THIS SHOULD BE THE FINAL STRAW.....NOT SURE I'VE EVER BEEN MORE PISSED OFF AT SOMETHING POLITICAL

Wallace: Mr. Trump, your reaction. Particularly on this issue of late term partial birth abortions.

Trump: Well I think it is terrible. If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that that is okay and Hillary can say that that is okay, but it's not okay with me. Because based on what she is saying and based on where she's going and where she's been, you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb. In the ninth month. On the final day. And that's not acceptable.

Clinton: Well that is not what happens in these cases. And using that kind of scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate. You should meet with some of the women I've met with. Women I've known over the course of my life. This is one of the worst possible choices that any woman and her family has to make. And I do not believe the government should be making it. You know, I've had the great honor of traveling across the world on behalf of our country. I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children like they used to do in Romania. And I can tell you the government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.

Trump: And honestly, nobody has business doing what I just said. Doing that as late as one or two or three or four days prior to birth. Nobody has that.

READ THIS EXCHANGE AGAIN

AND

AGAIN

THIS INCREDIBLY STUPID MAN FIRST SAYS NINE MONTHS, of which there aren't any such incidents, and then he says one, two, three or four days prior to birth.

HE IS IMPLYING THAT HILLARY CLINTON SAYS IT IS OK TO HAVE AN ABORTION IN THE NINTH MONTH AND EVEN IN THE LAST 4 DAYS BEFORE BIRTH

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ABORTION IN THE NINTH MONTH, OR THE EIGHT MONTH FOR THAT MATTER....AND MOST LIKELY IN THE SEVENTH MONTH.

IF A PROCEDURE OCCURS IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS IT IS BECAUSE

SOMETHING

HORRIBLE

HAS

HAPPENED

EITHER TO THE FETUS OR TO THE MOTHER

AND THE SCARY PART ABOUT THE ABOVE EXCHANGE IS THAT THERE ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT ARE WAKING UP THIS MORNING THINKING THAT HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTS KILLING A BABY FOUR, THREE, TWO OR EVEN ONE DAY BEFORE IT IS BORN....AND THEY ARE THINKING THAT......BECAUSE DONALD J. TRUMP SAID IT.

THAT'S WHAT REALLY SCARES ME

AND

PISSES ME OFF.

AND THIS IDIOT WILL RECEIVE 40 MILLION PLUS VOTES ON NOVEMBER 8 2016 AND

THAT

REALLY

REALLY

PISSES ME OFF.

The fact that he will lose this election by 10 to 20 million votes makes me a little less angry.

THE FACT THAT HE WILL CONTINUE TO BE HEARD LONG AFTER THE ELECTION

GETS ME BACK UP ON THE PISSED OFF METER.

IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO IS VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP YOU HAVE MADE SOME STRANGE CHOICES IN YOUR LIFETIME.

I KNOW MORE THAN A FEW AND THAT MEANS SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF THAT I FIND HARD TO ACKNOWLEDGE.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Time to get serious

This is the period, following the last debate, that Donald said he was excited about "the gloves finally being removed" and "now he could really say what he's been wanting to say."

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR JUST A FEW MINUTES.

What negativity could he possible utter that he hasn't already expressed?

And then a few days ago he said Hillary should be drug tested.  Wasn't it just 3 weeks ago that people were asking if he was snorting coke because of all the sniffles?

His repeated verbiage about the election being rigged is quite interesting because not only is the national left wing media, and the FBI part of the conspiracy but now the GOP turncoats, that are moving away from him, have joined the rigging process along with a very long list of other riggers.

I think the Supreme Court needs to be involved to rig an election....hum, wait a sec......2000 Florida recount that was halted and Al Gore was denied the Presidency after receiving 400,000 more votes.....
I guess we've already seen a unique case of manipulating the electoral process.

Now that's truly professional rigging!

Ever day he says something that just baffles the mind.

On Saturday HE said, while talking about one of the latest women to come forward regarding his behavior, "She sure won't be my first choice."  And is he honestly that stupid to tell America that if she had been better looking she might have been his first choice to physically advance on her without her permission?

His egotism is off the charts and while I believe that anyone who enters politics usually has a healthy ego....there's truly something different about this case.

It seems he just likes to stand in front of crowds and that content and substance don't really matter....and if you say enough bad things about everything, including America, then there will always be a certain number of people who will follow you to the edge of the cliff.

I'm not going to use the word deplorable....but uninformed is not off limits.  I'm guessing that maybe 10 percent of his people can name the three branches of the government.  My friend Tom thinks it's probably more like 5%.

If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania  I'll be totally shocked because that state has always possessed abundant quantities of common sense.  But I will admit that common sense doesn't seem to be a requirement of the current situation.

The hostile environment created by these two people is truly epic and yes Hillary still has questions to answer regarding the Clinton Foundation and it's involvement with foreign dignitaries while she was Secretary of State (which seems much more important than any e-mail scenario) when you compare that to the Trump persona the only good thing one can say about him is that he's rich....and as you've noticed over the years rich doesn't always relate to honorable behavior. I've seen pictures and video's of his living quarters and it's hard to tell the difference between his dwellings and some wacky middle eastern oil rich monarch.

I think it's really time to get serious and start talking to those people who you know are in the Trump camp.  Ask them important questions about how our government works....and then if they are over the age of 35 ask them who they've voted for in the past.  If they've never voted before than this vote is for a TV dude who they saw on the boob tube every Sunday for 10 years..... and they think know him personally because he fired Gary Busey.

It's always important to remember.........things could get really bad if someone without political experience suddenly has the reigns of the most powerful and successful country that has ever existed in civilization.

WE ARE THE GREATEST COUNTRY.....and we don't need some two-bit huckster trying to convince else otherwise.

I can already hear the bs coming out of his mouth after he loses the election.........and he'll probably have a new show called...."Watch Donald run for President."   There is a massive amount of content and all he needs is one hotshot editor....and then he might have his own station and just loop it 24/7.

The Trump Family Hour......will crush the Kardashians, The Housewifes of Beverly Hills and any other mindless reality show currently running.  And that's ok because all one will have to do.....is change the channel.

I keep pointing the remote at my cable box but he just won't go away.

November 8 can't get here soon enough.

I'm exhausted and there's still one more debate......omg!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Round two

The LA TIMES headline called it....

A CAUSTIC QUARREL

It turns out that 74% of the Trump supporters don't care what he said about women in 2005....and Donald called it "locker room" talk.  He was 60 at the time and I'm wondering what locker room a 60 year old spends time in?   Obviously one of his golf clubs......

The personal attacks consumed 70% of the debate.  Health care might have gotten the most time regarding issues.

The Sunday morning news shows, Meet The Press and Face the Nation, basically had the Donald either resigning or totally losing the election by a landslide so I was somewhat surprised by the polls later in the day that have him just a few points behind in key swing states.

Bill Clinton was on trial and Donald's references made me wonder why Hillary didn't bring up multiple marriages vs sticking with one partner through thick and thin.

Hillary might be a tough cookie but she doesn't seem to have the killer instinct.....oh wait, I forgot the Clinton's murder people who get in their way, so maybe she has another plan.

THE CONSPIRACY ANTI-CLINTON PEOPLE MIGHT BE CRAZIER THAN THE OBAMA BIRTHER NUTS.

Might be seems tame, don't you think?

I still can't believe Hillary doesn't give a proper explanation how ISIS stared.....and why she doesn't give statistical quotes on how crime has dropped in the last 40 years. 

 http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

And once more why doesn't she state the statistics on our military spending vs the rest of the nations on the planet?

I'm giving the second round to Hillary because Donald should be listening to his parties leaders and say
"adios amigos!"
"see you later alligator"
"i'm playing like a tree and leaving."

How they would pick another candidate at this late date is something I would love to see......
Maybe Dick Cheney
Mitt 
or how about
Dennis Miller?

This election is most definitely one for the ages....and I'm aging rather quickly....how about you?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

One time chance to see VP

One of those those guys in last night's debate  will be Vice-President of The United States of America.

I think of Joe Biden and and it's really hard to picture someone else filling that role.

Anyone trying to defend Donald Trump seems slightly off center...even though Pence appears to be much calmer than his boss.

Kaine's job was to hammer Trump on everything he has said and he did just that, but failed to teach us a valuable lesson....like how ISIS got started because of the Iraqi army being disbanded in 2003 under those other guys in the White House.

The time table on a recovery from financial disaster of 2008 never gets discussed and 7 and 1/2 years later things do seem to be on the right path.  Housing, automobile sales, stock market and unemployment numbers all seem positive and Kaine seems too busy slamming Trump to point that out.

Kaine also choose not to state statistics on how much stronger our military is than any other 10 counties put together and how much more we spend than the next ten countries COMBINED.

Does the GOP really think coal is an answer for our future energy needs?  I'm pretty sure the use of coal will always be part of our energy program but renewable sources are the ultimate answer.

THE ENVIRONMENT WAS BASICALLY A NON-ISSUE

One side doesn't accept Climate Change as a reality
and the other side
doesn't
stress it enough....but at least mentions it.

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
AND
CLIMATE CHANGE are the main issues that need to be addressed.

WHICH PARTY REGARDS BOTH MATTERS AS IMPORTANT?

YOU DON'T GET ONLY ONE!

End of story!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

And the winner was.......

Thank God for the DVR.....

Being able to pause the debate after 45 minutes and catch up some other recorded program....of equal importance....like Ballers on HBO.....allowed me to resume watching the rest of the "experience" later in the evening.

Was there an actual winner?

I'm fairly certain that neither candidate received any type of "crossover" to the other side support.

People who think Trump should be President still think he should be President and most likely anything said in a debate isn't going to change their minds.

The people that I'm curious about are the people that wonder IF he should be President.  Those people probably will decide this election.

A very large percentage of the American public believe America will continue to be America no matter who sits in the Oval Office....and if it's a total disaster then it's one term or maybe even shorter.  In other words those people are not really in fear of someone in the White House causing the United States of America to self destruct........BUT in this election Donald Trump has caught their attention.

HE MIGHT BE THE EGO-MANIAC THAT WOULD LEAD TO A VERY BAD OUTCOME AND THEY ARE WATCHING HIM VERY CLOSELY TO SEE IF ALL THE RUMORS ARE TRUE.

REMEMBER, ONLY 18 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED HIS TV SHOW.......AND LAST NIGHT WAS THE LARGEST VIEWING NUMBERS EVER FOR A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE....OVER 100 MILLION...SO I HAVE TO ASSUME THAT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCHED HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THE REPUBLICAN DEBATES GOT 25 MILLION

AND MRS. BILL CLINTON, EVEN WITH ALL THE E-MAIL CHAOS, IS A KNOWN ENTITY AND PEOPLE TUNING IN, PRETTY MUCH KNOW WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET WITH HER.

SO.....THE QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF.....DID DONALD TRUMP LOOK AND ACT LIKE A PERSON THAT WILL STAND ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING ON JANUARY 20, 2017 AND GIVE AN INAUGURAL ADDRESS?

I PERSONALLY FIND THAT HARD TO IMAGINE.....

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Therefore I give the first round to HRC.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Most viewed TV Presidential Debate in History

Reagan VS Carter 1980

80 million

There were no TV debates in 1968 and 1972 and 1964.

THAT LAST LINE MIGHT BE THE MOST INTERESTING TIDBIT

WHY?

(my guess for 68 and 72 is because Tricky Dick got his ass handed to him in 60 by JFK and he wanted nothing to do with TV)

And in 64 everyone was still in shock and Johnson

was

a

landslide lock over Barry " Drop The Bomb Again" Goldwater

PREDICTION FOR TONIGHT'S

DEBATE

85 Million

and then I went out into the world and questioned about 20 people in the bank and in the market and I'm raising my number

to

105 million

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

http://mindjazz.blogspot.com/2015_10_01_archive.html

Needs another read

Serious election time

The polls vary according to who is trying to blow smoke up our ass.  

Someone did a poll in Enid, Oklahoma and they thought Hillary Clinton was killed in an e-mail accident while visiting Libya.

One poll in Bangor, Maine didn't get the Donald Trump joke and thought he was making a new TV show.

In Oxford, Mississippi they were pretty sure Bill Clinton was still President and that smoking cigs in BBQ restaurants was actually important for helping improve the flavor of the meat.  Half the people polled learned to smoke pot at Ole Miss.

A poll was taken just outside of El Paso and they thought JFK faked his death just to give Texas a bad name.

At a nursing home in Sarasota,Florida the polls taken indicated that they weren't sure if women were allowed to vote.

A pollster stumbled upon a group outside of Boulder, Colorado and they offered him some of their home grown and he hasn't been heard from since......the group thought the election had taken place in June and that Obama got elected to a third term.

Another pollster was working a small town east of Bakersfield, California and they weren't quite sure what the date was when 9/11 happened.

A poll was taken at MIT and everyone in the physics department was convinced that elections exist only in a parallel universe and even thinking about them was unhealthy.

The pollster who was working the streets of Detroit hasn't reported in since July.  Rumor is that he hooked up with Kid Rock and is now working on the Trump campaign as a hotel site scout.

Polls in the mountains of Arkansas indicated that Bill and Hillary were actually siblings and so what?

Multiple polls were taken in Native American, or First Nation, reservations, or whatever they call the land where they live and the last time a vote was taken Marlin Brando was elected President of the United States.

Every minority pollster working in Chicago was killed with in two days of asking questions.

They tried to take a poll of the maids at one of Donald Trump's hotels but nobody was a citizen.

Pollsters talked to the Marketing team that handles Donald Trumps Brand and they chose not to be interviewed but did say that Mr. Trump running for President was the best branding idea they ever had......and they plan on doing it for George Clooney in 2020 after Trump fires them on 60 Minutes the week after November 8th.

The Clinton Conspiracy Blogs were polled and they simply showed statistics on how the Clinton's had murdered 37 people since 1972.

One polling group went to the Nuclear Waste facility in New Mexico but didn't go through the gates because everything was glowing a very eerie green.

A pollster decided to visit Aleppo but discovered that it was now a land fill.  He thought Aleppo was in Iowa because he used to be a linebacker in the NFL.

They polled Hillary's High School and it was discovered that she was a bit on the shy side until her senior year when she convinced people to stop using her nickname...."Hammerin RodHam."

And then one of the major polling companies interviewed 25 million people and 98% thought Jill Stein owned an Eye-Clinic at UCLA and that Gary Johnson was a running back for the Miami Dolphins.

You do realize there is a valid reason that half the eligible voters in America don't usually vote.

And I don't think it's an IQ dealio....I just think a huge percentage of people in America don't give a flying f**k about anything other than what they are doing.  They like to watch TV after coming home from work and that explains how they even know who Donald Trump is........and the polls say that millions of those non-voters are going to vote this time and that they are going to vote for that funny guy with the toupee who says..."You're Fired." 

Everything about this election makes very little sense....so adding some nonsense just seemed to make perfect sense.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Get Jill Stein and Gary Johnson in the debates. IMPORTANT

REALLLLLLY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!

JILL STEIN
and
GARY JOHNSON
Have petitions that need to be signed for them to be included in the Presidential debates.

THIS IS A CHANCE TO ACKNOWLEDGE TWO OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES

DON'T WASTE A SECOND

SIGN THE PETITIONS

http://www.jill2016.com/openthedebatespetition

https://www.johnsonweld.com/debate

You might have to cut and paste and if you don't know how to do that why are you even on a computer.....oh yeah...or a smart phone....BUT OF COURSE WTF AM I TALKING ABOUT WHEN I'M NOT SURE HOW TO LINK THOSE PAGES WITHOUT MAKING YOU COPY AND PASTE.

LIKE FOREST SAID.....STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.....or something like that.....

Just sign the freakin things!

Green Party platform needs to be read carefully

• ISSUES
 
• PLATFORM

Jill Stein 2016 Platform

Our Power to the People Plan 

Climate Action: Protecting Mother Earth and Humanity

• Enact an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, revive the economy and make wars for oil obsolete. Initiate a WWII-scale national mobilization to halt climate change, the greatest threat to humanity in our history. Create 20 million jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, conservation and restoration of critical infrastructure, including ecosystems.
• Implement a Just Transition that empowers those communities and workers most impacted by climate change and the transition to a green economy. Ensure that any worker displaced by the shift away from fossil fuels will receive full income and benefits as they transition to alternative work.
• Enact energy democracy based on public, community and worker ownership of our energy system. Treat energy as a human right.
• Redirect research funds from fossil fuels into renewable energy and conservation.  Build a nationwide smart electricity grid that can pool and store power from a diversity of renewable sources, giving the nation clean, democratically-controlled, energy.
• End destructive energy extraction and associated infrastructure: fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal, natural gas pipelines, and uranium mines. Halt any investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas, and phase out all fossil fuel power plants. Phase out nuclear power and end nuclear subsidies.  End all subsidies for fossil fuels and impose a greenhouse gas fee / tax to charge polluters for the damage they have created.
• Protect our public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks, and pollinators. Ban neonicotinoids and other pesticides that threaten the survival of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
• Support a strong enforceable global climate treaty that limits global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and provides just financial compensation to developing countries.
• Label GMOs, and put a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until they are proven safe.
• Support organic and regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.
• Protect the rights of future generations. Adopt the Precautionary Principle. When an activity poses threats of harm to human health or the environment, in the absence of objective scientific consensus that it is safe, precautionary measures should be taken. The proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof.
• Invest in clean air, water, food  and soil for everyone. Clean up America.
• Enact stronger environmental justice laws and measures to ensure that low-income and communities of color are not disproportionately impacted by harmful pollution and other negative environmental and health effects.
• Support conversion to sustainable, nontoxic materials and the use of closed-loop, zero waste processes.  

STANDING ROCK and one small question

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-dakota-protesters-vow-stop-oil-pipeline-traversing-sioux-land-n644861

http://standingrock.org/history/

Destroying scared burial grounds for any reason seems wrong...but for the transportation of oil makes this story have a very bad vibe.

Like almost evil.....

I suggest we follow this story and try not to repeat horrible atrocities once more to the First Nations of America.

Once again....we need Marlin Brando.

Oh, and by the way......why does China let North Korea have NUKES?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Reading and Writing and making thoughts expand.

This is my 1,229 "article" on Mind Jazz and the fact that I decided  not to put a th after the number 1,229 slightly irks me.  I've read that it's redundant and unnecessary because how else can 1,229 be read without assuming that it's the 1,229th.

Those of you who do read Mind Jazz from time to time, obviously would not consider me to be anything close to a well respected member of the fourth estate. ( I have other skills that translate to the visual side of creation) but when it comes to writing I do assume that you recognize an ability to summarize issues and from time to time make you snicker or snort a slight spew of acceptance and perhaps even consider that once in awhile I push your thought process in a different direction than where it normally resides....or not.

I have a style that I consistently adhere to 
and I use 
that
style
for emphasis and 
"fun" but mainly
emphasis.

How much fun this generates, within the confines of your brain, can truly only be registered IF you choose to share your thoughts and ideas with me.  Of course with my Aquarius nature....sometimes I get your feedback without you saying a word.  It's amazing how close together the words psychotic and psychic appear in the dictionary.

A few of you actually do let me know outloud from time to time......
and those few seem to be enough to guarantee that I will continue to make Mind Jazz a part of my life until I no longer
can remember how to put the letters together......

In truth we eventually all end up eyxpkqyi.......

Sometimes the letters put themselves together due to the electronic nature of the machine I am using....and what appears, quite often, surprises me.  Similar to talking without thinking.

Back in the early 70's I started using a Smith Corona Electric Typewriter and realized that letters simply started taking shape in formations that seem to make more sense than the non-electric typewriter I had been using.  Tesla had a handle on electricity.....electricity has a handle on me.

Oddly at the same time, my hand written journal entries started to improve and as I sit here explaining my "literary" efforts to you, I can look behind me and count 24 finished journals with 20 more in a case to my right.  The ones to my right are in the 10 x 12 size range while the ones behind me are considerably larger and include art as well as writing.

A few months ago I started printing copies of Mind Jazz "articles" but ran out of ink and decided that printing them would have to wait until my ship arrived.....and judging from the low tide that seems to be part of my f**ked up financial nature that ship  won't be docking anytime soon.  It does traverse back and forth on the horizon so I've got that going for me.

But like many things I do this opening was simply meant to be a diversion from the subject I originally wanted to write about.....
which is one of my favorite subjects
and favorite things to do.......
reading.

Since reading and writing go hand in hand  my brain decided to bring up writing first and then ease you into reading....and reading in a manner that seems to be fading much like the hope for political integrity....of which we currently seem to have less than any time in recent history.

READING WHILE ACTUALLY HOLDING A BOOK

Have I lost you?

Is your Kindle or e-reader sitting within five feet of you and demanding that you stop following what this nut is saying about 
actual books made with paper 
and tucked inside a 
cover.

I love the physicality of  books and the reading part travels well beyond the term love.....it's more of a lifeline.

There are certain observations that I would like to share regarding contemporary styles and the actual ink-spillers who create the letters which allow books to become reality.

FICTION vs NON-FICTION
Contemporary vs Classical

Except for very rare occasions I have always preferred non-fiction because of the imagination needed to create....but that's just me.

Imagined dialogue by Elmore Leonard has always captivated me.

The literary talent of James Lee Burke simply has no peers in contemporary non-fiction literature.

Dean Koontz has developed into one of the best story tellers of our time and his place in history will only rise up the ladder of greatness.

For fun reading anything Clive Cussler  is associated with is a guaranteed positive experience...especially the Issac Bell series.

Every book written by James A. Michener is a must read for both historical and story telling excellence.

SIDE BAR

The book I just finished, which motivated this "article" is called 
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikery by Gabrielle Zevin.
Highly recommended reading if you love books and still enjoy visiting bookstores.

Please rest assured that classic fictional writers should be visited at least once or twice a year and for me to list those writers would take way too much time......but if you haven't read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings then you need to start right there.  The art of telling a story from imagination has never been better presented and J.R. Tolkien sits alone when it comes to defining fantasy.  It helps if you take an hallucinogenic and climb a mountain or two during the reading or just after finishing.
The more remote...the better.

And of course Rudyard Kipling, both stories and poems, should be required reading...PERIOD.
Charles Dickens to understand a time period and Edgar Allen Poe just to understand clouds in the mind.

By the way I had to listen to David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest instead of reading it just because.......and is it a great book?  My opinion is that it is a PIECE OF WORK.   Make up your own mind about what that means. It's funny how we just accept his suicide if we've experienced that book.

I would like to tell you that I've read James Joyce novels cover to cover but then I would be lying like everyone else on the planet.

After all is said and done.....If one were making a list of required reading for a 15 year old......I think my list would first start with everything Michener wrote.  With his genius for historical research and wonderful story telling reading would simply become part of that person's nature.

I've said it before and I'll say it one more time.......the one truth I've fully accepted regarding human beings is.....we love to tell a story......and then some of us love to read those stories and we do it to learn more about the human experience....so we can attempt to write about it in a manner that sometimes makes sense, or at the very least makes the thought process.......expand.

I've been trying for thought expansion for as long as I can remember.

Only you can tell if I'm achieving my goal.

 End of Part one on Reading and Writing......

Michael Timothy McAlevey

MUCH MUCH more important than the election

This is definitely not the first time I have written about this 
subject matter 
and 
it won't be the last.


A front page headline in today's LA TIMES

Fallout in 
2014 blast
worsens.
Explosion at a New 
Mexico nuclear dump
ranks among costliest 
in US history, an
analysis shows.

On Valentine's day in 2014 somehow Kitty Litter was being used to blot up liquids in a sealed drum and the chemical compound resulted in the lid being blown off of ONE drum and sent a white cloud of radioactive material into the air, and 35% of the underground area became contaminated.

KITTY LITTER!

ONE DRUM!

35%  ( This number might not be close to the truth)
The Energy Department goes out of their way to sugarcoat anything having to do with Nuclear problems.

A major issue is that the Los Alamos site is a storage facility for nuclear waste from other Nuclear Power Plants....and the ventilation system won't be fixed until 2021.

 2021

Thousands of tons of waste from Idaho, Washington, New Mexico and elsewhere are now backed up with no place to go.

Thousands  (24,000 drums just from Hanford site in Washington)

Elsewhere

According to Federal sources 277,000 drums are suppose to be sent to the damaged dump site.

One of the misleading parts of the story is the cost of cleanup.  The Energy Department uses numbers like $2 billion for Three Mile Island cleanup.  

THE COST CANNOT BE DETERMINED until everything is cleaned up.  From what I know about nuclear radioactivity, cleaned up shouldn't even be a usable term

The Kitty Litter was part of the materials sent from Iran after the famous treaty was signed.
of course
I'm kidding about that....
but what part of this story doesn't sound like a joke.

I claim that there's an agreement between the press and the politicians never to bring this subject up at a debate or a press conference....because there is NO POSITIVE ANSWER.  My friend Tom claims that the lack of information regarding this area is due to the reduction of investigative reporters by print and broadcast media.

WE BOTH MIGHT BE RIGHT!

The article in the Times by Ralph Vartabedian states "that radioactive contamination at other nuclear weapons sites is costing TENS of BILLIONS of dollars to clean up BUT it is generally the result of deliberate practices such as dumping nuclear waste into the ground."

HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED RIVERS, LAKES AND OCEANS.

Deliberate

Please note that we are discussing United States Nuclear facilities ONLY!

Imagine the lack of regard for generations of human beings in countries WITHOUT OUR TYPE OF REGULATIONS.

WHERE DOES JAPAN DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES RUSSIA DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES CHINA DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES INDIA DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES PAKISTAN DUMP THEIR WASTE?


Nuclear energy is the most expensive energy, by leaps and bounds, when you add everything up.
Fixing problems is part of the cost and nothing comes close when you total the bottom line of Nuclear Energy.

It's appalling that WE, as human beings, allow this type of damage to continue being done on a global basis.

We have a magnificent ball of perfect nuclear energy sitting 93,000,000 miles away that can power anything and everything and we constantly hear that  Solar Energy is too expensive.

And I'm still waiting for someone to bring up the Nuclear Waste problem at a Presidential news conference or debate.

And I will continue to wait and wait and wait and wait........

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Trump

Simply put.....I don't really have to dump on Trump because every time he opens his mouth he does it to himself.

Seriously.

Maybe if he completely stopped talking until November he might only lose by 8 points.
Do the numbers.

At this rate he's looking at a double digit defeat to a person who is generally unlikable in her own right.

His only hope is that no minorities or women show up to vote.

I can't wait to hear his explanations for why he lost and I guess it already started with the "rigging" comment.

OK...I decided to do a little dumping.....it's very hard not to.

Back to the Olympics......

Amazing

Since last Saturday we've seen the fastest humans  on land and in the water.

The fastest in history.

Mr. Phelps and Mr. Bolt, with the edge going to Michael because of the amount of swims needed to achieve what he's achieved.

Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympic athlete in history, which might make him the greatest athlete PERIOD.

Ussain Bolt is the fastest human being on the planet.......and has been for 12 years.

BOTH OF THESE GUYS WILL BE LESS THAN 35 YEARS OLD IN 2020....just saying.

in the meantime 
RIO

The last image belongs to the 8th place finisher in the 3000 meter steeplechase.  In my humble opinion.....the prettiest of all the Olympians.....and there have been some really beautiful women in these games....but Colleen Quigley gets my Gold Medal.  

And yes I just reduced the Olympic games to an exhibition of my shallowness.

Want more?

Sidestep the Presidential race for a sec and think about this.....

In November there will 17 measures on the California ballot.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures/

I would suggest getting a head start on reading about them because there never seems to be enough time when you pick up the ballot the night before you vote in order to find out where your polling place is.

17 has to be some kind of record but I'm not sure so instead of doing the research I'm just leaving it up to you....which probably means you will pick up your smart phone and ask Siri....and by now you have the answer.

By the way, odd piece of trivia......the day after Siri went live, Steve Jobs died.

The smart phone revolution has indeed allowed people to access information that before they just ignored.  So the end result is that people now know a lot of things they don't really care about....but gives them the ability to extend a conversation.  Some people, and everybody knows more than one, simply ignore the conversation and drift off into SPH (smart phone hell) and get lost and sometimes
don't actually return to the physical exchange taking place right next to them.

IS RUDE THE CORRECT WORD?

NOT ACCORDING TO THE SMART PHONE JUNKIE

THEIR ANSWER......

IT IS WHAT IT IS!  DEAL WITH IT!  And they usually say that in a text message.

Does instant access to information result in the general population being smarter?
The simple fact that Donald Trump could receive about 48 million votes is an indication that more information doesn't necessarily result in higher IQ's.
And yes that was a smart ass remark...but extremely on point.

BACK TO THE 17 MEASURES
Ballot measure 64 is the third shot for legalization of Pot......and last week one of the Kennedy clan came out and said he was putting 2 million into defeating the measure.  He was holding a gin and tonic in one hand and a Bud light in the other.

The alcohol lobby will probably add another 50 million to the anti-64 cause.

I'm not sure the Tobacco guys will complain because they must be planning to grow pot the second it's approved.  My guess is that they are already cultivating because of Colorado, Washington and Oregon....and besides they will probably be spending millions to fight Prop 56 which is a tax increase on ciggies.

It appears that 64 will pass this time because the tax revenue generated seems to large to ignore.

Our Gov, Jerry Brown, hasn't voiced his opinion yet....and since his previous nickname was "Moonbeam" I assume he's in the yes column but since he was Jesuit trained there is always the guilt factor to be considered.  Catholic guilt can rear it's ugly head on almost every social issue.

Prop 63 will bring out the big bucks from the NRA and every person who interprets the 2nd Amendment in a way that allows bat shit crazy people to own a firearm.  I realize that not everyone who owns a gun is bat shit crazy but when the not bat shit crazy people defend EVERYONE'S RIGHT TO OWN A GUN.....I WONDER.

By the way our next Governor, Gavin Newsom, introduced Prop 63.

SO....as you contemplate the two most unpopular people who have ever run for President...please consider reading the extensive ballot measures well before the night before you vote.

And then there is the list of Judges that are on every ballot....and you choose someone because you like their name.  Those Judges might be the most important people on the ballots and no one knows anything about them except for some lawyers and some criminals....and their immediate family and friends.

Once again here's the list.....study it if you dare.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures/

Michael Timothy McAlevey

The kids are learning from the Master

Reality Check

Both have accepted and now it gets weird

Hillary and Donald will have three debates.
The country will have 130 million debates.
The level of hostility will be in the high decibel range.
August will be the calm before the storm.

For the Ages

Great speeches are rare.....this is one for the ages.

I'm thinking back to the last President who could give great speeches....oh yeah

THREE QUICK POINTS

Hillary R Clinton has spent her entire life working to help improve the lives of other people.

Donald Trump has spend his entire life working to improve the life of Donald Trump

I'm not fully sure that any one person should be in charge of the United States Nuclear codes but what I do know for sure is.....that person CANNOT be DONALD J. TRUMP

His side of the story

My previous post gives my side.....this one shows his side.
I get both sides

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDE5z-fnew

I've left my previous post up for awhile because it might be too important to take down....scroll down.

Radical Islam and why the term should be used by President Obama

I voted for Barack Obama and I think he has been the perfect person to follow the eight years of a George Bush/Dick Cheney administration.  His intelligence and oratory ability makes the previous President seem like a little spoiled kid...of which he probably was.

Having made that point clear I wish to establish that I'm not in total agreement with everything he says.

The concept of a democracy is that each and everyone of us reach conclusions for governmental behavior based on how much we learn, and then we choose people to represent us in various governmental positions.

One, and there have been far too many to note, of the major complaints that Obama's opposition have been stating for awhile is.....HE REFUSES TO USE THE TERM "RADICAL ISLAM" when talking about any terrorists attack anywhere in the world....and because they are front and center in most current attacks he doesn't want the Islamic State to hear the President of The United States say those two words together while referring to their acts of terror.

HE DOES CALL THEIR ACTIONS "ACTS OF TERROR AND ACTS OF HATE"....but will not use the term Radical with Islam.

He claims he doesn't want to give the various terrorists groups what they want....and that what they want is for their specific group to be linked with the entire Islamic faith....of which there are 1.4 billion followers. I intellectually understand his reasoning until I try to explain it to someone else and then I stumble and pause because the logic of his reasoning does not hold water in my mental cauldron.....

I WOULD THINK THE NON-RADICAL ISLAMIC FOLLOWERS, OF WHICH I HOPE ARE 95 PERCENT OF THE RELIGION, WOULD LIKE AND PREFER THE SEPARATION MADE CLEAR.  

CLARITY IS ACHIEVED BY UNDERSTANDING AND UNDERSTANDING IS ACHIEVED BY VERBAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR.   

PHYSICAL ACTIONS ARE THE RESULT OF FIRST LEARNING AND THEN THINKING AND THEN RESPONDING.

RADICAL BEHAVIOR, BASED ON A RELIGIOUS BELIEF, IS GENERATED BY SOMETHING WRITTEN DOWN ON EITHER PAPER OR STONE AND CONDENSED INTO AN ENTITY, GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS A .....BOOK.

(in the last 50 years that has changed dramatically but we can agree that most problems being created by religious belief systems pre-date the invention of the computer)

THE FACT THAT DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS EXIST FROM THINGS WRITTEN DOWN CREATES A UNIQUE DYNAMIC THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED.

HUMAN BEINGS ARE THE ONLY CREATURES ON THIS PLANET THAT HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMBINE LETTERS TOGETHER IN ORDER TO WRITE SOMETHING DOWN.

HUMAN BEINGS ARE INCREDIBLY FALLIBLE AND MISTAKE PRONE SO THEREFORE
HUMAN BEINGS INSIST THAT RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE COMES FROM AN INFALLIBLE SOURCE.

THAT SOURCE 
is so far beyond our conception and our interpretation that it's quite funny.....especially if you simply pause for a second and think how a Universe gets created.

STAY RIGHT THERE ON THAT POINT FOR ANOTHER SECOND OR TWO.......

HOW A UNIVERSE GETS CREATED.

now take a breath and realize that all religious doctrine is advising human beings how to interact with other human beings WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL BEING 
AN IMMORTAL EXISTENCE
IN A NON-PHYSICAL REALITY STATE
AFTER
ENDING THE PHYSICAL REALITY

or something entirely different than what is being experienced on the physical level

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

NOR
DO
YOU

AND WHEN A GROUP CREATES ACTS OF BARBARIC BEHAVIOR AND THEN CLAIMS IT IS
ALLAH'S WILL
BECAUSE 
IT SAYS SO 
IN A BOOK

SOMEONE NEEDS A HUGE TIME OUT.

Unless I missed something along the road to reason....isn't the one thing that Islam, Christianity and Judaism have in common is the simple fact that there is ONE GOD.

ONE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE

If there are rival Creators then indeed we have a problem....especially if they decide to participate in a confrontational behavior at the same time.

THAT WOULD BE REFERRED TO AS 
RADICAL CREATORISM

But Barack won't say that because he doesn't want God to think we are lumping radical with Creator.

I'm stretching here but you get my point......I think our President is trying to hard not to offend the Islamic faith and the reality is simply that the radical groups of the Islamic faith are currently causing more problems than any other faith based religion.

THIS IS A LIST OF TERRORIST GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS SINCE APRIL 2016

1. ISLAMIC STATE
2. TALIBAN
3. BOKO HARAM
4. SHABAB
5. SYRIAN REBELS
6. ABU SAYYAF
7. INDIAN MAOISTS
8. OAKISTANI TALIBAN
9. AL QAEDA
10. SHINNING PATH
11. LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY
12. RENAMO
13. ANSAR DINE
14. BALICH INSURGENTS
15. ANSAR AL ISLAM
16. NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY
17. UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM
18. MAUTE GROUP
19. NEW IRA
20. DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA THERE WERE THIS MANY?

By the way....Hillary used the tern Radical Islam about 15 times the other day so we aren't going to have to worry about the next President protecting Islam...if that is what he is doing.....I'm still not quite sure because he's leading a collation that has dropped over 15,000 bombs on ISIS in the last 12 months.
Odd way of protecting don't you think?

And one last thought....I sincerely hope the Creator of the Universe isn't watching our juvenile behavior
very closely......knowing that humans are a very young species....and being extremely busy creating more and more galaxies and souls....it's probably a million or so years before looking back and checking us out.

I hope by then SHE likes what she sees.........

Now that's radical!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Is BREXIT the best word to use and do you know the real name of the UK?

I get the first two letters of Britain combined with exit to create Brexit but it seems that since "they" like to be referred to as the United Kingdom, which by the way seems to an entirely different problem, maybe there is a better word.

Keep in Mind that there are no standard rules when creating an acronym....and since exit is fully incorporated in the new word this can't be an acronym.
It simply becomes a new word for Webster's to consider.

Actually it's already a word first coined in 2012 when the current situation was initially discussed in Parliament.

With all the new testing abbreviations being created 
communication rules are vanishing.

If you get your point across...ES........enough said....or nufsaid.........or of course.....word.

So let's play a pinch and find something perhaps a bit better......(say that with a London accent please)

By the way....the official name of the Country is.....

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 
of which the standard acronym, if there were such a thing, would be 
UKOGBANI

******

UKBY
ukbreakaway

UKXEU
this might be harder to pronounce but it does say it all

UKOUT
hippest

I'm probably wasting both of our times playing around with this so suffice to say I just don't think Brexit was the best of the best when choosing a word to explain what the people of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland decided to do last Friday.

I do think it's bit odd that the new political face of our previous landlord goes to the same hairstylist as Donald Trump.

I'm wondering how much the word union has to do with why The Donald approves of the vote?
The Republican Party has historically been anti-union and when one considers how union membership has shrunk in the last 50 years I'd say they've done a fine job.  The right wingers throughout the world might not be so hostile if it had been called.......

THE EUROPEAN LEAGUE

It's always nice to add a sporting touch to any endeavor....and EL just looks better than EU.
EU looks like it might not smell right

And yes I think
UKOUT is better than BREXIT

Michael Timothy McAlevey

More later BUT for now.....

EVERY SINGLE ELECTED GOP MEMBER OF THE SENATE DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT THERE SHOULD BE A BACKGROUND CHECK WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO BUY AN ASSAULT RIFLE....NOT EVEN SOMEONE ON THE FBI TERRORIST WATCH LIST.

I WONDER HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT HAND HELD GRENADE LAUNCHERS?

THE AMOUNT OF MONEY GIVEN TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BY THE NRA IS
STAGGERING....and it's a list that is available to the public.
I will post that list in a few days........
in
the
meantime..............

THE ONLY WAY THIS CHANGES IS AT ELECTION TIME


Michael Timothy McAlevey

Follow up and more madness

Yesterday after posting the Death of Idealism piece that I wrote in 1972, I have to admit that there is slight touch of some unabomber rhetoric involved in that short piece..... but a few things to keep in mind.  No violence/no war/no physical hostility of any kind coming forth from this author....and after reviewing the unabomber scenario it's quite obvious that he had way too much math in his head. That's something I will never have to worry about....and then there were the experiments.

As a Harvard undergraduate, Ted Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962  (Wikipedia)

And speaking of mental health problems, the incident in Orlando points out various candidates.

One of the strangest aspects of this insane act of horror is the amount of people who are complaining that Obama doesn't use the word terrorists......or point out that this is another incident of Radical Islam.

The President clearly said "act of terror and act of hate" because not only was the killer creating terror but he was targeting a specific group....in this case, the gay community.

Of course the people who are nit-picking the President's words will never say anything against the assault rifles used in the massacre.

I said this about three months ago.....
THESE TYPE OF WEAPONS NEED TO BE BUILT WITH GPS DEVICES SO SOMEONE ALWAYS KNOWS WHERE THERE ARE AND IF THEY ARE ON THE MOVE.

Why does anyone need a military assault weapon unless they plan on carrying out an assault.  

Apparently the asshole worked for a private security firm so purchasing these type of weapons is quick and easy.  

The private security firm he worked for has to completely reevaluate their hiring process and vetting techniques.

The FBI  investigated the dickhead (I won't ever type his name) TWICE since 2013.

Maybe the FBI has to completely reevaluate their hiring process and vetting techniques.

DOESN'T IT AMAZE YOU THAT ALMOST EVERY TIME THERE IS A INCIDENT...THERE'S A REPORT THAT THE FBI KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING AND YET COULD DO NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING.

Once again we have a shooting and once again we get to hear the NRA and all the people who use the Second Amendment as its own weapon, speak those infamous words..."guns don't kill people, people kill people."

If it turns out that the asshole is a supporter of the Islamic State then at least there is a reason.  It's not a good reason but it's a reason.  We are at war with ISIS, ISIL, or whatever you want to call them.  We, and the coalition of 60 nations, have dropped 12,000 bombs on them in the last 12 months.

PARIS, SAN BERNARDINO AND NOW ORLANDO are terrorist attacks by individuals who claim allegiance to a radical wing of a religious organization that is trying to grow throughout the middle east and Africa.

IF THE SHOOTING WAS DONE BECAUSE OF HUMAN BEINGS BEING GAY....THEN THAT IS NOT A REASON.

THAT IS SIMPLY HATE OF SOMEONE WHO IS DIFFERENT

THERE IS NO REASON BEHIND THAT MOTIVATION

NO LOGIC, NO REASON AND MOST OF ALL......NO LOVE.

As weird as this may sound.....I hope that the fucker was a member of ISIS....and not just some anti-gay insane person who went batshit crazy because some guy winked at him at the 7/11.

IF HE IS AN ISIS MEMBER AND IF ISIS KEEPS TAKING CREDIT FOR THIS HORRIBLE INCIDENT THAN I PREDICT THAT THE 12,000 BOMBS OVER A 12 MONTH PERIOD WILL TURN OUT TO BE A WARM UP SESSION FOR WHAT'S COMING NEXT.

ISIS....LOOK UP IN THE SKY.....IS THAT A CLOUD?
OH......IT'S A CLOUD OF DRONES AND F-15's GETTING READY TO SAY.......HELLO
AND
GOODBYE.

Please note....I'm an anti-war guy and I'm not suggesting anything about bombing ISIS to hell and back.
I'm just telling you
what's
going
to
happen.

AND....it's probably happening right this minute.

Michael Timothy McAlevey