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SMACKDOWN! Little Timmy Tooter Tunes FAILED to Destroy the US Military. The Germans Tried, The Japanese Tried, The Russians Tried and Now the Republicans are Trying BUT THEY ARE DOOMED TO FAIL.

Senate confirms Brown to lead Joint Chiefs, blowing past Tuberville’s blockade.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/brown-confirm-joint-chiefs-chair-00117247

SMACKDOWN! Little Timmy Tooter Tunes FAILED to Destroy the US Military. The Germans Tried, The Japanese Tried, The Russians Tried and Now the Republicans are Trying BUT THEY ARE DOOMED!

OMG... So Much Failing!

and I Still Wonder...

WHY Do Republicans REFUSE

to Make America Great?

The Allegory of the Cave by Plato:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nHj3gL_JN0

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NRA Outraged Over Hunter Biden Gun Charges. "The Laws Are Crazy" says Wayne La Pierre. Half of America's Gun Owners Are Addicted to Drugs. Will the Government Be Taking Our Guns Away???

Satire: Pepe Le Pew Never Said Anything Like this!

The Second Amendments Says Drug Addicts can Form a Well Regulated Militia... and the Declaration of Independence recognizes the unalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of Cocaine!

Screaming Neo Nazi Died of Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound - THANK YOU! - Teddy Joseph Von Nukem was Arrested for Smuggling Fentanyl at US Mexico Border! So he Killed Himself Instead of Going to Prison! EXCELLENT!

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem (born Ted Landrum, November 23, 1987 – January 30, 2023) was an American white nationalist and far-right extremist, noted for his role at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He admitted attempted drug smuggling after being arrested at the Mexico–United States border in March 2021. He failed to show up for a January 30, 2023 Arizona court appearance, and died from a self-inflicted gunshot injury the same day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Joseph_Von_Nukem

Police Kill Gun Nut. Aren't We All Better Off With This Madman Dead? He Murdered a Lady because She Flew a Rainbow Flag Outside her Store...

Lake Arrowhead store owner shot and killed over Pride flag hanging
outside shop, officials say...
https://abc7.com/lake-arrowhead-store-owner-killed-mag-pi-
clothing-laura-ann-carleton/13673754/

When deputies arrived, they found 66-year-old Laura Ann Carleton with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
According to the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, the suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, "made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store before shooting Carleton."

Deputies found the suspect armed with a handgun.

"When deputies attempted to contact the suspect, a lethal force encounter occurred and the suspect was pronounced deceased,"read an update from the sheriff's department. No deputies were injured.

Robot Music Singer: Pop Star is a Hologram... Hatsune Miku sings Crowd Sourced Lyrics. Like the book IDORU by William Gibson - CyberPunk

A Science Fiction Book becomes Reality. An IDORU (Computer Program Singer/Songwriter) written about by William Gibson is actually Created... and Goes on Tour with Lady GAGA...

Audiobook: Idoru by William Gibson...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scHOIce9uVo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/hatsune-miku-crypton-future

Hatsune Miku is a virtual character created by Crypton Future Media. Originally, she was sold as the face of computer software that allowed users to generate their own music, with her as a vessel. Imagine GarageBand mixed with Sims performing your songs.
Since Miku's creation, over 170,000 sounds have been created for her, garnering a grand total of over 100 million hits on YouTube. This spring, she embarked on a ten-city tour with a live band to showcase the most shared singles — almost all the shows were sold out. Below, Miku's creator, Crypton Future Media CEO Hiroyuki Itoh, tells the story of her creation.

https://www.amazon.com/Idoru-Bridge-Trilogy-William-Gibson/dp/0425158640
Synopsis of the Book Idoru...

21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature...

Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the “signature” an individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful—to certain people.

Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She’s fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out.

Rei Toei is the idoru—the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo. True or not, the idoru and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger...

What Would San Francisco Be Like if Japan Had Won World War Two?

That's the Subject of the Science Fiction Book... "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K Dick...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vwal-FySkQ <--- Link to the Book Read Out Loud.

In the book, Characters throw the I Ching to help them decide what to do... In the Real World, The Author Actually Threw the I Ching while writing the book... to use the ancient wisdom to help write the plot of the story... How the story ends was absolutely chosen by "The Oracle" because the Author had planned for a different ending...

also... The Author was working at his wife's custom jewelry business during the day... and writing the book at night...

A Character in the Story Makes Custom Jewelry for a Living... and has a great deal of trouble selling it... The Rulers of San Francisco only like to collect "Authentic" Antique American Products... and there is a Huge Business Creating Fakes that look like the "Real" Thing... For Example: Colt 44 Pistols or Mickey Mouse Wristwatches...

The Author was using vast quantities of amphetamines... That allowed him to work day and night...

and eventually it killed him... a stroke and then a heart attack... but first he wrote a LOT of Paranoid Fiction...

and there is a Book within a Book in this story...

"The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" - is a Speculative Fiction about What San Francisco would have been like if America Had Won WW2...

The Author of that book Lived in a Castle High in the Rocky Mountains near Denver, Colorado... a Fortress that could be Easily Defended... But he got too Paranoid about Taking the Tram up there because he thought the Tram Might NOT Stop at His Home but would continue all the way to Heaven... or The Stars...

Here is an Autobiography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afam25BJMeU

and Here is VALIS... Which is Very Autobiographical BUT... Very Twisted! by Philip K Dick's Amazing Mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS6M_uXx5Ao

Link to "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" - by Philip K Dick - an Excellent Sci-Fi Book Read Out Loud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82kg3Py4lU&t=202s

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Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA. Not Even Once. Ever Since Victory over Japan, Every War Has Been a BOGUS Marketing Trick Designed to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.

and then on Facebook: GJ Replied: Ya know, that sounds okay... But.

I know this little old Korean lady who will tell you different, and there are some 80,000 Vietnamese in San Jose who will gather on a street corner in large groups on a street corner at the drop of a MAGA hat...

And then there's that whole Berlin Wall, Fall of Communism thing...

And finally, let us not forget that they also serve, who only stand, and wait.

And I Replied: Of Course Koreans are Interested in THEIR Civil War... But, Why Were WE There? How Many of Them Fought in OUR Civil War? Remember? The 1860s... Abraham Lincoln Was President and ZERO KOREANS, VIETNAMESE or CAMBODIANS fought here... No LAOTIANS Either...

I interviewed a Korean War Vet for my Book "America's Bogus Wars." I Asked Him Why We Were In Korea? and he said... "I Have No Idea... and I was There for two Years... If You Find Out, Tell Me." - Of Course... The Korean War and The Vietnam War HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH DEFENDING THE USA. They were all About Taking Sides in Someone Else's Civil War... And Eventually, Those People Over There Figured Out a Solution to Their Own Troubles...

Remember: Communism is such an obviously defective system that it fails all by itself... Both Russia and China Gave Up on That System... Did You Know that we have soldiers stationed in Germany Right Now while at the same time we had a Russian Sympathizer In the White House For the Last Four Years? I Bet We Could Accomplish the Same Level of Nothing with HALF as many Troops Stationed in Germany... or maybe 1/4...

Chart: US Military Deaths by War. Massive Decline of Fatalities after The Sixties... Source DOD - gvan42

Chart: US Military Deaths by War.
Massive Decline of Fatalities Right after The Sixties...
Source DOD

Abandoned Military Airplanes

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When I was working at System Industries in Santa Clara, California (1976) the owner of the company (Dr. Edwin Zschau) went to Japan to learn how to run a business.

They were doing very well in comparison to USA companies and there was a lot of interest in learning why. So we adopted many oriental concepts and implemented them in our business. One thing was that we had a company song. We had a birthday meeting every month and we would all sing the company song.

Lyrics:
"System, System Industries, Here we go, Hand in hand.
Solving Data Mysteries for the betterment of man."

Another thing we did was take a two hour lunch so we could exercise. I swam at the Santa Clara International Swim center with my wife. She was working the Graveyard shift at National Semi-conductor so we met twice a day. Lunch and evenings.
We had many people from foreign countries working there. When Dr. Zschau went to Japan he hired many Japanese people. Immigrants made our company better. That was a universal fact of life about Silicon Valley... The brightest engineers worldwide came here for work. I had a neighbor from Nicaragua who came to work at IBM. And another Engineer I knew came from Germany at the end of WW2 to work at Lockheed. Very Common.

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Another time in Santa Clara we partticipated in a "Car Rally". Everyone would meet at a starting location then we were given a series of clues as to where to go next. One clue was "Go to a street named for a part time orchestra leader." We were supposed to figure out the puzzle and navagate to checkpoints. The answer to that clue was "Semi-conductor Blvd"... semi meaning part time and conductor is the leader of an orchestra. This was all part of the California Car Culture.

Read more of my Auto-Biography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Global Warming causes Flooding Deaths in Japan. As the Ocean Heats, More Water Evaporates, More Rain Falls... Denying Climate Change Helps No One...

Even Shareholders in Fossil Fuel Corporations live in our Environment... All that Wealth won't protect them from Hurricanes... Floods... Wildfires...

Japan risks more severe weather and must find ways to alleviate disasters, a government spokesman said on Thursday, as intense heat and water shortages raised fear of disease among survivors of last week’s floods and landslides.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-weather-japan/japan-flood-toll-nears-200-sun-scorches-thousands-battling-thirst-idUSKBN1K20BJ

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