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...

Fantastic Paintings of Animals, Fairies, Angels, Butterflies and Children Reading Books. A Mermaid reading to a Seahorse - Psychedelic Deer - Alice and the Caterpillar... all Created to Make You Smile!

 

"'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I...I hardly know, sir, just at present ...at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'"
Lewis Carroll

John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, c. 1865.

and then on FaceBorg: 

SoCal vs NorCal - silly feud - It's all Great! 

SE Said: 

We still have a lot of genuine hippies here in the Bay Area, but not nearly as many as there used to be. I noticed the hippie culture seemed to fade away pretty quickly in the 90s after Jerry Garcia died and the deadheads mostly faded away. I know hippie culture is still thriving farther north, though, in places like Sonoma and Humboldt County, and also in Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Northern CA will always have hippies.

I've never understood the rivalry between Northern California and Southern California. I get that some of it is sports related, Giants vs Dodgers or whatever, but I don't understand why people like to argue and insist that one part of the state is better than the other. Am I really the only Californian who loves the entire state equally? I mean, it's a pretty fucking beautiful state, from the Oregon border all the way to Mexico. What is there to hate about it? And don't even get me started on people from other states who move here and then do nothing but complain. If you aren't from here and you don't like it here, please consider going back where you came from because we are overpopulated as it is!

and I replied:

I was one of those Northern Californians that thought we were "Groovy" and they were "Plastic" - however, that just meant I missed out on doing great LA Things... I went to the Haight during the Sixties but Never went to Sunset Strip... or The Whiskey-A-Go-Go... OOPS... My Loss...

but then My Brother Married a Woman from "The Valley" and so I went to a Wedding on a Boat in Long Beach... another wedding at a Golf Club above Laguna Beach... and Walking thru all the Art Galleries there... and We went to the Hummingbird House in Balboa Park, San Diego... Then to "TJ" and Ensanada... STILL... I could have seen More of SoCal... 

I have a Visit to the Integratron on my Bucket List... (Famous UFO Designed Building) https://www.integratron.com/

Along CA-99 in Madera County, you can find these two trees. It's said that they were planted to mark the middle of the state. The represents Northern California and the represents Southern California. The actual center of CA is in the less traveled North Fork area, but along the heavily traveled HWY 99, this is the closest to the middle they could possibly mark

Some Comments About this Meme:
We did it. Not disease. Not war. Selfishness and intentionally ignoring the signs. Now everyone jump on a plane and take another vacation.

On the positive side, how long do we have? I might have another 10 years. Maybe 15. Perhaps. Maybe I will never see the awful new world. I hope I'm not on my death bead when it all falls apart. Now that got dark. Maybe because it is dark.

and then JB said: 
Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything individuals can do at this point. Maybe if we all collectively stopped out pollutive habits decades ago, but at this point the activities of 1 billionaires in 24 hours probably has more of a negative impact on the planet then all of our pollutive habits combined. Making billionaires not exist anymore is the only way to save the planet

and I replied:

simply drive cars less... way less... and refuse to fly in jet airplanes...

and on FaceBorg SD Said:
Satan Trump proved to us that we cannot trust a president to grant pardons. After all Satan Trump pardoned all of his cronies and close friends who committed felonies. Hell, he even wanted to decree a blanket pardon for himself even before he was indicted...meaning he could keep on committing felonies in the future. Trump is cut from the same mold as Putin.... he will destroy our constitution. We need to ask our legislature (at least those in blue states because the Nazi Republicans will never go for it) to not allow presidential pardon's of anyone within the president's or a congressional circle of friends.

and SC Said:

Above IS his agenda IF he is elected - seen a program on MSNBC last week where the commentator, Michael Beschloss, called his agenda and what he is planning a "Presidential dictatorship" HE wants all the power, HE will be directing the DOJ, he will be removing protections for Federal workers, and much more - in other words a dictatorship with freedoms and democracy gone along with the Constitution - may this never ever happn to this country - also heard thiis morning he wants to withheld weapons from the Ukraine in exchange for information on the Biden Family - HIS words - it could not be more important to vote blue - IF he should be returned to office we will not be flying the same flag #indict #arrest #lockhimup

Rebekah Jones

Last night, I joined the national whistleblower summit to mourn and celebrate the life of my friend and mentor, Dan Ellsberg.

Midway through the four-hour event, the organization gave away a series of awards in recognition of whistleblowers who exemplify the principles of Dan and those who came before him.

The Pillar Award, presented by the Government Accountability Project, is the highest honor bestowed on a whistleblower.

I was stunned when they announced I was the winner of this year's award. My journey has been mired in fake controversy and targeted smears.

But that's true of all the previous winners, as well, I learned.

The kindness and warmth I've found with other whistleblowers gives me hope that I'll come out the other side of this.

A special thanks to Jackie Garrick, Sherron Watkins, Jane and Victoria Turner, the National Whistleblower Center, Whistleblowers of America, and the Whistleblower Summit.

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