Chronological Blog, extracts from my 2011 journal. +
In my opinion:
(Drawing on the collective conscious around me; chronological, last entry on top.
A Pro bono, contra malum effort.
. Why are companies suddenly refusing to post a price for their equipments. Any simple purchase suddenly takes on an entire new dimension. Internet commerce slows to a crawl if not to frustrated disengagement all together. Is it: Another satanic marketing scheme? Homeland security? Or another Republican plot to make the Obama economy look bad? The Bush - Chaney horror on the rebound because no-one has yet been prosecuted?
. Think "pro and con" and answer this:
What is the opposite of progress?
. We need to tax idle cash, that is: Cash that doesn't create work;
much like an inventory tax. That would get the economy back on its feet.
. Sequestration ...... hmmmmmm!?!
Let's loose 10% of the congress people.
Would anybody miss them?
Start with the obstructionists.
. So, thinking of "a brace of geese",
what do you call an overabundance of information?:
Wait for it.....
Yes, yes, "a google of data."
Like a lot of Shiites 'd be "a pile of shiite."
. Gung Hei Fat Choy!
Ophiuchus wishes you happy "Eau de cologne"
(4711, that is the prophecy!)
. If you want a Quran on CD
are you allowed to burn one?
. If you work for congress,
can you get frequent liar miles?
. Meditate for 20 min a day,
if you don't have time for that
meditate for 40 min.!!!
. Ben Bernanke publicly stated that printing money does not cause inflation. Has the nation gone entirely insane? The reporters didn't say anything to the contrary. Democracy is no longer in peril, it is already lost.
REQUIEM.
. "Needless to say, you say? Well, then, don't say it!"
"A rump of Republicans is it? .... This is too easy!"
. All the grief, from Oakland all the way to the Mideast, has a lot to do with the absence of applying a psychology of the self; that appears to be the missing component. People equipped with the tools to fix their own psyche can heal their psychological wounds rather than act out. (Life without blaming others for one's own ills would certainly change the world for the better!)
So translate "I'm OK you're OK" into Arabic and teach it early on in our schools!
. The end of the world has actually occurred on 12/21/12; it's just that neither the Republican party nor the NRA has realized it yet.
The NRA is actually further from reality than the Republicans and they are facing atrophy.
. "I always win betting against myself." HAR 12.12.12
I guess the Mayan's did take leap years and wobble into account.
Tricky people!
. I was promised the moon,
all I got was a mooning.
. Have you been (unknowingly) sold into "Capital Appreciation Bondage" yet?
Coming to a city council near you soon!!! Better find out about it.
. Try this one on: The UN wants to run the INternet - what else do you need to know?
. 12/12/12 Early end of the world - what did the Mayans know anyway, their
world ended way sooner.
. So, aren't you happy Meg Whittman didn't get the post of governor?! She wouldn't have done her homework there either. Funny how ineffective executives always remain on top no matter how bad they screw up.
. The obstructionism that is currently being mounted is an attempt at usurping the democratic mandate (the "will of the people") expressed by popular vote and the overwhelming electoral vote in the last presidential election. This obstructionism is driven largely by the sore losers of the last election and by certain irreconcilable perpetrators of social regression such as Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, John McCain and the like. Do not allow this to happen! If we allow this stagnation to continue we may well end up with a third world type usurpation and subsequent dictatorship. The very health of the nation, the two party system and all its processes is at stake.
Write to your representatives!!!
.
Mormon men wear special underwear! (Fruit of the Loon?)
.
It is noteworthy though that the same analysts that failed
at gaging the pre-election situation now are happily engaged in
the post-election analyses.
. The
Republican attempt to stiffle the Fed is criminal! All in an attempt to unseat
Mr. Obama at the cost of the health of the nation. This is foul play in all
senses of the word! Throw them all out, the bad and the good and start over. All the players
must go!!! . A
call on you, and all your friends who can afford it: . It
has become habitual among politicians to reiterate what is currently felt by
the public - this is not a course of action nor is it a platform
this is a condescending form of negative feedback! Do not fall for this maneuver!!! . One
important thing is to speak against squalor! Lets no longer settle for third
rate; let it be top of the possible from now on. When you are purchasing: Go
for the good, the lasting quality, the cheapest is not the best, and it costs
the nation more in the long run in replacement and maintenance cost. Heaven
knows the best isn't all that lasting anyway, but at least it increases the
quality of life. Let the enemy be "the problems inherent in all things",
not each one of us to another. The $ numbers will surely bear out the long term
advantages for us all! . The
time has come to serve up a sweeping agenda for a better world all together.
All must speak up, enough nonsense already! Call things for what the are, stop
the dance of politeness and focus on humanity at large. The
aim of any new administration needs to be an improved life stile for all; that
is all around the globe. Spell it out loud and act accordingly. Strive for win
- win business ventures whenever possible. Take a stand for justice. Cut out
corruption, craft and nepotism and all other solely self serving activities.
Good business is business that protects the environment and draws up
the collective to a better life. Even if this is not always the case if the
aim is for the good of the planet many transgressions and mistakes become a
lot more palatable. Cut the sniveling bleeding heart liberalism and get to work
on substantive issues that affect the globe and thus all of us. Stop harvesting
political capital off of petty nonsense issues and get to the core of things.
Aim for the good of the planet, there is plenty of work and business that needs
doing just to keep the elements bridled without adding human destruction to
the frey. . The
enlightened ones among you have surely wondered already as to what comes after
a TRILLION. million = 10 ^ 6 . The
election is the message (without the bothersome detour
of offering real solutions) just point out the ailments and hope for the best. . Usama
Bin who? Good riddens, time to move on; at the same token: Nothing to gloat
about! . From
now on every political speaker shall be hooked up to a lie detector while speaking
to the public, complete with the terrorist detection and emotion detector already
in use at major airports. The results should be displayed simultaneously with
the speech and as long as we are at it they might as well be hooked to an electroshock
generator or an electric chair as well. .
Sing to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club: B A R A
C K O B A M A - compromise never
avoided pregnancy. (Remember you heard it here first!) .
If you have ever felt at a loss to explain HYPERSPACE here is an answer;
while listening to the news time and again when I think: "Now we have
reached the bottom of the barrel", and yet there appears another yet
lower bottom below, with no end in sight. . Important
appeal to all media: Stop confusing serious national healthcare
issues by gratuitously interchanging MEDICAID with MEDICARE !!! Medicaid
is welfare, Medicare is bought and paid for by its participants. . Why do they
call a downgrade to "worst possible nuclear accident" an upgrade?
(It's not true anyway, the worst is yet to come.) . Let's
use the lie detector/emotion detector software they use in airport security
systems and examine political candidates in the coming elections while they
speak and debate to find out whether they speak the truth or not. We paid for
all the research already, might as well put it to good use! . Important appeal to all media:
Stop confusing radiation and radio active pollution!!!
This ambiguity muddles the issues and borders on criminal ignorance. The news
media must stop to perpetuate the confusion about these two things that require
all together different measures of protection. You cannot wash radiation away!
Once exposed for lengths of time the damage incurred is irreversible not unlike
a severe sunburn but inside the body and thus not readily detected. . If the online sales pages
would give us good quality and aesthetic designs, and tell us the details we
need to know to make a decision (such as price, size and other important spec's)
instead of trying to trick us into buying junk by obscuring the facts many people
would buy more things and the economy would be rip roaring. The fear of being
lied to time and time again stifles commerce! . Don't find a thousand reasons
why things cannot work, find ten why it would work and push for it! Lest we
all drown. . http://www.googleartproject.com/ . In spite of being
an excellent speaker Mr. Obama would do well to take speach making lessons from
Cal. Gov. Jerry Brown. You may well agree or disagre with what was said; none
the less the speach was dynamite! Especially the deliberate challenges with
which the audience was confronted and thus involved. . The problem persists:
To refer to new "applications" as new "technology"
does great disservice to humanity. It dilutes the accuracy of our language and
promotes confusion, allowing dark forces to operate with impunity and it confounds
the feeble even further. The practice is bad for all, another example is: To
confuse the terms radioactive with radiation as is done all too frequently by
our media. Stop such practices where ever they are encountered, and you will
have asserted real power on the universe! . Terms to contemplate, as they seem to
have been forgotten: For: Life, Business, Politics & Culture Action, not Reaction! Compassion, Grace . If there
is one thing the American public will not tolerate it is a conciliatory, apologetic
intellectual. This won't do at all!!!........ Foiled again. There are certain compromises that are not acceptable. Just remember that every
crack hoar started out as a virgin. . We
of the "over sixty set" highly recommend not to be full body scanned
at the airport! After all a free pat-down is worth the little wait.
This will be good for the economy as we all sign up for flights that have as
many stop-over's as possible. Best offer I had in years!!!.
. Now that the interest
rate is near 0 (zero) why don't we refinance the national debt so as
to reduce interest payments. If that can't be done let's at least execute
the people who negociated these lame terms on our behalf in the first place. . We need you Mr.
Obama to call on the nations "well to do" for a good-will effort over
the next two months: Call for those that can afford it to spend an
extra 20% over what they would normally spend over the Christmas season this
would go a long way toward economic recuperation. . Call for stopping
the infighting and turning on fellow Americans! We need to engage each other
in win-win activities. Save the hard edged transactions for interactions with
other countries!!! . What ever happened
to the peace dividend? - Does anybody remember? . The next madness
is at hand: the pundits on NPR news are trying to convince the American public
that homeownership is not a good thing. Think of it: When we no longer own our
house, home and country why would any . Is Meg Whitman going
to sell California on eBay to recoup her investment? What makes
people assume that someone who got lucky in a corporation can run a government?
Government is not just a business, it's a service and doesn't function like
like a ".COM" ! . So, the next
insanity is going to arise from the Antarctic. Russia is deploying
nuclear reactor ships as power sources, building more as we speak.
Environmentally safe? I don't think so. You thought the Golf-oil spill was bad,
just wait and see what the Russians are going to do up north. . One major aspect
of the economic problem is that: Even if one wants to spend money one cannot
get what one needs; this is partially because the goods are so badly described
in catalogs and in the stores (when the goods are actually on the shelf) that
it is impossible to make an intelligent choice (thanks to the MBA crowd) and
there are too many needless and pointless options. Stop marketing by
manipulating! Give us clear, well defined choices and we won't exit
without a purchase, if you don't tell us what we need to know we'll sooner give
up the quest. . As the age of "Sub-Hooper"
is now upon us and the time has come to make a choice: Will we surrender to
some demagogue with easy answers, or will we line up behind a new approach that
requires reeducating, retraining and rethinking all that used to work
but works no more. I think we need to redefine work, redefine what
used to allow us to get money for our efforts. As unskilled labor requirements
are dwindling we need to allow one day a week for education - half lecture,
half study for everybody; and it must be paid time as part of the work week.
Study any thing you like, but study one day a week. The other essential thing
is to distribute the opportunities towards production of goods or services so
as to allow considerable more work from remote locations. Find ways to allow
more and more of remote work from desktop manufacturing to remote management,
remote medicine, remote "you name it". . When totaling
the wasted hours on software that doesn't work the way it is supposed to,
software crashes and PC's that do not work right. Bill Gates has killed more
people on this planet by way of cumulately wasted hours then Hitler and Stalin
combined; and yet here he is playing god with his ill gained foundation money,
the money he has abstracted from customers. Instead of fixing the grief he and
his company is guilty of he spends his life giving away our hours in terms of
money. Requiem. The villain Don Giovanni gets the most applause at the end of
the opera, just as Bill does in this ongoing saga. . Even though it's
not the function of our president it might be a gesture well worth while a few
hours: Dear Mr. Obama speak personally with the trapped miners in South
America showing that we care enough to take pause. Such a gesture would
buy a lot of good will for very little effort. . We need to stop
turning on each other and bring back
some civility. No matter how ludicrous an argument may appear it needs to be
dealt with, with respect, objectively and calmly and played against the facts.
This is the only way to combat the emotional lunacy that has gripped the nation! . Remember,
even if there are a million members in the tea party movement that is still
less than 0.005% of the population. . Aren't
you glad you didn't vote for John McKane for president? . Mosque, schmosque,
everybody should be able to exercise their law given rights; however insisting
on such rights by way of insensibility shows the real colors of the Muslem intentions
and is undoubtedly offensive. Let them build a monument to their insensibility.
We must remember the real issue all the same: Islam is inextricable from islamic
law and is thus on an irreconcilable colliding course with the laws of our land,
this is where the line must be drawn!!! So get off president Obama's back. He
hasn't said anything inappropriate. Republican efforts to turn this issue into
yet an other unearned advantage, without real regard for the health and safety
of the nation, is equally offensive. . We have the greatest achievements
of mankind ever, already in hand; yet we still carry on with medieval stupidity.
Let's redefine our ways of earning a living to allow for payed study time (say
8 hours a week = 20% of work time, 4 hours in class, 4 hours study), study anything
at all, but study. The ancillary fallout from a better educated work force would
well make up for the time spent - do the numbers, you'll see. . A successful
person has an art collection and cares about literature and esthetics
as well as ethics! A great nation expresses itself in great art and architecture. . Employment isn't going to
simply rebound! We have to change expectations and above all redefine
ourselves - acquire some skills that are marketable.
At the same token many of the fluff-jobs need to be trimmed to where jobs produce
real value, not just reactive energy. Start in the HR-departments and with the
IT-people. If it takes the IT person more than four hours to fix a problem its
not because it's a complicated system, it's because he/she doesn't know his/her
stuff! Don't allow the very people who produce the grief to be in charge of
complaints!!! . While it may be true that
we shouldn't stop flying because of one air plane accident, it is also true
that we shouldn't continue walking on thin ice when the ice is beginning to
break up under our very feet. Above all: We shouldn't buy into stupid
cliche's just becuse we feel the need for an easy sound-bite fix for
complicated issues. . Throwing money at private
contractors to do the contry's security-bidding is bad policy for all
of us, especially when there is no accountability for either conduct or billing.
Its like throwing more money at a broken school system that keeps getting worse
and worse in spite of more and more money. . Congress has become dysfuntional,
as they spend their time on business other than the country's business. If you
die this year there is no estate tax resolution, nobody
will know what to do with you, how to file or anything of the sort. This is
why part of the economy has stopped dead (no pun intended). . As long as we believe that
new applications are new
technology the economy will stagnate! New technology
is new invention, not just cleverly applying old concepts. . Yet another mantra is being
drilled into our consciousness: "ANGRY, ANGRY, ANGRY ....
etc."; I, for one, am saddened and disgusted. Yes, with the news as well
as with our representatives, MacNeil has slumped into stretching five minute
reports into 15 minutes. Fox news is a biased bad joke just
like Russia Today. Hard, obvious questions remain unasked. . To quote Montesquieu: "A
republic depends on the cultivation of virtue."
We must thus declare the George Bush years as "The Time of Endarkenment".
Bush is a traitor to the constitution and as destroyer of our system checks
and balances. . There is an opportunity to fix the
Islamic dilemma right now!!! Let the Mahdi come out of the well (I mean it doesn't
have to be a water well) perhaps the well in the Golf. Let him rise like a phoenix
out of the ashes and as new prophet let him/her separate religion and law, laying
the irreconcilability of Islam once and for all to rest. . Yet another
idiot Republican, Michael Steele, spewing venom; this is not just Barack
Obama's war. He and House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio should be removed
from office together. When will these guys learn put the good of the country
ahed of themselves? I am not thrilled to be a Democrat, but I would be ashamed
to be a Republican these days. . On suicide
tourism - forget Switzerland, how about providing growth industry for
Al Quaeda, effectively extracating the unemployed Afghan youth from a life of
war to self-employment. Here is how it would go: Tired of life,
of your disease? Head to Iraq or Afghanistan; and just take a leisurely stroll
somewhere in a bikini or some such. Five to nine thousand Dollars in Switzerland,
plus the flight. A flight to Kabul ~USD 1500. for the flight and USD 500.- in
pocket cash, to" tip the ferry-man". So, here you are in for one last
good deed, helping the mid eastern economy onto a path of wealth and respectability. . Neither George Bush nor Dick
Chaney have had their fair trial yet!!! We are still
waiting. . BP has enough money for a
disaster of this magnitude, perhaps this is the well from which
the Mahdi will emerge? . Give Mr. Obama a chance! The
man hasn't had a quiet moment to work on his own agenda yet. It's almost all
brush (or Bush) fire work. . Stop putting
personal political gain before the good of the country. . Joe Barton's
citizenship needs to be revoked on grounds of criminal idiocy, though this man
constitutes the best argument for abortion I have yet seen and heared. . Call what is stupid "stupid",
don't make excuses by way of all manner of rational. We have excused "stupid"
for much too long! Perhaps facing the truth will change a few minds. . Change approach to foreign
policy - let those who want to beat each others heads in do so. Sell them the
weapons to do so if need be. Move in to clean up after they weakened each other.
Our current approach doesn't seem to work anyway. . Link the country
with fiberoptics and watch sales explode. Stop spam and viruses and watch
confidence grow. Nothing will propell us foreward as free and fast information
flow! . Ask your customers what they
need and want, don't presume to dictate what you think they might want. Give
us manuals that tell us how to accomplish a task not what the thing is capable
of. And spare us the history of computing with every turn of an explaination. . Want to know how to get Silicone
Valley back into the lead? Open the syntax intensive programing languages into
a simple mark up language and watch applications thrive. Give us the information
required to make informed descisions instad of trying to trick us into purchasing
inferior product. Simplify the needless jargon to bring the less savy buyers
to buy. People want to buy but cannot make an educated descision without spending
endless time. . We are slipping behind in
high tech, low pay for engineering talent is never mentioned, short sighted
(quick buck) thinking feeds the sales people while starving the tech talent. . Is it not obvious that the
next implosion is going to be the commercial real estate loans
that are coming overdue? And no thanks we don't want to bail out another set
of incompetent investors. . Republican House leader John
Boehner and Senator John MacCane appear no longer concerned with the good of
the country, they seem more concerned with filling the already overflowing pockets
of the MBA crowd on Wall street, they no longer bend the truth they appear to
be outright lying. . Bush doubled the deficit during
his ape (8) years - have we all forgotten? . What happens when the supreme
court turns against the population as happened with the free speech for corporations
ruling?! We must not let this issue rest! Remember how Roberts lied himself into the
position - well now we have the Bush-shit disaster: On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled
by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings
are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided
in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule. . Israel is playing the Iran
card! By not showing good faith. Not good. We are all sick of the mideastern turmoil no matter
which ideology or religion it hails from! No more money for any of them! Let the
past take it's course! They don't want to solve their problem, they just want
free money. OUR MONEY. . Imagine the grief that will
arise from distributed, decentralized, small nuclear plants! Shipping
and guarding, defending them from sabotage and avoiding local craft and corruption
alone is enough to make one shudder. Imagine the people that fix the potholes
taking care of the nuclear responsibilities. As little chickens make shit too,
distributing the nuclear waste will only make the probability of mishap increase.
Imagine every Kindergarten with its own nuclear plant ........... . Bush and Caney deserve a fair
trial! We must not let this issue rest! Haul them off to the world
court in the Hague, if need be. Put them right along side of Radovan Karadzic. . One more thing about nuclear
issues: YOU, yes you! Must learn the difference between radiation and
radioactive your families life will soon depend on it! . We do not need selfserving
book-burners in the supreme court! We need defenders of our
constitution! The recent descision about accepting corporate contributions
is an outrage. . Why are our TV stations still
broadcasting anamorphic video? They had years to upgrade. They got
free extra broadcasting space 3, 4, even five extra channels, so much space
they broadcast little else, but repeat materials. The FCC was and is asleep
at the wheel again and the States loose tax money. . One more thing about nuclear
issues: YOU, yes you! Must learn the difference between "radiation"
and "radioactive" your families life will soon depend on it! . Got to be careful now! "The
Material Support Statute" may make your contribution to the Republican
Party a criminal offence, after all they started the Iraq war ...... What becomes
very apperant with this law is that our language is failing us. Legislating
common sense is not possible because logic, law, physics and math ultimately
turn on themselves by way of the precision of our language. Even though we know
what needs to be prohibited we cannot define or plug the loophooles anymore
and the whole complex decays into a bombast gravey train for manipulators and
lawyers. Another battle that cannot be won and can only result in aventual totalitarianism. . KABUL, Afghanistan —
February 23, 2010. To the dismay of his political opponents and many of his
international backers, President Hamid Karzai has moved to
ensure that he can handpick members of an electoral monitoring commission, removing
significant United Nations oversight of future elections. The wolf is
now in charge of the hen house - let's get out now! We obviously don't want
to win this war. . President Obama is now promoting
nuclear power - it appears that the battle is lost. When somebody that
intelligent doesn't grasp the implications and is still hoping to deal with
with the ever increasing piles of nuclear waste. To sort the issues out for
yourself, you don't need to know the subject intimately, just ask: "What
does the military do with their waste?". The industry public'ly states
they will secure the waste for 100 years - that's the clue: The half life (where
the radio activity drops in half) for low level waste is thousands
of years. For weaposn grade material 10 000 000 000 years. Anybody home???!!!??? . A call for NO
MORE Religion. Religion is a form
of mental illness. If you need a manual to be moral (however you manage to define
that) you'll never make it to anybodies heaven anyway. With that goes: No more
religious attire - NO MORE UNIFORMS!!! . A call for
NO MORE Uniforms. . In
the news: - placing the terrorists into civil court is probably a good thing.
Giving these
people military status elevates them needlessly beyond common scum status! . A call for NO
MORE VICTIMS, let's aim to do business
only in win / win mode. It is clear that justice cannot always be done, under
such circumstances the burden of injustice has to be born equally by all affected
parties. .A call for an
eCUMENICAL COUNCIL by way of the internet. The aim shall be
to consolidate the best of all religions guide by thoughts of collective wellness
and collective survival of the human race in all it incarnations. Necessary
will be the removal of all sectarian administrative talent: The cardinals, the
mullahs, the rabbi's etc. (Mullah-chuck!). Then turn the whole complex into
a philosophy. OK, OK, I know there is no good will to fix the problem. I know;
after all the money earned with grief is the best brace for any economy.
. On the good
side I see an administration trying to do the right thing for the country and
the rest of the world. Even if they err at times, it is easier to forgive an
administration of good will. Mr. Obama you have the mandate - go for
it! . Mr.
Obama is not an African American, he is an American;
perhaps of African decent. Get over the race business. . Support the
good efforts of our new administration buy your long needed goods now,
sensibly, but buy some. Lets get the show back on the road!!! . Don't presume
to know what's best in Afghanistan; let our people in the field
make the decisions. None of us who are not over there could possibly know what's
needed. . As I stated before, trickle
down doesn't work. Trickle up
is much more effective - look at England in the fall of 2009. . Demand
better news coverage. Stretching a five minute story into 15 minutes
is not good analyses, especially when obvious misinformation isn't rigorously
challenged. . All
foreign language broadcasts on our air waves must
be in English or have full translation subtitles
or they shouldn't be on our air. English is essential to maintaining our lead
in the world - Esperanto will never fly unless we loose it all together. . Bring
ART back in, under the news coverage, let's show a little class. If
for no other reason than to show off the Russian news, or the German news for
that matter. . Why is smartly
written prose suddenly poetry? No rhyme or reason!? Payola?
Friends of management?
Let's get ourselves out of this economic slump. So, for all that can afford
it: Buy something major,
something you may have held off on for some time. Let's knock the European socks
off, shall we!?
It is time to kick some!
. Unemployment
has a lot to do with the absence of trustworthy skill. Just try to find a reliable
contractor to have your house repaired and you'll know what I mean. A good first
step in the right direction would be to stop inflating the undergraduate degrees,
not everybody can pass an academic grade. At the same time give people a chance
to do something manual, something they are suited and trained for.
Allow me to bring you up to speed: "It's a ......., wait for it, ...... yes,
yes! A
KILLION!" Sort of a requiem for the American penny.
(And the pope is seriously considering sainthood for George Bush.)
billion = 10 ^ 9
trillion = 10 ^ 12
quadrillion = 10 ^ 15
quintillion = 10 ^ 18
hexillion = 10 ^ 21
heptillion = 10 ^ 24
octillion = 10 ^ 27
nonillion = 10 ^ 30
decillion = 10 ^ 33
unodecillion = 10 ^ 36
duodecillion = 10 ^ 39 when will it end?
. Another satanic plan
by Al-Qaeda is putting a new nuclear plant into California's Central Valley.
Let's not put a nuclear power plant into the world's bread basket, that would
be absolute madness!!!
. Help for the government
budget: A good start would be to prohibit city, county, state and federal overtime
of any kind! They might even have to hire some more people and get more work
done for the same money, and on time.
. As per NPR this morning:
CIA operatives are running around with, and I quote: "walking money";
that is money given away freely to buy friends who might turn allegiance and
come over to our side. All this in an effort to diminish corruption in the Arabic
lands? Is anybody awake?
Anybody at all?
Yes, there is ambient radiation around us at all times, but the effect is cumulative.
Adding more to it makes it cumulatively more dangerous!!!
Admirable, and yet I think it would be better for humanity to give voice to
the unheard artists not just to the conventional choices of the museum-management-mafia
that judges by what the piece fetches at auction or conversely promotes some
social cause that serves their own agenda.
How about a "world studio tour" where every one involved in the arts
can have their say and show a few choice pieces who knows what inspirations
might emerge.
Assimilation, Integration, Consideration
Healthy Mind, Healthy Food, Sensible Conduct
Manners, Decency, Consideration
Civility, Accurate Information, Informed Discourse
Skill, Opportunity, Justice
English Language, Win-win Business practices, Patriotism
Real Products, Real Investment, Not Speculation
Real Capital, Real Prices, Real Savings
Ethics, Integrity, Sensible Considerate Practices
Disclosure, Reliability, Honesty
Meritocracy, Training, Access
Education, Development, Esthetics
Culture, Creativity, the Arts
Creativity, Innovation, Impact analyses
Orderly Immigration, Compassionate Laws, Sensible Enforcement
. Banks should not loan or not
loan on their perceived moral grounds as is now the case with WIKI
Leaks. That's not just a slippery slope that's a sharp leap into a totalitarian
abyss!!!
one of us care any longer?!? Renting means you'll be renting from someone in
Mumbay soon. We need to own and own up!
. "The imminent demise of
our great nation will not come from the outside but by way of yet another opportunist
exciting the idiots we have allowed abundance."
. Stefan Zweig's description
of the pre-WW2 times (The World of Yesterday) reads as if it were a description
of the USA today. The unstoppable resurgence of the "Untermensch"
was, and is again, at hand. What's odd about our own time is that the assault
comes from the top as well as from the bottom. The insatiable will soon clash
with the disenfranchised and obliterate the middle-ground all together as they
go. It seems that the only thing still missing is a good excuse to hide behind.
Oddly enough, both parties seem to think they can win with merely a
critique in hand, without a game plan, tactics without strategy. So,
what will the excuse be? Religion? Oil? Some natural disaster? An epidemic,
or just plain the lack of opportunity for the unconnected that arose by way
of rampant corruption?
It is obvious to me that the remaining half of the oil should be used for the
making of raw materials, transportation should be handled differently. The focus
of the nation and indeed the world needs to be on creating lasting high quality
products that can be maintained; where functionality complements esthetic's
into a healthy stimulating environment for all. Success must be redefined away
from amassing pointless things. Renewable's should be king. Win - win should
be our credo!
. President Obama is doing the right
thing. The critics will argue either way anyway, so he might as well do the
right thing. The army asked for 40k he gave them 30k which is 10k more than
they truly asked for (by way of inflating the negotiation.) We cannot go on
over-analysing everything! Much of what was said was to put the Taliban into
a tail spin - since we finally got a good man, we must trust him and his group;
they have more insight than you and I will ever have.
. Consider: Inflation doesn't just
manifest in the price of groceries, inflation shows up in the roads that haven't
been repaired, the parks that aren't maintained, it is in the starting salaries
of your kids who get less of a salary than when you started 30 some odd years
ago. Or when you go overseas and find it takes $7.50 for a cup of coffee. You
may even get much deflated prices on furniture only to find out that the pieces
will never make it to be passed on to the next generation. Buy a printer and find
out that a set of ink cartridges costs more than the printer itself. The list
goes on............ Most egregious of all: The Bush administration lied
about the real figures by way of changing the base assumptions.