Waterguy
Waterguy's JournalWarning, What they sell is a lot and not necessarily a good thing
They sell Viagra, or a cheaper more generic pill for every male,
and the idea behind it is, hey, every guy has the right to an erection no matter,
but at least it should be affordable, never mentioning procreation,
or a womans right to choose - that one's high on the agenda these
days, it's a dog gone saturation of the public airwave's kind of sell!
They sell plastics in every shape and form, single use for your convenance,
in the billions and trillions, the data is big, if there was only an AI to point
this much out, some would say singularity has already set in,
Hey kids, my mom was a nurse, they used to sterilize glass syringes,
the good and the bad, and heroin.
The NRA used to sell gun safety policy; and then the gun industry took over the NRA,
and then the Supreme Court weighed in, buying into a myth about the Second Amendment.
Something was sold in that regard, that a whole lot of families could easily question
but sadly their voices remain silent, no, its not the guns, not the bullets damaging
the skin, for we need to be sold the guns for our freedom - the very bedrock
of freedom.
They sell stuff, and they ain't all bad, they just want to make some money,
and employ some of us.
Where do we all work, who do we all work for, what is the narrative,
is it fast food, a department store, a grocery, the postal service, the schools,
the hospitals, the railroads, the marines, the auto garages, insurance companies,
the clothes, the house builders, the mechanics, the crafts folk, the medical workers,
and the first line emergency workers, and politicians we all elect?
And what is it being sold?
Toilet paper, Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his life in Paris.
The idea of the given time, The Rayo Graph juxt oppose to the Petroglyph.
Where art is the thing, the conveyance as a part of truth.
Where the saying, Let the buyer always beware, always does truly paint the scene.
(please do use art, only, if only to think)
A general discussion regarding our Earth
As a general layperson, I feel at least compelled to state,
The idea of human made climate change, the discharge of human actions contributing to the sudden incedibley high rate of carbon into the Earth's atmosphere has chiefly contributed to current weather patterns that it seems portend to humanities downfall.
I'm in my mid-sixties and I can at least say with conviction I have never witnessed any weather we now see today.
Being only a layman, I won't firsthand state that I'm a qualified scientist with the complete scientific facts behind what I see, what I understand definitely are the changes in our Earth's atmospheric conditions, and I cannot, spell out in any complete scientific terminology that has not already been stated/ for which I suggest to you I know the harm that has already taken place in the Earth's oceans, which cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface, and what is more, the pollution that kills many citizens yearly because they live in the most poverty stricken patches of land.
There is the carbon spewed from fossil fuels, there are the atmospheric layers that protect the Earth's people; the gravity,
just like the depth of the ocean creates pressure, the bevy of life supporting systems, the whole when it comes to animal life,
the biological entities that are changing too quickly, the cancers, the viruses, the battle between bacterial pathogens that it seems only a certain multitude of people are aware even exists - perhaps a barometer, a very clear one at that.
There is a lot here to think about that is critical. Couldn't we start to ignore all of the nonsense and talk a bit more about this very true subject somehow without what?
Hey, coal miners worked, or do work their ass off for a decent life, so does anyone in any industry. Yes, the pharmaceutical industry is backed by subsidy, US patent law, and it does not work because we spend hundreds of billions each year that is made for far less.
Bit coin, is that supposed to be an answer, is the financial system ten times too big?
Abe Lincoln was big on Geometry, learned how to read on his own.
What the hell did he know firsthand about slavery -
And yes, he suffered from depression.
Salk, Jonas,
He thought later on about population growth and this idea of the S curve, that is a point where humanity might sit.
This in no way has any meaning to the layperson. We work, we basically do all we can if we are lucky enough to work enough to support a decent life for our children.
But there is a tip of this S curve, where one could say rational, we all sit together as one, where we have to straddle that truth and learn a whole lot pretty quickly, and on top of that understand the whole identity of who we are as a whole.
And me, I was just hoping social security was still available once I retire.
Well guess what you bastard, to me I said - you ain't done, you never gave it your all just yet.
I as a Layperson find myself lucky enough to speak, but more to the point, impassioned to do so.
I feel lucky to be called an average guy.
Peace!
the fog, the identity and the slog
Energy and vitality are great, that's the life.
At least that's the intent, the motive the superlative beauty, never could we seem to see
past our own discontent in little bits and pieces without grasping the whole.
Learned early on we perhaps we can see this in ourselves.
For we come from families and trusted friendship and true love.
Is it only so ambiguous this differentiation between motivation and ambition?
No matter who we become or what we might achieve
There should always be that grand question each with all their own
capacity must face.
And I know that sounds reducive at times, but somehow sitting at the polar opposite
is the good of most people who do their best to understand the whole truth.
And so, it's a fog, and a collective slog... but still I know as a whole, we will never give up.
New College Major - Why Trump, how come Trump?
Maybe that should be a new college elective. A new University Major for those who delve in social sciences,
both humanistic and political, and maybe throw in economics.
A whole curriculum based on how Trump was elected, or the idea of someone like him having any credence having any possibility of reaching the absolute zenith in a democratic administration. The one hump of the three-legged stool when it comes to assurance,
to democracy as it has been written in the US Constitution.
How and why?
(How much job opportunity would I have with a degree like that you ask?
Never mind,
it's one of those Liberal Arts, that somehow never fits.)
This is the unfortunate postulate in education at once. and it shows like gazing at a dumpster filled with putrid foodstuff, along with a bevy of plastics that will slowly disintegrate spewing pure chemical into the atmosphere unless people are interested in understanding their role and how they can change!
The older I become the more I become against war
History happens, and no matter who we are in this world history happens to all of us.
And yes, we are so lucky in these United States because we were born into a democracy, and a great place where everything was far from perfect, but we still had freedoms to speak and to vote and to make a difference - which is not always an easy thing to do.
My dad fought in the marines in WWII. He was in the Pacific ending up in China - gone for almost 2 years while my oldest sister was just being born. Never once did he talk about it.
Learning about the history behind WWII, going back to WWI, you start to realize the turbulent times they were. Hitler the madman
takes the helm in Germany which had been decimated, all of Europe was bankrupt, and poverty and the backlash, and having to pay
reparations in a country like Germany that was already decimated unfortunately made it too easy for a madman like him to come to power. And yes, there were people during the Treaty at Versailles who were against Germany having to pay reparations and who knew that it would only create another war down the road, as they fully understood back then how fragile the world's economic system was at the time.
Ike was right about the military industrial complex. He was right to say it was what worried him most, kept him up late at night in his late years.
No war was ever good in the end. Tolstoy called it the infinitesimals or the true fabric of humankind in utterly every war that we quickly forget who suffer at the heels at every war.
We need to really focus more on, how do wars happen and then find ways to abort wars before they start, far much more than we have done in the past.
But where do we start? I guess for the U.S. we would start with King George. But really even before the birth of our own nation, what about the people that were already here. All of this is history we need to glean some kind of knowledge from.
Now, there's the problem with HAMAS - they are not a state sanctioned entity, rather they are terrorists, I know this because they use Palestinian citizens as a shield. But how can we condone a war against them when innocent people are being killed - how many children dead is acceptable to the destruction of HAMAS is a moral question that is worthy of being asked - not tomorrow, but today.
What about Ukraine, Putin attacked the Ukraine just like Hitler attached Poland. But we could also say that NATO did not hold up it's part of the bargain with expansion of NATO which Russia stated they felt threatened by.
These are very tough dilemma's that call for extremely careful consideration - and yes, finding ways to avoid war should not only be the very first consideration, but it must also be vital, and there must be rules that are set out that allow for all parties involved to speak.
We need to deal with any entity that is funding HAMAS and make the funding stop.
We need to seek for a diplomatic solution to Putin's war on the Ukraine beyond just funding Ukraine to fight on in perpetuity while all its men and women of fighting age are slowly being destroyed.
We've all seen what happened in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemin, the Sudan, to name but a few.
And yes, there are some very bad people in this world, and I sure wish there weren't.
But the narratives have got to change. We need to begin to agree on actual history more and seek out other ways besides war.
Is this an easy thing? I would say no. Is it even possible? I say yes, but just like anything great it won't ever be easy to accomplish.
So that's where hard work and hope come in.
That should be enough of a motivation for us all!
Especially when we all are alive to see the alternatives!
Peace!
University of Michigan settles with the NCAA
Source: Detroit Freepress
Rules are rules.
You have to pay upfront to be creative.
I understand the rules, and it's fair.
I don't criticize anyone for doing their job.
Nor the rules.
I vote for Democrats, always will,
I'm only a writer.
I meant no harm.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/michigan-footballs-epic-journey-to-1000-wins-5-point-fgs-sign-stealing-paul-bunyan/ar-AA1k9yrG
It's like when you pay for something expensive at the grocery store.
If your honesty, and you cannot afford it, you go without.
You know the rules, the price is on the label/upfront.
You live with that much all your life.
Corporate subsidy, etc...etc
does not apply to this board struggling to put together an earnest voice.
I get that.
Thanks!
The Last Chance
Writers think of stories,
And sometimes the title of the story comes first,
then the characters all follow suit,
it's a relationship we have with truth and fiction,
but maybe that's a story a writer tells themself,
when they have writers block,
and they start in heavy with the alcohol abuse,
or even worse, their voice becomes
not their own.
But sometimes they get lucky,
who knows...
Am I thinking of a certain Perry Mason,
or perhaps there's something inside you,
That Last Chance...
William Shatner
Hitler come to think it was a pure Nazi
What the heck is a Nazi,
WWI and all the turmoil,
deep depression, co-incidentally with social movement,
let's just slip that zinger in,
Hitler was a so-called Socialist.
An impoverished German people were grasping
for straws, like some group of children held hostage
by a gang who held their very way of life
in question, with this one condition,
come with us, they said.
The German leaders at the time wanted power,
Let Adolph this populist turn the public's eye,
we got real shit to deal with now,
I guess this is a raw painting of fractured
incomplete history of some sort - reparations were demanded
with no real way to pay - the demands of the winners in war almost always never make a mistake is a myth in
any history
The National Socialist German Workers Party,
maybe became too Nationalistic, splintering away
from worker's rights towards diabolical maniacal genocide
forgive me, and excuse me, but -
Does that mean that writers and actors, teachers and factory workers
should not unite as one???
And what the hell, why should those air traffic controllers all being fired for standing as one...
Concerning those air traffic controllers during the eighties,
Just for wanting a better salary and better resources to keep air transportation safe,
in a topsy turvy jet-fueled high overhead business nut-factory that at the very least demands some semblance of safety to survive.
Should not they be given back their jobs, those that are still alive???
And if they were, wouldn't we all be more safe ----
you don't hear that argument from the progressive left in Congress these days do you!
Remember PATCO
Just like the last time we got fucked by
the system -
oh those Dems, that's the last thing they want to bring up.
It's a damn football game folks.
Georgia or Alabama
Mississippi State is run by white dudes
you fools
What the hell does age, eye site, motor speed got to do with it -
when we gots the AI
Law established by only precident
I never studied Law in any detail,
not because I didn't want to know any truth about the Law.
I did study intro to Law in college
but a degree in Law was not for me.
But not that you have to go to college.
In my Intro to Law class I was intrigued by
its logic.
The Latin, Stare Dicisis, the law of precident -
practices by judges in the past meant set a standard
for rulings, to be fair,
Law itself was decided by a number of things,
outside of the judiciary.
Going to college is not everything,
sure, I went to college on my own dime,
but most people I know from even my own family
made their way as carpenters, electricians,
and even bartenders.
There's law in everything.
My mom was a nurse after a two year degree
during WWII, and she became a mentor to me.
It was a direction she took. A discipline, taking care
of the sick.
I grew up listening to her speak about people suffering,
from cancer, as she worked on an oncology ward,
during the sixties, seventies, until the late eighties when
she finally retired.
So I went back to school, got a degree I suppose maybe,
to make her happy, but more to learn something,
about conviction, about life.
And for me it was a good thing.
Learning is a layering of things -
like holding hands with another and getting to know
oneself -
I'm not so brave, maybe my personal narrative,
isn't so true, but it does matter what I say.
it matters more every damn day, the older I get, I think.
Especially when I know how much I've changed.
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