Carrots

Harvested carrots this weekend. Got about 15 lbs of them. Plus lots of seeds. I mean lots of seeds. I'm going to donate some of the seeds to a charity called "Plant a row for the Hungry". Daughter loves the carrots right after they're harvested.

We also had tomatoes and grapes from the garden. 

Tomorrow I need to pull weeds, move black plastic over the rows I cleared today and do fall planting.

My cannabis plants are a really good size now. Not going to bother planting any more. The ones I have are enough. The largest is now 8 ft tall. Getting plenty of leaves from them. 

As far as buds, I checked typical harvest and found just the largest plant is likely to produce from 1-3 lbs. Yeah, that will last me a while. I currently use an average of 1 gram per 7-10 days. There are 30 grams to an ounce. So I use less than 2 grams a year. At that rate 1 lb would last me as long as 8 years, properly sealed with as little air as possible. With all the plants, I may wind up with as much as 5 lbs. That is a LOT more than I am allowed legally but I'm not planning to sell it. Or let people know about it that live locally. (Nobody reads my blog, so that's no real concern.) Eh, while I hate it I will have to dispose of most of it somehow. I'm still more concerned with leaves. I had thought of experimenting with edible forms but I tried a brownie and didn't really like it so much. Maybe I will still try. The brownie was one I bought, not one I made. If that doesn't come out well, then dispose of a lot of it. 

A bonfire would not be a good idea in this case. I'd make the entire neighborhood stoned. Make most people happy but may piss some other people off. Though it could be interesting if I did it while the church next door was having services...

I am now seeing very good results from juicing leaves. I started mixing the juice with water, lemon juice, sugar and arrow root. I think I may actually achieve remission very soon at this rate! For that, I may grow more next year but not all the way to harvest. 

The apple tree has so many apples and of enough size that we can see them from the back door. Looking forward to finally having an apple harvest from our own tree!

Final week

This is the final week before the convention. 

In less than one week, we will know what direction our country will go. Will our elected representatives do what is right, what is best for this country? Or will they finally, completely and irrevocably prove that our country is no longer our country? 

I have a dark, dark feeling that the latter will be the truth.

If that comes to pass, what happens? And how soon? How badly? Will we have widespread depression and anxiety disorders across the entire country? Will we have riots? When will those begin? Immediately? Or later?

If the DNC installs Hitlary as the nominee, that will probably be the final straw. My predictions for the past few years of a new American civil war will come to be. I expect it to begin on the spot. 

Then what? How long will those riots last and how far will they go?

Then we enter the final stages of fascism. Martial law will be enacted. Coast to coast. Massive arrests. Blood in the streets. Human rights will be gone. Our government will fall by its own hand. Taking all of us with it. 

Why? For the profits and power of only a small percentage? 

Already infighting has begun in the group I manage online. People in Bernie support groups turning against Bernie and each other. I had to post a warning telling people that will not be tolerated. They will be ejected, unfriended and blocked. 

If no indictment is issued against HRC and they install her as the nominee, this is the end for this country. I have seen a prediction made that Obama will be the last President of the U.S. This would be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Nobody will hold out hope that Bernie will continue as an Independent or Green party candidate. Or that Jill Stein could win. Right now she is at less than 5 percent in the polls. Johnson is not a choice. He is a Libertarian. He would take us back to the 19th century.

Either HRC or Trump will bring us into full fascism. That is not a question. The last step to fascism missing is supremacy of the military which can include police state, militia rule. Trump wants to build a wall around this country. His plans would necessitate militia rule. Hitlary has expressed support for nationalizing the police. 

Really glad I stocked up on supplies. May need them very soon.

Crappy timing

I had only gotten a couple of resumes out until now and planning on buckling down today. Like right now today.

So of course the computer decided to act up. BSOD. Then some other crap came up for system repair which failed. As it always does. 

Restarted a couple of times. Seems to be booting properly but slowly as I write this.

Not sorry for waiting so long to look for a job. Took daughter to Yellowstone. Had extra time with her. Took time off to let my health improve. 

I did not realize how much stress I was truly under with my last job. That is, once all the stupid changes were put in place. That company is cutting their own throats on a daily basis. Can tell easily the upper management is thoroughly right wing by their actions and policies. Became severely more right wing in the past year. It was not bad at first.

Couple days later-

I saved the above as draft but had not finished it.

Daughter usually goes back to her mother's on Monday this summer. Today she asked if she could stay here another day. No reason why when asked. I am kind of wondering about this. I said she should call her mother but she didn't want to. I wound up texting her mother and it was no problem.

There are definitely times I see developing exactly what I expected. The relationship between she and her mother is more strained the older daughter gets. No, I do not blame daughter for this. She can be stubborn but she is very rational. Which the ex is not. While we were on our trip, she detailed for me the same pattern the ex had when she was with me. Increasingly wound up over a period of days, blowing up for at least a day, sometimes two. Then back to normal. Then the same pattern repeats a few weeks later. When she blows up, she will not listen to reason, will not make peace, will never admit to being wrong, frequently comes off with, "You know what you did!" Even if there was nothing the other person did. No, you cannot say you were wrong or apologize without stating you did something she can hold over you. And she will hold it over you. For years. Even if it was a mistake.

So yeah, I have no problem with daughter staying here and extra day or more.

We've both been kind of lazy this weekend. I felt really tired all day today and don't know why.

FBI investigation

Today, the head of the FBI released the report on the investigation into the KKKlinton email server. I am more than a little angry, along with MILLIONS of other Americans.

He talked for more than ten minutes detailing how she broke virtually every law and protocol regarding the handling of classified information.

Then he said he does not recommend criminal charges. He claims there was no criminal intent. That it was a mistake. Actually that would equate to many thousands of mistakes. He said it was careless.

Mistake? Careless? WT actual F?!!!

She has training and experience as a lawyer. She had years as first lady of Arkansas. 8 years as FLOTUS. 8 years in elected office. DOJ training on handling secure information. Her own staff including multiple lawyers and a Secret Service detail. The ENTIRE damn State Dept (basically the entire US federal government) on call 24/7/365. A sitting President on speed dial. A past President (her husband) in the other room or the same room at nearly constantly. 

How many resources does she need to NOT place the entire GD PLANET at risk every minute of every day for at least 4 years?!!!!

Any way, when I woke up and that was the first thing I read this morning I was thrown for a loop. It took me a while to gain my mental composure. Many, many people were in the same condition for much longer.

Once I gained my composure, I got to work organizing and motivating people to action. I circulated numerous FB posts with information telling people actions they can take right now. Links to contact the DNC, superdelegates, the DOJ (Attorney General), MSM, etc. It helped a lot of people because they wanted to DO something.

Here is the thing. Just because he did not advise indictment, that does not mean it will not happen. Charges can still be filed by a nearly infinite number of sources. The AG, the RNC, Judicial Watch, any number of individuals or groups with the resources. Those charges can be criminal or civil. Plus there is the charity fraud/corruption case pending. All the emails related to this case and all the investigatory findings will be released. Numerous other civil cases and various investigations on many charges are pending. I expect many more to be filed this week and in the near future.

Here is the biggest thing. This damages her campaign massively. This has GOT to be the death blow. There is no way possible that she could beat Trump at this point. She has NOT gained the nomination. The superdelegates do not vote until the convention. The convention is in three weeks. There is NOTHING she can do to recover from this, ever. Charges and indictment are not necessary. If the DNC hands her the nomination at this point, there will be severe riots and they are likely to turn violent. 

The GOP's in Congress have now called for an investigation into the head of the FBI. I expect him to resign very quickly. In my own opinion, he is a traitor to this country. If the AG does not file an indictment, she should step down as well. 

Have to wait and see what tomorrow brings.

I had planned on getting my resume out more today but was so busy with these issues that I did not. Get on that tomorrow. Did some calculating and I have enough money to be without a job for about three months from this writing. I hope it does not take that long to find a job. Two or three weeks would be okay. I still have a lot of things to do this summer and would like the extra time with daughter. Unless she's bored or tired of me.

Burden

I have to admit something. 

The issue of being able to predict things weighs on me. Part of it is being good at analysis. Not all of it. Some simply cannot be explained rationally. Plus I cannot say it always happens the same way every time. I am 54 and still figuring it out. 

I combine the two elements of explainable and rational analysis. Once I have an idea of what will happen, most often I start looking at circumstances which can be analyzed, which then gives me a more clear picture. One which can be better substantiated.

Over the years, it seems like I have gained more control over it. That does not mean it is less stressful. Mostly because the things I predict cannot be controlled. I can only control the predictions themselves better than I could before. I can initiate them at times. 

Too bad I can't use it to predict the lottery numbers. Only major and protracted steams of events. 

Wish I could understand it better. Even why this happens. It's stressful. However, I am not complaining. 

Going to actually try and gain more control over it. It will either drive me insane or enlighten me to an extreme. Meh, same difference? 

The hope is that if I can control the ability, it will give me some idea how to control the future. I know, sounds crazy even to me worded that way. I am not talking about some hocus-pocus. I mean actual actions I may be able to take to put this country back on the right track. Hmm. Back? Okay, to put this country on the right track at last. We have never truly been on the right track completely. More of a parallel track. Though the track we are on is heading for a cliff.

It's worth a shot. I expect most of what I can do to be teaching other people. It will not happen overnight. Or months or one year. It will take multiple years. 

Dark era

Here it is. My next prediction. I do not plan on these. They just happen.

People today worship technology. I love technology, myself. However, we are going too far in many areas.

For more than a century, we have been creating new technologies which increase productivity. The down side to that is that it decreases employment. 

I am not going to go over all the advances we have made in the last 150 years. I'll give anyone reading this credit for having some grasp of that knowledge.

This is about today and the future. 

More and more jobs continue to be eliminated by technology. 

Grocery stores are going further and further to self-check out lines. Most grocery stores now have them. 

Now fast food places are going the same route, installing touch screens to order food. Chili's has such a system. You get shown to your table and then order your food on a screen. Your food is delivered later. I did not know this when I went there once. The guy who brought my food looked like a busboy. No actual waiters or waitresses. 

While on vacation, daughter and I saw the first McDonald's with a touch screen system to order. I refused to use it because I know the long term effects of eliminating jobs.

Meanwhile, Carl's Jr has announced plans to go entirely to touch screen systems. 

Most fast food could be rather easily transitioned to robotic systems, including cooking. I will say it would probably be more accurate but that's not the point.

Some people seem to not be worried about it. They think their jobs are secure. That's funny because auto and steel industry workers thought the same thing back in the 70's. Not so much any more. Virtually NO steel is produced here in the US now. It all comes from China. Auto manufacturing jobs are done by robots and most in other countries.

I had a conversation with someone about doctors, lawyers, etc. I brought up the fact that if nobody has a job, how would the doctors and lawyers get paid? If they cannot get paid because nobody else is employed, their jobs cease to exist as well.

I am not a Luddite by any means at all. However, what we need soon is legislation which limits technology when it eliminates jobs. I have no expectation that such legislation is coming any time soon, if ever. 

So, what happens when robots replace us? Not much that's good. People go hungry, become homeless and desperate. Crime, especially property and violent crime, increase dramatically. Depression, substance abuse and anxiety disorders increase exponentially. Some crime simply out of boredom will happen but mostly it will be desperation and lack of motivation or purpose. 

The only other option would be going to full Communism. Where everyone has an equal income, regardless of employment status. That will not happen here either. Probably not in my lifetime, at least. 

So, we are coming to a very, very dark era in human history. Personally, I see nothing to do to stop it.