Political systems conversation long overdue.......

Socialism
Capitalism
Communism
Democracy

can all be broken down into various forms of each.

PART ONE

Let's just start with the political ideology that seems to dominate the voices on the right side of the isle.

SOCIALISM

Definition of socialism  (Webster's)

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property

b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

Before we venture any further into this subject let's agree on a few simple and important facts.
Being a LiberalDOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A SOCIALISTDemanding equal rights and equal social opportunities FOR EVERYONEDOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A SOCIALISTDemanding that air and water be safe and healthyDOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A SOCIALISTDemanding that women have the right to control what happens to their bodiesDOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A SOCIALISTAttempting to make health care affordable and available to everyone in AmericaDOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A SOCIALISTImportant sidebar insertWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and HappinessBelieving what the founders said to be truthful and correct and that the goal of this new government was to support people in their pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessDOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A SOCIALIST.
THE REAL PROBLEM FACING LIBERALS OVER THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS IS THAT WE WILL SOON BE CALLED COMMIESIt's very easy to see the pattern developing and the playbook being used by the Trump Administration.  Simply go back in history and see how Richard Nixon conducted his campaigns of 1968 and 1972.I've started to notice it among my friends and family. I'm a liberal and lately I've been referred to as a socialist and pretty soon I will be a commie.It's probably already happened behind my back.The President of the United States is the head coach and the head coach sets the tone for the team.  That's the most important part of the job. Our head coach has his team starting to use expressions that have nothing to do with the truth or reality.The problem isweareallonthesameteam.Name calling and creating divisiveness creates an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust.THAT'S THE TRUMP RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN STRATEGY....DON'T FALL FOR A STRATEGY THAT FURTHER SEPARATES THE SMALL DIFFERENCES AMONG US.We all want the same things and those things have never been said better than in the words shown above in goldRead it again and again......and trust it over and over.End of Part OneNext partCapitalism

And we are now halfway to Christmas and the gifts just keep on coming

20/20 is a news show on ABC and they generally cover strange stories about strange people doing strange things....usually along the line of mayhem and violence.

The word strange probably doesn't properly describe the people they cover.

Murdering your wife or husband is just evil.  When you murder someone and then use their body parts as paper-weights and then pass them out as Christmas presents.....now that action literally becomes strange.

To be honest I actually don't watch shows about strange people and I don't actually watch 2020 so in truth this posting by all reasonable accounts of the imagination is.....
strange.

The other day a pregnant squirrel tried to get in our front door because I had fed her some nuts a week are so earlier.  Yesterday I saw her trying to get across the street to reach the pine tree she lives in and since I didn't see a deceased squirrel on the road this morning I assume she made it.....but one has to consider that our crow population does an admirable job of being raptors, especially when it comes to squirrels in Santa Monica.  We have thousands of otospermophilus beecheyi running around our town and one very rarely sees a dead one.  I must attribute that fact to the raptors. The common name for our abundant species appears to be the California Ground Squirrel.  Their main enemies are rattlesnakes, eagles, raccoons, foxes, badgers and weasels. Since we only have a rather small population of raccoons in the neighborhood I have to assume the vast population is due to lack of predators.

Cars and trucks would also be a natural predator but very rarely does one see one of those large metal objects intentionally  tracking down a squirrel. What would fall into a strange category  would be to witness a driver-less Tesla attempting to run down a pregnant squirrel.

I keep thinking that those people who pay attention to our President and respect his take on all matters must be wondering why this HOAX virus dealio is still in the news.

Democrats and anyone leaning to the left of center are really overdoing this event.  Democrats and liberal people are strange people.  Simply ask any conservative voter that you know.....especially the ones who continue to support the 45th President of the United States.

Keep one thing in mind....the guy in the White House WILL receive at least 55 million votes in November.

55 MILLION......AT LEAST!

I ask this simple question......what's stranger......the squirrel story or that last line?

Now depending on much voter suppression the GOP can implement, how much nasty verbiage and name calling can Trump direct toward Joe, how much crime can be committed between now and Nov 3, how many violent incidents fake protesters can generate, how much influence can the FOX Opinion News show have over their loyal audience..........that 55 could get as high as 60.

He got 62 Million in 2016

With the mood of this country and everything that has gone on with his administration  I would hope the number could drop to 30 million.

30 million would be highly encouraging for the soul of the land and the future of America.

I'm now in the strange category that I created earlier.  You are reading something written by a human being that was positive McGovern was going to kick Nixon's ass in 1972.



See that tiny blue in DC and the bigger blue mark in Massachusetts....those were
McGovern's wins.

For four months prior to that election those of us who paid attention to the news kept telling others that there was a scandal.

Apparently the American public ( very large percentage) does not pay attention to anything they don't want to pay attention to.

THAT'S THE SECRET HERE.  PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR WHAT THEY DON'T WANT TO HEAR AND NO AMOUNT OF CHATTER WILL CHANGE THAT FACT.

AFTER THE FACT IS ANOTHER STORY.

NIXON RAN ON THE SIMPLE PLEA OF 
THIS COUNTRY MUST HAVE
LAW
AND
ORDER

THE PROTEST AT THE TIME WERE MAINLY FOCUSED ON ENDING THE VIET-NAM WAR BUT THE ANGER WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM HEART BREAKING ASSASSINATIONS OF THREE GREAT LIBERAL THINKERS OVER THE PREVIOUS 9 YEARS.

The protests that are taking place today in America are focused on a long overdue problem.  Racial injustice toward the African American is 400 years in the making and elevating awareness to that problem has reached levels not seen since the 1960s.

BUT as the protests occur it seems that the issue is creating a platform for Trump to demand
LAW
and
ORDER

I find it appalling that this election could be an event which increases the use of a term like "White Power" that someone yelled as Trump drove by in his golf cart at a retirement community in Florida.

He actually Tweeted the comment and then shared it and then took it down from his account.

I'm pretty sure that falls in a much stranger category than anything I could ever write about a pregnant squirrel.

By the way I haven't seen her or her new family since last week and I'm fully admitting that I would like the same thing when it comes to our current
President of the United States

I would just like to stop seeing him in the news.  

But even if he loses the election he will then turn all of his attention to his newly developed media empire and 
TRUMP NEWS
will get a bigger audience than Fox News
and
then
he
will buy Fox News
and
I think my brain is 
about 
to 
explode.

I think it's time to go looking for a new squirrel family....

2020 is truly not about great vision.

If the result of the upcoming election has any similarities to 1972
I
might
take the Forest Gump route
and start running
down the
highway
waving 
at
every
squirrel
I 
see.

By the way....the  Christmas of 2020 will be really really really strange.

Custom made MASKS
will
be 
the main gift

....and instead of lucky rabbit's feet there will be
lucky squirrel tails dyed different colors.

Strange times 
wouldn't you agree?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Almost a month since last entry and there are good reasons....with Baffled being the word that best describes how I feel.

First and foremost the previous post was extremely important because the GOP and their leader will keep telling us for the next four months that mail-in ballots lead to fraudulent use of the voting system.

Please read the statistics from the last post and don't let THEM create a problem that doesn't exist.

Tonight in Tulsa Donald J. Trump is holding his first re-election RALLY and he choose Tulsa, Oklahoma for that event.

Tulsa, Oklahoma has been in the news because of historical events that took place 100 years ago.

I expect you to research the tragedy on your own or watch the HBO 8 episode film Watchman.  The sci-fi part of the story will make it more modern but it also might leave you asking more questions than you started with....but with everything happening in 2020, it looks like the questions are never going to end so deal with it.

Right now on CSPAN they are covering the RALLY and I am recording it for prosperity. Actually I'm recording it so I can skip through the bullshit which I'm sure will dominate the event.

He actually told Tulsa not to have a curfew and he also is discouraging people from wearing masks.....in truth HIS current plan of keeping us posted about COVID-19.....

........IS SIMPLY TO NOT TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE.

With this rally in Tulsa I think this officially kicks off the election.

He actually started last Thursday night by appearing on his son's new internet talk show.  And in that show one question Don Jr. asked his dad if it was true that Osama bib Laden actually supported Joe Biden running for President in the late 90's?

THOSE TWO PEOPLE TOGETHER MAKE THE WALKING DEAD SHOW SEEM LIKE A FAIRY TALE.

While speaking of elections I wanted to remind you that the second season of The Politician on Netflix is now streaming.  I've watched the first two episodes and am very impressed with the writing.  The show is intended to be a black comedy but some of the political verbiage is really current and very important.  If you missed season one I advise going back and starting from the beginning.
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Covid-19 news

Our governor in California seems to be following the statistics by telling EVERYONE they need to wear a mask outside of their homes. Every state that opened early is getting a bump in cases and some countries that opened earlier are also feeling a resurgence.

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY seems to be a phrase not being heeded by our President and his supporters.

I saw statistics that say 80 percent of Trump supporters don't wear masks
75% of Biden supporters do wear masks.

THIS IS A MASK ELECTION.    And when you stop and think about it on October 31 the type of masks that will be worn three days before the ELECTION will probably be very visible on Tuesday November 3.  
Why not just wear your costume to the polls? 

I'm officially putting that suggestion into the psyche of the American consciousness.   

All great ideas must start somewhere.
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Black Lives Matter movement.....all I can say is watch the documentary 13th on NETFLIX or YOU TUBE and then you might understand why this type of movement is extremely long overdue.

300 + years of focused betrayal of the words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1776.....
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.....BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH......

The fringe groups that are using the movement for something other than justice for Black people is quite another story and their attempt to steal the thunder will hopefully not interfere with the type of reforms that need to take place.

Redistribution of funding to Police Departments all over country is a very important issue.  Police should not have to deal with mental patients.  Police should not be concerned with people smoking pot. Police should not have to concern themselves with homeless people.

Santa Monica is a prime example.  We have an outreach program with qualified human resource people traveling around Santa Monica intending to help the homeless.

I think there are 6 to 10 of those outreach people.

We have 981 homeless people.

We have 233 police officers and 250 civilian officers (they don't carry guns and they travel in the white trucks)

Of the 981 homeless at least 50% have mental problems and should be in a facility that can help them either receive the right drugs or participate in programs that attempt to help them reenter society on a somewhat normal basis.

Younger people don't know that Ronald Reagan started the process of closing Mental Health facilities and basically created the homeless population that we have today.

AGAIN...THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT EACH AND EVERYONE SHOULD DO RESEARCH ON THEIR OWN.

JUST LIKE EXAMINING THE TREATMENT THAT BLACK PEOPLE HAVE RECEIVED OVER THE LAST 400 YEARS.

Please simply type this question in your search engine.

HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HUNG SINCE THE CIVIL WAR?

If you ask that question and aren't horrified by the answer than you are part of the
problem.
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One thing I see missing in the protest movements of 2020. 

It's a question.

and it was the cornerstone question of the anti-war, free speech and female movements of the late 60's and early 70's

That question is simple.

WHERE IS THE LOVE?

One sure doesn't have to ask 
where are the guns?
where is the hate?
where is the chaos?
but all  
I'd 
like to
know

where
is
the
love?

It truly baffles me that the word is rarely mentioned by anyone wanting change.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

FAKE NEWS REGARDING MAIL IN VOTER FRAUD

THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE AND MUST BE ADDRESSED BY ANYONE WHO DEMANDS FAIR AND ACCURATE ELECTIONS

In the last 20 years approximately 700 MILLION people
have voted in the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

700,000,000

(keep in mind that 45% of eligible voters don't vote)

I'm asking you to do some research on your own and discover how many voter fraud incidents have been uncovered since the year 2000.

Now, how many mail-in ballot fraudulent incidents have been legally verified?

Before I post numbers I simply want you to realize that mail-in voter fraud is
a
non-existent
issue.

NON-EXISTENT means that percentage wise the number is so low that no one in their right mind would try to make this an issue.

AND THAT BRINGS UP THE FACT
THAT
OUR
PRESIDENT
IS
MAKING
THIS 
AN
ISSUE.

AND HIS 80 MILLION FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER BELIEVE THAT IT SHOULD BE AN ISSUE.

THIS IS SIMPLY A DEMOCRAT VS REPUBLICAN ISSUE

EVERYONE IN AMERICA SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAIL IN THEIR BALLOT.....PERIOD!

It might even increase the percentage of people who vote by 5 to 10 %...maybe more.

What the Republican Party and President "Biff" know is that if everyone could mail in their ballot the Republican Party would lose the election by a rather large margin.

 

ANSWER TO ABOVE QUESTION

Depending on the different sources......the number ranges from

  

100 to 1700 in 10 years.

TOTAL

DO NOT LET A TV GAME SHOW HOST MAKE THIS AN ISSUE

And to those people who follow him on Twitter you must answer his false claims with truth and statistics.

I'm not sure I know anyone personally who does follow him but there must be someone......how about you Clark?

Reprint

https://mindjazz.blogspot.com/2016/11/

2020 just keeps making the record books

This year was suppose to be an Olympic year, a Presidential election to dethrone the TV host guy year, the Dodgers winning the World Series year and YET it is just becoming a year that NO ONE is going to WANT to remember.

And then on top of everything going on this arrives...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-hornets-united-states-honeybee-populatiopn/

Watching the video is like watching those dead assholes on GOT that just won't stop....except THIS IS REAL.

Will anybody in the White House show DTJ this story?

It is another thing that has come from Asia so maybe Donny will pick up his nine iron and start bashing it's brains out.

I sure hope somebody locates the predator of this bee murdering nasty looking insect and gives it a free reign to wage war.

I've never liked hornets and this brand is the Hitler of insects.

One thing for certain....under Donald J. Trump the EPA will not get involved......and in truth they are suppose to do everything in their power to protect the environment.

THIS IS A MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE....at a time when all eyes are dealing with Covid-19.

Should I start another conspiracy theory?

A virus and hornet are created in the same lab and released 6 months apart.....
virus wipes out certain segments of the population and the hornet helps decimate the food chain.

No baseball, no Olympics, no college basketball and probably football, no NFL, no summer concerts 
BUT
 we get to listen to 
a guy running for President
tell us why
he
has
been
the greatest President
in
history.

Maybe a group of killer hornets will show up during a golf outing 

and a certain
orange
dude
will be mistaken for a giant BEE.


2020 is proving once again that
ANYTHING
IS
POSSIBLE.

More Retro

https://mindjazz.blogspot.com/2007/08/just-south-of-orion.html

Replay from 2016

https://mindjazz.blogspot.com/2016/12/

Two minutes into Earth Day and the earth shakes......Inglewood epicenter......

I post (somewhere) this every Earth Day since ????? 

There's a soul in the life of the land where we live

IT'S CLEAR

IT’S CLEAN

IT’S FRESH

AND IT’S OURS

IT DOESN’T CARE WHERE WE’VE COME FROM

IT DOESN’T ASK WHO WE ARE

JUST

DO WE LOVE

WHERE WE STAND

AT THIS TIME

WE CAN DRINK ALL ITS WATER

AND MINE ALL IT’S COAL

BUT WHEN WE MIX THE TWO TOGETHER

IT TROUBLES HER SOUL

WE CAN TEST ALL THE BOMBS

AND DESTROY EVERY LAST TREE

AND THE ONLY THING IT REALLY DOES

IS ELIMINATE YOU AND ME

THE HARM THAT WE BRING

DOESN’T BOTHER THE LAND

WE ONLY HURT OURSELVES

BY FAILING TO UNDERSTAND

THAT THERE’S A SOUL IN THE LIFE OF THE LAND WHERE WE LIVE

IT’S CLEAR

IT’S CLEAN

IT’S FRESH

AND IT’S OURS

IT DOESN’T CARE WHERE WE’VE COME FROM

IT DOESN’T ASK WHO WE ARE

JUST

DO WE LOVE

WHERE WE STAND

AT THIS TIME

WE ARE GIVEN ALL THE TREASURES

THAT ANYONE COULD USE

BUT IF WE DON’T HAVE VISION

THEN ALL WE DO IS LOSE

WE DUMP OUR PROBLEMS

IN EVERY OCEAN, RIVER AND STREAM

WE LIVE BY A CODE OF CONSUMPTION

THAT DARKENS EVERY DREAM

WE THINK THAT OIL IS OUR GOLD

BECAUSE IT MOVES MACHINES AND MAN

AND ALL IT REALLY DOES

IS REMOVE THE SPRINGS OF LAND

WE NEED THAT SPECIAL CRUDE

BECAUSE WE’VE IGNORED OTHER WAYS

AND ALL WE’VE ENDED UP WITH

IS COUGHING THROUGH A HAZE

OUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN

WILL REALLY PAY THE PRICE

AND JUST THAT THOUGHT ALONE

DOESN’T MAKE US VERY NICE

AND WHEN THE DUST HAS FINALLY SETTLED

AND ALL THE BILLS HAVE BEEN PAID

IT IS ONLY THE SIMPLE FACT

THAT’S THERE’S ONE MISTAKE WE’VE MADE

  

WE THOUGHT WE CONTROLLED THE EARTH

BY DOMINATING THE LAND

AND IT SIMPLY COMES DOWN TO ONE THING

THAT WE JUST DIDN’T UNDERSTAND

THAT THERE’S A SOUL IN THE LIFE OF THE LAND WHERE WE LIVE

IT’S CLEAR

IT’S CLEAN

IT’S FRESH

AND IT’S OURS

IT DOESN’T CARE WHERE WE COME FROM

IT DOESN’T ASK WHO WE ARE

JUST

DO WE LOVE

WHERE WE STAND

AT THIS TIME

Have a nice Earth Day......INSIDE this time.......

FOR ADDED ENJOYMENT....go to YouTube and listen to John Doan's  FAREWELL while you read the poem one more time

CBS is FAKE NEWS??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Last week our(fact not desire) President referred to CBS as fake news while belittling one of their reporters during his daily campaign "briefing."

At the time he said it I just assumed there would be a backlash from both CBS and other media outlets, so I made no comment here or on my FB page.

It's been about 10 days since he used the fake news term referring to CBS and I have only heard a small smattering of protests from established media outlets.

We all know that using the term fake news is one of DJT's favorite expressions and he throws it around quite  freely when he wants to deflect a question or a story that questions his authority or a statement he made previously.

So what are the chances of Donald J. Trump waking up on a Sunday morning and watching the CBS show Sunday Morning?
How about when he was younger and the show was hosted by creator Charles Kuralt  and then later by Charles Osgood? 
Not only is it the most entertaining presentation of current events but it covers a cross section of American personalities and companies like no other show.

There's no way our current President has ever watched that show.

The theme music of the show makes waking up early on Sunday not only worthwhile but gets the day started with responsible knowledge, genuine laughter and of course, some nice soft tears.

Then in the evening did he not turn on 20/20 and watch the best investigative reporters in the business present us with stories and interviews with the most important minds on the planet?

Has he never heard of Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite?

I know he doesn't watch Face the Nation but he probably has an intern checking it out so he can ridicule something said on the show.

IF CBS IS FAKE NEWS THEN THERE IS NO REAL NEWS....and everything is make believe.

AND WHAT HE WANTS ALL OF US TO BELIEVE IS.....
........THE ONLY NEWS YOU SHOULD WATCH AND BELIEVE IS THE NEWS HE PRESENTS ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT

THE GUY 
IS 
ABSOLUTELY 
INSANE!  

NARCISSISTIC ISN'T A STRONG ENOUGH WORD

By the way, if Mike Pence could blow anymore smoke up the President's ass they could start a bonfire in his fat stomach.

I've decided to only watch CBS from now on.........
.....except for ESPN and The Dodger Channel and Netflix and HBO and Showtime and Tuner Classic Movies and Seth Myers on NBC and whatever my granddaughter is watching on Nickelodeon.

Do you think anyone that works for Don or is in his immediate family watches CBS? 

Or do they refuse to watch it because that would upset him?

How deep does his control work?   

It seems to be working on 60 million +  people and I will end this by simply asking.....

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

Stay safe 
Time to watch Face the Nation.

Since we are inside we might as well dance.....

Yesterday I posted on FB about always wanting to host a John Mellencamp dance party.
Only John
All night long

And a month before the party I would send certain songs to certain people
so that they could prepare
their special moment on the dance floor.

I'm saving American Fool for myself

I got some responses  but I thought I'd remind you of how the party would progress

Keep in mind the party will last until you can't dance anymore.

There will be some slow dancing from his country western album.....oh yeah and one more thing
everybody has to smoke
all night
long

Start rehearsing
NOW!

Another Conspiracy or ??????? Part one

It's not often that I mention my ex-wife on the Mind Jazz platform but since she is the most avid conspiracy theorist that I know I might as well give her full credit for introducing THIS relatively new theory.

I learned somethings and after talking to other normal (non-conspiracy type humans) people I realized that what I'm about to tell you doesn't appear to be common knowledge.  So far I've talked to 15 friends (none in person because of C19) and none of them know about the.......

MILITARY WORLD GAMES
Official title...7th CISM Military World Games

Last week when she mentioned these games I laughed and said something like..."why would the military hold war games with 100 nations."   She told me to look it up and now I'll ask you one simple question....

Did you know that from the 18th to the 27th of October there was a Military World Games held in WUHAN, China with 10,000 participants from over a 100 countries?

YES....THAT WUHAN, CHINA!!!!!!
WTF

Basically it's like an Olympics for people associated with the military.

Military Games

Now for the weird part of the story......FROM MY PERSPECTIVE....even though the further you read about the games and said conspiracy theories you will find much weirder stuff.

The weirdest part of the story is that China won 239 medals with 131 of them being GOLD.

The UNITED STATES WON 8 MEDALS......NO GOLD.

So I'm thinking that either our military has no athletes or the 172 people we sent were all from the Viet-Nam era.

Now back to the reason my ex knows about these games.....By the way when you spend all day watching Fox News and following people like Alex Jones YOU (her in particular) will have knowledge of EVERY conspiracy theory on the planet. (I'm not sure she follows Alex Jones but most conspiracy buffs do, so I took some liberty assuming that it might be true)

When one starts creating conspiracy theories about conspiracy theorists than whose to say what the limits are to exaggerating and stretching and shaping a reality that doesn't really resemble reality.

Conspiracy

So just click on the word and check out the "stuff" for yourself.

Some actual facts

GAMES HELD LATE OCTOBER 2019

COVID-19 FIRST MENTIONED DEC 8TH 2019
IN WUHAN , CHINA PROVINCE 

Just 
think 
about 
these 
simple 
facts
for 
awhile.....

or not

End of part 1

I've been remiss in my posting because I don't want to pass anything along that might seem unhealthy....but what the hell

I've gone into the freezer selling business and currently have 3600 freezers in a warehouse outside of Billings, Montana.  They range in sizes from 1 cubic inch (for really small items) to 64 hundred cubic feet if you need to store 10,000 pounds of coffee.

The other thing I'm doing is creating Fake ID's for Seniors.  They range in age from 48 to 59 depending on old you look.  This was a friends idea but he doesn't like me to mentioned his name so let's just call him The Other Me.

I've bought up all the Chocolate Ice Cream within a 20 mile radius.....you can get Vanilla and Strawberry from the Trump family.  They store it at their golf course resorts.

I've watched the Sound of Music 39 times in the last week....and still can't get enough of it.
Every so often I'll watch King Creole just to break up the melodies.

I'm in the first wave of Baby Boomers having been born in Feb of 1946.  So if you were born between Jan 1 and Feb 11 1946 you are a little bit more of a boomer than me.  I was also the youngest person in my high school graduation class and that seemed to piss everyone off at my 20th high school reunion so I never went to another one.  There were 90 in my class and if I were to guess I'd say there might be 60 left.

Of course I'm an optimist by nature even though I've been challenged in the arena quite a few times.

I have to admit that if it wasn't for prayer (my own actual prayer) I might not have made it this far.

This new social threat to my optimism is reaching deep down into my belief system in order to weaken my mental immune levels.....and then combine that with watching our President try to speak intellectually on the crisis almost completely destroys years of positive spiritual building blocks.

I'm so grateful that I've been interested in  Quantum Physics over the last ten years because it shows time and time again that we truly don't have all the answers and sometimes it's really important to just let LIFE happen.

It's important to be cautious but it's also important to not let information affect your inner well being.

IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN INNER WELL-BEING THAN THERE'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM WITH GETTING THROUGH ANY CRISIS.....especially a crisis that you can't see, hear, smell or feel coming.

My inner-well being stems from NEO-ILLUMINATION......

https://www.facebook.com/Neo-Illumination-121880631250681/?ref=bookmarks
(copy and paste.....I don't feel like linking)

.......which stems from the lost of my 15 year old son in February of 1994.

I've been reading through the 29 Neo-Illuminations and once again I'm well aware of the fact that THEY (statements) will definitely live a lot longer than me.

I'm reminded of the comment made at my art show in 2014 by an elderly lady.  "I really like your artwork but I've got to tell you that the Neo-Illumination sayings are "TIMELESS."

Might be the best compliment I've ever received....except for the time at the Grateful Dead/Who Concert in 1976 at the Oakland Coliseum when a younger friend told me that I was a better dancer than Mick Jagger.

Dancing has been such an important part of my life and yet probably 80% of the people I know have no idea of those dance moments that still linger in my frontal lobe.

But there's 10% of you out there that know what I'm talking about.  The other 10% probably didn't like my dancing moments because it embarrassed them.

The dancing moments that my friend Mike McGiffin and I had while attending trade shows in the Furniture Industry verge on legendary.

But whenever I talk about dancing I have to mention Bobby Eyer.  The best natural dancer I ever saw who wasn't paid to dance.  His calm rhythmic style really helped me become a better dancer.  I wish his son and daughter could have seen him in his shining moments.  The fact that he was also a great athlete made his dancing all that much more alluring.

I've really gotten off point but of course
that's
what
I
was
trying 
to
do.

This seems like a great time for reflection
and remembering those people we loved
along with the people we love now
can't 
be
a 
bad
thing.

We need to tell each other stories
just like
we
need
to
tell
our
stories.

I believe with my whole heart and soul that this crisis will past and of course there will be human beings whose lives will be cut short
BUT
throughout history 
the
human race 
has endured many
events
much worse
than
this
and
here
we
are
fighting 
a joint battle
to save 
as many lives as possible.

Science will determine how soon this passes
not some silly TV host living in the White House
who doesn't believe in science.

I'm sorry I brought that guy up.....but if it sounds like an idiot and smells like an idiot and tastes like an idiot
than
IT'S
an
idiot.

Don't tell anybody but I'm going for walk......shhhhh....maybe I'll dance a little bit but I'd have to hear AC/DC.



Michael Timothy McAlevey

Suddenly the election takes a back seat BUT pay attention to the details

I have a newspaper headline from Feb 27 2020 that speaks volumes to the upcoming election even though at this moment
an election is
not
front and center
on
our
minds

BUT it is important to remember the moments that help one decide who should be in charge

IF he had listened to the EXPERTS instead of Mike Pence, Stephen Miller and Alex Jones (sic) we would be three weeks further into the good fight.
WE ARE NOW IN THE FIGHT
but
we
are
bloody and our President's skepticism helped make us take some blows when we could have been punching back.

I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL THAT WE WILL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO HALT THE COVID-19 

From what I've read we will not eradicate the tiny creature but we will win the battle....

It is quite surprising, with all the new nanotechnology and scientific advancements in the last ten years, that we haven't created a anti-virus warrior robot that kicks the crap out of the Coronacocksucker.

By the way speaking of goofy people....ALEX JONES, who President "Biff" follows on social media says he has a toothpaste that kills the virus and he's selling it for $9.79.

Mr. Jones is the idiot that said Sandy Hook was a hoax...and unfortunatley has a few million followers on his newsletter.

On a personal note I was sent home from work because I'm old.
OUCH!

Now the question is how will I be compensated for agreeing to go home and could I be arrested if I showed up to work.

I don't have to think about it until Friday the 19th.

The size of the company I work for might not qualify for the benefits agreed upon by the House and the Senate.

Maybe I'm being forced back into my artist reality.......

The prototypes of Dark Matter and Black Hole paintings I've been doing for the last few years need to grow in size and that only happens if
there
is
a
SHOW.

Hopefully there is a society left after 19 cruises through the crowd.