I read on Claire Wolfe’s blog, available at Backwoods Home’s website, about a Swedish man that suggests the US is so far gone, that responsible civic minded citizens are trying the third box, and it isn’t working anymore, so the time to take up the fourth box is rapidly coming. Claire herself is merely a reader of different blogsites, as am I, and I leave the reader to follow this link and decide for yourself what box you reach for next.
NASA announced that the Kepler terrestrial Planet Finder spacecraft has, from Earth orbit, discovered not one, but Two Earth mass planets orbiting a star. The two planets are inside the habitable zone where the temperature is just right, water can be liquid, and oxygen is a major component of the atmosphere. These two planets are too hot for that, but I predict that the discovery of an Earth like planet, at the right distance, with liquid water and oxygen a large percentage of it’s atmosphere is a matter of time, perhaps not much more time.
The Souyz 2-U rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft inside the payload shroud, has moved from it’s assembly building, backed to the launch pad by a locomotive and short consist of rolling stock including the flatcar and erector with booster cradled on top, and installed the stack on the pad in obviously winter weather conditions, typical for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in December. The Expedition 30 crew, all veteran space flyers, consists of American ISS Astronaut Don Pettit, Dutchman Andre Kuipers, and Russian Oleg Kononenko, are scheduled to launch Wednesday morning in the US at 6:16:15 a.m. MST, on the typical two day rendezvous chase, leading to a docking and hatch opening, and Expedition 30 will be fully staffed on orbit, and officially underway.
My debit card finally arrived at my brother’s address, but I got a phone call from him this morning, and he was basically acting like a dick, telling me he was not going to be home, would be a bell ringer for the Salvation Army at Safeway in Golden at 3 PM, hence was too busy to bother with me. His attitude was basically that me needing the card and the money on it for basic necessities because of my lack of work, and not asking a dime from him, is such an imposition and on the good order of the world, that he sees fit to be angry with me, and act like it’s a horrible thing for me to disrupt his schedule and take up any of his precious time. Me needing to get that debit card so I need not ask him or anyone beside the State of Colorado for anything, is an imposition and just plain wrong.
I don’t understand why Noriega’s always get angry with me when I need something, and take every effort to get whatever I need, without asking anything, not so much as a dime from a Noriega, and that is bad bad bad. Noriega’s are, in my experience and opinion, dysfunctional autocratic jerks, always have been and always will be. Levi was that way. Grampo Bernie was that way. Dad could and was frequently like that. It would be much easier to be indifferent, either cold or warm/amused indifference, than with barely concealed contempt and hostile indifference. But that’s just a Noriega for you. At least in my blood family.
I won’t mind having another welfare Christmas, as I haven’t celebrated Christmas since 1988, and haven’t been in a situation with the proper circumstances to be able to or care to celebrate Christmas. And I just don’t really care for what Christmas has morphed into, and I don’t expect to get anything for Christmas, and have no available money to buy anything for anyone for Christmas anyway, so it is a dead holiday to me, something other people celebrate, but not a holiday that applies to me.
Nevertheless, I’m no Ebenezer Scrooge, so I say: Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday’s, Happy Chanukah, Happy Quanza, and Have a Cool Yule to one and all. God Bless us Every One !! We all need it, that’s for sure.
No work again today, and with the weather being wintry the way it was this morning, I understand why no one wanted to work in the cold and snow this morning. If I had that debit card, that would help, but see above for why I don’t. So the year is closing on want and privation - still no Chevy Tahoe or Ford Ranger, no semi-automatic rifle for militia uses or self defense, hunting, etc, no food and no gear from my Ranger pickup, still at Medved in Castle Rock and still as far away from me and as useless as Ranger 4’s wreckage on the far side of the Moon.
At least I fed Tom and I, and by a miracle he lets me stay here. That Man must have a heart because he knows I’m one step from living on the streets, and one step from death as a result of that eventuality, so I give thanks for Tom letting me stay here, as he has for months now, since June actually. It is very much to his credit to have helped me out as he has, and I hope and pray a Merciful and Almighty God sees fit to bless Tom and give him wisdom, patience, more money, peace of mind, and if it is his destiny, a woman who really loves him for him, and helps him out as he needs.
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