Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Whisper Down The Lane

A Country steeped in vile, daily displayed on Facebook, must be a Country on its way to becoming only an asterisk history will duly record.

USA afflicted : West, California thirsty; East, parched; Middle, flooded. Whether Man's doing or not, who understands weather ramifications?

Slipping away are the waning days of spring becoming lost in the muggy vestiges of May. June "may be busting out all over",but, July waits.

Ronald C. Downie

Monday, May 25, 2015

Memorial Day, 2015

How come ? No matter the color of one's skin, all spilled blood runs red. Our creator must have made Man from the inside out for a purpose. 

We Memorialize today those who gave the blood of their lives to set the rest of us free, be they : military, police, fire, first responders.

The reverence of Memorial Day rests in the hearts ad minds of everyone independent of parades and ceremonies which serves an overt purpose.

Ronald C. Downie

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Educate People

How does a nation recover its indomitable strength ? By relying on people, just as we began, long before corporations were deemed people.

Have you ever wondered where does America's obsession with war and warlike tendencies come from as they constantly increase imperiling all ?

Mom and Pop never did, nor have Connie and me, a couple of the kids could, best chance is with grandkids; education drives the Middle Class.

Ronald C. Downie

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Have you ever wondered where does America's obsession with war and warlike tendencies come from as they constantly increase imperiling all ?

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Amen! Amen! Amen!

Just saw for the umpteenth time " Mr. Smith Goes To Washington ". Where are present day Mr Smith's bringing common sense to DC ?

The stench of death from an unconscionable war wisps through the air of many candidates who beat the drums for previous conflicts that they lost.

The Holly Grail to sustain humanity lies in man's ability to accept change without conflict, to try and fail only to try again, to love life.

Ronald C. Downie

Monday, May 18, 2015

History Teaches

Over the Course Of History great Empires ruling the Earth have crumbled due to lack of investing back into their very existence. Why ? Why ?

Please, Rep. Ryan Costello, vote the intent of your comments on National TV by ignoring DC's Potomac Tea Parties. May shame offend you!

Tax breaks for Super Rich brings them bigger, brighter babbles, costlier roe, French wine, & more political pay outs ; not infrastructure. 

Ronald C. Downie
Impending Weather

Gathering myself after a storm seems simple but, as tree limbs widely scattered, my emotions never reattach themselves back to a main trunk.

Born of grit, ingenuity, courage The USA, like a fat old fart, has become bloated from success of a few who take mental control of the herd.

How many Rises, how many Falls, does history record Empires that once seemed invincible but now thru ignorance of disinvestment crumbled ?

Ronald C. Downie
Look & Listen

Ever since the beginning of recorded time, men have beaten the drum for war conflict. Listen, hear the thumping, the scourge of drumbeats.

Why do race tracks have fences and crash barriers 
around the outside of the circle ? Inertia pulls out the 
faster a racer (train) travels. 

Unnerved by TV's representations of The World Wars on H2 channel I wonder where humanity would be if wars weren't history ?

Ronald C. Downie

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Jokers Vote In Jokers

Positive Train Control - 7 year mandate by congress - Joke's on the users, running a 50 MPH curve at 106 MPH, NASCAR like ! Infrastructure ?

Disinvestment, derailment, death knocks deflation off the headlines. Life events have real time meaning. I hope, even Congress will react.

Derailment with resulting deaths on main rail line connecting Washington, Philadelphia, New York, due, I think, to perennial disinvestment. 

Ronald C. Downie
History Teaches

Over the Course Of History great Empires ruling the Earth have crumbled due to lack of investing back into their very existence. Why ? Why ?

Please, Rep. Ryan Costello, vote the intent of your comments on National TV by ignoring DC's Potomac Tea Parties. May shame offend you!

Tax breaks for Super Rich brings them bigger, brighter babbles, costlier roe, French wine, & more political pay outs ; not infrastructure. 

Ronald C. Downie

Sunday, May 3, 2015

For Want Of Words

When do words ring hollow, if they ring at all ?
Why- today -the answer echoes; silently muted. 

Personal thoughts recorded in this space
Find, no other than myself, willing to digest.

Why write then? Because, I think I can. 
Maybe, because I really can't compose.

Thinking my words are hard hitting, they
May only ding my own bell, unwittingly. 

Continue on ? Self serving is my message. 
If I do, you will see me here; if not, Good Bye !

Ronald C. Downie

Saturday, May 2, 2015

The Hidden Itch

How can the military industrial complex tail which wags the USA citizenry be stopped from overly influencing  peaceful pursuit of happiness ?

"Shock and Awe" has been ingrained into the publics' psyche as the preferred response to any altercation. No questions - needing no answers.

Is policing, as a component of modern society's make up, based on the dominant male's preeminence ? That, mistakenly, "might makes right" !

Ronald C. Downie

Friday, May 1, 2015

May Heaven Help You

Whenever a personal illness develops preliminary signs surface especially if it's a medical emergency or an epidemic surfacing. Similarly, preliminary signs surface when an ugly atmosphere begins to fester within a population who feel disenfranchised. We have hospitals for afflicted individuals but we have few ways to treat whole populations except when they try treating themselves through marches and gatherings. 

A person entering a hospital can expect a multitude of tests be given. There has to be similar tests given to the masses. But, there is a big impediment in finding tests which can ask the proper questions to uncover systemic ills which can be treated to make a difference. I believe the crux of the underlying problem in Baltimore is maybe too great to comprehend let alone correct in our present national political environment. 

How can our country syphon off for the exclusive use of the 1% super rich all the newly created income generated by the engines of profit instead of using these monies to correct societal ills ? Without a national financial realignment which acknowledges all Americans need proper shelter, enough food, adequate healthcare, sufficient education, and a serious opportunity for a meaningful job in a non military environment; Baltimore's will pop up often. 

"The die is cast" in the events of this last week in Baltimore. I won't, I believe, live long enough for a national change to be politically achieved. For my heirs, "Heaven Help You", since you are destined to feel the effects of the lethargic actions of our federal government to guarantee that all citizens are in titled to the list of needs I've delineated above. Baltimore is but a symptom needing attention; people's despair is closer to an epidemic coming on really needing ultimate attention. 

Ronald C. Downie
Combining Tweets

Brackish is water's we're reluctant to fish, catch there are confused, salt or fresh, not knowing their own preference flounder like humans.

"Man's Inhumanity to Man" continues today as it has throughout eternity proportionate to the strength of male testosterone. Females, unite !

May Day, we've pressed beyond the Ides of March and await this Summer's Solstice, anxious as ever, yawning away disinterestedly. 

Ronald C. Downie