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"Sorry life is tough. It just gets worse. Hang in there. Have a good day."
"Embrace the suffering."
"Give the old barrel cactus a big bear hug." - Zobo the Philosopher
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William Schaeffer
Monday, September 30, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Difficulties with coworkers
Sorry you are having difficulties with coworkers. That is the most challenging situation and there is no easy answer. the only thing you can do is take the high moral ground and be patient. Frequently that is not satisfying.
Here is my advice:
Keep your head down and remember your priorities:
1. earn money
2. behave ethically
3. be honest.
4. work responsibly
5. let it go
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William Schaeffer
Here is my advice:
Keep your head down and remember your priorities:
1. earn money
2. behave ethically
3. be honest.
4. work responsibly
5. let it go
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William Schaeffer
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Two 8 x 10 assembly art pieces
Party !!
8 x 10 canvas board with found objects
Framed $20
One of Those Days
8 x 10 canvas board with found objects
Framed $20
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William Schaeffer
Sunday, September 22, 2019
America is a Prison
response to a facebook post
GJ Neal I have not had an employer that has been honest in forty years of professional work. There are 60,000 homeless people living in the gutters of Los Angeles and nobody cares about them. With a G.E.D., you can learn all you need to know in High School in 6 months of night school. WHY are children forced to attend High School for four years EXCEPT to remove them from society and destroy their independence? The citizens of the USA work longer hours for fewer real benefits of health care, job security, vacation pay, or real retirement savings than the people in any other industrial country. The divorce rate in the USA is over 50%. The murder rate in the USA is three times the next country. 9-11 was an "inside job" and building 7 was a controlled demolition. One out of six people in the entire USA are taking doctor prescribed anti-depressant drugs. After the stock market crash in 2008, 30% of ALL the men in the USA were unemployed for two years. The USA has the highest rate of per capita incarceration of any nation on Earth. Even though the USA has only 4% of the world population, the USA houses 23 % of all the prisoners in the world. In the 1960's, 90% of all prisoners in the USA were in for violent crimes. Today only 10% of the prisoners are incarcerated for violent crimes and over 50% are in prison for drug possession (mostly marijuana possession). Compared to most other nations on Earth, USA IS A PRISON.
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William Schaeffer
GJ Neal I have not had an employer that has been honest in forty years of professional work. There are 60,000 homeless people living in the gutters of Los Angeles and nobody cares about them. With a G.E.D., you can learn all you need to know in High School in 6 months of night school. WHY are children forced to attend High School for four years EXCEPT to remove them from society and destroy their independence? The citizens of the USA work longer hours for fewer real benefits of health care, job security, vacation pay, or real retirement savings than the people in any other industrial country. The divorce rate in the USA is over 50%. The murder rate in the USA is three times the next country. 9-11 was an "inside job" and building 7 was a controlled demolition. One out of six people in the entire USA are taking doctor prescribed anti-depressant drugs. After the stock market crash in 2008, 30% of ALL the men in the USA were unemployed for two years. The USA has the highest rate of per capita incarceration of any nation on Earth. Even though the USA has only 4% of the world population, the USA houses 23 % of all the prisoners in the world. In the 1960's, 90% of all prisoners in the USA were in for violent crimes. Today only 10% of the prisoners are incarcerated for violent crimes and over 50% are in prison for drug possession (mostly marijuana possession). Compared to most other nations on Earth, USA IS A PRISON.
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William Schaeffer
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019
Piano in October
The corporate manager heard my show on Monday and I got hired for October. Lucky me. It was a good performance in a great room. Thanks for your support.
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William Schaeffer
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
your own thought
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—— and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Misunderstood
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Whoso would be a man
“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Monday, September 16, 2019
I play piano
I started playing piano over fifty years ago. My father grew up in a poor family and he did not get to take music lessons despite having great natural ability. When I was in fourth grade I had to take piano lessons. I never had much ability and I learned slowly. After three or four years, I got the idea that I could "make my own music": I could write and perform music that I made up myself. Slowly I sat at the piano and tried to listen to how notes sounded together and I tried to keep a steady rhythm. I learned the blues progression. I never thought I would ever be good enough to be a professional musician because my father was so much more talented than me. But I loved playing music and I kept trying to play music. To me that is the definition of "love": To do something because it is good to do and regardless of the reward the action might bring. If we love a person, we help them whether or not they can pay us back. At some point in my life, I realized that my perception of life and love is different than most of America: most people are selfish, ignorant, short sighted, mean and opportunistic. I just do not understand those people because I play piano. I know what love really is. I play the piano.
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William Schaeffer
Saturday, September 14, 2019
When things get difficult
1. Step by step
2. Day by day
3. Wait one more hour
4. Just ten more minutes
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William Schaeffer
2. Day by day
3. Wait one more hour
4. Just ten more minutes
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William Schaeffer
Thursday, September 12, 2019
9/11 was a controlled demolition
9/11 was an inside job. Blame President Bush.
1. Never in the history of steel construction has a building ever fallen of its own weight due to fire. NEVER. It does not happen. The world trade center is the only time a steel construction building is claimed to collapse due to its own weight during a fire. However, it is thought by some that the buildings were pre-wired with explosive charges and it was a controlled demolition. The evidence seems incontrovertible.
2. A semi truck with gold bullion was found in the rubble trying to leave but it got trapped. The people that owned the truck had foreknowledge of the attack.
3. State Representative Willie Brown in San Francisco received a phone call the morning of 9/11 warning him to "NOT get on the plane" because it will be hijacked. He did not get on the plane and it was hijacked.
4. Building 7 was not hit, and yet collapsed like a controlled demolition. You can hear a fire department, or police officer, on news footage giving the order to "pull it" down.
5. Every single military action the USA has been involved in in the past 130 years has been preceded by a "false flag event": The Main, The Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Bay of Tonkin... etc. At Pearl Harbor, USA military had intercepted and translated Japanese communications and the USA knew Pearl Harbor would be attacked. The USA moved the Air Craft Carriers out of Pearl Harbor a few days in advance and left the destroyers to be attacked and raise public indignation. All the soldiers on the Battle ships were left to die in the known attack, just to stimulate public outrage. Pearl Harbor was only one of 8 coordinated attacks by the Japanese military on that day.
6. Every single airplane in the USA Army and Airforce was pre-scheduled that day for military exercises or for maintenance. There was not a single military plane in the entire USA that was available to be scrambled to intercept the threat. There was not a single military plane in the entire USA that was available because of advance scheduling.
7. You can see the explosive charges going off floor by floor as the building collapses in one of the news videos.
8. There is evidence of cordite at the site, which is used in building demolitions.
9. There was no civil engineering analysis of the cause of building failure in violation of State and Civil building codes. All the evidence was removed and destroyed and no analysis was even started.
10. The entire wing of the Pentagon that flight 77 crashed into was "closed" and evacuated for "renovations" ahead of time. There were no casualties. There is little evidence of the type of fireball that occurred when the planes hit the World Trade Towers. Additionally, that was the only wing of the Pentagon that was ever entirely closed for renovations, ever.
11. There is almost no wreckage of flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon and the entry hole is too small.
12. Photos of the crash site of flight 93 look nothing like other 747 crash sites. There is no debris to speak of and only a single deep trench that looks like it could have been made by a bulldozer. Check the photos yourself and do some research.
13. Fire department fire fighters can be heard on the radio, during he rescue, saying that "there are explosions going off in the corners of the buildings."
14. For two days in the weekend preceding 9/11, the elevators at the World Trade Towers were "closed for maintenance." During that time, security officers and their dogs were not allowed on site.
15. In the months before 9/11 the building owner changed the insurance policy for accidental damage to "several times more" than the previous amount. He was able to collect on the increased sum on the new policy.
16. The Security and Exchange commission had its investigative offices in one of the buildings. Documents and evidence for ongoing investigations of securities fraud being conducted were kept at the site. With the destruction of that office several investigations were halted.
17. Several international banks kept stores of gold bullion in their offices at the site. Some of that gold bullion was found on a semi truck in the rubble that had gotten trapped trying to leave during the attack.
18. News reporters and photographers were barred from entering the site for two months after the attack, while the debris was being trucked away and destroyed.
19. All surveillance camera records of the day, for businesses surrounding the Pentagon, were confiscated by Federal Agents in the days after 9/11 and have never been released to the public.
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William Schaeffer
1. Never in the history of steel construction has a building ever fallen of its own weight due to fire. NEVER. It does not happen. The world trade center is the only time a steel construction building is claimed to collapse due to its own weight during a fire. However, it is thought by some that the buildings were pre-wired with explosive charges and it was a controlled demolition. The evidence seems incontrovertible.
2. A semi truck with gold bullion was found in the rubble trying to leave but it got trapped. The people that owned the truck had foreknowledge of the attack.
3. State Representative Willie Brown in San Francisco received a phone call the morning of 9/11 warning him to "NOT get on the plane" because it will be hijacked. He did not get on the plane and it was hijacked.
4. Building 7 was not hit, and yet collapsed like a controlled demolition. You can hear a fire department, or police officer, on news footage giving the order to "pull it" down.
5. Every single military action the USA has been involved in in the past 130 years has been preceded by a "false flag event": The Main, The Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Bay of Tonkin... etc. At Pearl Harbor, USA military had intercepted and translated Japanese communications and the USA knew Pearl Harbor would be attacked. The USA moved the Air Craft Carriers out of Pearl Harbor a few days in advance and left the destroyers to be attacked and raise public indignation. All the soldiers on the Battle ships were left to die in the known attack, just to stimulate public outrage. Pearl Harbor was only one of 8 coordinated attacks by the Japanese military on that day.
6. Every single airplane in the USA Army and Airforce was pre-scheduled that day for military exercises or for maintenance. There was not a single military plane in the entire USA that was available to be scrambled to intercept the threat. There was not a single military plane in the entire USA that was available because of advance scheduling.
7. You can see the explosive charges going off floor by floor as the building collapses in one of the news videos.
8. There is evidence of cordite at the site, which is used in building demolitions.
9. There was no civil engineering analysis of the cause of building failure in violation of State and Civil building codes. All the evidence was removed and destroyed and no analysis was even started.
10. The entire wing of the Pentagon that flight 77 crashed into was "closed" and evacuated for "renovations" ahead of time. There were no casualties. There is little evidence of the type of fireball that occurred when the planes hit the World Trade Towers. Additionally, that was the only wing of the Pentagon that was ever entirely closed for renovations, ever.
11. There is almost no wreckage of flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon and the entry hole is too small.
12. Photos of the crash site of flight 93 look nothing like other 747 crash sites. There is no debris to speak of and only a single deep trench that looks like it could have been made by a bulldozer. Check the photos yourself and do some research.
13. Fire department fire fighters can be heard on the radio, during he rescue, saying that "there are explosions going off in the corners of the buildings."
14. For two days in the weekend preceding 9/11, the elevators at the World Trade Towers were "closed for maintenance." During that time, security officers and their dogs were not allowed on site.
15. In the months before 9/11 the building owner changed the insurance policy for accidental damage to "several times more" than the previous amount. He was able to collect on the increased sum on the new policy.
16. The Security and Exchange commission had its investigative offices in one of the buildings. Documents and evidence for ongoing investigations of securities fraud being conducted were kept at the site. With the destruction of that office several investigations were halted.
17. Several international banks kept stores of gold bullion in their offices at the site. Some of that gold bullion was found on a semi truck in the rubble that had gotten trapped trying to leave during the attack.
18. News reporters and photographers were barred from entering the site for two months after the attack, while the debris was being trucked away and destroyed.
19. All surveillance camera records of the day, for businesses surrounding the Pentagon, were confiscated by Federal Agents in the days after 9/11 and have never been released to the public.
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William Schaeffer
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The Future of Capitalism
75% of all the single family homes that were built in the city of Detroit, Michigan are now abandoned or destroyed. Fact.
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William Schaeffer
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William Schaeffer
Saturday, September 7, 2019
90% of the internet will eventually vanish
90% of ALL movies made before 1929 are now lost forever... The history has vanished.
Theda Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and then retired from acting in 1926, having never appeared in a sound film. only four of her forty films have survived to this day.
I am not entirely convinced that this destruction and loss of history is entirely accidental. Also, it highlights how narrow and prejudiced our impression of history really is, because of the lack of good documentation.
I worked on the PLATO computer system from 1977 - 1984. This was the first multi-user interactive computer system with a graphic interface.It was developed before the mouse was invented. We were convinced that we were programming for the future and that our creations would last forever in the heart of the machine. And then in 1989 funding stopped, the project was ended, the "plug was pulled" and the PLATO system shut down. 15 years of work disappeared overnight.
90% of what you see on the internet today will vanish without a trace and nobody will even know it was ever there.
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William Schaeffer
Theda Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and then retired from acting in 1926, having never appeared in a sound film. only four of her forty films have survived to this day.
I am not entirely convinced that this destruction and loss of history is entirely accidental. Also, it highlights how narrow and prejudiced our impression of history really is, because of the lack of good documentation.
I worked on the PLATO computer system from 1977 - 1984. This was the first multi-user interactive computer system with a graphic interface.It was developed before the mouse was invented. We were convinced that we were programming for the future and that our creations would last forever in the heart of the machine. And then in 1989 funding stopped, the project was ended, the "plug was pulled" and the PLATO system shut down. 15 years of work disappeared overnight.
90% of what you see on the internet today will vanish without a trace and nobody will even know it was ever there.
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William Schaeffer
Friday, September 6, 2019
Thursday, September 5, 2019
The history of servitude
6. "Serf" is the French word for "Slave". During the Middle Ages (800 A.D. to 1400 A.D.) 90% of all Europeans were "serfs". These "serfs" were tied to the land and required to work for the land owner (royalty). The "serfs" were not allowed to travel, read and write, or leave the property. They were punished for transgressions by public flogging, or whippings. Many Europeans who first came to America were fleeing this oppressive social order...only to set up a more oppressive and more violent system in the new colonies in America.
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William Schaeffer
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
Disparity of Wealth
The USA today has more "Disparity of Wealth" between the members of this society than almost any society in all of human history. In my opinion, the "Disparity of Wealth" is the only significant indicator of social violence, or divisiveness. The USA has as much "Disparity of Wealth" as Imperial Rome, the France of Louis XVI, or Imperial Russia. For example, there are 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles alone that have been thrown in the garbage and forced to live in the street. There are no "real" social services for them. At the time of the Bolshevik revolution, 60 per cent of the factory workers in Moscow were homeless and slept underneath their workbenches. It was THIS "Disparity of Wealth" that fueled the Bolshevik Revolution. The Russian Constitution to this day still guarantees a place to live for every member of that society. You do not see homeless camps in Russia.
Unfortunately, "Wealth never divests itself voluntarily." There is probably no resolution to this current problem of "divisiveness" except Civil War and the redistribution of Wealth in a more equitable manner. I hope I am wrong.
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William Schaeffer
Unfortunately, "Wealth never divests itself voluntarily." There is probably no resolution to this current problem of "divisiveness" except Civil War and the redistribution of Wealth in a more equitable manner. I hope I am wrong.
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William Schaeffer
You ARE your job function
"In America, you have no value as a human being. Your only worth is as a job function, or an expense account. You have no soul." - Zobo the Clown
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William Schaeffer
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