The Message Column

El Capitan

Some years back I travelled to Yosemite a few times. What a place. Here is a link to some images of El Capitan

Get Well Hillary!

I won't be voting for her, but at least I hope she gets well. If you don't that would be deplorible.

Ex First Ladies always have a special role, she didn't want to be that gal. Her choice. She wanted to still be part of the government.

Nuclear testing

How much heat does a 5.2 on the Richter Scale Nuclear explosion make? If I were the dictator of North Korea I'd try to do less destructive things. As I have said numerous times on these pages so-called pay-back is often as big a crime as what one believes is the original crime deserving to be paid back. If one is Christian, one does not do 'pay back' as retribution.

You know, people get obsessive. I suppose the sense of urgency that compels a head of state to want to craft more bombs that really should never be used . . . let me tell you what Lot was asking. . . OK, you can read it on your own. Basically if there were 40, if there were 30 . . . would you spare those innocents? Nuclear weapons spare no one. They are brutal and ought to never be used.

Imagine if the head of North Korea would stand down. Maybe he could say that he's not going to be a pushover, but isn't going to play the global nuclear militarism game anymore. Because if that guy is anything, he's right on board with the marshallistic traditions of all warrior kings that have ever been. "I want my shiney new sword, and it has to be bigger than everyone elses." But the kingdom isn't really won like that. That is just how all the assholes end up killing themselves off. So, in stead of being a revolutionary the dude (yes, the dude) is a conformist of the grand traditions of militarism and hypnotized sons of power everywhere. If he were a real revolutionary he'd stand down his armies, and instead convert over to being a flower child: make love not war. But, well, maybe he's just not as hard-ass, kick ass, etc, as he really could be, being so powerful with all those resources and a nation of thralls (that is what our propaganda tells us, and it seems true to me, but I haven't seen it up close).

So, well, ya. Little conformist militarist has to have a bigger gun. Bang Bang. You use that gun you will assure your name will be affixed to the dung heap in future times: you will become a hated person. Right now, well, the world isn't really sure. We are not because we understand how mendacious some of our 'sources' are. So, in the meantime, we can feel sorry for you, being born into a crime family, of sorts, the head of a monarchy pretending to be part of the glorious revolution. But screwing up badly at it. by the way. Ya, you could have been Ken Keasey, but instead your like a Richard Nixon. You could have been a Jerry. But instead you are a . . .? Not sure. You're real, but driven by conformism to be a militarist. I'm not knocking that. I respect the sane and calculated military mind of the tiger: we do have to watch out for troubles and problems. And tradition isn't easy to shirk off.

Is there anything good that can come from these 5.2 Richter scale nuclear explosions?

Just stop. Stop. Tell them no. I'm not playing the game. If you stand down from that endeavor you win, and anyone who wants to start a war with your looses.

Stand down. Do better. Get some new hobbies. Stop being a paranoid militarist, but instead recognize that honorable people will respect you and not start wars with you without cause. Know that most of the world is like that, and doen't want war. Sane people don't want to use nuclear weapons (we really can't). And your country can't either. It's a death sentence for millions if anyone does and no one is really that evil, are they? Is anyone really so evil as to want to murder innocent millions with nuclear weapons? The answer ought to be 'no'.

Ya, 5.2. That's a lot of energy. Quite a large explosion. Quite a lot of heat. Radiation. Right near your own homes. Radiation that is very hard to contain.

Can't you get some new hobbies? Solve some world problems? Do some charity for less fortunate nations?

So you're paranoid, and you build bombs. But you can't use them. You build bombs that you can't use. What else could you build instead, something that would do good for the world?

You could build a culture bomb of love and let it explode with charity so the world can see how right you are about the things that you are right about. And celebrate the things that you want that all of us also want: peace and people not feeling threatened in their everyday life. You could build a bomb of diplomacy made with human compassion and empathy. You could see that 99.99 percent of people in the world have no evil thoughts or hopes for anyone else's failure: most people want what is good and right. But if you stand there with a sword, many might then fear you.

You make a great big sword, that you can't ever use, and you want the world to love you? Or does it matter. They would, too, so many, if you would accept that most of the world isn't out for anything but good things to happen. If you believe that there are bad people who have the rest of us enthralled? Then please, defeat their plans to start a war by basically giving them no good reason to do it. You worry that they will do it anyway and that the outside world are all thralls? To some greater lie? Then mostly that 99.99 (or more) percentage are basically innocent. So if you used big bombs it would be a sin, many who mean you no harm would be destroyed, and it would be a horrible day for the world and great shame would be put upon the heads of those who did it. So stop with it. Stop with the development, stand down and thus prevent your rivals from having a reason anymore to arm up in fear.

This is not diplomacy. I am trying to appeal to higher instincts. Being paranoid doesn't solve anything. Fear is often hard to overcome, to realize that the world really wants to love you, but you've got these crazy weapon plans, weapons that no one would use.

5.2. That is a large explosion. Bigger than most earthquakes. Nothing that you can keep secret.

So now that you know that you can do that, doesn't all that uncontrollable power scare you a little? Don't you understand now how fearsome nuclear weapons are and why they should never be used?

Be wise. And then the world won't be able to stop loving and praising you. Stand down the nuclear program. Open up your borders, and send out a love-bomb of diplomats to extoll the virtues of your philosphies. Many might not agree with everything but will applaud the sudden thaw in relations. That would be a big win for you and your country.

Or, keep up with the development of horrid weaponry and let your enemies win the propaganda war.

trophy swords are to be hung on a wall as a display!

Many people collect weapons. They keep them in an arsonal. They place them locked within a mueseum. They hand the ancient sword on the wall, they never use. The trophy sword is for display purposes only.

So now we know that you could use a nuclear weapon. Can you please show us that you won't?

Marching around with swords is often seen as juvenile, when the person displays anger and expects other to be in fear of the display. Military force ought to be without emotion and only in response to what comes at you: you use the weapon of the attacker against them. You use a propaganda weapon of a nuclear test, for a sword thta must now just be hung on a mueseum wall. OK, so you can do this now. But you won't, right? No sane person wants to use nuclear weapons. You are the leader of a large nation. Your sanity is required. Diplomats must assume that you are, or that the peole around you are.

If you threw open your borders, and decided to not play the game that some seem to enjoy playing with the military always on high-alert, then you win. Your nation wins. And war mongers everywhere loose.

Wouldn't it be a better world if paranoia didn't exist and that militaries wouldn't need to always be on high-alert? The world is already like that if you don't pose as if you are ready to strike. The world is mirroring back at you what some imagine is eminating from your nation. Most people in the world don't even know who you are, or even where your country is.

Sept 9, 2016

Her Blueberry Blues

She's dressed in
you guessed in
her blueberry blues
blueberry blues
blueberry blues

Investin'
regressin'
she's bestin
boastin'
not good hostin'
try to begin again
maybe she'd be winning then

She's dressed in
you guessed in
her blueberry blues
blueberry blues
blueberry blues
in the window of
her dreams

Why?
Wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you?

Blueberry blues
and brand new shoes
she buys her clues
he paid her dues

Blueberry blues
Blueberry blues
Blueberry blues

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changing it now.

     oh those arbitrary frames!
      spinning, but not this line.
     
spin me a yarn neon
spin me a yarn neon
spin me every where but not here!
here is a fresh link, a new path to some older content:
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 You've got an
 Embassy
 Fruit basket
 she sent it
 and you ate it all
 it was good
 good for you
 
 You're stuck in your
 Embassy
 Fruit Basket
 It's hard
 wanting to help
 when everyone says to stop.
 
 You're stuck in your
 Embassy
 Fruit Basket
 being a bananaa
 Owning the part
 afraid of no one
 answering
 prayers.
 
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Political and Media Inanity

Kafka wrote comedy. Orwell was a pessimist. Depends who you ask.

Truck-u-later

in this column Truck-u-later steps in deeper . . .

It's Sunday. Always a good time for clearing away kruft.

July 31, 2016

Billion dollar ideas? They are all around us!

Alright. We'll be changing it up a little bit!.

There are streams of words I'd right
if I thought it would make it light
to take away the fear or hurt
from all the sad 'truths' the meannies blurt
If it were I could heal
the hard glances that others steal
and make it all suddenly real
for you,
my readers.

But that's your job.
make it real.

August 19, 2016

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   Lord       Lord       Lord
  for his    for his    for his
 unfailing  unfailing  unfailing
   love!      love!      love!

  well, nothing more here today.