tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58158910243163468052024-03-08T07:11:35.964-08:00Phil's PlaceThis is a TIME MACHINE. Check out my older posts, they were NEW when I wrote them.Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-17138176616121015702023-11-29T13:57:00.000-08:002023-11-29T13:57:08.172-08:00<p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"> Back From The Brink</b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><br /></b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">What A Trip!</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b id="docs-internal-guid-3294ba2f-7fff-6ecc-a201-3d8359092a3f" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover">When I went to the hospital</b></span><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> last June/July, the doctors and nurses weren’t sure I would survive! It seems that I had Covid 19, pneumonia, Leukemia, heart failure, and some other thing I don’t remember at the moment. I was in the right place. (I remember now. It was a shattered shoulder and a fractured humorous that I got from falling down).</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>They put me</b></span><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> in 3 different rooms during my visit. I remember my time in the last room, somewhat clearly. It was the room with the negative air flow, (to keep my covid germs from escaping).</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>It was in the second room</b></span><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> where they put a drain tube into my lung. It worked, and the nurses and doctors would empty the container each day. The guy that inserted the tube in my back removed it after I moved to the 3rd room. (It is hard to remember the dates and times because I have been in and out of hospitals for the last 3 years, thanks to long-covid.)</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>There were visiting nurses</b></span><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> for a couple of months when I returned home. I amazed doctors, nurses, and myself by getting well again. So here I am at Phil’s Place once again. I have been rehearsing with part of my blues society band, and I feel good singing and playing again. The best is yet to come, I hope.</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></b></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Now to figure out</b></span><span class="custom-cursor-default-hover" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> how I published in Phi’s Place before my brains were scrambled.</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Be kind</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> to your friends and family who have become part of the Trump Cult.</span></p><p class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><b class="custom-cursor-default-hover"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Phil </span></p>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-46507656375812904112020-07-07T22:37:00.000-07:002020-07-07T22:37:09.715-07:00This Is How I could Fix This Hi Everybody<br />
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I hope you are scared to death of the Corona/Trump/ Virus. If you are not, you have been tuned to the wrong stations. If you are not watching news broadcasting from at least a dozen stations around the world, you are not well informed.<br />
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<span id="goog_1877573698">Nope, not a molecule or virus, this is an exploding firework from the 4th of July display here in Redding, California. They have done everything they can to erase the existence of COVID-19 from our local propaganda outlet, (Redding Record Searchlight).</span><br />
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<span id="goog_1877573698">No matter what they feel will turn our heads from the approaching wall of virus, the news is not confined to the fascist Tea Party nitwits in charge of manipulating the population of our little pit-stop of a town. (Redding is known for its gas stations, fast food and full range of motels if you are tired of driving to someplace important.) This is a place that most people will stop for gas, food or sleep, on their way to somewhere more interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: black;">The president of Brazil has now become infected by coronavirus. Stephen Miller's wife is now infected. More people who have not been wearing masks are becoming the latest victims of this pandemic that could have been controlled if we had, had, intelligent leadership. (I blame the people who were stupid enough to believe FOX news). </span></span></div>
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Fireworks entertained people in Redding, as well as other locations in the USA. It is not that there were not some people trying to pretend we were not frogs boiling in the pot, but reality will usually slip through the most frighteningly expensive wall and let us know that wall's are a proven, stupid idea, and generally trap people within until they all die.</div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">And so we find ourselves trapped between those who live in the real world and those who watch Fox news. If you are surprised that Americans can be so frikkin' stupid, you had to have been enthralled by Fox TV and Talk radio at the time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">Under the leadership of Dick Cheney, our country pissed away more taxpayer money on failed military operations than any previous administration. It is no wonder that the Donald is oblivious to reality. He was a "reality" TV star. (Not a billionaire. Not a successful mover and shaker, but the bumbling, stumbling son of a racist slum lord.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I really like your peaches, let me shake your tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">So, if the virus don't kill us, it will be the lack of nutrition in our over processed food? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">It is more likely, if you don't die of corona virus, you will die because of poisoned water, toxic air, or nutrition free food. You may not have noticed, but we have been destroying the very things that we need to stay alive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">We have become experts in blowing stuff up, but we are woefully unprepared to fix this planet we have made uninhabitable. Wherever we go, we will screw it up: Adam's last words of wisdom. </span></span></div>
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-79807206597096805222020-06-05T18:23:00.000-07:002020-06-06T16:10:48.495-07:00Oh My GoodnessI made a video for my brother. He is that grandpa the forwards email from right wing propaganda sites, that was forwarded to him. He doesn't get it!<br />
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I worry that this, as well as all the other family members, will not wake him from his right wing dream of world domination by righteous white men like himself, but I can't stand by and do nothing.<br />
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Phil Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-53072650288679539762020-05-03T17:23:00.001-07:002020-05-03T17:23:28.446-07:00Once upon a virus...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5BZ09iNdvo" width="480"></iframe>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-46064815364486360402020-04-07T20:02:00.001-07:002020-04-07T20:02:34.971-07:00Well...Sh..tR.I.P. John Prine (If that's even possible for an active man like him)<br />
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COVID-19 Don't care about borders<br />
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<br />Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-44537147321708254392020-04-05T21:24:00.001-07:002020-04-05T21:24:50.451-07:00Stormy Weather<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nh-69smQj2Y" width="480"></iframe>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-45695758876495602332020-03-31T16:16:00.000-07:002020-03-31T16:16:15.100-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Hello Again</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I must tell you that Seth Meyers has produced his best show, from home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that ain't all folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a few observations;</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1932951/-Millions-Of-N95-Masks-PPE-Are-Leaving-America-Every-Day-To-Foreign-Buyers?utm_campaign=trending"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1932951/-Millions-Of-N95-Masks-PPE-Are-Leaving-America-Every-Day-To-Foreign-Buyers?utm_campaign=trending</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you stand by and let over 200 million N95 masks be sold to the highest bidders from other countries? If you don't think Trump is a part of this game, then there is a bridge in Brooklyn that that guy will sell you, (unless some other country offers a higher bid).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Daily show made a cool video of clips of Fox news people criticizing Biden, but replaces the Biden Clips with Trump clips;</span><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/iks184i9FOI"><span style="font-size: large;">https://youtu.be/iks184i9FOI</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember the stories about Howard Hughes wandering alone in his Stardust Hotel suite with long hair, bearded, and wearing tissue boxes instead of shoes? Well that would be me during this COVID-19 Pandemic, except I can't find tissues in the stores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would like to share with you a home video of a song I wrote in 1982 and recorded in my apartment last night, using my trusty 1970's Takamine white maple guitar;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stay safe. Stay Healthy. Stay away from Fox news and Right Wing Weirdness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-69061262516969157792020-03-26T00:18:00.000-07:002020-03-26T00:18:54.650-07:00Yes It's Me and I am Back Again<span style="font-size: x-large;">The beat goes on, but it feels so wrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During a conversation the other night, I wasn't sure about my point of view. But just to be sure, I searched and found what was troubling me;</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Martial law</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory. Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public, as seen in multiple countries listed below.Wikipedia</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Marshall Plan</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program implemented following World War II to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war. It was laid out by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall during an address at Harvard University in 1947. The plan was authorized by Congress as the European Recovery Program (ERP).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those are 2 different things, but they get mixed up in our minds sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This Next Video is frightening;</span><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/zsZqVtzx8B0">https://youtu.be/zsZqVtzx8B0</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a song I just finished recording;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A discussion of where the money went;</span><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/-ir5D553pjI">https://youtu.be/-ir5D553pjI</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that is my day. I hope your day was better.</span><br />
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PhilHappy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-38993265722353393912020-03-21T17:40:00.002-07:002020-03-21T17:40:58.231-07:00Today-Ja-Vu I have seen this before<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Some things that have happened for the first time, seem to be happening again"</span>- This line from the Song Where or When is so apropos that even singing it seems like a redo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I live in Redding, California. Home to boys who never grew up. For an example: What adult would ride around the block repetitively revving their gasoline wasting engines so we all can appreciate that they have removed the stock mufflers and replaced them with straight pipes? I think that they never out grew putting balloons on the frame of their bicycles as kids so it would sound like a motorboat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Just an observation</b> from an old guy who grew up riding bicycles with various noise makers attached so they would make sounds while rubbing against the spokes in the rear wheel. I moved up the ladder to anything on 2 wheels that had a motor and rode motorcycles as my primary choice of transportation for 50 some years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my 20's I learned to keep my, "Bikes", quiet so I could visit lady friends in the middle of the night without alerting neighbors. I don't think that is a concern for the all day all night Redding riders with straight pipes on their bikes and cars. If I sound like a cranky old man, it probably is true during this time of Social Distancing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here are a few things that I think a lot of people don't realize;</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Airlines have never made a profit.</b> They have been subsidized by our government since the very first "private" airline company was formed. There is no reason to further subsidize them during this time of people not flying to avoid spreading CVID-19. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did I mention that I live in Redding?</b> We have been asked to limit our social interactions to Video Chats and other forms of electronic interactions. Our favorite artists are posting videos and live streaming concerts. The latest movies are available through Vudu, IMDB, YouTube, HULU and other sources, so that we dod't put ourselves and others at risk of getting infected. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>These efforts at limiting exposure, work, (if we use them).</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>All the Science Fiction stories I have read since 1952 </b>seem to have melted together to become the realities of the 21st century, (for my republican friends, that means now).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Songs I have written, and songs I have sung or listened to others sing, are the real life soundtrack collection of today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Most of the people with whom I talk to and text</b>, are telling me that they can't seem to shake the feeling of depression. I understand. I find myself on the bounce between depression and happy productivity daily, hourly and sometimes up and down at the same time. <span style="color: #cc0000;">What a F.....d up reality we have created globally with our endless wars and dependence on profits.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This Pandemic could help America</b> undo the damages we have been doing to Earth, Air, Water and all life on this planet that our military/industrial juggernaut has been despoiling for profit and control. <span style="color: red;">We are faced with certain COVI-19 infection if we attempt business as usual.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>At least there are a few intelligent elected officials that are proposing solutions based on historical facts and science.</b> Guaranteed Universal Income, Climate Change Remedies, No bail outs for Wall Street, Corporate CEO's, Banksters or Boards of Directors, but Universal Healthcare solutions for the poor, the working classes and the middle class. <span style="color: #38761d;">The emergency personnel who are keeping America running, deserve hero level wages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>All the programs that FDR envisioned</b> and implemented are what we need to survive in these times of crises. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The Green New Deal</span> is a method we can use to accomplish survival.</b> We have to do this without subsidizing corporate profits if we hope to have a future for our planet and our children who will inherit it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you have read this far, thank you for caring about life on planet earth. </b>We can do this. We can have our elections by mail, as some states have been doing for years <span style="color: red;">without fraud or racist foolishness</span>, like Gerrymandering or Voter Suppression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you want to know more about the COVID-19 Pandemic,</b> The <a href="https://covid19.ca.gov/" target="_blank">CDC and California Department of Public Health</a> are excellent sources that just might save your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-66175189007986024702020-03-18T22:34:00.001-07:002020-03-19T00:53:11.863-07:00Round Up of Some Informative Things Not to be confused with the killer Roundup poison<br />
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Here we all wonder if we are in steerage or on the deck, but two musicians have put it in perspective. Here is a video from the BBC;<br />
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Now I would not be me, if I didn't include a few bits of information regarding the COVID-19 Novel Virus. It is a novel virus because it is a combination of SARS and MERS that has become something else and continuous to mutate.<br />
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It is exceptionally contagious and more deadly than flu strains that have been around before. It is not common and is at least 10 times more deadly than previous viruses.<br />
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Because our republican government leadership chose to ignore the warnings and advice of the CDC, 2 months ago, we can expect at least twice as many Americans will die as a result of their anti-science, republican leadership.<br />
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The best guess, now that we are taking a few of the right steps to control the spread of this pandemic disease, we can hope that the worst will be over in about a year and a half. Stupidity is not an effective immunity.<br />
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Washing our hands and not touching our faces is not enough to stop the spread, anymore. Stronger methods of containment are required. We are woefully behind on testing our citizens, and we don't have enough equipment, response teams, beds or personnel.<br />
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Here in California, after our Governor realized the Federal government had its head up its greedy selfish ass, Governor Newsome announced a state of emergency and began doing the things that should have been done by the republican President.<br />
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We still have pockets of Fox news watching dimwits, (here in Redding for example), who think they need to buy all the paper towels, toilet paper and Kleenex in the stores, like the people in Florida do before a hurricane.<br />
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I am surprised these misinformed Limbaugh listeners aren't out buying sheets of plywood to cover their windows. But I digress. All the real information you might need can be found at this CDC site <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx">https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx</a><br />
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If you are reading this from another state, they have this information and more specific to your situation. If you aren't already getting your information directly from the CDC, you need to. There are many weirdos with rumors and misinformation that exist on the TV, internet and radio. If you saw the rumor about Martial Law, don't click on it. It is click bait. It is untrue. What we have in place is a state of emergency.<br />
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Ya'll come back a check my site now and then. I have a bunch of pictures, food suggestions, and new music videos that I will have produced and will be sharing, soon. Stay safe avoid spreading the virus, stay at home if you can.<br />
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I have been reading about Spectrum offering free WiFi to students and opening up their WiFi hotspots to everyone. Check with Spectrum. I will include more information as I get it.<br />
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Since you are at home, I will post a quick music video for you entertainment;<br />
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-89356305984246828942020-01-27T14:31:00.000-08:002020-01-27T14:31:29.777-08:00The Perplexing Present<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Confused By The Facts?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are so many available sources for the truth that it amazes me to see people getting their information from Fox news. Facebook and TV news basically repeats the same misinformation that is broadcast on Fox. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earth's ecosystem is on the brink of collapse and still there are people in power who feel the need to gain monetary profits by extracting and encouraging the burning every last drop of oil, chunk of coal and last tree. They are supported by people who are not willing to embrace a more nature friendly approach to life.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I recently read an article about Dr. Commoner's, "Closing Circle". Here is a look at what could have been introduced last century in a measured manner, but which must be our life's philosophy immediately, if we are to survive.</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Everything Must Go Somewhere.” (Also known as There is No Such Place as Away.)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you have time to read the article, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/27/what-barry-commoners-four-principles-ecology-has-do-chinas-coronavirus" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/27/what-barry-commoners-four-principles-ecology-has-do-chinas-coronavirus </a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today is Music Monday, as usual. It is time for me to put together a playlist, run through the tunes, print the list and start preparing for the "Show". I may have mentioned this before, but I play guitar and sing for "old people". 😀</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also, dear reader, you may find enlightenment in another article I read this morning, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/25/greta-thunberg-needs-no-defense-why-we-must-keep-climate-striking" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/25/greta-thunberg-needs-no-defense-why-we-must-keep-climate-striking </a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Phil </span> </span></span>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-47848191705178030892020-01-17T20:01:00.000-08:002020-01-17T20:01:29.556-08:00<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d012247b-7fff-17a7-5ffc-54b0012b0c9b" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When people ask me,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> “What are you doing now that you're sort of retired?”, I tell them, “I sing and play music for old people”. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Now, there is an interesting concept;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Heaven.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Has anybody actually contemplated</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> spending eternity trapped with people that you don't really like? Nobody in their right mind would want to be stuck in a crowd of pious evangelists. (I have read that those religious crackpots are supporting the blithering fool who lurks and waders around in the White House.) They all watch Fox news, with religious fervor!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The full moon last week as seen with a little imagination</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Obviously people who watch Fox</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> have lost their minds. That's what those programs are designed to accomplish. They take viewers minds and there's nothing you or I can do about it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">If one of these people</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> that they control is your dad, your son, your sibling, your wife or your husband, you're stuck. They no longer operate with reason and logic. They are angry, panicked and afraid that Democrats are coming to take away their guns and give black people equal rights. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">2020. Who knew</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> we’d live this long? I never thought I’d make it to 2025. I expected my expiration date to come up years ago. It did, and yet I am still here. (song)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">So that's some stuff</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> that's on my mind right now. By the way, if you watched the debate CNN put on the other night, you're probably extremely disappointed with moderators asking the same old right-wing gotcha questions. Foolish me tuned in to find out what the candidates have to say about climate change, inequality and how to dismantle the American military/industrial complex that became the scourge of planet earth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">If we don't do something</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> about burning oil and fossil fuels, we may as well just give it up. By 2025 it'll be too late. That’s why millions of kids are marching in the streets. We keep living our lifestyle that is destroying the planet and kids are telling us that they are the ones that have to live with our legacy of a lifeless, ruined planet.</span></div>
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-22176998014240445762019-12-14T22:52:00.000-08:002019-12-14T22:52:22.136-08:00Thought I Was Done With Blogger<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How long until I come back to Here?</span></span><br />
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We all know how that worked out after 2 generations of Hillary smearing and right wing extreme media, (like Fox news and Talk radio), turned members of your own families into spittle spewing, hate hollering, raging racists. "Joy", vanished from our world and we are left with the cold comfort of hope that what is left of our democracy will prevail after the next election.</div>
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This was the moon tonight as seen from the top of my Echo, once I parked in front of my Treehouse Apartment. The Winter Festivities have begun and I am almost ready to print my Christmas cards. Tomorrow morning might be clear, in which case I will take some pics of Mount Shasta, Lassen Park and the Sacramento river for those cards I forgot after printing the first batch.</div>
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<br />Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-38851509908498205692018-04-20T22:51:00.000-07:002018-04-20T22:51:55.737-07:00In The Light Of Spring<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-2011d7df-e6b5-f9f4-8dbe-b5e0acd72b7e" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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We are adults here.<br />
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<br />We are capable of taking responsibility for our actions.<br />
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<br />We each try, in our own way, to address the harm done by those who behave impetuously.<br />
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<br />I would like to share with you a paragraph from today’s <a href="http://www.dailyword.com/" target="_blank">Daily Word</a>;<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">The headlines and conditions of this world may say one thing, but my heart knows this: Freedom is an inside job, and I take responsibility for establishing it in my own life. Whenever I feel tempted to look to circumstances and the outer world to set me free, I remember to search within. Here, I find my free spirit, ready to move with me in all that I do.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />And finally, We all need to eat, and my inner digestive microbe colonies would like me to have breakfast.<br />
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<br />Thanks for reading<br />Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-61547188931509548002018-01-02T21:52:00.000-08:002018-01-02T21:59:09.285-08:00New Years Wishes<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7de8d042-ba91-0ff4-5735-eda6493969bf" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I think we need to draw up</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> some guidelines limiting our behavior that will </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">benefit the natural order and save beings that are getting killed by destructive </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ban all air traffic during migrations and mating seasons</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. You have no idea </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">how much that would mean to the billions of life forms we inadvertently kill </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">by filling the air with noisy machines and pollution. Animals, microbes and insects </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cannot hear the mating calls that will help them keep their species alive. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Nor can they hear predators approaching or listen for food coming their way </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In fact, we should halt all construction</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, mountain top removal, clear cutting, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">development construction and industry during the seasons of spring and fall. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When people discover how pleasant life can be when they can actually hear </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">nature's soundtrack, we may realize how many things we don’t need to do anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><img height="416" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/osJe5CqdmMFd_KtC9EiIhbleGpBgEQj9BlZc_ahdtLhM6ocCzNT-5q9p9550fFhcKfQmb2LVlI3-cXzqs1UY13gIXxltbgIYPRjCgHll9L4YMbRot_xFGsCXHS6nev4NpmfvmAFY" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="624" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am writing tonight’s blogpost with flu-brain</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. It is interesting how a fever can </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Eventually I got the mail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">At the time, I think my temperature was only 100.8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. It doesn’t take much of </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There were no blogs back then</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, but we did have a choice between Sony </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Betamax or VHS that year. (you might enjoy reading about how American </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">corporations flooded the market with VHS and pushed Betamax out of the country. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Just look it up on google. There are hundreds of articles and other documentation </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">But I digress.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Noise pollution is a real threat to life on earth as are the activities </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that create the noises. Like strip mining or road building. I wrote a song in 1970 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">while camping at 9,800 feet in the Sierras. It was titled, “You Can’t Escape The </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What did our ancestors do</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> when they saw the place teaming with life and </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If we don’t put the brakes on</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> our appetites soon, we will have destroyed the </span><br />
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-82588168455873225232017-12-24T02:05:00.001-08:002017-12-24T02:05:42.339-08:00People Power<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-97232e17-87f8-2068-5471-4e93e0c3a067" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-68581849477605859272017-12-03T13:56:00.000-08:002017-12-03T13:56:12.225-08:00Ti's The Season<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Season Of Giving?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Was it Macy's or Gimbals</b> stores that created that slogan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Anyway, I just now imagined time traveling</b> to that famous manger in year zero, (though there were billions of prior years, some Catholic pope named it year zero).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>I was trying to think of a great gift for the Son Of God</b>, when it occurred to me that the son of God,(who created everything), already owns the universe and everything in it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>What do you give to the person who</b>, in perceived Christian reality, has everything?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Nope, the kid doesn't need a thing</b>. Everything, everywhere is already His, now and forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>So in my imaginary time traveling</b> to the land of mangers, I figured I would go sing my song, Brain Draino, to any shepherds who were dumb enough to be grazing sheep in winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>And to all ... Time traveling isn't for everyone.</b></span> </span>Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-30600835199557344122017-11-24T22:15:00.000-08:002017-11-24T22:15:58.331-08:00Giving Thanks and Observations<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What A Week!</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>I shall begin</b> with the beautiful sunset skies of the 18th, heralding a wide array of weather and wonders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>The atrocity</b> that is befouling our nations capital is about to collapse under the weight of it's own corruption. I am sure most people are anxious to begin rebuilding our democracy, (with exception of the deluded Fox news fans and talk radio listeners).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>I guess I need to include</b> the people who think they are getting real news on Facebook who have actually been manipulated by Russian trolls and propaganda computer-bots. They have been led to believe that everything is terrific and in better shape than ever before in history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" target="_blank">Mark Zukerberg</a> claims</b> that they have identified and removed most of the Russian Facebook accounts posing as American Patriotic think tanks and grass roots organizations. Better late than never.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Anyway, enough of that stuff.</b> I too, have been a victim of the troll disruption in my writing and conversations and I don't like it. That is not the path of enlightenment I wish to walk by any stretch of my metaphysical contemplation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b> Some days have been cool</b> and rainy this past week or so, here in Redding. That soggy weather made great themes for song lists that I got to sing and play at the Treehouse Senior Apartments and Connected Living (formerly Golden Umbrella).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>I am thankful for</b> the opportunity to play and sing, Here's That Rainy Day, in the same set as, Have You Ever Seen The Rain. Josephine Harris is back to rocking the piano with me at the Treehouse and we really enjoy the musical results of our combined energy. I am thankful that she is feeling better and able to add her special touches to the songs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>I was taking pictures</b> of the Thanksgiving moon in the twilight and didn't notice that a satellite or space station was reflecting sunlight. I must say that the moon was a wonderful photo subject and I took many pics last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Thank you for visiting</b> this little piece of my life as expressed here at Phil's Place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>It feels good to write</b> and share my thoughts and pictures with you. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>"I blog therefore I am"?</i></span> Perhaps...</span><br />
Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-35234277167746565542017-10-28T00:50:00.000-07:002017-10-28T00:50:55.295-07:00Best Laid Plans<b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Foiled Again</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>What do you do</b> when you are fully committed to ending a habit and in your first day you receive a package containing the very thing you are determined to quit?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>I think it was easier</b> when I quit drinking and smoking than it is to quit a product that has made my life easier for the last 10 years, Tramadol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>So here I am</b>, faced with the choice of do I continue withdrawal and spend my life looking for pain relief, or, now that my prescription has finally been refilled, do I enjoy my relatively normal life for another 28 days?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>I found that hard to believe</b>, so I Googled; <a href="https://www.google.com/search?ei=fir0WdKtA5KcjwOdirC4CA&q=verified+deaths+from+tramadol&oq=verified&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.35i39k1j0j0i20i264k1j0l7.2692520.2695053.0.2696891.8.8.0.0.0.0.271.1062.0j6j1.7.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.7.1059...0i67k1j0i131k1j0i131i67k1.0.gm34Gud7Jro" target="_blank">Verified Deaths From Tramadol</a>. There are hundreds reported each year, but Tramadol was not the only drug those people who died were taking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Back to my current dilemma;</b> The opiod crisis created by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-purduepharma/opioid-drugmaker-purdue-pharma-faces-u-s-investigation-idUSKBN1CU2V8" target="_blank">Purdue Pharma</a> and their aggressive marketing of OxyContin now includes <b>non-life threatening</b> pain relievers such as Tramadol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The wide opioid crisis net</b> has been thrown to obscure the villainous family who are expanding distribution of Oxycontin to other countries even now while people in America are dying daily from having been introduced to OxyContin.</span></div>
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-69398606132945784762017-08-09T22:58:00.000-07:002017-08-09T22:58:27.939-07:00What A Mess<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-aaad9d95-cab4-83ba-25e4-8d8cc354addf" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It will take decades to clean up the mess</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that the republicans have made of our democracy. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If we get them out of our capitol in time</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-47800326026181217512017-07-14T10:56:00.000-07:002017-07-14T10:56:01.939-07:00Some Things I Read Before Breakfast<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-f2f8ae42-423d-0948-946f-28d1e38b7f3c" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br /><br />Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-64241026190066896982017-07-01T23:09:00.003-07:002017-07-01T23:09:58.291-07:00Words To Live ByIf you haven't read, or heard Langston Hughes, you can hear his message of hope that we will achieve a better future together.<br />
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Peace and Love create a better world. Hate and Fear destroy.<br />
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I choose Peace and Love. Happy Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322022025832515163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5815891024316346805.post-16433834891815777712017-06-24T01:06:00.000-07:002017-06-24T01:06:22.776-07:00June Warms Up<br />
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