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5:55 I was talking with a church member the other day, someone with multiple degrees, who had been a military pilot, dean of a college, someone who had done amazing things with his life, and I was surprised how the conversation turned out. He told me I was a pretty intelligent person and inferred IContinue reading “Sixty Years”

Progressive taxation and elimination of tax shelters would allow the conversion of the military industrial complex into a space industrial complex…along with a Nordic Model of universal health care and paid tuition. Why a space industrial complex? Space Solar Power as the solution to the climate change crisis. I have written about this before; TheContinue reading “MIC2SIC Military Industrial Complex to Space Industrial Complex”

3:30 “If they cannot be convinced, it is frustrating because any sane relatively intelligent human being will understand what the significance of the filibuster is-” What Mary Trump is talking about is the Trumpist’s putting Donald Trump back in office if the filibuster is not removed. The filibuster is what will allow the right wingContinue reading “It Is Happening”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-01-08/kathleen-belew-on-the-turner-diaries A couple years ago on a break I disagreed with a coworker on some political issues and the question he asked keeps haunting me. I did not realize at that time he was actually inferring I was not really an “American.” I believed we were conversing in good faith as concerned citizens. But nowContinue reading “Do You Believe In America?”

25 years from now historians may mark Citizens United as the death of America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC “-Stevens argued that the unique qualities of corporations and other artificial legal entities made them dangerous to democratic elections. These legal entities, he argued, have perpetual life, the ability to amass large sums of money, limited liability, no ability toContinue reading “Carl Sagan’s Predictions”

A fairly bad sci-fi movie…but this scene has much in it to, as the talking heads say, “unpack.” America is involved in an invisible civil war right now the rest of the world is very much aware of. Other nations are looking on and talking about it but here we cannot see the forest forContinue reading “Independence Day”

We all seem to have forgotten about Oklahoma City. As Afghanistan is abandoned and about to plunge back into tribal warfare, the U.S. is now facing an army of McVeighs all considering a path to realizing their own destiny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh Trump supporter warns CNN reporter of ‘civil war’ if former president not reinstated ‘soon’ (msn.com)

“Jesus Christ would have to come down and tell me that Biden won before I would ever believe it,” one Donald Trump supporter said at the former president’s first rally of 2021. Barr is not Christ…but he was Trump’s boy and I have to believe him I guess.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-13/republican-party-radicalization-ronald-reagan-donald-trump

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327448828_Isaiah_5_A_prophetic_critique_of_economic_proportion/fulltext/5b90152c92851c6b7ec29775/Isaiah-5-A-prophetic-critique-of-economic-proportion.pdf?origin=publication_detail It has happened over and over again over the last eight thousand or so years…but this time might be the last. In the 21st century our species may not survive a descent into the chaos at the end of empire again.