Wednesday, April 30, 2025

This Trump era reminds me of the 1950s when people were persecuted for their political positions by the Government

In Trump's Case if you are not lily White you are going to be punished in extreme ways, especially if you are a green card holder here in the U.S. or an illegal alien. Though I know this issue needs to be dealt with in an efficient way this just isn't it.

The damage being done to people's lives would have been unthinkable during the Biden or Obama or even Bush or Clinton administrations.

Only Trump and Musk can be this cruel only because they were and are rich boys always and tend to think of the lower classes as animals without rights to even be alive at all which is abhorrent to most people in the U.S. and around the world and ONLY MAKES EVERYONE ON EARTH HATE TRUMP AND MUSK AND THE U.S. too. 

So, all the good since World War I that the U.S. has done is being swept away by Trump and Musk on the world Stage.

We are moving into a totally new and unpredictable world economic paradigm which is really terrifying for most of the world including the U.S.

They used to when I was growing up talk about this kind of thing in this way which is: "The U.S. and Russia and China are like Elephants here on earth and all the smaller nations are like mice trying to keep warm next to the elephants. But every so often one of the elephants (Trump the elephant now)  rolls over and crushes some of the smaller nations."

This is exactly what it looks like is going to happen over the next 4 years of Trump where whole governments and people will be dying together because of Trump and then the reactions of Xi and Putin and others on the world stage.

We are in a terrible time of Death Worldwide right now where millions are and will starve to death directly because of what Trump and Musk have done already.

God Help US!

"It's an Ill Wind that Blows no Good"

 I think of this in relation to the Trump Administration. Most people see how failing it is in many different ways.

However, my hope is that it will be an innoculation (like a shot) that the nation receives which strengthens our Democracy in a Republic. Will it do this?

Unknown at present.

The (MEDICINE) that Trump brings to our nation could be fatal to our democracy or it could be an innoculation against others who try to destroy Democracy as the Robber Barons that they are.

So far, Trump's policies are starving and killing people all over the world through his tariffs and layoffs of Government employees. Many areas of our Country where there are a lot of laid off Government employees likely are already in a Great Depression with Businesses failing every day or that soon will fail that serve all these Laid off employees now without work or money to survive because of Trump.

Many areas likely will fail in our country because of the ways people were laid off with no (financial parachutes with no notice at all).

There likely have been suicides already especially in lifelong Government employees who were waiting to retire before their retirement was stolen from them by DOGE and Trump.

Death follows Trump and Musk. Any sane person can see this at this point.

However, I'm hoping that this test to our democracy in a Republic is actually strengthened as a nation in the long run sort of like Getting a Covid shot might save your life from the Covid of Trump and Musk.

This is my hope.

U.S. and Ukraine sign long-awaited minerals deal

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U.S. and Ukraine sign long-awaited minerals deal

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said no one who "financed or supplied the Russian war machine" will be allowed to benefit from the partnership.

China has stopped shipping almost anything to the U.S. including Fabrics to make clothes

Because of this buying bolts of cloth so you can make your own clothes might be a good idea. Also, for many people 2nd hand clothes are going to get more expensive too. All Because of Trump's idiocy.

But, just remember EVERYTHING you expect to come from China isn't coming for you to buy anymore.

So, understanding China has stopped producing EVERYTHING they send to the U.S. and retooled to sell only in China and countries other than the U.S. now.

Once you understand this you can see why everything is going to cost more now.

Trump has just canceled Christmas for Kids because those inexpensive toys are no longer coming from China. So, expect to spend 2 to 3 times more for toys for kids this next Christmas 2025 unless you make these toys yourself here in the U.S.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The REAL POWER OF COLLEGE IS THE ABILITY TO FORMULATE AND ASK REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS

 RELIGIONS ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON.

THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS THEY SIMPLY DO NOT WANT YOU TO ASK. WHY IS THIS?

It is my personal opionion that All religions are designed around telling fairy tales to people (THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE)  for the purpose of reassuring people (especially younger people) to not just running screaming off a cliff and ending it.

I think religions have always been like this.

So, the main statement all religions make to me is:

DON'T BE ASKING TOO MANY QUESTIONS OR YOU ARE GOING TO SCARE THE CHILDREN INTO RUNNING OFF A CLIFF AND KILLING THEMSELVES THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE THEY LOVE DIES.

So, this is what I think of religions: They are basically fairy tales to keep the young alive until they get old enough to see what the world is actually like for themselves.

(IF THEY EVER DO).

I suppose this is cynical but I have always found looking at things directly like this quite helpful in long term survival of myself and my family here on earth.

However, this doesn't mean I don't experience God and Angels all the time 24 hours a day!

However, what it does mean to me is that religions are mostly about making money to support the priests and ministers around the world by telling fairy tales to children so they make more children.

This appears to be the dynamic regarding all successful religions.

If you don't have your people make more children in every generation then that church is going to die.

Everyone has to find their own way.

Everyone has to find God and meaning in life their own way.

And not everyone is even going to believe in God and you have to allow them to think this way too.

What is important is Kindness towards yourself and all beings on earth.

Kindness is the hallmark of all successful civilizations no matter what secular religion or religions helped build that culture.

By God's Grace

Cultural Anthropology

 

Examines human cultures, societies, and social structures, often through ethnographic fieldwork

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For Me, Philosophy led to psychology which led to Cultural anthropology which made me interested in staying alive longer here on earth.

Also, a friend of mine was a student at UCLA studying History of Religion so this comparative religion that he often talked about comparing all religions on earth helped me a lot.

Then I began asking questions like: "What was religion like before Christianity and Judaism and even Buddhism.

This took me to Shamanism worldwide in all the tribes before they starting growing food for themselves. They were hunter Gatherers always moving around because they couldn't survive otherwise.

So, this led to questions like: "What was life like before Buddhism Christianity and Brahmanism and other more organized religions that began after people started growing food?

These questions really stimulated me in becoming more interested in staying alive as a young man here on earth.

I began to see how universal suffering is for people at least up to age 30 or so. and even now here in the U.S. they say "You can expect to live to 90 if you first survive to 30".

I began to think about why this was always true?

All these questions began to have answers which allowed me to create a way forward in my life and not self destruct like so many people did in the 1960s and 1970s whether that was through the Viet Nam War by volunteering or getting drafted or fast cars or fast women or drugs or whatever risky thing that they were doing at the time.

I also had this terminal macho gene myself just like my father and grandfather and uncles. So, I wanted to know what to do with all this intelligence and intensity that I was raised with in a mostly Swiss Family.

Then my mother's parents were pure Scottish (all their parents were Scottish from Scotland. So, this more Celtic Way of thinking and being that reminded me more of Merlin the Magician and the knights of the Round Table and King Arthur and Guinevere was there too in my life.

So, making sense of all of this was my path to deciding to stay alive here on earth and to create a life I could stand to live just like everyone who actually survived the last 25,000 years here on earth.

The point is: 'Don't be a victim of others if you can help it! 

Be the Captain of your own Ship and the Creator of your own destiny.

Don't be a victim or you are just another one of the living dead we see all over the world who have no hope and walk on sort of like Zombies.

Don't be a Victim!

Create the world you want to live in.

You might not be able to save anyone else but yourself and your family.

But, NEVER BE A VICTIM!

By God's Grace

Kangaroo causes collision, stops traffic on Alabama highway

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Kangaroo causes collision, stops traffic on Alabama highway

The animal was tranquilized twice before its caretaker carried it to an awaiting SUV amid a traffic backup in Macon County, video from the sheriff showed.
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  • A kangaroo hopping along an Alabama highway Tuesday caused a two-vehicle crash and a roadway closure as authorities helped capture it, they said.

    The collision on Interstate 85 in Macon County, between Tuskegee and Auburn, was reported just before noon, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a statement.

    No injuries were reported.

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    A kangaroo is captured in Alabama on Tuesday.Macon County Sheriff André Brunson via Facebook

    Macon County Sheriff André Brunson livestreamed the response, during which he said the kangaroo's caretaker had tranquilized it and was moving in for a second shot.

    "I didn't believe it," he said during the livestream. "Nobody believed it. But I'm looking at him. ... A kangaroo, fellas, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Macon County. We see a little bit of everything here."

    The kangaroo was captured and carried to a SUV, Brunson's video showed. News organization al.com, citing Brunson, reported the kangaroo belongs to a petting zoo in adjacent Lee County.

    "Y'all did a great job," Brunson said in the video, praising dispatchers for coordinating the effort and tracking down the kangaroo's owner.

    Social media video before the capture showed the kangaroo hopping on the highway at a rapid pace.

    Alabama Highway Patrol Division troopers, Macon County sheriff's deputies and a conservation enforcement officer were credited with helping nab the marsupial, according to ALEA and Brunson.

    "The animal has now been recovered, and the roadway is back open," ALEA said. "The kangaroo was not injured in the crash."

    Brunson and a petting zoo in Lee County did not immediately respond to requests for more information.

    Walt Disney's Disneyland: Season 1 (1954-1955) First Disney TV Series Videos

     The first episode was about 10 months before Disneyland in Anaheim Opened near Los Angeles. My mother took me to Disneyland in 1955 because I loved to watch the Disney shows more than anything else on TV. Also, we bought our first 17 inch black and white TV this year. But, usually I went to watch this on a bigger TV in Glendale with my Aunt and 5 years older Cousin so we all would watch this together I think either every Tuesday or Wednesday night (likely Wednesday night then). In 1954 I was 6 years old.

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    Walt Disney's Disneyland: Season 1 (1954-1955)

    Here we present the complete and partial episodes of Season 1 that currently aren't available commercially. For incomplete or missing episodes, I've included notes and details on where you can view the edited content.
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