Bi Polar People

Armies fight for a reason  Some fight better than others  either by sheer numbers or by military wit  In World War II the mind is separated from fear by drugs  Motivation leaves the body behind with meth amphetamines  one of the German drugs of choice source   The New York Review of Books    Antony Beevor getpocket.com

We don’t to have to love people in power. I would suspect that we would like for them to respect their jobs in a manner that isn’t always a political mandate. Social media is the voice of the people, Donald Trump is just another person, one who forgets (or ignores) how his voice effects, and reflects the image of what America is. Even some republicans wish “he would give his twitter finger a rest.” Like this blog, opinion is personal, but I am not in power nor am I empowering anyone to think my way. Blogs like these are a heads up for trends that agree with international news organizations – the real source for what is said here. You don’t need a blog to be heard. One vote for each person who cares for his future here or anywhere on the globe is often enough.

Even birds do it

December 09, 2012 From the ridiculous to the sublime, the mind traverses topics through thought that no one understands, not even the person who post pictures of apparent whimsy (excuse my self indulgence). For those of you who have a genuine concern about the bipolar condition, no regrets here.  This is simply a place for thoughts to play.  Their mother lacking dearness is the chemical factory we call the brain. Alas it too has no particular purpose beyond social contract (do not break the law, moral, ethical, etc...).  Yes we are rule based from childhood.  Taught to respond in kind to all that may contact us in a way that is of some benefit to the larger equation, the unforeseen force, the reason for being... Know that there is a rainbow even though a physical illusion that is worth a moment of awe.  We are the sum total of all that impresses or disgust us should we allow attention to focus, duty to guide, security to sway. There is no ...

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Twitter challenges President Trump's false voting claims   This entry says it all about a man who clearly says what he thinks others should believe because he said it   Obviously the medium that hosts his words have found a way to disagree

Who am I   Where am I Mr. Tree has the answer

"The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, sits on Launch Pad 39-A on Monday at Kennedy Space Center."  SpaceX has been involved with space vehicles and rockets since 2011  It operates under   funding by the US government under Nasa’s Commercial Crew Program Photograph:  David J Phillip/AP    Source   theguardian.com  NASA

A tree makes a social comment about gathering  Mr tree can't understand why so many trees are around and we are not  The tree is not a photo edit    blogger I am a bloody Mary in a Bar

H.R. Geiger penned the now infamous alien creature that roams in our memories from the movie Alien  His morbid psycho sexual obsession with death is the product of a mind that is difficult to imitate  He is an original graphics designer of images that resemble what remains of humanity with the soul extracted     blogger

I do stand up sitting down   A quick wit even makes me laugh   Overcoming dark emotions with humor is nothing new  Chris Farley took it to his end  and in the end I don't believe her realized how much people loved him   If you take anti depressants don't for get to love yourself   If you are an alcoholic  enjoy the ride  because it will park you without permission   blogger source  getpocket.com  Rolling Stone   Erik Hedegaard

Bill Gates uses his resources to anticipate the ability to return to a normal healthy state   An important viewpoint that defines the outcomes when given choices that work  

While scenes like this are rare  the irony of walls showing labor is a reminder to give more than you take   Quoted text from WIRED's Steven Levy < wired@newsletters.wired.com " As with many things, the tech industry is leading the way. Facebook and Google told employees earlier this month that they won’t be required to show up until at least 2021: Zuckerberg later added that he expects that by 2030, half his workforce will be WFH. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dropped the other shoe, promising his employees that they’ll never have to cross the threshold of the company’s louche headquarters building again if they don’t care to. He later extended the offer to his workers at Square. The term “permanent WFH” began to trend. Then Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong proclaimed that after quarantine, his company would be a “remote- first ” operation. “After a period of WFH, we think remote work (or part in-office and part remote) are options that many people, i...

  "Boohoo founder teams up with biotech firm for Covid-19 home test kit"    "Saliva test in development and needs regulatory approval but could be available in UK in July" One hundred years from now will science be politicized at the cost of countless lives, or will we have learned a valuable lesson in foresight from the current Covid 19 pandemic

The pandemic is creating a new market for labor - workers without supervision Eventually some will venture out on their own and be the code rather than writing it The following article does not address this idea   Maybe one day it will   source   seekingalpha.com

Organized crime helps the poor   it has always been good business  The fifties Sicilian famiglias in Tampa and other south Florida cities acted when law enforcement wouldn't   They were still outlaws  but they did not always hand out harm and fear  The following article by brookings.edu shows how Mexican cartels are providing COVID-19 assistance and why Vanda Felbab-Brown Monday, April 27, 2020

We can't know all possible outcomes Because we won't accept the possibilities That all outcomes are possible. August 2003

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  “Testing is your first fundamental step in a plan to keep infected people from susceptible people,” Ashish Jha , the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told me. But the federal government has failed to expand testing capacity in any meaningful way, he said." "To allow the recovery to begin, the United States must implement the kind of strategy that other countries have used to defeat the coronavirus. It must test widely to find infected people; trace their contacts, who might themselves have been infected; and isolate that potentially infectious group from the rest of the susceptible population. Setting up this kind of infrastructure was one of the initial goals of the social-distancing measures that states and cities started in March." Without comprehensive testing we are being used as solders in a war that puts every citizen at risk in an attempt to protect the econom...

(here begins the plague) A look at Shakespeare's life He lived amongst the horrors of the bubonic plague  Times then are little different than times now  Certainly it takes more than pestilence to produce noteworthy writing  In our own difficult times daily heroes nurse those who slip away some with little more than their hearts source   NewYorker   By Stephen Greenblat t May 7, 2020

This picture was captured from a Charlie Chaplin silent movie.  I kept it because this silent actress was speaking with her face - what all actors do The following poem was written after months of writing another Mistretta that hadn't been seen in sixty years or so.  We came to the conclusion that while we share the same genes we don't share the same idea of reality, personal or otherworldly.  Coming to this conclusion was a difficult matter.  Maybe we will be able to exchange thoughts now   or it will end in a futile reality    the reality of differences   I have met people like myself When I was once like you Now I am the person who is The real me not the real you

  Why a nude picture  well its my blog and I thought I would display some of my software modeling efforts  The Borowitz satire is the real reason for this post.  When reason fails, satire understands the need for clarification no matter how outrageously denigrating or deserved.   The New Yorker may require you to log in 

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This rendering of a virus reminds me of floating mines with projections that explode ships upon contact   This entity is like an IUD, an improvised explosive device   Certainly nature would not be so cruel, though it does invade when called upon to cull overpopulation when nations are at peace   Are we to play almighty by manipulating genetic material through Recombinant DNA  " These molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination to bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome "  The more we learn about our origins, the more we chance earning good and bad consequences  There is no containment  Once it leaves the mind, the lab, it walks into the community of man forever changing us for better or for worse 被警告

Chicago 11/29/2011 The days continue my life in time Tis yet mine another rhyme Be grateful dog for crumbs from clouds Your place among them cast earthly shrouds That no one knows when they be lift You among them may set a drift To places only poets know Where none comes from where all may go To see the world he has built From earthly crumbs he grabs with hilt content  blogger

"Around this time, photographer Thomas Annan (1829-1887) was commissioned by Glasgow’s authorities to document the last of the city’s slums , which were considered to be the worst in Europe. He published his work in The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow ." "Annan began his career as a commercial photographer and although successful in his trade, he considered photography to be an artistic endeavor which could be used to highlight the inequalities and deprivations caused by the industrial age." ------<>----- Street Walker Photographer Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph.  source   flashbak.com

One of the most intriguing archeological sites can not be excavated, so science and logic create a picture of the magnificent past  ". a “To approaching strangers,” writes Josephus, “[the Temple] appeared from a distance like a snow-clad mountain; for all that was not overlaid with gold was of purest white.” 1

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What epidemiologist realized    we were past containment This page is a link to how and why some areas of the country were aware of a pending pandemic and others chose dismal of the problem  Community and corporate leaders can sway opinion when aptly cautioned - by those who probe the problem source:   By Charles Duhig g April 26, 2020  nytimes.com 

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It's still alone photo credit   Chris Mistretta

No    you are a frog Unless otherwise stated all media is from the blogger who retains intellectual right for whatever they are worth

  Trump Should Recuse Himself from All Decisions Involving the Future of the Country source   NYtimes   By Andy Borowit z   February 25, 2020

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    Alice in Wonderland tea party. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images  "Mr. Trump believes he has the power to fire anyone in the executive branch, though aides say they have learned to ignore many of his private rants, unless the president brings up the subject repeatedly and appears on the precipice of making a move they feel could be damaging."  "Mr. Atkinson’s dismissal on Friday night, a time often used by a White House to bury news it prefers not to gain widespread attention, was disclosed in a letter to Congress but not announced by the White House press office. While it had been anticipated , it still sent waves of concern among lawmakers and intelligence veterans"  "People close to the president believe the political consequences of firing Mr. Atkinson could be devastating, especially when Mr. Trump needs all the Republican support he can get for a potential impeachment trial in the Senate."  "Mr. At...

  List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations  The moon buildings and lights is all that remains   Why did all the people who made this a worthwhile view leave Trump friends run the United States Government   We didn't elect them  We don't know them   source   wikipedia.org

Hair  I often remark that I got the hair and my siblings got the money  Well my sister is doing well in both areas   Here is an article that makes sense and is easy to follow for Cutting Your Own Hair    Fear not it always grows out far beyond our expectations both intended and accidental source  wired.com  Photograph: Kelly Riordan/Getty Images

On Howard Ave year 1961  A 35mm selfie "Look at your reflection in the lens" Nancy Taylor   Chuck Mistretta  age 15  I later met Nancy while at an Air Force base in Spain  We were both waiting on flights  She had two children  I was hoping for a hop to Germany     She was home      We were not 

Some of us don't have a choice - protect everyone   Ask for help Social distancing works or staying six feet away from someone  something we do anyway   Now that we have become more isolated the urge to reach to others is greater   hello   how is your day   be safe

Photography keeps the mind moving Google Plus is no longer available and is missed by all who used it

https://hpbn.co/primer-on-latency-and-bandwidth/ I present articles that interest me with the hopes that there are similarly thinking people with computer access   Or course there are   The age of individuality never existed except in the marketing minds of those philosophers who branded their names on new ideas.  The religious leaders like  Luther whose outlaw church broke with the establishment is one more example among the many who seek to believe in a manner that they create  If the word latency ever sparked wonder then the above link will put your mind at ease  and possibly open more doors for others to investigate

You don't like this image   Is it better to have the whole man who does not behave in a whole manner than half a man who should know better   Confused so am I that we are not able to distance ourselves from the consequences of poor voter choice but do so with difficulty in the face of a pandemic All those who favor an autocratic leader who will eventually do something good for his country are still waiting or thinking behind marbled walls that everything is OK or over kill  or just left to chance graphic source  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/The New York Historical Society

Putin travels with a mobile GPS spoofing device  "Russia is manipulating global navigation systems on a scale far greater than previously understood. " Dominance provides security however realistic it is is or is not  What's important is what THEY believe  Blogger

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"The best way to understand the coronavirus is not by tuning into White House briefings but by tuning into the distress on the front line" "If people could see what goes on here (emergency room) they would stay home"  

Neither the US nor Russia is in the position to sacrifice scarce medical resources.  Mr. Putin attempts to buy back US sanctions applied by previous humanitarian catastrophes.  Russian 60 Minutes panelists consider Trump actions a slap in the face. Source thedailybeast.com

Leadership makes rules that may save our lives The countries with measurable recovery rates recover sooner when people are made aware or forced to keep the possibility of infection at a distance   blogger

Fear is not bad  It could save you

Without hosts the virus will expire   Doesn't it make sense to regulate and isolate the possibility of a living organism moving from one human to the next with no means of eradication at the present blogger Source  Fox News  via theguardian.com

Everyone is looking for lunch

Impressions can be funny  laugh a little You don't have to be a baby boomer to appreciate this but it helps  This is entertainment before the individual captive audience