Pollywogs!

…what an interesting concept.  I like the original Greek meaning a bit better, it resonates with the sound of the word better, I believe.   I found it after reading the entry ‘book curse‘, which I found on reddit.  My how easily I am distracted…

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I didn’t realize that an iPhone with contract costs (at a minimum) $1,320 for the first year…that is madness!  Makes me really glad I’ve grandfathered my Immix contract for as long as I have, the ‘feature set’ for the price is really sweet…

Hopefully I won’t drop or break this expensive little thing, and can sell it for what I bought it for on eBay if the Android phones reach their potential.

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The netbook market is really expanding, this one looks like a lot of quality equipment for $400.  The Acer Aspire One looks pretty interesting as well.  I don’t know what it is about small electronic devices, but I’m hopelessly hooked…

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This is an excellent idea for subsidising the cost of a solar electric system for your house.  If electric companies were smart, they’d be doing this themselves: allowing customers (at no up front cost of their own) to choose to have renewable installed.  The system would be owned by the power company (say PPL or Southern Company) but the energy would be (mostly) used by the customer’s household.  The bill of course stays the same, just the source of the energy would change.  The customer gets the satisfaction of knowing that their TV and lights aren’t radically changing the environment, and the electric company gets to keep their customer and increases their generation capacity without building additional, massive plants.  As with all things that I think “if it is that simple and necessary, it should simply be DONE”: when I’m dictator, things are going to be different…

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Taxes.  We pay them, and what do we get back?  Bombs, guns and spilled blood. The average individual pays at about a 40% rate, pretty similar to what you see in European countries, and yet we have none of the benifits that your average European country has…because we’re blowing so much money on ‘defense spending’.  How the hell can we justify this war machine that is draining our treasuries like a damn cancer.  But even suggest trimming the military budget and suddenly your a fucking terrorist, soft on defense, aren’t a patriot, or some other mindless drivel.  Oh, and let’s cut taxes on the wealthy while we’re at it.  Fucking baby jesus, what is wrong with this country?  Moronic imbiciles, so easily controlled.  Just turn the TV on and read the corporate message…

…when I’m dictator, things are going to be different…

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Energy.  We need it.  We’re doing it wrong.  Denmark is doing it right.

“Denmark is the model that the United States should be following,” said Steve Pullins, executive director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Modern Grid Initiative.

How’d they do it? Distributed energy.

Unlike traditional “centralized” systems, distributed energy relies on small power-generating technologies like solar panels or ultra-efficient natural-gas turbines built near the point of energy consumption to supplement or displace grid-distributed electricity.

Consumers can not only draw power from the grid, but can feed power into it as well. For instance, homes equipped with solar-power panels could feed unused electricity back into the grid, adding to the total available supply.

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Peru has an energy problem too, as in a lot of rural villages don’t have it!  They also went with the obvious answer, decentralized local generation.  This story made me smile, the entire article restored a little faith in humanity.  The project is just getting started, but it…well, it is just freaking awesome!

To say that this experimental project has been a success so far would be an understatement. Last year 21 homes in Alumbre were equipped with 100-watt wind turbines that power their homes, and the village’s school was powered with a 500-watt turbine. The wind turbines store energy into what are known as “deep cycle” batteries, and the batteries when fully charged can potentially provide energy to homes for up to three days. The batteries need to be replaced every 3-4 years, and for this reason each family with a turbine must contribute to a battery replacement fund on a monthly basis. They pay about 10 nuevo soles each (~ $3 American), a sum that’s less than what most families were previously spending each month on candles and kerosene for lamps.

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I want to try Weight Watchers now:

As I watched her poke around on the screen, managing inventory, calculating points, staying within her range, it hit me:

Weight Watchers is an RPG.

Think about it. As with an RPG, you roll a virtual character, manage your inventory and resources, and try to achieve a goal. Weight Watchers’ points function precisely like hit points; each bite of food does damage until you’ve used up your daily amount, so you sleep and start all over again. Play well and you level up — by losing weight! And the more you play it, the more you discover interesting combinations of the rules that aren’t apparent at first. Hey, if I eat a fruit-granola breakfast and an egg-and-romaine lunch, I’ll have enough points to survive a greasy hamburger dinner for a treat!

Even the Weight Watchers web tool is amazingly gamelike. It has the poke-around-and-see-what-happens elegance you see in really good RPG game screens. Accidentally snack on a candy bar and ruin your meal plan for the day? No worries: Just go into the database and see what spells — whoops, I mean foods — you can still use with your remaining points.

The alternative pretty much sucks:

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Found that article on Provigil that I had misplaced.  I may have found and posted it before, but I can’t remember.  Have I ever mentioned I have a terrible memory?  There was this smart drug I had bookmarked a really cool article about, but I can’t find it now.  Or maybe I had posted it before.  What was it called, pro-something?

A contrasting viewpoint.  I already have the creativity of a ’special needs’ toddler, so I don’t really see this as a downside…

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Hulu: TV without the TV.  Between this and Comedy Central having TDS and the Colbert Report online, I wouldn’t be sad one bit to get rid of my fucking $70 a month pile-of-crap cable TV bill…

No, seriously, you should watch Arrested Development.  This is the pilot, it is hilarious but doesn’t have the production values of the rest of the series.  Hopefully it gets you hooked:

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And while I’m sharing things I find awesome, check out Liam Finn:

This is a bit shorter than the version they played in the live show, but it gives you a small taste. These guys were just fucking awesome…

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I promise to update with the final Pearl Jam installment soon.  Kelley somehow snagged tickets for the Eddie Vedder solo tour, a stop on the northern point of Manhattan:

…so hopefully I get NYC written before I get yet more stuff to write about…I’m drowning in my own sloth…

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Here a couple random links from my ‘toblog’ pile (thanks Firefox 3 for making that organizational challenge that much easier!)…

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As I mention time and time again, the government pushing propaganda upon the public is unlawful.  My desire to smash the state grows with every passing day:

In a “trip report” he filed with his Pentagon handlers, CNN’s Gen. Shepperd explicitly acknowledged both the blatantly propagandistic purpose of the trip, as well as the extremely limited and controlled scope of information to which he had access in a single-day trip (7434). Shepperd stated:

“Did we drink the ‘Government Kool-Aid?’ — of course, and that was the purpose of the trip.” In his Pentagon report, Shepperd added the obvious: that “a one day visit does not an expert make,” that “the government was obviously going to put its best foot forward to get out its message,” and that “former military visitors are more likely to agree with government views than a more appropriately skeptical press.”

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Justice for Tracy Ingle:

Tracy Ingle was asleep in his house when armed police using a no-knock warrant burst in. Unsure about what was happening, he reached for a non-functioning pistol, but began to drop it as soon as he realized who they were. The gesture was too late — officers shot him 5 times.

Mercifully, he survived, but despite not finding any drugs in his house, Tracy is being charged with two felony counts of Aggravated Assault, drug paraphernalia and running a drug premises. He is in very poor physical shape and obviously not doing well psychologically, due to the incident. Many people in his town and even family find it easier to believe the police would not make such a big mistake. Of course Tracy’s neighbor — who saw the whole thing — believes him, but the police have intimidated him to near silence. Everyone who speaks to his neighbor privately hears his story, but after the police “questioned” him for 4 hours and “advised” him not to get involved, he has refused to testify or go on the record.

How the hell is a no-knock warrant granted?  And once they shoot the guy five times, he is charged with aggravated assault?  They found a roach in his ashtray and they charge him with drug paraphernalia?

WHAT.

THE.

FUCK.

I know if ANYONE busted down my front door with no warning in the middle of the night, I would do everything in my power TO KILL THEM, as should any private citizen.  The entire reason we formed this new country was to get away from tyranny and oppression.  This police state bullshit has got to stop.  These affronts to freedom and liberty need to be challenged in the Supreme Court, where WE DECIDE ONCE AND FOR ALL IF THE CONSTITUTION IS SIMPLY A SCRAP OF PAPER FOR THE FASCISTS TO WIPE THEIR ASSES WITH or if we still believe in the ideals upon which this country was founded.  And no, they are not Christian ideals you stupid fucks:

“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history…It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.” - John Adams

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This link just makes me angry.  Smash the state, fuck the system…it must be nice to be able to loan your own campaign tens of millions of dollars…

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Speaking of fucking the system, anything we can do to reduce the power and influence of big business (and I use this term in the most profound sense, those gigantic multinational corporations who actively seek to get a stranglehold around the world in every manner which they can, those who have grown to the size where domination is a very real and achievable goal) has a big thumbs up in my book.  That includes both growing your own food and buying more locally, from smaller and independent sources:

But industrial agriculture has simply responded that if we’re feeding more people more cheaply using less land, how terrible can our food system be?

Now that argument no longer holds true. With the price of oil at more than $120 a barrel (up from less than $30 for most of the last 50 years), small and midsize nonpolluting farms, the ones growing the healthiest and best-tasting food, are gaining a competitive advantage. They aren’t as reliant on oil, because they use fewer large machines and less pesticide and fertilizer.

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The high cost of oil alone will not be enough to reform American agriculture, however. As long as agricultural companies exploit the poor and extract labor from them at slave wages, and as long as they aren’t required to pay the price for the pollution they so brazenly produce, their system will stay afloat. If financially pinched Americans opt for the cheapest (and the least healthful) foods rather than cook their own, the food industry will continue to reach for the lowest common denominator.

But it is possible to nudge the revolution along — for instance, by changing how we measure the value of food. If we stop calculating the cost per quantity and begin considering the cost per nutrient value, the demand for higher-quality food would rise.

Heh heh heh he said revolution, heh heh heh…

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I’m having a major case of deja vu here, I may have posted this before, or I may have just thought “I have got to do this some day”, or it may just be the blood-red rage pulsing through my head, the desire to tear it all down, to burn Washington, to have a violent revolution, to fight for liberty, truth and justice…and I’m just talking about someone wanting to see your receipt!

Here’s a scenario that is familiar to anyone who has ever set foot in Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite-Aid, or any of a dozen other major retailers. After you have made a purchase, collected your bags, or packed everything into a shopping cart, you head for the exit. Just as you approach freedom an alarm sounds (usually a sequence of ugly, electronic grunts) and a robotic voice (always female) announces: “Please return to the checkout.” Other customers immediately look in your direction, and an employee begins to approach you. What’s your next move?

If you possess an ounce of personal pride or perhaps two ounces of fortitude, then the 100 percent correct move is to proceed immediately out the door. Why? There are many reasons, chief among them being that rational adults should not instantly obey mechanical voices (unless that voice instructs us to exit a burning aircraft). Also, if you haven’t stolen anything and therefore do not require interrogation, there is absolutely nothing that should compel you to linger post-transaction. It’s depressing enough simply being there in the first place. Another good reason to make a quick exit is that you aren’t being paid to assist some giant retailer with its security measures. You aren’t part of the team, and you didn’t clock in. The clearest reason for leaving the store, however, is that there exists absolutely no legal obligation to remain there, and the store has no right to detain you.

Please peruse the entire site, the writing style is excellent.  I am almost sure I’ve posted this before.

Oh, to have balls that large.  One day, I’m doing it, I swear to the flying spaghetti monster.  I’m going to hear them ask that I stop.  I’m going to look at them in the eye and squeeze my nutsack.  I will say ‘why don’t you go call the police”, turn, and walk away.

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FUCK THE SYSTEM FUCK THE SYSTEM…whether it is a receipt, illegal propaganda, illegal police checkpoints…we’re talking about fundamental offenses to REAL ideals this country was founded upon.

Getting robbed blind for eight years:

The bigger problem is that the now-finished boom was, for most Americans, nothing of the sort. In 2000, at the end of the previous economic expansion, the median American family made about $61,000, according to the Census Bureau’s inflation-adjusted numbers. In 2007, in what looks to have been the final year of the most recent expansion, the median family, amazingly, seems to have made less — about $60,500.

Yes, the Bush Administration has literally robbed us of the past eight years.  Not only did we not ‘get raises’ as business was booming, but he also ‘maxed out our credit cards’ with his tax cuts and MASSIVE deficit spending.  They are “Conservatives”?  In what?  Civil liberties?  Sure as SHIT isn’t in fiscal spending…which just so happens to be massively funneled into a huge money laundering scheme I like to call “The Illegal Occupation of Iraq“…

And he thinks he and his buddies are just going to skip town once he leaves office, that they are going to get away with their crimes?  Nixon was impeached for less, a couple illegal wiretaps and some domestic spying:

Richard Nixon and the nation have passed a tragic point of no return. It now seems likely that the President will have to give up his office: he has irredeemably lost his moral authority, the confidence of most of the country, and therefore his ability to govern effectively.

Of course, the public does have a personal responsibility for some of this (beyond having enough people vote for him to ‘be elected’ twice).  Simply saying “I was lied to” (while being entirely true) doesn’t explain this:

The price had dipped to $212,000, after steadily rising for a year, and Fox put 15 percent down, his life savings. From Chase Bank, he got a so-called 2/28 adjustable-rate mortgage, which meant that for the first two years he would pay 7.5 percent interest and then a higher rate for the remaining 28 years. He knew that he might not be able to afford the higher rate, but as many home buyers did at the time, he assumed that two years down the road his house would be worth significantly more, and that he would be able to refinance. Fox thought he had entered the market during a slight downturn, which, he figured, made it a great time to buy.

You do not gamble your life savings on a guess.  Let me repeat that:

You do not gamble your life savings on a guess.

So, I’d make the Bush Administration and the corporations who’s cocks they suck about 95% responsible, and the public 5%.

Oh, and the Bush administration, in addition to being common criminals are also fucking sadists.

Alright, I believe I’ve covered the impeachable offenses: those that continue to outrage me every fucking day that the culpable, contemptible and vile members of the Bush Administration walk free.

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Solar is starting to pick up some steam:

“Five hundred megawatts — that’s substantial,” said spokesman George Douglas of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. “Projects of that size begin to show that solar energy can produce electricity on a utility scale, on the kind of scale that we’re going to need.”

The Edison rooftop project will place photovoltaic cells on 65 million square feet of commercial building roofs in Southern California. The cells will generate as much as 250 megawatts of electricity — enough to power about 162,500 average homes, based on the utility’s estimate that one megawatt would serve about 650 average homes.

“These are the kinds of big ideas we need to meet California’s long-term energy and climate change goals,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement. “If commercial buildings statewide partnered with utilities to put this solar technology on their rooftops, it would set off a huge wave of renewable-energy growth.”

Now we just need to expand this to a national level.  And include residential structures.  And have started it fifteen years ago.

I always think “too little too late”…it rings through my head like a fucking gong of doom…

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Mind enhancing drugs, not just caffeine anymore.   This Piracetam sounds interesting, I’m going to have to “get me some”.  As you can see from my broken English, my mind is in dire need of supplementation…this game (while amazingly simple) is confounding me!

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You know how good and cool Obama is?  Hillary is as evil and uncool in an inverse fashion.  I recently had to remind someone that if Hillary LIES about landing under sniper fire, then recants her lie saying that she was tired from lack of sleep, and yet also says that she is the one you can trust at 3AM, THERE IS A REASON ALL OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR.  HILLARY CLINTON IS FUCKING GEORGE BUSH!  And I don’t mean that in the amusing way, I mean literally, she is the reincarnation of that slimy cocksucker who will say anything to get elected, FUCK THE TRUTH.  Is that REALLY what we want, more lies?

Allow me to be juvenile for a second.  I hope it does not blunt the force of my previous statement.

So I’ve been thinking a lot recently. I guess that is normal, but instead of water off a ducks back it seems I feel pretty disturbed. I’ve also tried specifically not thinking, but that is surprisingly difficult to do. So, to help me more than for your own enjoyment or elucidation, here are a couple things that have been bothering me lately…

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On the distribution of wealth. Or, George Bush is a fucking dickhead and not only needs impeached, but he needs tried for his crimes.

“In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.

Here’s your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of them. OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire? That’s right, Richie, $287,000 apiece.”

Perhaps the idea behind this is that the wealth will trickle down. We’ve seen how well this works. Wealth trickles down to us, and then the rich take it right back to bail out investment banks who were specifically separated by law from consumer banks due to a gigantic fuck up in the past to prevent their failures from impacting the public. A tidy arraignment.

The disconnect is so severe, and the need for a change in attitude so pressing, it makes me just want to leave the fucking country behind and let it burn.

“Four of the biggest U.S. investment banks — Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. — will pay out about $49.6 billion US in compensation this year. Of that, bonuses are traditionally estimated to represent 60 per cent, or almost $30 billion US.

But that might not sit well with investors who held onto investment bank stocks this year — and watched them plunge by as much as 45 per cent. Investment houses have been slammed by the credit crisis and top executives this last week said they’ve yet to see a bottom.”

Yes. That is right, the executive compensation for a company where the stock dived from $160 a share to $2 a share is avery healthy quarter billion over the past decade, thank you. Coincidentally not much less than the entire company was sold for just after he got out.

Corporate fucking welfare. Let us change the dialog. Put the good of the people first, not the good of the elite few. Fuck corporate welfare…

“The current financial crisis may determine much more than which political party occupies the White House in 2009 — it could (and may already have) remake the zeitgeist. The Great Depression of the 1930s spawned the New Deal. Will the Great Credit Crunch of today potentially restructure how government, the financial markets and the general welfare intersect?

Only if we really want it to. New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has been telling us for years that the policy pendulum is finally swinging in the other direction. Liberalism is no longer a dirty word, he thunders; it’s high time for government to get back in the business of governing. He might be right. As we review the wreckage created by Wall Street’s finest minds, it is tempting to entertain the possibility that the impulse to deregulate and privatize and “trust” markets to be their own best guardian — that epochal re-imagining of government launched by Ronald Reagan — has finally run its course.”

This is probably the article I would have written about this mess if I had talent and ability.

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Do you remember when the cocksuckers in the Bush Administration said “No one could have predicted the strength of the insurgency” when trying to excuse away their supremely criminal and intentional negligence when it came to Iraq (and 9/11 incidentally)? Guess what. No only did someone predict it (besides the millions and millions of people around the world who protested before the Iraq war), that someone was THE FUCKING ARMY THEMSELVES.

“Iraq presents far from ideal conditions for achieving strategic goals. Saddam Hussein is the culmination of a violent political culture that is rooted in a tortured history. Ethnic, tribal, and religious schisms could produce civil war or fracture the state after Saddam is deposed. The Iraqi Army may be useful as a symbol of national unity, but it will take extensive reeducation and reorganization to operate in a more democratic state. Years of sanctions have debilitated the economy and created a society dependent on the UN Oil for Food Program. Rebuilding Iraq will require a considerable commitment of American resources, but the longer U.S. presence is maintained, the more likely violent resistance will develop.

The monograph concludes by developing and describing a phased array of tasks that must be accomplished to create and sustain a viable state. The 135 tasks are organized into 21 categories, and rated as “essential,” “critical,” or “important” for the commander of coalition military forces. They are then projected across four phases of transition— Security, Stabilize, Build Institutions, and Handover/ Redeploy—to reflect which governmental, nongovernmental, and international organizations will be involved in execution during each phase.”

Just like the Bush Administration listens to the generals on the ground (until they disagree and are fired/resign), the Bush Administration listens to intelligence until the point that it says something they do not want to hear. At which point they lie and continue doing what they were planning on doing the whole time.

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Jack who? Oh, that happened more than two days ago, right down the memory hole…

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The FCC, a tool of the Bush administration and the elite, just like everything else they have touched, corrupted and putrescent.

“It appears that a critical mass of FCC grunts are sick of what they experience as a super-politicized work life in which just about anything that they want to do has to get the go-ahead from the top, that being Kevin Martin. “Nothing happens in the Commission without the approval of the Chairman’s office,” my source told me. “It is incredible. We have become so political.”

Do you have any sense of the logic of these directives from the Chair? I asked. “Nope,” came the reply. “It seems as random as he got up this morning and ate his breakfast and just decided to do it.”

Why are FCC employees upset about this? Not because they disagree with Kevin Martin’s perspective on this or that FCC issue, but because, according to my source, he and his top subordinates demand that staff skip proper procedures and leapfrog various rules, even Congressional mandated rules, on a day-to-day level.

…The most formidable whistle blower I’ve encountered is former FCC attorney and now law professor Adam Candeub. Two years ago Candeub straight out told the press that a report arguing that locally owned TV stations broadcast more local news “was stopped in its tracks because it was not the way the agency wanted to go.” The study’s conclusions obviously implied that retaining some of the FCC’s media ownership caps might help those local TV stations survive.”

What happens when all of the decent and honest people are forced out of the government? Oh wait, I’ve read that book before…

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You could say I’m feeling a little discouraged. I’m feeling a little disappointed. I’m feeling the same rage and hatred against ignorance, willful negligence and reckless greed and avarice that I felt as a young child, tempered with the adults knowledge that all I am directly opposed by a titanic inertia. Hope, broken. Dreams, smashed. Yes, what they sing is true: despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage.

I guess in time I’ll come to accept the fact that this generation is not the generation that will change things? That this generation is not the one that is going to wake from our pacified slumber and realize that by merely deciding it will be so, we could change existence for the better?

Until we’ve made that conscious choice as a people (and by people I mean humans the world over), we’re treading water here. As much as I hesitate to sound New Age, I recognize that for mankind to continue to thrive and improve we are going to have to change the way we operate in a fundamental fashion. Until we put the thoughts into words, the words into possibility, it simply exists as a dream does, ethereal and insubstantial.

The analogy of the human people and their (rather, our) societies as an individual growing up comes back to me, over and over. We are just now shaking off the nightmare of our childhood, and yet we still have so very far to go to become mature and responsible. We show moments of greatness and then relapse into our infantile ways. We truly are at a crux, our potential paths leading down so many different roads; the future, ahead and unknown…

You grab the low fruit while considering how to get at the high fruit. We need some immediate and basic corrections. Obama will do for now (hopefully quite well) as there are so many obvious problems that need corrected he should keep quite busy grabbing that low fruit over the next four years. I hope he does very well. However, I fear that Bush has taken a chainsaw to the apple tree…as gin-stained tears run down my nose, will I learn to love Big Brother?

A public service announcement from Kell:

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If you’ve been paying attention to the news concerning the Presidential primaries…….Jesus Christ will it ever end?  This crap has been going on for weeks and weeks and weeks.  Why can’t every state just vote on one Tuesday???? Does it really need to be stretched out this long???  Anyway, if you are a resident of Pennsylvania (and you are a citizen of the US, and you’re 18 or older) and you’d like to vote…what 6 weeks from now? Fucking 6 weeks?  So you want to vote, I want to vote, Garrett wants to vote, lots of people want to and SHOULD vote…but wait there is a catch, you have to be registered as a Democrat or Republican to vote in the primaries…….Say What?  WTF??????  How absurd is that?

Well, as a registered Green party member (or Libratarian, I can’t quite remember and I don’t have my card on me) guess what I have to do in order to cast my vote 6 weeks from now?  Yep that’s right, I need to change my status…I must affiliate with the lemmings.  I am left with only one choice as I am certainly not going to register as a Republican (gag).  So I think to myself, ‘what a freakin pain in the ass’, WTF kind of bullshit is this?

Cursing under my breath (not really) I begrudgingly make my way (via reddit.com) to http://www.dos.state.pa.us/voting/cwp/view.asp?a=1192&q=442984 in order to succumb to “the man”.  Al the while thinking that this is completely whacked and that it will be such a pain in the ass.  Well, it wasn’t.  If you are a new you can actually fill out the form on line but if you are in my position, you have to print the form and mail it to your local county office (addresses are provided…YAY!).  Simple, nothing to it.  Print, fill out, slip it in an envelope (or I believe you can just fold the paper in halve and write the address on the page) and slap a stamp on it. Viola!  One more important thing:  You MUST have this completed 30 days before the election…I believe that means you must have it postmarked by MARCH 21!

What the heck was all the bitching for? Easy peasy. Oh wait, I forgot…I had to actually change my status to participate in this election.  Ridiculous!…but I’ll get over it.

If you aren’t registered, do it now!  If you are registered as something other than a Dem or Rep…change parties now!  And if you are considering voting for anyone other than Obama…you need your head examined!