Time Going Onward.

 

We live in a new generation. We are near the year of 2030, and we find that wealth concentration in the world has not been dissipated. When you have market concentration, there is less competition for customers, higher prices for consumers, and corporate profits at a 70 year high, then you have more political power for corporations and the rich. There are record stock buybacks and higher shareholder value too. The super wealthy paying their fair share of taxation will result in America having the resources to afford to pay for family leave, childcare, student loan forgiveness, universal health care, etc. As for student loans, back in the day, people only paid from 100-300 dollars of tuition per year. Today, people usually pay from 5,000-10,000 dollar of tuition per year (and that is just for smaller to medium sized universities. It's much higher for Harvard, Yale, etc.). So, society has to be better than what it is now.

The Special Counsel wants to hear from Mike Pence, but Pence wants to play a dance where he is hesitant to testify and claims that Trump is unfairly targeted. The reality is that Trump is not being unfairly targeted by his habitual lying and overtly anti-democratic actions. Mike Pence may be required to testify before the grand jury. Mike Pence is the person who was threatened with lynching during January 6th by Trump voters at the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. Donald Trump making overtly offensive remarks about the Manhattan DA (by calling him an animal) is just him using language showing his arrogance and racism. Trump lying by saying that this legal investigation about him is worse than the Gestapo is blatantly anti-Semitism and trivializes the evil of the Holocaust. This situation is allowing our democracy to be maintained and making sure that legal accountability is forthright, thorough, without partisan politics, and making sure that the will of the people is enriched.

When people say that humans have electricity in their bodies, these people are right. In fact, every cell in a living human body has a tiny electric charge. There are about 100 trillion cells in the human body, and each cell on average has 70 millivolts or 0.07 volts. The Neurons and glial cells can carry electrical signals too. Inside every cell in the human body, there is tiny energy producing like power plants called mitochondria. Mitochondria helps to convert the food we eat and the air we breathe into ATP, or a special type of fuel that powers our cells and us humans too. Cells can capture and release energy too via cellular respiration (requiring oxygen) and fermentation (which doesn't require oxygen). There is power in the cells, power in DNA (which is a molecule that modern scientists have documented is a storage of some of the greatest information in the Universe ties to us human beings), and power in you. That is why the human body functions in ways that we take for granted, because every organ system of the body has a purpose and a role for our health and lives.

Yesterday was the Birthday of Sister Chaka Khan, and she is 70 years old. Chaka Khan was the previous generation’s version of Beyonce in terms of talent, charisma, and many people had crushes on her. Chaka Khan's vocal ability is incredible being one of the greatest vocalists in all of music history. Chaka Khan is an icon of music who not only had great music but spoke out on how people were disrespectful by playing music in the same hotel where Whitney Houston passed away. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her family was filled with artistic type of people. She was raised in the Hyde Park area. Her sister, Yvonne and her brother, Mark, made music constantly. Her grandmother introduced her to jazz as a child. Khan was a fan of R&B music as a preteen. She had her own girl group called the Crystalettes, which included her sister Taka. By the late 1960’s, Chaka Khan attended many civil rights rallies with her father’s second wife (who was Connie). Chaka Khan joined the Black Panthers when she was a teenager. Khan left the organization in 1969. 

She joined the group Rufus, and the rest is history. Rufus had the classic song of Tell Me Something Good by 1974. They had other songs like You Got the Love, etc. She had more albums with Rufus like Masterjam and Ask Rufus. Chaka Khan was gifted with some of the most gifted and talented voices in history. Chaka Khan had her debut solo album called Chaka in 1978 with songs like I’m Every Woman and Stuff Like That. Many of us know of the song I Feel for You in 1984 with hip hop music too. Stevie Wonder had a harmonica solo for the song too. Grandmaster Melle Mel was in the song too. Through the Fire and This is My Night were popular too. On Quincy Jones’s Back on the Block album, she had the song I’ll Be Good to You (which was a cover of the The Brothers Johnson’s song of the same name). The song had Ray Charles and Quincy Jones on it in 1990. Chaka Khan made more songs in the 1990’s and the 21st century. Her new single was Woman Like Me by July of 2022. Chaka Khan is now a vegan. Chaka Khan has been a role model for the newer generation of musicians who are establishing their mark in history and culture. She earned 10 Grammy Awards, including 2 as a member of Rufus. Chaka Khan is a gorgeous black woman who made great achievements by her own merit and talent. Now, she is a woman who made history and is the Queen of Funk truly as an inspiration. I wish Sister Chaka Khan more Blessings. 

By Timothy