No more emergency declarations. No more emergency excuses to jail people without due process. No emergency swindles that destroy property owners. No more emergency cancellations of steady employment in favor of a new paradigm. No more emergency lies to force people towards changes that they wouldn’t choose for themselves. No more.

The three branches of government each have a job to do. When the legislative branch, the executive branch or the judicial branch abandon their proper jobs in favor of a different kind of reimagined politics, they undermine their real power. Trying to imagine a new kind of power is causing problems. And these problems are causing more problems still. So no more emergency declarations.

Leave people alone to live their lives without government interference. Don’t defund the police but allow them to defend persons and properties against crimes. That’s their proper role.

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We got a puppy and that puppy is reminding us about the importance of play in everyday life. Having a perfectly organized life, on a training schedule for potty training, leash training, regular mealtimes and sleep-times with a puppy will never be possible without the interjection of a great deal of play-fun. Young dogs need play in order to be happy. Owner/dog moments of chasing each other around the yard, throwing the ball. You know. The stuff that all young children and animals do to develop their muscles and their sense of humor and fairness. Being an adult all the time is not fun. A younger friend like a puppy can help to remind your innate sense of fun to be part of everyday life again.

I was just reading Ben Schapiro’s piece about censorship on the Bonginoreport.com. He was saying that there are a number of international organizations and corporations censoring your news access and oppressing alternative sources that differ with a preferred narrative. Fooey on them. Beat back the bad-no-fun-life that those censors have in mind for you. Find your own quality in life by censoring the censors. Ignore all sound bites that explain nothing. Do your own research on news topics that affect you and play with information by asking questions that are reasonable and spontaneous. Inject play into everyday and into information related questions. Our new dog is constantly relating to us by disrupting whatever our plan is and instituting a different game that he makes up instantly. Spontaneous fun is joyful.

By far what is so noticable about today’s censorship and political dirty tricks is the focused boycott of fun. No one will get a happy life by going along with the WEF, the UN, or global collectivists. They mean to ruin fun forever. Schapiro specifically mentions the WFA the World Federation of Advertisers, as a group undermining writers and creators who don’t push the global oppressor’s messaging. I’ve noticed many works of fiction only get published when they put in whatever social engineering messaging is being pushed at the moment to influence the choices we make everyday. What if it’s bad messaging?

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Of all the times I’ve faced in my life, this time that we are living in now calls to us to choose a better kind of life that is filled with honesty, trust, faithfulness, fun, appreciation and that doesn’t spin our energies into vacuous entertainments that will not deliver happiness. Choose well. Have fun. Play.

Don’t take Zoloft, take out your math book and do some simple arithmetic. That might help you to feel better because 2 + 2 = 4.

There is a lot of chaos and confusion being sown all around us these days. There are so many simultaneous contradictory stories on-line and also in the news on the radio and television. At the end of a Sean Hannity broadcast the other day, a caller said that he’s sick of listening to Hannity’s conservative views being juxtaposed with left views from mainstream media during news updates. They occasionally directly contradict each other. The listener said that he thinks that it’s appalling and he wanted Mr. Hannity to fix it. He seemed to want Hannity to stop broadcasting on networks that have left leaning propaganda. Sean Hannity said he’d look into it. I think that means that nothing can change because Mr. Hannity has to broadcast wherever he’ll get paid and he doesn’t own the broadcasting station. In fact Rush Limbaugh was stymied just before he died when he wasn’t allowed to say that the election of 2020 was stolen on the air or he’d lose his sponsors and his platform.

Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable. As social beings we crave to belong to some sort of consensus about narratives, but that consensus today is nearly impossible to achieve. Many interests are in opposition to each other and some of those interests directly oppose your own and affect the information that is available. Whereas in the 1970’s news broadcasts created a shared social narrative, some of today’s news providers want to confuse you. So you probably can’t agree with your neighbors and relatives about everything because popular narratives are inconsistent and in disagreement with many others. Social media and the way that people get information has put people into different camps of information. Politics is hard enough with factional political differences but with the added complexity of several camps of people getting different sets of information, it can be pretty impossible to get the story straight once and for all. This can throw political consensus-making out the window. People have not just an intellectual but also an emotional connection to whatever they are believing. Facing the gamut of conflicting ideas and coming to any kind of conclusion can then make people less willing to entertain even more confounding information from you if you disagree with them. And you may feel strongly about whatever you believe too.

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Do you feel anxious? Well, no wonder. I suggest that you review your old mathematics texts. There are numerous exercises that can be a kind of meditation on a reality based world. When I went to school as a youngster, even though I tried my best, I had only an average aptitude in mathematics. I couldn’t figure out the practical uses of mathmatics at a young age. Math seemed like nothing that I would have thought up for myself out of a need to use mathematics as a tool for life. But I’ve been a late bloomer in some areas and mathematics is one of them.

If you dive into any topic that has complex information, you will find that mathematics is your friend. I first noticed this when I was planning my first garden and curves using geometry helped to create a balanced use of space that was more beautiful. When I did research about the economy and politics, my mathematics brain woke up, finding a new practical way of sorting information that involves quantity and time. We are facing problems in our complex social, economic and political systems today. As complex adaptive systems, their trajectory is impossible to predict. As you face fast changes in your life, mathematics will comfort you with ordinary arithmetic, lovely geometry, trigonometry that covers all the angles, algebra for solving inscrutable problems and calculus for discerning trends. All of that is available and the answers are sure answers. You can do some math problems everyday. You’ll feel better. Because 2 +2= 4, no matter what the news jockeys are saying today.

Last week I heard a strange argument. And by argument, I mean a statement about the state of affairs that we find ourselves in. I heard the argument that covid vaxines had 3 batches, each with different outcomes. I heard that there was a batch with no side effects, another batch with a small number of a few bad side effects and and third batch with a larger number of more terrible side effects. I find this argument puzzling because we are now dealing with multiple rounds of boosters for many people, not a single shot. It isn’t the case that you can describe a single batch outcome. It is an absurdity.

When I ask myself why this strange argument for some of the C-19 vaxines being safe is being made, I can only imagine that it is an attempt to reassure a worried public. The public is worried because they were promised a safe and effective C-19 vax and we now know that the vax is neither.

People who are scared about the future because they took an experimental vaccine wish that there is an outcome of no harm for at least some of the people who received the experimental treatment. Of course we’ll see who over time is harmed, but because of boosters, the safe lot argument sounds immaterial.

Also, as far as I know, the actual contents of each experimental shot haven’t been published. And probably many people don’t know what their C-19 vax lot # was. I suppose they may have a shot record somewhere on hand but I bet they don’t pay a lot of attention to the lot #. In any case, it’s still a waiting game. Let’s not try to undermine the real world with a specious argument. Let’s keep learning about consequences as they happen. That way, we can see clearly and make a better plan for the future.

Fingers crossed that everyone who is alive today and who took the C-19 vax will be ok. And they may be ok, especially if stop taking the boosters and they adapt their health practices for better health outcomes in spite of the C-19 vax. Recommendations for natural health supplements and practices that can better each person’s chances for a benign outcome are being published and formulated every day. Fermented natto as a dietary supplement is one example.

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I did an internet search the other day to see what I could learn about Bruce Willis’s health status. He seems to have become injured after receiving the C-19 vax.

The diagnosis that was mentioned in one source is frontotemporal dementia which is a bleak diagnosis. If it is an accurate diagnosis, the effects of that condition will end Bruce Willis’s life as his health deteriorates. He has already retired from his acting career after finding dialogue impossible to deliver in a recent movie production.

Bruce Willis was born in 1955 so he’s not young. I’m sure he would have preferred a long-lasting retirement or to have continued acting into his later years. His personality has unfortunately been impacted by his health. His self confidence has been harmed in his real life.

Self confident character acting in the Die Hard post-modern movie set made John McClaine into such an extremely fun post-modern character. His role was never simulating real life but rather the hero-extremes that story telling can take us to while entertaining us all with exaggerations that were fun. We knew it was fun fakery and fun acting the whole time.

Many people have said that the C-19 vax can cause neurological problems that are disabling to several people who have dropped out of active life after their ordinary life was interrupted by an adverse reaction to the experimental vax. If Bruce Willis was harmed by the C-19 vax, he isn’t the only person who has been harmed. I watched a video about legislative changes being sought in Pennsylvania after the covid scare. It was made in a Pennsylvania state government building and I watched it on Monday. Some experts gave testimony and there were a couple of testimonials from C-19 vax injured people and both of them had neurological damage. They were sidelined from their previous life by adverse reactions.

As I go forward and find myself worrying about the eventual health consequences that are playing out for other vaxed people, I find myself thinking about Bruce Willis and some of the character-scenes played by him.

The Safety-In-Sandwich scene in the Kid, and the Yipee Kayaay scene in Die Hard, and his sensitive portrayal of caring-average-guy in the Fifth Element or caring-psychologist in the Sixth Sense. Bruce Willis portrayed human vulnerability in his drama scenes and human agency in his action scenes so well– even in his sci fi and post modern movies. I find myself thinking of him while he is ill and I am celebrating his contributions–I feel lucky that I know his character acting during his long film career. There’s a lot more film and series roles that I haven’t mentioned that may be your favorites. Here’s a thank you to Bruce Willis for all the fun roles he has played in film and all the fun we’ve had watching him in drama, sci-fi, comedy, and action scenes.

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Good. I had to laugh today when I clicked on an article about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He was said to be telling a person that she was unqualified to hold her position. I wanted to see what the particulars were of the moment being described. And then when I tapped on the headline, I found an article describing a clash between Armenian parents and ANTIFA. Hilarious! I never caught up with RFKJr’s moment, but I’ve been listening to what he has to say for a while now. I’ll catch up again soon.

I wonder if the fascist criminals running all the exhibits of Clown World might be afraid of RFKJr.’s run for the office of President. Clown world is all about creating unreality and RFKJr. continues to be a truth speaker. And truth-talking will always make people listen more than fantasy-talk will. Truth tellers are the ultimate worthy signal to attend to in a world now filled with chaos, nonsense and waste.

Interestingly, I heard that some of Rush Limbaugh’s old audience on AM radio were proposing a Presidential running team of Trump and Kennedy on a single ticket! Another moment of hilarity. I never heard which of them would be President and which VP in the wish scenario. Why would anyone want to put a democrat and republican ticket together? Could it be as a response to uni-party politics?

People are sick of fantasy and they want to disrupt that fantasy with a team of reality grounded truth tellers. I’m not claiming that the ultimate truth of the universe will be spoken by either of these wonderful candidates. But rather that they are a splash of cold water in the face of one absurdity after another. And those absurdities are much too costly to continue. We need to jump on board the truth wagon. Ha ha ha ha ha!

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This enormous number grows all the time because there are no stops or limitations on government debt and spending. People are crying about how we need to be raising the debt ceiling still higher. They say unless you give them unlimited cachet to spend, spend, spend, they will stop helping you with government programs. But these programs aren’t helping.

I’ve been looking at the debt clock for the last decade. It’s spinning much faster now because more people have their hand in the till. They will spin that debt counter until the debt is completely unsupportable. Until the dollar is no more.

This growing debt threatens each person’s ability to accumulate wealth for old age. People may not be able to raise children or to accomplish anything in their life if the currency system collapses. A failed currency system could undermine people’s autonomy. Dollar over-printing is creating inflation that eats the saved wealth that was put aside and intended to maintain the independence of prudent savers.

The people who hold the power of debt over every American will never give up this power. It isn’t legal to undermine our currency in this way but corruption has carefully advanced in order to get past all legal barriers.

More people than before are now worried about currency collapse.

That’s the reason why so many people are now considering how to evade the dollar value of debt through the use of gold (“buy gold,” they say even though gold isn’t a currency but instead is a taxable commodity) or the issuance of a new form of digital currency (“digital currency is the wave of the future”).

Buying gold or investing in digital currency is a symptom of our financial problems. It shows people’s wish to foil the criminals that are debauching the currency, either to avoid the pilfering and evade at least some of the plundering (gold will always be worth something) or to extend and enlarge the pilfering and plundering (with federal reserve digital currency).

Money that doesn’t represent value, however, can’t be a store of value. Money that is over-printed past the value of an economy can’t work to help people to organize a market economy for trade.

That endless over-spending is also driving the Biden Administration’s war in the Ukraine–as a way to launder money, use money off the books, kill people as a measure of power. With no limits on debt, depravity occupies the whole field of politics and politics becomes a feast on the fortunes of others.

The hunger to eat everyone else’s breakfast lunch and dinner is growing into food control aspirations that may lead us towards many people’s starvation. It’s another power grab.

I wonder if the Ohio train derailment that has poisoned the Ohio River Valley is all part of a larger effort to undermine American agriculture. It would be a further extension of accelerationist policy where the government picks losers to destroy and winners to raise up. Poisoning agriculture in order to introduce a new agricultural paradigm would be a market manipulation seemingly without consequences for the perpetrators.

The desire to do retina scans or put chips under people’s skin in order to control their activities and limit them is another power grab. A health passport is also all about power and not about health. It comes from a desire to undermine human agency. Because human agency can see through these power grabs. Human agency would put an end to this profligacy.

Because most of us know that people require limits in order to thrive.

A limited government is promised by the American Constitution. It is a strategy that avoids the problems and portents of destruction that we see around us today.

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The 2020 election had a lot of evidence including eye-witness testimony that showed voting fraud. After the fake vote installed fake results, electronics investigators discovered widespread electronic voting machine fraud in addition to other kinds of fraud. The 2020 election was a fake one. Our department of justice refused to hear evidence of fraud in court. Many distractions have been fomented since then to keep people from stopping the growth and advance of tyranny. Tyranny has marched on from there. It is still marching forward today.

I just finished reading an article on Blacklistednews.com: EXECUTIVE ORDER LAYS FOUNDATION FOR LAB-CREATED FOODS (https://www.blacklistednews.com/article /84448/executive-order-lays-foundation-for-labcreated.html). CHD.TV is where the video that accompanies the article comes from. It warns us about what is happening in our food system. It instructs people to grow their own food.

This is only one example of tyranny moving forward. New investment in fake food isn’t supported by a voting public. The public wouldn’t choose this. The vote has been gotten around. In no other period of history has a U.S. President had power to undermine the natural food supply. Biden is doing this without the public’s support and his efforts stretch beyond the powers allotted to the executive branch. Of course you can easily see why the public didn’t elect him and never would have.

The eforts of the WHO and the WEF to exert greater control on international policy and dialogue shows that powerful people around the world want to exert their power without any vote from the public. When the United States circumnavigated the voting public through misuse of electronic voting machines, that enormous power was an attractive lure to bring other people into the ring of those few people who exert power and yet are not held accountable by any governance system whatsoever. So we have collusion to control and manipulate politics around the world.

Who is standing behind the curtain? And while that secret cabal pursues mischief against most people who now have perhaps no say in these plans laid by elite criminals, is it destruction or salvation that they are after? And how many goals are competing back there in the secret halls of manufacturing a new world system? Whose interests come first? What evil or what good may come of it?

One thing for sure is that there’s no safety net. There’s no space there for a greater wisdom to work beyond the intention of those greedy for power. Getting outside the power of consent bodes ill for us all. Will any of us survive this unrestrained power?

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Let’s start this discussion by briefly considering our educational system.

In the 19th century, Prussia introduced the world to a new education system. It was thought to be better than the old education system which had been somewhat optional, less structured and less performance based. Prussia wanted an education system to regiment good workers, good citizens, and a stronger more skilled society ready for the industrialization of Prussia and the wider world.

Today’s neoliberal education system retains performance testing, and mandatory attendance but also uses computers to evaluate and measure performance in new ways. Learning plasticity is a well known feature of young minds. Children have an appetite to learn what they are interested in and their interests can be expanded by exposing them to new information and engaging them in problem solving. They also are in need of personalized guidance to help them to reach their innate potentials.

What worries me about today’s education system is the goal of neoliberal educators to redesign children into whatever someone imagines that society needs. The idea that children are a blank slate ready to be formed into anything is a persistent one that comes from the past.

This notion comes from John Locke’s tabula rasa. It contradicts the idea of innatism, where people are thought have inborn knowledge that comes without training. Genetics studies of identical twins shows that even when they are brought up in different environments, identical twins share a lot of similarity as adults. They share so many traits that it must be true that our genes strongly effect our aptitudes and choices.

After the panic that was generated from 2019-2023 over C-19, when children were required to wear masks and many stayed home for an extended period, children have shown increased stress and mental illness.

Children have also recently been exposed to radical philosophies about human sexuality and the political push to change the sex of children to be different from their biology. Children have also been required to be obedient to mask wearing and other radical indoctrinations.

Even many universities have a mission these days to indoctrinate instead of educate. Debate was once an accepted part of the learning dialogue, so I’m sorry to see indocrination taking the place of open discussions.

Children are becoming suspicious of adults. They aren’t friendly towards people they pass on the street. They look worried. I’m worried that they are being harmed by troublesome political ideologies that go against what is most human about us: our curiosity, our search for fun, the investigation of life for something new to learn about, the ability to change our mind as we learn more or meet someone who sees the world differently.

I hope that all teachers and parents and superintendents will remember that each child is unique and special and each has a chance to make choices that can allow them to achieve what some others may not be able to do. Please don’t try to reshape people for an imaginary world where reality is optional. Reality is still as real as it ever was.

Let children grow up to be whatever they are meant to become because of who they are born to be. Open up their opportunities to learn, but let them find their own way. Don’t try to force them into becoming something or someone that they aren’t innately suited to be.

When I consider the Tennessee shooting that happened recently involving a 28 year old trans-person, I imagine that tragedy and violence broke out because the shooter was medicated outside the envelope of what nature intended. In previous shootings, the prevalence of phycho-active drugs was a recurrent feature. In this case, how many drugs were involved that made this shooter an unstable and violent person?

If you are an adult Trans person I think you can try to be whatever you want to try to be. But leave sexually immature children alone. Treatments on children to alter sexuality should stop immediately. Some states have already drafted laws to make trans treatments of children illegal. Because trans treatments are harmful. Indoctrinating children to believe that they can change their sex is a lie. Changing a person’s sex isn’t possible and creates suffering.

I know that some doctors have been making money on trans-treatments even though some people who undergo trans treatment eventually experience regrets about doing that. Even when parents and their children choose childhood trans treatment, I don’t think they should be able get it. Childhood is a time of self-discovery. Children can be vulnerable when they explore. Irreversible gender damage during childhood should be avoided and made illegal.

I also think that trans athletes that are born male don’t belong in women’s sports where they have a biological advantage. Many others see these trans participants as cheaters that win a prize they don’t deserve.

There are monumental attemps at creating trouble in our political discourse and chaos in general (here I remember Chaos and Control from Get Smart). The trans movement seems to be disruptive for the purpose of creating chaos. In my whole life, I’ve only met two trans persons.

The whole trans movement seems to fulfill the purpose of creating a distraction to hide crimes being committed by a criminal elite. These elite operatives aren’t being prosecuted for a variety of crimes since at least 2007. Recent crimes include: bank fraud (SVB, FTX), probable money laundering in the Ukraine, illegal arrests and failure to adjudicate arrestees from Jan 6th, illegal prosecution against Donald Trump, treason, and widespread corruption. This breakdown in the rule of law bodes ill for our nation.

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My husband was recently appalled when he read an article where a woman citing crime statistics in an argument for improving policing to prevent crime was ignored based on the idea that a numbers based argument would be a racist argument.

My husband worries that if society ignores numbers and rational arguments based on observations, then the only thing left would be an irrational and absurd approach based on a policy mandate rather than what reality on the ground would suggest as a sensible approach. This implies a fixed approach that is harder to modify if/when it fails.

There seems to be some absurdity happening today. Certainly Covid mandates were like that: absurd, enforced well after they were proved unhelpful; hard to stop.

The difference between the word rationalization and the word rational is instructive. According to my Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, under a definition for

rationalize,

“5. Psychol. to devise superficially rational, or plausible explanations or excuses for (one’s acts, beliefs, desires,etc.) usually without being aware that these are not the real motives.”

and also a definition for

rational,

“rational implies the ability to reason logically as by drawing conclusions from inferences, and often connotes the absence of emotionalism [man is a rational creature]; reasonable is a less technical term and suggests the use of practical reason in making decisions, choices, etc., [a reasonable solution to a problem]; sensible, also a nontechnical term, implies the use of common sense or sound judgement [you made a sensible decision]”.

In the case of social breakdown that causes an increase in criminality, real problems are hard to address. Resources to address social problems can be hard to come by when there’s stress on the economy. There’s less money to fix what needs fixing. Social divisions can be exacerbated by a claim that racism in the way laws are written or the way judgements are handed out is causing unfairness in the criminal justice system. Concerns about racism can distract everyone from blaming breakdowns in the rule of law where certain protected groups aren’t prosecuted, for example banks that broke the law in the subprime mortgage crises. Claims of racism can also divert attention from corruption, from inefficiency, from failures in performance, from manpower shortages and from social breakdown due to economic churn. A rationalization that stops police from reducing criminality may feel like a reprieve to some groups.

When people want what is in short supply, sometimes they want to rationalize why or how they must have something that can’t be obtained by everyone by a rational means. If a person can’t obtain what they want, maybe they can either steal it or force a shortage onto someone else who isn’t them by using a rationalization. But a rationalization won’t achieve what isn’t possible to do. Instead it will offer a lie or an excuse to comfort a frustrated wish. That isn’t the same as solving the problem of having a shortage. If someone else goes without something that they want during a shortage, there’s still a shortage.

Michel Foucault was a French political philosopher ( 1920-1984) (https://literariness.org/2017/03/28/key-theories-of-michel-foucault/). He liked to study and theorize. Instead of studying continuities in history he liked the discontinuities. He asked what caused society to break down during political upheavals, what characterizations led to people being incarcerated, or what kinds of thinking led to the inhumane treatment of people. I think that his writings have been exagerrated today in a way that is causing some people to embrace irrationality as a way to get around a more rational approach. Some people want to use Foucault to reframe descriptions of what is happening in our society in a way that benefits an irrational viewpoint. To some, this irrational approach can feel like an escape from trouble that can’t be avoided.

Some of us don’t want to face the notion that the economy is shrinking and a lot of economic suffering is happening for rational reasons. Instead some people want to complain about unfairness due to racism. There’s a wish to escape from a factual physical or economic shortage into an opinion that everything can be explained because of racism or rational approaches can be ignored because using those methods is a racist approach. A state of mind can seem easier to change than a real shortage of economic prosperity that is difficult to remedy.

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Economic harms are happening everywhere as a consequence of bad monetary policies involving financializaiton and monetary system abuse including overspending and too much debt at a time when energy costs are inescapably increasing because our petroleum resources are harder to extract and refine and that increases costs which are communicated to every part of our economy. What can we do about that? ESG certainly won’t solve such a problem as this.

Michel Foucault liked to look in the nooks and crannies of society where suffering was happening to marginalized groups. He examined rationalizations that people had for cruelty or for excluding some people from the rest of society. He liked to look at power dynamics and especially at those least powerful groups and ask questions about that state of affairs. He was looking at the human condition and the human mind and trying to understand society’s justifications for actions that hurt or marginalized others.

Even though Foucault liked to stretch his arguments, he never suggested that arithmetic is irrelevant. He didn’t say that we should ignore rational reasons for doing what we do. He just wanted us to be more suspicious about people’s motivations. He wanted us to realize that people have reasons for what they do and some of those reasons might not really be good enough. But he never said that geometry, algebra, statistics, and various rational ways of looking for information to better guide our approaches in a rational way is without merit. Foucault didn’t want people to abandon a sensible approach to solving society’s problems. He wanted us to ask ourselves and others hard questions about what our real motivations are.

That some would use Foucault’s analysis of motivations to ignore economic shortages or social breakdown doesn’t fix the problems of economic shortage nor of increasing criminality during economic decline. It distracts us from solving problems that need solutions.