An interesting (in the Chinese sense) Day

 

September 27, 2020

 

I have had better days. Kathryn woke me up to say there was water all over the basement floor. Sure enough. The tank for the water purification system had blown. Sure enough, water all over. I managed to get my drums out before they got wet. Fortunately they were on a carpet I keep for playing on slick floors. The carpet is soaked, but with some vacuuming and drying it should be OK.

As I was assessing the damage, I stepped out into the yard to discover the septic tank had overflowed.

Thank goodness for a shop vac. I managed to get about 64 gallons of water out of the basement, but the flooding ruined a lot of stuff stored there.

I hope I can salvage the books and photos. The photos especially. They document my life during my band touring years.

The stuff is to us, treasures, but in the end it is just stuff So that's how it was at Fringe Benefit Farm today.

Two Revolutions

 

        There is a revolution going on now. it is being fomented by people who wish to undermine and destroy our system of government. Anarchists.  Now I have to admit that I too am a moderate anarchist. One who does not believe in big government. A Libertarian. I do, as many others of my thought realize that there has to be an entity which does things like regulate interstate commerce, impose tariffs on outside countries, etc. 

        These people don't want any of that. They want a tyrannical government such as was imposed in Stalinist Russia.  Only with out the gulags of course. But what they don't realize is, that system is exactly what they are ushering in. 

        I don't know who the dictator will be.  Soros is too old. Kamala Harris comes to mind, but that is yet to be seen. No one expected Stalin, and no one expected Hitler, who was also a self describes socialist, to become what they became.

        There is great unrest growing among the bourgeois, the middle class, especially the far right fringe, to start another revolution. this time against the government.  

        It is my thought that the government will swoop in and crush it, while merely warning the current revolutionaries to calm down, and not make so much noise. It is one thing to attack private property, and quite another to attack government property.  I have warned of this for some time, and will continue to do so.

        There is an election coming up that is of vital importance to the American People. We who are voters, called electors in The Constitution, have the authority, right, and duty to do away with those

 in Congress.

        The peaceful revolution I advocate is via the ballot box.  We must as a people, reject those who would subvert The Constitution and turn America to a socialist, and perhaps a religious country with it's own set of oppressive laws laws.

         In short, vote out all incumbents. We had a chance in the primary election, and for the most part, failed.  I  hope that we will all do this. It's vital to the future of America.

Lee Akers

8-21-2020

Invasion? Probably Not A Good Idea.

    I was reading today that there is some talk about sending UN troops to the United States. Perhaps to supervise elections, perhaps to quell rioting here.

    I am totally against war unless we are attacked on US soil, or invaded by foreign troops. I am not alone. The gun shops are selling out of ammunition faster than they can get it in. Rifles and pistols are being sold in record numbers. 

    I was thinking about how armies throughout history have failed to overcome Afghanistan, It is a country with a small population, but they are determined to not be overtaken.

    It would be very dangerous for them should the UN to invade us.  Can you imagine 250,000,000 well armed, mostly well trained in military tactics men and women who are ready willing and able to fight for American sovereignty? Not to mention those currently in our armed forces who are equally against a UN invasion?

    Very dangerous indeed.

Was Krushchev a prophet?

On September 29, 1959, Russia's leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered this message.
"Your children's children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.  No, you won't accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.  We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands."  "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Here was, and is, the plan.
1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor.  Eliminate the middle class This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor

I remember that speach well. It was carried on TV.  Everybody laughed at called Khrushchev he was called a clown, a buffoon,Out of his mind. But he was not. He was a member of the Politburo, one of Stalin's personal staff, and a staunch member of the Communist party, ans a true believer. In such a system, when the party chooses the leader, it would have been impossible to make a person the leader of the USSR, who was a fool.

Khrushchev new exactly what he was saying. It was a reworded quote of V.I. Lenin. Due to the blind followers of Communism, who made many other true believers, as well as people duped by those party line followers, it is going on today.

For instance: Have you ever considered the term "politically correct"? Whose politics? Communist politics, which have been taken up by the Democratic party and other followers of Soviet rhetoric.

The US fought against the spread Communism, and eventually, The Soviet Union fell. Wh will take up the fight when the United States falls?

Unless there is a direct intervention from God, I'm afraid that our grandchildren, will live under the communist banner.

Left Wing News

We had an Associated Press bureau here in Montana, but when it's radio news, and my writing mentor, Len Iwanski retired, AP closed it. Now everything is sent to Colorado, where it is "edited", and sent out. The editing is not too bad, but the political spin put on the stories is very heavy.

To me, it is not the TV and print media that is the fake news, it is the AP. They are the ones who feed all the news sources, and those sources merely read them verbatim. When United Press International was still a major player, AP was not so bad. But after UPI was bought by the Korean "Unification Church", and their raising prices, most outlets stopped using them.  Their wire transmissions stopped, and we were left with an enormous hole in our news.

UPI is still active on the internet, but no local or statewide news, only national and international news and sports. Thus, we are left with only one major news source, the very liberal Associated Press.

Lee Akers Sr.
07-18-2020

A Little Pity Party

so I'm sitting here in my studio, listening to oid tapes of my band. Darn I was good. I got to thinking about old friends with whom I had played and toured. Many of those people are dead, andI have lost track of most of the rest.
Beside me is a steel guitar that I am trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to learn to play. behind me is my Fender Precision Bass. The Acoustic amp is in the other room, along with my fiddle, which I can play, and would be better if i were to practice. A nice Martin guitar that I bang on a bit, an electric piano that again, if I were to practice, would be able to play, and set up in the basement is a full set of PDP drums, that I play very well.

I was a fixture in several house bands in California in the 60s, 70s, and '80s, and have toured almost every state west of the Rockies with my own band, and front man for several others.

And I cannot get a gig.

I now live in a small town in Montana with a serious lack of places to play. There are some awfully good musicians here, but while they are friends, I am not in the clique.
almost no one here has heard me play. Some have heard my album that I cut in 1969, but that is old hat, and done by some has been.
 
I have played with a couple of garage bands, but they prefered people they knew.
So, I guess I'm just sitting on my figurative pot having a little pity party, but it's hard to not be able to do a thing that I devoted the majority of my life to.

Jeez it fun to get old. 

But I really would love to get a gig.

Lee Akers
7-16-2020

These are terribly dangerous times for America. Things have escolated until they are reaching the point of being out of control.
As you know, I have been warning that we are living in an increasing police state.

  It is my opinion that the current civil unrest, really revolution, is due to backlash against that abrogation of our right to live free.  The Black man who was killed by aggressive members of that police state, was merely the trigger.

As I warned in my previous blog, the revolution will start in one place, then spread rapidly to first every large city, then every small town in America. And, as I said, the wrong people will be the ones to take over. (Witness: Seattle.) 

The federal government is showing great restraint, but, if the revolution continues, will soon deploy the military. When that happens, we the people will have lost a great country, and system of government. We will live under a true totalitarian regime, and the "grand experiment" will be lost. 

God help us all.

Lee Akers Sr. 

6-13-2020