The Dream Voyage

It's not fair of me to keep you here,

when you have worlds to explore,

and an infinity to soar.

 

I took you on my dory trip,

over a cold gray lake, from my hoary space,

across the lake to places half remembered;

where the high tide covered the lower steps,

and you came with me as I climbed them anyway,...

and my feet never touched the snow.

 

Oh it's not fair to keep you here,

if you want you should go.

 

In my dreamland, the waves are small, the water pure.

But it's always half dark, the sun not here,

Weighed by duties, weighed by sin, yes I've missed my mark.

and yet I see where I'm going and where I've been.

 

I know you see with me.

You may not be able to help me navigate,

but with you by my side I find the way.

 

Oh, it's not fair to keep you here,

you have eternity to visit, if you want you should go.

Though I know you know I miss you so.

 

Yet you come with me, I feel your essence,

it resolves as you, when I look,

though it's a mere blind spot too.

 

I try to hug you, and my hands come free.

Yet I know you remain with me.

We crossed the lake, we came to a place,

where half remembered steps, took us up to the top.

And from the platform, we could see the lake.

 

Oh half remembered lights;

souls bobbing on the water, or on the shore,

so dark that some bob and some are fixed.

and the wind blows so fresh, it's hard to tell which is which,

the lights are moving, or the wind makes them appear so.

 

What makes it magic, is that all that is half so,

If there were sunlight, maybe they'd be only birds,

or just the magic of the night.

Here you are beside me, though I know that is impossible to be.

You should be soaring, you should be free.

you should not be bound to me, unless you want to be.

 

I wake up, and you still haunt my soul,

not with fear or anger,

Just sadness and pain;

the heart hurts, here in it's place again,

 

I long to soar with thee.

I have to let go, not because I fear thee,

but because I know you are here with me,

and i have things to do before we can be.

 

So, the dream, it fades, reality returns.

It's summertime, and the lake is far away.

There is a drought, the lake is gone,

and dreams of yesterday, fade like a song,

leaving dust where once there was water,

where the radio is no longer turned on.

and the lake is all dried up.

 

Yesterday was a rough day,

today will be better.

 

Christopher Hartly Holte

written July 12 2012

Hitler the Pirate

“I need not Nationalize Industry, I need only nationalize the industrialists.”

I was looking to verify a quote I'd read and saved a long time ago, where someone in a private conversation recollected that Hitler had said:

“I need not nationalize Industry, I need only nationalize the Industrialists.”

Taking classes

I was at the university. Some punk was crossing the professor. He straitened out the constitutional question the guy was disputing. The guy got physical! The professor flipped him on his back. Class over.
I'd been missing gym class in Ross hall. Anxiously looking for the building. Wake up! Just dreaming. I laugh!
62 years old & still nightmares of college!

To Forgive the Merely Human

How do we forgive the merely human?

How often do people rise above,

only for a moment, to fall again?

How relevant is a story like Lord Jim,

Or Gunga Din?

Today we mourn what might have been.

If only we weren't all fallible and human

and prone to sin.

 

Maybe the answer lies

Not only in how a human lives

but also in how we die.

When the fallen are still

Side by side they lie

None greater, nor lesser,

No matter how we dress up the grave with stones.

Inside is an equality of bones.

 

We can honor their courage

And mourn them still.

We can meditate sadly on their failures

...and still mourn them

They did what they did

For good or ill

And their memory is in the winds

blowing through our minds

 

Christopher H. Holte, 7/5/2019

Thinking of Ed Schultz and a host of others I have admired at one time. Or not.

The Palladium of Liberty

The founders put the second amendment into the constitution to protect the right of the country and the communities in our country to defend ourselves from threats, and thus to participate in our own government. Indeed they saw the militia as;

“The Palladium of liberty.” [Armed in America]

They saw that maintaining a well regulated militia required:

“habitual exercise” in military training and “manly discipline”

Which they saw as the:

“bulwark of the nation” [ibid page 102]

Only so long as they are correctly:

“Armed and Disciplined”

John Hamilton, for instance, saw the Militia as the ideal alternative to:

“that potion of idleness and corruptor of morals, a standing army”

Substantive vs Procedural Due Process

I am incredibly worried about #Trumpenfuhrer and his power. If we hope to fix our immigration mess, it has to start with recognizing that there is such a thing as "Substantive Due Process" and a reaffirmation of basic Human Rights and Inalienable Rights theory into the law.

Affirming Substantive Due Process

Flores and Reno, did believe in substantive due process, and they worked out a settlement Agreement in 1997 after "over a decade of litigation responding to the U.S. government’s detention policy of children. The agreement set national standards regarding the detention, release, and treatment of all children in immigration detention and underscores the principle of family unity." [Settlement]

Russia, Veselnitskaya, Cambridge Analytica and the Mercers

I started this post last year in August, 2017. I wrote this while reading the material on The Steele "Trump Dossier", and Bill Browder's testimony. Later the testimony of Glenn Simpson would corroborate and contextualize Bill Browder's testimony but at the time too much was happening too fast and too many writers were covering too much material for me to focus on finishing it and so I focused on reading the information and following the reporters. So this got buried behind other posts. I need this information in one place for my own future reference. This page will change as I get better information. I should have gone ahead and published it then. But because since then an entire cornocopia corpus of books, articles and Mueller Investigation reports has grown up around the subject. I'm remedying that now.

Anyway Browder was a businessman who invested in Russia, found his companies accounts in arrears and hired a Russian guy named Magnitsky to sort out what was happening. In the process he found out that officials were stealing from his company. Magnitsky, being an intrepid accountant filed a complaint and that led him to be arrested, beaten and tortured, and killed in jail for the crime of telling on the Prosecutor General of Russia. I wrote on that in another blog entry. I need to get straight whether his name is Bill or Ben... It's Bill, but I keep calling him Ben. Oopsy... I like Ben Browder too. Loved his roles on TV.... Wonder if they are related?

My post on Bill Browder:

Bill Browder's Testimony and Trump Russia

And our real problem is that Trump wants a Police State that operates like the Russian Police under Yuri Chaika. I wrote on that too:

Trump Wants Chaika!

If Trump gets his Chaika, no more investigations, except into those who dare criticize or investigate! And my rightie friends seem just fine with that. So this is alarming.