My thoughts, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts...a blog designed and meant to be freely associating, on the run, and not perfectly edited:
Today's Instagram post.
Put somewhere in my new book, "Suffering, Long CoViD", about my orientation on major efforts in my life. Like this walking to get exercise to help with my long CoViD, and other things. Like how I got through college. I made it my one and only goal in life, over all other things, to achieve that regardless. Otherwise I could get repeatedly off track. Everything else took backseat to it. My attitude was either achieve that, or die. Literally. Once I started taking that attitude toward major efforts in my life, successes became normalized.
At the top of yesterdays blog add a disclaimer about how I’m really not partisan, or never had been, until the Republican Party forced it as necessary, more and more, until they elected Donald Trump and made it impossible to be any other way.
As a interviewer one's job is to let the interviewee speak, but when necessary, to focus them and occasionally redirect them to the most poignant and relevant elements of their career, or life, or issues reasonably associated with those, and them.
Today I listened to podcast Rising Star - Music That Matters, episode: biGDream - Everybody’s High, with the amazing Godfrey Diamond (Sep 17, 2022 43 min 29 sec)
Look up album, Metal Machine Music, album by Lou Reed
Yesterday, I didn’t go for a walkabout and worked on my long CoViD experience book, cleaning it up, editing it yesterday, working on its daily log section, which takes up the last, I don’t know 2/3 of the book, full of raw data about those experiences. What I tried, what worked and what didn’t. Struggles I had with my doctor about what I knew worked and what he said... wasn’t yet in the literature. Picture that. You’re seeing what’s working, you’re feeling what’s actually working for you, and the VA is telling you there’s no foundation for that. Ah well Then you’re going, Hey, living this is my experience. And I think I’m more qualified than most to make these observations and judgments, considering by background. But I was also using the doctor's guidance. I tried things he suggested. Even when I knew it would fail until finally I had enough data to show them to prove my case. But when you have long CoViD, it’s asking way too much as you're fighting for energy and motivation to do anything, to feel normal enough just to function. And yet, you do it, you push yourself, or you get nowhere and in fact you go backward.
This podcast interview I'm listening to, is by my friend whom I've partnered with on projects for years, Kelly Hughes. They’re talking about how his guest Godfrey Diamond, produced the smash disco hit, "More, More, More", in the 70s and what a huge hit that was. Godfrey is saying how everybody passed on it! That’s just mind blowing considering how big we all know now that it became. Except for one guy, running Buddha Records, who passed on purpose as a technique, and then called back after everybody had turned them down and, got it for a better deal. And then it exploded. As Kelly says in the interview, that song hits you on the first note! So how did they not all want to grab it right up? And then Godfrey just says, “From your mouth to God's ears.” Kelly should get him back to talk for another whole interview just on his Frank Sinatra album, and I would suggest also, whatever his best rock album was for yet another interview.
My second podcast for the day: John Heilemann's Hell and High Water with Susan Glasser and husband Peter Baker, regarding their new book, "The Divider".
I think one of the best quotes describing Donald Trump is from Casablanca, “I’m shocked, shocked that there’s gambling going on in this place!“ That from a government official in the film and a much more likable character than Donald Trump. IF you understand his sociopathy and criminality. I won’t say people that who meet him, who find him nice, are stupid. They just don’t have the antenna I do and have all through my life. I could meet people who everyone thought was wonderful and knew, often in first glance, that they were not a good person to deal with. That had been proven and seen by others around me, time and time again, throughout my life. To the point which wife 2.5 finally said one day, "I’m never doing business again [this was in catering], unless you meet them first and give me your opinion."
Calling Washington DC “incestuous“ truly fits Donald Trump. One wonders just how many of his supporters truly find that to be attractive?
“Trump is a bully, a blusterer, and is making threats.” Susan Glasser
Regarding Donald Trump's indictment, we need a panel set up, because he is a special case… a panel with various criminologists, most likely from the DOJ, from the FBI, probably an associate member from the CIA, and maybe NSA. A sociologist, a psychologist or psychiatrist, or two, with his niece as an associate member, and a historian. Because that’s what we’ve got to look at to appropriately deal with in this clown who is trying to destroy this country, all for personal and professional gain… And definitely, for pleasure.
Frankly, the Trump supporters who think they are going to take up arms against America, really do not deserve this country. That could not be more clear to the majority of America and the vast majority of the entire planet. Even… those supporting him as in North Korea, China and whatever other petty despotic states are in that group.
Civil War in Americas not at hand. That is, it’s not about to happen. Just because those like Donald Trump are fomenting a Civil War, does not mean it isn't already here, though in a very much more modern form than we’ve ever seen before.
Yes we need to be careful about indicting Donald Trump. Because you have to prove in court in this country, to show reasonable doubt of someone being innocent of a crime, showing evidence they should be in court and could reasonably be judged guilty. Yes, Trump has proven time in again and I knew before he was even elected he was a criminal, he has shown us repeatedly he is a criminal, he has broken laws, and that requires indictments, trials, imprisonment, and in my view, eventual (as soon as possible) execution. All that in order to be sure this never happens again. I would also suggest upon judgment of guilty, at least one other person close to Trump, should at least go to death row for life, if not finally seeing execution of the full judgment of capital punishment. We have to act, or this will all happen again, and again, and again, until there literally is no more United States of America.
OK I’m not a supporter of Bill Barr. I don’t like the man. He does appear to be a mercenary. I’ve always seen myself as mercenary in that, when you hire me, I do what I was hired for. I'm then your guy. I'll fight for you. I work to make my boss look good. I support the entity, or company (or I won't take the job if I can't do that). However if I can’t do my job anymore, I’ll quit, if not also return the compensation, depending on the situation. Barr may have thought like many others that if he got fired, someone worse would come in, and he’s probably right. And that was the correct thought for the person before him as it ended up with Barr. But if I had been Bill Barr (though granted in consideration of being not Barr, but myself, still...), I would not have done half the things he did. Why? Because governments are a unique animal. When you take that position, as we all (should) know, you’re not swearing loyalty just to the president or your boss, which is actually the United States Constitution, as well as the Law and the spirit of the Law, all of which Barr failed to do. Until now, when he feels "enlightened" suddenly to speak out against Trump. White washing his past ill endeavors against America.
Yes, for those who thought Donald Trump was one thing as POTUS45 and then when he lost the election he somehow suddenly snapped or something...uh, No. This has been a natural progression on an easy slope downward from Trump scumbag to exponential scum bag on international levels.
Just happen to make this connection… This year is the first time in my life that I didn’t know a world, good or bad, without Queen Elizabeth. I also just found out that the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC), which I was in back in the late 70s, stopped existing as of 1992. That was a military command I had known of all my life until now, because I just found out. It’s not a big deal. It’s just a realization. But I grew up watching films like Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart, which came out the year I was born, in 1955. When I was a little kid, it was just one of those things that was always there. And I'd assumed, always would be. I saw B-52 bombers dropping bombs in Vietnam on the evening news. I literally worked on and in them in the USAF with a secret clearance for nuclear weapons to do that. But... thankfully, things change and things evolve. My preference? We could stop needing a military. At least for world problems. We should always have some form of a military with weapons, if for no other reason, to protect us, if not from extraterrestrials...which one could argue, we wouldn’t have a chance against, but it’s better to try and fail then to not try and find out later, you could’ve won… or just for dealing with inanimate objects on a trajectory to damage or destroy us. Which is why we now have Space Force, I would assume, and hope.
As a interviewer one's job is to let the interviewee speak, but when necessary, to focus them and occasionally redirect them to the most poignant and relevant elements of their career, or life, or issues reasonably associated with those, and them.
Today I listened to podcast Rising Star - Music That Matters, episode: biGDream - Everybody’s High, with the amazing Godfrey Diamond (Sep 17, 2022 43 min 29 sec)
Look up album, Metal Machine Music, album by Lou Reed
Yesterday, I didn’t go for a walkabout and worked on my long CoViD experience book, cleaning it up, editing it yesterday, working on its daily log section, which takes up the last, I don’t know 2/3 of the book, full of raw data about those experiences. What I tried, what worked and what didn’t. Struggles I had with my doctor about what I knew worked and what he said... wasn’t yet in the literature. Picture that. You’re seeing what’s working, you’re feeling what’s actually working for you, and the VA is telling you there’s no foundation for that. Ah well Then you’re going, Hey, living this is my experience. And I think I’m more qualified than most to make these observations and judgments, considering by background. But I was also using the doctor's guidance. I tried things he suggested. Even when I knew it would fail until finally I had enough data to show them to prove my case. But when you have long CoViD, it’s asking way too much as you're fighting for energy and motivation to do anything, to feel normal enough just to function. And yet, you do it, you push yourself, or you get nowhere and in fact you go backward.
This podcast interview I'm listening to, is by my friend whom I've partnered with on projects for years, Kelly Hughes. They’re talking about how his guest Godfrey Diamond, produced the smash disco hit, "More, More, More", in the 70s and what a huge hit that was. Godfrey is saying how everybody passed on it! That’s just mind blowing considering how big we all know now that it became. Except for one guy, running Buddha Records, who passed on purpose as a technique, and then called back after everybody had turned them down and, got it for a better deal. And then it exploded. As Kelly says in the interview, that song hits you on the first note! So how did they not all want to grab it right up? And then Godfrey just says, “From your mouth to God's ears.” Kelly should get him back to talk for another whole interview just on his Frank Sinatra album, and I would suggest also, whatever his best rock album was for yet another interview.
My second podcast for the day: John Heilemann's Hell and High Water with Susan Glasser and husband Peter Baker, regarding their new book, "The Divider".
I think one of the best quotes describing Donald Trump is from Casablanca, “I’m shocked, shocked that there’s gambling going on in this place!“ That from a government official in the film and a much more likable character than Donald Trump. IF you understand his sociopathy and criminality. I won’t say people that who meet him, who find him nice, are stupid. They just don’t have the antenna I do and have all through my life. I could meet people who everyone thought was wonderful and knew, often in first glance, that they were not a good person to deal with. That had been proven and seen by others around me, time and time again, throughout my life. To the point which wife 2.5 finally said one day, "I’m never doing business again [this was in catering], unless you meet them first and give me your opinion."
Calling Washington DC “incestuous“ truly fits Donald Trump. One wonders just how many of his supporters truly find that to be attractive?
“Trump is a bully, a blusterer, and is making threats.” Susan Glasser
Regarding Donald Trump's indictment, we need a panel set up, because he is a special case… a panel with various criminologists, most likely from the DOJ, from the FBI, probably an associate member from the CIA, and maybe NSA. A sociologist, a psychologist or psychiatrist, or two, with his niece as an associate member, and a historian. Because that’s what we’ve got to look at to appropriately deal with in this clown who is trying to destroy this country, all for personal and professional gain… And definitely, for pleasure.
Frankly, the Trump supporters who think they are going to take up arms against America, really do not deserve this country. That could not be more clear to the majority of America and the vast majority of the entire planet. Even… those supporting him as in North Korea, China and whatever other petty despotic states are in that group.
Civil War in Americas not at hand. That is, it’s not about to happen. Just because those like Donald Trump are fomenting a Civil War, does not mean it isn't already here, though in a very much more modern form than we’ve ever seen before.
Yes we need to be careful about indicting Donald Trump. Because you have to prove in court in this country, to show reasonable doubt of someone being innocent of a crime, showing evidence they should be in court and could reasonably be judged guilty. Yes, Trump has proven time in again and I knew before he was even elected he was a criminal, he has shown us repeatedly he is a criminal, he has broken laws, and that requires indictments, trials, imprisonment, and in my view, eventual (as soon as possible) execution. All that in order to be sure this never happens again. I would also suggest upon judgment of guilty, at least one other person close to Trump, should at least go to death row for life, if not finally seeing execution of the full judgment of capital punishment. We have to act, or this will all happen again, and again, and again, until there literally is no more United States of America.
OK I’m not a supporter of Bill Barr. I don’t like the man. He does appear to be a mercenary. I’ve always seen myself as mercenary in that, when you hire me, I do what I was hired for. I'm then your guy. I'll fight for you. I work to make my boss look good. I support the entity, or company (or I won't take the job if I can't do that). However if I can’t do my job anymore, I’ll quit, if not also return the compensation, depending on the situation. Barr may have thought like many others that if he got fired, someone worse would come in, and he’s probably right. And that was the correct thought for the person before him as it ended up with Barr. But if I had been Bill Barr (though granted in consideration of being not Barr, but myself, still...), I would not have done half the things he did. Why? Because governments are a unique animal. When you take that position, as we all (should) know, you’re not swearing loyalty just to the president or your boss, which is actually the United States Constitution, as well as the Law and the spirit of the Law, all of which Barr failed to do. Until now, when he feels "enlightened" suddenly to speak out against Trump. White washing his past ill endeavors against America.
Yes, for those who thought Donald Trump was one thing as POTUS45 and then when he lost the election he somehow suddenly snapped or something...uh, No. This has been a natural progression on an easy slope downward from Trump scumbag to exponential scum bag on international levels.
Just happen to make this connection… This year is the first time in my life that I didn’t know a world, good or bad, without Queen Elizabeth. I also just found out that the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC), which I was in back in the late 70s, stopped existing as of 1992. That was a military command I had known of all my life until now, because I just found out. It’s not a big deal. It’s just a realization. But I grew up watching films like Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart, which came out the year I was born, in 1955. When I was a little kid, it was just one of those things that was always there. And I'd assumed, always would be. I saw B-52 bombers dropping bombs in Vietnam on the evening news. I literally worked on and in them in the USAF with a secret clearance for nuclear weapons to do that. But... thankfully, things change and things evolve. My preference? We could stop needing a military. At least for world problems. We should always have some form of a military with weapons, if for no other reason, to protect us, if not from extraterrestrials...which one could argue, we wouldn’t have a chance against, but it’s better to try and fail then to not try and find out later, you could’ve won… or just for dealing with inanimate objects on a trajectory to damage or destroy us. Which is why we now have Space Force, I would assume, and hope.
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