DEATH OF AMERICA, THE ECONOMY

This is being republished since it is still valid
Last update on 02/07/2007

There is one simple rule of economics; the only way to get rich is to take someone else’s money. Surprised? Just look at all the hedge funds, the advisers, the analysts on the Wall Street, all in the business of taking money away from someone else. What is it that these people do that generates wealth? Nothing, all they do is to figure out a way to take away someone else’s money, “legally”.The only way, actually, to generate wealth is to add value to something, to create or improve something by adding labor to it. It could be something like taking an ore out of a mine, where it was worthless, or machining a part or even navigating a ship across the ocean with some merchandise on it for sale. But what it is not, is to be betting as to what commodity should sell at what price in the future, for instance, or where the stock market will be at a given point. As such, labor of the physical kind is the only thing that adds real value to an item, be it the growing of a crop, the harvesting of the same or making of widgets.How then can one ever become wealthy?

Well if you happen to have enough capital, you start a business, a venture, where you try to pay the least amount of money to the people who actually generate wealth through their labor, and that is called working. Since labor is a perishable commodity, the working person must use it in exchange for something of a “monetary value” as quickly as he or she can. If the labor is abundant, the value of labor decreases, just like any other commodity, thus the person is forced to sell it as quickly as he or she can, for whatever value one can receive for it. In a global economy, where all the workers of the world are forced to compete against each other the value of work (wages) will decrease rapidly, thus the employer will force the worker to work for the fewest beans thereby keeping most of the value added to the product. This is called Capitalism. And by the way, capital is not generated by a FED printing unlimited amounts of money, capital is generated by a people earning more than they are spending and putting the extra money aside, which is called “savings” I had to explain this because some of the readers may be Americans who are not familiar with such ancient terms.In today’s consumer based economy we are encouraged to spend, spend, spend, and so we do.

Many a worker or a family is living on a tight budget. Of course one needs a car to get around, going to work, we need a house or an apartment, and we need health insurance, water, electricity, cable, cell phone, home phone etc. With the wages generally being lower than what it takes to supply what one needs, we require a second income, in most cases, just to make the ends meet so we need to have a “relationship” to be able just to survive, really. Thus one must fall in “love” out of necessity, which does not say much for the quality of one’s selection, or for the commitment to and the duration of such a relationship.Poverty is the state where a person or a family can not fulfill their needs, it may be real or imagined (imagined, when needs are created and assumed, but are not necessary for survival). In the land of plenty and consumption society, where you are reminded twenty four – seven what the others have that you do not have, the imagined poverty destroys many a home, a family and a relationship.This the situation, a catch-22 if you will, in 1980 while we were still talking about the ERA (equal rights amendment) in this country, I proposed that including females in the labor force causes inflation, and at the same time reduces the wages of workers. Now I admit, I do not have a “Nobel” in economics, and this is basic economics, if there are two people working in a house hold, they have (supposedly) more disposable income so they buy more goods and the price of goods goes up, with me so far? Now then when there are more people available to work, the price of labor goes down (wages are reduced), so over a long period of time a household is no better off with two people working than it was with only one wage earner. Now I am not suggesting, not by a long shot, that a woman’s place blah, blah, blah.

But that may be only the more efficient worker in the house should work, while the other can take care of the house and family. I hope when they are grown, my daughters can buy their own husbands, happy?What I am suggesting is that more people should be taken out from the labor pool so the wages can rise.
There is a big joke being played upon the poor world wide, that we the Anglos, the white, the rich, the first worlders are interested in reducing poverty. No we are not, not really, remember for every high rise going up in a given country, for every factory being built to provide jobs, for every road every bridge, there are and there must be hundreds, thousands may be that must starve, and that is the grim reality of the world that we live in. The joke is that we will spend fifteen billion dollars, in sub-Saharan Africa, over ten years, to reduce poverty, and the punch line is that the United States alone borrows two billion dollars a day to keep her economy going. If we did not use this money to buy un necessary garbage made by the slave labor in countries like China and Vietnam, that money could be used to develop the infra structure in those countries, or their labor could be paid a living wage, or they could loan or grant the money to a poorer nation. Do you see what I am saying?


What is truly needed, right now, is that the world population be reduced, but the world leaders are afraid to speak the truth to their people to save their own hides. there are the political reasons, cultural reasons and the religious reasons. How can you tell your people that if they won’t stop reproducing they will all die. That each individual country, each individual race, each individual people will out run their resources. The world will be so over crowded and so over polluted that the planet will be unable to support any form of life. As I mentioned previously in " The New World Order, 2003", we can not provide the power, the housing, the transportation , etc, for everyone living on earth now without running out of resources in a short order, then why we continue the charade, why are people not being told that in the long run we will (most of us will any how) be living like the worst off of the sub Saharan Africa.

Increasing the population just so that you increase the number of consumers is dumb. Time and again it can be shown that as the population of a country increases, so does the disparity in the wealth of the rich and the poor. As the poor need to compete for work, the cost of labor goes down and the profit of the rich goes up. No wonder the US is working to legalize millions of illegal aliens to keep the wages of the workers down, at the same time increasing the number of the consumers. Strangely enough, the Muslim prophet Mohammed said that if one is too poor to support a family than one should not marry, guess how that one is working out, even in the so called Islamic countries like Bangladesh.

Is it not strange that the Democratic President Bill Clinton signed off on the NAFTA, that was promoted by Ronald Reagan, and now President Bush and Ted Kennedy want to legalize the illegal immigrants. Is it a conspiracy to screw the poor or are our leaders so damn stupid that they can’t smell dodo even as they have it stuck on their noses. Are we so close to the end of the world now that we don’t need to care? Or as the public WE are so ignorant that we don’t know when we are being screwed. When the illegals marched in the streets there should have been larger counter protests by the Americans, but we are too busy being entertained to death.

Let me back up here for a bit, one would say why am I complaining while the economy is booming, the stock market is up, inflation under control, yada, yada, yada.

Well there are two points to consider first, if housing is considered as and investment for the later years, or at least to put your kids through college, then why are so many people spending the equity in their homes for current expenses, to buy a new TV or something, or just to keep up with the Joneses? Two, if your credit card company increases your credit line, do you become richer? Actually most Americans today are working for “The Man“, to pay the taxes, or to pay the interest on their college loans, on credit card loans, to the mortgage companies. The great big lie is that seventy percent of the Americans own their own homes, when in truth they are renting their homes from the mortgage company. Both the Democrats and the Republicans lie about the economy, because they want the stupid consumer to keep spending the money they will never have, till one morning the are told they now they are officially slaves.
“T’s the ultimate freedom, when you chose to be a slave,” (M.N.R.).

The second point about all this prosperity is that it is based on the deficit spending by the government. The lie that is told is that when government cuts taxes the revenues go up. But no one ever mentions that the revenues go up because of the deficit itself, as the government spending cycles through the economy, obviously the employment and the corporate profits go up, when the employment goes up the social security taxes go up, and guess what is off set by the surplus in the social security tax collection, the deficit. And again as the corporate profits go up the tax collections go up , so the so called reduction in the deficit, or increase in the revenue is just so much smoke and mirrors, and why doesn’t some one explain it to the people? Because it is easier to keep the idiots happy and it gets the politicians re-elected by the stupid electorate.

The lie has been told again and again, so many times that even Bush himself may not know the difference, many Republicans surely do not, and the moneyed advisors don’t want you to know the facts, but here it is the truth about the Bush tax cut. While they are fighting in congress whether to make the Bush tax cut permanent or not, the truth is that the tax cut really does favor the rich and the ultra rich. The average Joe, making a hundred thousand or less was given a fifteen hundred dollar a child tax credit, not a real tax cut, and as the tax cut for the rich is about to be made permanent, the child tax credit will disappear and the taxes for the middle and lower income people will go up, this is called compassionate conservatism.

We see the stock market going up, the Dow making new highs, but is it for real? If you had bought the thirty stocks in the Dow twenty years ago in nineteen eighty six, and had never changed anything, you would be sitting at a net loss today, because the GM, Ford, Delta, ATT, Sears, all have lost money, big time. The only reason the Dow seems to be up is because they keep changing the stocks that make up the Dow thirty are changed as the companies go broke and are replaced by newer names. So if you buy the shares today.
And what does the “value” of company like Google or Yahoo or e-bay, U-tube has to do with reality? These company don’t make anything, and don’t add value to anything, they don’t even own anything that anyone would need, or provide a needed service, ok, e-bay does that. But for the others are nothing more than a HOPE that someone will click thru and ad to buy something.

But to buy something, you need money you do not need for something else that is a necessity, nothing like that is sold on Yahoo, or Google, no milk, no bread, so you must be someone that has extra money. One way to have extra money is to not to have kids, and not to get married, do you see my point?

One of the cruelest ways to make you a slave is to get you in debt. And here is how the scheme works. Starting at home where parents are more apt to go to work to buy whatever is new on the market for their kids, to fulfill their demands, our children get in the habit of not waiting to buy something or waiting for something, saving for something to own. We teach our children that when you want something you jut pull out a credit card. As I have mentioned before, most of us today are living beyond our means. An average person has to go into debt just to meet these so called needs. Not everyone needs a new car, for instance before the old one is paid off. But most people do exactly that and never get out the cycle of having a car payment. In the last thirty years, the car financing has gone from average three year loans to now seven year loans, and we keep making the payments without realizing that so long as the consumers are willing to make these payments, the car prices will keep rising. And that is just the tip of it. Does every one really need a cable bill? A cell phone? Do you know that these payments are for life? We have not learnt to say no, ever! Not in sex and in buying more cheap stuff.

How many do you know that buy more than they can afford? Christmas coming, get a new Visa card, vacation, we can put the on the card also, or take out a home equity line of credit. And yet everyone knows that our wages are not keeping up with the cost of living and we go around scratching our collective behinds wondering what is going wrong and end up getting divorced, (which actually ends up costing more money and lowers our standard of living.

But lets say for example that you never had these problems growing up and the only thing you needed was a small loan for college. Now they have you again, you start out from college already deep in debt, and unless you are extremely lucky you will always be in debt for the rest of your life. And don’t you dare stop spending the money you don’t have, our economy depends on it. It depends on you to be stupid and stay in debt for the rest of your life, so you never get to accumulate wealth, ( capital).

The money that we spend today will yet have to be made by our grand children and great grand children. In the mean time we have a federal reserve system that keeps creating money from nothing, just like the Germans did during the world war two, but we are too stupid to know what happened to the German economy as a result, let me give you a hint, after the war, in Germany, one could get laid for a pack of cigarettes. What is up with our bible thumping president, what was the biblical parable of the seven fat cows followed by the seven skinny cows.

We are being sold in slavery and we don’t care. If not why is it that people making a hundred thousand a year or more cannot seem to afford all that they want, is it not a definition of slavery that your needs are never met? A vast majority of the people making hundreds of thousands of dollars as in debt up to their eyebrows, and even if you make a million or two a year you have not yet “ARRIVED”, it takes much more. Say how you would feel when if had just figured out that you had made your first million dollars last year and then to wake up to find out that Beckham just got a five year two hundred and fifty million dollar contract? I guess you will go out and work harder to make more, so you can keep up , but the only way to make more is to figure out a way as to how to beat some one out of what THEY have. Be it your workers or your clients. But since we are living in a COMPATATIVE environment so only one you can really put the screws to is your workers.
The other problem with today’s consumer culture is that there is so much stuff to buy, you need a new plasma TV, and a black berry, your kids need the new X-box, and I-pod, the latest fashions and cars and the Ivy League education, whatever, and soon as you have built that forty-five hundred square foot Mc Mansion on the golf course, your brother in law builds one of fifteen thousand square foot in that new exclusive sub division.

So here you are, you need more money, nay (screw the holy books), you have the obligation to screw the poor to keep up. Kindness, mercy, justice and fairness are just clichés that we must pay lip service to. As I mentioned in “The New World Order” in 2003, this attitude is destroying families, the traditions the cultures and the environment, and not just theirs ,but that of our own also.

Under president Reagan we had something called social security reform, the Medicare tax was imposed on all the salaried income, or income from a privately owned business, and the basic social security tax was increased slightly and the taxable amount was also increased. Remember I have said many times that I voted for Mr. Reagan the first time and then I became against him because he was a damned liar, or too stupid to know the impact of the polices he was he was being paid to promote. Mr. Reagan sold out the working class, riled people against the poor, broke his promise to balance the budget, screwed the workers by promising that NAFTA will increase the wages of the workers in foreign countries and improve their standard of living , that the foreign countries will also be bound by clean environment standards, etc. As we now know it was all , every bit of it a bunch of lies. What he did do was that he started to spend the social security reserves, ( the excess amount paid into social security for the future benefits), also this amount spent was not included in the current account deficit, so we the workers were screwed twice. It is still beyond the understanding of the average American that thinks that Reagan was the greatest president or a great president, the screwing that the American citizens received by the Reagan administration was the only thing royal about him.

Today as the boomers are approaching the retirement age not many still realize that there is no money there for their benefits to be paid. What they don’t tell you is that we NEED the illegal Mexican here to contribute to the social security fund to keep it somewhat solvent, or at least on a more secure footing, with more people paying into the social security fund.

That is a two edged sword. One that at a later time we will have to pay these people the benefits also, two that since the current “ doing great economy” and the high employment is dependent on deficit spending and borrowing from the foreign nations and peoples, we keep digging the hole deeper and deeper.
How long can we keep printing, or creating this imaginary money? Who do we owe this money to? Besides the future generations. At the start of 2006, I sent an e-mail to Senator Richard Shelby, R-Ala, I had asked him that, where this money that we spend in deficit ends up at, as of today, 23 January 2007, I still have received no satisfactory reply so I will tell you what I think. First of all most of the money the government borrows comes from the social security surplus, it is your money and it is my money the government can decide not to pay us back any or cause inflation to rise and reduce our benefits, secondly the money comes from the FOREIGNERS who buy the US treasury debt and US currency, so each and every day we keep selling the US to others, literally.

Thirdly the money comes from the Federal Reserve Bank, a privately owned company, your future and mine is sold to private bankers, while you sit there watching Desperate Housewives, it is your future, it is your country that desperately needs tending to.

Are we being sold in to slavery? I for one have thought so for the last twenty-five years it is time for the rest of the country to wake up before there is no rest of the country left.

So then where does this money go to? Of course any one knows that the money always will go to the top. It is said time and again, that if all the money was divided in a group, soon it will end up in a few hands. That being true, and the fact the much of the money that the federal government spends, by printing new, or borrowing will also end up in the hands of the rich and the super rich, unless it goes to the foreign countries and the people that we borrowed it from in the first place.

We know, for example, when the government spent billions of dollars after Katrina, people spent that money to buy tools and generators made in China, lumber from Canada and labor from Mexico and Central America, so we can assume that some of that money that the government is borrowing is going directly over seas. Then there is money spent in this country, it as we said before rises to the top and thus ends up with the super rich, am I right so far? By the way the government is “spending” over three hundred billion a year in interest payments. The gap between the poor and the rich increases.

A couple of years ago we had some examples of this gap, where the people spent two and three million dollars on a birthday party. But the most egregious example of this problem was when some one paid sixteen million dollars for a nude of a living actress. And what was that crap about the “Beanie Babies” for Eight thousand dollars? and the singing raisins? Some people do have money to burn, and why not? it is really worthless.

Are we then a third world country, where some have everything and more and the rest have nothing. May be not yet, but we are getting there, fast!

The theory says that the few rich do not cause inflation in an economy, because they are not competing for the same stuff as the rest of the people. But are they, or not. In general they don’t live in the same places, don’t buy the same type and quality of food stuffs, don’t even go to the same doctors and lawyers. But if we take a closer look then they take away the best health care making it out of reach of the rest, because they can afford to pay a premium over whatever the rest will pay. Same with housing, if they get the best and the choicest lots, and homes and whatever, which by definition is a limited quality and quantity they make the prices of real estate unaffordable for the rest. How can you buy a lot for ten thousand dollars in a community where some one else is willing to pay ten times as much, thus the rich can acquire the most desirable location and property causing the rest to pay more than we can afford or to move elsewhere.

One of the biggest problems I have with the rich is that they can afford to out price the average person out of the education market, though there are always some scholarships and grants and loans available for the poor and the average kid, the rich have always a leg up because they go to the best prep schools and can afford private tutoring for a leg up on the entrance exams etc.

I also realize that some people are poor or average because of their own lack of motivation, initiative, and work ethic, some don’t know any better and can not do better than what they are stuck with and will not. But it is not fair to say also that the playing field is level for all.

So where is that trickle down theory, Ronald Reagan was either very stupid, or was bought off buy the real money. And we fell for him, boy were we ever so stupid also.

A lot of people still give the grand example of the lady with food stamps who came to the store in her Cadillac, and I know we have all seen her, but have you ever noticed the poor, the ones buying day old bread, and shopping at the bent can store or lining up at the food banks, no we do not see them, because we don’t go to THOSE places, we have no idea how, in a society where people making a hundred thousand a year have budget problems, people are expected to live on a three hundred a month from social security. While the people who steal the retirement funds from their company employees are given twenty million dollar bonuses.

In this land of plenty, we have shows about the lifestyles of the “Rich and Famous” but no shows about the life styles of the “Starving and the Malnourished“.

NEW GAME?

Well one thing for sure, the gas is getting cheaper. The bad news is that as the gas prices get lower, all the new energy projects will bite the dust. From oil shale in Canada to Boone Pickens' "hot air" the wind energy project will become worthless, the unemployment in oil industry will rise and the real estate markets in Texas will follow suite. Here is the good news, the Russians will go broke, Putin and Chavez will shut up, and the real estates in Dubai, the future home of Mr Bush will be cheaper. The soverign funds of gulf countries will sell their shares and real estate holdings in the US and Europe on the cheap, back to us.

IT AIN'T HAPPENIN!

10/08/2008

It ain't happening


Why is the FED and others unable to stop the stocks from sliding or open up the credits lines? With all the money being thrown out in to the debt abyss, you would think that we would have been able to stop the spiral.

The reason here is simple, the money being supplied to the banks, the credit lines take over of banks and whatever is unable to stop the drain and stabilize the stock markets is simple. This money has already been spent, by the banks that made bad loans already and now can only fill in the holes in their portfolios. The loans have already been made and the monies spent and lost, and the consumers who are not worthy of loaning money to are still unqualified as they were two weeks ago.

Why now, all the money being created now has already been spent and already been lost so it won't help, the six trillion dollars in liquidity on the sides? where is it?

And they( governments) may be able to throw money in to a fire pit, but how do you buy trust, everyone knows now that everyone else is a crook like himself, and what was sophisticated scheme of yesterday was just another swindle, much like an e mail from Nigeria, but with a real return address.

And lastly, what idiot would now want to loan money to fools that can not keep a budget to buy I-pods or flat screen tvs, much less large homes.

As oil is now crashing the wealth of the rich Arab Sovereign funds is disappearing faster than the Gennie of the oil lamp, and the Texas, Alaska and the Canadian oil projects are soon to go up in smoke with their respective economies.
ANY QUESTIONS?

ARE WE THERE YET?

10/06/20008


ARE WE THERE YET?

There is a small fish tank in the bedroom of my daughter, it has only one gold fish. The fish swims around, and around and around. Sometimes I ask my daughter, what if the fish thinks the the tank is the whole universe?

In my poem " Shooting Star", is a verse,
" everyone alone
in their own space and time,
I would'a called you again,
If I had another dime."

That "everyone alone in their own space and time now seems prophetic.

Does the fish think that the bowl is the whole universe? Probably, well if you consider how our leaders and more specifically the financial wizards of the Wall Street have acted over the last few years. If you consider how ignorantly have the people of the FED have behaved.

Even now, the latest morons of the financial circles, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernake and the guy with the MBA, whatever his name is, think that they are alone in the universe and they are on controls and they know how to fix it.

It really goes back to what I have told you all along, that "life is a game of connect the dots, if you don't connect all the dots, and don't connect the in the right order, you will miss the whole picture".

By the time this is all over, we will be back to the real savings, real interest rates, real down payments and real credit. So how long will it take? Well, ten years or may be twenty, we have to learn to live in reality, oh that is if there will be any free societies left standing.

Why I say that, well the amounts of debts involved requires that either the federal governments, the world over, turn over all the earnings and taxes to private individuals, to pay off the cumulative debts, or alternately confiscate all private property.Other than that what are the choices?

Is it not what I have been warning you about for years?

"and I would'a called you again"
but is there anyone listening?

Bush' world, his universe, is the fish bowl called "banking". It was never more true the axiom, " you dance with the one who brung you", we have the bankers to solve the problem that the bankers created. Oh the insanity!

And it is still not enough, we fail to understand that the problem has been created by having too much of that "imaginary money", the virtual money of the unending reservoir of "God's Head" called the FED.

Like that fish in the fish bowl, Hank Paulson, Ben Berneke, Bush etal, have a limited knowledge of the universe. For them the universe starts and ends in banking, thus the problem of banking can be resolved by more banking gimmicks, if the problem is credit, then we need more credit to loosen up the credit. Yeah right!

Are we there yet? We just were black mailed into taking on another $850,000,000,000
that is eight hundred fifty billion dollars of debt for nothing, no reason, and it does not help the economy or the credit situation or makes us depression proof, or does it?

With the so called credit crisis, on which we have decided to blame everything is not the disease, the cancer has been growing since Reagan started the ball rolling, deficit spending with lower taxes, low interest rates (to keep the interest on the federal borrowing low)was and has been the malaise.

So here is word for Mr. Bush and Mr. Paulson, at the end of the movie, "Finding Nemo" as the fish escape from the dentists aquarium and make it the ocean, only to find themselve in plastic bags and wondering, "now what!", so some days life just sucks.

cynical

10/01/2008

 CYNICAL

Ok, let's say the bail out goes thru, but it is once again imaginary money, that will come from no where, and the markets stabilize. Now the banks must make loans, if they make loans at the old standards the money is once again wasted, inflation rises as there is a sudden boom in the economy, and the dollars falls,commodities rise, poor people around the globe face certain starvation and we are back at square one. If the banks take the money but dole it out at new stricter standards and higher interest rates, there is no expansion in the economy, the rising interest rates boost the American Federal deficits( interest payments on eleven trillion is a lot of money so spending must be cut), the economy contracts and the poor around the world face massive lay offs and starvation.

Good Luck

JUST ANOTHER STORY

Dear Mr. President

Honorable Madam Speaker
Honorable Senators John McCain
Barrack Obama, Jack Reid

There are leaders, and then there are leaders, Idi Amin was one, so was Hitler and Joseph Stalin was one also. But the great leaders are those who have their people follow them through thick and thin, willing to make sacrifices for the greater good of the nation. The great leaders are not afraid to tell the truth when needed and not willing to compromise their honor even when they may risk their own positions. Lincoln believed slavery was wrong and fought a civil war that cost the nation six hundred thousand lives. Crusades were fought by the people who believed they were right and thought of themselves as defenders of truth. Today it is hard to find a leader that is willing to speak the truth and thus compromise his or her own position of power.

In the bible we are told the story of Moses, (I am a non –believer myself)., that when Moses returned from the mountain he saw his people worshiping calf made of gold. To me this parable has always meant two things, the gold represents the worldly riches, and the calf in the story is the same as the Bull on the Wall Street, once again representing the worldly riches and wealth.

Now may be this is stretching it too far, but we come to decide whether we should pass bail out bill or not we should consider what effect will it have on our future, really the near future. Can we really go on supporting our own and the global boom and “prosperity” with the borrowed (printed or created) dollars? How long before we will have to sell our children in to slavery to pay off these debts. Would we need start smothering our kids and euthanizing our elderly because we could not pay for them? Will we start a new CCC, only this time called the “Caloric Conservation Camps” to save the cost of food to pay off our debts? Will we have to call upon patriotic citizen to transition out early?

There is also a story of a man called Jesus who gave his life to save the world, and the story of his disciple who sold him out for thirty pieces of silver,. And me, I just wonder

WHY?????

Why is the United States congress and the president so desperately trying to give away the country to the bankers? Do we not know that there is six trillion dollars in cash on the sidelines, held by the same entities that we are trying to bail out?

The reason that the scam is working because the American populace is brain dead to say the least, they don't know the facts and they don't know any better, the stupid [people are being told that the sky will fall if the bankers are not bribed with another seven hundred billion dollars of American tax payers money, that businesses will not be able to meet the payrolls and other stupid crap.

The fact is that there is money, only that you have to have a solid business plan and solid credit, I have personally borrowed fifty thousand dollars within last six months, and bought two vehicles in last two months.

On the other hand we are past due for a recession and a recession is needed to wake people up to the reality of capitalism, to ups and downs of the markets, the more we manage to have one the worse it will be when it arrives.

The rich are not worried about your welfare and mine. This a scam, now they are talking about credit markets freezing up and a need for anew cycle of tax cuts, show me what the last three tax cuts have accomplished. All we have done is to move the industries over seas and opened more McDonalds and Star Bucks, worth less jobs where you can spend the money uncle Sam has borrowed on your behalf, may be more malls, more oppertunities for you to get deeper in debt.

America is about to be reamed again, why Mr Bush, why Nancy Pelosi, why are we turning The USA in to another Bengla Desh run by the money, for the money, with politicians and their honors for sale.

HOOD WINKING THE STUPID DEMOCRATS

09/26/2008

HOW TO HOODWINK THE STUPID DEMOCRATS

Who says that Mr. Bush is the only highly functioning moron in Washington DC. ( Paul Bagala did). But apparently there is no shortage of highly functioning idiots in this nation of ours.

First take the investors on the Wall Street, all those highly functioning idiots have been making money for years , so they got so cocky they started to buy pure horse manure in the hope of making money. Well have we not all seen the movies where some crook is paid off in sacks of news paper clippings? But now we have the US Government stepping in to buy up these. And who comes out at the head of the line to put the money of the United States in the hands of the Wall Street in exchange for the proverbial horse manure but those highly functioning idiots of the other party the Democrats.

If the goal of a con game is to urge or to trick someone in to doing something really stupid, this con is working like a charm. Eight years of Wall Street greed and fiscal mismanagement of the Bush administration and who is ready to sell her virginity to save them but the Democrat Party, what a deal. I knew selling ones virginity was about to become the new vogue but did not know that the Democrat party would be the next in line to carry on the new tradition.

I believe that Obama and Reed and Pelosi mean well, they claim they don’t want to see the people getting hurt. But the reality is that the fix is already in, bail out or not the economy will suffer, with the increase of seven hundred billion dollars in the deficit, the dollar will fall, the interest rates will still go up, real estate values will still fall as the air will still be going out of the housing bubble and the securities that the government will be receiving will decline further in value. Housing will remain slow for a while still, so spending this seven hundred billion will only do harm to the United States. Keep the money for the day when it really hits the fan as it still will.


There are solutions for the fix we are in, not easy not nice and not palatable but we have created the mess and we must clean it up, raise taxes, increase capital gains taxes with the only offset allowed for investment in factories and creating of jobs in the United States. Encourage and support public transportation. Reduce spending , mostly in section eight housing payments and payments for children on welfare, people should not be making babies to get the benefits reduce Medicaid. There is yet more on my blog.

FOXES GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE

I f you go to my blog And look up in the archives for July 2006, then scroll down the page to econ102 at the page, you will see what wrote and what Mr. Scowcroft said here,



Mr. Bush used the excuse the of 9/11 to push through the tax cuts and print money and set us up for the economic destruction. That the American public has been complicit in the economic demise of the country, that much is true, but the crooks on the wall street have been have been pushing the white house and the congress for more and more loot, wall street became a den of thieves, and free for all among the thieves, crooks and swindlers is what has been referred to as the new investment vehicles. Hank Paulson, the senate the president and the congress have all been party to the crime, and now they want us to them the even more money to fix the problem.

The McCain Dance

Where was Mr. McCain for the last twenty two years? Like I said before , this crisis at this time seems more like created for the political theater, and Now McCain is on stage, trying to look important and a player, Yes he is a player, he has been playing this political game too long, get to Mississipi and discuss the problem in front of the people, not in Wahington cutting deals in some back room with the bankers, let's get this show on the road!

Bail out

The bail out plan is the moral equal to cop stealing money from a dying victim's hand, a victim that he himself had shot. For years now I have blogged and written to the president etc about the economy and the morally failed policy of keeping the conomic boom going by deficit spending. The FBI should voice analyse the tapes of Hank Paulson' testamony in his previous appearences for lying and deception. If the bankers bet on bad laons, let them take the loss, investing on wall street is a gamble, should the government and the Americans insure bad bets? What are the consequnces of the two trillion dollar deficit for the year, we are going to have a reccession any way if we approve this kind of spending. The dollar will fall and commodidties will go up , inflation will rise and the intrest rates will go sky high, the end result ending up the same, a reccession, I say don't bail out the wall street thug. We need to bail out form the bail out

A CRUEL ANALOGY

09/23/2008

A CRUEL ANALOGY

Remember 9/11, how the towers came down, they it was the pancake effect, one floor falling on top of the other and the lower floor unable to bear the weight gave in also and so on, the whole thing crashed.

It all goes back to the question I asked Senator Richard Shelby, that “when the US government borrows money to function, in whose pockets that money ends up at“? of course the question is rhetorical since I at least already know the answer. It is still a good question, it made it on the evening news of my local station.

For Senator Shelby, and all others who may care, today I will give you the answer, but first, the United States government does not borrow the money form her self, NO!. The treasury issues debt obligations that are bought by other banks and financial institutions and foreign countries and institutions, then these are sold to the federal reserve, then federal reserve issues money against the debt, in other words, we owe the money to the federal reserve which is a private bank, in some instances the debt obligations may be held by the foreigners themselves.!!!!

The United States, or any other government is there to collect taxes for its operations, even at the threat and or use of force it must collect enough revenues to pay for the day to day operations and even may have reserves for unforeseen incidences. Since Reagan days, and “the deficits don’t matter” we have borrowed and borrowed and borrowed some more for a lifestyle that was not sustainable. All the while this “money”, “ the future tax revenues from the US population” have been used to support the global economic boom, hoarding of “wealth” by individuals and “bankers” who have devised more and more ingenious scams “financial instruments” to steal money from the government and each other.

Today as the pyramid scheme is collapsing, under the burden of its own crap load, the congress, the senate and the president are running out to shore up the system that is already doomed. A seven hundred billion dollar planned bailout will only the bring back the sharks out of hiding, again. Obviously there is a bottom to the housing market collapse, and there is “liquidity” since there is six trillion dollars (remember the United States deficit?) sitting on the sidelines.

As I have said before, no one creates a job to provide a living for another, jobs that are needed Will be created, houses that are needed will be built, houses that will be built Will be of reasonable size and price, to live in not to be used as a ATM card. Cars will be built for transportation and not as symbols of sexual expression. And we will have to stop eating our babies!

But then again, a people hooked on the “reality shows” may find it too much to “get real”.

Who is responsible in america

For the past five years or more, I have been writing to my senator, Richard Shelby, and the president, and blogging about the financial mess we call markets. For the governement , for senator Shelby or Hank Pualson and other to claim they did not know what the mess they were creating is to say that the believe that the americans are totally stupid. But who in this country IS responsible? No one knew about nine-eleven either and no one got fired. Now the same, we have been screwed and no one is responsible? But as a nation what can you say when we can not now even say that a mother shjould have taken better care raising her daughter who got pregnant at a young age. Liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, we are only used to making excuses after each screw up. This mess will take years to fix, middle class and the poor will suffer, taxes will have to be raised or services reduced to reward the multi millionaires and billionaires for gaming the system and screwing over the public in general, O the times tha we live in. And one more thing, the conservative radio , lead by the Scum in cheif, Neal Boortz is still saying that the problem was caused only because the democrats in congress wanted banks to loan money to the poor to buy homes. America, how stupid can you get.

MR. BUSH TALKS TO AMERICA

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I dont know where Im running now, Im just running on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But Im running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I dont know when that road turned onto the road Im on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But Im running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I dont know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, thatll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I dont know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But Im running behind

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
Id love to stick around but Im running behind
You know I dont even know what Im hoping to find
Running into the sun but Im running behind

Complimentary "Running on Empty" Ringtone

JACKSON BROWNE

HOW AMERICA WAS SCREWED

09/19/2008

HOW AMERICA WAS SCREWED

So you rejoice, the Dow went up another three hundred sixty points, for the week it is about even so what IS my problem? My problem is the I am an American, my future depends on the future of the United States, I love my freedoms, and I do not want to be a slave.

What has happened in the market this week is not a bail out of the banking system, it is pure and simple sale of the United States to the international banker and the IMF (INTERNATIONALIST MOTHA FUCKAS).

It is not that the problem was unknown, I have been blogging about it (right here), writing about it to the local paper, the president and the Senator Richard Shelby of the Senate banking committee, so if I knew what was about to happen how could all these people not know, could not have known.

The bottom line is that the United States government took over two trillion dollars worth of horse manure in return for the promise of selling out her citizens and their kids, (slavery as I told you ), and the stock market rallied, the so called investors had two trillion dollars worth of free money to go shopping with.

"NONE DARE CALL IT A CONSPIRACY", like I said before, it is not a conspiracy if something is done in front of the people, but it is scam, it IS a Sham, it is a con game, the America was swindled in broad day light, and people were being told that it is for you own good. Is n't democracy wonderful, if the people are this stupid!!

But why now? Why today? Because the stupid Americans are busy wondering if the kids should be taught about sex in class rooms or if Sarah Palin is or is not a pig in lipstick, i don't know but she is a "pig in a poke", but that is neither here and not there, now is it?

If it is a scam on the public, the timing could not have been more convenient, we are weeks away from the election, totally distracted by the events of the campaign, and this also gives the opportunity to both sides for grand standing and saying and speaking as if they are going to or that they can do anything to help keep America afloat, and your social security check will be in the mail.

GOD BLESS THE UNITED STUPIDS OF AMERICA

WHY THE STOCK MARKET RALLIED

09/19/2008

WHY THE STOCK MARKET RALLIED

This banking/ finance/ wall street bailout by the American Tax payer ( by the order of George Bush and his banking cronies) reminds me of a story of a girl in Pakistan. Her brother was accused of having some kind of a relation with a lady in a wealthy family, as a result the local court (jirga) decided that the girl must be raped to pay for her brother's indiscretion, and she was subsequently gang raped by four or five guys, only here they have taken the matter a bit further, they want the American public, not only to have to support that sister's baby, they want us to marry her, support and raise her child, and also rejoice in its birth, thus the stock market rally.

DESTINY

09/17/2008

DESTINY


Destiny is, a foolish dream taken a bit too seriously, and taken a bit too far. (M.N.R.)

09/17/2008


FROM FREE MARKETS TO FREEWAY ROBBERY

I have been asked whay i don't use any references in my writings, I am not an economist, not part of banking and finance system, don't have a PHD, and not part of any think tank, so what makes me an expert in anything. But see i do study stuff, and read and more than anything I think, and see relations in the universe around me. One thing I can not offer you is a bibliography just to prove I learnt stuff from others, and can not think on my own.

Even as an atheist, I am given to thinking about the possibility of there being a God, and what if there is a God what IS He or She like, and I do try to prove its non-exixstance and i may just end up proving it's existance , I have no problem with that either.

So it was that on a very long flight, and listening to ABBA, " what's name of the game" i started wondering about God, and what if I were to ask God the same question, and I did, I am still waiting for His answer.

And far as a bibliography is concerned, look at the song below and our economic mess, could this song has been a prophecy?

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Theres a lady whos sure
All that glitters is gold
And shes buying a stairway to heaven.

When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.

Ooh, ooh, and shes buying a stairway to heaven.

Theres a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

In a tree by the brook
Theres a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

Theres a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.

In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And its whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.

And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If theres a bustle in your hedgerow
Dont be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.

Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Theres still time to change the road youre on.

And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it wont go
In case you dont know,
The pipers calling you to join him,

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How evrything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And shes buying a stairway to heaven.

LED ZEPLLIN

I TOLD YOU SO

I freaking told you so!!!!!!!!

WHERE DOES IT STOP

09/12/2008

WHERE DOES IT STOP

http://cbs13.com/watercooler/selling.virginity.tuition.2.814271.html

If there ever was a culture war, the vultures have won. I am not referring to the young lady below selling her virginity, at the Bunny Ranch, Carson City, NV. Or Palin’ bastard grand child, that the whole right wing establishment feels so compelled to defend now, after they spent life times and careers bashing the poor of the ghetto for the same “shameful” act. We do the same thing over and over and everyday, in every walk of life. We keep lowering the bars, be it in education, politics or socially acceptable behaviors.


Why is this election no longer about the United States of America? Why is it about the Democrats or the Republicans, or about Obama or Palin? We are an economic basket case, we don’t make anything, under wear, towels or televisions, the banks are down the tubes, the gas is up and housing market is in the tank, Mexicans are over running the country and we have a war on terror we can not lose and have no idea how to win it. Social security coffers are empty, the treasury is empty, the thugs have stolen our future and we are talking about if Sarah Palin is a pit bull in lipstick or that Hillary as a big ass. Our schools can not educate our children but we compete to get our daughters on the cheerleading team so they can be prostituted to the footballers, o yes they are!

Who among the candidates has a plan for the future of America that puts America first? Who want to create jobs not in a green technology but in once again building cars and ships and towels and furniture, have we not had enough of the globalization? Globalization is not just cheap goods made in China, it is the precursor to global slavery, of our ownership by the corporations, at the cost of our individual rights and liberties.

Those Americans who decry the most, the transfer of wealth through taxation are the ones supporting even demanding the transfer of wealth of the United States to foreign countries, through aid and or trade, that is both Democrats and Republicans, so where lies the difference. It is the mentality of a suicide bomber, or alternately that of a three year old throwing a tamper tantrum, I must have it my way at all cost. But here there is no difference between the liberal or the conservative, the “ move on .org or the swift boaters.” the result always being the same, that the United states losses.

In a sad irony of the fate, Sarah Palin will also make her solo debut of the campaign in the same Carson City.

VIGINITY FOR SALE

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/09/11/gianulias.virginity.for.sale.kovr

Hello Americans

Just in time for Sarah Palin's upcoming, "abstinence only" sex education marathon here is a lesson for both the young girls and their parents. Have your daughter save her virginity so that she can use it as a scholarship from "God" later. Keep the boys away from your daughters so she can help you pay for her college.

We Americans are people of fads, how wonderful now, Natalie Dylan may have started something that is as good and in more ways than any other fad in history. Save your virginity to pay for college, no bank account or a savings plan ever needed. And to boot she wants to be a Marriage and Family counselor too. Now that is a career move girl, how many ladies will want her to be their counselor, how many husbands will want her to show their wives new ways of contributing to the family expenses, imagine the possibilities.

RATE CUTS AND THE ECONOMIC BOOM

09/04/2008

RATE CUTS AND THE ECONOMIC BOOM


Ever heard of someone dying of drinking too much water? The reason the rate cuts have not worked is because the Americans are already in too much debt, housing bubble is bursting and the fake jobs created by our service economy/ federal deficit are disappearing. The wealth is concentrated in few hands, and the RICH DO NOT CREATE JOBS JUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WORKERS, GET IT RIGHT! They only create jobs when they can exploit both the labor and the consumer, no matter teh tax cuts or tax adavntages, any one who tells you that tax cuts create jobs is a liar and a stupid both.

WHAT McCAIN NEEDS TO SAY

09/04/2008

WHAT McCAIN NEEDS TO SAY


John McCain could tell the Americans the real truth, for example that the Bush tax cuts have left the country broke, that more tax cuts will increase the deficit only and not benefit any working class people. That Obama can not provide the healtch care for every one but neither can McCain and that some American will die because there is no money, that along with our jobs we have also sent our money overseas, thanks to the free trade which only works for the ultra rich, that the prosperity of our country over the last few years was a mirage created and financed by the federal borrowing and spending, that we are looking at the depression monster in the face and not McCain or Obama have a solution. That the housing crisis will only grow and that the gas may fall to a dollar fifty a gallon, but working Americans will not have the money to buy it even at that price, how is that for starters!!!!!

PARIS NOT PALIN

09/03/2008

But what for a Sarah Palin? Does it equalize the Democratic and the Republican tickets between the dumb and the dumber? If that is the need, then hey wrinkly white dude, why not Paris herself, some people think “she IS pretty“, she knows how to run a business, has a great energy plan that she told you about, she is well known and admired around the country, and as for her politics and the knowledge of the world affairs, she’s been around the world in more ways than you think, I am sure!

THE PALIN FACTOR

09/02/2008
The Palin Factor
Let’s, for a moment forget the pink elephant in the room, we will get back to it soon , I promise.
That it is a sign of real maturity to know, that the political philosophies, ideologies and theories are just that, and may not have any basis in reality, and may not even be workable or practical in the real world. These are not the “commandments” , set in stone, definitely not worth a physical fight, brawling, or torturing the non believing to confirm or to change their minds.
In my article below, when discussing the teen drinking I had mentioned that when we are unable to control or change the behavior to the expected norms, we just change the norm and the expectations to disguise our failure, even make it in to a success. Isn’t every school in the United States now supposedly above average? And when every child is left behind then no child is left behind. It is “ Lake Woebegone” city.
When Condoleezza Rice was chosen to be the Secretary of State, one of my objections was that she was a “Soviet Expert” and that since the Soviet Union no longer existed she was out of place, but just getting us in to Iraq was not enough to show her utter incompetence, we had to be wrong in Georgia too, so what did we learn from it? Nothing! It so seems.
And if the Democrats think that Obama is O.K. to run the country then how can they complain about the poor little beauty called Palin? Or does any of it really has anything to do about the future of three hundred million who still call themselves the Americans, or the future of the free world as we like to call it. Just compare the two, if Obama is said to be good looking , well by gosh she was the runner up in miss Alaska beauty pageant, Obama went to Harvard on his brain power and she went to college on the beauty pageant scholarship. Obama was the editor of Harvard Law, and she was the PTA chairperson, Obama was a banker she was the mayor “honorable“ of small dinky town, Obama was a state senator and she was on the Alaska energy commission, so they are both even in experience if you are on the right, Right!
We may not want to talk about the candidate’s children, but just like Cheney’s daughter being a lesbian and then having a baby with her partner was in the news, and now the news of Palin’ seventeen year old being pregnant and unmarried has leaked out, the question is what will McCain have to say about proper parenting, parental supervision, and that lil pink elephant in the room, “the abstinence only”. BTW it works folks, really, if you also keep your “dating” children in within your sights.
I don’t care if you are a” pro lifer” or “pro deather“, God, if he ever existed had a plan, in most of the pregnancies when a malformed fetus is created the fetus is “naturally” aborted by an act God Himself, and yes there are millions of spontaneous abortions done by the Lord Himself every year. Thus keeping a deformed child alive ( when under normal circumstances and without the extra ordinary interventions, the child would have passed on to his “Just Rewards” shortly after the delivery; so that he could wait in the heavens for his parents, both, married or not!) and to make him or her live through the indignities of an incomplete life, with the accompanying suffering and pain and shame( in cases where later in life they understand their condition.
We, the humans have become gods ourselves, and we worship our own selves, and why not, we have the technology and the resources. We give life to the dead, we give sight to the blind, we transplant hearts and livers and lungs. We fly through the air, we change courses of the rivers, and we set fire to nations and change their fate, heck we even reclaimed the New Orleans back from hell.
But what for a Sarah Palin? Does it equalize the Democratic and the Republican tickets between the dumb and the dumber? If that is the need, then hey wrinkly white dude, why not Paris herself, some people think “she IS pretty“, she knows how to run a business, has a great energy plan that she told you about, she is well known and admired around the country, and as for her politics and the knowledge of the world affairs, she’s been around the world in more ways than you think, I am sure!

THE DRINKING DILEMMA

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/search?q=worshiping+failure

08/20/ 2008

Time after time, our solution to a problem is to change the rules so that the problem is no longer is defined as a problem. A case in point here is the letter from the presidents of a hundred colleges that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen so that the college students can get legally drunk. Thus no one can say that our society is failing in raising children properly, or that our children of age are behaving irresponsibly, that even the presumably the smart ones are just a bunch of sorry asses that can not and will not act within the boundaries of the laws. If we propose to lower the drinking age to eighteen so the college students can drink, then one, are we not encouraging the few who do not yet drink to go ahead and drink, and two, if we want to make this exception for the college kids, then why not make an exception for the poor kids of the block to sell drugs because some kids on the block sell drugs, may be even legalize prostitution because some people do prostitute. Have we not already legalized adultery, pre marital sex, extra marital affairs and gifts from the lobbyist?

Time after time when we fail as a society to cure the problems, the old failure status it self has become the new norm. Alcoholism, drug abuse even spouse abuse and child abuse and rape are now defined as illnesses, illegitimate child birth, poverty, greed, abuse of power have all become social norms. And all of this not just from psychological points of view, but even from a Christian point of view these are all forgivable sins. No need to fix the problem, now that the problem does not exist.

REIMAGINING POVERTY

08/18/2008

REIMAGINING POVERTY

United States is a rich country, today one in a hundred American is a millionaire, and no doubt many of these millionaires reside among us right here in the Wiregrass. Thus the response to my article, “Who is paying Neal Boortz” was overwhelming. One would assume that anyone knowledgeable in in the ways of the stock market, would also know of the overall negative effects of the high price of oil on the US economy, the effect on the local governments, school systems, the plight of the truckers, the airlines and the auto industry would be self evident. That the higher income for the oil companies does not justify the damage to the overall economy, since our economy is not designed for a four dollar a gallon gas!

I am different than many, right? At least in my ways of thinking, so it is that even after Mr. Reagan told me that all the poor in the United States drive Cadillac’s and buy steaks with their food stamps and are nothing more than baby making factories, when they are not busy making meth in the back of their pickups, I am not convinced. I am also not convinced that we do not need a minimum wage, that every worker should buy his own health insurance and pay for his or her own retirement out of the money that the employers are not willing to pay them, and will not pay them unless the government steps in.

The poor that I know are hard working people trying to make ends meet, and many of them are really not stupid. For these, a reliable public transportation system would be a godsend. And they would be able to make it to work on time more often, that is if you have people that work for you.

Some of the poor are also those that have retired form jobs they held for thirty-five and forty years (teachers, county clerks, police officers in this area, veterans and the disabled), and their meager pensions and social security together do not cover their living expenses. I am at times shaken( as I am sure you are also) to read about the elderly breaking up their prescription pills, or going days and weeks every month without their medicines. Next time you sit down to a meal, imagine, the thirty eight thousand in the Wiregrass alone at the risk of going hungry, can they afford a car to get to work? And yes, I would not mind paying extra in fuel taxes so the disabled veterans do not have to wait for someone’s charity to get to the clinic. I write off my fuel expenses as a business expense any way, as do all the business people and farmers. Trust me, not all poor are “different” like I am, they don’t all drive a Cadillac, or buy steaks with food stamps, the people with Cadillac’s do not need a lousy subsidized transportation system any way. And as an added incentive for the health conscience taking off some of the raggedy looking vehicles of the roadways will clean the air and clear up congestion too, you could drive safely on the circle again.

WWJD? anybody?

WORSHIPING FAILURE

08/13/2008

FAILURE WORSHIPING

Now then, I really don’t know where to start, there is so much stuff in my mind that I want to say that it might sound jumbled, but give me a chance to make my point.

We have an economy that is sinking, Iraqis want us out and the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are rearing back their heads, the oil is up and the dollar is down, and the Russian just did the Georgians in. The Chinese just had the president Bush over for the Olympics, while thumbing their noses at us in Tibet and Sudan. The Mexicans want us to learn Spanish while they invade our country at will, and even hold the police and border guards hostage, and bring the drugs over the border with impunity, but oh well. And all that crap about Musharaf and bringing democracy to Pakistan, forget it, but you already have. America is a great country, or at least it was till we all fell asleep as a society.

As the economy tumbles, and the housing values decline, foreclosures lead families to down size, default on their credit cards, and leads them to lose their shiny new cars, and the jobs disappear causing more and more to lose their homes, and cars and default on their credit cards, our national leaders want us to “drill here, drill now” and why not, we are already being drilled up the you know what, and like that will save us from the disaster that is looming over the horizon, a depression, if we don’t stop talking about this crap called “globalism”. Do you even get that?

Yes, I am, I do. And I will get back to the point of my article, “Failure Worshiping”, and what it means, but I have to get you in line with what I am thinking. We are coming up on the national election, where we have a choice of two major losers, with a capital “L”. Did you say McCain is a Vietnam veteran and he spent five years in a prison camp, o.k. so let him sleep with your wife, or sister o.k. and get it over with, I don’t need to be screwed by him just because of his war record, or the other three hundred million Americans. The man is a crook, remember when the right wing media was talking about John Kerry marrying the rich bitches? McCain did too. How can he have moral fortitude and be a compromiser? How can he call Falwell names and then kiss his ring, how can he oppose George Bush in the primaries and call him most qualified in the fall. And who the hell is Obama?? Obama who? But we love our losers, we worship them.

Think I am off the wall again? Think again. We have culture of worshiping and admiring, nay, emulating the losers, from baggy pants hanging off our asses to dress down “Casual Fridays“, we wrote the book.

Back when the Fox channel came on the air they started a show, “ Married with Children” about a family of losers, going no where fast, then the ABC gave us more of the same to copy from and came up with “Rosanne“, another bunch of white trash losers, and what was that other show with the character, “JJ”? the “Good Times‘, we did not want to leave our black brothers out now did we. And you did not have to be poor to be trash, so we included “Different Strokes“, and “Moving on Up” to the mix of falling family values and failing moral boundaries. On “Married with Children” we had a stupid father and his fourteen year old slut, so on Rosanne the mom wanted to know if her twelve year old daughter had the hots for a boy, the bar has been being lowered ever since, the media knew we love losers.
08/20/ 2008

Time after time, our solution to a problem is to change the rules so that the problem is no longer is defined as a problem. A case in point here is the letter from the presidents of a hundred colleges that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen so that the college students can get legally drunk. Thus no one can say that our society is failing in raising children properly, or that our children of age are behaving irresponsibly, that even the presumably the smart ones are just a bunch of sorry asses that can not and will not act within the boundaries of the laws. If we propose to lower the drinking age to eighteen so the college students can drink, then one, are we not encouraging the few who do not yet drink to go ahead and drink, and two, if we want to make this exception for the college kids, then why not make an exception for the poor kids of the block to sell drugs because some kids on the block sell drugs, may be even legalize prostitution because some people do prostitute. Have we not already legalized adultery, pre marital sex, extra marital affairs and gifts from the lobbyist?

Time after time when we fail as a society to cure the problems, the old failure status it self has become the new norm. Alcoholism, drug abuse even spouse abuse and child abuse and rape are now defined as illnesses, illegitimate child birth, poverty, greed, abuse of power have all become social norms. And all of this not just from psychological points of view, but even from a Christian point of view these are all forgivable sins. No need to fix the problem, now that the problem does not exist.

The thing is that when we worship something, a “god” perhaps, the object of our worship is can never be at fault. So when we worship failure, we refuse to talk bad about it, instead we laud it, admire it and hold it in the highest esteem. For a vast majority of our people, it is therefore no longer acceptable to be successful, to work hard, to study hard to get educated, and to get ahead. Nor as a society we want them to. You have heard the phrase “acting white” it is so wrong and misunderstood; when in reality most whites today aspire to be just acting trashy. I am sorry, not acting trashy, just being different. (see American Enigma, below).

Is the fault of Psychology or the new religion? It is hard to tell, many Christian denominations today have become so much like the syrupy pop-psychology. I am O.K., You are O.K. Jesus died for all your sins and you are forgiven no matter how fucked up you are. Same as in psychology where the raped and the rapist are both victims, Really.
Muslims are happy just killing, whoever wherever, and mostly their own. When I argued with a Muslim friend that the suicide bombings and the beheadings, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, were actually causing an increase in poverty, prostitution, child rapes, and thus could not be explained as, and or considered to be God’s will, he thought I had lost MY marbles.

But just as a suicide bomber is bent on destruction of some at any cost, devoid of reason, so we are going headlong in to a culture of self destruction, unwilling and unable to stop. Be it the federal budget deficit or our own budgets, be it the trade deficits, transferring our wealth to our enemies, or be I our ”addiction” to oil and what it does to our environment, and trade deficits or our addiction to drugs prescription and non prescription, or our culture of sex and consumption at all costs, we seem unable to stop ourselves, control ourselves, or even just say that there is something bad wrong with our ways and surely it will lead us to annihilation in more ways than we bargained for.

Do we really worship failure? Unable to speak against this “god”. Unable to even speak its name like the Jews of old were not allowed to speak the name of their “God”. Unable to stray form the path that will lead us to “Him”. And celebrate “Him”.

No? Then how is it that today we have divorce parties? And break ups a routine. How is it that the collapse of any and all standards of society, standards of community is celebrated. Back to this later.

There used to be a saying that life imitates art, then art imitates life, if either is true , we are in trouble.


09/02/2008


The Palin Factor

Let’s, for a moment forget the pink elephant in the room, we will get back to it soon enough, I promise.

That it is a sign of real maturity to know, that the political philosophies, ideologies and theories are just that, and may not have any basis in reality, and may not even be workable or practical in the real world. That these are not the “commandments” , set in stone, definitely not worth a physical fight, brawling, or torturing the non believing to confirm to them or to change their minds.

In my article below, ( part of the longer article of " Failure Worshipping") when discussing the teen drinking I had mentioned that when we are unable to control or change the behavior to the expected norms, we just change the norm and the expectations to disguise the failure, even making a failure seem like a success. Isn’t every school in the United States now supposedly above average? And when every child is left behind then no child is left behind. It is “ Lake Woebegone” city.

When Condoleezza Rice was chosen to be the Secretary of State, one of my objections was that she was a “Soviet Expert” and that since the Soviet Union no longer existed she was out of place, but just getting us in to Iraq was not enough to show her utter incompetence, we had to be wrong in Georgia too, so what did we learn from it? Nothing! It so seems.And if the Democrats think that Obama O.K. to run the country then how can they complain about the poor little beauty called Palin? Or does any of it really has anything to do about the future of three hundred million who still call themselves the Americans. Just compare the two, if Obama is said to be good looking, well by gosh she was the runner up in a miss Alaska beauty pageant, Obama went to Harvard on his brain power and she went to college on the beauty pageant scholarship. Obama was the editor of Harvard Law, and she was the PTA chairperson, Obama was a banker she was a small town mayor, so they are both even in experience if you are on the right, Right! We may not want to talk about the candidate’s children, but just like Cheney’s daughter being a lesbian and then having a baby with her partner was in the news, and now the news of Palin’s seventeen year old being pregnant and unmarried has leaked out, the question is what will McCain have to say about the Republican "moral values", and our "family values", proper parenting, parental supervision, and that lil pink elephant in the room, “the abstinence only”. BTW it works folks, really, if you also keep your “dating” children within your sights. And if and when your abstinence only kids have children, from now on you can call them the Palin factor.

WHO IS PAYING NEAL BOORTZ

08/08/08
WHO IS PAYING NEAL BOORTZ
I really do not wish to call anyone stupid, but then there are exceptions. Either Neal Boortz thinks all his listeners are really really stupid , or that dear ole Neal has finally lost his marbles. His brand of “Capitalism on Viagra” , steroids being an illegal drug, will not only destroy the poor, it will also destroy the country.
Back in two thousand four, I had proposed that since this country is not designed for a four dollars ( I actually did say four dollars), we need to start slowly increasing the tax on gasoline and use the money to support a public transportation system. I have detailed my plans elsewhere in this blog. Now that we have four dollar a gallon gas how and why are Neal, and that two legged dog of a talk show host, Dennis Miller, out supporting the big oil.
The Republicans have never had a shortage of small time crooks to be their mouth pieces. From a convicted perjurer in COL North, to the convicted burglar in G. Gordon Liddy, to drug abuser Rush Limbaugh, to the very true to his name the Dick Morris, who became famous for cavorting with prostitutes and now the new and improved coke head the Dennis Miller, it is hard to believe that someone would really take these clowns seriously, but here we are.
I hear these guys lamenting as to how the big oil is being portrayed as callous, as how to figure out the profit margins, and the how Democrats are out to kill their business. Let me assure you that I am not voting for Obama or for McCain, I will only tell you the truth and let you make up your own mind, about the presidential candidates and your talk show hosts.
The way that Neal and Dennis explain the oil company profits is this. Say you call someone and tell them that there will be a get together at the church Saturday at two and that they MUST show up, and tell them that there will be some singing and some prayers and a pause for everyone to hang out in the parking lot which will be followed by a reception in the fellowship hall, but leave out the fact that his mother was murdered last night and it will be all for her funeral.
Yes a lot of retirement plans contain shares of the big oil companies, and yes if you participate in a retirement plan you will get a few dollars of the increase in the share price and dividend increases. But what they leave out is this, that the higher oil prices are shutting down car factories and dealerships, thousands of independent truckers have been driven out of work.



That the increase in fuel costs is increasing the cost of everything else, that as you make more money in oil company shares, your GM and ford shares are sinking, your airlines stocks are going under, you are paying more for everything else, airline travel is going to be for the ultra rich only and as the air travel shrinks so will the employment in the TSA, the baggage handlers will be out of work and the ticket clerks and travel agents and the hotel industry will suffer. We as a nation are not doing better by paying more for our gas.

I do want higher gas taxes and prices, I do want subsidized public transportation for the poor and the elderly at least. I do not want to see people made poor by their car expenses, and I do not want to see poor having to choose between feeding their kids, buying school supplies or buying gas to get to work. I surely do not want to see the elderly die of heat or freeze to death because they could not afford to pay the electric bill.
A higher gasoline tax, that is used to subsidize the public transportation services will reduce the dependence on foreign oil immediately,  (people in the rural districts could get rebates) reduce our trade deficit, will give lesser amounts of our money to the terrorists and the un democratic regimes of Arabs and the Venezuelan Hugo Chavez, it will increase the value of the dollar. It will also take out the speculation from the markets, and actually lower the cost of oil as the use and the demand for it decreases. It will be a win win for every American, and even for many a poor overseas.

I am sworn to protect this country against the enemies, foreign and domestic. So who is paying you Mr. Neal.

Bailing out who??

07/31/2008


BAILING OUT WHO?

The congress has passed, and the president signed in to law, an act to help out the troubled housing sector, it has some good news for some homeowners who may qualify to stay in there homes, and to help out the Fannie- Mae and The Freddie-Mac and some other banks. One may do well to remember also that the Federal Reserve bank is also a privately owned institution that issues money and gives out loans to banks and other lenders, so it may also be assumed that if some banks and mortgage institutions fail then the Federal Reserve Bank could lose some of that imaginary money that they had printed out on behalf of its owners.

You can think of a dollar in whatever terms you like, and assign it what ever value, but there are two kinds of dollars, ones that the Federal Reserve “creates” and then prints them out or adds the zeros to a particular bank account, it is the money in circulation, the other dollars are the ones that the US Treasury obligates its self to, this the debt of the United States, that the government promise to take from her citizens and pay back to the Federal Reserve. Since the US Treasury it self does not have any money and can not issue any money it hawks the future of the United States and her citizens to the Federal Reserve. So as if the Federal Reserve were to demand a payment from the United States the government will have to sell first the government property then the property of its citizens and then may be her citizens them selves.

So each time a bank or a mortgage company is about to fail and the Federal Reserve Bank is about to “lose” some of its imaginary money, the treasury of the United States is stepping in to take over the loss (buying up worthless paper from the Fed), adding to the national debt and promise the Federal Reserve a cut of its future income ( tax revenue) in the form of an interest payment. The fraud will continue until the American public will wake up and understand they are being sold out.

THE HIGH COST OF GETTING FUCKED

07/23/2008
Includes updates to 07/28/2008
07/31/2008


THE HIGH COST OF SEX


This can be considered a continuation of the below article, “ Logical, Responsible”.

Let me state right here that I was never a prude, I was a hippie in my younger day, and been there done that, thus I speak from experience

Before I continue let me repeat a few of my philosophies,

“It is not what I want you to do, or think what you should do, but this is how you will do things in the future“.

“Morality is that commodity for the middle classes, for which the rich have no use for, and the poor can seldom afford“.

“There is a cost to being stupid, make sure you can afford to pay“.
“You are limited in your knowledge by what you know”.

When the idiots, the teachers, the psychologists, the anthropologists, the media, and the law makers go talking about the sexual freedoms, (previously called promiscuity), they seldom mention what the costs and the consequences of these freedoms will be.

There was a case recently, a friend mentioned it, that a woman was living, with her NEW BOYFRIEND, in her mother’s home, where her three brothers also lived, her EX BOYFRIEND came in and killed the new boy friend and two of her brothers. If it were a business, we would call the three deaths as cost of doing business, a no big deal, right, then why not count these three deaths as just a cost of sexual freedom, that is what it is , is it not?

When we talk about sexual freedoms, we must simultaneously speak of the costs of such life style.

Every year thousands of people, mostly females, are murdered because they “exercise their sexual freedom”. this is not counting the child abuse, children being neglected, placed in foster homes, with the government (tax payers, I assume you are one) picking up the tab. Hundreds of thousands of cases of domestic violence, rapes, kidnappings, custody battles and injuries, all of these stemming from the so called sexual freedom. (we talked about the STD’s previously). Should there not be a government funded study of the cost in dollars of this so called sexual freedom?

If we were to analyze this, we may be going back to the biblical prohibitions. Think about it, the medical costs, the justice system costs, the police, the courts, the divorce lawyers, the social workers, the counselors and on and on, everyone making a good living because you refuse to keep your panties on or keep your pants zippered. And who pays for it, and pays for it in real dollars from personal accounts and from the tax dollars.
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I am neither a Christian or a “moral” person, this is not a moral judgment or an accusation of sin, I am only talking about the dollars, real money.

In different fields of psychology we are trying deal with human nature and making attempts to change behaviors that are counter to the peace of society, such as lying, cheating and stealing, we also want to take away thoughts of racism and jealousy, prejudice just the same as even Mohammed himself proclaimed that “all people are equal, there is no difference between an Arab or Persian, or differences based one’s skin color, the best among you are the ones of a better character”. If one can not see the “stupidity” of proposing a law barring people from being racist or prejudiced, then one might as well go ahead and be stupid and propose that people also control their most basic and most animal urges of sex, and why not.

It is also said that poverty is sometimes the cause of uncontrolled sexual activity, can we also not prove that uncontrolled sexual activity of itself is also a major cause of poverty and illiteracy, even crime? How many people of the so called middle classes, lose their homes, pay out of pocket for divorce lawyers, how many women and children end up in shelters, how many men and women are murdered or commit suicide, become drug abusers and or mental basket cases. If we only knew! Uncontrolled sexual activity also leads to drug abuse, or may be it is that drug abuse may lead to uncontrolled sexual activity, and spread of diseases.

Why are we expected to pay for the mistakes of others, with our tax dollars and with our charities, if one decides to let his daughter go out and get knocked up or catch the clap , get gang banged or worse, why should I have to pay for it? Why should you? Let her pay for the consequences. I follow the rules of the society, if I am in business for my self and go broke it is my money, or of the bank that made the loan, I don’t expect you to bail me out, if I buy a car and don’t keep it in good repair then it is my loss, but if go out and fuck around and catch AIDs, then you should have to pay for it? Why? If I make babies then I should have to pay for them, not you, is it not right.

Here is a thought, you say well they did not do it on purpose, well I have yet to see someone get pregnant “just by an accident“, it takes more than that, don’t you know? But if you think someone can become pregnant by accident, (Mary not included), I have a bridge in Manhattan.

We license people to drive cars, right!, do we also pay for their car and gas, NO! We should also license people for having sex, we should not, however, pay for them to have and raise kids. Here is something federal government could really get its fingers in to, and balance the budget to boot.


We do not legislate morality, I am even for legalizing prostitution and even gay marriage, but what is this that the government is taking my money, even at the point of a gun per se, in form of taxes to support some one else’s misbehavior, and or stupid decision making. I need the money to feed my kids, to clothe them, to pay for their health care and their college. Why am I required to pay for the kids that people have that they did not need, or any one catching a sexually transmitted disease, both through my insurance premium and taxes?

That’s not all either, I have discussed the lack of educational progress due to sexualisation of our children, how it is effecting our school systems, and costing us in education dollars. But how many times we have suffered from lack of service/ performance of an employee where the worker was having relationship problems? ( you would say that even married people have similar problems, and yes, they do, but if the sexual freedoms were curtailed a bit these marital problems may decrease similarly) Or that their un married daughter was pregnant, where they needed time off due to their Aids or Herpes acting up? And so on, in business we call this lack of productivity, is there a study done as to how much really, in dollars and cents the “sexual freedom” of our employees has cost the American business?


Is the government not responsible for encouraging this break down of the social order, for the crime increase, for the child abuse etc, through this so called taking care of the poor. If it is not legal to abuse the mentally deficient then we must have a change in policy. As I have said previously, there is no place for a person with an average IQ in this new era.
Or is it the policy of the government to make it self seem to be doing good while they abuse the citizenry. The government policies must be designed so as not to, seemingly, reward the bad behavior, as they do now.

It is not just the poor, the middle class is suffering at its own hands, unable to grasp the consequences of their own deeds. Sometimes losing everything to their sexual escapades, their honor, their jobs, their homes and families, even bank accounts and businesses they sing praises of their sexual freedoms, even as the vanquished would praise their conquerors. Has anyone seen Bill Clinton, or Larry Craig or Elliot Spitzer et all, talk about the financial costs of their action? NO, because it is against our consumer economy, it is against good business. If people were to focus on things other than their penises and vaginas, they might even revolt against some other government practices.

It is not all “Juno”, the real world is cruel and unforgiving, when a single mom allows her sixteen year old daughter to go out on “dates“, previously also called “ to get laid”, she better be ready to raise a grand child or two or three, and must also have money to pay for them. There are not that many rich bitches out there to take the baby to raise.(Angelina Jolie and Madonna both adopt their kids overseas). Years ago, when I wrote about the “Death of America- the female” I mentioned how this sexualizing of young girls is enslaving them instead, now there are studies (there are always studies for those who do not have a thinking brain or seeing eyes), that say that younger and younger girls are being abused in relation ships, sexually physically and mentally. If the mother in Missouri is guilty of causing a thirteen year old girl to commit suicide, then we, as a society are also guilty of making that girl think that she must be a sexual object above all else. Let me say this again, if a girl has sex with a thirteen year old boy, she will always KNOW that thirteen year old boys can have sex, if a boy of fourteen has sex with a twelve year old girl, he will always KNOW that twelve year old girls can and desire sex, and will act accordingly at some time later in their life(this is how we are making new breeds of child molesters, remember this when you say that child molesters mostly abused as children themselves). And you don’t need a federal grant to study this.

If “Sex in the City” or even “Desperate Housewives” were to depict real life, they would include a few beatings, rapes, forced prostitution and slavery, black mail, divorce, financial ruin, family destruction, houses being sold, women having to move into a small apartment with kids, family standard of living taking a nose dive, husbands committing suicide or murdering their wives, boyfriends being caught and castrated, people catching genital warts or going through the pain of genital herpes and gonorrhea.

The federal government may have invented the HIV virus to kill off the blacks, (tongue in cheek), but it is the black themselves that are responsible for spreading it in their communities, and the Whites and the Hispanics are not far behind.

But once again it is dollars, dollars that we don’t have, to provide counseling, to take care of unwanted children, to treat the injured, to investigate abuse, to endanger the lives of police in cases of domestic violence, Once again it is not me saying to you how you must live, it is how the laws may be enacted to save you from your own self.

Earlier I talked about licensing people for having sex, I am not kidding. I have actually proposed that for over thirty years. And what you think it will not happen? With the spread of various diseases it is only a matter of time. In the movie “Code 46” people were required to have a government authorization to have sex with another person. With the reality being that you could be having virtual sex with your own sister in a inter net chat room and not know it, or be having sex with your real sister across town where your daddy had a bastard child, is it not time that sexual activity should be controlled logged and monitored? How do you know that the girl you are sleeping with is not also sleeping with your mother (ha ha).

I started to write about how the sexual promiscuity is also effecting our military. How many a GI on the battle front is worried that his partner is not faithful. Or one that comes home with a Bronze Star for heroism only to find that Jody was having a great time with his combat pay and allowances. What does it do to a man’s ego, here he was overseas bursting down doors of the poor locals and dragging them out of bed, with kids peeing in their pants at his sight and here he is back home finding out that the ole lady was the fuck piece around town. So he proceeds with ……..! Talk about a “fucking- PTSD”.

I am not making a moral judgment, I am not calling it a sin, I am not even calling any of this as a criminal activity, but may be, just may be, we can harness some of these issues under the Uniform Commercial Code, and the law of implied contract, when one allows their child to go on a date or become sexually active, or grown ups become involved in a sexual relationship, by the act they consent to the consequences of what may follow, to pay for the children of such relations, to pay for any disease that is contracted, they may lay a claim to the property of the other, or just beat up or knock out each other’s teeth, it is just all cost of doing business, not the responsibility of public to protect them or to make them whole.

We are not just paying for this in dollars anymore, this so called sexual freedom is now costing us also in personal freedoms. How stupid a people are we? While we like to brag about our freedoms, personal freedom and sexual liberation, we have actually invited the police, the doctors , the lawyers and the judges, the social workers, the psychologists and eHormony and efuckmetotears into our homes and bedrooms, our most personal and private lives. Ask anyone that had to go to the health department for a test for an STD, “oh so you are a fucking slut, heeheehee, so how many guys have you been fucking lately, and how many others did they fuck. Or the new girlfriend and the old girl friend are having it out and you are hauled into court, while your wife is on the witness stand in court with the emails you wrote and a list of the porn sites you visited, and talking about the size of your dick and laughing about it, right in front of your teenage daughter, your teenage daughter getting her teeth knocked out by the ex boy friend or even his new girl friend, and the always there for you and the helpful Department of Human Resources taking away your children and putting them up in foster homes so everyone can make money from helping you out. Is it just a little price to pay for your “freedom”, or is it enough for you to run to the hills and swear off off sex.

Do we come to our senses, ever, enough to see that as we are paying for the criminals to be born and be raised and then we are paying even more to be protected from them. It is time for us to act correctly on individual basis, and soon it will also be time for the government to change the national policy on sexual freedoms.

Don’t laugh, don’t say that the government can not control your sexual freedom, and yeah this is a free country too, right? Does the government today listen to your “private” phone conversations? Monitor your internet surfing, better yet take pictures of you on the street and in your vehicle? Are there laws against the cell phone use in vehicles? And laws in cities against use of trans-fats, laws for use of seat belts, and against driving under the influence, smoking tobacco, age of sexual consent. These laws are in place because we refuse to act in a responsible manner, laws to protect us from our own selves Laws to control our sexual behavior can not be far in coming, if only to protect us from our own self destruction. When a twenty one year man is killed in Birmingham, Alabama , leaving behind twenty two kids, with nineteen different women, it is time to rethink the paradigm.




Every game has its rules and since we separated from our cousins in the trees, we have made and played with some rules. It will not be long that the government will calculate the financial cost of us getting fucked, and find out that it is not financially feasible for the society to keep letting us “Just do it”. May be then they will control it and start issuing stamps for us to get laid. Hey, it will be just like being married , don’t you think.

reality

"reality" is a meaningless useless and thus over used construct, since we spend most of our time escaping it

A new kind of oil

07/08/2008

The new oil

A friend of mine brought me clipping from “The Enterprise Ledger” of March 19, 2008, with the head line “Researcher says discovery could end energy crisis”, of course he was interested in knowing if it was time to sell his retirement fund which as you know holds the oil company shares, enough to make up and pay for the increase in gas prices. I know we have been told that we should be really happy to pay four dollars a gallon for gas and the higher food prices because we are getting rich by doing so, so I found it disturbing that something as simple as a bacteria, genetically modified could turn “ bio mass in to hydro carbons on a grand scale.
Upon further research I also found an article in the “Newsweek” of June 16, 2008, where no less an authority than Craig Venter, the man who decoded the human genome, to be working on genetically modifying a bacteria to eat carbon dioxide and create fuel for your car.
Call me paranoid, but last I checked my chemistry books, I am a bio mass, and I also contain carbon dioxide molecules. When they are talking about modifying bacteria to eat bio mass or carbon dioxide it makes me worry. What controls do we have to stop this bacteria from getting out control? How do we control it, if we are talking about tens of thousands , may be millions of “ refineries”? Will the bacteria know not to eat the human beings and turn the little kids in to oil slicks. Or the furniture in your house and the trees in your yard? Will it know the difference between the grass in your lawn and grass clippings? And if it eats carbon dioxide it could get in to ones lungs and fill them up with high test gasoline could it not? Will it know not to eat so much carbon dioxide that the plants and crops will die? Will the CSI know what to do with the oil puddles? And what if some one does get converted in to fuel (by accident I hope) could we use him to drive our car with?

ONCE????

Once you have done every stupid thing that you ever wanted to do, what you will do next??

Hint. Doing something smart takes practice

Suggestion. Do something smart every day of your life,

like turn off the television
get rid of your cell phone
get of the freaking inter net

LOGICAL

06/22/2008

update 07/04/2008

06/22/2008

LOGICAL, RESPONSIBLE

Man is supposed to be a thinking animal, we tend to believe that this makes us superior to the other beings on this planet.

Now I don’t really know that if the other animals also “think“, or if they can or not. But do the humans think? Really? If man is a rational and thinking being then where is the proof? From what I have observed in my many years and travels proves only that man does not and is not capable of thinking and or rationale. A few people do, however, think, and even fewer are capable of rational thinking. From a three year old trying to reach for a snake, or grabbing a dog by its tail, to an eight year old playing with matches or guns, or a cluster bomb, to a twelve year old having consensual sex, a nineteen year old taking off her bra on Howard Stern or a banker buying up mortgages based on false assumptions or oil speculators buying contract to make money knowing that their dealings will send the whole country and its economy in to chaos, there is no proof of man’s capability to think and act logically or responsibly.

There is the propensity to claim that Hitler, or Saddam or Stalin were a bit crazy but that in itself is a lie. Let me here remind you of my mantra, that we must be able to connect the dots to see the hidden picture, that we must be able to connect all the dots and in proper order. These people are not the aberrations in the human history but more or less par for the course in the human adventure on this planet of ours.

What better proof is there of the incapacity of the humans to act in a rational, thinking, and a logical manner than that over the millennia of human evolution we have, ourselves, invented laws, rules, religions and even a God himself to keep “us” in line. We have accepted to submit to these as oppose to the so called the “free will” and even “our own logical thinking”. Logical and rational thinking? There is no such animal, pardon the pun.

Logical and rational thinking would mean that the resulting actions will have a positive outcome and effect on the person and the society as a whole. The positive impact on society will outweigh the personal gain. The benefit to the community should always take precedence over the personal goals and desires, as the survival of the society is always more important then any personal sacrifice. That an individual can not and does not survive alone on his own.

Thus the mantra of the rugged individualism is a farce, you would not want to fall off the face of a rock, or be lost in the woods and have no one around to help. It is no more valid than that of the “hippie” and the “rap” culture, or the latest corporate logo and the new psychology of doing your own thing. Economically speaking, a rising tide may lift up all shit, in the real world we should have to stop and take care of those left behind. That is where a family and a community and a country, even a world can come in to play.

I am always given to wonder, when a mummy from the pyramids is displayed. Some are in awe as to how the body of the person was preserved, how they buried so much treasure with the dead body. I wonder then, the person is still dead and how even today, four thousand years later, the people have the same mindset as that of the ancient Pharaohs. The so called “national leaders“, the “world leaders” and the “industrialists” and “world bankers” still want to have and control the world’s riches, to decide who eats and who is not worthy, who lives and who dies, just a short step away from proclaiming their selves to be “gods”, same as those Pharaohs, holding on to their riches even in death.

Even the leaders of the small third world countries such as Bangladesh, and Zimbabwe and Liberia presume their selves to be “SOMETHING”.

I do have friends, barely a few, that put up with my diatribes out of politeness. One was showing me pictures from Natchez, of the old homesteads, stating how people once lived in such great opulence, I was scratching my head and trying to keep my mouth shut about the slavery and usurping of labors of many. Then a Mormon friend and I discussed the world over population. We live in a world where forty thousand people a day die of starvation, but the thirty thousand dollar per person dinner is what makes the headlines, and it does not ire a soul, and the idiots giving half million dollar “ sweet sixteen“ parties to their daughters that are already sucking off every Tom and Dick and Jose. Are we dead yet?

Sex was not invented or discovered in the twentieth century or there about, Genesis 1, 27, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them”. (so is God both male and female? ). 28, God blessed them and said to them, “ Be fruitful and increase in numbers“.

So why am I, a person of no faith, per se, or religion feels compelled to quote from the Bible? It is to make the point that we need to put sex in its right place. In Moslow”s hierarchy of needs, the psychologist did not find a place on his pyramid for sex, though may be he should have considered it in as much as the God of the bible does, for the propagation of the human race.

In the world today, as promoted by the media, paid for by the industrialist, sex is no longer the icing on the cake, or even the cake, sex has become the whole meal. the result of this human obsession is that the family is breaking down, poverty is increasing, so is the disease and the death. Africa is dying, child abuse is rampant, child rape, human trafficking, slavery and prostitution, AIDs HPV,


According to the ancient scriptures it may be argued that the man gave up the life in paradise for sex, and some may claim the those writings are false. But it is true that today the society has given up on humanity, that we have lost our own survival instincts for sex.