Africa

Today in the LA TIMES an article appeared in a left hand column on the front page.  Headline
reads....PRESENCE OF U.S. IN AFRICA GROWING QUIETLY.

The opening paragraph....."Amid a surge of Islamic militancy in North Africa, a team of fewer than 50 U.S. special operations troops with a single helicopter arrived at a remote base in western Tunisia last month."

From Wikipedia
In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to "Free Vietnam" (the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status. Collins' instructions were to support the leader Ngo Dinh Diem in subverting communism, by helping him to build an army and wage a military campaign.^[172] In February 1955, Eisenhower dispatched the first American soldiers to Vietnam as military advisors to Diem's army. After Diem announced the formation of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, commonly known as South Vietnam) in October, Eisenhower immediately recognized the new state and offered military, economic, and technical assistance.^[173]
In the years that followed, Eisenhower increased the number of US military advisors in South Vietnam to 900 men.^[174] This was due to North Vietnam's support of "uprisings" in the south and concern the nation would fall.^[170] In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days. President Eisenhower pledged his continued support, and a parade was held in Diem's honor in New York City. Although Diem was publicly praised, in private Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Diem had been selected because there were no better alternatives.<sup>[175]

IT ALWAYS STARTS SMALL...............................

AN ADVISOR HERE A SOLDIER THERE
A HELICOPTER IN THE AIR
THEN BEFORE ANYONE CAN SEE THE LIGHT
THE US IS IN ANOTHER MILITARY FIGHT

The difference this time is not to STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM but instead to stop the spread of radical Islamic rule.

Quick history lesson.......Christian missionaries have always worked Africa, but most of their success as been in the southern part.   In the last 40 years Islamic leaders have dedicated a tremendous amount of energy into making Northern Africa and possibly all of Africa, completely Islamic. The Sunni faction of the Islamic religion dominates the playing field.  Algeria is 99% Sunni Muslim, Libya is 97% Sunni Muslim, The Sudan is 70% Sunni Muslim, Egypt is 94% Sunni Muslim......

THE SHI'A CONTINGENT OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH IS NOT HAPPY WITH THOSE NUMBERS

THE MILITANCY APPEARS TO BE COMING FROM THAT POWER STRUGGLE AND NOW THE UNITED STATES HAS DECIDED TO SEND IN ADVISORS.

ADVISORS FOR WHO?  

I'm not really certain but since Shi'a rulers lead IRAN, I would imagine our troops are there to help Sunni's.  What's your guess?  They sure aren't there to help the Christians  because that boat sailed a long time ago.

 This battle for control has everything to do with ISLAMIC RELIGION and it's been extremely violent for awhile now and the fact that the US is finally responding means that the powers that be realize the truth.  ALL OF NORTHERN AFRICA COULD BE CONTROLLED BY RADICAL ISLAMIC FORCES WITHIN A FEW SHORT YEARS.

THE FEELING SEEMS TO BE......

THE UNITED STATES MUST DO WHATEVER NECESSARY TO HALT THE SPREAD OF RADICAL ISLAM IN THE AFRICA CONTINENT.

and to be perfect honest.......that feeling might be well placed.

RADICAL ISLAMIC LEADERS SEEM NOT TO HAVE ONE BIT OF TOLERANCE FOR OTHER BELIEF SYSTEMS.

AND THAT MIGHT BE THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM

THERE ARE RADICAL GROUPS IN ANY ORGANIZATION BUT ISLAM WINS HANDS DOWN FOR HOW MANY RADICALS ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THIS PLANET.

CHRISTIANITY HAD SOME RADICAL MOVEMENTS IN THEIR PAST....BUT THE OPTIMUM WORD HERE IS PAST.

I THINK THE ACQUIRING OF MILLIONS OF AK-47'S CHANGED THE TYPE OF CONVERTING THAT IS BEING DONE IN AFRICA.....AND IF ONE CHOOSES TO LIVE BY THE SWORD....ONE CHOOSES TO DIE BY THE SWORD.

SO WHO ON THIS PLANET HAS THE BIGGEST AND BADDEST WEAPONS?

YOU GOT IT!

AND THUS WE START SMALL........with a few advisors and one helicopter and a few special ops forces.....

This is the way it works.....those few advisors get killed and then we send in back-up and wham mam thank you mam......50,000 US troops are battling to stop Radical Islam in Africa.

I'm fairly certain that's what we are doing in Afghanistan and obviously that was our goal in Iraq.

The real question is.........

IS IT WORKING?

After 9/11 I proposed that a COUNCIL OF FAITH  be established....and the reasons for radical behavior on the part of any religion be brought to the forefront and discussed....in the form of a worldwide tribunal televised weekly....with the ultimate declaration as the mission statement being......

Tolerance of opposing religious viewpoints MUST BE ADOPTED by all organized religions.

THIS SEEMS LIKE A MATTER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS IF THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ANY LEVERAGE LEFT.

I remember when Hilary coined the phrase..."it takes a village."

IN THIS CASE IT APPEARS THAT "IT WILL TAKE A
PLANET."

On one of my Neo-Illumination paintings done in 2002 I wrote the following.....

"Every religion claims ultimate truth and has anybody ever actually asked how that could be possible?  The real fear is that all this nonsensical behavior might really piss GOD off.....even though that's probably very unlikely.  Our true hope should be that GOD is love and that everything we do as humans on this planet is not actually being reviewed closely.  The soul is eternal and that element of creation is the true link with our CREATOR.</sup>
Human beings behave like a very young species and thank GOD for the soul experience."

 Neo-Illumination #24....received in 1996

      The Universe has a system of
             order and chaos
       The human experience is a
                    tangent
                        of
                  that system
                    that can
                       both
              establish order
                        and
                 create 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


****************************************************************************
<sup>I've now come to realize that without tolerance and forgiveness
our divisions have very little chance of melting away into obilivon......where they actually belong. 

Michael Timothy McAlevey</sup>

From Sochi to Hollywood and weird choices

Now that a real competition is over (Olympics) we can turn our attention to the silly competition among people involved in the movie biz.

I was watching the last 30 minutes of Lincoln the other night and it occurred to me that Steven Spielberg's film  might be the most important film ever made.  Important being a film that should be required viewing by all high school freshman.

When I think about films that high school freshman should be required to view I really can't compile a very long list.....Lincoln, Sound of Music,???????

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IMPORTANT FOR THE HISTORY OF CINEMA....

IMPORTANT FOR THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OF THE HUMAN RACE

And then it suddenly occurred to me that Lincoln didn't win Best Picture in 2012.  I thought and thought and thought and couldn't come up with an answer on what film could possibly have defeated one of the most important films of all time......IF NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT.........

I finally relented and went online and discovered that the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture went to
ARGO

LINCOLN DID GET 12 NOMINATIONS and Daniel-Day Lewis did get his Oscar for his master portrayal of Abe....but for future generations I'm fairly certain that watching Lincoln as a freshman in high school will be much more important than watching the ARGO

ARGO is probably better appreciated in grad school.

There seems to be a buzz about 12 Years a Slave and certain people are predicting it will win.....but Lincoln was so much more important to the issue of slavery and it didn't win.  To be honest watching 12 Years a Slave was slightly less painful than being at the dentist.  Of course I'm a guy who can't possibly understand why Hannibal is a new TV series and shows like Joan of Arcadia get canceled.

WHAT PART OF SLAVERY AREN'T WE AWARE OF?  Is somebody going to make a new movie about slavery next year and just show us a 60 minute actual rape?

Exploitation VS Education

LINCOLN vs 12 Years a Slave

If 12YaS wins it will be because voters actually feel guilty over not making Lincoln their top choice in 2012.

I think Wolf of Wall Street could win because Dallas Buyers Club and 12YaSlave will offset each other.

The only sure thing is Cate Blanchett unless all the Woody Allen news has some strange affect on Academy members.

And Jared Leto is a lock for Best Supporting Actor

Keep in mind this is the movie industry and nothing is what it seems......

It's a lot like politics but unfortunately politics affects our daily lives and unless you actually work in the movie industry the Acadamy Awards is just a one night, well clothed, fantasy break in
the action known as life.

I'm still in shock that BLACKFISH wasn't nominated for best doc..

It might have been the most important film of 2013

And when it comes to subjective vs objective who really has the final say?

Maybe Steven McQueen will make 24 years an Orca next year and everything will be made ok.

I've got to go now and find a seat at the Red Carpet event so I can watch an actor walk and wave for 30 seconds.

Talk about silly people.........

By the way...next Olympics is 2016 in RIO.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Four years since Vancouver

SOCHI, RUSSIA

I was thinking about catching a flight over for a few events and than I read that TSA is confiscating toothpaste, deodorant, after shave and cologne as you try to board planes in the United States with Sochi as your destination.  

I refuse to purchase Russian made toothpaste  so I'll just stay home and watch it on
TV and the computer.  If I was a smart phone guy I'd have another path to the action.....but I've never been accused of being a smart anything guy.

I find it so hard to believe that there are people who don't care about the Olympics.

Although there could always occur a "glitch" in the proceedings, it's important to point out that the Olympic event truly is the only time that most of the civilized portions of the human race get together for a celebration.   

I realize the other portions of the human race will try very hard to make sure the celebration is tarnished. And that's one difference, as those of us who grave Olympic competition watch, from previous watching experiences.....the threat that something horrible will happen sits just behind the visual reality taking place.

That fear could be slightly increased because the event is happening in RUSSIA.
I think back to four years ago in Vancouver and yes there was a slight thought that perhaps someone could do something destructive but deep down inside I knew I was watching an event in CANADA....and I never really stressed out or worried while watching an event.

Last night I was watching the new snowboard event called Slopestyle and twice I had visions of some sniper from GEORGIA blowing one of those air born lunatics right out of the sky.

I apologize for introducing that image into your awareness but.....IT'S RUSSIA.
And have you noticed how close it is to the GEORGIA border? Last time I checked Putin wasn't that pleased with the GEORGIANS......right?

I WAS TRAINED BY ROMAN CATHOLIC NUNS TO FEAR AND HATE THE SOVIET UNION DEMONS WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GOD.....

They did a pretty good job and although I'm pretty much over the hate dealio I still have some inbedded memories from my childhood.

WE PRACTICED GETTING UNDER OUR DESKS ONCE A WEEK
BECAUSE THE RUSSIAN'S WERE GOING TO DROP ATOM BOMBS ON OUR LITTLE ASSES.

ONCE A WEEK.....EVERY WEEK FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 11 HOODED STORM TROOPERS BLEW A WHISTLE AND WE JUMPED AND HID.  Being under a exposed tiny wooden chair/desk would really help during a nuclear attack, don't you think?

AND NOW AS AN ADULT I'M SUPPOSE TO FORGET THAT PRACTICE?

I think I should clear some room under my desk....it's a bit crowded under there with my computer and my art and boxes of Christmas cards envelopes that I keep so I'll remember addresses for next year and of course I must have 100 CD's just in case I want to play some music that I can hear on YouTube within 10 seconds.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't I start this dribble by addressing the Olympics?  How I ended up digressing to Nuclear warfare can only be blamed on RUSSIA....right?

What I love most about the Olympics is the individual time and effort put in to training for the opportunity to compete in the games.

MAKING THE OLYMPIC TEAM IS THE GREATEST REWARD FOR MOST OF THE ATHLETES....as it should be.

THREE IN EACH SPORT GET AN EXTRA REWARD AND ONE IN EACH EVENT GETS THE ULTIMATE REWARD  but the stories are in the quest to make the Olympic team.  Forget that it takes fours years to train and wait for the next opportunity......the training goes back to childhood.

A 25 year old in the Olympics for the first time has been working on that goal since the age of 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14?????????  And then they get in to their chosen event and finish 4th by a breath or a judge's pencil or a bump in the snow or an odd crosswind coming from over the Caucasus mountain range.

Team games are more fun and a lot less nerve racking than individual events.

One of the things I like to do during the Olympics is post pictures of the hottest babes.

Call me shallow if need be but when I see a smokin hot lady who is also a smokin hot competitor I just stand up and say....YEAH!

The first Gold Meow goes to MADISON CHOCK from the United States....of course she is an Ice Dancer so one can't be surprised by her looks....but whatever she does....she does it looking really beautiful.

Because of the other Ice Dancing teams from the United States, Russia and Canada there is very little chance that Madison will be visible on the medal stand....but she can sit on my medal stand any day of the week.

Ok....that was a little inappropriate.....but you get my point.....right?

MY JOB DURING THE OLYMPICS IS TO AWARD AS MANY
GOLD MEOWS
AS
POSSIBLE.

Let the games begin!

Seamus Garrity......guest

2/3/14

 

Today at 2:13 AM

It's been 20 years.

Today I have my first parent-teacher conference, and I am sure they are going to rave about my amazing daughter. I have no doubt about it. They already do with regularity. She's fun and easy she is to get along with. She really brightens up the world, and has given me so much perspective on life.

20 years ago today, when I was 15 years old, my best friend died suddenly and in the strangest of ways. He went into cardiac arrest in his mom's arms. I think the paramedics revived him briefly but I don't think he ever regained consciousness. If I am not mistaken his last word was "mom." She told me this story through the most intense tears I had ever seen just days later. The extreme pain and confusion I felt personally at the time was greater than any I had ever felt before, but hers was worse than I could understand. When she said "I know you were his best friend," her voice was cracking even though she was already crying. This was the first time that that thought of he and I being best friends had occurred to me. It was a natural friendship and we really just always got along.

His death changed me permanently in ways that I used to think made me deeper. That's literally what I thought, that his death had deepened me as a person. For a long period of time after his death my thoughts were only about him. Not just everyday, but maybe every minute. I did things and saw people and went out but I was usually thinking about Sean, trying to fathom that he was gone forever, or trying to imagine where he was physically. These thoughts went on so ceaselessly that it seemed like part of me became planted in another dimension, and all my decision making and even my well being came from that other side. I could feel things before they happened and I knew I could get as out of control as I wanted and that somehow I would be protected. There was a special kind of magical feeling that I had in all of my thinking and all of my behavior. And this never really went away.

The thing that is striking to me on this day in particular, 2/3/14, is how long it has been. How far removed I am from being 15. Sean and I would get together when I cam home from boarding school and we would hang out a lot. We'd go to the mall and try to find girls. We'd hang out at my house with the group of friends that we had, and we would talk. We would generally talk about girls. He did not believe me that I had had sex. He was really interested in snowboarding, something I had the privilege of doing everyday in boarding school, and he was really interested in playing bass. My last memories of him were from Christmas break 1993. First I remember we would go on long bike rides, and one day I had All Apologies stuck in my head, just the guitar part, and I though that I had come up with it. I was singing it and singing it and kind of bragging, and he couldn't place where it was from. When we were on the bike path at the beach he finally said "last song of Nirvana." It was the last song on that album which was still new. Maybe that happened in the summer. One thing that did happen in the winter was we went to see Nirvana at the Forum. And I remember New Years Eve a few nights later. We were just walking around our neighborhood. I broke a friends window, he may have pushed me into it.

My very last memory of seeing him alive was the morning I left to go back to school. We had been drinking the night before. There were four of us there but only he and I were drinking. I remember he had taken a beer out of my fridge and started drinking it. He was fucking with me to see if I would get mad and worried about my family finding out. I didn't care. I had already begun my drinking career about a year prior. I don't really remember anything we talked about that night. I do kind of remember the sound of his voice. He had very cool inflections. He had very graceful hands. He was very funny. He could kick my ass, but for some reason I felt like he mostly let me lead in the hierarchy of our group. I don't know why. But that morning I left all four of us were sleeping in my room. I had to get up early to get on a plane. I gave everyone 5. He was on the top bunk and I gave him 5 last. It was like a handshake-high 5. And he said "later dude." He was amazing. I walked out of the room and as I shut the door I heard a voice inside my head say "and that was the last time I saw my friend alive."

I talked to him maybe a couple more times on the phone. The last time I remember talking to him was around the Northridge Earthquake. His apartment had been hit hard and he really tried to convey to me how intense it was. The night I found out he died, 20 years ago today, I heard the phone ring in my dorm. It was late at night. After lights out. The phone rang and rang. As soon as I heard it ringing I knew he was dead. I don't know why I knew that. I knew it was another friend of ours calling. I acted surprised when my dorm parent came in to get me. I acted surprised when my friend told me over the phone. I acted strange for a long time.

The thing that compelled me to write something about this is how different my life is today. How different it is from how I thought it would be. I'm thinking about how much more life I have had than him. Todays date seems futuristic in a lot of ways. I think about what he and I would think of my life today. I know that we couldn't really fathom it. I couldn't explain to us what it's like to look at my wife in her eyes and the sense of completeness that she can bring to me. I couldn't explain to us what it's like to hold my daughter and make her laugh and to hear her laugh. We wouldn't understand and I don't know how interested we would be in it. But one thing that I do understand better is how his parents felt when he was gone. I can only imagine it. It the most terrifying part of my day when that thought creeps in.

Soon after he died my mom and I were driving. It was a summer day, I think. Someone had given me a bunch of pictures of Sean and I was going through them in the car. One of the pictures was from the 5th grade talent show. He was lip singing a song. My mom asked "what song was he he singing?"

I said, "this one!" and I turned on the radio and it was playing. On the radio. It was Patience. That was awesome.

I wonder if we would have grown apart. The odds are. We definitely would have kept in touch, although I don't know who I would be today if he hadn't died. I am certain that he death greatly effected the trajectory of my life. The depth of my coolness. He became something so profound to me. He became my link to the other side. He became the guide that brought my consciousness to another dimension, and I have though about him every single day since the day he died, 7,300 days ago.

 

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY SEAMUS GARRITY and I'M STILL CRYING AS I FINISHING POSTING HIS PIECE......

 

Michael Timothy McAlevey

20 years ago today St. Pepper taught the band to........

And 2/3 comes around one more time......I didn't realize that Buddy Holly's plane creahed on this day but of course that was a very long time ago and while 20 years also sounds like a long time ago it really isn't when it comes to hearttime.

Hearttime has it's own reality and each and every person's hearttime is different.

We get a lifetime to figure our our heart
and then we just return to the start
it's not easy being
it's not hard seeing
and yet
it all appears translucent
like
a
billowy silk veil
just blowing in front of my timesail

I don't like this day
because it only exists as a memory
of one really sad event

and I'll feel better tomorrow
when the 3rd of February
has just simply come
and
went

It was 20 years ago today St.Pepper taught the band to play....

and maybe I'll just put on that album and let the
day
drift
away

In honor of you Sean...with a little help from your friends.....

Progressive with a hammer

SING ALONG

If I had a hammer.......had to be one of his last gigs.....

 

And then much much earlier

 

 

 I really can't think of another entertainer who could be classified as the

King of Progressive thoughts

and actions.

BONO

and

BRUCE

are the modern

day

versions

of

Pete Seeger

who

was one of a kind

and

more importantly

a

very kind

soul

HIS MUSIC WILL BE SANG AS LONG AS CAMPFIRES ARE LIT AND RALLIES ARE STAGED AND

INJUSTICE

EXISTS

 

TURN IT UP AND LET'S SING

and then one of my all time favorite songs

 

 

 Mr. Seeger has entered Non-Physical Reality

on

a

very high

level.

 

And remember one very important thing.....without Pete Seeger there would have been no

 

 

 

 I highly suggest to just take a couple of days and play some Pete Seeger, some early Peter, Paul and Mary and young Bob

and

SING

SING

SING

Bee the news

I've written five + "articles" over the last four years on the Colony Collapse Disorder.  I can't imagine anyone not being aware of this issue but then again everyday I am shocked by what people don't know, or better yet................don't care to know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder


The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a virus called TOBACCO RINGSPOT is a pollen-borne pathogen that causes blight in soy crops and that TRSV is replicating through their Apis mellifers hosts and spreading to mites that travel from bee to bee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_mellifera

Traces of the virus were detected in every part of the bee....except the eyes.
Every part except the eyes!?

This is the second virus associated with investigation into why  bees are disappearing.  The first one was called Israeli acute paralysis virus....IAPV.

So now we have TRSV and IAPV causing DEATH to BEES but the investigators say they haven't actually determined the cause.

http://science.time.com/2014/01/22/plant-virus-may-cause-colony-collapse-disorder-in-bees/

PESTICIDES
     FUNGICIDES
creating
              BEE GENOCIDE
and then
a new VIRUS
is arriving
and
who
BEE
surviving

The complexity of our Universe is so layered and so intertwined with mystery and awe that it boggles the mind when I actually see normalcy being created on a daily basis.

Happiness might be based on how much one can ignore

And once more I come back to the magic word.................LOVE

The Creator of the Universe included the ability to think within our physical reality
but the gift of thinking that we can love is an even bigger gift.  Love is an abstract word
to simply interpret a feeling we have.  That feeling can be affected in the blink of an eye.

The challenge is to grow and nurture that gift in the face of extended information.

It's obviously not my job to find the reason for CCD but I love it when someone else finds something that can be included in the SOLVING THIS PROBLEM category.

WE NEED THE BEE
AND THE BEE NEED
WE

JUST A SIMPLE PHONE CALL, TEXT  or E_MAIL TO YOUR CONGRESSPERSON INFORMING THEM THAT YOU WANT TO SEE MORE RESEARCH DONE REGARDING CCD.

The BEE'S immune systems will thank you every single day for the rest of your life

BEE LOVE
Bee Love Tee-Shirts and hats available at the gift shop on your way out.


Michael Timothy McAlevey

"Play the Brothers"

This is simply about singing along with.......outside of the required church stuff.

I probably sang All you have to do is Dream about 500 times when it was released in 1958.  I had just turned 12 and was beginning my first and last Little League season.  Of course later I would have a 16 year Little League experience but coaching and playing are world's apart.

Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream

I had my first girlfriend at the age of 12 and although she was an older woman of 15 I'm pretty sure she liked my voice.  I recall that she liked my Elvis imatations and never told me to shut up when I sang. I realized later that she only liked me becasue I had a horse, but when one is 12 and playing center field it's hard to recognize female deception.  Actually, I'm still fully capable of being fooled by a beautiful woman and still dreaming that it might happen.

When I want you in my arms
When I want all your charms
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream

In July of 1958 King Creole was released.  It was playing with April Love.  In 1958 you got a cartoon or two and two features and I remember that my new babe and I were driven to the theater by my mom.  April Love played first and then King Creole.  At that point I was a big Elvis fan but after that movie he literally took over as "King."   It turns out that Elvis regarded King Creole as his favorite of the 31 films he made and I am in total agreement.  But I still had a girl and I still was dreamin.

When I feel blue in the night
And I need you to hold me tight
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream

In 1958 Gigi won the Academy Award for best picture.  I always thought mom named my sister Gigi because of the movie but since she was born in 1952 I have to assume that's not true......and it still amazes me how perceptive I can be.  DUH might have been invented for me.

 

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine

anytime night or day

only trouble is, gee whiz

I'm dreamin my life away

 

Elvis was the King but right behind at court was Ricky Nelson and the Everly Brothers.  They had the hair and they had the sing-a-long-songs. Ricky was 18 and had simply been the most popular kid on TV since 1952.  Ricky Nelson from the age of 12 to 16 had the last laugh and the last word everytime he spoke on the Ozzie and Harriet Show.  In 1958 Ricky released his first single...Poor Little Fool.  Elvis had gone into the army in March so Ricky took over and once a week on TV we could watch him do a song and show that slow blink maneuver. 

 

I need you so that I could die

I love you so and that is why

Whenever I want you, all I have to do is

Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream

Dream

 

In 1958 The Dodgers played their first season in Los Angeles at the Memorial Coliseum and finished 7th place in the National League.....back when there were 8 teams.  I remember being able to listen to the young announcer on my portable radio in my backyard with a Louisville Slugger in my hand. The fact that in three months (God Willing) I will be able to still hear Vin Scully announce a Dodger game makes everything seem ok....and slighty bizzare at the same time.

 

KIND OF LIKE..................... LIFE.

 

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine

Anytime night or day

Only trouble is, gee whiz

I'm dreamin my life away

 

I have so many fond memories of my 12 year old season and singing along with Elvis, Ricky and the Everly Brothers just stands out.  I'm fairly certain that my older chick dumped me sometime in the fall for my friend Howard Herrick because I recall him wanting to punch out my lights when I rode my horse up her driveway and Christmas lights were shinning. It was the end of two relationships....and it's so odd how that pattern continued into my adulthood.

 

I Rode my horse up her driveway could be a new porno title, don't you think?

 

 I need you so that I could die

I love you so and that is why

Whenever I want you, all I have to do is

Dream, dream, dream, dream

Dream, dream, dream, dream

Dream, dream, dream, dream

 

On February 3rd 1959 a plane crashed and the music died......but that's another entire history lesson that Don McClean expressed much better than I ever could.

 

I remember being home from school that day with the Chicken Pox.......and little did I realize that 35 years later the music really would die for me.

 

I accept the fact that February 3rd 1994 is the by far and away the absolute worst day of my life but one thing I am able to do is

dream

dream

dream

 

and remember

 

When Lily was two and three years old (1988-89) I would take her back to her mom's house in Topanga Canyon after a weekend. It was a 40 minute drive from Santa Monica. During the spring there was Sean and his baseball (and yes my baseball too, as coach) and his time with her at my house is such a special memory for me. He was 7 years older and a perfect older brother.

 

Everytime I would drive her home she would sit in her car seat and simply say in that little tiny precious girl's voice.....

 

"Play the brothers"  with a little brooklyn accent as only 2 and 1/2 year old can do.

 

I would find the Best of the Everly Brothers cassette and Lily would listen to me sing-a-long and she would slowly start to hum....put her thumb in her mouth........and fall fast asleep.

 

And all I have to do is

Dream

dream

dream.......

 

Michael Timothy McAlevey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                      

Last day and let's start singing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LqhYMj5nM

I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST LOVE SONGS EVER WRITTEN AND IF YOU LEARN TO SING WITH THE ONE YOU LOVE THAN I PROMISE 2014 WILL BE PERFECT

IF YOU DON'T HAVE SOMEONE

GET
THAT
DONE

HAPPY LAST DAY OF 2013

Debt was created by both parties and must be solved the same way

Last night at a party I had a short conversation with a beautiful young woman who has taken on the National Debt as her primary focus in life.  While it was a very short chat I could see and hear how vitally important the subject was for her.  I wish I could tell you the name of her newly formed organization but I was distracted by her looks and since shallow can often be my occasional mindpartner  I confess to not listening to the actual details but I can quite easily describe her looks.

Fact: this young woman has started a PAC in order to bring the National Debt to the forefront of the election process.

First and foremost, as the charts below will verify, the isssue of our National Debt is an issue that demands BI-PARITSAN attention.  Both primary parties have created the numbers and both parties have chosen to adhere to personal agenda's while completely ignoring the thought process that leads to somehow addressing the BIG PICTURE.

Bess, the youngest PAC creator that I've ever even heard about, asked me if I knew what the National Debt was and I answered $175 Trillion.....WHICH IS SO WEIRD BECAUSE I ACTUALLY PRIDE MYSELF ON KNOWING IMPORTANT FACTS AND FIGURES AND IN TRUTH I KNEW IT WAS $17 TRILLION AND YET BLURTING OUT SUCH AN OBSCENE FIGURE JUST HAPPENED BECAUSE I WAS SLIGHTY ON THE high side of consciousness.

So that you understand the need for a bi-partisan solution you simply need to look at the following two charts.

 

 

 

 

As with every artist......there is no apologizing when it comes to inspiration formation........

 the same rule must apply to a political mind that seeks solutions to our socioeconomic conundrums.

 

THE NATIONAL DEBT

is

one of those issues

such

as

GLOBAL WARMING

and

NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP

and of course

TEXTING IN THE PRESCENCE OF SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE PERSON TEXTING WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST REGARD FOR THE PERSON

STANDING THERE

IN REAL TIME PAUSE

HELL

that will really be a problem for our children's children.

 

I mentioned to Bess that compromise and forgiveness are fundamental to the central path of problem solving

 

 Compromise

and

Forgiveness



 

 

When one truly thinks about how a problem can be solved while confronting a single person who seems to be causing the said problem, then at some point if compromise and foregiveness are NOT inserted into the equation then most likely a solution will not be formulated and still more likely a large deep canyon will be constructed that results in time simply passing and said situation then becomes a GIANT ALBATROSS hanging on the very edge of the relationship.  That relationship will often times dissolve into courteous greetings or even worst......NO GREETINGS.

 

Our three governmental bodies have allowed major issues to be exsaperated and people don't usually consider The Supreme Court to be part of the problem but when one considers that the true benefit of becoming President of The United States is the opportunity to  select ONE Supreme Court Justice or God willing TWO Justices during their elected term.

 

The Supreme Court seems to be above reproach but they seem to have the final say when it comes to establishing laws.

 

It should be against the law to allow the National Debt to strangle the lifestyle of our children's children

 

It should be against the law to continue creating new Nuclear Waste without the slighest idea on how to clean up the existing problems

 

It should be against the law to ignore the possiblity that Climate Change might be caused by human beings trying to achieve positive bottom lines for shareholders.

 

I understand that the Supreme Court can only review the cases that are presented to them but I've always thought that since they are one of the three branches of the goernemnt which determines how we live our lives....then perhaps they should start requesting more from the

elected officals regarding the creation of laws.  They are suppossedly the best and the brightest of the three branches.  Since they never seem to be reprimanded by ANYONE then maybe they could expand their role. 

 

Didn't mean to wander off subject but when it comes to compromise and foregiveness it is very important to understand that the LAWS OF THE LAND might also need to involve some alterations.

 

WHEN CONSTITUTIONALISTS START SCREAMING ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL  ISSUES BEING COMPROMISED  I ALWAYS CRINGE.    THE CREATORS OF OUR CONSTITUTION REALLY HAD NO IDEA HOW THE WORLD WOULD LOOK TODAY AND NO MATTER HOW ONE BUILDS A HOUSE FOR ONE FAMILY THERE IS NO SOLUTION WHEN 50 FAMILIES MOVE INTO THE HOUSE EXCEPT FOR TOTAL CHAOS.

 

The numbers game of the National Debt becomes too convoluted that for solutions to be implemented............ EVERYTHING needs to be included in the political algorithm.

 

EVERYTHING means everything when we talk about spending

 

 

PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL VIEW                                                                             

 

And I can assure you that addressing insane government pensions might be the toughest nut to crack.

Both parties always jabber about Social Programs and Military because that diverts the issue from things that they created for themselves and their fellow goverment employees.

 

 AND IT ALSO MEANS REVENUE GENERATING

 

 

 http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/united_states_total_revenue_pie_chart

 

 

 

 As you can see the issue is extremely complex and breaking it all down into viable and reasonable solutions is quite a task.

 

(And just why isn't there a weekly national lottery?  Every week the money could go to a different program.)

 

THE ONLY THING ONE CAN DO IS BRING AWARENESS TO THE ISSUE

And for that I salute the young PAC creator (and once I learn the name I will pass it along)

 

How the FIXABLE SOLUTIONS get actually fixed cannot be done until  a reasonable amount of the general population becomes aware of the situation.

 

When I think about a nation where 45% of the eligible voters turn DON'T TURNOUT for a Presidential election I assume that making people aware of anything as abstract as the National Debt will be quite a chore.

 

But Bess the PAC maker, is really attractive and being the shallow thinker I am.....I believe that young beautiful women will absolutely have the best chance of getting the tale told.

 

PEOPLE HAVE A TENDENCY TO STOP AND LISTEN TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

and that's not my rule

but

it's

a

truth.

 

I personally care more about Climate Chnage and Nuclear related problems but I'm just a guy who sees those things as being species killers so it ranks a bit higher than our economic quagmires. Quagmires that we seem to always either solve, or at the very least juggle to the next group of elected officials.

 

CLIMATE CHANGE

and

NUCLEAR POLLUTION PROBLEMS

can really give $ problems a back seat

on the road

to

wherever this great country is

traveling

 

We are a young country traveling toward a certain concept of trying to achieve a level of happiness and financial stability for the most amount of people possible.

 

Aren't we?

 

Addressing the National Debt is one of those issues...addressing with responsible attention given to the health

of

the

Collective American Soul must be part of the framework.

 

And the Collective American Soul seems like a good subject for the next Mind Jazz post.

 

Michael Timothy McAlevey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diamonds are a problem

This morning I was reading a story about a 83 year jewel thief who apparently has been doing her thing for a long time and in various parts of the world.  Doris Payne is her name and obviously, since we know who she is, she can't be that good at her chosen line of work.

The interesting part of the story lies not with Doris but with the diamond ring in question that she lifted from one store and then tried to sell to another store.

The first store (both stores located in the Indian Wells area) wanted $22,500 for the diamond ring.

The second store said it was flawed and offered Doris $800.

Now, I don't want to mention the name of either store but one of those two stores has a major problem.

Anyone who has ever bought anything at store #1, and I suspect that being located in Indian Wells that there have been some serious purchases, has to be very concerned.

If it turns out that store #2 simply has a lying son of a bitch then everything will be ok for store #1.

BUT.....
knowing how extremely weird the entire diamond market is just makes me think that both stores are sincerely praying that no one reads the newspaper.
BUT....
This is the type of story that will resurface on the Internet and among friends at the water cooler and among family at the holiday gathering.
SO....
It would seem quite logical that unless one of the two stores admits to being a rip off artist then both stores will see a large drop in traffic.

THE BIGGER DIAMOND PICTURE is really scary.

Just stop for a sec and think about the three big rumors we've all heard over the years.

THE RUSSIANS HAVE MILLIONS OF DIAMONDS STORED UNDERGROUND

DE BEERS RUMORS OF MONOPOLIZING THE MARKET ARE NOT RUMORS CONSIDERING THAT A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT WAS SETTLED IN 2011

THE CHINESE HAVE MORE DIAMONDS THAN BOTH RUSSIA AND THE DE BEERS

SIDE BAR FACT:
The formation of natural diamond requires very specific conditions—exposure of carbon-bearing materials to high pressure, ranging approximately between 45 and 60 kilobars (4.5 and 6 GPa), but at a comparatively low temperature range between approximately 900 and 1,300 °C (1,652 and 2,372 °F). These conditions are met in two places on Earth; in the lithospheric mantle below relatively stable continental plates, and at the site of a meteorite strike.<sup>[10]

SECOND SIDE BAR FACT:</sup>
Most natural diamonds are formed at high temperature and pressure at depths of 140 to 190 kilometers (87 to 120 mi) in the Earth's mantle. Carbon-containing minerals provide the carbon source, and the growth occurs over periods from 1 billion to 3.3 billion years (25% to 75% of the age of the Earth). Diamonds are brought close to the Earth′s surface through deep volcanic eruptions by a magma, which cools into igneous rocks known as kimberlites and lamproites.

THIRD SIDE BAR FACT:
Unless you actually know how to look a refracted light then you will never have any idea if a diamond dealer is telling you the truth.

DORIS PAYNE IS A JEWEL THIEF

THE DIAMOND INDUSTRY MIGHT BE A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM THAN DORIS PAYNE

It makes a lot more sense to find a really good artist in your local community who can design a one of a kind setting......what you put in that setting is secondary to the artwork........

Of course you could have the lovable Uncle Irv who's been a diamond merchant since Truman was in office and he's been holding the most beautiful diamonds in a safe so that he could hand down his legacy to his family.

Doris Payne doesn't have one of those and I suspect that she will be spending some time with Uncle Sam's housekeeping wing of the federal government.

One of those people, or both, from store #1 and Store #2......should be right down the hall.

It's coming

Just thought you might like a little Hoyt