Putting All the Eggs in One Basket

Everyone is weighing in on the bailout of the financial system. $700 billion worth of eggs. The systemic meltdown exposes a basic flaw in the practice of capitalism. The pursuit of market share has put at risk the very thing that gives us true resilience. The spreading of wealth's future to a multitude of minds and interests. The mantra of big business, "free enterprise", is used to disguise the real focus of conglomerate business. "MARKET SHARE". Dominance mentality along with self-serving actions of the controlling boards have subverted the American Dream for most Americans. Sure those that own stock feel that they own something. They do, the risk. Our governments, as well as our minds, have been blinded by so-called experts and pretty rhetoric. While economic power has been consolidating, we, the people, have been kept mesmerized. The carrot of "you too, can be a captain of industry" belies the fact that the powers that be are reluctant to give up market share or confine themselves to a place that gives everyone a place in the sun. The citing of providing jobs as a reason to allow the consolidation of wealth is predicated on the notion that those jobs would not exist or be created by the people whose effort and money support the system. Does anyone truly belive that out of a population of 6 1/2 billion souls only a thousand or so know what's what, or have any talent beyond being sheep.
The meltdown of the financial markets, the decline in the housing market, the need for a huge govt. bailout should serve a a warning. Inter-conectivity is not the same thing as the consolidation of wealth.
The remnents of the American Dream rot away with the corner store that has been closed because the cost of that dream is set by those interested in dominating market share and thereby people's lives. They want us all to give up our independance and work for them so they can do whatever they deem in THEIR best interest.
Go Walmart!

Is the U.N. our last hope?

Maybe it should be!
here

The New War for the future

The future is at stake. The sides have little interest in anything but control and power. Somalia is but one example of how the (our) future is being determined.
future games here

Shootings in Finland

Sad, sad, sad! While reporting this, the news also informed us that Finland was third in per capita number of guns behind the US. and Yemen. Finland said new gun control measures are forthcoming. This is the second mass shooting in Finland schools recently.

We are paying, why aren't we included

I find it hard to digest the Bush need for power. Now his Secretary of the Treasury wants to use the failing financial policies he himself helped create to force the people to grant more, invisible, unquestionable, dictatorial type powers than anyone since Alexander Hamilton has had. Why should we think he will fix things? Because he says so? Maybe if he gives back some of the millions he has reaped, while the little people have lost, the last 8 years.

New Agenda post

politics in action

Slate-cartoons

Not all of these cartoons express my feelings, but it is good to see what's what with people of influence!catoons,SarahPalin

Bailing a sinking ship

here we go

NEW WAY, NEW DAY

The owners of the X-FILES may come after me. This little hole in the wall blog has no readers but me, so I don't see how I can damage their brand. If they insist, I will change the subtitle and comply. The fights over intellectual property are beyond any strength I may have.

Change

Well, by now I have written enough about me. I will be blogging and linking to things more important.

SIVACRACY

As SIVACRACY closes it's doors, a great feeling of loss and change floods into me. It seems the next step in the evolution of THE NET is here. What is next? One can feel Siva and the rest of the team in every digital breath that is taken by the rest of us. No amount of thanks can express the debt to or depth of the influence of Sivacracy. The next steps were made possible by such as this forward thinking, pioneering, fun, serious, wonderful place. THANKS SIVA! Although the link to SIVACRACY has been removed from this site, I hope the archives there will survive.

Olympic poitics

It is half-way through and already I'm tired of the endless commentary and speculation. Would it be too hard to just let the atheletes do their thing?

Below the suface

I suppose there are some things we should get straight first. I am suffering from MS so I have nothing to lose or gain in writing this. This means outside bias holds no sway over over the opinion or conclusions I reach. Second, it is up to the rest of the world to decide, or recognize, if any value resides it the thoughts expressed. Third, any use, change, aggregation or any use whatsoever of the words or thoughts in this writing piece is not only given permission, but encouraged. Let me state that again so no ambiguity exists. Anyone may use any part of anything I write in anyway with or without citation. And fourth, since few if any will read this, there is no fourth.
The political climate in the US. is heating up as the November election looms in the worlds mind. The world is also focusing on the global economy. Some are concerned with protecting, at any cost, the system that provides them privilege. Some are trying to wrest this privilege for themselves at any cost. There seems to be little difference in the feelings of superiority of anyone's entitlement, no matter the geographic, religious, or cultural landscape. The only difference seems to be the way in which this selfishness takes it's form, how it hides, and how much depravity the privileged are willing to visit upon the unequally privileged. How much revenge is involved from both sides of the privilege coin is also a big factor in global venom.
Watching the news tonight there were some vivid examples of our willingness to believe in our own entitlement..

Dr. Randy Pausch

A loss that keeps on giving. Dr. Randy Pausch Died

PUMA

Party unity my ass! This election cycle is shaping up to be one of the wildest in recent memory. This has energized the electorate to vote in record numbers. Too bad it's not about picking the better of two goods!

Cartoons and stuff

Slate...cartoons about Barrack
Wired...story on Hawking's children's book
I now know I can not write for others to read. So I'll write here, if at all.

Water on Mars

The expedition to find water seems to have succeeded

Tim Russert

The sudden loss echoes our own mortality. The loss of anyone is to be seen in the context of life.

Blowing in the wind

Well, the blogging world has not been a good place for me. Some of my experiences with it have been great to be sure. But even the good cannot fill the void. I have met some of the finest people I have known, others show no interest. I don't think I can handle the world of non-commitment that exists in a purely virtual engagement. At least as far as a participatory role for me.
There will be few personal posts from this point on. The concentration will be more on current events and links. But since there are no views but mine, who knows.

Writing as therapy

For me the words heal what ails me. Sort of like talking to oneself, without the stigma.