What has been pushed as patriotism is coming to reflect "hateriotism." I could expect a hateriot to assault someone who suggests that they are far less than honest, caring people.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Everybody needs a Mister Wagner in their life
When my mother moved to California to live with her sister, I rented a corner of my uncle's basement. I was 17. Someone discovered that I had no legal guardian, and turned me in to the school district.
The Dean of Students, Mr. Wagner, called me in to his office to tell me that I would have to pay tuition as an out of state student because Mom was living with her sister, Alice, in Los Angeles, California. This happened in October, the last year of my high school enrollment.
He thought about it for a half a minute. Then he told me that the paper work would take some time. Then he told me that he would make sure that it would disappear until I had graduated.
I never got a chance to tell him that I loved him for doing that.
The Dean of Students, Mr. Wagner, called me in to his office to tell me that I would have to pay tuition as an out of state student because Mom was living with her sister, Alice, in Los Angeles, California. This happened in October, the last year of my high school enrollment.
He thought about it for a half a minute. Then he told me that the paper work would take some time. Then he told me that he would make sure that it would disappear until I had graduated.
I never got a chance to tell him that I loved him for doing that.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Who am I?
I am:
Jack of All Trades; Master of Some.
I have:
Majored in Smart Ass, with a Minor in Bad Puns.
Been a successful motorcycle mechanic, tuner, designer and racer. The racing part still hurts - you learn how to fall off in your first season.
Took many photos of everything that came to my attention, including amazing photos of everything in nature as well as the wonderment of interactions in the 15 Foot and 30 Inch bubble chambers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
Achieved an M.S. in Computer Science, and participated in creating data acquisition software at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. I loved playing there - it was a fantastic experience.
Been a musician and enjoyed performing for many folks since I was a child. Music is Magic. When I was about four-years-old, I confused the words "music" and "magic." Later, I learned that they were the same.
Been Dad, but that's only a job description; it's not me.
Loved people, and still do.
Jack of All Trades; Master of Some.
I have:
Majored in Smart Ass, with a Minor in Bad Puns.
Been a successful motorcycle mechanic, tuner, designer and racer. The racing part still hurts - you learn how to fall off in your first season.
Took many photos of everything that came to my attention, including amazing photos of everything in nature as well as the wonderment of interactions in the 15 Foot and 30 Inch bubble chambers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
Achieved an M.S. in Computer Science, and participated in creating data acquisition software at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. I loved playing there - it was a fantastic experience.
Been a musician and enjoyed performing for many folks since I was a child. Music is Magic. When I was about four-years-old, I confused the words "music" and "magic." Later, I learned that they were the same.
Been Dad, but that's only a job description; it's not me.
Loved people, and still do.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Zygote as Blueprint
A zygote is a person in the same sense that a blueprint is a functioning ocean going vessel. There are differences that thinking people will immediately understand.
I'll try to administer some more medicine to the dead in hopes that Lazarus is a feasible option, but won't become too much more depressed over the highly likely failure of my effort.
A ship cannot go to sea if it's only a concept in a blueprint, like a set of rules established by the joining of male and female DNA. Once the construction crew finishes the masterful tasks involved in building the ship, it cannot function until its crew has been trained and has had modification in procedure that enable that ship to perform its duties as designed, and even learn to exceed those performance requirements. This is the reason that humans are typically not granted the full rights of citizenship until a certain age.
But, training aside, the essence is that a blueprint is not a finished and viable product. The instructions in the DNA contained in a zygote are not equivalent to a human being.
Those who believe in birth at all costs, without responsibility and support from society, are lunatics. The dangerous thing is that they are lunatics who have been working to destroy education, and have been successful in simultaneously barking for "less government" while legislating second class citizenship and outright oppression for the majority of the citizens of the United States of America..
My Bachelor of Science is in Education. Right wingers refuse to use the skills that I have; preferring to use the propaganda of the psychopaths and sociopaths who believe that society is only for the powerful in their efforts to acquire more than any person can possibly need.
I'll try to administer some more medicine to the dead in hopes that Lazarus is a feasible option, but won't become too much more depressed over the highly likely failure of my effort.
A ship cannot go to sea if it's only a concept in a blueprint, like a set of rules established by the joining of male and female DNA. Once the construction crew finishes the masterful tasks involved in building the ship, it cannot function until its crew has been trained and has had modification in procedure that enable that ship to perform its duties as designed, and even learn to exceed those performance requirements. This is the reason that humans are typically not granted the full rights of citizenship until a certain age.
But, training aside, the essence is that a blueprint is not a finished and viable product. The instructions in the DNA contained in a zygote are not equivalent to a human being.
Those who believe in birth at all costs, without responsibility and support from society, are lunatics. The dangerous thing is that they are lunatics who have been working to destroy education, and have been successful in simultaneously barking for "less government" while legislating second class citizenship and outright oppression for the majority of the citizens of the United States of America..
My Bachelor of Science is in Education. Right wingers refuse to use the skills that I have; preferring to use the propaganda of the psychopaths and sociopaths who believe that society is only for the powerful in their efforts to acquire more than any person can possibly need.
Friday, August 17, 2012
A Wonderful Thing
Today we inunrned the ashes of Commander William Alcott Savory, U.S. Navy Reserve, in Arlington National Cemetery. A few important people attended, and were quite moved, and moved by me to take up video cameras to steal the scenes. The scenes at ANC were quite impressive, and very well rehearsed by the Navy team who performed. It was an amazing production.
Afterwards, Sonny McGown, Loren Schoenberg, Rob and Chris Bamberger and I invaded a quiet hole in the area to reminisce at the wonder of Bill Savory's life. I set up a camera and tried to give them space to spill their shit about Bill, and a wonderful thing ensued.
There isn't enough room in this entry to even briefly state what he was about. The audio and video may show a little picture of this amazing man who was my father.
So, I state my love for people like Loren, Sonny, Chris and Rob who preserve the art that is important.
Afterwards, Sonny McGown, Loren Schoenberg, Rob and Chris Bamberger and I invaded a quiet hole in the area to reminisce at the wonder of Bill Savory's life. I set up a camera and tried to give them space to spill their shit about Bill, and a wonderful thing ensued.
There isn't enough room in this entry to even briefly state what he was about. The audio and video may show a little picture of this amazing man who was my father.
So, I state my love for people like Loren, Sonny, Chris and Rob who preserve the art that is important.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Medicine For The Dead
Capitalism depends upon the fantasy of unlimited resources. Some god or gods will provide the stuff that our gluttony depends upon, without regard for balance.
When we have consumed this planet, we will move on to the next. Does that sound familiar? It's a common theme that we have seen in countless stories of extraterrestrial aliens who come to take our planet for its raw materials, and even humans for food.
Before considering consuming other planets, humans have been practicing on each other through empire building and unfettered production and consumption. Ever since the first organized humans began pushing smaller, weaker bands and other species out of the way in pursuit of water, game, plants and other resources, we have been witnessing our very short sighted pursuit of more in the face of less.
As we have accumulated knowledge of our environments, many have chosen to invoke quite dangerous beliefs such as denying that there are any limits to resources, or that supernatural beings will protect us from ourselves. It ain't gonna happen.
It may be that the only thing that will save our planet from an early demise is our extinction.
When we have consumed this planet, we will move on to the next. Does that sound familiar? It's a common theme that we have seen in countless stories of extraterrestrial aliens who come to take our planet for its raw materials, and even humans for food.
Before considering consuming other planets, humans have been practicing on each other through empire building and unfettered production and consumption. Ever since the first organized humans began pushing smaller, weaker bands and other species out of the way in pursuit of water, game, plants and other resources, we have been witnessing our very short sighted pursuit of more in the face of less.
As we have accumulated knowledge of our environments, many have chosen to invoke quite dangerous beliefs such as denying that there are any limits to resources, or that supernatural beings will protect us from ourselves. It ain't gonna happen.
It may be that the only thing that will save our planet from an early demise is our extinction.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
goddamn proprietary operating systems and monopolies
I'm just tired of this crap. I cannot install software in Windows 7 because of permissions. I cannot access my own directories because of permissions. I can't save files to some directories because I don't have permission. I PAID FOR THIS SHIT! I AM THE OWNER! I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR! I AM A SUCKER!
Microsoft says "go to the user community and get help from the other friendly people (that we screwed)." Right - go there and ask some of the 12,000 people who have the same problem you do for help with something the Microsoft should fix. Microsoft wrote junk software, but won't fix it. They won't let programmers look at the source code. Fix it with FM (Fucking Magic) because Microsoft is busy building the next operating system, which is really a service pack for the current one (but costs money because it's a "new" system).
So much for "free enterprise" and "free markets" and "competition" within our great economic power house. We're just screwed. It's long past time to strip the monopolies and oligarchies from our society; they're parasites.
Microsoft says "go to the user community and get help from the other friendly people (that we screwed)." Right - go there and ask some of the 12,000 people who have the same problem you do for help with something the Microsoft should fix. Microsoft wrote junk software, but won't fix it. They won't let programmers look at the source code. Fix it with FM (Fucking Magic) because Microsoft is busy building the next operating system, which is really a service pack for the current one (but costs money because it's a "new" system).
So much for "free enterprise" and "free markets" and "competition" within our great economic power house. We're just screwed. It's long past time to strip the monopolies and oligarchies from our society; they're parasites.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Yalls nutz - medical care isn't a sin.
I met a man at the Coronado Theater in Rockford, Illinois. We were there to register our disdain for the State of Illinois' effort to shut down the Singer mental heath center, which serves 21 counties in northwestern Illinois. I told him of the East Moline State Hospital. It was a place for the mentally needy in our midst.
At some point in the 1980s, the Reagan Administration emptied out the Federally supported institutions by killing funding for them. My mother had been a beneficiary of the programs in East Moline State Hospital.
Amazingly, a purpose was identified for the vast publicly created hospital and its property. It became East Moline Correctional Facility! What a benefit to society! Now, there was a place to place all of those strange entities who seemed to show up in public after they were shoved out the door. Instead of being patients, they were now prisoners! Damn! How easy is that? Prison guards are so much less expensive than medical professionals!
What now?
At some point in the 1980s, the Reagan Administration emptied out the Federally supported institutions by killing funding for them. My mother had been a beneficiary of the programs in East Moline State Hospital.
Amazingly, a purpose was identified for the vast publicly created hospital and its property. It became East Moline Correctional Facility! What a benefit to society! Now, there was a place to place all of those strange entities who seemed to show up in public after they were shoved out the door. Instead of being patients, they were now prisoners! Damn! How easy is that? Prison guards are so much less expensive than medical professionals!
What now?
Yes, the AHCA is an evil commie fascist pinko Nazi scheme
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. Sen. Max Baucus received
a visitor from Wellpoint. She was a vice-president on leave for some
important purpose - she had an 89 page memo for Max; suggestions for
"reform". Among the first implied was to arrest anybody supporting
Medicare For All (Single Payer - like civilized countries have). MFA was
a purpose stated for the Act in 1965 - reduce eligibility age until age
zero. Obamnycare is a plan designed by the Heritage Foundation and
implemented by Romney and Obama. It is not an efficient system. It fixes
a little, but not enough yet.
I suggest that we teach people to read, think critically, and be skeptical. (Among other things.)
Beware of people who decry education.
I suggest that we teach people to read, think critically, and be skeptical. (Among other things.)
Beware of people who decry education.
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