How about that Elon Musk?

 

How about that Elon Musk?

America is once again number one. We have as a citizen the first person on Earth with a net worth of over one trillion dollars. I guess we can claim him even though he is an immigrant by way of Canada. Born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971, he left while the getting was good before Apartheid came to a close in his native land. With Apartheid white citizens were favored and advantaged over non-whites. He chose America where the extreme wealthy (the Epstein class) are favored and advantaged over the wealthy and below (obviously wealthy non-whites would also be included in this lower class).

Being a person of much lower wealth, at about one hundred thousand (depending on the value given to my home) I have a hard time visualizing what it would be like to have a net worth of over a trillion dollars, but I am going to attempt it in this blog.

I will start with one hundred dollars, With this amount of money my wife and I can go out and have a nice steak dinner. It won't buy desert and drinks but we are well satisfied. It also could buy me a nice warm coat that would last for years.

For a thousand dollars, ten times the hundred, I can buy a dining room table and chairs. For several thousand dollars I can buy a used ski boat. The problem with that is the cost of gasoline. For a hundred thousand I could buy the car or truck of my dreams (same problem with the cost of gas).

Let's jump to a million dollars (a thousand thousands). With one of these I could buy a beautiful home overlooking the sea in Oregon. In California you couldn't buy a dumpster overlooking the sea. For several million I can buy a pristine mansion with fifty acres, overlooking the sea in Northern Ireland.

Now the challenge is a billion dollars. A thousand million. I can't comprehend this quantity of wealth. What could one desire for this amount? With this amount I have my yacht with a ski boat for a life boat, docked by my mansion by the sea, located on fifty acres of grass land (for my brother-in-law to mow) and multi-millions still in the bank.

So, what the hell is a trillion dollars? It is a thousand billion! To me, that approaches infinity, Elon doesn't have just a trillion. He has one and a tenth trillion (Forbes estimate in June of 2026). Why mention the one tenth of a trillion? Because it is one hundred billion. From the above you can see that one tenth of a trillion is real money.

Musk has a ten year contract with Tesla that “earns” him a hundred billion annually (another trillion). I'm sure that he will invest the money wisely. So ten years from now he could be the first multi-trillion dollar man. Won't that be nice?

The US Supreme Court (with its legal secret unlimited political pack donations, Citizens United) had a major roll in enabling Elon Musk to help put a man found guilty of sexual assault and an ego maniac into the office of President of The United States. It has been revealed that Musk donated two hundred and fifty million dollars to Trump's recent campaign for President. Political wizards estimate that it requires a thousand dollars in campaign funds to change a single vote in a presidential election. So a $250,000,000 donation could result in two hundred and fifty thousand votes turned. Thanks to the US Supreme Court, one man, Elon Musk, accounted for more than 10% of Trump's win of 2,284,967. After this donation is Musk left in a weakened financial position? No, he only used 4.4% of his wealth and has more than regained his donation with awards of no-bid government contracts.

What would help save this nation from billionaire elites? Some tax legislation might help. In the 1940s the tax rate on every dollar earned over $250,000 was over 90%. With inflation it should be moved to each dollar over $500,000 (anyone could live comfortably on that figure). The maximum rate presently is 34%. Changing it back to 90% could fund USAID (the richest nation in the world helping the poorest nations), public education, universal healthcare and public transportation. We could make America of the people, by the people and for the people. With this suggested income tax in place Musk would have never moved down from Canada and we wouldn't have had a monkey with a chainsaw on the floor of the Republican Convention.

Can a wealthy white migrant still find power in today's America? Yes he can. The dream is still alive.

Cheers, Old Buz           6/15/26

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.”
- George Bernard Shaw

Drone Diplomacy Apology

 

Drone Diplomacy Apology

I don't often apologize for lack of accuracy in one of my blogs, but this is the exception. I try very hard to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (other than my satire). The previous blog Drone Diplomacy displayed extreme ignorance on my part. I did not realize the drones are presently partially defended against with hacking and scrambling of transmissions. It is not being done all that effectively, but it is being done.

How could I be so ignorant? Well, I watch the news on MS NOW for at least a couple of hours five days a week. What I hear is that we are depleting our hundreds of thousand dollar defense missiles shooting down hundreds of dollar drones and that it will take at least three years to replace them. I have heard nothing of radio interference as a defensive measure.

I live primarily in the liberal bubble. I think that most of us chooses a bubble that soothes our belief systems. Political party's giant dollar input strengthens the bubbles. So I was fed that we are spending too much on the Iran war and gaining little or nothing. I believe both of these things are true and that we are killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians needlessly. MS NOW tells me daily of the deaths of fourteen or fifteen of our brave men and women who have died in our war of choice, but never mention the civilian casualties in Iran. I would like to know.

The end of drone warfare that I proposed in the previous blog could certainly be brought about by borrowing a half dozen or so of our best scientists and engineers from NASA and the radio telescope design teams. The radio controlled drones would not be an unsolvable problem.

I apologize for my ignorance, Old Buz 5/14/2026

“Political parties have long outlived their usefulness.” - Old Buz

Drones - Talk With Them

 

Drone Diplomacy

I have often wondered why we don't talk to enemy drones? Drones are radio controlled, so why not? It is not necessary to shoot them from the ski with an expensive missile. A low cost powerful radio negotiation could stop them much more effectively. We could instruct the drone to either blow itself up, in the air, or return to its base and blow itself up there. I prefer the second choice.

We are presently capable of long range radio transmissions. We employ radio telescopes to travel the known universe. This is presently a distance of 93 Billion Light Years. The known universe grows right along with telescope technology. We have scanners capable of instantly reading the frequency of a radio transmission and transmitters capable of overpowering the drone's normal control.

There is nothing I have described here that is beyond present technology. The radio transmitters could be located on land, on the sea or in space. Any first world nation is capable of this defense. The order to self destruct could be sent to drones waiting for deployment. I believe that I am spelling out the end of drone warfare. They can once again be RC model airplanes, used by young technology nerds. Harmless, but great fun for the users.

Ask yourself, “Why isn't this the present method of ridding the world of drones?” One, the militaries of our planet like to blow things up. This is their mindset. Two, it would greatly decrease military spending. We know that the industrial military complex would not like that. Three, it would greatly reduce civilian casualties. I'm not sure who would oppose that, but there must some who would or the damn drones wouldn't exist in the first place.

Cheers, Old Buz 5/13/2026

SUN vs ICE

 SUN vs ICE

The acronyms above translate into Services for Undocumented Natives vs Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  SUN would be the department title if America truly were Under God.  You see if our nation truly were under God the department would be designed to help our new neighbors with education, documentation, housing, food and medical care.  That would in the long run strengthen the nation rather than degrade it.

What is a Native American?  It is a person whose ethnic group is native to North or South America.  Then what is a white person?  An immigrant.  And we whites have never completely forgiven the natives for that.  When the natives ruled the land their God created the Earth for all to share.  The white immigrants came with their fences, property rights, documentation, national borders and the Epstein Class.  Whose god seems more godlike to you?

The US is becoming the nation of incarceration and deputation.  "Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes nearly $75 billion for enforcement and detention to the annual funding of the Home Security Agency receives, which is seven times ICE's previous annual budget." - American Immigration Council.  Why do I say this?  Because our annual budget for USAID was between $20 billion and $40 billion (less than 1% of our federal budget) to cover humanitarian aid, global health and economic development to over100 countries.  This was the wealthiest nation in the world helping the poorest nations of the world.  We stopped the program this past year and USAID had been our nation's good deed.  Whether you believe in Deeds or Grace, our nation will not be going to eternal bliss.  Not if God has any say in the matter.  A nation can have a controlled border without the prison camps.  After all, Canada does it.

Please read the thoughts behind the tab on top of this blog.  God Bless America (and maybe a couple of other countries).  It offers humor to accepted norms.  Here comes the SUN.

Cheers, Old Buz            March 27th, 2026

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DEFROST

(get rid of ICE)

    

Masked Law Officers

 

Masked Law Officers

I have lived 85 years as an American citizen. For 84 of them there were no masked law officers on our streets. Under MAGA that is no longer so. In my early teens I watched an imaginary masked lawman of early America called the Lone Ranger. This mythological hero left saved damsels in distress and left a silver bullet (not one in the basket). We liked it that way. Be careful what you wish for!

Today there are federal law officers on the streets of major American cities that are masked. They are masked for good reason. They don't wish to be recognized while doing illegal acts. They arrest US citizens, and folks legally in the US along with folks who are not here legally. All that they need to do to qualify for arrest is to be a person of color, preferably Hispanic of Native American descent and not be able to prove their citizenship. I can't prove my citizenship. I carry a driver's license, but no passport or birth certificate and a driver's license is not adequate proof. I don't worry because I am Caucasian.

To you folks willing to walk a thousand or so miles north to escape masked police (while seeking asylum) forget it. Masked police are now available in US major cities.

What of our elected representatives? Are they rising as a single voice to stop this practice of masked police? Are they introducing a Constitutional Amendment to stop the madness? We are the people who voted for them but are entitled to nothing in return. Instead they are taking action to redistrict, take away the representation for Democrats, Republicans, Brown Folks and ?s.

Representatives who stand up for you, not their party's leader with large dollar interests are now very rare. They may talk like an intelligent person, but they vote like a rubber stamp guided by large dollar interests. If you don't believe that you are not watching carefully.

When I was a young man I had friends who were police officers. None wore masks at work. They served the public. They were our friends and neighbors. They believed that the law benefited the public. We knew them. None wore masks. Let your children know unmasked police officers.

Cheers, Old Buz 11/11/2025

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“When law officers are masked …

justice will no longer be seen.” - Old Buz

Coxsackie NY

 

Coxsackie NY

Today's blog will be very Presidential. There will be very little truth in it and I will not be listening to the experts, but will listen to my gut. However, be assured that there is a town in New York named Coxsackie. Look it up on your cell phone. What kind of sick mayor and council came up with this name?

Can you imagine being on a high school football team traveling to an away game with the name of the town you come from in large letters on the side of your bus? And then the sarcastic cheers from the crowd. It makes you wonder it they ever won an away game.

Our cable company is Cox Cable. It has always been an embarrassment to me when their service truck stops at my house. It has “Cox” written on the side with three foot letters and their slogan written below, “Life is better with Cox.” Have they no shame? The cable company's service is fast and reliable. Their customer service people speak English as a first language. The service techs are excellent. The only folks that earn the corporate name are in the billing department.

There is a popular male venereal disease that was first isolated in Coxsackie named Coxsackievirus. Don't try to tell me that doctors have no sense of humor. The name is easy to pronounce and remember ... unlike other medical terms.

I started my motorcycle career as a district manager for US Suzuki Motorcycle Corp. My vehicle had “Suzuki” written in large letters on each side. I noticed while traveling through Navajo villages that the locals would point to my car and laugh. At a service station I asked what was funny about my car. The attendant informed me that Suzuki is the Navajo word for the male group. I suppose that if the good guys had won the Indian Wars, Suzuki would not have been the name for our imported motorcycles and Trump would never have won an election.

Enough about my life in the Southwest and how we relate to New Yorkers.

Cheers, Old Buz 10/27/2025

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“It is far easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”

- Mark Twain

Governmant Shut-Down 2025

 

Government Shut-Down 2025

          Q: When is it logical for a government to shut-down? A: When the government is being replaced.  Revolution, peaceful or not, is the only logical time to shut-down a government.  Even then … it would be wise to keep the experienced public servants in place.  Can anyone of sound mind dispute this?  I think not.

          If a government sends home, without pay, its workforce for an unspecified period of time and without a logical reason it is alienating.  The good-will of that workforce will not be easily earned back.  The good will of the population should be the same.  Those legislators who vote for a shut-down have no stoppage in their wages.  But the working public servants do and there is no payback for lost wages.

          The political parties like to threaten each other with government shut-downs.  It isn’t an idle threat.  There have been over twenty government shut-downs in the last fifty years.  They have been initiated by both political parties.  To put an end to this ridiculous practice we need a constitutional amendment to make a shut-down illegal.  Votes need not to be taken on the entire budget, but on the individual changes being proposed.  It would take a sixty per cent vote to change any line item.  If no budget is passed by the assigned date, the previous year’s budget remains in effect.  Simple but effective.

Cheers, Old Buz     10/05/2025

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Remember:

“ONE cannot fool all of the people all of the time … and that is why we have TWO political parties.” - Anon