tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30961797876755011342024-03-05T21:00:25.171-08:00The Old Druid's SpotDaily Forecasts, Faery Finder and Magickal Things.Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.comBlogger1175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-74267452938437227762020-02-06T07:33:00.000-08:002020-02-06T07:33:00.401-08:00The World as you know it has ended<br />
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When George started
our herbal project and group, it was more for information and to help
us, me and George, cope with the rising medical costs. When I started
the Tropical Druids it was to help others in SoFl grow and harvest
food and herbs and to translate the temperate magical herbs to
tropical ones that would grow year round down here. It is pretty
useful to know that if the lettuce is bolting in my garden, you
should hold off planting yours until the temperature stabilizes.
Knowing what simple to extract oils are excellent for wound healing
and even arthritis would help seniors.</div>
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Our focus now
changes from an intellectual pursuit to survival and our pagan
friends in Britain and the rest of the US had better pay attention to
what we are doing.</div>
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I awoke this morning
to the thought that I would avoid checking out what the POS in the WH
had done today. What I discovered was more chilling that anything I
really expected this soon and this blatant. Although my fellow Bernie
supporters were ready to burn the DNC down over Iowa, I said wait.
The DNC is slow to act but they make sure they have the facts before
they go public and this morning they presented them.
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The first thing I
noticed was “Watch Parties” for the SOTU address popping up in
every group no matter how far removed from politics the group was. I
might have let a couple pass but when it turned into a tsunami, I
acted with one word: NEVER. That emboldened people to demand the
posts be removed and the posters banned. I was so proud. I was even
more gratified when I found out the ratings had sank 21%. That is
called passive resistance folks. You will be using it a lot.</div>
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However, while
everyone was focused on Iowa, I was concerned. I watched those Watch
Parties pop up almost all at the same moment across all these groups
and I knew, this had to have been planned which meant they had bots
in every kind of group on social media. I had warned people 3 years
ago there were people taking notes to be careful. I was right.</div>
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I asked everyone to
stay calm about Iowa until we knew what had happened. The false
narratives are still circulating this morning even after the DNC has
explained what happened. Trump Supporters, not the Republican Party,
but people identifying themselves as Trump Supporters (THIS IS VERY
IMPORTANT), flooded the private line to report the caucus results
making the real officials wait on hold up to an hour and most not
being able to get through at all. This was caused by photographs of
“secret” DNC caucus documents being published on line and one
document prominently displayed the phone number to report official
results. Then by total coincidence hundreds of “Trump Supporters”
decided all by themselves to individually jam the phone number in
support of Trump...do you want me to tell you another fairy tale? Am
I incorrect that only people that should have been in the caucuses
were Democrats? Am I incorrect that those papers should have been in
a protected location? Am I incorrect that a “Trump Supporter” had
to manage to get credentials not only as a Democrat but a member of
the caucus to get into the location and then had to hunt down,
display and photograph those papers....AND have a predetermined
location on the internet to publish those pictures where other “Trump
Supporters” could get their grubby little hands on them. Dear GOP
Party Chair for Iowa, that's a lot of coincidences but your reply was
that the DNC should be more careful with their papers.</div>
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In North Carolina,
an Evangelical Trump supporting PAC buys millions of dollars in ads
for the DEMOCRATIC long shot candidate and the AD itself proclaims
this person 100% a Green New Deal Supporter unlike the front running
Democratic candidate that has a really good shot of unseating the
longtime GOP incumbent. Back in IOWA an equal long shot, Pete B.
takes the lead in the caucus even though Bernie was shown to have a
large margin to win and Pete was in the back row. Pete is about as
viable a candidate as Clinton would be today but just to make sure he
wins the nomination he hires an ex Goldman Sacs executive today.
Goldman Sacs, Trump's son-in-laws old buds just in case you are
having a case of the forgets this morning.
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The strategy is
simple. Make sure the least viable candidates win the primaries so
they will be easily defeated in November and if that doesn't work,
you can be sure there will be no elections.</div>
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In other words, the
rumor, regardless of those glowing...I am protecting your health
words last night...is now hard copy as the Trump budget moves money
around to fund his projects from Social Security and Medicare
effectively and massively cutting benefits by just plain removing
millions from the rolls. In my generation and previous ones, women
did more than housekeeping. They were an integral part of a man's
career putting on the parties and dinners necessary for him to rise
to the top of the corporate chain. Government leaders recognized that
and gave women a portion of the husbands' Social Security benefits
since if she was the unpaid partner in his career, she would have no
social security credits of her own. If you don't pay into Social
Security, you don't get benefits. What do you think will happen if
those benefits were cut completely? In just my household, our total
benefits would decrease by 1/3 or more because George would now have
to pay for my Medicare. Since women live longer than men, many women
would find themselves in their 60's and above with absolutely no
income at all. Social programs are cut to the bone or the requirement
increased to the point no one is going to qualify. Rural hospitals
have already been quietly closed but the clinics are now being closed
and doctors and nurses will be moving out of rural areas. When you
only have a couple of engineers running farms encompassing a couple
of states, you can airlift them to a hospital or just let them die
and fly in a replacement. Who's to know?</div>
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Last month, quietly
and stealthily, George took my advice after a serious problem on
social media, and started deleting and banning all Trump Supporters
from our groups. Other group owners have quietly begun purging them,
too. We have no choice. If we are going to be effective, we have to
make certain these people can't emerge in our groups and commit
offenses that will get the entire group taken down by the powers that
be. I am going to tell to you that an inflammatory post that triggers
loads of social media violations will be removed from your group
before you have a chance to even see it as a moderator or member and
then your entire group may be taken down over it and you can't even
find out what the post was or who published it. They will demand you
ban the person but refuse to tell you who. And a group of people can
file complaints over nothing in your group and get it removed because
after all, the members should know the guidelines are being violated,
right? Those Watch Parties were the nail in the Trump Supporters'
coffins. They proved these people or bots have infiltrated the entire
social media platform.
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So, we will be
publishing less because we have to do a few things I am suggesting
you do.</div>
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Number one, we have
to get an intensive food and herbal garden going. From what I am
seeing with Brexit, you are going to be on your own. Trucks carrying
food from the EU will be sitting in line waiting to cross borders
until the food spoils. Your trucking firms are moving to Ireland or
going out of business. Trump has already crippled the trucking
industry in this country and the largest transporter went bankrupt
last month. His Cult, like your Brexit, is too stupid to figure out
that is how their food gets to their grocery store. Your country is
small. You will be able to individually transport food from farm to
home. Our country is gigantic, the food shortages will hit and there
will be no way to fix them.
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Trump started
“sanctioning” New York this morning over driver's licenses. Other
states over other stupid crap to follow if they don't follow the
party line. All the money the “Liberal States” have been paying
in income taxes that feed the GOP states will be diverted to private
companies. The “Liberal States” won't be getting their money back
because they will be sanctioned. The Red States won't be getting it
either because the social programs like food and housing assistance
are now cut. The great wall and private prisons and concentration
camps will be getting those dollars. Meanwhile, you will find empty
grocery stores and pharmacies. It doesn't matter how good your job,
benefits or 401K if there just is no food or medicine to buy.</div>
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In addition to that,
we will be shoring up security around our gardens and home. There is
no guarantee this isn't going to devolve into a war. I love my thorny
plants and I have discovered how to multiply them like rabbits on
Viagra. If you are nice, I might let you have some of my super fast
growing Dragon Fruit. So far they have never bloomed but do they have
thorns that break off and refuse to leave your body. They require
little soil because they are mostly epiphites or air plants. They
climb. Bougainvilleas are slow growing but nasty with 1 inch or
greater thorns. Even the dead branches will pierce a shoe.
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I never thought my
hobby would become my defense but here we are. Put in fences and
plant nasty hedges. You will need them. We also discovered they make
silencers for BB guns which will pass under the radar and guess who
knows all about them? Yes, the enemy.</div>
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I have already
created, with George, a med kit that included stitches and wound
care. You might want to do the same. You aren't going to be able to
depend on medical care since the Evangelicals managed to take over
the nursing schools and ram their students through. Now, medical
personnel can very legally decide not to treat you or quietly decide
to give you a deadly dose of something all accidentally, and with
them controlling the courts, there will be no retribution. We are no
longer a nation of laws. The rule is going to be, don't seek medical
help unless you are certain of the person you are seeking it from and
have enough knowledge to know if they are about to kill you.
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You already know you
can't trust the cops to help you. Never, ever, call for a “wellness
check” on anyone! If you have someone you care about and you can't
get to them, make friends with a local group who can go over and
check on them. We are going to have to network better. Wellness
checks have turned into legal executions and genocide.</div>
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I know a lot of
survivalist groups tell you to stockpile money, i.e. cash and gold.
None of that is helping you if the financial systems crashes or there
just is nothing to buy. It has never happened in this country but it
will. When money is devalued, with every devaluation, you have to
take your cash in to be stamped with the new value. A five dollar
bill becomes a one and then a quarter. In other words, cash becomes
useless. Gold is equally useless because there is no way to value it.
This, too, is coming. The only real currency will be food and
medicine. Practically all our medicines are made in other countries.
You do the math.</div>
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You need to learn to
extract oils and make tinctures so you can use your herbs. Learn now
before the knowledge is removed from the internet. Get the supplies
now. You don't need a new phone as much as you need a really good
water filter. Do you realize that an entire city can be poisoned in
minutes by dumping something in your water supply? You need water
test kits, too. Some poisons can be absorbed through the skin. You
will need good face masks and they don't sell them in the big box
stores. You need to order the good ones. You'll need boxes of
surgical gloves and disinfectant. Plan now, because as organized as
the Trump Supporters are, they will wreck havoc on this country
before they manage to figure out they are wrecking it on themselves.
This is what really scares me. They are too under educated and just
plain stupid to see they are shooting themselves in the foot. All
they care about is the thrill of getting/inconveniencing/killing a
Liberal. They will happily set the theater on fire not considering
they are standing in the center of it. They are burning the country
down not realizing they are in the middle of it. Try to not help
them.</div>
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Just in case you
think I am over the top. I lived during the cold war and was
inundated daily with the stories of oppression in Russia. The
Russians had a simple system of control. Every apartment complex or
community had a community leader who encouraged the fellow citizens
to report on anyone not loyal or not following the regulations so
they could be jailed. Those “leaders” were part of a local
government and were encouraged to report on each other. The local
leaders were part of a bigger regional group which policed itself
right up to the national level. Now this could never happen here
because we have HOA's and Condo associations with local code
enforcement boards reporting to city governments which then report to
counties reporting to states reporting to national....are you
catching on yet? We have been organized into the old communist Soviet
Union on the pretext of maintaining our “property values”. You
have to step out of the ideology to recognize the system. Teach your
kids at home to protect them from the secular humanists allowed the
dumbing down of all religious people. They knew you couldn't teach
what you didn't know and each generation would forget a bit more. Now
you kids can't even count out money to pay bills. How did we go from
a my generation in the 50's that cooked everything from scratch to a
generation that can't boil water? They gave us TV dinners, microwaves
and 60 hour weeks so we would use take out. Now you don't know that
the food (veggies and fruit) in the grocery doesn't even taste like
the real thing. They did it in 3 generations or less. It's going to
get worse. During one hurricane the neighbors couldn't figure how we
were eating well. The thought of burning all the hurricane downed
trees in their barbecue to cook on never occurred to them as they
lamented the scarcity of charcoal....That's how we were cooking, over
an open fire. They could use a French press but never considered
boiling water and pouring it over coffer in a filter was just what
their Mr. Coffee did or that they could boil the coffee in water and
strain the grounds out and have a French Press. Heck, they were stuck
at burning twigs for a cooking fire. Two feet of snow and they have
no water. We are doomed. I kept my well and used a little known law
to do it. Everyone else destroyed theirs and happily pays a hundred
dollars or more to water their lawns with chemicals every month. You
need water collection devices or a well and pump and a generator,
solar panels if you can afford them. He who has water will rule the
world. Remember that.</div>
<br />Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-72895783612455592852019-12-04T11:25:00.000-08:002019-12-04T11:25:05.508-08:00Dental Bill Shock<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I think I managed to
recover from the shock of bill for the two caps on my teeth, plus
fillings, around 3 AM when I awakened and lie there for a while
thinking about things.</div>
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I do a lot of art
forms. The one I sell is making jewelry.
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“Oh, I can string
a bunch of beads together and make a necklace.” Yes, my cat can
probably do that, too but I guarantee, you won't buy the end result.
The reason people pause when looking at my work is mostly the colors.
I just happened into the proper genetic combination to be able to see
more color than you can and because of that, all my blues and browns
go together while you are still wondering why yours clash. Your mind
can't see what mine can. Your eyes do but your brain can't sort the
colors. Your eyes keep sending the information and not getting an
answer, so you are repelled by what you put together. The price for
that talent is never letting your father out the door until you made
certain he didn't look like a clown because he was color blind. My
mother carried the gene for color which her uncles had exploited by
becoming jewelers. They were excellent at grading gemstones and one
of the criteria is color. Wham, of all the kids, I got the genes and
I have hundreds of cousins.
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That said, I spent 2
hours restringing the fringe on a piece...just seven strands and I
used 7 eye pins. So what took so long? Well, it wasn't matching the
colors and beads. It was making the wires to hold the glass
briolette beads and attaching them with tiny jump rings so they would
dangle and sparkle. You see, glass breaks and when it is the very
thin top of a tear drop bead with a tiny hole through it, it really
breaks. You can't put a jump ring in it because they are too thin.
You have to use 28 gauge wire which must be twisted, double if you
want any strength, and that will cause it to break if you do it too
tight. First twist to create a loop and second twist over that one to
strengthen the loop's connection to equal that of the jump ring and
one twist too many, snap goes the wire and you cut the whole thing
off and start over. But that isn't as time consuming as working with
a jump ring so tiny you can barely hold it with tools to connect the
eye pin to the briolette. Then using a slightly larger jump ring you
attach the other end to the focal piece and they sparkle and fluidly
dangle. The last part is all you see.
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Which brings me to
mixed media often considered the step child of all the arts. Did you
ever consider that to do mixed media you have to master each media
you are mixing into the piece? I didn't think so.</div>
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And now I move to my
friends who are doll makers. Thirty years ago I happened into a
ceramics studio looking for a way to make unique pots for my African
Violets while relaxing from a day of dealing with certified crazy
people and stayed. It turns out I love the smell of fresh clay and I
am good at ceramics. Little did I dream I was also good at art as
that was something strongly discouraged in my family. There was no
money in it. Sanding the seams and painting those pieces was labor,
both physical and mental, intensive and for an hour, I would not have
to think about therapies. Then one day the owner approached me to do
some work on several pieces and in return, she would give me supplies
to keep. You never use all the glaze on a single piece and glaze is
expensive. I also got my hour free, because you pay by the hour to
use a studio. YES!!! Suddenly, I moved into a paid artist from
amateur and joined the people at the big people table. We were all
working on doll pieces for a doll artist. My specialty was being
able to sand pieces so they would fit together seamlessly when fired.
Each piece shrinks differently in the kiln based on thickness so you
really have to have a feel for that clay to do that job. Soon I was
also doing the shading on the limbs because of my ability to see
color. Another woman did nothing but draw eyes. One lady specialized
in hands and fingernails. Somewhere, someone had sculpted the entire
doll which was made into mold. And somewhere in a gallery sits the
combination of our work, nicely put together with someone else's name
on it. A doll sold for at least $500.00 back then so that person
could afford each of us to make the pieces and they put the hair and
clothes on and assembled the doll.</div>
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My friends on
Facebook, do all of that. They buy the blank fired pieces, paint them
using various mediums, put them together and even make the clothes
and shoes for them. You want to buy that doll for under $50.00. I
used to get that much money in supplies to sand and paint the limbs.
It is 30 years later!</div>
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Those cheap painted
pieces in the dollar stores are just that. The paint will come off..
You have an assembly line of people painting one doll because few
people can do everything. One does eyes, one brows, one lips, and so
on down the line until the piece is finished. To find someone who can
do the whole piece is unusual and don't forget, those people make
pennies an hour.</div>
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You aren't paying
enough for the art you buy off Etsy, Ebay and Amazon or someone's
table in a craft show.</div>
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Craft show! Somehow
that implies the person isn't a REAL artist. I'd like to see a few
real artists make some of the items in craft shows!
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Two hours on seven
pieces of a fringe not counting choosing the beads and the first
mistake and I haven't even strung the necklace or for that matter
worked out how to incorporate the large seed beads with the mineral
and glass beads. I am still working on how to put the cabs into the
setting because the setting is too big for 8x6 and too small for 8x10
so something has to fill in the space or it will (a) fall off the
first time the piece is knocked or (b) look like a cab swimming in a
setting that is too big. I will have to make something to fill in the
setting...do you get it...make. I will have to invent something the
perfect size to fill in the space.
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I probably have more
kinds of beads than a bead store. I have wire in every thickness and
most colors. I have tools. I have years invested in watching videos
and trial and error. I am not producing a $4.95 necklace. I have to
get that through MY head. Once I do the shock of my dental bill will
be lessened.
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My dentist has to
drill the cavity out of the tooth without breaking the tooth and then
REBUILD the tooth with the filling material. The lab has to take the
two caps that were modeled off the real teeth and rebuild them to
cover the area the dentist just rebuilt while making them fit
together like two mirror image twins and match the color to the rest
of my teeth. Yes, that is worth $3,800.00. I am sure the equipment to
do those things is worth more than $50,000.00.</div>
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It's not just the
making of the piece, it is the creation and everything needed to
create it. Each time a bead changes size, if just for one bead, a
single strand has to be bought and the left overs stored. Even if it
is malachite, the colors can vary so badly they don't go together.
All of that is going to cost money and all of that is in the price of
making your piece. Every single different bead requires a jewelry
maker buy an entire strand of beads. Think about that for a while.
Want a black and white necklace that varies in graduation? Black and
white bead strands divided into 4 mm, 6 mm and 8mm. That is 6 strands
od beads. You'll need a 10-12 mm for focus plus the wire, crimp
beads, crimp bead covers, jump rings and fastener. You will need a
pair of jeweler's pliers, needle nose pliers, crimp tool, crimp cover
tool and cutters. You will need a necklace board to lay the design
out on and to measure it. Still think you can make that necklace
because I haven't got into months of practice to perfect your
technique. I know some people who are still mastering crimping years
later. Good luck with that $5.00 necklace because you spent that on
the first string of beads.</div>
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<span data-offset-key="9as95-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What a difference a few dollars makes! Even if talking on the phone, the people took time to smile at us. I even got a compliment on my necklace from a young man who had been removed from the bar for obviously a few too many. He had joined the line of leaning men awaiting the time they could return to the dark cave where no one cares who you are. It was a rainbow of skin tones, all happily getting along and commiserating. No one cares what you are because you are human, just like them. Cheap food, cheap booze and laundromats are the hallmarks of this area hidden in the industrial section of a wealthy county. A Spanish grocery thrives in an area where not a word of Spanish was heard. Harbor Freight caters to tired men covered in honest grease with a very different kind of stock. On my side of the county, which I occupy not due to money but tenacity, the reviews for Harbor Freight are scathing but in this little slice of heaven, they are glowing for price and quality. Things look different when it takes a few weeks to save up to buy them as opposed to swiping an infinite credit card. People actually use turn signals and let people out onto the road over there. Everyone is tired and no one is going anywhere fast. I know the feeling of going home to the place you can afford littered with other people's cast offs in an imitation of decor knowing dinner will be greasy starch not known for its flavor but its ability to fill the stomach. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2b9pv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I think I like that side of town much more than the one I exist within. People smile. People talk to strangers. People even use turn signals!</span></div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-54399751543401444962019-12-01T09:58:00.003-08:002019-12-01T09:58:39.856-08:00The Law Trap<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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When I was a teen,
it was mandatory sentencing for a crime. It will make them stop and
think before they do this. Nope, the crime rate is higher than it was
when I was a kid. The only change is we have a bunch of people,
mostly minorities in prison for offenses, like possession of
marijuana, that are now legal, for years. Just keep one thing in
mind, it costs a state about 300.00 a day to jail someone. YOU are
the STATE. You are the one paying the 300.00 a day with your taxes
that could be making a better school for your kids, fixing roads,
putting more buses on the routes, planting more tree, expanding
animal control, providing more arts and sports programs in school,
building more free parks and the list goes on.
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Extreme mandatory
sentences did nothing but provide an easy income for people who don't
need it and punish people who don't need punishing. So why isn't it
repealed? It is easier to pass a law than get rid of it and that is
why you have laws about where to graze your cattle in places that
haven't seen a cow in a hundred years.</div>
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A law protecting
children on the internet seemed like a good idea 3 years ago.
Unfortunately, I now see my artist friends leaving the internet for
fear of enormous fines they can't possibly pay if their work is
reported. Yes, the government, our friend?, made it super easy to
prosecute someone for these offenses. They made it so easy, anyone
putting up a video can face a $30.000.00 fine in less than one
millisecond even if their intended audience isn't under 18 and their
subject matter really isn't adult, like DYI. The Government made it
real easy to automate the process and in the process created a black
and white rule with no shades of gray and no need for a human to
review anything before you have pay. The justice machines are real.</div>
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The latest great law
is on animal cruelty. It is heralded by the very people it is going
to punish. Once again the original minimum sentence comes into play.
Is there a week that small rescues do not reach the point due to
their inability to say no to a suffering animal not violate these
laws? PETA uses them all the time to close down small rescues over
the condition of ONE out of 200 animals and prosecute the owners. Is
there anyone naive enough to think the larger rescues won't use this
law to get rid of their competition for donations, the smaller ones?
Is there anyone stupid enough to think the government won't use this
law to prosecute people that disagree with them politically? Come on
folks, the small man gleefully signed this bill and the next day
signed one legalizing using cyanide traps to kill animals and the
next day another one allowing hunters to kill hibernating mother
bears and cubs. This is the same man who populated the agencies
charged with saving endangered animals with trophy hunters and YOU
think he is protecting animals???? No, he is protecting money and
there is big money in animal rescues. The animals see little help
from the money you give to the large rescues but the small rescues
will love you forever for a bag of cat food and the cats will get
that food.</div>
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How about your
beloved pet, sitting on your lap? Do you know if it has worms? Does
it have ear mites well hidden in its ears? Is there a lone flea
wandering the plains of its back waiting for the flea killer to kick
in? Is your house pet proofed? Do you even know what that is? Well,
you are guilty of animal cruelty, get a prison sentence and join the
real sickos on a nationally available list. Guess what list you can't
access due to a law signed early last month? That would be the list
of convicted puppy mill owners and the locations of puppy mills.
Guess who can sail through customs with endangered animal parts from
their hunts in other countries? That would be the sons of the man who
signed all these laws and a ton of others who just figured out a
canned hunt is cheaper than the price they can get for a rhino horn
or elephant tusk, all of which can now come into the country
perfectly legally. In other words, they have now legalized harvesting
endangered animals for parts under the guise of canned hunts. The
animals don't even stand a chance, starved, abused and drugged so
they can't escape their killers, I mean trophy hunters.</div>
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The small rescues
don't stand a chance either as they lovingly tend animals others have
thrown away, scrounge for medications and food and take that over
their limit animal into their own bed to hold and reassure as it
passes on that it is loved by someone. For that, they may join the
person who had less than an ounce of pot on them at $300.00 a day
that you are paying every time you buy gas, bread, beer, milk and a
myriad of products you didn't even know had a tax built into their
prices and of course the sales and property tax bills.
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Someone published a
statement yesterday that made sense. There is no Deep State. There is
a bunch of bureaucrats getting kickbacks from Corporate America to
take everyone's money and put it into the pockets of the already
rich and overflowing. They are doing this because Corporate America
convinced you the same bureaucrats were living the good life with
their salaries and pensions just because they are union like many
other professions. So now Corporate America pays the bureaucrats to
screw you and bust the unions and guess what?? YOU ARE STILL PAYING
THE SAME BILL.</div>
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Let me make this
simple. You now pay in higher prices and jail sentences what you used
to pay the bureaucrats in salary and benefits except Corporate
America now takes a cut off the top so you are really paying more
than before and no one is benefiting but a few rich people who have
more money than they and their unborn great x10 grandkids could spend
in their combined lifetimes if they starting buying things 24/7 right
now. Result: YOU ARE SCREWED. The bureaucrats are screwed. The rich
get richer.</div>
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Rule: Every time you
think the people in charge are helping you screw your favorite group
of people to hate, you get screwed right along with that group and
the people in charge make a profit and give most of it to the rich
people in charge of them. So you had better embrace the immigrant,
they probably know where to buy cheap lubricant.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-14100440801259998062019-11-24T11:29:00.001-08:002019-11-24T11:29:22.898-08:00Why Woman Fail<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Why Women don't get
promoted, elected or succeed?</div>
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It has taken me 48
years in the work force to figure this out. Apologies to my
beleaguered husband but he is catalyst for my discovery.</div>
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After the grocery
last night, he announced he had brought the groceries in and put the
van back the way it was. This is probably how my cap fell off because
for 49 years, this has caused a teeth grinding episode. I know he
brought the groceries in because I put them away. If he didn't bring
a bag in, I would be out there looking for it. And then I thought, I
am grabbing this bull by the horns and flipping the thing. Why is he
doing this? Why do men do this?
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So I asked him very
politely is he would have told me he brought the groceries in if I
were another man and his answer was probably.</div>
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Then I realized this
is a communications problem, big one. Men communicate differently
from women about the same things.
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As a kid, if I had
announced I brought the groceries in, the reply would have been, “Do
you want a medal or a Wilkie button?” Both items are useless in the
real world. If I had been male, I would have been thanked but women
are given jobs to do and taught to do them and shut up no one wants
to know about it. The result is we do not talk about what we do. Men,
on the other hand, are encouraged to tout not their successes, but
anything they do.</div>
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So how does this
affect women?</div>
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For one thing, we
spend our lives feeling unappreciated because we never get any thanks
for the things we do because no one knows we do them.</div>
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Take my professional
life for instance. When asked about my week, by my boss, I would say
X therapy was proving effective and perhaps add an anecdote about a
patient. The male in the position would rattle off he did X hypnosis
sessions, X hours of biofeedback, washed so many electrodes and saw X
people. Even though I did more, he looks like he did more. So when
give out the raises time occurs, the doctor knows what therapy I
think is best and something about a few patients but the MAN has done
all this work every week. Guess who gets the raise?</div>
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Women think is terms
of finishing the global job and resting. Men break the job down into
tiny work that they did. Women succeed and men do work. The problem
is no one sees the success of cleaning the toilet, mopping the floor
or spending a hour chopping veggies to make the dish. They just see
the Chef prancing out with a huge bowl of veggies he boiled for 15
minutes and slapped some butter on. Guess who makes the most money?</div>
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It is the same thing
in politics. Women focus of the goals and men focus on everything
they did even if they only sat at the table at the meeting. If a
woman doesn't directly participate she doesn't list things. For a
man, he just has to be in the room, or walking through the room, to
claim part of the credit.
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What did you do all
day? I took care of the kids, did the washing and fixed dinner.</div>
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Male version: I got
each child out of bed, cooked 3 dishes for breakfast and then washed
3 dishes, put clothes on 2 kids, did three loads of laundry, one
white, one cold water and one dark colors while placing detergent in
the washer and drier sheets in each load I dried. One load took a
full hour to dry. Then took out the pans, chopped the carrots and
chopped the celery before putting them in the pot with peas I had
defrosted..........getting the picture, yet?
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Men are used to
getting information this way. I took care of the kids doesn't process
in their brain. It is too vague so it goes right out the other ear.
You will hand the boss a report. The man will find the paper, write
the report, print the report out, find a binder, put it in the binder
and hand it to the boss, on time. Now who do you think will get
credit for that report, you or him?</div>
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I wish I had
understood this 50 years ago. I would gotten a lot further in
business and life because the person most often handing out the money
are male. Rather than having the job done by the end of day, I should
have explained that gathering the information would take 3 hours,
assembling it another 2 hours, typing it up an hour, printing it
out.....and I might have it done by lunch tomorrow. I would be
running the country right now.</div>
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And one last thing,
fellows. We do not find your bowel movements fascinating. Please
stop talking.</div>
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The Mother of ALL
Conspiracy Theories</div>
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I am not going to
throw words like Deep State, New World Order, etc, around because I
prefer John Lopez who lives at 6666 SW 6 Street in Hidden City, New
Hole, United Psychopaths and can be reached at 666-666-6666. There is
no amorphous organization meeting at midnight to sacrifice a baby
before turning on their computers and contacting the Reptilian
Overlords for instructions. There are very real, breathing people
reading reports written by the best people money can buy making
decisions designed to kill us all. The only questions are who and why
and there is nothing woo-woo about it.</div>
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Fact: Humans occupy
less of the world's habitable area than ants, cockroaches, mice,
rats, etc. We occupy a tiny portion of the world smaller than the USA
when you actually take all us and put us shoulder to shoulder.</div>
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Fact: We can feed
every human on earth several times over.</div>
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Fact: We have enough
resources to last ad infinium.</div>
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So why are we
running in circles screaming the world is ending?</div>
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Because it is and
the reason is, as Spock the Vulcan would say, fascinating.</div>
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We have all this
land that no one lives on because we are social creatures that like
to clump into groups but, psychologists and sociologists will tell
you, not that close. Here is a fascinating fact and it involves no
drugs. Our closest social model is a rat. Yes, they organize
themselves into communities and families just like we do except they
are actually successful at it. So what happens if you give a rat
everything it desires which happens to be unlimited food and mates?
You would have a happy rat. Now, what happens if you build the rat a
city with everything it wants except more space? They go extinct. Now
remember, they can't eat all the food, like the water, it is
unlimited. Some poor lab tech cleans up after them every day. They
get medical care and are healthy little suckers, so why go extinct?
The answer was when the population reaches a certain density, the
rats lose all interest in everything. They curl up in a ball and stop
living. They stop eating and breeding. They actually become
infertile for no apparent reason. They go extinct because they never
recover from this.</div>
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Scientists have
known this for at least a century.</div>
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So, we build cities,
stack people on top of each other and make laws to prevent them from
living in the countryside where they would have space and make sure
the economy keeps crashing to increase the stress on city dwellers
who have no way to actually take care of themselves. All anyone has
to do is say, no, this is too dense a population, let's increase the
living space. All ANYONE has to do is say no and NO ONE does.</div>
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Let's say you are a
smart, hardworking businessman. You are making computers. They are a
tad slow. Someone comes to your office and says, we can make them 5
milliseconds faster and the battery last fifteen minutes longer using
the rare mineral that no one has ever heard of and increasing the
price by several hundred dollars. How fast will you toss them out?
First off, how did anyone even get a sample of this super rare
mineral? It's so rare you don't even know the name or where it is
found but it will involve invading several countries that might just
fight back and all for what, a few milliseconds? You don't even know
how fast a millisecond expires. Who does something that stupid?
Well, that would be the current computer and telephone company heads.
The men are a geniuses and they make that kind of a business
decision?
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The oil company
executives were told over 60 years ago about global warming. The best
minds in the world said there would only be one outcome if we
continued to use fossil fuels: extinction. We can assume these
captains of industry knew what the word extinction meant. Now, as a
businessman with two brain cells functioning do you (a) start pumping
as much oil as you can, pollute the environment as fast as you can
and build even more inefficient vehicles to use the dwindling supply
of fossil fuels OR (b) do you start looking for another industry to
go into that does the same thing and doesn't use fossil fuels like,
solar, wind and hydro power which is unlimited and FREE! Either the
heads of the oil industry are incredibly stupid or brain damaged or
there is something we don't know and it all leads to, just like the
mega-cities, extinction.</div>
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Now how do we feed
everyone? Simple, you stop wasting food and water feeding things to
kill them to eat them. The only reason man eats meat is man is lazy.
Go hunt, kill, eat but eventually you run out of things to hunt
because they are all eaten, by you. That was when you started raising
animals to eat but, the very people you made fun of, the vegetable
growers, now have to grow vegetables to feed the animals you are
growing to eat. Now, the fun fact here is that you can eat the
vegetables with no problem and have plenty of water, land and food
with no animals dying and no wasted resources. Unlike, say the cat,
you can process vegetable protein. It actually keeps you alive longer
than eating animal protein which is harder to digest and has more
toxins in it. So you come up with 101 ways to cook chicken and
disguise it as something new. Let's look at facts. You have chicken,
beef and pork. That is three main meats and three tastes. You have
potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes, beets, squash, lettuce, kale, cabbage,
beans …..... shall I go on? The tastes available from plant matter
is almost unlimited when you add in flowers and herbs and they cost
less to produce, you can grow them in your kitchen and eat for free.
So, if you want to feed the world many times over, just switch to
vegetables instead of meat. Vegetables don't poop and pollute.</div>
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It is simple things,
like cooking oil that really get you asking questions. Grape seed oil
is a high temperature oil that can be used to cook everything. It can
be produced by cold press which uses little energy except for a
really heavy rock in primitive times AND here is the clincher, do you
have any idea how many grape seeds are in the landfills? Let me
explain, take a look at that bottle of wine. Wine is made from grapes
and much to your shock, small grapes with BIG seeds. You have to
crush the grapes and then filter the seeds out or the wine is awful.
That produces pounds of seeds that could then be crushed and the oil
extracted and used for cooking and frying and the hulls can probably
be used for something but the question is why grapeseed oil is so
expensive when it is made from garbage from the wine industry? It is
healthy. It can be used at any temperature. It is cheap to produce.
But we grow rape seed to make an unhealthy oil to market cheaper
than grapeseed oil and we still have the hulls except this time they
are toxic. So, all you smart business people out there, do you make a
product you have to grow and process and then dispose of toxic waste
or make a better product out of garbage and its by products are
non-toxic. That is no growing, no harvesting and nothing to get rid
of....which one? Why, the rape seed of course because we are stupid.</div>
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And the choices just
keep multiplying over and over.
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Let's keep people
from going off the grid to live on their own land because after all
it is more expensive and polluting to produce large amounts of power,
purify water polluted by producing the power and then try to get rid
of all the poop rather than each family passively producing their
own power, filtering their own water and composting their poop for
fertilizer to grow the veggies they are eating without a farmer
spraying the crap out of a monocrop with poisons, harvesting it and
trucking it to market all with lovely fossil fuels that are causing
more pollution....wait a minute! Stop the insanity! Why are we doing
everything the hard way? Are we suicidal?</div>
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Are we suicidal or
is someone trying to kill us?</div>
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Sustainability is a
dirty word. It means living a lifestyle that sustains us, society and
the planet. It means if you produce it, you use a minimum of
resources and you return to the planet an equal amount of equivalent
resources. We have stopped doing that and gone to taking from the
planet to produce a product at the highest cost and pollution with
the end product being something that can't be used again and actually
poisons us. Are you going to tell me all these captains of industry
are so stupid they don't know that they are killing their own future
generations? What kind of world are they leaving their children and
grandchildren?</div>
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No one in their
right minds would do this, except psychopaths who only care about
what happens to them and no one else. Fortunately, psychopathy and
intelligence go together. You seldom find a stupid psychopath but on
the other hand, you don't always find rich psychopaths. I proved in
another series of postings that none of the billionaires of today are
actually “self-made men”. They ALL come from money, have
excellent educations and were given every opportunity. You do not
find a rags to riches story among them and every one of them is
crazy. Most of them, without rich friends or family, would be serial
killers roaming the back roads of the world looking for people to
dismember alive.
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Harsh? Oh let's look
at the infamous twins. They completely dumped their entire family
leaving them with little money to produce the most defective oil
pipes in the world while abusing their wives and children. I mean,
what do you call it when a man who is an expert skier takes his
novice wife, the love of his life and mother of his children, on a
skiing trip and puts her behind him on an expert slop from which
there is no exit and where she can die in a horrible accident at any
moment because of her novice status? Would that be a loving husband
or a psychopathic potential killer? As the MEME's say, just saying.
She thinks it is pushing her potential. So would pushing her off a
cliff to teach her to flap her arms and fly. I say it is abuse on
many levels. Would they be a billion dollars low producing a quality
product that didn't consistently leak and pollute the earth and
water? No, they wouldn't. So why does anyone buy their pipes? They
are the sole producer of pipes in the world. They eliminated all
competition in the field. There is no choice. Why didn't someone,
some government stop them? They will stop you from installing your
own water piper, for your own good, of course.</div>
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Here is what we know
or I know. Everyone of these psychopaths got a hand up to become the
billionaires they are. Someone whispered in their ear with a deal
they couldn't pass up. The only people they care about is
themselves. No one else really exists. They are geniuses but like
practically all geniuses, they have a single focus and are unable to
see either long range effects or the effects on other things from
what they do. They all have excellent educations at the best
universities where most of them dropped out and followed their
“dream” in Daddy's ten car garage with a small, quarter of a mil
loan or more, from a relative or friend of the family using their
former school mates as slave labor with the promise they might be
brought on board when they made it big. The school mates are probably
flinging burgers because they are nowhere it be seen. Oddly, any one
of the schoolmates would have made a better product and were better
people..... I wonder if that is why they are flipping burgers with a
Harvard degree. Once you step on that train, there is no exit and you
are expendable. You will do what you are told or everything will be
removed from you or you will suffer the Epstein fate.</div>
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So whose name am I
looking for that isn't New World Order or Deep State? I am looking
for the person who provided the money the investors gave them to
start the companies. I want the name of the person who gave some
dupe the rare minerals no one has ever seen in their lives to shave
those milliseconds off your download. I want the person who provided
the whiskey the afternoon those captains of industry decided to run
the energy industry into the ground, start wars over oil and destroy
the entire planet. I want to know who the head psychopath is and why
they want to kill me. Yes, it is personal and you should want to know
why they want to kill you. Why have they made sure we don't have the
future we were promised? Why have they made sure we are disease
ridden, stressed out, poisoned and overworked? Why have they caused
us to waste our lives on a hamster wheel in a rat maze with no cheese
at the end? And when we find them, instead of waiting for the answer,
let's just throw them to sharks and let nature take its course.
Sharks have to eat, after all. It is all every environmentally
friendly.
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I've done a bit of
the legwork for you. So here are a few hints. It's not any head of
banking, industry, country or royalty. These people are the
expendable public faces of the monster. Remember one thing, the kings
were originally chosen in this demented economic system to rule via
divine right. Now, who determined what the divine right was? Now you
have your starting point so delve into some genealogy and find out
who and what the current families are. For all you know, they are
living next door.</div>
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Armed with nothing
but a pearl necklace.............</div>
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I wonder when the
reality of who the snowflakes or just plain flakes is going to set in
with the screaming Cult of Hate. They have their leader, hiding in
Walter Reed with his bone spurs (which curiously enough never go away
without surgery and don't seem to appear on a single x-ray, ever),
and their cry baby judge, afraid he won't get his bottle of beer, are
all petrified of a woman armed only with a pearl necklace. Oh great
white supremacist Vikings brought to their knees behind a bunch of
old white chicken hawks scrambling for their lives when two women
tell them to sit down and shut up armed once again, with that string
of pearls.</div>
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Damn folks, perhaps
we should forget restricting the purchase of AK-14's and take a good
look at pearls. Those things are dangerous.</div>
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Or perhaps you might
want to consider the GOP is nothing more than a bunch of cry babies
who suddenly aren't able to bully or buy their way into power because
someone finally said, “Enough”, and took away their safe place
down at the local watering hole. Perhaps you might want to consider
the hatred is fueled by equal amounts of alcohol and fear and like
most rodents, will run as soon as the cat steps on stage. The cat
wears pearls and they aren't fake.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Nope, unlike the
Ho's in the front row of the hate fests, these pearls are the real
deal, nicely understated and saying, “I have class, I have power
and I have truth”. My pearls come from real wild oysters not
subjugated, farmed slave oysters or the great Chinese glass pearl
factory. Mine were formed in life's irritations of some poor oyster
that just wanted to solve the problem of sand in its meal and now, I
am going to solve the problem.</div>
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It would seem
wrapping yourself in a giant flag made in China while waving a gold
painted cross is about to go out of style, since someone just asked
for the proof and those wooden swords don't cut well. The magic guy
in the sky is nice, but steel always wins and those ladies have steel
backbones.</div>
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Hold my
mead.........</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
One of the now most
famous Evangelical “Ministers” is selling prophetic information
to help you vanquish your enemies for what I am sure makes the price
of a spell kit look weak and unworthy.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Okay, you guys have
now publicly crossed the line. Hold my mead, the shit is going to get
serious.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Let me explain this
going back over 30 years.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Usually I get the
call for help from bankruptcy court or the hospital, when the good
Christian suddenly needs a “witch” because that “prayer circle”
of “prayer warriors” didn't like them dating their daughter, the
size of the commission they got or the color of their skin and now
they will spend their last penny to stop the curse because now they
know this is darkest magic and it is a curse being invoked by these
“good Christians”. I have had good friends come within an inch of
losing their life after losing everything they own and built. In that
case, the why is they took one of them into their business when they
got fired because they felt sorry for them. Next thing they saw was
the inside of an ICU and after a month of coma. I have heard every
excuse to doing this from “I should get a bigger commission than
anyone else because I am a Christian” to “I had to get rid of the
Catholics working there before my immortal soul was contaminated so I
tried to kill the owner”.</div>
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No one believed me.
Now it is out in the open. There is no vetting to see if this person
is legitimately being targeted by someone. No checking to see if
there really an enemy or just a rival. No checking to see if the
person is insane but if you belong to that sect, the odds are pretty
high you are. In short, it is for the right price handing a loaded
gun to the bully in the school yard and permission to shoot anyone
they think is doing them wrong.</div>
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So, let's start with
some free information.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Has your child been
harmed by the military or any police. Molock is the guy to go to. He
rights those wrongs and helps ease the suffering of mothers.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Women, are you being
harmed by ex's or others taking advantage of you and hurting your
children. Pazuzu is your deity. He is invoked to protect households
and children.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I know you have been
told a lot of things about these deities but this is what they
really do and they are very effective.
</div>
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Moloch accepts
offerings made of cedar. Cedar incense is burned on the altar. The
offering can be burned or a cedar tree can be planted in his honor.</div>
<br />
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Pazuzu doesn't ask
for offerings but things in bronze are favored by him. He is a storm
god that brings dust storms so some sand is attractive to him on an
altar. He will bankrupt the people who harm single mothers with
children.</div>
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It's time to go back
to specialization.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
In the olden days,
if you needed rain, you went to the rain god's temple with an
offering and discussed it with him/her. Thunder and lightning might
have required another deity and a larger offering. The fertile crop
deities were always popular for a party and wine deities even had
their own and frequent holidays.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Then along came this
one god I can do everything guy and things have been going down hill.
When is the last time he granted anything? I mean it is possible he
is overworked but he was supposed to do everything and now we have
droughts, famine, Global warming, massive crop failures, unhappy
people all over the place (I think the wine deities would have fixed
that one), hatred, fear and it just goes on and on.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Multiple Deities
made us happy. If they didn't work out, we just borrowed the village
next door's deity. I think that is why we have so many wine and
fertility deities. Villages started collecting them. They are fun.
</div>
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I bet all Noah's
wife wanted was her garden rained on every Monday and Thursday.
Somewhere around week 5, she is asking Noah where the rain is. Noah
is, as usual trying to shut her up as he is building a big boat
dreaming of all the riches this new one god is going to drop on him.
We all know how that turned out, a huge flood and a boat load of
whining animals.</div>
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We need to go back
to the specialist deities. They knew how to get things done.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-39094600202785284432019-11-15T13:22:00.001-08:002019-11-15T13:22:19.218-08:00It's not just a phase<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Phases of Life</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Oh it's just a phase
they are going through!</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It's dismissive. It
makes you feel like a two year old. It says you'll get back to
“normal” shortly.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It's none of those
things, not even if you are a two year old and the worst thing anyone
can do is just ignore it.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Young children
cannot learn by being told. Imagine explaining to a child how to walk
while keeping their legs tied together. What do you think the chances
are that child is going to learn to walk? The answer is nil, zero,
none. That is because the child must experience balance and movement
to walk.
</div>
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However, as the
child grows older the parents expect them to learn by being told not
to do something. The stove is hot.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Oh admit it, every
one of you touched the stove and got burned.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
And so it just goes
on and on. Not even those brilliant teenagers are that good at
learning something by reading about it. Tell me, do you think you can
gain confidence by reading about someone who is confident? Am I
crazy? No, that is exactly what you think because you just said it
was a phase they are going through.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Those phases allow a
person to try on and practice a new form of life expression be it
being a spy or an assertive person. Women are more likely to be going
through phases than men because men are allowed to express themselves
and women are locked into the “lady mold”.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Phases do more than
that. By experiencing a new life perspective, a person develops
empathy with others in different situations. It allows a person to
incorporate new expressions of themselves into their overall
personality. It is a simple of way of uncovering talents and learning
what you really don't want to do.</div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It is not just a
phase. It is how you successfully learn to be human. It is how you
learn what works and what is going to get you isolated. It is how you
learn what you love. It is how you grow.</div>
<br />
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Encourage the
phases. They will do more to produce a well rounded happy individual
than all the money in the world.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-43275801058952695842019-11-14T09:27:00.002-08:002019-11-14T09:27:03.922-08:00The Last Tarot Reading<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
At the beginning of this
administration, I used to do a daily Tarot reading. I really loved
doing them and had done them throughout other administrations.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
This one was different. Every day the
readings were worse until finally, one day when I finished and
published, I did a three month reading. The results were worse.
Okay, I tried three more months and got a worse reading. I jumped to
six months and it was worse. The thing is, even after the 2020
elections, the readings didn't get better. I asked why and the answer
was that things would never be undone. I didn't understand. I do
now. I stopped doing the readings that day.</div>
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Those children in camps will never be
reunited with their real parents.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The public lands sold off for strip
mining and fraking will never be returned to we the people.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The face of our legal system will be
forever one of injustice as these for-life judge appointments
continue to play out.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
We will never be able to clean up the
land and water from four years of heavy pollution. Poison just
doesn't go away and the results of this, the malformed children, the
sick adults, the brain damaged and the dead elders can't be reversed.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
We cannot just turn the clock back
because the departments have not just been gutted, they have been
destroyed. The very programs that the system ran on, and I mean
computer, have been erased and would have to be rewritten from
memory.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Our entire government has been
destroyed.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
But far more, our trust in anything and
anyone, including those near and dear to us, has been destroyed.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
We would like to lay the blame at the
feet of tRump and Moscow Mitch, but they were just the instruments.
The people holding the strings to these puppets are FOX News and the
Rightwing Shock Jocks. Without their drug induced daily insane rants
and conspiracy fantasies, because they didn't qualify as
theories....theories require a few facts, these two men wouldn't have
managed to consolidate the amount of power they did. The Orange
Turnip would never have won without FOX laying the groundwork and
lying to gullible people who thought what they saw on TV was truth.
Mitch the Moscow Bitch would never have been able to pass a rule he
had to approve anything before it could be voted on in the Senate.
Old Boner resigned because he had to have been approached to do this
and the old drunk actually had enough ethics to refuse but not to
hand the position over to someone who would. So, yes, this falls in
his lap and he doesn't get to play Kissinger and tell us where we
went wrong. He went wrong.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
We don't need a State Run Network. We
need to prevent foreign interests from ever again buying into
American networks. We need to ban foreign interests from having any
part in American news organizations. If Reagan hadn't fast-tracked
Murdoch's citizenship application, he could never have created FOX.
So, yes, let's blame the real culprit in this saga, St. Ronnie
because the framework for everything that has happened, economically,
socially and religiously starts in his administration with a group of
5 economists and one sleaze who managed to get Nixon elected by
costing the lives of thousands of young men in a jungle in SE Asia.
If Nixon hadn't been caught, this would have happened then.</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
So no, there is no happy ending. You
can't fix the trauma of the Trumpcamp children. You can't bring back
the dead from canceled insurance. You can't fix the Veterans
returning to a thank you and a homeless camp. You can't make up for
4 years of a gutted educational system. You can't bring the veterans
back you deported. You can't bring the Kurdish women and children
back to life that we abandoned. You can't fix this. But you can make
sure the people who aided and betted this in their little red hats
never get to forget what they did because we will NEVER FORGET.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-65022714721864237172019-11-13T13:46:00.001-08:002019-11-13T13:46:31.979-08:00Great Deal? Think Again<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Oh, so you got a
good deal........</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Heinlein wrote the
most profound theory of economics for the rest of us, the 97%, when
he wrote: “There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch,” or
“TANSHAAFL”. You, dearies, are the free lunch for the upper 3%.
The rich get richer off the backs of the poorer. So, tell me about
the great deal you got and I'll LMAO.</div>
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I got a letter in
the mail today from an insurance company. It is the annual Medicare
round up of gullible sheep for the shearing. They are going to give
me, not just medical, but vision, dental and hearing, PLUS
medications AND MONEY BACK in my Social Security Check not to
mention, and they won't, a 23 Million Dollar Bonus for their CEO this
year. REALLY?????? Are they printing money in the back room? Who is
really paying for this windfall? Well, it's not the CEO, he's getting
bonus. It's not the doctors and pharmacies because they always make
money. That sort of leaves you and I. Anyone starting to think maybe
there is something they aren't telling me. Sorry MAGA hat wearers but
someone always pays and it is always you and I, either through denial
of service, postponement of service until it is no longer medically
necessary, i.e. you are dead or too far gone to save, over charging
you for cheap things you really have to have, and have to get from
them, or some equally nefarious trick like charging the government
(which is you) for things you (which is you) never got like our dear
Senator and ex-governor did Medicare when he was CEO of a hospital.</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
What about those
great deals on brand names that aren't from the manufacturer or
authorized dealers? Get ready to not like what you got.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Let's take shoes and
clothes. The machine cuts a six foot tall by 54 inch by 6 foot stack
of pressed leather or fabric. That's it folks, it has to cut that
much. For each pattern, the computer laser must be calibrated which
means they have to check to see if the finished product actually fits
together and the person. So they make one, just one. Then the
computer is calibrated to the mm to correct any mistakes. Another
pallet of material the same size is placed in the machine and another
cut and test is done. Usually, like 99% of the time, this one is
correct and all the material goes to the people assembling the
product BUT are you wondering what happens to the first pallet of
material? Reputable companies destroy it, good companies send it to
be recycled and really bad companies sell it out the back door. So
when you get that great deal, the material was either sold out the
back door or bought off the recycle truck and then assembled,
without correction in a sweat shop somewhere to be sold to a not-so
honest seller and that person is in your local flea market or online
with the big auction or cheap resale companies like but not only,
Ebay and Amazon. Do they know this? Of course they do and they even
encourage it. That is why you can go and examine the product at a
real retailer, try it on, nibble on it and then go save money on line
and get something that is off, won't fit or falls apart. You got the
real test parts, that's all. You may even get the real label.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
When I first started
out, after two experiences I learned quickly as a retailer, you get
what you pay for. Want an awful smelling shampoo, that doesn't lather
or clean but has the manufacturer's label on it at 2/3's the
price....shop at the great W. You may never know what was added to or
missing from that bottle until your hair falls out in 10 years and
then, oh my, you can't sue the manufacturer because you bought nice
clean product that was sent to the dump and never made it.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
A man offered to
sell me glass enclosed candles out of his trunk for half the
wholesale price. I knew the manufacturer and bought from them. The
color was off, was why he got a great deal on them and then the
stores that bought them started getting the complaints. They burned
forever or down in a couple of days and some of them exploded. You
see, the manufacturer had to produce 6 dozen candles at a time. Then
they test burn time, too hot the glass blows up, too cool they burn
forever. They adjust the oil to wax ratio. This guy's great buy was
out of their dumpster or rather beside it because the forklift driver
was getting a couple of dollars not to drop them in the dumpster and
break the glass bottles.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The one I fell for
was at a very legitimate trade show when I bought a load of
discounted books from a dealer carrying books by printers not at the
show. Two months later I finally got my books. They weren't even
returns to the publisher that didn't sell in bookstores. They were
returns to the book stores and purchases from secondhand bookstores,
filthy, marked up and unsalable. Then I say my copy of the invoice
was marked no returns, sale merchandise. His wasn't and the invoice I
saw. Mine was the carbon not exact copy under it.</div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
There is no such
thing as a free lunch and if you think there is, you are about to be
fleeced.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-1169494185892267642019-11-11T13:18:00.000-08:002019-11-11T13:18:03.850-08:00Reflections on War<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Memories of War</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Remember the
Veterans. No, remember the cost of war and that the Veterans are one.
Of course, by the time the Man in the White House finishes
privatizing the VA, there will be no cost because you'll probably
have to pay for everything.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
My first experience
with this day and its cost, came young. I guess you could say my
family's experience with wars in this bright and shiny new country
that was going to do fantastic things so very differently from the
Kings and Queens of Europe was the Civil War or as I was taught in
the South, the War of Attrition. I don't know which is more amazing,
that the powers that be actually convinced the people and future
generation it was a war of two noble sides, one fighting to free
the slaves (notice they never say PEOPLE from slavery) and the other
fighting to preserve a noble way of life full of happy workers (that
just happened to be property) and cotillions or that a 4 year old
child knew the meaning of Attrition.
</div>
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Just so you fully
understand the brain washing that comes with this heritage allow me
to show you the two sides or rather what each is taught. Every Sunday
after dinner the dining room table, which is the size of a small car,
is cleared and the toy soldiers come out. These are not some plastic
replicas advertised on a cereal box for a dollar, these are hand
carved images of the real men who fought with special care given to
the uniforms, medals and appearance of your family's veterans. Oddly,
all the Northern soldiers look like faceless blobs. Then for the
next few hours of increasingly drunken strategy the prominent battles
are refought by little pieces of wood, strategy analyzed and revised
by a group of men that will never see a battle field and probably
faint at the sight of blood. It is called the War of Attrition for a
reason. Wikipedia defines War by Attrition as “<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Attrition
warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to
win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through
continuous losses in personnel and materiel. The war will usually be
won by the side with greater such resources.” </span></span></span>
The South considered themselves to be the superior military force
that lost only because the North had greater numbers and resources.
It was a miracle that our brave and intelligent men won a single
battle but they managed to hold out for four glorious years dreaming
of those Southern Belles and home and the glory of the Southern way
of life, a way of life marked by manners, everyone knowing their
place and of course, those fantastic ball gowns stitched and beaded
by hand by slaves and those glorious dinners grown and cooked by
slaves because those Southern Belles never touched raw food, cleaned
anything or did anything. It was a heritage stolen by my wife of a
carpetbagger grandmother from her lesbian lover who actually owned
the small plantation they lived on as soon as they murdered both
husbands in unfortunate farming accidents a week apart. Are you
beginning to see the cracks in that story of the Southern Belle,
yet? I guess those men did just before one them cracked their skulls.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The story of my
mother's side was a different one. No it wasn't a noble group of
people fighting to free the slaves (remember, those slaves wouldn't
really be considered people until modern times), it was one of a
family torn apart and never patched back together as one son went off
to join the North and the other the South. Most people do not realize
this is why there is Virginia and west Virginia or even Tennessee and
Kentucky. Kentucky was part of Virginia, all of which were part of a
territory. Kentucky declared its neutrality in the Civil War whereas
Tennessee joined the Confederacy. An attack on Kentucky by the
Confederacy caused them to join the North. Tennessee was part of
North Carolina. Why all the splits? Someone wanted all the states to
be equal in size which is why Pennsylvania and Ohio are two states
now. Seems I just heard that same illogic in a meeting to annex all
property into cities in Broward County. Things never change. People
do not realize this is the story of the Northern Veterans, families
torn apart by those evil Southerners stating this unnecessary war.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Yes, the Civil War
was as much a farce as the shame of my father descended from a
Carpetbagger being derided for marrying a Yankee who actually had an
uncle who fought for the South. This is when I yell, “Lies, all
lies” and the Man in the White House counters with “Alternative
Facts”.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So now that we know
the Civil War was all about slavery, let's have a few facts.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
a. .1% of the men in
the south owned more than 100 slaves. Yes there is a decimal point
before the 1.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
b. 6.6% of the men
owned 10-99 slaves.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
c. 17.2% owned 1-9
slaves. </div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
d. 76.1%
owned no slaves.</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
And boom went the
myth. The South was a land dominated by mega-factory farms producing
cotton with 6.7% of the population having all the wealth and .1% at
the very top running things. From Lumen Learning's course on American
History: “<span style="color: #373d3f;"><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
South prospered, but its wealth was very unequally distributed.
Upward social mobility did not exist for the millions of slaves who
produced a good portion of the nation’s wealth, while poor southern
whites envisioned a day when they might rise enough in the world to
own slaves of their own. Because of the cotton boom, there were more
millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River Valley by 1860 than
anywhere else in the United States. However, in that same year, only
3 percent of whites owned more than fifty slaves, and two-thirds of
white households in the South did not own any slaves at all.
Distribution of wealth in the South became less democratic over time;
fewer whites owned slaves in 1860 than in 1840.” </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Gee, where have I
heard that, “poor southern whites envisioned a day when they might
rise enough in the world to own slaves.” Oh, right LBJ's
explanation of why the poor vote for the wealthy.</div>
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“<span style="color: #373d3f;"><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although
a small white elite owned the vast majority of slaves in the South,
and most other whites could only aspire to slaveholders’ wealth and
status, slavery shaped the social life of all white southerners in
profound ways. Southern culture valued a behavioral code in which
men’s honor, based on the domination of others and the protection
of southern white womanhood, stood as the highest good. Slavery also
decreased class tensions, binding whites together on the basis of
race despite their inequalities of wealth. Several defenses of
slavery were prevalent in the antebellum era, including Calhoun’s
argument that the South’s “concurrent majority” could overrule
federal legislation deemed hostile to southern interests; the notion
that slaveholders’ care of their chattel made slaves better off
than wage workers in the North; and the profoundly racist ideas
underlying polygenism.</span></span></span> “</div>
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You might want to
read that summary from Lumen several times to let it sink in because
it is integral to creation of veterans.</div>
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The Northern
landscape was dotted with Factory Towns and the reason why the North
was actually more prosperous than the South. The south had converted
their food producing farms to cotton producing to make Mo' Money
with food production being just what they needed to feed the slaves
and themselves. The Northern factory towns had a better idea creating
a more balanced economy. The factory worker, a “free” man worked
for a salary that he then used to buy his food, clothing, medical
care and housing from the factory owner. It is most convenient to
convince your slave he is free and then charge him to be your slave
because he is inferior to you but allow him to think, he might one
day own a factory full of workers. But, you had better do it before
you became old or disabled and couldn't work because then you were
escorted off the factory property to fend for yourself. Whoa, wasn't
that the same thing as what the Southern upper class was doing to the
lower class white men?</div>
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Believe me, the
similarities are just coincidence but not lost on the .1% of the
Southerners that owns practically all the slaves and land because the
factory town was a financially more profitable system than the
direct loss from feeding, housing, clothing and providing some
medical care for a slave without the bonus of being able to kick him
out the door when he became disabled or old and couldn't work any
more.</div>
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So what was the real
fight? Tariffs, and that is a word you will find over and over before
every single war after that one. The Northern factories processed
cotton into fabric. The South could ship the cotton to England and
France, have it processed into fabric and shipped back cheaper than
sending it to a Northern factory and all these new millionaires were
all about Mo' Money. So the North imposed tariffs that made making it
in the USA a better deal than sending it overseas and cut into the
Southern profit and the South argued through Calhoun, “<span style="color: #373d3f;"><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
a leading political theorist defending slavery and the rights of the
South, which he saw as containing an increasingly embattled minority.
He advanced the idea of a </span></span></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;">concurrent
majority</span><span style="color: #373d3f;"><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
a majority of a separate region (that would otherwise be in the
minority of the nation) with the power to veto or disallow
legislation put forward by a hostile majority.</span></span></span>
“</div>
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And he based his
argument on the Founding Father establishing the Electoral College
and the US as a Republic and not a true Democracy. Does THAT sound
familiar?</div>
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The next big Veteran
maker was WWI, started by a lie called the “Em's Telegram”.
According the great god Google, “<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>French</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">diplomat
asked William and </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bismarck</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to
support his country's wish that a Hohenzollern would never become a
Spanish </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>king</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
William rejected this request and </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bismarck</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
after editing the </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>French</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">diplomat's
statement, made it public in the </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Telegram</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>France</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">declared
war on Prussia on Jult 19, 1870.</span></span></span> “</div>
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That sounds a lot
like today, but it makes more sense once you know the Arms Merchants
part in fanning the flames and creating a World War out of this
molehill. My relatives came home from WWI with the thousand yard
stare as in that war every dirty form of warfare created was seen and
we cannot imagine the horrors they saw but the reason the US entered
WWI was “<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>United
States entered</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the
war because of the Germans' decision to resume the policy of
unrestricted submarine warfare, and the so-called "Zimmerman
telegram," intercepted by the British, in which Germany floated
the idea of an alliance with Mexico.</span></span></span>
“</div>
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Germany was sinking
merchant and passenger ships alike whether they were from a country
involved in the war or not. Of course, my relatives actually died for
the right of the 1% to enjoy cruises in Europe and buy expensive
items from France and Spain to decorate their houses because no one
in my family could afford either one.</div>
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The next big Veteran
creator was WWII. Interestingly enough, the word tariff once again
arises from the ashes. The US, England and Europe decided to punish
Germany for WWI by placing huge tariffs on anything German,
bankrupting them. This allowed a paperhanger to incite the upper
class of Germany into electing him and returning their former glory
to their society. Didn't I just write that about the Civil War? Now
the upper class in the US was not for spanking Hitler for his
transgressions because they and the upper class of Germany were good
friends and relatives. It wasn't until he attacked England and
France, those bastions of royalty, I mean society that all poor white
men aspire to rejoin, that something had to be done and so a lot of
veterans were created in Hawaii to get us into a war by our
illustrious leaders and a Emperor in Japan fighting to maintain the
way of life and society of his very civilized and socially structured
society with a rich and ruling 1% that everyone else worshiped as
gods. Didn't I just write that????</div>
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Lather, rinse and
repeat and no one ever stops creating veterans, over and over and
over again, Johnny goes marching off to war to protect something he
isn't a part of and never will be. Johnny needs to wake up and
refuse to fight the 1%'s wars. Perhaps when the 1% get finished
kicking Johnny in the teeth and he figures out he is never getting
any of that wealth or respect, he will but will he be too damaged to
do anything about the little Johnnies growing up believing the same
old tale?
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You tell me.</div>
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My father tried to
enlist in one of the many wars. He was a pilot and a mechanic. That
got him in, but they discovered he had asthma so to get rid of him,
they shipped him to Tampa Florida. Between the humidity and the mold,
he could not breathe, so he was given a choice by the US government.
He could resign and claim no benefits or he could die in Tampa. He
had a young wife, I wasn't born yet, and he had a short life
expectancy with asthma, anyway. When he lost consciousness, the other
men in the ward pooled their money and called my mother in
Pennsylvania where she was staying with her sister. The only reason
they had a phone was my uncle was a union man and had a good job in
the steel mill. Scared to death, having never left the small area of
West Virginia and Pennsylvania where her family was, she borrowed
money from my uncle, boarded a train and road all the way to Florida
to the VA hospital which was a converted hotel that had been
abandoned for years. The men half carried my father to the train
station claiming he was drunk to get him on the train because they
wouldn't transport the sick. The conductor took pity on my mother
because she was young and pretty and didn't throw them off the train
in Georgia when he discovered my father wasn't drunk. They spent the
next years in poverty although they both made a good living, her a
secretary and him a mechanic, paying for his medical bills. Through a
strange miracle, he was cured and they moved to North Carolina to
escape the federal records that prevented him from getting a pilot's
license. He steadfastly stood by his country and refused to sue them
to get his earned benefits until he became a mercenary in the Latin
American theater and discovered just who and what his government was,
a government for and by the wealthy and he was nothing more than
cannon fodder. That was when he sued the US and won. He spent the end
of his life in the VA hospital being treated for ailments mostly
caused by that little side trip to Tampa. Tampa no longer is the
Hellhole he was in. It is drained, air conditioned and a lovely
place. The ex-VA hospital is a gorgeous hotel. I've stayed there.
It's haunted by mostly the ghosts of all the Veterans who died there.
The basement houses gift shops and is really haunted because that is
where they piled the hopeless ones and let them die. That is where my
mother found my father, in a bed that hadn't been changed in week,
with no food or water, gasping for breath and dying in his uniform.
They didn't even bother giving them a hospital gown, so the guys had
no trouble faking the guards out and carrying him to the train
station.
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Oh yes, honor our
veterans but never forget who makes them and how they treat them
before you vote or sign into the military.</div>
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I found my father in
a bed in the VA having had his leg amputated against his wishes in a
room with 5 other veterans, 2 were psychiatric cases, one violent,
and the other two were heart patients trying to stay calm and not
have another heart attack. It was bedlam with screaming and throwing
things, one trying to strangle the other one for throwing feces at
him, while my father begged me to kill him.</div>
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Yes, let's never
forget our veterans and how the rich, who buy their kids out of
military service, treat them the 364 and a half days that aren't
spent in the stands at an 11/11 parade.</div>
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NEVER FORGET.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-51390343034926094172019-11-11T06:48:00.000-08:002019-11-11T06:48:05.509-08:00Old Cats and Old Humans<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Old cats and old
people have one thing in common, we are both grouchy. I think they
must feel the years in their bones, too. I had fed the cats and went
into the kitchen to get my food. My blood sugar was dropping like a
rock. I turned the light on and went for a bowl. One thing I have
learned with diabetes is if I don't have prepared food in the
morning, I will declare it too much trouble to put the cereal and
coconut milk in a bowl and go back to bed. That is the road to the
ER. So I was lifting the bowl out of the drainer when I looked down
and there in her box was the Matriarch of the Cathood. I don't know
exactly how old she is but Napoleon is 16 and she was a matron when
he was a bottle sucking kitten. She looked up at me, one eye closed,
the other squinting and showed one fang. I clearly heard, “Turn off
the f'n light hoooman. I am trying to sleep.” I grabbed my bowl,
hastily dumped the blueberry yogurt I made last night and turned off
the light. She was already back to sleep. </div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-46124078513858677452019-11-10T18:38:00.000-08:002019-11-10T18:38:15.211-08:00Still Locked Out of Social Media.I guess I should be flattered the Religious Right considers me such a threat that they have to keep me locked out of social media but they seriously underestimate me and the platform.<br />
Here is what happens.<br />
I go to both parties, games and media, and they instigate an investigation. I am found to be in violation of no one's rules and my account is opened. From an hour to a couple of days, until the next complaint is filed and I am locked out of posting and we repeat the cycle.<br />
The lockouts are automated and the people doing this know that but they are underestimating the platforms. If you really think they don't track who complains and how many complaints are made and against whom, you are really, really stupid. You are wasting their man hours and they don't like that because they have revenue to earn rather than babysitting you. You become a problem and you lose access both platforms. The games will get you first because they can't afford to lose money or reputation. If you think they don't work together, well, you are hopeless.<br />
Now here is what you have achieved.<br />
1. Aggravating me.<br />
2. I am unable to post lost and found pets. These posts are picked up and relayed by a number of other services. Pets stay lost.<br />
3. I am unable to post to TNR pages which means I can't help people find vets and neuter spay clinics. I can't post pets for adoption from small rescues.<br />
Now here is what you didn't achieve.<br />
1. Silencing me. I am on several platforms and they actually post my posts back to the one you have me blocked on.<br />
2. Losing followers for me. They follow me on several platforms so no one missed a thing.<br />
3. Costing me money. Actually you are making me money because people now have to pay to get information on the paranormal from me that I was giving away free.<br />
4. Being the great caped hero of your God. Nope, you just proved you are stupid and nothing else.<br />
Oh, and you are doing this to a lot of people including someone who specializes in tracing the owners of lost pets. You knocked him off the main rescue he was working with so, all those chipped found animals are dead in animal control because he was the guy who traced the owners down.<br />
Actions have consequences and a lot of people are hunting you guys down. Soon, you won't even be able to get on the Internet. People are sick of your crap. People and animals are hurting because of what you are doing to the helpers. You never know what a person does off the internet but we know what you do for others: absolutely nothing. You sit in a chair behind a computer harming people and organizations that are trying to make the world better and complain and file complaints and think your God is going to reward you once you are dead.<br />
LMAO. It doesn't work that way. No God asks who you harmed. They ask who you helped.<br />
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-28322108708661831822019-11-10T09:30:00.002-08:002019-11-10T09:30:34.707-08:00Global Warming Made Simple<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Global Warming, the simple explanation</div>
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Ever get in an argument with someone
who says, “We can't have global warming because we had the coldest
winter on record”?</div>
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My answer is, in the winter, “It is
summer in Argentina.”</div>
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It shuts them up as they are now
convinced I am crazy. Unfortunately, I probably am not. However, here
is a simple explanation, not into the cause, but how it works.</div>
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You have built a pendulum which is
nicely swinging over a piece of paper with marks from 0 to 10 on both
sides. 0 would be the position of the pendulum at rest. It is
swinging between -2 and 2. It will keep swinging there forever
because you added a motor to keep it swinging there.</div>
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Along comes your friend and hits the
table knocking it to 8. It overrides the motor and swings back to -7
and ¾ as it tries to return to the -2/2 position it is programmed to
swing to for eternity. It is going to take a while for that motor to
get it back to -2/2.</div>
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This is what happened to the earth.
We, or something, knocked the table. Now the summers are hotter than
normal and no shock, the winters are colder as the earth tries to get
back to normal.</div>
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But, this is not Global Warming. This
has happened many times in the past with mini-ice ages and sudden
warmings. The historical evidence is overwhelming.</div>
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When our friend knocked the table this
time, something new happened. The stand the pendulum was attached to
moved from 0 to 1. So now even when the motor takes the pendulum to a
-2/2 swing eventually, it will now be a -1/3 swing. This is Global
Warming. The earth can never return to the previous range of
temperatures because we moved the default setting.</div>
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Now let's build a model of some place
on earth. There are mountains, plateaus, rivers, flat areas, hilly
areas, and even a few crevices. Along comes our clumsy friend and
spills his super sized coffee on our model. Coffee is everywhere but
the top of the mountains and plateaus. It is heading for the rivers
and crevices but they were already full so it covers the flat areas.
Our model is forever changed.</div>
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This is weather. There are all sorts of
things that cause the weather here to be different from the weather
a mile away. It flows and swirls. This is why the models for Global
Warming are averages but within the area of the average, the effect
may not be seen. Whereas Florida, in the Atlantic Ocean, is still the
same size, whole islands in the Philippines, in the Pacific Ocean,
are sinking fast and a couple are gone. Although the Atlantic Ocean
is higher than the Pacific, and pundits would point out Florida
should be one sinking fast, they fail to note the north oceans are
higher than the south oceans, so the effects are felt in the southern
hemispheres first and Florida is in the Northern Hemisphere.</div>
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This is how our friend in the first
paragraph was easily mislead. There is simply more to the world than
the city he lives in. Weather is a complex system that ebbs and flows
over and around, as are the oceans. This is why we do averages. It
doesn't matter what the cause of Global Warming is, the zero point
has moved and it isn't going back. That is what they call the point
of no return.
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So what IS the big deal about a few
degrees.
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All life on earth is basically
teetering on the lives of a few tiny creatures and plants that feed
larger ones and so forth. It is one huge game of Jinga. Pull the
bottom plank out and eventually the whole thing falls down. These
tiny creatures and plants survive in a very narrow range of
environment deep within the oceans and earth. When you move the zero
point, you start killing them and then gradually or fast at this
point, the creatures that eat them die and all the way up the food
chain until finally, we die.
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And it is not just food. Diseases that
exist only in tropical areas, suddenly find it nice and comfy in what
were less tropical areas. Take Montezuma's Revenge for example. It
lives happily in Mexico. The Mexicans are immune to it having been
born there to immune parents but any tourist will tell you that evil
bug is waiting for you to touch the water. Now, what if it finds a
comfy spot in Texas and Florida because they are now hotter, sort of
like Mexico. That could cause a lot of the elderly and young to die
from it because it is a nasty bug. Do you see how this works now?
Without immunity to European bugs, the Spanish almost wiped out the
Mayans and Aztecs without even trying. Now they may almost wipe us
out. Some would call it Karma but I call it Global Warming. I know
what awaits you in those hot steaming places. I have lived there. I
am immune.
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Know your friendly mosquito? They
really love you. Most of those bloodsuckers die or hibernate
somewhat successfully all winter. Without winter, they breed and
multiple all year and now the more tropical, vicious ones have moved
into the south from the Caribbean and Central America. They also
carry diseases.</div>
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So it's not just a matter turning the
AC down cooler or buying one, you now have new neighbors and they
really aren't human but they love the new food: YOU.</div>
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Yes, Global Warming is as serious as
leaving your kids and grandkids an uninhabitable planet, so wake up.
The people you follow claiming it doesn't exist, know it does.
Actions speak louder than words. Who do you find among their ranks?
You find trophy hunters killing endangered species. How do you think
they justify that? Oh, they are just thinning the herd because Global
Warming is going to kill them anyway. You find the cruelest people
harming the weakest of us, the handicapped, elderly and poor. How do
they sleep at night? Oh, very well because a fast death is better
than a slow death from the effects of Global Warming. You find the
proponents of fossil fuels trying to pump them out as fast and dirty
as they can because why not, the whole planet is dying so make those
billions while you can. Live it up fellows, there really is no
tomorrow. Why research diseases when we are going extinct? Why
support the arts when there will no one here to see them? Why not
endless war when people are just going to die anyway? We can play
with people's lives because they are dying, they just don't know it.
We will be living with our kids in underground bunkers, growing our
own food with super filters for water and air and climate controlled
temperatures because we have the money and you don't.
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Yes, if they can just keep pulling the
wool over a large chunk of the people in the world's eyes, they can
reduce the population so much they don't have to worry about anyone
storming the old bunker when the surface is uninhabitable, medicines
are used up, food is gone and people can't breathe.
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You might want to think about that
before your next political rally. No one is going to tell you the
real truth except a few high school students who have figured out
what this Boomer has because that next rally might turn into
something closer to a riot complete with a French solution and the
people arriving in the impressive jet as God's chosen, know it. They
don't care about you because they are in save my ASSets mode. They
know exactly what is coming and if they can just get enough billions,
they can survive.
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Hoarding, dear ones, is a reaction to
scarcity, real or perceived. These guys have never know a moment in
their lives when they couldn't have or buy anything they wanted, so
the scarcity must be perceived as coming and where would they get
that idea in a world in which they have so much money they and
several generations down the road couldn't spend it all if they
started right now? Think about that for a moment when you start to
deny Global Warming.</div>
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If you had a product and someone told
you there was no scenario in which anyone would buy your product in
ten years, would you sell it all off right now for a profit and
invest in a new product that would sell or would you start making all
of it you possibly could? Now why would the fossil fuel companies
ramp up their production to unimaginable levels when they knew this?
Why wouldn't they invest in solar, wind and water power? It's almost
like they expected the world to end........... </div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-79340274094829065142019-11-09T18:48:00.001-08:002019-11-09T18:48:28.953-08:00The First and Only Pagan Prosperity MinistryAs I scroll Facebook all I seem to see is this and that minister, most of which seem to be wearing ill fitting human skin suits, declaring the God said to kill, maim, vote for or sent money to them. Oddly, I never see a pagan saying this, You see, once upon a time, a Viking got the great idea that he would tell the tribe his God told him to get extra mead at the next meal.<br />
He stepped into the center the of the village and proclaimed, "Last night Thor told me...."<br />
There was loud clap of thunder, a blinding flash of lightning and all that remained in the center of the village was a small pile of ashes.<br />
A thundering voice proclaimed, "If I want you to know something, I'll tell you. Now leave me alone."<br />
And that was the first and last Pagan Prosperity Ministry.<br />
Now, have you ever wondered why your God seems to speak through crazy old men and women with dreams of jello cities? Perhaps it's just psychosis and your gullibility.<br />
As for me, I can figure things out for myself without any God's help. I am a smart, responsible human being and I am designed to solve problems. So are you, by the way.<br />
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-86458378683358016412019-11-08T16:29:00.003-08:002019-11-08T16:29:28.856-08:00Old Goals<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It's that time of
year that Druids look back over their life and see if they have met
their goals. At 68, I have quite a distance to look. Let's see
memory, what were my goals?
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I wanted about 10-15
acres with a dozen avocado and mango trees each plus a large garden
capable of feeding us. A house big enough to house my and George's
work would have been nice. Perhaps a smaller house for retreats and
classes would have supported the taxes and spread the word a lot
farther. I wanted to continue publishing Witch Way?/Which Way? I
wanted us to be independent enough to pursue our studies. I wanted to
have my cats.</div>
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What did I get?
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I can say I met none
of those goals except having the cats. Life got in the way and we got
stuck here because of family loyalty. That is something I will not
have in any future lives if condemned to return. There was just too
damned much work staying afloat to do anything but swim madly.
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So if I were to give
you any advice, it would be to chuck everything and follow your
dreams. Your main loyalty in this life has to be to yourself because
I will guarantee, no one is going to be loyal to you.
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Everyone always asks
why they are here. I think you know the answer but you hide it under
family obligations, making money, surviving, being social
responsible. From childhood you are taught to do what is best for the
family but do they ever do what is best for you? Every aspect of
society is designed so if you aren't the rich ruling class, you have
to take care of family. Have as many little slaves as you can pop out
to help with the work load which increases with each child. You don't
see the ruling class with 8 kids. You get work as soon as you can to
help out with the family. The other class helps their children with
their dreams and ideas. The deck is not only stacked against you, but
you aren't playing a game, you are following orders. There isn't even
a deck, just rules.
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Some day, maybe, the
rest of us will realize we don't own our children. We can't live
through them because we were forced to do what we didn't want to for
the family. We are just producing the same lock stepping robots to
continue to underestimate their value and talents to be exploited by
someone living their dream because they inherited the money.</div>
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When the revolution
comes, perhaps we will learn to value people for themselves rather
than pieces of gold. You may think you are so much better than
everyone else, until the garbage isn't picked up, your clothes don't
get cleaned and the farmer goes on holiday. Suddenly, those laborers
have value, perhaps more than you.</div>
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My new goal: trying to get out of bed in the morning.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-76584588329356497892019-11-06T12:16:00.001-08:002019-11-06T12:16:13.244-08:00Good vs Evil, Portals and Entities<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Good vs Evil, Portals and Entities</div>
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I want you to throw
out every concept you have been taught about good, evil, matter and
energy.</div>
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Tesla was 100%
correct when he said it was all energy. Matter is nothing more than
slow energy. We are creatures of energy and the sooner you embrace
that theory and begin to explore the options as energy, the world
makes a lot more sense.</div>
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The religious excuse
for evil and bad things is that you can't have good without evil.
That makes about as much sense as saying you can't have corn chips
without salsa. The existence of one is not dependent upon the other
but they go together nicely. Hotdogs with salsa are even better,
</div>
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So, let's look at
the Druid explanation. The difference between good and evil is simply
that the two energies are not compatible with each other. One doesn't
repel or attract the other. Energy is energy. They are both the same
thing with different expressions. Electricity and fire are obviously
different, but electricity can be converted to fire if it hits a
flammable substance. So, when the energy directed in a undesirable
direction meets energy directed in a desirable direction, they seek
to convert each other or rather push each other into the direction
they are going. When the energy cannot be directed, it slows down and
becomes matter.
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Put simply and in
human terms, prisons do not make people better. By grouping people
with a criminal energy direction together, you simply make them more
criminal in their energy. Put a good person in there and they become
criminal after a while. That is why when psychology students were
told to pretend to be mentally disturbed to gain access to a mental
institution and study the treatment protocols, most of those nice
normal kids became mentally ill and a few stayed in the institutions.
The energy of the majority of people in the institution converted
their energy. However, if you isolate the unfavorable person from all
people, they either begin to change toward the majority or at least
you have them contained.</div>
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So, there is no
good or evil, there are just incompatible energies. However, the
Universe moves in the direction of expansion and supporting life,
not extinction. What you call evil may initially make expansion and
invention possible but when it reaches the point of causing
extinction by converting too much matter or energy into the other, it
will be extinguished and overcome by the opposite energy. Any event
or energy that upsets the balance in nature will be dealt with by the
vast ocean of energy we call Nature. Nature is like the tide, it is
going to come in and go out. If you insist on claiming a spot as it
is coming in, it will drown you. What we consider negative or evil,
always tends to be things that do not want to change and want to
clump into an isolated little ball. Nature or the Universe has a way
of crushing those things and biologically, when the clump exhausts
its biological potential, traits that were not useful for survival
surface and clump faces extinction because the environment has
changed and it has not adapted. Adaptability and intelligence tend to
match each other. Conservatism and lower intelligent tend to match
each other because they have the attitude that if it worked for my
grandparents, it will work for me right up until they try to run with
the automobile traffic on the interstate and then a large metal
object will squish them and remove them from the gene pool.</div>
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Now, remember when I
said like energies tend to clump together? When large amounts of
like energy clump together it forms a giant clump called a dimension
which is like a one celled organism existing in a lake. It may grow
bigger. It contains all sorts of things that contribute to its
continued existence. Eventually it begins to push at it borders and
to develop internal organs that are intelligent.
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To be successful, a
species has to escape its niche and adapt to many different living
conditions. Otherwise, when the niche is upset it dies or when its
population becomes to great, it dies because it doesn't have enough
resources to survive. At the moment we have infinite niches or
dimensions and they are all reaching the point they are brushing up
against each other. Some have become aware that other dimensions have
the resources they need to continue their existence so they need to
convert and absorb that dimension just like an amoeba flows over a
source of food and absorbs it.</div>
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The points of
contact between dimensions are called portals. Opening portals is
kind of like randomly dialing numbers and hoping you don't invite
Hannibal Lector to dinner. As you might guess, the size of the portal
is proportional to the amount of energy used to open the portal. Many
people are trying to open portals just to see what is on the other
side. This is like opening a door on a submarine without knowing if
it is floating of submerged. You may not survive what comes through.</div>
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This is why our
ancestors perfected the art of summoning. Summoning brings a creature
across the dimensional boundary in a containment circle for a
specific purpose, usually information, accumulation of wealth or a
lover. When the purpose is fulfilled, the being returns to their
dimension. Some people call them demons but they are actually just
the form that the energy in their dimension coalesced into. It is
highly possible that a being from another dimension managed to enter
into this dimension or summon one of us into their dimension and then
shared the method of summoning particular species from other
dimensions. However the rule of thumb is never to summon that which
you cannot banish. To make that simple, if the summoning totally
exhausts you, you won't have enough energy to send it back. Remember
Tesla? It is all energy. Both color and physical patterns plus timing
allow summoning to work for us.</div>
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When we go to banish
an entity and we don't succeed in completely closing the hole in the
dimensional fabric we yanked it through, this hole begins to leak
energy in one direction or the other. There are also natural valves
that exist that leak energy as it builds up to critical levels on
both sides. These locations become known as bad or cursed places and
power points. It all depends on your compatibility with the energy
coming through or if the energy is leaking in. If it leaking in, it
may drain your life energy.</div>
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One combats these
holes one of two ways, a trap or a converter. Traps are normally
spirals. The energy enters the spiral, is trapped and just goes round
and round. Matter can hold an infinite amount of energy. Converters
mostly look like spider webs. They catch the energy and funnel it to
the center. By the time it travels the complex pattern of the web it
has lost the incompatible format and drops out the center neutral to
the surrounding energy. The converters can also act as catchers and
simply gather compatible energy and bring it into our dimension like
a condenser gathers water from the atmosphere and drops it in a
bucket. There is a third class of object called a block. It plugs the
dimensional hole. They are variable in appearance and are created for
specific holes. You can't move them from hole to hole. No two are
alike and often their energy has to be reinforced monthly with more
objects.</div>
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One thing I have
learned over the years is that all of this is mutable and there are
no hard fast rules so you had better know a lot before you step on
the playground.
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Many years ago a
woman approached me to buy supplies because portals kept opening
around her and her daughter even when they moved. Close one and
another one opened. Since she was spending a lot of money of a
mishmash of stuff, I suggested a reading to determine exactly what
was going on. It seems since I did not belong to her little select
cult, my advise was worthless. Two weeks later I got another order,
which was a pain because I had to overnight the packages to her, and
it was for another mishmash of crap. This time I learned the daughter
was mentally disabled and had found some friends in last apartment
building they had rented in. The friends were at first welcome as
fellow seekers but once they refused to tow the line they became
“evil”. However, the daughter refused to stop visiting them
because she finally had some friends that accepted her as she was.
So Mother moved them to the other side of town. The group sent a
demon to open a portal in the new location to bedevil her and now she
was closing the portal and moving yet again which was the reason for
overnighting these huge packages. I will point out that by now, I
didn't like her very much as she was really insulting. No one knew
anything but her preacher. I offhandedly mentioned that demons can't
open portals and was told she didn't want my f'n pagan information.
That was the last package she ordered much to my delight. She didn't
know my information came from the works of Solomon the King in her
own religion. Finally curiosity got the best of me and I did a
reading that really knocked my socks off. Through some means, a
token, piece of jewelry, tattoo or mental jingle, the group had
attached a portal to the daughter. I had never seen a portal
attached to a person. I didn't know it was possible. I also didn't
bother calling her with the information. If her god wants her to know
I'm sure he will tell her.
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Then I started
thinking about it. Everyone in the occult fears a wizard or adept's
death curse which is why we don't go around killing each other. Put
simply, at the moment of death the individual summons a demon and
directs it maintain really bad luck on the other person and the death
of the adept closes the portal. The demon cannot open a portal and
the same portal cannot be reopened because the adept is dead and took
that information with them. Thus the demon bedevils the person until
they die and then the demon will attempt to transition with them
because demons hate to be caught in this matter heavy world where
they have limited power.
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Then there is the
generational curse which I had always wondered about because
theoretically it would take more energy to create and maintain than
could be worth it and the curse should die with the caster unless
they passed its maintenance on to the next generation. But when I
encountered a portal attached to a person, I realized that was what
the generational curse was. It was a negative portal attached to a
specific energy, all the males or females, of a genetic line and
there was no way to escape it unless you knew exactly how it was
opened and attached or the line died out. Now that is a really nasty
little piece of work.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-35667678746658639022019-11-05T18:36:00.002-08:002019-11-05T18:36:51.790-08:00The New Liberal Landscape<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
My dear friends,
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I know we are all appalled and sick at
heart at what has happened to our country. A man gets acid thrown in
his face and told to go home to his country. Men and women who fought
for this country are deported like yesterday's garbage. Children are
in cages and have little hope of ever being returned to their
families.</div>
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It is our fault and we need to own it.</div>
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We allowed our racist uncle to spew his
hate at the Thanksgiving table. We loaned our homophobic sister money
so her little homophobes in training could attend religious school.
We let our coworkers be snubbed by customers. We ate lunch with the
misogynists and put up their jokes for company unity. We said, “Boys
will be boys,” and comforted our little girls bruises and hurt
feelings. We never called them out for a single thing and that gave
them permission to continue doing it. We touted unconditional love
and they exploited us. They are absolutely certain as long as the
person they kill is gay, trans, brown, black, red, liberal, even if
they lose power, they will be welcome at the table and be sharing our
love. We will forgive them and go back to ignoring the hatred and
bullying because that IS what we have always done. Oh, that's just
Uncle so and so but we love him anyway.</div>
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It's time to stop loving him. It's time
to shun these creatures of hate. Uncle So and So won't be getting a
free Thanksgiving dinner. The local Trumper will be sitting at a
table alone in the cafeteria. The MAGA hat wearer will be served, as
slowly and ineptly as we can manage. The Cult of Trump “friend”
will learn the shoulder they cry on answers the phone, “Hello.
Thank you for calling. Have a nice day.” and we hang up. The
relative that always bails them out suddenly has something better to
do with their money, like spend it on themselves or donate to a
favorite cause.</div>
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Shunning is one of the most effective
methods of behavior modification. It has been used for centuries by
the Mormons, Catholics, Mennonites, Amish, etc. to keep their
members in line. It works and it will work for us.</div>
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To the Cult of Trump, kindness,
forgiveness, and any kind of help is weakness. They are predators.
Once they determine you are weak, they exploit you. Think about it.
They have been exploiting us for years. Have a fit about sitting next
to a person of color and get the same nice service in their now
private booth. Force everyone else in the waiting room to listen to
FOX news. Spewing their hatred everywhere they go and we smiled and
were nice.</div>
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NO MORE. They say hi, we turn and walk
away. They want something, they don't get it. Our relatives no longer
have a shoulder to cry on, a liberal bank to borrow from or a free
meal. Let them explain to their kids why you aren't playing their
game and showering them with gifts. They are going to tell them how
stupid, weak and foolish you are anyway. You might as well save your
money. Make no mistake, they are training their children to be just
like them and those little darlings think of you as a dumb ass mark
to exploit.</div>
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One by one, we will make certain they
know they are not welcome and they never will be.</div>
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So the next time they cry that no one
listens to them, they might figure out that not only have we listened
to them but we were taking notes, names and addresses and we will be
avoiding them for the rest of their miserable lives.
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We have better things to do, like
helping those that will play it forward and help others. We will
allow them to live in the paradise we create but we won't associate
with them. I'm certain they will just love the company of their own
kind.....NOT. In their world there can only be one winner and that
really reduces their numbers fast.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-43338796936713717832019-11-04T11:59:00.002-08:002019-11-04T12:07:02.268-08:00Napoleon the Cat from UNCLE<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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As Napoleon lie on my lap, perfectly
dressed in his tuxedo, I was reminded I named him not for the Emperor
but for Napoleon Solo of the Man for UNCLE. This was a fictional TV
series of my youth and the inspiration for my studies in psychology
both into the Russian vs American mind set and brain washing. As in
all good series, they had an enemy called THRUSH, <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technological
Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of
Humanity</span></span></span> . UNCLE stood for <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">United
Network Command for Law and Enforcement</span></span></span>
and had a simple plot, an innocent person finds themselves involved
in the plot between these two super agencies they had no idea even
existed in a war they didn't know existed.</div>
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Does that sound like today's conspiracy
theories? Yes, it does because practically every one had its origins
right on that tiny screen with the original year in black and white
before switching to color. It introduced an enemy so dangerous (the
Deep State, Rothschild's, aliens, etc.) that a super organization
comprised of both sides of the cold war, USA and USSR, would have to
cooperate under the guidance of Great Britain to combat this menace.
That is starting to sound even more familiar. The entrance to this
super secret organization was through a dry cleaner.</div>
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The US was represented by Napoleon
Solo, after which my cat is named, always impeccably dressed, a
professional rule follower by choice, well educated and there because
it was the right thing to do even if he had to cooperate with the
enemy, a Russian agent named Illya Kuryakin, always dressed in black.
Illya is a misspelling of Ilya which is actually an Arabic name
meaning one of a respected class and an alliteration of the name of
God. Kuryakin means thanks or creating a warm feeling in others.
Obviously, the creators had no idea how to speak Russian. They did
understand the Russian mind set. Illya was always in black, seldom
smiled and was there on orders not out of choice. His mind set was
one of it would go wrong but he would survive which is the Russian
mindset. Rather than explore the possibilities for success, the
Russian assumes failure and how to survive it. This is probably
because of the harsh climate and the history. Russian beat Napoleon
Bonaparte, and yes, that is the play between the two characters, but
not because of superior military strength or intelligence, but
because he got caught in the Russian winter which only Russians
survive. Yes, Russian has won all challenges to her territory by just
waiting for winter to finish the enemy off. The US has never actually
had a challenge to her territory unless you count Mexico and we
bought our way out of that one like the impeccably dressed Mr. Solo.
Mr Solo always has the latest toy but Illya has whatever was left
from the last battle which he carefully cleans, categorizes and
stores.
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Mr. Solo learns what he needs for the
mission, Illya draws on all the past battles. Mr. Solo is well
educated for the job but Illya is well trained for the job. One is
there by choice, the other by order. Mr. Solo fights because his
conclusion is THRUSH is evil but to Illya, it is his job and THRUSH
could be anyone. He will not be making a decision on who the enemy
is, he will accept someone else's decision.</div>
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So what happens when two people enter a
battle, one certain of success because they are right and the other
certain of failure though they are well trained? If the result is
success, the first becomes convinced of their invincibility because
they are “right”. The second assumes it is because of their
training and intensifies the training. If the result is failure, the
first is devastated because it questions the premise of their entire
existence, its rightness. The second simply picks up the pieces,
trains harder and awaits the next opportunity for battle.</div>
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And that dear ones, is why this country
will never recover from this administration and the Evangelicals will
destroy Christianity once and for all. We and they are the former,
convinced of our rightness. The rest have come to accept there are no
absolutes, no black and white, no completely right. Whether they win
or lose an encounter, they simply gather what is left and rebuild for
the next battle, as Russia has for her entire existence, as the rest
of the world has learned. You do not win by converting people, you
win by assimilating them. Converting implies dominance. Assimilation
gives their ideas and culture a new expression as part of your world.
It implies cooperation. That which you dominate eventually rises
against you. That which you assimilate becomes part of you.</div>
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Although Napoleon rules the Cat Clan, he seldom if ever has a challenge to his authority.</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-87667703307938262312019-11-02T16:28:00.001-07:002019-11-02T16:28:36.460-07:00Getting OlderHere I sit, pretty much exhausted even after a nap.<br />
I started at 6:30 this morning heading out to the Mount's Horticultural Garden plant sale. They really treat their members well. First stop after you pass 60 is the bathroom and then you plant your itinerary. This Garden is huge and we oldsters are soon seeking out benches upon which to rest. This really ticks the biting ants off.<br />
In my case, being a diabetic, my internal thermostat no longer works properly and though I was trying hard to go slowly, the heat quickly got to me and I started sweating more water than I could easily replenish. We also have to eat on time and forgetting how early I started the day I didn't realize how light headed I was at 11 AM when George bought me a hot dog. When I finally stumbled out of the garden, I had lost my bi-focal sunglasses. Sitting in the van I made the decision that all oldsters do, is it worth going back. I calculated the age of the glasses and the fact that I needed stronger ones and decided it wasn't worth it. This is sort of like bending over to pick something up, do you really need it now and is there something nearby on the floor to make it worthwhile.<br />
On the way home we started talking about an off-the-grid group we belong to. It is comprised mainly of under 50 people all raring to live off the grid and the land. They bounce ideas for everything back and forth except for the rather obvious one, first aid and old age. Yes, it may be the grand adventure until you need to be stitched up and you can't get off the property because of the weather. Few know anything at all about natural remedies and aren't even trying to learn. Then comes the day you cross that age threshold and the pains kick in and there is no one out there to help. Do you know how much a bucket of water weighs? A gallon of water weighs 8 1/3 pounds. A bucket usually has 4 -5 gallons in it. Chicken feed comes in 25 and 50 pound bags. What happens when you have a crop failure?<br />
Nope, they are more concerned with wood stoves than what is actually going to determine survival, food and medical. Perhaps this is very apparent to me because of my age, but some of them just have no idea about anything. One woman is concerned about her little children because a mountain lion crosses her property regularly. In the country, you DO NOT take your eyes off small children. Mountain lion? How about snakes, poisonous plants and insects? My mother took her eyes off me at 3 for about 2 minutes and I brought her the mother earthworm. You should have heard her scream. It was a snake. All those cribs and playpens were designed and built in the country, first. You can bet, as one woman pointed out, Mother Mountain Lion is watching her babies every minute and she is a predator. I won't even go into the guy who got a lot of cheap land in a flood zone and thinks he got a great deal. Hint: flood zone is not flood plain. In a flood zone it floods regularly. I hope he is planning on a stilt house. But why would you build in either?<br />
I love California but one look at the fire hazard, the mud slides and the earthquakes and I said, take me home to occasional hurricane. I can easily survive a hurricane but those three are very fatal. I can't imagine living above ground in a tornado area.<br />
Perhaps I am more cautious with age or maybe I just have a bit more sense.<br />
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-72875107357693646392019-10-30T17:53:00.000-07:002019-10-30T17:53:14.523-07:00Back to BasicsThe old Druid is back to doing email readings.<br />
A standard general Tarot reading is $50.00.<br />
A single question or issue Astro Dice reading in $15.00. I use the format of past, present and future influences, what will move it ahead, stop it and where to use extreme caution. They are amazingly accurate. Since I actually use 6 sets of 3 dice each, you can see the connections between the events.<br />
Paypal is the paying medium to my email at cosmicjanice@gmail.com<br />
You have to email the question or your addy to send the reading to because FB mssg just is not reliable for me.<br />
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-26503537736600494602019-10-29T13:36:00.003-07:002019-10-29T13:36:35.180-07:00How to cut social security & medicare<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The Real Cuts to Social Security &
Medicare</div>
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Make no mistake about it, tRump and
Moscow Mitch intend to cut Social Security and Medicare and there is
nothing you and the Dems can do about it. Here is how it works.</div>
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The new budget shows cuts to both
programs in the amount they will pay out. The Dems will rally against
the cuts, GOP'ers will get on board and a budget the same as last
year will pass with everyone murmuring, “just wait until we get
him out of office and we will fix this.”</div>
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So, the checks remain the same but here
is where the money gets cut. The amount Medicare pays for a procedure
and whether it pays, is not determined by Congress but by a private
agency which has been stuffed with Insurance Providers and the AMA
Doctors, all appointed. That agency sits under the control of one
<span style="color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Eugene
Louis Dodaro</span></span></span> who is the
comptroller of the USA. He was appointed for a 15 year term in 2010.
He was already serving as the acting comptroller so it was a no
brainer for Congress and you know how they love no brainers. His
service as second in command of the agency actually started under
George W. Bush. Mr Dodaro is a conservative who has been screaming
the government is going broke since the beginning of his career and
proposing massive cuts to programs to save it. What you do not
understand is this is the second most powerful man in the country
because he controls all the money, where it goes and what information
is presented to the president and Congress. He is appointed for a 15
year term! You never see that appointment. You probably never ever
heard of him. You probably had no idea what his office does.</div>
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He controls who gets paid and how much,
who know what and how much.</div>
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So to cut Medicare all you have to do,
for a totally hypothetical example, is decide not to pay for diabetic
testing supplies. This is the second most expensive item in diabetes.
So the last little cut, decreased the amount they would pay for Type
2 diabetics strips. Type 1 coverage remained the same. You never even
saw that bus coming at you. Don't cut the amount paid for insulin,
but cut the amount paid for syringes. Suddenly, your diabetic uncle
is trying to figure where his social security check is going because
he has no money for food. By limiting the amount paid for items they
effectively cut Medicare and since you are paying more for your
supplies, copays and medications, your social security check now
covers less expenses because the expenses on one side of the equation
just got larger.</div>
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NOW, you remove the deduction of
medical expenses from your income taxes and abracadabra, you have cut
Social Security and Medicare without doing it in the budget you
present to Congress and no one is any the wiser.....because they
aren't even adding up those figures any more since they can't deduct
them....</div>
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Janice Scott-Reeder Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233610415518819347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096179787675501134.post-28980064017228972482019-10-28T16:31:00.000-07:002019-10-28T16:31:04.919-07:00How to permanently kill the Dragons of Greed<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The main story today is about a poor
Amazon worker in Ohio who dropped dead of a heart attack and wasn't
found for 20 minutes. During that time he could probably been saved.
Bezos issued a statement that he was found quickly and taken to the
hospital. The surveillance tape disputes that statement. Someone
watched those cameras so the question I ask is, did they think the
employee was taking a nap on the floor? Does this happen so regularly
they ignore it? Are they really working their employees to death for
minimum wage? Keep in mind around a half dozen employees have died
on the job at Amazon this year.</div>
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The real question is what to do about
behemoth companies that don't give a damn about their employees and
are perfectly willing to work them death so the owners can put a few
more dollars in a bloated pocket. The answer is not as simple as you
think and legislation and taxation is not going to solve the problem.</div>
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You see, they all think they are self
made men that didn't need anyone but themselves, a garage and the
willingness to work 24 hours without sleep and not mentioned, a
degree in computer science. I would really love to kick them in the
Twinkies because that is not how it happened. How it happened is the
key to fixing the problem once and for all, so pay attention.</div>
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Some dude got the brilliant idea that
if people loved auctions and paid exorbitant prices for junk they
didn't need in a room for of other idiots trying win a prize they
were paying for that they would love it on the internet and Ebay was
born. Around the same time someone noticed college students were
getting ripped off buying text books and not every professor in every
school was updating the textbook every year so if the students at
universities could buy from students at other universities, he had a
winner. Half was born.
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Let me point out that the difference
between a merchant starting this and the people who did was that the
people who started these companies were programmers creating a one of
a kind online platform not some guy moving into a building with some
shelves and cash register. Ebay was the place to sell the crap in
your garage and half quickly became an online platform for small
bookstores because you did not pay to list books and you only paid a
commission when the book sold. Your shipping was a fixed price. Ebay
noticed some people liked Half and they expanded their platform to
small stores for merchants to list new products without the auction
process. It was a success and they tried to entice the Half merchants
who noticed right off that Ebay was way more expensive. Ebay acquired
Half. If you can't beat them, buy them. Ebay acquired PayPal. Ebay
soon noticed what all computer platforms notice, you can't have dead
wood because space is money and they set about to get rid of the
small merchants and the Half platform. As is the customary in the
industry, you make it hard for the small merchants to sell on your
platform and they start going out of business. Since the American
people are dumbed down, particularly in the areas that have to buy
online they didn't notice that a book selling for 2.00 with 2.33
shipping and handling was actually cheaper than the same book selling
for 1.00 with 5.00 shipping and handling. Half merchants started
migrating to Ebay and losing money because now they not only had to
pay a commission when they sold but a listing fee and store front
fee. Ebay in the mean time was moving to large merchants and giving
them all sorts of breaks while bankrupting the small merchants and
legislating them off the platform.
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The big publishers had gone into
selling directly to the customers at a discount and they were putting
the small bookstores out of business. Now they were finding it was
more trouble than it was worth and Ebay was there with waiting
compatibility to take their inventory into their waiting gigabytes.
Ebay began to close Half down. Most small merchants had already had
the Ebay treatment and were looking for another platform.
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This is the point at which if you
believe him, an oblivious Bezos started Amazon in his garage offering
lower rates to liquidate the big publishers inventories of left over
books which had been created by the giant book chains overbuying and
then taking advantage of the publishers' return policies. When the
publishers put the small book stores out of business they killed the
stores that bought the overruns and returns from jobbers. All of this
blew up at once and Jeff just happened to be sitting in his garage
with an online platform at the right time to scoop them up. It wasn't
hard work and foresight it was simply luck. Etsy did the same thing
with the artisans Ebay was putting out of business. Now Bezos is
trying to put Etsy out of business with his new artisan division
offering better visibility, at a higher price.
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It wasn't foresight, luck and hard work
as much as being able to do something you and I, as merchants,
can't; write a program for an online platform. It was filling a niche
that be it on the Internet or in the neighborhood exists; creating a
space for small merchants to sell their products be it a bazaar or
flea market. Most neighborhood governments limit garage sales to one
or two a year.</div>
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As each of these behemoths rises to
suck the wealth from you and I, they carefully close the door to the
people under them by paying less and less and demanding more work or
money upfront for their products and services.</div>
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Bezos had a garage. How many 20 year
olds have a garage or are most of them living in their parents
garage? As these greedy dragons increase prices and decrease wages
they make it impossible for anyone else to do what they did.
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So instead of making it impossible for
someone to start a business without a 60,000.00 investment (it is
probably 100,000.00 plus now because that figure was over 30 years
ago), we need small enterprise flea market zones that require the
investment of time more than money from people. That is how we can
keep the wealth shifted to the middle class and the poor can lift
themselves out of poverty. That is the only solution to automation
and constant job loss whether it be in the neighborhoods or online.
Give the small guy a place to showcase their work and a way to sell
it.</div>
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