Don't Ask Don't Tell - Get Over It

The evidence is overwhelming that sexual preference is hardwired at birth. We are born to respond to the shapes and appearances that we are hardwired to respond to. Some males will then find males more attractive. Some females will find females more attractive. Don't believe it? Look at peoples' response to infants. We are all hardwired to respond to the infant shape, the infant face - in fact almost any mammalia infant will tug at our hearts strings. We didn't learn that - it's hard wired. As is sexual preference.

We know who we are attracted to - it's not something that has to be taught. They tell us that is the result of complex brain interactions and function centered on things like facial symmetry. It's for sure alot more complicated than that - but for sure it's hardwired. As is sexual preference.

There is a heterogeneity to this. It's not - your attracted to males or your attracted to females. There are shades of gray. Homophobes probably have more gray than they can handle. These feelings threaten. Feeling threatened makes people angry. Probably most people are hardwired to respond primarily to the opposite sex. But this does not make other preferences 'unnatural'.

Being gay is just being who you are. It's not unnatural, or deviant, or the result of being oversexed, or evil, or godless, or mentally ill - although after putting up with what society puts you through for being born gay one could certainly feel that way at times. Gays are gay - born that way. Get over it.

Class Warfare - The Robber Cries Foul

According to many in politics balancing the budget, fiscal responsibility and the health of our economy is not and should not be the concern of the wealthy. Any attempt to get wall street, banks, corporations or the ultra-wealthy to pay their fair share into the community chest is now, according to them, class warfare. This is not class warfare. That is a distraction, a lie, told by the very people that helped put us in our current recession in the first place. A lie told in order to deflect attention from their greed.

The world's economies are broken. At its most basic one has only to look at the US to understand why - greed, corruption, and lack of oversight. Greed begets money. Money begets corruption and political influence. Corruption begets ineffective or non existent oversight. And that is exactly what caused this current recession. If you sell mortgages to people who can't afford it - lying about their ability to pay -  in effect preying on them; and then package those mortgages into something you can trade on wall street, illegally awarding AAA status along the way; and if you then bet for these packages to both succeed and fail; and then, when the entire house of cards falls, you pull out the 'we are to big to fail' card, causing the government to just hand over billions - no strings attached - of the masses money - your money, my money - and give it to the very few, unbelievably greedy that caused all this mess in the first place - what do you get? Our current recession. And now when asked for a little of it back - class warfare? - really?

400 people in the US now possess the same amount of wealth as the all the people in bottom half of economic scale - combined. The game is fixed. Governments and the media are controlled by this extreme concentration of wealth and influence. The final result is the greatest transfer of wealth from the masses to the very, very few since feudal Europe and a lot of human suffering.

If the people have no money they cannot buy. If they cannot buy there are no sales. If there are no sales there are no jobs. If there are no jobs there is no money. If the people have no money...

It is the perfect storm - the current recession - all courtesy of the greedy and corrupt. Class warfare? Robber just crying foul.

Go Electric

And now the popular 'cool' alternative mind-set is that electric cars aren't green. The production of the electricity to charge the cars results in the same amount of pollution as gasoline powered cars. And oh yes - the carbon released in making the car negates any benefit to global warming.
Wrong.
None of this is true.
Plug-in electrics are responsible for about 30% fewer climate-changing greenhouse gases than conventional gasoline-powered cars, even if the electric vehicle is charged with a coal-fired power plant, according to a joint study by the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group and the utility industry-sponsored Electric Power Research Institute. That is because they are considerably more efficient than gasoline or diesel powered cars. And if you live in a state like Oregon that uses 55% hydroelectric for its electricity production that figure can exceed 75% less. Not to mention the particulates, and poisonous gases NOT coming from theses cars non-existent tailpipes.
Can you imagine Tokyo or Los Angeles without pollution from tailpipes???

Great Minds

'If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.'  
Paraphrasing Albert Einstein (once again)

We The People

The problems of today are global.

The solutions are global as well.
The real problems of today - global warming, massive environmental harm, unfair labor practices and corrupt and dysfunctional world economies resulting in unrelenting poverty and limited opportunity, even joblessness in the US - are not to be solved locally in an endless, useless head bash of democrat vs. republican. It is not about a two party congress. It's not about the executive. It's not about parliament or even the EU.
It's about worldwide influence and power through massive wealth and the promise of even more wealth on a global scale.

Multinational corporations figured that out long ago. They adopted a worldview long ago. And now their wealth, their power comes from an entire world's resources.
No wonder they control so much of our government, and all the others. In their pursuit of profit for their shareholders they look globally to the cheapest labor, the cheapest energy, the least amount of taxes, and the least amount of interference.

At its roots it is about the greatest transfer of wealth from the masses to the very, very few in human history, resulting in  unnecessary and unbelievable human suffering and environmental damage along the way. In their pursuit of profit multinational corporations guarantee unfair labor practices in Indonesia, massive industrial pollution and environmental damage in China and worldwide, the outsourcing of US jobs and eventually our way of life, colossal military spending with its resultant loss of life, destruction, and waste, and on and on. Their pursuits necessarily include the corruption of every major government in the world in order to limit interference and to promote their agendas - to the point of such dysfunction that the world's governments cannot and or will not fix these problems. As just one example, how can our government, in its current state, ever effectively deal with a problem such as global warming that will not make its effects entirely known for another 30 years? The solution would require restraining corporate activity worldwide - interfering with their profit making - something our politicians haven't the will or even the mechanisms to do.

But how can we effectively fight these things?
By going global ourselves.
By fighting for workers rights in Indonesia we protect our jobs here.
By fighting massive coal burning in China we help save the planet while keeping our manufacturing jobs from being outsourced to this land of 'cheap' destructive energy .
By resisting the use of military might in hegemonic agendas and as a form of stunted, unimaginative, geopolitical strategy, we save the lives of millions while directing otherwise wasted funds to improving all of our lives.

To do so we must organize - globally.
We, like multinational corporations, must adopt a worldview.
We must found and grow a multinational corporation of our own. We the people.
Its purpose to address the major problems of the day in ways our governments can't or won't.
We found, organize, and direct a worldwide cooperative effort dedicated to balancing the destructive power of multinational corporations and corrupt and/or dysfunctional governments. A MoveOn.org if you will - but on a truly international level.

It all begins with the simple, quiet step of organizing and marketing our mission through the internet. It gains momentum through the hopes, dreams, aspirations and goodwill of millions worldwide. Hundreds of millions worldwide. It gains effectiveness with the hiring and organizing of some of the world's greatest minds using the early donations of a worlds population ready for change. Lawyers, economists, business experts, politicians, health experts, environmentalists - their imaginations and hearts captured at the prospect of actually making a difference in a massive, worldwide effort. The power of 100's of millions of dollars donated from average people everywhere - a Royal Dutch Shell, Sinopec group, BP, a Chevron if you will - but dedicated, not to profit, but instead to the betterment of the peoples of the world and to the world itself.

Too big thinking? Dreaming?
People are ready to fight back.They are ready to give their money, their hearts, their energy - if only they believe it will make a difference. Our job is to simply begin. To provide the organization and expertise to capture peoples hopes and trust. Give them a real tool for change. Give them that, and they will come. Give them that and it begins to get better.

I can see my bank accounts from my house

And just why is it Sarah Palin isn't running for President?
Could it be as simple as she would have to give up speakers fees and TV deals the moment she declares and doesn't want to?
Sarah quit her Alaskan Governorship mid term to get on this gravy train.
14 million dollars later I imagine its very hard for her to get off.
All that and all she has ever done is desert the State of Alaska midterm and fail in a run for the Vice-Presidency.
Sarah was never a politician. Never willing to do her homework in order to develop vision and clear agenda.
Her main vision, wealth and fame for herself.
Not declaring her run for Presidency marks the beginning of the end for Sarah.
So long Sarah. Can't say its been great.

An incomprehensible aberration

"May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!"..Albert Einstein, 1950