What Places Are Most Practical to Link with Public Transportation Systems?

        I live in Carrboro North Carolina and drive around in it a great deal in the course of my work as a carpenter.   The local attempt to close the Public Community Airport has caused me to work on a generic plan for building and maintaining a "mature" transportation infrastructure.

        I have lived in Chicago and New York City and Rochester New York and Fort Lauderdale Florida, Toronto Ontario, Greensboro, North Carolina, and some other places not worth mentioning, like Jersey City, New Jersey.

        Of the cities I have lived in I would have to say that New York City possessed the most "mature" transportation infrastructure.   The puzzle to work out for a place like Carrboro North Carolina is how to build the same sort of mature infrastructure within the natural strictures that exist simply due to geographic realities.

        This is not to mention that there is a powerful political segment of people who look at a mature transportation infrastructure as destructive to the way of life they live here for.  A mature transportation infrastructure is to that segment of the citizenry, "too urban".

       The local conflict over the airport pivots often over how noisy airplanes are.

       Noise is part of the price you pay for an urban lifestyle.

       The opportunities afforded to modern people by a complete and mature transportation infrastructure outweigh a rejection of it if all classes are to be able to live and work together.   Simply as an obvious fact the lack of a mature transportation infrastructure gives the more well off a general advantage and diminishes the prospects of creating and maintaining a meritocracy.

        The realities of this are most clear when we reduce the sets of people who most need public transportation to the old and the young.

        Once we do that we can determine most practically where public transportation must go.

        For the young, who have not had time to accumulate wealth on their own then it follows public transportation must first link together all of the educational institutions.

       This naturally would link public transportion to the hospitals because they are dual institutions being both necessary to public health, and educational institutions.

        So in the case of this relatively small area I live in, I would call for first determination of "Rights of Way" that connect all of the educational institutions.

        Second I would determine what transportation technology was most appropriate for that Right of Way.

         In one Right of Way, a Subway is most efficient, and in another an elevated train is the most efficient, and in another a bus is most practical.

        For a small place like Carrboro, it may seem insane to propose a subway, but infact the concept of a subway is entirely practical if made small.

        I would determine where monorail was most appropriate, and where a subway was most appropriate, and make a subway car that fit both the ditch and hung off the elevated rail or cable between the institutions identified as part of the common public infrastructure, such as schools.

        For a place like Carrboro I would build a subway that was a small ditch compared to the ditches for subway trains the sizes of subway trains in Manhattan or other places.

        In Carrboro I would put the subway to the University under the bike paths with a glass ceiling so that the small underground always got natural light.

        If for practical reasons the cars had to be designed to allow passengers to stand up throughout a trip, I would make them much thinner than traditional train cars and make sure that where the car could be elevated above intersections and other interference with the Right of Way, it would be compatible with both above and below ground travel.

        Obviously a mature transportation infrastructure represents a longterm sort of planning and committment.

        It also represents an acceptance that the world has become an urban experience for most of humanity.

        Those communities and governments that commit to longterm solutions for the solutions to the problems of their citizens will thrive more than those that do not.

       You might be going to live somewhere else, but the town you live in now is not going anywhere else.   Everywhere you are, you will need the same things.

       The world has become an urban place and governments that most perfectly integrate their transportation infrastuctures will be better places to live for the most people across socioeconomic lines than places where people don’t.

      Since educated people are more able to adapt to both institutional or private forces that may be for or against them it is vital in the long run that public transportation most efficiently link first all of the educational institutions in any particular area.

       Of course I think public transportation must be linked to the airports as well since no place makes it in the long term if it does not function as a port, and there is a good need for some people to learn to fly and an airplane is as much a school as a boat.

                                                                   Love, Russell

Iraq and War.

     When a war is over the police are the accepted armed forces in the streets, drugs and they are liked for keeping the peace.

      In the future when a war is declared won, erectile it ought to be taken for granted that the Army that won the war, vialis 40mg gets out, and is replaced with police who are indigenous, or professional at keeping the peace.

      Over the years I have come to accept that fashions and uniforms are important, and in the case of Iraq right now I know that a uniform for peacekeepers is called for.

      There is no effective international Constabulary, which is really a long name for a large police force.

       The working classes need protection from the robbers and the murderers, and need courts to settle property disputes.

      I am impressed that in Iraq there is an attempt to establish courts and a rule of law.   The police are important as far as enforcing laws are concerned.

      The United States really ought to ask for help in getting its army out of Iraq.

      If I had gotten the United States Army into Iraq, fought a war, and declared it won, I would now be asking that professional police take up the job of keeping the peace.

      Some people are destined to be warriors and killers and they really ought to join the army.   Others are destined to be police officers who keep the peace with a combination of skills that may well call for killing, but are not intended to do only that.

     If I had control of armed persons I would ask those under my command who of them wanted to be police in Iraq, give them another uniform, and put the rest left to work at a very specific job, which is to kill whomever they see.

                                                             Love, Russell         

I noted in The Week, that Chapel Hill was listed with other Muncipalities that had come out against the War in Iraq.

I am reminded of the story of Judith from the Apocrapha.   In the end of that story Judith cuts off the head of the Roman General that was attacking the Jewish town for not going to war.

There are governments that direct revenues from taxes on specific items for specific purposes, and in the United States it has long been traditional to use gas taxes for highways.

Around here and in transcendia if it gets control of some place in reality, I agree that taxes on weapons ought to be used to advance less need of them.   I would like it if some of the County Money collected from weapons sales in Orange County were given to the United Nations, which though flawed, does advance some prospects for peace.

Certainly there is some truth to "Money Talks, and Bullshit Walks."

Leadership for the important issues to be decided, of these times, is destined to come from the small places and the small people, instead of the big people.

The statement of "Against", or "For" the War in Iraq does not really do it because it is too simplistic.

    The World Community simply lacks a Constabulary Force of size capable of being installed in Iraq.   Police recruitment of locals must be a piority and the Costa Rician’s ought to be playing a significant role because of their unique experience of general satisfaction with their paramilitary police force, and no other armed force.

     Mandatory taxes on weapons to be funding for peace initiatives by the United Nations would release the United Nations from the dependence on "dues" for its mission.

     Small places like Orange County in North Carolina would get a bigger voice in international issues if they independently put their money where their mouth was.

     I am for flying the United Nations Flag next to the town and the state and the federal US flag around here, and particularly at the airport.

     This is one of Chairman Lewin’s Points for Reinvention of the UN, along with his point that taxes on weapons ought sensibly be given to the UN.

      Today I got up thinking that it would be good if my little neighborhood bought some voice at the UN by donating money from taxes on the weapons sold in the County, directly to the UN.

      I hope that all the extra eating and a visit to a resturant and visiting with the family helped me think clearly for otherwise what good is a holiday.

      What is the most sensible secular international holiday?

       The only Transcendian Holiday is April Fools so far, which is really a Holiday honoring love lost and the broken heart.

       It is sort of a reverse Valentines Day.

       I believe there was a period when May Day, was vying for international status as an international holiday for workers.

        I wonder what great holiday there is because of the EU?

        Really there is only so much time for holidays and it would be a terriffic victory to add one.

        Maybe we could have a Gun Tax Holiday, but really I don’t think it would catch on all that well.

        On April Fools Day maybe we ought to all feel free to call up ex-wives, old girlfriends or boyfriends and find out how they are doing.

        Every holiday needs some ritual.

        Thanksgiving and Christmas are characterized by food surplus confirming the place of food as the number one ingredient for peace.

         Therefore since food surplus is the number one ingredient for peace, taxes on weapons ought most sensibly be directed number one at insuring all people live with a surplus of food.

         Food comes from water and light and dirt.

         So taxes on weapons that are used to buy weapons for use by warriors may end up legitimate if the weapons are used to protect water workers.

        The lives of the Untouchables in India who work in the sewers need our concern.   Those people need some defense if anyone does in my opinion.

       I’d give some money to the police in India from my tax revenue from weapons if they would protect the Untouchables from abuse.

        You got to draw the line somewhere.

        Now I’ve got all this money from taxes on weapons.    Turns out that the best thing to spend it on is clean water for everyone.

                                                                       Love from a convoluted mind.

Russell Scott Day  

Holidays interupt my cash flow.

I ought to be grateful,

and I am.

I get an excuse to recover from working.

In New York I got to dread the holidays since work fell off.

All the Producers take the holidays off to spend with their families and go on vacations so work doesn’t pick up again till after the holidays when you work in New York on commercials.

I liked working on commercials actually.

Music videos were very stressful for less money.

When I was doing that sort of work in Manhattan  

there was a Thanksgiving that I and my girlfriend spent all to ourselves not seeing any family.

We were living in a rent control apartment that she had some arrangement about on Madison Ave not far from the UN.

It was a beautiful day and we took a good walk in the neighborhood.

She was very pretty and happy and I was excited and comfortable.   We got into look at the Security Council Theater apparently, since I have a photograph.

The year after that, or the year after that we had a fine Thanksgiving with her parents in Mt. Kisco.

She and I had a fine love affair in the end of it all.

I reccommend two lovers take the holiday in reverse every now and then.

It was an experience for me to spend a couple of Christmases all by myself.

I found it tougher than I thought it would be and have avoided it since.

There was a unique Christmas at Ratsos that was a combination of being alone and getting up with someone for a memorable evening.

I had gotten so hurt from not seeing my daughter for too long that I wrote a hurt and angry poem.

I got to see her yesterday.

I am grateful to have the family I have and would want no other.

It would not have been that horrible if I had had a fatal car crash on the way back from my sister’s.

My mother sang for us.

She has a new career as an actress, and I am tempted to suggest she try Stand Up.

I used to do that.

Now I want to be a politician, and make a speech at the UN.

It is a thing I pay taxes to and it is part of the Reinvention Point List of Andre` Lewin that little guys like me get to speak to the Security Council now and then.

His other points for reinvention of the UN, like taxes on arms for peaceful purposes, and an army dispatched by the Secretary General in obvious cases of genocide, as well as the option for closed and secret sessions as recently called for by the Democratic Party, all make practical sense, from my working class point of view.

Chairman Ambassador Lewin did add to his points my concept of UNTV which is a standard on this site.

It has so far been a bit much for him to add Transcendia to the points, but I have argued for it.

War and show business are bought fraught with bad hours.

Filmmakers might not work much during holidays, but stage hands sure do.

Every weekend is a mini holiday for the working classes.   Over the years when I drifted into stagehand work out of film work I got sick of the schedules after awhile.

One Christmas I spent alone in a hotel room with the flu.

That was a bad one.

The last 5 or 6 years I’ve been on a regular schedule with weekends and holidays off, though for two of those years I was recovering from falling through the floor and landing on concrete and breaking my hip and hand and pelvis.

I would really like to try my hand at speaking to the representatives and ambassadors and leaders of the United Nations from a purely Working Class Point of View.

I’d like to hear others of my class be allowed to speak in acknowlegment that individuals pay for the UN.

One of the other points of Chairman Lewin is that the flag of the UN be more ubiquitious and I want it flown here in Carrboro along with the flag of the town and the State and the Nation.

Of course I want the Transcendian Flag flown more commonly as well and it touched my heart that my daughter bought a Transcendian Mouse Pad.

I am glad I spent the holiday with my family.

                                                          Love, Russell

Working Class Corner/Bombs

As far as threats it was reported today over the radio that it was only a matter of time before a biological weapon would be unleashed on the world by Al Kada.   Really it is spelled different and the other news is that Bird Flu is coming up as a problem pandemically so much that Al Queda, whatever, really just has to take credit.

It might be possible that it was not wise for information on how to make smallpox was published on the web.

The Moral Imperative of Passionless Violence is put in our faces now.

We want to save the world for our children, and ourselves.

Might be called for that all killers have to stand around and cook and eat whomever they kill.   Considering the threats it is insane for men of mankind and women to spend time killing each other by the formal name war, or the informal name murder.

Of course it is not entirely insane to kill someone who you know is intent on killing you.

I say to all "Value your Life!"

My fights have been crimes of passion and defensive and I do not recollect an offensive fight.

Now an offense and defense are required for winning the game in football which is most like war and gladiator contests of the Roman times, which are what we mostly get at the best, which could be dramatically better, these days, but would still have to be like it if it is what we call civilization, which is better than barbarism, since it is based on work, as better than theivery, even if you don’t believe in a need for God to tell you such a simple thing.

In the case of germs, viruses, cancers, and the like, we have no problem with pro-active conflict with them.

For Transcendia it makes great sense to endorse proactive defense of the perimeters.

Nuclear weapons and biological weapons are beyond the defensive capacity of any individual nation.

The case of North Korea that needs food and can’t get it without threatening to use a nuclear bomb to protect its leadership at the expense of its people must be solved for the benefit of all, and particularly the working classes of North and South Korea, who are related, and have the potential to lead the world in resolving their conflict.

The US loves Civil War and imports it and exports it at its worst point of passion and love.

These Korean Scientists seem to be pretty good actually and I remember that the US Space Program was greatly benefitted from its pardon and hiring of German Rocket Scientists.

I would like to put a Transcendian Airport in the DMZ of Korea for the purpose of Silk Road Trade.

I would like it if there was a Sister City agreement between all concerned with a good space elevator site in Ecuador.

My hero couldn’t spell either.

                                                               Love, Russell

Garage Sales are fun because they are like being a hunter gatherer for the urban dweller, who needs that experience.

I was an urban woodsman.

I would pick up wood on my way from my apartment at 66 Madison Ave. to my girlfriends apartment on the corner of 7th Ave. South and Leroy St.

I always found enough wood on the way for a fine fire in her fireplace.

When I go to garage sales I always look for radios, and if I had room for collecting things I would be a radio collector.

I used to have a Zenith.   I miss it like I miss my 54 Pontiac Star Chief.

My heart lept when I saw my radio in Howard Huges hangar in that movie The Aviator.

I thought the crash scene was flawed and wondered what difference the manifold pressure would make when feathering of the props would be my typical concern flying that thing.

When the wing hit the structures and carried through without slamming the nose of the plane into the building the physics involved seemed right violated from what I know and need more explaination for me to suspend disbelief.

My favorite scene in the movie was when Howard Huges said "No, I don’t think I will." when asked to ask one of his employees to return for questioning.

For the rich and the pour there is always a limit that makes sense to all.

Enough is enough.

Obviously though it was a movie about a guy who stopped having fun.

Damn things here in Carrboro allow for some regular measures of fun.

The weather is great and there is a managable number of people around.

I remember Raul who too often intruded into our lives when we lived on East 11th.   Carrboro these days for me is okay since I am generally left alone as I want to be on the weekends.

Sometimes I have too much fun, but I get left alone enough to recover by monday.

How to maintain and advance the Carrboro infrastructure so as to grow at the same time a level of fun availablity is maintained and advanced is my current puzzle work.

Having once lived in a commune I am for separate living quarters for people.

Still again I am for high density living since it enables efficient public transportation.

Efficient public transportation enables real estate parities for different sorts of people.

Dirigibles and Submarines that never land anywhere are what we need to create as experimental cities to complete our knowledge of the perfect society.

Would this be fun to do?

                                                            Love, Russell

Ideals Morals and Technology

Bits of my mind rearrange themselves during the day.

I wear a radio on my head that looks ridiculious.

I’m in my own little world.

I wish I had a walkie talkie connection to NPR.

Ideally food ought not be used as a weapon, but in the case of North Korea

Apparently they will trade nuclear weapons for food.

Trains are the backbone of nations and the carbon nano tube that is pivotal for the actuality of the space elevator offers trains that go everywhere.

I thought of that because one day I got through to Dick Gordon when he was talking to people about North Korea and its announcement that it had "The Bomb."

Really it is not much good to have a nuclear weapon and not tell everyone.

Apparently you get more food if you have one.

……….

Nuclear Power is free from the Sun except for the infrastructure it requires.

I’d like to get my little town and county to build a Solar Power Infrastructure with my taxes.

Free buses are great, but I can’t wait around for them.

I want to see people moving.

I think buses are too big, and trains too heavy and think lightening everything is a good start.

Steel cable, wire rope, is a machine.

Rigging is great fun and I really enjoyed doing it in conjunction to working on movies and commercials when I lived in Wilmington.

One of my favorite things in the world is a boom truck.

Pulleys and steel rope and electricity move things around and remind me of flying the baby around the house.

When I am driving around back and forth from the hardware store and the job sites delivering lumber and disposing of the trash I see students waiting for the bus.

I want to string up steel cables and eliminate the buses entirely with equvalents.

(Sometimes my wife isn’t around and my spelling is a guide to my pronunciation of a word.)

My wife has been called the human dictionary and I will bet 50 dollars on her in a Crossword Competition any day.

I wish I had been as well educated.

But at anyrate, as a return to deep thought.

I say unto you INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE Give Us New Infrastructure!

We Want To Work On INFRASTRUCTURE!

In my head for years and years I have a movie of a little black boy in Africa wearing one of those two cloth flap fashions looking up at a bulldozer making an airport in his jungle.

In my story he would eventually become a Shuttle Pilot.

There is the vertical and horizontal elevator to be implaced.

At all times and places wait times need to be reduced.

The world is changing and changing fast.

Some people would look forward as a blessing a flu pandemic since it would reduce the population without the ugliness of faulty ideas like war and would not be really our responsiblity of will to cause and only something alien to our individual interests.

Infact in general it would appear that the flu is a yearly culling of us.

Really we do not have to look to aliens from outerspace for an alien to fight with that ought to bring us together and the story of our fight with the flu is probably all the science fiction we need to understand how we really work together.

The Moral Imperative of passionless violence illustrated by quarentine is sort of like how in Brazil they cut off the water when there isn’t enough.

Plastic drip tents will take drinking water out of the air on a raft in the ocean.

We are down to a need to harvesting the dew.

I imagine the complete solar and water generating plant running wire rope conveyances everywhere there is a road and on every power line right of way everywhere all the time.

We need these things on space ship earth since now we need to put things in places.

PARKS, GIVE US PARKS!

Now adays everywhere is supposed to be like a park, called a park, or a campus.

Like on Mars, all life like us needs to submerge like fish in a well run ocean.

The dolphins stayed in the water since they knew writing would be burned or washed away.

We wanted bigger life on Mars.

We want someone to talk to about our radio.

Now it is a time when your destiny is actually important to chose.

The National identity may as well get in line.

If I was forming an army I would direct them to protect civilians and infrastructure workers in particular.

I imagine making a public case for all armies or armed warriors to judge the worthiness of their life sacrifice for any idea on the basis of whether or not it protects the natural and mature infrastructure for working classes.

I would direct that in Iraq soldiers be replaced with policemen.

This I would do by identifying who in the ocupying army was good at being a policeman, and giving them another uniform regardless of their national affiliation and getting the soldiers to where they ought to be, which is hanging around practicing killing people, or actually killing people, and really nothing else.

Really the solution to the problem in Iraq for the entire world is that a constabulary be created that protects infrastructure workers indiginous to the nation from bombers suicidial or sneaky.

Let us think of the world as a First Class Cruise Ship, with a Captain who has the clear cut responsiblity of maintaining the seaworthiness of the ship.

Now, as far as laws concerning terrorists are concerned, and I mean actual terrorists defined by what they do, and not particularly what they wear.

I think laws of maritime law used to justify violent defense of ships and their crews and passengers ought to be applied as they are by practical tradition to pirates on the seas.

Let us look to old laws applied to keeping the rights of way safe for commerce for guidance on what laws to use in relation to capture and imprisonment of detainees caught in the current war called a war on terrorism.

It is interesting that the Coast Guard of the US seems to be the institution most competent during the time of the Katrina Hurricane assault by weather.

As far as the War in Iraq is concerned, if I was in charge of it now, I would unite the soldiers under my charge with the international professional police by putting together a police equipment kit, and transferring from the army to the police those of my own with that unique talent for keeping the peace with others from other nations who are destined to be police more than they are destined to be soldiers or "warriors".

The ideal thing to have happened at the end of the war in Iraq, that would have actually signified an end to the war, would have been that all of the soldiers involved would have been brought home as is a fine signal that a war has ended.

When a war is over traditionally, the armed forces in both nations revert to the police.

Now it is oddly true that in this new urban world that the importance of clothing and fashions is greater than we really want to recognize.

I would give to my soldiers a defection uniform that was a universally recognizable police uniform, and not the uniform of a soldier.

These French disaffected who have been burning cars are good candidates for such uniforms.

The French have long been struggling with the same issues as the United States.

During the Second World War it was not unusual for juvenal delenquents to be offered jail or service in the army.

Some people are just born to fight and it is the wise who let them do it.

I’d like it if the French deported their rioters to the police force of Iraq.

                                                                         Love, Russell

Armies and Police

    I think that Edward Hallet Carr is the most correct of current Political Scientists.   I think that between his work and the work of Jared Diamond a science of Political Science could be codified and applied to get us through the bottleneck, anesthetist or eye of the needle, or whatever you want to call these times.

     The Army is not the Post Office, and will not be successful as the Post Office same as the Post Office is not equipped or trained to be the Army, but that the institutions of the nation ought to be lead by the same ideals is simple genius to me.

     Mr. Diamond has defined the threats and the times and what has happened.

     Mr. Diamond has also been published saying what we all knew about history, that it was a complete set of experiments.

      The failure of faith comes from the sense that if the sufferings of mankind happen, then God says no to our prayers a bit more often than we prefer.

      In fact it may well be that our prayers are not heard and we need to speak them to ourselves since we have the science to answer them.

      Then the turn is that if we can answer our own prayers, why do we need God?

     The concept of God is that God knows all all the time.   The hope that God gives us is that we will know what we need to know when we need to know it.

      What exactly is it that we need to know?

      When you are a child you are so simply alive that it is until you kill something like a bug that you do not include death in your imaginings.

       The life of a child is stories and an innocence that is Godlike that progresses through joy to depression, acceptance, anger and love.

       "Where is the love?"

        What is love?

       The best definition I have heard of love is:   "A concern for someone elses physical and spiritual well being."

       Of course it is obvious that if you love yourself you are concerned with your physical and spiritual well being and do things accordingly to maintain and advance those interests.

       Sublime successes as a political scientist you ought to be able to tell us how to love ourselves and others same as we love ourselves. 

        When the father loves the mother and the sister loves the brother and the world is one family, then it would seem to follow that all would be prepared for disasters that come when technology fails.

       Mankind has been lucky so far.

       It is time that every state and religion built its own spacestation.

       This ends my thinking for the day.

                                                               Love, Russell

The Weather Here Has Been So good That I am Happy Sort of.

      North Carolina is great real estate even though it has seasons.   Apparently San Francisco has weather like this near year round except it has earthquakes with near the regularity of hurricanes in North Carolina, which can get very hot.

      I had felt that there was a 21 month window for fixing pivotal problems if the future of mankind was not to be total doom and ended up talking today to Maurice about his end of the world Maya Yucatan predictive cuniform type writings.

       Apparently 2012 is the end of the world time by some Mayan addition.

       As far as I can tell that is generous.

       Well, if things go on as they have with a multiplicity of leaders who are not sufficiently educated to the laws of political science, we are fucked.

       By we I mean the working classes who depend on empowered aristocrats for some decisions which we actually trust them to make when we are at work.

       It is stupid for us to do such things, but we do.

       The Working Classes are prohibited from wearing suits.

        I tell you the truth, you could change the world if you wore a sportcoat of your own chosing while driving for UPS or Federal Express.

        Fashions are important.

        Really I think that wars are fought over women more than they are fought over oil. 

        As the founder and leader of whatever there is of Transcendia I would use some of the money for fashion inventions that made equality of the sexes attractive.

        Now it is obvious that Muslim women are either beautiful or ugly and that Muslim men are either ugly or not too bad.

       Actually some muslim women are beautiful and some muslim men are beautiful, but we are only supposed to see the naked faces of the men.

       As far as the fashions are concerned I would allow in Transcendia all fashions.

       However I, as founder of transcendia would highly recommend no one join any particular army until they had tried on the uniform before they joined.

       In this world there are the uniformed, and the ununiformed.

       I had a big car when I was young.

       I had a good number of fistfights.

       In my work to create a unified theory of political science founded on the experiments, no one person ought to have the power to decree.

      I can only determine that whatever is good all must pursue.

      Good is possible from power.

      More power than you individually need is good.

      Giving away power is good and fun.

       Solar Power is better for us to use than the invented power we got from our understanding of the power of the sun we have used to kill a good number either on purpose or by accident.

       What is Al Quaeda?

       Is it a tribe?

       Is it a nation?

       Is it a religion?

       Does Al Quadea really think that it would exist without me?

       Women drive me crazy sometimes, but I wouldn’t exist without them.

        Catholics and Islamists seem really to have the same attitudes towards women and therefore I think they need to have women defect from their fashions if we are to get through the eye of the needle.

                                                                     Love, Russell

p.s.  this is my argument.   Let me know if there are obvious flaws.

Voted Today in Carrboro North Carolina

       I didn’t know enough to vote for everyone and my brother has lived here longer than me and owns property and his kid, my niece has been in the schools here so I thought he might have a better insight more because he has lived here longer than I have than because he owns property here, and weighted further by his interactions with the schools and police.

      I did personally meet briefly both mayorial candidates.   Neither ones platform was concise and there are those that think that the private agenda of Chilton is more his motivation than the overall good and government service for its own sake and satisfactions.

      Zeffron will still be an alderman and I liked it that he had approved a large building in conflict with my brother who did not like the way the building looked when I had no particular problem with the way the building looked, but liked that it was large.   My concern will not be with so much too much with how something looks from the outside, but how it works, but it is true that in ugly surroundings people act ugly.

      What is horrible is when something becomes so pretty it doesn’t work like my impression of the Washington DC subway system.

      Some things need to be good enough, and others need to be great.   As an example of a thing that is good enough in Manhattan, it has been the Subway system and its integration with buses and the ferrys taxis and everything else started and ending with walking.

      It is a mature transportation infrastructure that facilitates a level of life standards for a complete set of poor, to rich that gives it longevity as long as it is not bombed by radiation bombs or an asteroid.

      Now the best thing to do is to put the international infrastructure together practically.  By practically combining the building required with the politics required.

      Politically the use of arms needs to be directed exclusively to protecting infrastucture workers by all armies everywhere working for anyone or any government.

      The attorneys working in the justice system in Iraq are part of the infrastucture.   Everybody hates lawyers till they need one.

      It is insane and sad that the attorneys working in the Courts in Iraq have been twice murdered.

      My concept of civilization does include the fist fight.

      Someone may well offend me with words or actions so much that I punch them.

      I would be really sorry if I killed them.

      But at anyrate as far as something might happen on a spaceship or in a submarine,  I would rather fist fights as the height of violence.

      When I was a Security Guard for Rochdale College I did have to go and get the guys that had guns to resolve the threat.

       I was in a difficult postion since there were four of them to corral.

       Oh, I have to tell you that my time in Rochdale College was not wasted even if I die tomorrow.

        I got a very good education.

        If it had had a landing pad on the roof instead of a nude sunbathing deck, it might have done a bit better.

        As far as my vote today I voted with whatever I knew or felt and stopped there and let others vote.

        I hope it turns out well for everyone involved.

                                                                Love, Russell