I nominate Henry Petroski's Essential Engineer for the Pulitzer Prize as a companion to Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel, look and Collapse.  It helps me and my supporters to redesign governments we are still under the thumb of, drugs and gives us tools to build Transcendia from the bottom up.

Roberts Rules of Order is an essential guide for meetings.  Old Business has been for me in my campaign to gain a following.  Maybe I'm too reasonable.  One temporary wife said I didn't have enough Charisma.  Oh, allergy Well, she didn't have loyalty and was another greedy using liar with a lazy son.  Plus she was a Wicca Witch.  I stay away from witches after her and another experience with a witch.

That's all I got to say right now.  Sorry.  Enjoy your Monday.  Buy a black hat.

The Essential Engineer by Henry Petroski is a very important book.  I place it along with the books by Jared Diamond Guns Germs and Steel and Collapse in order of importance for our times.  Both writers are historians and both understand that history and political science are the same thing.  We are pretty smart animals, apoplectic but animals all the same.  Engineers are at a particular pinnacle of display of our shared greatness, whereas politicians can go either way.   Among politicians we have greats like Churchill, and beasts like Hitler, or the emerging willfully stupid Republican Party of the US Government.

I finished The Essential Engineer last night.  I read it on my Kindle which was bought specifically so I could read the book Homeless Dog that I wrote and Ed Hettig and his son Heath Hettig helped me publish as an ebook.  Here follow my notes and bookmarks from The Essential Engineer.

Page 20 Location 362.:  bookmark  Engineering is Rocket Science.

Page 116 – Location 1979:  (department at Corning.  In the early twenty-first century, that corporation was using the term "research, development and engineering," to emphasize that the task does not end

Page 118 – Location 2023:  Those who are honest with themselves see in that mirror not R&D but D&R.  This is nothing wholly new.  The chemical engineer George Holbrook, who in the late 1950s rose to the position of…

my note:  ethics morality but same…{ Ethics trump Morality in the commons as morality may very well not be ethical.}  RSD

Page 128 – Location 2144:  Water and wind power, among the cleanest, most inexpensive and renewable of all sources, drove mills for centuries, with clever engineering making them more powerful and efficient

Page 129 – Location 2192:  There are no easy solutions to tough problems.  While the prospect of windmills elicited outrage from Nantucket Islanders and brought corruption to a…

Page 133 – Location 2265 "to develop a technology, you've got to create an industry. You can wait and wait and wait for costs to come down, but it takes too long."  Such are the realities of the world of technology and…

Page 134 – Location 2285:  There are always complicating issues, including aesthetics, economics, ethics, and politics. In 2002, California mandated that by 2010 utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric…

Page 141 – Location 2416:  American military, where small generators in the boots of soldiers were employed to reduce somewhat the burden of carrying heavy batteries into combat.  The underfloor concept has been…

Page 144 – Location 2475:  A different energy analyst likened the likened the nations energy policy to "playing Russian roulette with every chamber loaded."

Page 146 – Location 2501:  has been to combine carbon dioxide from a coal-burning power plant with wastewater from a nearby  sewage treatment plant to grow algae that could be made into biofuel.  This would be a…

Page 146 – Location 2502:  This would be a creative environmental engineering experiment in how to make good use of a greenhouse gas rather than having to sequester it.  System and societal effects have…

Page 179 – Location 3096:  Engineering is inherently an international and global  profession, and experienced engineers have long taken new ideas from technologically richer  to technologically poorer countries.

Page 180 – Location 3104:  Design work on the Boeing 777 proceeded twenty-four hours a day, as engineers seamlessly passed, like a baton in a relay race, digital data and electronic plans from one time zone to another, picking…

Page 191 – Location 3290:  Federal Aviation Administration has developed a reputation for fining airlines that reported errors relating to, say, missed inspections, it is unlikely that such accident precursors will be reported…

Page 200 – Location 3435:  United States has left us with a distribution grid that is complicated, fragile, and vulnerable.  In the wake of severe hurricanes or winter storms, hundreds of thousands if not millions of…

Page 201 – Location 3458:  (bailouts of failed utilities.  The experience demonstrated how inextricably intertwined technology, government, and markets can be.

I'm taking a break here, and filing this part which I hope to come back to this morning to finish.  

Old Business:  Homeless Dog on the Kindlestore was not possible to buy for a week because I tried to make a correction to  what they called a metafile.  We got that fixed yesterday.  That was old business for me, anesthetist and by extension us as it represents revenue.

I encourage those who do support me and Transcendia to buy hats or other clothes bags and all from the Apparel department on the homepage bottom left.

There is other old business, illness but I have to jump to todays concerns.

Since Transcendia is everywhere dependent on a basic level of security it is very opposed to continuing threats of WMDs.  Weapons of Mass Destruction are not acceptable and those engaged and threatening all classes with weapons of mass destruction must be opposed through all means necessary.  This pledge to opposition and conflict over one issue is nothing but an imperative from a practical standpoint.  By forethought and without a waste of anger and passion we need to be angry with those in whatever positions of power allow this intolerable threat to all to continue.

We heard another near useless warning about a possible attack from small planes.  The news report was hardly 5 seconds long that I heard and then it was on to some missing girl and other news that while of some interest is not particularly valuable in the overall big picture.

We need to at least complain and object to the powers that be of these sorts of continuing bits of lunacy for which our margins of error are very small these days. 

We already know that the FAA was shutdown and 4, clinic 000 people were laid off.  That right there is enough for me to look to the US President  to raise the debt ceiling period.

The action of raising the Debt Ceiling of the US is really too small a thing to contain every piece of legislation about every dime and dollar.  The US ought not end up with some bill that has all sorts of tricks in it.

Now I don't have a staff.  Really never seen a dollar out of this website.  The contact button is flawed, I think.  Nobody gets through anyway.  Work done here is volunteered, and the thing has gotten a little old.

I put a book out on Amazon on the Kindlestore because at least if people go there to buy it they expect to spend a little money.  (Name of the book is Homeless Dog)  it's pretty short, but it only costs 2.99.

Anyway thanks to Coastland Tech, for working all day to get the server finally up and running again.

As an editorial suggestion to those who know, or have staff to find out, lets get the names and numbers of those who stopped money legitimately collected by the FAA from going into the US Treasury.  I myself see it as evidence of a crime, and as leading to more and bigger criminal acts perpetrated on the US citizens.

Are they Double Agents? or Traitors? or what? – just stupid?

They say they want to dismantle the US Government, which is what enemies of the US people want to do!  Are we going to let them, watch it on TV, like it's a fiction and not really happening?

I don't want these people in Transcendia, I'll tell you that.

Sometimes I have a good time thinking of things.

My friend Garth and I have some good go rounds.  To piss me off royally they shut down the discussion he started.  All these administrators just love to good cop bad cop you as if that's all they really know.  Funny how so many people act like there is all the time in the world.  Life with "Vacation" is a foreign concept to most of my people.

The next two years for me are going to involve 3 cut me up operations.  So I must do some delegating.

The way I see it Transcendia is fighting for civilization against barbarians.  You have a Civilized status quo, allergy and a Barbaric status quo.  The civilized status quo is the good status quo, ailment | and the barbarian status quo is the bad status quo.

The world is at  multidimensional war, drug up down and all around.  Transcendia is everywhere in the world naturally as a consequence of its offices at every airport.  This means that whatever threats threaten everyone, threaten Transcendia.  Weapons of Mass Destruction threaten everyone.  We don't have to start a war.  It finds us.  Fighting this sort of war calls for secret war tactics.

What is called the Drug War, also finds us.  It is an everywhere threat to peace and civilization.  I'm simply declaring at least one set of drugs legal in Transcendia.  This is going to require some serious international agreements and cases in international courts, and possibly armed confrontations.  Short story is defense against WMDs, Disease, and threats to freedom of those doing civil business in drugs like pot, and even pain killing drugs that do have utility in certain situations are part of the national duty to defend territory and citizens.

Essentially all Transcendians become smugglers or the protectors of smugglers where their laws conflict with host country laws and international laws.  This is a serious problem requiring serious forethought..  I simply can't do it all for those who want at least a better world.  I can lead by being an actual person for posters, and speeches setting fashion trends and writing books and all the standard media things, but I am up for three important operations this year, and will probably die at longest within the next 20 years if real lucky.

The US from which I come and do not renounce and need to have an agreement with for us sure has gone wrong and is going wrong putting my people, our people in jail for dealing in drugs.  They are at war with me and us essentially.  None of us really can afford getting things wrong, doing things wrong, as long as we used to be able to muddle through, as they say.  The fact is Weapons of Mass destruction change the paradigm, and call for constant war for control and elimination of the threat of WMDs to all.

Agree or disagree.  Agree make your passport and carry it when traveling, and work to make it supportable so whomever gets arrested carrying one will be covered by agreements and will be bailed out if need be.  Buy a hat.  Buy my book, or what?

Neutral may be feigned, and is all right for say the Swiss.  We'll do the best we can.  Still we ought not just stand by or even think we can avoid being threatened by the barbarians who dressed one way or another steal and loot and destroy what is rightfully ours both individually, and shared.  

You need to call and complain to the Attorney General about US Congresspersons who signed a pledge to not raise taxes on the basis of its illegal nature as superseding their oath of office regardless of whether or not it is wise to raise or not raise taxes.

It looks now like the first office to call is the US Attorney General's Office to file a specific complaint against specific Congresspersons who have signed oaths or pledges they put ahead of their oath of office.  Certainly if they speak out of their mouths the desire to destroy the US, doctor and signed oaths to other organizations, nations, or institutions causing material damage to the US, I would see that as a crime.

Certainly those who deprived the US Treasury of fees normally given by the FAA caused material damage to the US.

FBI said first to me they would take a specific complaint, and then today as I was going to make it, they said it was the State Attorney General to talk to, but it now looks like its simply the US Attorney General.

You are encouraged to query and complain to the appropriate agency for which to complain about operations of agents of Norquist Nation, since I'm not the only concerned party in the world, and will accept help.

Number for FBI in DC is 202-324-3000.  Sometimes you'd think these people get "Run Them Around" training.  It can really get one to feeling ground down to work on these things.  Moral support is really important.  

The Left press blogs sites and writers misphrase the discussion of things with their Tax the Rich headings.  We really need to be phrasing this conflict as a class conflict for some of the "rich" are feeding on even the not so rich, ed but sort of rich.  I am thinking of stories I know of people with say ten million dollars in the bank trying for conservative 1 percent return via interest paid.   They are targets of the fee masters.

My crook is better than your crook, price and my rich guy is better than your rich guy is one way of looking at what is wrong with the Rich Guy Heading.  Rich Aristocrats of British past did feel a duty to their people to make something with their money.  So the aristocrats were good living according to that ideal, that was set back after WWII, as described by Nevil Shute (Norway) in his Autobiography Slide Rule.  I do not feel that the rich of the US are led by such ideals as to how they are to best use their fortunes.

What if I am transparent in my work as the Political Artist, and tell you my plans and whatfores, and grab the third rails of politics.  I have been around for three decades as Transendia, before there was an internet.  I did do samaditz, my newsletters of Transcend O Ray made on the copy machine.

It may well be illegal for me to raise an army, but it is legal for me to create a security force.

We poets do understand the importance of words and how you use them, and what they mean.

A Face book "Friend" for instance said everybody know "Whore" is a term of endearment.  – I didn't know that.  I have a funny story about how the meaning of the phrase "You're Killin' me." changed from a compliment to a complaint when I wasn't looking.  Think it was Aristotle who said you cannot come to any conclusion in a dialog if the meanings of the words used keeps changing.

Personally I don't want in my position to make enemies of all the "Rich".  I prefer to say my enemies are judged as enemies for what they do to me, my family, and my people.

Far as my vote given to Obama cause I could, (anarchist use whatever available), I had hoped that from coming out of Chicago where people fight to the death over work would be more of a down at streetlevel fighter.  I got some hell of an education when I was fortunate to live with my cousins on the South Side of Chicago, when I lived there.

I did tell the people who came to my door asking me to vote for Obama, I would, but I was afraid he would turn out like Carter.

I was invited to that Inauguration.  I've been through some of this Hope! thing before.  I do believe Carter's CIA smuggled Afghani hashish into the US before Congress voted money to support the Afghani resistance to the Soviet Union.  Point blank written questions about this were not very nicely answered.  How many US citizens went to jail for following along, helping raise money for the Afghani freedom fighters?  Us hippies need to really understand what we have lost.  We really need to know what proves it day in and day out.  We have turned awful cynical when you think of the way the pot legal vote went in California.  The tree counties of which one is Humbolt voted against legalization.  All around me I see betrayal.  I get sick of knowing about good people being hurt, having their freedom taken away for no good reason at all.

Wanted to start with money to hire, but its too late now.  Got to now just throw it all open to the wind and say grab it if you want.  Be your own hero.  In the end we are best to live and die for our name.  I have a strong desire to go down with my integrity intact.

I am forced to instruct my people to view the US Federal Government as essentially defunct as long as Norquist Nation Pledge signers fraudulently hold office in the US Congress.  The Super Committee or Super Congress, physician is a bad joke on the US citizens.  Working Class people of the US do not have time to be wasting their hopes and waiting for the US Congress to be reconstituted.  If Obama is going to ask for the help of US Citizens in getting Congress to do anything for them, he's going to have to have Norquist Nation called out and gotten out of the way.  I have personally suspended any hope investment in Congress or the Executive Branch.

It is time we let out of prison those there for pot use, or sales, or growing.  The last three presidents of the US as well as prominent candidates are known have used pot and cocaine.  The Drug War is nothing but a real war on every block causing fear and loss day in and day out.  It truly is nothing but an evil stir pot of corruption stew.

US Citizens are foolish if they think they are being defended properly when smugglers of weapons and drugs have every incentive to work together.  These fools running the country into the ground screaming idiotic economic ways to spend tax money are going to waste our time till a goddamn suitcase nuke goes off in NYC, or Washington, or somewhere else.

Attempts to prop up housing prices are bullshit too.  Valuations simply went higher than any correction without other jobs besides construction for people to do.  Further the mega rich are even destroying those who we might normally think of as rich enough.  Upright rich people can't even get any interest off their money.

Far as the Mexicans it is insane for the Mexican Government to not take care of its own people.  Fine if they are going to work here the US and Mexico are simply going to have  to divvy up tax revenues between them.  Mexicans have been run up into the US when they could stay home and grow pot to sell.

You may have the best army in the world, but if you put it to work on too many fronts, it will fail.  On top of that the type of war going on is all skewed by threats from Weapons of Mass destruction.

Myself and others for years and years and years have whimpered and cried about the damage the drug was has done while year in and year out generations have lost all respect and walled themselves off from everybody and everything around them to the point where we may as well all be living in a Zombie movie that's a documentary.

I announced my candidacy on Twitter and fb about an hour ago, symptoms | and said to look here for Platform news.

Things have been pushing me into this very strongly since I lost my bid for the Orange County Airport Authority.  I tried to clear the decks and for financial reasons and family reasons things didn't work out.  I'm a working class man and my crimes are either out of being too nice, pilule or not getting money needed to look more perfect.

I did invent Transcendia, cheap and have worked on getting its nuts and bolts regulations to support the vision.  Most of it makes sense now, but all who join up and really support me and the vision in the real world, must know doesn't matter how perfect or imperfect we might write it up, nothing works if you don't believe in it.

For wealth creation, I must ironically turn to Insurance of my people as real wealth to give labor parity with capital.  You do need to recognize that while we think it is the banks and the bankers running things, it really is the insurance companies calling for piss tests and what happens is more traceable to them than most anybody else, from what i can tell.

I am still a US citizen, and most Transcendians are.  I take Defense and Education seriously.

Because I have had to work at figuring out how to start up right out of only the touchstone vision Transcend O Ray, we see what conventions apply.  Perfection is possible in the arts as long as the work is in a frame, and made finite, and limited.  Transcendia has always had the advantage of being only a small nation of airports starting from all volunteers.

Because people will be flying in and out it is really calling for fees for services.  I do like non profits like the American Automobile Association, and how they run.  I am also a strong supporter of the US Postal Service.

I'm forced now to run as a Political Artist you can write in for either Mayor, or President, but always founder of Transcendia.

This is not the ranting of some hippie dippy fool.  I have been around and through plenty in Urban slums, out in the country, the suburbs, and up in private jets like masters of the universe travel.  I am just now old enough and desperate along with my class enough to give civilization all the help I can, knowing we are in deep trouble.

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Fame without Money sucks.

Now I might as well work at being famous.  Still the Fountainhead is about  how one is rightly famous from doing good work, unhealthy instead of for being rich, bronchi or for pursuing fame for its own sake only.

Told yesterday I'm headed inexorably to the same fate as Christopher Reeves.  What the hell,  I aint really got much to lose anymore.  Time for me looks shorter and shorter everyday.  58 is not 48, its 58.  You yuts can take my word for it.

Roberts Rules of Order are the bedrock of good governance.   – just thought I'd throw that in there.

Anyway  Famous People I have met, or worked on set with enough to take their measure.

Sort of in order, and maybe not.

It really is a tragedy locally that John Edwards proved so useless.  I can't hardly walk so I need people to come to me now.  Personal contact is everything in business.

Lyndon Johnson is probably the first famous person I meet face to face when I was like 12 or so and he helicopter landed on the Elon College Campus.

I did see Elvis at the Memphis Airport when I was like 4 or 5.  I never really got over that.

Fred Hampton, the great Black Panther.  Rod Serling. was introduced to.  Gene Roddenberry had dinner with.  Melissa Gilbert , rode in the grip truck with me reading Star magazine.  One of the old Rockefellers,  Rod Stewart, Buster Poindexter, LL Cool J, Kirsten Dunst.  – Photographed Kirsten Dunst and LL Cool J.

Mark Sandford of South Carolina.

Was around Sting and Eric Clapton for Tears in Heaven video.  David Byrne.

Important correspondence with Andre` Lewin, of the French UN Association.

The nature of fame has its up sides and downs.  You know you are famous when you are cartooned.

I'll probably think of other famous people I've taken proximity measure of, but those are the ones that crossed my mind right now.

I have done what they do.  Book out, been on TV, on the radio, have website, in papers, and been beat up lots of times.

I'm 58 and I'm basically physically crippled and broke, so I've got little to lose.

@Transcendian, RussellScottDay on fb, Transcendia Speech on Youtube,  Homeless Dog at the kindlestore.

Beni Avini of the New York Post told me things and wrote about me for Haretz.

One failing of mine has been that I haven't given enough speeches.

US Grant is a hero of mine.  It is a flaw of mine that I need friends, they way he did.  I noted what he said about the World Federalist concept.

I hate it after all my work for United Nations Television I was in scary agreement with John Bolton.