Just when I think there is a suitable, intelligent reasonable man directing this great country – the news comes that the President is in favor of opening the arctic north [Alaska] to oil drilling and exploration. I thought that after the major debacle in the Gulf of Mexico, it alone would be evidence enough to cease any further exploration and drilling any effin’ where!!! Add to that, the most recent debacle in Japan with their nuclear electric generation plants. Ok, is it just me or can we not agree that humankind still lacks the knowledge to efficiently manage our earthly resources?
If you haven’t tried to get from point A to point B lately by means other than your gas-guzzling, air we breathe polluter called an auto…consider this;
Try it! While it is still an option so you will have a good idea how insanely difficult it becomes having to depend on other transportation to get from A to B, and then back again.

Oh sure we can all bury our heads in the sand and convince ourselves that the ecological problems will fall on generations to come… really?
We are drilling/fracking/exploring into our earth as we have done with credit without care, or foresight. Awww I have heard all those naysayers speak of global warming yadda, yadda – they don’t know for sure. Really?

I’m asking all members of this planet to contact your congressional reps, or contact our President directly and halt this effin madness of fossil fuel burning – let’s initiate the change NOW to cleaner methods of transport. Instead of opening up our truly precious ecological areas such as Prudhoe Bay in the arctic range, use that money/effort to development of one or many alternatives.
Or simply do nothing. I mean, what the hell, right? It’s consequence will fall on future generations.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-alaska-20110514,0,749716.story

Damn I need a drink…

Saturday came quickly – the forecast was for rain in the afternoon/evening. But this was no ordinary Saturday, no. This was a day of enlightenment technically speaking that is. For this Saturday was PodCamp 2011 at Cadillac Ranch downtown on Broadway and 4th Avenue. Sessions on mobile marketing, incorporating video into website as marketing tool, importance of QR codes and SMS text marketing, how to tie together all the available social media tools to improve the marketing to the masses… Ohhh it was wonderful, well, except for lunch – that sorta sucked. But the brain food was amazing and plentiful – hay and it was free! I will be busy assembling what I learned into my box of marketing tools and I’m confident this new information can and will help me provide more quality to my existing services. I will develop an overview and post it here by the end of the week. If you have a chance to attend next year I recommend it highly.

Seems these days of huge Executive salaries and unfunded pensions, embezzled investment schemes and federal tax dollars used to bail-out failing banks that it should be an automatic service for employees to have access to background information of their future employers before spending the next 30 years of their life serving them – including state and federal govt as employers. I don’t mean just background information about when the company started and who the principal owners are. Nope! That’s not enough. Employees should have access to how this business began, where the funds were obtained, what the credit scores of the principal owners is now and what it was when the business was started. Any criminal information including immediate family criminal history – I mean, how fair would it be to subject ourselves as employees to an underlying family feud just to be possibly gunned down at the workplace because our luck was bad?
If those state governments had been required to report on the state of their promised pension plans to the voting public every year the information of underfunding could have been fixed by people that care and who are represented effectively could make necessary adjustments by vote if necessary to ensure these pension plans remained solvent and fully funded.
On the federal side, over the years our federal government has allowed funds from the Social Security Trust to be allocated toward other budget uses all the while promising that it would replace in a short time what has been taken. That has now destroyed our Social Security Trust – well it will be empty in a short time. The youth of our great country has not a care about SST and for most of them would claim we have more important things to do besides dealing with the old people. OUCH!
Last time I looked, America is still a country that we all own a stake in. If we the people are to be represented by a government we vote in to an office sworn to abide by rules of governance – we need to fix this discrepancy immediately. Never should OUR govt have the power to alter laws to benefit big corporations OVER the good of the people it serves!!!! NEVER!
Or maybe a revolution is in order in our country. Maybe so.

It has always amazed me that the film industry in this country never fails to keep all its scheduled ‘red carpet’ events of which accolades are showered onto the studios, the actors, the producers/directors. OMG. Enough already! Maybe if they reduced the number of award shows to one or two, they could then use all the money spent on all the other award shows they throw within any given year on reducing the cost of the viewing experience – after all, it is us – joe q. public whose hard earned dollars are spent to be entertained even for a brief time and it is these hard earned dollars that pay the $20 million dollar salaries of the leading man & woman of each motion picture.
Seems funny that cheaper factory workers are found overseas – which has put many, many people out of work in this country yet we feed a tiny industry with almost all the fruits of our labors. I feel we should demand more in return for this business model we support.
And as for the charitable exploits of this same industry – how about shoring up the needs all around your base station of operations. No need to find some poor third world enclave to enhance your giving generosity. No, just take a drive there around Los Angeles or New York City or Chicago and I promise there are plenty of deserving organizations that could use an influx of money to accommodate more services for those less fortunate.
Lastly this is for the studios, how about backing the production of films that don’t involve police, or DNA detectives or lawyers or judges. We already have a television chocked full of all that crap. The motion pictures should be entertainment – provide an escape from day-to-day. If there are so many people who are requesting these sorts of films then I guess it’s time for a film revolution in this country. Maybe an all out boycott of the motion picture industry is in order. Damn we could use Facebook & Twitter. Oh Damn.

The mid-term elections are completed here in the US and I sense the past two years have been a huge 360 degree circle. That is, except for those measures taken on by our president such as health care reform, an attempt at economy stimulus and financial markets/car industry bailouts. As I recall the president pledged to succeed in legislating steps to reform health care based on Americans claiming their insurance companies were refusing coverages for pre-existing conditions, medications are too expensive especially for our senior population and some insurance companies were canceling coverage altogether. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, previous presidents nor sessions of Congress were ever able to tackle this subject and successfully pass legislation to act as a baseline for total health care reform until President Obama.
As for the auto industry, our government stepped in and financed a bailout package preventing what would have been hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the auto industry.
Another financial package was issued to major banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to prevent their total collapse and the consequent collapse of the US market economy. This act alone prevented a major economic depression which would have dwarfed that which happened in the 1930′s.
The ugly side of all the aforementioned is the actual process in getting legislation passed such as deal-making, back-scratching, last-minute earmarks just to name a few.

Take a minute and review your senator or representative earmarks

This last ugly activity is the one which I feel causes the most immediate feeling of the need to vomit – last-minute earmarks. Stop this insanity. This one sited activity should be reason enough to mandate our government be overhauled and the sooner the better. Or like some of those in Congress, we can just sit back and wait.