The Mystery of History

Now I don't know but I been told this world is very old.

The old Book from which I have gathered most of my information depicts a world - and its inhabitants - that goes way, way back in time. The biblical account that is given in our foundational book has turned out to be, as Providence would have it, the basis for cultural development, knowledge procurement and a very long, foundational story for the entire western world. Middle Eastern, North African, European culture and histories are founded upon ancient glyphs and and manuscripts. We revere some of them as holy writ, canonical Scriptures. . . from Moses to the prophets and apostles and beyond . . . alongside the Greek poets and philosophers, who accompany Moses, Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Paul . . . to Constantine, Augustine, even Mohammed … to and through the long papyrus scrolls and papers that document the histories of emperores, kings and queens, philosophers, priests, preachers, scholars, teachers, scientists and politicians who systemized Indo-European governance, and educated literate people. . . calculated engineering that morphed progressively in the myriad forms of cultural development and property descriptions, leaving a cultural and societal legacy several millennia long.

For us in the Judeo/Christian world, that old Bible is the primary source, the heart and soul of it, the fountain of wisdom, literacy, morality and history. . . the source of all we know and believe about our ancestors since Abraham, and Moses, the prophets, the One who conquered our ancient foe, death itself, by His Resurrection. Yes, and Amen. . . especially the One, Yeshua ha Meschiach, whose amazing work, teaching and Conquest of death was reported in the New Testament, which became, or should have become, the greatest event in history.

 As a person who has lived on this planet for 74 years, I can testify that I have probably, statistically, traveled more years along this path that we call Life. . . than my years ahead, which I have yet to experience. That is why I am believing in the One who conquered death, to delivery me into that eternal realm, beyond this world, where He is, and has reigned since the beginning of Time. . . and even before that, all eterntiy!  Furthermore, in my humble opinion, this is why we call everything that preceded Jesus, and every moment since then. . .that greatest story ever told. . . that ancient legacy. . . "history" HIStory. Just sayin. Glass half-Full

Ethnic Dunking

While listening to Democracy Now on WETS, I heard a reporter refer to the trumpy-fascist strategy of immigrant deportations as ethnic cleansing. I understand what she was talking about, as we are currently witnessing an unprecedented attempt by the trumped-up magamaniacs to remove immigrants and dark people from these United States. But I object to the terminology "ethnic cleansing." There is no cleansing taking place in these nazi tactics. What we are witnessing, instead, is fascist smearing, a racist scheme to rub out the past progress of our nation's chosen destiny to become the first nation in world history to welcome the tired people of our world. . . the weary, the huddled masses yearning to be free. But what we get now, with this retrogressive trump regime, is a trumped-up, illegal program to remove people whose economic status, or whose racial and/or ethnic features do not meet all the requirements of the fascizing trump regime. The magamaniac obsession with opposing the "deep state" seems to be taking us down a crooked path to a a new deep sh** bog where people of limited means get stuck in the feces of a nation that once thrived on healthy provisions, but has now decided to sit on the throne of trumpish flushing. Actually, the American word for this is "discrimination"; but we have a tacked-on tactic that the trumpians have misappropriated because discrimination is a democratic word that attained legal ramifications during the 1950's when the American Civil Rights movement really got cranked up with Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr, the Little Rock students in 1954, Jesse Jackson and ultimately, President Barack Obama, who did a constructive job of restoring our nation's confidence and infrastructural stability after the financial disaster of 2008. But in 2016, the Make America Go Away, led by trump, wrangled their way into the halls of power. The historical detritus of zombie confederacy hit the fan. We the People didn't know it at the time, but the worst thing that President Obama ever did was to turn the helm of our ship of state over to donald trump. And now, nine years later - even with a four-year Biden intermezzo - we have a second trump occupation of our Oval office, in which his people are flushing the deep state away and wiping with the backside of America with with wads of fascist issues and trumpian flushing. Make America Go Away is the anthem of the magamaniacs. What happened? We survived a Jan6 storm, only to look around, four years later and there's the media Scarecrow: "We ain't in Kansas any more." Where's Bob Dole when you need him? Or Mitt Romney? But there is a way out of this maga-mess. Follow the Constitutional yellow brick road back to our roots, back to the principles that enabled US the People to become the greatest freedom-loving nation in the history of the world. People of the World, "send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free."

This is the message that America should be sending to the world. This is the message that made us great to begin with. Magamaniac ethnic dunking must be opposed in every way possible. No more ethnic dunking! We need to resurrect Emma Lazarus challenge from the dead, even as Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead! Glass half-Full

Train Times Rhymes

This train's bound for glory This train carries a story Time, times, there was a time When travelin 'trains were fine This train don't carry no gamblers This train takes old folk ramblers If we miss the train you're on We'll know that this train's gone We sing disappearin' railroad blues We travel in fading, graying hues Going to Georgia on that midnight train Singing that ole train song refrain People get ready, there's a train a'coming You can hear that ole' number nine a' drumming

Distant moaning of the train seems to play a sad refrain Find me a place in a boxcar So I take my guitar. . .

But keep that long train running keep them big wheels turnin' Where's Casey Jones when you need him? Homeward bound, wish I could go home again Maybe take that Wabash Cannonball We don't need no aereoplane at all We need to stay on track and steady Oh, people. . .People get ready There's a train a'comin' I hear that smokestack drummin'. Where's John Henry, that steel-drivin' man? Must be buried under Hoover dam. Underground Railroad rides again Underground Railroad rides again. Ride me on that good news train Ride me again and again and again. Ole Uncle Tom finally caught that Underground Railroad Ole Jake left his coal mine for that Underground Railroad Ed Clark tossed his necktie off Underground Railroad Underground Railroad Rides Again

Both Clouds Now

Rows and flows of online flair and digital castles in the air and data canyons everywhere I've looked at the Cloud that way But now they distort my worldly view they come and go with everything new So many things we would have done But the Cloud drifts us away. I've seen the Web from both slides now Surfing in and surfing out It's the Cloud's illusions that thrill us now. The real world shifts, but we don't know how Moons and loons and special deals that busy, frizzy way you feel when every online tale seems real I surfed the web that way. But now surfing the net's old hat On phones and screens we may get fat But if we dare, we'll break the trance Maybe venture out and dance I've looked at life from in and out from up and down, from smile and pout It's Cloud illusions I notice now I really don't live life anyhow Virals and spirals now get spun

It's all been seen; it's all been done Illusions and delusions come and go But if you care, don't make a show. Cuz now the world is getting strange maybe even weird, deranged The spin gets spun and all is done at the end of every day. I've looked at life from in and out from up and down, from smile and pout It's Cloud illusions I notice now I don't think I believe it anyhow It's web delusions that show and tell I'll take a break and break the spell. Thanks to Joni who inspired this rhyme Now both sides of Life are wove online. King of Soul

Stop the Steal

Are you sitting comfortably are you watching numbly as fickle History rhymes in these faux-fascist times? 1933, hitler set stage for nazi tyranny: 2025, trump troops foment fascist hegemony to subvert our Constitution with military confusion and pervert our social media with magamaniac illusion US going crazy with panic, as donald trump goes manic rending Posse Comitatis to a passing coma status. For my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars: It started when VP Pence was challenged with insurrection horrors:

Fascists flinging maga filth on our Capitol and on our stripes and stars And yet, and yet. . . the chief insurrectionist regained his reign Re-smearing now our Constitutional Republic with a fascist stain. I keep thinking we will awaken from this nightmare dream and somehow, some way, we shall organize our anti-fascist team We shall overcome; we shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart, I do believe we shall overcome someday. We shall drive the fascists out from their oval office occupation

when We the People organize to restore our Constitution Declaration! Glass half-Full

Deja Vu for Me and You

Guard soldiers and trump-ICE coming We’re finally on our own. This autumn I hear the drumming Citizens dead in Chicago After ICE in Angeles/ Portland, soldiers are cutting US down Should’ve been left in their homes What if you knew the victims, shot by gestapo? How can you tweet with this going on? Americans watched numbly, dumbfounded by the horror, entranced by social media, dumbfounded by fascist forces, the shedding of blood, our Constitution shredded, citizens assaulted, their rights ripped to shreds. This has happened before, 55 years ago. . .

Meanwhile back at the ranch, American Rule of Law is dying, being replaced by zombie third reich fascist violence. Jefferson’s turning over in his grave at the report of what trumped-up magamania is doing to shred our Rule of Law and Constitutional rights. For the tragic preview Ohio deja vu , listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1PrUU2S_iw King of Soul

Drum Major for Justice

When I was a kid growing up in the 1950's, we watched a TV series about "Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier." Now at. age 74, in 2025, I am watching reports about a new Crockett, Jasmine Crockett,

 who emerges from Texas as the queen of our long American frontier. . . our search for fair and just voting rights for all Americans. In our present scenario, minorities' struggle to prevent the erosion of their voting rights is provoked by current racist and magamaniac attempts to confound accessibility of American voters to their polling places during elections. The code word for what the racists and the magas are currently attempting to impose on American voters is "gerrymandering" of geographical descriptions of local voting districts in various states. My strategy for comprehending the lawyerly tactics of Rep. Crockett's recent successful Supreme Court victory (July,2025) is this: Stream of Consciousness. This is because the entire legal presentation is too complex for general citizens' comprehension of the historical, legal contentions that Jasmine' case, unless you choose to research the course for yourself.  What that means is: I will drop here, for you, a stream of words and phrases that may suggest to you the importance of this recent Supreme Court decision, to whit: (Put on your mental seat belt; this will be a tour do force in American history, Law, jurisprudence and the long, long chain of struggles by formerly enslaved people to continue their march toward Justice.) Dr. Martin Luther King (1968) had been a "drum major for Justice". Jasmine Crockett has effectively taken up Dr. King's mantle, 21st-century style, as a drum major for justice, when she recently presented, in her arguments to the Supreme Court, a chain of historical references: Senator Charles Sumner,(c1870) re: "procedural mechanisms that accomplish indirectly what states are forbidden to do directly." Representative Thaddeus Stevens(c1870), re: revolting ""requirements that impose heavier burdens on free men. Jasmine Cronkite(2025), in response to Justice Barrett's question: "I'm suggesting that this historical evidence shows how the court's current approach has drifted from the 15th amendment original intent." In connecting her argument to original intent, Rep. Crockett put forth a master stroke in her legal argument, by directing this conservative Supreme Court to its pet strategy for interpreting our Constitution: original intent. This is a stroke of genius presented by a Texas congresswoman, for the sake of persisting in our long march toward Justice for all American people. Representative Crockett is a true drum major for Justice. With representatives in Congress persisting in their Constitutional duties to preserve Justice, We the People can be reassured that Justice and Mercy will not be arrested in the trumpian/magamania efforts to arrest us. The magas will not, shall not, deprive us of our voting rights, our representation in Congress, our Right to Vote in free and fair elections and our and ongoing Liberty. Glass half-Full

Threshold of a Life

Sitting comfortably in our Appalachian forest haven, I take an unexpected sip of memories from the time of long ago. . . gleaming in upon the mystical paths of cyberspace. . . uBloob. . . and now to suit, to recruit, from this 74-year-old brain, memories summoned up through the magic our great internet. . .

Oh, but, “it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave". . . but going back even further in the American net. . . “Ai, ai,” said Ishmael to captain Ahab.. . yes, going back even further in American story-telling. . . but I digress. Meanwhile, back at the “ranch”, sitting in our edge-of-civilization American easy chair, surfing the web in these 74-year-old dreams, a moody memory floats in on the web, from back in the day. . .

“I think, therefore I am. . . I think!. . .Of course, you are my practical star. . .”

Now you know that you are real”. . . old. This stage of life that you’ve been vaguely aware of for so long, since the 1950’s, when you visited your parents’ parents on holidays and you were thinking that they’re old. . . and yet. . . now it is you. . . “of course, you are, my practical star” . . getting old. You have become the grey-haired one now, sitting across the table, across the Thanksgiving dining room from the young bucks who now run the show. . . and yes, it is a show. . .as Ed Sullivan used to say, a really big “shew”. . . the passing of time. . . the passing of one generation’s torch to the next. . .and the sudden intrusion of memory, via video, with that fab four from the mother country. . . “she was just seventeen; you know what I mean”. . . and the rest is history. . . I mean. . . not the real history, but the memory track that runs through this boomer mind. . . although we’ll leave it all behind, not many years from now, six feet under. . . Not to worry though! Eternal salvation beams through brightly in the gospel revelation of Jesus, and the testimony of brothers and sisters long ago. . . He did, yes, he did, rise up from the tomb on that third day. after the crucifixion. . . . . . but I had not realized that yet, back in those moody, blue days, but we have come a long way in the 74-year odyssey, the apex of which came, back in ‘77, when the light when on in my soul and we realized that it is true, the greatest story every told, Jesus’ conquest of death. and if you believe that, I’ve got real estate we’ll share with you on the other side. . . King of Soul

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