5/6: “We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.,“ Donald Trump.
This is not a new idea. It’s something Ive always complained about since the 1960s when we decided not to
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April 2025
4/30: One hundred days ago, on Jan. 20, 2025 Sleepy Don, the lord of Merde-a-Lardo, took office.
4/29: “The success of our economy depends upon immigrants. In fact, forty-six percent…of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.”
Unless Native American, I say 100 percent are immigrants or the progeny of immigrants.
March 2025 Blog
3/30: America’s Free Press was never free.
There was always a price to pay. The coins of the realm was a commitment to honesty and integrity. Of course there were always freeloaders but now those coins have been banished by threat and fear. And it appears that the old coins are being thrown into the Potomac River.
February 2025 Blog
/26: While Amazon has finally acquired the James Bond franchise,
it’s chairman, Jeff Bezos, seems to be bending to a nemesis more sinister, mean, cruel and more bent on destroying the world than any of Bond’s worst adversaries. You can see this happening in real time as Bezos continues to turn The Washington Post into a meaningless rag. And Trump, the real life incarnation of Blofeld, is just getting started! — Hey Double O Seven and M,, where are you when we need you?
January 2025 Blog
1/29: — Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the appropriations committee, called the White House’s decision to rescind the order “an important victory for the American people,” commending those who spoke out against the original order for putting pressure on the White House. She accused the Trump administration of sowing chaos through “a combination of sheer incompetence, cruel intentions and a willful disregard of the law.”
The turkey run – Illustration by David Crellen
I am proud to say I am a veteran of the US Navy. A Navy back when our supreme commander was not a draft-dodging felon and the prevailing political party did not consist of suck-ass cowards.
October 2024
September Harvest – Illustration by David Crellen
August Blog
"No one was ever born who agreed to be a slave, who accepted it. That is, slavery is a condition imposed from without. Of course, the moment I say that, I realize that multitudes and multitudes of people for various reasons of their own enslave themselves every hour of every day to this or that doctrine, this or that delusion of safety, this or that lie. Anti-Semites, for example are slaves to a delusion. People who hate Negroes are slaves. People who love money are slaves.
David Crellen's July 2024 Blog
7/31: Ethnic diversity is an essential source of America’s strength. — Kamala Harris
7/30: “Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”. Does Sherlock Holmes presage the next four years? Is that the reason why we need a male vice president/interpreter?
7/29: If children are given the right to vote, my two family dogs should have that same right.
Apple, of course, had a lot to show off on Monday. It was like introducing an exciting new sports car. They had to show off the style: how the revolutionary fender design cut the airflow, how the revolutionary paint protects from the sun and vastly improves the mileage. Plus, the breathtaking
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June is busting out all over
June 1: She Flew The Flue.
It all started late yesterday afternoon when a crazy-weird noise emanated from the TV, It sounded like someone was stumbling and thumping in a metal duct. Finley was immediately up and at ’em — staring at the TV. .
… But the TV was not on! …
Actually, the crazy noise was coming from the fireplace situated directly behind the TV. The thumping came with a lot of chirping! Turns out that a bird fell down the chimney!
It's the challenge of the Lions and the Lambs. Shall we watch?
January 2024
Let's see how this year goes. Shall we?
December 2023
It's time to take care of loose ends. Clear the books, so to speak.
That means to think of how well the year has gone for you. Don't think of any of the bad things. That'll ruin the magic of the season and take all the bubbles out of your New Years Eve champagne.
November 2023
November brings Gears to mind:
But it's also the season for wrenches falling into the gears …
At least for me it aptly begins as DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (Day of The Dead) – my birthdayMom, did you think I was a wrench in the works?
This is a reflective commentary on America's resistance to adopting the metric system, using Japan's post-war innovation and adaptation as a juxtaposition. It recounts Japan's successful transition to self-sufficiency in various industries, which played a significant role in its rise to become a
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Haunting October – PhotoArt by David Crellen
October should be a calming month. The leaves are falling. The fall colors are showing. The fall transition weather should be gentler. We, in the northern hemisphere temperate zone will be bundling up.
it’s obvious that Putin OWNS the far right throughout the world.
What has he promised besides help to gain power? Is there hidden money behind this? Does Matt Gaetz have a hidden Swiss bank account?
I think Congress should investigate – Put him into the same Hunter Biden investigation.
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September Mushrooms - Photo art by David Crellen
As a month that will metamorphose from an unbearable summer into, hopefully, a calming Autumn, September has begun as scheduled. The inhuman summer temperatures here in Coachella Valley has suddenly lowered by as much as ten degrees. Most importantly, the mornings are now below 80 making morning exercise and run bearable.
Let's hope the real world – plus politics – begin to lose its restlessness and succumb to a relaxing autumn atmosphere.
Mr. Carter as defied rules – and death – many times over his life as a farmer, a US Navy officer, a President, as a lover and savior of people, as a human being! He has a very high Emotinal Intelligence.
Instead of a memorial service he could not attend, Mr. Carter has experienced a living eulogy
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I feel like I provide a breath of fresh air to some people's thinking. But, alas, I find they won't leave their cigar-smoke-filled tavern. This tavern represents the comfortable, familiar confines of their own echo chambers. There, the intoxicating haze of similar opinions and ideas surrounds them
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"Welcome to Flight 120. In case of an emergency landing overwater, you will find a flotation device under your seat. Grab it and follow instructions to exit. In case of emergency landing over land, the back of your seat is a parachute. Just tighten your seatbelt. Then grab the upper seat belt straps
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Why do we humans look at life so materialistically?
What is material? Material is nothing but the other side of Einstein's equation for relativity:
"Energy equals Mass (material) times the square of the speed of light"
Our mind provides the energy that puts the mess, er, mass together.
C2 means
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August Flight Pattern photo by David Crellen
We're not going anywhere this August. The entire world is way too hot – temperture AND politicature!
The Rouble has declined 100% since Putin's vicious invasion of Ukraine. I wonder how much longer the Oligarchs can tolerate their fiscal disenfranchisement, meaning their ability to travel the world as an emperor – these days it's more like emperors without clothes. Ha ha.
Plus, their toys have
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On August 2, The New York Times published a piece about Ron DeSantis rant in support of Donald Trumps ongoing legal problems. He is attempting to exonerate Trump by blaming our own national pride of constitution as gone awry.
Here is a paragraph from the article: “The weaponization of federal law
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Will Tweet posts now be called eXcretes? So guess what the act of “tweeting” must now be called? And, on this same theme, I can imagine a collection of posts being called “a pile of …” What’s this world coming to?
Valle Guadalupe, Baja California Vineyards photo: David Crellen
Dateline, Palm Desert, CA – July will be the hottest July on record in the Northern Hemisphere – (don't worry, southerners. Yours will come in six months).
It's almost too hot to write, or to be writing creatively, in this crippling heat. Here in the Coachella Valley it's been well above 45 degrees (113°f) all month long. (Sorry, Phenix, we outlast you with the heat.)
This is a huge wakeup call for me.
The PBS Newshour on July 21, 2023 broadcast an article about how Ukranian military are deconstructing Russian missiles after they have destroyed buildings and killed people in Ukraine. Here is the video: Parts made by U.S. companies used to build Russian cruise
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The 121-degree, windless sun was baking Ralph's parking lot and the self-created breeze hurt my face as I walked to the store.
I can think of a more fun way fo going mad. But I had to shop for our dinner. Many restaurants close during the summer months in the Coachella Valley as the snow-birds
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June Eclipse, San Diego, CA - photo by David Crellen
Dateline, Palm Desert, CA – June begins to get hot as summer rolls in. Average temps here excede 100 degrees.
Several important events occur here in America in June in addition to the beginning of summer. These include Flag Day commemorating the 1777 adoption of the stars and stripes as our national emblem and the relatively new Juneteenth Day which, on June 19, 1865, finally recognizes the 1863 passage of the emmancipation of all slavery in America.
It seems like the 1863-1865 era when many white Americans refused to accept the emancipation of black Americans. Today, a particular sector of society refuses to get not only the emancipation of all our rights to freedom of thought and deed but wants to eliminate the true knowledge of our history.
Are they ever coming home?
Dateline, Palm Desert, CA – May's weather here in the desert begins as a refreshing 20• to 25• in the day (around 13• over night). It's the time for the golfers to enjoy their game and for Finley, Lexie and I to enjoy our daily runs.
But by the end ov the month we'll be experiencing an unlivable 40• to 45•! That's when all sane people should emigrate from the valley if they can. In another month many of the nicer restaurants will close for the summer months. … Not nice!
The Pentagon says $3 billion more for Ukraine was
discovered due to an accounting mistake.. What kind of accountant works for the gov? I wish my accountant could find even a thousand-dollar error in my favor! I never took any accounting classes, but I've often wondered if there is a class called
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I've been watching an uber-interesting course on Wondrium.com about Nanotechnology. Its application is especially suitable to the medical field, where the technology can produce miniature devices (thousands of them could fit across a single human hair!). These can be made to carry payloads of
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