Bi Polar People

Communities for people without adequate housing

Art work   Sofiya Voznaya     A look into China's repression of Muslim ethnic minority source   wired.com

Man is a boat, woman the rudder. The sails are it's children filled with force of commerce. Together they move in directions that keep the vessel working and rewarded with a purpose and a future. Government is not god. Government with faith gives people hope when their efforts are just. Storms are as fools that may come and go. We weather them with the strength of many until calm seas prevail. Do not be afraid.  Picture source   https://www.pexels.com/@pixabay

Happy sunday Going to church or have been to temple Does He still talk to you  Sure he  does He's talking to you right now  Say hello to my best Friend

"If the governments of those countries in which U.S. service members operate do not believe that our military-justice system will hold accountable those convicted of wrongdoing while on their soil, they will increasingly seek to arrest, imprison, and try those service members in their own courts. That is an outcome we cannot accept, and the commander in chief should not take actions that would cause those governments to consider such steps." Source   theatlantic.com   David Lapan    Vice president of communications for the Bipartisan Policy Center

  Wisdom is having outlived our mistakes.    Intelegence is the capacity to make them.

It just never ends

How you stack it up   We get the picture Many of this graphics are personal commentary   Make of them as you will

SNL's Donald Trump Song Parody Of "Don't Stop Me Now" By Queen Posted By Tim Hains On Date May 19, 2019

Denver Colorado 2016 The back streets of most US cities look the same  Familiar franchise names appear  People pose for the google camera  Parking leaves no space left behind  And what about those precious apartment projects with creative names   Click click   there's no place like home     "Vodka Lemon   In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them." Source   IMDb

Does the inside look as good as the outside I smoked for over fifty years until I got pneumonia  My stay in managed health care was worse than the self-inflicted abuse However given the length of time I enjoyed smoking and the temporary pleasure it gave me I would say it was worth the discomfort of what seemed like an early end to an otherwise healthy body   You probably won't agree

You live long and prosper in the company of the next generation

Young Pioneer Tours specialise in taking you to North Korea and other worldwide “destinations your mother would rather you stay away from” at budget prices. We combine the best guides in the industry with expert local knowledge and contacts to ensure your adventure is an unparalleled one. Don’t be a face in the crowd, be a Pioneer This entry is only for information  I have spoken to military personel on tour in South Korea and they have praised their time there  North Korea has a history of harsh dictatorship handed down from one family member to the next  It is a repressive regine  Visiting North Korea would be an interesting experience   but not a guranteed safe venture   Blogger opinion  

When the elect is not suited to its intended purpose there is a poor fit   It doesn't work   The overall structure retains its integrity to a degree   The foundation has no choice but to support whatever rest upon it   to a certain degree

Charlie Chaplin or Charles De Gaul or Adolph Hitler This is one of my favorite topics and the stuff that makes people actors, politicians, but not saints because only God knows what is in their hearts. Source   youtube.com

“There are different ways to read the resonant phrase “ the invention of tradition ,” coined by the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm” We invent tradition with our stories.  " Media is the message... " "McLuhan compares the 'content' of a medium to a piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract a watchdog. What he means is that people focus on the obvious, the content, to provide us valuable information. But in the process, we miss the structural changes in our life that are introduced subtly over long periods of time." Sound vaguely familiar  Source  By Ross Douthat       nytimes.com

Inter mezzo in A Minor Opus 16 No2 Johannes Brahms by Ivan Ilic

If find yourself serious about photography then you will at some point in your career be tempted to display form with little light   This flower is so vibrant and reflective it looks artificial Transparency reveals many warm hues    Dog   Captivated by the sight and sounds of a drone  She jumped up four feet to tackle it and was snipped in the nose by a rotor  No harm is done The blades are soft  Curiosity satisfied  No credit shown means the shots are mine  If you are wondering why this blog is named as it is  These are some of the better thoughts that cross the mind of a mind that isn't always it owner's friend

Ramadam While citizens remain with little difference government from country to country are unalike   Cultural expectations and history is the big difference  blogger comment

It's OK to live here  have lunch  a beer and  do some fishing Don't forget to shop

I can't see that one  A boob is just a boob The attention Donald gets is no more ridiculous than this blog entry   (personal comment)  

This photo was taken with a camera as old as my grand daughter.  Both of them are show splendidly.  Money does not buy the shot.  Luck helps no matter how much you have.

Status is what you don't show  but alas we all know you have it I will admit there is a significant amount of responsibility that comes from the acquisition and management of wealth   here here    where where        I don't know

Mr. Mayhew May 19,1944 - May 30, 2019 Source  nytimes.com   By Jacey Forti  May 2, 2019

Our politics  have been recently subjected to the morals of men who hold their positions by giving misinformation  or in giving what they believe is the honest truth to be perverted by others who gain from withholding justice   Do we light truth's candles and let them burn or leave them in the dark  Source  1st link youtube.com     2nd link  NYTimes.com/David-Leonhardt Thursday, May 2, 2019 The dragon was done by an undocumented cartoonist.  The dragon could be (should be)  labeled Mueler.    

Why overdoing is not accomplishing balanced health For the most part I don't believe in pushing one's own buttons  I know if the brain doesn't have a place to call it's own  you don't own it  What that means is body chemistry influences our actions   desires   abilities   etc   Antidepressants are  not always the answer and can leave a person more depressed with long term use   However proper conditioning of personal behaviors through choice and managed activities does a body good   No it's not that easy and not a cure-all but it beats up big pharma and being high  This advice is from a non degreed  non medical professional who has lived with long term depression  Consult your doctor for proper treatment of depression and other mental disorders  Source  By Olga Mecking   April 29, 2019  www.nytimes.com  

Where the money is Source  me  Downtown St. Petersburg

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world. An encore presentation will air Dec. 11 and 18. Source    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/    FRONTLINE

View of Tampa Florida from several hundred feet above my boyhood neighborhood 

  Mirror mirror on my wall Whose reality makes the call From my gut I know it all Only loosers don't see wall    Vocal   Phoebe Snow   I Don't Want the Night to End

Greek artifact found off the coast of Thirassia .    The graphic made with fractal generator program and is intended for interest only  

"A close read of Robert Mueller's 448-page report on Russian interference and potential Trump obstruction yields some fascinating tidbits." Win Mcnamee/Alamy     source   https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-donald-trump-takeaways   A democratic decision is not keeping an impending impeachment on the move.  What the public doesn't know about the state of affairs is the most likely culprit.  What Donald Trump has done is to redefine the highest office in America.   Blogger opinion 

More important than the vehicle comparison is the information related to the source of carbon emissions and the source of power production  My personal conclusion is   the problem remains a regulation and distribution of power  as opposed to the source of production  Nicola Tesla's idea for electrical redistribution seems to be the answer  We have yet to find the solution   Will electromotive force be obsolete by the time a conclusion is developed  Source  John Petersen https://seekingalpha.com 

"God bless the child who has his own"

A Florida Homes catches the sun's rays at the end of the day

 Will the real Dilbert please be seated What one man exposes as workplace quirks another man makes a reality with threats - and we listen Cartoonist and creator Scott Adams

“At a time when the public’s confidence in our elected officials and our institutions is especially low, the specter of big corporations avoiding all income taxes on billions in profits sends a strong and corrosive signal to Americans: that the tax system is stacked against them, in favor of corporations and the wealthiest Americans,” writes Matthew Gardner, the lead author of the Institute on Taxation report. https://static.nytimes.com  Op-ed columnist  David Leonhardt

Mother duck lays eggs in your driveway Alligator in your back yard   Florida USA old saying  don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see

Vladamir Putin's brother runs a meat market in Moscow.  His specialty is Polish sausage  I thought I would give the browser of this blog some time off from all the esoterica.  Of course Vlad's brother isn't a butcher, he is the butcher. 

Entry by chuck mistretta

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, detected the collision of a pair of distant black holes Source   newyorktimes.com   By Dennis Overbye

I'm not friendly   just hungry Photo credit  me

When your thoughts are all you want The day as intruders say Who do you invite into Which one is left behind Why be kind and give away A solitary self to You Deserver of all is mine