1980 Government Grants

 I just saw a movie about what the government did and the parents of the child did not know what the government did.

In Ukraine the children of that era are using that intelligence.

What am I talking about?

When we bought our Commodore computer, we did not know what the government was doing. We thought it was great that our children were learning about computers and using games they were teaching children how to use computers. As the evolution continued, I understood what was happening. At first, I thought it was great and then in the year 2001 (twenty some years later I understood). The government in the 1980’s were teaching our young adults how to manipulate joy sticks. Using the joy sticks to fly planes , move cars, drive tanks, handle machine guns and today to fly drones. We see the results in school killings and war in Ukraine where drones and joy sticks are killing Russian soldiers in kill zones.

Our parents just think that our kids are downstairs playing video games. In the 1980’s it was our nation’s government grants to universities and colleges and new computer companies to create games that children could use and learn.

It is good fun Movie

 

Every night I cried and thought why ?

 Now that I am old and the great leader does not listen. I told the world that the man was evil. I grew up with a grandmother, that taught me the great thought. I knew I stuttered and I cried and I played. My voice was quiet and not known. In my early teens I read the books of saints and wondered why the world did not listen. In the movies they had news reels, and they said and I saw Ghandi and Hitler, Ghandhi sitting and spinning cloth and Hitler standing tall and his arm stretched in his wicked strength. I saw the reels of war on islands, fire burning into the cave of mankind. I was young and I wondered why, I cried at night to sleep. Every night I cried and thought why and went to sleep.

Mikhail Bennet

 

Still by the Roadside

George Gershwin

 

I am listening to George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue. It is an American Jazz Piece for piano and jazz band. George created it for a full orchestra. This photo below is Paul Witmans orchestra who played the first concert of George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with George on the piano.

“Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band by George Gershwin. Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the work combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects and premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City. Whiteman's band performed the rhapsody with Gershwin playing the piano.

 

George lived a boyhood not unusual in New York tenements, which included running around with his friends, roller-skating and misbehaving in the streets. Until 1908, he cared nothing about music. Then, as a ten-year-old, he was intrigued upon hearing his friend Maxie Rosenzweig's violin recital.  The sound, and the way his friend played, captivated him. At about the same time, George's parents had bought a piano for his older brother Ira. To his parents' surprise, though, and to Ira's relief, it was George who spent more time playing it as he continued to enjoy it.

In 1913, Gershwin left school at the age of 15 to work as a "song plugger" on New York City's Tin Pan Alley. He earned $15 a week from Jerome H. Remick and Company, a Detroit-based publishing firm with a branch office in New York. His first published song was "When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em" in 1916. It earned the 17-year-old 50 cents.

George was born on September 26, 1898, in the Snediker Avenue apartment. His birth certificate identifies him as Jacob Gershwine, with the surname pronounced "Gershvin" in the Yiddish-speaking community.  He was named after his grandfather, and, contrary to the American practice, had no middle name. He soon became known as George, and changed the spelling of his surname to "Gershwin" around the time he became a professional musician; other family members followed suit^[  after Ira and George, another boy, Arthur Gershwin (1900–1981), and a girl, Frances Gershwin (1906–1999), were born into the family. The family lived in many different residences, as their father changed dwellings with each new enterprise in which he became involved. They grew up mostly in the Yiddish Theater District. George and Ira frequented the local Yiddish theaters, with George occasionally appearing onstage as an extra.

Gershwin's parents were both Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire.”

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 Oskar Fried; Éva Gauthier; Ravel at piano; Manoah Leide-Tedesco; and George Gershwin.

 

 Original Recording

Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue (1924)

 

 

 

 

Holy $hit

 

Can the world around me be conquered?

There is an amazing amount of color around me, at this point in time. I am at a spot on this planet in a home in Marion, Kentucky. Why am I here; well, some time ago I was born in Pasadena, California. My mother gave birth to me at the Woman’s Clinic next to the Huntington, Hospital in Pasadena, California.

I can hear things around me, at cat scratching, a movie on TV and some ringing in my ears that sounds like a room full of crickets.

I will pause for a moment and watch the movie on TV. I stopped watching the movie.

I am just sitting and I am thinking of fixing something to eat.

The State of Kentucky voted for Donald Trump and Western Kentucky would do it again. The laws say he cannot be our president again and Kentucky would be happy with it; yes if he was president again.

I am watching movies and turning them off in the middle. It would not surprise me if the man came to my door and said goodby.

Social Pressure

 

Social Pressure is what happens to everyone. When I was walking the planet with no money and loved it. The idea came my way to earn some money. Social Pressure led to a job to earn money.

Today Israel is being left behind because of social pressure. Iran’s under ground worms that are digging under Lebanon and bombing Israel are being left alone. One of the reasons for the war in Iran was to stop the worms that Iran trains to kill citizens in other countries. Because of oil money Israel is being the scapegoat. Iran’s Lebanon worms are bombing Israel and Donald Trump is helpless. Losing money and world social pressure is putting Israel in a helpless situation.

I saw CNN’s reporters blaming Israel for the war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. It is the Iran worms under those countries that started the war. It was Iran’s trained worms that blew up the Twin Towers.

 

Stephen King and Marty Robbins

 

I have You Tube Premium. I just saw a biography of Stephen King on that video Internet website. It is something everyone should watch.

As I was moving around You Tube, I saw some young adults doing a cover of a Marty Robbins song. So, I went over on the YouTube Internet Website and found the Marty Robbins Album called, “The Gunfighter Ballards and Trail Songs”  

Monday Morning

 

I got up early. I made a cup of coffee and checked on my wife. She is sleeping and the orange cat is laying with her.  I sit and watch early morning TV. An hour later I saw her awake, I asked if she would like something for breakfast. She says,” Scrambled eggs and toast.” I get my cane my third leg if my leg buckles. Mostly it is not necessary but sometimes my legs do not want to stay upright, and I use the cane to adjust in the mornings. I make her scrambled eggs and toast. I have some of the pizza she made Sunday. I read my book and watch TV. I take my cane and go get something to drink and I take medicine. An hour later I checked on my trash cans. My wife gets up and feeds the cats and I help her. I make a cup of coffee and watch TV. My computer is working fine. I will write about the day’s thoughts. About noon I check on my trash cans. The trash man has come by. I put on my shoes, hat, and coat and go outside go down the ramp and up the driveway go up the street and get my trash cans. I stop and check for mail. I get the mail and I put the mail inside of my coat. I hang my cane on the trash can and bring both cans down the driveway and place the cans close to our garage. I lined up the cans on the grass where I had my rock pile at one time. I remove the cane and carefully go up the ramp to our front door. I go inside and remove my hat, shoes, and hang up my coat. I take my cane and check on my wife she is sitting up by the bed. I go to the bathroom, wash my hands, and brush my hair. Sometimes at this point and time I wash my clothes. I go into the kitchen and make a cup of coffee. Wash my breakfast dishes, go into living room, and play some games on my computer and surf the net and write some more. I sit and rest and take a nap.

I awake and have some more pizza. Read my libby book and drink my coffee. My wife gets up and washes her clothes, cleans a filter on an air conditioner.

I take another nap. My wife says that I should do something instead of sitting in my chair all day and she gets mad at me for just sitting in my chair.

Donald Trump Swore

When I joined the Navy I swore to …

I Thomas Diaz do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

The Oath I swore to when I joined the federal government at Lock and Dam # 50

I Thomas Diaz do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The President of the United States swore to…

"I Donald Trump do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Donald Trump also swore on Easter Sunday

So Why does Iran Hate Israel

 

“Iran's oil industry began in 1901, when British speculator William D'Arcy received a concession from Iran to explore and develop southern Iran's oil resources. The exploration in Iran was led by George Reynolds. The discovery of oil on May 26, 1908, led to the formation in 1909 of the London-based Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). By purchasing a majority of the company's shares in 1914, the British government gained direct control of the Iranian oil industry, which it would not relinquish for 37 years. After 1935 the APOC was called the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). A 60-year agreement signed in 1933 established a flat payment to Iran of four British pounds for every ton of crude oil exported and denied Iran any right to control oil exports.

In 1950, ongoing popular demand prompted a vote in the Parliament to nationalize the petroleum industry. In 1951, the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq formed the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). A 1953 coup d'état led by British and U.S. intelligence agencies ousted the Mosaddeq government and paved the way for a new oil agreement.  In 1954, a new agreement divided profits equally between the NIOC and a multinational consortium that had replaced the AIOC, which at this time had been renamed The British Petroleum Company. In 1973, after the Shah threatened that the agreement would not be extended unless the consortium doubled oil production or handing over oil production entirely to Iranians, Iran signed a new 20-year concession with the consortium, which handed over oil production entirely to NIOC while giving the consortium privileged priority to purchase oil from NIOC.^[5]

Beginning in the late 1950s, many of Iran's international oil agreements did not produce the expected outcomes. Even those oil companies that managed to extract oil in their designated areas contributed very little to the country's total oil production. By the time of the Islamic Revolution of 1978–79, the five largest international companies that had agreements with the NIOC accounted for only 10.4 percent of total oil production.  During this period, Iran's oil industry remained disconnected from other industries, particularly manufacturing. This separation promoted inefficiencies in the country's overall industrial economy. “

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In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel  or Cebrail  in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the messenger of God. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran.

Islam regards Gabriel as an archangel sent by God to various prophets, including Muhammad.

Is this the split Judaism and Islam.

 

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Israel and the United States have a good history, a peaceful history. Israel was helped by most of the world,  and some had an idea of giving the Jewish people a home but some countries hated the idea of giving a large portion of land in the middle east to Jewish people that were almost destroyed by Germany in the Second World War Ovens.

Where was their home?