The iPhone and the Doggy

My girlfriend is playing with her dog.  Suddenly the iPhone wakes up and starts chatting with her about how great it is to have a "furry friend" and giving helpful advice.  Is this our future?  Your appliances spying on you 24 hours a day and sending reports to local law enforcement.  Officer!  I heard Jill playing with her dog!  

What a nightmare this world of AI will be.

Into the Gutter

I can not afford to come to one of my favorite persons farewell party

I am not a good friend therefore, 

I am weak and poor

I never had the chance to do some sort of show for the dome with carter

whether orion or any other mythological creature or astronomical structure

I live in a degraded environment with dirt and filth in the air 

and degraded humans outside slaves to late stage predatory capitalism 

as we all are

what can I do to make this better

in a failed authoritarian america?

The Original Antifa Logo

For those of you who do not already know it, while there is no Antifa in this country there is, or was, one in Germany after World War 2.  Here is, what may be, their original logo.

Yay My Blog Got Censored

I was so happy to hear that the Nazis at Blogger/Blogspot censored this blog and deleted a post.  Ha ha, the joke is on them, I was going to pull it anyway.  What a bunch of losers!  Would you trust your entire body of work for 15 years to these idiots?  I dont recommend it.

Advice for Dealing with Doctors

The following guidelines are compiled from 30+ years of wrestling with the medical profession.  Some of what is suggested here may result in a better medical outcome but in general the following, if it has any value, it is because it may lower your frustration level and maybe help you avoid some pitfalls.

1. No matter how good and reliable the system that you have set up may be, it will eventually self destruct.  You may wish to plan for this in advance.

2. As part of above, doctors do not last forever.  They wear out, retire, get weird, or other.

3. You may potentially extend the service life of your doctor(s) by minimizing what you tell your doctor.  The worst thing you can do is to honestly explain what is going on, it is likely to freak them out and cause them to "get clever" and make your life worse.

4.  If you tell them too much, they will just use that information against you.  Do not give them that opportunity.

5. Although the doctor(s) think they are in charge, in fact you are the one making decisions here.  Just like a lawyer ultimately it is your responsibility, not theirs.  

6. The best advice anyone can give you is to have a lot of money.  The health system can be made to function somewhat without money, or with less money, but it is much harder.

7. At any time, the doctor upon whom you rely may choose to make your life miserable and, for example, make it impossible for you to work.  Do not think that they give a hoot, they do not.

Good luck!

(insert notes about different doctor cultures)

Oh I Get It, the President is a Pervert as Well as a Rapist

As we all know, Global Wahrman is censored by some right wing internet keeper of morality.  Can you imagine how its little algorithmic mind will explode with the next little tidbit of a post?

Because  the evidence is clear.  The rapist pig who is the president also associated with a known pedophile and there is reasonable evidence that he is a pedophile himself.   America will always live with this shame.  This is what the conservatives & republicans have done to our Republic.

Trump the pedophile.

Ancient Rumors about RAND Dismissed

There are two old rumors about RAND that I think anyone who cares already knows are not true, but just in case, and because sometimes publishing on a blog can have long term archival uses, lets go over them.

1. I always liked the rumor that there was a tunnel under RAND to make it possible to get things or people in and out without being seen.  Presumably this tunnel would have gone to the promenade somewhere, but not necessarily.  This would have been the old buildings which no longer exist of course.  I dont think this tunnel ever existed.  There was, or rather, is, an underground river that passes underneath RAND or the general area and empties into the ocean.  Or so I was told by Facilities.

2. There is a belief that Dr. Henry Kissinger worked at RAND.  I don't think so.  It would have made sense for him to have occasion to visit now and then for a seminar or a meeting.  He was, after all, a senior academic in the national security apparatus.  It is even possible that he was briefly a consultant, although I dont know that for sure.  However, I dont think he was ever an employee the way some people believe.

Am I Really Looking for Input

Among other things, I write for a living/profession.  In my life I have regularly been attacked for what I write.  Note: not critiqued, I said attacked.  Therefore if you think I am dead wrong for saying something and you dont think what happened was just a mistake on my part, may I suggest that you put your comments on YOUR blog and not bother me with it.

The fact is that at this point I am pretty sure I know what I am saying.

It wont be easy to fix this collapse into Fascism (3/3)

Ultimately none of this matters because Americans dont have the guts to fight for democracy.  But if we did fight the hardest part would be it would be necessary to execute the fascists.  Nothing else would work and it wont happen.

Too bad.

Who am I who says such things?

It Wont Be Easy to Fix the Collapse into Fascism (2/3)

It is a waste of time for me to write up these notes.  Very few people will read them and those who do will not have the power to do anything.  The best I can say for this is that it might have some minor psychological value to put this out there.  

The introduction to this discussion of "things to fix" is here.

1. The Electoral College

None of this would have happened if we did not have a dysfunctional electoral college. Remember, the supreme court threw the election to Bush in 2000 through this device.  Gore won the popular vote and was well on his way to win the electoral vote.  It was because of this coup d'etat that we got Alito and Roberts on the court.

2. Fixing the Supreme Court and the Judiciary

This situation was created in large part because the right wing nuts on the supreme court installed citizens united and gutted the voting rights act.  On top of that we have the ridiculous immunity decision.  We have the failure of them to correct the obviously unconstitutional actions by Trump to go against the power given to Congress to fund or not fund government agencies.  And of course we have various members of the court committing perjury to congress when they discussed what they would do with Dobbs.  Therefore all these decisions have to be reversed and the people involved ejected from the court.  We also have right wing nuts throughout the judiciary (remember Cannon?).  All of these people must be removed from the judiciary and their decisions reversed.

3. Pardoning Insurrectionists

Trump pardoned those who were convicted of attempting to overthrow the government of the United States.  The convictions need to be restored and those people put in jail to serve their time.  The abomination of the insurrectionist being given honors by the Air Force needs to be reversed.  

4. Enforce the constitution on insurrectionists in government.

5. Fix the problem of the executive orders

6. Remove anyone from ICE and DOGE from the US Government and make it impossible for them to return.

7. Set standards for national elections.

8. The DOJ and FBI were weaponized.  Everyone involved in that needs to be arrested and prosecuted and barred from government.

9. The ability of Fox News and others to lie outrageously to pervert the government and political process needs to be solved.  We proved that the civil justice problem is not sufficient.