Category: Comment

Out in the Kuiper Belt/the immensity, human companionship is still necessary. What are extraterrestrials also without God?

Merry Christmas,
The Needy Human

Trump needs to be prosecuted before the election and/or beaten at the polls. But I don’t like that courts get to decide who is eligible to run.

Should not relish either, really.

And we didn’t know who to blame. Was it the administration, that was quiet when the border came down and when youth were confused? Yet, we see the blame leveled at the right, who are not in power. Deflecting and press conferences. Villainization. Refusal to take responsibility.

-Venting

In the digital age, oil, coal, and natural gas are still used and give us petrochemicals (plastics included) and other fossil-fueled wonder makers:

• Asphalt (roads)
• Toothpaste
• Detergent
• Food containers
• Medicines and vitamins
• Computer screens
• Cellphones
• Keyboards
• Computer mouse
• Mouse pad
• Phone Charger
• Car batteries
• Shirt buttons!
• Paint
• Floorboards
• Window coverings
• Gas for delivering these products to sellers, distributors, and consumers
• Factory machinery
• Wind turbines and solar panels–and, ironically, power backup for those “renewables.”
• AND Food, laundry, heating, driving

In 1950 over 60% of the world’s population was undernourished, but because of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fossil-fueled farm equipment, that number was down to less than 9% in 2019.

But with what global warming we do have, wouldn’t it be easier for the hysterics to advocate using nuclear? You would think so.

Giuliani has come a long way from NYC mayor and 9/11. It’s sad to see him trying to deny his actions. I do think the amount of the damages was ridiculously high; the man will go broke. But the two election workers asked for tens of millions of damages, not $148 million, as the judge ruled.

As I said previously, The Orange One is a crook. I am disgusted by his behavior and lies. On the other hand, the left one, I also hate hysteria and moral totalitarianism.

The case here is clear: crime can outweigh bad policies. I just don’t want either. The left thinks their freedoms are being taken away. I feel the right is having theirs taken by the DoJ’s institutions (FBI, CIA, courts). There is no judicial autonomy right now.

No one likes censors. No one likes crooks.

So I will go back to my post of a few months back: Trump must be prosecuted and, hopefully, declared guilty — before the election — so a real GOP candidate will be chosen.

Sometime in the 1990s, I visited the United Nations in New York City. In the then-empty Security Council meeting room, I saw the famous United Nations Security Council mural with its Italian Renaissance-like appropriation of Christian imagery. Adding a rising white Phoenix tempers the salvation message by making it relatable to universal audiences.

But this month, we remember how seventy-five years ago, after the devastation of World War II, the UN General Assembly put forward the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) for signatures by the UN’s member countries.

What is in this document? Continue reading “Remembering How the Waste Started”

I am struck that left and right each say that the other’s candidate is autocratic. First, these are not only policies, but they are claims against the other side: Continue reading “What is the hyberbole about right and left? Pt. I”

A whole generation is now dead. Russia was always the “favorite,” and the money needs to stop.

On the outskirts, Italy is dealing with a migrant crisis not unlike ours. The glories of Rome despoiled by desperate street merchants looks to be our fate.  The Western comfort of backcountry Italy is a casualty of human needs and a slim sign of capitalist remains. The European market represents the diversity of a fragrance. The beer, the pasta, the music. The inability to cope with immensity.

Why all the vitriol for any discussion of the hot issues?

1. Abortion
2. Transgender
3. Border Security/Immigration
4. Israeli Self-Defense
5. Election Integrity
6. Vaccinations

Fringe personalities may weigh in. But raising a question cannot be disinformation.

Do the revolutionaries (Jacobins) feel insecure when there is a potential they could be wrong? This type of certitude bears on a religion that cannot be questioned–accompanied by a public flogging and excommunication.

Questioning the censoring Left on any of these is patriotic, not misinformation/disinformation. The country was founded on free thought, not agreement.

Mentioning, linking to, caring about posts that don’t give a crap about others is a useless affair. In the name of sanity, I must exercise my right to disengage.

Local sites like Nextdoor cry out in vain for addressing my concern about regular citizens being mocked and told that their concerns are illegitimate or just unwarranted. The lawlessness is alarming.

Yes, I can see your channel with logo and background. Your great production value. Your giveaways. And your sponsors have an attraction to your audience reach.

But business would as soon sell out for cat videos. Checking Ask the Public and Ubersuggest will show the current searches.

Fickle are the keywords.

Is “each new technological medium, and the professions it spawns…more soulless than the last…no longer ‘reaching for the stars’ but aiming instead for the more lowly consolations of stardom?” While Wired’s concept of soul may emanate from a non-religious spirituality (and desire to be relevant), this has to give one pause. Technology will progress, but what does reaching for the stars mean?

They do have it right on the face of it: stardom does not console the soul’s reaching for relevance. Can’t the wisdom of masses be more than popularity? When does your truth voice have sway? What does mass-produced influencing bring to it?

1. Concealed competitive hierarchies.
2. Unreliable, concentrated-at-the-top spoils.
3. Becoming a vapid mascot for brands.
4. Failure to demand meaningful contributions to one’s community.
5. Blurring between personal and professional roles.
6. Mandated likes, shares, and follows of a life of frenetic people-pleasing and social conformity (Wired).

The author should be commended: people-pleasing and social conformity destroy. So question: what happens when your audience contradicts or exhibits fleeing your channel? What happens when you lose followers?

I do not want to say the obvious.

The time will come where you must say what you believe. Is your moral(ity) spread throughout the network? Have you lost yourself in cheers and accolades? The answers are as old as Augustus raising the thumb.

We understand the pressures, the shrinking of your circle of friends, but your dissolving self asks, what is next?

As I wrote in the poetry of my worst times, the top is here and there is nothing seen.

I am not (NOT) a trumpie, but the plain love of the photo op by this judge presents these proceedings as farcical. It’s a show worthy of Tiktok. You have MSNBC revelling in the fact that the personal property of the man could/should be taken. As an American, your sense of fairness and justice should be turned on its head, your stomache turned.

Revolutionaries destroy important documents. Their translations are more important.

The modern is the measure of all time.