Thursday, March 21, 2024

16.5 BILLION...so far

 Mackenzie Scott used to be married to Jeff Bezos.  They got divorced and she has become the world's greatest philanthropist.  (Maybe there are families who give more but she's a lone wolf)

YEILD GIVING is the name of her organization.

Up to this point she has given away 16.5 BILLION dollars.

You might ask how much did she get in the divorce?

Apparently she got 19 million shares of Amazon which equated to something around 40 BILLION dollars.

It appears that her entire existence at this point is to find organization and people who NEED money.

I seem to know people who have a lot of money who claim they need more money.

CHARITABLE organizations don't seem to be solving problems fast enough.

I read this morning that The Donald is having problems getting his 400 million dollar bond.

MAYBE HE NEEDS TO CALL MacKenzie.

Do you know her cell phone number?

Some numbers are staggering.....like the Dodgers losing their second game of the season 15-11 in Korea. Their new Japanese 325 million dollar pitcher has an ERA of 45.

And then that lost comes the day after Ohtani's interpreter gets fired.

The season has suddenly gotten off to a very weird start.

The statement "I didn't bet on baseball" once more appears on the scene.

There are 160 games left and maybe MacKenzie can figure out some way to smooth the Dodger sails.









Wednesday, February 28, 2024

It's time to leap....oh wait that's tomorrow

 The March 5 election material is sitting on my desk and I haven't even opened it.

I think this is a precursor for the upcoming Presidential election.

People are predicting record turnouts.....I'm not so sure.

The GOP guy should be in jail and the Demo dude should be in pajamas....Which turns out to be a current style if you haven't noticed.  It started with lazy teens and now I see grown men and women walking around in the pj's.  

I will probably open the ballot book today or maybe Ill wait until tomorrow and do it on a February 29 leap year day.

Then again I might not get involved until November the fifth.

God knows I don't look forward to hearing DJT talk about taking the country back AGAIN.

Oh yeah and I almost forgot to mention that #17 hit his first homerun for the Dodgers....which is a baseball reference....which is something I will be watching very closely during 2024.  

March 22 in Korea is the start......Go Dodgers.


Friday, February 2, 2024

And after 30 years FEB 3 is still a day that makes no sense

 The family and friends of Sean, Buddy, Richie and J.P know this date is simply one that makes no sense.

  Of course Don McLean immortalized this date with his "American Pie" song but that doesn't help my memories of this day in 1994.

 SEAN

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Reality check 2024

 As one advances further up the birthday count one greets another new year with multiple feelings and expectations.

Mortality rests slightly off center when you reach your 70's and then as you approach your 80's IT starts making ITS presence a tad more pronounced.  Those tiny aches and pains that rotate from one joint to the next depending on how you slept or how you popped out of bed.

Generally while moving about during the day those tiny little reminders take a break and if you are doing something that you enjoy (like playing golf) then they actually almost disappear.

Being aware of the political and social situations taking place here and in other parts of the world create a different type of pain awareness.

When you know there is nothing you can personally do to alter anything going on between countries and leaders of those countries...as there is nothing you can do to alter the divisions that exist within our own government...then the pain takes on a life of its own.

At home we have trusted that elections decide outcomes.  In many other countries elections don't really determine who has the power.  

In 2024 elections have suddenly become a weird event.

With the addition of AI we are about to witness a Presidential election that will baffle the minds and hearts of  responsible voters.  Keep in mind that 74 million people voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election so responsible voting isn't always the mandate.

You do realize that he still hasn't conceded that election and that his supporters still think the election was stolen from him.

I actually talk to a few people on a regular basis that believe he wasn't responsible for the attack on the Capital on January 6 2021.  They also believe those weren't MAGA people inside the building but Antifa people dressed in MAGA clothing and gear.

I've watched the morning talks with John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump TWICE and there is no doubt what they were trying to do.

AND YET HIS SUPPORTERS DON'T THINK HE WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.  THEY SIMPLY THINK HE WAS EXHIBITING HIS RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH.

And after 723 indictments and 454 incarceration's his supporters still think he did nothing wrong...AND THAT THE OBVIOUS INSURRECTION WAS EXAGGERATED.

And we are entering an election season where certain states are trying to keep him off the primary ballots but remember the Supreme Court is 6-3 on his team so those attempts will most likely fail.

I know I should be concerned by actions talking place in the Middle East and The Ukraine but our situation at home probably has bigger ramifications for the future of peace and prosperity on a global scale because after all is said and done..........

We are the at the top of the food chain and there's a reason all those people are trying to cross our borders.

Except for a beautiful chalet on the side of a village in Switzerland where else would you want to live?

Happy New Year

Friday, December 8, 2023

In case you were wondering.....

 The last post where I said Check it out is referring to a web site called Big Talk or Make Big Talk.  If you are wondering why I posted it, just click on video section and look for the grey haired dude with a blue jacket and grey baseball cap with a goatee and that's me.

If you don't have Instagram (which I don't because I put my cell phone in a drawer 6 years ago) then you might have a problem.  Apparently you can also access the site on YouTube.

The reason I'm bring this up is because someone told me that there are over 2 million views of my short interview.

The owner of Make Big Talk is Kalina Silverman and she has been working on this project for about six years.  Look her up and see what she's been doing.

I would like to regard my blog as my version of Make Big Talk.  I started Mind Jazz in 2006 and if you scroll through the archives you will discover a wide range of subject matter.

I think the next phase of my exposure (which has been slowly unfolding) will be in the Podcast world.

From what I've been told......again I don't have Instagram.....there are many comments that allude to the simple fact that I might be able to help a certain group of people who have gone through a similar situation.

This coming February 3 will be 30 years since my 15 year son Sean changed levels.

There are days where it feels like it happened yesterday and there are days where it feels like it couldn't actually have happened.  There are many more days where it feels like it happened yesterday then the other feeling.

The affect of his physical lost on other members of our family has proven to be traumatic in ways that aren't always obvious.

Human beings are story tellers and it seems on a planetary basis that BETTER STORIES NEED TO BE TOLD. 

As I look around I see a lot of anger, judgmental viewpoints  and a ton of confusion regarding politics and religious beliefs.

Science seems to be disregarded and humor isn't as widespread as it should be.

Whether or not me creating a Podcast can do any good at all......time will tell and since I'm only trying to help one person at a time my goals aren't that extreme.  

I've already been exposed to 2 million people and I wasn't even trying. 

Plus I've been told I either like to talk or I talk too much.

Thanks to Make Big Talk I'm going to expand my Universe and as you know it's a very very very very very very very very very large Universe....and it is always expanding so why not join the fun.

Michael Timothy McAlevey



Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Many Many Many things going on

My baseball season is over and once again the Dodgers had a great REGULAR season.  Things didn't go as planned in the post season but that's why they play the game.  It's a game of failure for 31 teams that don't win the World Series BUT Los Angeles is spoiled because our regular 162 game season is consistently very very good.

If you don't follow baseball then perhaps you follow politics and if so then you can't be pleased with anything going on anywhere on the planet.

If somehow Russia is behind Iran which is behind Hamas then they are doing that to take away focus on their war with Ukraine.....which could create a much larger problem.

So many people use the term WW 3 and they might be the same people who believe in Revelations.

Religion plays such a big role in the situation that once again I hope the Creator isn't paying close attention to the nonsense.  Every religious organization claims they have the true answers and of course every organization underestimates the Creator. IF, IN FACT, THERE IS AN INTELLIGENT BEING  BEHIND THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE.

I BELIEVE THERE IS AND I ALSO BELIEVE  THAT HUMAN BEINGS CREATE CHAOS BASED ON THEIR ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS.

When political motivation intertwines with religious belief systems then things really get out of hand.

WE CURRENTLLY ARE WITNESSING THAT TYPE OF CHAOS.

HOW IT GETS RESOLVED IS ANOTHER ISSUE AND THAT ISSUE IS RELATED TO HOW MANY WEAPONS HAVE BEEN CREATED IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.

ESPECIALLY THE TYPE OF WEAPONS CREATED SINCE 1944.

If you build the toys and you make money selling the toys, you obviously are going to keep making more toys.

ESPECIALLY IF THOSE TOYS EXPLODE

*******

I read a story this morning about DJT using campaign money to pay his lawyers.  60 law firms have received 37 MILLION dollars.

What's really amazing to me is HOW MANY of his supporters don't think he had anything to do with the January 6 2021 attempted overthrow of the Capitol Building.

I have watch the morning speeches( Jan 6) by 3 people ( including DJT) twice and its an open and shut case

WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN'T, AND TELL ME HE ISN'T RESPONSIBLE.

**********

There are so many twists and turns to the quantum entanglement theories.

If you aren't aware of QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT term then you should do a little research.

Spooky

EPR

The fact of the matter is as far as I can tell.....it's still SCIENCE FICTION

THEORIES are THEORIES UNTIL PROVEN TO BE TRUE and there are so many theories that are being converted into movies and novels that  WE have a tendency to start thinking that facts are present.

THOUGHT  EXPERIMENTS are beautiful......

When I continue to read and study about how the Universe is constructed I still encounter a slew of theories and then add math equations and suddenly everything is perfectly clear....

OR NOT

Last week the Nobel Prize in science went to some folks who discovered Quantum Dots


If politics confuses and baffles you try spending some time on those last two subjects.

If I didn't have sports to observe I might actually go crazy.....

opps....maybe it's too late.













Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Once more Doonesbury nails it

Vice-President 

On top of the GOP candidates running for Trump's VP we need to add a Democrat to the list.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

Watching his interviews I have no doubt that DJT will choose RFK Jr. or that Vivek dude.

Of course Mr. Kennedy will politely decline but anyone who adheres to the number of conspiracy theories that he does, might decide that it makes sense to join the Trump team.

A friend of mine saw JR the other day in Santa Monica and wondered if he was trying to become the next Mr. Universe.   

Are there no conspiracy theories about steroids?

The GOP yesterday announced that they will pursue impeachment proceedings on President Biden and no one in the right mind can be surprised.

Donald has warned the party that if they don't, he will do something else to get another indictment and raise more money and climb higher in the polls.

The Republican party is so screwed and all they can do is try to screw the Democrats.

Stay tuned...the election of 2024 is just getting started and with AI involved it will be the strangest election.......

EVER

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Last Quarter of 2023 starts today

 Amazing how many times in my life I've said...."wow, has this year really flown by, or what?"

As one gets older the concept of time both diminishes and increases at the exact same speed.....and since speed is a fundamental concept of what time is, our references get blurred....from time to time.

The 2024 Presidential election has kicked off with the GOP conducting a debate and the front runner of their splintered party having his own campaign away from the "crowd."

One of the methods that the GOP uses is the statement that FOX News uses all the time.   "The American people don't want Trump or Biden."\

THAT STATEMENT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY TRY TO CONVINCE YOU OF THAT FACT....IT WILL NEVER BE TRUE.

THE TRUMP FOLLOWERS WANT TRUMP

THE BIDEN FOLLOWERS ARE NOT DESERTING JOE.


THE REALITY CHECK IS SIMPLY THIS

MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

180 MILLION PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE IN THE NEXT ELECTION

200 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED THE LAST SUPER BOWL

AND THUS I AM ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE OPENING OF THE 2023-2024 NFL.

Which starts tomorrow with Kansas City and Detroit.

College football season has been up and running for two weeks and the regular part of the Baseball season is entering its last month before the Post season begins.

FOR THOSE OF US IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.

The Dodgers have run away with the division (again)and now just try to stay healthy for the Post season.

The Angels can't catch a break

The Trojans have played two weak teams but have scored 122 points.

The Bruins are still trying to find the QB

The Rams are rebuilding.

The Chargers are Super Bowl contenders.

The US Open tennis is in full swing.

The Ryder Cup starts on the 28 of September

SO HERE'S THE ACTUAL REALITY OF YOUR LIFE.......

IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW SPORTS THEN YOU ARE STUCK WITH FOLLOWING POLITICS AND IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW SPORTS OR POLITICS THEN YOU ARE.....

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Hopefully you are a sports fan which allows you to be pleased or bummed at the actual time of the event....which happens in real time.....all the time.

And knowing that time is an illusion but speed is not......start watching human beings that excel at physical endeavors.

By the way DISNEY is making the watching part a bit harder with their monetary demands.

Currently I have no ABC or ESPN or USA Network on my cable program.

Seems to be a bevy of Strikes and Shutdowns by various people.

HOTEL WORKERS

ACTORS

WRITERS

RUNNING BACKS

AIRLINE ATTENDENTS

UNITED AUTO WORKERS

Pretty sure all of these issues are a result of the Covid issue.

COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS TRYING TO RECOUP WHAT WAS LOST DURING THE PANDEMIC.

One thing to keep in mind.....Covid has NOT gone away.

Slowed down

but

still

around.

Jill Biden tested positive yesterday.

Enjoy the last quarter of 2023.