Never before has something seemed so clear

As for those of you who read Mind Jazz on a regular or semi-regular basis you will acknowledge that I mainly write about sociopolitical issues and only on rare occasions do I include my artwork or my current "studies" of interest. My pages on Facebook generally address those aspects of my life.

My current studies, besides continuation of CERN discoveries, centers on Black Holes, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Equations. The purpose of my studies is to aid in the creation of my next art show which will combine Particle discoveries and the above mentioned topics, which combined with my special paint applications should prove to be both visually and mentally stimulating.

This is one of the moments where learning and politics collide and on November 8, 2016 I was quite amazed to learn that The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle completely meshes with the current political situation.

ESTABLISHING THE POSITION OF A PARTICLE IN A SMALL REGION OF SPACE MAKES ITS MOMENTUM UNCERTAIN, AND VICE VERSA, AND THE OVERALL UNCERTAINTY IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT.  Werner Heisenberg 1927

In the play Copenhagen Werner's character says

" Everyone understands uncertainty. Or thinks he does." 

The uncertainty principle of politics in 2017 America has never been more uncertain.

I realize that the more I study about Black Holes, Dark Matter and Dark Energy the more uncertain my understanding becomes and then I create a visual interpretation.

The beginning of my interpretation deals with the Gravitational Waves that emit from the Black Holes
which allows us to know that they actually exist.

The Gravitational Waves that we are now aware of come from two black holes merging.

In 1916 Albert Einstein predicted that these waves exist and it basically altered a part of Newtonian law (which is another story for another day) and it wasn't until September 14 2015 that they detected the first waves at the LIGO detectors.  It was actually announced on Feb 11 2016.  Then on June 15th they announced a second detection.

There is actually a branch of observation astronomy called Gravitational Wave Astronomy. 

About one month ago I created a preliminary sketch of an energy field outside of a black hole
before I painted the black hole....because I simply assumed that it was a very intense area.

Then two days ago I stumbled across an artist rendition of a black hole and this artist works for NASA. It made me relaxed knowing that I'm at least on the same page as the really smart people at NASA.

I will post my finished piece when it is finished and I promise it will glow on you!

AND THEN
I JUST HEARD ON THE NEWS
THAT PRESIDENT TWITTER SPIN 
HAS STATED THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ARE NO LONGER PERMITTED TO ATTEND THE
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

AND NOW
I've discovered that Black Holes
exist
in 
Washington D.C.
and they are located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Uncertainty Principle  
OMG! 
I've got to go to sleep

Michael Timothy McAlevey 

This is a great song and I'm doing the same thing

Sean Rowe

Pretty sure you can play it more than once.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Alternative facts and Press briefing battles because....

The simple fact is that for the last 16 months our current President has engaged in spreading "alternative facts" and questioning the press whenever they weren't agreeing with him.

WHY SHOULD ANYTHING CHANGE? 

The first few days saw President Twitter Spin go to the CIA's sacred wall and talk about the crowd discrepancy during his inauguration. 

WHY ON EARTH WOULD HE MENTION THAT ISSUE TO THE CIA?

Kellyanne Conway spent months belittling Donald Trump until her boos, Ted Cruz, dropped out of the race at the end of June 2016.  On July 1st Donald Trump hired her to run his campaign.

WHY HASN'T ANY MEMBER OF THE MEDIA ASKED HER ABOUT THE THINGS SHE SAID ABOUT TRUMP BEFORE JULY?

AND THE QUESTIONS 
ARE 
JUST 
STARTING

I'm only going to ask a few questions every day....because if we've learned anything in the last year it's that too much information and too many facts just can't be digested by the American voter....unless of course they are "alternative facts."

Michael Timothy McAlevey

End of this week seems surreal but there is always art and MLK

I worked three days for the L.A. Art show at the Convention Center and then spent the fourth day trying to cover anything I had previously missed.

The show consisted of 90 plus galleries from around the world and I estimate that the four day attendance probably reached 60 to 75,000....which isn't bad considering this was a 4 game NFL playoff weekend.  Although there were probably more women than men I have to say WE (males) were quite well represented which indicates a few things.  Football is popular but not that popular and people will pay to see art.  The cost of admittance was $30 for a a one day pass....which might have been the cost of attending a professional football, on the 50 yard line, about ten years ago.....maybe 15.  This particular show, when it was in Santa Monica at the Airport about five years ago....cost $10.

I probably walked passed this one particular space at least ten times mainly because it was located in a center part of the floor plan.  I had not stopped for various reasons that might or might not be important to this "article" but yesterday as I was perusing a certain space I happened to be standing directly in front of this previously ignored space, with my back turned.  I happened to look over my shoulder and realized that there was an image similar to my first piece I did in 2013 (far fewer colors) when trying to create an explosion of protons in honor of what was happening at the CERN project in Geneva.

Also showing were six pieces that were obviously stimulated by Jackson Pollock but with oodles and oodles of less paint.  I never thought I would use the word oodles but now I've used it three times and I hope it doesn't turn into an addiction.

I introduced myself and pulled out my latest business card.

The item you are now looking at is a 2 1/2 inch puzzle piece from 1993.  There are approximately 70 to 80 other pieces of this puzzle either in a drawer or in the possession of a gallery owner or artist who attended the L.A. Art show.....I know this to be true because I just started utilizing the puzzle pieces on Saturday January 14, 2017....and so far I've handed out at least 20 pieces and ten out of the 20 said the same thing...."That's a lot of work for a business card."  My response was the same each time, "Well, not really."

Side bar 

In case you do not know the Puzzle story it's a good one and if you e-mail me at m1117mtm@yahoo.com I will be happy to share.  My puzzle period ran from Dec 27, 1991 to Feb 3, 1994.

The back of the puzzle is magnetic tape....so it can instantly become a refrigerator item.

I only have about 750 puzzle pieces left, not counting the three large intact puzzles that will not be used as business cards but instead will be sold as pieces of art.  (Since I sold more than 500 small per-magnetic puzzles and around 50 magnetic puzzles during my puzzle period I think it's safe to say that when the right person comes along my last few puzzles will be gone.) 

Now let's get back to the Art Show because believe it or not this article was never about me but somehow I bent time and space and took it in that direction.

When I handed my card to KENJI MISAWA, the artist who painted the two pieces above, and explained that it was part of a large puzzle, he seemed impressed.  And then I started talking about the first piece that caught my eye, which is called EYE CHAKRA, and how it looked like something I had done in the beginning of my CERN project and turned into THE OTHER GOD PARTICLES art show in September of 2014.

Then I glanced down at the table and noticed some books with his name on the cover of each book.

KENJI MISAWA

Each page in the first book showed what he has been doing since 1968.

KENJI MISAWA

Here are a few examples of work done by an artist that I originally thought didn't use enough paint on his Jackson Pollock type paintings. 

As I turned the pages I went from feeling humbled to feeling honored to have been able to meet someone of his stature.  What you are looking at are just a few pieces from his immense body of work.  He even had one project, that if I understood him correctly, where he build a river so that it would make his sculpture look more in tune with the environment.  HE BUILT THE RIVER!

There is another project he is currently working on where he is building a beach.

KENJI MISAWA 

 At one point he asked me about business and I said, "I apparently do everything for free." I'm 

fairly certain at that point he probably considered me to be insane.  

The art of conducting business that is centered on what I do creatively seems to be the total magical conundrum of my life and whereas I would love NOT to worry about finances IT SEEMS I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE IN THE MATTER.

SECURING A PATRON THAT ALLOWS ME TO CREATE LARGER PIECES AND CONDUCT MY SHOW, THE OTHER GOD PARTICLES,  ON A SEMI-REGULAR BASIS, DOES NOT SEEM TO BE ON THE UNIVERSE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS.  

IT'S A TEST TO SEE HOW MUCH WORK I CAN DO BEFORE ENDING UP UNDER SOME OVERPASS TALKING TO HOMELESS PEOPLE ABOUT ART, THE CERN PROJECT, QUANTUM MECHANICS,  AND SOUL AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT...along with my numerous left wing biased opinions on social and political events.

I honestly don't see myself lasting very long in that environment but if I don't get a sponsor soon for my numerous avenues of expression, it's possible that I could become a character in John Steinbeck's great grandson's new novel.....THE STUPIDEST RAISIN ON THE VINE.

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 Today is Martin Luther King's birthday and it's a National Holiday that probably doesn't get recognized by 90% of the people who don't like Barack Obama....and at least 60% of the people who voted for Donald Trump.

The art of generalization has gotten easier and easier during this last election campaign.  Identifying people according to their  political choices has never been so clear.

Friday January 20 2017 is a day that will live in ???????????????

But in the meantime I was able to meet an visionary master in the world of sculpture and the best thing about 

Kenji Misawa

is the

simple fact that he is a 

nice

man.

Truly an honor and for that I must thank that same Universe

which

keeps

me

wondering

if 

I 

will

ever 

stop

worrying

about

money.

It really does derail the train of creativity and yet I have a versatile body of work 

and besides that

you just finished reading a Mind Jazz piece and I was able to introduce you to a brilliant artist.

Happy Birthday MLK

Hope for extremely windy day on Friday 

to see what President "Biff" really looks like.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

 

Goodbye Goog;e Chrome and Hello Firefox

Operating system is Windows Vista and while it might be older it was working fine until Google Chrome no longer supported updates from Windows for XP and Vista.  I know XP no longer is supported by Microsoft but Vista was suppose to go until April of 2017.

I do want to thank Google Chrome for the excellent  three years of updates and accessibility.  I understand why the company is so valuable but like all things there comes a time to move along.

I am having slight problem removing Google Chrome from my program list and that doesn't surprise me in the least.

I've downloaded Firefox and will test their waters until the flood gates open.  The flood gates opening will be as a result of Windows no longer updating my Security Essential Security program.  At the bottom of my page I have a horrid orange symbol that should be a beautiful green system and I fully expect to see Chinese, Russian and whoever suddenly enter my computer and make my techno life a living hell.

I am using this short piece just for a test.

I might have some problems because of not using Google Chrome because Blogspot, the host of Mind Jazz, is a Google company and in the past whenever someone tried to cross pollinate information in the Windows, Internet Explorer world....Bill Gates would somehow create pain and suffering.

I'm not sure if Google is that vindictive but I suppose I will find out.

Only ten days away from the weirdness Inauguration day in the history of our country and all I'm praying for is WIND, WIND and more WIND.....so that we can really see what "Biff" looks like.

God help us and God bless the United States of America.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

And so it begins

Today Congress goes back to work and we are about to be GOPeed to the max.  Preparing for their vaulted new leader to take office on January 20 the Republican members will begin the attempted dismantling of everything Barack Obama thought important.

Silly things like the environment, health care and food stamps.

There's been a lot of GOP complaining about how many people are getting food stamps and it seems that there's a fairly logical reason people apply for food stamps.

THEY NEED FOOD.

When one reads about how many children in America go to bed every night hungry one has to wonder if those statistics are available to the members of Republican Party in the House and Senate.

Are they on a DON'T TELL US BAD NEWS list?

Or

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT LESS FORTUNATE PEOPLE DON'T REALLY CONTACT THEIR REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES?

Maybe every disadvantaged, homeless, starving and sick person in this great country is a Democrat.

I never considered that possibility before.

Simple solution.

WE ALL BECOME REPUBLICANS.

IMMEDIATELY!

ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED!

And it becomes the perfect solution to making sure that The Donald won't have a second term.

I think I'm on to something here
or
I'm on something here
but if that's the case then someone dosed my coffee or laced the morning paper and it went to my fingers and then into my blood stream and now
I'm
blazing.

Ok....let's regroup our thoughts for a sec.  

IF MILLIONS OF DEMOCRATS CHANGED THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION BEFORE THE NEXT MID TERMS, AND BERNIE AND ELIZABETH BECAME  REPUBLICANS......THEN BY 2020 IT MIGHT BE VERY HARD FOR THE INCUMBENT TO MOUNT A RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

We need to be looking into the future as we plan our strategies.....

I'M  OPEN TO ANY SUGGESTIONS...no matter how hair-brain they might appear......after all, keep one thing in mind....

That's how the Trump fiasco got started

ONE HAIR-BRAINED IDEA by one weird hair dude.

Time to brainstorm.....

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Something just doesn't seem right....or fair.

2016 has one more day and as I sit down to summarize a very complex year, all I think about is how unfair the following statement is.

WE LOST MUHAMMAD ALI 
AND 
WE 
GAINED 
DONALD TRUMP

I understand that life can be unfair and there are really no valid explanations on why certain things happen to certain people at uncertain times but putting those two men in a comparison mode just highlights the tragedy of the recent current events.

Obviously Donald J. Trump being elected the 45th President of the United States is the biggest surprise of the year and thus the most important event mainly because of political, social and environmental ramifications that could result from America having a HUGE brain fart.

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There was one film I saw in 2016 that should be required viewing in every High School and College.
And it might be a good idea to show this film to every Police Academy graduating class in America.

13th

It's a documentary by Ava DuVernay.

Stunning 
and contains statistics that will boggle your mind.

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I read the most interesting book (which means it has to be non-fiction) by a physicists named
 Lisa Randall.

DARK MATTER and the DINOSAURS

It will open your eyes and your mind if you have any interest in science and how the Universe operates.

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The Chicago Cubs won the World Series and that would have been the main sports story of 2016 (and probably still is in Chicago)
if
Vin Scully hadn't retired.

The retirement of Vin will be felt in ways that are hard to calculate....keeping in mind that MOST people don't follow baseball and couldn't care less that the greatest broadcaster in history is now listening to someone one else.......just like us. With replays and recordings a little dose of Vinny is available anytime.


*****************************

Music got hammered in 2016 with Prince and David Bowie leading the departure train.  Since their music is captured forever, immortality is guaranteed as long as Earth orbits the Sun.


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ISIS, Syria, Aleppo, Destroyed Ancient Artifacts and Trucks running over people at celebrations were major international stories......
Police shootings of Black and homeless citizens in the United States is a major internal story......
BUT
The Russians hacking the DNC and then passing information to Wiki Leaks will turn out to be the
BIGGEST
STORY
because it's tied to our 2016 Presidential Election in ways that will be slow to unfold.
Think back to Nixon
Think now about Trump
both extremely paranoid 
and both with followers that will do anything to make their bosses happy.

THIS STORY WILL ONLY GROW AND GROW
and our relationship with Russia will end up being the main story for 2017.

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I could continue to flap on about 2016 but honestly the Donald Trump story just makes me so depressed that I literally have run out of words

Happy New Year?????????????????

Michael Timothy McAlevey

And then I realized that I had to include Otis in helping send 2016 away

Before I wrap up 2016....which turns out to be COMPLEX....let's have some personal favorites

Hope this slightly offsets the previous post

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Two days from official conformation and then ????????

On December 19, 2016 the Electoral College members in each state will cast their votes for President of the United States.
It appears that there will be no massive reversal and even though 17 intelligence agencies, which by the way is about 14 more than I thought we had, have reported that Russian was involved in helping Donald Trump win the election.

I remember in 1972 when there were multiple rumors about the Watergate break-in but nothing factual came forth until well after the election.  Eventually Richard Nixon was forced to resign as a result of numerous incidents but the break-in at the DNC offices in the Watergate Hotel was Nixon's Waterloo moment.

Waterloo in Watergate should be a Bob Dylan song.

Hacking the DNC computer data base seems to be in the same ballpark.  

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE WAS DIRECT INTERFERENCE BY THE OPPOSITION PARTY, BUT IF THE OPPOSITION PARTY ASKS A THIRD OUTSIDE PARTY TO DO SOMETHING ILLEGAL IT SHOULD ALL COME BACK ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE PERSON MAKING AN ILLEGAL REQUEST.

 On July 27th 2016 in Doral, Florida.......Donald Trump was quoted......

‘’Russia, if you are listening, I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.  I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

THAT COMMENT ALONE SHOULD RESULT IN DONALD J. TRUMP BEING INVESTIGATED FOR 

TREASON

He asked a foreign government to interfere in our election process.

SIMPLE AND CLEAR

WHAT'S NOT TO UNDERSTAND?

BUT THE MAIN THING THAT BOTHERS ME ABOUT MR. TRUMP IS HIS APPARENT CAVALIER ATTITUDE REGARDING 

NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Donald J. Trump's quote from GOP debate in December of 2015

"The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with Global Warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he is saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear....nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now."

We have elected one of those people and an entire nation's arsenal will now be under his watchful eye.

Enjoy the slide show.

By the way....the barrels on the island is left over Agent Orange being storied on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean....and I just thought you might enjoy "stuff" we've created that we don't know what to do with....as in

ALL NUCLEAR WASTE EVER CREATED BY THE USE OF NUCLEAR

ANYTHING

Every one of the Nuclear explosions has a name and a number.

The biggest denotation belongs to Russia and it's called TZAR BOMBA.

THERE HAVE BEEN 2,475 NUCLEAR TESTS SINCE 1945 and apparently we have Lord Ernest Rutherford to thank for splitting the first atom in 1917...and basically discovering that atomic nucleus.  I always blamed it on Oppenheimer but he just used the science that Lord Rutherford discovered.

And in 33 days we will have a President of the United States who didn't know what the Nuclear Triad was one year ago and who also has been quoted as saying...."why make them if you are going to use them?"

SERIOUSLY

WTF?

Happy Holidays

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I guess it can get even weirder.....

It's been 32 days since Biff won the election, and if you don't know about the election then all I can say is...........I am extremely jealous.

Everyday Biff does something else that just makes me wonder how much weirder it can get and I just stop and think....I guess it can get even weirder.

Now weird might be an odd word to use when referencing politics, unless you are referring to Anthony Weiner, but it really seems to fit well in the present environment.

Every appointment Biff makes appears to be an attempt to completely change REALITY.

Let's take the new EPA nomination.
Not only is he a climate change denier, he believes that coal should be restored to it's previous level of importance for America's energy needs along with fossil fuels. His overall view seems to be that the regulations, put in place to prevent corporations from polluting lakes, rivers, streams and the air we breathe, HINDER business and prevent job growth.

Allowing corporations to do whatever they want, anywhere they want APPEARS TO BE THE BACKBONE OF THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA....and BIFF is doing his part to make sure BUSINESS rules every part of our lives.

A large part of government's responsibility is to make sure that PEOPLE are protected from aggressive actions by other countries toward us and that our health and safety is not ignored because  of greed by corporations. It is also the job of civilian elected officials to control excessive dominance by the military complex.

Now the corporations have one of their own in the White House and someone who believes we have a weak military so the military budget will increase and  knowing it's already bigger than the next ten countries combined.........I guess it can get even weirder.  

I just don't want to, for so many obvious reasons, point out each of the "chosen ones" so click on this link.

Entire selections so far......this is a link to The Guardian website.  I apologize for their ads but the summaries seem to be coherent.  If you don't like the Guardian then you probably voted for Biff and most likely aren't reading this anyway.

I think back to early in the Presidential race and how people I know, and even love, said...."it's about time a businessman ran the country."  And now a "businessman" is going to run the country and everyone he appoints and hires will be running the country and the questions one has to ask is....."is running America right over the edge of a cliff, part of the bargain?

I read the other day that Biff refuses to take security briefings.  I'm pretty sure there won't be any news conferences anytime soon and on top of everything else I won't be surprised if he resigned a week after the inauguration just so Mike Pence could be President.

I also read, and not really sure if it fell under the Fake News category of Internet life as it now exists, that 34 of the Electoral College participants have decided to not support "Biff."

IF THAT IS TRUE THAN THERE MIGHT BE SOME LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS FUNNEL
And that's not a typo.....this ain't a tunnel my friend, it's a funnel and we are on the verge of sliding down into a unknown dimension of political absurdness and I guess it can get even weirder......

Study the appointments so far and tell me you don't agree!


Michael Timothy McAlevey

Facts in spite of what you might think

It's so interesting to think back eight years when our economy was literally in the toilet.  I mean it was spiraling down like right after a flush.  "In the tank" was a term being used quite freely and of course the Republican fan base was letting everyone know that the new guy in charge was only going to make matters worse.  In fact I recall hearing statements like...."America is doomed" and "the guy has no experience."  And then from the very first day in the White House the GOP members of the house and the senate made it quite clear that they had no intention of working with the new President and one prominent member was quoted (within the first few weeks) as saying "our only goal is to make this guy a one term President."

The economic situation was being classified as the worst financial crisis since 1929....mainly fueled by the housing market which was collapsing due to various reasons that most people to this day still don't understand....and if they have some understanding it's due to a few movies made over the last six years.

The Big Short might be the one studio film that explained the problem and its domestic take was only $70 million so maybe about 6 to 7 million people saw the movie.  It now plays on various cable channels and on-demand so that means another 10 million people.  I'm guessing that the amount of people who really understand what happened to the economy in 2008, might be around 10 million....keeping in mind that a large percentage of people who get their information from watching a movie don't really retain the information.  Especially the technical aspects. By the way, Inside Job was a much better explanation of what happened but nobody saw that($4.5 million domestic box office) film.

My guess is that 30 to 40% of the paying public go to a movie to see the movie stars.  That might sound overly fatalistic but it is what it is.  And there's a reason that an actor or an actress keeps appearing year after year in different roles.  People like familiar faces even if the part makes no sense as in Jack Reacher films starring little Tommy Cruise. Does anyone really believe that only one person on the planet can play Jack Sparrow or Jason Bourne?  We've already learned from George Clooney that anyone can play Batman.

One exception.....Michael Keaton is the only person who could have played Beetlejuice. (maybe Robin Williams)

Jonah Hill and Jason Segal are proof that anyone can be an actor and becoming a movie star is some type of weird serendipitous experience that has no rhyme or reason.

I acknowledge that the art of opinion has taken over this article but that's because I introduced movies to the equation and since one of my favorite things to do is sit in front of a really really big screen, in a dark room with exit signs on either side of the room, which are there for my safety, and which I believe could be dimmed considerably without causing any harm or panic to the audience, I shan't apologize for the digression.

Back on point.....

THE MEMBERS OF THE GOP CONTROLLED CONGRESS REFUSED TO ALLOW BARACK OBAMA TO IMPLEMENT AN INFRASTRUCTURE AGENDA.  HE TRIED A FEW TIMES AND WAS BLOCKED.

THEY WILL NOT BLOCK DONALD TRUMP'S INFRASTRUCTURE AGENDA AND
MILLIONS OF JOBS WILL BE CREATED.

DID THE GOP ELECTED OFFICIALS MAKE THAT DECISION HOPING THAT A REPUBLICAN WOULD WIN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2012?

DID THEY STICK TO THAT DECISION DURING HIS SECOND TERM HOPING THAT A REPUBLICAN WOULD WIN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2016?

THAT'S EIGHT YEARS OF PREVENTING MILLIONS OF JOBS SO THAT BARACK OBAMA WOULD NOT LOOK LIKE A HERO.

Let's drift back once more......

The hostility generated toward Barack Obama from the very beginning was appalling and it continued for his entire time in office, even as most aspects of the economy slowly recovered.  The only real problem with the economy had to do with the lost of manufacturing  and service jobs, of which neither started under Obama but continued, and will continue, as long as wages in other countries, remain low.

Increasing profit is the only reason companies move jobs.  The move can be from state to state or country to country depending on the size of the endeavor seeking to increase their profits.

LET'S JUST WATCH HOW QUICKLY THE GOP CONTROLLED HOUSE AND SENATE TRIES TO APPROVE A HUGE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL SENT DOWN FROM THE WHITE HOUSE SHORTLY AFTER JANUARY 20 2017.

IT WON'T BE BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS FOR TWO REASONS.

1)NOT ENOUGH VOTES TO BLOCK

and much more importantly....

2) INFRASTRUCTURE IS A DEMOCRATIC CONCEPT.

The Tea Party members within the GOP might be a problem for infrastructure approval because their entire viewpoint on most matters is less government spending....but I'm sure the Donald can sweet talk them into climbing on board.  A few free rounds of golf, hotel stays and an occasional ride on the Trump jet will probably work wonders...after all the Trump jet won't be used as much unless of course he decides not to use Air Force 1.  Will he attempt to paint his name in front of The United States of America on Air Force One?   Just the fact that I'd bring up that question should make you nervous because your first response probably was...."He can't do that, can he?"

I'm pretty sure he thinks he can do whatever he wants.

Citizens of this already great country have to prevent him from doing whatever he wants.

The simple fact is.......
 I won't soon forget how Barack Obama was treated by Republicans during a Presidency with no indictments at any level of his team and no personal scandals with anyone connected with his family or his friends.

I will use that memory to help make sure that Donald J. Trump is a one term President...and that is a fact.

From what I've been watching for the last 8 months.....I probably won't have to do much.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I think I've figured it out

I went to the beautiful Santa Monica main library on Wednesday November 9 seeking some reading material that would take my mind off the previous day's event.  I was moving  toward the new fiction section with the intention of finding a mindless modern dribble focused on some crazy political thriller where everything and everybody in government is corrupt except for the single hero, either male or female, but usually ex-CIA or ex-FBI or ex-Navy Seal male, who miraculously avoids every pitfall known to mankind and somehow saves the day and lives to star in the next book, to be released in six months.

Before I reached that part of the library I noticed a temporary section that had a card heading which read...."SCIENCE....librarian's recommendation."  

There were approximately 40 books on top of a free standing bookcase, neatly leaning against easels, with perhaps another 100 books underneath on separate shelves.
Two titles literally dominated my vision.  The first one was called "Black Hole, How an idea abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved."  

Having just experienced the 2016 Presidential election results I could think of no better diversion than diving into a recent book regarding Black Holes, of which I have an extreme interest because of "My Other God Particles" art show in 2014.  The CERN project in Geneva is responsible for the art I've done over the last three years and since both Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics are the bases of that endeavor it simply makes sense that I would want to know more about the most elusive "creature" that the Universe has to offer.....THE BLACK HOLE.  I had recently decided to do some paintings of black holes, utilizing my special Strontium Aluminate paint so that also probably is the main reason the title caught my eye.

Sitting next to the Black Hole (by Marcia Bartusiak) was
MAGNIFICENT
PRINCIPIA
Exploring
Isaac 
Newton's
Masterpiece
by
Colin Pask

I'm not about to tell you that I've always wanted to read Newton's Principia but I have always wondered what Isaac Newton might have been like and since the word exploring was in the title I figured this might be a good way to introduce myself to Professor Newton.  I also thought that since the events of the previous day were completely unreasonable and surreal that perhaps getting back to the basics {and what's more basic than gravity?} might help me figure out why things had gone so completely nuts and why 59 million Americans decided to put their faith and trust in a carnival barker, who changed his mind ABOUT EVERYTHING all the time and had no political experience on ANY LEVEL, and award him with the most important job on the planet.  

SO SINCE THE ELECTION......
I've read the Black Hole book, which turns out to have been written in 2013.  There are more recent events like the discovery of Gravitational Waves by the LIGO project which apparently solidifies the existence of those giant but not giant matter suckers that either do or don't do what particle physicists and relativists think they do or don't do.  

I'm still very confused but at least there's physical proof that they do exist....I think.

And that brings me to the book on Newton's Principia and how I've figured out what happened on November 8, 2016.

The problem is that I am mathematically challenged so equations, while extremely beautiful, mean nothing to me.  I need words and images....numbers, integers and symbols don't work for me even though I love looking at them....but while reading I stumbled upon something.

Giordano Bruno, a Dominican Friar, who was a mathematician, a poet, an astrologer and a philosopher decided to publicly reveal his opinions and findings.
He is remembered for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the Coperican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own planets and suggested that these planets could even foster life of their own.  He also said that the universe is infinite and might have no celestial body at it's "center."

HE WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE
BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN THE YEAR
1600

In case it slipped your mind this is 2016 (that's only 416 years ago)

So using Newton's style of problem solving one simply has to deduce that there hasn't been ample time for large portions of the human race to develop enough brain power to recognize when someone completely tricks them into making a decision that literally makes no sense on any logical level....and also possibly places their lives and the lives of their children in jeopardy.

WE NEED MORE TIME AND MORE SCHOOLING.  HAVING MORE FAITH IN OURSELVES WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL.

Hopefully there will come a time in the near future where someone won't be able to verbalize hateful falsities and scare people into making a decision that is only based on name recognition and celebrity status.

BY THE WAY.....this was the ultimate CELEBRITY APPRENTICE mindf**k moment and he pulled it off because we aren't smart enough....yet.

We, as a species, will eventually get there and hopefully his time in the White House won't damage the system beyond repair.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump.
FOREVER IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS

If that makes any sense....GOD HELP YOU and GOD HELP US ALL.

But like I said,  I think I figured it out.  We aren't stupid, we just aren't smart enough
YET.

We will get there!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Breathe in, Breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.......

It's been been 4 days since Donald "Biff" Trump rocked the political world and received the most electoral votes in the 2016 Presidential election.  Hillary accumulated more popular votes, by more than 400,000, but our system doesn't operate that way.

Second time in 16 years a Democrat has won the popular vote and lost the election.  Al Gore had 530,000 more votes than George W. Bush in 2000, when the Supreme halted a recount in Florida and declared GW the winner.

Al Gore was gracious in defeat.
Hillary has been gracious in defeat.

THEN WHY ALL THE PROTEST THIS TIME AND NOT IN 2000?

BECAUSE THE WINNER, THIS TIME, IMPLIED THAT THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED FOR HIS OPPONENT AND THAT HE WOULD NOT ACCEPT THE OUTCOME...."UNLESS HE WON."

The people on the other side of the Trump wall are simply giving him some of his own medicine......

and one more thing to keep in mind.

Many of the marching people, who are apparently quite upset, were Bernie people.  His "movement" and his "people" were asked to support Hillary after the primary...and they did and now they've received something so far away from what Bernie stood for, that their brains are fried.

Maybe this type of political result is what this country needs so that the gate can once again swing one way before it actually swings back the other way and stays open for everyone to get in.

I see a bright future.......there's just some very odd clouds in the way.

Go Elizabeth

2020