Celestial events

This from Goro Adachi at etemenanki.com..."On Wednesday morning, April 22nd, Earth will pass through a stream of comet dust, giving rise to the annual Lyrid meteor shower. At the same time, the crescent Moon and Venus will converge for a close encounter in the eastern sky. Viewed from some parts of the world, the Moon will pass directly in front of Venus, causing Venus to vanish. [...]"

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A little proper information should get plenty of mileage. For instance, it was explained to me the real difference between conservative and liberal today has been twisted by doublespeak spin so as to be unrecognizable. The real deal is that conservative means that one has inalienable rights that no government can trample without just and due reprisal. It means that one keeps the fruits of his labor and distributes them as he sees fit. It means that one takes personal responsibility for one's safety and does not rely on remote resources to intervene when the chips are down. He supports his local Sheriff if he can but he does not expect calling 911 will solve any problem but may get him a report if needed. All that means being proficient at arms, Ls&Gs. That is the basic conservative view upon which I am sure to expand later.
Now for the liberal. The modern liberal label means that one believes everyone else is stupid and unable to decide what is best for him and his. Therefore the liberal is obliged to decide for everyone what is god and right. You might think I meant good in that last sentence but think again. He will tell you what to do and when to do it. He will decide how much of your wages he will take and on what that portion will be spent. When the liberal says jump he wants you to ask how high. When he says sacrifice he wants you to ask how much although he already knows it's more than anyone can bear or imagine. To the liberal the laws apply to everyone but him because of his superiority. He may skimp or not pay taxes for a few years and he can come up with any lame excuse and expect to be pardoned by all, but let you, Ls&Gs, do that and he'll cry for your head or the max sentence and fine. I don't have to name names nor cite examples because if you are the average person going about his business trying to make ends meet and not hurt anyone else you know what's happening because it's in your face.

Dreams

Since I know my status will change soon as far as employment I have been having dreams that emphasize people I have worked with over the past 20 years. There is always the element of what will happen next and the anticipation of what should happen. I suppose it is nightmarish because I wake up and can't go back to sleep. It's funny because most of the people in the dreams are ones I haven't closely worked with for 10 years or more.
I think some of the dreams may be futuristic as in one where I had a broken hand and sought a healer to help with it. I'm glad nobody reads my blog because it is mainly aimed at my memory in the future. I have neglected to properly record events as they occurred and now have to rely on memory which seems highly flawed especially the longer removed from the event. Some things seem like yesterday, apparently because it meant something, and others are very vague because I don't give a rat's ass; even if they would be interesting and entertaining stories. I can see all the peoples faces even if I can't remember their names. It must be more important to recognize a face than to know the name in the scheme of things and I can see that difference. It is a survival element; names are labels faces are real. One must recognize hostile immediately.

New Beginning

With every new beginning something comes to and end. I am changing my employment status in the near future. Those I currently work with have already given me the boot so to speak at least mentally. I've seen it in the past many times. As soon as someone leaves the only question is by whom will they be replaced and it is hoped that person won't be a bigger asshole. Thing is, I expected it so I'm not shocked.
In this scenario nothing is remembered of anything substantial one has contributed and if one is talked about at all it is mostly where others can construe that you F'd-up.
That leads me to comment that today is the day MLK Jr. was assassinated back in '68. I was a kid in JR. High school and barely noticed. I pay attention now because I realize it will always be relevant realistically and metaphorically in relation to the previous paragraph. The killing of one's enemies is so much easier than fighting their ideas, in fact it takes much more to destroy the ideas than the person. The person stands for something; it is usually the something they stand for that is feared or hated much more than the person. It is just aberrational thinking on the part of the fearer/hater/paid thug that they strike out at the person because they can only eradicate him and not for what he stands.
On a much smaller scale diminishing or ignoring a persons "bona fides" is a minor assassination of that person. There are ways to protect one's self from these comparatively minor attacks so that the little irritations bounce off like raindrops on an umbrella or for the more dramatically inclined, like bullets off Superman.