MAGA Board of
Directors:
“Donald Trump is my guy.”
– Vladimir Putin
“Donald Trump is my guy.”
- Victor
Orban
“Donald Trump was my guy.”
- Jeffery
Epstein (Honorary, in Absentia)
“Donald Trump is my guy.”
- Kim Jong Un
“Donald Trump is my guy.”
- Xi Jinping
“Donald Trump was my guy.”
-Michael
Cohen (Founding Board Member, resigned)
Trump can be your guy too. Join the MAGA Team. – Old Buz
“Judge
me by my friends.” –
Donald J. Trump
Yes and no.
Yes, he is too old to run our country (as is Donald Trump). No, one can be too old for life, for that defines
its end point. Joe Biden is no longer
fit to be the president of our
country. Donald Trump never was. This is not a political blog post. It is an attempt to look at job qualification
without bias. At the age of
eighty-three, I feel qualified to state an opinion on this issue. The federal court system sees me as too old to
be a desirable jury member. I was at the
age of seventy relieved of this burden.
A wise decision from our federal court system and there are far too few
of these in recent history (ref: Citizens United, Roe vs. Wade, Gun Regulation
and Presidential Immunity).
Back to the point. As you well know, with age any muscle will
tire and weaken. I am six foot eight and
can no longer slam dunk a basketball. It
also takes me much longer to write a blog post.
In verbal debate, where I once shined, I am very mediocre. With age comes gradual death. It is the simple mechanics of wearing out. Probably a good thing. It happens.
Joe Biden would have been a better president at the age of fifty than he
is capable of being at the age of eighty. When he does his energetic trot as he enters a
stage, he is unable to recognize the elderly shuffle that he is displaying. Brains are muscles too.
Half of the citizens of the US (The
Democrats) need to offer the nation a younger and more agile (physically &
mentally) candidate for the position of President. No candidate should be legally allowed to run
for office when past the required age of retirement. Normally in our country this age is sixty-five.
It is only a matter of time before the aging
Alpha Wolf loses his last battle and this normally doesn’t go well for the
future of his pack. If the DNC
prevails, Joe Biden with run against Donald Trump. The only hope is that an aging good man can
prevail over an aging bum. But, beware
of the electorate.
Cheers, Old
Buz July 7, 2024
Iambloggerbuz.blogspot.com
“In the final analysis, time is all that each of us has to spend. Spend it wisely.” – Old Buz
I have a great interest in Hong Kong. Their people are the #1 readers of this blog,
with the US in a close 2nd.
Singapore is in 3rd position.
The low life that was our 45th president says that there are
great benefits to being a star. The
statistics show that if there were a thousand people in my front yard in Hong
Kong, one of them would have read my blog, while in America it would require a
million folks in the front yard for there to be two reads. This, for me, would be a reason to consider
moving there. So naturally, I researched
real estate values in Hong Kong. A 1500
square foot townhouse sells for three to five million dollars there. This effectively removes the top middle
income folks and those below them to obtain reasonable housing. I do not consider 3 bedrooms … 3 families
reasonable. In Hong Kong a recent
college graduate with a family moves in with his parents.
I believe that Hong Kong offers an opportunity
to view the canary in the mine rendition of The Free Market Economy in real estate. The “affordable housing” words are fast
becoming an oxymoron in coastal America and even desirable inland cities. I took a little over two decades for Hong
Kong to fall off of the cliff to insanity.
I believe we Americans can do it faster.
Hell, we already have a pretty good start in removing affordable housing
from our thriving commercial locations.
Why is Free Market (greed) such a strong
driving force in an economy? Please
revisit my Golden Goose Economy post. Those who enter the economy are generally
interested in personal income. Those who
are driven by success and are successful at obtaining their goals generally
have the malignant form of survival instinct, greed, as their north star. This driving force places profit above
reason. Those who have this trait, our
successful financial leaders, are willing to destroy the society in exchange
for personal financial gain. Do I sound
like a God Damn Commie here? I am
not. I spent my business life as a
motorcycle dealer. I’m a
Capitalist. I tried to keep my customers
happy and myself, my employees and my family happy as well. I believe that these goals give more
satisfaction in the long run than greed offers.
My home (1350 sq.ft.) was built to sell for
$17,500 in the 1970s. My wife and I
purchased it for $144,000 in 2002. The
present market value is twice that. What
will it be in another two decades? Look
to Hong Kong for a clue. At some point
in time an “effective government” (another oxymoron) will have to step in and
stop the insanity. Good luck with that
taking place. “Gold Rules.”
Cheers, Old
Buz June 23rd, 2024
Iambloggerbuz.blogspot.com
The Free Market:
“We will not fully appreciate the value of water until
an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos owns our water company.” – Old Buz
When a young man joins the military and goes
off to a foreign land to kill strangers, we call him a hero. If one of the strangers happens to kill him,
we call him a fallen hero and remember him on Memorial Day. The young man travels to the foreign land
with the blessing of his country. He
carries the nation’s flag with him and wears the nation’s uniform. His target is the uniform of the enemy in
that foreign land or its civilians. This
sounds crazy to me, but to most it is called patriotism and is applauded. Their strongest argument would be: “Well,
that’s the way it is and the way it always has been” or “What about Hitler and
World War II?”
To answer “That’s the way it is and the way
it always has been” I would say, in the early 20th Century women did
not have the right to vote in America.
In 1919 that was the way it was and the way it had always been, but it
didn’t make it right or just. Today we
sell war weapons to civilians with little or no regulation. Seventy percent of our population would like
to see effective gun regulation, but “that’s the way it is.” If it is wrong, why not correct it?
Now for Hitler. If the young men of Germany had been capable
of individual thought, they would not have put on the uniform or picked up the
weapon. But their heroes are the same as
ours. They sacrifice for God &
Country. The question is, does God truly
ask for that sacrifice and does Country have a right to ask? Did our young men have to respond to the
actions of the young men of Germany eighty years ago? Of course they did, but the leader of Germany
made some bad choices and the population needed not to comply. As a pacifist I am asking for individual
moral rudders to steer the ship. It
would be a better world. Is there any
chance that individuals will stop mindlessly following their leader into war? Probably not.
So the hero will always be willing to travel half way around the world
to kill or be killed by a stranger.
“That’s the way it is.”
Cheers, Old
Buz, The Pacifist May 29th,
2024
“I believe two things are infinite: the universe and
human stupidity, but I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein
“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.” – John Dominic Crossan, New Testament Scholar & Former Catholic Priest
What is John saying here? I don’t think he is talking about The Holy Bible (both New and Old Testament), but that he is talking about any bible driven faith. If John was a Former Catholic Priest, then his raising, or at the very least his higher education was based on Faith, not reason or logic or history. But obviously John has come out of The Fog of Faith. He has entered the world of the wise. John would now be agnostic, that is one who questions and realizes that the many answers available are not provable, but can be subjected to logic, reason and data. He has entered Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason. It is an age of questions not answers.
If there is a purpose for each of us to go
through life’s experiences it seems to me that it would be to be aware, to
question and possibly reach wise probable theories. If there is no purpose … so be it (enjoy the
ride). It matters not what the answer to
the question is. Whatever is … is and
each of our opinions has little effect on truth.
So what am I asking of you, if you are a
person of faith? I am asking you to give
up a beautifully created delusion, capable of enriching your life or warping it
(an example of this is the current news from The Holy Land). I am suggesting honoring your awareness to a
system that allows for the existence of All that we perceive. The miracle of it All becomes available to
you. You do not have to imagine the
purported parlor tricks of God for your amusement. “We all live beneath a Miracle and we each
sing our little song (the song of life).”
GOD* does not break his rules (the system or systems). As science evolves it hopefully approaches
truth. It is a never ending journey, by
design. Join John.
Cheers, Old
Buz May 7th, 2024
“Born an agnostic and with the help of GOD* will
remain one.” – Old
Buz
*GOD – an
acronym (G.O.D.) for Grand Omnipotent DNA – The system (rules) guiding the
Universe as researched in the ever evolving study of science.
I believe the sun is about to set on the human
experience. This is not Chicken Little
telling you that “The sky is falling.”
It is information gained from London’s CNN Business and the MIT
Technology Review. Both are talking about
brain-computer interfaces. The two large
corporations involved are Neuralink, founded and backed by Elon Musk with
an investment of $100 million. The
other, Synchron, backed by funding from Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Synchron has already implanted its chip in 10
people’s brains and launched a patient registry to gear up for a larger clinical
trial. The justification of these cell
phone based systems is to benefit those seeking a memory boost or those with
congenital defects. I suspect that euphoric joy and a feeling of well-being
will be added to bolster sales and influence.
The systems currently work most effectively
when a chip is implanted in the brain itself. Not
all people will be anxious to have this procedure, although the current chips
are being installed by a surgeon guided robot and should make the surgery more
acceptable. Those who have had the procedure
done will no longer need to carry a cell phone.
They will once again have the use of their left hand. I believe that the chip in brain in-plant is
early days technology. “The pioneers
take the arrows.” Just as an early
telephone was hard wired to a phone wire system, the early cell chip in brain
will be required to turn your brain into a cell phone receiver. In my opinion, once the language is perfected
between cell and brain, only a wireless update will be required to give your
brain the sending and receiving ability.
No permission required. You will
only be required to be in cell tower range or with the more expensive and
effective program it will be satellite communication. It will work at sea or in a remote forest.
When you have Elon Musk competing with Bill
Gates and Jeff Bezos for power and wealth you are looking at a world class
competition. It will not progress
slowly. All of that power and greed in
one little game to have absolute control over all humankind. We will no longer need a government to guide
us along our way. There will be no fear
of a nuclear war. All minds around the
world will work well with the system. No
worries about Artificial Intelligence taking over humanity. We won’t even notice it. No more ethnic or religious prejudice. No more party politics. No more MSNBC or FOX. What could be better?
Cheers, Old
Buz April 20, 2024
“Our Planet can provide for human needs … but not for
human greed.” –
Mahatma Gandhi
To some the world includes the Atomic Level. That is a level that exists below our sensory capacity. Does it exist? Looking at existing nuclear energy generating facilities or two missing cities in Japan, one would reasonably conclude that it does. Would this acceptance allow for a level of existence below the atomic level, commonly referred to as the Nano level or quantum physics? I think it does. Would this line of reason allow for a level of existence below the Nano level? Possibly it would. Then why not a level of existence larger than the one we experience? I often refer to our universe as possibly part of a living thing. Could there be intelligent life residing in the atomic level of our bodies? If there were, would your body not be the universe to them? Our current science community spends a great deal of time looking at the smaller levels of existence, but very little time searching for a larger level. I suspect ego is guiding the research.
Einstein once said “I believe two things are
infinite. The universe and human
stupidity and I’m not sure about the universe.”
I think he was bitterly saying, I gave the human race a window into a
different level of existence and they used it to blow each other up more
efficiently. Humans may yet use this knowledge to end humankind. There is something to be said in favor of his
observation. I will say it. “Perhaps we humans are better off if we
operate only in our limited natural perceived level of our world.” I can see that this is an ignorant point of
view, but nuclear plants produce nuclear waste and perhaps “ignorance is
bliss.” Ignorance obviously has never
failed Donald Trump or thousands of religious leaders. The teachings of a God that created the
universe as we know it in six days, six thousand years ago and rested on the
seventh, or that the creator of the universe fathered a child with a human
mother goes to prove Einstein’s theory of human intelligence. If you are a True Believer or a MAGA (Morons Against Government, Association) person, I apologize and
hope that I haven’t offended you.
So you are reading it in this blog. Perhaps there are infinite levels of
existence both above and below our level and that we should stick to our own
level. That is what we are here for.
Cheers, Old
Buz 4/13/2024
Iambloggerbuz.blogspot.com
Purpose of Life:
“Your life is a university for the wisdom of your
eternal soul.” - Old
Buz (If you are but a
high school graduate, substitute the words high
school for the word university.)
