Found something last night I believe is the perfect gift for today that many will appreciate and enjoy – and share!

NOTE: Once the video comes up

BE SURE TO TURN ON THE SOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE VIDEO!

https://x.com/aTeXan575/status/1871711090788483157

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS: Excellent yeah? Merry Christmas to all!

Politicians using .GOV positions to reap cash and other valuable items instead of doing the .GOV work for country and her citizens they swore an Oath to do. Money (items) should be taken back and put into programs that assist Americans, like our homeless Vets. Just a thought. Currently all sorts of money from civil settlements with government agencies are funneled to Anti-American organizations and activities…..why not to those who actually worked for the country and her citizens and deserve assistance? later

My best to you and yours, Lew

I already have a LAME in progress, utilizing those same old chords over and over and over, and don’t want to push that recycled limit any further than it already has been – so you will be mercifully spared another “almost music” experience for today – no promises about potential future “audio discomfort”.   Lol 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

BELIEVE IN CONSTITUTION, BILL OF RIGHTS, AND RULE OF LAW?

OPPOSE DEM/RINO CHEATS AND FRAUD – THAT IS FANATICAL?

HAVE SOME DISTURBING NEWS – THOUGH YOU LIKELY ALREADY KNOW

YOUR NEW LEFT DESIGNATION IS:  UNWANTED RADICAL

ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID TO BELIEVE IN A GOD?

LIVE YOUR LIFE BY AN OUTDATED GOLDEN RULE?

BELIEVE THE INSANE CONCEPT THERE ARE ONLY TWO SEXES?

STANDING FOR LONG EXPIRED PRINCIPLES LIKE A FOOL?

YOU ONLY MAKE YOURSELF A TARGET!

BY LIVING WHAT YOU BELIEVE

PERHAPS YOUR TIME HAS COME AND GONE?

AND RECENT PUNISHMENT DESERVED – AND THUS RECEIVED?

THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT OUR NATION’ S ENEMIES WANT

A QUESTIONING REDUCTION IN, AND ULTIMATE ELIMINATION OF FAITH

YET THEY ARE THE ONES WHO OBVIOUSLY DO NOT FIT HERE

AS OUR GREAT NATION CONTINUES TO BE SAVED

FROM PATHOLOGICAL LIARS/CHEATS – DEVOID OF INTEGRITY

TO THE LOSERS AND TRAITORS WE’VE COME TO KNOW TOO WELL

EVENTUALLY THEY’LL HARVEST A FORESEEABLE REWARD

LIFE SENTENCE IN THEIR OWN CREATED HELL

SO KICK ME, PUNCH ME, BITE ME

FORCE EXCESSIVE SPENDING I CAN’T DENY

TOOK YOUR BEST SHOT AND FAILED ONCE AGAIN

BECAUSE I CLEARLY REFUSE TO COMPLY!

My best to you and yours, Lew

Yes, I am a big mouth and a semi-hermit. So? Here’s just one more of the many examples I’ve experienced through the years. Repeated nasty comments, despite years of honest and legitimate service to this community in two elected capacities, this “dangerous background story” has wrongfully punished me for years and was always held up as more important than the truth I was reporting on this site. True, much of that “attack the person and not the subject of argument” is typical of those ignorant people who have only been used to confuse or deviate from serious issues with cruel and outlandish personal attacks. (Often “fed” to them by their nefarious handlers.) I have years of such recorded statements by these useful idiots during public business meetings. Yet others were obviously violating the law for their own personal/business agenda and benefit and were far more surreptitious in their activities.

APPREHENSIVE ABOUT GOING ANYWHERE LOCALLY?

Although quite verbose, I often fail to express some information that has greatly shaped my view regarding “some public officials” which has not been very supportive or trusting. For the record, I believe the far majority of public servants do a good job and take pride in that achievement, just as it should be. Heck, even the guy in the below story (with a different set of circumstances regarding initial contact) could have ended up being a friend (or friendly acquaintance) and trusted, rather than an “adversary and not trusted”. Uniform or not.  Same with the two deputies going through my home…… WHAT WERE THEY TOLD? WHY WERE THEY THERE? <STOP!> So sad that a general supporter of law enforcement has again had that support seriously questioned with distrust because of what someone else <STOP!> I digress.

ANOTHER CLUE TO WHY I PREFER STAYING HOME (WHEN NOT ON DESERT)

(AND ANOTHER ALMOST FORGOTTEN INCIDENT FORCED TO RELIVE) “eviler”? “relive” backwards? lol

Here’s another example that I had wrapped up the best I could at the time and shoved up there on the top shelf of that hallway closet where another  emotional avalanche was just waiting for a trigger. Though an outspoken semi-hermit blogger (as mentioned many many times through the years), I must never-the-less occasionally take a break from my traditional at home frozen crap meal menu and feed a long-held craving for a good hot pizza.  (With abundant ice cold Root Beer is the best, but sometimes I drop the “Root”. lol)

Don’t have the exact date/time.  Could find it by searching for those old notes but not important to the story, so suffice it to say it was years ago when our local pizza place was still open,  (If going uphill on Hwy 132 it was off to the right just before the Don Pedro Market,  I recall it shared a parking lot with a construction outfit and the doctor’s office,) 

A GOOD DAY FOR A PIZZA FEAST!

Anyway, every once and a while I would telephone and order for pickup, a combination pizza with all the toppings.  (Crap my stomach is growling now just typing this – lol),  So after an appropriate time waiting at home drove down there, entered, and sat down at a table in the back.

TRADITIONAL LOCATION IF AN OPTION

I have always preferred, when available, sitting in the rear of an establishment with my back against a wall and facing the entrance.  (Old training about keeping a view towards what might be coming through the entrance when uniformed officers inside.) There were only two other customers in there at the time, two women who were casually talking to one another seated at a table near the entrance apparently waiting for their previously placed “sit down” order.   

ONCE AGAIN MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS

So I’m sitting there waiting for my pizza.  Looking at the different displays and decorations of the place when the door opens and a slender man wearing a Fire Department uniform sounders in like “Andy Taylor’s Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife” on the TV series the Andy Griffith Show.   He takes a seat at a table immediately next to the women who are still quietly talking to each other.    

COULD ALMOST HAVE BEEN A COMEDY SKIT

At the very first lull in the women’s private conversation he starts talking about his life as a fire fighter and what the public doesn’t understand about the job.  I kid you not.  (I was under the impression he did not know these ladies personally and for some reason I had believed they were merely passing through going to, or coming back from Yosemite National Park. But I didn’t speak with them with the possible exception of a friendly nod while walking in past them to the rear of the place to wait for my feast.

SHOULD BE EASY TO “TIMELINE” TRACK

He explained he had just finished a training session for some new ABA (Air Breathing Apparatus) equipment his department really needed and had finally received the funds to purchase.   Had expensive sensors and detectors, pricey stuff, but likely extremely valuable for their work. As I recall, the women’s conversation was repeatedly interrupted at the slightest hint of a pause at which time “Barney” would again insert his narrative as an unsung hero.   On at least one occasion I saw one of the women roll her eyes to her friend in disbelief to the ongoing, unsolicited narration of how difficult his work was.

JUST SAT THERE AND COULDN’T HELP BUT HEAR

It appeared to be more of a lecture with little said by the two women who appeared to only want to continue their own private conversation.  On and on this guy went explaining how challenging and dangerous his work was while the women helplessly listened until ……

MY FIRST THOUGHT? “DEAR LORD – THEY DID IT TO SOMEONE ELSE TOO!”

So on and on about his work being inherently dangerous when he begins talking about a “barricaded subject” he, other fire fighters and sheriff deputies had to contend with a while back and that it was a very dangerous and potentially lethal situation. 

LIKE AN ALERT DEER IN THE WOODS

Naturally both of my ears (almost – lol) completely independent of my stationary head, started a slow rotating or pivoting motion to ascertain the optimum direction to best capture his narration of what done to some other poor victim of a “badge heavy” government official. Should I find out who that poor guy was and contact him for his story????

WASN’T UNTIL LAUGHING ABOUT MY MOTHER

So I’m intently listening to this public servant (in his story of the dramatic dangers that firemen must face -which there is no doubt they actually do) that the SUSPECT in his narration of danger, had a semi automatic rifle and was preventing the  responders from extinguishing a fire on his property.  Now crossing the line from co-incidence to …. ??????

IS THIS JACKASS TALKING ABOUT ME AND WHAT HAPPENED AUGUST 3rd 2000 ON MY PROPERTY WHEN THE NEIGHBOR UP THE DRIVE INTENTIONALLY MADE A FALSE REPORT OF AN OUT OF CONTROL FIRE?

YES!  IT WAS ME!  I’M THE ONE HE’S TALKING ABOUT!

When he stated the guy’s Mom and Dad had driven up from Merced and his Mother was crying “Please don’t shoot my son, he is a good man who was done wrong”.  He was laughing. Laughing about my Mom’s concern?  (Mid eighties at the time) Said he told her something like, “Oh we won’t shoot him but he must follow……”.?????  Couldn’t hear anymore and thought my heart would explode out of my chest.  

YUP, the PIZZA WASN’T THE ONLY THING HOT AND READY!

While this guy was still going on about this dangerous encounter my pizza was ready so I picked it up and while headed for the door said something to the effect:the next time he started telling lies (may have said talking shit) and untruths about someone in a public place he should make (damn?) sure they are not in the same room because he could end up on the wrong side of a civil law suit.

While headed for the entrance out to the parking lot, and walking past the two women, I do vividly recall obvious repressed laughter and (what I believed to be) approving smiles.   Out the door and to my truck.

SURE BRIEFLY FANTASIZED ABOUT KNOCKING THAT LIAR OFF HIS LECTURE BENCH

But that’s not me, besides, with all the dis/misinformation these FOTHER MUCKERS have spread about me through the years I’d probably receive a lethal injection for attacking such a noble and fearless public servant.  It’s all a matter of perspective and how that perspective was actually formed.

A FEW OF THE PEOPLE I HAVE TOLD THIS STORY TO

Right at this point say something like:  He knew you were there and did it on purpose to provoke you and encourage you to over react — so you’d really be in trouble…..

At which time I would have to explain … BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE …. Because I honestly did not believe he knew who I was because by the time I reached my truck and was seated ready to go, this fireman comes running out apologizing…babbling about not knowing I was there, not recognizing me – he was very sorry,,,, blah blah blah Don’t recall my response other than for him to stop telling lies about that incident (I NEVER HAD AN ASSAULT WEAPON AT THAT LOCATION but YES I WAS INDEED OUTRAGED!)  and to just leave me alone – and I returned home. Of course that particular pizza wasn’t consumed with the same traditional pleasure and it was quite some time before I returned to satisfy a pizza craving.  A frozen one in my own oven would have to do. Again terribly embarrassed by what these  fu <STOP>  people have done, and continue to do. An unofficial Kangaroo Court of public opinion carefully crafted through the years and then, to make matters worse, I verbally let loose and scream my lungs out in indignation to such activities. Yeah, that goes over great when dealing with government officials exercising monopolistic authority and power.

My best to you and yours, Lew      

PS: True, in the above, this was just a regular guy making chit-chat with some attractive women, but to me, he was laughing about my Mother (and Father who both had medical issues of their own) who were terribly concerned about what had, and was, happening on my own property and why.

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS: Probably good as time as any, please forgive my public meltdown regarding this past October 4th 2024 incident. Although no excuse for foul language (and nasty jokes about perceived “adversaries”) when expressing my outrage, viewers might appreciate how I have become so distrustful of “some of these public servants”.

Well, guess I’ve been saving that frozen pizza for today! later

THIS “EVENT” LIKELY A BLESSING

REGARDLESS OF ULTIMATE WAY

TO STAY AND FIGHT FOR REST OF LIFE

OR MOVE FORWARD AND AWAY 

–

KNOWING THE ENEMY AS I DO

NOT AFRAID OF A GOOD FIGHT

YET A FIGHT INSTEAD OF HAPPINESS?

AT FIRST BLUSH, DOESN’T SEEM RIGHT

–

YET NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS

WOULD STAYING TO FIGHT BRING A DESIRED CHANGE?

WOULD SUCH A SUCCESS BRING HAPPINESS

ENOUGH TO REPLACE THE OPEN RANGE?

–

 DON’T KNOW WHAT’S LEFT FOR EITHER OPTION

WHO DOES, THAT’S A MYSTERY OF LIFE

GUESS IT DOESN’T REALLY MATTER

SO LONG AS I DO WHAT BELIEVED RIGHT

–

A RIGHT CLEAR IN MY HEART AND MIND

A RIGHT AS OPPOSED TO CLEAR WRONG

A RIGHT THAT ENCOURAGES PEACE AGAIN

A DIFFICULT DECISION WHERE I BELONG

– 

IF SUCH EVIL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL CRIMINALITY

IS TRULY PRESENT EVERYWHERE

PERHAPS A GREATER DISTANCE FROM SUCH CRAP

WAS THAT THE ANSWER? ALREADY PAINFULLY AWARE?

–

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

BLAH BLAH BLAH

MY BEST TO YOU AND YOURS,

BLAH LEW

INDIVIDUALLY NO BIGGIE

ANOTHER DIM LAME BECAUSE I WAS THINKING ABOUT INSIDIOUSLY SLOW INCREMENTAL CHANGES WITHIN OUR LEGAL SYSTEM, THAT BY THEMSELVES ARE RELATIVELY HARMLESS, YET WHEN STITCHED TOGETHER FORM A STRONG MESH-LIKE UNIT ENCOURAGING DYSFUNCTION AND COUNTER PRODUCTIVE RESULTS.

ALWAYS OPPOSITE OF WHAT EXPECTED

NATURALLY THE DIRE RESULTS ARE USUALLY ABOUT 180 DEGREES FROM WHAT ADVERTISED AND PROMISED WHEN ORIGINALLY PROPOSED AND APPROVED. WHY? BECAUSE THE FINE PRINT ELEMENTS OF SUCH INTENTIONAL TRAPS ARE ALWAYS CONCEALED, OVERLOOKED, AND GENERALLY DISMISSED. (THOSE HUGE SEVERAL HUNDRED PAGES OF LEGAL BLAH BLAH BLAH THAT IS RARELY EVER COMPLETELY READ AND/OR UNDERSTOOD BEFORE PASSING! DON’T EVEN PROVIDE ENOUGH TIME TO READ IT IF SOMEONE WANTED. INSANE.

BUT SERIOUSLY, WHAT GOOD IS A TRAP IF THE INTENDED VICTIM IS AWARE OF THE TRAP MECHANICS AND THE BAIT USED FOR THE VICTIM?

DIFFERENT VICTIMS DIFFERENT TRAPS

JUST LIKE A FROG IN A POT OF SLOW BOILING WATER – BY THE TIME THE DANGER IS RECOGNIZED AND APPRECIATED – FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS – IT’S JUST PLAIN TOO LATE FOR THE POOR FROG.

WAS FEELING LIKE A HAPPY SWIMMING FROG

SEEMED A SIMILAR SORT OF DEAL WITH WHAT’S HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY….. A SLOW INSIDIOUS CHANGE OF THE FABRIC OF OUR NATION. NOT JUST THE RULE OF LAW, BUT THE BASIC RESPECT FOR FELLOW CITIZENS AND TREATING OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM TREAT YOU.

RIGHTS MUST BE DEFENDED AND PROTECTED

BUT IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OUR RIGHTS BEING PROTECTED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, BUT OUR DUTY TO BE WELL INFORMED CITIZENS AND TO PROTECT THOSE RIGHTS THE BEST WAY WE CAN FOR EVERYONE.

WAY OFF THE MARK IN MANY RESPECTS

WASN’T THAT THE WHOLE CONCEPT? THAT EACH ONE OF US HAD/HAS THE SAME GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO LIBERTY, JUSTICE AND FREEDOM – ALL SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE AND PRESERVE A DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY FOR EVERY CITIZEN, IN EVERY STATE IN OUR NATION?

WELL, MAYBE A HOT BATH INSTEAD OF A SWIM IN THESE UNKNOWN WATERS FOR NOW – I’LL CONTROL THE TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT MYSELF THANK YOU. LOL

MY BEST TO YOU AND YOURS, LEW

NOT LIKE THIS AGAIN!

Well, probably won’t try this again. (Combining four different projects each containing their own slew of massive revised files.) So many frigg’n files with which to contend. Naturally, if I actually knew what I was doing…… like performing a simple little tune on the guitar – things would go much easier.

ONLY HANDFUL BUT WORKABLE

Obviously, there’s only a handful of chords that I know anyway – (as listeners surely appreciate) lol (— still amazes me how many songs can be distilled down into a few basic chords with some type of “filler” for the rest of the composition) …. Yet someone who was a true musician could knock that tune out in one or two recording attempts. But me? Not sure what the actual percentage is, but I hit an awful lot of sour notes trying to find that perfect one – or combination. Over and over, until – GOTTCHA! Name that audio file to use but it inevitably gets confused with all the other similar ones. Duh!

DISTINGUISHING FILES (reminds me of chasing new passwords! lol)

I try to distinguish them with slight file name changes…..but eventually still get tangled up – probably the lack of sleep is another major contributing factor to such poor performance. (And of course…. slow internet speed, PG&E outages and “power flickers”, noise of canine nails clicking across the floor, one right foot toe is a little shorter than the corresponding one on the other foot – lol, (just checking), etc. Excuses, excuses……yeah? lol)

Example: maybe a working file with the name of “THIS LAME TUNE” which contains the drums and a later attempt with the guitar. So then I edit and mix the two = “THIS LAME TUNE 02 drumguitar”, then, “THIS LAME TUNE 03 Harmonica”, etc. Pretty soon there will be “THIS LAME TUNE 08b G+Flute KEEP”, “THIS LAME TUNE 08c FLUTE-vocal KEEP” “THIS LAME TUNE 09e FINAL KEEP elec-guitar KEEP THIS ONE”, “This LAME TUNE …….blahblahblah ?????? what the hell am I doing? I’m drowning in files! lol

WHERE’S THE *&^%$# FIDDLE AND VIOLIN?

So this morning realized I had posted the wrong file yesterday which, of course, is really no biggie in the scheme of life I suppose, but to me it was irritating because I left out some of the back-up instrumental and written stuff – violins, drums, scrolling fonts,etc. which I thought was good, well, at least acceptable for my purposes at the time. So what to do? Apparently the “FINAL FINAL” file had been overwritten with another with the accidental same name. CRAP! Could I go back and find those specific revisions in all the different folders created for this one project? Yup, a needle in a haystack.

NAMED EACH ONE OF THEM DIFFERENTLY DUMB ASS – GO FISH!

OK, that should help. Violin Keep 07, Bass drum Keep02c, blah blah blah…..still TOO MANY FILES! Why so many files? Because I keep them for situations like this morning. Where is that &^%$#@% violin piece? Search, search, search,……GOTTCHA!

SCROLLING LYRICS

Long scrolling lyrics (and accompanying almost music) are a blessing and a source for potential problems down this LAME ROAD of editing once produced into one file. Everything frozen as is but change one small aspect of that scrolling “time line” and everything else will be out of sync, then add to that difficulty of all the CONFLICTING REVISIONS. Crapola. Very discouraging, but still more rewarding at the same time.

NOT WHAT ENVISIONED BUT IT WILL WORK

So here’s the final, final, “keep this one revision” (a Frankenstein-like stitched together piece that’s not what I had created yesterday and wanted – because there’s still stuff missing!….. whatever. Actually this could be another blessing in disguise because I do have a tendency to throw too much into these LAMES anyway. Need to curb the enthusiasm perhaps? Live and learn I suppose. Still therapeutic in processing and trying to understand the insanity of this world we live in right now.

Oh well, My best to you and yours, Lew

My best to you and yours, Lew

I honestly can’t figure out some of those graphic “solve the puzzles” to prove I am a human and often resort to the audio identification process. Have you done that yet? Identify which musical part changes mid-way through the three different samples?

Remember the sound of those old warped vinyl 45s with the distorted sound as the needle surfed the rolling – waving circular motion of the record on an old portable turntable?

Thus the DIM LAME title. lol

My best to you and yours, Lew

Too fast. Thoughts and concepts of how to express this “blender like” storm of feelings is challenging. As one idea begins to blossom several others simultaneously expose themselves requiring some sort of attempt to preserve the “awakening” aspect of this continuing nightmare. Just too old perhaps? Nah. The truth hurts sometimes. Then there are times you wear something like this with pride and steadfast determination not to be one of their “conforming sheeple”.

My best to you and yours, Lew