Live my life

I want to live my life as best as I can despite my having Parkinson's.  Yes I have found Christ in my life and it is all because I have seen a miracle and the whole picture has been formulated.  For the most part miracles seldom happen if ever.  Let me put it bluntly; I have never known a Christian who was depressed or without hope.  But I have seen the miracle of China's economy which we have all noticed for the most part.  Every Chinese mostly I have known has noticed.  Will Donald Trump turn the tide and end the relentless drive to make everything in the world manufactured in China as he so has pledged?  Is this the beginning of China's fall and the end of her rise?  I know not but China may never come to see a dynasty...anything is possible after all the San Francisco Forty Niners failed this year and they will not see another dynasty any time soon.  It was my hope that they would as China would move into an economy strong enough to make it an equal to other European nations and not just  third world nation with people of color inferior to the white race.  Did not America emerge from a civil war with casualties larger than any other American war and a great leader Abraham Lincoln
proclaim in his famous Gettysburg speech short but to the point that all men are created equal? Or will the stone carving of Lincoln be relegated to dust and Donald Trump be the new Czar?

Championship Tennis At Wimbledon

I finally found a topic to write about today as I post this one.  As many of you know I've been writing this blog for quite some time but for the most of  this title...okay...sorry the  point is as I have so often stated I'm not a professional sports writer but I have had some experience as a tennis player on the tennis team of a major city of   the San Francisco Bay Area namely Oakland where a major high school is located namely Oakland Technical High School.  Therefore if you can forgive my brag I feel  qualified to write about the world of tennis today where an eventful day for  an individual  woman namely Serena Williams has won in the Finals at  Wimbledon this day of July 9, 2016.  You can read about her accomplishments in any professional journal or newspaper I for one only tuned in the television by luck.  I did not even know she Serena  Williams was playing tennis as I follow tennis rarely as opposed to the days I was engaged with the sport I had  to be if I had played three years on the tennis team in Oakland for Tech High School and then continued playing recreational tennis tuning up my game in small local tournaments.  But let me say this Serena Williams is the most recognized tennis champion the world has known and I can qualify this as a fact not just an opinion.  But I will not go into detail as to what she has accomplished but please note it is as if I have broken out of a coma and took an interest in a world news story

Muhammad Ali

I wanted to say something about this well known legend my hero because in life he lived he was and is a good man. The mainstream media has already reported his death and I say to them those who write professionally well done you did an excellent job but of course why else would such professional people be where you are while I am here little known just a Joe Blow on the street corner trying to survive like everybody else dodging death all around me and trying not to get killed by the enemy. Growing up in a crime ridden city of California kept me busy as there were parts of the urban city where looking over my shoulders was a must as muggings and murder of people I knew was not foreign to me. But let me get back to Muhammad Ali. I had something in common with him as far as belonging to a racial group known as minorities. I never met him but I drew closer to him on account of I too am suffering and battling Parkinson's a disease that no one should have nor would I wish it on my worst enemy. I did see him on one of his last televised exposure to the public and like my father God showed mercy and allowed both my father and Muhammad to die because their suffering was not dignified and there is widely believed by mainstream medical science that there is no cure for Parkinson's. The health workers other than those in the medical science department tell me there is a cure for Parkinson's. I know what it is like to have Parkinson's and what it is like not to be white and I know what it is like to have been a high school athlete and compete with other players in a organized athletic league. I spoke to former radio talk show host Ray on the air about how Muhammad Ali was my hero and he still is as his soul is alive and can never be destroyed as far as I am concerned. Let us put it plain and simple he Muhammad Ali stood up to the man(the establishment) and said he wasn't going off to war and fight the enemy because they never called him a derogatory word pertaining to his racial ethnicity where as in America it was and still exist the discrimination of people of color. I spoke indirectly to David Duke once the former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan when John McCain was running for an office and is it excusable to call other people racial names with derogatory intent. John McCain it is said was a brave man to have gone off to war right or wrong and support this country of America as did my friend Ralph Burnette a buddy of mine who studied with poor grades at my high school but improved upon his performance and went on to graduate at the Naval Academy at Annapolis Maryland where later he did serve in Vietnam as did some of my other buddies but the war there was all wrong and of course a very unpopular war. Muhammad Ali however stood out in the same way but defied his going to a war where he saw no reason to aid in the slaughter of a civilian population who he felt were defending themselves against a hostile nation that made the initial attack and invasion upon their territory. He stood up against the establishment but went to jail for what he believed was right. Not being an expert on the Constitution of the United States of America I believe Muhammad Ali was pardoned by the Supreme court of The United States. When Muhammad Ali speaks he is heard for a poet he is and his words he spoke in rhyme do rhyme and catches the listener by the tail enough to make a grown man wail. I would like nothing more than to debate David Duke and tell him there is not enough room at the top and no racist should ever have leadership at the top. Was it not the great former President Abraham Lincoln who said in his very important speech that all men are created equal? I shall never forget his speech in his Gettysburg address not because I was required to study history in school all throughout my youth but because there is good reason and logic to the reasons why we are here with a purpose in mind for the all of us and in this way we will obtain peace not war. Finally in his later years of his endeavors we see Muhammad Ali stricken with Parkinson's as not a demented man with lost of good judgement but as a good will ambassador who could speak well. He made this world a better place for the all of us. Did not God say thou shall not kill as one of his commands yet his human commanders gave Muhammad Ali orders to fight the enemy to be killed. Let me say this for Muhammad when he did say he was the greatest he was not kidding. But I believe he did listen to his God and this in my "demented" mind is not the Christian God but a Muslim God his God given right to worship whoever he wanted to worship.

Transracial Operation

Most people who read the news have never heard of such a word transracial. But the word transracial is a real word and the masses of the general public will come to know this term. It is already in the news but I never spelled it out until now when the occasion has risen and I made an attempt to change the look of my race but back in those days if one had thoughts of such an operation to change one's appearance to look like a white man in the 1970's he was insane or if a white human man or woman wanted to look like an Oriental or Asian whatever (man or woman)by way of surgical operations and other procedures to make such a change he or she would be considered extremely unstable or a nut case with serious psychological problems. But in my mind back then in the early 70's I had made up my mind to change my race from yellow to white or Oriental to Caucasian but the surgeon I had selected refused to carry out such a surgery back then but agreed to give or shape my nose with a bridge at the top of the nose as one faced my face. My nose had been mutilated when I was an infant(details unimportant) and by then at age 22 I was having a hard time getting dates with women of any color by appearance was likened to the man in the movie "Elephant Man." I looked grotesque or at least I felt grotesque and could not approach a woman due to my appearance. My nose was a problem and my race was also a problem. Already I admit I have become too personal in this story but in order for me to explain this story concerning ethnic differences I must reveal my ethnic identity and attempt to differentiate the race factor of one race from another. I had given my surgeon Dr. Robert Brandfield the go ahead to perform a full surgical operation which would change my physical features from an Asian man to that of a Caucasian man. The more primitive or outdated term was yellow man for asian man and white man to Caucasian man. If you are not confused by now then something is wrong. You ought to be confused but there is a news breaking story I wish to discuss concerning Justin Bieber and his plan to forgo his changes in his appearance. His fame and his plans to do what I set out to do is cemented at least with the concept or the procedures to perform a transracial operation. Justin Bieber is said to be the first man to perform this race change. I wonder if I thought of this first? Is there a link? I think there is without a doubt in my mind.

The Science Fiction of Flying Cars

We already have them the prototype of such cars. When I discussed this with former physics professor of University of California of Berkeley on the air the problem exist with air traffic control. I don't hear anyone discussing vehicles or cars nowadays that will fly. There are too many issues other than flying cars to think about why would we need to discuss problems of flying cars? Nevertheless it is a science fiction issue and such production of flying cars or flying craft will happen. I no longer will fly my kites as an example of the beauty of the kite in the wind the videos of them are enough proof for I will not become the man with Parkinson's who flew off his roof trying to retrieve his kite too many people I have known have fallen and no one should try it with a kite launcher I had invented unless there are open spaces away from obstructions and trees. The priority is play safe Howard Hughes was my hero and an aviator but unfortunately as some of us know his plane crashed and he was never the same. But today thanks to the daring spirit of those who risked their lives in aviation the airline industry is as safe now than ever before. My wild eye prediction is that China will take interest in the manufacture and production of small aircraft like cars that will fly through the air and also drive on the ground but it isn't going to happen any time soon. I am far from an expert on this matter but I am just a dreamer with some far fetched dreams of things to come. I shall continue to watch those daring people fly those hang gliders into and through the air but I shall remain on the ground. Chess is a much safer game to play than aviation and a good chess player like Bobby Fischer was as world renown as Howard Hughes the aviator and billionaire. Take it from Walter Browne who I met in person when we were training in the sport of tennis up at the Berkeley Rose Garden in the 70's having had been runner up to Bobby Fischer the American chess champion who had beaten grandmaster Boris Spassky during the Russian American cold war in a major chess showdown. I have lived to see two showdowns and if I can it will be worth it to see another grand chess showdown to be sure.

Will America Gain Control?

This would be a scoop for me. Let me be candid. And it is said there is medication for me for deluded thoughts. I could speak to Donald Trump on the air and ask him what his intentions are? This would not be likely mainly because I don't listen to those news call in radio shows like use to do when I was working at a regular job. But if anyone should think that I am deluded you can think what you will. And yes I am a name dropper when a famous person appeared on as a guest on a talk news show I would be there on the air as a news talk caller waiting to deliver my thoughts that is once I could get pass the news producer and much of the time if not most of the time they were happy to put me on. But I ask you in writing in this blog what you think about Donald Trump? Is he really on our minds and does he pose questions which are deep within our hearts and minds but afraid to speak out in fear of being politically incorrect? If I can call up and buzz David Duke associated with the KKK as one of the leaders on the news talk radio show then there is no fear of my speaking to Donald Trump on the air after all there has been more famous kinds of people I have spoken to on the air. What am I delusional? I do have Parkinson's. But as you know there has been a list of famous people stricken with Parkinson's who were not considered delusional. Not the least. Anyhow what would you say to Donald Trump if you were in my shoes? What? No way would you try to put your feet into my shoes. Oh don't mind me I'm just trying to be a goody two shoes kind of guy. Let us face it America is in trouble and what is it going to do when everything is made in China and there is no end in sight that America will be self sufficient? And will America ever toy with the ideal or the notion of having an Asian fit in as a talent in the entertainment field or will they be downsized and stereotyped as being too nerdy to be socially acceptable in those fields? I have a strong feeling that it is going to happen. Asians are going to be accepted and the discrimination laws so designed for Orientals will be outlawed and a thing of antiquation. Or could I ever be so wrong? Hmmm let me think. Am I over with playing the chess game? Cannot you see that Asians are major players in many fields and those that have Asian blood if not full Asian blood will not just settle to be in the field of martial arts? If these meek and mild Asian people can only overcome and become regular humans and not the monsters as they were or are so depicted to be? Can't we just get along?

The Drones

Enough with the kites bring on the drones as if the public really wanted to know about it. But they do. Such news of the drones made to fly by the now consumers as toys but for recreational purposes for better photography is here and it is expensive. The less expensive drones are harder to fly but when they go up in price say for around a thousand dollars they will fly with greater ease taking the guess work out of the skill necessary to fly one. I received two as a gift from the more technical oriented gift giver because he heard me talk about drones all the time. Yes I do but I speak of the pain in the behind such a drone can impose. The model flying crafts that hover in the air captures my imagination. Close Encounters of The Third Kind dealt with this sort of craft the movie mind you. I will fly the models which hover kites do not hover but nevertheless they fly which I crave. The sight of a flying craft from a helicopter to a Harrier jet to a hummingbird puts me into an awe for this type or sort of flight puts me into Paradise. The motor of the drones have started and there is more power than air current propelling these small crafts which hover and move through the air.

A Perfect Impersonation Of A White Man

This is what I do best. Once or twice in my younger days I had dated a few white women although that era was filled with doing the proper behavior and not doing the wrong things. In order to fit in accordingly I would casually report my ethnicity as being German American. This was in the very liberal town of Berkeley. I could not get away with this statement and right away my stance was shot down and I was exposed for what I was and am. There was very little escape from the fact that I have the appearances of being Asian or back then Oriental. I lied my head off to see if I could get away with saying that I am of German heritage living in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Right away I was shot down and exposed. Okay so I needed a plastic surgeon back then in the 70's to change my appearance and back then no one I knew got plastic surgery to change their look. Back then I was known as a yellow banana the fruit assigned to my ethnicity but I had no ideal what that meant back then. I thought I was going to the University and I would be like everybody else almost but no it took more than speech to sound and act the part of a white person or man. Most of my classmates in grade school were white of mostly blue collar parents but in college the students came from white collar or professional working parents such as administrators of the like etc. My father ran a mom and pop grocery store then later got a job working for the U.S. Post Office before it became the now Postal Service in which newer mechanized machinery became part of the work force. I had become a marked man a minority among the white class students known to be different and I was and still am. I had become a victim of more nerves galore than ever before and being a student at the University the first year was a wash. I did not survive. I swear I must have been one of the first yellow man to date a white woman which the law forbidding such relationships had been overturned by the John Kennedy administration. I always wondered about the KKK and what they were about I could always see them on television on that old black and white television screen and the dogs on leash snapping at the heels of the civil rights groups. Whatever love that existed between me and this white woman melted away like a nuclear fission ready to explode a bomb.