Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Here is a little science lesson for you flat earthers… Today is the Summer Solstice. It’s the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s also the first official day of summer.

I know that’s news to all of you that thought Memorial Day weekend was the being of Summer. Sorry to disappoint.

So, what actually is the Solstice? A solstice is an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21. In many countries, the seasons of the year are determined by the solstices and the equinoxes.

Crazy right… now if the Earth wasn’t a sphere and didn’t circle our nearest star (THE SUN) with an elliptical orbit we wouldn’t have a summer or winter solstice. In fact we wouldn’t have seasons at all.

The flat earth theory is that the earth isn’t a globe or a sphere in it a plate, that right a round plate. Many flat-Earthers agree that the sun perfectly circles the ring of the equator on the equinox; however, to account for the equal hours of daytime and nighttime, the models make a few tweaks to how the sun itself looks and behaves.

While you might envision the sun as an enormous ball of exploding gas located 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, a flat-Earther would see it as a teeny, tiny spotlight hovering just over the Earth. How teeny and how close is it? According to the early flat-Earth thinker Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who published the influential treatise “Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe” in 1881, the sun is only about 32 miles (52 km) in diameter and hovers anywhere from 400 to 700 miles (640 to 1,130 km) above the Earth, depending on the month.

“The sun moves in circles around the North Pole. When it is over your head, it’s day. When it’s not, it’s night. The light of the sun is confined to a limited area, and its light acts like a spotlight upon the Earth.”

The diameter of these sun-circles governs the seasons. According to one popular theory, the sun circles closest to the North Pole in June, then spends the next six months spiraling slowly outward toward the ice wall at the edge of the world. In December, the sun reverses course, and spirals back inward again. During the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sun circles in a perfect loop around the equator, casting light on half of the disc world at any given time.

Holy shit that makes perfect sense…

Still doesn’t explain how if you fly west from LA and travel 24,900 miles without changing course you will return to LA. That’s some next level mind screw shit there. Why if the earth is flat why did Columbus think that he could reach Inda from Spain by sailing West? For those of you that don’t know India is geographically South-East of Spain.

If you can look at pictures from space, justify why satellite’s function, or how lunar eclipses are a thing and still believe we live on a round flat plate, well I can’t help you. Good luck with you future endeavors and try not to fall off the edge.

(Morons Guide to Anarchy)

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The recent events of power station vandalism and the bridge collapse in Pennsylvania are possibly tied to an effort to start a revolution. If that is the case, it is hoped that all those behind this rather grandiose plan of ignorance get caught and jailed sooner as opposed to later. Why the devil do people believe they are going to end up with something better if they do away with what we currently have. 

If this is really a racially motivated effort, they need to keep in mind that their ancestors are the ones that brought others here for the purpose of doing the dirty work. If they did not want them to end up as citizens then they should have limited the time any could stay, brought them in as foreign work force and paid them like the Kuati’s or just did the work themselves. The supremacy crap is just so stupid. 

Entire civilizations have been lost because of the desire of one group trying to either rob or enslave another. The natives of South America had gold, they wore it openly, they used it in everything. It was easy to find they did not have to mine it; it was just in the rivers to be had. The Spanish were gold crazy and they wanted to take as much as possible back to Spain and instead of just collecting it themselves they were killing and taking what the native population had worked. 

It is interesting that one part of the world has so much of it that it can be found without effort and other parts seem to have none that can be found without strenuous effort. The same hold for diamonds. All mineral wealth seems to be very easily found in one place and totally not found in others.

Back to the idea of a civil war to overthrow the government and install someone to rule the nation. Current thinking is that Trump should be that ruler, he is especially in favor of this as it would allow him to be of the same standing as the various leaders (?) that he so quickly calls friends. We do not need to have a king, or emperor of a czar or any other form of self-anointed nincompoop that believes he runs everything and all jump to his commands.

Effort is being made in several states to establish the kind of atmosphere that promotes the type of environment that is suited to a despot leader. Do not trust your neighbor or even your family as you may have a secret that could make them some money if they knew and reported it. Trump is calling the DOJ fascist and all sorts of other things and yet if you look at the way he operates he is the one that is the fascist. 

All this bellowing “out to get me” and “travesty of justice” is a lot of crap. He brought this on to himself with the idea in mind that if he held onto those documents the government would pay him to give them back, as happened with Nixon, don’t know if that is true or not. At any rate he is by his own admission guilty of the charges, and he needs to put on his big boy pants and pay the piper just like his former lawyer did. 

Of course, the republican party is standing there whining about all this being so unjust, but no one spoke up when shit was traveling the other direction, they were all on board with it. They want to do away with mail in voting, that is so they hope they are able to control the places people would have to go to vote and make it so uncomfortable that people would give up and not bother. Another route to follow is to control the vote, control the congress and control the country. That line of thinking is likely to turn ugly before it is all over with, and if it does, we can only hope that the people the ugly gets unleashed on are the ones that are currently trying to make the rules. 

Anyone that has ever acted in a tractorist fashion and been caught has not been treated like some sort of abused baby. That is not the case with Trump, people for some reason beyond my comprehension, seem to be afraid of what he might do. Since he acts more like the pied piper, I suppose the reason for fear is because he may unleash his rats on the rest of us. At this point in all that is going on reference the classified and the efforts to hide things and the lies it should be time for all that were willing to follow him down the rat hole to be rethinking their priorities and loyalties.

Most of this nations’ more important A list types of people have had things named after them, or coins and bill minted with their image on them, but I have yet to see or hear of anything named Benedict or Arnold. Trump has all kinds of stuff with his name on it, and he would change the name of the nation to Trump if he were able. The two things that drive him are greed and fame, not love of country and patriotism. 

Should we worry about the reaction of his loyalist followers? In the short-term trouble is likely as no one wants to back the loser, many will not let that go without a fight. With the arming of the nation through all the recent gun laws violence would seem to be a very likely outcome. It is unfortunate that our nation would fall victim to such an outcome over one man’s ego, but as the law says, “there is no excuse for ignorance”.

    Will we survive that conflict? More than likely, especially once it has been determined that the catalyst for the strife is no longer with us. At that point we will have to start rebuilding and hopefully the order of the day will not be to hang everyone that raised arms against or defied the winning side, which we hope will be the side for democracy.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The 4th of July is nearly here, our nation’s birthday and the symbol of our nation is still being held hostage by a minority of our citizens that claim they represent the stars and stripes more proudly than the rest of us. 

Most societies are complex, they have those that are very conservative and others that are liberal in their outlook. It does not matter what title or name they give to these groups; it still comes down to the idea that the more conservative you are the less likely you are to feel compelled to show interest in your neighbor’s plight. Self-interest is the name of the game, as long as I have what I need you are on your own. Another way to mark the difference is that the conservatives usually are landowners, and the liberals work on the land.

Landowners tend to either view that land as a way to cultivate it and reap the benefits or rape the land and rip out the assets. Either way they are not often generous in sharing the rewards of the enterprise. Our nation was founded by men that owned the land and because of that they had a voice where others did not and a king and the government behind him were doing their best to rip the wealth away from the colonies.

Even after the revolution was over the landowners kept power. They allowed the other men to vote, they just put stop gaps in place to make sure the vote would go the way they wanted to go, it is called the electoral college.  This was put in place to overcome the lack of education of the common man. Even when the practice of slavery ended, they held the power by wanting to give people of color ⅗ of a vote.

Today it is called gerrymandering. Working in the voting districts so that a minority ends up with the majority of the representation. A portion of that group runs around calling themselves patriots, when they in fact do not represent American values, and they defile our national emblem by hanging it on all sorts of vehicles and getting it filthy and allowing it to fly when it is torn and soiled. 

A patriot will answer the call to defend the nation against foreign invaders, a patriot does not take up arms against his neighbor because he does not agree with you about a certain policy, procedure, or law. These differences are the ones we discuss and find mutual ground to settle not threaten or are willing to kill because one or two people didn’t get their way.

We have a huge problem with homelessness, and it is costing us millions of dollars. We have the only country in the world that practices live shooter exercises in our public schools. That is also costing us dearly not only in dollars but in the mental and emotional problems of our youth, our nation’s future. Will someone turn off the dissenting bastard with the microphone and kick his ass out of the building?

A national political party allowed itself to be hijacked and that hijacker used what he has always used to get what he wanted. The more base the language and the more schoolyard bully tactics he could use seemed to fire up some that were never really into politics before and shouldn’t be now. Our political system is dysfunctional and has been since the early 60’s because they put through a rider on a bill that allowed them to make determinations for themselves about wages, health care, retirement, and benefits. They do not need to listen to the voters on any of those issues; it is all in house.

The second time around the bully did not make it back into office, very upsetting as he had hopes of becoming King. At any rate a lot of things happened that should not have happened and our court system, our news establishment, and law enforcement as well as several individuals have ended up with problems that we may not see over and done for quite a long time to come.

We are having armed individuals show up at voting places and what is their purpose? Are they there to help or intimidate voters. If you are uncomfortable with this type of show, then are you going to go vote? Threats, intimidation, and efforts to cast doubt on the voting process need to be treated as you would an armed robbery. Let’s take it a step further and call for disqualification of the candidate that has called for this type of interference. Can you see the blame game going on that issue?

    In leu of having the nation torn apart because of the outcome of an election just bar the person that has already proven himself to be unfit and tell that party to find another qualified candidate or withdraw. Qualified means someone who is actually supportive of the Constitution not out trying to destroy it.

The latest gambit is the one about a news person suggesting that maybe he can get a pardon if he withdraws for the election, and of course, this is out of the question as he is in the fight to protect you. This is the same type of story as the one about running a human bondage center out of the basement of a building that doesn’t have a basement. More hero worship or put me on a pedestal as I am your savior.

Power and the money that hopefully goes with it are the prizes in this game and the country and all the people in it are nothing more than pawns on the chess board.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

What You Focus On Is What Becomes Powerful – Why Your Thoughts and Feelings Matter

There is an interesting theory and real-world correlation on achievement through thought. There have been numerous books written on the subject and many of them have become bestsellers. ‘How to Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill is an oldie but a goodie and one many of us have probably read, there are thousands of titles out there and I would recommend reading every one of them if you have the inclination.

The basic premise of most of these titles is that if you focus on something that energy will have you always on the lookout for it. I read if you are thinking about a yellow car, you will unintentionally see more yellow cars because you are looking for them. The same holds true for your attitude, if you are always angry or upset that all you will see in the world and that negative outlook will only drive you deeper into the ditch.

Think about a time that you were broke… that constant feeling and thinking about how little you had perpetuated the brokenness you were experiencing instead of looking for a solution your mind focuses on the lack of what ever you were missing. It the same concept of focusing on your pain… if instead you concentrate on you breathing the pain diminishes.

I know this all sounds like Dali Lama, hocus pocus BS but it actually works. I am not trying to fill your head with the fantasy that if you concentrate on winning the lottery you will win it, that would be some next level magic shit. But, if you focus on something you want or need and keep it in the forefront of your mind, our miraculous brain will look for ways to satisfy that goal. Crazy right!?

So here is an experiment for you to try… just decide that you are going to have a great day. When someone asks how you are, smile and say great. Say it and believe it. I can almost guarantee that you will have a great day!!

Thank you for indulging me… and HAVE A GREAT DAY😊

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The origins of Juneteenth date back to June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, a U.S. Army officer and Union General during the Civil War, issued an order in Galveston, Texas, announcing that all slaves were free under the Emancipation Proclamation. The Civil War ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

I completely understand the information delivery system in the 1860’s was antiquated as compared to modern day, but they did have the telegraph before the civil war so why did it take 40 days after Lee’s surrender for all slaves to be told that they were free.

In retrospect Washington ended hostilities ending the war for independence on April 18, 1783, and the proclamation of the end of the war was widely recognized by April 23, 1783. So, the news that the war for our independence ended, nearly 100 years prior to the end of the Civil War and with the telegraph system, was disseminated in 4 days but the totality of slaves did not know they were free for 40 days. That would seem comical if we didn’t understand the historical president that this fact obviously fits into.

In June of 2021, Congress passed a resolution Congressman Cohen co-sponsored to establish the federal holiday. President Biden signed it into law on June 17, 2021, and Juneteenth was first celebrated as a federal holiday the next day. It took the remaining slaves 40 days to know they were free and 156 years for the country to recognize this as a historical event. I loved history in school and have read about every period in American history and this small sliver of information wasn’t something I randomly came across I literally had to go looking for it. I knew about Juneteenth in the early 2000s only because I had done the research and even though President Biden has made it a Federal Holiday most still have no idea what the date stands for.

It is sad that we still celebrate a murderous Italian that sailed under a Spanish Flag that never stepped foot on North American soil. Columbus for those of you who don’t know who I am referring to. But then again, he was a white European so there’s that.  

How many other events do we ignore of our own stained history? We do celebrate MLK day, but we discount so much more. In the early 20^th century because segregation laws that prevented Black residents from shopping in white neighborhoods, and the desire to keep money circulating in their own community, Tulsa, OK, Greenwood residents collectively funneled their cash into local Black businesses. This was affectionately called Black Wall Street. As if on que for the white populous on May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents attacked Black residents, homes, and businesses, as well as cultural and public institutions in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK,. An estimated 300 people were killed and approximately 35 acres of commercial and residential property within the Greenwood District. Have any schools taught about this ugly event in our nation’s history. Well of course not because it might make Jaden uncomfortable just like amending Rosa Parks story to not include, she was disobedient to a white segregation law that said she had to sit in the back of the bus.

Guess what folks this isn’t Critical Race Theory, the right-wing cry about CRT, this is just fucking history.  Lincoln said it best: “History is not history unless it is the truth.” The facts of our past may not be the rosy picture you want to see but the lessons to be learned from our past mistakes are what history has to offer.

Today we cannot whitewash the past just because it doesn’t subscribe to a favorable, we can do no wrong, image some want to believe we have always had.  As a nation we have done some really great things, but we have also done just as many, if not more, really terrible things. The goal of history is to recognize the facts, learn from them and try with all our might not to repeat the bad shit.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

• “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” — Charles Kettering

This is the most appropriate Father’s Day quote I could find. I feel that I have always tried to follow my father’s example not that his advice was not worthy, but the example helped set the path. I hope that I have set an example for my son, I know in my heart that he will be a better man than I am.

Short and sweet day…. Happy Father’s Day