Pizza mio

                                                             I won't write this morning save for this note .   My Mind is muddled and my body CRAVES >outdoor< activity .   Easter approaches and with it the Christian Exaction of the Resurrection, and with the Resurrection, Spring and ITS Re-Birth and Re-newal .   I allow my Imagination the complete Freedom to exercise and one exercise in particular involves Spring Clean-up so that should Jesus slide by and look at my clearing actions He can compliment me on my Effort .   Of course I won't KNOW it is He since Jesus can "shape-shift" .   No matter .   I WANT TO BELIEVE that He MAY slide by and perhaps offer me a bowl of Mary Jane's Essence --- we will then sit quietly and I will get to ask Him this most burning question --->  "Do Space Aliens eat and enjoy pizza ?"  

R-ocket P-ropelled G-renade

                                                   We have learned that past Generals and Admirals advised their Commander-In-Chief that any War with Iran would necessitate the abject PROTECTION of the Strait of Hormuz because of the MAGNITUDE of its Importance to GLOBAL Trade .    Present Day retired Admirals and Generals are ASTOUNDED that trump and his did  NOT consider the Strait as worthy of even the slightest consideration .   Worse, we can't help but speculate that trump and his KNOWINGLY regarded Iran and its Mil as IMPOTENT and because of such, SEVERELY Underestimated Iran's Forces, an underestimation that even a junior high football coach would calculate as CATASTROPHIC.   

                      So it is that trump and his CANNOT "locate" an Exit Strategy unless and until the Strait has been "secured" from Iranian Land Forces, that can fire an RPG into the hull of ANY ship that seeks release .  

                       Ya-gotta wonder if Present Day Generals and Admirals advised trump about the GLOBAL IMPORTANCE of GUARANTEEING "safe-passage" to the world's tankers, and cargo ships ,,, because if they DID and trump and his REJECTED their counsel then trump is even  MORE grotesquely STUPID than previously calculated .  

The Analects

                                                  Buddhism presents us with :  "A thing can be known by its opposite" .   In this vein we turn to Confucius :   

                                        "There are three things a gentleman, (          ) , places above the rest :  from every attitude, from every gesture that he employs he must remove all trace of violence or arrogance;  every look he composes in his face must betoken good faith ;   from every word he utters, from every intonation,  he must remove all trace of coarseness and impropriety ".

                                                                         The Analects

                                                                          8 :  4

                         Clearly this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what trump projects .   

Miss Management

                                                      Trump's preeminent Predicament affords us valuable Insight, for it is here that we can garner the results of his personal and social relationship management (or lack thereof) .    Both Sigmund Freud and his Student Carl Jung agree that a man CAN-BE Judged by "the company he keeps", for example, if one surrounds one's self with thieves and criminals, it is clinically SAFE to regard that one as ALSO a thief and criminal .   From the late 70's :  "You are what you eat" can be b-r-o-a-d-e-n-e-d to  "You ARE what your friends are"---{rough but serviceable} .   Note trump's "friends" = putin, the  North Korean Dung-Eater,  Xi,,  and that Hungarian Horror .   We must, perforce, consider HITLER as trump's "bedside buddy" as well .   We can render a Judgement that is "Self-Evident" =  According to Those-That-Are-NORMAL trump is not only Deranged, Addled, and Delusional,,,,, he is a Political PERVERT--- and even such a declaration is WEAK and perhaps we should add the OBVIOUS, that trump is DIABOLICAL .  

"As ye sow, so shall ye" WEEP

                                                        I am  not alone in appreciating trump's present predicament .   He is in "dire straits" because of the Strait of Hormuz .   Yesterday we made the Determination that trump encapsulates ALL the negativity that can be contained within one's Psyche, and that of the Psyche of the Planet .   Trump's "Call to Arms" was largely REJECTED by those that once considered America as a GREAT Ally .   I insist that this entire Predicament is Biblical and I offer this :  "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."   Trump has viciously maligned almost EVERY Country in the E.U. as well as inflicting Economic Pain via the gross 'application' of Taxes that can only present itself as Vengeful and Punitive .   He has treated those Allies with both Contempt and Scorn, at times mocking them, at other times SCOLDING them as though they were disobedient children .   It is safe to affix the term "Father" to trump, meaning , he feels that his "status" allows him to be cruel, abrasive, offensive and callous with regard to his relationship with Others .   He is "The Bad Father", of this, there can be no doubt .

                           We have seen that trump was SHOCKED at the REFUSAL of NATO Allies to aid him, and he bemoaned that Fact with even MORE "Scorn and Contempt", spouting in just one sentence that he NEEDS their ENTHUSIASTIC Participation and that he DOESN'T .    Here now the proverbial "Sour Grapes" .   

                           Trump made every Conscious Effort to estrange himself from these "Friendlies" and when it came to for them to Respond to trump's monstrous ILL-TREATMENT they did so with their own ENTHUSIASTIC "Scorn and Contempt" and dare I add an extremely Glorious "FUCK YOU" .  

                          God how I LOVE the E.U. 

All men are NOT "Created Equal"

                                              We know that Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, can we assume that he never knew of Kung-tu Tsu, Mencius, Chu Hsi and Master Ch'eng I  ?   I think it is obligingly safe to answer in the affirmative .    According to the Ancients,  all men are NOT "Created Equal" .   What is to be done with THAT ?

                        There IS >Equality< , but its Form is this =  We are Equal in that we were created as Human Beings--we have HUMAN Form .    REGARDLESS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY  We are all HUMAN .  THAT is the UNIVERSAL EQUALITY .   

                        And yet, Governments composed of inferiors and those who are >'lesser'<,  sometimes Rule as if Human Beings are ANIMALS .   Can there be a GREATER ATROCITY ???  No.  There cannot .

                       INHUMAN CRUELTY is the POLITICAL  Ideology of trump and trumpism .   Elsewhere I have argued that trump is, himself,  INHUMAN .    Trump has "Demons" --- shit---ALL OF US HAVE DEMONS--- but trump's Demons govern his every action and his every IN-action .   Most of us are able to control our Demons, we have a Conscience and are tuned to our "greater qualities"--- trump is DEVOID of such Qualities as are his minions, rather, trump has chosen to IGNORE his 'greater qualities' and has favored those of DEMONIC Origin .   Trump is BROKEN and has created a Regime IN HIS IMAGE .   As such, trump has become a STANDARD of "fucked fucking up" , and so we would do well to seek to neutralize his Demonic Negativity with Our "Greater Qualities"  a Task surely Noble .

"The Investigation of All Things"

                                 

         " I Chu Hsi,  have ventured to take the view of   Master Ch'eng I   and supplement it as follows :   the meaning of the expression "the perfection of knowledge depends on the investigation of things" is this :   if we wish to extend our knowledge to the utmost, we must investigate the principles of all things we come into contact with, for the intelligent Mind of man is certainly formed to know, and there is not a single thing in which principles do not inhere .  It is only because all principles are not investigated that man's knowledge is incomplete .   For this reason, the first step in the education of the adult is to instruct the learner, in regard to all things in the world, to proceed from what knowledge he has of their principle, and investigate it further until he reaches the limit .   After exerting himself in this way for a long time he will one day achieve a wide and far reaching penetration .  Then the qualities of all things, whether internal or external, the refined or coarse, will be apprehended, and the mind, in its total substance and great function will be perfectly intelligent .  This is called the investigation of things .  This is called The Perfection of Knowledge ."

                         This is me and I want It to be You .