life is poetry, poetry is life - Amtrak, Israel and America, art school in India, Kali, Jesus, mockingbird song

For decades, Robert Frost was Key West’s Poet Laureate.

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Yesterday morniing, a friend came into Sippin’ Internet Cafe on Eaton Street in Key West, just westerly of Duval Street, and asked how I was doing? I chuckled, said, my campaign for US President is going great. I only had one question asked of me so far :-). He said he then had a question for me.

What would I do about Amtrak, the US Government’s passenger train system? It loses money terribly. It’s run by inefficient bureaucrats, who probably are stealing Amtrak money, and hamstrung further by the union. Its service is poor, its cars are old and not well maintained. My friend said, compare that to the Canadian version of Amtrak. A great passenger rail service, well maintained, but it costs more to ride, about par with air travel.

What’s my solution?

Hmmm. I say, offer Amtrak to the Canadians, to run as if it is their passenger train service. They call all the shots, remit a fee to the US Government. He asks, would the Canadians go for that? I say, I don’t know, but that’s the only solution I see; based on what he told me, it won’t be fixed by Amtrak or the US Government.

Shifting to the holy lands,

Jerry Weinstock, M.D., Psychiatry, replied to my view that America should disassociate from Israel part of yesterday’s Jesus was a radical and related truth and consequences, America, Islam, Israel – reported at goodmorningkeywest.com, by Sloan Bashinsky, candidate for US President, 2016Jesus was a radical and related truth and consequences, America, Islam, Israel – reported at goodmorningkeywest.com, by Sloan Bashinsky, candidate for US President, 2016 post at goodmorningkeywest.com:

SLOAN___We get innovative medical . military innovative advances
from Israel not to mention electronic dramatic improvements ;
(when we were working on a double layered recording disc -Israel had perfected 200 layers)
medical research is way ahead of us….
The brains are there -we cannot afford to cut ties… Seriously-Jerry
Their [certain described military hardware, redacted] far superior to ours—-My best friend’s sister married to a “very” high official there.—

I replied:

why is this classified? If you know it, does that mean you will be prosecuted?

whatever fringe benefits Israel has for America do not obviate the enormous threat America creates by being involved with Israel

Jerry wrote:

so you say

Jerry later wrote:

SLOAN: Israel is the only other democracy in that region of the world.
whether it is rational or not -we have become intertwined in their fate heavily and deeply and have made commitments. We break those and other countries will take that as a warning not to trust the USA——-it is a relationship of enormous complexity.
we don’t know a fraction of it is my understanding. have a good sleep.-=—-Jerry.

I replied to his “so you say”:

So I say? Look at history. Look at the grief America has experienced because it backed Israel against Islam. Look at the threat Islam now poses to America, internationally and in America.

If I were put to saying what good Israel does for America, I would say Mossad is much better than CIA and what Mossad chooses to share with CIA, US President, is viewed as very vaulable by CIA and US President. But Mossad only shares what it chooses to share.

You did not answer my quesiton about this being classified information. If you know it, how is it classified?

Jerry wrote:

SLOAN__it has been classified -Yes —(-we have received pieces from
archeological treasures also)
highly -illegal -but we are all rascals….Right —Jerry
it is who you know -my mother said.

I replied to Jerry’s “Israel is a democracy” argument:

Agreed, America has become entwined in Israel’s fate, and that is rooted in religious views in America, and the Christian Bible saying Israel is God’s chosen people, and the political pressure arising from that in America. That’s what drives it, not Israel being a “democracy”. America is not a democracy. Not even close. In a democracy, every person gets one vote, and the majority of votes rules. In a democracy, I could announce my candidacy for US President, and on election day any qualified American voter could vote for me, and if I got the most votes, I would be President. On the other side of that religious equation is a religion, Islam, whose members outnumber America’s population about 3-1, and whose bible tells them they are God’s chosen people. That’s what the fracas between Islam and Israel really is about, as you know that. In the materials I sent to you two days ago, it is seen that the British understood the religious tension in Palestine and did not want to exacerbate by recognizing the state Israel. Also seen in that material I sent to you was the British concern for the oil over there remaining available to Britain. Truman knew all of that, he knew the arguments against recognizing the state Israel, and he did it anyway. And later US Presidents backed him all the way, and here we are, with a big, dangerous mess, rooted in the Christian bible. That’s what Israel has to thank for it being a state. The Christian bible. That’s what Israel has to thank for continued US help. The Christian bible. Doesn’t the 1st Amedment prohibit Congress establishing a religion? Why hasn’t the ACLU jumped on that?

Jerry wrote:

SLOAN__Religion = the root of most problems —-but your material was
quite thorough and well thought out as far as explanatory presentation-
But-it is also TRUE Israel is Ahead of everyone in certain technological
advances —important that we have those -medical progress in that
country very progressive and some areas the cutting edge …
Israel will remain like a state within our protective arms —and that seems to
be the status-! just swam and guests-former fishing buddy from over 50 years ago and his wife taught with Donna in Gainesville in the early 60’s for $4500/ annually and we did fine.—they are to arrive hourly and we will fish Sunday and Monday so probably won’t be able to communicate much .. ( hang in —-Good luck- SLOAN———Jerry )

Somewhat in that regard, amiga Christine Russell replied to yesterday’s post at goodmorningkeywest.com:

Hi Sloan -

The world is such a sad place these days.
I could not agree with you more when you say the US should get out of the politics of Israel and the Middle east.
But I would go one step further, I wish the US would mind its own business and take care of it’s own people and children before it continues trying to “save the world”. I think we might both agree there was/is always an ulterior motive or more selfish intent, in most of the US invasions or ‘partnerships’ with foreign countries or some of their criminal leaders. Only over the past several years have I learned the invasion of Panama by the US was nothing like what I had been told by the media or US government, and the stories of the Panamanians who experienced the invasion - far different story that most of us know. I no longer listen to the mainstream media - fired our television company 7 or 8 years ago and now rely on PBS, though I am not sure we can ever get the pure, unfiltered truth with the news storytelling .

But to your discussion on the Palestinian - Israel conflict. Here is a different point of view.
Maybe the children are the future and hope for settling the conflict - the adults aren’t doing so well.

• 

  13:15

  The Lesson of War

  cbsnews.com

I replied:

Perhaps the children are our future; perhaps we (adults) should resign, lock ourselves up some place safe :-).

Meanwhile, Christine also sent:

Sloan - might this be of any help to you?

And about your comment that the angels may relocate you out of the keys - would be the best thing for you!
I hope the angles have that talk with you 🙂
C

Press Release
Monroe County Administrator’s Office
1100 Simonton Street, Suite 2-205
Key West, FL 33040
305-292-444
For Immediate Release
May 15, 2015

Financial Assistance is Available for Housing Costs:

Monroe County Social Services has immediate grant funding available to assist with past due rents, security and utility deposits, and overdue mortgages for
qualified households. For more information, or to see if you qualify, please
contact your local Social Services office for more information. Offices are located in Key West (305) 292-4408, Marathon (305) 298-6016, and Plantation Key (305) 852-7125. Assistance is only available while funding lasts.

massoud-matt@monroecounty-fl.gov for additional information.

I replied to Christine:

I wonder if they provide grant funding for organized and disorganized non-violent (physically non-violent) civilian counterterrorism against local policiticans and government bureaucrats?
🙂

Traveling to India, which always reminds me of being told in my sleep, in the fall of 2002, “Sloan, you married Kali!”, which caused me to wake up, in shock = terror; not even Shiva messes with Kali, the Hindu Goddess of death and transformation.

Yesterday evening, I watched this video at Key West the Newspaper (www.thebluepaper.com).

FROM KEY WEST HIGH TO ART SCHOOL IN INDIA [FULL VIDEO]

After Arnaud, Naja and Clementine returned from India to Key West, I visited them in their home. Naja and Arnaud said they were enthusiastic about Clementine studying art in India, Clementine said she was not as enthusiastic. That is not seen in the video, in which Clementine seems to love India, attend art school there.

That day with the Arnaud, Naja and Clementine, in their home, I said going to India could be a great thing for Clementine, to study art. But why not go to France instead, where Clementine’s older brother is studying? Arnaud is French. Naja’s has French ancestors, she is fluent in French. Their children speak French. Arnaud groused, he did not want his daughter around Frenchmen.

I said, if Clementine ends up in India, I hope it is some place safe. Not in the far north, near Afghanistan and Pakistan, not in Kashmir, where there has been serious fighting.

I think I said, if Clementine goes to school in India, she should stay away from ashrams and gurus; I’d had lots of dealing with people who did that, and every one of them ended up messed up, possesed by something, which was not doing them any good.

I may have mentioned being careful what Clementine eats and drinks. It’s very easy in India to get really sick from food and water. I’ve heard stories from Americans who went over there and contracted intestinal parasites and had a dickens of a time getting over it. My internist in Alabama and his wife loved traveling to India, to trek around, but finally they contracted a parasite American medicine could not get rid of, and it killed them both eventually.

I was in Mumbai, India, for a few days in 2000, traveling with a woman who had excellent spirit vision and hearing. She told me, all she could see in the air were serpents. I said, not the nice serpents on the Saturday morning cartoons? No, not those serpents, she said.

The massive poverty was beyond American comprehension, on the highway into Mumbai from the airport. Far worse than the poverty we only recently had seen in the shanty towns outside the large cities in South Africa.

Make of this what you wish. After I fishished watching the Girards’ India video, I started getting pop up chats from Comcast technicians, saying they came because I needed their help, and I kept trying to pin them down and they went off line. Then, I got a pop up saying I needed to call a certain phone number to get help with my computer, which was compromised with a virus. Then, my computer locked up and was unusable.

So, I called the number, and got someone in India, who said no, they were not the virus, they were MicroSoft approved technician help company; the phone number I was given was not their phone number but was a central clearning house number, which selected MicroSoft-approved computer technican companies, randomly, it sounded like, to help people having this sort of trouble. They said the Comcast technician pop ups were the virus. They could fix that and my computer, and it would be like brand new. And, they would remain on guard for a year, protecting my computer and providing free help, $249.99, for the next year.

I’d worked before with computer technicians in India and the Phillipines, no problems. I was shut down. I could have gone to my Samsung backup laptop, which has a dead battery and only works plugged into an electrical outlet. I love my Hewlett Packard Notebook, it’s the best laptop I ever had, been using it about 5 years. So, I bought the protection, gave them access online into my laptop, and watched on my monitor screen a technician in India work for about 3 hours, before he called me and we talked a while, and he fiddled some more, and we talked a little more, and then he came out of my computer, and we talked a little more, said goodbye.

So far, the Hewlett-Packard seems to be working, except every time I try to copy something and then paste it into a document when I’m using Internet Explorer’s editing menu, I lose connection with the Internet, which is why I did not publish this morning. I discovered this afternoon, that holding down ctl and v seems to paste okay. There are other things not up to snuff, and I’ll call the tech company on Monday, when they are open for business again.

Now just naturally, I say the odds are 100 percent all of that was triggered by my watching the blue paper’s India video and my concern for Clementine applying for admission to the India art school because that’s what her mom and dad want her to do, and not because that’s what she really wants to do. I went back and forth yeasterday about going by the Girards home for a chat, or making a comment under the video, but I held off, because I had not yet seen the video, and I felt I needed to do that first. So I watched the video, and you know what then happened.

I hope there is not a virus in the India video. I had to download a new video-watching program to watch the video. Maybe the virus was in the new program I downloaded.

I told my gracious host Todd German about all of that, because it’s his Comcast Internet connection I am using in his home.

I also told him, underneath it all, something in the spirit did not want me getting involved in Clementine going to India to study art.

Todd’s computer is working just fine. He’s not getting pop up warnings from Comcast technicians.

In respect of perhaps another cosmic influence, my Hewlett-Packard was behaving poorly for some time, it needed technical assistance technical retard I could not provide, so perhaps it all worked out for the best for my laptop, my websites, and people reading same.

If Clementine is accepted into the India art school, and attends, I hope she has a great experience. I am totally in agreement with Arnaud and Naja about providing American children with beyond America education and experiences. American children who study abroad, get their eyes, ears, mind, emotions and palates opened in ways they would not experience staying in the States.

Americans who travel abroad and mingle, eat and lodge with “the natives”, instead of staying in American-like hotels and doing tourist things and eating American-like food, get their eyes, ears, mind, emotions and palate opened in ways they would not experience on “the American plan”. Personally, I cannot imagine why any American, who travels overseas, would want to do it on “the American plan”. That can be done in America.

I myself traveled overseas a good bit. Overseas, America is not seen by “the natives” the way Americans see America. Nor is America seen by the angels in the way Americans see America. One nation, under God, means to the angels, that God is running things, and people are doing God’s will.

Jesus, in Gethsemane

Sloanbashinsky@outlook.com

I happened upon a mockingbird
singing its fool head off –
I asked it how and why it sang?
But all it did was look ahead,
all it did was sing.
It never turned to see if I was watching,
or listened for money jingling in my pockets,
or asked if I liked its music,
or expected a recording contract –
It was too busy singing
to pay any attention to me.
Thus did I learn
the greatest sin of all
is to kill a mockingbird.
(1992)

Mockingbirds abound in my hometown, Birmingham, Alabama, and in Key West

scene from “To Kill a Mockingbird”