The Video of this years April Fools Day Speech has been posted by CreatoDestructo to YouTube.  You can find it as Transcendia Speech.

Caption about "No Army", allergy was cut after initial Vimeo posting, treat affecting reason for discussion of Transcendian Defense, and Security Force in this post I am now amending.

It is stop still action with my voiceover.

I am shocked at how idealistic I am sometimes.  I mean there I am, that's me alright.  Good thing I look so old these days.  I'm growing a beard now so I'll really look old and serious.  I think it shall go good with the cane I have to use all the time these days.

Content wise there is one little unrealistic thing, for actually a real nation does need an army.  In other writings I have discussed how actually all Transcendians ought to carry either lethal or non lethal weapons.  "We" are a small nation, and need to be our own army, or Security Force.

I am very aware that it is an awful lot of work to carry weapons, not to mention the work involved in using them.

I do make a distinction between the warrior and the soldier.

The soldier may well be forced to fight out of fear of what might happen to them if they don't.  The warrior fights out of love.

Far as the big thing holding Transcendia back, it is the fact Transcendia has no money.

From this site I highly recommend you buy a Transcendian hat, or some of the stuff to wear that has the current flag on it.  The refrigerator magnets work fine, the black hat is worth the money,  and I like the sweatshirt, but the tees are a little cotton thin.  So far I've never yet gotten a check from the Cafepress people, though test orders have come quickly.  Never seen a check off the donation button either, nor from Adsence.  Sometimes I dream that all of a sudden money will show up, or be found so I can pay what its going to cost to be able to issue a passport that is properly supported for those who pay for it.

The text of that passport can only be found on the Transcendiawiki, and really it is no good if I haven't signed it at this time.  It definitely is not well supported yet.

I am extremely pleased to have accomplished this video production, and am grateful to Jerry Stifelman, and his crew for doing the work.  Best Regards, Russell Scott Day

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Couple of weeks ago I felt the intuitive need to collect all the home flashlights and put them where I could find them in the dark.  Some short time later all the power in the house and outside of the house went out in the night, try and I could hobble to where I had made the pile of flashlights in the blind dark.  I thought of where my gun is, sickness which I can also find in the dark.  I missed my shotgun.  I heard later that someone had shot up important town transformers putting out town power.  This story is not confirmed to me.

Nancy Alex said the power outage was the fault of some 20 year old who turned his air conditioner up so far as to blow the circuit.  Some girl at a mini mart bodaga type store told her some guy had shot up the power pole on a dare.  The girl said she was afraid to talk about it.

Anyway I was upset that I had anticipated a power outage for I anticipate now overall general disaster and wish I had a better collection of batteries and other survival tools.

Yesterday MSN listed survival equipment in a 7 list from Kiplinger's newsletter.  It was okay.  They listed a modular rechargeable lantern flashlight thing, buy generator, water purifier rechargeable TV and radio, but left off guns and knives and stuff like that.

For food security potatoes in your yard are recommended.  Stockpile of MREs are recommended.  Bug food recipes are recommended.

The other day I heard that some computer geek in the Obama administration was in conflict with DOD, Department of Defense over actions to take concerning Cyberwar threats.  Much as I like Obama he, and his administration seem oddly half brained far as the realities I perceive.  It has been known for years that a cyberattack could disable our electric grid.  We are all very dependent of computer security.  The way things are now there is a whole industry dependent on individuals being forced to spend money to protect their computers whenever they network, or go on line.  It's like the US government won't take up protecting our computers because there is a moneymaking industry dependent on allowing extortionists to flourish.  I have imagined that it would be good for the US Postal Service to take up the job of protecting email and computer security, but it is not really part of their clear and simple mission of delivering mail and packages.

I don't mind if DOD does the job.  Obviously somebody there knows what their job is supposed to be.  It's a little bit of good news.

Because of my Flashlight story I am in a disaster preparedness mode of thinking.  Since I'm real broke it will be dependent on low tech solutions and collections of things like matches.  When I get a Kindle I shall load up on How To books first.  I want a complete library of Boy Scout Merit Badge books.  

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Reporting that I hear, generic read, arthritis or retain points in bad future outcomes in general, cough with few bright spots.

Hear personhood for corporations is a problem.  Hear US laws that encourage outsourcing, are a problem.  Hear CAFTA and NAFTA are problems.  Banking Regs and oversight problems are not reported to actually be fixed.  US debt is awful high.  Gold is up.

The solutions are not really mysteries.  Indicated outcomes from similar historical events are not particularly hard to predict.  Rome did fall.

Personally I identify one or two problems that are not much addressed as influencing bad times.  Theft of intellectual property by the Chinese, and the Russians to a lesser extent has taken a toll on the US economy.  Republicans don't seem to mind if movies and inventions are ripped off.  I think this is partly because Republicans don't like the common political views of many high profile movie people.  Lots of movies are propaganda for the "American" way of life.

Lots of people in the world have benefited from charges for things others get for much less, if not for free.  They call this the Freerider, what? Factor?

Looks to me though that the main factor for US economic weakness are laws and tax regs that continue to reward corporations for making what products people need and want and pay money for, out of the nation.  Looks to me like US working class people are sold out day in and day out.

I try to work from another angle to see really what to do.  In the end I know that nothing works if it is not believed in.

For Transcendia I propose insurance from birth, and fees for essential services appropriate for government to be responsible for.  I also believe taxes on transactions are sensible and practical.  I am opposed to laws that create criminals who otherwise are just living their lives as they see fit, and not particularly hurting anyone.  Drug laws create criminals for the simple use of drugs is a victimless crime.

Boy oh Boy, cuts to education in Florida sure are depressing as they collect most of their budget from fees.  Still I can't help it if they don't know how to properly spend what they do have.    

Nothing works if you don't believe in it.

You can believe in hate if you want to.

You can believe in love if you want to.

Maybe you're a psychopath?

Some people are really crazy.

What if you are one of those?

What if you are following the wrong guy?

What if you are following the wrong woman?

Hey, arthritis they must be telling the truth, erectile They're so good looking!

Oh my youthful passion for freedom.

We didn't quite understand freedom was money.

Franklin, troche and Jefferson, and Washington did.

Hamilton was all about it.

Then came Haiti, and look at them now!

It's a crying shame.  What's up with French Colonialism's legacy?

How come their nuclear power plants don't melt down?

Why isn't pot legal, you can't OD and die from it.  I don't get it.

I do know that the nation I come from, where I live, has been robbed too.

They been robbing my people, my friends, the people who work to make things.

Tool makers.

Sometimes I try prayer too, I can't help it.

People will pay for pornography before they will pay for the truth.

Don't think for a minute the truth is free.

Then you have the willfully stupid who don't know their job.

I see wealth in people.  Your soul is worth insuring.  You are the wealth.

All the US money on all the different insurance companies is wasted.

In my nation we are fortunate because we can start from anew.

There are things we can do to pay the rent.

The reality is you can't really own the world, or really even a part of it.

I was right the first time.  Best way to go is the Lease, as idealistic.

Now I'm old and I don't want to be a nomad no more.

The sailor is happy in port.

It's dangerous out there, I see my own desires and know some are wrong.

I was right the first time, but they stole Freeport!

All the communes have failed.  Woodstock nation is just a movie.

Damn! it looks like fun, sortah, was a different time.  All the sex diseases were curable or preventable before herpes and AIDs.

We could get away with it.  Live for long enough to have regrets?

Where'd the money go?

I thought things would get better.

Well not really, that's why I had fun when I had the chance.

I had some fun jobs in the movies.  And rigging was fun.  I love cranes and boom trucks, cameras and guns.

Rockets, airplanes, robots, gadgets, I love that stuff.

In Science Salvation I put on my first drawn out paper money.

It is logical the Country, Nation, be a company.

I'm mad the Russians and Chinese steal our movies and music.

Why didn't the Republicans do something about that?

It's death by a thousand cuts.  So many free riders in the world on the backs of the US workers.

Down on in the Red Neck Rivera, they don't know what they're real interests even are.

I was appalled at what they thought funny in their version of Disneyland.

Least they would let me put my pistol in the glove compartment.

You need to be able to move around for work you do right.  You need a universally accepted and loved passport.  I made one up.

It's out there on the Transcendia Wiki now.  Only place to read that.  I forgot my password.  I'm tired of all the passwords.

I'm bothered by the need for spycraft.  Guess I gottah be a spy, try to find the truth.

I want to start at home.  I want the Drug War over.  I remember when all the hippies at acid and went to DisneyLand.

I went to Disneyworld on my Honeymoon.  I liked the globe art in the Hotel.  I got my bride pregnant.

She sewed up 6 flags.  Her family and her divorced me.  It was a setback.  I was going to mortgage, or sell her house and buy an airport inbetween Cancun an Cozemel,   Us mechanics had a plan.  I failed.  The flags are missing, all but one tattered one on the wall.

Last if flew it was upside down, in the video on YouTube.

You make the same number of enemies doing the right thing, as you do doing the wrong thing.

Ethics are superior to morals in this world of competing truths.

The majority knows how to act at the airport.

We can build on that.  Germany, came back.  The Berlin Airlift worked.

Buy a hat.  It's got the new flag on it.  It's over there on the left in the Apparel Department.

I'll be able to send pot to an airport near you on my planes.  There is money in vice.  Not all drugs are the same.

High octane fuel and White Cross let the British win the airwar.  I'm happy Hitler was defeated.

FDR and Churchill lied about some things, kept some secrets too.  It's hard work.

We can make a new nation if we want to.  Buy a hat! 

We ought to be able to do as much good as Hitler did bad, cheap since he and his friends succeeded at doing so much bad.

Machievelli said you make the same number of enemies doing the wrong things, cialis as you do, doing the right things.

May as well do the right things.  You're gonnah die anyway.

And your life because it is finite like a picture in a fame has the potential for perfection of the real perfection kind, not the Bernard Shaw, perfectly imperfect sophistic logic kind.  Sure you will suffer.  It's a given that somedays you won't have what you need to be comfortable.

Still we can do the simple thing of doing unto others as we would have done to us.

We can help each other live.

All we really have to do is decide that that is a better ideal to live by, than any other.

Now I ought to tell you some things about the toaster…

Before Obama was elected when people came round to the house, doctor I told them I was afraid he'd turn out like Carter did.

I was really blown away, viagra in a bad way by what President Obama had to say about Israel and the Palistinians.  Point of 67 borders was to achieve defensible borders.  Without them the US have to fight about it more, therapy not less.  Leastways with defensible borders Israel can take better care of itself.

Coming on the heels of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, which was a good thing, and handled well, I was simply astounded that President Obama said things that to my thinking, are simply ridiculous, and foolish all around.  Even telling all not to bother with going to the UN about it is foolish since if the UN isn't there to work on issues like this, what is it for?  And besides that why bring down on your head all the heat?

Yah gottah wonder how I know these sorts of things, and President Obama, seemingly doesn't?  Course I did have a long conversation years ago with Beni Avini when he was writing for Haretz` that paper in Tel Aviv.  He actually fought in the 67 war in a tank.  His arm was badly burned.  Now writes for the New York Post.

It was long ago that I lost any real hope and faith in leadership from any US leaders, parties, and even many of the people.

What do we have when all is gone!  Hope!, Hope!

Hope dies hard.  

Why by now in the course of history there continue to be mysteries about how to teach science or much of anything else, herbal shocks and baffles me.  I do have some ideas far as what I think is proven to work.

Because in my judgement it is in the Kindergarden to 8th Grades that need to work most perfectly, herbal it is there I have most focused my thinking these days.  In other correspondence with a Shakespeare the Engineer, I posted on this subject on the Engineers Forum, CR4.  There I ended recommending that all parents be required to teach at least one class about something they know about.

One of my sayings out of my little quote book, is:  Your Parents Don't Teach You What You Need To Know, They Teach You What They Know.  Really what that means is that parents know things teachers don't and vice versa.

I don't want to hear about why this ought not be done, or can't be done.  The mission is to give children the most perfect education possible.

Since now I am talking about children in the age of innocence I am aware that there are subjects inappropriate to be teaching them.  Science represents no undue threat to the innocent mind, by my lights at least.  Some parents have a real problem explaining we were maybe preceded by Chimpanzees, and got Neanderthal genes, which part explains how some jerk predicts the end of the world and ends up with 70 million dollars to put up more stupid posters I find less than funny.

But getting back to some nuts and bolts about how to have teaching done, my other recommendation is that peer to peer teaching and learning will do an awful lot of teaching.  I believe what I would do if charged to teach most any subject to young children, would be to foster a spirit of pride all around in this Life of The Mind, as something fun to share.

Sometimes I feel myself as if I myself am suspect at the adults table because I still learn many things, and especially in the sciences as if I were an innocent child.

Far as the reason you want children to know about the actual facts of the universe, the science of astrophysics, why things happen on our planet it turns out that outerspace and the other planets are not at all any sort of heaven.  Outerspace does not represent more living space enough at all for us, and we had better do right with what we've got.

I do not know all of the breakdowns for what exactly composes the local labor pool.  There are many students in the population.  A fair number of them desire part time work at least.  The majority of graduates from the University are expected to leave.  Historically a large enough percentage of graduates have elected to stay in the local community after graduation to be noted.  There seems to be a good percentage of retirees.  Stu Cole once said it seemed like everybody who settles here, allergist works at closing the door behind them.  Stu is forced himself, pills regardless of his success with Squirrel Nut Zippers, to go to LA for work that pays enough to take care of his family.

This is the sort of place like where Romans moved to when Rome was in decline.  When the Romans left London they told the locals they were going to have to take care of themselves.  Federal and even State money is being withdrawn in many a US community these days.  I judge it right much an imperative that we look clearly at what we need to do in the Grand scheme of things.

We do every now and then, get around to completing some big grand old thing, but it is all the little things we do day in and day out that really make these statute pride moments really possible.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel is the major economic engine of this town.   The size of this community is considered to be population wise just large enough, and just small enough to be a happy place.   Far as I can tell the suffering, and the grind of poverty is shoved out of town, to places unseen, or underground.  I'm thinking now of the people, working people who drive in for low wages, eaten up by gas prices for jobs at the Hospital, cleaning, caring for, or building.  Homes cost a lot still in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.  Many have lost their jobs building, or been forced to take less.

When this Great Recession hit it was reported that it was different from events of the past, since essentially it is general, widespread, and there really isn't some other great place to pick up and move to.  Sure enough we need some limits as far as how we impact our shared lands.  This does not mean we have to limit the opportunities for work for our citizens, local neighbors, participants in the local economy.

From my point of view it was a mistake for the University to close Tar Heel Temps at the onset of the Great Recession.  I can understand why they did not see another path, for they were of and for the institution as their primary mission.  They did not apparently see how they might help continue to provide work for the willing.

Locally right here I'd like to see either the Town of Carrboro put together a replacement for Tar Heel Temps, or encourage a private enterprise replacement.  Personally I'd like to see all the paper job applications handed into the local businesses in person, of those who for one reason or another, could not be hired.  For those for whom a proper job could not be found, then a job is then simply mandated to be created.

I simply reject the idea that this is not possible, or undesirable.   

Over there on the left side of the page in the Poetry Section I've written a couple of song lyric bones.

I put Dawn Patrol up for a fighter pilot whose book was the last book I could read.  For some reason I've had difficulty finding books, cialis or even watching a movie all the way through.  I ascribe some of this to writing and reading on the computer, ampoule in which the case is beams of light are shot at your face.

I have strong doubt that I'm the only one experiencing this mental change.

I do want to get my hands on a Kindle ebook machine, sales and see if the effect of the screen page disrupts my capacity for attention span, as much as the computer screen seems to.  Now I could be just getting old or something.  Or it could be the right books aren't at hand.  Still actually we've got books all over the house.  There really are some good ones around I've not read.  Candide is on my desk.

Over there in Fiction section, I'm really behind.  Maybe I could do the Wild Palms thing and alternate between Force of Nature, and Norm.

Working Class Corner Columns have me going some due to my life an it's present that needs a lot of fix up.  It's a shared problem about where the money is coming from, and how much there is to work with.  I need to do more for my people, family, friends, random strangers.  Much differently now than for the first 4 decades, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon that I can see.  Think this is what they called married and settled down.

I was sort of up for a job down in Panama, but even if it was offered, I couldn't do it without taking my wife with me.

I am interested lately though is shaking some lyrics out of me, to see what the story is.

There are things that will be done around here if some money rolls in.

The novella Homeless Dog is up for sale on the Amazon Kindle Store.  My wife says a little money showed up.

Oh well, this is just a site report.    Best, Russell 

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Got an email from Peter Eichenberger saying he was in a terrible jam somewhere and needed some money.  I'd not heard from Peter in years now.  About 6 months ago a girl told me he was dead.  I was not particularly surprised since we had all read of his adventures and opinions in the Independent up to through and after his bicycle crash.

I liked Peter quite a lot actually.  We'd met down in Wilmington both writers nosing around in the local moviemaking capital of that time.  We were both motorcyclists at the time so meet on the street as riders who naturally start conversations over their motorcycles.  A nickname for Peter Eichenberger among other bikers was Peter Crashenberger, for sale for he often crashed his Moto Guzzi.  Ironic that he bashed his head up so bad on the lowly bicycle.  He himself reported in the papers his incredible alcohol level at the time.

I myself squirmed to read the number, and as it was 2.60 or something like that, cialis way the hell up there.

You know I'd rather he was alive, but he's not, and it pisses me off assholes try and scam money out of people with this sort of email.  Gangsters run rampant in cyberworld.  When not scamming they are running protection rackets.  Seems like the FBI is supposed to protect the US Mail.  Why they don't protect our email is beyond me.  The mercenary spyware et al industry goes either way like really bad mercenaries.  They have little idealistic mission statement, and take advantage of regulatory lassitude on the part of responsible institutions.

Leadership of and by the ideal is what is legitimate "Top Down" direction within a Bureaucratic Institution.  The mission is more important really than the rules.  I take this lesson from Edward Hallet Karr, the political scientist.  It is out of his short essay: A Critique of Realism, and an important read for anyone grappling with issues of government and leadership.

I believe Peter is dead.  It pisses me off some jackass has crawled in some computer and is sending out letters under his name.   In the US isn't the FBI supposed to be in charge of counter espionage?  Sometimes I myself don't know the right agency to call.  I sure don't have time to call and write everybody about everything.

Maybe I'll just call 911 and tell 'em I'm getting mail from dead people.