Crazy Wisdom or "The wisdom beyond logic" we have all seen in some older relatives. And we have all experienced, "How did they do that?" or more importantly, "How did they know that?" So, often the wisdom that comes with experience is: "Crazy Wisdom" simply because we cannot comprehend where it comes from yet or sometimes ever.
I'm presently trying to read (as the universe allows me to) The Divine Madman translated by Keith Dowman into English. It is the life story and legends of Drukpa Kunley:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukpa_Kunley
In early January 1986 a Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhist monk in Dharamsala, India who had given his robes to a spiritual Friend, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso(which means spiritual friend kind ocean of wisdom) and was now a mountain climbing guide so he could support his parents as they passed on. Anyway, Thubten, told me many Drukpa Kunley stories which was something Tibetan Buddhist men told while they drank their chang(Tibetan Barley Beer) to soothe their aching muscles because of the difficult life lived then in the mid 1980s in the Himalayas. I'm told these stories are still told among Tibetan men because their crazy wisdom nature gives hope and cheer to all the dharma faithful in Tibetan Buddhism and beyond.
I can remember doubling over in laughter in the way Thubten told these Crazy Wisdom Stories. At the time I just felt very privileged to speak to someone so deep into the Tibetan Buddhist Dharma sharing in English these very Tibetan Stories of what I thought then was a fictitious Tibetan Buddhist humorous Icon. Flash forward about 25 years later and I just found out the last few months that Drukpa Kunley is an actual historic dharma practitioner just like Milarepa and beloved by all Tibetans and all who are interested in all things Tibetan like myself.
Before my ex-wife and I broke up our goal then was to become Cultural Anthropologists and go to Tibet or Bhutan or Nepal or wherever we could study in depth Tibetan Culture so it could be documented for all posterity before it mostly was lost. However, after my wife and I broke up in a divorce this was no longer financially or emotionally possible. Don't worry about me now as I remarried and had another daughter and am financially okay 25 years later. However, that dream hopefully has been fulfilled for other Cultural Anthropologists whose dream came true and who survived the Himalayas to tell the tale.
quote from page 8 of introduction of the book "The Divine Madman" translated by Keith Dowman:
"This volume records some of the stories about the adept Drukpa Kunley (Tib.:Brugpa Kunlegs), which are favorites of the people of Tibet and the surrounding regions. Whatever the historical credibility of these stories may be, they deserve our full attention for two reasons: first because Drukpa Kunley counts among the most celebrated Adepts of the Himalayan countries, and second, because he belonged to the tradition known as "Crazy Wisdom" of which precious little is known in the west." end quote.
Though my whole life has been often a "Crazy Wisdom" miracle " I realize that as Americans we also root for the underdog. Many of the stories of Drukpa Kunley are regarding various beings underestimating just how innovative Drukpa Kunley actually is. I have had this experience as well during my life. None of us know what we are capable of until we have to be capable enough to survive anything.
My favorite story told to me by Crow, one of the Native American Medicine Men I studied with went like this: "There was a man who came into the sweat lodge with a dislocated arm and the very old and very Crazy Wisdom Medicine man who was speaking suddenly said, "Here!" to the man. The man reached out to grab the peace pipe with both arms and his dislocated arm snapped in place. The man let out a scream and began laughing as did all the others after they realized his arm went automatically back into place and in joint." This is Crazy Wisdom in action. Always unexpected, but always welcome.
Here is the Wikipedia Drukpa Kunley site. You can paste it if you are interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukpa_Kunley
Friday, September 24, 2010
Building all roads going downhill
Paul Krugman: Downhill With the G.O.P.
begin quote from Above news article:
On Thursday, House Republicans released their “Pledge to America,” supposedly outlining their policy agenda. In essence, what they say is, “Deficits are a terrible thing. Let’s make them much bigger.” end quote.
Begin quote:
The “pledge,” then, is nonsense. But isn’t that true of all political platforms? The answer is, not to anything like the same extent. Many independent analysts believe that the Obama administration’s long-run budget projections are somewhat too optimistic — but, if so, it’s a matter of technical details. Neither President Obama nor any other leading Democrat, as far as I can recall, has ever claimed that up is down, that you can sharply reduce revenue, protect all the programs voters like, and still balance the budget.end quote.
So, the Republican pledge is basically what we have been getting from the Republicans for at least 20 years or more now. More Deficit Spending which will continue to dig a hole for ALL our children and grandchildren for then next several generations to try and dig out of.
The most dangerous thing of all for me personally is the "Up is down" kind of thinking and talk. Why would anyone believe that up is down unless we are out in space where there actually is no up or down?
begin quote from Above news article:
On Thursday, House Republicans released their “Pledge to America,” supposedly outlining their policy agenda. In essence, what they say is, “Deficits are a terrible thing. Let’s make them much bigger.” end quote.
Begin quote:
The “pledge,” then, is nonsense. But isn’t that true of all political platforms? The answer is, not to anything like the same extent. Many independent analysts believe that the Obama administration’s long-run budget projections are somewhat too optimistic — but, if so, it’s a matter of technical details. Neither President Obama nor any other leading Democrat, as far as I can recall, has ever claimed that up is down, that you can sharply reduce revenue, protect all the programs voters like, and still balance the budget.end quote.
So, the Republican pledge is basically what we have been getting from the Republicans for at least 20 years or more now. More Deficit Spending which will continue to dig a hole for ALL our children and grandchildren for then next several generations to try and dig out of.
The most dangerous thing of all for me personally is the "Up is down" kind of thinking and talk. Why would anyone believe that up is down unless we are out in space where there actually is no up or down?
Sarah Palin
The single most amazing thing that I learned today is that Sarah Palin has made 9 Million Dollars since she resigned as Governor of Alaska through a book deal, speaking fees and 1 million dollars a year for being on Fox News ongoing. She is looking more entrepreneurial than Bill Clinton did after his 8 years in office. Amazing!
I think he got 12 million for his book. But Sarah Palin was just a Governor and a vice presidential candidate. I think the world needs to not underestimate her whether they agree with her or not.
Begin quote:
What a difference a year makes.
Palin is now more popular nationally, more in demand by conservative groups as a speaker and far richer than she's ever been. She has earned an estimated $9 million by talking and writing - her first book ended up being a best seller, thank you very much - and she has inked a reported $1 million annual contract with Fox News. Oh, and she's become the most important independent endorser in a generation: her 16-11 win-loss record in the recent GOP primaries gives her a lot of political chits to call in if - just to suppose - she were to weigh a presidential run. end quote from below news Article:
I think he got 12 million for his book. But Sarah Palin was just a Governor and a vice presidential candidate. I think the world needs to not underestimate her whether they agree with her or not.
Begin quote:
What a difference a year makes.
Palin is now more popular nationally, more in demand by conservative groups as a speaker and far richer than she's ever been. She has earned an estimated $9 million by talking and writing - her first book ended up being a best seller, thank you very much - and she has inked a reported $1 million annual contract with Fox News. Oh, and she's become the most important independent endorser in a generation: her 16-11 win-loss record in the recent GOP primaries gives her a lot of political chits to call in if - just to suppose - she were to weigh a presidential run. end quote from below news Article:
State Capitalism: What is it?
I'm quoting the answer from the Book by Ian Bremmer "The End of the Free Market" page 43.
State capitalism is a system in which the state dominates markets, primarily for political gain.
But the division between state-capitalist and free market countries isn't always clear. There is no iron curtain separating the two sides neatly into opposing camps. Every country on Earth features both direct government involvement in regulating economic activity and some market exchange that exists beyond the state's reach. No country's economy is either purely state capitalist or purely free-market driven, and the degree of government intervention within each country fluctuates over time. " end quote page 43.
So because of the end of the Iron Curtain we see countries trying all types of forms of capitalism and almost every imaginable form of regulation. And these regulations are always changing worldwide mostly for perceived even if not real advantage by every country on earth. The following quote is to define the basic forms of capitalism found presently on earth in order to make more sense of this.
begin quote bottom of page 43.
"On the far left is utopian communism, with absolutely no free-market activity. It's a game in which the referees have absolute control of very player's every move. This extreme has never existed, because even in the most tightly controlled state, black markets generate supply to meet demand. On the right is utopian libertarianism, which some call anarcho-capitalism. At this extreme, there isno government --and no other authority that can manage, regulate, or or interfere in any way with the operation of markets. It's a game with no referee at all." End quote on top of page 44.
So, obviously since there never has been Utopian communism and no Utopian libertarianism except in worldwide black markets and things like illegal drugs and gun running we can see that most countries are somewhere in the middle between these two basically non-existent extremes. So we go on with a quote from the bottom of page 44 to explain this better:
"---any particular country's place on this line is a snapshot of one particular moment in history. Every country is in constant motion back and forth along this line--though some move much further and much more often than others." end quote bottom of page 44
So, now (withing the United States we can define where Republicans and Democrats fall within this line in each of their ways of thinking. Begin quote very bottom of page 44:
"Republicans ten to argue for lower taxes and less government interference, because consumers tend to spend their money much more efficiently than government can. Democrats counter tha, left to its own devices, the private sector will never provide safe, high quality public goods and services at affordable prices--like education for the poor or health care for the elderly." end quote top of page 45.
So, if I understand this definition of both it sounds like Republicans tend towards Anacho-Libertarianism and their stance is balanced by the Democratic stance of "Let's take care of the poor and elderly". So, it is obvious that any successful society like the U.S. needs at least these two points of view represented and sometimes more.
The following quote though sort of fragmentary I found extremely interesting, Middle of page 45:
"With far fewer limits on its power than an American president must accept, the Chinese Communist Party has made a significant shift from left to right over the past 30 years." end quote middle of page 45.
So it could be said that China in some ways is now the most libertarian capitalist system while also being the biggest proponent of State Capitalism on earth. This combination combined with a 40% below real value Yuan(Chinese currency) makes it almost impossible for any nation to compete with it since it literally makes its own rules (de facto) on the world stage in all economic settings. So, in a sense just like the United States was the driving economic force since World War II, it is possible to say that the economic driving force right now on earth is China. However, how long this lasts without more useful regulations without something collapsing in China is anyone's guess at this point.
For example, when efficiency experts get to any dynamic they tend to enter into the Peter Principle at some point or other. So whether this is the United States trying to be efficient or China there are points for both nations that create "The Law of Diminishing returns". America's weakness at present appears to be that we have been on top and making the rules for so long we've grown fat and complacent and China's weakness appears to be ecological in the loss of health for so many Chinese by trying to change and grow so fast without taking into consideration the health and ecological costs to their nation long term. I see ecologically China making the same mistakes now that the Soviet Union made which made a lot of their country an ecological wasteland. So until problems like these get solved the deaths and injuries to the Chinese people will increase and so will the anger of those whose relatives have died so others could get rich.
State capitalism is a system in which the state dominates markets, primarily for political gain.
But the division between state-capitalist and free market countries isn't always clear. There is no iron curtain separating the two sides neatly into opposing camps. Every country on Earth features both direct government involvement in regulating economic activity and some market exchange that exists beyond the state's reach. No country's economy is either purely state capitalist or purely free-market driven, and the degree of government intervention within each country fluctuates over time. " end quote page 43.
So because of the end of the Iron Curtain we see countries trying all types of forms of capitalism and almost every imaginable form of regulation. And these regulations are always changing worldwide mostly for perceived even if not real advantage by every country on earth. The following quote is to define the basic forms of capitalism found presently on earth in order to make more sense of this.
begin quote bottom of page 43.
"On the far left is utopian communism, with absolutely no free-market activity. It's a game in which the referees have absolute control of very player's every move. This extreme has never existed, because even in the most tightly controlled state, black markets generate supply to meet demand. On the right is utopian libertarianism, which some call anarcho-capitalism. At this extreme, there isno government --and no other authority that can manage, regulate, or or interfere in any way with the operation of markets. It's a game with no referee at all." End quote on top of page 44.
So, obviously since there never has been Utopian communism and no Utopian libertarianism except in worldwide black markets and things like illegal drugs and gun running we can see that most countries are somewhere in the middle between these two basically non-existent extremes. So we go on with a quote from the bottom of page 44 to explain this better:
"---any particular country's place on this line is a snapshot of one particular moment in history. Every country is in constant motion back and forth along this line--though some move much further and much more often than others." end quote bottom of page 44
So, now (withing the United States we can define where Republicans and Democrats fall within this line in each of their ways of thinking. Begin quote very bottom of page 44:
"Republicans ten to argue for lower taxes and less government interference, because consumers tend to spend their money much more efficiently than government can. Democrats counter tha, left to its own devices, the private sector will never provide safe, high quality public goods and services at affordable prices--like education for the poor or health care for the elderly." end quote top of page 45.
So, if I understand this definition of both it sounds like Republicans tend towards Anacho-Libertarianism and their stance is balanced by the Democratic stance of "Let's take care of the poor and elderly". So, it is obvious that any successful society like the U.S. needs at least these two points of view represented and sometimes more.
The following quote though sort of fragmentary I found extremely interesting, Middle of page 45:
"With far fewer limits on its power than an American president must accept, the Chinese Communist Party has made a significant shift from left to right over the past 30 years." end quote middle of page 45.
So it could be said that China in some ways is now the most libertarian capitalist system while also being the biggest proponent of State Capitalism on earth. This combination combined with a 40% below real value Yuan(Chinese currency) makes it almost impossible for any nation to compete with it since it literally makes its own rules (de facto) on the world stage in all economic settings. So, in a sense just like the United States was the driving economic force since World War II, it is possible to say that the economic driving force right now on earth is China. However, how long this lasts without more useful regulations without something collapsing in China is anyone's guess at this point.
For example, when efficiency experts get to any dynamic they tend to enter into the Peter Principle at some point or other. So whether this is the United States trying to be efficient or China there are points for both nations that create "The Law of Diminishing returns". America's weakness at present appears to be that we have been on top and making the rules for so long we've grown fat and complacent and China's weakness appears to be ecological in the loss of health for so many Chinese by trying to change and grow so fast without taking into consideration the health and ecological costs to their nation long term. I see ecologically China making the same mistakes now that the Soviet Union made which made a lot of their country an ecological wasteland. So until problems like these get solved the deaths and injuries to the Chinese people will increase and so will the anger of those whose relatives have died so others could get rich.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The presently largest off shore wind farm in the World: England
Enough energy to power 200,000 homes
It is located 7 miles off shore of Southeastern England and generates enough power (if it was used there) to power all the homes in Scotland. I think we will begin to see more of these Super Wind Farms off shore around the world because on shore if you were near one of these generators at this size it would feel like a small earthquake all the time. Luckily, the fish can swim away if they don't like the water earthquake generated by these giant wind generators 24 hours a day.
It is located 7 miles off shore of Southeastern England and generates enough power (if it was used there) to power all the homes in Scotland. I think we will begin to see more of these Super Wind Farms off shore around the world because on shore if you were near one of these generators at this size it would feel like a small earthquake all the time. Luckily, the fish can swim away if they don't like the water earthquake generated by these giant wind generators 24 hours a day.
The Present Problem with Oil
Though oil has many problems and so does the whole world as a result(like the continuing economic world downturn) I'd like to discuss something more specific to now.
The normal price for oil under these present conditions would be about 25 dollars a barrel. However, because so many people are investing in oil as a commodity it is artificially inflated to 75+ dollars a barrel. Now, this is a really big deal because in many countries this is the difference from coming out of this downturn or not, including the United States and Europe. So, because so many investors are invested in oil in this way, the world economy can't catch a break so it can recover. It is one of a myriad of ways that is artificially preventing world economic recovery.
The normal price for oil under these present conditions would be about 25 dollars a barrel. However, because so many people are investing in oil as a commodity it is artificially inflated to 75+ dollars a barrel. Now, this is a really big deal because in many countries this is the difference from coming out of this downturn or not, including the United States and Europe. So, because so many investors are invested in oil in this way, the world economy can't catch a break so it can recover. It is one of a myriad of ways that is artificially preventing world economic recovery.
A Plant Based Diet
President Clinton recently said that he lost 24 pounds by giving up meat completely, giving up all dairy, and once in a while having fish, and having a plant based diet with almond milk for protein. Though not everyone is disciplined enough or intelligent enough to do this it is possible to add 20 or more years onto your life by doing something like this either temporarily or permanently. In other centuries people ate a lot less food than now. It is said that people in this century alone eat 5 to 6 times as much every day in the U.S. than say, during the civil war period of the 1860s. So if one increases about 5 times the meat and fat in meat, especially pork and bacon into the bloodstream then it is no wonder why so many meat and potato men die in their late 30s, 40s, 50s from heart attacks while thinking they are healthy and even excercising regularly.
I was raised a Lacto-Ovo vegetarian from birth to about 32 years of age where I added things like turkey and crab and some fish into 5% of my diet. For me the reason was that it was 1980 and I was worried for the same reason people are worried now: 10% unemployment nationwide. So learning to eat a little meat was me thinking, "If I can eat meat I can always hunt deer and other animals to survive if it came to that and become a fisherman." So, for me it was just about being prepared for anything just like now.
However, when I got a heart virus and went to Stanford Medical here in Northern California and had an angiogram the doctors said they had never ever seen anyone with arteries and vein perfectly clear with no buildup whatsoever like mine. The down side for me as a child was I couldn't go to any restaurant and order stuff like most people because I was limited to salads, tomato or mushroom or vegetable soup, grill cheese Sandwiches, and Baked Potatoes and French fries. So unless I was going to a Chinese Restaurant or vegetarian restaurant the choices were always very limited back in the 1950s.
However, if you live in a metropolitan area like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, or many other metropolitan cities in the U.S. now there are many vegetarian and diet conscious retaurants of all shapes and sizes. And now with the Whole Foods Markets almost everywhere you can get organic food if you can afford to buy it almost anywhere too. So if you are intelligent and disciplined enough why not add 5, 10, 20 or more years to your lives if living is something you like to do.
I was raised a Lacto-Ovo vegetarian from birth to about 32 years of age where I added things like turkey and crab and some fish into 5% of my diet. For me the reason was that it was 1980 and I was worried for the same reason people are worried now: 10% unemployment nationwide. So learning to eat a little meat was me thinking, "If I can eat meat I can always hunt deer and other animals to survive if it came to that and become a fisherman." So, for me it was just about being prepared for anything just like now.
However, when I got a heart virus and went to Stanford Medical here in Northern California and had an angiogram the doctors said they had never ever seen anyone with arteries and vein perfectly clear with no buildup whatsoever like mine. The down side for me as a child was I couldn't go to any restaurant and order stuff like most people because I was limited to salads, tomato or mushroom or vegetable soup, grill cheese Sandwiches, and Baked Potatoes and French fries. So unless I was going to a Chinese Restaurant or vegetarian restaurant the choices were always very limited back in the 1950s.
However, if you live in a metropolitan area like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, or many other metropolitan cities in the U.S. now there are many vegetarian and diet conscious retaurants of all shapes and sizes. And now with the Whole Foods Markets almost everywhere you can get organic food if you can afford to buy it almost anywhere too. So if you are intelligent and disciplined enough why not add 5, 10, 20 or more years to your lives if living is something you like to do.
Truth 9-23-10
My daughter is in high school at a private school. I went to public school and have all the psychological scars to prove it. But recently, I was telling my wife, "If our daughter is working so hard (3 to 4 hours of homework a night) that she loses her love of learning then this private school is just a waste of time."
So even though this particular school is a prep school that is designed to prepare kids if they want to go to Harvard or Stanford or other Good university, I look at the long run of what it takes in life. And after observing life, (at least in the United States where one can get a college education literally at any age) the single most important thing is to not lose your love of learning. Without that, you cannot accomplish much in life. So, even though my daughter loves her school because there are no drug problems, gang problems or people being beat up for getting A's like when I went to public school in the 1950s and 1960s, she still needs to foster her love of learning so she doesn't burn that out. Because one needs that their whole life to have a good and successful life in all ways.
Also, when I write here at my blog since I'm an intuitive I try to sense what kinds of articles to write and what subjects to write on that would be the most helpful to all those who read my blogs worldwide. So, often I will write something that means a great deal to me personally and then I will get the sense that someone or several people who are reading it aren't prepared for what I've written so I will then go to my blog and delete those entries. It's not that those entries were not good useful and helpful but if your audience that day is just going to be confused or put off by what you have written then what is the point other than that it was fun for me to write whatever I have written and I was very entertained by the writing of it.
So, the more esoteric or metaphysical or specialized the article that I'm writing the more likely you might want to save or print out what I have written if it has special meaning for you right then, because often I delete these kinds of articles within 12 to 24 hours depending upon what I sense is the best outcome for everyone. Also, since I am an intuitive I am aware that my readers aren't only in the present but also the future, and whether you believe it or not also in the past because I believe that time travels exists past, present and future. The reason I believe it is the laws of probability. Here is the logical premise that many educated people now believe in worldwide paraphrased:
"If it is possible to invent time travel it has already been done in the past, present or future of some galaxy including our own. If it already has been invented in the past, present or future in any galaxy including our own then there is a 99% or better chance that it is here already and always has been at this point."
So, I think it behooves us all to realize that anything we write or do anytime anywhere is likely recorded in ways most people presently don't believe in and likely witnessed and read and observed by cultures other than earth based cultures of our own timelines. So, when I write I try to keep this in mind on some level or other because likely time travel IS here and always has been at this point and it is just another thing for us to get used to just like we had to learn to live with Bears and alligators and Crocodiles and before that (if there were any humanoids then) dinosaurs.
So, believing in all this is not important. However, allowing for the possibility IS.
So even though this particular school is a prep school that is designed to prepare kids if they want to go to Harvard or Stanford or other Good university, I look at the long run of what it takes in life. And after observing life, (at least in the United States where one can get a college education literally at any age) the single most important thing is to not lose your love of learning. Without that, you cannot accomplish much in life. So, even though my daughter loves her school because there are no drug problems, gang problems or people being beat up for getting A's like when I went to public school in the 1950s and 1960s, she still needs to foster her love of learning so she doesn't burn that out. Because one needs that their whole life to have a good and successful life in all ways.
Also, when I write here at my blog since I'm an intuitive I try to sense what kinds of articles to write and what subjects to write on that would be the most helpful to all those who read my blogs worldwide. So, often I will write something that means a great deal to me personally and then I will get the sense that someone or several people who are reading it aren't prepared for what I've written so I will then go to my blog and delete those entries. It's not that those entries were not good useful and helpful but if your audience that day is just going to be confused or put off by what you have written then what is the point other than that it was fun for me to write whatever I have written and I was very entertained by the writing of it.
So, the more esoteric or metaphysical or specialized the article that I'm writing the more likely you might want to save or print out what I have written if it has special meaning for you right then, because often I delete these kinds of articles within 12 to 24 hours depending upon what I sense is the best outcome for everyone. Also, since I am an intuitive I am aware that my readers aren't only in the present but also the future, and whether you believe it or not also in the past because I believe that time travels exists past, present and future. The reason I believe it is the laws of probability. Here is the logical premise that many educated people now believe in worldwide paraphrased:
"If it is possible to invent time travel it has already been done in the past, present or future of some galaxy including our own. If it already has been invented in the past, present or future in any galaxy including our own then there is a 99% or better chance that it is here already and always has been at this point."
So, I think it behooves us all to realize that anything we write or do anytime anywhere is likely recorded in ways most people presently don't believe in and likely witnessed and read and observed by cultures other than earth based cultures of our own timelines. So, when I write I try to keep this in mind on some level or other because likely time travel IS here and always has been at this point and it is just another thing for us to get used to just like we had to learn to live with Bears and alligators and Crocodiles and before that (if there were any humanoids then) dinosaurs.
So, believing in all this is not important. However, allowing for the possibility IS.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
10 richest in U.S.
quote below from above BBC news site:
TEN RICHEST AMERICANS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | Wealth | Source | Change from 2009 |
| Source: Forbes end quote. For me the surprises in this list were Oracle Head Lawrence Ellison, The Koch brothers and Michael Bloomberg the Mayor of New York. | ||||
| 1 | Bill Gates | $54bn | Microsoft | + $4bn |
| 2 | Warrenn Buffett | $45bn | Berkshire Hathaway | + $5bn |
| 3 | Lawrence Ellison | $27bn | Oracle | No change |
| 4 | Christy Walton & family | $24bn | Wal-Mart | +$2.5bn |
| 5 | Charles Koch | $21.5bn | Manufacturing | +$5.5bn |
| 6 | David Koch | $21.5bn | Manufacturing | +$5.5bn |
| 7 | Jim C Walton | $20.1bn | Wal-Mart | + $500m |
| 8 | Alice Walton | $20bn | Wal-Mart | + $700m |
| 9 | S Robson Walton | $19.7bn | Wal-Mart | + $700m |
| 10 | Michael Bloomberg | $18bn | Bloomberg | + $500m |
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
47% think who controls congress doesn't matter
Poll finds voters' mood on economy is grim -- for both parties
begin quote:
Neither side has convinced a majority of Americans. Fully 47% of those surveyed in the ABC/Yahoo! News poll say it won’t make a difference to the economy whether Democrats or Republicans are in control of Congress.end quote.
The voters aren't dumb. They know that unfortunately both parties are full of it right now. The problems of the world (which people in the U.S. can't really vote on effectively) are the real cause of the financial mess and almost everyone knows that now. Only fools promise to be able to fix those problems and only fools listen to them.
begin quote:
Neither side has convinced a majority of Americans. Fully 47% of those surveyed in the ABC/Yahoo! News poll say it won’t make a difference to the economy whether Democrats or Republicans are in control of Congress.end quote.
The voters aren't dumb. They know that unfortunately both parties are full of it right now. The problems of the world (which people in the U.S. can't really vote on effectively) are the real cause of the financial mess and almost everyone knows that now. Only fools promise to be able to fix those problems and only fools listen to them.
China and Japan Having Difficulties
China premier threatens Japan over boat dispute
Click "China premier" above to read full news article.
I must admit I'm not sure what is going on here. I know China is telling Japan that they must give back the Chinese Boat captain who is guilty of breaking Japanese laws. However, this might be more than it appears to be. For example, this might be because of the "Rape of Nanking" which took place during 1937 during World War II and other difficult histories between Japan and China for thousands of years or it could be like two boys having a tussle over something in High School. Whatever it is about really I think the whole world is watching nervously at this point.
Click "China premier" above to read full news article.
I must admit I'm not sure what is going on here. I know China is telling Japan that they must give back the Chinese Boat captain who is guilty of breaking Japanese laws. However, this might be more than it appears to be. For example, this might be because of the "Rape of Nanking" which took place during 1937 during World War II and other difficult histories between Japan and China for thousands of years or it could be like two boys having a tussle over something in High School. Whatever it is about really I think the whole world is watching nervously at this point.
Jimmy Carter says he was elected by movement like "Tea Party"
'Tea party' movement faces challenge of having no single leader, goal
President Jimmy Carter was on the "Daily Show" last night and mentioned how he would never have been elected except for a backlash anti-incumbant movement when he became president in 1976. The people who elected him were protesting Nixon, the Kennedy Assasinations, Martin Luther King's Assasination, Watergate, Viet Nam etc. then in 1976. It is interesting that he compared the movement that elected him in 1976 to the one now that is upset about 9-11, Globalization problems, no jobs because of globalization etc.
I don't presently see the Tea party not having a single leader as a problem because they have people like Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell. The problem I see is Billionaire's like the Koch brothers hijacking the anger of real people in the "Tea Party" to make money for their businesses by manipulating legislation like they are trying right now in California and have already succeeded in defeating "Don't Ask Don't Tell." on a Federal level.
President Jimmy Carter was on the "Daily Show" last night and mentioned how he would never have been elected except for a backlash anti-incumbant movement when he became president in 1976. The people who elected him were protesting Nixon, the Kennedy Assasinations, Martin Luther King's Assasination, Watergate, Viet Nam etc. then in 1976. It is interesting that he compared the movement that elected him in 1976 to the one now that is upset about 9-11, Globalization problems, no jobs because of globalization etc.
I don't presently see the Tea party not having a single leader as a problem because they have people like Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell. The problem I see is Billionaire's like the Koch brothers hijacking the anger of real people in the "Tea Party" to make money for their businesses by manipulating legislation like they are trying right now in California and have already succeeded in defeating "Don't Ask Don't Tell." on a Federal level.
Electrical Corona Dna Damage?
I'm simply posing a useful question here. I don't really have answers mostly questions. However, ever since my father passed away after having prostate cancer which moved into bladder and kidney cancer and after he had prostate, bladder and kidney removed he lived one year almost to the date of his operations and died of bone cancer which metastisized from all the above.
Since no one ever in either of my parents families had ever died of this I looked for other causes because my father was a vegetarian since 1934 (lacto-ovo) and a health culturist and student of Paul Bragg which was also Jack LaLane's teacher. I realized like my father said that likely exposure to 130,000 volts nearby and the resulting corona that before electrical shielding and digital radio transmissions used to cause radios in cars to go to full static anytime we drove under any powerline anywhere while listening to the radio in the 1950s, 1960s and before and in some places after until their cars radio had proper shielding from electrical coronas or the radio transmissions shifted from analog to digital or usually both.
Since my father the last 8 years of his life worked on building the Encina power plant under an active 130,000 volt transmission line most everyone who actually thought about it including my father recognized he was dying from High Electrical Corona exposure. Since then I tend to think about what electrical coronas, cell phone transmissions, wifi transmissions and especially what driving in an Electrical Hybrid or full electric car is actually doing to the people who ride in them. My cousin's wife has a hybrid Lexus SUV and loves it. And whenever I have spoken to her about this she says, "I'm in my late 60s and if it takes a few years off my life and gives my kids more years of a good life then I'm okay with lessening my lifetime by driving in a hybrid car."
So, I would say this is why the majority of people who drive hybrids are not young they are over 45. Because people who know about coronas or what cell phone transmissions next to a human brain can do realize the problems potentially both of genetic damage but also of potential cancers(especially brain cancers) and even problems we haven't heard about yet because they haven't been traced to a cell phone or Hybrid or living near the 1000 volt to 130,000 volt or more electrical transmission lines.
To me, it is sort of like nuclear radiation. If you are exposed to a little of it and then get away from it likely you will be fine. However, if you are constantly exposed to it. Say, if one particle of radiated dust remained in your lungs because you breathed it in, 20 or 30 years later you likely would die from that one particle lodged in your lungs.
Likewise, if one only used a cell phone next to their head once or twice it likely wouldn't cause serious damage. But, over 20, 30 or 40 years (especially if you are a lady that likes to speak over 20 words at a time, for example) talking very easily could be the death of you or at least the brain impairment, or psychological disability of you over time. And the same is true of hybrid cars and trucks. Possibly cancers, like prostate or leucemia (cancer of the blood cells) or other as yet unknown cancers and health problems could result.
And then, of course, anyone, any company that makes any of these things is bound to spend millions to suppress any of this information worldwide so you don't have enough information to make good choices in the first place. This is the actual world we live in.
Since no one ever in either of my parents families had ever died of this I looked for other causes because my father was a vegetarian since 1934 (lacto-ovo) and a health culturist and student of Paul Bragg which was also Jack LaLane's teacher. I realized like my father said that likely exposure to 130,000 volts nearby and the resulting corona that before electrical shielding and digital radio transmissions used to cause radios in cars to go to full static anytime we drove under any powerline anywhere while listening to the radio in the 1950s, 1960s and before and in some places after until their cars radio had proper shielding from electrical coronas or the radio transmissions shifted from analog to digital or usually both.
Since my father the last 8 years of his life worked on building the Encina power plant under an active 130,000 volt transmission line most everyone who actually thought about it including my father recognized he was dying from High Electrical Corona exposure. Since then I tend to think about what electrical coronas, cell phone transmissions, wifi transmissions and especially what driving in an Electrical Hybrid or full electric car is actually doing to the people who ride in them. My cousin's wife has a hybrid Lexus SUV and loves it. And whenever I have spoken to her about this she says, "I'm in my late 60s and if it takes a few years off my life and gives my kids more years of a good life then I'm okay with lessening my lifetime by driving in a hybrid car."
So, I would say this is why the majority of people who drive hybrids are not young they are over 45. Because people who know about coronas or what cell phone transmissions next to a human brain can do realize the problems potentially both of genetic damage but also of potential cancers(especially brain cancers) and even problems we haven't heard about yet because they haven't been traced to a cell phone or Hybrid or living near the 1000 volt to 130,000 volt or more electrical transmission lines.
To me, it is sort of like nuclear radiation. If you are exposed to a little of it and then get away from it likely you will be fine. However, if you are constantly exposed to it. Say, if one particle of radiated dust remained in your lungs because you breathed it in, 20 or 30 years later you likely would die from that one particle lodged in your lungs.
Likewise, if one only used a cell phone next to their head once or twice it likely wouldn't cause serious damage. But, over 20, 30 or 40 years (especially if you are a lady that likes to speak over 20 words at a time, for example) talking very easily could be the death of you or at least the brain impairment, or psychological disability of you over time. And the same is true of hybrid cars and trucks. Possibly cancers, like prostate or leucemia (cancer of the blood cells) or other as yet unknown cancers and health problems could result.
And then, of course, anyone, any company that makes any of these things is bound to spend millions to suppress any of this information worldwide so you don't have enough information to make good choices in the first place. This is the actual world we live in.
bacha posh
“bacha posh,” which literally means “dressed up as a boy” in Dari. It is the practice of cutting a girls hair short so she looks like a boy and sending her into school or out into public like this in Afghanistan. It is a somewhat similar response of "wanting a boy child" that one sees also in China and throughout Asia. In this way a girl can be educated like a boy until she becomes a young woman and she can "magically" in the culture of Afghanistan evoke the birth of a son. To read more about this interesting cultural phenomenon please click on:
Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part
Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part
Foreclosure isn't the only thing happening
A friend was recently telling me a southern California story. But the same thing is happening in Nevada, Arizona, Florida and many if not most other States in the U.S.
The reason this story is important is that it affects someone whose businesses are still doing well. But it is happening to them because of the changes to society over the last few years.
This family is over 45 or 50. They are financially stable even in these times. They bought a nice home for around 300,000 dollars about 5 years ago in Southern California. However, within the last two months someone out of work or on the streets for too long broke into their home and stole about $50,000 in goods. Now the family, disheartened by this violation decided to sell their home immediately so those people don't break into their home again. However, they found out upon doing research that they are underwater because they had no down payment when they bought the house. So, they short sold their home and there was a bidding war and someone purchased it for 200,000 dollars so the bank loses 100,000 dollars and the person whose name it is in loses their credit for a while. But no one goes bankrupt and everyone stays solvent. This sort of thing is being repeated thousands of times across the U.S. all the time now. So all these banks that have to eat a 100,000 dollar or more loss caused actually because of people becoming criminals and breaking into other people's houses because they have lost their jobs and can't find another one. These are the times we live in.
However, all you people out of work out there who actually have the time to read my blogs. Just remember that Steven Jobs started Apple Computer in his garage with Steve Wozniak around 1980 which also had 10% unemployment just like now. In 1903 Harley Davidson began in a barn. By 1905 they had made 11 motorcycles. By 1908 they had sold 154 and they had a company.
Also around the time of Apple Computer, Bill Gates purchased a programming code from Digital Research in Pacific Grove, California which was called CP/M which was an MS-DOS compatible, and then tinkered with it and sold the rights to parts of it to IBM which they then used on the first IBM personal Computer in 1981. But by only selling licensing rights to IBM he was able to sell the software over and over again to all personal computer owners including all the IBM clones made all over the world by hundreds of companies and a whole new software industry was born. He is now (and has been for some time) one of the richest men on earth.
So, it is times like these right now that incredible businesses tend to start and really change the whole world.
So now is the time to start some business in your garage or barn while you still have one!
The reason this story is important is that it affects someone whose businesses are still doing well. But it is happening to them because of the changes to society over the last few years.
This family is over 45 or 50. They are financially stable even in these times. They bought a nice home for around 300,000 dollars about 5 years ago in Southern California. However, within the last two months someone out of work or on the streets for too long broke into their home and stole about $50,000 in goods. Now the family, disheartened by this violation decided to sell their home immediately so those people don't break into their home again. However, they found out upon doing research that they are underwater because they had no down payment when they bought the house. So, they short sold their home and there was a bidding war and someone purchased it for 200,000 dollars so the bank loses 100,000 dollars and the person whose name it is in loses their credit for a while. But no one goes bankrupt and everyone stays solvent. This sort of thing is being repeated thousands of times across the U.S. all the time now. So all these banks that have to eat a 100,000 dollar or more loss caused actually because of people becoming criminals and breaking into other people's houses because they have lost their jobs and can't find another one. These are the times we live in.
However, all you people out of work out there who actually have the time to read my blogs. Just remember that Steven Jobs started Apple Computer in his garage with Steve Wozniak around 1980 which also had 10% unemployment just like now. In 1903 Harley Davidson began in a barn. By 1905 they had made 11 motorcycles. By 1908 they had sold 154 and they had a company.
Also around the time of Apple Computer, Bill Gates purchased a programming code from Digital Research in Pacific Grove, California which was called CP/M which was an MS-DOS compatible, and then tinkered with it and sold the rights to parts of it to IBM which they then used on the first IBM personal Computer in 1981. But by only selling licensing rights to IBM he was able to sell the software over and over again to all personal computer owners including all the IBM clones made all over the world by hundreds of companies and a whole new software industry was born. He is now (and has been for some time) one of the richest men on earth.
So, it is times like these right now that incredible businesses tend to start and really change the whole world.
So now is the time to start some business in your garage or barn while you still have one!
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