A Small Moment of Wondering

The San Luis Rey Mission Oceanside CA

Yesterday as I was driving home and stopped at a four way signal by the San Luis Rey Mission, I spied something small and incredibly sweet. The hillside grass this time of year in Oceanside California, is lush green velveteen from the rains and the lovely fragrance of the promise of Springtime is in the air literally. My eye roamed the corners of my stop and to my joyful surprise, the small baby squirrel hopped toward the corner of what I suppose was a tempting taste of green sweetness.

He looks at me, and I am him 

This little creature, so very small, furry, and quite bold looked at the street full of automobiles with their spewing tail pipes of toxic fumes like he knew with his little instinctual wisdom of wildness , that he was king of his world, on this emerald green corner, and knowing this, safe from the asphalt street full of monsters...

He was a surprise of wonderment for me from the Natural World that needs no enhancement of our mondarity . He was fearless from the fears we face everyday with the resolve of our superior brain. His world is soft and lush, full of green sweetness, Our World is one of natural wonders that we with our superior brains are quietly making our Earth increasingly difficult to inhabit, and now the Oval Occupant has commandeered the EPA to go quietly into the dark night.

I am, for one moment, the little one sitting on the corner of lush green complexity, filled with toxic fumes, taking my time, tasting springtime, safe on the soft green corner of eternal growth of the seasons, and know that while I stay in my little space, I am safe...    The signal light changes...  

 

America is FUBAR

Her Last words, "It's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you." Rene Good was then shot in the face, killing her.

Conversely, some reports from social media sources claim the ICE agents' words directed at her before the shooting were "F*** you, bitch.

The Last letter in FUBAR is Recognition. I don't recognize my Country anymore.

This is why.

1. There is no accountability from Federal agencies or the President.

2. The pardons are there for anyone the President deems to be on his side.

3. Our Federal Government deploys agents to commandeer ocean going vessels of Oil that is not ours. We don't Need their oil.

4. Seeking to overthrow Greenland with no reason as we already have a base there. Achieving the take over, the easy way or the hard way. This is threatening War.

5. Threatening other sovereign nations in the western hemisphere.

6. Murder is immediately lied about by the current Administration.

7. ICE agents infiltrating our Democratic Cities causing demonstrators to react against their gestapo actions.

8. The Supreme Court looking the other way from granting absolute immunity to the leader of this administration's actions, resulting in the ICE actions of Today.

9. Due process for immigrants has vanished

10. Congress is just not there anymore for oversight.

If an ICE agent can murder Rene Good a white American, and not be held accountable, anyone of us could be the next person to be killed for just being in our car, and not getting out when told to do so by an ICE agent. This should not be a reason for the agent to shoot her in the face, killing her.

This agent has a history with demonstrators with which he incurred a severe injury. He was primed to react with the mental distress of this memory. Why though, did he call her a F----g bitch after he shot her? He was not injured, he had no problem walking to the crashed car and back showing sign of injury. He filmed the whole incident on his cell phone. Phone in his left hand, gun in his right hand. 

 This is not the America we had before this Administration, and the Oval Occupant that leads his army and cheers them on.

I do not recognize Our Country anymore. We now live in one of three Supreme Dictatorships of this World. I have googled at length about how to stop ICE from coming into our Cities and causing harm to our Citizens and immigrants. Apparently since ICE is a federal agency, it overrules our National Guard, our local Police force so, no, it can't be stopped. Even though there are some laws that prohibit ICE from using local resources, this administration has thoroughly demonstrated that they will not be stopped by laws, they will ignore any law that gets in their way. The shooting of Rene Good proves this by killing her, then lying about it.

My heart cries about what my eyes see and my mind comprehends. Trust no longer resides on our Nation's Capital.

I have never used another artist's work on this blog, but today, in The San Diego Union Tribune, Bill Day's political cartoon echo's my belief about ICE.

 

The Don-roe Doctrine

The Fantasy of a Mad Man

Yes, Dear Readers, this time putting his name on a policy of established usage. While not a law, The Monroe Doctrine has been one of time honored foreign policy that the Western Hemisphere is to be protected from Eastern Countries expansion into the Western Hemisphere. For over a hundred years, there has been many variations of our interaction with other countries seeking to expand into the Western Hemisphere and the Hawaiian Kingdom.

It seems that The Oval Occupant wants to be one of the Members only Club of the Major Dictators of the three Hemispheres. He is openly advocating the capture of Greenland, and threatening other countries in our Western Hemisphere. This is pure madness of a mind that is fantasizing his place in history as the Owner of our Western Hemisphere. Therefore He would be the third member of the Members only Club of Supreme  Dictators of our Planet Earth.

Trump has privately and publicly praised the control exercised by China's Xi Jinping. During a briefing with Republican senators, Trump recounted an experience where Xi's officials remained completely still and silent, not responding to questions without Xi's permission. He told his cabinet members that he wanted them to behave in a similar manner, noting that he had "never seen men so scared in their lives". He also praised Xi for being "president for life," stating, "And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday".

However, this history of established policy did not prevent the current Occupant of the Oval from invading Venezuela and capturing the dictator Maduro and his wife. They were designated by our State Department as a Foreign terrorist Organization FTO as a justifying reason for our invasion which can be considered an act of war.

What is the goal of the Occupant of the Oval? What does he mean we are going to “Run” the Country? What comes next? How does he induce the major oil companies of our country pay for restructuring the broken infrastructure of oil producing agencies? Venezuela oil is thick sticky “sour” crude. To make it viable, it needs to be refined. This is where the American companies come into play and remake the broken structures productive. This makes money for American Companies, but how does it make America safer? How does this make America First?

We do not need the Oil from Venezuela. Our Country is the world top producer of Oil, leading significantly, producing around 20 - 22 million barrels per day, compared to Saudi Arabia of 10 million bpd and Russia 10 million bpd. The Only reason for America's involvement for the oil fields of Venezuela is to make money for the rich billionaire oil companies of America.

What is the real reason for this American Invasion of a Sovereign Nation?

1. Makes America safer from narcotics

2. Making Venezuela great again

3. Saving the Petro Dollar

4. Preempting China from refining Venezuela's heavy sour crude

5. Controlling the countries in the Western Hemisphere

6. Making his fantasy of being the third member of the Members Only Club of Dictators come true. 

Last year was the opening salvo of a man who ignores congress, established law and policy. This year he is putting all of his “Absolute Immunity power” from any action which could be illegal into real trans-actionable profits for himself and his companies.

He is the gift of 90 million American voters who gave him the Presidency. They Voted a convicted criminal into a position of absolute power, and we now are experiencing the foreseeable intentions of a criminally sociopathic mind.

Can the Rest of Us, save our Republic ? Will the 2026 election happen and have results we can Trust? I have no answers, only my blog of dissent.

I WILL CONTINUE TO DISSENT !

 

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Arts and the Artist

The one irrepressible truth about the Arts is that No One owns the Artist! What makes an artist is that their independent voice is their own. They write, paint, compose in their solitude, and never, never will give this process up to anyone.

As I watched the Oval Office Occupant's name being attached to The Kennedy Center, I caught a sob in my throat, for this vile man's name to be on top of Kennedy's name, was like robbing our collective reverence for a President who gave everything for our Country. Stealing the spotlight by inserting his name   over Kennedy's name on this memorial building of a fallen President, for the Arts, is unforgivable. This person has contributed nothing for the Arts. It is a discernible fact that his idea of aesthetics is plastering gold painted artifacts looking like Walmart whimsy stickers all over the Oval Office.

In many ways, the Artist is as powerful as a king or president. His/Her works are conceived without any input from an outside agency, the process is singular, the making is singular, and the result is a product of original thought. The Movie, The Fountain Head, with Gary Cooper's soliloquy is one of the best description of an Artist's duty him/herself I have heard. Sometimes when a commission structure is involved, the artist still has the option to walk away, or destroy, and sometimes that happens and No One can stop Him/Her.. The original inspiration is solely owned by the Artist. The Artist listens to His/Hers Truth, and it is that truth which makes an effort become a work of Art. 

The Artists of the past and will in the Future give a voice about the world we live in and will, tell truth to power, whatever the price may be. The Arts give us beauty, musical rhythms of our day, challenge our possibilities, thoughts about the what ifs in our world, and ask us to stop, listen, read, and to consider our conditions of life's choices. The Poem, Chicago, by Carl Sandburg makes us aware of what our lives are made of and what we take for granted. I read yesterday that in one of Tyson's butchering plants, they kill 500 cows a day, this is just one plant. If this potential picture was displayed on TV commercial, it would have an impact of horror. Art describe acts of horror, writes stories, sing songs about it, and it also tells about our wondrous world and gives us reason to be hopeful . The Artist can tell these stories and songs, with truth about our real world. 

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was designed for a lasting memorial for President John Kennedy. The dominate element, of the project was to give the building a legacy of strength and integrity for a man who was loved and respected for his courage and his truth of being. To have someone who is the antithesis of this legacy insert his name over Kennedy's name is blasphemy of the highest order.

The Artists who have declined to perform on order of this would be king are in my view, heroes. They are facing a potential threat for their works to be defamed and destroyed. They walk away from this would be king, with their truth of purpose intact and honoring their own purpose of being.

The Cookers walked away...

The Arts belong to everyone, the Artist belongs only to Him/Her self, and will always, always, tell stories of truth for it is,

                        Truth that creates Great Art.

                   Remembering                                                         

I remember 1965 when Charlie Brown's Christmas made its debut. It is so hard to find in on the Internet, but here is a link. We all need to take a rest from the daily grind of our Worldly cares and here is the time of long ago when things seemed simpler. Thank You Charles  Schultz.  

                 

 

A Thousand Words

Pictures are Visual Words

RFK's image of Piety

The Picture on the Cover of the Atlantic Magazine of Robert Kennedy JR is a lie.

Hiding behind his rosary beads trying to look like the Pope, he betrayed his uncle John Kennedy. I remember JFK well. In 1960 I was a young mother and the daughter of a minister who railed against a prospective Catholic President.

I remember his speech on September 12, 1960, to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, where he declared his belief in an "absolute" separation of church and state. He explicitly stated that his religious beliefs would not influence his public policy decisions as President.

"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who happens also to be a Catholic". "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute".

The image of RFK JR on the cover of the Atlantic magazine is one of visual words, words in peoples minds which equate him with religious piety. Many followers of Oval Office Occupier will feel the power of the symbolic image of RFK's hands in a prayerful position holding his rosary and feel that here is a man of truth. In bringing religion into his office of HHS, he has crossed the line in our Constitution for the separation of Church and State.

In our media, public platforms on TV and the forums of Print, there is a “thing” going on. It is called “sane-washing”. This is sometimes intentional and sometimes maybe not. The last line in the article was...

"The trial lawyer was still laboring to connect the dots that led to his preferred verdict, the orphan child of American royalty, back from hell, still fighting to fulfill his birthright".

First of all he is not royalty, we do not have kings or their princely sons. Second he is a lawyer, not a scientist. He will never change his intentions. He is in his court, of his HHS in his mind, and will continue to fight for his client, himself. He has no birthright in this Country. His family gave America a President, John F Kennedy, who was a war hero. John Kennedy's love for America was implicit and inspired greatness in Science and Space, that, does not give his brother a birthright to destroy the National HHS.

RFK's dots do not connect to anything that relates to Science and Truth. His dots will kill children and adults who believe in a man who is in the process of destroying the HHS and the Scientific Truths we used to Trust.

I do Have Hope. Yesterday, Governor Newsom announced that California will lead the way for Science and Truth to be embedded in a new Agency for our State.

The Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX), a new California-led initiative to modernize public health infrastructure and maintain trust in science-driven decision-making. To lead this work, the state is engaging some of the nation’s most respected public health voices to consult on this initiative, including Dr. Susan Monarez, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;Dr. Debra Houry, former CDC Chief Medical Officer; and Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, founder and CEO of Your Local Epidemiologist.

Last August I wrote a post on this blog imploring the Governor to do just this, hiring the scientists that had been fired by RFK and bring them to California. On this post I included a letter that I sent to t he Governor. I don't know if he read it, but the concept came to fruition and that is what will give our Citizens medical advice based on Science and Truth.

My letter;

August 8, 2925

Dear Governor Newsom 

We have a State HHS program here in California. Why don't we hire all of the HHS scientists who have been fired by Kennedy and bring them to California? We could become the leading truth and scientific State which could be a beacon of hope and truth to the rest of America. This could be a revision of the Manhattan project when the U.S. hired many German Scientists to America for building the bomb. I don't liken building vaccines to bombs, although there are similarities. Viruses kill millions and are just deadly as a bomb. When one State cannot bring truth to science, another State should walk through that door, and be the new bearer of truth in Science...Over one million Americans died from Covid...

 

The Chaos of 2025

It is the Holiday Season once again. Does it seem like it? I can't remember last year and what the feeling was at Christmas Time. From the last year's election and to now, it seems like one continuous blur of Trump-ism. And what exactly is that feeling? It's hard to define, except that my sense is one of continuing stress and heartache.

This feeling of stressful anxiety is like a blanket of wet dripping wool covering my mind. The one question that is now unanswerable is, What will this man do in the next three years? He is sowing the seeds of his own Manifest Destiny to remain in the Oval for the rest of his life. This is beyond my imagination, but, that is exactly what he is doing.

When I try to summon a word that defines this man, I can only think of the word Destruction. He has in this one year built an administration built on lies and fear, that in turn has destroyed; truth, trust, alliances, due process, the 14^th amendment, the EPA, USAID, our Health institutions and protocols, and most of all, challenging our first amendment rights giving us a sense of safety.

His gifts to us, Loss of Affordability, Loss of pride in the stature and integrity of what we should have in a President, loss of Integrity and loss of Honor in our Congress, Loss of our National Laws derived from the Constitution, and English common law, Loss of truth from our Supreme Court, and the Loss of American Leadership on the World stage.

My heart sinks when I hear from this man words of hate, piggy, garbage, losers, suckers, describing people that he can't hope to understand or control. This President is the embodiment of a crude, incompetent, egomaniac driven person. The Seeds of a Whirlwind are his, and sadly and will descend upon Americans and the World writ large...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the "Day living in Infamy", the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I published the picture for this blog. The Whirlwind of Trump-ism is strengthening, and will come to fruition unless our Congress, as Madeleine Albright said, does not grow some cajones.