Thank you Sudhi!

The article says in one place more or less what I knew from disparate reading. The one very conclusive photograph of the scene is a “bar” was not very nice, and I had not seen it. Pornography generally, to my eye, is pathetic and crossed against the female in a socially and morally damning assault on culture and maternity. It happens, but it is not good.

Remembering Doonesbury comics and the offer of reward for anybody who would prove GW’s military service, the offer for a picture of a pregnant Mike is, well, I think they call it “trolling”.

Best!

Read 5, not %…

Brother, “Lineaments” … neon… Oh dear! I’m sorry! You’re way ahead in the reasoning and so forth…well, you’re also smarter n me. Neon! Sorry!

I had not analyzed the Freeman show… seeing the disagreeable man, I did not go further. “Beards with lice…”?? Actually said that? OMG. I learned at 20 in my year with a traveling show that there is no shortage of marks out there, and that the most dangerous one is the one inside… Freeman illustrates this principle, I think. Batchitnutzoand creepy. In “Yalu” our Chinese brothers make the US chauvinism or racism quite plain and blunt. I thought it rather well-done.

“after reading that piece by Godfrey.” That article title?  The reference escapes me. My eye often ignores an author’s name in greedy favor of the text, a flaw of long standing, I fear. My undisciplined character. I taught my son to read every page, every line, and ought to follow my own principles…

Remembering the undergraduate fella who chanced to encounter his professor walking across the quad, and, meeting, said “Professor Boffin! Your textbooks are very difficult to read!”, whereupon the learned man replied, “Yes, and they were even more difficult to write!” I must read all of Lineaments… My apology. (In physics department joke it would be “Dr. Gamma”…)

Cool frogged-bird! From Zugzwang to Stalemate.

Some few men from the US and Zone A went to fight in 404, 9 years ago. Bentley and guys like him. I thought then about bravery and courage, and suspecting the reflected (due to poor coupling) energy, speculated as to the ethics and morals of the matter. Do those men have a more favorable future, or will they have lived a better life, than the men who stay in CONUS and, like V. Klemperer in Dresden, chronicle the monstrous denouement as it laps closer?  I decided that Ethics is a matter of three elements, perception, character, and position….men get banged back and forth between perception and position as Time moves them.

Like Rumpole muttering Tennyson “…By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife… (the poem itself is not, perhaps, quite appropriate, but I like the line’s ‘taste’. Similarly I like Conrad for his old-fashion usage and subtle criticisms and implied ideas. A graduate seminar on Conrad would be fun. Anyway, “too old and too married and too poor” to leave, or to fight. But Anoxia may do alright. I saw towns in Hesse that were hardly touched by the war, simply impoverished and somewhat depopulated, Father pointed this out looking for his grandfather’s relatives… “Er ist tote”… over and over. Some were gung-ho nazis, some were not. They were all gone, even the house in Frankfurt…I have the garden gate key. Now we too have a garden key…will that be the token of a gone Anoxia? Maybe.

I would match your “naif”… Much of what I have seen I saw as an innocent, keeping my feelings secret. The more I learned about the rapidly dissolving morality and ruin of foundational industries, and of the people who can actually make things, and how these things are used for corrupt manipulations, the more appalled I became…it was about 1980 that I first encountered homeless uneducated illiterate boys and girls with children… Made big impression. Working for the Army made a big impression too. Highly delusional, group-formed belligerence and chauvinism. Ugly and crude. “We” were of course righteously bombing some poor people somewhere…and the level of competence was marginal. The senior officers in dress uniform always remind me of a queer farce in some whore house drag show….very camp. Stuff ah seen!

The Dao of History, and actually even the Dao of the chemistry bench, or of the forest, these say to me that the ways of Pirates, the thalassocratic Dao of the Pirate Empire that’s become so entangled with internal and external contradiction that it’s become the empire of lies, can only dissolve or evaporate as a gas. Scrap-yards “dissolve” old cars, or cannon, and canon too – shall we expect scrap-project-404″ to come to CONUS?  The quiz asks not if, but when did that begin, as it’s obviously happening.

Apropos of nothing in particular, a Barrister in London who writes essays that sometimes interest me. https://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/  His present material is only mildly interesting to me, but very often he coruscates. Nice fella too.

Long ramble, time to go… Best! P

A sad moment in History @ Berkeley > Libraries shattered in favor of AI… this way darkness, I remember visiting the old Vacuum Tube Lab there, and going to the Lawrence Museum with my children… Oh well, decadence happens> https://archive.ph/0W2FO

And a happy thing that pleases the good eye > https://archive.ph/RD2q0

( In a new study, genetics and archaeology combine to reveal the ancient origins of humanity’s first beast of burden. ) Sehrkool!

” [mrs] emerson’s”  > Gotcha! Thanks. And happy to meet the Lady!

Alex the Elder shows great burden. Such Times!

Anoxia has some spaced-out people… Cop-o-tronic gives >

Dispatch: Unit X, FBI called and want’s a “welfare check” on Person Y…gives address…FBI says “X-Ray” keeps calling to advise “they” are trying to insert a brain implant in her.”

Echos of future…spooky action at distance, or pharma..or both?

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Hello Mr  emersonreturn!

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It is said by Sun Tsu and others, (including the Jewish laws of war btw) that an army with its back to the sea will fight, more or less. In the matter to hand the Imperial Force places itself with back to sea, despite the strong efforts by China and Russia to avoid this. The Imperial Fate is thus defined, ruin, and by the Imperial leadership, such as it is.

200 tons of ammo? Maybe. My hunch is that it was > 2,000 tons. In the US system a rail-car loaded mass can is roughly 286,000 pounds / 143 tons. Ruski/404 rail looks heavier than the US, wide gauge an’ all.

Looks like the “Mr Niceguy” phase, which we may come to see as “skirmishing”, is over.

Tally ho for Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, stops in London, and on to Virginia? Well, probably…

https://youtu.be/ZmoL_usjweI  (old humor 1949 radio)

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Good thoughts!

Mostly I do those things already.

The County is financially distressed, so it there’s bigproblem, I expect Sheriff to deputize posse, probably mounted posse…and that would be very difficult to control… Expect injustice. Lynching is never very far away. Evil happens. Men get emotional.

Out-doors wear? I still make foreboding presence, like you, tall. About 90kg. I’ve “won” fights with “the stare” covered by a sly smile. Also pulled a revolver once or twice, and TG I never had to fire. And by running away too!

A stereo-type in California Hispanic tradition (imho) is that they tend to avoid the people they see as crazy… Such a presentation is pretty easy. I was pals with a capo of one of the Los Angeles “Mexican gangs” for a time in public school, longlongtimeago. I too avoid the nuts, common sense. “GM”, my old friend…we respected the class gulf and the class status – the dignity of one another.

I’d rather improve the Spanish and accommodate the new reality.

Time! Later…

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Geewhiz…I wonder why they’re doing this.

“The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect‌‌ bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker.
In part, the goal is to make sure that if Russia detonates a radioactive weapon on Ukrainian soil, its atomic signature and Moscow’s culpability could be verified.”

https://archive.ph/TbbdC

These Great Intellectuals have been busy at their Morse keys again, telegraphing intent.

My old pals at GE used to say, in their blunt and vulgar way,>”terminal case of the phuckin’dumbazz.” Dumberthanabagohammers, like an arsonist calling the fire department ahead of the crime.

Best! P

Just a quick stop > When I read of John Brown I did wonder about the funding…there seemed a flaw in the misc en scene. Yes, the granddaddy of MI6 fits. And, moreover, it explains Lincoln’s resolve, and the Russian fleet “visits” and standing orders.  “Click!” I knew about the Brit’s involvement with the Southern planter class, but had not twigged to the long view…I suppose that goes back to day one and, well (!) continues at this moment.

In the 90’s I did a bit of return to university…enrolled in “advanced rhetoric” and also auditing by invitation graduate classes in English. Sometimes the few of us met at a bar. Ginsberg was one focus…mysterious to all but me. Mr G is transparent.

“Rifle-sights” > I believe Charley ought not to worry about Russian “rifles” firing at hisroyalness…but more generally…focus or gain that UK elite has brought down upon itself. How would The City function without submarine cables? These, even in ditdahdays of Morse – brought and bring the data from which rents are extracted. Radio cannot deal with the traffic due to the physics and mathematics of information theory (a old acquaintance has his PhD in information theory).

I agree about mules, quite so! Noting that many companion animals, mules and dogs and so forth display a dignified sense of justice… The natural good natures, and the less good natures in these our brethren can be ruined by bad treatment. And some are born with a contrariness and bad humor.  fun> https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/200906/wild-justice-and-moral-intelligence-in-animals

We kept pygmy goats for a few years> They too of course. Animals have good memories too.

G’bye for now. Coffetime. Best P