MARK KELLY

American Hero

I'm wondering if the American President could have me arrested for writing this blog post. Would my first Amendment Rights protect me from his rants of having me arrested and hanged? I'm just an old artist who feels so very strongly that I should stand up and do SOMTHING! 

I have gone to two protests in downtown Oceanside, but my body parts are not having it. As my time is limited on this daily toil, my delights are my art work, and writing this post. I can only hope that the protests which were huge last weekend in DC will continue and have consequences of enlightenment to the people who put this evil man in our Oval Office. 

When Biden finally decided not to run for President last year, my thoughts turned instantly to Mark Kelly. He is one of the most qualified men in our Country to be President of America. He has fought, gone into space, and has served in the Senate. His credentials are platinum! His integrity to duty is there for all to see. The unqualified Director of Defense is by this standard minus 1000 percent!. By contrast, the President is a tarnished gold plated lump. 

When bullies are in power, they seek to destroy those who are men of great accomplishment. They have others take orders to do the deeds they themselves will not take, for they know that will never have to serve on the front line, and they will always take the illegal path of the mob boss, and have others do the deed. 

My moment of Glory 

I have sat in the space shuttle Captain's chair, and though it was only a full sized mock up, the size, the power, and thrill was inherent and sustained. My imagination was in the stars, and they swirled my small self into infinity. The thought of being in space where everything wants to kill you and be there in a small metal space station for weeks was what this American Hero has done.

I will continue to post my thoughts and stand for the Constitution, and free speech. I honor the pledge, and when the flyovers happen at the ball games, my soul soars with pride and I sing my allegiance... Mark Kelly, I honor You, and I can smile when looking at your picture, knowing that you are here, and not backing down to threats from the Oval Occupant.                                         THANK YOU !  

 

Don't throw Me into the Briar Patch

This Strategy  is exactly what Trump used to fool the Democratic Party Leaders. This gave the Trumpers time to do redact, Photoshop, AI to distort, what ever it took to curate the thousands of documents, photos, and videos of the Epstein Files...It took years to accomplish this, he campaigned on this, but when done, the Oval Office Occupant took a 180 turn, and said, Yes, I will sign the release of the files.

The streaming talking head pundits who would have you believe that this man is sick and will not last to the end of his term, are playing us for their own money game. He is in full mental capacity to keep on doing harmful policies to our Country like the one he just completed with the Saudi Crown Prince. His appetite for creating an opportunity for his own real estate Development is on going and giving away American Technologies for his own personal gain is there for all to see.

His foreign polices are all transactional and our Country is the loser. His domestic policies are the same. The worker bees in his administration and in congress have to be completely loyal or they will be fired, prosecuted, primaried and threatened. His power depends on this strategy. 

The Oval Occupant, put in place the army of complaint worker bees to take this strategy to a new level. The Governmental agencies of the DOJ, DHS and the Secrete Service are now under his complete control. We will never know what could be in these files which could implicate Trump. The new investigations, will have the ability to move and obstruct, are the tools to block the release of the Files to the American People. These abilities are his gift from the Supreme Court for him to have Absolute Power as President.

Why else would He take a complete 180 turn when his administration took months trying to keep the Files from being released? Now for the next three and ½ years, we will hear that the investigations of his enemies which will be ongoing keeps the Justice Agency from releasing any of the Epstein Files. Absolute Power gives the ability to one person for Absolute Obstruction.

I keep wondering why these Women who were abused have not created a class action suit to sue the men in involved, like other women did in the Harvey Weinstein case. They have collaborating witness among them and their voices could be heard in an open Court of Law. The Epstein Files would not be the only entity to challenge the lying voices of the Trump Administration and Men of other powerful designations, the files already released would be a corroborating element.

A Thousand Voices who experienced abuse from these men, each telling the same story, in open Court would be Absolute Corroboration. They would become Legion...

 A Day of Remembrance 

On this beautiful fall day, the glorious air flowing from the Pacific is filling the air with joy. The magic of oxygenated molecules gives me, when I breathe, youth and power. I will paint today. And, I give you the exhibition at our Art Museum here in Oceanside CA, about surfing. I hope that this post will bring you a respite from the chaos of our political world and that the world of the Blue Pacific will bring you peace...

Ken Goldman

The Magical calling of the Sea. It fills us with the oneness of our greatest longing, melding with the greatest creative force, the Sea. Our cells, our viral connections, our very brain waves are in concert with the rhythms of the Sea. It calls, it dances in our minds eye with the remembrances of our childhood when we were all dancers in the waves of our Oceans with our very soul.

Cheryl Tall

Oceanside is the magical place for all who love the Sea. It shines, sparkles with the blueness of happiness and it calls us to Be with it. It is a place for the arts of the Sea. It has the artists who live on it, play with it, and use it as our muse. It is deep within our hearts and is the crucible of our creativity. As I write this post, I am listening to Debussy's La Mer. Emotions run high with the pulsing sounds of the stormy Sea. The Sea inspires all who has ever stepped foot in this liquid birthing place of life on planet Earth. 

And So It Is...the Oceanside Museum of Art presents it's newest exhibition, of the Sea, and those who love it best. The Surfers. 

Thomas Rogo

A dual exhibition CaliforniaSurf Museum and the Oceanside Museum ofArt (OMA), this exhibition will explore art that has emerged from the surf lifestyle and surfing’s influence on artists. 

“Surfing is part of a defining identity of California’s image and has had an indelible effect on global society,” says Jim Kempton, Executive Director of The California Surf Museum and co-curator of the exhibition. “Everyone who has experienced the feeling of riding a wave understands just how hard it is to describe that incredible sensation, referred to as ‘stoke.’ 

Sandow Birk

The Oceans have inspired artists from the beginning of time to create our homage to the Sea. To capture, and record the linkage of this blueness of happiness, this compelling force, which pulls us in, saturates our vision, and orchestrates our heart beat with the endless waves of forever....

 

The President's Eyes

A Person's eyes are the windows to the Soul.

Official Presidential Portrait of Donald Trump 2025-2029

When your child is fibbing to you, there is a “look” that is a tell. When your boss won't look you in the eye, you know that something is not right, When the President stares locked, off to the side, his eyes dilated black, with no light reflected, you know that something is very wrong. That happened yesterday in the Oval.

This is enlarged image is from original with Photoshop. No other filters used.

A man fainted behind the President. The President turned and watched him go down, leaned in a little, then turning around he stood at his desk staring straight ahead arms limp beside him, and froze. Chaos erupted behind him, folks rushing to help the person on the floor, the staff rushing round to chase reporters out of the room.

The President did not move. Is this a small preview of how he might react if the emergency was a national crisis ? He might have tried to help, he might have picked up his phone and dialed 911, he could have done something to calm people down. Nothing. The Video Tapes are not showing what really happened, they are all cut short, and resume when the President is seated. What else happened in the Oval, we will never know...

Normally, the Presidents eyes are green as in his official portrait. Yesterday, they were black, and what are we to think of a man whose eyes are totally dilated as if he is not there, or on something? If this had been Biden, the entire universe would be howling for the 25^th  Amendment to be invoked...

 

I Remember the Red Guard

In June 1982, I traveled with an Art Group to China for a 3 week study of the Chinese cultural arts and historical lectures about painting, and sculpture. The excitement of visiting a culture of 3,500 years old, belonging to the Shang dynasty was a dream realized. After almost 13 hours on the plane, the landing on an airfield that was dark and seemingly way out in the country was a little disquieting. Coming to a stop, all was dark and very quite. The door finally opened to exit, but we were told to stay in our seats. In burst the Red Guard. Their guns extended, and moving quickly through the isles, we were stunned into quiet obedience sitting there much like stone statues.

Well, here we are, in China. Sitting there not knowing if or what was to happen next. Twenty minuets later, it was determined we could deplane. All through our stay, the Red Guard were around, discreetly following us, observing us and being our constant companions in their green uniforms. 

The Pentagon has ordered the creation of a National Guard Reaction Force, it is expected to complete civil unrest training and be fully operational by April 1. The total size of the force will be 23,500 troops across all 50 states and three territories, excluding the District of Columbia, the documents say. Most states will supply 500 personnel for the reaction force, with the rest falling between 250 and 450. Executive order 14339.

"If I want to enact a certain act I’m allowed to do it routinely. I’d be allowed to do whatever I want," Trump said in his remarks on Air Force One. "The courts wouldn’t get involved, nobody would get involved. I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. I can send anybody I wanted.”

He did prove this when he sent the Marines to Camp Pendleton to fire live ammunition over the I5 freeway. This was for anyone who is listening, was a shot across the bow of Democracy. No one in Congress cared, The Courts did not care, The People did not care, they went to the beach, and watched the action from their cars which were stopped on the Freeway in the sweltering sun. The CA State Police did stop traffic for several hours. One patrol car was hit with shrapnel.

And so we go along. Nothing has changed in our busy daily lives, and when we wake in the morning our day seems much like the day before. Did we not see the National Guard, and the Marines at the Home Depots spiriting away folks in white vans with no due process, did we not watch the Jan 6^th rioters trying to over throw the 2020 election, did we not hear, this man say you will never have to vote again?

Our collective ears, eyes, and minds have been dulled by the constant barrage of hateful rants from a person who won our Nations highest office, and has built his administration on the ideals of hate and revenge. Will our minds wake up, will Congress begin to See, will the Supreme Court finally realize what they created?

Will we, in OUR not too distant future, see ICE and the National Guard come onto the planes when we travel from blue states to red states with guns, masks, and pepper spray going through the isles looking for people they think are illegal immigrants ?

As I remember, the Red Guard in China, they were for me, very polite, and amused at this small blond artist who was painting pictures of their buildings and parks. For as you might surmise, the Chinese Artists are the Masters of Water Color Painting and have been for centuries.

The Sea

                             Trying to Find a Bright Spot                           

                                      

Today I will paint. The world around me seems to be filled with so much hate and ill feelings, I am tired, my mind will not absorb any more of the politic right and wrong. Who is right all of the time, and who is not wrong some of the time.

I live near the Sea. Today I will absorb the light, the blueness of happiness that splashes into the air, little orbs of healing and pleasure. The paintings are of the Sea and the Kelp Forests that are a source of Food. Food for the body and my soul.

Kelp Woman

Finding the bright spot should give me the restful pause to be the self I remember when I was 10. I celebrate that young girl, entering to her emerging awareness of the possibilities of being just herself. Going back is also projecting my imagination into the future frailties of our world, hence the paintings of Kelp Woman.

The purple sea urchins are killing the Kelp Forests. The Starfishes are a keystone species, and they are dying due to the warming of the Oceans. The Starfishes eat the purple urchins and help the kelp to thrive.

There is one book would be the one that I would have if I could have only one. 'The Starthrower” by Loren Eiseley is a book with visual words painting stories about nature's powers of our existence of which we can only wonder. The stories have remained with me for many years, and I hope that you dear readers can find this book, for you too will find memories of your own that are called up when your read this little tome of wonderment's...You could perhaps find your own spot of restful happiness.

 

The People's House

now owned by Trump

“You will never have to Vote again”. He believes that he will live there forever, and so, the White House, our House of the People, belongs to him in his neurotic brain. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and we know from past iterations that the beholder of the Oval Office thinks that gold means good taste and big stands for power and so, for him, his delusions must be beautiful and true. 

The Oval Office now looks like a trophy shop, and the proposed ballroom looks like something that Marie Antoinette would have built at Versailles. Seeing the Grander of the palace that Putin lives in, the busy brain of the Oval Occupant was jealous and wanted gold everywhere, and it has to be in a very bigly ballroom.

The destruction of the East Wing of the White House, where the offices of the First Lady were located was probably a thorn in his side. We know how he feels about Women, that they are not important in his grand scheme of how his house should be ordained. 

The destruction of the East Wing is but a Metaphor for what he has been doing for the past 9 months to the entire American Government, and is now trying to do to our Health Care, Cities Protesting, voting rights, due process, and the American People. It is distressing to think what he will do for the remainder of his term.

A GIFT TO TRUMP

TRUMP v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 23–939. Argued April 25, 2024—Decided July 1, 2024

Held: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a (former) President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. Pp. 5–43.

President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity. Pp. 5–15

U. S. 786, 800 “His authority to act necessarily “stem[s] either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself. “

This new authority given to the President by the Supreme Court has in truth made the Occupant of the Oval, a King, the sentence above in this ruling stands out to give one great pause. It states that his authority stems from an act of Congress, or the Constitution itself. This ruling has been ignored by the Oval Occupant, he also owns the Congress, and disregards the Constitution.

The Delusions of Grander by this man knows no bounds and we, the American People are suffering a great loss for our Democracy. I wonder, is his destroying one third of the White House an  “Official Act”?