Children, Teenagers, Young Adults of America – You’re Doomed…!!

The time is yours now, as much as it is for older adults. We ‘older’ adults had a tough time in the 60s & 70s getting to read books considered sinful, immoral or goes against the sanctity of Christ or any other god out there…

After the book bans and burnings in Nazi occupied Germany – prior to the people of Germany learning that what they did and what they put the Jewish community through – books are there for the people of Germany to read.

After book bans and burnings in America, in the 20s, the 30s, well – you get the drift – MANY of us were able to enjoy and learn from books that opened up WHOLE NEW VISTAS for us. Books that allowed us to explore the physical world and the social world around us – those books were there for us.

Now. Now, we have individuals around the country and those individuals in positions of political power – they want to bring back “Christianity” and more, deeper, “Conservatism” and SHOVE IT DOWN THE THROATS OF FREE-THINKING AMERICANS…!!!  Older adults as well as young adults and let’s not forget the growing children and teenagers who DO want to learn more.

You, you Children, Teenagers and Young Adults of America – you have to do more and take your turn to stop the stifling of free thought; freedom to grow and experiment – YOU are our BEST hope now. YOU have to talk to your parents and your teachers, and CONTINUOUSLY try to convince them to help stop what appears to be a minority of people in America who want to take us back 50 to 100 years in the past. Back when men, mostly men of a certain skin color had the ultimate power to wield over everyone else as if the “other” people were meaningless.

And by “other people”, take a guess here. No, let me just say it. People of color, any color – Black, Yellow, Brown – any of them, any of us were considered SECOND-RATE people. And let’s not forget women. Women in the past (and in some communities across the country to this day) were meant to ALWAYS be, as has been noted for decades, if not centuries – Barefoot and Pregnant and in the Kitchen. Always at home taking care of the “man’s” domicile, his kingdom (said with a little “k” here). Women, at the leisure and pleasure of many men, were meant to be kept in the background, an inferior position – but a step up from people of color.

We. By ‘We’, I include you Children, Teenagers and Young Adults to step up and help stop this insane blood and life-sucking backwards move for society. A growing movement that intends to take everyone back to the time when White Supremacy made all the choices for everyone else: things such as child labor laws being overwritten and returned to the 1700 and 1800s. Don’t take my word for it, take the word of the authors: Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes who wrote the book, “The Big Myth”. They talk about this one area in depth, as well as other areas. Check out the content in the book regarding the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) who could care less about children, as long as they worked for low wages and in dangerous conditions. This is what NAM did in the past.

Today. Today, we have individuals who are actively banning books and even poems such as the one by Amanda Gorman. Amanda Gorman did the poem at Biden’s presidential inauguration – remember her yet? Young and looks to be a wonderful American.  That poem that she recited at the inauguration is now banned from Bob Graham education center in Miami Lakes (Florida) because of a complaint from a SINGLE PARENT where the woman/complainant said she objected to the poem because it was “not educational and have indirectly hate messages”. (Her words, not mine…)

This is what all of us are going through, a minority of individuals and corrupted political individuals as well as political parties across America, in many states – trying to still freedom and growth from you as YOU come into your own time. But, your own time may be stolen and quashed for years and or decades. All because of these narrow-minded thinkers and believers who want a certain colored world, a world of religion again, where everyone should believe in their god.

You have to make your voice heard, somehow. Most of you will never even see this paper, as it is only one of thousands out here in the Internet. Yet, there is always hope, I neglected to mention – I’m optimistic and have always been so. Even after seeing countless incidents and situations of unfairness and illegalities across the decades because not enough of us stood up fast enough.

I still have hope that enough Americans can band together in enough states in America to quench the numerous groups of political parties who are now ACTIVELY banning special elections; creating MORE rules and regulations to ensure their remaining in political power for as long as they can and let’s not forget GERRYMANDERING, which is still going strong…

Children, Teenagers and Young Adults – make your voices heard, somehow. Band together so all of you are able to enjoy the books of your choice and to enjoy the social life YOU would like to enjoy (legal of course…). And to even enjoy the partner of ANY color as some of us have greatly enjoyed being with – no one has to marry another person just because they have the same skin color. Ask the Lovings, Richard and Mildred Loving, they had to go to court to be married, just because they were black and white and living in the south (Virginia). Check out their story, there are books and movies and even podcasts out there that talk about them as a couple, as individuals and as heroes that MANY of us look up to.

Please. Band together to help stop this nonsense of forced Christianity and conservatism…

Scholastic Books to Maggie Tokuda-Hall – Delete Racism References…

Another Wow…!!  Silencing authors… Another company attempting to. Again… (this started in 2022, I’m late to the party)

Is this really how we want to continue presenting America to the world…? A country of racists who want to continue down the path of belittling other races? Putting the ‘less desirables’ behind the curtain and to keep quiet…???

Publisher Scholastic Books asked Maggie Tokuda-Hall to remove all of the Racism references throughout the book. The book is called “Love in the Library”. It is a book about a couple at a Japanese internment camp (Maggie’s grandparents). After being relocated to Minidoka, a prison camp in Idaho, Tama (Maggies’ grandmother) takes a job in the camp’s library……

It is about the sad period when Japanese-Americans were rounded up and put away like cattle in WWII. This round up was more than fear of Japanese war sympathizers or war spies. This boiled down to racial discrimination due to them being, Japanese… Sounds, mmm, a bit like how our Indigenous Americans were put out to pasture on Federal reservations – with their land and history taken away…

At any rate, Maggie was writing about this time period with her Japanese American parents and others. Scholastic, for one example, cut out one whole paragraph and removed the word “racism” from the author’s note. (This is from the story: Bay Area author refuses Scholastic’s suggested revision to cut ‘racism’ references in book/.)

Maggie said ‘No’ to Scholastic because of the company wanting to cut out historical content – wanting to only have one story and not a multi-aspect story about life at that time.

And that affects today as well, on how others write books and papers when it comes to racial disparity.

How does many of these boards and so many people think life should be? Completely whitewashed as if nothing bad ever happened…?

That there is only one race to write or think about…?

Life is history. And history is about everything. You cannot cut out pieces here and there just to make it sound better for one group of people.

Life is everyone, everywhere.

This book is no longer going to be for students after Maggie turned down Scholastic.

This is honor and integrity on Maggies’ part. I stand with her.

What are companies afraid of…? I am with Maggie here – companies attempting to squelch:

• Black Feminism; queer studies; Black Lives Matter activism; etc., etc., etc.

What are so many American parents afraid of…?

• The SAME BLASTED THINGS. It is this crazy fear of a woke culture…. And this noise likely stems from a MINORITY of loud voices, while the majority of parents who applaud writers like Maggie are somewhat silent.  This only hurts their children from learning what is going on in the world, from news of today and news, more importantly – from yesterday or years ago…

Very sad. Very sad.

The book is a bit below my grade level, but, I still bought it. 40 pages.

Wait, here is another tidbit, a piece from the New York Times May 6, 2023 talking about another publisher, Studies Weekly, doing the same crazy bit but in regards to wiping out Rosa Parks and what she was standing up for (or sitting down):

“Similar controversies have arisen recently around efforts to remove discussions of racism from school textbooks. One textbook publisher, Studies Weekly, faced criticism after it revised an elementary school textbook so that Rosa Parks’s story no longer included references to segregation or race.”

Vivek Ramaswamy republican presidential candidate – Not A Good Choice, Nor Are Others…

Wow…!! 

Vivek would have been the first Indian American to hold the office of President of America (I still refuse to say “United States of America” due to all of the craziness taking place in this country, further dividing it) and I was thrilled to hear about something like this. Until I found out more of his background…

He wants to run on the platform of fighting ‘wokefulness’. He wants to have the states dictate, sorry – determine the fate of women who want to have abortions.

This guy also ‘apparently’ paid some Wikipedia editor to modify Ramaswamy’s profile, wait, let me put this snippet below:
“In May 2023, Forbes reported Ramaswamy had paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia page to appear more favorable to political conservatives before announcing his campaign. The paid editor removed references to his involvement with the Ohio COVID-19 Response Team and his Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans postgraduate fellowship (other editors later restored the removed content, citing the report). Paul and Daisy Soros are respectively the elder brother and sister-in-law of businessman and social activist George Soros, who has been the subject of numerous right-wing conspiracy theories.

Ramaswamy’s campaign confirmed that it had paid an editor, but denied it was trying to “scrub” his Wikipedia page. A campaign spokesperson said the edits were revisions of “factual distortions” and blamed a Ron DeSantis-aligned super PAC for amplifying the story.”

—- So, take what you desire from that info, AFTER you do your own research to corroborate the info above.

Moving on. This guy wants to remove America from the Ukraine / Russia situation.

Does he not know that if Russia is ‘not stopped’ that Putin WILL continue perpetuating mass murder, ignoring sovereign powers and authority, continual corruption and killing its own citizens for speaking up. Wait, did I mention dictatorial control of all Russians and hopefully of citizens in countries surrounding Russia…? Disallowing Russian citizens from having ‘free speech’ – forcing these citizens to listen to whitewashed Russian news (from Tass and Pravda – look up the meaning of Pravda for a chuckle of your own).

Stopping Russia will help restore some small amount of peace in the world. Look, this Ukraine/Russian engagement (war) has already united NATO, forging it into a stronger alliance for peace and democracy.

We, America, also have an alliance of friends for peace in Southeast Asia – a united front to stop China from trying to take control of that hemisphere – India, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, S. Korea and even the UK.

How does pulling back from the Ukraine / Russian war in order to protect America first work…?

Allowing Russia to gain control of Ukraine makes Russia stronger and gives them an enabling thought process of “hey, we took over Ukraine, who else can we take control of…?”  It is not just about fighting in Ukraine, it is also about the global economy with Russia trying to influence it, illegally. The FSB and SVR are known to have considerable influence via hacking or killing individuals around the globe. Whether these victims are Russian or another nationality. Go look up the stories on how Russian operatives:

• hacked the country of Georgia’s electrical grid – just because Russia could, then how
• operatives killed activists and journalists with Ricin poison – or throw acid liquids in their faces.

And note for Facebook, LinkedIn and Medium – this is NOT a bully paper against China and Russia. Besides, how does an individual impugn the story and historic knowledge of China and Russia, when it is known FACTUALLY that these two countries are either causing mass murder, detaining hundreds to tens of thousands of people against their will (Uighurs, Falun Gong, Russian activists, etc.).

So hey, if folks in America want to use their votes to vote for someone like Ramaswamy who wants America to turn inwards and THEN have the states dictate individual state laws such as abortion or getting rid of woke culture – go for it.

But, WE have a problem with that line of thought. How many Americans are there out there who learned history in high school and college and then forgot about it?  How many Americans are there who learned whitewashed history of America.  For basis, I know quite a few younger Americans and some of my own generation who learned history that was MISSING a great deal of history for which they discovered years or decades later what they missed in school because the school system failed them. Just look at Florida’s push to whitewash books in the school system and even rig colleges. Racism and the history of racial discrimination was not taught in MANY schools across this country.

How does one stop abhorrent, disgraceful activities if it is not taught in school so students can learn from it? Want to repeat those crimes, do you really want to repeat history? Well, if folks like Ramaswamy are elected into any kind of power, this is what is going to happen because he wishes to stop wokefullness.

Ramaswamy also wants to raise the voting age to 25. Will he also raise the enlistment age to join the military to 25…? Hmmm…. What he is stating is:
“unless a person serves the nation in the military or as a first responder or can pass the civics test immigrants take when becoming citizens.”

Then there are a couple more of actions that Ramaswamy wants to implement – removing the Department of Education and abolishing the IRS.  Sounds wonderful huh…?  Think about it if you agree with Ramaswamy, then think about it again, deeper this time.

Here may be something you have not heard, Ramaswamy considers Tucker Carlson ‘worthy’ of entering the Republican primary, believing that Carlson is a smart and sharp individual… Wow.

States will continue to devolve into individual fiefdoms, if more of us do NOT stand up and vote for the better candidate. We will return to states having inchoate, non-inclusive and discordant laws from those of its neighbors.

We will return to having (I pulled this from Wikipedia for a better description than what I could pass on here) Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in America that practiced a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence. The term came from signs posted that “colored people” had to leave town by sundown.

And yeah, we will definitely make a return to back-alley abortions because of the conservative, religious groups who want to talk control of couples, specifically women, bodies.

This is if, IF, we allow individuals like Ramaswamy to consume the taste of power. Life will turn negative, for MANY of us in this country.

IF more people like Ramaswamy get into power because more Americans did not stand up and vote for better people (consider George Santos from New York) – America will devolve into a has been power, fading into the pages of history as a once glorious space where so many people from around the globe wanted to come to.

We will spiral down into a, ummm, haven of pathetic, tribal zones of autocratic, dictators. Dystopia anyone…. Whites only here. Blacks only here. Asians only here. Gays only here.  You know I could go on and on for that line of thinking.  But I am not.

You, YOU have to do some serious soul searching, deep, far reaching and heavy soul searching. And then talk about it with others, outside of your close hold circle – having CONVERSATIONS and not fighting arguments to see where things actually stand and ‘hopefully’ learn something better.

YOU will have to open your eyes and watch and listen to other news outlets for truth. I had a shocking moment with a co-worker a few months ago who made the comment of “oh, that communist news outlet.” Another co-worker and I were talking about CNN and this other co-worker with that salacious comment walked up, heard CNN, then made the comment.

Going back to Ramaswamy, he is a prime example of someone who is doing narrow thinking and not national and international thinking and extrapolating down the road, like, ohhh, say a decade or two.

So, consider the consequences of voting Ramaswamy into power.

• More, much more restrictive control over women’s bodies and back-alley abortion deaths because of possibly contaminated surgical environments, all because the women could not obtain a better environment legally.
• COMPLETELY whitewashed history of America being taught in all schools. With most of the schools having funds diverted to them because of, you know, racial skin tones instead of divvied up amongst all schools. Leaving many schools of people with, you know, skin tones of a different color. Educational deserts…
• Crime. Please. There will be even more heavy handed, jack boot thugs running around the country doing “law enforcement” work because they have a badge and a gun – and NO body cam to record their work.
• Here, chew on this one where Ramaswamy talks about discrimination and affirmative action:
  “If elected, Mr. Ramaswamy said in an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday (Feb 21, 2023), his first action would be to repeal Executive Order 11246, which has banned discrimination and required affirmative action for federal contractors since 1965.”

Talking about skin tone colors. Does many of the people in America NOT see that there will MORE racial diversity than ever as each year passes. More people are discovering that just because a person is of a different skin color, IT-DOES-NOT-MAKE them a hands-off creature of ill repute or repulsiveness. Diversity is a wonder and it is wonderful. Diversity can make the lives of so many people SO MUCH BETTER.  And improve those around them as that diversity spreads.

What matters is what is that other’s nature. The character of the person is EVERYTHING.

When it comes down to it SKIN COLOR IS NOTHING! It is what that person has in their heart, in their mind, in their character and in their ethics as you look into their eyes…

Personally, I prefer to be around “Woke” individuals who have open mindsets… What do we have to be fearful of?

• Gays? Worried about turning gay if you’re around an LGBTQ person?
• Race? Are you really worried about someone else’s skin color affecting you – or maybe changing ‘your’ skin color due to their presence…?
• Women in power? Really? Afraid of smarter women…..??

And yes, “ALL LIVES MATTER!” So again, start doing some heavy thinking and make better use of your voting power. Please pass on folks such as Ramaswamy. Or Trump. Or DeSantis. They only want to take us back, no, SET US BACK decades. All the gains we as a country have attained – it will all be for naught.

This is not naivety, just pragmatic thinking. 

Having ‘national’ standards is far better than having 20 – 30 wildly differing standards to adhere to in order to not go to jail in the state that is being offended…

Taiwan / TSMC / Samsung, Blow Up the Factories & Pre-Fabs – “IF” China….

does decide to attack and actually get into the industrial complex areas. Taiwan D-Day…

This is a significant part of what China really aspires to gain, “Technology”, “Intellectual Property (IP)” – basically the highly prized super small chip technology. In the 5 & 4 nm range, soon to be 3nm with the newly introduced Nvidia AI technology to produce better chips, faster and at smaller scales…

China cannot produce that kind of sophisticated chip yet, due to not having access to equipment such as ASML’s expensive extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology. As a result, China is stuck at the larger scale of 7nm for the time being.

Yes, the Chinese government ‘does’ want to claim the country of Taiwan as its own.

And please note (YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn) – not bullying China’s citizens here (nothing to do with the regular Chinese citizens – this is completely on the Chinese government). There is no possible way in Hades that individuals can bully a Dictatorial country’s leadership such as China’s. China, a country that takes by force 10’s of thousands of Uighurs (Uyghurs) at a time, put them into ‘forced re-education camps’, sorry ‘center’s’ and then demolish the Uighurs’ towns and communities to make way for non-Uighurs. Wiping out the Uighur culture and language.

Kinda reminds you of forced slavery in America, a tad bit maybe….? Hmmm… Think about it.

China wants to claim Taiwan, a free democratic country as its own. To force, gee, sorry again – to ‘guide’ the Taiwanese people into becoming better, kowtowing (blast it, sorry again) “Chinese” citizens.

In gaining control of Taiwan, the Chinese government can grab hold of the resources China has been desperately seeking to gain – Taiwan’s multiple pre-fabrication plants (or pre-fabs) – Samsung has a toe-hold there as well. High tech chip making baby…!!!!

Taiwan has it – China wants it….

Now, here, we get a bit strategic and a wee smidgen of hypothetical thinking…

All the prefabs should, after smoking / sussing out all the possible Chinese government sympathizers and, well – spies; lay out and plant explosives (covertly hidden) throughout the prefabs. This has to be a highly close-hold operation where only a very few people know of the explosives (C-4, Semtex [RDX and PETN] and whatever other efficient/effective explosives are out there on the market) being planted throughout the prefab. (Firing missiles into the country’s own pre-fabs also works…)

Just have to be sure to wipe out, completely, the chip making equipment, the databases and storage components holding that gold knowledge…

There would be even fewer individuals who know of the manner/mechanism of how the explosives go off – digital, analog (in case of frequency jamming) or set to timers. Of course, this scenario would be a great deal more complex than the very high level content I noted here. Then, once everything is planned and set up and with the Taiwanese and corporate leadership able to ensure that all personnel are able to evacuate the prefabs with enough time – it is good to go.

Lastly, and sadly – if the Chinese military “should” get to a point where they “might” gain control of the prefabs – this is when D-Day in Taiwan occurs. Destroying the corporate gold businesses of chip making (and the livelihoods of many)…

This will of course severely harm the Taiwanese economy; but I would bet that they would rather see all the pre-fabs go up in smoke, than China having them.

Now, also important, and this is a very well-known aspect, China wants to take control and claim sovereignty of the entire area to the east of China. That area is comprised of the:

• South China Sea (SCS)
• West China Sea (WCS)
• East China Sea (ECS)

Not to forget the Spratly Islands as well….

And in this manner, taking control of those seas and Taiwan – China can strategically claim the entire region, FAR from the normalized (and world recognized) Economic Exclusion Zones (EEZ) for each country in the hemisphere – Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Please put the perceived allied threats of Japan and S. Korea in that grouping as well. This is because China wants to claim the vast majority of that area as their sphere of control (influence).

Within these areas of contention that the Chinese government wants control over; there are vast amounts of natural gas, oil and minerals that China is “swooning” to grab hold of and claim ALL of it as their own. Forget about the country’s in the hemisphere that has equal right to what is in their EEZ – China wants all of it.

 Basically, there you have it, the Chinese government wants to:

• take over a democratic country (to stretch out Chinas’ power reach),
• claim control of the ECS, SCS and WCS for control of ingress and egress to the area and protect their eastern borders from all the various invaders who want to take over China, and lastly,
• snap up all commodities in the sea bed

What’s that you ask, “What about the Chinese citizens and Uighurs”?

What about them?

While we, the people of the world care about them, the Chinese government does not. Those folks are pretty much stuck in kowtowing to the Chinese government forever, being super-subservient – forever. 

Unless the Chinese people unite (with the Uighurs) and bring democracy to the country. However – this, this will take a very, very long time to occur…

DeSantis – as President? Be Careful What you Wish for… Could be a Dystopian World?

If you voted for DeSantis of Florida for anything in the past, you “may” wish to re-visit your thought process. That is, unless you are of a certain demographical race and political party make-up….

As it has been noted by multiple news outlets and personalities out there, DeSantis is moving towards Fascist mode – requiring people that are different than him to like, follow and do everything that he wants them to do.

This is how Hitler started in his younger days after WW I – making noise and getting people riled up to follow him.

For Hitler, it was the Jewish people that he wanted gone. Hitler wanted a pure white race.

Is this what DeSantis is angling for in the long run, a possible long con…? An attempt at a pure white race, full of extreme Conservatives only? To rid the Florida LGBTQ community of all those who consider themselves as such? And possibly for the entire country if he somehow manages to gain the presidency down the road. Really!!!

First and foremost – RACE should NEVER play a part in anything – NO discrimination – NO hate crimes…! We should be engaging with, listening to and enjoying people for who they are, NOT based on the color of their skin, ethnicity or culture.

Then too, I am not gay or bi-sexual or trans or queer – but I am like many Americans out there who consider ALL LGBTQ individuals to be equal in ALL aspects. Why should one be afraid to accept anyone of the LGBTQ community (or ANYONE else) as equals?

Why, in the 21^st century are certain groups attempting to put a strangle hold on growth and diversity? Yet, we have various groups of neo-Nazis popping up, wanting a pure white race, with blacks, browns, yellow skinned people and do not forget the Jews and Gays gone… Is this fear? Fear that they cannot grow and compete in the ever-changing landscape of progressive life?

Why are some straight white conservative males attempting to mold others into something they want instead of what others themselves want? Again, “Fear”…? Do these individuals, instead of looking to the future and growing – do they really want to return to a backwards period in time where certain people held the power, while repressing those around them?

Why are we as progressive, open-minded liberals not banding together to stomp out these individuals who want to:

• Ban books because the books talk about history
  • Many of us grew up to be successful and who we are because most of us were able to read books that today appear controversial in the eyes of the vocal minority – To Kill a Mocking Bird, a book I read in Jr High was and is a great book
• White-wash, sorry – re-write history books to remove any talk of slavery and what happened since it happened
  • Yes, bad things happened in the past that is what History is made up of and please note that History cannot be erasedremember, the Japanese in a dark period of their history attempted to re-write history and remove the history of Nanjing, China’s horrific point in time when the Japanese Army invaded and did what they didthe Holocaust, what was done to the Jewish community since the early 1920’s and throughout WW II
  • and of course, the past killings and lynchings of Blacks because they were, well, Black and different – and I really hope that everyone understands that being different is a good thing – it promotes growth

DeSantis wants to tell people what to learn and what to adhere to… Him, a governor telling the school boards what should be taught in schools – really? DeSantis appears, while not stupid since he did go to Harvard, somewhat of an odd bird. Telling schools in Florida that teachers/professors that they cannot teach Black history to Blacks and anyone else who wants to learn about Black History.

Really?

Is Black History not worthy in his eyes? That White History is the only thing that should be taught, with a cherry on top? DeSantis seems to have forgotten (or is illiterate on this point) that a lot of things in our lives today were built on the backs of Blacks, Chinese and Mexicans.

Going to stop here, otherwise, this will turn into a very serious diatribe. The point is, if those of you out there continue to vote for DeSantis for political positions, remember – you will have brought the consequences upon yourselves in your state.

Voting for more repressive/suppressive laws and regulations ala DeSantis will drive your state into even more of a pariah state than it already is. (Trump…)

DeSantis’ moves and shenanigans will cause a brain drain out of Florida – talent, knowledge, growth will start to dissipate. What will be left in Florida besides rising sea levels; more people of that specific repressive demographic make-up – racial and political and religious…?

Who will want to live in that kind of atmosphere, let alone invest in Florida.

Think about it. Think very hard – this will require some good education (likely good, broad education gained out of state) in order to do some very serious extrapolation as to what the make-up of Florida will be in 5 – 10 (or yikes, in 20) years, socially and economically.

Wouldja’ wanna live or visit a state that is attempting to force people to be straight? To be highly Conservative? To be Religious? To frown upon Racial mixing or attempt to ban it, again as it was in America’s past. (Pssstt, Hey, there is nothing wrong with race mixing and it has been a thing for centuries and it is really showing up now as more and more happy folks of different races do the mixing?)

Think very, VERY hard as to who you want to continue leading Florida, let alone America. Do you want to grow old in a state or country where free will and growth are constricted…?  Or see your children’s children grow up with poisoned mind-sets that one race is superior to another and that there is a god (with non-believers being, gasp, Heretics) and that aspect will be shoved down their throats every single day and not to forget another big one – that men are and have always been superior to women (supposedly)…?

Is that the kind of future you see as you extrapolate into the future IF you follow and allow to lead you down a repressive road…?

Think twice about who you vote for….

Those who are very conservative and repressive (for sure that is how DeSantis is starting to come across) and who wants to limit growth and continue to feed homophobic fears…. If that is who you want, this is the beginning of a dystopian country/world…

Or those that embrace change and growth and diversity and open-mindedness and equality of and for all…

By the way, for those of you out there who ‘think’ you are of a pure white race, in today’s environment – you might want to have your DNA checked… You may be surprised of what your “actual” racial genetic make-up is comprised of.

And for those of you out there who CONTINUALLY try to yell where gays are concerned – look at your own circle, or yourselves for that matter. As it happens time and time again, some of your straight peers (or yourselves) end up outing themselves as being gay… Just do a search on how many loud mouth congressmen, senators who were against gays were themselves – Gay.

Climate Change – Meet Oceanic Mega-Heat Pumps

This may come across as an outlandish idea to many out there.

The problem is however, WE NEED SOMETHING – outlandish or not, something that ‘might’ help, RIGHT NOW!

Many of you have heard of and believe in climate change. Many of you are experiencing it EVERY day of your devastatingly distraught lives, specifically in developing nations and those on islands of developed nations.

What can we do on a GLOBAL scale?

What about some nation or multinational consortium come together and build ‘super-mega’ Heat Pump factories and place them in strategic locations around the globe to help TRY to get a handle on runaway climate change.  (Yes, heat pumps are primarily air exchanges…)

Many nations are having a difficult time enacting laws/regulations to tamp down pollution from carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases such as Nitrous-Oxide, hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), perfluorocarbons (PFC) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6).

Some nations are just not really doing anything serious about it.

Many people on the planet are starting to awaken and see the disastrous effects that is hitting the planet.

• More of the Amazon Forest is being cut out for profit
  • one idea folks – donate to charities that plant trees around the world – it is not the end all be all but it does help.
  • Another – GET CITIES to GREEN up, more trees in the city, ESPECIALLY along busy streets and do more white and green roof top painting and white/gray street paint instead of the black heat producing macadam streets everywhere — having permeable streets also helps – to allow the water to soak through instead of running off into the sewer system and waterways — AND reduce the number of buildings having massive facades of glass that reflect blazing beams of heat down into the streets, affecting people and cars, adding to the devastating heat island effects
• Companies/Industries around the planet adding super-sized amounts of waste and air pollution – with many of them ONLY providing lip service to their ‘waste management’ and green solutions instead of ACTUAL solutions.
  • Greed, sorry – ROI (return on investments) is the primary driver for these businesses and their shareholders – little people be damned. “Profits rule”, let the planet die seems to be the mantra for quite a few of these businesses…
• And then there are the people – yes, people, us, well, primarily those that do not care or have high disregard. It all adds up cumulatively when vast numbers of people just toss garbage on the street, into creeks/rivers and do nothing to help with recycling – thinking, it is not my problem.
  • Which of course is the most very wrong ideation to ever have. We ALL make a difference. Sure, you may not see it today, but in 5, 10 years from now, you will definitely see it and feel it as you struggle to breathe in ‘clean’ air on a normal red flag day of 110 degrees in December with asthma sufferers worse bad air quality day…

Okay, getting to the oceanic heat pumps. These devices are in use today and have been for some time now, in businesses and homes, with more of them coming online everywhere, every day.

Why can’t some visionary, with deep pockets of funding – or at least a multinational consortium with a communal pot of funds to draw from – build something like a ‘mega-super’ heat pump in the oceans to work on moving water from warm/hot to colder states to ‘try’ to get these ocean currents back into a normal flow? Well, a normal flow that we have observed and benefitted from in the prior decades.

No, this is not some super-fanciful or pie in the sky wonderment. This is something that we can do, possibly, to help humanity and this planet recover and get back on a track of hope and not dystopic despair.

Heat pump information for those not aware of what it is/does:

• A heat pump takes heat from the ground or air around a building and increases it to a temperature that keeps homes and businesses warm inside.

There has to be some big brain geniuses out there that can convert these air heat pumps to work in water environments as water heat exchange.

This is solely a fantastical thought, idea I had to toss out into the public mainstream as a ‘what if’….

This is definitely food for thought for those with huge mindsets to see the possibilities of something outlandish…

Because, reaching these ‘net zero goals’ by 2040 or 2050 is going to be too late. We may have passed the tipping point of no return before then.

If we do not all act collectively before then. Too bad there are not more, young Greta Thunberg’s out there to help shake up the people on this planet.

Remember, there is “No Planet B”… Wish I had thought that one up…

C’mon Americans – Mid-term Elections ARE as Important as Presidential Elections — VOTE…!

TL;DR / BLUF (because this is a L-O-N-G paper, last few pages is content from another paper)

VOTE!  Get out and VOTE!

• You CAN;
• You SHOULD;
• You MUST;

get out and vote if you truly value America and the continuation of ‘better’ values. We cannot just vote in Presidential elections and THINK that is all it takes. It is NOT!!!  The mid-term races are the arenas where the least or worse candidates end up in office, in power OVER YOU because you did not think it worthwhile to go vote.

Some of the results here are:

• folks getting elected to implement school book bans for the few, affecting the majority, instead of leaving books on the shelves for the masses and the curious – books like “The Learning Tree” which opened my eyes a bit more.
• Or getting into the state senate and putting in place repressive voting measures – limiting the number of voting places; removing early ballot voting boxes; etc…

Do you want to go back in time and revisit the 1950s…?

NO. MOST of us do not. But that means EVERYONE MUST get out and vote.

Criticality of Mid-term voting

Mid-term voting can mean voting in members for any of the following:

• City Council
• School Boards
• State Legislatures
• Mayors
• Governors
• Senators
• Congresspersons

Mid-term voting is the primary way to make changes in America. Voting for those who care for all will eventually remove all of the repressive and backwards-thinking individuals from power. These individuals are the ones causing all the dire drama we face today. We spend so much time and money on trying to do the right thing but, because of these power-hungry individuals, we are not progressing as we should as a country… and as people…

We are now late in 2022 and most Americans still do not realize how critically important the mid-term elections are. These mid-term elections are what we need to progress instead of going through the back-and-forth stages of progress… EVERY two – four years.

Suppressing or Restricting voting – this leads to angry voters in those regions of the country where conservative parties hold power. The result – people do not see the value of voting at that point in a mid-term race and do not vote.

Think about it. If you vote in the mid-terms as well, goals, better goals can be achieved in the long run but it will take time to build upon success. Just because we vote for something today, it will not materialize in a 6-month period. It takes time. And it may take 2, 3 or 4 mid-terms to start seeing real, I mean REAL success and progress that everyone will see – things that are very TANGIBLE for the majority.

POWER

Then, we have so many individuals in America who only want to be in power and want to act like young, spoiled children.

• I’m taking my ball and I’m going home, so there!

Tell the rest of us that this is not the case. Go ahead, I definitely dare you to open yourself up to honesty – that is, if you have any honor and integrity remaining in ANY part of your being…

There should be NO ONE in politics who is only there for the sake of power. These individuals ruin the future for the majority of people.

• Look at what Putin is doing in Russia.  Do you believe all the Russians want Putin to take over, I’m sorry, ANNEX more of Ukraine as Putin did with Crimea? Against the Ukrainian peoples’ will or without their approval….
• Look at what Kemp did in Georgia, instead of recusing himself from his duties as Secretary of State while running for governor, he kept that position active – think about that, seriously and deeply – and you tell us if Kemp actually won that race legally…??? Kemp wanted to retain power, via any manner possible
• What about a state in America where the majority of that state’s citizens want one thing but are overruled because of the governor or state legislators wanting something else in place to satisfy the minority, whether it is Christian (note: Church and State are SUPPOSED to be separate, not like in 1910 or 1940 as examples). Here is one example, say there are gays in that state and they want equality. The minority of the state in question wants to have a gay free environment while the majority approves of gays having a voice and equality. What do you do? That minority wishes to retain power and control the outcome, that is what they do…

WHAT DO YOU DO?  If we continue to have these kinds of individuals elected to power, WE-WILL-NEVER-NEVER-NEVER get on a solid path to success for this country for the long-term.

So sure, if you want endless back-and-forth efforts of progress, vote for those individuals who want power and control the state’s outcomes for various topics.

Look at Desantis did in the Spring of 2022 with Disney World in Florida. Desantis modified Disney’s decades long charter because Disney stood up for equality (standing “in solidarity” with the LGBTQ+ ) and Desantis basically said:

“Bull shit” – there is no such thing as equality as long as I am governor (Desantis did not say that, not exactly, I am liberally paraphrasing here). This all started with Florida Senate’s passage of H.B. 1557, colloquially dubbed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and Disney going against it.

But what Desantis did was – he took his ball and went home. Now, the surrounding county has to pay for city expenses that Disney ‘had’ been paying for out of their ‘Special Privileges’ status.

Throughout the country, we have individuals who are in power, no matter how they arrived there, and who want to retain that power – “no matter what it takes or what it costs” the rest of America and its citizens.

So, why is that? Are these individuals afraid that if they lose that power, they:

• Cannot make an honest living doing something else?
• Do not know how to do something else meaningful to them (or others)?
• Are just flat out scared that they will fail doing something else….?

Take the current Herschel Walker for Senate situation. How is it that so many people believe he is qualified and has the integrity to become a Senator?

Sure, Trump was not qualified but became President but that was due to people NOT GETTING OUT TO VOTE!!!! And that was why we had the global embarrassment of that American president.

Do we want to continue voting in a sub-par manner? Look at Senators’ Cotton and Scott following along to boost Walker’s tour. How embarrassing that must be for these two individuals to help prop up Walker?  What kind of mindset does these two Senators have? Is there any integrity?
Wait, this is a power grab, sorry about that.  It has nothing to do with qualifications, integrity or equality. Maybe one day soon (hopefully sooner) they will see the folly in propping up Walker.

But this is what we are dealing with, sad, very sad….

This is where I state the obvious – remove the electoral college and be done with loop hole for some and then, work on getting rid of gerrymandering, from ALL parties and reset districts to be fair voting communities and THEN, work on re-balancing the power structure for the number of senators and congresspersons we haver around the country.

When the number of senators and congresspersons were settled on, we were in a different era – MUCH smaller population. Now, today, we are not in a state of fair elections – Wyoming having two senators holding the same amount of power as two senators from California or New York, that is a sad joke. There should be more senators in states with larger populations. This is another problematic area that needs a course correction.

VOTING – Democracy and Equality

C’mon Americans. Really. REALLY. Are so many of you going to continue to vote ONLY with your heart and the illogical thinking of returning to the days of yesterday. Yesterday where only you had power over everyone else because of skin color…?
I really did not want to go there but this is what appears to be happening IRL (in real life as so many like to say).

We still have too many people who want a neighborhood that is only inhabited with their kind, full of privilege, free of any kind of interracial mixing, free of any homosexual tendencies, free of poor, uneducated people.

Is this really what so many of you Americans want to do, go backwards in time – losing DECADES of progress.

Because this is what happens when you do not use your brain, the logical and pragmatic part of your brain. We continue to have this see-saw effect WHERE NOTHING GETS ACCOMPLISHED!!!!

We go from progress, clean air, clean water, education improving, equality then in the mid-terms, the poor/bad choices of individuals are elected and we as a country backslide because these wrong thinking individuals want to reinstitute regulations that allow pollution of air and water, better education for some while revenue for the poorly funded school systems CONTINUE to be poorly funded and equality/diversity – THAT IS ALL THROWN OUT THE WINDOW! Here is one solid example, the last administration allowed corporations to get back to dumping toxic chemicals into rivers.

Here are a couple of links:

Trump’s EPA Is Letting Power Plants Dump Toxic Waste Into Rivers and Streams

The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List

But, you will need to do your own, ‘real’ research (outside your comfort zone and silo of conspiracy) and come to your own conclusion…

Do you want to continue allowing these types of individuals to gain and retain power so they can make money? With the result being bad air & water that will significantly affect the health of your child; spouse; parents – you…???

We have too many people in America that will gladly revert to threats and violence if they or their party does not win. It does not matter if it were a fair election, these individuals will continue to believe they were cheated out of a position of power. That the event was rigged. That Alien space rays were used to manipulate votes or that temperature regulating thermostats are rigging the votes somehow. OR that there is some kind of magnetism taking effect to alter races, enough that spoons can stick to a person’s body or face, somehow.

Why? Why are there so many people that continue to engage in silos of self-induced conspiracies. Look at Michael Flynn, former military general and Director of DIA – he completely broke and went to the far edges of a different universe.

Here are a couple of links where Flynn talked about a trail of signs leading terrorists into America:

Michael Flynn once claimed Arabic signs on southern border guide ‘radicalized Muslims’ into US

Trump’s border patrol guy calls BS on Flynn claim Arabic signs are guiding ‘radicalized Muslims’ to US  

Again, you will need to do your own, ‘real’ research and come to your own conclusion on Flynn’s state of mind…

America’s Future

Americans, if you truly want America to be a Great Country, YOU HAVE TO VOTE.

You HAVE to vote with integrity, using your brain. Just because you do not want your children exposed to gays or black or brown or yellow or red people – you cannot deprive that from the majority of children in your schools.

Because you, the minority of individuals who want to continue to live in a world of those with closed mindsets, do not want gays or race mixing or better education for all to occur – IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. At some point in the future, it is going to happen and you cannot stop progress. You will just make it take longer, causing suffering to continue for everyone, and I do mean everyone suffers as a result.

I speak, now and in the future, with and for the:

• underprivileged,
• undereducated,
• repressed / suppressed,
• gays (even if I am not) &
• women (held down, glass ceiling & being seen as the inferior sex)

I stand for equality, diversity and progress, even if I AM NOT IN POWER.

America was never truly a great country. We only had a preeminent position because America had gained power, economically, socially and militarily over others, internally and externally. That is how America rose to power from the 1700s did it not? Building this country on the backs of slaves and indentured servants to have we have today…

But we CAN become a GREAT country, not really.  Why aren’t there more Americans out there willing to use their brains and logic to see that we as a nation (and as humans) have to stop this back-and-forth garbage of “my party is better than your party”. STOP IT!!!!

We have to change the paradigm and grow together and make the world a better place for all – NOT FOR SOME. 

Because I guarantee you that the children of those parents that want to block equality in schools, in the workplace and in politics – I guarantee you that in time, those children of yours who grow up with blocked or hampered vision WILL see the light at some point. At that point, these now adults, will be angry at YOU, the parents for holding them back, with that perpetual slogan of “I was only trying to shield / protect you from what I believed was wrong”.

You will be seen as not even giving your children a choice of deciding what is best for their own future. Yes, some of the children will be too young. But if you block everything you deem as ‘bad’ from your children instead of actually talking to them about various topics, you doom their potential and continue the perpetual cycle that later generations HAVE TO FIGHT OVER – AGAIN!

This is like German under Hitler burning books to secure the future of pure (free of Jewish or Black blood) Germans. Or here at home when books were once banned to ‘protect’ a certain racial make up in this country – yet, here we are again, having the vocal minority along with the wrong people in power in control of school boards – BANNING BOOKS, AGAIN!!!!  Just to protect their child from growing.

But a good thing is happening in parts of the country, these children, they are having book clubs and READING and DISCUSSING these so-called banned books their parents wanted out of the school.

Does this remind of German’s past of racial superiority/racism? Hmmm….

Oh, how can I talk in this manner as I’ve done? It is because I have had multiple incidents in my own life, growing up and as a young adult.

I have always stood on the side of the little guy and against discrimination, of any kind, and even being affected by it – here are a few scenarios.

• As a high school junior, I stood on a stage and denounced the garbage/racist spewing Communist who was there – but it turned out after I gave that impromptu speech, we found out that it was only a kind of a test for us (Young Civitan officers from across America) who gathered for an annual event
• Never invited to any parties throughout high school, from black or white – I was a, how did people phrase it at the time – a mulatto/half-breed (did I become a bitter, angry person – no)
• My high school prom date canceled on me, after I won the senior class raffle of a limo/dinner – because her dad was seriously racist (did I become a bitter, angry person – again, no)
• (in ’86, Irving, TX) Overhearing me being called a ‘nigger’ as a guy was yelling at a woman in her hotel room, I was to have dinner with – this guy was seriously a covert racist because the next day, he tried to be buddy-buddy and it took everything to not break his jaw (did I become a bitter, angry person – still, no)

None of these incidents changed my mindset, if anything they all encouraged me to continue being better and championing better thought processes for all around me without preaching and setting an example, everywhere, all the time.

My optimistic mindset is in seeing the country, the world growing into a better society. Yes, I keep seeing disappointment in the way different people treat others, around the world. i.e.: the increase in Asian hate crimes – WHY??? Mexican-Americans railing against other Mexicans, think of the L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez recent racist incident – WHY????

Why are people NOT growing into better people to make this a better world? Are there that many people in America, around the world who STILL want to keep using repression, suppression and flat out discrimination against others so that THEY can be the top dog (use whatever term you wish)…???

From this point on, the content is a repeat of what I had in another paper and I am sure not many people read it, so, including it here – if you are still with me. Even if one or two folks read this paper and use their brain going forward, I will be happy.

The Past, Recurring Today

I really hate to say it but this current atmosphere just keeps taking me back to what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You know, in 1931, where a young white female teenager screamed in the elevator because of the young black teenage male who was in the elevator.  We still, to this day, do not know what actually occurred. And then, the whites of Tulsa wanted justice, not the legal kind but the restrictive, repressive (DEADLY) justice of past decades (and centuries) where the whites took control and hung or dragged a black to their death or tarred and feathered black(s) before killing them. I decline to include the ghastlier things that were done to these unfortunate souls.

And these whites thought (and believed) that what they did was righteous and fair justice. Stop the blacks from doing anything, let alone be successful as they were in Tulsa, using their power for their justice.

Remember the horrific pictures of crowds of whites, gathered around hanging (lynched) DEAD blacks, pointing and looking up at the dead or looking back at the camera man AND SMILING AND LAUGHING at the grotesque sight. Do any of you remember those images of justice? Does it bring a tear to your eye to even think this was possible in our American heritage – it should and we can also talk about the Native Americans and what happened to them as well? IT DAMN WELL SHOULD – that is, if you have an ounce of morality in you and you truly know right from wrong…

The problem is, it was not just Tulsa, IT-IS-STILL-HAPPENING-TODAY…!!!!  Where we have large pockets of whites, who happen to be republicans, that want to control what goes in the various cities and counties and states in America.

These individuals who happen to be in power want to continue to rig the game so that ONLY they will continue to remain in power and reign over all the inferior and insignificant lower classes of people.  Yeah, you got, those of color.

• Poll taxes ring a bell to anyone? 
• Okay then, how about counting jelly beans in a jar? 
• Dang, what about the literacy tests….?

It is like these individuals in power in mostly Red states want to get us back to those days… We just have too much ongoing racism, covert racism, subconscious racism and implicit racism.  Then on top of all that, we have groups of militia, sovereign citizens and even current and former military (as a former Marine, I am completely heartbroken to keep hearing this) who buy into this atmosphere of conspiracy and illogical patriotism and again, likely racism in these groups too.

So, the point of this minor diatribe of mine is to attempt togetmore, MANY MORE Americans WAKE THE HELL UP.

MORE Americans have to WAKE UP and get out and vote!  YOU HAVE TO VOTE for individuals who are more progressive. VOTE for individuals who are open minded and want to see all Americans grow and prosper.

And to do this, to have a successful future – all open-minded Americans HAVE GOT TO VOTE. And we have to do so starting with ALL the 50 state legislatures (leaving D.C. out because it is on that path already). MORE Americans HAVE GOT TO VOTE out the conservative and backwards thinking individuals in mostly Red states, so we can all prosper and grow going forward.

We spend FAR too much time repeatedly fighting amongst ourselves over Red and Blue topics instead of subjects and areas that will benefit ALL OF US.

If you are young and are of voting age – YOU HAVE TO VOTE and not make an attempt because you believe it is not important to you. IT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU! It impacts your future. If you continue to sit on the sidelines and let these repressive and suppressive minded individuals stay in power – they will put in places that become like bedrock foundations that you may NEVER be able to overcome or overturn.

If you are an adult and you feel left out and as a result you sit on the sidelines – STOP DOING THAT!!!!  You have to get out and VOTE as well. To have a democracy that is inclusive and brings everyone into the fold – YOU HAVE TO GET OUT AND VOTE as well. This is the only path. If you allow these backwards thinking individuals who are in power and who want to stay in power by focusing only on themselves and their families – you MUST get out and vote as well. Otherwise, this country will continue to flounder and stay behind the curve ball while other countries continue to move ahead of us in education and societal norms. You MUST get out and vote to help change the directionality of this country. Otherwise, we will continue to limp along with:

• Bridges with potholes where you can see down to the river or street below the bridge
• Levees and damns that are FAR past their prime but no one is upgrading them, meanwhile – these things burst apart and flood the surrounding county area
• Broadband that flat out sucks for many in the rural areas of America and definitely is pathetic in low-income areas, just because they are low-income areas and too many individuals in power do not believe these folks who live there are worth it
• Schools that are sub-par, horrendously sub-par – c’mon, MOLD! Lead pipes and non-functioning plumbing and HVAC systems that are not nearly adequate enough to be used
• Medical facilities that need overhauling and renovating – not the facilities that have an iron grip on the country and charging exorbitant costs – I mean the ones in most communities that are barely hanging on in supporting the residents of those communities
• Etc.,
• Etc.,

AMERICANS!  You simply must get out to vote or you will continue to see this country fall apart. We have to vote in individuals who care for all and not those individuals who only care for some subset of American areas of the country as in the mid-west or some suburban parts of the country.

As noted above, we have to start replacing state legislatures across the country with forward thinkers, those who are thinking 5, 10 and 20 years down the road.

Putting in place smaller budgets or stop gap measures to do minor patch work fixes or tweaks is not good enough. We need to do more and we can do more.

Besides getting rid of these backwards thinking individuals in state legislatures, we have to vote OUT more of these governors – ones that many of us still cannot believe they won the election their elections.

• With Kemp of Georgia, we know how he won – he was the Georgia secretary of state and he refused to recuse himself from that role and was able to influence the voting process.
• DeSantis of Florida, well, he won because he had a large following of individuals who want to retain a status quo and not become more progressive.
• Abbott of Texas, completely unclear how he really won, unless it was along the same lines as DeSantis. But Abbott, he is dangerous. He had all information on toxic chemical locations removed from all state websites. This information was helpful to many in deciding where they wanted to live, or where to send their children to school or where to locate their elderly in nursing homes – without this information, well….  And for Abbot to say that people can ask the fire department or other agencies, that is a non-starter because they mostly will not give out that information.  How would you feel if you discovered a toxic chemical storage facility was located 200-300 yards from your child’s school (and think about the blast radius of an ammonia holding facility should it go up in flames)?

We all have to vote to overcome and get rid of things like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) efforts. This entity is the one that really spring-boarded many, many republican legislative actions over the years since its founding in 1973 and grew to prominence under Newt Gingrich.

Basically – ALL forward-thinking individuals, those with an open-mind, those with the foresight to see that we MUST unify as a country to grow again. Not grow as in divisive groups within America but as ONE WHOLE entity – all Americans. All of us need to vote. And you have to use your brain to do so. If we want to continue to be the leader of the free world, of developed countries – we all must participate and vote!

Research who you vote for – as in, is the person going to help everyone or just selective segments of society. Think about who you vote for. STOP listening to conspiracy groups and individuals, this only leads you down the path of despair and danger because you start endangering yourselves and others by buying into these non-sensical and illogical plots that only belong in movies.

You HAVE TO USE YOUR OWN BRAIN!!! Read and talk to and with others who have “rational” thoughts, not siloed bubbles of fellow conspirators. Educate yourselves.

Those of you want to vote for the likes of a Trump, Marjorie Greene or Matt Gaetz or Louie Gohmert or Jim Jordan – you are going down the rabbit hole of failure because the thought processes of these leaders do not appear logical and can be non-constructive.

You absolutely MUST use your own brain and your education to vote for individuals who WILL move the country forward, not give it an exercise of lip action only (while lining their own pockets with money from greed, while at the same time – lying to you). Please, those Americans with the tendency to stay in these filter bubbles (as author Eli Pariser) talked about – get out of your comfort zone and expand your mind. Grow with other Americans. You can only grow if you learn more. Talk to more people who are “not” like you.

As it is, we still have far too much many people in America who to return to the America of the 30s, 40s and 50s, where a, ahhh, certain race of people had the power.

Please – all Americans who want to see America grow – get out and vote.  

And, it is not just some of the Republicans, we have to remove individuals like Joe Manchin of W. Virginia who is playing at some kind of game that only he knows in preventing or slowing down growth.

Vote, not just in the Presidential elections but in ALL of the elections that crop up in your community. This is how we as a country will grow, starting with local elections, county elections and state elections – your vote matters. Vote for those men and women who see the future as prosperous for all. Vote for those people of color who are completely inclusive of everyone around. Stop thinking about age, religion, handicaps, race and gender as the sole criteria of who you would vote for.

That old or young; Jewish or Atheist; good looking or not so good-looking person standing next to you – might just be the next President of this country. You never know, you must put your personal biases aside and vote for those who want to do public service work.

Google map – Black screen – WebGL Disabled or False

Yes, this is an interesting area. 

If this particular problem has you as flummoxed as me (or rather, as a pissed off unthinking, un-democratic, illogical American would be out there) – very easy to see why.
WebGL – Web Graphic Library, supposed to improve:
rendering high-performance interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins.
— For some reason, the WebGL is ENABLED or set to FALSE in the various browsers.
Disabling/Setting it to TRUE does the trick – will have to do another write up, this time on WebGL

As a result, that enabled/false settings gets you a wonderful screen, full of darkness – NADA….

As one guy, erictcleric, noted in his posting:

a) try disabling webgl – in the [browser] address bar, type:

about:config

b) accept the message that says don’t mess with the settings, then search for

webgl.disabled

c) in the filter bar. Set that to true

That True setting that erictcleric noted, causes the WebGL to be disabled. Not sure why it is enabled if it causes the black screen of darkness.

Maybe it is enabled whenever Firefox is updated…..

But…. after doing this, it does work.

Unfortunately, after going to another site, it goes black on that new site. Have to enable the WebGL again for that page to work.

sheesh, more research now…

Dangerous Drivers in America: Loss of Decency & Our Future

Is this our future now, more and more drivers who could care less how they drive and whether it affects your driving – or your life….? And note, this is not ‘only’ happening in America….

First, it does not matter at all on multiple factors as to who the ‘dangerous driver’ is. It could be a:

• Black woman or a White woman
• Black man or White man
• or any other race out there….
• Old man or Old Woman – or young punk of any age grouping (I basically put that moniker on anyone of any age group… 😊)

So, do not get up on high horses about race and/or ethnicity and/or discrimination because this is occurring across all spectrums.

This morning, at 7.23a, Jun 5^th on Connecticut Ave NW in D.C. (something like the 8000 block of Connecticut) I was endangered out of the blue. How do I know the exact time – well, I had to take photos because of the recklessness of it all.

A MD woman, see image, in a Dodge Charger, license plate – 3dt2865 with 2023 expiration date was driving parallel to me but she was behind a slow driver. So, what did the MD driver do, she wanted to go around that car and just started merging into my lane – WHILE I WAS IN IT…

Mind you, the car in front of the MD driver was doing the speed limit, maybe 2-3 miles over the 30-mph zone.

Did I blow my car horn…? DID I BLOW MY CAR HORN – you bet your bottom $5,000 I did.

Did not matter, woman kept coming over and I did not want to have my vehicle damaged and take her to court to sue her for everything I could.

All I could do at that moment was move over – LUCKILY there was no vehicle to my right (and yes indeed, I did check first). Followed her, I did (as Yoda might phrase it…).

At the next stop light took a couple of pix of the cars’ rear. And after catching up at another stop light, albeit two lanes over and took the profile photo.

What do you do in these situations? Well, for sure you do not drive like a bat out of hell to catch up and/or try to tail gate the bad driver. Because you then become another bad driver….

Who do you call? D.C. police since it was within D.C. city limits? MD police since it was a MD driver? Which municipality?

What would either of them say? 

• Just move over out of the way….
• Let the crazy driver move on.
• But ‘you’ say, “I want to flag/record it.” They ‘might‘ say ‘okay‘ – but it is highly unlikely they will waste their precious time logging a bad driver without explicit evidence. Or severely harmed or dead human…

Here’s the thing, this is occurring more frequently, especially since the pandemic eased up and people were out and about again.  Most of this preposterous, crazy and lack of regard for normal, safe and legal driving was due to the past disgraceful, corrupt and poor choice of an American president – number 45.  And please do not tell us that president was/is not corrupt, dishonest, disgraceful. because there are mountains of evidence against him, including his business dealings since the 80s.

Here is another tidbit for ya:

Thursday morning, Jun 2^nd, a black woman in her mid-30s was tail-gating ME because I was not doing (a nominal figure here) 10 – 20 miles over the 50-mph speed limit approaching the I-295 off-ramp for S. Capitol St & Malcolm X Drive at DIA HQ, JBAB. (If you look at the plates as I do, you will see this kind of behavior occurs more with MD drivers than D.C. or VA drivers.)

She wanted ME to speed up and do 60-65 (instead of the 45 I was doing on the off-ramp) to allow HER to do that HIGHER speed, ON the curving off-ramp.

She also wanted to parallel merge into my lane to force me over so she could zip by and continue doing 60 – 65-mph.

I brought this up inside our work spaces and another team mate said that kind of driving happened to him the previous week. Team mate was in the turn right lane but the driver in the other car, she wanted to go faster, so she got into the center NON-turn lane and just flat out cut off my team mater before he could make the right turn.

MANY of us have seen THAT kind of driver, male or female.

Coming back to today, on my way home, a three-lane section of Connecticut Ave, no car in front of me or in front of the car to my right. Yet abruptly, that driver, an older white guy – he simply decided to cut in front of me and jump into the middle lane.

So, I put on my signal and moved to the right lane. The light was red, so I rolled down my window to just turn and look and him. Not say a thing, no gestures – just look…

He saw me looking yet he continued yammering away on his cell phone… yep, he was on the phone, in his right hand.

These kinds of activities are progressively creeping up the ladder and getting worse – just more bad behavior as time goes on. More egregious behaviors towards any other driver around these bad drivers. And these bad, “dangerous” drivers are getting more out of hand.  Decency…? Legality…?

What is a stop sign for those who do not give .58 cents to stop signs or red flashing lights or pedestrians or kids on bikes….?
Speed limit of 20mph in a school district. So. It does not matter to these recalcitrant drivers – they want to do 50mph and if there are any children nearby, or an elderly citizen with mobility issues steps out into the street – well, too bad.

That is what is happening in the minds of these drivers. They will continue to become worse. We are all seeing this in person or in the news. And it is definitively due to poor disregard to legality stemming from our 45^th president and whatever got into the brains of these dangerous drivers while couped up during the CoViD lockdowns… so these individuals could release their urges and say “to hell” with decency and traffic regulations…

For the rest of you out there – be careful, be extremely careful. There are more and more dangerous (looney tune) drivers out there.  Even if you do observe driving regulations/laws, you now have to step up your game and be on the lookout for those drivers who do not observe the laws or respect for others…

Another dangerous driver:

Jun 24, 2022 6.24am Beach Dr. D.C. – DC License plate GF4134

This woman was tailgating me in a 25 mph zone all along a stretch of Beach Dr. near the Zoo in NW D.C. She was trying to force me to go 10 – 15 miles over the speed limit. This is a maneuver quite a few Maryland and some DC drivers try to force other drivers to do, all day long, so the do not have to follow the speed limit on this two lane road. Especially early in the morning when they believe there are no police around to catch them. — So, at the very first stop sign, I got out to snap these pix of her.

Supreme Court Judges’ Door Steps – “New Born Baby Drop-off Points” – Safe Haven Act/Law…?

Well women, it seems that some of the supreme court judges have now opened a gateway and their door steps for those of you who ARE going to be forced to carry an unwanted fetus to birth.

• Amy Barret,
• Clarence Thomas,
• Brett Kavanaugh,
• Gorsuch and / or
• Alito

After going through a forced baby delivery (now and in the future), find a way to get to one of these homes – if you are able to – and then (hopefully) leave your backwards thinking state for good.

But if you are UNABLE to travel to deliver the unwanted baby to one of those door steps, put that baby in a box. Use the Safe Haven law / act (please look it up). Include a note saying “here is the baby I was forced to carry to birth” at the door step of a church or fire station. At night. And do it very, very stealthily so they do not track you back to your home….

In addition to that, VOTE and make YOUR voice heard and remove those wrong individuals from political power in your county, city and state.