Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Armageddon

Is this the beginning of the end of times? "The oceans ran red..." A war in the middle east. It may not be a sign of the end of times, but it could, and probably will be a time of unprecedented disaster for mankind.

The world will not end for a long time, but it may continue without the presence of human life. The human race is committing slow suicide. The food that we rely on has been turned into processed meals that are not healthy for us. More and more food is being contaminated and recalled. Life expectancy will fall because of diseases that were once thought to be extinct.

Man has done it's self no favors over the past 100 years. We have changed the climate and released poison's into our water. We have poisoned the land with fertilizers that are only now beginning to show their effects. We accept Mercury levels in fish and water.

Few people pay attention to government standards and guidelines, but they should. In the case of food, water, and the majority of thing that people come into contact with, the government has basically set the amounts of poisonous substances a element can contain. These standards exist in all of the developed countries, but vary by Government.

I find it very amusing that people who are attached to a cell phone which exposes them to low levels of radiation worry whether cigarette smoke is within twenty yards of them. It is simply amazing that they can be so ignorant as to place a miniature microwave oven against their ear and worry about second hand smoke outside. I also find it sad that people who are ten seconds away from a stroke because of their weight and stress levels worry about who is wearing a seat belt (I Wear Mine Religiously). The fact is that, though seat belts and air bags reduce injuries, a seat belt and air bag is not going to save you if you get into an accident on a snow covered road in an SUV going seventy. It's not going to prevent you from keeling over dead from blocked arteries either.

Millions of people have Google. I suggest you google the top ten causes of death. You will get an eye opener.

The end of the world? A meteorite doesn't have to hit to end life for humans, we are doing a great job of ending it ourselves.

Final Quiz: If people begin to die at age 21 due to lack of medical care; How long will it take for humans to go extinct?

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Land of The Heartless

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America has never cared.
Americans have a distorted view of themselves. They think that they are good and caring people. It isn't their fault. The press has brainwashed them in to their beliefs.
If you would donate a dollar to a dog before a person, you are a sad excuse for a human being. It is disgusting that an animal actually has more rights than a person. It is immoral that the law favors an animals living conditions than a humans. I love animals and I don't support cruelty or mistreatment. I had cats my whole life and they were like family. My aunt had a dog she took everywhere and we all loved him. The fact is though that when a person can kill another person and get a lower sentence than someone who kills an animal, there is something very wrong in America. When people watch the news and see reports of murders and are not moved, but are moved by the death of an animal we have hit an all time low. If the words he got what he deserved or he made a bad choice pass your lips to explain the death of a person, there is something very wrong. Do pets make bad choices. I don't think I've heard anyone say that.
We have mistreated each other since this country was founded. African Americans were slaves, but many immigrants came here as indentured servants also. Every new group of immigrants have been the subject of some kind of prejudice. Americans feel that people who come here from abroad should have been born speaking English. If we were treated the same way we treated people from other countries there would be an International incident. These are facts, but America has hit a new low in it's hard heartiness.
I have heard the statement; It doesn't effect me so many times that i am ashamed. This statement is used to dismiss the mistreatment of millions of Americans ever day. I heard it about the uninsured. I hear it about people who are wrongly convicted. I hear it about the disabled. These words simply dismiss the fact that a fellow human being is suffering. I find it revolting to hear that another person has no value.
This attitude has led to an America where kids can't read when they graduate from high school, where people can step over a dead person on the sidewalk (New York City), where drugs can be sold on the corners, where children's parents die because they have no health care, and where tragedies are simply less interesting than what is going on in Hollywood.
If you don't think this is sick you are bordering on being a sociopath. It wouldn't surprise me though, because sociopaths are becoming the norm.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Pro's Cry At Open

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The PGA tour players are just terrible at golf. Too many years of being coddled and courted has shown in The U.S. Open, where they don't have to hand file each blade of grass. The Open is giving the Pros fits, because their ten thousand dollars worth of equipment will not negate the intent of the design of the course. It amazed me that a mear mortal like me, has a better short game than most of them.
We have all played courses that are baked by the sun. We all know a hole that you can't land a ball on, because it just bounces over. Why can't a professional adjust to those conditions. Because they are spoiled millionaires. The course must be adjusted to the way they play whaaaaaaaa. I laughed when Ian Poulter's shot flew the green after hitting it. He wouldn't break 80 on my course. There's a difference between PGA golf and our golf.
One of the differences is that their fairways are as hard as our cart paths. My grandmother could drive it 300 yards on those fairways. They don't play courses where you get a down hill sideways lie or for the most part any other direction. I play a course where a flat lie is nearly impossible. I played with a former PGA pro and he was three over at the 19th hole. I suppose you are saying he probably wasn't that good or Then a PGA pro would terrorize it.
First I read all his putts. He missed the ones he read. Second on my course you go over the green your taking strokes and landing it on some of them is like trying to land it on the cart path. Next the rough is like barbed wire. If it goes more than five yards it's not going in the direction you were planning for it to go. I know seems hard to believe.
It's a Robert Trent Jones course and he designed Augusta a while after it. I would call it the little Augusta, except if it was longer the pros wouldn't go near it. Central New York is golf territory. The pros have not found us, so we can play every weekend. Imagine a really good golf course for 25 dollars with a cart. Atunyote has a PGA tournament, but we don't let them come up here. Atunyote is a great course, but I wouldn't pay $100 dollars to play there, beside Turning Stone has two other golf courses that are harder.
The point is that PGA now stands for Pampered Golf Association. I played a North Carolina course and it was hard. I lost a dozen balls on the front nine. I have a phobia about snakes and your damn skippy I wasn't going to go into the under brush to find them. It was a hard course, Probably too hard for the pros. The next time I went I played a different course and shot one of my best scores. Go figure. I am not long, but like the rest of those old guys I get around the course. I have played cow pastures that would be too hard for the pros if they maintained them.
I don't feel sorry for these guys. Golf is supposed to be challenging. If your shooting -12, you should find a new course. Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer played some courses that were manicured. Minus 1 or plus 1 should be the high score at a major. If they break 5 under it is just another golf tournament. Hell, Atunyote can give any player that kind of challenge. They cut the fairways wide here, but the wind is always at least ten miles an hour. The pro's got a shock when it hit 40 miles an hour. If you can't play in wind stay home. We don't want you here. You just slow us down. We call it a breeze.
I am glad that the Open is at Pebble Beach. It demonstrates that old courses can be bears if they are set up right. I miss the days of Pinehurst. Old courses have character. The air around them is a bit richer and nostalgic. It's sad they've been left behind. By the way. 70 miles from us is Oak Hill, which has also proved to bean adventure for the pro's at a U.S. Open. Enjoy watching them hit the ball all over like the rest of us. Once in a while people need a reality check.
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Monday, June 14, 2010

The Terrorist's Ticket (U.S. Passports)

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Remember the big drama we had over The U.S. requiring passports for Mexico and Canada? I bet you thought that it was a good idea. After all it was for the security of this nation and the people in it. Well, today we learned that the security was all a fantasy.
The most important document a U.S. citizen can obtain is made in Thailand. The microchip that makes the passport impossible to counterfeit is made in a factory in Thailand. This is the lowest low the U.S. could ever hit. Out sourcing blue jeans is one thing, but the key to unrestricted access to our country? Every American is in danger if a terrorist gets access to this information, but we have sent the technology and the secret in to Thailand where God knows who can gain access to it.
There are thousands of cyber attacks every hour on the countries and people around the world. They have stolen money from banks, gained access to government computers and stolen information. People's Social Security numbers have been obtained by hackers. We use computer chips that are made in China. China has been spying on us for decades, trying to get secrets. Now we have given them free access.
A Passport would allow a person to walk into this and roam freely to even the most important place in the country. They could access the visitor center at the capital. One maniac with a bomb could take out people right in Washington D.C.. They could gun down politicians on the capital steps.
A passport should be made in a secure facility in The U.S. Do we out source our government? At this point I believe that Americans are no longer safe. There is no way to know who has the technology to produce a U.S. passport. Spy's from other countries could be (and probably are) walking any where in the U.S.. We have given the keys to the hen house to the fox and we are going to get bit. Why have passports if foreigners are making them. Who is being protected? Not us. This is obviously George Bush's paranoia working in conjunction with the Republican party to keep track of us. They have been trying to force us to get National ID cards for decades. Well now they know who most of us are, but they have no clue who else is here.
This wasn't a way for the government to save money either. If it was; why are we spending a trillion dollars on things that are of no use to us. They might as well have out sourced the keys and the codes to the Nukes when they did this.
It is only a matter of time before terrorist are walking right through customs without a glance. No wonder they tell us it is a matter of when and not if the U.S. will become the victim of terrorism.
We should have known that something was rotten when they told us we had to worry about Canada. I wonder if driver's licenses are out sourced too.
Kaboom!
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Buying Smart

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Ok folks. This is the download on buying things. Look at the labels and find the one made in America. Now that you have searched every store in the country, you know it's almost impossible. If it is made in America ask where the parts came from. That should make it nearly impossible.
Here is what I have found. One shirt made in China is not worth any more than another shirt made in China no matter who's name is on it. They pump them out and ship them here for about a dollar a piece. Why would you pay $30 to 70 of your hard earned dollar for a shirt that is worth 1.50. I have bought brand name polos for as low as 1.90 on the unnamed auction site. They still have the tags on them and have never been out of the bags they came in. Yes most were sealed.
People think I am spending 100's of dollars on clothes. Nice clothes. They call me sir and run all around themselves to help me. If you get that kind of service and spent 100's of dollars you are a sucker. P.T. Barnum said there is a sucker born evrey minute. Are you one?
People, for a hundred thousand dollars here, you can get a nice house. Why have you spent that in 10 years on cars. If you can arrord to buy a car 3 cars in ten years, why aren't you buying your house that way. If it's as a tax right off you are as dumb as a door nail. Writing off the interest means you handed money to someone (usually a bank) a lot of money you didn't need to pay. Generously the government gave you part of that back. You would get just as much back on a 10 or 15 year mortgage each year (percent-wise). Maybe you didn't know that banks offer 15 year mortgages. Now you know. This is not a trick ask your accountant. If you do your own taxes do your homework. The only time you are getting more money by claiming something is if it is a direct write off or a credit. Guess what you spent money there too. Surprise. Bet Susie didn't tell you that for free.
Anything you can buy, I can get for less. It takes patience and and a desire to shop around. Everyone knows your texting half the day, so use that smart phone to save enough to pay the bill. Not texting, ok ditch the social networking site and get busy looking. Yes, your boss knows your chatting, because all the information gets sent to I.T. They probably know about your girlfriend too and maybe more than they care to know. Getting any funny looks?
This is a depression. Just because your finacial advisor is yelling buy, buy, buy, doesn't mean it's all good. The only way they make money is for you to buy or sell duh. And buy the way; how did you think that money got into those mutual funds and hedge funds. Oh My God Yes you gave it to them to invest. One more thing, if you ask for it back they don't have a job. Think hard now.
Ok, back to buying.
Nothing is as much as you are paying for it. Nothing. The jobs are not coming back. Paying too much is going to use money that you are going to need when it when you have to pay for the unemployed. Yes, money the government gives unemployed people comes from you. If you buy things the government gets money too. The people you bought from pay income tax.
Nobody's name is worth money. Quality is worth money. Every time a new name comes out, people throw money at it, especially if it is for, or about a sport. Big name companies always start with great quality. After a while many of them are not as attentive about it or you find the price suddenly going through the roof. Selling is all about getting people hooked , making it a habit, and getting payed. They don't pay ad agencies and athletes millions of dollars out of friendship. I have had friends I wouldn't want to have my money, don't you?
You have to start shopping smarter. The only people who are not doing that are the people who are about to find out things are bad. No company has a monopoly on quality. If you think they do, start remembering all the recalls. Better yet type in recalls and start reading the names of the companies. The obvious retort to that is I don't use that or I don't care. Neither do the companies. They hire accountants to determine how much they will make if they make something that might fail or injure you. Oh by the way, that estimate takes in to account the amount they "might" pay if it does. That is called making a profit.
Finally, think about your job. Do you take short cuts. Guess what; those people making what you bought probably did too.
Buy smart people. Made in China means low quality trash. Don't pay big bucks for products that cost less than 50 to make. That goes for the Chinese parts in your $50,000 dollar car. A car that cost fifty thousand dollars should last as long as The Empire State Building and believe me they can and did make some like that.
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Poison From China:

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Made in China is everywhere in the U.S. and it is threatening to kill our children. The Chinese are intent on selling and producing products with hazardous materials in them, like Cadmium. It is naive to believe that any agency in the governemnt is protecting us or our children. China ships millions of tons of products to this country every day. There simply aren't enough people to check it all. The most alarming part is that the initial shipments of items may not be contaminated, but once those have been checked The Chinese deliberately start to ship toxin laiden products.
The U.S. government has been blackmailed by China to allow their goods to flow freely into the country, because our debt to China is huge and it keeps growing. China has no product safety standards. They have billions of people and they do not value human life at all. Every time you buy a product made in china that is for human consuption or that holds food or drink, you are playing Russian roulette.
There is a high probability that the products you are buying from China have not been checked in any way. If you think that buying name brand items is going to protect you think again. These companies moved production to China and they have almost non-existant quality control personnel to assure that their products are safe. The bottom line is the bottom line. The cheaper they can produce products the more elated they are, because their profits sky rocket. CEO's get paid to make sure that profits rise. These companies have no desire to know if the products they are selling are safe. There has never been a criminal case against these companies for product liability, which has resulted in prison terms to executives of the companies. They are simply above the law. Foreign CEO's are even safer than those based here. And by the way, If you think that the threat of lawsuits disturbs them you are dillusional. From start to finish most product liability lawsuits don't reach court until after the majority of people in the companies have died.
The law protects executives in a corporation from personal liability financially, so they don't lose any sleep over the death a a person or even thousands. More over, under the law people have a set value. As a matter of fact body parts have an accepted value. Insurance companies have been responsible for that. If you think your child is worth millions you are misinformed. Children actually have the lowest monetary value in court. They are seen as having no value to society or to the family unit. They don't earn money and there is no way to prove what their net worth would be if they had lived. Their deaths result in the lowest court awards.
The reality is that if you don't wake up and check the products that come into your house, you are likely to suffer an accident or exposure to hazardess materials. In the realm of product liability there isn't a problem until people can prove that a product harmed them. Usually this takes a number of deaths. How many depends on the size of the corporation. This being the case the Chinese are free to cause the deaths of as many Americans as they please, until it can be proved that their products are hazardous. By the way, good luck suing China for the death of your family member. Their government doesn't even recognize such cases.
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