Current Report

 It's been awhile since I voiced my opinion on the current political atmosphere and since mid-terms are approaching I think it's important that I resume making my personal viewpoints available.

Honestly I have no idea how the mid-terms will play out and after the last Presidential election I'm pretty sure neither do you.

It's like feeling confident that the Dodgers can win three in a row.  Confidence has no bearing on the results.  Neither does predicting an outcome. They have been incredible and because baseball is a very hard sport to dominate....currently they are not so incredible and could be eliminated from the playoffs today.  The Milwaukee Brewers are trying to do the exact same thing the Dodgers did to them last year.

Sweep, in case you forgot.

Currently I know a few things that have nothing to do with baseball or politics.

I know that I can still beat my 9 year old granddaughter at bowling but I also realize that pretty soon she will beat me.  Our scores aren't that far apart and I physically feel good.  At my age that could change at any minute.

I have a thing called migratory arthritis and while it doesn't stay in any one place for more than a few days it really does cause sharp pains wherever it hangs out when it arrives. The latest spot was the three biggest toes on my right foot.  I usually take an Aleve and the inflammation  dies down after a few days.

I also have a torn left rotator cuff that the surgeon basically said the "balls in my court" which means I can do nothing because there is no pain OR I can do surgery which will restore full motion.  

THE NO PAIN part seems to be winning.  As long as I can still play golf at my normal level (which is in the 12 to 15 hcp range) then I don't care if I can't put the Mrs. Dash back on the higher spice shelf.

Avoiding surgery appears to be a central theme of my thought process.

Our local football situations are quite unique.

UCLA is 5-0

Chargers are 0-5

Rams are 2-3

Trojans are 6-1

The Ram team is in flux.  They just fired their field goal kicker but most people probably don't even know his name....and they sure won't know the new guy until he wins a few games for them.

The big football news happens to involve my granddaughter.  She is in the 4th grade and signed up for Flag football.  Only 3 girls signed up so she is playing the 5th grade boys.  I'm slightly convened because she hasn't really even played catch and she says she's a wide receiver....or she thinks that's what it's called.

I asked it they had a volleyball team and she said she wasn't sure.

She is much more geared to academics and art than sports at this point in her life and it's hard to find fault with that.

GOING BACK TO MID-TERMS

TRUMP IS GOING TO EVERY RED STATE IN ORDER TO HELP THOSE RUNNING/

I'M STILL COMPLETELY SHOCKED THAT HE CAN ACTUALLY

HELP 

ANYONE

ON

ANY

LEVEL.

The cost of gasoline alone should eliminate him from any influence over anyone.

BUT

I MIGHT BE TOTALLY WRONG

Just like I think the Dodgers can win 4 more games against the Brewers

BUT

OF COURSE I MIGHT BE TOTALLY WRONG

THEY ARE STILL REIGNING TWO TIME WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS AND NOBODY CAN TAKE THAT AWAY.....

AND THAT APPPLIES UNTIL THEY ARE ELIMINATED.

WHICH COULD BE THIS EVENING.

Maybe it's time to start looking at my ballot because after all the word BALL is part of the bigger word.

In the meantime 

I can for sure say one more time

GO DODGERS!

test draft REGARDING EUGENICS

 if you read the insert from Wikipedia below you might have a glimpse of how goofy people can be when thinking of groups of people who might not be in the same group as you.

The bias that humans can display regarding race and religion seem to top the list of categories when it comes to defining other people.

Obviously Politics is important but I've found decisions made politically usually stem from one's belief system.

                                            Neo-Illumination #17

The Universe has a system of order and chaos

     The human experience is a tangent of that system that both establishes 

                                           ORDER 

                                              AND

                                      CREATES CHAOS

            BELIEF SYSTEMS DIRECTLY LEAD TO CHAOS

     Acceptance with investigation and introspection creates more order

The mysteries of the universe will always outnumber the known realities                  

               AND CHAOS WILL FOREVER EXIST

OUR JOB SIMPLY MIGHT BE.............TO AVOID EXTINCTION

THIS ARTICLE BELOW IS FROM WIKIPEDIA AND IT REALLY SHOWS HOW CHAOS CAN BE MANUFACTURED BY A BELIEF SYSTEM

ITS JUST A SMALL PORTION REGARDING THE SUBJECT OF EUGENICS

I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THE TIME TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE

The American eugenics movement received extensive funding from various corporate foundations including the Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman railroad fortune.^[14] In 1906, J.H. Kellogg provided funding to help found the Race Betterment Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan.^[12] The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B. Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution.^[15] As late as the 1920s, the ERO was one of the leading organizations in the American eugenics movement.^[12][16] In years to come, the ERO and the American Eugenics Society collected a mass of family pedigrees and provided training for eugenics field workers who were sent to analyze individuals at various institutions, such as mental hospitals and orphanage institutions, across the United States.^[17] In the 1923 report of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, Henry F. Osborn emphasized the importance of maintaining the historic republican institutions supporting the ongoing consciousness at the time of opposing biological principles to the melting pot theory.^[18] Eugenicists such as Davenport, the psychologist Henry H. Goddard, Harry H. Laughlin, and the conservationist Madison Grant (all of whom were well-respected during their time) began to lobby for various solutions to the problem of the "unfit."^[15] Davenport favored immigration restriction and sterilization as primary methods; Goddard favored segregation in his The Kallikak Family; Grant favored all of the above and more, even entertaining the idea of extermination.^[19]

Semi-speechless

The other day I listened to two different speeches by JFK and when I start to compare the current President with our President in 1960

I

am

speechless

but since I wrote these words

I guess I'm only 

semi-speechless

I dare you to listen to JFK and Trump's Inauguration speeches and honestly tell me that those two people could possibly have the same job.

SO WRONG

 All the things DJT promised to not do and do have been done and haven't happened.

BUT THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS

HIS PERSONALITY

AND THAT'S THE DIVIDE

HIS FOLLOWERS LIKE THAT TYPE OF PERSONALITY AND THOSE WHO DON'T FOLLOW HIM CAN'T STAND THAT TYPE OF PERSONALITY.

In fact there has never been anyone in the White House that can even be compared to him....except maybe Andrew Jackson.

By the way...the 1.6 billion dollar fund to give 1600 CONVICTED  to the criminals who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 2021 IS THE MOST RIDICLOUS THING I HAVE EVER HEARD.

RIDICULOUS

48 and still always counting

 SEAN

Earth Day one more time

Farewell and my lyrics

No war

 The man in the White House should not be there PERIOD!

With the amount of weapons we have sold Saudi Arabia why aren't they getting involved?

If the answer has to do with Islam then this situation could get really really bad.

There are people who follow the Bible that have been waiting for this confrontation.

The religious factions might be much much more important than you think.

I hope not, because all three belief systems....Judaism, Christianity and Islam are basically pretty sure that they are the true religion....and that GOD favors their actions over the others.

Belief systems lead to chaos

Reality check 2.0

 Yesterday things got real in a few different ways.

Growing old is not a new experience when one turns 80 because IT has been slowly creeping up the ladder for awhile.

Being able to take my 8 year old granddaughter golfing for her first time made the feeling old dealio disappear for awhile.  Having played golf two days in a row reminded me that I can still function on a somewhat normal level without pain roaming throughout my body.

The reality is that I could actually play again today.

Instead I'm going to do my laundry, return some birthday wish phone calls and then keep reading the latest Dean Koontz novel, which by the way seems to be a writer's experiment for him,  and then  catch up on the latest Olympic results.

Let's get back to the important part of this article.

MY GRANDDAUGHTER

The reality check regarding her is not only is she ok but she is remarkable in so many ways.....which leads me directly to her.......

Dear ISLA,

I'm writing this knowing someday you will probably sit down and read MIND JAZZ articles and while doing so will stumble on this one and  also remember the day you played golf with your grandpa "Tim" on his 80th birthday.

(as long as Google is in business Mind Jazz will be available to view)

It was a wonderful day and whether or not you continue to play the game of golf depends on so many other people and so many other things. I'm pretty sure you will because you had fun and because it's a mental and physical challenge and you seem like a person who desires challenges..

My favorite part of the day was getting the partial birthday card.  The fact that it actually fit inside the Valentine card envelope from The Paper Source store that I got you was amazing because I wasn't kidding when I said it could sell in the store.

If you enlarge image you will see that items are cut out, painted and pasted back on image....like guy on boat and sunrays etc.

God knows you have faced some abnormal challenges already and seem to be doing a remarkable job dealing with everything life has thrown your way.

I think the art aspect of your life has helped tremendously but the simple fact is you are very very smart and funny and those two element will always be a huge part of who you are and who you will become.

I look forward to helping you in anyway I can both on the art and the funny sides while dumping  a bit of science, sports, politics and spiritual awareness on your path.

Perhaps that is why I even started MIND JAZZ. The archives are there on the right side for a reason....and you might be that reason.

THANKS FOR A WONDERFUL DAY

LOVE

"TIM"

And a special thank you to those who called or posted Birthday wishes....remember when people sent Birthday cards in the mail?  The fact that some of you left messages on my landline is so cool especially when most people under 30 don't know what a landline is.

P.S.

Abe Lincoln, my favorite Pres, would not have a clue about landlines or golf but today is his birthday and it used to be a national holiday back when everybody had a landline.

The EMBARRASMENT just doesn't stop

Every time our President opens his mouth I LITERALLY hold my breath and wait for ANOTHER totally embarrassing comment.

IT JUST NEVER STOPS

I'm not going to share the latest stream of words that came out of his mouth but keep in mind that this time he was addressing the WORLD at something called the World  Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  This "forum" was founded in 1971 by a German engineer named Klaus Schwab.

A German named Klaus causes me pause just because.......(you get my drift)

You can be invited to this forum if you have a lot of money or have access to information that distributes wealth throughout the planet.

UNLESS OF COURSE YOU ARE GAVIN NEWSOME

His speaking engagement was canceled, supposedly by DJT, just before he was going to talk.....AFTER ALL, why would the Governor of the sixth largest economy in the world be speaking at an economic forum?

OF COURSE YOU MIGHT POINT OUT THAT CALIFORNIA IS IN THE MINUS COLUMN AT THE PRESENT MOMENT BUT KEEP IN MIND THE NATIONAL DEBT AND CALIFORNIA DOESN'T LOOK THAT BAD.

Remember the National Debt Clock?

CLICK HERE

I need to change the subject before my head explodes.

THE DODGERS should have been invited to the Davos Forum because obviously they have more money than most countries.

60 MILLION DOLLARS a year for  .273 lifetime hitter with 147 homeruns in 8 seasons????

If he's worth that then Ohtani is worth 700 million.....oh wait he gets that already.,.....

I'm not complaining because of the simple fact that if you are going to charge hundreds of dollars for a ticket to the game then you better show us that you are spending the money and The Dodgers are definitely showing us that they put their money where their mouths are....and their ears and their feet and noses and every other place you can imagine.

By the way Kiki is still unsigned......and he made 6.5 million last year.

If you stop for one second and think about how much Kyle Tucker has to do for Dodger fans to accept that he is worth 10 times more than Kiki.  My guess is that he will have to have multiple HUGE hits during the playoffs for that to happen.  If they don't go to the World Series people will compare him to Conforto....which by the way he now wears the same number that Michael wore last year.  23

WHICH ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE NUMBER KIRK GIBSON WORE....and of course some basketball dude from Chicago.

Now let's look at this coming Sunday in the NFL

Four teams left and one of the happens to be the Los Angeles Rams.

Of course I'm hoping they win but after Seattle prevented the 49rs from scoring a touchdown in two games....I'm definitely not that hopeful.

I'm also aware that the Seattle baseball team just missed out on going to the World Series so maybe the SPORTSGODS  have a different ending for their football team.

What?  You didn't know there were SPORTSGODS?

I'm wondering how many of those SPORTSGODS are in Davos this week?

The Rams are 2 and 1/2 point underdogs and you can make a parlay bet if you take GREENLAND and the over under with Venezuela's crude oil reserves.

And by the way....WINTER OLYMPICS start on FEB 6th.

We have some really amazing participants....so tune in and try to ignore politics for two weeks.

I DARE YOU!

TDS

 I've tried to be "quiet" during the second term of our current President and I've done so with both ideas of 1)giving him a chance and 2)being humbled by his re-rise to power.

He basically shut me up after winning the 2024 election but because of people like Jimmy Kimmel I was able to live vicariously in the world of criticizing Donald.  And believe me when I say it's a large world. 

The latest stupid thing that has come out of his mouth reminds me of the time he called John McCain a loser because his plane got shot down during the Viet-Name war. 

These are his exact words when hearing about the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.

"Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS"

Instead of just not saying anything, which is appropriate in situations where you don't actually know the person who died, he decides to display his own case of mental derangement and belittle a much loved and respected celebrity.

I have watched Rob Reiner in multiple roles as both an actor and filmmaker and the pain his family is suffering right now should never be ridiculed or degraded by anyone ESPECIALLY the standing President of the United States.

I actually never heard Rob Reiner talk about DJT but I assume he was vocal in in his complaints regarding Trump because Mr. Reiner was a devout Liberal Democrat and probably leaned to the deep Progressive side of the party.

My father didn't like him because he was responsible for a tax increase on Tobacco to help support early childhood education.  My dad kept saying, as a smoker, "Where's that TAX money going?"  And he always blamed Rob Reiner even though he eventually did quit smoking at the age of 84.

Fairly soon, I hope, some of the ploys used by DJT during this latest term will be revealed on a large scale.  Unfortunately investigative reporters seem to be evaporating at an alarming rate.

I can start to list those ploys but I've got to go Christmas shopping later today.......so here are a few doozies.

Appointing a Federal Judge illegally and than having that judge file charges against various people he didn't like.

Pardoning 1500 people from the Jan 6 fiasco for storming the Capital building.

Claiming he didn't even know Jeffery Epstein

If you have a minute or two here is a sampling of Conspiracy Theories from Wikipedia that our current President has not only supported but often times created on his own or with his media team.

DJT Theories

and by the way.....

The fact that he decided to take over the Kennedy Center should wake up enough souls in the graveyards of political stalwarts to rise up and have physical influence on the current situation.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS....but I do realize that perhaps I'm waking up to the fact that our 249 year old democracy is virtually being challenged on a daily basis by a man who actually suffers from ..........

TDS