Tuesday – & We’re still being battered by the Atrocity News Feeds —

Tuesday, January 31st , 2017  —>  -7˚C / +20˚F @ Noon here in Atlantic Canada —

Jassper in his crate -

– Jassper was hanging out at the door, looked like he wanted to go out. I went to the door and opened it – he looked up at the television monitor and shambled off to his crate, walked in and plopped down. Don’t tell me our pets don’t feel what we’re feeling – So I turned the television off and plodded into the bedroom, turned on some baroque music and had Jassper for company in less than a minute –

— Again, I set this up early and left it, came back late in the evening and well – I’m still aching physically and in mourning for targets of hate & misunderstanding. Ex-Governor General of Canada Adrian Clarkson drew a parallel connection from the border blocking propaganda in the states to the atrocity in Quebec City – I keep thinking we’re getting somewhere and the ‘good people of this planet’ are waking up and can’t be manipulated the way they have been for centuries – But when stuff like this hits the fan – I don’t know –

— So I watched several episodes of “Person of Interest” on Bell’s ‘Crave TeeVee’ – I’ve gone through the whole series, all 5 years – twice already in the last few months – I’m trying to figure out why I like it so much. Bang bang shoot ’em ups are not my favourite things to watch – I’m not an adrenaline junky – I like the way so many characters in this series are really dynamic and multi-dimensional – Bad guys do good things – Good guys do things they regret – I’ve nearly groaned and skipped over episodes because of their short description – but watched them anyway and became pretty much fascinated by the on-going story currents being woven in around and through the episodic ‘who’s in danger or might be a threat this week?’ stories of the people they protect or protect the innocent from. Canadian television has warning statements before each episode and Crave T.V. has their own kind of ‘we’re not sure what’s in this episode, so you get the generic version of a blanket warning – something like ‘what you’re about to see might have violence, adult situations, nudity and all sorts of other stuff sensible people might object to – please watch sensibly’ {?????}

— The Sufis – { Islamic Mystics } speak about people seeing the world through black veils and white veils – Black veils when they believe they are under the power of dark forces, white veils when they believe they are doing God’s work and therefore can do no wrong. – The real trick is to throw off the veils and see this world for what it really is.

— Yeah, so I’m looking at all this through the veil of a nasty cold &/or allergies gone wild —

— Catchyalater —,

~~~~~ Jim

Monday – & The News Is All Quebec City Atrocity – All Day —

Monday, January 30, 2017 —>  -4˚C / +25˚F & Depressing @ 1:45 pm —> It isn’t the weather – It’s the political atmosphere —> I think today is Noreen Rooney’s Birthday —

Moe on the Moe bed.

– Moe’s got the right attitude, “Heck with the Human News – I’m gonna sit here and enjoy the fire in the wood stove -” –

— Sigh – I’m writing this at more like 11 something pm. The cold I thought I was getting over came back around and slammed me in the aches and pains department. And all day long, All the Canadian News channels were completely filled with ‘news’ about the attack on the Mosque in Quebec City. The hopeful side is them reporting about how many Canadian Citizens have been coming out to show their support for their Muslim friends and neighbours – The ugly side is – After listening to too many conspiracy believing types, I could easily believe that somebody is behind the atrocities and the non stop reporting of them to convince everybody that they’re not safe – keep everybody off center & off balance so everybody can easily be manipulated into accepting more and more draconian b.s. ‘Home Security’ type measures and happily surrender any freedoms they have left. This is not the aspirin talking – Sigh –

— I should shut up and just post this – maybe tomorrow will feel better?

~~~~~ Jim

Sunday —> The sun was so bright I couldn’t see the photos I was trying to take out there —

Sunday, January 29th, 2017  —> +2˚C / +36˚F with Blindingly Brilliant sun @ 1:45 pm —> -5˚C / +22˚F & dark with clear skies and Orion overhead @ 9:18 pm in Atlantic Canada —> Cousin Joan Pond’s Birthday – & Used to be my grandmother, Edith George Wellington’s Birthday, And Aunt ‘Bert’ Brooks’ birthday – plus Frank Soares and Sue [Something] and a couple other people I’ve worked with over the years’ – plus it was the Birthday of the character that John Wayne played in ‘The Shootist’ —

Snow, ice and clouds at the north side market.

– I aimed and ‘clicked’ several photos to get this one, couldn’t see what I was aiming at or what I got in the view-finder – This was taken outside the Northside Market on Fredericton, New Brunswick’s north side – Funny thing that? –

— We heard more about the problems the NB-Power crews are having trying to reconnect their customers in the north. Especially on the Acadian Peninsula, where they now say that most of their customers cannot be connected until later tomorrow [ Monday – January 30th ] evening.

— Down here in the Fredericton area we were lucky. Moncton got clobbered, and farther up north it was worse. But here we never lost power – I can’t say that we didn’t lose power because I shut everything down and got to remember what it feels like to walk around in atmosphere with not one single electronic device filling the air with electro-magnetic Schnarr —

Microgreens guy.

– Inside the Northside Market – This guy was showing and selling ‘Microgreens’ – Something like sprouts- but not grown in water – Grown from ‘heritage seeds’ without a trace of anything Genetically Modified 🙂 –

— “Greenleaf Mirogreens” —> Facebook Link —> https://www.facebook.com/greenleafmicrogreens/about/?ref=page_internal  <— I don’t know if you have to be logged in on facebook to see their facebook page. Cathi ( with the Canadian twenty dollar bill in her hand ) bought some of the microgreens for her salads after the man standing there saw our interest and gave us samples he plucked right out of the trays he had in front of him there – he even picked up the stuff to show us how it was growing in mats made of coconut stuff –

— While we were in the Northside Market we also picked up a small locally grown rotissary sized chicken and some ‘Montreal smoked meat’ { We had Reubens for dinner – yum } And while we were in the Market we wandered past some of the food vendors and stopped long enough to gawk at one stand with some interesting looking stuff- where the man behind the counter was from Sri Lanka and he gave us samples of things that looked like large spring rolls but were filled with mild spicy chicken. We bought one of the full-sized mild chicken rolls and Cathi also wanted some rice with Eggplant Curry – the Sri Lankan man suggested she might like some of the Lentil Curry too – then suggested she mix it all together while eating it. This was another yummy surprise on a day Cathi had planned to stay home and dig through old papers looking for old records of stuff she thought she knew where she’d filed – but the trip to the market turned out to be a whole lot more fun, and probably more therapeutic, too –

— Later – We walked Jassper slightly earlier than usual and had to contend with a lot of traffic on our slippery street, and the now pretty big young dog up the street got out and had us worried until we managed to tell his owner that the dog was energetically running around in circles, wanted to play with Jassper while we spoiled Jassper’s fun by making him “Sit!” and behave himself.

— There’s been a lot on the news lately about people having trouble with US Customs – Even a couple cases of Canadian Citizens being barred from flights to Canada. There was a call in program on CBC radio one today which dealt mostly with that subject. The latest halfway optimistic thing I heard along those lines was somebody saying the Canadian Technological sector would probably benefit greatly from this sort of nonsense, because ‘Tekkies’ would probably want to come to Canada rather than be subject to harassment, racist and religious prejudice – and worse – in the USA.

— And then we just heard that somebody shot several people who were praying in a Mosque in Quebec City. Just how crazy are things going to get before you silly earthlings come to your senses?

— Shrug { Okay, I’ll admit it – I might think and feel like an alien, but I am a natural born earthling, and I have a dna test to prove it — 😉 33% British Isles —> English, Welsh & Scottish —> 28% Scandinavian, 17% Western Europe —> French & Dutch, 15% Irish, 5% Iberian —> Lusitanian/Celtic?, 1% Italian/Greek, 1% Caucasus Region, & 6% ‘Trace Regions’ with a question mark after that. So I’m guessing they didn’t find any Pleajarin or Martian markers there – 😉 –  }

~~~~~ Jim

 

Saturday —> The Acadian Peninsula is still largely out of power —

Saturday, January 28th, 2017  —> -3˚C / +26˚F with very grey skies in Atlantic Canada @ 10:33 am —> Uncle Ray’s Birthday —

Moe on the dog bed.

– This is not Moe playing dead again. This is Moe basking in the warmth from the wood stove on the dog bed he commandeered. { We got the dog bed for Jassper when his arthritis was acting up. But Moe decided it was his. Even a 125 pound dog won’t argue with a thirty pound cat. } –

— It’s still making news that five days after the ice storm hit last Tuesday, Thousands of homes in northern { Mostly French Speaking } New Brunswick have not been reconnected to the electric grid yet. Part of the problem is the weight of the ice on the branches it brought down. Workers can’t just pick the branches up and get to work checking the lines.

— But Moe doesn’t seem to care about that. He has a nice warm fire to lie near and a nice soft dog bed – excuse me – a nice, soft Moe bed – and the knowledge that there are plenty of cat treats in the next room any time he wants to get cranky and drive one of his humans crazy until they shut him up by giving him a handful of what Cathi is calling ‘Kitty Crack’ these days. Every once in a while Moe decides he has to step outside onto the porch and survey his kingdom – But he doesn’t last long out there these days. Snow and ice are not his idea of a decent experience of the great ‘outside’. It’s fun to see him try to walk in a little bit of snow – he raises his paws after each step and tries to shake all the snow off the paws and out from between the toes. That makes for an amusing dance.

Jassper on the floor .

– And this is not Jassper hiding his face, either – I think he’s sleeping and dreaming about something troubling – he moves his paws over his head and down his nose – Sometimes it looks like he’s trying to scratch his ears – Sometimes it looks like a very human gesture – like maybe he’s trying to brush an annoying dream out of his mind. –

— Later —> We did walk Jassper this evening. The road is not quite as slippery as it was earlier in the week, but even spots that have decent ridges and deep tire tread marks can be pretty slippery. Tomorrow is supposed to warm up above 0˚C —> up to probably +2˚C / +36˚F?

— Catch-ya-later —,

~~~~~ Jim

T.G.I.F.?

Friday, January 27th, 2017 —>  -2˚C / +27˚F with light snow falling @ 5:49 am in the dark here in Atlantic Canada —> & Now it’s more like 6:30 pm —

Committe late lunch.

– Cathi took this photo just after she got home tonight – There were more than a dozen hungry deer hanging around when she got here, so I went out and tossed a second half bucket of oats their way – The white deer and her gang were here around 10:15 am this morning – They seem to know when a weather event is coming and show up en masse the day before ‘the fit hits the shan’ – I hope that’s not the case today –

— There might have been half a dozen hungry deer munching away at our daily oats toss around 10:15 am this morning. When Cathi got home from work around 5 pm we were happy to see that it was still light enough to see out there in the real world around us, and noticed close to a dozen hungry deer hanging out where we could see them. The young guys looked especially hungry and hopeful. So, how could I resist?  I filled our bucket with a little less than I put out there ever morning and while one guy looked at me, snorted and ran away, I had at least two starving youngsters cautiously approaching the oats before I turned and headed back to the warmth of our hacienda –

— On the Trump Watch Front — DJT told the world he still thinks torture is a good thing [ obviously, look what his daily pronouncements are doing to the American People – ] the guy he put forward to be his Secretary of Defense doesn’t think torture is a good idea – so DJT will ‘Defer’ to his General [ for now? ]

— Eek?

~~~~~ Jim

Thursday —> We Certainly Will Not Die Of Boredom —

Thursday, January 26th, 2017 —> +2˚C / +35˚F @ 3:29 pm in Atlantic Canada —> Catherine Ednie’s Birthday 🙂 —

DJ Trump grinning about building his wall and charging Mexico for the cost.

– Well, um —> It feels like the whole world is watching the White House to see what kind of shoe the new Resident will drop next – This is a copy and paste of an article posted @ the CBC News web site last night / updated at 12:04 am Eastern Time —

— The CBC News page is at http://www.cbc.ca/news/ —> & while my friends in Canada are gasping and wondering what DJT will come up with next, I am becoming more and more worried – I have this gnawing feeling that somebody is manipulating DJ Trump, setting up to commit some colossal blunder that will lead to his impeachment, or worse – And will the ‘devil we know’ be replaced by someone or something worse? —> Conspiracy Researching people on two or three sides of the issue believe that we are being set up for some kind of Biblical ‘Reveal’ and/or ‘End of this world as we think we know it’ scenario.  All kinds of ‘number of the beast’ scenarios pop into their minds. I think I’ll sit on the sidelines and hold my breath on this one.

— Meanwhile – New Brunswick is making the Canadian National News —> 133,000 customers were without electricity at the height of the storm, many have been re-connected, and with the temperature rising, weather persons and emergency people are warning that broken branches hanging over power lines might be held in place by up to 10 cm  of ice and might come crashing down as they melt and take out more customers – One person interviewed on one of the news services said they counted three downed trees across the power lines on their block. Photos might be pretty, but they’re also kind of ‘deadly beautiful’ —

~~~~~ Jim

Is Today Wednesday? – Hmmm – & Ouch –

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 —>  +1˚C / +33˚F  —> Grey, damp, slushy, slippery, & not exactly inspiring @ 9:59 am in Atlantic Canada on Ed Ferko’s Birthday 🙂 —

Blue snow and ice with huge ice boulders blocking the driveway.

– Um, this is what greeted us this morning – Big heavy ice boulders pushed across the end of our driveway – impossible to attack with the snow blower – I didn’t know if I could actually clear enough away to get the van out – & those appear to be cat footprints in the driveway –

— If I was any more paranoid than usual I might think somebody is really trying to kill me by forcing me to dig through impossible blocks of snow and ice like those above. – { This is in keeping with my recent binge watching of “Person Of Interest” —> “Only the paranoid survive,” Harold Finch –

Snow and Ice Packed windshield.

– It took about the same amount of time to chip through the ice on the windshield, hood and roof of the van as it did for me to clear enough of the driveway to get out of here this morning. –

— There are at least 119,000 customers without electricity in New Brunswick this morning, and somehow or other, we’re not one of them. I’m surprised they expected Cathi to come in to work today. At one point I turned to her and said, “If I drop dead clearing this driveway and they call off work after you get there – [do something rash] for me, okay?” I should have said – ‘Scream at them in insults they’ll never be able to get out of their heads’-

— & *”Ouch-” My back, shoulders and knee muscles are hurting. & I didn’t know I had knee muscles — I did bang one side of my knee when I slipped while trying to help clear the ice from the van’s roof, but the hurt is on on the other side of that knee – weird —-

— I should probably think about saying more, but right now I have a pain in the rump cat to deal with –

~~~~~ Jim

– Anticipating A Two And A Half Day Weather Bomb –

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017  —> -3˚C / +26˚F —> Grey, overcast and damp in Atlantic Canada @ 10:31 am —> Susie [ née Precourt ] has a birthday today – So did a couple friends’ mother, Mrs Lucas —

Weather map.

– Storm Center Weather Map as of 7 am for New Brunswick, Canada –

— We are bracing for a forecast of snow and ‘ice pellets’ beginning before noon – quickly changing over to freezing rain – which is expected to accumulate to more than a centimeter – which is dangerous both on the roads and in trees, especially trees near power lines. The weather man warned us that some areas around here could expect that if they lose power it could be lost for several days – And also warned us that we shouldn’t even think about driving anywhere this afternoon 🙁 —  The storm is expected to turn to all rain before it ends sometime on Thursday – { Eek! }

Writers should train their minds to misbehave?

– looks like a cool Escher Print with a decent message – 😉 –

— Yes,we should train our minds to misbehave 🙂 and imagine at least three impossible things before breakfast? Like, World Peace? Honest Government? Honest Business People? Justice and Equality for all? Tax Collectors to admit they’ve been lying to us all along and paying everybody back and giving us better services with no need to collect any taxes at all because they will admit that they have a much better income stream than they’ve ever admitted to?

"Flint, Michigan Still doesn't have clean water."

– And, related to the above – How about Honest Governments giving the people of Flint Michigan Clean, Healthy, non-poisonous drinking and bathing water? –

— Just because it’s been relegated to the ‘back burner’ does not mean that we should take it for granted that the beedy grastards in Government in Michigan have made sure that Flint Michigan has clean, non-toxic water. Sound like Ethnic Cleansing US style? –

— & I’m going to end this quickly so I can be sure it gets up and on-line. — See ya on the other side? —

~~~~~ Jim

Monday, January 23rd – Couple of Controversies in New Brunswick —

Monday, January 23rd, 2017 —> -4˚C / +24˚F & ‘Overcast’ / cloudy & grey @ 8:15 am in Atlantic Canada –

Gas Schnarr.

– This is copied and pasted from CBC online news articles posted on their New Brunswick page. Anything that looks like a link is not a link. – This showed up after I wrote [below] that it didn’t –

— Two morning news stories that didn’t make the CBC.CA/News/Canada/new-brunswick/ page :

One: Gas retailers are fighting to stop the tax break that First Nations people with gas stations receive. They say it isn’t fair. Okay – But what you probably haven’t heard and/or don’t believe when you hear it is : All the time oil corporations are crying poverty they are making record profits. The price of gasoline at local stations would probably be something like twenty five cents per liter if the oil corporations were honest. Oil Corporations are Not Honest. Honesty in any business is considered a severe handicap.

— The theory called “Peak Oil” is about as bold-faced as a lie can be. Oil is not something that owes its existence to rotting dinosaur carcasses under ground. Planets and moons manufacture oil as part of a natural process that nobody quite understands just yet. Moons of Jupiter have been analyzed and found to have oil. I don’t believe any dinosaurs ever stomped around on Jupiter’s moons.

— Oil fields on Earth that ‘dried up’ have mysteriously re-filled with crude. Farmers in Texas have discovered oil on their property and signed exclusive deals with one big oil corporation or another, had their oil tested and wells dug and then capped. These farmers thought they’d be making money ‘hand over fist’ and were told by the sleezy beedy grastards they signed their exclusive contract with, “Yeah, you have good oil on your property, but no- we’re not going to pump it right now-” – and never received a satisfactory answer as to why not.

— While oil companies get away with raising their prices through the roof, crying, ‘We’re going to run out of oil- real soon-‘ and their earliest estimations of when they would run out of crude oil said we should have been completely out of oil a long time ago – there is actually a world-wide glut of the slimy stuff replenishing ‘dried up’ oil fields everywhere. And Canada is notorious for insane price-fixing at the pumps. One satiric television program [ “The Canadian Air Farce” ] had a skit in which a motorist pulls up to a gas pump and as soon as he picks up the ‘self-serve’ hose the price on the pump spins up blindingly fast. When  he scowls and puts the hose back the price spins down just as fast. When he shrugs and thinks he will pump himself some gas the price spins up again to ‘way beyond outrageous’. The sad thing is, this skit isn’t far from telling the truth.

— And another thing – dangit – white guys from Europe did not find the Americas abandoned and unoccupied. First Nations / Native Americans befriended the Europeans and taught them skills and gave them intelligence that allowed them to live and prosper in this ‘foreign’ land. The white guys would probably not have lived without a lot of help from the indigenous population before they began to spread the attitude that “The only good Indian ——–” you know the rest.

— Speaking as a white guy, we stole their land. We massacred their people. We taught them how to scalp their victims. We did everything in our power to destroy their culture. We herded them onto worthless land and told them to stay there. We gave them blankets infested with deadly diseases. We probably deserve to wake up some morning and discover that we’ve been pushed back out into the sea.

— Speaking as a human being – If there really was any ethical justice in this land things would be a whole lot different.

— “The Crown” owns all the  mineral rights in most of Canada. People have walked out into their property and discovered ‘test holes’ where their property was dug up and left with big holes and piles of dirt – and also discovered they can’t do a thing about that – If whomever dug the holes discovered valuable minerals on their property those property owners would get nothing, and might even be forced to move, possibly without any kind of compensation . ***First Nations never signed away their mineral rights.***  White people have no right to steal the wealth from the ground and sell it back to anybody at insanely inflated prices.

— Add to this the fact that Big Oil Companies have been buying up and burying any patents to any alternative power gadgets. They successfully ‘killed’ the electric vehicles which somehow or other found a way to evolve around their earlier demise. It might not be cruel or unusual punishment to set the owners of big oil companies on fire in public squares and sell anyone who has made a profit from their sleezeball – unethical – probably criminal practices — into something like temporary slavery – force them to work for free for twenty years of their peak earning potential – or maybe not sell them into slavery, make them work on chain gangs in the ‘manipulated-into-impoverishment’ type communities of the citizens they fleeced out of much more money than any reasonable person would believe their products – which were necessary for most of those impoverished individuals to find work and feed their families – should have cost them – And right behind this chain gang we should see the ‘Banksters’ who survived the public evisceration they deserved for instituting and enforcing economic slavery and economic warfare on the rest of us.

— Two: People hired to offer “PC Financial” credit cards to shoppers in Atlantic Superstores were told to target low-income and young shoppers who wouldn’t know better – and they were told to hide the fact that when these shoppers were being nformed that if they answered a few questions they would be getting free points that were good for big discounts on anything they wished to buy in these stores – they would be applying for credit cards. These workers felt so pressured to generate business that they forged signatures on applications.

— Canadian Law says anyone who is signing up for a credit card has to be told they’re signing up for a credit card. Those who signed their ‘answer sheets’ so they could get free points to buy stuff did not know they were applying for credit cards. When this scam was uncovered, the ‘supervisors’ involved explained that they sent all ‘their people’ back to be retrained and forced them to sign promises to be ethical from then on. The poor starving temporary workers with families to feed who were the front persons for this scam were not the ones committing the most egregiously unethical practices. It was their bloody supervisors who told them that if they didn’t produce they wouldn’t be paid.

— AND — Credit Cards are Banksters’ biggest weapon in their economic warfare campaigns. Banks are manufacturing imaginary money and selling their customers into deeper and deeper economic slavery all the time. It’s a scam that should be illegal. They have stolen what should be the ‘Sovereign Right’ of a duly elected government to regulate any nation’s currency. Too many governments now find themselves serving the banksters instead of the citizens they are sworn to serve.

— One really good forecaster of near future trends said that in the year 2019 the last bankster would be strangled with the intestines of the last corrupt cleric in the Vatican. — I have no way to check this out before 2019, but, it’s an idea that probably gives a lot of people a kind of dark hope for the future. – I’m not sure I want to live through the intense nastiness that would have to happen before this ‘prophecy’ could come to pass. To reach the critical mass necessary for enough down-trodden citizens of this world to get angry enough to take out the banksters and the corrupt clerics – some real nasty stuff would have to go down. People just want to live their lives in peace. Really.

— Schnarr —,

~~~~~ Jim

Sunday – Weird Computer Stuff Happening & Trying to Reserve Judgment – “But-“

Sunday, January 22nd, 20147  —> +1˚C / +33˚F & overcast @ 10:42 am Atlantic Time —> This would have been my cousin’s, Kathy Conroy’s, birthday – Also having birthdays  are several others including a Dunkin Donuts waitress I used to see every day and a couple guys ‘mixed up’ with WPKN FM radio – including the current station General Manager Steve Di Costanzo —

Good Writers - Good Readers?

– Um, I’m not sure you have to be obsessed with being a good reader in order to be a good writer. One of my favourite Creative Writing teachers used to warn me about reading some author’s stuff, saying she was afraid I’d abandon whatever style I had and join the hordes who were writing just like some of the big names in the 60’s & 70’s. – And this photo is just a bit too sexy – I don’t think I want to be distracted thinking half dressed attractive women would be reading my stuff – I might stop writing and day dream about them instead of wondering what my characters were up to –

— The above tweet really caught my eye, and bothered me a bit – the photo I mean. I was hoping that wasn’t a dead, stuffed fawn on her lap. The photo borders on ‘cynically seductive/sexy’ eye candy and why did they crop most of her face out of the photo? — Shrug — & Why do I stop everything and wonder about their motives instead of just thinking, ‘Hey- cool photo-‘ ?

Timed out -

– “Your Connection timed out!” – I got way too many messages like this today while trying to connect to this blog. –

- weired Menu -

– & when I finally did connect I got menus like this –

— & Yeah – Weird computer stuff. I couldn’t connect with this blog or most of my other stuff all afternoon. I kept getting error messages and timing out –

— & like the menu to the left? — That is not what I’m supposed to be seeing when I click “Add New [Post]”

— & I’ve been trying to remember to say a few things about the new ‘Resident’ in the white house down there in the smoke and confusion that is the USA these days.

— “Seers” & ‘Psychics’ & ‘Remote Viewers’ and others with very good track records for knowing what’s most likely coming our way in the near future say things, like “They ran the numbers and saw that the USA was much more likely to get sucked into a devastating nuclear war if Hillary was elected-”

— I should find and copy and paste the ‘Time Tracks” graphs of Donald J Trump’s and Hillary’s projected near future(s?) – The Time Tracks guys have something based on bio-rhythms. They said that Bernie Sanders had the best looking graph of anybody who’d thrown their hat into the race. They were speculating that Bernie was scuttled by dirty tricks.

— & ‘Starfire Tor’ said that a completely different person was supposed to be the candidate who was fated to win that election, but seemed to have been manipulated out of the race, maybe even manipulated out of our ‘parallel dimension’ by what we might call ‘dark forces’.  { As I have said before – just because I write something in here – don’t believe I am endorsing it 1,000% I am more than willing to listen to more than just ‘both sides’ of any issue and report on what everybody is saying – I am fascinated by the theories that ‘Conspiracy Researchers’ come up with – But I’m not ready to bet my life on the ‘fact’ that, for instance, “Dinosaurs Honked Like Buick’s” I’d have to hear the Dinosaur honk away and then compare it to Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Fords, Chevys, Dodges, Chryslers – or Plymouths, Packards, Kaisers, Hudsons – and so on. }

— Lately, a numerologist presented her theories with explanations that shot past me a little too quickly, but lucky me, I can go back and re-think things that did not evaporate into the ether while I was listening to her stuff. She said that DJT has the kind of numbers that indicate to her that he is a person who loads of people believe they understand completely – but in reality, most of them do not have a clue.

— I’ve thought about things like the idea that people are mirrors, we never quite see the person we’re looking at, we see reflections of traits we have and exhibit. You can understand only what you have experienced. What you can’t understand is beyond your experience. Toss reincarnation into that mix and if you don’t short-circuit from extreme mind-spinning concepts — you may be on your way to understanding what life is all about. Once you understand what life is all about, you probably will not want to come back down here in the material universe and go through this schnarr again —

— So – Going on the premise that the numerologist is correct –  Donald J Trump may be a larger mirror than most – Millions of people are looking at him and seeing what they want to see, or seeing what they’re most afraid of – I’m thinking it’s too soon to call what kind of a person he is. I’m also not sure how much actual power the President of the USA actually has – Are they all puppets? Do they get to stand up and make any kind of difference, good – bad – neutral – or totally off the charts? I guess we have to kind of hold our breath and pay close attention.

— *BUT*! – Today on one news channel or another, a Canadian citizen was interviewed who had been stopped at the US Border by Border agents and sent back – not allowed to go into the states to attend the Women’s March in Washington. The Border Guard told her that – “wanting to enter the USA to take part in a protest was not a good reason to want to visit the USA-“  – She squawked, saying she didn’t see that as a protest, she wanted to show solidarity with women who wanted to make a positive peaceful statement. But the border guard either didn’t believe her or had his orders and was not going to let her into the USA –  As a matter of fact he had her finger printed. —> Now that might be something to worry about.

~~~~~ Jim