My Neighbors, the Marines

Today the Marines are going to shoot live Ordnance over Interstate 5 Freeway into Camp Pendleton. 

I live in Oceanside CA and the Base is our northern boarder of the City. For years, there have been occasionally loud booms, flyovers of jets and the large U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy. These aircraft are a wonder to watch and I feel the vibrations, the thunderous pulsing of the engines, laboring to make their climb over my head, a miracle, I sigh.

                      CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA,                                             UNITED STATES

I have a deep appreciation for the Marines. I feel safe in my community up high on a hill. I can watch their nighttime shooting of softly falling lights like fairy tale stars drifting down to light up the landscape of our earth. In reality, the lights are parachute flares, which are pyrotechnic devices designed to signal distress or to illuminate a large area at night during training.

I feel safe, when I go downtown to the Oceanside Museum of Art, and waiting to cross the street, the Young handsome men of the Corps take my arm and escort me across the street. Do I feel like a queen ? Yes.

I feel at peace when walking in our Senior community, I see the beautiful young men and women, running like the wind up our hills and waving to me, remembering the days when I too could run with the courage of my will to be healthy.

Today, however, the troops of the Corps will be doing the biding of the Occupant of the Oval. They will be shooting live ordnance over the weekend travelers of our County on Interstate 5 into Camp Pendleton. The Freeway will be shutdown, leaving thousands of cars sitting the hot sun, the folks left deal with their human needs, because of the whims of a man who has never known anything but his own selfish wants.

The rational is to celebrate the 250^th anniversary of our County, but is that really the reason?

The Hatred of California by this Occupant of the Oval is well known. In my view, this is a warning to Governor Newsom. Beware, “I can do this whenever, wherever, and to ever I want”. He has demonstrated this in the targeting of boats in the Caribbean...

I fear, this won't be the last of a show of power from this man whose hatred of California has been seen in the show of ICE in Los Angeles and beyond.

Still, I revere our Young Men and Women of the Corps, who give tirelessly their truth, their honor, their time, and even their lives, I Celebrate them, Honor them and am in debt to them for they are a force of nature and are the best of Us.

The Best of Us...

 

As Americans there is so much we agree on. Why then, is there so much hate? Can our great American conversation start with these words of agreement? Could the media and our politicians start with these words. And, if we could start the conversation, would it be possible that the things we agree on are the most important words, and that hate should be the least of the starting points? Would it be possible that the middle 43 percent of Americans who could vote for words of agreement to have a collective deciding voice?

Who would carry this banner, and how can we use the new AI to make us heard?  

Watch our time of National Pride and People as One at the Dodger World Series Game One 2024. The National Anthem and Fly Over... 

 

“We Can Do This the Easy Way,

or the Hardway”

Pandora by RJameson

They will have to use the Hardway on Me.

I will never bend my knee to the most corrupt, evil, unfit person to ever inhabit the Oval office. I am not Harvard, the Paul Weiss law firm, Steven Colbert, Jimmy Kimmil, I'm just one person who will continue to tell my truth with no filters to soften my Words. My Words are the culmination of what I hear and see from this administration. From the very first time this oval occupant pompously came down his golden escalator, the words were those of xenophobia. This hatred continues to this day, only now, it turns onto American Citizens.

Antifa is now considered to be a terrorist organization. The oval occupant announced on social media that he would designate antifa as a "major terrorist organization'

Antifa is not an organized group. It has no central leader, membership, or headquarters. Who can be determined to ba Antifa? Apparently anyone who is considered to be strongly against the Oval occupant or his executive orders. Those anyones can be you, me, us. They are already taking away people who have brown skins.

He called for his political enemies to be jailed, suggested it should be "illegal" to criticize judges, and declared it should be "illegal" to say he lost the election.

“I have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me, I get 97% negative, and yet I won and easily,” He said as he returned to Washington following a state visit to Britain, adding: “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”

Where is courage to counter the attracts on our freedom of Speech? The Networks if combined with the printed news could mount a great push back to this want-to-be dictator. Why are they now NOT doing this? Big Reason: MONEY. The FCC is the hammer, everyone (corporations) else is a nail. The NGOs like PBS are feeling the pain, and the universities are threatened, the Social Services have been cut with more to come.

These words from the Oval Occupant are from 2015 to the present. Does it sound like it is getting better for us? From what I can ascertain, it seems like we are not living in a Democracy. It sounds like we are well down the slope to dictatorship. The time line has made His past words normalized and folks have become inured to what is happening. Maybe the words of Brendan Carr will wake people up, They woke up Ted Cruz.

 

On gun violence Charlie Kirk

"I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational".– Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

Documented by Media Matters for America, a progressive non-profit that tracks conservative media. 

I believe that Murder is wrong. As an Independent, for me guns are abhorrent for the reason that they are made to kill things. People, animals, living beings which have a right to live. I used to have a gun, and when I heard someone trying to get into my home one night, I had the gun cocked and ready to defend myself. I called the police, and was relieved that they came before the intruder broke into my home. I have often wondered if I could have pulled the trigger. Alone, in a place with no other neighbors, and the nearest human was miles away, I was vulnerable. I will never know. Shortly there after, I turned the gun into the police station.

The gun violence in America is out of control. People will use guns and misuse them. Our ideas and our claims that our ideas are Right and the other is Wrong results sometimes to escalation where the end is killing someone or something. Killing is our entertainment, our pastime games, our calls out at sports events where people shout to kill the opponents. Some killing of people to Charlie Kirk was an OK way to have  the 2^nd amendment to protect our other rights. Would he have said this if he knew that it would turn out to be him?

For me, this is a sick way to view the second amendment. I believe that the 2^nd amendment was instituted to be a deterrent, not an advocacy to keep this right in place by killing people, and making it a foundation for the amendment to be there for protecting our other rights.                

I also believe that killing a magnificent deer is wrong. This beautiful living being, a wondrous stately animal is a being to be treasured not to kill. When people feel they have the right to kill such a beautiful animal, it desensitizes the person to the act of killing, and a living being has been taken from our Forrest of light and beauty.

Again, Murder is wrong.. Also, advocating that killing people is acceptable to have the 2^nd amendment is for protecting our rigths wrong. We must going forward find a way to think not in terms of I'm right, and you are wrong, and put these two words into the trash bin. Lets choose instead, words of..Consider the possibilities? These words could start a common human connection to both sides...

Perhaps, eliminating the words, Right and Left, conservative and liberal should also be rendered into the trash bin, maybe, labels are part of the problem because they are used to infer each other is dishonorable...so far, these words have not worked out very well for our Country.

I have read that our Founders were worried about the party system. They were correct...

 

"I Don't Draw

Pictures"

A New York cityscape skyline drawing signed by Donald Trump and dated 2004, which Sotheby's auction house said was created for the Capuchin Food Pantry's benefit Doodle for Hunger, as promoted for auction on Sotheby's website in January 2020. Photo: Donald J. Trump/Sotheby's via REUTERS

President Donald Trump has publicly denied that he draws, but numerous examples of his sketches have been sold at auction over the years, many dating from his time as a New York real estate developer, the New York Times said on Friday.

 

           West CoastHealth Alliance, Governors Greem. Kotec, Newsom and Ferguson, 

The Medical Cojones Club ©

Science and Truth are Foundational for America's Health

Finally,... Four State Governors stepped up and gave the finger to Trump and Kennedy about health care. “We will form an alliance to give our people good medical advice for vaccines and other health concerns”.

The members of this new club are Governor Green for Hawaii, Governor Newsom for California, Tina Kotec Governor for Oregon, and Robert Ferguson Governor for Washington.

I watched Governor Green of Hawaii talk last night of the imperative need for medical advice to be Science based.

As a physician, Governor Green leads with a background of what worked during the COVID pandemic. His state had the fewer deaths than most states in America. He was gracious about Kennedy and the concern about synthetic food dyes in our food, and thought maybe he could have a voice somewhere else in the administration. However for now with the seasons of flu and COVID ramping up, the need for Truth about vaccines needs to be addressed by Doctors and Scientists.

• The statue of General Espartero: A well-known Spanish idiom references the statue of General Espartero on his horse in Madrid. The statue's horse has famously large testicles, leading to the saying tienes mas cojones que el caballo de Espartero ("you have more balls than Espartero's horse") to praise someone's bravery.

In another life, Kennedy a 14 year heroin addict, would not be chosen for any position in a hospital, university, or scientific institution. But, our oval office occupant impotent for lacking critical thought, cannot or will not chose anyone qualified for the HHS position in his administration. Why is that? Recently he said of Kennedy, “ I like him because he is different” This is the reason we have a former drug addict as our Secretary of HHS. Yes he is different. He has no training in the medical sciences.

Several weeks ago, I advocated that the scientists which have been fired or have resigned to be relocated to the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. Governor Green suggested this very idea last night that these good people having been ousted from the CDC and HSS could continue to do their research, in western states and produce new medical therapies and vaccines for the people in our four states and beyond.

People keep sending me emails for money for various political reasons, and I keep deleting them. However, if this new group sent me an email for donations, I would gladly send my contribution for the new “MedicalCojones Club". 

      “Hope lies in dreams"

Jonas  Salk  1914 - 1995

      

The smallpox vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner, an English physician, in 1796. He observed that milkmaids who had previously contracted cowpox, a mild disease, were immune to smallpox. Jenner inoculated a young boy, James Phipps, with cowpox pus, and Phipps later proved to be immune to smallpox. This discovery led to the development of the smallpox vaccine, which eventually led to the eradication of smallpox in 1980.

He is Three

His future ?

He is Three, this wondrous boy, my Great Grand Son. He is so full of life with smiles, hugs, and joy of life. What will his future be with the insane health policies being instituted by the Oval Occupant and His scyophant Robert Kennedy Jr. ?

This little boy who has such great expectations engendered by his family of which I am a proud far away Great Grand Mother. When I was his age, WWII had not yet started for the United States although the seeds were germinating. What is being planted in our Country now are seeds of our destruction. Just about every governmental agency is being hallowed out by incompetent people who are destroying their own departments. Why is the Congress not stopping this making America weak?

Yesterday Robert Kennedy Jr. answered questions about vaccines and why they have changed for the most vulnerable people the ability to access the life saving care that has been proven by science to save lives. Will my little GGS be able to have the normal vaccines when he goes to school ? Will his classmates? He lives far away from California which will have our own criteria for vaccinations as the western states have decided to form an autonomous group and not let the Federal Government tell us what to do.

Kennedy is a heron addict. He maybe clean now, but he undoubtedly has some brain damage for he has lost the ability to give intelligible answeres about the vaccines which for decades proven effective and saves lives. He doesn't seem to care about the future impacts his decisions will have on our present lives much less for the future for our children.

As I watched him, this bully of a man whose legacy will be one of stupid and untruthful answers about his polices which will kill people I was saddend. The current occupant in the Oval Office is responsible for over a million deaths during COVID. Will Kennedy have a similar legacy? Little children are dying from measles today since it was eliminated in 2000. Three Children have died. Hundreds have been hospitalized. 

What transpired today when he repeatedly lied because he was not under oath was a travesty. I wondered even if he had been under oath, would he have answered differently, I think not.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies 

Meanwhile, more of our Nation's health agencies are being dismantled and scientists are being fired to be replaced with folks who will follow the stupid and unscientific new polices which will not make our Country safe from the coming health crises of the future.

I do have Hope. The little Boy I love so very well, will have his time in the sun. There are new technologies being born, and I have hope that these new ideas and industries will be bring truth and science to our great Nation.    

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."