Bi Polar People

 I created this image twenty years ago never knowing what it meant  Today some of us live this image  The virus is out there and we are in a cage of our making until it is safe to leave

Fiduciary: one often in a position of authority who obligates himself or herself to act on behalf of another and assumes a duty to act in good faith and with care, candor, and loyalty in fulfilling the obligation. -- As defined by Merriam-Webster Good investing takes time with money you don't expect to ever see again. - personal opinion   Source ifa.com

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F/A-37   "The plane in these pictures is still officially the 'Air Vehicle Number 1' , a prototype, on board the USS George Washington CVN-73 for catapult fit checks.  Not exactly still Top Secret but certainly not yet made public. It will be known as the F/A-37.  Although specs are classified, it is believed to be Mach 3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range) super-cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with approximately a 4,000nm range." "Check out the Navy test pilot in the cockpit of the F/A-37... LT Kara Wade."  

   Who am I Where am I going What makes me Who takes me I am one One alone I do not change I am one

 Putin's palace is more than a vast building of luxury it is a small town that supports and protects the leader of the Soviet Union  No expense has been spared to keep Putin in secured luxury   See this link and click the start icon below the red time line  "There is one place, once you get to where you can understand everything about Vladimir Putin. This is the most guarded place in Russia, in fact a state within a state, and this is Putin's biggest secret. Which is protected by hundreds, even thousands of people - from unknown guards, gardeners and builders to the richest and most famous people in Russia. One secret. One building. And we will visit it. Visiting Putin. Let us be convinced with our own eyes that this man, in his craving for wealth, is completely mad. We will find out by whose money and how this luxury is financed. And how right now and for the last 15 years, the biggest bribe in history is being given and the most expensive palace in the world is bei...

"In the last days of Trump’s presidency, the things that preoccupied Trump were not the things that preoccupied other Americans. He was not preoccupied with the deadly riot he had incited, that left Capitol Hill terrorized, that had led to his second impeachment. He was not preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic that killed 400,000 Americans, infected millions more, decimated the economy and is still raging across the United States." This is a sad state of affairs for everyone from the leadership to the people who lived during a time of misdirected intentions.  Political motivation is not a a cure for a pandemic, nor does it help those millions of people, regardless of mounting need and protection.  When our leader fails we all fail.  It's unfortunate if not an outright national catastrophe that we stand by the rules of our country even when they fail us.  Now we have the power to make corrections for past failures and move forward toward a chance to redeem ...

When nature  has it's way   All you can do is watch

 An historic day for America

  Humiliation is more than an individual and subjective feeling. It is an instrument of political power, wielded with intent. We can only hope with time and diligence times will change  Today's presidential inauguration is democracy's way of correcting political exploits that endanger freedom for all More on humiliation from psyche.co    

 What isn't fixed makes art  

  Articles of possible interest that report the Republicans' struggle    Difficult decisions to make  What to do with an errant member of the party who held the highest office in the land

 The Pen is mightier than the mob Write or call the senator of your state  Photo credit  PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIELLA ZALCMAN, @DZALCMAN

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 The Eisenhower presidency out of necessity penned the the 25th amendment to the constitution.  The Twenty-fifth Amendment ( Amendment XXV ) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability. Section 1 clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office. Section 2 establishes the procedure for filling any vacancy in the office of the vice president. Section 3 allows the president to temporarily transfer their duties to the vice president, for example during a planned medical procedure. Section 4 provides that the vice president, together with a majority of certain Cabinet officers, may declare the president unable to carry out his duties, after which the vice president immediately assumes the duties of the president; if the president objects to such a declaration, Congress resolves the question.  Recent actions by those who promote the dictates of President Trump appe...

  This is not the will of the people WHAT FOLLOWED The Electoral College has confirmed Joe Biden as president-elect   Links above made available by The Guardian    

Source:  New Yorker cartoons  

  Development of a Covid-19 immunization program has been rapid  There are many other companies prepared for Phase III   Organization, acceptance and distribution are the human factors that follow development  While some will benefit from the rapid success many more will wait for access to the promise of immunization

Photograph by Tom Brenner / Reuters (edited) Disillusionment for success has left countless dead or starving  Our brand of democracy has allowed this to happened and also permitted a mostly peaceful presidential replacement  No system of government is perfect  May the future benefit from knowing how the electorates' power and trust was placed in hands that misused it   Read The New Yorker article: The Trümperdämmerung Is a Fitting End to 2020   By Susan B. Glasser December 29, 2020

" There's a hidden wire stretched above American cities — and few people know what it's for." This Rabi is overseeing the repair of the eruv at an annual cost of $100,000.00 a year.  This piece of string over Manhattan allows Jews to freely move about on the sabbath . Source  businessinsider.com

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A turtle bonds near a pond   The cat sees finches fond   My daughter's dog naps so strong   Mr. Spider a face so long   Orange beak, grey eye streak on dollar strong   The Blenny in her salted bath ends the song  

  A compendium of technologies first products and the people who delivered them   Steve Jobs’ First Demo of the Mac for the Public, Unseen Since 1984 : An important piece of computing history gets preserved. (January 2014) 50 Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal : In April 1964, Dartmouth College democratized computing. (April 2014) How Gmail Happened : Google’s e-mail breakthrough, ten years later. (April 2014) My Kennedy Polaroids: Instant History : Two moments from JFK’s 1960 trip to Medford, Oregon, captured forever. (January 2013) Please Don’t Call it Trash-80 : The 35th anniversary of Radio Shack’s TRS-80. (August 2012) Newton Reconsidered : Apple’s first handheld computer reviewed, twenty years after its announcement. (June 2012) 25 Years of IBM’s OS/2 : It was supposed to become the dominant operating system, and didn’t. But it’s never gone away. (April 2012) Why History Needs Software Piracy : Benj Edwards on the ...

  As a student teacher, I met children who had very little.  Of course, there were those who had a sufficient life.  That made an impression on me and it prompted this poem.  Values are created in part by what we have and don't have. Santa Claus makes all children happy, the ones who have and those who have not - at least in this poem.  After two years of satisfactory coursework, the University of South Florida denied my diploma, this poem is not the only idea they disagreed with.  Education is a bureaucracy whose aim is to socialize your child.  As one teacher told me, "teaching is the tip of the iceberg."   SANTAHOOD IS COMING TO TOWN a strange and wondrous tale by charles mistretta 93'  Christmas ornament - JoAnn   ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, I GRABBED MY BAG IN SUCH A FURY, WANTING TO PLEASE LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS. THOSE REINDEER GROANED AND MUSED WITH RANCOR, THEN NEVER WAS HEAR...

A meteor fell from the sky and was reduced in mass as it burned it's way through the earth's atmosphere The result was this three centimeter remnant of a large menacing rock  If you find this hard to believe then the other version of the story simply is that it went up in smoke and those that experienced the event were amazed beyond comprehension   See the disclaimer at the top of this blog   An aside  Have fun while ye may

Christopher Haven is serving a twenty-five year term for murder  A year after incarceration he was placed in solitary confinement  He discovered an interest in theoretical mathematics while secluded  After about nine years he published a mathematical study in the journal Research in Number Theory   This is his story      By Caroline Delbert May 18, 2020  popularmechanics.com    

RUDOLPH THE LEAKY LAWYER - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody  " A parody, also called a spoof, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on, or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or make fun of its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it" or some dishonest public official who falls prey to the demands of the demented — theme/content, author, style, etc. et al    Wikipedia

 The cure is not a panacea   It fights disease not infection   We still need awareness that what kills can continue, to whatever degree, even when contained with inoculations   Ed Yong who is a staff writer at The Atlantic describes the history of the virus and the reasons for the success and failure we have experienced since its genome was discovered in January of 2020 "Health-care workers became better at saving hospitalized patients more through improvements in basic medical care than through pharmaceutical panaceas—a predictable outcome, because antiviral drugs tend to offer only modest benefits." "A few large trials eventually confirmed that hydroxychloroquine does nothing for COVID‑19 patients, but not before hundreds of thousands of people were recruited into pointlessly small studies." "The tsunami of rushed but dubious work made life harder for actual experts, who struggled to sift the signal from the noise."

Title From the 60's commercia l     A punch is more than you think  When done right your hand is your weapon and you don't loose it when you use it   An interesting look at the physics and physiology of making a fist that won't break under pressure source  Popular Science   David Nield  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-throw-a-punch?utm_source=pocket-newtab  

 An art form  Choreographed body rhythm  Moves that move you  Not your daddy's two step  People coming together to perform for you with something you may not have ever seen  Commonly called BreakDance   

 They see...  A skill that is often taken for granted  Presentation of an impression is part of the sight process  Thus this picture   Mark 8:18 ‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?   The picture was shot next to an open window that showed painted wall art     Central Ave St. Petersburg FL

 No two of anything or anyone can occupy the same place at the same time.  Territory is always earned through force or desperation.  Eventually we gain what we seek and live with what we replace.

Qui tollis peccata Mundi, miserere nobis.  Who take away sins of the world, have mercy on us.  

The White House is Trump's safe house.  Without it he will loose more than a job, he will become the target of truths he can't disclaim, debt, a whole lot of debt.

"Fueled by the pandemic, uprisings in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan and a war in the Caucasus region are undermining the influence of the Russian leader." Putin's efforts to weaken the West has turned into a mirror of lost public confidence  All in the area  reason the Corona Virus is one of the causes of the destabilization  It is increasingly more difficult for autocrats to rule by division without becoming the target of lost popular confidence - the one man show of national dominance remains difficult to maintain with today's complex survival choices  Source  nytimes.com   By Anton Troianovski  Published Oct. 7, 2020 Updated Oct. 9, 2020    

    Mountain Men   Some of us know what we want to be and work that goal.  Everyone else stumbles along until the right combination of ability and opportunity meet.  I could not do what these me did, but I admire their courage and understanding of the environment that either supported them or carried them away.  source: delanceyplace.com    A History of the American West by Sam Lightner Jr.

  Coffee Pot Bayou - St. Petersburg Florida    

  The vote has been cast like a net and a few will get away, but how many will find favor with the sea of discontent  The fisher of men is a task that has gone on since power was rule

Youth is never wasted it simply outgrows itself  

The pandemic that has plagued out country and many more across the globe will not be under reasonable control for several more years. Implementation of standard safety processes remains an opinion. Poorer countries will continue to suffer and keep the virus alive through no fault of their own,. The promise of antigens that trigger an immune response are not presently trusted. Extracting political opinion from a lethal social killer is what will encourage a healthy world population, and again not all at once. A major social agreement is the a birth of a common positive active belief that can cure the body and the mind. Becoming one minded in this respect is not a choice, it is essential. Outside is a painting by Bob Orsillo which was uploaded on February 9th, 2019.