Declaration of Impeachment

When in the course of American events, it becomes necessary for the American people to dissolve the Constitutional and Electoral bonds which have connected them with a corrupt, incompetent president, and as if that were not enough, to assume among our Constitutional powers, the corrective and appropriate authority of the People and their representatives, senators, judges, poltical leaders and media voices to impeach and reject the abusive authority of a rogue president who attempts to govern by declaring his own covetous demands. . . The separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. . . and the declarations of good ole American common sense. . . these foundations of American governance demand that We the People should declare the causes which impel us to the impeach an abusive, lawless President: #1: He has attempted, in various American cities, to arbitrarily and illegally, summon the Armed Forces of our United States to attack American citizens who exercise their Constitutional rights of Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of Speech. #2: He summoned a violent mob, January 6, 2021, to attack our Congress for purposes of disrupting and destroying their performance of Congressional duties to count Electoral votes.

#3: (to be continued, or added to by the citizens of our United States, as they activate their resistance in public displays and statements that serve to expose the criminal and self-obsessed actions and declarations of an incompetent, lawless occupant of the Executive office) Glass half-Full

Genesis Engineering

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep." Now I don't know, but I been told . . . in school. . . it was somewhere, some time back in my school days, in a science class, that scientific discoveries have uncovered certain details about the ways and means by which the Creator God did all this creating. He set us a system of electrons, protons and neutrons. These would be the building blocks of His creation. He assigned an array of super-small particles - actually spinning arrangements of energy, that like to act like they've really got some weight to throw around. I mean, we might as well call a spade a spade: these little critters paraded around in an unprecedented way and they like to throw their weight around. We'll just call them "matter." I mean, it doesn't matter what we call them, but the point is, they act like matter - these miniscule components which would become the elements with which He would set up the Universe. So, yes, God created a Universe, which also included the earth and the heavens that we earthlings can see in he sky, built upon the building blocks of these "elements. Now then. . . God set up all this creation in an orderly, systematic way. He was creating a vast array of elements that would ultimately become a vast array of earthly material. He assigned names and values to these original building-block elements. The first element he put together with a proton in its center and an electron doing orbits around the proton. He called it 'Hydrogen.' Moving right along, he created a second element, 'Helium', which had two protons and two electrons. So God was on a roll; he wasn't about to stop there. I mean, he had some very big plans in His mind and He knew he was going to need a lot of stuff to work with. . . and stuff with variety, so that his Universe would ultimately become a fascinating creation and a cool place to live, and move, and have our being . . . for us humans who came along later. More about that later. The Lord of the Universe just kept on going. He put together a third element, which we call Lithium, and a fourth, which we call Beryllium. . . and then along came Carbon and Nitrogen and. . . when He got to number 8 he wanted to something special with it. So he got inspired and He named it Oxygen. He got a flash of inspiration and decided to pair the Oxygen with the first element, Hydrogen. So when he got them mated together. . . I mean it was a little like the Man and Women development that came later. . something very different from anything that had come before, water:

and there was water, which is why, later, back in the day, Moses wrote about it: . . . "and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters." As the Lord was on a roll he kept going. "Then God said, 'Let there be light', and there was light!" It was some pretty amazing stuff, don't you think? I mean, later, when Moses got inspired by God to report these developments to mankind, he wrote: "God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. . ."

I mean, it was all good, y'all. And God got inspired, all along the way, in His whirlwind of creative inspiration. When he got to #14 in his system, He put together what we call silicon, so that we could have transistors and digital circuits in that century that we call "the 20th" . . . and on into the 21st century, as we can see now, as I'm writing in the year 2025, using silicon circuits that make this laptop operate like a real Apple ought to, not like the one Adam and Eve bit into that got them into trouble. But that's another story. Meanwhile back at the heavenly ranch. . .when he got to #24, God created Chromium, so that, back in the day when I first got my driver's license, 1966, I could have shiny bumpers on my old Chevy. But I digress. After He had gotten far, far along in that inspired Elements project, God created Gold for #79, so I could have this ring on my finger, which has never been off of my finger since 1980 when Pat and I got married. Furthermore, just to demonstrate how creative He is, God arranged for us to bring three brand new human beings into the world. Hallelujah! Furthermore, we know from Moses' account in Genesis, when God created Light, He saw that the Light was good! And I agree. It's all good y'all! I mean, he was shedding some serious Light on all this stuff, . . .what we call the earth, and the world, and Life itself (But that's another story, for later.) And if you believe all this, I've got real estate in heaven that I'll tell you about later. Glass half-Full

Purloined Poetics

Inspired by Yeats Turning and turning in the world wide web The tweeter cannot believe the twitterer Things fall apart; the people cannot make sense of it Weird gobbledigook is woven into the web The virus-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of democracy is drowned The Dems get hung on transitude while GOPs are blown with MAGAtude What rough beast, its anger now from slumber torn Slouches toward Fort Sumpter to be reborn? Inspired by M. Arnold: Ah, Americans, let us be true to one another! For our nation, which is spread out historically in principles of Constitution and Rule of Law, so various, so tolerant, so true, abandons hope for huddled masses yearning to be free. Yeah, I say unto thee we are descending in a darkening spree swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where Libs and MAGAs argue about what's wrong or right. inspired by J. Lennon: I watched the news that day, oh well. . . about a nation that had gone all to hell. They blew our mind out in a mob That crowd of people made me sob.

They'd seen trump's call: confound the count They wouldn't accept the legitimate amount Nobody was really sure what was going on. We need to turn our Constitution back on. I saw the news today oh yeah The Allied armies had just won the war. A crowd of people turned away But I just had to look, having read the book. I read the news today. . .I'll tell: Vlad the Mad was blasting Ukraine to hell inflicting Kiev pain with Russian drones driving Ukraine folk out of their homes The yankee president was playing chess with Vlad his queen arrayed in reichish dress I'd love to make it all get gone. I watched the news today oh well The NATO nations had just evaded hell. A crowd of people turned away. But I just had to look having read the book. I'd love to see Peace turned on, and Justice and Mercy go on and on and on. . . Glass half-Full

Beethoven's Ire

I heard there was an heroic symphony that Beethoven wrote, still heard around the world. It went like this: the third, the fourth, the fifth, as the music from his mind unfurled.

As 17th-century loyalties were transforming 17th-century royalties A new wind of Liberty blew o’er the Continent, a revolutionary discontent. It blew in on the French coast from its faraway American host Franklin caught a glimpse from Lafayette, his host; Napoleon lifted a French toast. Bur Ludwig’s restless angst turned aside, when he caught wind of Bonaparte’s pride. As the times they were a changing, Ludwig began his rearranging. Composing his third symphony to honor Bonaparte, Ludwig was off to a good start. But when he heard that Napoleon had claimed the “Emperor” title Ludwig was upset that the General would make himself an idle. So he rubbed out the “Bonaparte” dedication and left just the the “Eroica” name which is Latin for any person gains heroic fame. For a man who had mastered the military stuff, it was a name good enough.

For a victorious generale, the “Eroica” word was good enough. Cuz we have to be careful, in this world, to not assign too much glory to strong men who like to hype their own story. King of Soul

Divine Synchronicity

The Creator of our Universe is all-powerful, all-knowing, omniscient and eternal. The Lord YWHW Christ has been creating this Universe, this Earth, our Life individually and collectively. . . for a very long time. This morning I caught a glimpse of the synchronicity through which the Lord of the universe demonstrates is creative consistency, his omniscience and his Will for us to have access says to his higher ways. . . what he is up to and what was up to, back in the day, even long, long ago and far, far away. So. . . this morning I was reading the ancient book of Leviticus, whereby YWHW set out some procedures for the spiritual leaders among his people. Consider this. Leviticus 25:35: “Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor, and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live among you.” Compare that Old Testament Law to the New Covenant of grace that was initiated and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Jesus attests to, and confirms the Lord YWHW’s will and instruction when he spoke Matthew 25:35: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in.

Now then: In this day and time we find that the Lord of the Universe revealed, by these verses in His Word, his Will that people who have lots of stuff, which to say food, money, blah blah and so on and so on, are to release some of their wealth for folks who don’t have much. Furthermore, the poor folk are referred to as “strangers” and/or “sojourners.” . . . which is to say: folks who are not directly connected by ownership to property, or resources or assets. Now then. In this day and time, some prosperous religious folk have been misled into erroneous attitudes and practices. They have—many of them—have directed their trust and their reverence to rich folk who are running the show and have lots of assets to prove it. Consequently, they like to pretend that the strangers and sojourners among us are not those to whom the Lord referred in Matthew 25:35 and Leviticus 25:35. So these self-obsessed religious folk refuse to call a spade a spade, or a heart a heart. Instead they make their bids and bets on diamonds and clubs. The diamonds represent precious worldly stuff. The clubs represent clans wherein them who have congregate as hoi-ploi so they don’t have to dish out grace and mercy to the strangers and the sojourners, The wise king, Solomon said, long ago, that the little foxes spoil the vines. So we are to understand that the vines of fruition, the vines that yield grapes for eating, for drinking, even for fermentation so that wine makes glad the heart of man. . . those vines are spoiled, which is to say, raided and stripped of their fruit. Hence, when the poor, the weary, the huddled masses yearning to be free come along to gather fruit or sustenance from the corners of our fields, the edges of our bounty. . . or the highways and byways by which folks enter into the land of the free and the home of the brave. . .these poor folk are unable to gather any grapes at all. Instead they are turned away. Therefore if you are an American feeling well-fed and well-provided-for, be willing to share a little of the good stuff that goes around . . . like food, or even the means to buy food, money. And don’t be so vulnerable to the foxes and the fat cats who want you keep everything for yourselves and for spending on all the stuff that’s dished out to us in our great American land of plenty. Just sayin’: take a look at Matthew 25. Glass half-Full

Old Stuff

Sinatra sang it, back in the day: . . . “and I look at my life as fine vintage, that flows, sweet and clear, from the brim to the dregs.” I mean, he was before my time, of my parents’ generation, the greatest generation. . . who put a stop to hitler and mussolini and hirohito. . . and all of that happened about six years before i was born. Now I’m the old guy, and these young people nowadays, they. . . I see them sitting on the Boston subway with their phones, looking at their phones. It was different, back in the day, when we boomers came along, sitting in the living room, watching Roy Rogers, Howdy Doody, and . . . well, whatever. That’s neither here nor there. But along the way, there were other things that happened. . . Simon and Garfunkel singing about old friends, who “sit on their park bench like bookends” and “a newspaper blown through the grass falls on the round toes, of the high shoes, of the old friends” Newspaper? what’s that? Now I’m the old guy, pecking away on this laptop, casting my fate to the wind. . . or, actually, the web, where the spiders of time will spin our snippets of this, that and the other into a tapestry of remembrance. . . do you remember when?. . . where were you, November 22, 1963? Where were you September 11, 2001? It seems that a tornado has lifted us into. . . “you’re not in Kansas any more, Dorothy!” You’re in 2025. It’s not hitler telling lies about the Sudetanland to Neville Chamberlain. . . it’s putin making up excuses about the Donbas, and trump thought he was a nice guy, and the fox has confiscated the vines of virtual veracity from MSNBC and where’s NBC anyway? Where’s Johnny Carson? He’s in the sweet by ’n by with Milton Berle and Walter Cronkite.

with Spencer Tracy and Kirk Douglas and Dorothy and scarecrow and tinman and Cecil B. Demille and way, way back there. . .at Ford’s theater, President Abraham Lincoln, and even further back than that. . . Abraham, who left Ur of the Chaldees, and even further back than that. . . there’s Eve in the garden. She’s talking to that suspicious character. He’s talking to her on her phone. And the rest is history. One day, some day, I’ll be on the other side of that great divide between life and death.

But I’m not worried; I will have a guide as I enter that new territory. He’s the one, y’all, who survived death after three days. I’m not making this up. It’s a stream of consciousness. It’s just that, at some point, the consciousness morphs into eternity. You believe that? If you do, I’ve got some real estate in heaven we’ll share with you. King of Soul

The Ai Predicament

When the people of the 20th century had mastered the Computer, they expanded its utility, and the span of its reach, into the minds of men and women all around the world, and so, as time passed. . . in this sweet by ‘’n by, time slippin’ by moment by moment, inch by inch, while time keeps on slippin’ into the future . . . we had spun our networks into the world wide web. The trumpet blasts of human progress were strategically positioned to take control of online assets, thereby appropriating resources for optimum use of the world wide web, for the progress of the human project and for civilization itself. But in human history, there are always some shinannigan-shakers or top dogs who confound the algorithms, like back in ’08, concocting MBS’s and CDO’s that dragged us down the path of financial confusion and contusions.

But surveying the horizon now, the omens are that we’re headed for an Ai juggernaut that may—if we don’t keep an eye on it— sideswipe, or contort, our human dignity and freedom. . . unless we can get smart and take some precautions. As with the appropriation of any new frontier for human progress, there’s got to be rules of the game. As long as everyone plays by the rules, all is well and will stay that way and we’ll be happily ever after. But within the human tribes there are inevitably some covetous hooligans who are not playing by rules. The rules: Thou shalt not cover thy neighbors’ stuff, or his/her data. So back in time, way back, ages ago, there was this Achan guy, back in the ancient days of our literary development, who broke the rules. He took some stuff that didn’t belong to him. And his violation negated the good karma that could have been abundant for all parties who are involved in the grand project of human progress. If he had not crossed the lines of misappropriation and downright theft, causing all hell to break loose in the markets and in the world wide web, then everything would have been hunky/dory. But this Achan guy was way out of line. He was weaponizing the Ai, to take advantage of people and to gather their private information and their assets unlawfully, which is to say, taking data and stuff that didn’t belong to him. . . and as if that weren’t enough, spying on people so he could take advantage of them and purloin their assets for his own enrichment and empire-building. Clearly, the Achan case study demonstrates the necessity for homo intellligus to get a hold of ourselves; and in the wider sphere of the world wide web, it is plain to see that Man needs to get a handle on this Ai juggernaut cuz It threatens to, if not put on a human-managed leash, to launch us into the outer limits of techno-confusion, beyond freedom and dignity! I mean, we dare not have Ai telling us what to do, when we are supposed to be telling Ai what to do. We cannot have Ai algorithms running roughshod over our freedom and dignity. When we discern that AGi/Ai is getting too big for his britches, we need to delete him down to a manageable level. So Wake up, people! You ought not to be downloading your decisions to Ai. Get a life! And seek out the better angels of our web, and our world. Take a break from the wobbly web every now and then. Go take a walk in the park; smell the roses. Read a book. Get a Life! Don’t get too caught up in the web.

The web was woven for Man, not man for the web. Glass half-Full