Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas.........
Nothing real long this time lol, Just wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Corporate Greed and Politics
What with all the greed and corruption in the government in the last 10 years, I've decided to post this info for those of you fed up with all the lie's!
This post is about the people's right to know how there elected officials choose to represent there constituents and How they choose to put the rights and interests of there lobbyist friends and corporate backers ahead of the very people they are suppose to work for!
But More Importantly....
This is about the special interests, corporate greed, corruption and control, that they hold, and the pay-to-play lobbying. We need to focus on fighting corporate and political corruption on all levels of government to preserve the future of our nation!
If you would like to take action now, check out these sites!........
1. MAPlight.org - http://maplight.org/ MAPLight.org makes connections between money and politics transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable. It tracks money and influence in the U.S. Congress and the California legislature, with more states to come.
2. OpenSecrets.org - find how much your Senators and Representatives have received from corporate interests here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/index.php
3. Use the OpenSecrets and MAPlight.org websites to find out how much money your Senators and Representatives have received. Share what you have found out with the media, on blogs, facebook, Twitter, etc.
4. Sign the Fight Washington Corruption, pledge and ask your legislators to sign it also.
http://www.fightwashingtoncorruption.com/
5. Call and Write to your senators and representatives. Confront those who are corrupt. HOLD YOUR LEGISLATORS ACCOUNTABLE!!!!. You can find your legislators’ information here: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
6. Take a look at: MoveOn.org
http://www.moveon.org/about.html
" MoveOn.org is “a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.”
Other sites...
7. ProPublica: http://www.propublica.org/about/contact/
ProPublica produces “journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.”
8.Corporate Crime Reporter:
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/
Energy....
9. Dirty Energy Money:
http://dirtyenergymoney.com/
“Dirty Energy Money is an interactive website that tracks the flow of oil, gas, and coal money in U.S. Congress. Now you can find out which energy companies are pumping their dirty money into politics and which politicians are padding there bank accountants with it.”
10. Also check out Greenpeace and get the “Clean up dirty money tool Kit” from This terrific kit provides a plan to fight the $15,000,000 donated in the last Congress alone from Dirty Energy Polluters like BP. The kit is here.....
http://gpeace.convio.net/site/DocServer/DirtyMoneyToolkit.pdf?docID=601
11. Also see....
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com and
Oil Change International - http://priceofoil.org/
Spred the word and disseminate this information Everywhere! It is not being reported well in mainstream media If at all !!!. Also please cross post this blog on -- your blogs, Facebook, Twitter , and all of your contacts. Cross-post and blog this information everywhere!
With knowledge comes power and with that power comes control and a responsibility to make this country great again!
You can choose to be a dimwitted and mindless sheep by listen to the GOP and there big business puppet masters, constant lies and propaganda over on Fox news, or you can make the intelligent choice by making yourself aware of the facts and agendas of our so called leaders, Democrat and Republican alike..... it's simple really if your congressman looks out for big business over the interests of average working man or woman, then it's time to kick them to the curb!
No more millionaire blue blood royalty controlling congress year after year, No more Unlimited campaign backing by big business leading to corrupt corporate control of our elected officials, " and i use that term loosely " No more rich getting richer off the backs of the poor and middle class well simultaneously bankrupting our country, No more lobbyist influences in congress!!
Behind every great fortune, there's a greater heist! It's the rich that run this country and have driven it into the ground! We now have two needless war's and an unimaginable amount of tax payer money wasted not to mention the ten's of thousands of lives lost, both solder and civilian! All of this unnecessary pain and suffering based off of the lies told by The Bush Administration! The same lies that continue to be embraced by far to many members of congress, primarily the GOP, though there are fools on both sides!
Make no mistake you are nothing to them but a potential voter, someone to lie too come the next election, you are nothing but a number in the ballot !
Congress vote themselves a pay raise " ON THE TAX PAYER'S DIME " while at the same time denying an increase on living wages for people on social security or disability, ( money that they have payed into there entire working lives) Then try to lower minimum wage and increase the retirement age, Let them live on minimum wage and actually work for a living for a year and see how fun it is!! unfortunately that will never happen!
The rich get richer and the poor suffer! The rich start wars and the poor die!
When they want you to buy something they'll tell you, when they want you to say something they'll let you know, and when they want you to die in there next war they'll come and get you!!
Be an individual, make your own decisions, and create a better future for the next generation.
It's time to take back control of our country and make it the way it was always meant to be!!!......( A country by the People, for the People, and of the People, )
No more buying an Election!!! No more corporate Manipulation!!
Make them accountable for there actions!!!
It's your choice!
Spread the word!
This post is about the people's right to know how there elected officials choose to represent there constituents and How they choose to put the rights and interests of there lobbyist friends and corporate backers ahead of the very people they are suppose to work for!
But More Importantly....
This is about the special interests, corporate greed, corruption and control, that they hold, and the pay-to-play lobbying. We need to focus on fighting corporate and political corruption on all levels of government to preserve the future of our nation!
If you would like to take action now, check out these sites!........
1. MAPlight.org - http://maplight.org/ MAPLight.org makes connections between money and politics transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable. It tracks money and influence in the U.S. Congress and the California legislature, with more states to come.
2. OpenSecrets.org - find how much your Senators and Representatives have received from corporate interests here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/index.php
3. Use the OpenSecrets and MAPlight.org websites to find out how much money your Senators and Representatives have received. Share what you have found out with the media, on blogs, facebook, Twitter, etc.
4. Sign the Fight Washington Corruption, pledge and ask your legislators to sign it also.
http://www.fightwashingtoncorruption.com/
5. Call and Write to your senators and representatives. Confront those who are corrupt. HOLD YOUR LEGISLATORS ACCOUNTABLE!!!!. You can find your legislators’ information here: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
6. Take a look at: MoveOn.org
http://www.moveon.org/about.html
" MoveOn.org is “a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.”
Other sites...
7. ProPublica: http://www.propublica.org/about/contact/
ProPublica produces “journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.”
8.Corporate Crime Reporter:
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/
Energy....
9. Dirty Energy Money:
http://dirtyenergymoney.com/
“Dirty Energy Money is an interactive website that tracks the flow of oil, gas, and coal money in U.S. Congress. Now you can find out which energy companies are pumping their dirty money into politics and which politicians are padding there bank accountants with it.”
10. Also check out Greenpeace and get the “Clean up dirty money tool Kit” from This terrific kit provides a plan to fight the $15,000,000 donated in the last Congress alone from Dirty Energy Polluters like BP. The kit is here.....
http://gpeace.convio.net/site/DocServer/DirtyMoneyToolkit.pdf?docID=601
11. Also see....
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com and
Oil Change International - http://priceofoil.org/
Spred the word and disseminate this information Everywhere! It is not being reported well in mainstream media If at all !!!. Also please cross post this blog on -- your blogs, Facebook, Twitter , and all of your contacts. Cross-post and blog this information everywhere!
With knowledge comes power and with that power comes control and a responsibility to make this country great again!
You can choose to be a dimwitted and mindless sheep by listen to the GOP and there big business puppet masters, constant lies and propaganda over on Fox news, or you can make the intelligent choice by making yourself aware of the facts and agendas of our so called leaders, Democrat and Republican alike..... it's simple really if your congressman looks out for big business over the interests of average working man or woman, then it's time to kick them to the curb!
No more millionaire blue blood royalty controlling congress year after year, No more Unlimited campaign backing by big business leading to corrupt corporate control of our elected officials, " and i use that term loosely " No more rich getting richer off the backs of the poor and middle class well simultaneously bankrupting our country, No more lobbyist influences in congress!!
Behind every great fortune, there's a greater heist! It's the rich that run this country and have driven it into the ground! We now have two needless war's and an unimaginable amount of tax payer money wasted not to mention the ten's of thousands of lives lost, both solder and civilian! All of this unnecessary pain and suffering based off of the lies told by The Bush Administration! The same lies that continue to be embraced by far to many members of congress, primarily the GOP, though there are fools on both sides!
Make no mistake you are nothing to them but a potential voter, someone to lie too come the next election, you are nothing but a number in the ballot !
Congress vote themselves a pay raise " ON THE TAX PAYER'S DIME " while at the same time denying an increase on living wages for people on social security or disability, ( money that they have payed into there entire working lives) Then try to lower minimum wage and increase the retirement age, Let them live on minimum wage and actually work for a living for a year and see how fun it is!! unfortunately that will never happen!
The rich get richer and the poor suffer! The rich start wars and the poor die!
When they want you to buy something they'll tell you, when they want you to say something they'll let you know, and when they want you to die in there next war they'll come and get you!!
Be an individual, make your own decisions, and create a better future for the next generation.
It's time to take back control of our country and make it the way it was always meant to be!!!......( A country by the People, for the People, and of the People, )
No more buying an Election!!! No more corporate Manipulation!!
Make them accountable for there actions!!!
It's your choice!
Spread the word!
Net Neutrality
No one should have the right to tell someone what they may or may not do online, If we loose yet another right to big Business whats next? Internet belongs to the people more so then the large corporations, The majority of there lines and towers that provide internet service sit on public land, internet service should be provided equally and without higher bills or degraded service at the order of large telecome or the ISP's!! A free and open internet gives us a way to make our voices heard, and allows us to meet and interact with people from all over the world! Through blogging, vlogging, webcast or other wise, we are able to connect with others and share our experience's and views on politics, environmental and social events and many more. Without strong rules that can actually be enforced we would be in danger of losing one of the greatest tool's the public has for self expression as well as a way to exercise our freedom of speech. Strong Net Neutrality should be a permanent Law, after all what good is free speech if it can be blocked or edited at any time!
The Internet
Internet rights!A free and open internet is the only way to go, internet equality should apply to all forms of access landlines and wireless, The Internet belongs to everyone, not just large corporations!
The rights of the people should take precedent over the greed of corporations and special interests. big telecoms would like nothing more then to inspect and filter the Internet content we access, block web sites and applications they don't like, and overcharge us even more so then the already do for using the internet.
Net neutrality opponents inaccurately claim that strong rules will impede competition by regulating the Internet for the first time. This is completely untrue. Net neutrality simply protect the rights of the people and the free Internet that Americans have always enjoyed.
The internet should be reclassified as a title 2 utility and fully enforced by the FCC net neutrality already has the backing of the president, congressional leadership, " the one's with common scenes anyway " and most importantly, millions and millions of Internet users through out the country!
We as paying costumers and free thinking individuals should have the right to decide what we watch read or post online, and when we do it!
Not the ISP's....keep in mind that without the use of public land to lay there cables and build there tower's company's such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would not exist, or at the very least they would not enjoy the kind of power and profit they have today, all at the peoples expense!
It's time the politicians start siding with the voter's the one's that put them into office in the first place! instead of the lobbyists and spacial interest groups, who are only interested in the bottom line!
Many network providers have tried to engage in content and user discrimination in the recent past and that will only grow without strong Net Neutrality or with weakened partial Net Neutrality, as Chairman Genachowski in visions. A few examples, ( Time Warner's AOL ) blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com, an advocacy campaign opposing AOL's pay-to-send e-mail scheme, a pathetic ploy to garner even more hard earned money from the consumers! BellSouth blocked access to Myspace.com in Tennessee and Florida. Verizon Wireless has blocked access to PayPal in favor of its own competing online payment service for shopping sites like eBay.
Without FCC authority to fully enforce stronger net neutrality rules, we may be forced to rely on the good judgment "or lack there of " of large corporations to protect our access to the internet and the diversity of political, social, environmental, and international interaction and perspectives it now offer's.
We would be forced to trust companies like Comcast, which actively
and secretly interfered with users' ability to access popular video, photo
and music sharing applications; AT&T, which censored anti-Bush comments made by Pearl Jam's lead singer during a concert; and Verizon Wireless, which
interfered with NARAL Pro-Choice America's ability to send text messages to
its members.
We need to preserve our right's at all cost's.
We can't let the corporate lobbyists and there political goon squad dictate what we can and can not do!. After all what good is free speech if large corporations have the right to stifle communications they find objectionable?
Reclassification is necessary to enshrine key anti-discrimination provisions so that users can access the websites of their choice and use the equipment they want without interference or degraded service. Chairman Genachowski's plan is a good start, but it has to be expanded to include reclassification, as well as protections for wireless Internet user's True net neutrality would mean no discrimination: It would prevent ISP's from speeding up, slowing down or outright blocking web sits or content based on its source, ownership or destination. It's time to make net neutrality a permanent law!
The Metamorphosis........
A short story written by Franz Kafka, In 1915.
Kafka, who after his death in 1924 later become a world renown novelist, for his work in the early 20th century.
Kafka wrote many great works of literature, one of which is The Metamorphosis.
I first read this back in school, but have since re-read it lol.
Still an interesting read!....................
Here is a short summerier of what i took from the book.
The Metamorphosis is centered around a man, Gregor Samsa, who as a result of all the pressure's in his life, slowly begins to transform into an insect.
There are probably dozens if not hundreds of different philosophical or metaphorical metaphors we can take from this, and in part most of them would probably be correct on some level or another.
Here's my interpretation.
In the book, I fill that Kafka is trying to say, that even though we look at the world in different way's, people's lives aren't always what they seem and nobody can really tell what anyone else is felling on the inside.
Fill free to share your thoughts on the story....
Just a quick Thought....
Most people go through life wandering aimlessly about trying to figure out what there future hold in store...... Others believe that destiny plays a hand in the out come, but if you think of life as some how predetermined by destiny then that takes away from the entire concept of free will!!Life has no real meaning or purpose, only that which we as individuals choose to give it, we create our own purpose, and our existence is defined by the personal choices we make throughout our lives, and how those choices in turn effect the people around us.
Just a though....
Philosophy?
I see the definition of emergent property being more individual, it is not something that you can just label as this or that, it's more,...... it's something that you experience and since we all experience the world around us in our own different way....the definition of an emergent property can have as many different meanings as there are people on this planet...
Emergent Property's can manifest themselves in people as well as nature.
For Instances i fill as though emergent property can in some ways be a good representation of our everyday lives. By that i mean there can be so many things that at the time appear to be nothing more then just random happening's but are still some how more then often connected to the bigger picture for example, The last time i was in Austin i went to check out this large colony of bats one of the largest in the country, It was an awesome experience. When you see all of these bat's literally thousands of them winding their way through the sky each one individually flying in a seemingly random pattern and yet still some how the same general direction as part of a larger entity. It's really an amazing sight. This also reminds me of people in a way, everyone of use living our lives as an individual with our own hopes, dreams, and goals that we wish to achieve someday and yet all to often forgetting that we to are part of a larger entity.....The human race and that even our most seemingly unimportant and insignificant tasks as an individual can have a profound effect on not only our lives and the lives of the people around us but also the rest of the world as a whole.
The study of the patterns in the stars as well as those in nature could also be thought of too some extent as an emergent property.
Some people may even consider our very consciousness as somewhat of an emergent property of the brain, in a way that makes sense. If anything history has shown us that human imagination, creativity and ingenuity is ever changing, we have put people in space, on the surface of the moon and to the farthest corners of the earth all based on collective ideas and in the pursuit of knowledge.
If consciousness is an emergent property of the brain then the evolution of the human race must be the result of this property working effectively.
However a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. The same goes for people....
The collective IQ of any large group of people is that of it's lowest member.
I.E...Mob mentality from the days of angry villagers wielding pitchforks and torches to modern day riots,. Even the most intelligent person in a group can succumb to there most basic primal instincts if pushed far enough, just as a seemingly intelligent person can be convinced to try drugs or alcohol when under pressure from there pears.
Dose an individual in a mob have anymore free will then a bee in a swarm.... you decide.
I would like to think that if i where ever immersed in a mob mentality that my reaction would be that of a rational person....so that i could take a step beck from the brick or pipe and then intelligently assess the situation properly, and if enough people could do this then the mob itself would have no power unfortunately it would seem that whenever a large group of people gather for whatever reason there is almost always disorder and dissension this trend seems to occur even when supposedly highly educated and intelligent people meet for symposiums, conferences, and congress for that matter!
Maybe that's just human nature....
Perhaps it is the emergent patterns of humanity as a whole that really enable us to identify those among us with the greatest potential. It is the people who defy the patterns and the trends that tend to stand out from the crowd. In the past this process has sometimes made them pariahs, however in the long run it has always been the people who defy the status qua who make the biggest impact.
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