A ZERO SUM GAME

09/27/2010


A ZERO SUM GAME

That Israel will once again sabotage the so called mid east peace process, or that US will carry out air strikes inside Pakistan, that US will send personnel in Pakistani territory. Or that the US government would want to spy on its citizens or limit their freedoms are not real news. Nor is the attempt of the US government to censor a book critical of its underhanded dealings in the name of national security. It is all old news. Not worthy of more attention.

Could it be that we are kept dull, could it be that we are doing it to ourselves,could it be a conspiracy? Just like in Any third world country, when people are hungry or looking for work nothing else matters, you are just trying to survive, damn the freedoms,and who worries about a tyranny?

While we wait for the establishment of the "New World Order", we fail to realize that it has already happened. Like I said in the " New Word Order, 2003", when you fail no one cares, we have too many people in the world already to care about someone who we have no use for and that they are not making a positive contribution any way.

But then there is this, millions of homeless and jobless (more of them world wide) makes for better profits for bankers and the industrialists.  And as we need more people with better education for today's job market, we fail to realize that there are no jobs in the market, A job created in China or India only means that a job is lost somewhere else, like US for instance. Yet we are talking about a recovery in the auto industry while we are making half as many cars, a stabilization in housing prices while the people are being put out on the streets, and more and higher education while the college tuition is going up by 12percent per year.

In a "Zero Sum Game" there is a win and there is a loss, the win and loss negate each other out, so if we only focus on the wins the losses do not matter. But then there are real losers, it might be you, it might be you  in the next go around.  

A truth is only true if accepted as such, if not then it is not truth anymore.

There is a silly  game, a card or a key tag on one side it says" How to keep an idiot busy, see the other side" of course the other side says the same thing too. For the past thirty or forty years we had Democrats and Republicans in congress and the white house, we have talked about family, education, poverty,  budgets, media, arts, you name it then tell me one problem, one thing, anything we have resolved. The fact is we are spending  ever more monies, on everything, and have nothing to show for it. Not only  we are more in debt than any nation ever was, we are also more in  debt than the rest of the humanity combined and we are "the richest nation on earth", it would be funny were it not so very very sad.


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Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | Video on TED.com

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | Video on TED.com

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HERDING CATTLE 2

09/22/2010


HERDING CATTLE 2
Next time someone mentions that they want to create jobs, you can tell them that they are full of shit, because you know that they are. And how do you know? Because I am going to tell you.
For the past thirty years or more the United States has been the engine of nothing more than creating money. So it was bound to happen, like I have been saying for many years that the United States was being turned in to a third world country, and that both the Democrats and the Republicans were backing the policies with the same outcome regardless of their course.

As you can  hopefully see now, after two years of the Democrats and the Republicans waiting in the wings to take over,  no one has seriously mentioned what is happening with the long term unemployed, or where did all the people go who have lost houses (by the millions) in the housings great debacle). Even though there have been stories about people losing houses or jobs should we not be seeing the homeless and the destitute that are out on the streets and in the parks and occupying abandoned houses? Or did they ll manage to get housing  and food, or did they all decide to disappear?

And while we discuss the merits and the costs of the Democratic and Republican health care plans  the result will ultimately be as to who gets health care and how much money they have. ( I have told you so many times)

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HERDING CATTLE

09/21/2010


HERDING CATTLE
Let me assure you first that it does not take a genius to herd cattle, you can see that in many examples from the third world countries where many an illiterate kid goes out with cattle every morning.

Such is the situation with the electorate these days. It was just two years ago when we elected Obama with a hope and change message, we were hoping for a change, the ship of the country was sinking fast and  the last guy, Bush was on a short list of  doodoo brains.

How soon do we forget, today once again we are looking for hope and change, we just call it something else, Tea Party, Restoring Honor, State rights, Obama care, we just want some one to blame our problems on, like we had nothing to do with it. Like the little kids always say, " not me!".

Well hell, "ME" people,  if Obama was not the one, then no one out there is, no matter your party affiliation or the color of your necktie. We are looking for simple answers and the simpletons are ruling the day.

And you know what? I am hoping too, I am hoping for a solid republican victory, I hope they do take the house and the Senate too. Cause I will be laughing my butt off, again! If anyone thinks for a minute that they have the solutions I have the news for you, they don't. They can not fix the budget,  they can not  fix the deficits, they only want their one more chance to steal  before the country falls in to abyss, permanently.

And as for the die hard Republicans, the Rush, Bohnner, Hannity, Palin wing, as Democrats were like the cattle herded by Obama who stepped in to a pile of you know what, this time you are the sheep being  herded to the doors of the slaughter house.















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Adulthood

It used to be that you had to exhibit some maturity and skills to be considered an adult. Today most of the people use their 21st birthday acting foolish and getting drunk.
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More

You can always get more of what you want, if you don't mind taking advantage of the other people.

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OF APPLES AND ORANGES

09/12 2010


OF APPLES AND ORANGES


I was thinking about the square root of infinity, obviously I wasn't getting any  where fast. Does it matter if you  don't have religion? Does that make you an atheist? Or does being an atheist make you  immoral.

Then there is the other mathematical  problem,  an equation can not be balanced, if "GOD" is a factor on either side. Thus there will be no world peace so long that a God exists.

Is it not odd that we  try to  follow the scriptures, written in the days of the stone age and then the others doing the same that THEY are back wards? Are not all these holy books telling the same story, and the same laws with little differences, if some one has thrown out Jeremiah, or Leviticus from the Bible, it is news to me, so how is one faith nicer than the other?

We look at the cosmos and see galaxies, billions of them floating around seemingly without purpose, while firmly believing there is a cause and purpose to our existence. If there were to be a purpose for the universe and the galaxies, then surely what ever we are or what we do is totally insignificant in comparison, can you deal with that? Strangely we have this faith from people who were trying to build a tower to reach the heavens.Aren't all monotheist religions based on the same ancient lure.

How do some of them believe they are different than the others when they all believe the same stuff? How is one group of them better than any other group?



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The Con . . . explained in ~7 minutes

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Money as Debt: The Flawed Monetary Policy (1 of 5)

Money as Debt: The Flawed Monetary Policy (1 of 5)

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THE LAST NAIL

09/07/2010

THE LAST NAIL


We will go back to Mr. bush again soon, if I can remember and don't let myself get distracted by some newer problem, for now it suffices to say that most of the problems we are facing in the economy have roots in the time of Bush(W) presidency and before, in other words "the "carp" did not happen over night.

As we are nearing another election, both the Democrats and the Republicans are looking for power from where they can screw the American people all over again. True that Obama and the Democrats have spent a lot of money, and also passed a health care bill we as a country can not afford, but what are the other options? I think by now you know what I think, instead of fooling the people that we give a damn, we should just go ahead and tell them if you don't have money you will die, that is the Republican plan and that will also be the result of the of the Democratic health care bill.

A recovery, by definition will mean that we will go back to full employment, house values and the stock markets will recover fully, and consumption will rise along with wages and benefits, No sane economist ( are there any? ever?) will say that it is possible in your lifetime,

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope,

Hope is the admission that there is  no hope left. (M.N.R.).

The political class in a fight of their life to feed on the  remnants of what used to be the great United States, one last time, before it all changes for ever.

No doubt, there is money to be made, while the government is still spending borrowed sums, The shameless  facade of  hucksters. Talking about  decreased taxes, while not saying that they will take away the social security benefits, eliminate more jobs and cut back in education and health care is just as crooked as those promising everything for everyone without saying that their promises could not be kept if we taxed veryone at a hundred percent plus.

 09/08/2010

We, as a nation, and the world, are in debt, every single country on earth is living on borrowed money. Even the richest nations have borrowed money against the future income. Yet the governments keep borrowing and spending monies they do not have? How is it possible? It is called the banking system, or the IMF, banks are allowed to CREAT money so they can loan it to the governments, in turn the governments sell their people to the banks, like I have been saying for years, " WE ARE BEING SOLD IN TO SLAVERY, WE JUST DON'T KNOW IT YET".

I discussed this problem of our national debt and its causes on line in February of 2009, and how we  were sold in to slavery by our government, you can read it here. It should actually be called the politics of money.

What we have now is an economy on life support, and the example of the politicians on the left and the right is that of someone stealing the wallet of a dying person.


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Thank you Mr. Bush

09-01-2010

THANK YOU MR. BUSH
There are some people today complaining that we are just not giving Mr. Bush enough credit for the war in Iraq. So it goes, in the name giving credit where credit is due.

Dear Mr. president Bush, (W)

You know, (may be not really) I wrote to you numerous times during your presidency, about the economy, about the direction of our country,  about the wars, education, morals, health care and  poverty. It may be that you did not personally read my E mails, but I am sure they are part of your library, I even sent copies of these emails, to my senator, Shelby, and also to my local newspaper and a talk radio show, pretty sure the Department of homeland security has copies.

In April 2007,  I wrote to you  about the collapse of the housing market and the subsequent demise of the economy, yet in August of the same year you were bragging that seventy percent of Americans owned their own homes.

"In 1929, Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale University, famously stated: "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Jim Cramer told his viewers shortly before Bear Stearns filed for bankruptcy: "Bear Stearns is fine." Hank Paulson advised us on May 7, 2008 that "The worst is likely to be behind us." My personal favorite comes from financial expert Donald Luskin. On September 14, 2008 he wrote an article in the Washington Post stating "...anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one -- especially the worst one since the Great Depression -- is making up his own private definition of "recession." And probably for his own political purposes." Dan Solin, Huffington Post

May be you were not lying, may be you were just misinformed, like those who wanted to take the office of the president of the United States, like Obama, like I was saying why would anyone want to be the leader of the upcoming mess we are going to be in.





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RESTORING HONOR

08/28/2010

RESTORING HONOR

YOU MAY READ THIS AS A CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS ARTICLES ALSO

I wanted to call it something like  " Mr. Beck goes to Washington", but hey, there is no comparison here. Mr. Smith though a fictional character was actually a decent human being with no hidden agenda, he did not talk in  circles, and was open about what he meant. Mr. Beck on the other hand is either shamelessly being coy, or worse does know what the hell he is talking about. If a lot a good people did show up for the rally, then it only proves that a lot of people are upset with the situation of the country and looking for some one to save them, Mr. Beck should not be very impressed with him self or his partner Sarah Palin, it is the same kind of Americans who elected Obama, only on the other side of the fence, the electorate is similarly ill informed on both sides and looking  for a Messiah, any one claiming to be the one will do.

Now that Mr. Beck and Sarah Palin have had their rally, what did they say? was i right?  Are you more clear about "honor", and what is expected of you  from here on out?

Honor is a construct that means what you want to make it mean. In some Muslim societies, men are known to kill their daughters, wives, sisters  and mothers for talking to a stranger, is that where we are going? In some societies revenge killing is a matter of honor, see Hatfield's and McCoy's. Then there is the tradition of dueling, I guess we could go for that. Or may be even tar and feathers if you like. But I do not think that is what Beck et all mean.

So what are we left with,



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A MOSQUE IN MANHATTAN

08/25/2010

A MOSQUE IN MANHATTAN

Let's start with a simple question, say you are driving a car and come up to a red light, you stop, the light turns green and you look to your  left, and you look to your left and there is a semi, a hundred yards away seemingly doing sixty miles per hour, do you still have the right of way?

I have few rules in life, a major one being, " Do not create "stuff", where "stuff"does not already exist. I hope you can figure that one out on your own too., I am not being helpful , am I?

Basically the answer is very simple, we are a free country with a guarantee of religious freedom, so the Muslims can build a mosque where they wish, problem solved, but the life is never this simple, you would know if you are old enough though.

I DO PUBLISH A COPY OF THIS BLOG AT ANOTHER SITE,  TIME TO TIME I ALSO MAKE REFERENCE TO IT OR TO WHAT WAS SAID THERE!

It was not my intention to start a new controversy, but the reaction is predictable,  and angry, but ok.Pleas rest assured I AM NOT advocating for a mosque in Manhattan, far from it,  but I  do  want everyone to look at their own self and their feelings, As I said in the  start of my book,  look at the man in the mirror.
So the question must be where do these feelings come from, and how to handles them.
But let me  talk to the Muslims first, not  like they do on the talk radio or the right wing blogs, but real questions for real Muslims, in the name of peace.

Forget about 9/11 if you ever can for a minute,  Do you  suppose God gives Muslim men seventy- two virgins in heaven, do you  really believe that?

What are you doing to improve the lot of non Muslims in your own country, ( where ever you came from). Started a letter writing campaign,  ask your friends, fun raising? what?

There is no making  one religion above another, so why you always ask for special rights for the people of your own religion.
Is the sharia law better than the American Constitution, would you like to impose sharia law or even try to  say it is better than the constitution.
Just stay on topic, don't go off on tangents like the talk radio hucksters are doing.

As any thirteen year old knows, you don't ask mom and dad for increase in allowance, or for new cell phone  when they  arguing over money.

As it happens, among other things, like the election of Obama, or the health care mess, the budget deficit, we are in a "recession", money is tight and the jobs are being lost as fast as the people are losing their homes. The stuff has hit the fan. For thirty years or more, we have been living on borrowed monies, and borrowed time. I have detailed this mess for many years, chronicling the miss steps of the Democrats, and Yes the Republicans also. Right now we can not even find our way out of this mess and there is no end in sight. Today Glenn Beck is holding a rally of something or another, about "restoring honor" he says, as if honor is something we have lost, have we? Really now, how many of you are considering yourselves to be dishonorable??????And if you are , is Mr. Beck is going to restore it and how?

I know what he means, like not having a tax cheat for our secretary of treasury for example, or not making a whore monger like Elliot Spitzer a news commentator, or Newt Gingrich who took divorce papers to his cancer stricken wife, or elevating another whore monger like Dick Morris, or honoring Rush Limbaugh who had his house maid shop for prescription pain killer. Well we ARE talking about honor are we not. But we listen to all of these for advice, corruption in the system swings both ways here. I will not discusses the personal morality or responsibility of the individuals of our nation, I have talked about it at length already elsewhere. NO I do not have book you can buy to make you feel better about yourself by blaming others for the decline of this country,  while it makes me rich.

Any way while we are, all sides, busy blaming each other for our  problems, the Muslims step in to this mess wanting this that and the other, and the mosque in Manhattan is only one item on the list of DEMANDS. Well, Good Luck! You know you are starting some  crap.




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08/23/2010

Texting and teen development

It should not take a genius, or a government sponsored study to find these things out, but I do believe this thing is a joke since on the "

same page is a link to this one too
Sex ed goes mobile
we are  forcing young people to grow up earlier and earlier, more particularly to  mature sexually.As young people get involved in sex,they become less interested in everything else, to include their education. And then it is not just texting, it is computer networking, web caming, and all the rest. Many more families than ever before are dysfunctional and piecemeal, not whole or wholesome, the resultant cost to the individual and the society is immense, mean while the  psychologists, and educators are mum if not out right enablers of bad behaviors

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WATCHING THE WHEELS

08/20/2010


WATCHING THE WHEELS
Let me admit first that I sometimes chose titles of these posts from familiar phrases or titles that you may be familiar with to catch your attention and may be to get you interested in looking at these posts. I used the same method in naming my poems.

Back in  1981 "Watching the Wheels" became my favorite songs, I could relate to it well, but I am also living a day to day life which is very involved (the reason for my sometimes rushed, sometime rambling posts). So I can't just say that I am only watching the wheels. I do watch the wheels, and I watch the connections, I watch the minute changes, and I look for the "butterfly effects", not kidding.

You would notice how I relate things, one to the other to the other, in that I am so much unlike a talk show host that keeps repeating one thing and one thing only  as if all of the world's wrongs and ailments have a singular cause and a singular result, I am not that dumb.

I am like a lab worker that is watching a cancer grow in a petri dish, knowing the dangers of the cancer, knowing not much he can or will do to stop the  natural process, knowing the dangers, knowing the damage the cancer can do, trying to be careful and to immunize himself against the organism, all the time that the cancer is as much a part of his world as he himself is, neither can be eradicated by a simple salve. Knowing  that he can not just simply remove himself from the process.

In a way my life is at an impasse, I know I can not  do very much to  change the things,  the natural progression of things,  but I also feel obligated to keep screaming,  keep yelling and to keep informing others of the dangers of this cancer, and I have no interested audience. So my whole life is a sham in so many ways.

Years ago I had mentioned that  the only thing I learned  from my Calculus  classes was that  even a minute change in one perimeter is capable of making vast changes in the  equation, in the out come, thus I have spent  years connecting dots, seeing relationships, "The Interconnectedness of Things". So no large wonder that I would be looking at the relationship between  school kids dating and the falling grades, or the sexual freedom and the murder rates.

Today, many in this country are focused not on the problems of unemployment, and how we got to this point, but on the race of the president, and not on how this problem was created and that it will take a long time for us to get out of this mess, if ever. We are to forget the polices and the scams of the last thirty years or so.

I had been warning of the consequences of the policies of our government, but most of us were so busy "getting rich" that we  failed to realize we were getting screwed, even up until the last days of the Bush (W) presidency, now every thing that is wrong is being dumped in the lap of the current administration. If we as a country are marching towards socialism the path was already carved under the prior regimes, you just did  not know it. AMERICA WAS SET UP FOR A FAILURE,  and I had been telling you this.










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Muslim prayers welcome at Pentagon chapel

08/19/2010
here, In America, some think that   only if we  had school prayer and did not have abortion this country would have no more problems,. I wish I could tell them, if your  sixteen year old is "dating"  no amount of school prayer will save  their virginity, not school prayer not public be headings, will make people live a moral life,  and no amount of prayer will stop a disaster. They have Taliban, and we have  white superamists  , black panthers, AND KKK, PLUS A THOUSAND at the ready.
Muslim prayers welcome at Pentagon chapel

If the Republicans, The TEA party, and the Right understood the situation, they would have said, oh yes, let the Muslims do what they want and then we will come back and try to pus our own agendas( creationism, school prayer, denying abortions, etc) in the name of religious freedoms, and the freedom of speech, too bad they were not quite as smart and blew it,  I hope it is too late for that , and the Muslims will understand and back off  NOW, without making much more of and ass of their selves,  the door  swings both ways!

Right now, it would be more appropriate to use the hundred million to try to help the flood victims that to build a monument to a GOD, surely the God would rather you help his people, that is the message of all the books, you could hold the prayers and the meetings in a tent if you wanted to. Surely if a god was worried about pretty buildings, or barbecue (ok, burnt offerings), he could get his own plate. 





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One of the dumbest, ( among many) that psychology has pushed on this nation, is that all babies should be standardized, or are in fact standard. They are not, not all three year olds are willing to sit in a place for any length of time. Thus they are  considered ADHD. Many poor and black families are  sold on the idea of a crazy check and everyone makes money, the family, the school, the psychologist. The same psychologist that are convinced that humans are not capable of monogamy   (no matter the  cost to society. cannot comprehend that some kids my be predisposed to being out in the fields chasing butter flies at three, or five or six) and may not be willing to believe till later. there is much more
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