Awesome! Just listened, and made notes, from KQED’s Forum program on the Intelligence Overhaul. Yeah, I don’t believe making bureaucracy bigger will help. We are no safer under the eye of government, of “big brother.” Actually, we are more in danger, individually in danger for our opinions, our dissident thoughts. Woe to the person who disagrees. But that is another issue. The radio program wasn’t about that.

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R412080900 check it out. Especially the last minutes of the program. Where a caller brings up the money issue and the idea that Americans are hated, and especially the comments by George Friedman. In a nutshell, it ain’t about us. How convenient if it were. Just like any dysfunctional person (hey, I should know, this is my personal cross to bear), if it were about ‘us’ we could change, we could control it. See – control. Yeah, I’m a freak of the control kind, but that is beside the point. The point is, and yes I have one, Al Qaida, this recent attack on our American way of life, isn’t because Americans are asses – we are, admit it. It isn’t because we are arrogant – we are. It is a religious insurgency. Al Qaida has a hope for a future way of life, a world order, based in a sect of the Muslim religion. Do I need to remind everyone how oppressive and repressive that will be?

I had always held that we should all live together, live and let live, you believe what you want, I will believe what I want – we all have our truths. Just stay out of and away from my body. Give me liberty to pursue my path. Well, this won’t be the way it is in a world where we live by an interpretation of an ancient religious book by a repressive sect of leaders. What do we do about that? Am I for the "war" in Iraq? No. But.... how to fight this crusade by Al Qaida

MSNBC - Try a Slice of Humble Pie

Hope this link goes ot newsweek and the article "Try a Slice of Humble Pie" It is what is wrong with the current leadership in the White House - All Yes Men.

peace out.

THE PLAYERS - The Cast Of Characters
Well, the world keeps turning. That phrase belies the fact that most of us relate to it as if it wasn't round. Think of it, what are some of the common phrases? Waiting for what lies "around the corner." or let's see what is "around the bend." We think of the world, our existence, as a continuum. It isn't, no matter what we think. There is no "road" we are on, that begins there and ends somewhere over the horizon. Do you hear me? Know what I mean? Can you see it? How hard is it, though, to put ourselves someplace other than having a beginning and an end?

Don't we speak of our adventures as having a start and and end place? I think that my life is many adventures, many of these playing out at the same time. Short adventures entwined with a longer adventure that is within an even longer adventure. For instance, the short adventures of my day to day work is within my career, and within that has been shorter adventures. The day to day, the adventure of working a certain position for the past 8 years which is within the entire time line of my overall work adventure. How strange to think of work as an adventure. Maybe that tells you something of how I think of my work - that I have enjoyed it, for the most part. I am glad to have been doing it as opposed to tracking and shipping large underground storage tanks (previous job) or purchasing steel from Germany and Japan (previous job). For a long time, I worked to live, for a longer time, I lived to work because I liked it immensely. Now, I just want to get through it, move on to a new position to jump start my passion - and enjoy working to live.

Ultimately, I look forward to ending my working adventure and continue with my life's adventure, of course with smaller adventures interjected. Like travel. Perhaps even a new passion to follow, make some money at it, write about it - or write. Can I become a journalist this late in life? Hm....

It Will All Be Over Soon / BushCo? Kerry? SUV gluttony? Your last orgasm? All flashes in the geological pan, baby. Don't forget

just thanking my pal colleen for turning me onto Morford's columns (SF Gate). wow.

SF Gate: News and Information for the San Francisco Bay Area

Yes it worked! ahahahahhaha I just tap the thingy 'blog this' and i get to post . easier than logging on, i just might use this more often.

Hm trying new thing. Always try new stuff, but it isn't always gonna work like one would expect.

It is the end of my vacation. I had a good run. Spent time with Naomi and my sis (probably the best time is with my sis).

I have a laptop computer and take baby steps into the new tech world. I have convinced myself that I will need this cool tool because I fully expect to get a new position with the CHP. If so, there will be some travel and a need for a laptop.

Or shall I just start to learn to write? Write something profound? Or not. Haven't I got any story to tell?
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Well, how about that California's governor?  He turned all Hollywood using catch phrases to stir up the masses.  It goes against his very own promise, ala GW Bush, to be a uniter.  "Girlie-men" and "terminate" are terms to stir up the masses, and that is all these terms are meant to do.  I don't know what is more shameful, that Mr. Schwarzenegger is nothing beyond an action hero actor playing at governing, or that the public he speaks to, and who elected him, are lightweight enough to go along with him.

I am not taking anything away from his good intentions; that Mr. Schwarzenagger wants to do a good job.  He just doesn't no how to be effective beyond stirring the masses with his dopey Hollywood-speak. 

No matter how "funny" one might think it is, the danger with belittling people you don't agree with is it allows for de-humanizing thought of people who are not "us."  Instead of true discussion, debate, a chance to compromise and make things actually better, the group you don't agree with is marginalized.  And folks who are placed on the margin stop talking to you - and NOTHING gets done.

Mr. Schwarzenegger, you reduced your credibility.  You reduced the ability to have cooperative government because you resorted to stupid name-calling.  The excuse your public affairs people say, that you get excited and carried away, does not give you license to carry-on like a spoiled actor, getting to act outrageously.  These incidents show that you are not interested in making the state government work better, you are interested in getting "your side" a win at the cost of mature statesmanship. 

I hate to say this to all of my friends who voted for Mr. Schwarzenegger, but "I told you so." 
Oh, and one last thing - about putting a ballot before the people.  Mr. Schwarzenegger didn't think of it in time for the November elections, so he is proposing a special election just to get a ballot to make the legislature part-time.  YOU WANT TO SPEND MORE MONEY?  This is ridiculous!  The only thing that will come of this is a stronger governor - oh, so that is your agenda?

Gimme a break, can't the rest of you see what is wrong with this picture?