The Pledge of Allegiance

 

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Taking the Oath to Defend the United States Constitution

 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."

Logical Worms

 What kind of logic is that? Moses has his Ten Commandments and Jesus and Christianity followed them. Now the folks in Iran believe that if the United States is mostly Christian, they can kill Christianity and the Hebrew Nations and go to Heaven.

I have no clue what Donald Trump thinks? Is it an eye for an eye. What kind of logic is that? How do the worms that dig under other nations think?

The Miracle in 2026

 Child do you really understand the miracle before your eyes.

Sometimes you hear, “Why?” Technology gives you a choice. The world around us is full of the technology that the world of old has never known. Jesus and Ghandi would approve, Moses would thank the god he visited with. I sit in the year 2026 and I am an old man and listen. I write and say my goodness what a world I live in.

Child do you really understand the miracle before your eyes.

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.