Off the Cuff

Spouseinbox and I have a couple of computers/web browsers running keeping track of the election results.  I was thinking it is rather sad – so much attention should not be made to a group so far away, so far removed from the present life circumstances.  The next thought was that this attention was there entirely because that group so far away, so removed from our present circumstances and so ignorant of what happens here has an incredible amount of force over our lives.  That is the reason we watch.  There is a bit of self-preservation involved.

I love this description:

“Universalist, legible art still brings throngs of reverent, beauty-starved people to the museums, galleries, theaters and cinemas,” he writes. “It is why museum retrospectives of the great masters—from Greek sculpture to high modernism—usually sell out. Meanwhile, the contemporary art world of the identitarians is a desert scattered with tumbleweeds.”

My thought on modern art is that it places the interpretation in the eye of the viewer and as such removes the need for extraordinary skill from the artist.

Here is a cultural indictment:

Even if that’s so, have you ever considered the possibility that worrying about the culture and taking steps to keep it from getting out of hand is exactly what once kept it from going to the dogs?

Yes, there was a time when people worried about Elvis provocatively shaking his hips on stage and it’s easy to laugh at that, but wouldn’t we be better off if that was one of the biggest moral problems we faced as a society today? We don’t like to admit the ugly truth; we’re more educated and much less racist than we used to be as a society, but we are also morally inferior to Americans from fifty years ago in almost every other way that matters.

Just read the rest.  I have been living in the transition between a culture of love and respect and a culture of distance and force.  Remember that this government was originally designed for a moral and religious people.  The present government we have is designed by force for evil.  Just look at the leader of the democrat party for a single simple example.

This is the day that our country used to use to prove we were not some tinpot dictatorship.  The population used to take pride in the idea that an election would take power from one party, give it to another, and everyone was fine with it.  Considering reports of vandalism and other poor acts on the part of the democrats, including promises of violence if they don’t get their way, has this population finally become that which we used to abhor?  I would pray not, but reported actions of the past few months don’t provide much solace.

This article not only shows extreme corruption of Hildabeast, but gives a simply logical perspective of the war in the Middle East.

Washington is remembered in this opinion piece.  Such prescient words.

I work in a neurologist office.  Dr. Grumpy stories are so normal.  Part of me wishes it weren’t true, but as I have talked with people in other professions, it has occurred to me that the stories presented are simply a reflection of people of the culture.  The actions show in whatever profession is out there because the people are the same.  Every once in a while, though, we have one that leaves a warm spot in the back of the dendrites.  Every once in a while, there is a patient who you just want to hug.  I sit in on the end of visits and create the visit summary and receive orders.  As such, I hear the discussion of symptoms and plans for treatment.  We had a patient with a tumor.  The description was: take a bowl of jello and right before it sets throw a handful of sand into it.  After it sets, cut out the sand.  That was the description of the issues related to this tumor.  There were a couple of possibilities, but nothing really good.  I typed all I was  supposed to and wished the patient and family a good rest of the day and advised them of the direction out of the clinic.  As the patient started down the hall, I noted the back of the tee shirt – “Never Give Up” in six inch tall letters.  When I was in chemotherapy, all things being equal, the attitude of the person was the saving or destroying factor related to their prognosis.  This tee shirt showed me an attitude on the plus side of the equation.

Feel your vote is safe this election?

Per the second video, I think access to the ballots from the individual precincts is vital.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/biggest-election-fraud-in-history-discovered-in-the-united-states/