PARIS 2024

 Olympics

SCOTUS, POTUS and then there is US

 Going back to the period where President Obama was not allowed to fill the open seat on the Supreme Court was the period that led to what we now are fully experiencing.

How President Trump got lucky enough to get 3 Judges is probably the luckiest thing that has ever happened to a sitting President.

IT IS NOW SHOWING UP AS THE MAIN POINT OF ANY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Our Supreme Court is setting a course that Donald J. Trump is constructing and that can't be altered or changed for quite a long time.

I consider myself a moderate Democrat while many members of my family consider me a radical left wing fanatic.

There are so many points about WOKE AWARENESS that I totally disagree with and the fact that laws keep getting passed that seem to make it ok to commit minor crimes (especially in California) makes no sense to me on any level.

Arresting someone and releasing them a few hours later is really stupid....and I watch it happen quite often in Santa Monica.  Raising the dollar level for shoplifting makes no sense....just as arresting someone for stealing food because they are hungry makes no sense. 

People who scream in public for no apparent reason should be removed and taken for observation in order to determine which Psychopharmacology treatment they should receive.

The current race for President of the United States absolutely makes no sense.

One candidate LIES about everything and the other candidate isn't sure if he had lunch two hours earlier.

I know someone who doesn't like our Vice-President because of the way she laughs.

Making a President NOT LIABLE for something done IN AN OFFICAL CAPACITY makes no sense on any level,

THERE IS NO CHECKS AND BALANCES WHEN IT COMES TO THE SUPREME COURT AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY  WRONG......

And now there seems to be no checks and balances for the President.

It also seems that the amount of checks and balances on US has gotten way out of hand.

I'm still trying to figure out why the first debate was before the conventions......and the question I also have is,,,,,,,are either of them official candidates before the convention?

This is TOTALLY WRONG

There is a new slogan and flag associated with the Trump campaign.

I really have to consider that whoever thought of this is completely reaffirming Jan 6 2021 behavior by the supporters of Mr. Trump.

Trump or Death

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I'M SHOCKED THAT THERE ISN'T BIGGER BACKLASH 

The flag is for for sale at different sizes and different prices.

Starting at $14 and going up to $59 depending on size.

Things are heating up in court and on the road to Nov

 The most interesting aspect of Donald Trump and his legal issues is that nothing seems to affect the polls.  We have learned in the past that polls aren't always the indicator we think and I've learned recently that depending on who conducts the poll has a lot to do with the results.

People, when contacted by phone, don't always share their true beliefs.  I myself have found that when talking to someone who is asking me political questions that I like to elaborate or exaggerate depending on how the questions are constructed.

People, when contacted in person, have a tendency to keep the conversation reserved....which can mean that sharing the actual truth doesn't always happen.

The court situations with DJT are quite incredible because people have stated that they don't really care what happens and that guilty or innocent won't change their voting preferences.

WHICH IS BEYOND UNBELIEVEABLE

How in the world can someone have 4 pending litigations going and still be regarded as a viable candidate for President of the United States?

Some sidebar activity is also very weird....like Supreme Court Justice flying a upside down flag at his homes and then blame his wife and claiming she has a right to do whatever she wants.  She obviously supports whatever The Donald has done and is doing and the Justice said he didn't know what that flag meant and that his wife likes flags.

There's a decision coming in June from the Supreme Court that could change the landscape of every public park and recreational area in this country.

Grant's Pass vs Johnson

Court Case

They have heard the arguments and will rule in June.

The ramifications are HUGE.

Read about it.

Repeat

Science 

One more time

 

Every Earth Day since 2006

 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 ITS 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

16.5 BILLION...so far

 Mackenzie Scott used to be married to Jeff Bezos.  They got divorced and she has become the world's greatest philanthropist.  (Maybe there are families who give more but she's a lone wolf)

YEILD GIVING is the name of her organization.

Up to this point she has given away 16.5 BILLION dollars.

You might ask how much did she get in the divorce?

Apparently she got 19 million shares of Amazon which equated to something around 40 BILLION dollars.

It appears that her entire existence at this point is to find organization and people who NEED money.

I seem to know people who have a lot of money who claim they need more money.

CHARITABLE organizations don't seem to be solving problems fast enough.

I read this morning that The Donald is having problems getting his 400 million dollar bond.

MAYBE HE NEEDS TO CALL MacKenzie.

Do you know her cell phone number?

Some numbers are staggering.....like the Dodgers losing their second game of the season 15-11 in Korea. Their new Japanese 325 million dollar pitcher has an ERA of 45.

And then that lost comes the day after Ohtani's interpreter gets fired.

The season has suddenly gotten off to a very weird start.

The statement "I didn't bet on baseball" once more appears on the scene.

There are 160 games left and maybe MacKenzie can figure out some way to smooth the Dodger sails.

It's time to leap....oh wait that's tomorrow

 The March 5 election material is sitting on my desk and I haven't even opened it.

I think this is a precursor for the upcoming Presidential election.

People are predicting record turnouts.....I'm not so sure.

The GOP guy should be in jail and the Demo dude should be in pajamas....Which turns out to be a current style if you haven't noticed.  It started with lazy teens and now I see grown men and women walking around in the pj's.  

I will probably open the ballot book today or maybe Ill wait until tomorrow and do it on a February 29 leap year day.

Then again I might not get involved until November the fifth.

God knows I don't look forward to hearing DJT talk about taking the country back AGAIN.

Oh yeah and I almost forgot to mention that #17 hit his first homerun for the Dodgers....which is a baseball reference....which is something I will be watching very closely during 2024.  

March 22 in Korea is the start......Go Dodgers.

Where is she

 

And after 30 years FEB 3 is still a day that makes no sense

 The family and friends of Sean, Buddy, Richie and J.P know this date is simply one that makes no sense.

  Of course Don McLean immortalized this date with his "American Pie" song but that doesn't help my memories of this day in 1994.

 SEAN

Reality check 2024

 As one advances further up the birthday count one greets another new year with multiple feelings and expectations.

Mortality rests slightly off center when you reach your 70's and then as you approach your 80's IT starts making ITS presence a tad more pronounced.  Those tiny aches and pains that rotate from one joint to the next depending on how you slept or how you popped out of bed.

Generally while moving about during the day those tiny little reminders take a break and if you are doing something that you enjoy (like playing golf) then they actually almost disappear.

Being aware of the political and social situations taking place here and in other parts of the world create a different type of pain awareness.

When you know there is nothing you can personally do to alter anything going on between countries and leaders of those countries...as there is nothing you can do to alter the divisions that exist within our own government...then the pain takes on a life of its own.

At home we have trusted that elections decide outcomes.  In many other countries elections don't really determine who has the power.  

In 2024 elections have suddenly become a weird event.

With the addition of AI we are about to witness a Presidential election that will baffle the minds and hearts of  responsible voters.  Keep in mind that 74 million people voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election so responsible voting isn't always the mandate.

You do realize that he still hasn't conceded that election and that his supporters still think the election was stolen from him.

I actually talk to a few people on a regular basis that believe he wasn't responsible for the attack on the Capital on January 6 2021.  They also believe those weren't MAGA people inside the building but Antifa people dressed in MAGA clothing and gear.

I've watched the morning talks with John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump TWICE and there is no doubt what they were trying to do.

AND YET HIS SUPPORTERS DON'T THINK HE WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.  THEY SIMPLY THINK HE WAS EXHIBITING HIS RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH.

And after 723 indictments and 454 incarceration's his supporters still think he did nothing wrong...AND THAT THE OBVIOUS INSURRECTION WAS EXAGGERATED.

And we are entering an election season where certain states are trying to keep him off the primary ballots but remember the Supreme Court is 6-3 on his team so those attempts will most likely fail.

I know I should be concerned by actions talking place in the Middle East and The Ukraine but our situation at home probably has bigger ramifications for the future of peace and prosperity on a global scale because after all is said and done..........

We are the at the top of the food chain and there's a reason all those people are trying to cross our borders.

Except for a beautiful chalet on the side of a village in Switzerland where else would you want to live?

Happy New Year

In case you were wondering.....

 The last post where I said Check it out is referring to a web site called Big Talk or Make Big Talk.  If you are wondering why I posted it, just click on video section and look for the grey haired dude with a blue jacket and grey baseball cap with a goatee and that's me.

If you don't have Instagram (which I don't because I put my cell phone in a drawer 6 years ago) then you might have a problem.  Apparently you can also access the site on YouTube.

The reason I'm bring this up is because someone told me that there are over 2 million views of my short interview.

The owner of Make Big Talk is Kalina Silverman and she has been working on this project for about six years.  Look her up and see what she's been doing.

I would like to regard my blog as my version of Make Big Talk.  I started Mind Jazz in 2006 and if you scroll through the archives you will discover a wide range of subject matter.

I think the next phase of my exposure (which has been slowly unfolding) will be in the Podcast world.

From what I've been told......again I don't have Instagram.....there are many comments that allude to the simple fact that I might be able to help a certain group of people who have gone through a similar situation.

This coming February 3 will be 30 years since my 15 year son Sean changed levels.

There are days where it feels like it happened yesterday and there are days where it feels like it couldn't actually have happened.  There are many more days where it feels like it happened yesterday then the other feeling.

The affect of his physical lost on other members of our family has proven to be traumatic in ways that aren't always obvious.

Human beings are story tellers and it seems on a planetary basis that BETTER STORIES NEED TO BE TOLD. 

As I look around I see a lot of anger, judgmental viewpoints  and a ton of confusion regarding politics and religious beliefs.

Science seems to be disregarded and humor isn't as widespread as it should be.

Whether or not me creating a Podcast can do any good at all......time will tell and since I'm only trying to help one person at a time my goals aren't that extreme.  

I've already been exposed to 2 million people and I wasn't even trying. 

Plus I've been told I either like to talk or I talk too much.

Thanks to Make Big Talk I'm going to expand my Universe and as you know it's a very very very very very very very very very large Universe....and it is always expanding so why not join the fun.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Check it out

Talk 

Many Many Many things going on

My baseball season is over and once again the Dodgers had a great REGULAR season.  Things didn't go as planned in the post season but that's why they play the game.  It's a game of failure for 31 teams that don't win the World Series BUT Los Angeles is spoiled because our regular 162 game season is consistently very very good.

If you don't follow baseball then perhaps you follow politics and if so then you can't be pleased with anything going on anywhere on the planet.

If somehow Russia is behind Iran which is behind Hamas then they are doing that to take away focus on their war with Ukraine.....which could create a much larger problem.

So many people use the term WW 3 and they might be the same people who believe in Revelations.

Religion plays such a big role in the situation that once again I hope the Creator isn't paying close attention to the nonsense.  Every religious organization claims they have the true answers and of course every organization underestimates the Creator. IF, IN FACT, THERE IS AN INTELLIGENT BEING  BEHIND THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE.

I BELIEVE THERE IS AND I ALSO BELIEVE  THAT HUMAN BEINGS CREATE CHAOS BASED ON THEIR ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS.

When political motivation intertwines with religious belief systems then things really get out of hand.

WE CURRENTLLY ARE WITNESSING THAT TYPE OF CHAOS.

HOW IT GETS RESOLVED IS ANOTHER ISSUE AND THAT ISSUE IS RELATED TO HOW MANY WEAPONS HAVE BEEN CREATED IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.

ESPECIALLY THE TYPE OF WEAPONS CREATED SINCE 1944.

If you build the toys and you make money selling the toys, you obviously are going to keep making more toys.

ESPECIALLY IF THOSE TOYS EXPLODE

*******

I read a story this morning about DJT using campaign money to pay his lawyers.  60 law firms have received 37 MILLION dollars.

What's really amazing to me is HOW MANY of his supporters don't think he had anything to do with the January 6 2021 attempted overthrow of the Capitol Building.

I have watch the morning speeches( Jan 6) by 3 people ( including DJT) twice and its an open and shut case

WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN'T, AND TELL ME HE ISN'T RESPONSIBLE.

**********

There are so many twists and turns to the quantum entanglement theories.

If you aren't aware of QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT term then you should do a little research.

Spooky

EPR

The fact of the matter is as far as I can tell.....it's still SCIENCE FICTION

THEORIES are THEORIES UNTIL PROVEN TO BE TRUE and there are so many theories that are being converted into movies and novels that  WE have a tendency to start thinking that facts are present.

THOUGHT  EXPERIMENTS are beautiful......

When I continue to read and study about how the Universe is constructed I still encounter a slew of theories and then add math equations and suddenly everything is perfectly clear....

OR NOT

Last week the Nobel Prize in science went to some folks who discovered Quantum Dots

DOTS

If politics confuses and baffles you try spending some time on those last two subjects.

If I didn't have sports to observe I might actually go crazy.....

opps....maybe it's too late.

Once more Doonesbury nails it

Vice-President 

On top of the GOP candidates running for Trump's VP we need to add a Democrat to the list.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

Watching his interviews I have no doubt that DJT will choose RFK Jr. or that Vivek dude.

Of course Mr. Kennedy will politely decline but anyone who adheres to the number of conspiracy theories that he does, might decide that it makes sense to join the Trump team.

A friend of mine saw JR the other day in Santa Monica and wondered if he was trying to become the next Mr. Universe.   

Are there no conspiracy theories about steroids?

The GOP yesterday announced that they will pursue impeachment proceedings on President Biden and no one in the right mind can be surprised.

Donald has warned the party that if they don't, he will do something else to get another indictment and raise more money and climb higher in the polls.

The Republican party is so screwed and all they can do is try to screw the Democrats.

Stay tuned...the election of 2024 is just getting started and with AI involved it will be the strangest election.......

EVER

Last Quarter of 2023 starts today

 Amazing how many times in my life I've said...."wow, has this year really flown by, or what?"

As one gets older the concept of time both diminishes and increases at the exact same speed.....and since speed is a fundamental concept of what time is, our references get blurred....from time to time.

The 2024 Presidential election has kicked off with the GOP conducting a debate and the front runner of their splintered party having his own campaign away from the "crowd."

One of the methods that the GOP uses is the statement that FOX News uses all the time.   "The American people don't want Trump or Biden."\

THAT STATEMENT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY TRY TO CONVINCE YOU OF THAT FACT....IT WILL NEVER BE TRUE.

THE TRUMP FOLLOWERS WANT TRUMP

THE BIDEN FOLLOWERS ARE NOT DESERTING JOE.

THE REALITY CHECK IS SIMPLY THIS

MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

180 MILLION PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE IN THE NEXT ELECTION

200 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED THE LAST SUPER BOWL

AND THUS I AM ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE OPENING OF THE 2023-2024 NFL.

Which starts tomorrow with Kansas City and Detroit.

College football season has been up and running for two weeks and the regular part of the Baseball season is entering its last month before the Post season begins.

FOR THOSE OF US IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.

The Dodgers have run away with the division (again)and now just try to stay healthy for the Post season.

The Angels can't catch a break

The Trojans have played two weak teams but have scored 122 points.

The Bruins are still trying to find the QB

The Rams are rebuilding.

The Chargers are Super Bowl contenders.

The US Open tennis is in full swing.

The Ryder Cup starts on the 28 of September

SO HERE'S THE ACTUAL REALITY OF YOUR LIFE.......

IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW SPORTS THEN YOU ARE STUCK WITH FOLLOWING POLITICS AND IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW SPORTS OR POLITICS THEN YOU ARE.....

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Hopefully you are a sports fan which allows you to be pleased or bummed at the actual time of the event....which happens in real time.....all the time.

And knowing that time is an illusion but speed is not......start watching human beings that excel at physical endeavors.

By the way DISNEY is making the watching part a bit harder with their monetary demands.

Currently I have no ABC or ESPN or USA Network on my cable program.

Seems to be a bevy of Strikes and Shutdowns by various people.

HOTEL WORKERS

ACTORS

WRITERS

RUNNING BACKS

AIRLINE ATTENDENTS

UNITED AUTO WORKERS

Pretty sure all of these issues are a result of the Covid issue.

COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS TRYING TO RECOUP WHAT WAS LOST DURING THE PANDEMIC.

One thing to keep in mind.....Covid has NOT gone away.

Slowed down

but

still

around.

Jill Biden tested positive yesterday.

Enjoy the last quarter of 2023.

What?

 I watched some of the GOP debate and all I can say is

WHAT?

8 PEOPLE WITH NO ONE A SERIOUS CONTENDER

TO

THAT

GUY

WITH

4

INDICTMENTS

If I was running the GOP show I wouldn't be concerned about Joe Biden

The problem is

internal.

Might have helped

The Dodgers are 26-11 since I posted my article on July 4.  13-1 in August.

Things are going well in the regular season....again.

New pickups adding some depth

Pitching staff reclaiming its gusto

The actual baseball season in LA has been wonderful for ten straight years.

Angels behaving normal......which is not good.

Few surprise teams are doing well and some normal front running teams are not doing so well.

Football season is starting and DJT keeps piling up his court dates.

Trojans play first game on August 26 vs San Jose State

Rams are in for a very hard season.  Will be surprised if they win 5 games.

Very sad to see Lahaina.

FINALLY

 After two years of intense investigation the hammer has fallen.......

and all the GOP wants to do

is

talk

about

HUNTER BIDEN

I just watched Mike Pence talk to the press on his campaign trail and everything he said completely supports the attempt by Donald J Trump to overthrow the Constitution.

His numbers increased from 3.1 percent to 3.1 percent.

NOBODY WHO SUPPORTS DONALD 

CARES

WHAT

THE EX-VICE PRESIDENT

SAYS.

NOBODY

Reminders ...... JUST IN CASE YOU FORGOT

 Donald Trump still thinks he can be President again.

The GOP now has a majority of their voters believing that January 6 wasn't really an attack on the Capital.

IT WAS JUST A SMALL MARCH and DJT had nothing to do with what happened.

The debt ceiling was raised 3 times while Trump was President, with very little hoopla.

President Obama was denied a Supreme Court Judge appointment because Mitch McConnell said it shouldn't happen in the last year of a term.  There was 10 months left in his second term.

Donald J Trump got a nomination approved 10 days before the election in 2020, which he lost.

The odds on winning a Powerball jackpot is 292 MILLION to one

The odds on winning a Mega Millions jackpot is 302 MILLION to one.

The odds on winning a California Super Lotto Plus jackpot is 42 MILLION to one.

The odds on winning a Scratcher for 10 or 20 million dollars is 3.5 MILLION to one.

I play the Scratchers

It takes 230 MILLION years for our Solar System to rotate ONE time around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The Earth is traveling at 67,000 MPH

The Solar System is traveling at 515,000 MPH

The Milky Way galaxy is traveling at 1.3 MILLION MPH

IT'S ONLY BEEN 150 YEARS SINCE THE HUMAN RACE LEARNED THAT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM WAS MOVING AROUND THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY

The distance one light year covers, at 186,000 miles a second, is 5.9 TRILLION miles.

BLACK HOLES WILL NEVER ALLOW ANYTHING TO RETURN ONCE IT ABSORBS WHATEVER IT ABSORBS....WHICH APPEARS TO BE ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH LIGHT AND MATTER

Donald Trump still thinks he can be President again.

There are millions of people who believe the Universe is only about 8,000 years old.

MILLIONS!

Does it really surprise you that Donald Trump could actually win the GOP nomination while in the middle of a court case.

Webb

One year anniversary!

Go ahead and enjoy the latest images.

The Universe is rather large......just in case you forgot.