Deep Desert Safari

 Headed for the desert. Deep within the Escalante Desert. A destination that is almost heaven. For me anyway. Rocks and deer and antelope and elk and geothermal stuff and alfalfa and cattle and things you simply never get to see living in an urban setting. There are urban settings in the Mojave and we live in one of those but, deep desert requires some travel and being prepared for ... well ... whatever. We'll be back some days later on. Until then ... be well people and keep a bag packed just in case. In case of ... well ... you know ... 

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back in the day, we'd get to see herds of antelope. very large herds. we don't get to see the herds like back then. sign of the times I suppose. 😐

Earth Day

 Earth Day is coming up here pretty soon. Tomorrow would be pretty exact. Our world's first 'Earth Day' was April 22, 1970. Why ... seems like only yesterday ... (wistful memories of days long gone) ... and so it goes. Every day should be Earth Day. Our Planet Earth is the only dang home we humans will ever know. Forget all the sci/fi crap-o-la about living on some distant planet. That is the stuff of unattainable fantasy. Hell, at the rate humans are progressing in space, humanity won't get off our world for about another two or three centuries. In any manner of sustainability. Yeah the human species is going about the business of space exploration in typical human fashion with heads jammed firmly up ass ignorant. So as our current home world is being trashed and used up in vicious acts of planetary rape, any number of humans are banking on life off world. Good luck with that. Our Planet will cease to support life sooner than anyone ever expected and eventuality that will be a bitch. Dang pitiful no doubt. Now for Sunday machine art.

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earth day brings out all the rabid cynicism that I have learned to live with after about 50+ years of watching my fellow humans act really fucking stupid. this year's earth day is no different. more painful reminders of how my species is wrecking our world. 😐

You Broke My Heart ... I Busted Your Jaw

 Israel devastated Palestine ... Israel then took a shot at Iran ... in Syria ... THEN ... Iran took a shot at Israel. THEN ... Israel took another shot at Iran. "World leaders urge calm" ... bystanders watching from the sidelines (that'd be me) respond with a resounding ... really? Are you fucking kidding me? So Middle Eastern 'tit for tat' will occupy everyone's time for the foreseeable future and innocent people (like myself and others) will be unceremoniously slaughtered for simply, and for no other obvious reason, living underneath where bombs and missiles and drones and "other weapons of mass destruction" fall menacingly to the ground. Actually, all that weapons targeting is intentional. Horrific slaughter with much ancillary death is by design and ergo, you have a nifty military/industrial complex that isn't really so complicated. Humans die very VERY easily. Humans lack biological armaments designed to withstand today's modern weaponry. Golly ... isn't weapons evolution a modern marvel? Sure it is. Humans tend to be obscenely fascinated with war. Bloodshed. Horrific dismemberment of limbs and various parts of the human anatomy are easily obtained using today's ever so deviously designed weaponry. Did you know that the United States of America leads the world in really creepy if not technically dangerous weaponry? Well America sure as hell does and is contributing to global slaughter on an industrial scale. America even has a research and development agency known as DARPA. DARPA is an ever so cute acronym for 'Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency'. Doesn't that sound cute and almost cuddly? Why you could almost take DARPA home to meet the family. Well, that is IF you've a mind to blast your family smooth off the Planet. Away back in the day, a band known as "Spooky Tooth" released an album titled 'You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw'. Pretty cool album. Anyway, that title is what inspires today's screed. Tit for tat. And so it goes... Now for Saturday machine art.

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given the savagery of the human condition, I really wonder, at times, how in hell we as a species have managed to make it this far and into the twenty first century. I'm not certain that we have a human timeline even close to being correct. 😐

Hypocrisy ... A Chorus Line In 2 Parts

 The Hallelujah Chorus and that would be the AIPAC/Israel-First Corner of our political theater of the absurd, managed to subvert plans at the United Nations to grant Palestine recognized status as a full fledged nation and member of the U.N.. The U.N. motion had to make it's way through the Security Council where the United States promptly on command, and obediently, vetoed the motion to grant standing to Palestine. Gosh is that about a surprise or what. The United States of America routinely pays respect, military support, and obedience to Israel. You see fabulously wealthy Jews living and prospering in our America force feed Israel and Israelis to the exclusion of all others. In every conceivable manner. That would include the latest high tech military crap-o-la made in America and then 'we the people' offer up any military advantage to be had by the U.S. to Israel. Yes, it is a rigged playing table and Israel wins over all others. Including the U.S. By the way, it's not a good idea to offer up any criticism of Israel. No it is not. Criticism is not met with open appreciation for America's First Amendment of our Constitution. Free speech is subject to "interpretation and application" when Israel is subject of the criticism. Dang aunty Semites anyway. Just another day at the hypocrisy factory. CEO Genocide Joe Biden presiding. Now for Friday machine art. Well and that is IF I can pull an end run around America's censors.

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the United Nations Security Council needs to be abolished. Especially when issues regarding Israeli crimes against Palestinian humanity are involved. The U.S. COULD HAVE AND SHOULD HAVE abstained from the Security Council vote but, nope ain't about to happen and more than likely not in our lifetime. hypocritical bullshit no doubt. 😐

Tragedy Takes No Prisoners

 I like to watch Dr. Henry Louis Gates' tv program "Finding Your Roots." I find it fascinating how surprised celebrities will get on discovering they have ancestral roots. Dr. Gates helped me to pursue my ancestry. I found out that genetically, I am Irish, Norwegian, and Scottish with some mutt tossed in the mix for sport. Genetics really does not paint the story necessary to provide answers to questions like "who am I and where do I come from?" So I turned to the Mormon Church. The Mormons have THE most complete ancestry records of any people on Planet Earth. I have roots that go back to Charlemagne the Conqueror but, going back that far we all are more than likely related to Charlemagne or William that guy what smooshed England or some Danish prince name of Hamlet. The really cool part was finding out I'm related to Ben Franklin. Yup, the Benjamin Franklin. Cousin Ben helped put the United States of America together in the first place. Pretty dang cool no doubt. No surprise that I have Mormon roots. My family roots are Mormon on both my old man's side AND my mom's side. Polygamy is right there for all to see buried in the city cemetery of Provo, Utah. My great-great-great grandfather had five wives and I've got cousins that I'd never heard of. My great-great-great grandfather helped found Utah County, the City of Provo, the City of Heber, and the town of Wallsburg, Utah. Well ... lah ... dee ...dah. So Dr. Gates is doing his program and one of his celebrities is Alanis Morissette. Singer of some notability. Anyway, Dr. Gates informs Ms. Morissette that she is Jewish and Ms. Morissette evidently did not know that. Surprise! Anyway, family history can be a real shocker. I found out that one of my paternal ancestors changed his surname and that turns out to be one profound surprise. I keep wondering IF my life would have been any different with another surname ... I'll more than likely never know. Now for Thursday machine art. 

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my wife it turns out, is related to Mary Magdalene. you know that lady from the New Testament that hung around with Jesus? yup, that Mary Magdalene. go figure ... 😐

Cue The Camel And Wait For It

 I've always been fond of Wednesdays and after I got to see the camel Geico tv ad, well, the camel made Wednesdays even more enjoyable. I'm posting the advert here -

https://youtu.be/7LtjzQaFZ3k?si=FvFNhEjeJB4LcGO8

Geico is pretty trendy with their television advertisements. The Geico gecko has been selling Geico for a long time. Oh yes and Geico is an an acronym for 'government employees insurance company.' Go figure. Warren Buffett did not get to be a trillionaire without some financial wizardry.

The camel is a hoot. That's all I've got for this Wednesday. Cue the camel kids, enjoy and now for Wednesday machine art.

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did you know that Wednesdays are the culmination of feedback entropy? oh that is true ... so very true. 😏

Genocide Here ... Genocide There ...

 Our world is under a genocidal assault. Not just one genocide, Palestine, not just two genocides, Ukraine, plus a genocide in Sudan and that makes three, yes three genocides. Dang genocides are cropping up all over the place. AND there are possible genocides in Southeast Asia, more in Africa, likely South America, and right here in the good old U.S. of A. if you give any credence to trumple thin-skin. I suppose that given our world's reaction to the ongoing killings, it's all just another day at the slaughterhouse and so it goes. Shameful really. So much concern you could fill up an empty coffee mug. At least once anyway. A really small coffee mug. So as long as a genocide isn't occurring in your neck of the woods, well, no big deal. Given the current trending and fascination with mass murder, won't be too awfully long and a genocide will raise up its horrific head in your neighborhood. All across America there are mass shootings every day. Go figure. Murder has become so  commonplace as to border on the cliche. Mass murder/slaughter is therefore same same. Pitiful no doubt. Now for Tuesday machine art. 

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I find it curious that western governments, the U.S.A. at the forefront, are waiting on Israel to "respond in kind" over the missile barrage launched by Iran. sure sure ... you can rest assured that serious war is just around the bend. events will get ugly really quick. 😐