Calzone
Gear Whore #1
I kinda know the Donald does not like being the subject of the justice department rulings.
I hope this annoys him. Ha-ha…
Cal
I hope this annoys him. Ha-ha…
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
The forecast is for “a parade of storms” starting later today.
We got up early with the intention of going to Trader Joe’s to beat the mob scene. We were there a little after 8:00 AM and pretty much the parking lot was kinda full already.
There is a limit of a dozen eggs per shopper now. I bought the cheap white eggs in extra large for $3.49.
On the incontenence front a bit of after dribble or leakage at times. This regression is due to increased bowel activity. Oh-well. Not so high and dry anymore. No gushers though.
Just got a bill that is my out of pocket for the surgery I figure. Ouch… Good thing I have the money in the bank. I imagine for many households this would be like a major car repair and a setback that would go on a credit card.
I’m doing fine. No paycheck-to-paycheck living for me…
Since I have so many guitars there is a need for constant tweaking. Some of my guitars have fret ends that protrude as the dry heat of winter and the slow process of wood contraction makes the metal fret end stick out like little knives. I call this condition Ginzo Frets after the cheap steak knives sold on TV that have scalloped blades.
Pretty much I have to unstrung and remove the neck and file the fret ends flush with the side of the neck. Thing is I have a few guitars with Ginzo Frets.
We bought the grandson a drum machine yesterday. He is an interesting kid. One of his knick names I call him is “Ham.” He kinda is a drama queen, and pretty much demands full attention. Pretty much our house is his house. There is some OCD behavior. Could be good or bad.
Compensated the Granddaughter with cash since we bought the grandson some toys. She actually has a cash buildup.
Monday the custom guitar necks will get delivered. Glad I already have the custom set of red tuners on hand, so no more waiting. This Jazz Strat looks to be a heavy guitar. The Callaham bridge has a mucho heavy steel inertia block. This guitar I think has potential to have mucho sustain.
So I’m kinda excited to add two new guitars to my stable, but in the meantime I have some maintenance to do.
Cal
We got up early with the intention of going to Trader Joe’s to beat the mob scene. We were there a little after 8:00 AM and pretty much the parking lot was kinda full already.
There is a limit of a dozen eggs per shopper now. I bought the cheap white eggs in extra large for $3.49.
On the incontenence front a bit of after dribble or leakage at times. This regression is due to increased bowel activity. Oh-well. Not so high and dry anymore. No gushers though.
Just got a bill that is my out of pocket for the surgery I figure. Ouch… Good thing I have the money in the bank. I imagine for many households this would be like a major car repair and a setback that would go on a credit card.
I’m doing fine. No paycheck-to-paycheck living for me…
Since I have so many guitars there is a need for constant tweaking. Some of my guitars have fret ends that protrude as the dry heat of winter and the slow process of wood contraction makes the metal fret end stick out like little knives. I call this condition Ginzo Frets after the cheap steak knives sold on TV that have scalloped blades.
Pretty much I have to unstrung and remove the neck and file the fret ends flush with the side of the neck. Thing is I have a few guitars with Ginzo Frets.
We bought the grandson a drum machine yesterday. He is an interesting kid. One of his knick names I call him is “Ham.” He kinda is a drama queen, and pretty much demands full attention. Pretty much our house is his house. There is some OCD behavior. Could be good or bad.
Compensated the Granddaughter with cash since we bought the grandson some toys. She actually has a cash buildup.
Monday the custom guitar necks will get delivered. Glad I already have the custom set of red tuners on hand, so no more waiting. This Jazz Strat looks to be a heavy guitar. The Callaham bridge has a mucho heavy steel inertia block. This guitar I think has potential to have mucho sustain.
So I’m kinda excited to add two new guitars to my stable, but in the meantime I have some maintenance to do.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Superstition suggests when a Philly team wins a championship that the markets tank, like the Great Depression in 1929, or 2018.
“Go Birds,” I say.
Tomorrow will be interesting.
Again “Go Eagles…”
Cal
“Go Birds,” I say.
Tomorrow will be interesting.
Again “Go Eagles…”
Cal
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
The Phillies won the world series in 2008 after decades of consistent underperformance. One more data point to support your premise.
Phil
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Phil,
I’m only repeating a report.
Just saying not my premise.
Call me mucho evil, but a big hurt in our economy is needed right not.
Un Ginzo’ed one guitar, then another. Did a third neck, but this guitar is getting redeveloped.
Took a break because “Maggie” wanted to go out. We hit a Church thrift store in Garrison that is three floors and not far away. I spent $5.00 for 5 CD’s. Many of the ones I looked at that I didn’t buy were scratched to death.
I just listened to a John Coltrane CD of a live European performance. Mucho great. He slowed down slightly and these classics had more soul and was a new way to experience him. It was a 2-CD set but one CD was missing.
Maggie bought a denim baseball cap for $1.00.
Cheap thrills.
Cal
I’m only repeating a report.
Just saying not my premise.
Call me mucho evil, but a big hurt in our economy is needed right not.
Un Ginzo’ed one guitar, then another. Did a third neck, but this guitar is getting redeveloped.
Took a break because “Maggie” wanted to go out. We hit a Church thrift store in Garrison that is three floors and not far away. I spent $5.00 for 5 CD’s. Many of the ones I looked at that I didn’t buy were scratched to death.
I just listened to a John Coltrane CD of a live European performance. Mucho great. He slowed down slightly and these classics had more soul and was a new way to experience him. It was a 2-CD set but one CD was missing.
Maggie bought a denim baseball cap for $1.00.
Cheap thrills.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
The snow has not started yet, the bird feeder has been just filled.
Time to go practice guitar…
Cal
Time to go practice guitar…
Cal
Retro-Grouch
Veteran
It would be the worst folly to say, "All's right with the world." But sometimes, for a little while, we can make things OK in our little corner of it. ❤️
Yokosuka Mike
Abstract Clarity
I’m concerned about the current regime's tolerance and outright acceptance of racism.
These are the people that think that slaves benefited from slavery and that they (the slaves) should be thankful for what the white man provided them.
One may think that my last statement is over the top and uncalled for. I would say that in the next couple of years Orange Whip and company will water down the atrocities of the past, normalize them and then make the unthinkable acceptable to the point that anything goes; goes in the interest of white nationalists that is.
I hope I’m wrong.
Mike
These are the people that think that slaves benefited from slavery and that they (the slaves) should be thankful for what the white man provided them.
One may think that my last statement is over the top and uncalled for. I would say that in the next couple of years Orange Whip and company will water down the atrocities of the past, normalize them and then make the unthinkable acceptable to the point that anything goes; goes in the interest of white nationalists that is.
I hope I’m wrong.
Mike
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Mike,
To me already trying to dismantle USAID is encouraging starvation and already is genocide.
Instead of let them eat cake, the Orange-House is saying, “Let them die of exposure and starvation.”
Don’t forget that with hurricane Katrina that about 3,000 people were abandoned and left to die of exposure and starvation. These were poor, black and elderly.
A reminder about 3,000 people were killed on September 11th… Always remember…, but did we forget the 3,000 helpless people our government let die that were abandoned and didn’t count? If you are human or an American there should be a sense of shame that lingers, but I don’t think that is the case.
On the “Dude Pit” a bass guitar forum, there was this man who set off on his own with a tailored skiff rescuing people in the aftermath of Katrina. His humanity drove him to a point where he could not let innocent helpless people die. He never was able to post a follow up, he was exhausted, and traumatized.
He was not the only hero who put others in need before his own needs. He also put himself in harms way.
Of course at this level people are no longer humans, and I mean the victims of genocide, and also the people who are imposing this death and suffering.
So there is president here, where the poor, blacks, and the elderly can be abandoned… Certainly this will happen again… George W. Bush has blood on his hands…
Did people know they were were voting for this?
Is not Guantanamo Bay a concentration camp?
I don’t think you are over the top. Hate crimes have increased and the current rule of law, or lack, of makes it clear to me, that if I am a victim of a hate crime to use deadly force.
BTW, I wonder how much risk I would endure if I drove down to Texas to visit our niece and her husband who are expecting a baby.
Had a bad experience with Jet Blue flying down there. Also there have been a series of 3 plane crashes.
This would be more in the spring. I guess I will pick my poison.
Anyways, be a judge of your own humanity. I know my humanity is at risk when I know that the rage and conditioning within me could be a moment of loss of control, and I could take a life. All it would take is a lethal blow or a blink of an eye, one brief moment of insanity. Within me I recognize an inhumanity, and it scares me.
Cal
To me already trying to dismantle USAID is encouraging starvation and already is genocide.
Instead of let them eat cake, the Orange-House is saying, “Let them die of exposure and starvation.”
Don’t forget that with hurricane Katrina that about 3,000 people were abandoned and left to die of exposure and starvation. These were poor, black and elderly.
A reminder about 3,000 people were killed on September 11th… Always remember…, but did we forget the 3,000 helpless people our government let die that were abandoned and didn’t count? If you are human or an American there should be a sense of shame that lingers, but I don’t think that is the case.
On the “Dude Pit” a bass guitar forum, there was this man who set off on his own with a tailored skiff rescuing people in the aftermath of Katrina. His humanity drove him to a point where he could not let innocent helpless people die. He never was able to post a follow up, he was exhausted, and traumatized.
He was not the only hero who put others in need before his own needs. He also put himself in harms way.
Of course at this level people are no longer humans, and I mean the victims of genocide, and also the people who are imposing this death and suffering.
So there is president here, where the poor, blacks, and the elderly can be abandoned… Certainly this will happen again… George W. Bush has blood on his hands…
Did people know they were were voting for this?
Is not Guantanamo Bay a concentration camp?
I don’t think you are over the top. Hate crimes have increased and the current rule of law, or lack, of makes it clear to me, that if I am a victim of a hate crime to use deadly force.
BTW, I wonder how much risk I would endure if I drove down to Texas to visit our niece and her husband who are expecting a baby.
Had a bad experience with Jet Blue flying down there. Also there have been a series of 3 plane crashes.
This would be more in the spring. I guess I will pick my poison.
Anyways, be a judge of your own humanity. I know my humanity is at risk when I know that the rage and conditioning within me could be a moment of loss of control, and I could take a life. All it would take is a lethal blow or a blink of an eye, one brief moment of insanity. Within me I recognize an inhumanity, and it scares me.
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
My neighbor used his snow blower to do our tiny 20x20 foot driveway. My 1966 truck and Audi A4 are sheltered in the garage.
Oddly not many people use theirs garages to store vehicles up here.
In the winter there are parking restrictions for on the street parking.
“Maggie” will shovel our steps and the short walkway to the street. It is a blessing not having sidewalks to be responsible for. We are on the fringe of a city of 25K.
Tomorrow, Monday, is a big day for me. Custom neck deliveries are expected. A nice way to help with my recovery, and an aid and lift in inspiration. I have an arsenal of guitars.
Last night I wandered and wondered if I should use the surplus 1-piece alder Tele body to make a 28 5/8 inch scale length Baritone guitar. The inspiration for this is to basically have a very different tele, because I have so many. I know this is a lame excuse, but it is an entertaining option.
Know that a standard Fender Tele or Strat scale length is 25 1/2 inches. With a Baritone guitar they usually tune down and use heavy gauge strings, to build enough string tension to prevent floppy strings and fret scrapping.
In my case I would perhaps use 11’s instead of 12’s to be able to utilize a standard tuning. No one really does this because the added distance between frets of course makes a longer small guitar harder to play. Not the best for speed, but expect a
“Piano-Sound” response with more sustain and tonal richness.
This requires a great amount of hand strength as well as great technic to prevent strain and injury. Not many people could harness this difference. To a degree this is more of a step towards exploiting single note playing style, but pretty much even though I have a hand size that is considered “extra-medium” I enjoy a vast dexterity that is great. Doing mucho chord playing with a longer scale works for me.
So I think I will indulge. It so happens that Warmoth has two Baritone conversion necks being sold at a discount. Hmmm…
Cal
Oddly not many people use theirs garages to store vehicles up here.
In the winter there are parking restrictions for on the street parking.
“Maggie” will shovel our steps and the short walkway to the street. It is a blessing not having sidewalks to be responsible for. We are on the fringe of a city of 25K.
Tomorrow, Monday, is a big day for me. Custom neck deliveries are expected. A nice way to help with my recovery, and an aid and lift in inspiration. I have an arsenal of guitars.
Last night I wandered and wondered if I should use the surplus 1-piece alder Tele body to make a 28 5/8 inch scale length Baritone guitar. The inspiration for this is to basically have a very different tele, because I have so many. I know this is a lame excuse, but it is an entertaining option.
Know that a standard Fender Tele or Strat scale length is 25 1/2 inches. With a Baritone guitar they usually tune down and use heavy gauge strings, to build enough string tension to prevent floppy strings and fret scrapping.
In my case I would perhaps use 11’s instead of 12’s to be able to utilize a standard tuning. No one really does this because the added distance between frets of course makes a longer small guitar harder to play. Not the best for speed, but expect a
“Piano-Sound” response with more sustain and tonal richness.
This requires a great amount of hand strength as well as great technic to prevent strain and injury. Not many people could harness this difference. To a degree this is more of a step towards exploiting single note playing style, but pretty much even though I have a hand size that is considered “extra-medium” I enjoy a vast dexterity that is great. Doing mucho chord playing with a longer scale works for me.
So I think I will indulge. It so happens that Warmoth has two Baritone conversion necks being sold at a discount. Hmmm…
Cal
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Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
Guantanamo Bay is going to get that way (concentration camp).
30,000 individuals plus all the staffing (from the Navy) is going to get ugly. We have a new generation of military members, most of whom weren't born when the Abu Graib prison fiasco occurred. That was a smaller facility, with more military presence. There is NOTHING good which can come of this. Many people in one place is going to result in sickness, violence, and death, make no mistake about it. This isn't a supermax prison, and it isn't the prison which has detained 9/11 conspirators for twenty years. It is just a series of old green tents which will probably house 8 prisoners, at first, then due to space, materials, and staffing, will become rapidly overcrowded. Down in Cuba as well. I think this will eventually amount to torture and the coward at the top will be wholly culpable.
Check out Terry Gross' "Fresh Air" podcast from last week with NY Times correspondent, Dexter Filkins, it's awesome for more on the ground perspective and chilling in the assessment that the US military is simply not ready. I met Dexter at Camp Fallujah, in the civilian press area, when I was assigned to be the "minder" of Jackie Spinner when she was at the Washington Post, if I recall correctly. Dexter had just come off a convoy which had been hit by an IED and one of the photographers had her life saved by her camera. I kept up with him just a bit over the years, but really more so with Ashley Gilbertson, the photographer who went into Fallujah with Dexter, during the second siege. They were with 1/8 Marines and witnessed the worst of it. I trust Dexter's opinion and it's a bit calming (if you have the opportunity to listen to his assessment on the notion of US taking over Gaza). That said the unpredictability of Orange Julius is something that no one can really accurately assess.
Phil
30,000 individuals plus all the staffing (from the Navy) is going to get ugly. We have a new generation of military members, most of whom weren't born when the Abu Graib prison fiasco occurred. That was a smaller facility, with more military presence. There is NOTHING good which can come of this. Many people in one place is going to result in sickness, violence, and death, make no mistake about it. This isn't a supermax prison, and it isn't the prison which has detained 9/11 conspirators for twenty years. It is just a series of old green tents which will probably house 8 prisoners, at first, then due to space, materials, and staffing, will become rapidly overcrowded. Down in Cuba as well. I think this will eventually amount to torture and the coward at the top will be wholly culpable.
Check out Terry Gross' "Fresh Air" podcast from last week with NY Times correspondent, Dexter Filkins, it's awesome for more on the ground perspective and chilling in the assessment that the US military is simply not ready. I met Dexter at Camp Fallujah, in the civilian press area, when I was assigned to be the "minder" of Jackie Spinner when she was at the Washington Post, if I recall correctly. Dexter had just come off a convoy which had been hit by an IED and one of the photographers had her life saved by her camera. I kept up with him just a bit over the years, but really more so with Ashley Gilbertson, the photographer who went into Fallujah with Dexter, during the second siege. They were with 1/8 Marines and witnessed the worst of it. I trust Dexter's opinion and it's a bit calming (if you have the opportunity to listen to his assessment on the notion of US taking over Gaza). That said the unpredictability of Orange Julius is something that no one can really accurately assess.
Phil
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Phil,
“Orange Julius” made me laugh, but the situation is not.
The military cargo planes can hold up to 800 people. This was done in evacuating people from Afghanistan. The cost of operating a C-130 is $20K per flight hour.
Pretty much a waste of money and resources, especially using C-130’s to deliver 80-90 deportees to Columbia in two separate flights. Do the math, and what a waste. A total waste of money and resources.
Orange Julius is not a joke to laugh about…
I image the exposure to 30K detainees to inhuman conditions, and the likelihood of a devastating hurricane. A man made calamity with the possibility of being ten-times worse than the death toll of Katrina.
Cal
“Orange Julius” made me laugh, but the situation is not.
The military cargo planes can hold up to 800 people. This was done in evacuating people from Afghanistan. The cost of operating a C-130 is $20K per flight hour.
Pretty much a waste of money and resources, especially using C-130’s to deliver 80-90 deportees to Columbia in two separate flights. Do the math, and what a waste. A total waste of money and resources.
Orange Julius is not a joke to laugh about…
I image the exposure to 30K detainees to inhuman conditions, and the likelihood of a devastating hurricane. A man made calamity with the possibility of being ten-times worse than the death toll of Katrina.
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
The Philadelphia Eagles are not favored to win today’s Super Bowl.
An upset historically could mark a economic downturn, which is what I’m thinking we need to create a crisis and stop or inhibit Orange-Power.
Go Eagles…
Cal
An upset historically could mark a economic downturn, which is what I’m thinking we need to create a crisis and stop or inhibit Orange-Power.
Go Eagles…
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
I just paid the balance on my share of my surgery bill that kinda amounts to a major car repair. No stress, the money is in the bank, but I think of the households that live paycheck-to-paycheck, and how such a bill would likely go to a credit card.
My estimate is at least half the American public lives paycheck-to-paycheck and maybe as much a 2/3rds. Pretty much the lifestyle of living beyond one’s means is a carryover from the days of Zero APR, free money, and Heicopter money monetary policy.
The point I’m making here is the general public got accustom to cheap credit, and when interest rates increased the general public abused credit to maintain their standard of living. Living beyond one’s means is now the culture. Very foolish…
So to compensate for the Concentration Camp mentality being promoted by Orange Julius, today I will write out a generous check to C-HOP our local Peekskill farm to table food pantry. I have friends in this non-profit, and they do mucho good.
So on a small scale and on a local level I’m doing some good to offset the vast harm that is being performed.
A headline that was click-bait is that The Hudson Valley has seen and is experiencing real estate price increases. Good for me/us. Median home prices increased. I expect the housing shortage to continue… but at the same time the housing shortage will still continue to escalate and put a squeeze on buyers.
Remember the long-term average for 30 year mortgage rates is actually 7.49%, so to a degree a 7.0% rate really is not so bad, unless you consider all the record low interest rates below 3%. They say that now/today 50% of all outstanding mortgages are below 4%.
Of course this creates a locked in effect, encourages remodeling and expanding existing homes rather than selling and buying to upgrade, and makes it hard and difficult for first time home buyers. Affordability is one problem, and another is the limited supply.
I say this will likely exist for more than a decade, if not 15 years, maybe even 20 years. Then tariffs on building materials will only heighten costs of new construction. Don’t forget that real estate is a hedge against inflation…
Figure that many 30 year mortgages have to get paid down or off for many homes to be back in the market to ”normalize” the housing shortage. A decade, a decade and a half, or even 2 decades is not an unrealistic timeline for things to unwind, but in the meantime expect prices on homes to go up and a long trend of higher inflation.
So pretty much I’m saying don’t be so scared of buying because time, percentages, and economic conditions all say time is your friend here.
Lower interest rates seem not to be in the picture because inflation looks to be accelerating in the future…
So I’m happy I live in the Hudson Valley. I can’t think of a better place…
Cal
My estimate is at least half the American public lives paycheck-to-paycheck and maybe as much a 2/3rds. Pretty much the lifestyle of living beyond one’s means is a carryover from the days of Zero APR, free money, and Heicopter money monetary policy.
The point I’m making here is the general public got accustom to cheap credit, and when interest rates increased the general public abused credit to maintain their standard of living. Living beyond one’s means is now the culture. Very foolish…
So to compensate for the Concentration Camp mentality being promoted by Orange Julius, today I will write out a generous check to C-HOP our local Peekskill farm to table food pantry. I have friends in this non-profit, and they do mucho good.
So on a small scale and on a local level I’m doing some good to offset the vast harm that is being performed.
A headline that was click-bait is that The Hudson Valley has seen and is experiencing real estate price increases. Good for me/us. Median home prices increased. I expect the housing shortage to continue… but at the same time the housing shortage will still continue to escalate and put a squeeze on buyers.
Remember the long-term average for 30 year mortgage rates is actually 7.49%, so to a degree a 7.0% rate really is not so bad, unless you consider all the record low interest rates below 3%. They say that now/today 50% of all outstanding mortgages are below 4%.
Of course this creates a locked in effect, encourages remodeling and expanding existing homes rather than selling and buying to upgrade, and makes it hard and difficult for first time home buyers. Affordability is one problem, and another is the limited supply.
I say this will likely exist for more than a decade, if not 15 years, maybe even 20 years. Then tariffs on building materials will only heighten costs of new construction. Don’t forget that real estate is a hedge against inflation…
Figure that many 30 year mortgages have to get paid down or off for many homes to be back in the market to ”normalize” the housing shortage. A decade, a decade and a half, or even 2 decades is not an unrealistic timeline for things to unwind, but in the meantime expect prices on homes to go up and a long trend of higher inflation.
So pretty much I’m saying don’t be so scared of buying because time, percentages, and economic conditions all say time is your friend here.
Lower interest rates seem not to be in the picture because inflation looks to be accelerating in the future…
So I’m happy I live in the Hudson Valley. I can’t think of a better place…
Cal
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Well-known
I've been reading and re-reading a short book "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." Written by Timothy Snyder, a Yale history professor, it offers suggestions for how to respond to autocracy such as what we are now experiencing in the United States.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
My thinking is the American Public has been mislead by our governments own abuse of credit. We are now in a doubled down effect of dual deficits: government; and household. Not a polite place to be.
Secondly the reset that should of happened in 2007-2008 got kicked down the road, basically a bubble was reinflated, and loses were “socialized.”
Capitalism failed and so did monetary policy and government.
Remember how oppressive economics, and inflation, created hate, fascism.and WWII.
No magic formula here…
I am speaking out of history as an example of where we are heading. Crimes will be committed. Violence condoned. Pretty much sponsored by government.
The spirit and hatred of 1949 and the Peekskill Riots lives on today.
Tell me the difference between Guantanamo Bay and Concentration Camps. Tell me atrocities will not happen. Then look at history…
Anyways, the Chinese have a very long history here in the U.S. There were the Chinese Exclusion Laws that date back to the 1880’s. Chinatowns formed because of lynchings.
During WWII the Chinese were considered allies for three years, but then the Korean War again made the Chinese the enemy.
Then I grew up in the U.S. when in the 1960 Census there were about 238 thousand Asians in the U.S., about half of these Asians were ethnically Chinese, and of these Chinese 95% were Cantonese.
I grew up in the Lilly White suburbs of Long Island. There was segregation to a large extent, and pretty much I grew up looking like the enemy during the Vietnam War era.
Certainly I know hate and hate crimes as well as discrimination.
So be advised that hatred never really died in the U.S.
BTW in the 70’s and 80’s Chinatown was considered the most dangerous neighborhood in NYC. “The Gangs Of New York” was no lie.
Know that my father wanted to send me to school in Chinatown. I imagine that after being in Foster Care for a decade of my life, being the angry and disturbed kid I was, that it would of been pretty easy for me to have been recruited into that underworld. I would have gone pure evil.
Cal
Secondly the reset that should of happened in 2007-2008 got kicked down the road, basically a bubble was reinflated, and loses were “socialized.”
Capitalism failed and so did monetary policy and government.
Remember how oppressive economics, and inflation, created hate, fascism.and WWII.
No magic formula here…
I am speaking out of history as an example of where we are heading. Crimes will be committed. Violence condoned. Pretty much sponsored by government.
The spirit and hatred of 1949 and the Peekskill Riots lives on today.
Tell me the difference between Guantanamo Bay and Concentration Camps. Tell me atrocities will not happen. Then look at history…
Anyways, the Chinese have a very long history here in the U.S. There were the Chinese Exclusion Laws that date back to the 1880’s. Chinatowns formed because of lynchings.
During WWII the Chinese were considered allies for three years, but then the Korean War again made the Chinese the enemy.
Then I grew up in the U.S. when in the 1960 Census there were about 238 thousand Asians in the U.S., about half of these Asians were ethnically Chinese, and of these Chinese 95% were Cantonese.
I grew up in the Lilly White suburbs of Long Island. There was segregation to a large extent, and pretty much I grew up looking like the enemy during the Vietnam War era.
Certainly I know hate and hate crimes as well as discrimination.
So be advised that hatred never really died in the U.S.
BTW in the 70’s and 80’s Chinatown was considered the most dangerous neighborhood in NYC. “The Gangs Of New York” was no lie.
Know that my father wanted to send me to school in Chinatown. I imagine that after being in Foster Care for a decade of my life, being the angry and disturbed kid I was, that it would of been pretty easy for me to have been recruited into that underworld. I would have gone pure evil.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
My Cancer is now a more public story, even though “Maggie” did not reveal what kind.
Maggie asked about revealing my personal information several times and at different levels. With my Cancer, I figure it is also her story, and that she too also experiences and lives with my Cancer…
I am a public figure because of Maggie’s fame. I am deeply moved by all the caring from people I don’t know.
One of Maggie’s friends is a huge big time writer, like really big and major. Anyways very touching her response and also her help if I get radiation treatment. She has first hand experience with her own battle with Cancer.
BTW this woman is a beauty. Big time famous.
I’m a bit ashamed that I revealed the evil part of me, but I have to acknowledge the danger and fear to contain my evil. I can’t say I really outgrew the rage inside of me, all the hurt and yes hatred that can lead to evil. It is a moral dilemma having known oppression, repression, discrimination, racism and hatred.
If it were not for the arts, I don’t think I would have had the foundation to grow and cope.
I think Phil is and has been on that journey. I am glad he has found the woodcut medium. Know that the arts can save your life, but in say a different way than in my case the bicycle did and my friend Iron Mike.
I am also greatful to the men at Grumman who kinda fostered me and were the fatherly figures that I needed to grow up and become the man I am today. They kinda steered me, guided me, and helped me in a loving way. Did I mention that most of these men were veterans. Understand that Grumman had a very strong veterans preference in their hiring.
I worked for 17 years at Grumman, and know and understand that without those 17 years of stability I likely would have been stuck and would of never advanced or matured or grown up.
So a lot of good things had to happen. More than 7 years in Foster Care is considered long-term, and the long-long term outcomes for kids in Foster Care has a more than 50% chance of either these 5 highly probable outcomes: homelessness; drug or alcohol addition; criminality; mental illness; or suicide. I am familiar with all 5.
Know I was in Foster Care for over a decade. In a way Foster Care is a form of homelessness. The experience is that you as a child is chattel and you are moved like an object. There is danger, confusion, and anger, too much for a child to handle. Great vast disassociations happen.
Understand that in Trump’s first term many children were removed from their parents because of immigration policy. Some were even lost in the goverment confusion. These children suffered pretty much the “annihilation” and feeling of being totally destroyed that I experienced. I can tell you these children were somewhat destroyed.
Anyways, been a while since I released some of the rage…
Cal
Maggie asked about revealing my personal information several times and at different levels. With my Cancer, I figure it is also her story, and that she too also experiences and lives with my Cancer…
I am a public figure because of Maggie’s fame. I am deeply moved by all the caring from people I don’t know.
One of Maggie’s friends is a huge big time writer, like really big and major. Anyways very touching her response and also her help if I get radiation treatment. She has first hand experience with her own battle with Cancer.
BTW this woman is a beauty. Big time famous.
I’m a bit ashamed that I revealed the evil part of me, but I have to acknowledge the danger and fear to contain my evil. I can’t say I really outgrew the rage inside of me, all the hurt and yes hatred that can lead to evil. It is a moral dilemma having known oppression, repression, discrimination, racism and hatred.
If it were not for the arts, I don’t think I would have had the foundation to grow and cope.
I think Phil is and has been on that journey. I am glad he has found the woodcut medium. Know that the arts can save your life, but in say a different way than in my case the bicycle did and my friend Iron Mike.
I am also greatful to the men at Grumman who kinda fostered me and were the fatherly figures that I needed to grow up and become the man I am today. They kinda steered me, guided me, and helped me in a loving way. Did I mention that most of these men were veterans. Understand that Grumman had a very strong veterans preference in their hiring.
I worked for 17 years at Grumman, and know and understand that without those 17 years of stability I likely would have been stuck and would of never advanced or matured or grown up.
So a lot of good things had to happen. More than 7 years in Foster Care is considered long-term, and the long-long term outcomes for kids in Foster Care has a more than 50% chance of either these 5 highly probable outcomes: homelessness; drug or alcohol addition; criminality; mental illness; or suicide. I am familiar with all 5.
Know I was in Foster Care for over a decade. In a way Foster Care is a form of homelessness. The experience is that you as a child is chattel and you are moved like an object. There is danger, confusion, and anger, too much for a child to handle. Great vast disassociations happen.
Understand that in Trump’s first term many children were removed from their parents because of immigration policy. Some were even lost in the goverment confusion. These children suffered pretty much the “annihilation” and feeling of being totally destroyed that I experienced. I can tell you these children were somewhat destroyed.
Anyways, been a while since I released some of the rage…
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
According to a Zillow report the New York Metro area remains a hot housing market.
I guess my question is how far can this go, and why?
One guess is the somewhat moderate and stable climate,
Another is the geography and natural beauty, in particular in the Hudson Valley.
A somewhat stable water supply.
Proximity to NYC for services, the arts, culture, and having access to the best of the best.
Certainly there is a high standard for quality of life, but also know that is not equally distributed. Pretty much New York is a nice place to live if you can afford it, otherwise it will oppress you.
So my thinking is that wealth is concentrating around the New York Metro area.
Not sure when this larger scale of gentrification, if you can call it that, might cool down. I do know maybe Canada is being looked at by some.
Cal
I guess my question is how far can this go, and why?
One guess is the somewhat moderate and stable climate,
Another is the geography and natural beauty, in particular in the Hudson Valley.
A somewhat stable water supply.
Proximity to NYC for services, the arts, culture, and having access to the best of the best.
Certainly there is a high standard for quality of life, but also know that is not equally distributed. Pretty much New York is a nice place to live if you can afford it, otherwise it will oppress you.
So my thinking is that wealth is concentrating around the New York Metro area.
Not sure when this larger scale of gentrification, if you can call it that, might cool down. I do know maybe Canada is being looked at by some.
Cal
Retro-Grouch
Veteran
We all have rage and fear inside us. The really dangerous people are the ones who won't acknowledge it, not the one who, like you, channel and transform it.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
RG,
I agree. Anger can be a super power if channeled.
Before I learned the mechanism that unprocessed anger can lead to depression. I fell ill.
I came of age in the mid 70’s so being an angry, scary, volatile guy who scared people.
The thought that Asians were passive and non confrontational pretty much went out the door. I would flip the switch and would go psycho.
Being a NYC cab driver working nights in 1978 was a kinda death wish. Pretty much testing fate because my life had been so cheapened.
I only did this for a summer before moving on. I did learn a lot about myself, I grew to learn I had actually a lot of power.
Cal
I agree. Anger can be a super power if channeled.
Before I learned the mechanism that unprocessed anger can lead to depression. I fell ill.
I came of age in the mid 70’s so being an angry, scary, volatile guy who scared people.
The thought that Asians were passive and non confrontational pretty much went out the door. I would flip the switch and would go psycho.
Being a NYC cab driver working nights in 1978 was a kinda death wish. Pretty much testing fate because my life had been so cheapened.
I only did this for a summer before moving on. I did learn a lot about myself, I grew to learn I had actually a lot of power.
Cal