A Womanned Mission to the Moon Is a Total Waste of Taxpayer Dollars. There is Nothing There! We Checked! This Entire Thing is Just Variation on the #MeToo Movement! I Wanna GO! I Wanna GO! Take #MeToo! #MeToo!

Nasa postpones plans to send humans to moon...
Artemis III mission to land four astronauts near lunar south pole will be delayed until 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/10/nasa-postpones-plans-to-send-humans-to-moon-artemis

Ladies! The Sixties are OVER!
We Were all Excited About Putting a
Man on the Moon in the Sixties,
But We Won't be Having Another
Woodstock or Summer of Love...
Maybe another Stonewall Riot but...
Going to The Moon
Again and Again and Again
is an Obvious Waste.


I understand That the Fact That
100% of the People That walked
on the Moon were White Men...
Annoys Women and Minorities...


Well, 45 and 1/2 of the Presidents
in the United States were
White Men Too!


Get Over IT!

Here's How to Contact Your President:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Let's Motivate Congress To Cut
NASA Spending in Half!

SENATE: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm 

HOUSE: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

On FaceBORG I Posted a MEME:

and then FC Replied: Someday, there will be. And we will go further so that someday, when the sun goes nova, humans will still thrive.

and I Said: Instead of Spending $10 Billion Dollars to Help Jeff Bezos build his Rocket, Let's Fix some problems here on Earth with That Money... Like Paying for Child Care... of Feeding the Poor... or Teaching all those new immigrants how to Speak, Read and Write English... or... Buying Fire Fighting Helicopters BEFORE this Summer's Wildfires! Training People to Be Pilots, Training people to Be Mechanics... The Fires have Already Started!

and FC Replied: While we're doing all of that let us also work to lessen the divide between rich and poor. Tax them what has, not them what hasn't.

and That made me Say: Good Plan. Difficult to Actually Enforce since the First thing a Billionaire Buys is a Senator... or A Couple of Corrupt Congressmen... and those Politicians write Bizarre Tax Laws Designed to Allow Rich people to Not Pay Taxes...

RM Said: A moon base and orbiting lunar space station will be necessary to reduce the cost of future missions to Mars and beyond. Reaching escape velocity from Earth is too expensive.

and then I Said: The Entire reason we are planning to go to the moon again is... Someone NOTICED that the only people to Walk on the Moon were White Men... and THIS Time We're Gonna Have a Woman... a Person of Color... a GBLT+Q and a Native American! and SULU from Star Trek!

GE Said: There is a lot of waste of taxpayer dollars. The exploration is not one of them.

and I Replied: What's the Point of Going There? Is there a Goal? a Mission? Anything? Anything at All?

and GE Replied: I am sure there is an accompanying scientific mission. Geology? Minerals? Test for Mars?

and I Replied: We brought back moon rocks last time we went... there is nothing there... Really! We Checked! It's all just Corporate Welfare so Lockheed & Boeing can Squeeze More More More Money out of the Taxpayer.

JB Said: Right? It's not like we're gonna discover anything 

and I Replied: Exactly! We already went there and There's Nothing Interesting. I went to the Smithsonian Institute and saw a Moon Rock... So What! Was my Impression and Moved on to the Diamonds and Opals in the Next Room... Let's Send a Robot to Look for Stuff... Just like we are doing on Mars. The Manned Mission is just Public Relations so we can Have Someone Walk on the Moon who is NOT a White Man. Oh! #MeToo, #MeToo We Wanna Go Too!

End of Message...

I awoke from a Dream about Strange Sculptures on the Streets of Hawthorne, CA... I dreamt that I was Using Google Earth to View them... So... I looked for the Sculptures in Google Image Search and Google Maps but only found a City near Los Angeles... That looks Like this... Just another Street in LA...

Looking at it from Above and Below 

at the Same Time...

I've been Ignoring TV News Recently... and The Google News Page on my Computer... It Always Seems the Same: People I Don't Know, Who Live Far Away are Behaving Crazy and Therefore their Lives SUCK! and the People Near Them Are Not Having any Fun Either! and I say: "Hey, DumbF*cks! Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot! That's No Way to Learn Dancing!"

For Example: Vlad "The Impailer" Putin... He could be Riding a Horse with His Favorite Dog but NO... NO... He Had to Go Kill a Buncha People... and NOW he's not having any FUN... and It Looks like he's Gonna Lose his JOB and Have to Go Live in a Siberian Prison...

SEE? Behaving Crazy often Causes Unhappiness!

Here's a drawing I made because I needed a chart like this... It lives in my Guitar Case so I Can Look at it if I'm playing in the Park... or at Grandma's House... print this! or print a Couple and Give 'em away!

Someone was asking about playing slide guitar in Standard Tuning... Realize that the B, G and D strings make a Chord... and You can slide it up and down the neck... and the High E string is NOT that Discordant... so... there you go... Just play those four strings and have FUN!

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Speaking Of CODA the Movie... I was partying with some Gallaudet University students after the show in the Parking Lot of a Grateful Dead Concert at RFK Stadium... and I had a Spiral notebook in my car and we just wrote words with a pen... That was an Interesting Conversation, Totally Documented! I reread that years later... One thing I Learned was... They really liked Phil Lesh because you can hear the Bass Guitar using your Stomach... not Just you Ears! They all drifted to The Phil Zone... and the Other thing was... What if You just wanted to Take LSD at a Party? What the BAND was doing is Just one Facet of the Entire Experience...

and I Posted on FaceBORG: I'm Sure Glad They Didn't Build the Damn Thing In the USA... at Taxpayer's Expense... Really... Name Three Ways that Discovering the "God Particle" has Made Your Life Better... GO!

and I Replied: We are having an election coming up here in California about Legalizing Online Gambling... and The American Indian Casino Owners are advertising a LOT on TV opposing the Legalization... They predict that with Internet Gambling, people will lose all their money and be unable to pay the rent... become homeless... VALID Concern... People ought to lose their money at a Tribal Casino... That;s the way to become Homeless!

​Image: Joe and Jean Campbell arriving in Honolulu. From The Hero's Journey.

"I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: 'May you be born in an interesting time!' This is a VERY interesting time: there are no models for ANYTHING that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ‘ancestors’ of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.”

-Joseph Campbell

GO POLYWOGS! GO GO GO!

 

a Painting Idea that Came to me in a Dream

Someone of FaceBORG Suggested Building a Zoom Book Club and I Think it's a Great Idea!

Could We Build a ZOOM Book Club? Select a Book and Then Have a Zoom Meeting Where we Discuss... Maybe 6 People Maximum...

My Recommendation for the Book: 

"The Call of Cthulhu" by HP Lovecraft...

or... 

"The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K Dick... 

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and then on FaceBORG: SE SAID: Sometimes I wish I had someone to talk about books with. I read SO MANY great books, and it would be so great to discuss them and analyze them with people. In a perfect world, maybe I'd start a book club. But it's not a perfect world, and my small, cramped, cluttered apartment would not be a good place to have people over to relax and talk about books. I try to discuss them online, but it would be so much more fun to discuss them in person over a coffee or glass of wine.

KH Said: Zoom book club!!! Drink wine/tea/coffee in your jams in your house and discuss books...

SP Replied: Here's what you do,keep the club to 5-8 folks, find a book for the month to read,then arrange with a coffee shop ( i know one) where you'll meet and share in coffee & pastries (baked in house) and talk about the book,plan on each member having a couple coffees or eats so it benefits the shop owner having a coffee table & chairs tied up and nobody drinking...(and i've seen that happen)

Then SE Said: I thought about that - doing it at a coffee shop or something like that. I'll think about it. There's also the whole issue of who would want to be in my book club? But I guess I could try to put the word out and see if anyone bites.

CB Said: I tried to join a local book club that was having zoom meetings during quarantine but they were reading like 95% things I couldn’t hold interest in so I gave up pretty quickly and have just been reading on my own and browsing the Childfree Bookworms group. I tried to talk to my husband just a few minutes ago about what I’m currently reading and his eyes glazed over. I totally hear you. It’s hard when you’re excited about your book but you don’t know any readers.

SE Replied: Yeah, I hesitate to join existing book clubs because I'm not sure I'd be interested in what they're reading. I'm a fanatical reader, but I only like certain types of books. That's why I'm thinking in terms of my OWN book club - so I can choose the books! But I do pretty much the same thing you do - try to find people online to discuss my books with. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much.

I Said: Isn't there Something at the San Jose Public Library? Take the Light-Rail over... I had a wonderful time there in the 1990s when they offered free internet and I didn't own a Computer of my own.

SE Replied: I go to the San Jose library all the time to get books! I usually go to the Willow Glen, Cambrian Park, or Rose Garden branches.

and then I Said: I tried listening to "The Russians" on audio books... Got Bored with each book after about and Hour... "War and Peace", "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Idiot"... All those Writers were Fascinated by the Pre-Revolution Royalty... Huh?. "Everybody" is Supposed to read "The Russians" during their Undergraduate Years at College... I prefer Philip K Dick, HP Lovecraft and Dean Koontz... However, MODERN Russian Stories are Excellent... Try Martin Cruz Smith... "Gorky Park" and "Wolves Eat Dogs" it's EPIC...

Carson Mansion - Zipper Carnival Ride - Fireworks - Eureka California - Kinetic Sculpture Race - Photographs from California's Rugged North Coast

Freeman Griffin said:

A lot of acceptance of the status quo worldview boils down to a failure of imagination. People literally can't imagine the possibility that reality is as different as it is from what they've been told by their teachers, parents, pundits and politicians. It's actually unfathomable to them, and that is because it's so different. The world we're trained to see by establishment perception managers is as different from the real world as any fictional world is.

HOWEVER: when we do our work of real perception change that world is possible! It isn't easy but it is necessary work we all have to do.

Beautiful Nude Women Animated GIFs – Topless Dancing

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 in Arcata, California. Videos and Still Photographs... Whimsical Art Bicycles That Travel on Roads, Sand and In the Water... JUST FOR FUN!

Water Wheel & Samoa Bridge in Humboldt Bay

Madaket Ferry and the Scaredy Cat

Here's a Video from 2022:

Duane Flatmo Changing Tires on the Dragon

This years best: Pigasus

Pigasus Support Crew

Click on the Pictures to see them Bigger

Link to Video of Star Ship Enterprise:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IquyAQNupWI&feature=youtu.be

Link to Video of the Wild West Wagon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QWIh98dYs0&feature=youtu.be

Link to Video of the Giant Shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMV6_iVsC90&feature=youtu.be

Link to Video of the Pirate Ship approaching Manila School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6pCgEw_P8&feature=youtu.be

Videos of the 2022 Race... 

https://www.facebook.com/100019291115058/videos/1679770205715749/

 and

https://www.facebook.com/100003963974581/videos/561275072014241/

In the event of Sunshine, the race is still ON.

What IS this? A Coal Mining Earth Eater?

Bounce Machine...

The Elf Jumps Up and Down to create forward Motion

2001 TMA Monolith

Think Train

Egyptian Goddess

Egyptian Goddess and Mummy on Highway 101 Eureka, CA

Whirled Peas

Clam

June Moxon's Shoe

 and Posing Clowns Holding up 

Invisible Applause Sign

Gumball Machine

Duane Flatmo: The Doomed Buggy

(it Sank Later in Humboldt Bay)

Duane Flatmo: The Doomed Buggy on 

Highway 101 in Eureka, CA

Pigasus... Highway 101

Man with Child as a Passenger Kinetic Sculpture

Mr Bubble entertains the Children.

The fellow has a long rope with a dozen loops attached to sticks that he dunks in a gallon jar of bubble mix...

MAKES GIANT BUBBLES

Photographs from a few years ago... 

Self Hypnosis Hypno Disks... Handy for Inducing a Trance... Free!

Quit Smoking

 

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On a Different Subject...

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Jabber-Whacky Or

On Dreaming, After Falling Asleep Watching TV

'Twas Brillo, and the G.E. Stoves,

Did Procter-Gamble in the Glade;

All Pillsbury were the Taystee loaves

And in a Minute Maid.

"Beware the Station-Break, my son,

The voice that lulls, the ads that vex!

Beware the Doctors Claim, and shun

That horror called Brand-X!"

He took his Q-Tip'd swab in hand;

Long time the Tension Headache fought--

So Dristan he by a Mercury,

And Bayer-break'd in thought.

And as in Bufferin Gulf he stood

The Station-Break, with Rise of Tame,

Came Wisking through the Pride-hazed wood,

And Creme-Rinsed as it came!

Buy one! Buy two! We're almost through!

The Q-Tip'd Dash went Spic and Span!

He Tide Air-Wick, and with Bisquick

Went Aero-Waxing Ban.

"And hast thou Dreft the Station-Break?

Ajax the Breck, Excedrin boy!

Oh, Fab wash day, Cashmere Bouquet!"

He Handi-Wrapped in Joy.

'Twas Brillo, and the G.E. Stoves

Did Procter-Gamble in the Glade;

All Pillsbury were the Taystee loaves,

And in a Minute Maid.

Published in the MAD Magazine paperback Good and MAD.

© Copyright 1963, 1969 by E.C. Publications, Inc.

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What IS Bubble UP Economics?

How Does it Work? Simply LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and ACTUALLY COLLECT Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. 

Then Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. All Those people will spend the extra money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady..

and then KQ Replied... 

I’d go along with this scenario except that it avoids one glaring problem that blows it clean out of the water: Excessive Human Populations! 

Clean, potable water on much of the planet is gone. Soils are being depleted and poisoned Earth wide, due to the growing need of agriculture/ continuous tillage,( wrong headed) artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and other ‘cides’ making it less productive and then valueless even for animals.  In all livable areas, the need of more and more housing and the huge profit that motivates farmers to sell their land to housing developers is insane.  The more human s there are to use and manipulate, the more  greedy power hungry bastards move things to benefit the 1%.  Infrastructures are crumbling while more are continuously growing, taking up more and more land.   Economies are failing under the weight of it all, yet their populations keep growing. Where populations have gone down, politicians give incentives to get people to Breed more! Human are nothing but commodities in the big picture, for the greedy super rich.

The elephant in the room is humanity. But arrogant, self-centered, and ignorant humans will not admit, .accept or take on that fact or the challenge.

and I Replied: 

Valid Point... What is the SOLUTION to Overpopulation? Is there any Plan to actually FIX this Dystopian Nightmare Scenario?