rush Limbaugh predicted that Trump would be impeached after the midterm elections when more Democrats got into office. He was off by a few months and Trump's first term is nearly up. I do not think the Democrats counted on Mike Pence as Vice President or that Pence would pardon Trump or do what the photo to the left says.
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I read this morning that Trump claims that Abraham Lincoln was vilified in the papers and Honest Abe got worse reviews and media that Trump has gotten. Trump is right.

We think that Obama is gone, but Obama is still there in the background plotting and feverishly stirring his cauldron. Obama is not gone -- yet.

Obama is still in the destroy Trump seat, though Obama should have been impeached for so many unconstitutional acts: Fast and Furious, the Iran deal when Obama okayed a big payoff that was loaded in Europe and shipped to Iran, Benghazi, and so many other infringements of his oath of office. It was Obama who got the IRS to interfere with its sworn duty to remain neutral and targeted Republican people (American people), denying American people justice while denying their legal status: major breach of the presidential oath of office. Impeachable.

Trump was also correct when he said that Republicans did not want to begin impeachment proceedings because of what it would do to our country.

Yes, Abraham Lincoln did things that the country (mostly the southern people) did not like and Lincoln suffered in the polls and in the media. Lincoln was re-elected for a second term and then assassinated shortly after taking office at the theater. Lincoln knew that he would be assassinated before he ran for the second term. Lincoln had a dream that he would not finish his second term and his wife told him what the dream meant. She was right. Abe was right. Even Trump is right.

If Trump does win a second term as president he may end up as Lincoln did -- assassinated. Democrats are not opposed to the assassination. Democrats are going forward with the impeachment because they have the bit in their teeth and they will not be denied -- nor will Obama be denied.

Many people predicted that Obama would be assassinated, but the Russians would not allow that to

happen and Obama was certain the Democrats would not stand for it. Even Maxine Waters would mourn his passing. Russia would certainly have mourned Obama's passing because they worked so hard to put him in office and keep him there.

Do you think Putin would shed a tear if Obama had been assassinated?

Not so. You do not know the Russians very well. Russians are inherently dark and usually morbid.

Do you believe that Russians are not involved in putting Obama into office? You do not know communism very well.

You also do not know the power of Putin or the American Communist Party, which went underground and continued to work behind the scenes -- until Joe McCarthy did his best to rout them out. You really should consider reading more widely and a lot more history while you are at it. Why do you think conspiracy theorists are so rampant in our culture? Probably because they know more than the average person does.

USA and Russia have been involved in coups in South America (and here) for decades. Their sleight of hand works because the audience (you and me) are busily looking everywhere but at the magician  (USA & Russia) and are amazed and confounded when the trick is done. The trick has been on us all along and you are still looking everywhere but at the magician (or politician -- Obama). That is how it is done. You have been fooled before (Benghazi, Fast & Furious, IRS, Trump, etc.).

You will be fooled again if you allow this Democrat side-show to continue.

GOTCHA!

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Integrity matters

I actually care about the environment and about ecology, but I was reminded recently by BB that being poor as I am I need to protect myself and that I can afford to not put my health or the environment first.

The thing is that BB is wrong and I can afford to care about the environment especially and being poor does not give me carte blanche where the environment, ecology, and my health are concerned. Just because I am poor and have to live on a small fixed income does not give me an out where my responsibilities lie. That is where we all as humans continue to fail where our planet and our responsibility to humanity and people begin and end.

I think being poor is how we got into this situation in the first place. It is the reverse of tomorrow or let someone else do it; they can afford it.

With that kind of thinking, nothing would ever be done and Mother Theresa would never have gone to Calcutta to take care of the poor and minister to the poor of Calcutta. Well, Mother Theresa is dead and has been declared a saint so she is out of this world and out of the problems we face every day.

I did take my cousin's advice and put my poor talents on Indeed to get a job. I had my first face-to-face interview yesterday, the first in over two years, and may well have a job where I first started out at McDonald's down the street. I can walk there in about 15 minutes and so can work whenever they need me to work since I live nearby. My interviewer asked if I had reliable transportation. I responded by telling her my feet worked and I lived nearby ... within sight of their store. That is pretty reliable -- my shoedebakers -- my feet.

She asked my strengths and weaknesses (always a difficult question for me) and I responded, "Jumping in without knowing my limitations." It is true, although I could have responded that I tend to get caught up in whatever I'm doing and do not keep a check on the time, which is also true. I often tend to be late because I have everything planned out in my head while the time slips away. I also tend to imagine I can do anything and then find out I cannot follow through, which is the problem with my bike. I will have to adjust the seat again to make certain I can take the best advantage of the height so my knees do not lock up on me. I get around quite well with walking as long as I take my quad cane with me to keep from falling and ending up a traffic statistic. I walk facing traffic, but with my bike I need to ride with the traffic and obey the traffic laws. Walking is the opposite of biking, something I need to remember. I appreciate and love the bicycle a local bike shop owner gifted me, but that was before I figured out I still did not have the bicycle in perfect running condition. The handlebars still sink with the least amount of pressure which the bike shop said would not happen unless I leaned on the handlebars when I was standing up riding -- NOT TRUE. They still lean with the least amount of pressure and are not safe for me when I do get the handlebars fixed permanently, which I must do. There is always something. When everything is finally fixed to my satisfaction.

I had envisioned myself biking to the Senior Center, going to job interviews, to the library, and tomorrow or all the other excuses to put off my responsibility; it is about me and about what I can do now, today, and without funds. I will find a way to make my imagination coincide with my reality.

shopping; none of which has come true. I'm still concerned about the eco-friendly bicycle versus the gasoline-powered vehicles that come and pick me up to go to the Senior Center, the library, the store, and to appointments. Yes, BB, I am poor and do not have access to my own gasoline-powered vehicle, but I still care about the fuel powering those vehicles at any rate. Yes, I am poor, but I still care about my carbon footprint and the impact on the environment. I am poor, but I still care about the environment and still believe that a bicycle-powered composting service in this community is still workable and one I can still participate in. For me, it is not about

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Usury every day

The Medici were constantly faced with being accused of usury. If you want your checks to go through banks will charge you a lot of money, anywhere from $25 to more than $30 each time. Nowadays banks charge you for not having sufficient funds; that is called usury. People do their best to keep their accounts up to date and only write checks for what is owed. Banks charge every time you overdraft your account. Keeps you honest. No way you want to incur NSF charges. Credit cards do the same thing, charge you whenever you overdraft your account or pay without sufficient funds in your bank account.

The Medici saw usury (see the above) as a sin. Banks do not feel that way about the exorbitant charges (usury) they ding your account and you with. No wonder the Medici (bankers) felt their honor was impugned every time people called them usurers. To the Medici, those were fighting words. Not so where banks are concerned. All the banks see is they will manage your money as long as they are in business: NSF charges, overdraft charges, ATM charges, charges for making out a money order, etc. Basically, the banks make money, not just from using your money to fund their business, but to make money by lending your money out to other people. For this service, they will pay you for borrowing your money to loan out to other people, usually a whole 0.14%. That makes a big dent in their business when they pay you a whole $0.14% on every time they use your money to loan to other people.

Haven't you figured it out yet? The banks charge you $4 to type up a money order because their time and their paper are far more valuable than writing out a money order that you could get from the corner store for far less money, usually $1.50 for a money order. Could that be because the corner store charges only for making out the money order than the bank does for the same service? After all, bank employees are paid more for their time than the corner store pays their employees and you must make up the difference.

Costs, doesn't it? And you are paying the freight.

Banks are still involved in usury, unlike the Medici who considered doing business, invoking usurious charges from the poor. Not so nowadays. Usury is still a sin, but banks do not care so much. Banks are in the business of making money and if that money comes from those who can least afford it -- so what? As long as you pay the charges, you will be poorer and may be able to get Welfare. Welfare does not work out so well. It's rather like paying the poor. That is how socialism works. Is it working for you? Probably not.

I worked hard for decades, learned a great deal to do my job, and ended up broke and poor and not getting my share of Welfare either. Must be because I worked so hard for decades. That is the way socialism works -- at least for people like me who worked hard and were tossed out because I was too old. I still had work left in me, but no one wants me because I put money into various 401k schemes and got nothing for my diligence and hard work. Too bad the Medici do not work in the banking business any more. The Medici were more worried about the sin and the way people saw them.

I could not get Medicare or Welfare, except for $15 a month. I was lucky when I got a raise in my SNAP (food stamps) benefits. The government decided that I had earned a whole $1 more. Wow! Socialism really works for people like me who are poor, but not poor enough. Maybe instead of the $1114 a month I get I could actually get more food stamps, up to $195 a month instead of the $16 I get now. I would get more money if I still had small children and the amount would cover the cost of feeding small children. Since my children are grown and on their own, they can get more for their children than I can get for myself. Socialism works for all people -- or so we are told. Does not work out so well, at least not for people like me who worked hard and paid into retirement funds 6095-- at least not for me. Socialism works well for people who really need assistance, but not so much for me. The difference between $195 a month and $16 a month is the reality.

It is like living in a HUD apartment. When I moved into this building, they decided I would only be charged  $326 a month. When it was discovered I was going to college, the federal grant money $6095, I got for going to college to get the paperwork to vouch for what I already knew, it was decided that the grant money (none of which I received and all of which went to the college) my rent went up $11 a month: $337a month. The bank had already raised the rate for getting a money order from nothing to $4 to print out the same money order I got for free the month before because I had money in the bank. No more free money orders. I had to pay their fee for the ease of walking up to the bank to get my money order, $4. Probably would have been best if I had withdrawn MY money and taken it to the corner store to get a money order and paid $1.50 or go somewhere else and paying 53 cents for the same money order I would have had to pay $4 for the convenience of getting the money order at my bank. I may have saved myself the walk and $2.50 or $3.47 depending on where I went. Taking advantage of doing it all in one place cost me more money. After all, the bank has to have their share of my money for the ease of doing it all at the bank. Usury at its finest.

The Medici would have been appalled -- "Those are fighting words!" Nowadays, bankers do not care about how people view them. Usury is the usual, the norm. Bakers do not care how people view them as long as they get their money, especially if they take their money from poor people. Usury at its finest -- or worst.

The same is true of insurance brokers. They will get their money, no matter what they do for you. It's all about money. They will take your money for doing something for you as long as you pay. No matter how you look at it, you will have to pay, as long as they get your money, you will get their services. It is all about the money as long as the money goes from your pocket or savings account to their pockets. More usury. Taking money from the people who can afford it the least to line the pockets of those who make promises to you. Think of gangsters. highwaymen, thieves. That is all these people are who take advantage of their service for your trust and your money.

Thieves, confidence men, highwaymen, gangsters, pirates.

People taking advantage of others is still wrong and we, the poor, trusting, lazy, or those without the means are always behind the eight ball.

That is all. Depart.

Where truth and lies bump heads

Susan Rice was on television this morning touting her new book "Tough Love". She didn't get into the whole issue about how she lied so many times when she appeared on five different talk shows one Sunday; all she said was "That is classified." That is a whole different issue from when Hillary lied about Benghazi. I suppose the issue is not really moot since Ms. Rice and Hillary continue to lie about the Benghazi issue. They used the lies to promote Obama, who lied first and said that Benghazi was all about the cartoons portraying Mohammed and that is why Chris Stevens and the rest of the people died back in 2012 when Obama wanted to be re-elected.

Lying is all part of what Obama, a Muslim despite what he tells the rest of the world, does. It is called taqqiya, the lies that all Muslims tell to everyone outside of their religion and their method of dealing with the rest of the sinful world, the world that includes the rest of the planet.

It is quite permissible for Muslims to lie to unbelievers (the rest of the world -- you and me). No matter what Obama says about being a Christian and going to Rev. Wright's church and sitting in the front pew listening (or not listening according to Obama and Rev. Wright) to his fiery speeches about having Plymouth Rock fall on them because they are black. Obama never grew up here in the United States. He borrows his black rage from others who actually experienced racism here in the USA, pretending that he knows what it is like to be on the short end of the stick because he is mulatto (born of a black man and a white woman). That tactic worked for him in the election for president and in his books about being born of a Kenyan native, a white woman but that was all a lie. Taqqiya.

Yes, he was born of a free white woman, a US citizen, Stanley Ann Dunham and a black man, but not the black man she pretended was Barry's father: Barack Obama, Sr.

Not the black man he wrote about in his Dreams From my Father autobiography. That book, though well written, is a lie because Barry was brought up on lies, told lies, and continued to tell lies. Taqqiya.

Who knows? Maybe, besides being a communist, she was also an adherent of Islam, a Muslim, too.

We do know that she was married to Barack Obama, Sr., and also to Lolo Soetoro, both Muslims. No doubt she also dd more than listen when the Muslims calling from the minarets of their local mosque every morning. She listened and likely converted.

I do not know for certain just like I do not know for certain that Barry paid attention while sitting at the front of Reverend Wright's church while he exhorted his church, calling down damnation for having had Plymouth Rock fall on their heads.

In a way, people see me going to church on a Sunday despite the fact that I am a self-confessed atheist. They also do not see me take communion because I do not take communion. But they can imagine that my atheism is also a fake even though my atheism is not a fake. I do not believe in taqqiya since I am NOT a Muslim and do not follow Islam. 

I do not believe that the gods, from Buddha to Allah to Jehovah, exist or are real. They were made up by mankind and manmade gods are born of the ego and need to control everyone who does believe.

I do not go to church to follow these manmade gods. I do go to church because singing songs and listening to a philosophy that is part of my childhood feels good to me, touches all those places inside me that remind me that I am part of society and part of the world. That is why I attend church. I have not given up my atheism; I have simply recognized my need for people and for community. I do not believe that the Universal Creator will punish me for being human.

That is not the same as Taqqiya, the equivalent of the Roman Catholic confessions that leave Roman Catholics feeling safe and secure in their god's graces. Taqqiya is the Islamic safety net that allows Muslims to believe in their manmade god, Allah, and honor Mohammed as the source of their religion.

From that perspective, Obama is safe in Allah's eyes, though I doubt he will get points for being a homosexual since Mohammed and the Quran strictly forbid homosexuality as a lifestyle choice. According to Mohammed as written in the Quran homosexuality is punishable by beheading. Obama plays the heterosexual married man by being wed to Michelle, his wife, and raising two daughters, also believed to be the biological issue of sexual congress between Michelle and Obama but it all goes back to Taqqiya.

I have heard that Obama is being sued by Malia and Sasha's actual biological father and so the whole truth is likely to come out, destroying the taqqiya the Obamas have been keeping up for the sake of appearance. Malia and Sasha will finally discover they are not the biological issue of sexual congress between Michelle and Barry, but the biological issue of Ezekiel Wilekenmeyer Wiliams.

I do not think Zeke resembles Malia or Sasha. The same cannot be said of Dr. Blanchard and Mr. Nesbitt.  Good call, Mr. Nesbitt, you do rather resemble Barry.   

Dr. Anita Blanchard and Marty Nesbitt are Malia and Sasha's biological parents. 

It has been reported that Ezekiel Williams, above, is a lawyer in Colorado. You decide which of these people are the Obama children's parents? 

There is also the story that Michelle is actually Michael and had sexual reassignment surgery. There is a doctor who claims that Michael (now Michelle) has had breast implants and has undergone reassignment surgery so that means the claims that Michelle has a penis is also a fake. Barry would have preferred Michael (now Michelle) have a penis to satisfy his carnal urges and provide him with his need for homosexual connection. 

With all the technology available, it does not do to tell a lie when there is so much technology to prove you wrong. 

Taqqiya does not track in this technological world the way it would have 1400 years ago when Mohammed was alive and everyone had only Mohammed's writings and delusions to rely upon. 

Taqqiya is how Trump has been fooled and caught by the Saudis. There is no way to circumvent Trump's ego or his pride the way that MBS, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has done over Khashoggi's death and dismemberment. That is one issue that Trump needs to work on, his ego and gullibility where it touches all issues with truth. Taqqiya wins out every time, especially over Trump's ego. 

Trump has an issue with ego and truth that has imperiled the United States just as the United States had trouble when Barry was the POTUS. Same problem. Different presidents. Trump does not always tell the truth. He is susceptible to flattery and pomp and circumstance. 

Barry took the oath of office where he promised to protect all enemies, foreign and domestic. He lied. He spent most of his time in office bowing before Muslim princes an apologizing for the US. That unfortunately was true -- the bowing and apologizing. Obama could not swear to protect the USA from all enemies foreign and domestic since he was and is a Muslim, sworn only to protect the Quran and Mohammed, and to destroy all enemies of Allah. 

Oh, for the reincarnation of the old Honest Abe. 

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Time for Trump to STFU!

I do not always agree with Trump. He is too much of a loose cannon and does not think of what his twittering will cost the country. To me, that is not the actions of a president, specifically not the character of the leader of this country. 

I do agree that the Democrats are out to get him and have done everything in their power to bring him to his knees. However, that does not give Trump a license to play the aggrieved brat who does not get his way. His tantrums are costing the whole country and have brought the nation to its knees in some areas, especially his feud with China. What worked for him as an ordinary citizen will not work in the real world where he must balance everything and keep from pitching the world into another world war.

Giving Turkey the okay to run into Syria and murder the Kurds is not okay with the rest of the world and certainly not okay with the Kurdish people since they will be back where they were before Turkey got into the fight and made the Kurdish people the target instead of taking out ISIS. That is not playing ball honorably or fairly. It is not okay to give the Turks free rein to massacre the Kurds. That is not what America and the United States have based their raison d'etre on. Not cool at all. 

Trump did good when he went to North Korea to meet and speak with Kim Jong-un. That was worth bonus points since he was the first world leader to do so.

Points for North Korea, but the idea is to talk sense into Kim Jong-un and not pat him on the back and step out of the way while he loads up more nuclear missiles and extends his previous range by using submarines to launch the ballistic missiles from the subs and put more countries under threat. Not cool. Remember, Trump, Kim Jong-un murdered his father and has used aid to his people to continue to build his nuclear arsenal, reaching out with his megalomaniacal missiles to threaten the rest of the world. So much for the sanctions.

I know that Trump basks in the courtesy, pomp, and circumstance of state visits, but check your massive ego at the door and stop twittering like a hormone-driven teenager begging for more attention. Such preening got you in trouble in Saudi Arabia.

You are on the right track with China and China needs to come down from its high horse and give back all the tech it has stolen from the rest of the world. Just because China is a communist tyrant is no reason to let them get by with theft and all of their shenanigans.

China has been stealing tech for a very long time and they are after all a communist country doing its best to stamp on the freedom demanded by its people. The Tiananmen Square massacre is one that cannot be lived down or apologized for enough. The police that have invaded Hong Kong and have been using their bully tactics on those demanding democracy and free elections is not going to fly with the rest of the world. Communism has failed miserably and communism has been defeated in Europe and the USSR.. It is past time to go into that good night where communism was tried and communism has failed. Mao Tse Tung is dead and his dreams of communism died along with him. That is why China is working so hard to boost their economy by stealing tech and using it against the same countries they stole the tech from. Communism was a good idea for a perfect world and communism has done very well for China in its infancy, but no longer. All the communist countries have seen the writing on the wall: it is time to say goodbye to socialism and the communist way of life.

IT DOES NOT WORK.

Castro is dead and his people chafe at the restraints, looking for their chance to run to freedom in Florida -- in the United States, reunite with their defecting family and see and be among their own people far from the chains of Castro's regime. It is time that China let go of its communist dreams and join the rest of the democratic world.

Your people are willing to die in order to see free elections be held and new leaders voted into office. Once upon a time, I was told that there were so many Chinese people in the world that if they lined up and jumped off a cliff, it would take a very long time before all the Chinese were dead and the country would finally be equal to the population of the rest of the world. I would not wish the Chinese people to go the way of the lemurs who swim out to sea and commit suicide by the millions -- or billions. I would not wish that on my worst enemy and the Chinese are not even tied for first place in my estimation.

India has as many people as China, though they are far less aggressive than the Chinese. Since Chairman Mao put his one child plan into place and all girls born were sent to orphanages and given up for adoption to the rest of the world, having boys as the goal to All you should have done is institute safe sexual practices by teaching your people about condoms and encouraging them to have fewer children as a moral obligation instead of a communist practice. Education and telling people the truth about procreation is a far better practice. Look how birth rates have declined throughout the rest of the world, except where Muslims and their multiple wives and having as many children as possible are filling the rest of the world with their unwanted children.

Muslims need to get wise to themselves and stop impregnating prepubescent children and letting their moaning whores get the best of them.

Oh, well, telling China to allow democracy to flourish and their communist ways die a final death is rather like telling Trump to stop tweeting and showing his ignorance or telling the far left to give up their dreams of replacing the United States's democracy or quenching their bright shining light from the top of the hill.

Resistance is futile as the Borg told us, but so is socialism and unchecked communism.

I suppose, getting Trump to stop tweeting and demonstrating his egotistical "watch me" episodes.

If you keep on tweeting while sitting on the toilet, Trump, you will do nothing more than add kerosene to the fire the Demos are building to impeach you. Get smart. Wise up.

SHUT THE F*** UP.

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Choose Life

I have been watching PBS for a while now and have been made aware of the disparately high rates of death among blacks and Hispanics during the last great war: Vietnam. I have not seen similar statistics oh the war in Iraq or the other wars the United States has been involved in. I suspect now that the Chicanos and blacks can come up with similar statistics; they are dying in disproportionately high numbers as well.

The rule of war is that everyone will die. The likelihood of dying in a war is almost a given. Blacks and Latinos are also dying in higher numbers. The lower down on the list you are, a private, corporal, or sergeant, the greater the likelihood you will die. The fact is that whoever goes to war is likely to die: black, Hispanic, white, Asian, etc. The fact is that if you go to war, no matter your capacity in the chain of command, you will more likely die. That is the fact of war. Death follows when people go to war. No matter how much education you have and what rank you hold, the end result is more than likely going to be death. War equals death.

The same is true when you cross the street, walk down your own street, or downtown in cities (big, medium and small). You are not going to get out of this life without dying -- unless you are a brainy guy or gal who is working on immortality and have cracked the code, not by being bitten by a bat or vampire, but by living a natural life. You will die. It is inevitable. You are born. You live. You die.

Nothing has changed. Birth ends in death.

No matter how many programs yo vote for and participate in, be it socialism, communism, democracy, or Islam, you live only to end up dead. even planning for your death with life insurance will not change the outcome. You will die.

My parents are dead; it was their time. My grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins are dead. It was their time. Some of them died with cancer. Some of them died in wars. Some of them died at the hands of terrorists. Some of them died from the effects of substances that caused cancer, like glyphosates. The manner in which you die is down to how you lived your life and what products, nutrition, and genetics you drew in the lottery.

For instance, my father died of prostate cancer after he had had surgery and was pronounced cured. I knew when he told me he was cured that he would have ten years to go before cancer spread to his bones and he would die. That is how he died -- bone cancer as a result of metastatic prostate cancer was inevitable and he died. We do not know why our mother died (heart attack, eating too much processed sugar and the products she loved that contained processed sugar, or simply her heart gave out. She is dead, has been dead for over six years. she had already beaten cancer and had not yet succumbed to the hemangiomas in her liver, kidney, etc. (Hemagiomata are like blood tumors -- huge blood blisters -- that grow on or in divers organs.) She had only one kidney, having the other kidney removed earlier. In her case, BB and my brother were already tagged and matched because they had the same blood type as our mother. Her rare blood type was already matched and she would take one of her own children's kidneys if her remaining kidney failed. No need. She died alone. Neither my sister nor my brother had to give up one of their kidneys to save her and neither of them would have to go without a kidney for the rest of their lives. I'm certain one of their children would give up a kidney for them if it came to that.

Life happens. Death happens. None of us are getting out of this existence alive. How we die is a matter of timing, choice, and God's will. If we happen to be Muslim, we are guaranteed a life in Paradise and all that entails. If we have thrown the dice and chosen to go out with a bang, taking our enemies with us, Paradise will be our reward.

If we believe in Jehovah, death is still our reward and we will go wherever Jews go when they die. Christians go to either Heaven or Hell. Atheists and Agnostics go wherever they go when they quit this world. Buddhists go to promised reward and so on and on and on. Basically, when you die you will go where your life leads you. Your family, friends, and acquaintances will mourn you when you go or set up some kind of memorial in your honor, remembering you and honoring you when you are gone. but in the end, death is the conclusion of your corporeal life, unless you believe that you are reincarnated and will have to go through yet another corporeal. Weexistence to learn what you failed to learn the first time around. In that case, you will have another chance.

Or in yet another case, you will have learned all you can from this corporeal existence and go back to the Universal Creator to give up your knowledge and the lessons you learned while you were a physical being. Basically, you live and you will eventually die. to become a part of the universal creator, returning to the source of all, adding your experiences and life to the eternal good from which you came.

In the end, you are physical for a short lifetime and then you report back to the Creator of all and give up your knowledge and experience. We live and we die. What happens afterward is up to us. I believe that love is the greatest gift we have to give.. We live. We die. In between, we can do good to others and for others or we can treat them badly so that all we have to share with the Creator is that we failed to love and be of service to the rest of humanity. It is all a matter of choice -- our own free choice. Do we love and do good for others or are we selfish and care only about ourselves?

Or you can be a sunflower. Sunflowers exist, living their lives to be beautiful. Sunflowers do not wage war, do not kill, do not hurt others. Sunflowers just are. Maybe we all would be better if we chose not war but existence and helping others. No more wars. No more killing, No more prejudice. No more. Just exist. Choose life and help others.

That is all. Disperse.

Support Communism - Vote Democrat

While we were all aghast at the Obama win, we should have been paying attention to what Obama, and consequently what the current crop of Democrats have been doing and saying. We have been looking at the flashy tricks and not the magician's (or politicians') hands. We missed it. Indeed, I have missed it.

There was once an American Communist Party and that was thrown out long before the Red Scare and McCarthyism raised their red heads. We have been boondoggled, tricked while the real focus should have been on the magician's (politicians') hands all along. That is how it has always been done and how it is still being done.

While we, the people, have been dazzled by Obama's hope and promise he snuck his real agenda right past us and we missed it. I never bought into the flash or the sideshow. I did not care whether he was black or red or green. I did care that Obama was and did shred the U.S. Constitution and the Republicans did not call him on it or proceed with impeachment. They were also caught in the flash and the sideshow that was the whole issue of whether or not he was born in the United States or in Kenya. I never bought into that whole birther nonsense. I was never a birther, but having his grandparents living in Hawaii and the Hawaiian laws making it possible to hide Barry's birth did muck things up a bit and we fell for it. So many of us, including those who bought into the whole birther issue, missed the trick because they were all caught up in the issue. Barry was indeed born in the United States and he was not born on the proven fake long-form birth certificate that has been proven to be a fake even if he did post it on the White House website. Barry was born a whole year before the date listed on his faked long-form birth certificate, nor was he born at the hospital listed on the fake. Barry was born the year before in Washington state and his putative birth father, one Barack Obama, Sr., was not his biological father. Stanley Ann Dunham was pregnant before Barack Obama, Sr. was chosen to be the father of record because he was black, African actually, born in Africa, in Kenya, which is where the whole trick got started. That is how they planned and plotted the magic trick and why everyone fell for it. Everyone who fell for the trick was set up and the smooth and debonair black man pulled the wool over everyone's eyes, except for the people, the communists, who were in on the trick from the beginning.

Stanley Ann Dunham and her parents were communists and Barry was raised to be a communist, just like his grandparents and dear old mama. I'm sure that was part of the reason they chose Barack Obama, Sr. to play his biological father in the first place: he had the right politics and the right color to help pull the game off. Barack Obama, Sr. was a pushover and they used him from the beginning. Barack Obama, Sr. would choose whatever politics suited him while he climbed to power in Kenya and being an alcoholic made it easy to pull the wool over everyone's eyes because an alcoholic, is easy to fool as long as you keep plying him with alcohol. Barack Obama, Sr. was easy to fool, as is anyone whose female body he desired. Obama, Sr. was trained in the USSR by the Russians just as Obama, Jr. was trained by the Russians in his turn before he pulled out the fake birth certificate and bamboozled so many Americans with his birther nonsense.

You may point to Bernie Sanders and say that Jews do not support communism and you would be correct. Bernie has been an Independent all along but he sold his soul to the devil when he partnered up with Hillary Clinton to run for president of the United States. All you need to do is listen to his plans for America and listen to the plans for the rest of the Democratic Party to realize that this whole Democratic Socialism is a fancy way to say Communist. This country is and has always been a democracy and no matter how you slice the bread. You won't have to go very far to find the truth if you are willing to hear the truth. All of the Green party rhetoric is more boondoggle. The Democrats have cooked up the whole Democrat boondoggle the same way that Obama, Jr. cooked up the birther scandal. He has always been a communist and he has been waggling the faked birth certificate in front of our faces during two terms in office just as he paraded his children in front of us.

The original Democrats were part of the KKK from the beginning and the KKK used to burn crosses in peoples' front yards when they were not hanging negroes. All you need do is pick up a book and read it to find the truth -- if you can handle the truth. Remember, do not focus on the magician's hands (or the politicians' hands) if you want to find the truth. The Democrats were always the party of the KKK and Lyndon Johnson tricked the negroes with his whole welfare scheme just to get the negroes to keep voting for the Democrats for the next 200 years. The Democrats have changed their tunes to fit the game they have been playing the same way that Trump became a Republican overnight while he had been playing footsie with the Democrats for years. The only way that Trump could run was to become a Republican -- and he did -- because Bill Clinton challenged Trump to run against Hillary. Trump did what the Clintons did not feel was possible; he beat Hillary at the polls and, despite her maneuvering and schemes beat her at her own game because Hillary was not able to pull a win against Trump. In that case, despite the fact that the Clintons had primed the pump, the only real race for Hillary was getting Bernie Sanders to run on a Democratic ticket after so many years of winning on an Independent ticket. That was Bernie's problem. He decided to play Hillary's game on her terms instead of fighting his own fight on his own terms -- as an Independent. Tough luck, old man. You may have played the game that Hillary set up and that is why you lost. You should have stuck it out as an Independent and not played her game by her rules. Maybe you should have come out as a Democratic Socialist from the beginning. You might have run a better race.

Trump winning against Hillary was partly because he was out to win and he did. He played the game the same way that Obama, Jr. played the game, he kept his eye on the electoral college and racked up the necessary electoral college wins instead of focusing only on the popular vote. Hillary wouldn't have won if she had kept her eyes on the electoral college votes instead of focusing on her voter appeal, of which she has very few because she is who she has always been: a brainy woman with almost zero voter appeal. That is why she teamed up with Slick Willy in the first place. He had voter appeal where she has almost none. He is, was, and always has been a predator, a fact that is not lost on Hillary and for which she has run interference for him from the beginning. Slick Willy is also a super predator, a word which describes Slick Willy now and always has because he cannot keep his willy in his pants when he preys on women, as he did when he raped women during his Rhodes scholarship in the UK and here in the US when he raped Juanita Broadrick.

Bill Clinton has been known as Slick Willy for decades and he has been a super predator as long as he has been known as Slick Willy. Hillary knew the facts, but she wanted to win more than she wanted to hold his feet to the fire. She endured his liaisons before and will continue to do so as long as she can muster the energy to keep running for office, a fact that she took for granted when she faced Trump. Like me, she thinks of Trump as a blowhard and did not think that he would take his run for the presidency as seriously as Trump did. Oh, well. Live and learn, though Hillary has never really lived or learned just as the American people have not lived or learned from their mistakes. The American people have forgotten their history or they would not have been voting Democrat.

My parents were on opposite sides of the political fence and talked about their votes canceling each other out. I finally figured out that my grandparents and Mom were Democrats because they were aligned with the Ku Klus Klan and had voted Democrat when Democrats were racist and members of the KKK before the Democrats decided to pull in the negroes and the youth with their rebranded Socialistic Democracy. My father was a Republican to my mother's Democratic vote, but Mom knew where her politics lay and it has nothing to do with communism or the new Green Deal, which is the polite name for communism these days. Bernie should have stuck with his Independent ticket instead of signing on with the devil backed by the KKK because the KKK burned crosses on Jewish lawns just as they did on negro lawns. He should have remembered that instead of signing on with Hillary before she made short work of him at the polls.

That is all. Disperse.