In Carrboro North Carolina there are a good number of bicyclists and there is a bike lane on North Greensboro Street.  Of Course the Bicyclists and the Buses are in competition for this space, order but there is not but so much to do about this.   Maybe it would be possible to just dig ditches so that bicyclists could ride out of the way underground in town.

      Bicycles are a great way to get around.

      In Carrboro the bike lane actually stops too soon on North Greensboro Street, and ought to be extended out Old Fayettville Road to at least the intersection of Old Airport.

      Overall as far as bicycles are concerned, on all town roads they ought to have a lane, even if it is a small one.   If nothing else can be done to safely integrate the bike lane with the bus and auto lane, pass points ought to be painted on the road, and it would be good on some roads that irregular expansions of the road be accomplished so as to create auto pass points.

      In my study of transportation infrastructure I have come to some understanding of the vital need for designated and integrated "Rights Of Way".

      In a mature transportation infrastructure all traffic has the appropriate Right of Way so a pedesteran or a jet has a place to be, rightfully, no matter their speed.

      Transportation infrastructure system planning ought to test its plans to this need for all to have their rightful place and right of way.

                                                                 Russell Scott Day

Rocket Launches You can Do!

     Rocket launches have been the Transcendian Pro Active Civil Demonstration invention and it is obviously time for another series.   I especially thought so after I got out of the hospital yesterday after a week there due to the breakdown of my digestive system and the emergency surgery.

      Some of the last week was agony and I am glad I didn’t die as I certainly would have if it had not been for the surgery.

      I really felt bad for the pig that I knew that died from what I had.   The death would have been agony up there in any torture range and if you blame god for such pain he would be more the devil.

      Leading up to this time I was making all the bomb pictures and paintings, and then now I am caused to remember message rocket launches of the past, which would be good to cause to happen again from what I understood as I came off the week of operation hospital and rocket launch news as I return to my desk.

       The main lesson and recommendation here is that the concept of Pro Active Civil Demonstration, such as little balsa wood and cardboardtube rocket launches with messages in the goal of achieving peace through understanding and deal making internalized law is a possiblity for the political action tool box.

       Imagine dropping to Gaza Estes Rocket Kits with message compartments they could send instead of the exploding rockets.

       To do something odd in a battle is sometimes the distraction that changes the course of the battle, and enables a proper resolution.

       For instance in this day and age it would be possible to televise rocket wars with models or to scale instead of the real war, and call it good by the lights of HG Wells and Orson Welles and War of the Worlds.

       Anyway I hope some people over there where they are launching so many rockets go ahead and launch more of the sort approved for scientific and hobby purposes, like the Estes and custom we built and launched during the last Gulf War in the interests of peace.

                                                           Russell

Appointments With Bombs

      A Speech:

                                                 Your life, and the lives of your lovers and chidren are threatened.   We, humanity have made so much progress that some have experienced perfect lives.

       What is the perfect life?

       The perfect life is one with God and one with man in which in all moments one is an individual, and one with all.

       It is both feast and famine survived and love given and received to a point of peace and understanding.

       Now, really right now, humanity is in the bottleneck.   People with great wealth and power blunder or triumph.   Blunders are more expensive than ever before because we are so many.   There are more of us around at one time than ever before on this planet.

       Workers are not defended enough.

       Us workers get in lines to get work and are blown up in Iraq.

       Iraq is a metaphor for workers who believe in God and have to work, like to work, and accept comfort from honest work.

       During my work life when I lived in Manhattan, I never had a real schedule, and since my paths were unpredictable, my criminal neighbors did not really know when to wait to ambush me.

       I rarely stood in lines.

       In church I would line up in the aisle for communion.

       Quakers don’t do that.

       Peace is better than war.

       We can create a time of peace if we concentrate on work for and with each other.

       Defense of the planet from Asteroid strikes is the big practical thing that a world government ought to be created and charged with doing.

       As a group, we really know that defending ourselves from the weather is the most idealistic and practical work for soldiers and scientists.

       Really us workers know in our hearts that we are an army.

       My mother told me that there is no shame in honest work, and I believe in honest work and want to protect other workers.

       We pay the bills.   Us workers pay the bills.

       The assholes raise prices on us and kill us with bills and bombs.

       Time is running out.

       In fact it is time for an International Minimum Wage, and the elimantion from goverment arsenals Weapons of Mass Destruction, like the Atom Bomb.

        As founder of Transcendia I do declare war on Weapons of Mass destruction and you can volunteer to kill to prevent them being available to kill you.

         This is a practical war for workers to fund or kill about since really we keep the rich and the poor with us regardless of what they contribute or steal.

         (I’ll finish this speech if you clap.)

Can I Sleep With You

      Is a great name for a movie, unhealthy worth millions of dollars since great movies are a quest and getting people to sleep with you is a quest.

      Really, prescription Make Love Not War, does stand-up better over the years than Kill for Your Car.

      Value Your Life, is a good bumper sticker.

      I have been lucky to get the people who have slept with me to sleep with me.

      I can imagine more incidents than possible in the time I have left at this point.   It would be fun to write about them.

Iran

      The Iranians I knew in Fort Lauderdale were brothers who flew away and got jobs flying here in the US in 1980 or so.

     They were very funny guys.

     I hear that the Iranian President wrote the US President a letter.

     I heard the Secretary of State say that the letter was no good.

     Last week a guy from the Small Business Administration said my Business Plan was not acceptable and confusing.

     I am supposed to look up the rules and rewrite it with an emphasis on the Executive Summary.

     Now when I get confusing or insulting letters I first thank people for writing me, buy then I state what I understood of the letter, and then I answer the letter according to what I understand they want an answer to.

     There is some honor to answering in kind.

     If you get a phone call, have a phone conversation.

     If you get a letter, write a letter back.

     As a diplomatic criticism of the US President and the Secretary of State, my criticism is that they should have just written a letter in response and made that letter as available to read as the letter they were sent.

     Bad manners are hard to legislate.

     To win the War on Terror good manners would go a long way.

     "The Whole World Is Watching!" is a chant I remember from some Viet Nam War Protest I attended in Chicago.

      All this talk of winning hearts and minds is what reminds me of Viet Nam.

      I would be stupid to say as a leader of a nation that I would give up the weapons that protect my people.

      So I understand why leaders of nations that feel that the nuclear weapons they possess cannot be given up since they believe that those weapons protect their people.

      The history of the Cold War and Atom Weapons recommends having Nuclear Weapons, up to a point.

      I so much wanted Russia to become a State like Texas at the supposed end of the cold war.   It really would have made things nicer for us working class people.

     Now things are really out of control, and working class people really need to object to any nation having nuclear weapons since working class people have to work where there is work regardless of their citizenship and will be in harms way regardless of their citizenship and have a right to demand that the risk be reduced.

    The logic for the war on Iraq would actually justify a war on the US since it was predicated on whether or not Iraq had "Weapons of Mass Destruction", when in fact, the US has "Weapons of Mass Destruction".

      I might turn around and watch an episode of Star Trek and imagine when Earth became a State.

      It is called for, and the concept of the United Nations needs to be realized real quick if workers are to secure their workplaces.

      Taking Nuclear Weapons out of the mix and manners of war needs to be done.

      Time is definitely running out for there are bad mannered people in power with control of very powerful weapons.

                                                                     Russell

Carolina North Transit Study

       Finally the University and the Town have come to an understanding that will move all forward as far as Transportation issues and Carolina North are concerned.

       As a "consultant" that the "officials" are eager to find, click  what follows are my recommendations:

       First all concerned must get on the same page as far as the philosphy that most correctly practically is the basis for making decisions.

      I say that the building of Carolina North forces the acceptance of the need for a "Mature Transportation Infrastructure".

      Now the philosophical basis from which the design of this infrastructure is to flow comes from understanding who is to benefit most ideally.

      The institutions and the governments involved need to ask, check who really needs and consitantly uses public transportation, medicine mass transit.

       Infrastructure planning of the "Mature Transportation Infrastructure" ought to flow from how the population of those in the society who cannot drive, which are the young and the old most simply.

      Therefore as the "Consultant" I say link all of the Educational Institutions with a "Mature Transportation Infrastructure" first.

      On the Island of Manhattan I was able to get most anywhere within 20 to 40 minutes and of the places I have lived I consider its transportation infrastructure "Mature".

      Certainly it serves the young and old and rich and poor.

      One must recognize when planning public transportation that how long it takes to get from A to B competes with cars which too often win for citizens to abandon them.

       Trains have long been the most efficient way of getting people around.   Far as I am concerned Subways are Trains, and I also include Monorails in that mix.

       A total and fully "Mature Transportation Infrastucture" is composed of "Rights of Way" that have in them all transportation machinery appropriate to those "Rights of Way".

      So Second:   To Create a Plan that is appropriate to the Transportation Goal of serving all transportation needs based on the touchstone realities of who in the society is most fully dependent on that infrastructure get your map and overlay on it all existing publicly controlled and clearly owned by all of the people, the "Rights of Way".

       Then draw lines in those "Rights of Way" connections to all Educational institutions in your Vicinity and beyond.

       It is important to recognize that life itself is an educational experience and that that means that though I say, that the place to start in planning a "Mature Transportation Infrastructure" is to determine what "Rights of Way" exist that will link all of the local educational institutions, from that flows the need to link to educational institutions that are far away, and demands that the transportation infrastructure is complete as regards timely connections to the overall global transportation infrastructure which includes airways and seaways.

      The key to planning a "Mature Transportation Infrastructure", required locally for the realization of Carolina North as more than a boondoggle for builders is finding out from a study what the existing "Rights of Way" are, then what will fit in and on them, and then determining how fast they would be.

      After discovering these facts a sensible and practical plan could be made, and ought to be the point of the study.

More Bombs To Come

       It was fun to set off bombs for movies and tv shows since it was controlled and a spectacle.   We made sure it wouldn’t hurt us or the camera, or the cameraman.

      You could feel the heat roll across you.

      I put plexiglass infront of the camera, and gave the DP a sandbag to put between his legs.

      Loving life and loving death are the two loves of cultures and Tolstoy wrote about Masons with a screw loose.

      I declare War on Atomic Weapons as a Working Class Guy.

      Help me get an Art Show in the UN as a battlefront.

      Enlist your art in the mission of elimanating big bombs from our working class lives.

                                                                                                     Russell Scott Day

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Live Where You Have A Job

     Is the reality for the working classes who are an international group only separated by language as far as I can tell.

      For the working classes, such as myself, it is a drag for me that I may well not be allowed to work in another country where the work has gone that I know how to do.

      There is only so much I know how to do at 53.

      I’ve "retrained" so much and many times in my life to be pissed off at being sold out.

      Mexico as a nation issues Birth Certificates and Passports and the like as far as I know.

      My solution to the problem of the "illegial immigrant Mexican, etc." would be that they could work with the ID of issue in the US, and taxes would be divied up between the nations they were working in, and the nation they were a citizen of, so as to pay for their shared security and defense.

      It is time for workers to determine what the International Minimum Wage is, and it is time for workers to demand that the nations they happen to have been born into provide them the same protections given to international corporations.

      Workers are foolish to buy citizenship in nations and their governments that do not respect their right to a living wage.

      The UN is a bit of a failure for its failure so far to set a minimum wage internationally fair between the corporations and the workers and the nations.

      Money is a great work of conceptual art and it needs to have the same value overall in the world for workers if we are to thread the needle as a species on a strange gift from the God of Visions.