Weather Report?

Sunday, March 29th, 2020 —> +6˚C / +43˚F – Dark and cloudy and warm? @ 8:44 pm –

Snow melting back in a driveway -

– @ 7:15 pm Saturday – our driveway looked like this –

— Cathi was in the living room, watching television, when suddenly laughed, and appeared in the doorway to my ‘office’ – She said, “Guess what? They’re calling for twenty centimeters of snow on Monday.” { Twenty centimeters is about 8 inches in the measurements I grew up with. – I took the above photo, thinking this might be the ‘Before’ shot –

— Tonight the weather network believes we might get one centimeter of snow over night. So, maybe we’re not about to get snowed under?

~~~~~ Jim

Outside, The Wind Is Howling

Saturday, March 21st, 2020 —> -1˚C / +29˚F with mostly blue skies and just a bit of fuzzy grey haze here and there – & Every couple minutes a blast of north wind rattles the windows and shakes the tarp covering the open doorway to our woodshed – March winds it is on Jeremy Charbonneau’s birthday here in Canada @ 9:55 am Atlantic Time —

Tweets from Harry Forestall & Elizabeth May

– Harry Forestall is a veteran CBC News Reporter in New Brunswick – Elizabeth May has been the Head of the Federal Green Party in Canada since she was the first Green Party Candidate elected to the Federal Parliament a while back. –

— The link from Harry’s tweet won’t work here – a reporter for NBC News thought he was giving DJ Frump an opportunity to brag about all the good things he’s doing to fight the ‘pandemic’ – The USA’s pResident in the white house pointed his finger at the reporter, said he was a very bad reporter spreading fear and sensationalism, and said that NBC and Comcast were not doing legitimate reporting { Because they’re not cheerleading every word Trump Tweets? Not leading the charge to canonize him? } and then blasted him again.

— Elizabeth May was the first Green Party candidate elected to the Federal Parliament up here in Canada – & while lots of people want to protect the planet from greedy oil barons – & believe that oil and gas should stay in the ground, and fracking should be a capital crime – & those oil barons know that oil renews itself, but harms the atmosphere and ruins people’s health, they want to continue to get rich by fleecing the public, crying ‘peak oil’ and like it says above – they pocketed more than $15 billion U$ dollars in profit last year AND received tons of corporate welfare from the Government of Canada – AND sold their Alberta to the West Coast pipeline project to the Government of Canada for more Billions of dollars  —> Politicians everywhere have drunk the kool-aid and preach the gospel of protecting jobs while we know that the renewable energy movement provides something like 10 times more jobs than the oil and gas industries do —> Okay – so politicians have been bought, and probably believe the b.s. they’ve been told, and now they want to continue to grab tax money from us while they do their damnedest to protect the morons who are hell-bent on wrecking our planet and poisoning our atmosphere. Well —> Schnarr on them!

Tweet explaining intelligence versus donald j trump

– A tweet from John Cleese of Monty Python fame –

— John Cleese – planet Earth’s Minister of Silly Walks and alumnus of Monty Python has had something to do with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York recently — and hints that maybe you need to have the intelligence of a slug, the imagination of a jelly fish and the sophistication of a bullied second grader to believe that Donald J Trump is on the right track and/or knows what he’s doing.

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— Our drug store up here has wide yellow taped lines – six feet apart – on the floor in an aisle heading for the pharmacy ‘Pick Up’ counter – There are signs near those yellow lines explaining that – if you’re in line to pick up medicine – you should be at least six feet away from anybody ahead or behind you.

— Last night on the CNBC news channel one guy interviewed a retired General who had a big part in guarding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina – the general was explaining why it’s a good thing to call up the National Guard in 27 of the USA’s 50 states to make sure that enough M.A.S.H. type field hospitals can be slapped together to deal with the pandemic. The host noted that Trump had called the pandemic ‘Fake News’ before ‘the fit hit the shan’ – and I think it was the next host on her program showed interviews with New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo – and others who said that when Trump told ‘his faithful’ that the US Navy’s hospital ship would be in New York City’s harbor in less than a week – his Trump-ness was full of something stinky and full of evil bacteria.

— Oregon and Washington State have given up trying to believe that the US Federal Government will do anything useful for them and have begun buying, leasing, and/or commandeering large buildings and sports stadiums where they are full speed ahead putting emergency field hospitals in place. Oregon wants to add 1,000 beds ( some of which would be in intensive care units ) and Washington State wants to have 3,000 new hospital beds ready to deal with the rising tide of covid-19 patients. There was some difference of opinion as to whether the emergency field hospitals would be for virus patients, or a place to stash non-virus patients to make room inside the real hospitals for the virus patients.

— & while I don’t even want to go near a news network channel to be bombarded with more and more stuff about this new form of ‘Yellow Peril’ – I have noticed that a lot of people believe the whole issue is ‘Fake News’ —> maybe an equal number of people believe we’re not taking this seriously enough.

— Shrug, maybe we need somebody with George Carlin’s attitude to come along, look at us with a weird smile, nod and say, “I can’t wait until we can sit down over a glass of wine and have a good laugh about this -”

In a flooded town, only the top line of a sign is visible.

– This was a response to Dan Rather’s tweet –

— & yes, the above photo was tweeted in response to Dan Rather’s tweet – which I suppose is equivalent to, “Now that the barn is nothing but cinders and all our horses and cows are dead, maybe we should open the barn’s steel doors -”

Support living wages

– Yeah –

~~~~~ ehhhh —

~~~~~ Jim

2020-03-13 -Latest Beginning of my Novel in progress –

Friday – March 13th, 2020 – -5ºC / +23 F – –> Cloudy and ‘promising’ a mess of mixed precipitation in Atlantic Canada @ 8:37 am —> coincidentally on Dana Delany’s birthday – She played Nurse Colleen McMurphy on China Beach —

 

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– In Search of a “Normal” Life –

– by Jim Wellington

 

 

1.) “Don’t try to make sense -”

{ Here Beginneth this tangled tale: }

Don’t try to make sense of any of this while you’re here – Your normal brain can’t do that. You’ll end up constantly brain-fried and confused – and you’ll probably walk right into a booby trap – This is a war zone, dude – ya gotta learn to follow your gut – and if you do that – ya just might survive this shit storm – maybe you can try to make sense of it later -” — Lance Corporal “Black Jack” – [ Albert Oliver Wilson Walker ] —> Advice he gave to Draelen Andrusen to help him celebrate living through the first few hours of the Tet Offensive, Near Dak-To, Viet Nam, January 28th, 1968… Draelen’s first full day ‘in country’.

If this was a movie, we’d begin with something like this:

It begins with a freakin’ beautiful sunrise in a paradise – Mountains, tropical flowers in bloom – Waterfalls – pools of calm water reflecting sky and the most colourful flowers you can imagine while children of all colours, sizes and shapes run around, squealing with delight – many of them splashing in shallow water while mothers wearing colourful Hawaiian rap-around silk or light cotton ‘dress’ smile and keep their eyes on their kids.

The camera suddenly shoots back away from this idyllic scene – zooms away through clouds and out into space, then pans down with dizzying speed, zooms forward, shoots straight at another blue planet, shrouded in clouds and pans around through daybreak on one side of the world, nightfall on the other side, then backtracks just a bit – and zooms down through clouds to what looks a little like South East Asia as a tiny flight of B-52’s in formation lets go of dozens – then hundreds of bombs – and we follow those bombs down until hundreds of firey explosions shock us and shake the world.

The fire and smoke rises to form a blood red caption that fills the screen: “Hanoi, North Viet-Nam – 1970”

The letters grow, then disperse, leaving only “1970” readable –

Then the ’70’ rolls back to “December, 1969” which remains in the center of the big screen as the camera pans down southward slowly enough for December to roll back to November and November becomes October and October becomes September and then the months roll back more quickly and stop on “February, 168” – then the date becomes smoky and disperses as the camera finds half a dozen Bell – Huey helicopters. The music starts quietly –

The helicopters are not flying in formation above the jungle, they are moving sideways, tipping left and right, darting out and turning in wide arcs, darting back. As the music becomes recognizable to baby boomers, it almost appears that the helicopters are dancing.

Behind the Hueys that you recognize from possibly too many images of the Viet-Nam ‘Police Action’ are five ‘Cobra’ – Helicopter gun-ships – loaded ‘to the gills’ with rockets and ‘gatling guns’.

The Cobras are in formation, flying just far enough back so any ‘enemy combatants’ who open fire on the Hueys ahead of them should be in for one hell of a surprise.

The music becomes louder – You might begin to recognize “Kansas” by Melanie { Melanie Safka for those of you ‘fortunate enough’ to have been born a millennial }.

(1.a) – WAR

Toto Stop Your Barkin’ – Cause – We’re Not In Kansas No More-”

Original Header Photo

{ August 29, 2023 – It appears that either Twitter or WordPress – or both? – is/are blocking content from twitter that used to be free and easy to embed – possibly in favour of charging for stuff that used to be free – clicking on “View On Twitter” will force you to sign in to a twitter account to see what used to be here … }

White Deer w/committee

The ‘Committee’ chowing down on the hill that is twelve feet from the window on our porch, the section of the porch that Cathi calls her ‘Zen Corner’. This was on May 2nd, or 3rd, 2014.

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—> Originally Published on March 11th, 2020 —> Edited on August 31st, 2022 —> { My Faybritt Birgo Sisttir, Sharon’s Birfday 🙂 } <—

Hitler Quote

– Re-posted Here in 2022 – Originally included in a post in March 2020 – { When I tried to google this quote and came up empty } –

— The above graphic was copied and pasted from a screen shot taken by my friend, Doug Otterson of Ithaca, New York State, while playing the computer game “Civilization IV” – which he often told me was a propaganda vessel for any government in this world to justify their taxes and their justifications for waging war on other nations. { Doug once told me he went into shock when the ‘A.I. controlled’ – “Emperor Gandhi of India” – waged a sneak Nuclear attack on Doug’s Civilization in an earlier version of the game – Civilization II. }

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“Libertarians believe they should be able to kill and eat their neighbours, as long as some good Republican makes a profit on the deal-” —> S.R. Mock – Ithaca, NY circa 1988.

 

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“There Really Are only two kinds of people in this world —> ‘Angels in Training’ and ‘Angels in Trouble’ <— and a lot of us have one foot in each camp — And quite a few of us are Spiritual Centipedes.” —> Jim Wellington { Circa 1995 }

 

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Jasper McLevy photo

-Photo of Jasper McLevy – Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933 to 1957 – { & No – we did not name out dog after this guy 🙂 – }

— One of the Long Time Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA’s most famous quotes was in reference to expecting the City of Bridgeport to plow the streets after even a crippling snow storm, —> “God put it there, let God take it away.”

 

— It is my personal belief that all countries who call themselves ‘Communist’ are lying – The only people I know of who practised sharing anything and everything they had were the early Christians – *IF we have been told the truth about them. 20th century ‘Communist’ governments were more like totalitarian regimes only claiming to ‘Share The Wealth’ with everyone under their rule { Maybe their idea of sharing only kicked in after they skimmed about 75% off the top? }

 

— { *The Christian Bible was heavily edited and possibly re-written to make the Romans look like good Christians at the the ‘First Council of Nicaea’ in 325 AD. There are quite a few people who believe that the ‘Apostle’ Paul – Nee Saul – who was supposedly converted on his way to Damascus – may have been one of the False Prophets we were warned about  – possibly because many of the things Paul wrote about directly contradicted stuff that Jesus said and/or preached. The rumours are that Paul was ‘canonized’ by cynical Romans to justify their continued use of slavery – and to continue a lot of other customs and practices that weren’t exactly holy or wonderful. }

 

— Socialism? After several of my junior and senior high school teachers demonized Scandinavian countries – saying those Socialist countries had a very high rate of suicide { by people who didn’t want to freeze to death? } Michael Moore, in his film, “Who should we invade next?” described several countries who practised what capitalists would describe as Socialism as having a happier – more relaxed population than we ‘enjoy’ here in the USA and Canada – but don’t take my word for that.

 

—>   “Socialism is the Fire Department putting out your house fire. Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.” <—

 

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Sri Yukteswar Ji Quote

– A quote from Swami Sri Yukteswar Ji –

— Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri wrote a book, “The Holy Science”, in which he described the cycles this planet goes through – He wrote that in about 500 AD we hit rock bottom – and almost everybody on planet Earth could understand nothing but the purely physical – Around the year 1000 AD we transitioned to the next higher level – & after that transition the ‘average’ person on Planet Earth could understand that electricity can travel through { or around } wires – [ & water can travel through a sponge – and maybe therefore – we could conceive that a ‘soul’ may be able to live inside a human body. }

 

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Let me try to quote Socrates or Aristotle – { I forget which }

—> “I have learned this from Philosophy – That I do out of choice what others do only out of fear of the law.”

 

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“The ‘Number of the Beast’ is Money.” —> US Air Force Major Ed Dames ( Retired )

{ … who trained US Military personnel in what he describes as “Technical Remote Viewing” with which even a person he describes as ‘As Psychic as a Rock’ can learn to use the latent power that almost every human being can tap into to ‘see’  events from our past, present and future at any distance. **They just have to learn to ignore their ‘pre-loaded’ intentions. He often had his students practice the skills they were learning – in double blind tests – by investigating Biblical Prophecy – Honest to Goodness Prophets in the ‘old days’ saw “$$$” as three sixes ( “666” ) and when a critical mass of proven remote viewers came to the same conclusion – It’s a pretty safe ‘assumption’ that they ‘saw’ the Truth – & “The [ False? ] prophet not born of woman” – That convinces a huge number of people to follow the next ‘Anti-Christ’ turns out to be a television screen or monitor.  [ **My best guess is that those intentions come from what Yogis, Sufis, Real Prophets, and Mystics of all stripes described as coming from Ego – One recent comment on ‘EGO’ described it as ‘Edging God Out’ – You’ll have to figure out the possible validity of that statement for yourself, I can’t do it for you – besides, half of you wouldn’t believe me if I spoke the Absolute Truth about anything, anyway. ] { Major Ed Dames also said that humans born with ‘psychic’ talent can be trained to become superstars at viewing the truth about almost any event in the past, present, or future history of this planet. }

 

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“All governments in this world could stop collecting taxes right now and deliver more and better services than they do today.” — Walter Brurien.

— Walter Brurien is an investment counsellor whose web site “CAFR1.com” { C A F R [#1] } could have stood a more accomplished editor – Walter spent a lot of time and energy explaining that one of the Rockefellers – who’d been present at the Nuremburg trials – came back with information he’d gleaned from interrogated Nazi economists and spread their methods to virtually every level of government in the ‘West’ – Federal, State or Provincial, County, Municipal – They’ve all been supposedly taught how to ‘cook their books’ to make assets look like liabilities – and hide the multiple streams of income that are not reported to the public, no matter how ‘transparent’ those governments pretend to be. Taxes account for 1/3 of all income coming in to governments and they claim that that is the only income they receive. { Tell that to police officers who are ordered to go out and write their quota of traffic tickets? } – Another quote from Walter Brurien? “If Al Capone became a lawyer instead of whatever he did become – he could have been the President of the USA” and – How is the system of charging professionals for licenses to operate in cities and fining them if they continue to work after those licenses expire – and so on – any different from hoodlums working a protection scheme?

— Retired Air Force Major Ed Dames – the intelligence officer who gave daily briefings to at least two US Presidents told us in a virtual computer conference that the average US Representative and Senator receives an income of about $89,000.00 per year, but almost all of them take home more like 2 to 3 million dollars in unreported gifts and kickbacks from lobbyists and other major ‘friends and contributors’.

 

– Artistic Rendering by Udo J Keppler for Puck in 1904 – related to an article by Ida Tarbell. –

— Recent deep space spectral analysis has discovered oil on distant planets and moons that never had any dinosaurs roaming their very unfriendly atmospheres and probably total lack of flora and fauna – The theory that oil is the product of rotting dinosaur carcasses doesn’t hold water. Oil is the natural product of processes that occur on many planets, moons and possibly other celestial bodies. Oil companies don’t want you to know that – because – even though they have discovered that ‘dried up’ oil fields they previously gave up on – have ‘magically’ produced more oil – they want you to believe that we are rapidly running out of oil so they can double and triple their profits at your expense.

— “There is no [ oil based ] energy crisis – There never was an Energy crisis – and with what we know now, there never will be an energy Crisis-” —> Exxon upper level executives in a speech to their lower level executives and supervisors in the far north Alaskan oil fields – as quoted by Baptist Pastor and Missionary Lindsey Williams in his book “The Non-Existent Energy Crisis”

— If you want to have fun and waste a lot of time, try to find this book in any google search – or try to look up ‘Lindsay Williams’ instead of spelling his name correctly. —> Lying, cheating, unethical oil magnates have gone way beyond reasonable effort to make you believe that there really is an energy crisis – The crisis that does exist – for them – is their potential loss of billions of dollars of ‘ill gotten gains’. And possible class action suits stemming from their practice of promising tons of money to farmers who’ve discovered ‘good sources of high quality’ oil on their property and then – after signing exclusive contracts with any of the ‘Big Oil’ companies – who’ve drilled, tested – and capped – wells on those farmers’ properties – They were told, “We’re not going to harvest that oil just yet.”

— Can they be held criminally liable for Fraud on this level?

— In 1973, during the first “Oil Crisis” – A LOT of huge oil transporting ocean going ships remained off the coast of New England and refused to come into port and unload their oil until their cargo – loaded as ‘Old Oil’ at $3.00 a barrel – was declared ‘New Oil’ – at $30.00 per barrel. Oil company scouts were searching all over New England – trying to find any large unused suitable tanks in which they could hide their oil until the price went up – How much of a percent increase is 30 dollars over 3? 900%

 

— One tweet I shared claimed that the Canadian Government in the recent past { During the Stephen Harper Years – but possibly continuing today? } could take all the money the give to subsidize the Alberta Oil Sands companies and use it instead to buy every family in Canada an Electric car – That Tweet hit the ‘Tweet-us-sphere’ while electric vehicles cost considerably more than they do now.

 

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Jobs generated by clean versus dirty technologies.

– This is a newer version of something I saw a couple years ago – Lobbyists lie – oil and gas companies lie when they say their companies generate good jobs –

— The Politix of Big Oil …  I remember ‘Protest buttons’ describing LBJ’s ‘Great Society’ as consisting of “Bullets, Bombs and Bullshit” —> I’ve come to the conclusion that Big Oil’s propaganda is much worse.

 

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Augustus As Trump?

– I might have to explain the text if it isn’t readable here –

— My friend, Doug Otterson, sent me this clip from a screen shot of a game he loved and hated, “Civilization IV” – he ‘created’ a computer controlled Civilization and named it “Trumpia” with their Capital City named “Trumpadelphia” – and borrowed the portrait of Augustus Caeser to serve as its leader. He said it gave him an enemy civilization that he didn’t have to feel guilty about attacking.  { One Psychic Investigator told us that he discovered that Donald J Trump is the reincarnation of Nero – the Roman Emperor who supposedly fiddled while Rome burned? AND the same guy claimed that DJT was a powerful Spanish Inquisitor – I can’t prove or disprove that but it sounds like it could be true. One Yogi I knew told me the only way to prove that reincarnation exists is to have evolved by meditation to the point where you could leave your body and travel back in time and watch yourself die and be reborn for as many times as you wanted or had enough energy to keep going. Some people might be shocked to learn what they may have been and might have done in the past. }

 

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— There maybe more coming to this Epic post? — Sorry about that 😉

 

~~~~~ Jim


 

March 9th, 2020 —> What You’re Missing In Warmer Climates —>

Monday, March 9th, 2020 —> 0˚C / +32˚F -very grey and cloudy @ 12:55 pm on, I believe, Jean Cippolini’s Birthday – { SP? } —> here in Atlantic Canada —

Chunks of snow -

– Chunks of snow looking like fallen pillars from the ruins of a Greek Temple? –

— This shows the effects of snow followed by rain, followed by freezing – followed by human efforts to chop through very ornery hard stinkin’ snow banks. Cathi did this, I was not able to attempt to get up, go out and help her – 🙁 —

Effects of wicked wind -

– And then we had a wind storm — We are not complaining. Other Canadians were clobbered with incredible amounts of snow. –

— I think the temperature was 0˚C – and the wind chill was more like -20˚C – { Translation: 32˚F with a wind chill or -4˚F } The wind kicked up lots of sand and other flotsum, and blew a lot of pieces of leaves, pine needles, and even bits of tree bark around.

Driveway under ice, salt & sand.

– And this is a shot of our driveway – after a lot of snow and rain and freezing rain and Ice pellets { sleet? } and thawing and freezing and then large doses of salt and sand –

— And – if that’s not scary enough ….

Our Street - At about 9:10 am March 9th, 2020

– Garbage Day in our humble neck of the frozen north. Please note that half the road is covered in ice that melts by day and refreezes by night. There’s a turn that could send anybody who loses control due to ice conditions – into our friendly neighbourhood utility pole. –

— Yup, if you’re a big fan of ‘white knuckle driving’ – come pay us a visit during the worst of any winter. This might just be any adrenaline junkies’ vision of heaven on Earth.

Ice bank and sanded driveway.

– We have had to chop the top off the pile of snow and now hard ice several times to get it down to what you might be able to see on the left side of this photo – to give Cathi a chance to see where she’s going if and when she leaves the driveway. Thanks to our wood stove and I think a cord and a half of split hardwood – the house is as nice and cozy inside as it might look here – unless you’re really pissed off since you learned that Canadians do not live in igloos. –

— Yeah, I’m becoming allergic to the teevee news lately – But Jess Jackson did endorse Bernie Sanders – Wow.

Kameron+Kaelyn with a green morning fog

– On a brighter front – Whattaya do when the weather conspires to keep you inside? I build game words – This is Kameron the “Ottarian” and Kaelyn, the half elf half Ottarian. marvelling at a greenish morning fog in Cavendish area –

— “Ottarians” believe they evolved from playful river otters. They have smallish claws that allow them to pick most locks with ease and they have no concept of private property, but they are nurturing and helpful and want to share everything that ‘follows them home’ with anybody who might like it. When the weather in “Aerendel” – my game world – became warmer, Kaelyn got rid of her bard boots and ran around barefoot.

Jessicka witnessing a strange sunrise

– One of the pitfalls we encounter while building 3D game worlds is sometimes landscapes decide to unravel – Here “Jessicka” has been taken slightly aback when sunrise over Ridgefield revealed a piece of a mountain that came unglued – and threatened to float away. –

— Very solid looking landscapes are actually two dimensional, and from the wrong side of a mountain, your mountain is pretty much invisible. You can tell water to be reflective on both sides of its surface, but if you want to build a cave, you need to have an extra layer of stone veneer and flip it upside down, then very carefully check and recheck to make sure the interior of the cave’s ceiling is completely inside the mountain’s { or whatever’s -} exterior dimensions.

"TaleRocker" the bard - discovered a castle that roams around the landscape.

– One of the core principals that formed the basic weird properties of the Aerendel Universe – is the ‘myth’ that an early resident of that universe thought that the forces of evil were about to destroy all of creation for the plus-perfect hell of it -then,  and with the aid of her trusted closest friends, using their arch-angelic creative powers – fashioned an ‘Anomaly’ – a cave that bridged all limits of time and space, and gave that anomaly a bit of sentience so it could find and rescue innocent creatures about to be murdered by bad guys and lead them back in time to before the bad guys went bad. –

— Maybe this should have been the caption and the caption should have been here? —> TaleRocker the Bard has discovered that the rumours of a Castle that appears and disappears at random times in odd places is actually true – and if that’s true – then maybe the rumours of a sentient anomaly protecting the innocent on this world are also true —? Hmmmm —

Rachel and Laery in Easlynne-

– Rachel is DJ Otterson’s daughter’s avatar. Just to confuse you – DJ’s daughter’s name really is Rachel. An earlier version of this avatar looked a little bit more like Rachel, but Rachel the human played with the face and body ‘morphing’ routines and believes this version of herself looks like she is proabably more fun to hang around with. – ‘Laerry’ is Rachel’s husband’s avatar. His ‘real world’ name is not Laerry – and his ears ‘in real life’ do not have elvish points. –

— I could bomb you with several more screen shots from our game world, but that might slow down your load time beyond ‘reasonable’ – I really like Rachel’s latest version of herself. I don’t think I’d buy a used car from her, but she does look like she’d be fun to hang around with.

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— And now, the more or less ‘important’ news of the ‘real world’ …

— The price of a barrel of oil fell to $30.00 U$ over night. Will this convince any greedy oil barons to give up and invest exclusively in renewable resources? Probably not.

— The last time I gritted my teeth and took a peek at one of our news channels, the Dow Jones was down more than 1,800 points this morning.

— Ya want a Conspiracy Theory to chew on? —> If the puppeteers who are pulling Donald J Trump’s strings { So expertly and so subtly that he doesn’t even know he’s being played? } are actively trying to destroy – not just the U$A’s economy, but that of the entire world – What the bleep do they believe they can gain from that? Revenge for all the dirty tricks the C.I.A. pulled on our trusting allies? And if you add the Coronavirus to this mix – if some of the people I’ve heard on late night radio are right and the ‘Red Chinese’ are orchestrating the downfall of ‘Western Culture’ as part of their 50 year plan to become the sole power on this planet – How could they have allowed one of their own people to let a cat out of their top secret facility where they supposedly weaponized this virus for future use against their enemies, real and/or imagined? One possibly goofy theory I heard was that Bill Gates is behind this pandemic – trying to reduce the population of earth down to a nice manageable size so the soul-less elites can control everybody. But then somebody else wondered if we’d have to wait for half of those elites to drop dead from the virus before anybody admitted they might have a problem.

— I think I’ll go listen to Melanie { Savka? Safka? }  singing “Glory, Glory Pyschotherapy -” and laugh myself back to sleep.

— “Toto stop your barking, we’re not in Kansas no more -” {{{ Thank you Melanie!  }}}

— Have a nice life, people —

— xoxoxoxo { Merry old philosopher: } Jim