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"I have been a stranger in a strange land"  Exodus

BTW   meant to celebrarte hitting 250,000 page vies 
but my disintegrating spine and worsening sciatica had other ideas.


aloha 2u today,
when we lived in Willts SM was a stringer
for the weekly Willits News
(dubbed by locals "the Willits Snooze")
and she earmned a pittance and a byline untikl
they butchered her Fort Bragg stroy to make
it read like a staff reporter had interviewed on scene.
this anemic rag was bought? by the larger Ukiah paper
The Ukiah Daily Journal
which was dubbed "The Daily Urinal" by locals.

we now live in S'Creuz where
the Santa Cruz Sentinel
is known as "The Senile"
and what is the commopn theme here?
all are "moderate" GOP Chrisitan orinted slanted
semi journalism. the best thing about the Senile are the editorial and daily cartoons.
the Senile has been klnown to reprint the same page of
daily cartoons as apparently all
proofraders were fired when they left downtown
for Scotts Valley, they are also notorious for 'juimp pages'
( continued on) which lead to pages that don't exist or full page ads.

as a conveyor of eyeballs they are pathetic which is why
the single free paper (it just bought it's rival)
has a higher and more dedicated readership
and don't get me started on the enfeebled local TV news...
sigh.

like Congress people can recognize
(on some levels) when
they're being bamboozled
and express their deepest  contempt with
apathy and derision
which is why S'Cruz just had their
lowest voter count in recorded history.

my aching baCK TELLS ME IT'S TIME TO GO.

NAMASTE
MEGA

You Can Now Borrow an Aerial Drone From a Library in South Florida | The Mary Sue

You Can Now Borrow an Aerial Drone From a Library in South Florida | The Mary Sue





no problem really? in other news toady, a Seattle redhead

complains of peeping toms using drones thru her upper floor windows.

the Seattle PD male response was a verbal shrug..

the FAA only regulates air spcae NOT insuring privacy.

sigh

Uber in 3D


"The future ain't what is used to be."  Yogi Berra

aloha 2utiday,

Pattern Recognition Time...
1. i drove a taxi for five years 1975-80
2. Uber the smartphone App is fueling taxi driver outrage
 and protest across Europe and to a lesser degree here.
3.Google has invested in Uber raising it's valuation to 18 Bn U$D.
4.. Google has invested in driverless car technology.
5, someone let in slip that Uber
is playnign The Long Game and has lil desire to replace your taxi
instead it wanst to dispathc your driverless car and ease
 parking and traffic congestion worldwide
(they're already in 70 cities and 30 plus countries)..

one of my sons works in the causal dining/fast food industry.
1.a foodtech bot developed in frisco can
take your oder,cook it, bag and tag it in in
under a minute.    UNDER a minute!
so long "entry level jobs"
2.there is an article today that in
the daily fishwrap that manufacturing jobs are
plummeting due to automation.
(good bye unions,
hello endless poverty)
3. a new device to recycle and cleanse your blood
in half the price of an old device AND
can be made on any 3D Printer......
4.Steven Hawking on Jogn Oliver's
LAST WEEK TONIGHT
posits the danger of robots building other robots
and leaving human beings out of the loop
(already happening at research labs)
5.so one might suggest that when robots
begin building cheap 3D Printwers
we humans are screwed Big Time.
just Google "tele medicine"....

but not quite the Robot Apocalypse
some have suggested.

some nerd on TV mouthed
the old IBM motto
"Machines should work,
people should think".

yeah fine for the tech elites
but what about the resat of
us blue collar slubbs????
as you were?

namaste
mega


CAMP OF THE SAINTS blowback

aloha 2u today,
back in the 70s i read an english translation of
a french novel "Camp of the Saints"
and it had next to nothing to do with religion.

the concept, which i thot far fetched back then,
was that Third World (Turd World per the GOP)
refugees from wars,climate change and poverty...would
deluge and overwhelm the borders of old civilized  Europe,
crazy right?
behind me i hear about The Fall of Iraq on CNN
half a million refugees, thousands of children without parents
overwheming the much vaunted US Border details,
 Africans dying every week trying to reach
 Sardinia and Italy and others
 from Serbia/Bosnia trying to reach the UK
and then there is sex trafficking.

BTW 500 U$ dead, a trillion U$D
and maybe a million dead Iraqis...
died for Fucking NOTHING.
who knew?
oh right, we lefties did beforehand
and the GOP wet dream of
"The Free Market" given unfettered access in
Iraq FAILED..FUCKING FAILED!
and yet the Tea Party scrotes still yelp
for an Ayn Randian dystopian Hell.

i once asked wistfully how it would feel
to be a blogger in Rome
during The Fall of Rome,
long time readers will note that i
no longer ask that question (FAQ).

i listen to too much new,granted, but
99% of it can be boiled down to one phrase
IT'S BROKEN!

CONGRESS, POTUS, SCOTUS,SCHOOLS
THE ECONOMY, BANKING HOUSING FORECLOSURES
(WHICH FELL OFF THE FRONT PAGES BUT NEVER CEASED)
GUN VIOLENCE,BULLYING,GANG RAPES EVERYWHERE
you name it.
it's broken and i am heartbroken.
long weary sighs...

"Chaos is Mother Nature's way of saying 
You Fucked UP!" Ho Chi Zen

namaste
mega

Why We’re Shocked by White Heroin Use | Alternet

Why We’re Shocked by White Heroin Use | Alternet





St.George (Carlin) once  said

"they call it The American Dream cvuz ya haveta be

ASLEEP TO BELIEVE IT." or on durgs

lots and lots of drugs....

ENDERS GAME my analysis

"War is nature's way of teaching Americans geography." 
Ambrose Bierce

aloha 2u today,
last week i saw Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in
EDGE OF TOMORROW (which i enjoyed mucho)
so while i was waiting for the film to begin
i thot "i should watch Enders Game on Netflix soon"...
that night i was pleased to see it listed on premium cable
so i changed my nite's viewing accordingly.

my viewing pleasure quickly soured...
where do begin?

1. the film is a treasure of hard shiny surfaces
or rough jagged surfaces
 that look almost familiar,
like they've stolen the concepts from past movies.
perhaps.

2. Soul Mate's concept of womyn,gays and coloreds
as "background noiase" is never truer than
this phallocentric multicultural film.
there a three female speaking parts as i recall
who serve mainly as a minor key emotional fig leaf
for the gruesome  proceedings.

an american film meme is the bullied innocent
who is humilated repeatedly before
responding with overwhelming,
often lethal,force.
so it's a logical escalation from that to genocide?
(Orson Scott Card who wrote the original novel,
which i read with enjoyment decades ago,
has taken heat for this online but refuses to budge.)

3. the premise of the film
is that insectoid aliens "invaded" earth
decades ago and the earthers fought them back
and claimed a narrow victory so now
they're looking for The One (not unlike The Matrix)
who has all the intellectual and emotional capacity
 to lead them onwards over the Bug Homeworld.

despite all their blather about "empathy" 
they choose a cookie cutter white male youth
with a propensity for violence.bullying
is accepted as a given, a character builder, with a sop of
leadership and teamwork.

womyn are a tick on the angry white  male elephant ego
and worldview, the merest nudge toward a balance of humanity.
here to be happIly ignored or verbally abused
as needed.  imagine West Point in space
with an angry Old Testament God
(Harrison Ford) as your
demanding commanding officer.

*how did i get trapped in italics?*
anyho the accepted response to any assault by "bugs'
(wogs,gooks,slopes,slants etc etc)
is basically genocide
so that your forestall and eliminate all future threats.
this is pretty close to american foregin policy in a nutshell.
since it has worked so well since 1945.....

so see the film,or not, and tell me what you think- or not.
namaste
mega