It takes a worried mind to ask a few questions which need be asked:

• Which President only made about a half billion dollars in his first term…(Aside from salary and previous business dealings)?  A) Sleepy Joe B) Non-Citizen Obama C) The  healthiest man alive, aka The Donald. (C is the coerrect Answer)
• Which President made an estimated 2.5 billion Dollars in the first year of his second term? A) K Harris ( Wrong: even though she won the ‘popular vote – she was not ever the President. Duh!) B) The Donald (B is the correct answer, subject to revision, of course, because the actual figures are being removed from all sources.)
• How many Law-Suits has the current President been involved in, in his lifetime?  A) Over 4000 – as of April 2025.  B) No one really knows..accurate figures are hard to retrieve – even with AI. C) If tariffs were placed on all the President’s Law-Suits, the country could get out of debt and the price of eggs would go down. (Answer: A,B, and C are correct.)
• Who is the happiest that ICE is at the Olympics? A) The ICE people themselves.  B) No one else. ( A and B are equally correct… but some of the people in Minneapolis are happy that some of the ICE people are in Italy and not in Minneapolis, so maybe B is not as correct as A.)
• We captured Maduro because: A) the Venezuelan fishing boats were really drug dealers and we have saved over 25,000 lives by shooting them dead. B) Maduro is a bad man and does not share the oil money with his people and does not even know how to drill for oil like we do. C) Maduro jimmied our voting machines and threw the elections to the Democrats and then he cheated on the votes in Puerto Rico. Something like that. D) Our good President may pardon Maduro for his offenses if Maduro tells everything to  our Congress and apologizes – especially if he whistleblows that he cheated for the Democratic Party. (All answers are the only ones provided. And none of them are correct.)

It could be the News, it could be the weather; but I am having a little ‘Writer’s Block’. So, trying to kickstart a stream of consciousness I am looking at a few notes I have here,.. thoughts from others…international, domestic & irrelevant

• “Being five minutes early is being late.”- German Proverb. (In NYC you are still “on time” if you are only 20 minutes late.)
• “God invented Alcohol so the Irish would not conquer the world.”  -Irish Saying.
• “Americans will always do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”” -Winston Churchill
• “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.” -‘Mathew 7:12’.  or,…
• “Do unto others before they do unto you.” -Perhaps from the ‘Book of ICE, Chapter 1: Verse 7’
• “It does not require many words to speak the truth.” -Chief Joseph
• “Les Gros Poissons mangent les petit.””  -(Trans.: “Big fish eat little fish.” -French proverb)

Aahhh, at last, some thoughts are trickling in…

• “Money Talks, Nobody Walks”‘ -American Proverb…Speaking of which, I have a money making idea: You know how with AI we can alter images of things? Well, I say we  make a little statuette – coffee table size – and re-image the Statue of Liberty: Give her big lips, maybe long hair hanging down, put jewelry on her arms and maybe a $10,000 watch on her wrist…maybe take that light out of her hand, put a gun in there…put on a bullet-proof vest and maybe place some zip-ties and smoke bombs in her other hand. Keep the words “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” those will still make sense.. Anyway, I say we could make and sell this statue as a piece of Merch. I want 10%.

• I see where The President is saying when he appears to have fallen asleep in meetings…he is not actually sleeping…he says he already knows what is going on in the meetings and he is concentrating on future plans and events. That’s what I do too. But when I open my eyes I forget what those plans and events were going to be. Usually when I open my eyes after closing them for a half hour or so, I have to go to the bathroom. I wonder how He can just sit there and not have to go to the bathroom. There is much to be learned.

 

• I read: In Texas, a college philosophy professor was forbidden to teach about Plato. Intrigued, I looked up this guy Plato to see what was so bad. He was a student of Socrates and then a teacher to Aristotle. He started the first known Academy. His ‘Masterpiece’ is “The Republic”, wherein he spoke about how good a Republic could be. Some intellectuals consider him to be the father of Western thought. His mistake, was he spoke of Race and Gender – things we do not want to discuss in Texas…(maybe soon to be verboten in Florida and Louisiana)… I then looked up the word  ‘Platonic’ in the dictionary to see if I was missing something: “…adjective.  (Of love or friendship) Intimate but not sexual their relationship is purely platonic.” Who needs to learn of these things anyway? …However, I hear the Taxes are low, low in Texas – so it’s a fine place to live.
• I have been looking at a map and He is right; Greenland is close to the North Pole and could be a threat to us if somebody wanted to invade us from there, after we take all the minerals and valuable things and who knows what will happen when the ice melts and only we can save the people from the danger of it all. Congress does not seem to care what He will do…and it looks like the Richey Riches up in Davos could understand – far better than I – what He said about all that the other day. I like the idea of paying  the Greenlanders a half-million Dollars, each, to become the next State. I am applying for citizenship after this posting. But what happens if I’m in Greenland looking for my money – but He really meant ‘Iceland”, which He actually said couple of times …and I’m stuck in Greenland when the Russians invade? This New Normal is getting complicated.
• Have you seen anymore fishing boats full of cocaine or fentanyl coming at us from – (as He has called it…) “Venezualeria”? I don’t think so. Ooops, this just in: We sunk a couple more fishing boats this morning – My bad. I read, or heard, so it must be true – that we have saved 25,000 American lives a day by taking the oil from the “Venezualerians” and shooting dead their Drug dealing, murdering, raping fishing boats. Something like that. No wonder so many MAGAs like what’s going on.

The Progress Of Man…..Part One

There was a time, not so long ago, after a man was born he learned to pick berries, fruits, and things – and goes home to his cave and eats and sleeps and has a nice life. Nobody asks him where he is from, or what he does for a living, or how many nuts he has in his cave. But look what happens today:

• He gets born and receives a birth certificate – which he better keep all of his days.
• Maybe he gets some vaccines…if so, should keep a record of all.
• If he’s normal, he will want a driver’s license…(The car needs a license – and insurance – which should be kept in the ‘glove’..
• If he goes to college, he should keep a copy of his degree, in case anybody wants proof.
• A passport is required, if he wants to travel, or to prove he is legally where he is..
• Maybe he needs proof of a medical insurance. Keep it in the wallet.
• Credit cards, in case he needs to buy something. Keep the FICO up high.
• Some States require a License to carry a gun, if you can imagine.
• Marriage license, if he’s so inclined.
• If he wants to be a: Doctor, Lawyer, Hair Dresser, etc.,  he’ll need a license to do those things. Put it on the wall.
• He needs to keep records of: Bank Account codes, How to open the computer…
• Secret codes are necessary, so he can get into his: Social Security, Tax files, credit card statements, home printer, public utility statements, brokerage accounts, IPhone, Instagram account, etc, etc…
• Set up his G-mail and Email accounts (with secret codes)
• Also, Secret codes for; Amazon, Apple and everybody he wants to buy from or do business with.
• If he served in the Military, he should keep his VA card in his wallet, just in case.
• As he ‘gets on’, he should keep his pertinent health records on him.
• He should write a will and tell people where the will is and he should make it easy for the living to identify who is in charge of his particulars and how he should be disposed of.

It is best to keep all of these things in Hard Copy – as well as up in ‘The Cloud”.

None of this is as easy as picking berries and going back to rest in the cave – but such is the Progress Of Man.

 

Gobsmacked by the news of Current Events, I have retreated to reviewing Thoughts, Words, Advice from Others. To wit:

• “Whoever is dissatisfied with himelf is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims.” -F Nietzsche , 1844
• “No one ever suddenly became depraved.” -Juvenal, circa 100 A.D.
• “It ain’t over ’till it’s over” -Y Berra, Baseball player
• “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” -G Orwell, 1940’s
• No! No! Sentence first – verdict afterwords!” Lewis Carroll, 1800’s, wrote “Alice in Wonderland”
• “The broad mass of a nation…will more easily fall victim to a big lie, than to a small one.” -A Hitler
• “Whom God would destroy, he first sends mad.” -J Duport, writer, 1600’s
• “Money without brains is always dangerous.” -Napoleon Hill, early 1900’s
• “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” -SamuelJohnson, 1700’s
• “The optimist proclaims we live in the Best of all Possible Worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.” -James Cabell, circa 1950’s
• “Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.” -Benazir Bhutto, early 2000’s
• “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines impose, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.” -The U.S. Constitution, 1787
• “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” -M Muggeridge, mid-1990’s
• “The Citizen’s first duty is unrest.” -Gunter Grass, mid-1900’s
• “Don’t get mad, get everything” -Ivana Trump, late 1900’s, on advice to wronged wives
• “The Medium is the message.”  -M McLuhan,  mid-1900’s (and the messenger is AI)
• “Only the little people pay taxes.” -Leona Helmsley, mid-1900’s….
• “I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.”  -B Grocott, mid-1900’s
• “Any pitcher who throws at a hitter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.” –Alvin Dark, Coach, 1950’s…(Back when America was great)
• “Nobody wants Justice.” -Alan Dershowitz, currently living
• “Technological progress is likened to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” -A Einstein, early 1900’s
• “Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.” -David Frost. Early 2000’s
• “Earth is a family business.” -Bob Mandel, early 2000’s
• “If you’re more than three feet away from a housefly, it can’t see you.” -Boyd (date unknown)
• “The best way to apply fragrance …is to spray it into the air and walk into it.” -Estée Lauder…mis 1900’s
• “If you paint the inside of your chicken coop orange your chickens will lay more eggs.” -Anonymous -old adage
• “The secret of the Demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are as clever as he.” -K. Krause, 1800’s
• “Rich people are just poor people with money.” -Sister Mary Tricky, early 2000’s
• “A home is ruled by the sickest person in it.”  -Nitzberg, late 1900’s
• “If it’s natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?” -J Baez , early 2000’s

…and Away We Go… (-Jackie Gleason, 1950’s)