JACKDONVILLE, FLORIDA, LARGEST CITY IN US ACCORDING TO ITS LAND OWNERSHIP–HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF HOMELESS PEOPLE

Women and children, disproportionately American Africans, make up most of these unfortunate residents of Jacksonville, with many victims of drug abuse out of disparity.  Duval County alone has skyrocketed to more than 8,000 people having no homes. Without going into to the details of this national dilemma, the drama, Where Eagles Fly, has been written and involves Jacksonville's homeless inhabitants.

This script is also a love story and mystery with a surprise ending.  The main characters are homeless veterans, including an ex-circus clown and acrobat for comic relief.  The protagonist, Cherokee McKee, comes up with a unique idea to overcome this problem facing humanity. His constant companions are two large stray dogs who followed him from a park one day.  He calls them 'Search" and "Destroy."

The main character comes up with an ingenious idea of creating a recycled community–"Terraconcord Gardens" in which the homeless live as they conduct their own village government and take care of their own needs and those of their friends agonizing from addictions.  His fantasy comes to fruition, as he struggles through making it happen, even suffering from an attack by a gang of thieves.

Much of the dialogue reflects how combat wars have ruined the play's characters as these former soldiers are desperately trying to get their lives back. The theme, although negative, turns out quite positive and lighthearted.  The entire manuscript, novel and play, is enlightened by the characters enthusiasm and need for a joyous life after having come through the tragedies and atrocities of war.  It is a producer and director's dream because it involves the pathos of humanity trying to survive–the facts of life with a happy ending.

This novel-drama, a new literary form, is ready to be performed on stages across the nation.  The manuscript is also written as a movie script. It is now being released for the first time to those interested in having encouraging words become alive on the stage. The playwright is willing to donate her royalties to the cause of United States poverty–human beings who have lost their homes, especially after sacrificing their lives to warfare, with many of the soldiers committing suiricde.

Mame, who has had all her plays produced and read in theaters for more than one performance–included Fission, Fusion, Fission–the making of the H-bomb, at the request of Bill Beyer–nuclear physicist from Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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WORK WITH ME–WHY IS THE US LETTING RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS OFF THE HOOK WITH NO LAND TAX?

Religious institutions should be respected for their humane teaching.  But when mortal leaders twist archaic words into death for not converting to foreign doctrines, they become evil even unto their own gods.  Sadly throughout history this has been a long record of abuse that has never changed and is rising in the present time by radical extremists.  Calling people heretics and killing them if they don't comply to their belief systems is bluntly religious murder, as in the bloody crusades.  In the meantime, such ideologies that become corrupt against humanity are overlooked as their institutions get a pass when it comes to income property taxes.

Dear Ones,

The first US income tax was associated with aggression.  It was levied during the Civil War to help pay for all it's destruction and ammunition to boot–an unnecessary ongoing burden of combat added to necessary internal domestic upkeep.  It sure taxes one's brain that blind faith institutions are exempt from federal property taxes.  This is outright taxation without representation.

Many secular institutions are charitable but pay property taxes. Just what do churches do that keep government out of their pocket?  Weddings and funerals are able to keep going without any aid from churches–especially since they are new innovations compared to other matters in the life of Earth–what really matters. Young people today often choose the locations for these joyous and sad events along beaches, in boats and at remote exotic places not in sight of a church–and with them composing their own vows and choosing their own music, mostly non-organ and non-organic.

It's exasperating that no national churches are represented in sharing federal income property taxes! How interesting it would be to calculate the amount of free territory US churches own.  In colonial days missionaries cruelly took over First American lands by merely building foreign churches on them–forced upon indigenous people as priests burned the natives' cultural art and even forbade the original people from braiding their hair!

It looks like religion–although supposed to be separate from the state–is still wagging the dogma tail into a frenzy.  Tax payers are in a fury enough by having to pay extra hard-earned money to compensate for the loss of revenue through the pulpit of imbecilic fairy tales.  Churches represent the largest lucrative business in the Americas by taxing their own members in all senses of the word.

Without a sense of history, most young people think the Inquisition is a a new position.  The Christian Inquisition and Militant Tribunal meant religious punishment for being a heretic–stretching people in death and torturing them with demonic brutality.  There's even a term called "church militant," the blazing truths!  When I was a young girl I was given the impression that the words heathen and heretic meant sinner.  But when I got over my naivete' I realized it meant nothing more than a dissenter of Roman Catholic doctrine and Protestants–the protesters as well.

The Inquisition was founded by a priest by the name of Dominic in the 12th century. This violence and terrorism lasted until the 20th century, with people of European descent still vibrating from it in their DNA.  Why else would priests and other Christians still tremble from fear to say they no longer believe in tom foolery–which has nothing to do with morals and the conscience.  Today, young people, oblivious to church atrocities, leave in a heartbeat.  In the United States the Inquisition caused  people to be burned alive or hanged as witches and wizards and for other religious reasons as recent as 1930.  What a record of corruption.  This fact does not refer to good Christians who only believe in the loving teaching of Jesus of Nazareth,

In reality the Inquisition is lasting up to the present through a "Holy Office" now euphemized as a word beyond recognition–as if no one would know what it meant.  And don't forget Michael Servetus who did research on pulmonary science, was burned at the stake under the influence of John Calvin, a Protestant–the founder of the sect Calvinism.  Servetus was accused of not adhering to one of Calvin's new church doctrines–the reason for thousands of rival Protestant churches as members breaking away and inventing their own dogma.

So much for that.  Back to the inequality of income tax on property, funds that churches should have paid that must amount to zillions.  Just think what good could be done with this delinquent money!

Mame
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A SUN GODDESS JUST SPOKE ON BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE & CHURCH TAXES–A PROPOSAL FOR CONGRESS

Dawn breaking news!  This morning with the first appearance of the Morning Star in the eastern sky the Sun Goddess, "Appola," spoke to me from the cosmos about global peace. (WARNING: This is all made up.) But unlike warnings on pharmaceutical bottles about side affects, warnings are quintessential regarding militant so-called solutions since violence confrontation effects all forms of life.  This proposition is presented to the law making United States Senate and the support of the House of Representatives for an amendment to federal laws.  We're talking about the greatest good for Earth's peoples.

If the most holy of the holies can declare that God spoke to them, then one of the most unholy of the unholies who doesn't attend church can likewise say she heard a voice from Paradise telling her a solution for  international peace.  In other words, two can play the same game staged on Earth's theater of the macabre–meaning youth-killing wars.

The utmost candor is needed to guide the world into peace versus wars–what the world wants now.   But law religions keep wars foaming with rival absolute dogma decreed that each is the only true religion.  Folks, this is an impossible miracle.  Any  competitive law religion having top power and priority would collapses in an upside down political pyramid.  Even Mount Rushmore would topple with as many carved rock heads as there are of sectarian persuasions.

Besides, goddesses are all powerful.  Not only are they nurturing but they can perform miracles like virgin births!–what people have believed for centuries without batting an eye.  Isis was known in the Greco-Roman world as the Queen of Life and paradoxically as the Crone of Death.

This ancient mythological virgin god of Egypt was called the creator of life,  too, since she gave birth to Horus on December 25, the first magical son of god.  Such a familiar ancient story copied by numerous religions was told by James Fraser in his book The Golden Bough–what  sheds light on many of our human mysteries–a must read.

Dear Ones,

I am excited emotionally over the enlightenment I have gleaned from decades of research into archives, long before Google appeared on the horizon.  So I want to share this with you.  A man once wrote that if you are not emotionally motivated in writing with feeling, you might as well forget the effort.  In other words, your words are as limp as un-starched stuffed shirts without the vigor of enthusiasm.

Now, here is the proposal.  Since religious people are always praying and since they get breaks by not having to pay their share of federal property taxes in their institutions, why doesn't Congress pass a rule to require all religious possessing land to help carry the burden–as the rest of the nation does. Let religionists put their prayers to work where there mouths are.

Members of religious institutions have been praying for universal harmony for centuries but with no success.  Now, with money the bottom line, it will work!–with the help of positive psychcology–so America is respected once again, this time with even greater esteem and power of love driving world peace.

Just think if the multitude of big and small churches throughout the United States–especially the mega ones–were required to pay property taxes.  The zillions of dollars that would come into the federal coffers would be overwhelming,  It would be enough to form a Peace Defense Department as check and balance for the present War Department that is defenseless.

Employers in a Department of Defense for Peace would have an abundance of funds to pay their employees with the same amount the War Department doles out, with special perks, too.  But what is more, workers for peace would not have to sacrifice their lives in war zones.

And wild turkey hawkish prayers would not be made by the militant praising soldiers for their bloody sacrifices.  Besides, War Department employees could always switch over to the Peace Department and their families and friends would not have to mourn their deaths or being crippled for a life-time from combat.  No more battle stress or suicides from war nightmares of terrorism. Neither would they risk having deformed babies from lethal toxic munitions.  Be peace strong!

Imagine a church built on nearly every corner and between buildings on streets of America now contributing to the nation's tax structure.  Just think of the tax impact collected!  These brand new funds together with constant prayer for peace would be powerful enough to make it happen,  It would be a certain foolproof method for world harmony.  It would be enough to stop pious guilt of shirking national duty.

I hope this proposal reaches the eyes of Congress.  If only it would happen.  Can anyone out there somewhere in the world make it happen!? I don't have any clout.  But I know there are feeling authorities who do have influence in high places. Thank you for reading my blog and listening to  words of reason that most of the world share about international peace,

Love to all, big and small,

Mame, parallel female name for Mark Twain
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AS ANIMALS ARE EXTERMINATED SO CIRCLES MAN AROUND A DRAIN OF TOXIC AMMUNUITION

Again, lethal mutations resulting from endless poisonous emissions are especially prominent among combatant soldiers handling chemical and radioactive nuclear weaponry.  Animals are dangerously increasing as extinct from the same mutations and birth malformations that warfare cause. Toxic fumes from corporate industrial war–in the air, on the land and under the seas–are killing all forms of life and continuing on into the future–if wars do not cease.

Dear Ones,

After years of accumulative war munitions Earth continues to suffer and eventually will  extinguish us all if militant weaponry does stop being manufactured with greenhouse gases contaminating the world.

When nature becomes unbalanced its super power affects man and animals alike with babies born having two heads as in Fallujah, Iraq that was carpet bombed during the Bush
Administration war.  Even frogs are being hatched, smothered in war pollution.

I'm glad Bill Maher had the candor on his recent show to emphasize this universal fear.

Mame
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BEFORE WE FORCE LAW AND ORDER IN FOREIGN LANDS WE MUST CONTROL OUR OWN VIOLENT EXTREMISTS

Cleaning up government needs to be a priority in the United States.  Anglo laws have always favored Anglo-Saxons. Decapitation among foreign radical terrorists is no different than hanging minority members in mob lynchings by American vigilantes.  These abnormal actions all involve the human head.  Creative, progressive minds are needed more than ever before to squelch our own ingrained  prejudices.

Dear Ones,

Those who do not know or forget the racial history in the Americas are oblivious to the facts of organized domestic terrorism and violence.  Ever since the 1700 antebellum period and the aftermath of the US Civil War, lynchings by Caucasians against American Africans have been rampant.

Dear Ones,

Call it diabolical, demonic or satanic–call it what you may. But the honest truth is obvious. We have more terrorists in this nation than any of us realize–even Nazi "white" supremacy. Look up the large state wanting to secede from the US for a totalitarian government so it can proselytize and force its twisted ideologies onto converts without any intervention,

The US is still physical profiling  people of African decent.  Although we got over calling Asians yellow and American Indians red, we are obsessed with labeling humans the most rival non-colors of all. This fixation is causing a cultural lag that keeps Americans down as we humiliate one another.

In 1933 and 1940 anti-lynching laws were introduced on Capitol Hill, but the Senate hierarchy rejected them.  The most recent  execution of what people say "a white against a black" was in 1997. This was the first time, ever since 1913, that a Caucasian was given a death penalty for lynching an American African.

Lynching is a form of punishment without legality that dysfunctional men commit against people having more protective pigment than themselves.  This fear via terrorism is still manifesting itself in modern times by ignorant, barbaric madmen who lack self-esteem and carry out missions to terrify and "keep people in their place"–now an outmoded expression of bigotry.

Lynchings increase during social and economical stress.  For years an American African woman, Ida B. Wells, fought hard to eliminate lynchings.  Later the NAACP took over to keep lynchings down to a roar.

The main culprit was the US organized Ku Klux Klan.  For centuries lynchings have hanged the innocent. Even though this crime is now a felony the court system is lax in enforcing punitive measures.  In 1964 The Civil Rights Act was passed, which has helped.  Even though lynching is now past history, it still erupts in an age of progress where wild frontier mentality smolders underground.

Gun-happy killers and reckless bombs destroy innocent people by mistake. There's no such thing as a smart bomb.  Collateral damage is slaughtering civilians without criminal records. These  unintentional deaths reflect a tentacle of any military assassination drone.

Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad all upheld the ancient universal golden rule, "Don't do to others what you don't want done to you."  Let each nation control its own terrorists with law and order.  Responsible leaders must train their own forces not to kill but instead enforce diplomacy and negotiation as they practice civility through legal channels.

Should  other nations form a coalition and drone US organized criminals whose institutions have been terrorists for decades?  The answer is obviously "no." But let us think before doing something to others that we don't want done to us.

Mame
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD SPOONS GONE?

Spoons are good for many things.  But what hap-hap-hap-happened to them?  It makes you want to stutter like Porky Pig in Looney Tune comics.  I haven't been abroad for years so I don't know about foreign spoons. But in my recent travels from New York, Pennsylvania and all the way down to Florida I observed that restaurant spoons are missing from tables, underneath tables and all around the dining rooms.

Dear Ones,

In all our wildest imaginations, I can only conjecture what has happened to the missing spoons. Perhaps it's like Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone . . . and soldiers graves, in long time passing, gone to flowers everyone, O, when will they ever learn . . . ?"

Perhaps a government recall has collected them from restauranteurs to be melted into metal, as in colonial days when pewter spoons were abundant.  Could the feds have converted them into silver and gold weaponry, as visioned by taxpayers, some of which have not enough funds to even put food on the table, let alone spoons.

Moving right along with reasons for the conundrum, I am puzzled enough to come up a number of fanciful reasons.  Perhaps little children are stealing them for sand boxes.  They make useful tools for digging on beaches, too.  This reminds me of a Civil War re-enactor who told me about his recent purchase.  During the War Between the North and the South, a general had enough of savage combat.  He thrust his sword into the sand.  There it remained until a beachcomber spotted a bright object on a remote island.  He dug around it and pulled up a treasure prize worth a pirates ransom.

Getting back to the puzzle of spoons, you wonder if restauranteurs are hording them.  But this would only take up valuable space.  You could always ask for a spoon.  But that would be like requesting a menu. We are conditioned to seeing spoons on tables when we go out to eat.

On the other hand, maybe customers are taking the spoons to make jewelry out of them, such as bracelets and pendants.  Or maybe they are using them for kitchen cupboard handles. I used to bend antique spoons for this novel purpose.

When ordering soup, everyone is presented with a spoon.  Maybe we all should order soup or ice cream dessert before lunches or dinners.  At any rate, spoons are good for scooping up sauces, gravy and savory goodies left on the plate.

You can't even get a spoon to stir your coffee or tea these days.  Yet in high end restaurants you are presented with three different knives, two forks and not a spoon in sight.  Fast food places serve spoons even though they are plastic, and likened to plastic bags, are thrown out to clog up oceans and streams that harm the environment.

Even though you are lucky enough to get a spoon with a bowl of soup, it's usually a table spoon. So what's going on with the nation's tableware?  Maybe the restaurant owners themselves just want to conserve water without having to wash so much utensils.

But what has happened to all the spoons they once used but are now storing?  Maybe the proprietors   are shipping them to the Far East for money to help run their US establishments.  What if Chinese and Japanese are molding them into little ornamental  spoons for  collectors to hang on small shelves displaying novelties having international names of countries on them–to be sold back to the Americas.

In terms of metaphoric fairy tales, perhaps heaven is low on spoons, as people often say, "He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."

Mame
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BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT–BUT KEEP CHURCHES, SYNAGOGUES AND MOSQUES OUT OF ALL STATES

Law religions must completely be separate from governments. Rising voices of the people want their nations to be secular–no religious-binding ties–for good reason.  Sectarian ideological laws are lethal to humanity since they have demonic weaknesses.  Such governments become killers in the hands of those in power who are programmed to kill and torture those who don't obey man-made laws.  Non-separated law religious faiths invent laws and their governments enforce them by exterminating non-believers.

Dear Ones,

Early founding fathers of America made sure religion was kept out of satanic hands of religionists who are ignorant and fixate on changing their own persuasions to warrior faiths.  George Washington, Thomas Paine, John Adams and James Madison personally insisted that a wall separates blind faith from visionary law and order that is quintessential for human survival.

All these original founders had come through the vicious Catholic Inquisition spilled over into Protestant mentality as well.  They fled Europe as they risked their lives in rickety wooden boats to cross the sea to escape claws of suppression and oppression by religious masters, 

But now this same warped thinking is being forced among radical terrorist extremists committing violence toward their fellow men.  Originally churches, in coalition with government law, burned  unbelievers alive at the stake.  Today religiosity has poisoned male minds into decapitating those who refuse to become religious convert.  Man-made paradise is pie in the sky when you die.  Men who are copy-cats are oblivious to world history.

In  other words–what conditioned men say "ain't so"–because cruel imperialists make up stories regarding the afterlife since we all are ignorant about it and therefore ignorant people unaware of the good teaching of their leaders can get away with murder by slaughtering those having rival beliefs!

Among the most cowardly movements in the world are the following misconceptions:

1. The Great Commission to convert the entire world to one bigoted religion;  2. Manifest Destiny to take lands from original inhabitants of the Americas and Christianize them;  3. Nazi Final Decision to exterminate Hebrew people and 4. totalitarians building walls to keep other related people out.  The United States has no walls among its states that stay united in harmony still exists among the people in the land of freedom and democracy.

Mame
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