Saturday, January 29, 2011
Egypt
And for the reason that I have been reading about that state of Cairo, Egypt, the Middle East and its unrest in the news a lot lately these past few days, those thoughts of Israel becoming a nation, foreign policy, that seven year peace treaty deal with Israel and that seven year tribulation thing comes to mind. And so I thought to post this "Birds" post again that I posted on this blog sometime a while ago.
Hey again bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. So what's up with all of those birds that have been falling from the sky and fish that have been dying in the sea by the thousands in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, China, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Australia, UK, Haiti, Wales, Arizona, Texas, Turkey, California, Tennessee, Romania, Maryland, South Carolina, South Dakota, Chicago, New York, Colorado, Ohio, Missouri, California, Kansas, Alabama, the Caspian Sea, the Amazon, and Florida in the past few days according to those headline news of the day. Though this list of places seems to be updating itself daily for some reason or another.
And now what's up with Egypt. And then those fanaticism thoughts and theories seem to come to mind. Is it the fireworks, the weather, the water, Nostradamus and his Armageddon, apocalyptic and end of the world and time doomsday revelation predictions? Is there some prophet to explain this in prophecy? Does Wikipedia, that internet bible dictionary have an entry for this dead bird, dead fish and Egypt scenario? Is it 2012 and the mayan calendar is ending yet or something? Is it that May 21, 2011 judgement day family radio rapture thing? Is it world war III yet? Is it that wormwood BP Gulf of Mexico Exxon oil spill again? Is it Novartis and that save no man that he may buy or sell except that he have that mark of the beast thing? And what's that anyway? Is the antichrist here or on its way or something? Is it haarp microwaving the earth? And what's that again? Is it CERN and the poles shifting? And what's that all about? Is it chemtrails? What's that? Is it hydrofracking drilling the earth? Is it super nova solar flares? And what are those yet again? Is it that Hopi prophecy? And what's a hopi prophecy? Is it the stone age, church age, millennium age, kali yuga age or aquarius age or something? Is it that new world order thing? Is it that Damascus phase where Israel wants or gets their promised land back or something? And what's that all about? Is it that milky way, center of the universe, planets being in some sort of trinity alignment, black hole, big bang theory thing? And what's that trinity triangle anyway? The head of Christ or the mark of the beast, or neither? And will every eye see it? Is it that printing of an endless dollar, inflation and a world economy? Is it the order of a new world? And what's that? Is it that Israel becoming a nation, tribulation and rapture thing? Could it be a united Arab nation? Will pharaoh let his people go? And what's that seven year peace treaty in Israel deal that was signed in 2010 all about anyway?
And would any of this Egypt or bird stuff be happening if Abraham's wife didn't banish Hagar and Ishmael to the desert to die? And did that December 21, 2010 lunar eclipse do something when the crescent moon turned red or something? Is solar radiation on its way to planet earth and its magnetosphere? Is it planet X Nibiru or comet Elenin on the horizon or something? Is Babylon on fire or something? Is it the ufo's flying around Temple Mount, dome of the rock? And does anyone know what that's all about. And is Russia, Georgia and that gog and magog thing in this somewhere? And what's that all about? Is it that mahdi messiah thing. And what's that? Is it an east west, north south thing? Is it global warming or global cooling? Have the north and south poles shifted yet? And are the birds flying north instead of south in those changing magnetic fields these days and times? Is this the canary in the coal mine aflockalypse and fishapocalypse? Is this a scene on earth from one of those Hitchcock movies? Are the bees still disappearing? And what are the bats doing? Is it technology information overload in a world interconnected via internet? And what about those cows, seals, octopuses, whales, dolphins, the mammals, that are dying in Wisconsin, Vietnam, India, New Zealand, Portugal and maybe other places?
Are these normal and natural occurrences? Is there some some sort of guru to answer this question? What's up with that? And a third of the sea became blood. If you believe.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Profit
And so this posts seems as if it has something to do with money, gold. And I have heard it said that power and authority breeds corruption. And I have also heard it said that for the love of money is the root of all evil and while some have coveted after they have pierced themselves through with many arrows and sorrows. And what profit does a man have if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. Or something like that. And if only it were possible to exist in life on planet earth for free without that constant struggle for having to attain that thing called money just to exist. And so this post happens to be about Wicked Profits of which I guess has something to do with making money in a pyramid of capitalist society, maybe. And what does that word capitalism mean anyway? And so what else is there that I can say about this word profit that has not already been said in time, except profit also seems as if it has something to do with the money market, wall street and the stock exchange, and also that film "Money Never Sleeps". And if you happen to be looking for those wicked profits, finding them can be just a website visit away.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Random Thoughts
And for some reason I thought to post a photo of that Mayan calendar in this blog post even though it seems to have nothing to do with this blog post. And in between listening to those latest news headline news of the day, I find myself attempting to blah blog those blagher thoughts that have found themselves accumulating in this bloggerlog that I keep thinking I am going to blog one day in that attempt to maintain content for this blog whenever possible. And so this is that attempt to get rid of some of those scribbled papers with some those blogger thoughts with those topics and comments of:
"Digital death, computer errors kill a person via social security number." "Parents get paid for ritalin prescriptions for their kids in school." Hugh?, Psychiatry Kills. Abolish forced involuntary psych cia trick treatment. "Fluorescent light bulbs are mandatory in Canada and incandescent light bulbs are outlawed. "Hugh again? And aren't those fluorescent lite bulbs Lucifer giving off radiation or something? "Earth has the word death in it." "New York, that city of sin, I think. Where if you stand still in the middle of the sidewalk you can get run over by the highway of humanity running by and if you stand still in the subway, same thing. "People use embalming fluid for drugs?", "The Murder Channel, and I think there really is a television program channel called the murder channel, seems as if it can create murders and murderous environments in households across america". And what has happened to the morals and values of society to where a network can name itself the murder channel. "Security guards in Shoprite in some of those cities in North America stand around with guns? In a supermarket? What's up with that? "The age of Aquarius, television, vision of evil, life, live, vile" Not sure for what reason I scribbled that random thought down. "R.O.T.C. teaches one to learn to play with guns and rifles in school while wearing one of those green army with badges all over them like uniforms. And what does R.O.T.C. stand for anyway? Oh, according to the internet, Reserve Officer Training Corps, who can have one standing at attention so much while holding one of those rifles unknowingly, that one could pass out. And guns are the worst invention ever. "Kids are taking sex ed classes in 4th grade at ages 14, 11 and even 9 which seems too young and at earlier ages than ever to learn about sex. Overheard that one on a bus. "$1.60 for a cup of hot water at McDonalds?". How much has inflation risen? And someone was actually charged one dollar and sixty cents for a cup of hot water at McDonalds. They seem to be charging for that hot water as if it is a cup of coffee or something. What's that all about? I think the cold water there is free though. And what do those two yellow and red arches mean for McDonald's anyway, anything? "It seems as if people in transit in cars are all staring at cell phones or those blue light gps like telescreens with numbers and letters on them as if in a trance or something. "It seems as if every other commercial on television is a diabetes of diabetes tester commercial advertising those products for diabetes as if they should be fashionable to wear or use or something". And for what reason does the word diabetes sound like diablo, the devil in Spanish, I think. "Did that oil and gas company BP buy all of the gas stations across that country of North America or something?". As it seems as if every one of those independent mom and pop gas station shops have all now turned into British Petroleum gas stations. A BP yellow and green seemingly wormwood Nation. "No firearms or other weapons allowed on this property". Where is one at and what does it mean when one encounters this sign posted on some building somewhere? And guns are the worst invention ever. If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth. "Change the law for probation, one year of probation is given for probation equals one year in jail if one day of probation is missed. Or something like that. Is that one of those Rockefeller laws? And what's a Rockefeller law anyway? In anarchy the rules are there are no rules, I think. And when justice ends tyranny begins. "What's a Mason Dixon line?". "Don't hate the player, hate the game". Overheard someone say. "Can I travel without a wallet?". That's an interesting question to me. And I overheard someone say that one also. For what reason to bail out the auto industry, as if the world needs another car. And for what reason did I write that one down? "Beware of your surroundings, report suspicious behavior to NJ police". And for some reason this prerecorded seemingly to torture one throughout their whole ride of going ones way reminds me of those big brother "If you see something, say something" seemingly terrorizing its riders in their ears while going their way with seemingly non stop messages throughout their system. And for what reason does that NYC MTA seemingly flood its system with more nypd transit bureau officers than subway riders. If only those bus and transit fares were free. And for what reason again are those machine gun wielding polizei department of New York polizei standing around in that Port Authority Bus Terminal to be found in that city of New York brandishing guns that look like they weigh a million pounds as if awaiting world war three. And then one is supposed to walk by this scenario , keep moving and maybe pretend not to notice a scene reminiscent of a war zone or something. And again, guns are the worst invention ever. If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth. "Is there a switch to turn off the world wide web?". And what would life be like if that world wide web did not exist anymore. Would the world be able to function without that web these days and times?". "For what reason is the bar b que summer aisle located right next to the Christmas aisle in the store?". For what reason are Christmas movies on television in the month of September? For what reason is that maybe an advertising, marketing and shopping calendar skipping Thanksgiving and Halloween and speeding up the holidays to where they all run into each other. "Gossip". What does that word mean? Idle talk, secrets, rumors, gossip tabloids, celebrity gossip fodder. TMZ, Enquirer, soap opera and the page sixes of the world. I heard it said that and so on and so on and so on. Is it true? No one is free when others are oppressed. And so there seems to be one of those long, winding, random thoughts blaghed on this day. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Improve This Home
Hey again bloggers, do you happen to find yourself as one of those human being dwellers here on planet earth in need of that basic necessity called shelter, as in a home or some other type of dwelling that protects one from the elements of outside. Well, most everyone I know of usually has one of those things called a home. And along with that home sometimes comes the concept of who's going to take care of and maintain that home. Who's gonna improve that home. And with that question comes a host of companies that can help you improve that home with their home improvement services. And sometimes those home repairs can be non stop and never ending, as in the never ending home repair project, maybe. And so Residential flooring happens to be one of those home improvement services to be found out there in internetland and beyond. And if you have one of those homes, you may sometimes find yourself in search of tiles, vinyl, hardwood flooring or some other kind of material to put on that floor for you to walk on. And so what else is there that I can say about that topic of home improvement that has not already been said in time. Well, if you happen to be looking for that home repair or home improvement item, finding it online has never been easier.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Freebie
If it's free, then it's for me, maybe. So I've heard someone say throughout my travels here on planet earth. If only everything in life was free. And who's idea was it that that set up to survive in life required the constant struggle to attain that thing called money to exist as one of those human beings is it anyway? Or something like that. And so this post happens to be about free samples. You know, stuff that you can get for free without having to pay for it, or free stuff. And so apparently at FreeCatcher.com you can find free cell phones some kind of way or another. And that phrase free cell phones that I just typed sounds so interesting that I want to look for that free cell phone as soon as I finish typing this blog entry. And it seems like one can find all kinds of freebie products and samples by mail at that website such as free movies, free games and more from all kinds of different categories such as apparel, computers, food, home, internet, office, travel and a whole lot more. And what better way to get those products for free online without ever having to leave home, or at least without ever having to leave one of those computers. As now finding that freebie can be just a website visit away.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Top 11 Reasons The Animals Are Dying
Okay, and in between reading those Australia, Brazil, Arizona and other current event headlines of the day, I've been reading a lot about those birds and fish that have been dying in the skies and seas and that have been in the news a lot lately, so much that I came across this post on one of those birdaholic websites to be found in internetland as follows:
2+2=5
Top 11 Reasons the Animals are dying
Fireworks
Indigestion
Mass suicide
It's too Cold
Virus or Flu
They were drunk
Got caught in updrafts
Blunt Trauma
They got confused
Old and died at the same time
It is just natural and normal
This has absolutely nothing to do with it
oil leaking from the Gulf floor
animals dying without explanation
bee colonies collapsing
magnetosphere collapsing
compasses being off
the North Pole moving towards Russia
Increase in earthquakes, floods, volcanic actiity
Perfectly round "sinkholes"
Sun turning white
Chemtrailing
It's all perfectly normal.
Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Market This Business
Hey again bloggers, and this seems to be another one of those posts that happens to be business, business and more business, marketing, advertising and more marketing and more business, money and more money, and internet, technology and more internet everything to be found in those seemingly internet everything days. And do you happen to be looking for a business website for some reason or another? You know, one of those websites that has something to do with business. Well if you do, you can find one of those domain names for your website on the internet so that you can find yourself in that domain name game for business. You can find someone to host that small business website or business website on the world wide web. Now with just a website visit away, one can find domain registration, web design, online marketing and a host of other tools when it comes to having one of those websites to be found in internet land. And who would have thought that one day this space age like invention thing called the internet would come along and change the way of the world we live in with communications, social media, web 2.0 user generated content, information overload and the like. As now finding that website that one may be looking for can be just a website visit away.
SEO Up This Website
Google. And I would think that everyone must have heard of that website and search engine called Google by now in these internet everything information overload ten second attention span technology days. And it seems as if so many people may have heard of that word these days an times in internetland that the phrases "google me" and "google this" and "google that" have become commonplace, maybe. And who would have thought that the day would come along where everyone or at least a lot of people would have one of those personal computers to do personal computing on in a seemingly superman space like Jetsons cartoon day and time. And so along comes the phrase search marketing agency. And so what does that phrase exactly mean? Well, it seems as if it has something to do with search engine optimization. As in seo up this website to where it can be found on page one of those search engines for everyone to read that website and get lots and lots of readers instead of that website being found in the search engine graveyard on page one thousand and one to where that website may not get lots and lots of readers. And if you happen to be looking for one of those help me to find that website online websites online, finding it can be just a website visit away.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
This Business
And sometimes the world can be about, money, money, money and more money. Money, money, business and more money. And so this post not only happens to be about that thing called money that seems as if it wants to make the world go around, though this post also happens to be about company checks, as in I guess checks that are for a company. And what would those companies and businesses be like without those checks. And so if you happen to have one of those businesses, you may sometimes find yourself in search or need of things to operate that company such as envelopes, labels, postcards or any other objects that that business may want to do business. And in other thoughts, for what reason does the word business sound like busyness as in to keep busy doing something I guess. And so what else is there that I can say about that word business that has not already been said in time. And if you happen to be looking for those office chairs, office tables, stamps, paper, notebooks or any other item that makes your business look like a business, now with the invention of all things internet, finding them online without ever having to leave home, or at least without ever having to leave a computer has never been easier.
North America
And I am not sure I am running out of things to blah blog about when I post posts as the one below in what I would call that blaghers block in that attempt to maintain content for this blog whenever possible. And this is one of those posts that found its way in my email inbox from someone who sent it to someone who sent it to someone else who went it to someone else and so on and so on and so on that I thought to repost because hey, it's less writing sometimes. Whether this emails finds itself true or not I am not sure. No one is free when others are oppressed. Is another world possible. And this is one of those emails and posts that seems as if it wants to speak for itself.
What Do You Get If You Enter A Country Illegally ?
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard
labor.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from
again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy
and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Mexican borders illegally you will jailed for two years.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political
prison to rot.
If you cross the United States border illegally you get:
1 - A job (that used to belong to a legal American)
2 - A driver's license
3 - A Social Security card
4 - Welfare
5 - Food stamps
6 - Credit cards
7 - Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house
8 - Free education
9 - Free health care
10 - A lobbyist in Washington
11 - Billions of dollars in public documents printed in your language
12 - Millions of servicemen and women who are willing to - and do - die for your right to the ways and means of our constitution
13 - And the right to carry the flag of your country - the one you walked
out on - while you call America racist and protest that you don't get enough respect.
What Do You Get If You Enter A Country Illegally ?
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard
labor.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from
again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy
and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Mexican borders illegally you will jailed for two years.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political
prison to rot.
If you cross the United States border illegally you get:
1 - A job (that used to belong to a legal American)
2 - A driver's license
3 - A Social Security card
4 - Welfare
5 - Food stamps
6 - Credit cards
7 - Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house
8 - Free education
9 - Free health care
10 - A lobbyist in Washington
11 - Billions of dollars in public documents printed in your language
12 - Millions of servicemen and women who are willing to - and do - die for your right to the ways and means of our constitution
13 - And the right to carry the flag of your country - the one you walked
out on - while you call America racist and protest that you don't get enough respect.
Monday, January 10, 2011
A Showcase
And though this post does not happen to be about that phrase music showcase, it does happen to be about the phrase trophy display cases, as in those glass cases that can display those trophy's. And there is also those glass cases that are usually found in stores and other retail places that can usually display all kinds of things such as jewelry and other things that are passing me by. And so what else is there that I can say about these display cases that has not already been said in time that I find myself blogging about for some reason or another. Well usually those display cases come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes and some of them can be really interesting to look at. As what would those stores be like without those counter tops for those storage spaces, as I would imagine that a lot of those items would just be all over the floors, maybe, or something like that. And so now with the invention of all things internet, one can view and shop for those display cases without ever leaving home, or at least without ever having to leave a computer, as now finding those showcases can be just a website visit away.
Review This Website
Hey again bloggers, and every so often I find myself blogging about the world of technology and the age of the internet, the webhostinghub review, hosts for those websites, and finding reviews for those host my website websites all on one website to save one the time of having to web surf around on seemingly a million different websites to compare them all. And in case you haven't heard, it all seems to be about the internet these world wide web days and times. And along with that internet comes along a lot of different websites to look at, you know those pages one can view, look at and change around on those computers, something like a television with one of those blue screens with moving images and sound on them. And so if you happen to be looking to have one of those websites, or make one yourself, along comes those web host providers, that can usually provide one with a name for their website in the domain name game. And one can also read those reviews for those web host providers to sometimes save oneself from the guessing of that host my website thing. And so now again with the invention of all things internet, finding that host my website website can be just a website visit away.
Recycle This Product
Recycle this product. Go green, its the new thing. Save the environment, save the world. Global warming, sustainability, environmental consciousness, and a host of other words when it comes to recycling products and saving planet earth. And so this post happens to be about crt recycling and recycling those waste products to use over and over again to save the world from that garbage patch of plastic that finds itself in the middle of the ocean floating around somewhere. And it seems as if just about every other item humanity uses these days and times can be recycled, everything from clothes and electronics to bags and a host of other items that are passing me by. And what better way to help save the world than reusing those products and items that are to be found on planet earth in a world seemingly bent on buy, buy and buy more items to fill up the world and its space in a consumerism throwaway society, then to recycle. And if you happen to be looking to recycle those products or for ideas on how to recycle those products, you can find those ideas on the internet with just a website visit away.
Arizona
Arizona, gun violence and crime finds itself in the news on this day. And what would happen if there were no crime today, yesterday or tomorrow, would a lot of people be out of a job? The fact that another person has lost their life to gun violence, yesterday, today and tomorrow with no end in sight, for no reason at all except for the fact that guns have been invented. And though the names may change, the death industry game seems to remain the same. As it seems to be an industry that feeds upon itself. The film noir, marketing and advertising of guns and gun violence in all forms of media advertising that breeds gun violence which breeds crime, which breeds news stories about crime which breeds more marketing for crime and images of violence etc. And for what reason do crime dramas and images of gun violence make up about what seems like ninety nine percent of programming on American television. Does not advertising and programming influence and program society. Guns are the worst invention ever. If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth. And what would happen if all of those criminal, civil, supreme, federal, local and other kinds of court houses here on planet earth for this industry of crime would close tomorrow? Would even more people be out of a job? And is war a money racket. And who can stop the war. No one is free when others are oppressed. And I am one blogger. And of a seemingly bazillion news articles that always seem to focus on the personality of the person who has a gun instead of gun control, below in one article from the New York Times on this day that addresses the problem of gun control and gun violence instead of someones personality who has that gun that I thought to repost. No one is free when others are oppressed. Is another world possible. And what, if anything does this have to do with a No Police State?
A Right to Bear Glocks?
In 2009, "someone" was holding a “Congress on Your Corner” meeting at a Safeway supermarket in her district when a protester, who was waving a sign that said “Don’t Tread on Me,” waved a little too strenuously. The pistol he was carrying under his armpit fell out of his holster.
“It bounced. That concerned me, the father of one of "someones" college interns at the time, told me then. He had been at the event and had gotten a larger vision than he had anticipated of what a career in politics entailed. “I just thought, ‘What would happen if it had gone off? Could my daughter have gotten hurt?’ ”
"someone" brushed off the incident. “When you represent a district — the home of the O.K. Corral and Tombstone, the town too tough to die — nothing’s a surprise,” she said. At the time, it struck me as an interesting attempt to meld crisis control with a promotion of local tourist attractions.
Now, of course, the district has lost more people in a shooting in a shopping center parking lot than died at the gunfight of the O.K. Corral, and the story of the dropped pistol has a tragically different cast.
In soft-pedaling that 2009 encounter, "someone" was doing a balancing act that she’d perfected during her political career as a rather progressive Democrat in a increasingly conservative state. She was the spunky Western girl with a populist agenda mixed with down-home values, one of which was opposition to gun control. But those protesters had been following her around for a while. Her staff members were clearly scared for her, and they put me in touch with Ruiz, who told me the story.
Back then, the amazing thing about the incident in the supermarket parking lot was that the guy with a handgun in his armpit was not arrested. Since then, Arizona has completely eliminated the whole concept of requiring a concealed weapon permit. Last year, it got 2 points out of a possible 100 in "someones" Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence state score card, avoiding a zero only because its Legislature has not — so far — voted to force colleges to let people bring their guns on campuses.
Today, the amazing thing about the reaction to the "someones" shooting is that virtually all the discussion about how to prevent a recurrence has been focusing on improving the tone of our political discourse. That would certainly be great. But you do not hear much about the fact that "someone" came to "someones" sweet gathering with a semiautomatic weapon that he was able to buy legally because the law restricting their sale expired in 2004 and Congress did not have the guts to face up to the National Rifle Association and extend it.
If "someone" had gone to the Safeway carrying a regular pistol, the kind most Americans think of when they think of the right to bear arms, "someone" would probably still have been shot and we would still be having that conversation about whether it was a sane idea to put her Congressional district in the cross hairs of a rifle on the Internet.
But we might not have lost a federal judge, a 76-year-old church volunteer, two elderly women, "someones" 30-year-old constituent services director and a 9-year-old girl who had recently been elected to the student council at her school and went to the event because she wanted to see how democracy worked.
"someones" gun, a 9-millimeter Glock, is extremely easy to fire over and over, and it can carry a 30-bullet clip. It is “not suited for hunting or personal protection,” said "someone", the president of the Brady Campaign. “What it’s good for is killing and injuring a lot of people quickly.”
America has a long, terrible history of political assassinations and attempts at political assassination. What we did not have until now is a history of attempted political assassination that took the lives of a large number of innocent bystanders. The difference is not about the Second Amendment. It’s about a technology the founding fathers could never have imagined.
“If this was the modern equivalent of what "someone" used to shoot "someone" or "someone else" used to shoot "someone else", you’d be talking about one or two victims,” said "someone".
"someone" represents a pragmatic, interest-balancing form of politics that’s out of fashion. But, in that spirit, we should be able to find a way to accommodate the strong desire in many parts of the country for easy access to firearms with sane regulation of the kinds of weapons that make it easiest for crazy people to create mass slaughter. Most politicians won’t talk about it because they’re afraid of the N.R.A., whose agenda is driven by the people who sell guns and want the right to sell as many as possible.
Doesn’t it seem like the least we can do?
A Right to Bear Glocks?
In 2009, "someone" was holding a “Congress on Your Corner” meeting at a Safeway supermarket in her district when a protester, who was waving a sign that said “Don’t Tread on Me,” waved a little too strenuously. The pistol he was carrying under his armpit fell out of his holster.
“It bounced. That concerned me, the father of one of "someones" college interns at the time, told me then. He had been at the event and had gotten a larger vision than he had anticipated of what a career in politics entailed. “I just thought, ‘What would happen if it had gone off? Could my daughter have gotten hurt?’ ”
"someone" brushed off the incident. “When you represent a district — the home of the O.K. Corral and Tombstone, the town too tough to die — nothing’s a surprise,” she said. At the time, it struck me as an interesting attempt to meld crisis control with a promotion of local tourist attractions.
Now, of course, the district has lost more people in a shooting in a shopping center parking lot than died at the gunfight of the O.K. Corral, and the story of the dropped pistol has a tragically different cast.
In soft-pedaling that 2009 encounter, "someone" was doing a balancing act that she’d perfected during her political career as a rather progressive Democrat in a increasingly conservative state. She was the spunky Western girl with a populist agenda mixed with down-home values, one of which was opposition to gun control. But those protesters had been following her around for a while. Her staff members were clearly scared for her, and they put me in touch with Ruiz, who told me the story.
Back then, the amazing thing about the incident in the supermarket parking lot was that the guy with a handgun in his armpit was not arrested. Since then, Arizona has completely eliminated the whole concept of requiring a concealed weapon permit. Last year, it got 2 points out of a possible 100 in "someones" Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence state score card, avoiding a zero only because its Legislature has not — so far — voted to force colleges to let people bring their guns on campuses.
Today, the amazing thing about the reaction to the "someones" shooting is that virtually all the discussion about how to prevent a recurrence has been focusing on improving the tone of our political discourse. That would certainly be great. But you do not hear much about the fact that "someone" came to "someones" sweet gathering with a semiautomatic weapon that he was able to buy legally because the law restricting their sale expired in 2004 and Congress did not have the guts to face up to the National Rifle Association and extend it.
If "someone" had gone to the Safeway carrying a regular pistol, the kind most Americans think of when they think of the right to bear arms, "someone" would probably still have been shot and we would still be having that conversation about whether it was a sane idea to put her Congressional district in the cross hairs of a rifle on the Internet.
But we might not have lost a federal judge, a 76-year-old church volunteer, two elderly women, "someones" 30-year-old constituent services director and a 9-year-old girl who had recently been elected to the student council at her school and went to the event because she wanted to see how democracy worked.
"someones" gun, a 9-millimeter Glock, is extremely easy to fire over and over, and it can carry a 30-bullet clip. It is “not suited for hunting or personal protection,” said "someone", the president of the Brady Campaign. “What it’s good for is killing and injuring a lot of people quickly.”
America has a long, terrible history of political assassinations and attempts at political assassination. What we did not have until now is a history of attempted political assassination that took the lives of a large number of innocent bystanders. The difference is not about the Second Amendment. It’s about a technology the founding fathers could never have imagined.
“If this was the modern equivalent of what "someone" used to shoot "someone" or "someone else" used to shoot "someone else", you’d be talking about one or two victims,” said "someone".
"someone" represents a pragmatic, interest-balancing form of politics that’s out of fashion. But, in that spirit, we should be able to find a way to accommodate the strong desire in many parts of the country for easy access to firearms with sane regulation of the kinds of weapons that make it easiest for crazy people to create mass slaughter. Most politicians won’t talk about it because they’re afraid of the N.R.A., whose agenda is driven by the people who sell guns and want the right to sell as many as possible.
Doesn’t it seem like the least we can do?
Sunday, January 9, 2011
The Logo
The logo. Now I have heard of that word before throughout my travels here on planet earth. As that word usually has something to do with photos that one uses so that someone else can remember how to find them, or something like that. And those logos and photos can also usually have something to do with advertise this product, maybe. And those logos and photos can also come in seemingly an endless amount of patterns, designs and images. And so what else is there that I can say about this word logo that has not already been said in time. Well if you happen to be looking for one of those logos or some Logo Design Tips for your company, business or self, you can find them on the internet, as some of those logo design websites to be found out there in internetland are a design in themselves with all of the cool photos, drawings, lettering and samples of logos to be found on them. And from what I've seen, those logos can be placed on just about anything these days from envelopes, pens, cups, calenders, business cards and even projected onto sidewalks, the technology of making those logos has become so fancy. And now with the invention of all things internet, one can find that logo without ever having to leave home, or at least without ever having to leave a computer.
Friday, January 7, 2011
A globalFEST 2011
Hey again bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. A globalFEST 2011 is happening again this year. And this festival seems to be another one of those music festivals that are happening in that city of New York this week. And I gather that word global fest is spelled with upper and lower case letters as one word, I think. And in between wondering what those birds are doing in the skies and fish are doing in the seas these days and times, I still somehow find myself blaghing about events, events and more events. And in my facebookaholicness I came across another one of those many, many and more many facebook events that are to be found in facebookland in that city of New York. And every so often I find myself posting those events in my blaghaholicness because hey, it's less writing sometimes. I think. And that description for that facebook event is as follows.
globalFEST
THE world music event of the year.
13 artists on 3 stages in 1 night.
All for 1 low price at Webster Hall
8th Annual globalFEST with artists
Chamber Music: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Creole Choir of Cuba, Diblo Dibala, Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole, La-33, Novalima, Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda, Pedrito Martinez Group, RAM, Red Baraat, Rhythm of Rajasthan, Yoro Ndiaye and Zikrayat
And this music event global festival rocks.
globalFEST
THE world music event of the year.
13 artists on 3 stages in 1 night.
All for 1 low price at Webster Hall
8th Annual globalFEST with artists
Chamber Music: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Creole Choir of Cuba, Diblo Dibala, Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole, La-33, Novalima, Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda, Pedrito Martinez Group, RAM, Red Baraat, Rhythm of Rajasthan, Yoro Ndiaye and Zikrayat
And this music event global festival rocks.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Dating Game
And though this blog post isn't about the current events of the day, it does seem to be about one of those timeless topics as old as mankind itself such as the phrases Online Dating Sites, Matchmaking Services and Meet Singles Online. Well actually those are some rather recent phrases to be found along with the somewhat recent invention of the personal computer and the internet that seems to have changed the way of the world we live in to where no longer does one have to go out to those clubs, bars or other places to be found on earth and devise ways to find those pick up lines to pick someone up. Now one can find that person of their dreams, or at least that person, online on one of those computers usually right next to a photo of that person that is usually right next to some sort of description of what that person is looking for. As those online dating sites can sometimes take all of the are you married or single guessing work right out of guessing. And if you happen to be looking for one of those dating sites, finding one online can be just a website visit away and now one can find that person without ever having to leave home, or at least without ever having to leave a computer.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The Birds
Hey again bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. So what's up with all of those birds that have been falling from the sky and fish that have been dying in the sea by the thousands in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, China, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Australia, UK, Haiti, Wales, Arizona, Texas, Turkey, Tennessee, Romania, Maryland, South Carolina, South Dakota, Chicago, Colorado, Missouri, California, Alabama, the Caspian Sea and Florida in the past few days according to those headline news of the day. Though this list of places seems to be updating itself daily for some reason or another. And then those fanaticism thoughts and theories seem to come to mind. Is it the fireworks, the weather, the water, Nostradamus and his Armageddon, apocalyptic and end of the world and time doomsday revelation predictions? Is there some prophet to explain this in prophecy? Does Wikipedia, that internet bible dictionary have an entry for this dead bird and dead fish scenario? Is it 2012 yet or something? Is it that May 21, 2011 judgement day family radio rapture thing? Is it that wormwood BP Gulf of Mexico Exxon oil spill again? Is it Novartis and that save no man that he may buy or sell except that he have that mark of the beast thing? And what's that anyway? Is it haarp microwaving the earth? And what's that again? Is it chemtrails? What's that? Is it hydrofracking drilling the earth? And what's that yet again? Is it that Hopi prophecy? And what's a hopi prophecy? Is it that milky way, center of the universe, planets being in alignment, black hole, big bang theory thing? Is it that Israel becoming a nation, tribulation and rapture thing? And what's that seven year peace treaty in Israel deal that was signed in 2010 all about anyway? Did that December 21, 2010 lunar eclipse do something when the moon turned red or something? Is solar radiation on its way to planet earth and its magnetosphere? Is Babylon on fire or something? And is Russia, Georgia and that gog and magog thing in this somewhere? And what's that all about? Is it global warming or global cooling? And are the birds flying north instead of south in those changing magnetic fields these days and times? Is this the canary in the coal mine aflockalypse? Is this a scene on earth from one of those Hitchcock movies? Are the bees still disappearing? Is it technology information overload in a world interconnected via internet? Are these normal and natural occurrences? And what about those cows, seals, octopuses, the mammals, that are dying in Wisconsin, Vietnam, India, Portugal and maybe other places? Is there some some sort of guru to answer this question? What's up with that. And a third of the sea became blood. If you believe.
Monday, January 3, 2011
A Different Calendar Year
Hey again bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. And I think I may have posted this blog entry on this blog before as this blog seems as if it wants to repeat itself each year with those holidays that roll around each year. And this post was also posted on my other blog some time a while ago as attempting to maintain more that one blog seems as if it wants to confuse me sometimes....
The holy day of Christ is here. And 2012 is almost near. (Okay, those days passed a few days ago according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall..). Now that year should be an interesting year. Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and those other holy days this time of year are here and according to that Gregorian calendar New Years Eve and New Years Day is just around the corner. I know because the calendar, the date on this computers clock, and all of those advertising's and listings in all of those newspapers says so. And with that New Years days usually comes what seems like a ton of New Years Day parties and celebrations to celebrate the ringing in and coming of the new year. And from what I recall, according to that Chinese New Year zodiac 12 year cycle calendar, it is also the year of the ox, I think. And its New Years Eve party time for another calendar year. And the admission prices of some of those New Years Eve events are usually priced well beyond my go to a party or an event budget sometimes to me and can be enough to have me just hiding out under a rock and going nowhere that day. And some of those New Years Events that are to be found in my facebookaholicness in that City of new York are as follows. Okay, they are actually not as follows on this day on this blog. Though those events are to be found somewhere. Happy Holy Daze.
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