Has Your Mind been Hacked?

I had a weird experience at 8 AM this morning that bears examination. First, let me give you a little background that may seem a little technical but you should be aware of these things.

Back in the 1950's, which many would have you believe were the good old days. They were if you like avocado green, rampant discrimination against anyone who wasn't a white Christian MALE and hidden government experiments on your brain and body. However, if you are like me who hates the color and is obviously not male and takes offense at anyone messing with their consciousness or body without their permission, the 50's were not a good time.

One famous experiment you may have heard of had to do with flashing pictures of popcorn, drinks and hot dogs on the movie theater screen just before intermission at one frame per about 7 – 10 frames of the movie at the ending when you were paying really close attention to what was happening. It significantly increased sales at the concession stand.

However, there are a couple of things you were never told, just conveniently left to assume. You assumed the people doing the experiment were the owners of the drive-in theater since they benefited. What you were not told was exactly who was doing this experiment nor the simple fact that the first drive-ins where this was done were conveniently located a few miles from one of the biggest military bases known not only for what we call black ops today but also having the largest ophthalmology department in the country actively investigating abnormalities in visual perception because they were trying to find out why some pilots when flying at speeds greater than sound were crashing into mountains for no apparent reason. I mean, it is pretty hard to miss a whole mountain in front of you. You also were not told this military base was running experiments in the local elementary school that I attended, had segregated students with a high IQ (or so they claimed because no one really knows what the test measured and I was assured by a fellow that her father, a doctor on the base, has told her they weren't measuring IQ when she failed the test) into separate classes and experimenting with them to see if subliminal images integrated into a “cartoon” on TV could be used to teach a child without the child knowing. Two years after watching the “cartoon” of a rabbit playing a piano, I sat a piano, looked at the music on the stand and began playing the tune. I am still capable of sight reading music.

This leads to the second thing you weren't told and that was how they got caught. You assumed someone ratted them out. That is not what happened. There are people who are capable of seeing the image being projected between the movie frames. They have what is called + vision in that the eye sees more images faster than the brain can process and as a result they see not a continuous stream like you do, but a sort of choppy version which is missing some frames. As adults their brains smooth out the narrative but as young children, it hasn't learned to that. Unfortunately for the doctors playing around in unsuspecting people's brains, these people would see the single frame they had carefully hidden in the movie and ask their daddy why there were hotdogs, sodas and popcorn on the screen at the end of the movie. Sadly, her daddy could relax and see the same thing. She also wanted to know what the funny things were in the corner of the TV she was watching at school and when she drew them, they turned out to be written music matching what was being played. This earned her an all paid for trip to have her eyes examined free at the big military base by three of the top ophthalmologists in the country. It was found she had plus vision in both eyes. No more TV for Janice. Janice got to sit quietly in the corner of the room for the rest of her tenure or confinement in the special education department.

This was the beginning of subliminal research. It is much more advanced today. You may have bought a subliminal self help CD or DVD and watched it. However, you have been led to believe that susceptibility to subliminal programing or hypnosis is a moral and metal failing. You are weak minded. The opposite is true. You laugh at the person clucking like a chicken on stage or look down your nose at the person who takes the sugar pill (placebo) and it cures their headache. Either that person is weak minded and believes anything or they are a hypochondriac and were pretending. You have been conditioned to believe that for a reason. Even if you know you are being hypnotized, and you will, you are going to reject the fact that it is happening. This makes you one excellent subject. This moral failing of healing by being given a placebo (the evil sugar pill) is really a blessing because first of all you would not be in the experiment if the doctors had not verified you had the medical problem and second, you just healed yourself with no help from “science”. The ability to become a “chicken” on stage also allows you learn easily and adapt quickly to changing circumstances, both of which will guarantee your survival in the wild. You are actually more observant than the regular person and have better physical control. The top athletes in any sport are easily hypnotized, have abnormal vision and can control pain and heal themselves better than the average Joe. It is how they look at how something is supposed to done and then translate it to muscle memory that allows them to excel. They become the chicken or the master golfer.

Which leads to this morning. I was waking up from a nightmare when I heard a man talking. Normally I sit up and try to figure out where the sound is coming from but this morning I was lying on my left side, which is unusual, and that left my 'good' right ear exposed. I decided to not to move a muscle, keep my eyes shut and determine where the sound was coming from. The only two words I managed to decipher before it became gibberish was: ancient....blah-blah....Bull....blah-blah. The man was reciting 4 words, emphasis on the last two off what was obviously a list of words. I opened my eyes and discovered I was staring at my cell phone, which had no light on and registered no activity. I locked it up in the bathroom and have only touched it once today to see if I had any calls.

Was I imagining things? Off to my resident telephonics engineer who knows just about everything in the universe about phones as this used to be his job. He has more patents than anyone who ever worked at Nokia/Siemens. He not only assured me someone could be broadcasting subliminally, but the hack would not trigger the ring tone nor the light nor anything to indicate it was happening. He immediately thought of several profitable products before I yanked him back to planet earth and he told about how some students hacked into the gyroscope in your phone and via two credit purchases and were able to not only tell where you had been the day before but the route you took to get there.

Whoa, Momma, that is scary. They know when you are in bed and they know when you are asleep.

In one of my metaphysical groups, people had noticed they were sensing something in the wee hours of the morning. I have been having panic attacks around 2 AM and I do not have panic attacks. They are easily controlled but I want to know why. Oddly, the attacks completely stopped after I published that to the Facebook group. Subliminal attacks from the cell phone attempting to convince me of something I find offensive or false would cause an unconscious reaction mimicking a minor panic attack. It would simply irritate you and put you on alert creating a fight or flight response which happens to be the panic attack mechanism.

Oh my, it's starting just as the elections swing into gear and every political and religious group has your phone number off Facebook, the NSA or somewhere else. Gee, have you ever wondered why anyone would vote against their best interests? I could hypnotize you and show you how. Hypnosis is a form of subliminal programing just in case you didn't figure that out. You might want to leave that phone in a drawer in another room because taking the battery out may not deactivate it if it has a built in backup that runs on very low power. Just a word to the wise. Mine will be residing in the kitchen in a drawer because the cats, having so much better hearing than we do, have been attacking my phone at night for no apparent reason or at least apparent to a human. Oh, the tin foil hat will have no effect on this because it is simply sound being sent over a phone at a level below a whisper that you cannot consciously hear or understand. It is all very simple technologically and works even better if you think you have a personal relationship with some deity that talks to you; too bad it is some guy in a basement reading a list of things you are supposed to believe or not believe and even if they go completely against your morals, beliefs and best interests, you will find an excuse to justify changing what you believe. They also proved that in psychological experiments in the 1960's and 70's. You don't stand a chance. They can even dumb you down and confuse you about what happened five minutes ago. They can rewrite history you lived and you will never know it.

How the Religion of Love became the Religion of Hate

I have learned something important. Sarcasm works.

Although I have tried, beat my head against the wall and screamed a lot, no one ever listens. However, when I became sarcastic, people started thinking.

Since people started thinking, I decided to actually answer the question everyone kept asking.

Want me to start at the beginning?

I can't because the beginning it way too far away, but the question I was asked by several really good and I mean good as in nice, generous, moral and loving Christians was, “How has my religion gotten this perverted? How has it become a religion of hate? Why are people giving to PIZZA and not the POOR, sick and elderly?”

The answer is simply; it always was. I am not going to explain the spiritual mechanics nor go heavily into the history, but I will simply say that it always has been this way, you were misled.

The beginning of your faith goes further back than the man you call Jesus. It goes back to a creature named Abraham who created a sect of men and women called the illuminated ones or Illuminate. These people/relatives of his would create three religions because their energetic signature was the artificial three whereas all of nature was based on four: earth, air, fire and water or five, adding spirit to the first four. Spirit was the creation of a god and they then divided the god energy into three, perverting the symbols of the people of earth for creation: mother, maiden, crone to a masculine sterile domination of Father, son and spirit.

Having created what was the framework for the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, they only needed to create symbols to weave through all of them and appeal to every member of the masses so they would then give their energy in the form of belief and finally all their money which is nothing more than a symbol of the person's life's worth to them or soul/complete being.

So how did Christianity, a religion of love become the religion of hate?

It always was, you just weren't listening. Put simply, let's start with Christ. Christ is a concept not a man. However, you wear a cross which was the instrument of a man's, Jesus, torture and death. Why? Why are you celebrating his death and not his life? But, you may say, he was resurrected. Was he? He DIED on the cross for your sins and yet, there isn't a single real reference to that being his intention. If so, wouldn't your slate be wiped clean? Are you beginning to see there is a little more going on here than you have been mislead to believe? The Roman crucified thieves, not political prisoners. They would have happily cut his head off after they drew and quartered him and put it on a pike at the city gates to warn others that messing with their tax collection system was fatal because the Emperor liked his gold coins, not those cheap plated ones the people used for daily trade. So what did Jesus steal? Well, pockets hadn't been invented so we can be pretty sure he didn't pocket a few coins while overturning those tables in the temple. The answer is nothing but he came close to revealing a well kept secret, a secret so well kept the Illuminate would create an entire head of the Abrahamic beast in his name. Unfortunately it would be in name only because the whole thing would just be another conduit to pass life energy on to them.

Take sentence one. Jesus died for our sins. Jesus is a scapegoat. This is an ancient concept going back to the Sumerians and adopted heavily by the first Abraham where a goat was taken each year, symbols of all the sins of the his people attached to it and it was then thrown off cliff to break its legs and left to die. Barbaric? Yes, but more symbolic. The scapegoat with broken legs could not escape the wolves and other predators. Who was the goat the symbol of? Satan. So by worshiping the scapegoat, you are worshiping Satan and who or what did the Illuminate really want to destroy? The answer to that question is knowledge. Satan was the most beautiful angel, the one who refused to bow down to an ignorant, imperfect mankind and the one who had the gift of knowledge. It was he who gave to humans the knowledge of the gods which they quickly forgot. The last thing the Illuminate want is a knowledgeable population.

So, they have you happily erect three story crosses, wear them and even picture “Jesus” hanging and bleeding in pain, tortured on that cross everywhere to symbolize the death and destruction of knowledge and love.

I know, your eyes are getting a little wide at this point. Well, let me finish this for you. The real Jesus was a short, dark, black haired, brown eyed rather ugly man of Middle Eastern descent. The one on your cross is a tall blond with blue eyes and universally handsome, just like Satan. The whole time, you have been worshiping the destruction of love and knowledge. You have been erecting huge monuments to hate, pain, torture and death.

And now you want to know how your religion was perverted from one of love to hate. This is where I giggle. You have been conned, lied to, bamboozled and whatever other term you can think into supporting the agenda of the Illuminate or the descendants of Abraham.

Don't be misled into thinking these would people of Jewish descent. They are actually people from the Caucasus mountain range that borders Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian and Iran or all the major players in what is set to be the next world war. They made their little trips down from the nice cool climate, which is why you find the clothing being worn as a norm in the Middle East for a people living in a cold climate not a hot desert and created the religions of Abraham, the caste system of India and finally managing a toehold in the Asia with Confucius, the material system to oppose Taoism. They were busy little bees, or should I say demons.

What did the man Jesus really teach because you are guaranteed on very few hints existing in your Holy Books since they are based on the destruction of everything he tried to be? The very first thing he insisted upon was he was NOT the son of any god. That is very important, because he was telling you he was NOT of the Abrahamic line. If he were alive today, he would neither be considered a follower of Judaism, Christianity or Islam.

In India, he taught that there was no difference between the tall, handsome Brahmin, light skinned often with blond and blue eyes, and the untouchables who were small dark and considered so ugly they had to ring a bell so the Brahmin wouldn't accidentally have their view of the world spoiled by looking at them. Ah the shades of code enforcement to make sure your property looks like everyone's version of beauty. But, who is everyone? Do you see how this evil has infiltrated everything down to the gutter? He taught you were put here to love one another, to share your joy and bounty and most importantly, that there was nothing the “God” could do you were not capable of doing. You were capable of the same “miracles”.

Well, he should have known because the real Jesus was psychic, a healer and capable of levitating. He managed to escape every country just before the local police knocked on the door to haul his ass off for prison or execution and there is no reason to assume he didn't manage the same trick with the Romans. He escaped by blending in with the locals, a good 98% of which were small, dark people not tall blonds.

But, the followers of Judaism were crying out for the prophet that Abraham had predicted would come and Jesus was psychic, hence a prophet, so they pinned the tag on him and it almost worked until someone created a religion around his perversion. You see, if he were the prophet of Abraham, he would not have become a completely new religion he would have become the prophet of Judaism. That is also why there can't be a second coming because there never was a first. That is also why Mohammed cannot be the “prophet”. If he were, the followers of Judaism would simply have followed him. You see logic/knowledge is the enemy of the Abrahamic religions and must be crucified at all costs.

So, now you know how what you thought was your religion has become a religion of hate, just like Islam and Judaism have become the religions of hate. With any luck, you will succeed in destroying most of the world's people, losing all your resources and plunging your children and grandchildren into complete poverty, ill health and ignorance so the Illuminate can rule you and live in the style to which they were accustomed before some of the humans got uppity, raping, pillaging and having the power of life and death at whim over you. They have already built their sprawling compounds complete with private armies to defend them against you and their brethren. You really don't think they trust each other, do you? Theirs is a world of separatism, dominionism and greed. They have you worshiping the instrument of your destruction. They have you hating everyone that doesn't bow to them. I would say they have done a bang up job.

Now, when are you planning on getting off your knees, reclaiming your power, taking back your world and making it the paradise that the man called Jesus told you it could be? I won't wait for an answer because I have things to do and I know you will never do it. It would take work and you want to mix it with water and get instant forgiveness for all your imagined sins. You want to be better, more moral, more beautiful and have more toys than the poor person next door. You want a non-existent god to pat you on the head and tell you that you and you alone are the best because you and only you have a personal relationship with him. The last thing you want is to join your real people, love them and let each person be themselves because then, you actually might have to wake up and look in the mirror and take responsibility for what you are. Then you might actually meet the real Jesus and not the scapegoat. You might discover he is just a man, a very smart and loving man, but a real man. And you just might discover that god is not dead, it was never alive and you are the one responsible for everything and everyone. You are part of a whole and you are the steward of the planet earth, not its ruler.

Now, this Druid is off to take care of her little corner of the world because that is why I exist. I am a caretaker, just like you should be.

But before you go, return to the middle of this article and look at the countries around the Caucasus mountains. They are in line for demolition because some smart guy or girl with a cell phone camera, Facebook connection or a hacker deciding to take a look at the raw Google footage, might just publish some real history that the Illuminate do not want you to see. The last thing they want is proof of their existence.  

Nipmice, Your Cat Will Love Them

Nipmice are proudly made in the USA by a demented cat lady trying to find a natural alternative for fiber stuffed made with who knows what mice from China found in the Dollar and Pet stores.

Not really.

Once upon a time, a Druid witch was looking for some yarn to make protection mojo bags. She saw a HUGE skein of red, black and white all cotton yarn and thought that it was perfect. Red works for all mojo bags and protection from crazy people. Black absorbs all energy and white reflects all energy so with the proper contents, these babies would work for all types of psychic attack.

So, she bought it. She took it home. She started crocheting a mojo bag and half way through discovered this was the most god awful looking piece of crochet in the known universe. It was coyote (no offense to the trickster god intended) ugly.

So instead of a Mojo Bag, she just tied it off halfway though and tossed it on the bed. Within minutes it has disappeared and instead of saying good riddance to bad crocheting, she went to find it. It took a week or two and was finally found in a cat's stash.

She began to watch and discovered the cats were passing it between themselves as a treasured object. Thus, she made another one on a night when she couldn't sleep. It was taken within minutes, thrown, chewed, loved and hidden. So, she made another one. You see, she had about a pound of this god awful colored yarn to get rid of and no ideas but these weird shaped creatures she now named nipmice though they had no catnip in them. The latest version has a pinch of nip in them.

Nipmice are often created in the wee hours of the morning when she can't sleep with an audience of cats. Often, it is a contest to see whether she can tie off the nipmouse before the cat takes it. As you can see, this nipmouse barely survived the photography session. We have no idea why the cats love them. It's a cat thing.

Since there is no chance of ever managing to get one made and shipped, here are the instructions to make your own. The Druid is allergic to wool so she uses cotton yarn.

If you can single crochet, you can make a nip mouse. Keep in mind the cat doesn't care what it looks like, they just love them. Hook size and gauge are not important. I make a chain of 5 and join the last and first stitch. Chain 1 and single crochet in every stitch until I have about 5 single crochets. Now comes the choice and just winging it is possible at every point but if you obsessive, there are several versions. If you want a head on the mouse, place 2 single crochets in every stitch making 10 then reduce by one making 5. Now you have a head. Single crochet 5 more stitches and go to making the body. Or you can just skip to this step. If you really want the typical mouse body, single crochet in 2 stitches and then increase one stitch in the remaining 3 making 8 stitches. Continue following this pattern until the mouse is the size you want and stitch the back end together leaving a long string end for a tail. I consider the front string to be a tongue. Otherwise, increase as you feel the need and then when the mouse is long enough start decreasing until you have one stitch and tie off. That is how most of mine are made.

The best time to insert some catnip is when you are at the widest part of the mouse. Warning, this can cause loss of fingers, loss of mouse and theft of the bag of catnip. Managing to actually get the catnip into the mouse may require locking yourself in the bathroom with it after spending an hour ejecting all cats from the premises. Finish the mouse in the locked room or you will learn the fine art of crocheting with a cat attached to the piece you making. A sixteen pound cat attached to your nipmouse makes turning your work difficult.

Good luck.

A Letter to the Youth of America

Dear Youth of America...... A Message from an Oldster

Either leave the country or do whatever you want. Yes, don't pick a profession based on income, be an artist, an actor, a writer, a gambler or a bum. Do whatever makes you happy. Travel, love and live your life now while you are healthy and able to do the things you want to do.

The deck is stacked against you. No matter how hard you work, scrimp and save, you are going to spend your old age, each and every day, juggling money between food, medicine and the water bill. If you manage to get a home, you'll have to put a quarter or more of your monthly retirement into the property tax man's pocket to support the life style of your local politician and his/her cronies or Condo Commandos. There is no way you can save enough money because the bar is raised higher and higher every year whereas the amount you earn and can save remains the same or becomes less as everything else gets more expensive. You can't win. The deck is stacked against you and in favor of the House, the Houses of the 1%. It's a crap game and you have no chance of winning. There is no way you are retiring, enjoying the end of your life or staying healthy because of the stress of being labeled a parasite, moocher and being reminded daily how much better the New Youth will be if YOU will just get out of their way and die. There is no escape from this poverty, hatred and sickness unless you get out of this country, now, while you can.

Sincerely,

The Generation you want out of your way, that scrimped and saved, paid their bills, fought the wars for the profit of the 1%, ate the crap they claimed was better living through chemistry, paid their Social Security taxes so you could go to college and now has nothing left, not even their health.

An Introduction to Me.

I thought I would give you a little introduction to myself and others of similar beliefs you see on my page.

I am a Druid.

I am classified as a witch because I am capable of a variety of paranormal feats.

As a Druid, I neither embrace nor worship any God, god, Goddess or goddess or anything else. You may assume I am not subjugated to any supernatural being. I believe in a unifying principle or energy that exists in all matter throughout the universe. You could say Druids originated the Unified Field Theory.

This differs from Wicca and other pagan beliefs in that they embrace Gods and Goddesses as beings capable of independent thought and action. However, these beliefs do not subjugate the believers but rather place them in a relationship with a being they recognize as being more powerful than they currently are, perhaps more wiser and capable of being petitioned for a favor. Favors are always repaid.

I believe that these “beings” are energetic aggregates or 'thought forms' or archetypes that have been created through the centuries by people believing and hence putting energy into them. They behave in predictable manners and have predictable energetic capabilities that have been imbued in their structure through the centuries. They are like energy banks that deposits (belief and honor) are placed in and energies are withdrawn for specific actions. Or you could say they are like computer programs.

However the one thing all of us have in common is a ban on proselytizing. We do not seek members. We do not convert people. And we really do not ever allow anyone under 18 and in most cases 21 to join us unless their parents are members.

Ours is not a religion/philosophy that you can preform some ritual dunking, swear undying loyalty, accept any deity, get saved and join. You must study, in most Wiccan traditions for a year and day and in Druidic Traditions; years, before you gain admission. We have no use for blind followers. We have no ritual to save souls or take them. Your salvation is up to you and what occurs after death varies with tradition but you are guaranteed in all of them to reap what you have sown rather quickly. No one can help you and no deity is really interested.

In my tradition, you will be drawn to the energetic level of existence you have accumulated during your life and that can be a place you don't even want to visit. You will remain there until you master it and move to the next level or sink to the next level.

In most pagan traditions there are specific afterlives most mirroring the present world.

All traditions tend have a strong belief in reincarnation.

All traditions involve work and study. We also have to do the wash, cook, make enough to survive and take out the trash. Hence we aren't really interested in playing or debating with you. Your beliefs are your problem.

We also discipline our own and for the most part, we are tolerant of most things. Intolerance tends to be the one thing none of our traditions are comfortable with and we weed out people who are not open to new things and new ideas.

We have survived since the beginning of time and we will be there to see the transition to another world. We are not a new religion or belief system. We predate all others. We have one thing that allows us to survive. We adapt. We embrace new technology, science, cultures and ideas. We are constantly evolving and in that vein, we have no single Holy Book, set in stone laws except one. That which you do will be returned to you at least threefold, eventually. Our reward is in this world for we are part of everything in this Universe and it is part of us.

Moving On Takes Courage

Moving ON......

That is the hardest thing in the world to do. You have ties to the place you are living in and to the people around you but ties are not etched in stone. Always remember that. Humans are herd animals.

People are shook to their foundations about the highly discriminatory law passed in Indiana under the guise of religious freedom. First off, no major religion has ever passed or supported a law to give “religious freedom” to any minority religion as that cuts into their profits. I have several messages from my friends in the Gay and Alternative Religious Communities asking if I think they should move.

YES... run as fast as you can. It is only going down hill from here. This is just one piece of legislation that is going to be the beginning of an avalanche of laws that will take all your freedoms and will then move on to the infamous Right to Work laws if they didn't start there. When this one law (Right to Work) started in Florida, my only regret is we didn't move up north when we could. It is my only regret in this life. BUT we both had parents here that were elderly. Just so you know, the only thing we have is what we personally worked our lower posteriors off for 40 years. Someone else is enjoying everything both sets of parents had and even what we gave them. We bought the house for my parents and couldn't get a house of our own for years because the mortgage was in our name but hey, they were our parents.

What we didn't know in our young and naive raised to take care of our family minds was the laws quickly changed to favor not just any employer, but the government and the good old individual, no matter how senile they were as long as they could manage a grunt and to hold a pen. When people go senile and get Alzheimer's disease, they turn against their family and they have the right (hey all that good old FREEDOM) to refuse treatment and thus diagnosis until eventually they, against even legal warnings, turn everything over to the first company person sent out to “take care of” them. In the psychiatric office, I saw people turn over their homes and bank accounts to people the “government” sent out to do housekeeping and even give the payments that should have gone for their doctors' services and medications to the local Pastor, i.e. Man of God, leaving them without even food for the month and evicted from the trailer park the next month.... And because of “Religious Freedom”, small government (which just gets bigger under the GOP) and that “rugged individualism” and personal freedom, there is not going to be a danged thing YOU, the family, can do. You are also going to see your wages go down and your insurance disappear if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the states suing to NOT allow their citizens to collect their supplements so they can afford insurance. Do you have any idea how many small businesses have sprung up supporting this “new” medical community and its hundreds of thousands of new 'customers'? All of them will now go belly up and when the money from the government disappears and the only ones left standing will be the huge medical corporations. Do you know what happens when your independent doctor goes to work for the big guy because that insurance check doesn't come in to pay his rent and staff? The big medical corporation hiding as a hospital, HMO or clinic now cuts a deal with the insurance company and the drug companies to give you the least amount of care for the most amount of money and prescribe the most expensive medications made by that drug company, because they get them free to give you in the hospital while charging you an arm and a leg for that freebie. As long as you have a penny to spend on that drug, they are going to take it and when you run out of money, they will take your house. (did you read that consent for treatment and responsibility clause? In a homestead state, they can take your house.) Now you know who the real Death Panels are and the criteria is how much money you have they can get.

Run as fast as you can if you are smart enough to see the beginning of this trend and you are in a Red State. Do it NOW. This is because let's face it, Liberals are smarter than Conservatives and my cat is smarter than the average Tea Party member or Libertarian. That means the rest of your friends are packing as I write this because they have seen the hand writing on the wall. With the Red States draining all the tax dollars from the Blues states, they are not going to have the dollars to maintain their standard of living. It will get harder and harder to find housing and work in Blue states that take care of their current people who live there.

This is what we have seen in Blue South Florida. Our tax money goes to Red North and Central Florida and is nicely invested in bridges to nowhere and huge 8 lane highways with a couple of cars on them. Meanwhile in an area riddled with canals, our bridges are falling into the water and our roads are way too small for the traffic and in total disrepair. When you consider the average tax bill in my neighborhood is over 10,000.00 for which we get NOTHING, it is hard to live in a Blue South Florida. Not only that, but we have watch our jobs move to Red Texas and overseas, workers imported from Red States at their level of wages throwing them on OUR welfare rolls and in OUR low income housing so not only do we lose OUR jobs to the Red States but we now pay to subsidize the low income workers Walmart and the rest imported from these Red States. This has stretched our economy to the breaking point. Put simply, Red North and Central Florida are bankrupting Blue South Florida. The Red States are going to bankrupt the Blue States unless someone puts the brakes on the money train they are riding and since the GOP is in charge, they busy oiling those brakes. So don't move to South Florida unless you really want to live on welfare while working 12 hours a day cleaning toilets for the 1% in their homes and hotels. Domestic workers are not covered under minimum wages laws but fall under agriculture. Not only that, Red Florida makes it easy for any company to put you into the no benefit, pay all your own taxes plus a self employment tax, “Independent Contractor” status even though they are breaking FEDERAL LAW by having you work a specific schedule on their premises. You, the rugged individual, have NO rights. You, the corporation or church, have ALL the rights. And if you want to complain, just remember, those staunchly anti-immigrant GOP'ers can easily replace you with an undocumented alien down here and soon, in your state. They know “those little brown ones” won't give them any trouble if raped, beaten or killed because they are undocumented and will be not tossed out of this country and returned to their country any more, but put in a for profit prison where they can be real slave labor until they die.

Yes, RUN!

You might be saying that no group of people in their right minds would allow such a thing to happen. Friends, it has already happened in South Florida. A government official is on undetermined “medical” leave because he put the forbidden word, “climate change” in his report on a conference he attended which was discussing the rising sea level and water management challenges to South Florida and may face criminal charges for “misrepresenting” the conference as you aren't allowed to say climate change or attend any meeting where those words might be used. Good old individual freedom means you no longer have a right to attend the opposing party's meetings or to mention words on the “forbidden” list or you will get leave without pay. If they fire you, you could sue but leave without pay while you get a “medical assessment” by THEIR doctors... now that could take, well, years.

I don't know who managed to convince a bunch of zealots that they have to suffer, work their lower posteriors off and give all their money to the Representatives of God to hold for Jesus so they can die and get their reward, but either they are a special kind of stupid or it is one heck of a sales job. This is what these laws are. They are designed to take every penny away from everyone to redirect it to these “Representatives of God” who just happen to be the heads of banks, corporations and are solely owned by the 1%, to hold for Jesus. Yes, it is insane, but they have the majority due mostly to gerrymandering and probably due to some rigged voting machines and they are going to bring their mandate to YOUR Red State and the Federal Government (part of it is already in place by transferring Taxes from Blue States to Red States) because the rich ALWAYS get richer and the poor have to get poorer in that equation. You have a fixed amount of money. If it goes into the Church's pocket, it has to come out of Your pocket.

Let me explain this tax thing. The federal tax money that is taken from the Blue states and given to the Red states in the form of welfare, infrastructure repairs, food stamps and Medicaid actually stays in these states because it spent on medical care, food and housing. BUT only big companies and big box stores have the capability to set up to take the State Assistance debit cards because first you have to have a merchant account and that takes at least a thousand dollars in set up after you pay for both the terminal and the programming. Not only that but you have to be set up to take Debit Cards, not just credit cards. Not only that but to even bid on the state contracts for construction, you have to meet a minimum financial requirement which is so far above a small business is it residing the outer reaches of the solar system and if you manage the front money, you won't be paid for at least 90 days but you have to pay your workers and suppliers immediately. Only the rich need apply for these contracts. So the tax money from the Blue State goes directly to the 1% Corporations in the Red States in not an endless cycle because it doesn't return but in an out of control leaking hose. When is the last time one of these giant corporations or the 1% paid taxes? A very few people in the Red states are getting more rich off the Blue states that are trying to provide for their people and facing higher and higher taxes with less and less return for their dollar.

When I say run, have you considered another country? Spanish is easy to learn and I'm thinking about Venezuela, Ecuador or Chile. Odd I should have begun my life in the dirty world of politics, the 1% and the ugly vice/sex trade business in Latin America fighting for the poor and may end my life there with them taking care of me having learned and created a better world for their people while the people who helped create that world for them from this country are now going to live in third world slavery to the Christian Corporations we had tossed out of Latin America 50 some years ago who are now doing the same thing to our country. Everything really does come full circle, doesn't it? Excuse me, I think I'll throw up now.

Letting Go

I started my morning reading a very inspirational article on letting go right up until the point that the author tripped and fell into the god and ego abyss. You see, if the ego is part of your consciousness and innate makeup, then so must god be part of your consciousness and innate makeup and not something external to you. Once you know that, you realize the goal is to integrate the two that were one when you were born.

But on to today's lesson since no one really wants to read a long metaphysical essay on Monday. Knowing this, I also was aware that the psychic or sixth sense isn't a sixth sense, but your five senses working better that average. Hence, if you just crank up the senses you come into alignment with the ego and god which are all you. So many get to the part where you do this then suffer a massive fail as they separate god into some external being that controls things. You control things, one way or the other, mostly the other. This morning the other gave me a lesson in the one way.

Before the wonderful metaphysical article start to my morning, I was awakened by Napoleon screaming to go out. Now Napoleon seldom meows so when he wants out of the bedroom, he wants out: now, for some reason understood only by cats. I was in no shape to be wandering the house and apparently neither was one of the cats because I stepped in the most godawful mess you can imagine but at my age, you hop to the bathroom or face another mess.

I cleaned my shoe and foot, was dizzy as a spinning top and found my way back to the bed before I fell leaving the mess for when the universe decided to put the brakes on and return to normal visual levels. About fifteen minutes later I had my phone in hand reading the wonderful almost made it article and once again wondered why people don't see it is all them.

For example, I am typing on a laptop and focused on the screen and what I am writing, but my physical eyes actually see everything in the room within my visual range. I am seeing EVERYTHING. My brain filters most of it out to where only the screen is visible and then only what I am typing down to the single letter appearing on the screen not the pillow on my left. It only takes a moment to expand my focus and if I allow the focus to continue to expand, the part of me which is way smarter than little me, the ego, will be drawn to focus on the single thing I need to know about rather than the thing I think I need to know about which is the single letter appearing on the screen in front of my nose.

With that thought wandering around my brain, I decided I had to get the hallway cleaned up before George wandered out, blurry eyed and made a worse mess of things than I already had. So out I went and reached for the paper towels.

I buy those BJ's towels that divide into half sheets and George has jury-rigged the paper towel holder which was too small to handle the large newer rolls of towels because it is old and hence I was getting a half a sheet at a time which was pushing my temper to the limit when it began to roll and give me as much as I wanted. Okay, that was weird because it never does that. It loves to torture me.

Step two was grab the bottle of vinegar and water to clean up the mess. I squeezed the trigger and nothing happened. The trigger had been broken for ages and you have to slowly keep pulling it to get anything out with a emphasis on slowly, which requires patience and I had used that up with the paper towels. Off came the sprayer and I poured the vinegar and water onto the floor and cleaned things up.

Then I dumped the vinegar and water mix in the kitchen sink and threw the whole bottle and trigger out.

That was not the end of the lesson. A few minutes later I went to make coffee and the filter holder had once again been rinsed and not washed... GEORGE! So I got out the gallon bottle of vinegar and poured some into it with a liberal amount of water when the entire lesson came dancing across my brain using golf shoes.

How many things do we have in our lives that just don't work? There may be nothing completely wrong with them. In my case, the bottle of vinegar and water had nothing wrong with it, it was the trigger that was bad and needed to be replaced. If I had kept the bottle of vinegar and water and disposed of the trigger, I wouldn't have had to lift the heavy gallon jug of vinegar a few minutes later to pour it into the the coffee filter but I dumped it because I was afraid it would make the cats upchuck if they got near and smelled it.

WOW... what a lesson my Self decided to lay out in front of my nose!

We need to get rid of the parts of things that don't work (the trigger; that has a whole second meaning) and keep what does (the vinegar and water cleaning solution: there are two more meanings). And where I messed up was worrying about how the cats were going to react rather than getting the job done. Now we have even more meanings.

All I had to do was stop and think about what my attention was being drawn to and pay attention.

I, me and no one else or nothing else, was doing this. As with everyone, the question in my mind constantly is what do I need to do and I have been providing myself with the answer constantly and I simply didn't pay attention. Now you might say GOD made the cat sick all over the hallway and you would be really wrong.

You see, there are two kitty pans in the hallway and invariably every morning someone misses because I have old cats. They don't make it there in time. It really is normal. That is why there is a bottle of vinegar and water and a paper towel holder mounted in the hallway. It has been there for years.

I could have continued on my merry way, cussing at the paper towels and the sprayer while cleaning up the mess just like I have done for almost a year or I could ask myself why I haven't bothered to fix the situation. Today I decided to fix the situation and the answer to the original question became crystal clear.

The things that don't work aren't all bad but they don't work for you. George's blood pressure is perfectly normal using that trigger bottle; mine isn't. Let them go. Someone else can use them. Don't condemn the process or the situation or the person or the thing. It is doing the best it can and it has its uses somewhere else. It is just time for you to let it go.

And as to the mysterious cat things that demand Napoleon leave the bedroom that very instance, they proved to not be at all mysterious. Napoleon takes a sun bath in the living room window every afternoon. He sensed a huge front moving south across Palm Beach County (he can probably hear the thunder) which will cause us to get a rainy afternoon and block his sun bath so he decided to get it early while the sun was shining. He is in the window right making vitamin D. You see, cats know they are God.