Four Days of RNC in a Nutshell

The four days of the Republican National Convention’s disturbing rubbish from America’s despicable liars is finally over.

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald J. Trump said her father signed nine pieces of legislation to combat the evils of human trafficking, but she failed to mention that the president also wished one of those human sex traffickers well. Stephen Colbert was quick to point this out on Thursday night’s, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

 

A lot of my news about President Trump is acquired from Colbert’s TV show. Yes, Colbert is a talk show comedian, but his news is real despite what Trump and his too many followers may say.

The former girlfriend of the deceased Jeffery Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and former / friend of President Trump was arrested in July on charges of transporting a minor to engage in illegal sex acts with rich powerful men, and conspiracy, two counts of perjury and other crimes. Maxwell assisted and contributed to Epstein’s abuse of young women and was even present in some of the abuses.

“I’ve met her numerous times over the years…I wish her well,” Trump said in July, after Maxwell was arrested. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-wishes-accused-sex-abuser-ghislaine-maxwell-well-at-coronavirus-briefing_uk_5f17f7f1c5b6128e681e900f

Stephen Colbert made it clear that Stephen K. Bannon, Paul Manafort and Corey Lewandowski, all face criminal charges, and each of these men led Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people,” Trump said in August 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/30/donald-trump-only-hires-the-best-people-at-generating-unhelpful-headlines/

On Thursday night, when the RNC addressed the current rioting in the U.S., the republicans showed rioting footage from Spain to fuel more false fears and lies.

“Right now in America we’re facing a global pandemic that has killed a 180,000 Americans, heavily armed Rambo wannabees are murdering people in our streets, the strongest hurricane in the history of the Gulf Coast has hit land, and the RNC’s message is; whose up for four more years? Why should we pay attention to what they (RNC speakers) are saying if none of what they’re saying is what’s happening in America right now? Why should we watch their reality show if it doesn’t reflect our reality? Why subject ourselves to their lies that stick to your soul like hot tar,” Colbert said.

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completely reversed their testing guidelines. People without symptoms may not need to be tested, even if they’ve been in close contact with someone known to have the virus. Forty percent of infections are asymptomatic and 50 percent of the transmissions occur before the symptoms. (CNN health) Ignoring this does not make it go away Colbert said.

“If we did half the testing, we’d have half the cases,” Trump said.

The CDC was pressured to change guidance on the coronavirus testing by higher ups within the Trump administration. (New York Times)

We’ve reached the point where Donald Trump is dictating our health regulations Colbert said.

“We’ve watch him violate every norm of the presidency imaginable. Blackmailing foreign governments to get dirt on his political opponents, witness intimidation, crippling the post office and illegally using the White House for partisan campaigning such as his meeting with former hostages, and the pardoning of John Ponder, the first lady’s convention speech in the rose garden and having a campaign naturalization ceremony for five new U.S. citizens,” Colbert said.

Colbert says people should care about all the laws Trump is breaking. We’re drinking from a fire hose of scandal, but Americans can’t catch ourselves getting two numb to all of this.

Personally, I want Andrew Yang or Tulsi Gabbard as our next president, but the simple reality is clear. In November, Trump will be re-elected, or Joe Biden will be America’s next president, and know this, Donald Trump doesn’t care if you die of Corvid 19 or of racism, as long as he wins.  It’s why I’m ridn’ with Biden.     

Mark Izzy Schurr

"The Illustrated Theory of Everything" Reviewed

In the concluding theory of everything, everyone would know why the universe exists and know the mind of god, Stephen W. Hawking said in his 1996 book, “The Illustrated Theory of Everything.”

The majestic spiral, one of the millions of galaxies in the universe discovered in 1995 with the Hubble Space Telescope is about 60 million light years away from Earth. A light year is a measure of distance, not time. It would take 60 years of travelling at the speed of light to get to the majestic spiral, the galaxy known as NGC 4414. The speed of light incidentally is a 186,000 miles per second. “The Illustrated Theory of Everything” has fascinated me with its awesome pictures and intriguing facts about the universe.

Majestic spiral, NGC 4414

Theories are always being changed to account for new observations. With science going in its current direction we will all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe which is responsible for our existence Hawking said.

I lost faith in the Bible decades ago and the more I read, the more I embrace the quest for knowledge, fantasy and fascination. For thousands of years, the Catholic Church claimed that Earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun and all the other planets revolved around it. Finally, in the 1980s, the Catholic Church officials admitted they were wrong, and that science had indeed proven them wrong. The Earth and all the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun, and not the other way around. Also, our universe is not in the center of creation, which was once thought.

In 1924, Edwin Hubble discovered ours is not the only universe in the galaxy. This book claims that there are 1,000s of millions of solar systems much like ours. Life outside of Earth? Nothing proven of course, but Hawking suggested that perhaps entities from another planet far from our solar system are already here, but maybe they are too small to be seen or heard.

A new cluster of stars being formed, 13 million light years from Earth, NGC 4214

Thousands of years before this book, the Hindus speculated that the Earth may have gone through many ice ages and floods. In other words, like the Hindu’s, Hawking also said the Earth may have been fully formed and destroyed over and over.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling, that it announces its own existence or does it need a creator? Does the creator have any effect on the universe other then being responsible for its existence, and who created him?   

Mark Izzy Schurr

Modern Moron Book Review, of the Late George Harrison

 

George Harrison journeyed to god through rock ‘n’ roll, LSD and mystic India. Topple your own greed, anger and illusions if you want to fix yourself, and don’t try and repair others. (Ancient Hindu text)

Each soul is potentially divine and our job is to manifest it. (Vivekanda) Empowered beings and mystical powers fascinated Harrison. The eastern spheres of religion and Hindu philosophy was an interictal part of the late George Harrison’s life. Do some people feel spiritual energy flow up through the roots to nourish plants and flowers to attain comic energy? Despite the massive success Harrison achieved in his short life, he was never fully satisfied.

By the time Harrison was 17-years-old he lived sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. As one the guitarist, singers and song writers of the iconic Beatles, Harrison had amassed a fortune by the time he was 23-years-old. Before the Beatles came to America, Harrison tripled his father’s weekly salary as a bus driver, so he could retire, which his father indeed did. When Harrison was in his 20s, he began his study of Hindu religion, which he kept until his death in 2001 when he was 58-years-old. While in his 20s, Harrison said he wanted to do as well as he could in what he attempts and to die with a peaceful mind.

“The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison Here Comes the Sun” by Joshua M. Greene should be read by any fan of George Harrison or the Beatles. Harrison was no saint, and certainly not a devote Hindu, but the vastness and wisdom of Hinduism played a major role in his life and music. Music is the highest form of education states Rig-Veda, text from ancient Hinduism.

Ravi Shankara, a close friend and mentor to Harrison said making God in sound or trying to is the goal in music. The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects, Shankar said.  

The Friar Park estate located in England was built in 1896 for Sir Frankie Crisp. The 35-acre estate had an array of homilies carved throughout the property. Homilies are clever sayings that Crisp had posted throughout the property. On Friar Park which was restored in the 1970s and purchased by Harrison, these homilies were sayings about the devil, friendship and life. Crisp was a bit like the creator of “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll said Joshua M. Greene, the writer of this book.  Harrison liked to garden in his newly acquired estate and enjoyed the more then 100-year-old Homilies laden throughout his property.  

In August 1997, Harrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The first two reactions, or most common ones for people receiving this frightening news about themselves is denial and anger. For George, it was chanting and planting. In this age, the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of god. There is no other way. (Brhannaradiya Purana 38.126) thousands of years before the Bible.

When George was diagnosed with cancer in 1997, doctors gave him six months to live, and George said bollocks! George died on November 30, 2001.

“He wasn’t attached to this world in the way most people would be. My dad had no fear of dying whatsoever. I can’t stress that enough really,” Dhani Harrison said.

Mark Izzy Schurr

Another Modern Moron Book Review

The mythological lore of Hinduism inspires the quest for knowledge supreme, the ultimate truth. At last, I no longer want to fit in or belong to a society that wants nothing to do with me.

The cosmic ocean of creation is a mystery to the gods themselves. Time and the universe came first, then the gods, hence, no one knows how humans evolved. Hinduism has a bizarre barrage about the origins of humankind, yet doesn’t stake their claims as facts, nor disputes what other religions say about human beginnings.  

Hinduism, unlike the other top five religions has many founders, and far too many books to count. A different book on Hinduism would fill an entire public library shelf in every library in the U.S., where as Christianity has two books, the Bible, and "The Book of Mormon".

I’m not a Hindu, and certainly not a saint, but Hinduism has literally saved my life. I was suicidal for much longer then I will never admit too, but that’s all in the past now. Hindu books are extremely poetic, and even though I’m convinced I’m all alone in this world, I have the written words of fact and fantasy on the infinite pages of Eastern philosophy to fuel my fantasy’s and realistic goals.

Believe in one god or many gods, or don’t believe in god at all, but strive to be a good person are words from the Hindu scriptures. As soon as I read this, I was immediately fascinated by Hinduism. Books about Hindu gods and goddess have also seized my imagination. Of all the books I’ve read about the Hindu gods, I have yet to read that I’m going to hell because I believe in the wrong god, or don’t believe in god at all. Know peace, practice peace, it’s a simple philosophy from ancient Hindu scriptures from thousands of years ago.  

Multiple forms of gods and goddess allow human beings to seek personal and spiritual fulfillment through a variety of different paths. (Krishna Dharma; “Beauty, Power, & Grace, The Book of Hindu Goddesses.”)

Brahma, Bumba, The Great Spirit, Buddha, Allah, Muhammad, Ganesha or God is the source and the seed of all that is. 

Maybe the entire universe, and all that dwell within it were formed over billions of years via gravity pulling various elements together, and the dust of the stars merged from the heavens to form human life as we know it today. The timeless question: which came first? The chicken or the egg? Me, like Stephen Hawking doesn’t believe in god, but Hawking made a good argument for god when he said, if we started out as infants, we would not be here. (“The Grand Design,”)

Immortality can be achieved through the conquest of delusion. Hinduism classifies humans into three basic categories. The truly saintly live once and go straight to Heaven when they die. Hindu Heaven is complete with lush foliage, waterfalls, wine and has no leaders or followers, or so it is written. 

The purely evil souls live only once and go straight to hell upon their death. I’ve never read about Hindu Hell, but if the goddess Kali administers the punishment, I sincerely hope I never have to endure Kali’s wrath. Kali can destroy all that we love and like to possess, and it’s been said she uses the blood of her slain victims to mop her dance floor. Kali, like the Christian god is extremely wrathful, yet loving and all powerful. Kali is the goddess of time and truth and can remedy all disease if it pleases her. In short, she is the power of god in all his aspects. (“Hindu Gods and Goddesses” by Swami Harshananda.)  

The last category for we the living is reincarnation. Hindu religion claims most humans are in this realm of life, we’re not gods prized creations, yet, we’re also not the definition of sheer evil. If you’re not worthy of an eternity of endless love and laughter, and you’re also not a sadistic psycho, you keep getting reborn and thrust into this chaotic cocktail known as life on Earth until the end of time itself. 

One of these days, the Earth Maker is going to look you straight in the heart, and you better know what it is you’re doing. (“U Turn,” the 1997 movie starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez.)

The alphabets, grammar, and the wings of speech, may have all started from the Hindu’s. Hinduism is certainly one of the oldest known languages known to humankind.

The delicious dreams of dancing in Dyaus, the heavens. To have mahavidya, knowledge supreme. Sip amrita, the nectar of immortality and to experience the touch of kamesvari, the mistress of desire, this is my ultimate quest!  I yearn for a world where everyone is safe, and the currency is love and laughter.

Mark Izzy Schurr

“George and the Unbreakable Code” by Lucy and Stephen Hawking is the 4^th intriguing story featuring the fictional children George and Annie.

In “… The Unbreakable Code,” George and Annie, both 11-years-old must thwart the evil plans of Alioth Merak. Merak is a man on the verge of ruling the entire world, and while he is building a quantum computer that will enable him to seize control of the entire planet Earth, George and Annie are the only two who know what Merak’s malicious plans are. George and Annie have the knowledge of how to stop Merak from taking over the world.

Merak is so consumed in his insane quest to take over the world, he attempts to kill Annie and George by hurling them into outer space without spacesuits, so the two children will explode.

This book, like the three previous tales involving Annie and George is geared for grammar school aged children, yet fun, entertaining, and even informative for adult readers who enjoy learning about Earth, the planets, and the entire solar system.

“George and the Unbreakable Code,” like the other books involving Annie and George is much more then a children’s adventure. Lucy and Stephen Hawking veer off the main story and give us readers fascinating facts about the planets and their moons. In this book for example, I learned that the planet Saturn is so light in weight, that it would float in water.

This book also has two pages on internet safety for children, and how they can deal with cyber bullying. The two pages also detail how children can detect internet fraud and the importance that children should communicate with their parents / guardians about what they do on the internet.

Like the three previous books about Annie and George, these two children are able to travel into outer space and walk amid any planet they so desire, thanks to Annie’s quantum computer which is named Cosmos.

George likes Annie because she is fun, clever, cool, and brave. Nothing is beyond Annie, no adventure shunned, no theory untested, and no assumption to stay untested George says about Annie in this book.

Merak kidnaps Annie’s father Eric, and George and Annie have no choice but to go to the unknown origins of outer space and walk into the massive unknown darkness. Just before George and Annie enter into the portals of the unknown, George leaves a note that reads as follows:

If not returned by morning, please send out a space rescue mission using coordinates held by Cosmos.

Annie and George

Good note, Annie says to George. 

The unbreakable code for Annie and George is friendship. “George’s Secret Key to the Universe” is the first installment of this series of books about the adventures of Annie and George written by the late Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy. “George and the Unbreakable Code” is a solid three and a half star read for fans of children’s stories and those fascinated by the science of space and the planets.

Mark Izzy Schurr