This was back in Middle America in the Thirties.
Everybody got married then, whether it benefited them or not
Both of these countries have many military vehicles, including battle tanks.
They both get their oil, fully refined, by tanker trucks. that bring their fuel in from the gulf coast.
These Pipelines must be completely shut down
I had one of these yesterday, and it was not much fun.
I had to crawl around on the floor before I could get into bed.
J peeded in my pants. so people could smell me a long way off.
Strange things happen.
Time is necessary for things to happen. And when it doesn't exist, they cannot happen.
My brother, for example. believes in his church, but he cannot say which church.
The church for some of its history, cannot say if Joseph Smith was in jail in Missouri or in Kirtland, Ohio.
I saw this happening at a Walmart store the other day,
The woman standing in front of me in the checkout line offered a 100 dollar bill in payment for her groceries. The clerk called the store manager. He appeared, looked at the bill, and told the clerk to give her the change, and walked off with the bill.
What was going on here? Money laundering.
A nicely dressed man had shown up at the woman's house, and gave her the 100 dollar bill, and told her to buy groceries with it at a Walmart store. That she did and drove off with a lot of groceries. The nice man showed up again and asked her for the change.
What happened at Walmart? All the 100 dollar bills were sent to a special location, where they were mixed with all the other bills that came in every day.
Somehow, and I have no idea how, all that dirty money was replaced with clean money.
What happened next? A Bank examiner shows up and asks for the books. He looks at them, and sends a report "Walmart is doing some money laundering." and Walmart gets fined.
Walmart complains to its bank, who notifies its representative in Washington. There are many of these, and they are strictly legal. They give the government a list of the companies they represent. And what they want in return is fewer bank examiners.
This has been prophesied for some time, thousands of years. If time had a beginning, if must have an end, and we must know about it.
That's the logic, anyway. And I have gotten used to it. The end of the world is nigh, and it is poking us in the butt.
In one hundred years or so, we will be gone. And the time remaining will be eventful.
Everything, it looks like. First in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan
How on earth could we do eveything wrong twice?.
I am still reading the Kindle book about Brigham Young.
It is the best book I have read about Early Mormonism. About the Church before Joseph Smith was killed.
The American people (and the Mormons) at the time were immature, violent. and stupid.
This is something the American Military did not even try to do. And another war we have lost to a far weaker enemy.
What's going on here?
Maybe we should think about what we are trying to do when we get into these unequal conflicts.
The keyword here is unequal. When we get in a fight with a much weaker force (as we see it) - they win.
This problem is often referred to as Globalization.
And it is not working, especially with Global Warming. As our Scientists are warning us.
The usual response is "To Hell with Science!" Which is not much help.
And probably means the end of Human Civilization in 100 years, or so.
The book I am reading now, about Brigham Young, makes it clear that this was a common practice in the early Mormon church.
I witnessed one of the last practices of it during Reunion back in the Fifties, The speaker, standing in the back of the church, could not restrain himself, and was shaking all over. Everyone listened to him respectfully, but then the service continued as though nothing unusual had happened.
My personal understanding of the Big Picture is that there are two basic forces in the world: construction and destruction. And these apply to the situation in Afghanistan.
And the Big Picture and be assembled by combining all the Little Pictures.
Unfortunately, there are too many Small Pictures in Afghanistan. As you can see by reading the Google News.
As a result, the forces of destruction (the Taliban) are taking over.
I am reading the Kindle book Brigham Young and learning a lot about the early Mormon church. He joined the church in Western New York State when it was just getting started.
It was one of the many religious enthusiasms of the time. And it considered the Book of Mormon to be Divine Scripture
Americans have the most money in the world, and they think this makes them the best people in the world.
And they probably are, if best means having the most money.
But ethics is not so simple; it is one of the most complicated subjects in the world.
WWII made us the richest country in the world, and for thirty years, people from all over the world emigrated to share in this wealth.
But then it ended. And Americans have gone into shock and self-destruction, making a bad situation even worse.
I have been taken for a ride here, starting with a Fitbit, which goes in the trash today.
Now Samsung has jumped on this bandwagon (sammobile.com) with its watch-phone-OS combos, which want you to go Samsung all the way. Check out their prices.
We are a very social species. This is one of the secrets of our success. If one of our number is attacked, everyone is arracked.
Preditors know this and only attack individuals.
And he does take some getting used to.
I downloaded Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition.
I read the Introduction carefully, over and over, trying to get a feel for the man behind the words.
I failed.
In three places:
1. On your computer, when you first start writing it. This is quickly copied to location Two and lives in both places, simultaneously. This sounds dangerous, but your blogger software takes care of that for you easily. This is classified as a Draft entry.
2. Someplace only you can access. This location is determined by the company that made your blogger app.
3. Someplace anyone can access. Probably in a cloud somewhere, also determined by the company that made your blogger app. This is called Publishing your blog entry.
You didn't know I was wearing one. didn't you?
Bu now the cat is out of the bag. And one more dirty diaper goes into the diaper bag.
I am struggling with this now. Was john Neihardt a great poet?
Much against my will, I have to answer: he was not.
He was a good man,n that much everyone knew.
But when h died, everyone forgot about him.
This is very common, almost universal.
Why? Because of the present situation, whatever you want to call it.
This makes Life difficult - which is what it is supposed to do.
Making Life easy is forbidden.
Steve is my Brother, and Nicole is his Daughter.
She is an attractive woman, and her passion has been cheerleading.
This has made her attractive to some rich men, to whom was born an adorable little boy.
My brother was a lawyer. and should have used this talent to make her financially secure, in her own right.
But he did not.
I know I am not supposed to use such filthy language, but that is how I feel: filthy-mouthed.
First, I downloaded and installed the Fitbit app from the Google Play Store. This was easy.
Then I tried to join Fitbit. I got a list asking what I wanted to do: Sense, Versa3, Versa2. etc. No explanations of what these were. I had to ask Wikipedia what they were and got a long answer - indicating the different stages of Fitbit itself.
I tried to charge the battery. I tried 3 cables and none of them worked. The port provided for the is non-standard and cannot be used.
Lives in Another World, and has to be Another Person, to prevent everyone from taking Advantage of You - which they will, You can be Certain.
It's Human Nature to want to Push our Luck.
No child should have to do this, but John Niehardt did.
I am reading his book All is but a Beginning, which he wrote in his Nineties, about his unhappy childhood.
