44 Dunkin Donuts, YouTube and the Future

Now that's a great title.  As the 44th Presidency comes to a close, I'm thinking about what I can do during the 45th.  I will not be getting a tattoo like Biden and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for any affair such as that and I don't think I share fashion sense with Nancy Pelosi.  But I certainly have grown to appreciate DD as in Dunkin Donuts even as I bemoan the fact the KK's Krispy Kremes- leave and everything is great at DD except their donuts.

Anyway...

So I've never lived in the same county as the President before, and I still don't, but I kind of do.  I was driving along A1A and I saw a Border Patrol car.  I've been in South Florida and Florida for years and I've never seen one.  But get the next Prez in here, moaning about immigration, and there you go.  Then I saw Palm Beach police cars out and about and along Trump's place and Palm Beach County Sheriff cars all up and down and in the middle of the road.  There were some other big sturdy looking cars and people hanging around looking ready and I saw a security box on stilts looking over the corner of Southern and A1A where it could also see the Intracoastal.  I wonder what preparations were made on the Ocean side.

It's interesting.

I didn't like in Palm Beach County when Kennedy was coming here, but the legend of Peanut Island was alive and well when I came along.

I couldn't imagine a Trump Presidency or even Candidacy but now I'm getting used to the idea.  I think it's better that than riots in the streets.  And if there are riots, at least Democrats aren't as good with a gun.

It will be interesting to see what the Electoral College does and who notices.  Maybe it will be like the Congressional election and no one will notice; or maybe it will be a hot mess.  People- and by that I mean non-reptilian YouTubers, are still whining about Obama staying in office- yet another thing that never occurred to me until they said it.  Why would he stay in office?

That's crazy.

Well, lots of things are crazy- for instance, I just typed an apostrophe in the word lots just because it ends with S. 

Today there are more connections between Obama and Seinfeld.  Really?  What's up with that?

Lucy Lawless and Michelle- I mean Michael- aren't they a foot different in height?

Well, anybody can say anything I guess and apparently I'll listen to about anything- but what 45 or DE connections lie in wait for us in the next four years?

Maybe I'll go to Deutschland and Denmark and Denver.

Or not.

DD 44 and Diana Ross

So yesterday I had a Dunkin' Donuts croissant with chicken salad and then today I was wanting he same thing; along with iced coffee.  I pulled into shop at K Mart but changed my mind and went next door to Dunkin' Donuts.  A gentleman was in front of me in line with a bright turquoise jacket and matching shoes.  It wasn't until we had waited for a minute or two that I noticed his handbag.  It didn't really match.  It seemed to take a little while, but when I got my food I went to a table and looked up at CNN to see Diana Ross receiving a Medal of Freedom from Mr. 44 Himself.  Talk about timing.  Good work, Barry.

Mmmmm Biscuits

Today I got up at the crack of dawn and went to the beach- wore a sweatshirt because the air was cool- but the water was warm on my feet and went to get a breakfast biscuit.

I've been listening to Christmas music and heard Ella for the first time this year, today.

The line I think is so stupid, even though I love the song, is "logs on the fire... fill me desire."  Sorry songwriter, logs do not fill people with desire.  You know there is something great about a fire and a fireplace and the glow and the warmth, but it's not the logs.  That just sounds ridiculous.

So I was wrong

So I was right and I was wrong.

The American people had the opportunity to vote out 88 percent of Congress (I don't know if that is accurate) but instead they concentrated only on the one person in the White House.  They didn't really care about the Vices or anyone's vices.  They really didn't like either candidate but what they did do was convince themselves that the other half of the country is the problem.

Hello, if we only think about politics once every four years and if we only think about politics as President, we're not going to get much accomplished.

Think about this.

A company spends a year selecting a CEO in a bitter fight blaming every one else in the company for the fact that nobody really likes the CEO.  But they don't spend any time trying to be a better employee.  They don't spend any time trying to figure out if anybody else in the company is working.  They don't do anything to make the company a better place but they just yell at each other about who should be CEO. 

Uh.... how much work is that company going to accomplish during a year?



So I didn't think Trump would win but Americans wanted change.  They were going to get change no matter what they did- as long as they were/are only concerned about President.  The man was going to leave and somebody else was going to step in so why the big deal if all they wanted was someone different. 

Well let's talk about some of the things that were different.

The Republicans decided they couldn't keep trading between Bushes and Clintons.  Will Bush try again?  I still say the sacrificial one is Jeb and the next will be the cute Hispanic one.  But we will see. 

But back to now.  The Republicans didn't support the Republican nominee, who isn't really a Republican.

That's different.

Are the Publicrats not working together on this or are they trying to look like they aren't working together?

There was one given in the race.  The President was going to be old.

These people are old.

We could have an old Socialist, and old woman or an old non-politician.  There are good reasons to think all of these choices as a change.  And there are good reasons to think any of these changes- just like the first Black one who wasn't half Black- weren't going to be much of a change either.

The people in charge knew that the American public wanted change so they gave them three changes to choose from.

And we picked this one?

I was so surprised, and so happy for no good reason.

Is it misogyny?  The woman couldn't stray too far from her script or she was criticized, but that ogre couldn't break enough rules.  Every time he said something stupid he got more popular.  Talk about a scene stealer.  The poor politicians didn't have a chance against the reality TV star.



I'm actually very hopeful.

I think a reality TV star can do a good job if he wants to.

I don't think he is nearly as stupid as his statements make him sound.  I think he said what he needed to say to get elected.  And that's what they all always do.  So that, as crazy as he sounded, is actually no change.
But a non-politician is a change.  A person famous for something other than politics is a change.  Maybe we have a change here. 

And maybe not.

2 Caesars

Caesar is selected tomorrow but does it matter.

Today on TTB.org and last night at FBO I heard two talk about dual citizenship.  We owe something to out country but we're already citizens of the Kingdom of God.  So we've got two, according to Uth, and many, according to McGee- responsibilities.

McGee said today- I'm a little behind listening, and he's speaking from years ago- that corruption of the Senate makes him resent paying taxes but he does.  What would he say about Trump being proud of not paying taxes and the Clinton Foundation?  Are they stealing those Haitians to use in Spirit Cooking?  You'd think they'd want ones of a different color- so where do they get those?

Politics is sickening today.  I wish McGee could comment on it for me to hear.  Is he concerned about it up there??  What do people do up there?

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's has been called the most fundamental statement ever uttered... blah blah blah.  But to me it's proof of how Jesus spoke above the heads of his accusers.  He knew their intentions and met them where they were.  They didn't want a real answer and so they didn't get one.  He gave them what they needed, which was higher truth that they may not have even realized until years later.  What did those people think who later saw their stories in print?  There must have been some who switched sides and recognized themselves in the text later and hoped no one else knew...  What did the lady with the alabaster offering know about her fame?  Did she hear that it would be worldwide for all time?

It's time to vote and no one is talking about any political body; only individuals.  So if they want us to keep Congress, they're doing a good job.  It isn't even on the radar that it could basically be replaced.

But what is Caesar's?  Does he require a vote?  Lately it's clear to me that two big lies I've always believed are suspect if not evil.  One is rotting for the rebels.  David vs. Goliath is a good example of this, but people overthrowing their government- well there are some bad governments and I can't find a good one, but authority isn't something to be thwarted is it?  I always thought it was but isn't it God who sets up and brings down tyrants, not me?  I have come to be in an environment that thinks everybody gets a voice.  And maybe everybody does, but.... the person who owns half the town maybe should have a louder voice than the traveler passing through on a train.  It was terrible how slaves were treated, but the problem wasn't that they couldn't vote.  Who wants illiterate people with no hope or stake in a community to vote?  The problem isn't voting.

I've been learning lessons from the fish in the tank at the Millenia McDonald's.  The bigger ones are given more room but guess what?  Bigger fish take up more room.  It is smart of the bicyclist to not ride without pausing through crosswalks and intersections.  It's not because the bicyclist has the right of way or doesn't.  It's because the cyclist knows who will win if there's a contest.

Apocalypse - A Pox of Lips

There is a warning every day.

YouTube talks about the end of the world all the time.  But that's of course the corner of YouTube that YouTube wants to show me based on all my conspiracy theory searches.

I love listening to the alternate media and that's helped me realize that they're really not more partisan than the mainstream media; they just say things more clearly.

Every day the mainstream media pushes its audience either left or right.  It's as Martin Luther said.  The devil doesn't care which side of the horse one falls off of.

Right now, the right is pretty much a parody and the left likes to be sophisticated.  But SRN news tells the world - which is actually just conservative Christians huddled up waiting to die or for the apocalyse - shoot, how do you spell that?  Apacalyse Apocolypse apocalypse - that's it!  Thank you Google Blogger for your spelling help.  Yesterday at the Hall of Presidents- which may never be updated since we may never have another President- Andrew Jackson was quoted by an actor in a presentation headed by Morgan Freeman- that one has to be quite dumb not to know how to spell a word at least two ways.

Was Andrew Jackson- the first governor of Florida- the first non-aristocrat, right after the last of the Founding Fathers- a hero or a racist?  Can't we have racist heroes by the way?  I think everyone- except for me- is a racist, and can't I be a hero?

The truthism Be Here Now leads me to believe that it's always time for the impending apocalypse.  I think of my trip to Israel before the Y2K non-disaster when computers weren't going to be able to figure out how to turn 99 into 2000.  I remember huddling up in my house with only a Christmas tree worth looking at- the rest was a Hoarders for Beginners experiment- and watching Australia have no problem and then having no problem.

I was working for the bank industry and yep- we all knew how dependent we were on that system of 1s and 0s that had been taken over by computers but really is the same as Rothschild tabulation.  It could have ended at that time.  But are there cuneiform tablets or Etch A Sketches or Risk map setups- maybe on marble tables of various colours in the Vatican that are keeping track of us non-electronically?  If so, do the abacuses in China match those records in London?  Too bad the little upstart records in Libya have been destroyed I suppose- or is that good for us; I mean U.S....

My Mom is ill.  I am in the only part of Florida that might be saved from a title wave- or is it the only part of the country that has had the worst mass shooting in U.S. history?  Oh wait, it's both.

We're always on the cusp of apocalypse aren't we?  And we're always able to huddle back into our own security if we want to.  We can fear or we can love.  That's always true.

The lecture on Apocalyptic- which adjective ending I still don't understand- was the only lecture I remember missing of my mentor in grad school- Corrine Patton (now Carvalho?  What?  Carnival Ho- I don't think so....Uh oh.... I remember respect for the text but not the Giver... is that it?  Shocked.)

But it wasn't the Apocalypse that day.  It was me watching a sick kid who couldn't go to school and me getting paid for it.

I made so much money for doing just what I wanted that year.

And I had no reason to think my life wouldn't continue that way.  But it was calm before the storm.  Apocalyto; Mel Gibson's life as usual before the end would come.  But of course it wasn't the end.  I played violin more the year after taking a year off than ever before.  I played violin more as a Religion grad student than as a Bachelor of Music Violin Performance candidate.  And then I put it down.

Looks like somebody else needs to put something down but there I go again thinking everybody else needs to do something.  Of course everybody else needs to do something; that's obvious.  But why do I see it?  Well, it's a lesson for me, isn't it.  Nobody needs someone around who always tells others what to do- maybe that's why I hide here.  I don't want to do what I'm not supposed to do.

But maybe I'll start doing what I AM supposed to do.

WARNING: To Those Living On Islands, Coasts, And Florida