Moses' Rock... (If I thought it would do any good)

  This little experiment in Democracy. What causes me to be so sentimental as to now seek out Red, White and Blue Tie Dye shirts? Why do I feel the Progressive Left is as lost as the Conservative Right? The tug of war between left and right is keeping us all from finding our true power and peace as a country, it blinds us to our loss of freedoms.

  Let me try to explain.

  Any place you start, anywhere a dart tossed while blindfolded at the map of issues has a landing that deserves a deep discussion. From where we are to where we might be should be an all inclusive, fear excluded zone of discussion.

 Are there any fundamentals that we can at least begin to tune ourselves to the same tone? Are there any issues that we can all agree transcend our perceived polarized talking points?

 Number one I am starting with is it not only is it OK to give a damn, It is imperative

to give a damn. A cynical disenchantment with all humanity pervades our

existence. Perhaps that cynicism is justified as we see so much of life directed by forces way out of our control. Fundamentally we might ask the big metaphysical question of 'what is ever in our control'  and how much of Life do we simply need to surrender to some greater flow that we are caught up with whether it might be called, Nature, Karma, God or It is What It Is.

  I suggest that is probably a good point for our spiritual and mental health for all of us are part of this finite experience of life from birth to death. From the helpless crying Baby to someone who stands as an adult as best we can, to lend a hand, to make a difference, to try to stand … and to watch it all as we age flow on and to realize it flows on with out us. Whether we stand for anything, whether we are capable of moving this world n any way in the direction that we might yearn, because we beget children, because we have inherited something, because as out of control as it may seem to be we must impart … as our parents and their parents before them and back generations we want to see our children have a good life.

I repeat, We want our children to have a good life. We give a damn because of the Life that we have brought into the Earth and because of our Love for that life.

  Our anger and blame for historic destruction in the past or of the present serves little good if we do not live constructively in the present. If our anger is because of injustice then it behooves us to stand for justice in the present. If we wish to create a Just society it demands that we act justly.

 Number 1)  … you/we/I have no real choice but to give a damn.

 Number 2)   … our actions do matter and do effect the world.

 Number 3)   … The Means of our actions creates the Ends.

 Number 4)   … Life on Earth is part of one Biological Event.

                                We are part of the One.

 Number 5)   … Life is subject to influence. From the tiniest species to

                                Elephants and Whales and to we the Humans.

 Number 6)   … Life is Learning.

 Number 7)   … Material Success can not sustain itself without

                                the Thriving of All Life on Earth.

 

  Number 8)  … We can Generation after Generation

                                  make the world a better place.

  Number 9)  … The Balance of too much Government or too Little is

                                  The fundamental issue of Left and Right.

  Number 10) ….     The People Have the Power (Left and Right)

                                   to find the Center.               

                                

August Magic

 Magic? Hah! Sitting at a picnic table at Toby's Feed Barn in Point Reyes California, a nice overcast low clouds that the sun has't quite burned off yet. The sounds of happy tourists, and some locals chatting, the breeze rattling the metal clips attached to a American Flag against the pole. clink clang, clink clang over the adjacent Post Office...

 The cup of coffee almost finished and now the retreat to the restrooms again..

  "We're all friends here." the friendly woman attempting to get back to work on her lap top says to the yellow jacket. So what is August magic? What is July Magic? September Magic? ....

  So ... back to work. After an awesome conversation on this 6 sided Picnic Table finished up after I asked the young woman who was on my right if she didn't mind keeping an eye on my laptop and shoulder bag... "I don't expect you to tackle anyone" just in case... she smiled and said she was willing to guard my stuff but didn't expect to have to tackle anyone.

  By the time I got back the triangle was filled by the friendly and lovely woman from Pixar. Who is in charge of the Posters and Billboards .... Coco --- Incredibles 2 and the young woman on my right who is an editor for some spiritual progressive publication out of the East Bay and on her way to be a WOOFer (World Organization of Organic Farmers)
for someone in Sebastopol .... not the Crimea. ..and the conversation went in a sweet triangle all about the Unity the absence of enemies the intrinsic Connection of Ecology ad Spirit. Life... OK back to work... Where was I? ah yes ... August Magic.

'Forces of Division' II

I repeat this writing for what purpose it may but just for the central point that I still make,

that this sweet (hAH!) yes sweet .... Ball of Confusion .. Sweet Home PLanet Earth where the skies are so blue ... Sweet Home California ... too ... and don't forget Alabama. 

Peter Baker's story from October 20, 'By Leaving out Trump's Name Message is Sent'  illustrates the dilemma this country is in. Dilemma is putting it lightly.

    How do we as citizens find a way to wrap our minds around these days of maximum discord. It seems the whole nation is facing a dark descent into civil strife.

   Not only do former President's Obama and Bush 'take aim at divisions' but so does the national Press Corp, and certainly the NYTimes talented staff of reporters.

But how good is their aim, how good is your aim? Are our bastions of decency, former Presidents of the Democrats and Republicans standing on ground that allows them to fire their moral directives with a clarity of vision that understands the frustration of the ordinary citizens who held their noses and voted Mr. Trump in?

  The trouble with the viewpoints of Obama, Bush and the National Media is that they are not very 'Liberal', using the word as it implies a free exploration of ideas including ideas that might even seem contrary to one's own. From my perspective 'the Liberal' viewpoint of today so permeated by fear and the hyperbole of hate, it is anything but Liberal, in it's certainty that Evil is confined to the current President and his supporters it is creating a counter wave of ugliness that will not go away.

   What the NYTimes and President Obama and President Bush see is that 'the Powers of Division' all come from 'the other side'

   Let's look at three premises of supporters of President Trump. That all immigrants should obey the laws of the United States including Immigration laws and that those laws should be enforced. That an immigration policy that calls for extended scrutiny of applicants from Islamic Nations to 90 to 120 days, or by reducing refugee totals from 100,000 to 50,000 is not a Ban. Is this a ban, or is it the due diligence of a man elected through as honest a process as we have so far of one man one vote. How can he not do what the people of America deeply need and asked for. Restrain the flow of illegal immigration. 11 Million is insanely way too much. How can the media go on about Lies and not own it's own distortion?

   As a non-car driving, California Tree Hugger who watches the destruction of this Planet on a daily basis  I have come to the conclusion that there will be no future for our children and their children until individuals live lives of personal responsibility.

The policies that we have inherited of centuries of expansion of an Economic engine that thrives on more and more people, now wrapped around notions of compassion is completely doomed. This blind compassion will lead to massive death and destruction down the road. We are in the full blossom stage of the human population bloom without regard to consequences. The knee-jerk, America First, nationalism is at least a modest form of waking up to a nightmarish future that the 'Liberal' state of civilization seems to offer. If those who call themselves Liberals could remember some basics, such as we are all one, then we might stop ripping the supposedly less educated people of America for standing up as best they can in the face of forces that seem out of control.

  Try to take an objective look at this world of information.. I am speaking to all my friends, and everyone who reads this might be in that category, and I am speaking directly to the editors of the NY Times, who every day with their crack reporters attempt to wrestle that steering wheel of .. the control of truth … to work on behalf of restoring civilization into the hands of the likes of George Bush or Barack Obama. I out of my .. reckless is it? noble is it? neither .. simply an attempt to understand the truth have joined sides with the deplorables and those of Brexit and every indigenous voice of aspiration and sovereignty that says let me be me. You want a borderless planet than kiss Democracy good bye. Borders define communities, communities have a right to exist and have a right to and a duty to defend themselves from invasions.

   The Planet is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation, I hold no faith in the 'Liberal'  democratic state nor much in the Trumpian  rebellion but at least there is a rebellion and all I can hope with the Monkey Wrench he represents that President Trump represents an opportunity for America and the world to ask where are we going?

  

    Beyond that it is probably best to resume a sense of being in God's hands and good luck to us all.

    

The loss of impartial News

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-braces-for-demonstrations-13133346.php#photo-15970871


The loss of an impartial press is a loss to this Democracy the oldest Republic on the Planet. With the radicalization of press rooms across America all with the design to 'get the President' we are moving into disturbing territory.
 Where racism is screamed at every turn, when it is frequently a case of no I just don't like you or simply no more illegal immigrants ... Please. But no, today people feel obligated to  take the compassionate path of the broad brush of crying Racism.
  The USA has taken on approximately 1.5 million new immigrants a year for the last 20 years. Though apprehensions at the border are down to about 310,000 in 2017 because of the 'Trump Effect'

Who does this enrich?
Where does that leave communities? Who makes our immigration laws? (democratically elected representatives .. Democrats and Republicans maybe an Independent or two) If the economic motivation justifies ignoring our laws isn't that a form of corruption? How long does the 'wink and a nod' by our compassionate Blue State leaders put many poor people in harm's way and a legal nightmare?

 As one demonstrator said yesterday 'Peace and love Promotes Peace and Love'. Let's talk.

Comey refused access to DNC Servers.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313555-comey-fbi-did-request-access-to-hacked-dnc-servers

Intel Hack
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hacking-intelligence-20170105-story.html

DNC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak

meanwhile ....

https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-the-arctic-melting-faster-than-the-antarctic/a-38678700

in the Northern Hemisphere.... in the Southern Hemisphere?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/03/transatlantic-flight-paths-of-2-524-planes-on-single-day-video-animation

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2011/05/transpolar-flights-radiation/