Do we have freedom of speech yet?

Hmmm.   I made a post or two or three about Freedom of Speech online back around Aug of 2019 and FaceBook snubbed it and put me on a time out for publishing.   Now that Elon is pointing out the error of Twitter with the Data Dump yesterday, do I dare to say it again?  Yeah.  I'll try to use my Freedom of Speech about  Freedom of Speech once more.

Heck I'll give it a repost here on this google controlled Blogger page to see if I get de-platformed for it.  Hope not.  I like posting on the web.  

Posted in 2019.  

Online Free Speech protections are needed.

This medium here on FB is effectively a Town Square.

There is supreme court case deciding that even though the town square is a private enterprise if it acts like a Town Square it still needs to behave with tolerance to Free Speech Rights.

See: Marsh v Alabama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Other discussion topics were censured over and over again. Their use of the term "Community Standards" must only mean in their little Echo Chamber the super Lefty Community ideals are all that is allowed to be talked about.

But in the Free Sharing of Ideas model, the most useful and helpful and smart does rise to the top.  Only with stifling of opposing views can socialists and communist and Green New Deal destruction of our civil and free society succeed.  It's big tech workers doing the dirty work by shutting down posts like this one.  Not just me. But all over the place.  

Check this out.  Has a Date Stamp on it. I figure it violated some lefty green new deal editor's religion of Climate Change fanaticism.  It was not rude. But is just an example of how the silencing of reasonable debate was pulled off.

 

In the end... This is another example of our current Age of Disenlightenment where the punks in charge think they can push all the Moderates and the Independents and Libertarians into the same bucket of the Evil Republicans and ONLY let the far lefty Progressives have the soap box to freely espouse their politics only.

These mediums of Twitter and Facebook and Google(YouTube & search) and Microsoft and TicTok think they are the ONLY source of information.  They are for those that value this online medium.  AND MSM news does.  But there are MILLIONS of Americans that do not use it.

How do we get beyond this #AgeofDisenlightenment where the lefty types have brought forth and forced a bunch of digital muzzles on the reasonable and polite average person.

Do we have to hope that Twitter and Parler and Rumble.com actually survive and thrive to prove that Freedom is a better model on the world wide web?

Hope Freedom wins out.  It is a hope for the world my grandchildren will be growing up in.

Now go check out that Supreme Court case ruling - Marsh v Alabama in 1946

Venice Beach Cam - have a peak

 Venice Beach is Back, Baby!

Anyhow, Carolene and I had lunch at the Sidewalk Cafe today.  And naturally as we took the stroll down the Ocean Front Walk.  We took the time to Wave to the artist we like and then to the BEACH CAM too.

" Hi "



Hope you like the clip. :-)   Better yet.  Hope that you save the Beach Cam to your Favorites.

Look for the couple that looks like... 

Maybe next time I'll wear more exciting colors or something. Ha. Just a souvenir of the day.

A morning we spent setting up for a Jazz Concert in the Speakeasy under the Hotel V.  Now that you will want to search up on YouTube using the Hashtag #JAZZatTheV or #VeniceBeachJazz to maybe find us and our music clips.  Far more interesting than this pedestrian stroll.

V is for Vetran - Happy Veterans Day thoughts.

 Happy Veterans Day.

TGIF and all that too.  So today I will toast all the Vets.

Vets in my family.  AND my son who is now out of the US Marines.

So what will I use to toast them.  Likely a Scotch with a splash when 5 pm rolls around.

Sometimes a bourbon is called for when making and Old Fashioned or a Manhattan or ???

That seemed to make this article that came in on my phone ( new android I'm getting  broken in ) on its news feed...  https://www.tastingtable.com/1096612/best-small-batch-bourbons-under-40/

The first on this list of 12 is Buffalo Trace.  It is in already in my home bar.

Others on this list like Jefferson and Elijah Craig and Bowman Brothers may be added when the time is right to refill.  

Loved this part of the story:

... For the past 25 years, Jefferson's Bourbon has been making exceptional whiskey at a fair price in a variety of forms, including their Very Small Batch.

This whiskey is blended from the brand's base bourbon as well as three selected bourbons of all different mash bills and ages. This blend creates a whiskey that will satisfy both bourbon novices and connoisseurs. It is straightforward, consistent, bold, and smooth and is suitable to fulfill any of your bourbon needs.

Not only is Jefferson's Very Small Batch a great whiskey at a very affordable price of $37, per Wine-Searcher, but this brand is also well worth supporting because of its partnership with OCEARCH that started in 2012. This non-profit works to study and track marine wildlife such as great white sharks, tiger sharks, sea turtles, and more in order to monitor the health status of their ecosystems. Jefferson's Very Small Batch is certainly a bargain at its price, no doubt, but it's always a bonus to support a great cause simultaneously. ...

Very cool that a bit of the Jeffersons goes to Marine Research.  This will positively affect my consideration when standing at the liquor store making up my mind.

So...  I'm very much looking forward to tasting the "Jefferson's Very Small Batch"

 Here's to all the Veterans.  Seen, unseen, family and also those just connected by a shared love of country.  Her's to you. 

Veterans Day is a time to reflect on
the courage and fortitude of countless
Americans who have served our Nation.

Thank you for your service.
#VisForVeteran

All the News or just How Much News? What is the Future of TV ?

 TV in this new age,

It's 2022 and things are changing.

I find that normal TV consumption is very different nowadays.  A news bit was sorta' eye opening to this very modern phenomena that has changed information consumption.

In a show I regularly watch the person was interviewing a top political person from a middle/southern American hemisphere country.  He was talking about how irrelevant the old main stream media really has become as of late.  And this really made his point.

His country the population was about 14 million.  The main most popular TV channel on the air reaches just about 1 million of them with their best nightly news.  That is NOT pay per view.  Just on air news.

1m viewers /14m population = 7.1% of the people reached and influenced.

Then in the next part of his interveiw he related that most old school MSM in the US of A are so far behind the curve that they don't realize how little influence they actually have.  And that CNN with it's most popular nightly news reaches just about 500,000 views now it is HALF the views of thier news show in their tiny numbers of people compared to USA.

Wow so I just gotta review that number.

The USA is (as of 11/2/2022 Pop.Clock) at ~ 333,267,000 people

CNN on it's most popular hour reaches only 500,000 people. Answer is 0.15 %.
yeah that is 0.00150029855 on my calculator.

So CNN is not an influence on our population.  It's die hard efforts to prop up the hard left and focus attention on its hate of all things conservative and moderate is not a winning strategy for that business. 

His conclusion stuck a cord with me.  That his south American news channel reached twice as many people as CNN does today.

Lets think on that a moment.

Like the VHS vs Betamax battle for market acceptance as the best home movie tape. Betamax lost and VHS became the standard for recording and playing movies. Now both types of tape are outdated. The war was made moot by the changing marketplace.  ( BTW look up how Blockbuster lost the chance to own Netflix )

Another good example is how AOL died and went away.  Some still use it for Email.  But it used to be so bold that it actually tried to Be The Internet to all it's users and was Buying Up other Businesses.  They were a powerhouse company.  Now they are not even a Media company in the Top 25 let alone the top 50. Check this out...

• https://www.fannit.com/social-media/social-media-sites/
  
  

Remember My Space?

That was still popular even as AOL was dropping off.  My-Space is trying to stick around being a specialty niche player to serve music people.  And that bought them some time.  But it was a last gasp.

Even music people have given up on it for Spotify.

• https://myspace.com/
• https://open.spotify.com/  
  
  

But What About News and TV show production and consumption by the general population?

People that are not on the PC or a Laptop daily do watch some stuff.  That is the Legacy media consumer. But those that are the Future of the video audience are moving on.  

For example if you want Science and Space news you now, you FALLOW that person that gives you the input you like and relate to the best.  This is really an interesting and somehow Libertarian type of change that is really interesting.  The Best will rise and thrive. The rest will wither and dies.

My example of Science and Space news is specific and here is the Answer to that.  I watch and support this unique channel.  Put on by Mr. Chris Dobbs.  He calls it Everyday Astronaut.

• See: https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut/videos
  

He is at My level of instruction. He is at My level of interest.  And I think that comparing the different rocket engines is really a fun thing to learn about. But here is the Coolest part... he has a video that has 6 million views. The one I liked on the Space X Raptor engine comparison is at 4.9 million views.  So I'm not the only one that thinks this is cool and interesting TV ! 

Do I call it TV or a TV replacement?

The Audience is now in charge.  WE are not a captive audience. AND the old MSM from Newsweek magazine to LA Times to NBC/ABC/CNN are about to go the way of AOL.  Become a bit of our history of the way Things Used to Be.  

Even Facebook at this point seems to now see it's own sunset.  YouTube is the biggest of Online service for watching content now has a real alternative in Rumble. 

Thank you for reading this far.  

My crystal ball is fussy on where the future leads but It will not include the worst of the worst MSM of old.  The myopic old school stuff is going to end up on the Dust Bin of History.  Self inflicted for some.  Times changed and the Viewers moved on.

Especially as the users are not happy to be... Lied to.  Only given slanted story lines.  AND after all the censoring of stuff that we should have been able to see, they blatantly Lied to us by Omission.  The viewers are moving on.

Where will the future eyeballs go to to get their content?  The Winners will be decided by the Open Market on the Free Internet of Ideas and good and better content will raise to the top.

Good luck to us all in finding it.  Please tell me in Comments what News source you like to use going forward.

My mental musing for today.

Keith L   <"><

Free Thought will see through the Lies. Eventually.

Just Say No to War with Nukes. ( Tell your Senator )

- I like the view held by Libertarians that War is to be avoided at all costs.  

Take in the words of Kennedy on this topic.  They are extra important as the Neocons in charge are currently supporting a crazy war in Ukraine.  A war that may escalate!  A war supported by my tax dollars.  Those same Democrat Neocons incited this war with their NATO membership shenanigans.

Quote from JFK:

... I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn. ...

https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/american-university-19630610

See the part starting in the 5th Paragraph. The whole thing is worth the read.

My Facebook page now has adverts for Iodine tablets to help you survive a nuke accident or war.  I'm old and not sure I need to survive a Nuke missile here in Los Angeles.  But my Grandchildren should not have to grow up in a Nuke wasteland.

The Lefty Neocons were successfully held back when Hillary Clinton lost.  But they threw a hissy fit and make DT very hobbled by the fake legal cases.  Now they (The Neocon/Blackrock/NWO/Reset/Progressives) have a puppet in Biden.  How useless he is.  A sell out to China and complicit making this war in Ukraine happen.  Maybe the Democrats and Rino Repubs all want Ukraine to burn to the ground to hide the Corruption and Money Laundering they did for years under Obama etc.

Got help us.   Please, Please, Please don't go to full Nuke war.

We need someone with the honesty of JFK again.

 Years roll by,

I did most of my posts on Facebook.  See the time stamp of my last post here.

Much of my posts on Fishing are in the FBook Group for Marina Del Rey Anglers.
Where I volunteer and help. www.MDRAnglers.com

Also see: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MDRAnglers
if you have a FBook account.

So, yeah I've been missing.

Partly under direct instructions from my Divorce attorney to not admit anything about how I'm doing or seem to be bragging that I have a boat. 

Not that it's a lot to brag about.  Other than this is why I am out of money.
(Both the boat and the attorneys fees)

So, yeah I'm broke.  But not broken.

Coming out the other side.  We are done with the pandemic shut down.  And I'm done with my personal storm of the divorce battle 2.0.  Then the economy takes a whack turn with inflation and fuel prices are up so much and ...

Dang.

Will be more broke and will start panhandling for fuel money.

"Brother can you spare a Hundred or two?
My boat is running on empty."

 

Fuel at Jankovich is up to over $7 per gallon of diesel now!  OMG.