Category: Quantum Theory and Parallel Worlds –

Friday – August 8th, 2025 – We can Access our driveway again. = Whooopeeee?

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-Friday, August 8th, 2025 – +29˚C / +85˚F & sunny @ 7:43 pm in New Brunswick, Canada – Uhhh – Gary Chomic’s { SP?} Birthday And I think it was Sheila Beamon’s {SP?} Birthday, too –

- Driveway, Construction Evidence & Caution Tape-

– “@ 5:59 pm. My Favourite Person parked our Rogue in our drieway – Yay!” –

— We made sure our next door neighbour, who let us park in her second driveway – that used to be the driveway to a woodworking workshop – had room to park beside our car in our driveway. – This is a much bigger thing than you might guess. We were afraid we’d have to leave our car parked on the next street all weekend – where we couldn’t see it from here – where it might be in danger of people or bears trying to smash their way in for something they might imagine might be worth breaking and entering for???

 

Sixx feet tall guys working in the pit in front of our neighbour's driveway @ 10:35 am this morning

-“@ 10:35 am this morning -there was about an eight feet deep pit in front of our neighbour’s driveway -“
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— When construction began on Monday – our next door neighbour let us park in front of the cement block building that used to be her husband’s grandfather’s wood working shop – you can’t see their garage like building that is now storage for our neighbours’ whole extended family. And the guys in that pit are something like six feet tall – each.

 

Not a real good photo of our non-driveway access at 10:36 am this morning.

– “I took this photo quickly and could have framed it a lot better – but -“

— And at 10:36 am this morning the hole in front of out driveway wasn’t as spectacular as the pit in front of our neighbour’s driveway – But a four foot drop to a sudden crash against a future storm drain and cover wouldn’t have made our Rogue feel loved – and I wasn’t fully awake enough to take a couple more photos that could have shown this better – but the guys were already working and had been since about 7:00 am and I didn’t want to make them nervous –

 

Our driveway in the foreground and the newly finished ramp up to it -

– ” At about 4:30 pm – We had just about given up hope that we could go rescue our car and bring it home to our driveway – but when I got brave and walked outside with my iPhone – I saw that we actually had access all the way t Canada Street. -” –

— Yay – The brown-ish stuff in the foreground is the street end of our driveway, and the blue-ish grey stuff is the newly worked and heavily crushed in place ramp {their steam roller shook the whole neighbourhood every time they moved it} but Mercury still is retrograde for a couple more days – and after messages told me I couldn’t survive without the next update to Firefox this site looked like the update ignored all the settings – at least on the laptop with the latest and ‘greatest’  {{???}} Mac operating system.

 

-This is what the blog is suppose to look like-

– “This is what this ‘Jernil’ blog is supposed to look like,” –

— Above is what the “New Jernil” WordPress blog has looked like all along { except for today’s entry being there } –

 

- And this is what the 'Jernil' looks like after it's "gotta have it' update on the latest Mac OS on a decent MacBook Pro -

– ” Und ziss is vhat dis zame blog looks like on much newer laptop with latest Mac Operating system after today’s Schnarr update.” –

— To Euphemize a new expession used on the latest issue of Wired Magazine –  Above is what the ‘En-poop-ified’ latest update on my newest laptop made dis blog look like. Grumble grumble grumble….

~~~~~ Jim

Monday – December 9th, 2024, -8˚C / +18˚F , Dark and Cloudy @ 10:30 pm Atlantic Time in Atlantic Canada –

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– Monday, December 9th, 2024 -8˚C / +18˚F, Dark & Cloudy @ 10:30pm Atlantic Time, = here in Atlantic Canada, A.K.A. the Maritimes – { WordPress doesn’t like the word ‘Maritimes’ } & it’s my first natural born next generation cousin, Kathy’s Birfday for another hour and a half here – little bit longer where she is. I was working as the { Nickname: ‘Gopher’ } @ the Bridgeport Post Newspaper when she was born – I told one of the women who worked on the ‘Society’ page of the Sunday Edition – about my brand new cousin – and she sort of interviewed me – found a photo of my Aunt, Claudia, {Kathy’s mother} somewhere in the paper’s ‘Morgue’/archives – and ran a little article about the happy occasion. I didn’t expect that } <— Redundancy is like Deja Vu all over again, like Deja Vu all over again?

A guy I worked with.

-“I worked with this guy in the US Postal System – before I fell in love with a Canadian and told myself I didn’t have to put up with the Postal Supervisors insane bullying. I couldn’t stand watching ice-holes pick on people who were vulnerable while some of the best and nicest and most dedicated people in the world delivered the mail -“

— Jay Moran, above, was one of the very good ones. He and a group of his closest work friends made working in the US Post Office system almost tolerable in spite of the jerks who wanted to sabotage the Post Office and sell it off to Private industry.

— The ‘manager’ of the Stratford, Connecticut Branch of the Bridgeport, Connecticut post office, vandalized a parking garage because he was pissed off  over the fact that parking had always been on a first come, first served, basis. He believed that as a supervisor his exalted position warranted a reserved parking spot just for him. When the grievances were filed and the supervisors and Post Master realized they probably could not win his case, he snarled about that and told everybody in a morning lecture that he had decided to let the old ways continue.

— He also sent an African American Custodian out to buy stuff at a hardware store and laughingly told one of the injured guys on light duty to quickly go and grab that custodian’s parking spot so he’d have to park out on the side street, and when the custodian got back from that errand and did park on that street, the manager called the Stratford Police Department and demanded they ticket people parking in the street because they were preventing legitimate customers from access to good parking.

— The same manager couldn’t stand the idea that two African American women clerks could sit on stools while they worked when he had been told by the higher up the food chain supervisor he called ‘They Psycho” {Second supervisor in the hierarchy below the Post Master – that if he { the psycho ] ever caught him { the manager, also nicknamed ‘The Snake” } if the [psycho ever caught the snake sitting on his [ butt ] while the letter carriers were working to get their routes together and get out in time to finish in time – He { the snake } would be flipping hamburgers for a living. The two women – one was six months pregnant and the other had just had planter warts surgically removed from her feet. – The manager/snake invented a false complaint from a customer who – the snake said – found the pregnant woman asleep at the counter and when he woker up, she was verbally abusive to him { the make-believe customer }. I was the clerks’ steward – the snake told me about the letter, I said, “Show me the letter, I’ll write to that guy and explain that she’s six months pregnant – and -” the snake looked at me, shook his head, disgusted, and walked away – two weeks later he told me he “had to remove the stools from behind the counter because he got a complaint from a customer – et cetera, like he thought I would forget his earlier attempt to sell me the same lie? I responded the same, “Let me see the letter – I’ll write to the guy and explain that those two women have to sit down, one’s six months pregnant and the other just had surgery on her feet -” and he walked away shaking his head again. And then, less than a week later – he { the snake }  looked at me, and went to the counter and then – singing a little nonsense song to himself to make sure I noticed what he was doing – he walked away from the counter swinging the two stools as he walked to his office where he hid the stools from the clerks. I filed a grievance – and with my detailed written witness account listing his lies and continued attempts to remove the stools, and other witness account to the ‘psycho’ threatening the ‘snake’ with losing his job – the supervisors above the snake in the post office supervisory food chain wouldn’t let that grievance get to anywhere where that kind of racist shenanigans could be made public.

—And, during his on going campaign to get the African American Custodian fired – and/or ‘give him the treatment’ to the point where he’d quit – He, and the Psycho – wanted to get rid of a Hispanic American Letter Carrier – the snake unlocked the windows on the carrier’s jeep at least twice while no one was watching, but the carrier did notice that the windows were not locked each time, wondered if somebody had used his jeep to deliver special delivery stuff before the carriers came to work, and forgot to lock the windows closed the first time, and the carrier wondered if he’d been so distracted that he didn’t lock the windows back up the second time – and there was one street on his route with a hill, he’d have to go up and over the hill and would lose sight of the jeep for several minutes while he delivered the mail on the other side of that hill { And the carriers were all told where they had to park their jeeps where supervisors cruising around, checking on them, could spot their jeeps and know where they were, know whether they were on time or not and know they weren’t ‘goofing off’-  hiding somewhere – When the Hispanic letter Carrier came back up over the hill both the snake and the ‘psycho’ were trying their damnedest to pull the windows open so they could charge the carrier with ‘Failure to properly preserve the sanctity of the mail in his charge-‘ which – the psycho had already told me what he could do to get rid of dead weight – would be one more step they could charge him with to eventually get him fired for not working up to the standards the post office required of its employees. When he got to his jeep and the snake and the psycho were standing there, the carrier asked, “Can I help you with something?” and the snake and the psycho hissed and snarled and stomped off to their car and drove away,

— -My skin wasn’t thick enough to put up with the insane bullying done by too many US Post Office Supervisors – But the conscientious, dedicated guys who delivered the mail, sorted the mail and packages behind the scenes, and worked the counter and sold stamps and other post office services, were danged nice people.

— I could believe in those nice people and tell myself there was enough good in the post office – but the supervisors who lied on official documents and tried to get away with vandalizing to try to get themselves a designated parking space – and sent people off their prescribed routes so they could be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time – That wore me down – I came down with pneumonia three times in two years and my doctor said, maybe I should think about getting a job with less stress.

— And then somebody who needed love and attention and positive reinforcement told me she loved me and I tried to make that work, in New York State – five hundred miles away. And while I was five hundred miles away the snake tried to have me arrested for vandalizing the jeeps that were in the carrier’s lot. One of the carriers told me about that a couple years later while I was visiting family ‘back home’.

 

"The Fifth"

“Our Driveway, wasn’t quite this pretty today-“

— Within the past couple days – we got a little more snow than what shows above – and learned that our snow blower is on strike –  but the driveway was clear enough to satisfy the love of my life and that really matters. { I didn’t go outside and take any iPhone photos while there was enough daylight to say so -}

"One of the two laptops working over-time"

-“One of two laptops working overtime to try to keep up with me…” –

— The above laptop – with its two larger additional monitors is on my left side right now, north of me? – I’m facing east, with another laptop and its two external monitors working just as hard as the monitors to the north – the laptop to the east is something like six months younger than the one to my left.

—Details? okay – the tall slim monitor to the right in the above photo – plays host to two pages of “Open Office” writer – the free version that, thankfully, is NOT “Micro-Schnarr  Wyrd” the tall monitor {well, it’s a wide monitor that doesn’t mind being tipped on its side } Holds two pages that I can copy and paste back and forth from the top page to the bottom or bottom to top. the 4K monitor on the left should be handy for messing with photos and screen shots that I’ve been trying to incorporate into a WordPress ‘Blog’ – and/or – the 4K monitor can hold apps and pages that hold email and other things that I want to use to find and attach paragraphs and graphics to email messages that are responses to friends, family, and extended family. { I could qualify for the position of poster boy for health care Public Service ads that support the message, “Multi-Tasking’ Definitely IS  a very dangerous threat to your health and peace of mind.” }

— That’s not all. While I’m copying and pasting stuff into one of my blogs and editing stuff that I think is important over there on the left – The really important writing stuff is to the east, on the other laptop, in in front of me. I’ve got something that I thought I could finish editing and maybe even self-publish and send out as holiday presents to people who might appreciate the fact that I finished something and published it, but would probably rather sit at a table and accept the cold wet bean from the baby J.D. Salinger mentioned near the end of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ – or even undergo dental surgery without an anaesthetic than read ‘hard copy’.

— Now here’s the problem – With the latest ‘you gotta have this’ updates and upgrades to the operating systems on both these laptops – they no longer keep the batteries fully charged. They believe they’re clever as hell as they answer, ‘How the fupp do I turn off the b.s. pain in the rump routine where-in you ice-holes believe that not keeping my laptops’ batteries fully charged is the most wonderful idea you idiots have had and implemented since Steve Jobs probably walked away from your Corporate bull-chips shaking his head, thinking he should have shot most of you instead of letting you join the company the two Steves so lovingly gave birth to?’ —> Um, they answer legitimate questions without the nasty descriptive attacks on their integrity – with double talk and patting themselves on their backs, bragging about how wonderful their idea is and saying the laptop batteries don’t like being charged over capacity or even being kept up to full charge … but older laptops never had a problem remaining fully charged, and never developed problems that made using them an exercise in incredible frustration:

— But don’t’cha think it might be just as easy and even more wonderful to add a couple lines of programming to their routines and Not try to charge the bleep bleep batteries when they’re fully charged, but get the danged things up to full charge and let them sit and dream and – Or maybe even add a manual switch to let the stupid power from the ‘charger’ run the computer while it’s connected – and only charge the stupid batteries when they need a charge?

— Ya know how I know that their cutesy poo question-deflecting bull-chip non- answers to ‘How do I turn off your gawd danged “Charging is on Hold because you rarely use your computer on battery only” fupping message?’ —> Because when the gawd awful batteries have only been recharged to 80% the 4 K monitor blinks off and on – more off than on – so it’s basically un-useable. I can’t do anything while the screen is black because I can’t move the bleepitty bleep bleep mouse cursor to where it needs to be to help me edit, select, copy and/or paste anything – and when I move something to the laptop’s ‘built-in display’/monitor – it’s too fupping small – I need a gawd danged magnifying glass to read anything on that screen.

— Remember when Apple Computer’s greatest claim to fame was that it was a lot more user-friendly than the alternatives? I do. Apple went to hell when they tried to be friends with Bill Gates and allowed him to include his internet exploder browser with the bundle of new software that came with new computers. & That was before he publicly admitted that he believed this world would be a lot better off if the powers that believe they should be in charge of everything went and reduced the population of this world back down to something like under 500,000,000, or maybe even 500,000 – { Look that up. } & – Remember when Monsanto’s radio ads called itself the ‘Grocer to the World” instead of what we’re getting now = “Either we stop Monsanto or Monsanto will be the end of the Human Race.”

— Some smug ice-hole would probably sneer at me and say, “The solution to your problem is simple, upgrade to the latest computers with the latest operating system… and blah blah blah -” Yeah – right. buy me a new super computer that I can’t afford – every year and that won’t even shut the morons up …

— Planned Obsolescence is a Crime in France, and should be – Everywhere! —

~~~~~ Jim

Wednesday – August 17th – 2022 —

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Wednesday – August 17th, 2022 —> +19˚C / +66˚F & raining on Scott Catteral’s Birthday – 🙂 –

I just tried to post this on /dreams/ and the blog disappeared?

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In a place where the sounds of youthful joy and enthusiasm abounded

I found several young people digging alongside an old abandoned road

Most of them gave up and went away to enjoy themselves

One guy kept at it and discovered a new spot where there were a lot of of

close -together hexagonal shaped flat stones with medium blue paint on

bas relief designs that had a Celtic flavor to them

beneath the stones { which were probably  two feet in diameter each }

there were lots of cassette tapes in pretty good condition

the last stone this guy raised had a garden hand tool – claws

the claws gave him the creeps – he hoped nobody used that tool to murder anybody – { else why would they bury it like this? }

Next

I was looking through an abandoned house near where I’d been assigned to live in a second floor apartment in a masonry building with my family

My family included Cathi and a couple other friends { I think we were all in our twenties }

exploring the abandoned house I found a notebook with details of the life and likes of a young celebrity – someone like Emma Watson?

I hoped that whoever had written down all those details wasn’t stalking the young actress – and decided to take the notebook and disguise it behind a notebook of my own in case the possible stalker was watching the abandoned house.

I went back to my apartment { apartment # 204 – with no numbers on the white washed doors } and thought I should bring that notebook to the police – but weighed that against the possibility that the police might believe that I was the stalker,

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?????

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~~~~~ Jim

 

February 6th, 2022

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Sunday – February 6th, 2022 —> -8˚C /+17.6˚F @ 3:15 pm in Atlantic Canada – { Was my aunt Phylis’ Birthday 🙂 }

 

Draeydan & Shelley at Daybreak

– Latest couple of characters from my latest NaNoWriMo novel –

— { I was shocked to see how good the above screen shot looks on a gaming monitor. }

 

Path to Deer Hill

– Snow-Blown path from tool shed to ‘Deer Hill’ { Taken from squatting down low – The snow piles are not over our heads } – Photo taken yesterday, February 5th, 2022. –

— Um, we do not live in igloos in Canada – We do need air conditioners in the summer … { And “Wellington Court” was named after someone whose middle name was Wellington { Last name was Pond – The street began with five houses in a cluster – all inhabited by families related to each other – whose  last name was Pond. }

— Haven’t done much with my Genealogy blog —> https://aerendel.ca/DNA-Tree/ <— Looked up the spelling on my Aunt Phyl’s name and got lost – didn’t find it.

— The other night I was at my living room computer { One of several computers – the living room computer is hooked up to a really good set of speakers that we use to listen to live podcasts from time to time } — I heard something and turned to watch a colander jump up and slide down the wall behind our living room wood stove. … The love of my life subscribes to a friend’s Psychic podcast and has asked questions from time to time. … This house has some very unusual acoustic qualities. People talking to each other a couple streets away sound like they’re in the next room – I’ve heard our sadly deceased Labrador ‘Boof’ clipping down the hall now and then { and felt my favourite orange cat jump on my arm two years after he dropped his physical body and went off to play in the happy hunting grounds 🙂 } … a really sensitive psychic said that was because we live in a spot with a bowl shaped sort of spiritual amphitheatre – where curious inter-dimensional beings sometimes stop by to check the place out – when my love asked who played with the colander the psychic source rattled off a series of names including my cousin’s { Joan Pond’s } name – { Her birthday was last week – {{ Happy Birthday Joan! }}  } – Which prompted me to check out her net presence and she’s still with us {{{ Yay! }}} — But hey, if you’re  growing telekinetic talents – tell me about it, Cuz – }} {{{ Or was it one of the Ponds who lived on this street in the past dropping by and saying hello? }}}

— until next time…

~~~~~ Jim

Saturday, January 15th, 2022 –

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– Saturday, January 15th, 2022 —>  -17˚C / +1˚F – a bit windy @ 7:30 am – and, no, we did NOT get a foot of snow yesterday 🙂 – & Today is Jenny Leigh’s { & Doctor Martin Luther King’s } Birthday –

— & After the latest ‘critical’ update to WordPress weighed in around a version number I thought was a lot higher… the latest version says it’s “5.8.3” ???  —> Or, have I slipped into some weird parallel universe? —> that might explain a lot…

 

– “@ 07:38 this morning – I was happy to see that we did not get a foot of new snow yesterday and/or overnight.”

— I made sure I was awake enough to go get gas for the van and the snowblower and picked up two bags of whole oats for our critters from the Co-op. { There are two or three deer in the photo above – if you can see them you’re amazing. }

— My usual winter allergies have been ravaging me lately – I can hardly get through a day without feeling like the usual post nasal drip will be activating reverse peristaltic reactions any time, anywhere. We’re both  incredibly careful and hardly move out of the house for anything. So, while our idiot ‘Premier’ { if this was the USA he’d be a ‘Governor’ or other ‘Chief Elected State Official’ } –  has an annoying history of – for instance – delivering disinformation – Like the time he said he’s had all his shots and doesn’t need a mask — & when he shows up to deliver that kind of disinformation with a gaggle of bobble heads standing behind him wearing acrylic face shields without masks – I wonder why nobody screams at him that those stupid face shields are totally freakin useless unless they’re accompanied by one or two surgical masks – or an N-95 mask that is properly fitted to the wearer’s face. { To be fair – the definitely political moron is probably getting his information from another radically misinformed idiot. } … We are happy to self isolate and keep self monitoring for new and/or unusual symptoms and, so far – have not come into contact with anything like ‘weaponized’ Chinese Viruses – Both Cathi and I have had our three shots { The booster didn’t even cause a minor ache this time and might have left us slightly more drowsy than whatever our ‘normal’ is … } and we’re both confirmed Introverts who do not need a lot of physical or even social contact with other human beings to enjoy life or feel good about ourselves  – As a matter of fact – we’ve both been bullied by corporate stooges and other insane high authoritarians way too often —> to the point where we feel a lot better having nothing to do with them.

 

– Two Characters from my latest NaNoWriMo Novel –

— “Draeydan” { left } & Shelley { Right } lit by a camp fire at daybreak in the game world – I thought this screen shot looked amazing on my gaming monitor. { Taken at 02:38 am on Thursday the 13th of this month }

 

– “I set my iPhone down on the porch desk while I climbed out of my winter jacket and it took this photo-” –

— Um, that’s some stacked scraps of lumber unretouched – the colour is from the grow light that is keeping quite a few plants amazingly happy on our porch 🙂

 

– “& I took this photo at 11:25 am yesterday – in anticipation of having some radical before and after shots while the weather people were forecasting a big dump of a foot or more of snow -” –

— This was just before I jumped in the van and went out on a mission to gas the van and fill an empty gas can because we fully expected to be struggling valiantly against a raging blizzard. Also picked up two bags of whole oats to keep our friends alive…

 

– & Dat’s me in a Christmas Present that was ‘guaranteed’ to get here by December 23rd, and finally made it on the fifth of January –

— Egad that guy looks scary …

— Ehhh – So I’m sorry but I haven’t even looked at ‘effbook’ more often than once or twice a month – and generally find a couple dozen missed messages with expired links to deleted photos and stuff – But Dang! I love this crazy human race and pray our next pandemic slaps us in the soul with some kind of amazingly contagious common sense.

– – – – –  Love Anyway!

~~~~~ Jim

Updating Characters as I’m re-writing here –

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 —> +1˚C / +33˚F & the weather app thinks we’re experiencing ice pellets /sleet – but I don’t see that – @ 2:32 pm Atlantic Time.

Shelley Got Dressed

– “Shelley at Seventeen”  – Her comment? “The Green light makes my red hair look weird – But I like the glasses.” { & she got to choose her own clothes after a ‘nicer’ person got a hold of the game world software and let her make her own choices. – but that would fall under ‘spoiler alert’ -;) – } –

— Yeah, I wanted to find a more ‘character friendly’ ‘photo’ for the beginning of the story line – { Shelley didn’t have a say in what her avatar wore when her manipulating cousin scanned her in to the software at his university when she was fifteen – Then her cousin uploaded screen shots from the game and posted them – and back at school – the bullying ‘popular girls’ found the screen shots and added ammunition to their character assassination plot and wrote ‘Slut’ in very red lipstick on her locker with a printout of the screen shot taped below that. }

Draeydan at seventeen

– “Draeydan at seventeen” { Shelley’s idea – after she found out she didn’t have to run around in the game world looking like she’d freeze to death at the slightest breeze – she had somebody help her scan Draeydan into the system and then she got to pick what he wore. 🙂 } His hair is darker than that – The computer guy admitted the software has a couple ‘glitches’. –

— Draeydan is not her manipulative cousin. He’s a supportive friend { maybe more than friends? – } & He probably wouldn’t want to be caught dead dressed like that –

Shelley in Faery Land

– “Shelley in Faery Land” { When her older cousin was controlling the backgrounds and not letting her pick her wardrobe. ) –

— The story begins in a ‘parallel word’ where the geography is pretty much the same as it is here – but a lot of names are different – History is slightly different – Benedict Arnold was revered as a hero and George Washington was hung as a traitor. The Capital of New York state is in the same place as Albany is here – but the city’s name is Springfield.

— And a lot of names are spelled differently –

— But bullies are still bullies and all these two sensitive kids want to do is survive high school – finding love along the way might help.

~~~~~ Jim

 

Tuesday – November 30th, 2021 – NaNoWriMo Winner Again :) –

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– Tuesday, November 34th, 2021 – -7˚C / +16˚F – dark and damp in Atlantic Canada @ 10:30 pm Atlantic Time –

- NaNoWriMo Projects since 2012 - with total from 2005 added -

– “NaNoWrimo Projects Page” —> { Total includes entries since 2012 – after I had to create a new sign in and password after losing the earlier one – and I did add my ‘winning’ project from 2005 – } {{ This is a screen shot – you can’t scroll down to see the rest – }}

— Won again { Yay? } Wrote 138,857 words in thirty days starting on November 1st – But then I’m officially retired and I can spend more time writing than most – Do Not Be discouraged, all you wonderful people out there with the ‘writing bug’ I’m pretty sure most main stream publishers wouldn’t pay me a penny for most of what I wrote – even when I tried to follow the formula “You need a likeable character with his { or her ] bum in a bear trap and the story is how he { or she } frees himself { herself } from that bear trap – or doesn’t-” { * “Bum” is the nicer Canadian equivilent of ‘Butt’ for all youse unfortunates who don’t live in Canada or have Canadian friends and/or lovers. }

— This year’s project follows a couple seventeen year olds who are bright, bullied, and abused – and just want to live long enough to escape from the horrors of high school. I have been thinking that this National Novel Writing Month’s novel might be the one with the most potential for me to whip into shape { Combined with the hundred thousand plus words I wrote beginning in September – thinking I had a short – easily managed – maybe even publishable story line } { ahhh well – not that short … grumble grumble grumble } I thought I could bash something out and maybe publish an un-professionally edited version in time to send it out as Holiday Presents – next month?  Probably won’t make that deadline. }

 

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– “Facebook Friendly Winners’ Banner ” –

— Um – I missed a couple important birthday wishes and other important events while writing this – and maybe that guilt will catch up to me – but for now – We have a couple things to look forward to in the next few days –

 

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– “NaNoWriMo Stats Page” –

— For any of you who don’t know what “NaNoWriMo” is all about – they have a couple annual challenges – from November 1st to 30th – the challenge is to write 50,000 words on any subject – as long as you don’t copy and paste “Every Good Boy Does Fine” { or something similar } until you reach the 50,000 word goal – they also have a challenge for school kids with the reduced goal of 25,000 words during that same month of November – They also have an editing challenge a couple months later and winners get special deals with discounts on writing related things and I think they have a special deal with Kindle – where writers post their NaNo novel and if enough people give it a good review Kindle will ePublish that novel free of charge – { I’m not sure the rules at Kindle haven’t changed since I submitted something there a couple years ago. }

— At any rate – you can go to nanowrimo dot org to get more information and sign up for next year – if the evil dark forces that want to control everybody don’t blow up the planet before next November 😉 –

– – – – – Yay?

~~~~~ Jim

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

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-Tuesday – November 23rd, 2021 – 0˚C / 32˚F with snow on the ground every branch of every tree I could see when I woke up 🙂 –

- Shelley - Walking away from her schnarr manipulating cousin -

– “Shelley walking away – Her cousin isn’t happy about that.”  This is the photo I was looking for when I posted this article to facebook. now it’s here – 🙂 –

Characters from Latest NaNoWriMo Novel

– This is supposedly a still photo taken via ‘screen capture’ of something happening in a live version of a video game – after the ‘living characters’ shown were scanned and those scans used as their avatars in the live role playing game in a parallel universe. – This is part of my latest venture into NaNoWriMo Land – {{{ image added about twenty minutes after this post was ‘published’ using the older Mac – & by the way – Shelley { on the left } did not appreciate the fact that her abusive, manipulative cousin – Don – { on the right } has them using weird weapons and has her almost hanging out of her ‘outfit’ }}}

— Well, Schnarr – I can’t add media??? { Using my older Mac at the moment – WordPress doesn’t like the ancient version of FireFox – but this good old computer can’t ‘upgrade’ to a newer operating system that will not allow better versions of a few things work – So Bronx Cheer goes out to all you Planned obsolescence ignoramuses – & In case that isn’t clear – the old mac can do things that newer versions of programs and “apps” I use a lot – can’t. { or won’t? } … Schnarr!

— And – I wanted to mention that, in email – My bank wants me to “Get on Track with “your” Financial Goals { … More like —> submit to their b.s. and get on track with their financial goals…. } And “Freecycle” that advocates giving stuff away that you no longer need instead of throwing it away and clogging up landfills – etc. – after years of hearing nothing from them, sent me a link to their “Annual Holiday Appeal.”

— I am much more likely to answer the Freecycle holiday appeal than contribute to a manipulating bunch of ‘Beedy Grastards’ who’ve been called down for demanding that their ‘associates’ up-sell services to people who can’t afford them. – Schnarr again! –

— Now I’ll have to { hopefully } ‘publish’ this here and add the graphix in another Mac that’s a little bit more schnarr with its apps but gets along with ice-hole beedy grastards and lovers of planned obsolescence …

— Grrrrrrrr –

~~~~~ Jim { the jolly old philosopher re-invented? } {{ grumble grumble }}

Sunday – May 30th, 2021 – My Nephew Dave’s Birthday :) –

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Sunday, May 30th, 2021 – 7˚C / +39˚F & Dark @ 1:49 am – in Atlantic Canada – It’s my nephew Dave’s Birfday 🙂 –

"My Office-"

– “A Clean Office is a sign of a very sick mind -” … or maybe just a symptom of somebody who has nothing much to do? –

— Okay – Right now I’m – um, maybe two yards to the right of the security camera monitor screen, { more like the “Deer Cam / Raccoon Cam / Critter Monitor – one of  our most constant visitors is ‘Miss Kit’ – our neighbour’s tortise shell aging mighty hunter – } I can watch the garbage and recycling trucks roll up and down the little bit of road that is visible in Camera One and sometimes see the mail delivery person approaching or walking away if I’m looking up at the right moment – There were a couple times I looked up, yawned, and noticed a package delivered either by Canadian Post or UPS or — what are the other parcel / express companies? gaaaa —>

 

- "Driveway and Yard and House From Across The Road." -

– That’s our Maritimes Cedar Tree on the left – the yard Cathi wants to turn into a garden in the middle, between the tree annd the driveway – with hints of some of our new plants Cathi planted on Sunday or Monday { May 23rd & 24th } of this year { 2021 } and our house – back center and a little bit of our Western ‘acreage’ with – I think – the steel shed partially hidden behind our van. –

— On Monday and Wednesday I took some photos,  first of Cathi’s efforts over the long weekend – { “Victoria Day” – last Monday holiday up here – Memorial Day to celebrate Dave’s Birthday tomorrow – } On Tuesday I had a telephone interview with somebody in Maryland that had me so nervous before hand that I nearly threw up several times after talking to a very pleasant and professional gentleman in the Baltimore area. He did not make me nervous – I made me nervous – Then – on Wednesday – the 26th – Cathi had a heat pump installed –

 

- "Heat Pump" innards. -

– Our New Heat Pump – My brain tried to call it a Heat Sink after having too much computer stuff on the brain for the last – duh… 30 years? “Eek?” –

— So – um, the rumours are that Heat Pumps are more efficient and cost about half of what it might cost for a new furnace and air conditioner – That thing is about two feet wide and takes care of the whole house – Maybe not counting the basement which was fairly cool on the hottest days – the day that Heat Pump was installed it was +31˚C / more like +91˚F +Muggy –  felt like 98˚F? So- for those of you who still believe that all Canadians live in igloos – well, it that was the case – we’d all be very wet and very homeless after that. 🙂

 

- "Outside part of the Heat Pump" -

– That’s the outside part of the Heat Pump – I should probably give Cathi a lot of credit for reading about a decent sale on this thing and pouncing . yup, she’s sharp! –

— The thing is happily parked beneath the overhang – which dozens of spiders believe we put there just for them so they can eat up as many mosquitos as they can handle – some of them are um, silver dollar sized? None of them have tried to pick me up and carry me away, but they would have terrified my sister Diane, who wanted to jump backward out of her skin whenever a friendly neighbourhood spider singled her out to drop down and say hello – Extra plastic window insulation still up and after the one day with a ‘humidex in the high 90’s { ˚F } and mid 30’s { ˚C } we had a couple mornings that flirted with below the freezing mark here. So Cathi got a chance to run the new Heat Pump through its paces as both cooler and heater and is very happy with its performance.

 

- "Cathi - admiring the Heat Pump's outside parts while the installers were still here." -

– Cathi – the creative genius who made the green plaid masks for both of us and is wearing hers here – is admiring the outside part of the Heat Pump that was the main attraction in the photo above this one. 🙂 – While the installers were still here. –

— Please notice the apparent lack of snow here in our little corner of “the great white north” the snow and ice that usually hung around until Mothers’ Day in spots of the western part of our lot here – Cathi’s outdoors “Zen corner” –  melted early. And the Fredericton area ofo New Brunswick did not have the devastating floods we experienced down the hill from us – around the Saint John River { Known as “Woolastook” {{{ English Spelling }}} to the First Nations People who technically {{ and probably legally }}  still own the country – AND ALL ITS RESOURCES! }

 

- "Dwarf Lilac" -

– New Dwarf Lilac bush we got at Scott’s Nursery a week or so ago and transplanted into the ground when we thought there was no more chance of frost. –

— We did a little bit of shopping earlier today / er – yesterday? Saturday? And were amazed at how many Lila trees in ful bloom we drove past. I really like the aroma – even if it did drive my mother’s allergies crazy – & Oh – the ‘Save the Bees’ people were calling for a “No Mow May” and asking everybody who cared to leave as many dandelions and other wild flowers alive and alone so the bees had a fighting chance of survival after the die off crises they’ve had to contend with. I dodn’t think it’s been as bad around here as it was some other places, but I guess it was bad enough to have the morning guy on the local CBC radio/television news interview somebody about it.

 

- "Pansies for Mom" -

– We’ve planted Pansies for my Mother almost every year – sadly, in her memory – and this is a terrible shot but that’s my fault, not the pansies… some of them grow back whether they’re supposed to or not and the smaller guys are new this year. { got ’em on sale- } –

— Yeah, I was in a hurry when I took the above photo and in the bright sun I can’t see how well the shot came out, decent sized iPhone screen or not –

 

- Purple Smoke Tree -

–  “Purple Smoke Tree” – The first plant nursery people I asked about smoke trees up here looked at me like I had to be from another planet – But the people at Scott’s Nursery in Lincoln, New Brunswick, know better and this is our second Smoke Tree – the other one is more like green leaves and subtle smoke coloured ‘smoke’ { blossums? } –

— I will have to take another photo when this guy { or woman? I mean – if I’m going to go full anthropomorphic here – I should probably get their gender right? If they have genders? – I can pretty much tell when a plant is happy, but I have not mastered the ability to actually communicate with them and know what they might be trying to tell me –  I can usually try to get messages through to them through guardian angels – and get a hint of a response from somewhere – or someone or something … Did I tell you that I once sent a spiritual message to a bat’s guardian angel when I had a helper one night a week on the cleaning job that was the first job I could legally get after becoming a permanent resident up here – and there was a bat flying around inside the building we were cleaning – the helper called the boss and the boss said, “Kill it-” and I ‘called out to the bat’s guardian angel and with a small brown bag – told the guardian angel that if the bat didn’t crawl into that bag one of us would have to kill it. Ya know what? That bat crawled right into that bag – and we carried it outside and put the open bag down by a large potted evergreen shrub and scared the heck out of a woman who curiously asked up what we were up to – and the bat flew out and up and away and pretty much sent the youngish woman running –  I have witnesses! I will never doubt the existance of guardian angels for every living creature after that – { Thank you , Doreen Virtue, PhD – for cluing me onto that – }

 

- Cathi, reading the 'constructions' -

– Cathi – reading the operating manual for the Heat Pump while we had electricians outside and Heat Pump guy inside putting the finishing touches on the installation. –

— If I had any sense I would make this the last photo here – Cathi looked up and wondered what I was doing pointing my iPhone at her while she was reading about how to operate the new Heat Pump.

 

- "Cathi - The Avatar - on Shamrock Island South - in the 'Aerendel' Game rwrold I've been building since 2011" -

– Cathi { The Avatar } on a desert hill in South Shamrock Island – in “Aerendel” the Game World I’ve been building since August of 2011 – after I was writing stories about Aerendel since 1973 when my concept of the place became a quasi-mythic place founded by compassionate Half-Elves with access to a sentient Anomaly that opened wild portalss to save all kinds of creatures in danger and ferry them to new lands. –

— She looks a lot better on a 4K gaming monitor. The ‘sentient Anomaly’ leads a lot of defenseless creatures to the Principality of Aerendel and captures a lot of ‘Adventurers’ who might have been bored with their lives –  in dangerous abusive relationships – or in need of a quick getaway from over zealous constables in their home worlds – Those ‘Adventurers’ have a lot of options from nurtuing wild plants to defending innocents from bloodthirsty bad guys and rogue helper appliances from a very weird future.

— So – “No!”-  of course I don’t have enough sense to leave things with a photo of my favourite life partner wearing a Covid-19 mask and reading up on how to use her marvelous new – and very efficient – heating and cooling device.

~~~~~ Jim

Welcome to 2021?

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Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 – -6˚C / +23˚F & Snowing @ 5 pm Atlantic Time –

Snow Fall shot through a window with holidays lights bright.

– 5 pm today – first significant snow warning of the season –

— Looks like we will start the new year testing out our new { bought it on sale } snow blower – The ‘snowfall warning’ says we can expect 15 to 25 Centimeters { 6 to 10 inches? }

— We are expecting the unexpected this year – holding our breath to see if election thieves in the U$A get away with any major Communist +/or  Fascist coupe d’etat { I don’t know whether the thieves I’m talking about here are ones who are accusing the other side of stealing the election? Or the ones that the apparent losers believe stole the election by somehow padding the vote. }

—> & In the great name-calling debate  —> One side believes that calling the other side “Communists” should render their more ‘Liberal’ opponents unable to do anything but wag their mouths with no words coming out —> While the other side believes that calling their opponents ‘Corporate Fascists’ should cause their opponents to fall down on the ground in the middle of acute cardiac arrest.

—> I don’t know – but no matter what happens – half of the population of the United States will be hopping mad – thinking that the other side didn’t just cheat, but they’re plotting to rape and kill their babies —> body , mind and Spirit… & then institute economic slavery.

—> I also believe that people are throwing words around where nobody agrees what they actually mean –

—> “Communists?”—> I think the only real commune-ists are spiritually centgered people who model themselves on what we’ve been taught is what the early Christians believed in and pracitcied—> “If you have two coats and you see somebody shivering in the cold because he or she doesn’t have a coat – give them one of yours.” : “Love! And do as thou wilt!” { I am not 1,000% sure of ancient spelling and/or grammatic rules … but I do remember that I had a grammar school teacher tell my class that back in ‘George Washington’s day’ – there was no standardized spelling. }

— But what about the golden rule? – ‘Do unto others as you would [ hopefully ] have them do unto you.” – If everybody acted that way we wouldn’t need to have a government pass any welfare or social security laws. In a world like that Donald J Trump would be a completely different, and probably much happier, person.

—> The USSR’s government was NOT commune-ist. If a small number of power hungry people want to control everything everybody else says, does and thinks – they are not commune-ists – The USSR’s ruling elite were Fascists trying to get their people to believe the fantasy that their government existed to insure that the workers who they said were the backbone of their ‘socialist state’ – were protected so they could not be exploited exploited by any evil capitalists.{ While the ruling elite in the USA was busy selling the fiction that they were in power to make sure that those evil commies didn’t conquer and enslave the good people of the good old U-S of A. – } Neither side in the cold war acted in a way that might fit into what Christian, or Jewish, or Islamic, or Hindu, or Taoist, Shinto, Confucian, Jainist, Sikh, Zoarastrian, Buddhist; or any other ‘religious’ philosophy teaches.

—> Another step back —> All the True Great Prophets who came down into this Material Universe to help us find our way through the various levels of spiritual ignorance and social and legal darkness – if they got together for a conference, they would be in total agreement on what the Divine is, and what we’re here for. They all basically gave us the same message. The confusion began to set in when The Great Ones had to translate Their message to fit into the linguistic and cultural climate they were surrounded by during their incarnations.

—> BUT – Power hungry men { almost always men } edited and warped Their messages so they could grab power and force their countries’ populations to serve them – and pay them taxes – and bow down and kiss their feet. Mohammed { God Bless Him Eternally } wanted his daughter, Jasmine, to inherit His property and be a powerful voice in spreading His message. Manipulative – Power-Hungry { Ice-Holes } men quickly seized control and forced women into subjugation and took away every right the Prophet, { God Bless Him Eternally } wanted women { and children } to have.

—> “Fascists” – If only for the sake of argument, let me define Fascists as ‘Anyone who believes they have the right to elevate themselves above the general population of their area and era’. { That would include and/or apply to anyone who smugly defines any group of their contemporaries as ‘The Great Unwashed’. —> ‘Corporate Fascists’ believe they have the right to control the news media to make sure nobody gets a chance to show them or their corporations in anything but a glowingly brilliant light that misses any possible flaws or short comings or even outright illegal, immoral, unethical, and/or ‘not very nice’ thing they do.

—> The corporate vice president of General Motors who showed a select group of award winning mechanics and ‘Mr GoodWrench’ executives who’d been personally invited to an event where their brand new product line for that year and futuristic concept cars were on display. The Vice President smiled and invited them all to come up and get their first look at their ‘brilliant new innovations’ —> When a mechanic pointed something out and asked that vice president, “Isn’t that made of plastic?” the V.P. smiled and said, “Of course it is.” – When that mechanic followed up with, “But those parts have always been metal – this looks like you’re deliberately putting something in there that is  guaranteed to break down-” —> The V.P. got angry and nasty – asked, “Do you like your job? I’m paying somebody two million dollars a year to come up with ideas like this so you can keep your job!” That V.P. is/was a Corporate Fascist.

—> Fascists seek to gain, consolidate and hold on to power by using “divide and conquer” tactics. Fascists have learned that if they can keep everyone they can manipulate in a state of constant anxiety, fear, insecurity and confusion – they can easily control those people, and get them to agree to give up their rights, privileges and freedoms in exchange for ‘a little bit of security’.

—> I don’t know if Benjamin Franklin actually said this, but he is usually credited with saying – “Anyone who will give up a little freedom for a little security will deserve neither and lose them both.”

—> More quotes – “I have learned this through philosophy: that I do out of choice what others do only out of fear of the law.” – Socrates?

—> “Banking Establishments are more dangerous than standing armies,” – Thomas Jefferson.

—> { One rallying cry during the US Revolutionary War was “No Taxation without Representation,” { I’m pretending I can ignore the fact that many of those revolutionaries did not believe that “African savages” were fully human – or deserved equal rights of any kind of equality with their ‘owners’. } —> The real issue was – after land owning colonists had been allowed to pay their taxes to the ‘Crown’ using agreed upon gold, silver or currency – and/or barter – handing over goods that the ‘Royal’ tax collectors agreed were of equal value to the tax the ‘Crown’ assessed that they owed —> ‘NEW RULES’ came along – and the Crown demanded that the colonists pay their taxes only in English Bank Notes. English Bank notes were close to impossible to obtain in the colonies, and if they could get them the colonists had to pay something like ten times their face value for them.

—> The ‘Great Experiment’ that was the Unites States of America outlawed corporations from the beginning – and then allowed corporations to form only for a short – fixed period of time – that was agreed upon by law and/or the State/County/Municipal level of government which would pass a law allowing that corporation to exist for the agreed upon – limited –  time. When that time was up, all corporate assets would be returned to the state, county, municipality or community where that corporation had been allowed to exist. The Founding Fathers did not want their fledgling democracy to be undermined by any form of Corporate Fascism.

—> The fledgling Democracy that was the USA then managed for almost two hundred years to resist the evils of the British Centralized Banking system that came to be known as the Federal Reserve Banking System – also known as the ‘Fiat Economy’ { and they don’t mean it belongs to anybody who owns a ‘Fiat Automobile’ }. As far as I’ve been able to find out – FDR had to compromise to get something he believed was THAT IMPORTANT accomplished during World War II by allowing the Federal Reserve System to come into being – and thereby infect the US economic system from then on. The Federal Reserve Banking System is not a Federal agency or branch of the US government – it is a veritable Mafia of Corporate Fascists.

—> Corporate Fascists control almost every media outlet in the USA, and probably Canada, and probably just about every country that suffers under the illusion that they are still a part of the ‘Western Model of the Free World’.

—> There’s an ex- investment counselor in the USA who will gladly bend your ear and explain how every level of government from the Federal level on down to the municipal level learned from the Nazis how to cook their books and effectively hide income streams and make assets look like liabilities and lie to make you believe that the only income they have comes to them through taxes. This guy says that every level of government in the Western ‘Free World’ could stop charging and collecting taxes today and provide more and better services than they currently over-charge everybody for. He also said, “If Al Capone studied law and politics he would have been the President.” And went on to add —> What does organized crime do? They charge businesses ‘protection money’ for the privilege of doing business in an area they control. What do all levels of government do? They call their ‘protection money’ —> “Taxes and licensing fees”.  – I keep asking people to go to —> CAFR1.com <— Check that guy’s arguments out and please tell me where he might be ‘half a bubble off’ –  if he is – or look at me and say “Holy Bull-Chips! He’s telling it like it is.” { Lately some of his blog messages sound too much like he drank the DJ Trump followers’  Kool-aid – and believes we’ll end up in hand baskets on January twenty first and wonder where we’re going and what we’re doing in those hand baskets… }

— In the series “Our Cartoon President” the incumbent screams {about his opponent } “He’s cheating – he’s registering minority voters!” or something like that. }

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—> Where are my loyalties? I will side with Honesty, Truth, Compassion, Altruism … { “What’s so funny about Peace, Love & Understanding?” – {{ duh – was that Tom Petty? }} } … Or maybe I’ve been thinkin’ that whichever ‘lesser of two evils’ is sworn in – they just might see us through what has been forecast to be the most incredibly awful decade in the history of planet Earth – or at least the history that the evil manipulators of human consciousness have ‘allowed us’ to know about? Hints from the Spiritual grapevine indicate that whoever becomes the US president on January 20th – the chances are much too ‘good’ that either the US or its allies will rattle sabres they should leave alone and when they believe they can scare Iran into backing down – things could very well escalate into World War III.

— WAKE UP before it’s too late!

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— “A society is judged by the way it treats its least fortunate citizens.”

—> “I’ve been running from side to side / one thing’s sure – that both sides lie,”  Pete Townsend of the Who — { quoted from a slightly failing – used to be fantastic – memory }

—> There is no “We” versus “Them” —> We’re all “We” – or we’re all ‘Them” – and we need to know that -Anybody you’ve been told is your enemy has been demonized by somebody who believes that you are a disposable member of the ‘Great Unwashed’.

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—> Back to ‘Reality”? —> Hey, it’s snowing in Atlantic Canada —

— & I used to see snow as a great egalitarian event – covering all kinds of injustice and painful realities and afflicting the rich as well as the homeless and everybody in between.

—> & remembering a quote from Bridgeport, Connecticut { USA }’s Socialist Mayor { circa 1933-1957 } – Jasper McLevy – “You want to know if the city of Bridgeport will plow away the snow? Well I say, ‘The Good Lord put it there, let the Good Lord take it away.”

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—> Shrug

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Jasper McLevy – Wikipedia

Jasper McLevy photo

-Photo of Jasper McLevy & No – we did not name our dog after this guy 🙂 –

Jasper McLevy (March 27, 1878 – November 20, 1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933–1957. He was a member of the Socialist Party, later leaving in protest to join the Social Democratic Federation.

Jasper McLevy was born to Scottish immigrants Hugh and Mary Stewart McLevy in Bridgeport on March 27, 1878. McLevy worked first as a roofer, learning the trade from his uncle after his own father died when he was 14. After reading Edward Bellamy’s futuristic, utopian novel Looking Backward, he became a socialist, and helped form the Bridgeport Socialist Party in the early 1900s. The 24-year-old idealist first ran for the Connecticut General Assembly under the Socialist banner in 1902, collecting 215 votes. He ran another 20 unsuccessful campaigns for local, city, state and federal offices over the following years, including nine tries at mayor, the last in 1931. In all these races he ran as a Socialist at a time when socialists were portrayed as anarchists and bomb-throwers.

In the early 1930s, Bridgeport, an industrial city in southern Connecticut, was plagued by corruption and hard hit by the Great Depression. In 1931, voters had ousted the incumbent Republican mayor for Democrat Edward Buckingham and McLevy only lost by a couple thousand votes. By 1933, dissatisfaction had spread to both parties and McLevy trounced the competition, bringing along a Socialist majority on the Board of Aldermen, Bridgeport’s city council. While people familiar with local politics had seen the writing on the wall in the 1931 results, the national media was astonished to find the Socialists in control in a New England city.

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—> Yay?

—> “They will try to put a wall between us – Don’t let them win -” { Duh? InXS? }

— xoxoxo – Everybody – Please have the best, most wonderful year ever – do not doubt for a nano-second that you deserve that – You may have to shoot your corporate news media delivering devices and look for honest news from something like WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut – or dive deep inside your soul to get the news directly from the Loving Source of Everything Positive and Good in Every Universe I know of…

~~~~~ Jim