Hell Yes...Im Back, This Time On MY Terms

 Been away from the blog world for reasons too complicated, too boring, and frankly too stupid to go into. Today, that changes. Feel free to agree, disagree, or whatever.  Music here is usually my take on other people's tunes, presented purely for your enjoyment with no expectation of financial gain, unless the song is an original creation or something I have a vested interest in,then your financial support is appreciated. 

JUDICIAL ASSHOLES

      The onslaught of vengeance driven district judges uttering absolutely insane bench rulings seems to be another form of judicial lawfare aimed at one man acting in behalf of the American people, nothing more. Demanding planes full of basically terrorists turn around and release them?!  Trying to dictate who a Commander in Chief can and cannot have insisted military? These things, and so much more, reek of sedition

COWBOY MUSIC 

Rodeo Romeo

https://on.soundcloud.com/TrZv9qjPmavNyGb36

SO MUCH FOR BIG TOWNS/SMALL CITY LIFESTYLES

About a million years ago (not really, but it seems like it) I was faced with an odd situation.  I was unceremoniously yet honorably discharged from this man’s army at the separation point in San Antonio, but due to the usual paperwork screwup listing my home of record as San Antonio, I had to buy my own damn plane ticket to get home to Midland-Odessa.  OK…

At the time, Midland-Odessa still had the big town/small city air to living. Yes, there was crime, but the law enforcement system had a pretty good handle on most of it. Cost of living wasnt too bad, grocercies, gas, and utilities were tolerable. It was my ambition to play music full time, unemcumbered by the full time nonsense of actual employment, and prospects were pretty good. But then several things happened…

One, the area got hit with a NASTY oil bust, worse than what was being experienced. What this meant was an awful lot of good, honest, hard working people just up and left, leaving behind an army of white trash, opened doors for illegals, thugs, drug dealers, and the like.

Secondly, the respectable live music venues pretty much either closed their doors or or started bringing in ‘bands’ that were only interested in getting paid in beer and pus…er…female companionship.  This made it nearly impossible to pay for anything more than a tank of gas or guitar strings from gig money while staying in the area.

Third, I got hit with a barrage of health matters that made it impossible to move to other more fruitful areas (that I later found out were suffering the same fates.) So, here I stayed, basically unable to get any sort of decent gig in Midessa, doing most of my playing in San Angelo, Abilene, Lubbock, Sweetwater, etc.

Back to Midland-Odessa.  Its basically de-evolved to a third world shithole. In the past two weeks, weve had multiple murders, a couple arrested for videotaping themselves making porn with their 10 month baby, a police officer arrested for child sex assault, man nearly burned his own house down because he set his ‘room mates’s’ clothes on fire in a dispute, fatal stabbings, you name…just in the past 14 days.

This is NOT a west Texas town, this is a bad transporter accident between a Chicago ghetto and Guadelajara

Wife and I had discussed up and leaving a few times in the past, but…where would we go? Everywhere is a societal outhouse now, thanks to lawlessness, amorality, you name it 

Wednesday

 - SCOTUS unanimously stated states do NOT have Constitutional authority to prohibit national candidates.  The thing that amazes me is it took a SCOTUS ruling to realize the insanely obvious

- Just read that before the invention of crowbars, crows had to stay at home to drink

- I for one abhor the idea that yet again, presidential election essentially rely on how 5-7 states vote. It’s as if the people in the other 45 or so states might as well not even bother.

- No…we didn’t watch SOTU, nor were even aware of its presence until well over. All those things piss me off, and I really don’t appreciate parading around certain individuals.  It’s been a dog and pony show for most of my life. 

- Speaking of which…Biden announced he was capping credit card late fees at $8.  That’s really making a very real and significant impact [/sarcasm]… but…that doesn’t do one damn thing for those paying their card bills on time, or those (of us) that don’t have such things.  When I did have a card and was “late” for whatever reason, the late charges did impact me pretty hard.  So I did what I thought was responsible-paid the damn things off faster than humanly possible, and refuse to have another one. 

Besides, I’m not sure how any government official has the authority to magically waive agreed to debts…oh, wait, student loans. Never mind

- Many years ago I was appalled at Google for their lack of information security, sharing information, and just because, switching everything to Mac products (computers, phones, etc). Since then it seems Google has seemingly become an unimaginably vast entity. After the IMO morally corrupt release of the AI system that would not allow depictions of any white people, I started wondering how much social engineering manipulation has gone into systems relied on by, well, everything. Google classrooms, Google docs, maps, financial software, you name it…defense systems…search engines…telecommunications… home security…the list is basically endless.

Apple not much better, but at least their softwares work as intended. Facebook also. Microsoft.  In my view these entities are more powerful than any government. It’s at best disconcerting, at worst it’s terrifying.

Yes, I understand my apparent hypocrisy in using a a Google based platform from which to blog. Yes, some algorithm somewhere flagged my thoughts more than once as inappropriate.  Which basically leads me to the inevitability of dropping a carrier, and posting my musings in raw form on Facebook or whatever until I just do do them anymore. My livelihood doesn’t depend on these things, never once having received a shiny penny.

Quoting my own song title: it was fun while it lasted, it’s just lasted way too long. Thanks for reading these things