Heading:   Animals Give Us Status Enough

      I tried hard for a few years to make it as a stand-up comic.   My best night really was at The Comic Strip in Fort Lauderdale and it was because I had everyone in the room laughing.

       Stand-up is hard because you do feel like a failure if you don’t get the whole room laughing, every single one.

       To do that I believe you do have to be truthful and it is why great comedians have not been Presidents.   The actors you see as Governors, or Presidents, or Congressmen are not comedians, and part of their job is to pretend they are somebody else.

        Whenever I read the Bible or the I Ching or books that attempt to be as perfect as they are, or may be if I knew how to use them better, I look for the humor in them for I believe a good joke is a gift from God as much as a sunset over the ocean, or mists on the mountain, or a kiss from a woman you love, or any of those sorts of things.

       Whenever I think of my father I cannot help but remember the words he said that stung me most.   He said,   "I’ve always hated your sense of humor, it always means something."

       I said,   "Well that’s alright, you don’t have one."

      Strength Wisdom Beauty and Humor are what to me are the foundation of great stories.   War and Peace has to be as long as it is because otherwise there would be something unbearable about it.   The ugly girl has to become beautiful and Pierre has to be lucky.

      Faulkner’s humor was incredible and odd in places that balanced his stories out.   "I would have been alright if they hadn’t found that arm."   or "He was too young to know that the facts are not necessarily the truth."  or "There he is, dead as beef."   -Or the story of the man who was in love with a cow and was not happy about eating her, and was not satisfied with a carved wooden cow.

        In The Wild Palms one doctor accidentally kills the love of his life giving her an abortion, and a convict saves a woman and takes care of her throughout the events and disruptions of the 1927 flood so well while his sentence expires and his only reward is to be imprisoned for escaping.

       I feel that The Wild Palms has to be read as one novel in recognition of Faulkners success as a poet for he said that it went together in his mind because he wrote one part till he was so depressed he had to write the other part.

       Now that I am older and wiser and wonder what I really want to say even before I say it sometimes, and know that I do not simply have time to leave a cannon such as Faulkner or McMurtry and have contemplated what sort of jokes or funny stories I might tell Standing Up, I have determined that I ought to do an act composed of animal stories, since animals do some funny things.

       – And, I can get away with thinking that I am better than a good number of animals that do naturally things that I am restrained by sensiblity or law from doing.

       The hatreds that mankind uses to rationalize mass murder of each other under the name of War, happen because one group, set of individuals, feels they are better than another for one reason or another.

       Humans are animals, and do require status same as animals, but they ought to be generally satisfied with being humans instead of animals, as status enough.

       For example, say I decide to make a law for the cats, and tell the cats that they will be excecuted for killing rabbits, or mice, or birds.

       Imagine that I get all the cats to sit in the room and I tell them, "If you kill birds, or rabbits, or mice, you will face execution, so stop it!"

       They are cats, they cannot be anything other than cats, and whatever I say their nature will not be changed and do not understand me that well to even know that I have made a law about the murder of rabbits and some other animals that they typically kill.

       In respect to humans it is possible that they would understand me when I tell them that I have decided that they will be subject to execution or prison if they kill my friends or family.

       In fact humans are smart enough to actually realize without notice that whatever they do to another human being may well come round to haunt them, and be done to them.

       Therefore I say unto you, if you need to make fun of other animals, and you are a human, make fun, and gain your status, as smarter, from the zoo.

                                                                 Love, Russell  

Heading:   Airlines and Oil Companies

Russell Scott Day/ by line

     The fact is that the only secure business in aviation is selling fuel.   The BTUs required to run airplanes is significant and so far it can only be gotten from gas and kerosene engines fueled engines.

      Fuel cell powered electric motors in ducted fan flying VTOL bodies, viagra buy such as Moller Skycar is working on are exciting from a transformational sort of view.

      However it is going to be a good while before all of the aircraft engines will operate on another fuel.

       Aviation growth will be in the small plane sector.

       Now if I was President of the United States I would encourage Oil Companies to Buy the Airlines as a Defensive move.    It is not sensible to cripple your airlines if you want to be able to defend yourself pro-actively.

        Now it is stupid to put soldiers on an airline and send them to war for purely psychogical reasons.   However it is good if a nations citizens can show their faces anywhere in the world as an accepted matter of course.   Regardless of what you might think about the failures of the British Empire, therapy they got around and they had a powerful empire that did do some good though I am not happy at all with them because they failed the Untouchables in India.

     The pivot of Human Rights revolves around Womens Rights and nations that do not give equal rights to women are not acceptable as governors of Transcendian fortunes.

      So to increase the Civilization of mankind US Oil Companies need to buy the airlines and give them a discount on fuel determined by how much fuel the airlines need to keep the US strong.

       Transcendia is cautioned to buy land in Ecquador for every reason from oil to the proximity of a good place to build space elevators.

      And Blacks and Women ought to become more common as pilots.

      Jesus, how am I making sense here with the madness?

      Well, when I got done reading the paper I remembered that I had said before that combining the oil companies of the US and the Airlines into one set of companies was called for.   This is a very radical idea because the oil companies are cynical and multinational and know that they make money regardless of what you call the airlines since the airplanes will go on flying.

        They have in the US and the West little loyalty.

        I suppose that if I was President of the United States I would determine how much oil the airlines needed to work, and then determine how much could be gotten from the United States for the airlines, and then allocate what was left over for home heat and cars, and make it work out so that car fuel was last on the list of known controllable resources of the nation within its boundaries.

        The powers that be, the rich people, have the airlines by the balls as long as they are separated, which benefits Saudi Arabia and from there leads the subjication of the poor and working classes and leads to the destruction of the middle classes in a cascade.

       Once I pay off my ex-wife and the rest of my bills and can travel again I really ought to visit Ecuador.    They have oil to run one airline at least, plus they are situated near the best place to put up space elevators.

       I would entertain mercenary army volunteers for this sort of combined policies for they would be required.

        The mercenaries that work for the airlines and the oil companies need a good leader overall for it is not a good thing to be a warrior for bad ideas.

        If you are a woman and a mercenary, and a pilot, and working for oil companies and airlines, I would like to know you.

                                               Best- Russell

Heading: Why the Coast Guard Works

        by-line Russell Scott Day

      Edward Hallet Carr wrote an excellent essay in Classic Readings in International Relations titled "A Critique of Realism" that I would suggest all politicians or law makers read.

       It explains why no one in the world is complaining about the US Coast Guard in relation to the events of Katrina.

       The US Coast Guard has a clear mission, and is trained and equipped for that mission.

       The mission of the US Coast Guard is to protect the borders, and rescue those in distress within their territory.

       I myself would be honored to be accepted into the US Coast Guard because they have an understandable mission at the very least, and it is in harmony with my political understanding of what are upright things to put your life into.

       Certainly I wish that borders were not so important, but I recognize that they are because of ideas that are in conflict and the fact that real enemies try very hard to kill me, my friends, or my children.

       Cannibalism as a codified and acceptable way of getting food for humans is a skew that makes humanity human that does not eat the bodies on the battlefield as if it was some sort of sport.

       Our cat Alastair is a rabbit killer who only lives with us because he likes to be petteted for bringing us rabbits he has just killed.   If we don’t eat them he eats them and I really ought to get a cleaver and get used to a minor amount of butchering.

       Typically so far I have thanked Alastair for bringing us his kills, but really he must kill about a rabbit a day.   I wonder where all these rabbits come from.   Nancy Alex tells me that originally when Alastair was a kitten he killed and ate so many slugs that the Vet had to tell her he had slug juice on his lips and wasn’t sick or rabid.

       It is a compliment I suppose to know that Alastair doesn’t really need us.

       He is one of the most beautiful cats I have ever known.

       I believe that he thinks about killing rabbits a good deal though.   Since Alastair is a pet and has a good supply of pet food I believe that he kills rabbits for sport on one degree and on the other degree I recognize that I like a good steak myself.

       On my next birthday if I get there I want a Buffalo Steak and I hope all my friends will have a Buffalo Steak Cookout with me on my next birthday, which it will be a miracle if I get to that ought to be celebrated.  -at least by me.

       It would be good for Transcendia if April Fools was more generally recognized as a holiday.

       The mission of a Cat for a farmer is to kill mice in the barn since mice shit an inordinate amount for their size and carry fleas that can give you the Plague or Heunta Virus, which are both endemic in New Mexico because of bats and mice and I have misspelled the name of the endemic virus and the Coast Guard ought to be in charge of Fema in my opinion.

       The Canadian Mounties and The Coast Guard are good organizations with clear missions and they are such a great group of nice people doing nice things that I would really like it if they liked my made up nation of Transcendia.

      Alastair is named after Alastair is named after some guy that wrote a book about Civilization.   Nancy Alex named all the cats, except for William James who ran away.   Oliver ran away too but she named Oliver.

        Oliver was named after Oliver Twist.

        Oliver had a long memory.

        Whereas Alastair is a rabbit killer I think Oliver kills mice.    Oliver left about 5 days after we moved here.

         I believe that there are some people that work in the Coast Guard that are like cats I know.

         A killer has to have a clear mission, and that mission is a tribal thing best, and it is harder to rescue people than kill them.

        The examples of the Coast Guard and the Mounties, their stories, may very well be examples that people all over the world can understand and support.   From what I know of this latest crisis in New Orleans the lesson that the United States ought to take from it is that the Coast Guard did what it was supposed to do and that was because it had a clear mission and it would behoove the US to vest more and more power with the Coast Guard, and hire the Canadian Royal Mounties as partner consultants.

       It is frankly insane that the Mexican Army has caravaned to cook for hungry American Refugees while everyday a refugee from Mexico dies in the desert fleeing from Mexico in hopes of better pay for shit jobs.

       Canada and the US and Mexico better get together and institute an economic set of trade laws that advance the interests of working people or the fat US corporate shills and corrupt pricks that pick the flesh off of the working classes will be left to big cats like Alastair that is a born killer.

         Well, there is Asteroid Katrina out there.

         Anyway, enough of what my pets do.

         If I had my way I would merge the US Coast Guard with The Royal Canadian Monties and unlease them on the world.

         They do a good job.

My writing schedule now is opinion during the week, and the novel Force of Nature over the weekend.   I’ve been putting Force of Nature in the Poetry section.

     I’ve been trying to get the facts straight.   Apparently it is Eastern that was predominant at RDU early on, instead of American.

      The first Taylorcraft had 40 horsepower engines and Taylorcraft started production in 1935.    Apparently there were about 2 thousands of a military version called a L2 Liason.   It would be the 1938 Model BC-65 that I think my character Carl would have bought in November of 1946.

       Since I have never been in or flown a Taylorcraft I am at a disadvantage in writing about it and have been doing some research.

      Nancy Alex complained that I had stayed up too late doing research.

      My mother in law asked me the plot of the book and I did not really give a good answer and am not sure that I really want to right now either.   Is men get machines a real plot?    Man sails to India.   I guess it is a plot.

       Really what I want to do is tell a story about a flying family which is  what Faulkner did in Pylon.    I do of identify with the journalist in Pylon. 

      I did write a very depressing book once, but it is more like a McCarthy sort of thing since it is so very depressing and as I have gotten older my humor has improved.

                                                            Russell      

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Charlton Heston has been reported to me in the past as being homosexual which explains to me why he was a good President for the NRA.

It has been reported that people on high ground who have jobs and have supplies and are able to take care of themselves are having their legal guns taken from them.

The breakdown is complete.

No law observed on either side.

Disarm the stupid and barbaric, treat and disarming the self-sufficient leaves the mediocratcy in charge.

It is the recipe for Hell.

When I had lived in Manhatten for a few years I stopped giving money to people on the street begging for money.

If they were playing an instrument or singing I would give them money since that is work and I worked and only had so much money to give away on impulse or in appreciation.

The people who live in New Orleans and are supplied and are working and are taking care of themselves know that if they are disarmed they will not be able to take care of themselves and the people who are disarming them know that it is the like sentencing them to death to disarm them since they are dependent on their arms to disarm the people, ed citizens with rights, that they are abrogatting because they are acting offensively when the people they are disarming are needing their personal weapons for defense, which was the point of the Constitution and Bill Of Rights.

The Bush Administration is the worst Administration that I know of since I have lived and grown up in the United States.   The Mayor of New Orleans is awful along with the Governor of Louisianna.   Cursing and crying and praying is not a great leadership skill.

Looking at the fact that armed soldiers are disarming the citizens who have taken care of themselves and do not need them but are vulnerable to their mediocracy so much that they are willing to abrogate the spirit of the Consitution and Bill of Rights knowing that they are supported by Bush illustrates why the United States is completely bankrupt on every level and explains why the power of the world is in the hands of Autocrats in China and India.

I am not happy with the way Indians treat their citizens who are called Untouchables.

When China gets profit from organs that are sold from the bodies of the people they condemn and kill and does not recognize and works to insure that their family will be an insulated elite like the Bush Family in collusion with Wal Mart and the Waltons who are sop slinging money from their piggy bank to Wall Street syncopants who surf for crumbs on carpets as semiobdient dogs and cats but are really no better than gutter rats, I suggest that we all who have no desire at all get guns and always carry Mace or Pepper Spray and use it whenever we are frightened of stupid statements or actions that are obviously stupid.

     So I guess what I am saying is that if you and your friends where somehow to make Transendia to have a bank account, some of the money would be spent on arming anarchists of Transcendian actuality which are those sorts of people who are taking care of themselves in New Orleans, but are now under assault unfairly.

      The Bush Administration is without merit as far as the reports that I have seen on the tv and read in the papers or heard on the radio except for the dispositon of Saddam Hussain which ought not have been that difficult or expensive, unless it is recognized that corruption and stupidity is so great as to astound even an idiot.

Heading:   The Wild Palms

        I stayed away from New Orleans because I knew it was dangerous and one of the reasons I live where I live in Carrboro North Carolina is actually because it is about as safe a geographic location as you are ever going to find.

        I was aware that New Orleans was a dangerous place to party, and not a good place to get lost in.   My sister had friends, a couple, who stopped in a gas station parking lot to get directions and were both shot dead.

        I’m the sort of person who watches trailers for movies and dosen’t go to the movie from the little they know about themselves and what they like.

       Sometimes I can be wrong.   My wife got me to go to Willie Wonka and the Chockolate Factory, and I really enjoyed it and got some laughs out of it, and recommend it to adults and children alike.

       Most of what I know about New Orleans comes from my reading of William Faulkner.   The other that I know comes from Scientific American.

      What William Faulkner said in his poem, Absolam Absolam was that the great tragedy of life is to live according to incorrect ideals.   He liked airplanes and horses and rode horses inspite of the pain.   Dean his brother crashed and died in the plane William gave him.

       Well, there are worse ways to die.

        Flying machines are useful and as far as private or military goals it is well known that speed and reach are vital keys to success.

      I wrote awhile back about my belief that there was still a place for large seaplanes in the armed forces.

       It would really have made more sense if all of the people who needed to evacuate and didn’t have cars were sent to the airport, which ideally would have connections to all other transport such as train and bus service.

       I suppose this is one of the reasons I am so depressed that the town area I live in is failing to maintain our little airport and why I support the FAA and its policy of encouraging a multiplicity of airports of all sizes and wish that the NASAland on Eubanks was combined with the Landfill to create a small state of the art airport.

       Now it is sad that Transcendia is not so strong as to really do much monetarily for the refugees of New Orleans.

       Transcendians are anarchists in the Godwin definition of anarchy and those anarchists took care and take care of themselves because they are educated and practical and do not expect others to take care of them.   Their distrust of others is practical and not at all malicious.   They know that as my evil friend said, "Civilization is about three meals thick."

       As the founder and main proponent of an independent confederation of international airports I could see benefits from Transcendian airports in all port cities for there is obviously a failure of too much dependance on helicopters.

       I found it sad that the airlines didn’t fly in and out of New Orleans airport till the last possible minute and have not been apparently flying people out.   I do not know all the particulars and really don’t know where the airport for New Orleans is, but it seems to me from where I sit that it may well have made more sense to direct people to it than anywhere else.

        When New Orleans is rebuilt is would be best rebuilt with a fully integrated transportation infrastructure for I don’t really care how well mankind builds, nothing he builds is immune from destruction by the forces of nature.

         If this teaches me anything about flood disaster tools for rescue I would stockpile inflatable power boats and raise all train tracks on top of levees that were built so as to replicate the inside systems of large ships which can close off flooded compartments and connnected to the airport.

         As I write this with the tv buzzing behind me and watch another helicopter winch line rescue of one person I think that it would be a good time for inflatable boats to be dropped wherever people are still trapped in flooded areas.

        I am going to sign off now and try and get someone on the phone with this suggestion now.

                                      A letter from Russell

ICE NINE

At leevee breach a lo-tech help would be tubes stuffed with carbon dioxide that would in conjunction with the sandbags freeze the water.

   A high tech augment would be refrigerent tubing immersed in the breach that froze the water to create a wall.

     At least I wonder if it could be done.  

Heading:Asteroid Katrina

      I recently visited the NASA site which depressed me because the NASA mission is not first practically focused on creating a practical system for protecting the planet from the threat posed by asteroids and comets similar to the threat posed by events such as hurricanes.

      Hurricanes, clinic volcanos, order earthquakes happen.

      All day and all night regardless of what storms or eruptions distrupt our lives rocks rain down on us.   Turn out the lights and you can see them burn through the atmosphere everynight.

       There is a "Big One" out there on its way here, erectile and I propose to name it Katrina, before it hits, to make a point.

       Now God in all his her or its forms or conceptions gives us the hope of knowing what we need to know when we need to know it.   We have traveled to where the rocks are dead and drift in the vacum and know that they threaten to make our home unlivable for us.

       Maybe there is some life on Mars, and since there is a little water left there it is likely that there is a little life there, but it is not a practical evacuation destination.

       We, and by "We" I mean us Human Beings need to look at all those little rocks that burn through our night skies and develop a defensive system against them before we colonize Mars.

       The order of doing things is important.

       It is time NASA Surveys of the Skies and the Rocks and Meteors and Asteroids that threaten us became part of everyday weather reports to raise awareness of what we know about where we live, and what can be done to defend our home.

       For in the end, Earth is our "Homeland", and all governments on Earth need to contribute to a transcendent "Homeland Defense".

                                                                   Best- Russell Scott Day

The Osprey looks so stupid that I have been looking at all of the flying car stuff on the net.   Years ago Moller had a picture of the Moller 440E in Vanity Fair and there is now a Moller Skycar site that sells toys.

Aerocoupe was probably the most successful of the flying cars since it really wasn’t a car at all but a slow and cheap airplane that operated like a car.

This guy Paul Moller of the Skycar has been around for a good long time.

His stuff at least looks more sensible than the Osprey, though I wonder if his things really fly.   It would be a good thing if he flew one around from place to place like Orville flew up the Hudson River.

I myself imagine a flying car, or VTOL machine with the jet turbofan engines mounted at the very tips of the wings, on wings that changed shape as needed for takeoff, landing, and cruise flight.

What I would direct my designers to do would be first to find the most efficient turbofan engine available.

Second I would direct them to mate that to a wing that would change shape through hydraulic and pnuematics as if to replicate the wings of a seagull.

Really what I would instruct my designers to do would be to build a seagulls wings out of fabric and tubing and joints and put jet turbofan engines on the tips to lift and carry the body of the craft.

The pivot for my thinking in this area is that the propulsion for a seagull comes from their wingtips and how they move.

 A small ball gimbal servo motor geared round tip mounted set of engines on changable shape wings would replicate the flight ablities of seagulls who I have witnessed stopping in midair and doing a 360 degree roll in one spot without losing altitude.

I was standing on top of a 5000 gallon fuel truck at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International and a seagull flew up to me and put out its wings, stopped, looked at me, put one wing up and one wing down and rolled over, put its wings out, looked at me again, and then flew off.

Studies of the seagulls wing have revealed that it is the tips of their jointed wing that provide thrust and this is why I would want to recreate their wings for my aircraft.

Computer control of the hydraulic and pneumatic internal structure is now possible and ought to undertaken for military purposes since I expect the Osprey to be a general failure all around because of the size of the rotors at the wingtips.

To fix the Osprey I would put Turbofan engines of appropriate thrust where those idiot rotors are, and see if it flew.

                                                                                          Love, Russell

Transcendia.org now works on all of its buttons even though at first it says "soon" for the video.   This is a big deal and would have been impossible if not for the work of Heath Hettig my webmaster who apparently actually took my deadline seriously for I wanted the site to have an "Opening" that coincided with the start of the new school year.

       Without the support and interest of High Schoolers and College students, discount Transcendia has no hope of actual success and I have been working to make it more entertaining and substantive which is reflected in recent additions to the Poetry section where I have posted some more of my poems, prostate along with chapters of Force of Nature as I write them.

      I just have dial up and apparently it takes a good while to download the movie Looking Back which will be shown tomorrow night at Cats Cradle in Carrboro NC at the Flicker Festival.

      JET BEACH, the screenplay is still to be found in the Writings Section, along with LEARJET the Writers Guidline for the Television Series.   Eventually I hope we will move fictional works into a separate section, but for the time being I will post fiction in the Poetry Section and write my columns, "letters" to the Writings Section.

       The Tattoo Transfer Service has not produced much interest and I have been surprised and disappointed and we have changed the price structure.

       I am also lowering the price of the Passport, though it cannot be issued without the filling out of the application.

       My address is 301 Pleasant Dr., Carrboro, NC transcendia.org 27510 and the telephone number is 919-960-8446.

       transcendia.org has made great strides this past era, and contributions, or purchases of clothing and bags or whatnot with the flag on them at the store would be appreciated.   Donations would be appreciated and are possible.

       Transcendia is my invention, it comes from my vision titled Transcend-O-Ray and it is aimed at filling a gap in the institutions of the world.   There does come a time when reform of some governments or institutions is wasted effort and one will do better, and it is wiser to create something new.