The Booklet of Musings: . . . and Other Commentaries, Theories, Philosophical and Social Observations, Questions and Opinions

By Bruce Westcott

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G. Kilroy, Las Vegas, Nevada

Its the perfect companion during those waiting periods in your life. The office visits, the travel times, or an alternative to any of those breaks in your day.
Barbara Goldman, Baltimore, Maryland

Pick it up. Put it down. You never lose your place. And sometimes youll want to go over those one or two thoughts that stuck out and made you think again and again. Artie Kay, West Palm Beach, Florida

Thoughtful, fun, entertaining, stimulating. Bobby Slater, Chicago, Illinois

Great for beach, traveling or tablet reading anywhere. You dont mind any of the outside interruptions. Elizabeth Collier, Los Angeles, California

A great gift for family and friends, special customers, colleagues and associates, and for those people that you just want to interact with.
Elizabeth Watson, New York City

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Sep 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490745527

Bruce Westcott

I qualify to write this particular book based on the mere fact of having lived and, albeit subjectively, observed this planet for the past seventy-five years. I cannot think of any other person who has been granted any more blessings than I have received from my God. My home is in Las Vegas, Nevada. My heart is rooted with my loved ones in Baltimore, Maryland, and Japan, and my mind and thoughts are universal in scope.

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About the author:

Bruce Westcott has lived through at least two entirely different, extremely diverse and exciting lives… and counting.

As an accomplished pianist/singer, Bruce Westcott has entertained international audiences, including at Caesars Palace and The Bellagio Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas for generations.

Bruce performed often for many years at Jilly’s in New York City and Palm Springs, California; the Harbor Lounge/Place For Steak on the 79th Street Causeway in Miami Beach; Billy’s Elegant Super Club in Washington, D. C.; and the Pimlico Hotel in Baltimore.

Frank Sinatra, for whom Bruce and his trio played many of Mr. Sinatra’s private house parties, said that he was one of Bruce’s biggest fans. One late night in New York, while Bruce and Frank Sinatra sat alone in a back booth at Jilly’s smoking Frank’s Lucky Strike cigarettes, Bruce smilingly corrected Frank by saying, No, Frank; you are my biggest fan.

Following a highly successful career as an entertainer and afterwards as a casino entertainment executive and business entrepreneur, Bruce Westcott entered politics. He did relatively and surprisingly well as a 1998 and 2002 Republican gubernatorial candidate in Nevada

Mr. Westcott then became Chairman of the Reform Party of Nevada and went on to become the National Chairman of a majority faction of the RPUSA, the political party of presidential candidates, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader.

Bruce has received several national and state honors, including being appointed a Kentucky Colonel and was a two-term Committing Magistrate in Maryland.

World-renowned Smithsonian Institute has included a photo of the Caesars Palace marquee featuring, for posterity, Bruce Westcott in one of its special exhibits.

The Pimlico Racetrack, one of three national hosts of the Triple Crown of thoroughbred horse racing, has featured The Bruce Westcott as part of the Maryland Jockey Club’s centennial celebration.

At the time of this writing, 2011-2012, Bruce Westcott serves as Vice-Chairman of the Reform Party of Nevada, a platform from which he has proffered his political thesis, Sensible Ideas and Solutions’ Formula for America.

From the author:

I would like to remind my readers that in the early 1920’s prior to the Great American Wall St. crash, Al Capone had declared the stock market, A racket.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction

—Pablo Picasso

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

—Unknown author

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,

And treat those imposters just the same."—Kipling

Wet birds never fly at night—Deadpan comedian, Jackie Vernon

I never had sex with that woman—A former President of the United States

Paraphrased: He who knows, and knows that he knows, ye shall follow.

You are never given a dream without being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.—Unknown author

Those who don’t give up succeed. Taken from a newspaper clipping that has been prominently pasted on my desk for 40 years.

The truth has a certain ring to it.—Earnest Hemingway

Do YOU Want The Truth?—Bruce Westcott

This book is dedicated to my dearly departed brothers, Dickie and Alan, and to my mother, Dorothy Valworth Westcott, who raised all three of us boys and including solely supporting my dear grandmother by working as a barmaid.

We lived in poverty, but we never knew it.

My mother proudly proclaimed that she never took a dime from welfare. That alone fills me with pride and admiration for what is all too commonly and pervasively written-off today as a single mom.

Religion is the worst philosophical concept ever conceived by mankind.

Just think: Of the billions, perhaps tens of billions, perhaps trillions of years of the existence of this one tiny planet in the universe, it has taken only a minutely-insignificant period of those years for man to destroy him/herself primarily in the name of religion.

Odd isn’t it?

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Diversity is not diversity at all. Diversity is segregationist and therefore yields segregation.

In fact and reality, the Western World’s social experiment, grounded by illogical and unnaturally-forced diversity, has proven itself to be the basic destructive element and catalyst for divisiveness and racial tension throughout Western Europe and America.

I predict that diversity in France and England, more specifically in London and Paris, if not America as well, will eventually be realized as the most suicidal (I’m sorry: transformational) political event to ever occur in each of those nations’ histories.

For proof, look at the enclaves, the communities…the formed segregation…the boasts…the claims…the predictions.

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Of course God did not Create the Universe.

The Universe is physical. God doesn’t do physical. God resides in the realm of spirituality.

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The Big Bang Theory (interesting that I am not discussing a TV show) is the explanation of the physical creation of the Universe, whereas life is only temporarily and evolutionarily housed in a shell of the physical being. God is the creator and overseer of that unexplainable dimension which we relate to and identify as Life.

Therein is the separation. It’s all spiritual, my friend.

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I love the saying, A wise man will change his mind; a fool never will.

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African-American people must be the ones to rid themselves of the nigga (their term, not mine) culture in America.

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Is it a coincidence that Steven Hawking and Bill Gates so closely facially - not only the countenance - and perhaps brilliantly, resemble each other?

How about you two guys submitting to a (historical) DNA comparative study?

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ATTENTION, THE (admirable) ELON MUSK/NASA-TYPES OF OUR WORLD:

Re: Spent Energy

In building inter-planetary rocket systems, it is said that the Sun’s heat dissipates. Therefore, according to the theory, current propulsion and life-sustaining systems cannot physically sustain space travel for humans by exclusively via the Sun’s heat energy. Yet, as we can see with the naked eye, far-away planets and other bodies are nevertheless constantly illuminated by the Sun.

Actually, this illumination proves that there is plenty of the Sun’s energy available for development. It therefore seems logical that we need to invent a system based on a revolving energy replenishment system based on the Sun’s light, sans its heat component.

Furthermore, what if light is instantaneous throughout the universe and not constrained by an arbitrary or theoretical speed measurement? Is it possible that the current physics’ measurement of light is, shall we say, flawed?

Perhaps a revolving cylinder system could be invented that stores light energy during these constant light hours, which then distributes even amounts of energy to a vehicle during a system of receive and distribute rotation? And perhaps that energy source could be carried and delivered via the neutrinos’ particle system that does exist throughout the Universe?

Or through a Cold Fusion process?

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Ahhh, despite and regardless of our ridiculous boastful egotism, we are soooo infinitesimal. So, as the Eagles suggest, Get over it.

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Dogs & cats, and all other creatures on Earth, will not lie to you.

They may deceive you, but they do not lie to you. Who, or what, among God’s creations lie?

Wait a minute…isn’t deceit a lie?

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More on diversity: These government-enforced integration programs have unquestionably resulted in the formation and staffing of media companies that cannot be supportive of anything not black-centric/African-American-sided.

There, also, is your racism in America. In this case, it is an inner-woven, totally racially-sensitive control bloc. Recent history lesson: Having control of the modern media is a very important and highly influential propaganda tool. And that, as a weapon, is exactly what the left has in America.

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Hey Bill (Gates), didn’t anyone test that friggin’ 8?

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Sure will be glad when technology rids us of those hideous telephone poles and wires.

Alas, however, where will, or upon what ledge, the birds, specifically pigeons, roost and otherwise hang out?

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True story: Oh fuck you, came the high-squealing child-like voice. Fuck you in the ass, bitch, came the reply – from another adolescent sound. And it went on…

Sorry, Dear Readers, please do not be offended, I’m just quoting…young girls while walking the streets and sidewalks of my neighborhood on their way to or fro school.

Young girls! Junior High School! You know, the places our children go to be educated!

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While I’m at it, I don’t believe for a second that Mike Tyson raped any women who accompanied him to his…friggin’ hotel room!!!

I don’t believe any of these star-fuckers.

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Barrack Hussein Obama: A Junior Varity (JV) player in the big leagues of national and international policy and administration. Mr. Obama has neither the hard-earned experience or natural skill-set required of the job, President of the United States.

Referring to then-presidential candidate Obama: He couldn’t run my hot dog business. – Great American Hot Dog & Draught Beer Emporiums creator and founder, Bruce Westcott, circa 2006.

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Relative to the above current political circumstances, a sound doctrine and warning to abide is found in Paul the Apostle’s Thessalonians 2:3, Let no man deceive you by any means.

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A kind of’ follow-up to the above: During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – George Orwell.

Do YOU Want The Truth? – Bruce Westcott

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I think that government employees ought not to be able to vote.

We citizens want, and therefore shall no longer tolerate, automatic selfishness to taint, influence and/or further corrupt our elected officials; and attached to a reminder that government employees shall be held responsible for any personal interjection or purposeful indiscretion while conducting the business of our citizenry at any level of any agency of our governments.

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How much are we worth?

Yes, physically, how much are we bodily worth? How much for those kidneys, heart, lungs, liver, eyes, blood, (won’t it be great when we can harvest entire brains?)…?

Process it. Quantify it. Break it all down you brainy punsters out there

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Isn’t it interesting that one of man’s enduring and perplexing unsolvable curiosities is under the heading of: What came first?

Every day questions are continuously universally prefaced similarly by human inhabitants throughout the Earth.

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Theory: Jesus did not die on the cross, nor did he descend to the Heavens as claimed in the Resurrection.

Jesus survived the crucifixion. He was taken down from the cross by followers while still alive, and then smuggled to a decoy grave where he actually died and was eventually properly and secretly buried.

The Resurrection story consisting of a stone-walled escape and spiritual rising, is therefore upon acceptance of such a theory, a perpetuated myth.

Or…It is also possible that Jesus survived the crucifixion. Had he survived – there is no death proclamation or certification existing that I am aware of – and nursed by the finest care of the day, Jesus could conceivably have recovered, married, taken a job, had children, grandchildren while in shielded-exile possibly anywhere in the mountainous terrain of the ancient Middle East.

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During the 1940’s, not really that long ago, the cities, and certainly all industrial capabilities, throughout Germany and Japan were practically wiped off the face of the earth. Look at those entire nations now.

Less than 65 years