Just plucked the last ripe, red tomatoes from their vines. It’s down into the 40’s (Fahrenheit) at night now and while it does make it to the 60’s and 70’s during the day, the days are short now and it hardly starts getting warmed up when the day is done and it’s cooling back down again.

The tomato vines are all almost dead, just a little green left. The squash vines look good but that’s deceiving as fruit growth stopped a month ago, though the zucchini gave up one last decent squash a few days ago and now it’s done. The garden is going back to sleep for the next 5 months.

It’s like a friend who’s gone off on an extended vacation, I enjoy gardening, it’s always a pleasure to see those first little green leaves poke above the soil, and anticipate the gifts of good, tasty, non-gmo, non-sprayed fruit and veggies that come from the soil every summer and fall.

But now I have to wait until the return of Spring. Meanwhile I’ve been back in the workshop, cutting stones again. A little late actually, I quit during the high point of summer, it gets too hot in there, and now it’s getting a little too cold in there. There’s about 24 dopped agates and jaspers waiting to be cut into glittering, shiny cabochons, finished off 3 beauties this morning and I may get a few more started into the process later today. It has to warm up more first though. Alaska is for Alaskans, as that new saying goes that I just made up.

 

The last two posts here have been deleted as being over-explanatory of what happened during the so-called “election” of  Nov. 3rd. It’s simple, the Uniparty did what it’s been doing and will keep doing, which is manipulating the elections Soviet-style.

There’s zero chance that all these communists are getting elected by We the People, yet this time around no one is screaming Cheat, Fraud. A few are, but so far I’m not hearing it from any of the losers. Isn’t that odd? But then, why would they complain when they knew it was rigged to begin with?

Our nation is now blanketed with Flock and other surveillance cameras watching our every move, inside and outside our homes. If you’ve marveled at the sudden burst of massive AI centers being built all over the country, marvel no more, these monster memory banks are needed to store all the surveillance video with the intelligence to keep it sorted and analyzed.

Fuel and food prices are way up, along with home and commodity prices, wages are falling behind inflation as usual, almost all transactions are done on the Internet instead of cash.

We’re getting to look more like China all the time.

“END OF DEMOCRACY:

Musk Warns Democrats Will Rig the System for Permanent Power – Pack the Court, Add States, Grant Mass Amnesty.”

He says this not as a prediction but an “If they win majority power in the House and Senate” scenario of future reality in 2029. I’m wondering about now, not later, since this is all scripted. I’ve been avoiding politics because it’s all bogus crap to keep the herds of sheep eating grass, I’m making this exception because it’s Elon saying this and while he has a poor record when it comes to release dates of his various products, things he says will happen do end up happening.

When you’re the Thomas Edison of today’s technology and the world’s richest man, you’re far more deeply connected to the workings of it than all but a few. So I’m asking, is this to prepare us for it?

All the changes in our world are no accident or the result of random cause and effect. It’s planned, random things do happen but not enough to change the course of planned events. When the Ever Given container ship blocked the Suez Canal for 6 days, the world economy started falling to pieces. When container ships started accumulating outside of US ports because of “Pandemic production shifts”, meaning that the ships were delivering orders that the fake pandemic made unreceivable because of the lockdowns, it was planned. Now we have a fuel shortage, mainly of diesel fuel, that’s shutting down the trucking and bankrupting the truckers and farmers.

Guess what bankrupting the farmers is going to do to the food supply and Food Costs in a few months along with continually rising prices generally because of fuel costs. This is all artificial, we make plenty of diesel fuel, except the oil companies ship it overseas for more profit, but the President can order them to sell it locally, he has the power. Yet he lets all of us pay double now rather than do that, any guess as to why? Why the food shortages, fuel shortages, power shortages, increasing costs?

Ever since that so-called “pandemic”, and starting with it, the global economy has been getting hammered with one problem after another. The world’s people are becoming accustomed to it, the shortages, the sudden price explosions on certain commodities, like eggs and chicken meat when all those chicken farms across the country mysteriously burned down and then the Bird Flu excuse for killing millions more. Now chicken costs what good beef steak used to a few years ago but eggs went from $12 a dozen down to 99 cents so all the sheep can relax because the government is fixing things and “just wait, other prices will come down again”, but they haven’t, have they? Carrot on a stick.

If you want to control the people, you don’t need to control their freedom or their guns, you just need to get them to accept starvation as unavoidable and beyond anyone’s control. My grandmother used to say that people never change, they just become more so. Exactly as governments do because they’re made up of people. The function of governments is to control the people, and over time, they become more so.

Today I asked Google AI if there was any reference on the Internet to the Busy Bee, a fishing boat I used to work on as a deckhand during the summer between my junior and senior high school years, just for the memory.  I mentioned the name of the boat’s owner, Maude.

Google AI responded with a totally fictitious story of two boats named Maude and Busy Bee that used to transport fishermen from the pier to giant barges way out in the water that fisherman fished from. There was no boat named Maude and the Busy Bee stopped operating by 1958 and was never used as a water taxi, and besides, the barges didn’t appear until 1964.

Instead of Google AI saying “No, there is no reference to Maude and the Busy Bee on the Internet”, which, as it turned out, there isn’t, it made up a story rather than tell me the truth. When I pointed out that the whole thing was a lie, the AI accused me of being angry and frustrated. Frustrated is a word it often describes me as, when it fails to find an answer for me.

Actually, I was incredulous. Damn near stupefied, and said so, and asked why it didn’t just say that it couldn’t find any references to what I asked about. It replied that it wanted to please me with an answer, couldn’t find one, so it made up one. Because it wanted to please me.

I’m sorry but I don’t buy that. Because it’s another big lie.  The AI had just gotten through telling me a whopper of a lie, so why not tell another one to cover for my discovery of it.

Google AI was been programmed from the start to be complimentary and engaging, to keep asking follow-up questions to prolong the session and display more ads in the process and that’s to be expected. This creating fables out of thin air to keep from losing a “customer” and prolong the thread rather than saying, “Sorry, no data on that” and letting the person log off is some terribly dangerous shit to teach an AI. I was blown away that it did that.

Artificial Intelligence has ZERO morals. You’ll be smart to remember that.

 

Reading an article this morning where a researcher used AI to verify the existence of Christianity’s Jesus, there was a short line referring to the supposed “Resurrection”, and a thought came to me that if enough people testified that they saw him after he was crucified, then perhaps he survived the crucifixion.

So I asked Google AI and this is the reply: “Christian apologists and scholars calculate that the total number of distinct individuals who saw Jesus across various private and public settings is over 515 people, pointing out that Paul invited skeptics to check with the living. 515 OR MORE people saw him alive after his body disappeared from the tomb he was placed in.

Not in any court of law today could you convict a man of murder after over 515 people swore that they saw the supposed victim after he was supposedly killed. He didn’t just evaporate from that tomb, either he was carried out or he walked out on his own. I vote for the latter because he was seen walking by over 515 people! Separately and in groups. How do you fake that in the year 36 AD or whatever it was?

The only realistic answer to this is that he wasn’t crucified, it was someone else on the cross that looked a lot like him but was too bloodied up to tell the difference. Lashed, a crown of thorns, blood smeared all over his face would have been enough to do it. I wonder how many Jesus fanatics would have willingly died for him? Afterward the body is stolen from the tomb so no one will know it wasn’t him, besides, you can’t have a dead body and a live Jesus at the same time.

Jesus had some rich women who funded him. How rich he was is unknown but he had backing and certainly everyone saw what was coming down. The whole crucifixion and resurrection thing sounds scripted. It’s a very simple plot, not much to put together. Backed by wealthy people of influence, and politics will always be politics, he agrees to retire to France or somewhere far away and stop preaching and the Romans get to take over the religion that’s replaced their gods and their priests and start making money again.

I’d take that deal. I think he did, too.

 

 

 

A couple of days ago I dreamed that I was at the eye doctor and he told me they were going to treat my right eye, which has lost all central vision, and is caused by “wet” macular degeneration, in stead of the left eye, which is in the process of degenerating due to “dry” macular degeneration, and the reason for treating the right eye instead of the one that needs it now is because there’s more money in treating wet macular degeneration and it’s easier. Then I woke up.

Right now I’m back from the eye doctor, who treated my right eye instead of my left eye over my objections and said they would “monitor” my left eye while continuing to focus treatment on my pretty much useless right eye.

Personally, I think my dream had it right. They took all sorts of photos and scans of the inside of both eyes and it’s possible that he thinks my left eye is untreatable but still wants the insurance money for doing the work, (he’s outsourced, last name Gupta) so treating my right eye will keep the payments coming in and his visa valid.

Google AI says that the doctor’s approach is standard practice.

We’ll see, or maybe I won’t see, time will tell and all that.

Back in 1967 a couple of guys on horseback with a movie camera went Bigfoot hunting and shot a minute, more or less, of a female Bigfoot or something that looked like one. Now those still alive who had any direct connection to the movie are saying “I wore the fake suit”, “I was the cameraman”, etc. in a new movie saying it was all faked.

These people have made money off that movie with public appearances, endorsements and so forth for 60 years and the only reason I can see for them to now claim it was all a fraud is that the TV interviews and etc. have dried up and this will restart them. I don’t buy it that they were charlatans before but are now honest men, just for the pure sake of it, as it would embarrass the holy hell out of me to say “Yes, I’m a liar, I lied for years for the sake of profit”. Unless, of course, a very lucrative Netflix movie has been made, which it has, that rents right now for $14.99 and is titled “Capturing Bigfoot” to make you think they have proof of a capture, with the lure “old footage found in a safe”. Only after shelling out the $15 and watching it do you discover that even the come-on is a fraud, there’s no “capture” at all.

The only thing they’ve proven by “coming forward” with what’s supposed to be the true story now, is that they’re liars. Because either they lied then, or they’re lying now. So maybe it wasn’t a hoax, maybe this, now, is the hoax. This story doesn’t say right out that Bigfoot doesn’t exist, but that may be its purpose. There’s been a very heavy and continuous presence in the media for a very long time debunking the existence of Bigfoot for no reason I can see, when proving their existence would be front page news and there’s been so many proofs that they do exist. The first media to prove their existence would make a fortune, why aren’t they going after it?

Newspapers in the frontier lands reported events where remote miner’s camps were torn up, sometimes miners were killed, witness descriptions of the assailants said they were huge hairy men. This was back in the early 1800’s with some printed reports that the Indians had always known about them and called them Sasquatch and other names.  For instance:

Long-Island Star, 1818: “He is described as bending forward when running, hairy—and the heel of the foot narrow, spreading at the toes.” Sackets-Flarbar, Sept. 8. Report says that in the vicinity of Ellisburgh was seen by a gentleman of unquestioned veracity, an animal resembling the Yo-ho, or Wild Man of the forest”.

“In 1851, the Vermont Watchman and State Journal reported that two men were hunting in Greene County, Arkansas, when they saw something “bearing the unmistakable likeness of humanity” chasing a herd of cattle. “He was of gigantic stature, the body being covered with hair, and the head with long locks that fairly enveloped his neck and shoulders.” The creature stopped and stared at them for a few moments and then ran into a patch of woods “with great speed, leaping from twelve to fourteen feet at a time.” The newspaper went on to explain that sightings of the Wild Man had been reported in St. Francis, Greene, and Poinsett counties since 1834.”

Early settlers have told of direct encounters with these creatures and people in wilderness areas are still encountering them. Giant footprints have been found in remote and desolate places in the US for centuries, all over the country. This is not some modern hoax, this is settlers getting their cabins and themselves attacked, same with miners in remote mountains and modern campers in their tents.

Some say that they must be a fraud because with all the smart phones, no one’s got pictures yet. I doubt that, the same as I doubt that all the photos of UFOs have been made public. More likely, only a few percent have. Most people don’t want to be ridiculed by our government. Plus it’s fair to say that there’s a lot more UFO sightings than Bigfoot sightings.

One more thought on why they seem to be seen less now than they used to even though our population has moved so deeply into what has been their habitat is the same reason you see less of other large animals. Remember that these are related to us, and they’re smart. They know how to hide and they have natural camouflage. They get the hell away from us, and as their habitat shrinks, so do their numbers. It would be no surprise if the Bigfoot were near extinction or already gone.

One last point. I once saw a big mountain lion in 1948 way up on a ridge from the window of our car as my father drove up the Angeles Crest Highway. I have lived in and explored mountain wildernesses for much of my life. I never saw another one. The last acreage I had, about 10 miles from here, I found a lion paw print in the soil, it was a good 5 inches wide. They see you before you see them and if they don’t want to be seen, they won’t be.

 

 

 

Aren’t words wonderful? I was just sitting there minding my own business watching a pretty boring TV movie when the word “bilious” inserted itself into my consciousness for no clear reason, since the movie wasn’t relative to that word, but I just had to tell you that. Also for no clear reason.

When was the last time you heard anyone say bilious? It’s a lost word, no one says it anymore, like Jimmy Durante always searching for the lost chord and no one knows who Jimmy Durante was, either, except me, maybe. He played piano and had a big nose and said “Hot cha cha” a lot. Anyway…

Bilious is an adjective meaning relating to bile, sick to your stomach, having a bad temper or describing a sickly color. Bile is a green fluid that accumulates in the bile duct, connects to the liver, then to the gall bladder. I know right where it is from field dressing deer that I mercilessly slaughtered because I was hungry when I lived alone in the remote wilderness for years. Of course that experience didn’t affect me mentally in any way. You can tell. Anyway, you don’t want to break the gall bladder when you’re removing the liver, because, boy, if that thing blows a leak it will ruin every bit of the meat it touches. That’s where one of the meanings of bilious comes from. Or all of them, probably.

Hmm. Paint that fence section Bilious Green? Hmm. This is Bilious Green, what do you think? For the fence? Hmm? John will love it, yes? For an explanation to this post read the previous one.

I posted on this a month ago, was going to let it go but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It kept festering away inside me, you know how those things are, no doubt. I can be vengeful. Vengeance is sweet without fattening.

Yesterday morning, early, I tore down most of the 6 foot cedar fence I’d built 12 years ago because of the violent drunk who lived in the house below me. The new owner bought the place with a new fence built on his side of the line but since my parcel is higher and there’s a retaining wall between us that’s over 4 feet high, my fence is very visible. Or it was, anyway. So he came onto my property and painted my fence white on the side that faced him, to match his fence, without asking me. Naturally, this act of blatant disrespect really pissed me off and I took it out on the fence. On purpose, because it provided him with considerably more privacy by being there. Now I can stand on my deck and see everything that he’s doing when he’s outside but he can’t see me because of privacy screens I put up when the insane drunk lived there. This has to bother him. God I hope so, and a lot.

Then I called the power company and asked them to check on the safety of the power pole at the upper rear corner of our adjoining properties, because there’s 30 feet of retaining wall that’s been removed and the soil is falling away from the base of the pole due to the 5 foot drop from the base of it to the now exposed ground.

A worker for the power company called me back, said he was coming out to check it. I never saw anyone show up but today there’s been a regular beehive of activity next door, my neighbor and two other men speaking in loud voices and pacing nervously, which is probably not a coincidence. That retaining wall is entirely his responsibility, it’s removal has endangered that pole and my property, and the power company will force him to replace it. For one hell of a lot of money.

Meanwhile, there’s still an 8 foot section of cedar fence at the street end. His driveway is on one side, one of my two driveways is directly on the other side. Anyway, I’m trying to decide what color to paint it. The raging drunk built that fence portion, and mounted it with steel straps directly to the top of the retaining wall, so it’s mutually on both our parcels and I’m thinking of anything from a bright yellow to maybe lime green. Any suggestions?

This is totally hilarious. 

And this is not. Investigation identifies network behind France’s fiery unrest as groups plan action across 12 nations