Bi Polar People

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 legacy we risk losing. (

  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 HEARD SUCH SNORTS OF BANTER, QUIVE

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.  

  Nothing stays still, the water, wild life, any life

Art is life For today's youth a cruel reality exits that removes the fire from souls that once filled with joy and cheer. Staying in and away is concentrating humanity in a place that is safe but stifling.  About one percent perish, many are ill and some will never understand the reason for social restraint. History repeats itself in subtle ways equally harsh circumstances.  The humanities give us a reason to endure.  Historically other's have survived and so will we.    source  aeon.com

 In Mons, Belgium, nursing colleagues take brief refuge in a shift break and each other’s company. Like medical facilities around the world, Belgian hospitals were initially overwhelmed by the rush of patients with a virulent new disease. These nurses, pulled from their standard duties, were thrown into full-time COVID-19 work—reinforcement troops for a long, exhausting battle.   Photograph by Cédric Gerbehay    nationalgeographic.com

      The animal thinks  the human thinks  we all drink  we are alive

 If you fight for it The Republican party fights for a chance at a vote count that would favor Mr. Trump  This is an unlikely possibility unless you are a conservative who believes in miracles   Source   By Jeannie Suk Gerse n   November 10, 2020  newyorker.com

 

liberty, justice... Anything but this   Source   self  

    First radio controlled model planes   The pioneers of what came before UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Daytime fly away with a drone

    It's time to leave Mr. President  

Photograph by Cooper Neill / Bloomberg / Getty  Trump bans November   What else could the supreme commander do to win an election  -  Hey guy what about Thanksgiving and all those Social Security Checks     Satire from The Borowitz Report   newyorker.com  

    The concentration of power  

      Sunlight on a fair skin girl   Source  self  

    I was a cook in the air force   That's why this picture is here  As they said, you gotta eat  It was hard work  I was young so I did it without question and didn't complain much    " Many people don’trealize that members of the White House staff often stay for decades . The doorman who greeted us each morning, Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, served 11 presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama. He died of Covid-19 this past May. All the other men and women shown in this article, who were photographed during my husband’s presidency, are still working at the White House."   Source smithsonianmag.com     Story by Laura Bush, as told to Jennie Rothenberg Gritz; Photographs by Tina Hager

Getty Image If your seeing this internet page it's because personal topics of interest are made available for anyone to read  This area of interest is one I have had all my life - knowing my place in space   In short I don't know my place   where I fit but now I know how I got there   This psychology article from the BBC spells out the consequences both good and bad of solitude and isolation   source /www.bbc.com  By Zaria Gorvett 23rd October 2020

If you suffer, or may not know you suffer , from a bi polar disorder, you may agree with the following eight minute biography of a man who sought to define himself   The reasons for the ills of so many throughout history are the product of overthinking by those whose intentions is merely to help    Some definitely do help while others make our lives not unlike a past that was driven by suspicion and prejudice Post derived from an article in the nytimes.com   video   youtube.com

 Now where is my ball   

Former Microsoft CEO has started a non partisan non profit group called USA Facts   Government data to drive fact-based discussion  

Where and how we grow up determines who we are but not who we become   Choice as adults can trade a crappy or privileged childhood into someone else  A few take advantage and make something of themselves,  RBG is a good example of successful fortitude  This article is about a small town in Vermont   " These are pragmatists"   "They make do, and they craft what they can’t afford to buy"   Sources  National Geographic  Netflix  

Remember freedom when America was already great  

  "As the FBI director, Christopher Wray, told Congress in February, “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists” have become the “primary source of ideologically motivated lethal incidents” in the US. The danger overshadowed the jihadist threat that has dominated the security debate since 9/11."   Addendum:  This post does not diminish the seriousness of an internal dangerous struggle.  The captions show that anyone at any time can be the cause for suspicion of violence.     Quote from theguardian.com