Saturday, May 22, 2010
Outdoor solar lights for night time power outages
Since outdoor solar lights are designed to recharge their rechargable batteries during the day and then be on from sundown to around midnight or so, if you have a power outage most of these outdoor lights can be disconnected from their outdoor stands fairly easily and can be put throughout your house like Night lights so you don't wear out all the batteries in your flashlights or lanterns while moving around your house in a power outage at night. Then if you put your solar lights outside to recharge during the daylight you then have night lights around your house for as long as the power outage lasts.
The Social Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s
- - - -took all of us to the brink of insanity and suicide who were young adults then. It was impossible for those of us who were critical thinkers, who COULD actually think our way out of a paper bag unlike many of our peers who we watched die, commit suicide directly or indirectly, to take people over 30 years old then seriously. Their general points of view were basically insane to us of that time. This was the general view among intelligent young people of the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "Why are you sending our classmates from High School into a war with no real meaning? Why are you drafting them and forcing them to go when they haven't even grown up yet enough to even have 1 chance in a hundred of surviving the Viet Nam War? Are you insane? Unfortunately, many of our answers were, "Yes. You are insane!" However, eventually I had to be 29 and the addage that many of us lived which was "Don't trust anyone over 30" became ridiculous as I approached 29. Was I suddenly to be one of the untrusted ones just because I was going to be 30 soon. The error of this thinking burned into my mind then. Because for the previous 10 years I had been one of many who had believed it and lived it. That didn't mean that I didn't have teachers and employers over 30, it just meant that there was an imaginary wall between us called "trust". Trust wasn't there. Trust had gone with the Viet Nam War and 50,000 people my age killed for no good reason and 250,000 wounded for no good reason and up to 2 million Vietnamese civilians killed for no good reason by both sides. Nothing at all was accomplished by that war by millions of deaths of mostly civilians who mostly had no real interest of who won at that time.
Out of all the deaths by one reason or another both in Viet Nam and the U.S. at that time came a scream for "Justice" and for human rights. And somehow this morphed into a green revolution that started on college campuses and for women's rights, black rights, brown rights, gay rights, Native American rights, every minorities rights and in this sense this social revolution swept around the world on the songs we all listened to and sung by the Beatles and all the others. The social revolution swept literally into almost every country to a greater or lesser degree and began all the changes you see now around the world. Even the fall of the Iron Curtain really got going from this social revolution behind the Iron Curtain. The songs we sang brought down all the walls everywhere. The problem was: "WE also threw out the baby with the bathwater" so to speak and we have been trying to recover the baby ever since.
Note: added May 25th 2013: This era began the mistrust in government. When the Viet Nam War Began in the trust in government was already beginning to falter from the 77% trust in Government after World War II. The first major blow was "The Cuban Missile Crisis" (see "Dr. Strangelove" for a good parody of this). The second major blow was the assassination of President Kennedy because many believed that extreme right, and Mafia as well as Castro and the Soviet Union were somehow involved in his assassination and still do. These are some of the reasons trust is in the single digits up to only 20% at the highest of all the institutions of our government now. Faith in our government taking care of us is gone. We want to believe but know by our government's actions (especially Congress) that they are no longer thinking about the common people by what they do every day. So, the American People are very discouraged by Congress and this is also why so many Congressperson's and Senators are quitting as representatives this last 20 years or so.
Even though I personally don't agree with the point of view of the 90% who want Background checks on Guns I still think they should have been able to get background checks through Congress because they were the majority. It is just one more instance of the will of the people (even though I might consider that particular point of view ill advised) was not listened to. When the will of the people of this land isn't listened to by Congress about big things demonstrations aren't far away. At least we still have the right to demonstrate for what we believe in.
Out of all the deaths by one reason or another both in Viet Nam and the U.S. at that time came a scream for "Justice" and for human rights. And somehow this morphed into a green revolution that started on college campuses and for women's rights, black rights, brown rights, gay rights, Native American rights, every minorities rights and in this sense this social revolution swept around the world on the songs we all listened to and sung by the Beatles and all the others. The social revolution swept literally into almost every country to a greater or lesser degree and began all the changes you see now around the world. Even the fall of the Iron Curtain really got going from this social revolution behind the Iron Curtain. The songs we sang brought down all the walls everywhere. The problem was: "WE also threw out the baby with the bathwater" so to speak and we have been trying to recover the baby ever since.
Note: added May 25th 2013: This era began the mistrust in government. When the Viet Nam War Began in the trust in government was already beginning to falter from the 77% trust in Government after World War II. The first major blow was "The Cuban Missile Crisis" (see "Dr. Strangelove" for a good parody of this). The second major blow was the assassination of President Kennedy because many believed that extreme right, and Mafia as well as Castro and the Soviet Union were somehow involved in his assassination and still do. These are some of the reasons trust is in the single digits up to only 20% at the highest of all the institutions of our government now. Faith in our government taking care of us is gone. We want to believe but know by our government's actions (especially Congress) that they are no longer thinking about the common people by what they do every day. So, the American People are very discouraged by Congress and this is also why so many Congressperson's and Senators are quitting as representatives this last 20 years or so.
Even though I personally don't agree with the point of view of the 90% who want Background checks on Guns I still think they should have been able to get background checks through Congress because they were the majority. It is just one more instance of the will of the people (even though I might consider that particular point of view ill advised) was not listened to. When the will of the people of this land isn't listened to by Congress about big things demonstrations aren't far away. At least we still have the right to demonstrate for what we believe in.
I am a Time Traveler
But not the kind you think. I got here the old fashioned way. By living long enough to watch 75 to 80% of everyone I knew and loved die. I watched while (over the years) first my granparents, then my Aunts and Uncles and parents, and now finally the last 10 years while most of my parents and friends died. Though I'm only 62 (which seems quite young to me in some ways) 80% of everything that gave my life meaning as I grew up has died including big stars like Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Jane Mansfield, Bobby Darin, and all the rest of the people who I loved and who inspired me like Gandhi all died. Though Gandhi died 4 months before I was born in 1948 still his influence lives on maybe forever like Mandela and Martin Luther King will by his side.
No. I'm not a TV or Movie Time traveler but a real one who has loved and grieved and gone on somehow in spite of every loss. I have not succombed to alcoholism or drugs or killing myself over someone I loved(though I came very close at at 21 to 23) but somehow made it through all the agony and ecstasy of one's 20s. My thirties I look back upon enviously. At that time I knew who I was and had let go of the completely unrealistic expectations of one's twenties that break so many into unrecognizable bits before they become ultimately pragmatic enough to go on and just survive for their families and friends. But my 30s were mostly wonderful. I home schooled my son from my first marriage and my two step kids from my second in an idyllic place on 2 1/2 acres of land on Mt. Shasta. We built and A-Frame 10 miles from the nearest little town and lived a Mt. Shasta Wilderness family life for 4 years there while we home schooled our kids using Oak Meadow School independent study curriculum which is still doing this 30 years later and I believe is still pretty reasonable.
No. I'm a real time traveler who grew up in a world of real men and now I'm in a very changed world that is more a world of women than a world of men any longer. The only real John Wayne's these days are fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq for the world has become so different to me now that I don't recognize it at all.
Someone was saying what has happened in a useful way that I could recognize. In the U.S. of the 7 millions jobs lost that probably won't return any time soon, 5 million of those job losses were men and only 2 million of those jobs were women. Since companies pay women only 75 to 80% of what they pay men, why should they hire the men back. Another way society castrates men figuratively in ways that wouldn't have been tolerated in the 1950s. Men were still men then. They are no longer mostly.
Though people are more civilized now men have been confused and lost in the equation completely. I'm not sure women understand how harmed men have been in the changes of the last 50 years. But the best way to say it is we are no longer a society of men and women but of women and women. And until all this stuff gets more balanced out and realistic in some real way we all will continue to be living a lie. Don't get me wrong it is a utopian lie so maybe it will lead to something good. But how do you get to something good if all the real men have been bred out of a society by women who now seem to run everything?
However, the above was the way I was raised to be, talking. I had to evolve beyond that through many many experiences. I had to witness all the very real suffering of women in the 1950s and into the early 1960s. I watched while it was okay for men to have affairs on their wives and then lie to them about it. I watched these women slowly go insane as their men lied to them about things like this even as they bragged to other men (including me and other adolescent boys) of their exploits. And I knew this was cruel to these women beyond thinking. But in that time men often were men's men and they saw women many times as beasts of burden and not even human in a sense. All that has changed now(at least in the U.S) even though it is still like this throughout the world even now.
So, in some ways the U.S. stands as a beacon of hope to women everywhere, that one day men in their country will value them as equals and not just as things to get pregnant and to babysit the kids while they grow up, while they secretly teach the boys to continue this kind of thinking and to perpetuate women as second class citizens ongoing.
No. I see all the good done for women and I applaud that. It's just as a man I also see all the damage done to men in how confused they all are now. Being a man meant one thing for hundreds of thousands of years. If we change all that now what will be the long term consequences? Will it be good or bad?
The answer is it will be both good and bad for everyone. Because in the end life on earth is literally Descartes philosophic statement, "There is nothing so good that no bad may come from it and nothing so bad that no good may come from it."
In the real world there is no ultimate good or bad but only shades of gray. Real men know how to deal with this and real women need to also.
No. I'm not a TV or Movie Time traveler but a real one who has loved and grieved and gone on somehow in spite of every loss. I have not succombed to alcoholism or drugs or killing myself over someone I loved(though I came very close at at 21 to 23) but somehow made it through all the agony and ecstasy of one's 20s. My thirties I look back upon enviously. At that time I knew who I was and had let go of the completely unrealistic expectations of one's twenties that break so many into unrecognizable bits before they become ultimately pragmatic enough to go on and just survive for their families and friends. But my 30s were mostly wonderful. I home schooled my son from my first marriage and my two step kids from my second in an idyllic place on 2 1/2 acres of land on Mt. Shasta. We built and A-Frame 10 miles from the nearest little town and lived a Mt. Shasta Wilderness family life for 4 years there while we home schooled our kids using Oak Meadow School independent study curriculum which is still doing this 30 years later and I believe is still pretty reasonable.
No. I'm a real time traveler who grew up in a world of real men and now I'm in a very changed world that is more a world of women than a world of men any longer. The only real John Wayne's these days are fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq for the world has become so different to me now that I don't recognize it at all.
Someone was saying what has happened in a useful way that I could recognize. In the U.S. of the 7 millions jobs lost that probably won't return any time soon, 5 million of those job losses were men and only 2 million of those jobs were women. Since companies pay women only 75 to 80% of what they pay men, why should they hire the men back. Another way society castrates men figuratively in ways that wouldn't have been tolerated in the 1950s. Men were still men then. They are no longer mostly.
Though people are more civilized now men have been confused and lost in the equation completely. I'm not sure women understand how harmed men have been in the changes of the last 50 years. But the best way to say it is we are no longer a society of men and women but of women and women. And until all this stuff gets more balanced out and realistic in some real way we all will continue to be living a lie. Don't get me wrong it is a utopian lie so maybe it will lead to something good. But how do you get to something good if all the real men have been bred out of a society by women who now seem to run everything?
However, the above was the way I was raised to be, talking. I had to evolve beyond that through many many experiences. I had to witness all the very real suffering of women in the 1950s and into the early 1960s. I watched while it was okay for men to have affairs on their wives and then lie to them about it. I watched these women slowly go insane as their men lied to them about things like this even as they bragged to other men (including me and other adolescent boys) of their exploits. And I knew this was cruel to these women beyond thinking. But in that time men often were men's men and they saw women many times as beasts of burden and not even human in a sense. All that has changed now(at least in the U.S) even though it is still like this throughout the world even now.
So, in some ways the U.S. stands as a beacon of hope to women everywhere, that one day men in their country will value them as equals and not just as things to get pregnant and to babysit the kids while they grow up, while they secretly teach the boys to continue this kind of thinking and to perpetuate women as second class citizens ongoing.
No. I see all the good done for women and I applaud that. It's just as a man I also see all the damage done to men in how confused they all are now. Being a man meant one thing for hundreds of thousands of years. If we change all that now what will be the long term consequences? Will it be good or bad?
The answer is it will be both good and bad for everyone. Because in the end life on earth is literally Descartes philosophic statement, "There is nothing so good that no bad may come from it and nothing so bad that no good may come from it."
In the real world there is no ultimate good or bad but only shades of gray. Real men know how to deal with this and real women need to also.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Dalai Lama Camping Club
note: to make full sense of what I'm referring to below, "Memories" in 7 web pages and 11 parts is at:
http://dragonofcompassion.com/
All the "Memories" word buttons are there (7 total). There are also related web pages of:
There are many of you that may think that the "Memories" series and sequels and Jonathan Flow and Arcane and Celeste and King Interlaken and His Oneness and even the Galactic Sentience are all fictitious characters.
Well. That's not entirely true. Though I might write it all as a cover and even if you asked me I might tell you that it is science fiction there is this other side to it that always blows my mind.
Let me explain. The people that I know for sure are real are Elohar and Ragna and Saint Germain who is also Arcane. Being an intuitive has always been pretty amazing for me, especially in Europe and India and Nepal.
In 1999 I took my Mom and then 10 year old daughter to Scotland to show my Mom and my daughter where my mother's parents grew up near Glasgow, Scotland. After that we flew to Munich to meet my then 25 year old son and his buddy who had already traveled through England and Scotland on Britrail and staying in Youth Hostels and were now on a Eurail pass through Europe. I think they had visited about 14 countries when we met the in Munich, Germany (which the Germans pronounce Munchen or something like that). I met them at the Airport and then we took a taxi to the Motorhome rental place where we rented a 6 passenger diesel powered 5 speed stick shift Motorhome. Because there are so many mountains without guardrails on two lane roads you need a stickshift to avoid going off of cliffs and down mountainsides in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. So you need the stick shift to downshift on the steep hills when going down so you don't lose control and brakes and just die.
So, the five of us traveled through Western Germany, Austria, Switzerland and into Northern Italy over the next week or so. When we got to Italy since I am a spontaneous intuitive I got an intuition that I could drive to the location of King Interlaken's Crystal Palace that will be there in 7028. At that time I was on the old time line before 9-11 so I could actually go to the exact location on that time line.
So, by being very intuitive I wound up exactly there. However, it kind of freaked out the boys and they couldn't really handle it because my son's friend had just gotten his physics degree from UCSC. Then he got into an argument and told me someone couldn't get sunburned through the windshield. I told him that I had been sunburnt countless times through the windshield and just because he had a physics degree didn't change the facts of how I got sunburned. So this went on and on with neither of us giving in.
So when I actually intuitively only without maps found the location I had to laugh, it was the "Dalai Lama Camping Club" location up into the mountains towards the Matterhorn near Aosta, Italy. When we found it it was just too much for my son's friend with the physics degree because he can't believe in psychic and intuitive things so this just completely blew his mind that what I had written about was true. I was completely blown away first to find the location that I sensed and second that the Lamas had obviously found this location as well. Amazing!
So, we walked around the area but my son's friend really needed to get his backpack and leave because this was just too much for him to deal with. So, on the way down the mountains my son and his friend decided they were just going to take their backpacks and go their way to the nearest Youth Hostel.
I knew it had something to do with finding the location of the future Crystal Palace of Elohar and Ragna and King Interlaken. So I drove to the Hotel Cristina in Aosta, Italy I think it was called and went into the restaurant under the hotel to ask for a room. Finally, since I don't speak Italian (only English and French) I found someone who spoke a little French and Spanish and because California borders Mexico where they also speak Spanish I was able to get them to tell me where the room was an how much it was for my mother and daughter and I. We all needed baths because we had all been showering in the motorhome and we needed to soak our muscles and unwind from the long trip through several countries.
However, when I woke up in the morning and looked out the front window there were Elohar and Ragna getting out of a motor home parked next to ours below. These two events really shook my world because like you I would prefer to believe this isn't all real. But when reality invades what can one do but recognize the truth for what it is?
So, what does all this mean? I guess it meant that my son's friend couldn't handle the truth. My son understood because he had been in India and Nepal with me for 4 months in 1985 and 6 and had met many Tibetan lamas and American Medicine men and had seen more amazing unexplainable things than most people experience in a lifetime already by age 25. So though he was concerned for his friend, he also knew that reality is much different than the average inexperienced person realizes who hasn't seen what we have seen worldwide now.
So, is the whole "Memories" series true? I think that is entirely up to you to decide. I can't really tell you it is fiction and be entirely honest with you. But if you asked me in public I might tell you it's science fiction because that would be appropriate even if it isn't entirely true.
http://dragonofcompassion.com/
All the "Memories" word buttons are there (7 total). There are also related web pages of:
There are many of you that may think that the "Memories" series and sequels and Jonathan Flow and Arcane and Celeste and King Interlaken and His Oneness and even the Galactic Sentience are all fictitious characters.
Well. That's not entirely true. Though I might write it all as a cover and even if you asked me I might tell you that it is science fiction there is this other side to it that always blows my mind.
Let me explain. The people that I know for sure are real are Elohar and Ragna and Saint Germain who is also Arcane. Being an intuitive has always been pretty amazing for me, especially in Europe and India and Nepal.
In 1999 I took my Mom and then 10 year old daughter to Scotland to show my Mom and my daughter where my mother's parents grew up near Glasgow, Scotland. After that we flew to Munich to meet my then 25 year old son and his buddy who had already traveled through England and Scotland on Britrail and staying in Youth Hostels and were now on a Eurail pass through Europe. I think they had visited about 14 countries when we met the in Munich, Germany (which the Germans pronounce Munchen or something like that). I met them at the Airport and then we took a taxi to the Motorhome rental place where we rented a 6 passenger diesel powered 5 speed stick shift Motorhome. Because there are so many mountains without guardrails on two lane roads you need a stickshift to avoid going off of cliffs and down mountainsides in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. So you need the stick shift to downshift on the steep hills when going down so you don't lose control and brakes and just die.
So, the five of us traveled through Western Germany, Austria, Switzerland and into Northern Italy over the next week or so. When we got to Italy since I am a spontaneous intuitive I got an intuition that I could drive to the location of King Interlaken's Crystal Palace that will be there in 7028. At that time I was on the old time line before 9-11 so I could actually go to the exact location on that time line.
So, by being very intuitive I wound up exactly there. However, it kind of freaked out the boys and they couldn't really handle it because my son's friend had just gotten his physics degree from UCSC. Then he got into an argument and told me someone couldn't get sunburned through the windshield. I told him that I had been sunburnt countless times through the windshield and just because he had a physics degree didn't change the facts of how I got sunburned. So this went on and on with neither of us giving in.
So when I actually intuitively only without maps found the location I had to laugh, it was the "Dalai Lama Camping Club" location up into the mountains towards the Matterhorn near Aosta, Italy. When we found it it was just too much for my son's friend with the physics degree because he can't believe in psychic and intuitive things so this just completely blew his mind that what I had written about was true. I was completely blown away first to find the location that I sensed and second that the Lamas had obviously found this location as well. Amazing!
So, we walked around the area but my son's friend really needed to get his backpack and leave because this was just too much for him to deal with. So, on the way down the mountains my son and his friend decided they were just going to take their backpacks and go their way to the nearest Youth Hostel.
I knew it had something to do with finding the location of the future Crystal Palace of Elohar and Ragna and King Interlaken. So I drove to the Hotel Cristina in Aosta, Italy I think it was called and went into the restaurant under the hotel to ask for a room. Finally, since I don't speak Italian (only English and French) I found someone who spoke a little French and Spanish and because California borders Mexico where they also speak Spanish I was able to get them to tell me where the room was an how much it was for my mother and daughter and I. We all needed baths because we had all been showering in the motorhome and we needed to soak our muscles and unwind from the long trip through several countries.
However, when I woke up in the morning and looked out the front window there were Elohar and Ragna getting out of a motor home parked next to ours below. These two events really shook my world because like you I would prefer to believe this isn't all real. But when reality invades what can one do but recognize the truth for what it is?
So, what does all this mean? I guess it meant that my son's friend couldn't handle the truth. My son understood because he had been in India and Nepal with me for 4 months in 1985 and 6 and had met many Tibetan lamas and American Medicine men and had seen more amazing unexplainable things than most people experience in a lifetime already by age 25. So though he was concerned for his friend, he also knew that reality is much different than the average inexperienced person realizes who hasn't seen what we have seen worldwide now.
So, is the whole "Memories" series true? I think that is entirely up to you to decide. I can't really tell you it is fiction and be entirely honest with you. But if you asked me in public I might tell you it's science fiction because that would be appropriate even if it isn't entirely true.
Campsite Dalai Lama Village in Châtillon | Italy - ACSI ...
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Dalai Lama Village is a campsite in Châtillon, Aosta.This terraced camp site has ... ACSI Club ID is accepted as an identity document. Dog(s) in high season (on ...
Later: June 19th 2014: So, the best way I can put this is God showed me in Europe in 1999 that my writings about Arcane(Saint Germain), Elohar, Ragna, His Oneness, The Galactic Sentience, Eridian(Meridian) are all based upon real people who travel through time including into and out of our present day Earth in a least 2 timelines (both the one previous to 9-11 and the 2nd one we all now live on that prevents us mostly all being extinct like most of us are on the first timeline).
It is very unusual to be an actual precognitive psychic and intuitive. However, it also helps the human race from going extinct when it doesn't have to. (at least on this the 2nd timeline which started on 9-11-2001). So, we now have a 2nd chance to get it right.
http://dragonofcompassion.com/planet_savers
I titled this article with the location of The Planet Savers (still in the process of writing as inspired). It is just a copy of the planet savers at this blog site at:
The Planet Savers
You can click on the word button right above here or search through the titles to the right of my blog if it is still May 2010. If it is after May 2010 in might be easier to read it at:
http://dragonofcompassion.com/planet_savers
Also, if you are interested in this you might also be interested in "Memories" parts 1 through 11 which are there on 7 web pages for a total of 125 typewritten pages total. There are many other things I have written since I started this series in 1980 and first published around 2000 at my other Geocities website which has been transferred over to the dragonofcompassion.com site now. If you visited my first site that I started in 1999 you will notice not everything I had at the first site is there. But since I tend to write a little almost every day unless I'm traveling North or South(and sometimes East or West) there is a lot that I have written since 1999. If you are a writer too then you know what a wonderful experience writing can be. However, if you are writing and getting paid for it you have my sympathy when you are forced to edit everything to your editor's wishes and sometimes not your own. Since I'm mostly retired money is not my issue right now generally. So I'm happy to share the wisdom I have worked very hard to garner during the last 62 years in my travels all over the world.
The Planet Savers
You can click on the word button right above here or search through the titles to the right of my blog if it is still May 2010. If it is after May 2010 in might be easier to read it at:
http://dragonofcompassion.com/planet_savers
Also, if you are interested in this you might also be interested in "Memories" parts 1 through 11 which are there on 7 web pages for a total of 125 typewritten pages total. There are many other things I have written since I started this series in 1980 and first published around 2000 at my other Geocities website which has been transferred over to the dragonofcompassion.com site now. If you visited my first site that I started in 1999 you will notice not everything I had at the first site is there. But since I tend to write a little almost every day unless I'm traveling North or South(and sometimes East or West) there is a lot that I have written since 1999. If you are a writer too then you know what a wonderful experience writing can be. However, if you are writing and getting paid for it you have my sympathy when you are forced to edit everything to your editor's wishes and sometimes not your own. Since I'm mostly retired money is not my issue right now generally. So I'm happy to share the wisdom I have worked very hard to garner during the last 62 years in my travels all over the world.
Senate Passes Wall Street regulation
Senate passes Wall Street regulation bill
To read full article click "bill" above.
begin quote from above news article:
WASHINGTON – Prodded by national anger at Wall Street, the Senate on Thursday passed the most far-reaching restraints on big banks since the Great Depression. In its broad sweep, the massive bill would touch Wall Street CEOs and first-time homebuyers, high-flying traders and small town lenders.
The 59-39 vote represents an important achievement for President Barack Obama, and comes just two months after his health care overhaul became law. The bill must now be reconciled with a House version that passed in December. A key House negotiator predicted the legislation would reach Obama's desk before the Fourth of July. end quote.
This bill was important for Democratic and Republican incumbants to pass. Likely they were scared to death by what happened to several Republicans and Democrats during the primaries. The Tea Party has shaken up both the Republican Party and to some degree also the democratic party and is the new wild card in making things happen. I think the Tea Party's influence is one of the reasons the Wall Street legislation has been voted in. Though I'm not a Tea Party member I undestand the rage out there that has precipitated this movement. There hasn't been something quite like this since Ross Perot in the 1990s. It is possible that Representative Ron Paul a Libertarian Republican might be another Perot in the next Presidential elections a few years off in the Tea Party.
To read full article click "bill" above.
begin quote from above news article:
WASHINGTON – Prodded by national anger at Wall Street, the Senate on Thursday passed the most far-reaching restraints on big banks since the Great Depression. In its broad sweep, the massive bill would touch Wall Street CEOs and first-time homebuyers, high-flying traders and small town lenders.
The 59-39 vote represents an important achievement for President Barack Obama, and comes just two months after his health care overhaul became law. The bill must now be reconciled with a House version that passed in December. A key House negotiator predicted the legislation would reach Obama's desk before the Fourth of July. end quote.
This bill was important for Democratic and Republican incumbants to pass. Likely they were scared to death by what happened to several Republicans and Democrats during the primaries. The Tea Party has shaken up both the Republican Party and to some degree also the democratic party and is the new wild card in making things happen. I think the Tea Party's influence is one of the reasons the Wall Street legislation has been voted in. Though I'm not a Tea Party member I undestand the rage out there that has precipitated this movement. There hasn't been something quite like this since Ross Perot in the 1990s. It is possible that Representative Ron Paul a Libertarian Republican might be another Perot in the next Presidential elections a few years off in the Tea Party.
My Wife's Complaint
My wife had a complaint that what was said on CNN was misleading in regard to the stock market. She said that saying that the stock market was at 10,000 in the U.S. ten years ago is misleading because though it reached 10,000 then it was kind of a fluke and she didn't think it stayed there long enough to be compared with 10,000 now since the market is obviously in flux and could go to 9000 but then go back to 10,500 or 11,000 within the next few months easily. So saying that the stock market had gained nothing in 10 years is misleading in this respect. Also, most blue chip stocks yield quarterly dividends and this also has to be considered in the mix. So even if the stocks are now again at 10,000 each stockholder also benefited from 10 years of dividends on their stocks(if the stocks they owned yielded quarterly dividends).
First Computer generated actual "Synthetic life dna code" now alive
Ready or not here comes synthetic DNA world. Whether this in the end will be good or bad for "regular" dna like us and all mammals and everything else remains to be seen. Here is the word button for one of the articles:
US scientists create first 'synthetic life'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
Dr. Craig Ventner says that Chemicals, yeast and computers were used to create first synthetic life using a dna code designed by computers.
begin quote: "This is the first self-replicating cell we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer," team leader Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md. end quote.
US scientists create first 'synthetic life'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
Dr. Craig Ventner says that Chemicals, yeast and computers were used to create first synthetic life using a dna code designed by computers.
begin quote: "This is the first self-replicating cell we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer," team leader Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md. end quote.
Avoiding a Social Revolution or civil War in Greece
Striking workers, but no riots this time, in protests over Greece debt bailout
To read the news article that inspired this blog click "Striking workers" above.
The more I look at this situation and the fact that most people protesting their personal financial losses in Greece probably don't have the Economics degree they would need to fully understand what is happening to them, I now believe that the only real way for Greece to avoid eventual governmental collapse for one reason or another would be to go off the Euro as a currency. In this way the Greek government could print its own currency and even though that would devalue that currency there wouldn't be the incredible unfairness to everyone in the country that exists now.
The experience of the middle class in Greece would be that the rich of Europe are stealing everything they have worked so hard for. What is actually going on might not be understood by most people without advanced financial and economic degrees. So in the interest of avoiding bloodshed and governmental collapse within Greece I think Greece needs to go off the Euro and onto its own currency. Any other solution likely would be worse the way things look now.
Here is a word button for one more news article on this subject that also has videos:
20,000 people in Greek protest march to parliament
The Stock Market
It is definitely not a time for faint of heart investors worldwide. I tend to be in the same philosophy with many long term investors which is: "Invest for the long term in blue chip stocks and then get ready for a long ride through all the ups and downs." The problem is when people can't afford to actually stay invested through all the ups and downs and then they panic and sell at the wrong time. Unless you can stay invested long term these days maybe it isn't the right time to be invested in Stocks. Basically, when you are a long term investor, generally what you are saying by this is: "I believe the stock market in my country generally will head up over the years." If you don't believe that then why are you a long term investor at all? I think this is the question all of us need to keep asking ourselves. And my answer is: "If the U.S. stock market isn't going to head up over the years the whole world is in trouble. Because China has too many long term troubles to work out in regard to the 1/2 to 2/3 of its people who are poor and their stock markets are not properly set up for the long run. So sooner or later the Chinese Stock Market is bound to sputter or even crash until they put more checks and balances in place like we had here in the U.S. before the Reagan Administration.
Later: Here is a quote that appears to be describing the European Union and the Euro which is spooking world investment markets these days.
Begin quote.
"It's starting to look like one of these tragic stories were one person falls through the ice, then everyone else rushes in to help and ends up drowning," he added. end quote
If you want to read the full news article I got this from here it is:
Later: Here is a quote that appears to be describing the European Union and the Euro which is spooking world investment markets these days.
Begin quote.
"It's starting to look like one of these tragic stories were one person falls through the ice, then everyone else rushes in to help and ends up drowning," he added. end quote
If you want to read the full news article I got this from here it is:
Global jitters hammer stock market
However, I think all this is just the expected 10% correction to the stock market. Many have said the market was overpriced and should correct to around 10,000 or a little above that. So my view is this is just a necessary correction. So even if people spook it to even 9000 I think it will soon return to above 10,000 within a few weeks or month unless there is some other news that hasn't arrived yet.
Gambling versus real Goods and Services
To explain my premise let me give you an example:
Let's say we were all camping and everyone brought all their gear that they had worked hard at their jobs to buy and one guy didn't bring anything and then decided to play cards for food and sleeping gear and a tent to sleep in. You might say, "No" to such a person. But then if we consider people who gamble through investing in various ways worldwide as these gamblers who want to play cards and to get your sleeping bags to sleep in and your food to eat.
So, then let us imagine that the number of campers in the camp is in the thousands and then other people who didn't have gear of any kind decided to crash the campsite and to gamble for your food and sleeping bags. So by the second and third night many people are cold and hungry who have lost their sleeping bags and tents and food to these party crashers.
I propose to you that what the world has experienced in the last several years is exactly this. That the people who have worked hard for everything they own had somehow been taken advantage of by the gamblers of the world and thereby have lost their homes(tents), food(money), and often their jobs to the gamblers of the world because of financial deregulation worldwide.
All the rules and regulations that were put into effect after the Great Depression were done away with during the 1980s starting with the Reagan administration and following through into the Bush, and Clinton and Bush and now Obama Administration. And if those Great Depression era rules are not put back into place again then people's jobs, homes, money (their livelihoods) will only be pilfered again by the gamblers of the world who in the end do not care if anyone survives or not except themselves.
Note: I'm writing this so all of us can think more about the real and actual consequences of all our investments worldwide. What I'm asking of myself and all of you out there is to try to be more informed about what effect all your investments are having short and long term on other people's lives worldwide. What has happened the past few years for the most part wasn't caused by bad people, it was caused by people who were short sighted and who were not thinking about the short and long term consequences of their actions. Everyone now has to live with the consequences of everyone's past actions. I'm writing this in the hope that more people will be more conscientious on how they invest worldwide and of what the potential effects their investments could have worldwide. We all have to look into those haunted eyes of many of the homeless people in our own countries who once had homes they owned and jobs they loved just 2 or 3 years ago.
Let's say we were all camping and everyone brought all their gear that they had worked hard at their jobs to buy and one guy didn't bring anything and then decided to play cards for food and sleeping gear and a tent to sleep in. You might say, "No" to such a person. But then if we consider people who gamble through investing in various ways worldwide as these gamblers who want to play cards and to get your sleeping bags to sleep in and your food to eat.
So, then let us imagine that the number of campers in the camp is in the thousands and then other people who didn't have gear of any kind decided to crash the campsite and to gamble for your food and sleeping bags. So by the second and third night many people are cold and hungry who have lost their sleeping bags and tents and food to these party crashers.
I propose to you that what the world has experienced in the last several years is exactly this. That the people who have worked hard for everything they own had somehow been taken advantage of by the gamblers of the world and thereby have lost their homes(tents), food(money), and often their jobs to the gamblers of the world because of financial deregulation worldwide.
All the rules and regulations that were put into effect after the Great Depression were done away with during the 1980s starting with the Reagan administration and following through into the Bush, and Clinton and Bush and now Obama Administration. And if those Great Depression era rules are not put back into place again then people's jobs, homes, money (their livelihoods) will only be pilfered again by the gamblers of the world who in the end do not care if anyone survives or not except themselves.
Note: I'm writing this so all of us can think more about the real and actual consequences of all our investments worldwide. What I'm asking of myself and all of you out there is to try to be more informed about what effect all your investments are having short and long term on other people's lives worldwide. What has happened the past few years for the most part wasn't caused by bad people, it was caused by people who were short sighted and who were not thinking about the short and long term consequences of their actions. Everyone now has to live with the consequences of everyone's past actions. I'm writing this in the hope that more people will be more conscientious on how they invest worldwide and of what the potential effects their investments could have worldwide. We all have to look into those haunted eyes of many of the homeless people in our own countries who once had homes they owned and jobs they loved just 2 or 3 years ago.
Filters
Though I'm referring to intuitive filters here, the principle is the same. A filter is a sieve that separates what you want from what you don't want.
So, if you are a natural intuitive like me then unless you want to live alone in the woods and never speak to another person and just hang out with animals, trees, clouds and rivers, then you need to learn to filter information coming into your senses.
The best way I know to transmit this useful information to natural intuitives is to use my own life as an example. So, all my life (the good news about being an intuitive) was that I often knew things before they happened in my life and others and could thereby prevent my own death or injury or the death or injury of those around me by warning them of the problem before it occurred. As my predictions became more and more accurate people young and old started listening to me regarding what I was telling them if they had had previous experience about me being right beforehand regarding an impending danger.
However, being an intuitive is not just a static state of being. Like all states of awareness it is constantly changing and one has to be aware not only of the internal changes but also of external changes in the world so that being an intuitive is a useful state of being and not just counterproductive. So, just like when you are driving a car you have to always be aware of what is going on both inside you and outside you. So, being sober and aware is very important both to your survival and well being but also to the survival and well being of all those around you. So, staying alive and being an intuitive that is useful not only to your own survival but of all your friends and family as well as everyone you pass by one must constantly be filtering information and refining it. So one stays vigilant all the time 24 hours a day. Every dream at night is a potential important bit of information and every daydream or person that walks by is an important bit of information as well as any animals, birds, trees, and even cars, buses, buildings, mountains etc. So one is always looking for bits of information that stand out to give clues to everything that is going on around one in the world in addition to everything that is going on internally.
By learning to peacefully be vigilant and being a aware of when to be concerned more or less at any given time one then becomes useful not only to oneself and one's family but to the ongoing survival of all life everywhere.
So, then the purpose of being an intuitive becomes not just staying alive and doing well for yourself but also helping all family and friends and anyone you see or meet or even become aware of in passing. The experience of all this over time becomes like an ever expanding sun of awareness that assists and helps all life on earth and beyond.
So, if you are a natural intuitive like me then unless you want to live alone in the woods and never speak to another person and just hang out with animals, trees, clouds and rivers, then you need to learn to filter information coming into your senses.
The best way I know to transmit this useful information to natural intuitives is to use my own life as an example. So, all my life (the good news about being an intuitive) was that I often knew things before they happened in my life and others and could thereby prevent my own death or injury or the death or injury of those around me by warning them of the problem before it occurred. As my predictions became more and more accurate people young and old started listening to me regarding what I was telling them if they had had previous experience about me being right beforehand regarding an impending danger.
However, being an intuitive is not just a static state of being. Like all states of awareness it is constantly changing and one has to be aware not only of the internal changes but also of external changes in the world so that being an intuitive is a useful state of being and not just counterproductive. So, just like when you are driving a car you have to always be aware of what is going on both inside you and outside you. So, being sober and aware is very important both to your survival and well being but also to the survival and well being of all those around you. So, staying alive and being an intuitive that is useful not only to your own survival but of all your friends and family as well as everyone you pass by one must constantly be filtering information and refining it. So one stays vigilant all the time 24 hours a day. Every dream at night is a potential important bit of information and every daydream or person that walks by is an important bit of information as well as any animals, birds, trees, and even cars, buses, buildings, mountains etc. So one is always looking for bits of information that stand out to give clues to everything that is going on around one in the world in addition to everything that is going on internally.
By learning to peacefully be vigilant and being a aware of when to be concerned more or less at any given time one then becomes useful not only to oneself and one's family but to the ongoing survival of all life everywhere.
So, then the purpose of being an intuitive becomes not just staying alive and doing well for yourself but also helping all family and friends and anyone you see or meet or even become aware of in passing. The experience of all this over time becomes like an ever expanding sun of awareness that assists and helps all life on earth and beyond.
Cause and effect 5-20-10
We all know Newton's law which states "For every action there will be and opposite but equal reaction."
As an intuitive when I look at things it is a little like this but more of an art than a science in understanding the full ramifications of everything. As an intuitive I'm interested about how thoughts and feelings and prayers (desiring with our thoughts and feelings for good things to happen to us) actually manifest in our lives. So being interested in science I watch the mechanical effects of Newton's law and then overlaid upon it how consciousness of everything that thinks and feels and lives in the universe creates everything on top of that with everything they think and feel and pray for.
So, I guess you could say I'm always watching all the time 24 hours a day for specific kinds of convergences. A surfer might say, "I'm waiting and watching for the perfect wave." But in regard to being an intuitive I'm also searching for the perfect wave of consciousness of all life in the universe. And everyone of you who have compassion for all life in the universe should be waiting for that perfect wave of consciousness too. For if you and I know what to do then it will be wonderful for all life in the universe past, present and future.
As an intuitive when I look at things it is a little like this but more of an art than a science in understanding the full ramifications of everything. As an intuitive I'm interested about how thoughts and feelings and prayers (desiring with our thoughts and feelings for good things to happen to us) actually manifest in our lives. So being interested in science I watch the mechanical effects of Newton's law and then overlaid upon it how consciousness of everything that thinks and feels and lives in the universe creates everything on top of that with everything they think and feel and pray for.
So, I guess you could say I'm always watching all the time 24 hours a day for specific kinds of convergences. A surfer might say, "I'm waiting and watching for the perfect wave." But in regard to being an intuitive I'm also searching for the perfect wave of consciousness of all life in the universe. And everyone of you who have compassion for all life in the universe should be waiting for that perfect wave of consciousness too. For if you and I know what to do then it will be wonderful for all life in the universe past, present and future.
Truth is Stranger than Fiction 5-20-10
If you had lived the last 120 years and were born 5-20-1910 I think you would be amazed at everything you would have seen and heard about on earth. Sometimes I think that is why people live a long time sometimes, just to see what crazy thing is going to happen on earth next.
If you had told me in the early 1990s that someone was going to fly planes into the Twin Towers and then people were going to jump off and then the towers would turn to dust while the world watched on CNN I would have said "You're crazy!" Or even last year if someone had told me, "Oh. By the way New Orleans is going to get hit again this time by oil!" All of us would have said, "The probability of that is about zero especially after Hurricane Katrina." But then it has happened, and not just like the Exxon Valez. Oh No. It's an oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico that is spewing 5000 to 100,000 barrels of oil a day into the gulf (No one seems to be sure the right amount) per day now for one month. Oh, and by the way if someone had said to you last year, "Oh. By the way Iceland is going to go bankrupt and after that their volcano(s?) Is/are going to erupt and cause air traffic to come to a standstill for a week. And then it's going to come back and stop some air traffic for "How long?".
NO. I don't think anyone would have believed most of the worst things that have happened to the world over the last 10 years. NO. It couldn't really all have happened. Could it? But it did.
If you had told me in the early 1990s that someone was going to fly planes into the Twin Towers and then people were going to jump off and then the towers would turn to dust while the world watched on CNN I would have said "You're crazy!" Or even last year if someone had told me, "Oh. By the way New Orleans is going to get hit again this time by oil!" All of us would have said, "The probability of that is about zero especially after Hurricane Katrina." But then it has happened, and not just like the Exxon Valez. Oh No. It's an oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico that is spewing 5000 to 100,000 barrels of oil a day into the gulf (No one seems to be sure the right amount) per day now for one month. Oh, and by the way if someone had said to you last year, "Oh. By the way Iceland is going to go bankrupt and after that their volcano(s?) Is/are going to erupt and cause air traffic to come to a standstill for a week. And then it's going to come back and stop some air traffic for "How long?".
NO. I don't think anyone would have believed most of the worst things that have happened to the world over the last 10 years. NO. It couldn't really all have happened. Could it? But it did.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Ash in California?
I was riding along the ocean in Northern California and noticed that the sun was setting "Blood Red". So I mentioned it to my wife today while we were having brunch in a restaurant. She said, "I wonder if it is the Ash? I can't think of any other reason right now for it to be a blood red sunset otherwise. I realized she was right because there is no smog, no fires right now in California. So the air should be perfectly clear unless it is coming across the ocean which here is basically over 5000 miles of ocean. For example I just Googled and it said the distance from California to Japan is 5,478 miles. So from where I live to Japan there is nothing but a few smaller islands here and there across the Pacific.
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