Happy Halloween and SEVEN BILLION

The United Nations announced that today the population of the planet Earth reached 7 BILLION......which is kinda spooky until you look at other numbers.

Considering that there are 100 thousand million stars in our Milky Way galaxy....7 billion doesn't seem like much. Then you consider that there are hundreds of billions of other galaxies and the numbers become HUGE.

Trillions of stars in the Universe and only one United Nations. I wonder if they have an opinion on Universe population. Maybe they should start considering the bigger picture and it might make it easier to make sure that all 7 billion have a daily share of food and water.

We can handle that responsibility....don't you think?

Imagine the amount of candy that will be distributed tonight in America....and then imagine how much will be thrown away over the next ten days.

Imagine one hundredth of that amount being sent to African children living in refuge camp cities.

Hershey's should do a fly over and drop millions of little Kisses......the survivors would be addicted for life.

The fact that there probably wouldn't be a lot of survivors is the real spooky thought....but then again it's Halloween and I hear the door bell ringing.

Time to make America a little bit fatter.

Of course I always buy candy that I like to eat, so if the attendance is down I have sweets for the next two weeks. It might be the only candy I buy in bulk all year. Maybe I should take a few pieces and UPS them to Africa. Probably going to have a melting issue unless I use the cold ice packs like See's does.

Halloween is a strange event......it can't be called a Holiday because nothing is closed.

I do enjoy asking little kids on the street if I can have a piece of candy. Generally they always reach in their bag and hand it over. Sometimes they look at me like I've lost my mind.....but then I say trick or treat and they share.

Odd night to be out in the streets harassing little kids don't you think? But it's actually the only night of the year where rules get tossed and kids and adults mingle out in the neighborhoods.

BOO!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I guess it's time to chime in with the Mind Jazz opinion on OCCUPY WALL STREET.

The conservative side ( fairly lopsided in that direction) of my Tuesday golf ensemble uttered the word "Socialism" when referring to the OWS movement.

Every time the concept of controlling corporate greed comes up, The Right simply scream "socialists".........

And the same name calling applies when talking about raising the taxes on the wealthiest people in the country....along with that silly claim that lower taxes for the rich is a method of job creation.

WITH CORPORUPTIONS SENDING THEIR MANUFACTURING OVERSEAS....ALL THAT IS CREATED IS SIMPLY MORE................

PROFIT.

SO MANY TIMES THOSE CORPORUPTIONS DON'T EVEN PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO THE CONSUMERS....THEY SIMPLY SHOW BETTER PERFORMANCE NUMBERS FOR THEIR SHARE HOLDERS.

AND HOW CAN SOMEONE , IN CHARGE (CEO ETC.), WHO HAS SEEN MARKET CAPITALIZATION DIMINISH....GET REWARDED WHEN REPLACED?

AND THE REWARDS ARE SIMPLY STAGGERING.

ARE THERE NOT PERFORMANCE CLAUSES IN THOSE CONTRACTS?

I am a believer in the free market system but I've always felt that excessive greed could totally undermine the concept. If an individual doesn't regulate his or her personal level of greed then many others will suffer. Those who are in a position to affect the economics of a large portion of the population must be the ones who say...."easy does it, let's spread this around a bit." Warren Buffet and Bill Gates seem to be addressing that situation by their projects of giving back. Of course The Foundations they seem to be giving back to have their own names attached, so I'm not really sure about their greed levels.

The problem is those of us who aren't in the 1% have become extremely paranoid.

The DISPARITY IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION is a numbers game and that game is currently operating at the same level that was operating in 1928......

(NOTE THE ABOVE CHART)

The middle class of America was basically constructed after 1935. Corporate America was basically constructed after 1970. Since 1970 everything has changed.

Job creation, or lack of it to be more precise, is why those people are sleeping on Wall Streets steps.

Economic inequality is created by lack of jobs and when manufacturing and service sector jobs are being transferred (at record numbers) to other continents then sh..t will hit the fan.

HOW CAN THESE JOBS BE REPLACED?

NEW INDUSTRIES?

NEW SALARY PARADIGMS?

REDUCED PENSION ANOMALIES?

REDUCTION IN PRICE OF GOODS SO THAT SALARIES CAN BE REDUCED?

Can a Baseball team cut their ticket prices in half if the players don't cut their salaries in half?

IS THAT SOCIALISM or simply responsible behavior so that more people can participate in the process?

Would Gillette reduce the price of their razor blades if CBS reduced their advertising rates...or would they just show a higher profit margin.

I'm thinking that something radical needs to be done other than a total collapse of the system similar to what occurred in 1929.

THE NUMBERS ARE CAUSING A PANIC IN THE 99%....AND THE 1% DON'T SEEM TO CARE AND ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET EVEN MORE.

REDUCING PRICES AND SALARIES AND BONUSES IS NOT A SOCIALISTIC IDEA....IT'S SIMPLY A NEW CONCEPT TO SOMEHOW SLAP FREE ENTERPRISE IN THE MOUTH AND SAY.....WHOA NELLIE......EASY DOES IT.......RELAX.

Everything cost way too much and nobody seems to know how to control anything.

WE ARE THE FURTHEST ALONG REGARDING ANYTHING.....

THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF BEING ALIVE AT THIS TIME.

WE ARE THE NOW

WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO CORRECT THINGS BEFORE THEY

EXPLODE AND COLLAPSE

Free Enterprise, Capitalism or Economic Liberalism is relativity young and can be fundamentally traced back to Adam Smith in the 18Th Century.

WE AREN'T COMPLETELY ASSURED THAT IT'S GOING TO WORK FOR THE NEXT 1000 YEARS.....or even 100 years. We simply don't know because we've never been here before.

We do know that PRIVATE OWNERSHIP is the backbone of the structure and most likely any future successful capitalistic system will be operated with that principle leading the parade.

But when I'm told that I'm part owner of Microsoft with my 25 shares when there are 2 trillion shares outstanding....who is diluting who and who's the sap?

Corporuptions have convinced us that we can share in the ownership....but we've got to put up with their employee reduction program and their moving cost overseas program or the stock will tank.

WE PLAY THE GAME AND THEN WE GET PISSED WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK OUT IN OUR FAVOR.

THAT'S THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.

IT'S THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN......AND THE ONLY REAL PROBLEM IS THE GREED BEING DISPLAYED BY THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE POWER. THE SAME GREED WHICH CAUSED REVERSE MORTGAGE DERIVATIVES TO BLOSSOM AND A COLLAPSE TO FOLLOW.

IF YOU HAD THE POWER WOULD YOU BE ANY DIFFERENT?

It seems the people barking the loudest are college grads who seemingly are being left out of the game.....and that game is the game that possibly leads to them entering the elite one percent.

EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN THE ONE PERCENT and everybody who isn't in the one percent swears they wouldn't be excessively greedy.

POWER has a unique way of redefining one's personal moral fiber.....just like poverty has a way of making anger a defining character of one's personality.

CJC.......CREATIVE JOB CREATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION....AND WHEN POLITICIANS CLAIM THEY CAN CREATE JOBS....WITHOUT OFFERING VIABLE SOLUTIONS....THEN THE SMOKE IS SIMPLY BEING BLOWN UP OUR ASSES.

AS AN EXAMPLE OF CJC.....SERVICE SECTOR JOBS COULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO AMERICA IF CORPORUPTIONS SIMPLY SET UP INDIVIDUAL CALL CENTERS IN PEOPLE'S HOMES. THOSE SAME PEOPLE WHO USED TO MAKE $25 AN HOUR WOULD NOW WORK FOR $12.50 AND NEVER LEAVE THEIR HOMES. YOUR PHONE CALL WOULD BE ANSWERED BY SOMEONE IN AMERICA AND IT'S A WIN WIN SITUATION.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS COULD BE CREATED BY AN ORACLE BUSINESS TO BUSINESS SEVER PROGRAM UTILIZED BY SINGLE FAMILY UNITS.

The OCCUPY WALL STREET movement is entirely different than the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party has numerous leaders while the OWS is just a bunch of pissed off people trying to slow down the greed train that travels right along side the free enterprise system.

THE ONLY SOLUTION TO EXCESSIVE GREED IS INDIVIDUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.....AND THAT'S PART OF THE NEXT STAGE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.............. WHICH IS STILL A WAYS OFF FOR MOST HUMAN BEINGS.

Anger and rhetoric solve nothing.

In the meantime.....everybody has got to relax and start using creativity as a tool to solve problems.

And I truly understand that THAT is easier said than done.

DONE!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

WTF?

On Tuesday and Wednesday, outside of Columbus Ohio, a whole lot of people completely lost their minds.

Every organization in the world that has interest in the welfare of animals should stand up and let those people, who completely lost their minds, know that lawsuits will be filed and there will be penalties to pay.

I'm not even an animal person....and I'm totally disgusted.

A short summary of the incident.

A man named Terry Thompson owned a wild animal farm, ranch or preserve, depending on who you ask, for reasons yet unclear, apparently opened the pens, gates and cages and let his exotic collection escape.

The community where he lived is called Zaneyville......or Zanesville if you need exact facts.

After letting his animals loose....he allegedly committed suicide. At 5:30 on Tuesday evening the first 911 call came into dispatch and 24 hours later the following animals were dead from gunshot wounds courtesy of the Muskingum County Sheriff's department.

18 rare Bengal Tigers
6 Black Bears
8 Lionesses
3 Mountain Lions
1 Baboon (who some claim might have been the ringleader)
and a few others yet to be named.

The sheriff's department says all the animals killed were immediately buried on the property.

Zanesville is 55 miles from one of the greatest Zoo's in the world....The Columbus Zoo. (Jack Hanna, famous for Late Night TV guest spots, was formerly the director)

A zoo 55 miles away could have been on the scene in two hours fully loaded with enough tranquilizer guns to stop al-qeada and yet at the end of the day 49 animals were dead and buried.

18 BENGAL TIGERS. The last time I heard there weren't even 18 Bengal Tigers left in India.

How much is a full grown Bengal Tiger worth?

My guess would be $50,000. How much is a Bengal Tiger rug worth? My guess would be......$100,000

WASN'T THERE ONE PERSON ON THAT SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TEAM THAT BROUGHT UP QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED MOST OF THE ANIMALS?

Like for example...."Hey Captain Duck....do you think we could trank these things and then sell them to other Zoo's?"

I realize that when the sheriff's rode into the Thompson compound that a few causalities were going to take place.....but the second phone made after the initial 911 all should have been to the Columbus Zoo....and the Zoo people should have arrived with the Sheriff's Department so that people who knew about wild animals would be present. 49 causalities seems high to me....but then again 2500 wings beats per second by a hummingbird also causes me problems.

Getting back to the moment sheriff's arrived at the compound. I visualize a bunch of hunters...... and it's just a wild guess that most of the sheriff's department are probably duck, geese, deer, quail and rabbit hunters....... suddenly having an out of body experience.

IT HAD TO BE THE GREATEST MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES WHEN CAPTAIN DUCK SAID...."GO GET EM BOYS....AND DON'T BRING BACK ANY PRISONERS."

18 BENGAL TIGERS??????????????????????

I realize there is a sidebar story here regarding Mr. Thompson who had recently served a year in the federal penitentiary for gun possession....but I'm finding a few things hard to believe.

Why the Zoo wasn't involved from the first moment?

And are we really suppose to believe that 18 Bengal Tigers are buried on that compound without being skinned? If that's true, then I think we are going to heard some further news on this incident. Like Butch and Ernie and their cousin Jethro from Boogville Arkansas that have just decided to take a little drive up to Zanesville and snatch them some Tiger pelts.

ALONG WITH 10,00 OTHER HUNTERS AROUND THE COUNTRY.....WHO WOULD KILL TO OWN A BENGAL TIGER RUG!

I see an HBO movie with all of them meeting in Zanesville at the same time and watching the fireworks unfold.

There's so much wrong with this story...including the local animal shelter who's spokesperson is named....Terri Wolfe.

49 of the 56 animals were killed. The other seven are being held for questioning but so far they all seem to be blaming the baboon.

Terry Thompson's wife, whose name is Ele' phant claimed that they didn't even have a baboon so authorities think he might have been an outside agitator recently shunned by the Ohio Tea Party.

Of course silly, I made that last thing up.........but this story could get a lot weirder.

18 Bengal Tigers?

Seriously!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

More of the big picture......

It's odd when you think about much fuss and hoopla there will be over the next 12 months leading up to the 2012 election.........and how little considration will be given to REALITY.

Clowns in both parties are playing us like the fools we are.

We deserve it.

But I can honestly say that I'm also focused on the big picture......

Enjoy

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Michael Timothy McAlevey

Moving me.....

I have a reputation regarding movies. Some people claim I like every movie. That's not a true statement. THE TRUTH IS......I CAN FIND SOMETHING WORTHWHILE IN EVERY FILM.......Sometimes the music playing over the credits is better than the film but it's something positive and whatever I can get for my buck is simply better than nothing.

The only film I've seen this year with no redeeming qualities was The Green Hornet.....not to be mistaken for The Green Lantern, which was visually entertaining.....but The Green Hornet proved once again that anyone can get a movie made if they try hard enough. Seth Rogan might be the silliest casting decision I've ever seen. I suspect we'll see no more Seth Rogan super hero adventures.

So far my favorite movie of the year is Midnight in Paris. It turns out to be Woody Allen's biggest box office success and I won't be surprised if it wins multiple awards.

The most uplifting film I've seen is The Dolphin Tale. I challenge anyone to go see that movie and not feel good about human ingenuity and resourcefulness. That story was not about a Dolphin.....it was about the human brain and how great things can be achieved. All feel good movies get a bit sappy but that's part of the ride. People who criticise extensive sappiness usually have some personal issues of their own.

Moneyball is quite entertaining but don't look for Oscar nods.

The fall season is upon us and the studios are getting ready to release their potential award winning films......I HOPE!

I'm going to go see The Way because I have a feeling.....I'll let you know if I let you know.

THREE HOUR PAUSE

Didyoumissme?

The Way is a Emilio Estevez film with his Dad, Martin Sheen, playing a father who lost his son and decides to spread his ashes across St. James Way...and complete the walk that his son didn't.
If you don't know about the pilgrimage in the northern part of Spain....then I suggest you read about it. The film is well done and the scenery is wonderful.

The idea of spreading ashes of a son is nothing new.....Sean is currently in 17 places around the globe with more to follow.

Do you personally know anyone who has done the walk along The Way?

Do you have their cell phone number?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Dark Matters unless it's Dark Energy

They handed out some Nobel prizes this week and once more I need to remind those who somewhat care about the composition of the Universe....and it seems like a small percentage.....that what we can see and feel is realllllllllly small compared to what we can't see and feel.

Dark Energy makes up 73% of the Universe
Dark Matter...23%
and
all visible matter........4%

4% is our visible reality!

Dark Energy is an unexplained force in the world of physics and thus neither you or I have the slightest idea about it's true nature.

Actually I do have an idea but you wouldn't believe it if I told you.

We do know there are two fields in which things can be explained through the world of physics........the field of Quantum Mechanics and the field of General Relativity.

Basically the BIG picture and the LITTLE picture. Einstein developed the BIG picture and multiple brainiacs are credited with the LITTLE guy....with the main star being Werner Heisenberg. Max Planck actually came up with the Quantum Mechanics name but
Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli and Neils Bohr are equally important in the formulation of the theory.

Schrodinger's cat experiment......(click on title of this piece)
helped further the process of trying to understand what Quantum Mechanics was...but if that comes up at a cocktail party I think it's time to go see a movie.

Lately I've been reading about nanobots in relationship to nanotechnology manufacturing and I seriously have some questions regarding safety. The human body is very sensitive and regulating construction of products by tiny robots might not be a process left in the hands of multi-national corporuptions whose sole goal is to increase profits.

I realize that sounds like the unibomber but anytime someone questions corporate reality then the next steps are disclaimers followed by car accidents and private plane crashes. With nanobots being injected into ANYTHING then anything becomes possible and usually when anything becomes possible then someone arrives on the scene that shouldn't be involved in the process of determining what is good and not good for the welfare of human beings.

I read that 300 BILLION nanobots can fit on the size of the period which ends this sentence.

I think I've got off point but every since that Neutrino story last week....things have been wacky and moving way too fast......and now I find out that 96% of the Universe is made up of energy and matter that we can't see.

I knew the figure was high but 96%????????????

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And then Steve Jobs dies and a big bite is taken out of the Apple. I have a feeling that in his non-physical reality he will be enjoying some amazing interaction with both Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Please keep in mind that Dark is not a negative word.....it's just dark.

Do you personally know anyone who has won a Nobel prize?

Can I get their cell phone number?

96%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Just a physical reminder

The REAL baseball season starts NOW

Before I make my predictions on the World Series I need to wrap up a very unique Dodger season. And since this article is about baseball, all you nonunderstandingbaseballhaterswhocouldn't hitthecurveballorwereafraidoftheactualbaseball.....can now go do something else.

The Dodgers had one of their most interesting seasons in their wonderful history....but most of the interest was focused on off field events. Frank McCourt got more press than any player and it's not a good thing when the owner dominates the news. Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw tried to put the focus back between the lines but the fans just weren't interested in going to the games.

By lack of interest I am referring to attendance. I haven't seen the numbers yet but I'm sure this will turn out to be the worst attendance figures since coming to LA. Although most people blame the McCourt court scenes I think the economy played a major part and many people were quite happy to have a separate excuse to stay away....keeping in mind that a ball game for two can cost a few hundred dollars. It can be done for less but even a family of four in the nosebleed section can run $100 plus.

Donny Baseball finished his first year with a winning record and that's ok......but he's still a Yankee and I'm not sure the hardliner Dodger fans will ever accept him...just like they didn't really flip out over Joe Torre. It takes multiple World Series victories to swallow that Yankee tag and I'm not sure we'll see that in the near future.

I think the Dodger problems started when they didn't hire Mike Scioscia after he had been their Triple A manager in 1999.

You don't see the Yankees hiring Dodger legends and the same should apply here.

The real pain is when I jump ahead three years and have to see Clayton and Matt playing for the Yankees, Red Sox or Phillies......that's going to hurt. And it might explain why the fans are not going to the games. They realize that the Dodgers aren't in a position to spend the money to keep their best players so why bother to support someone that will soon belong to someone else?

To the positive side of the story.

Matt Kemp had one of the best offensive seasons ever by a Dodger. Obviously his break-up with Rihanna during the off season didn't affect his performance....unless the break-up was her idea and Matt decided to have a great season just to show who ruled the roost here in LA LAND.

2010 was a banner year for Matt Kemp's sex life and 2011 was a banner year for his baseball career. I wonder which one he wants to duplicate in 2012. I'm sure he'd like to have both but some people just can't pull it off.

Clayton Kershaw showed remarkable poise for a 23 year pitcher. It wasn't just the the fact that he won 21 games and led the league in ERA and strikeouts....it was the way he handled the media.
He says the right things because he seems to be having a great time and nothing appears overwhelming to him. Barring injuries he is a potential Hall of Fame candidate. Injuries are a big part of the process, so it's kind of silly to speculate on such nonsense.....but he has that kind of talent....both on and off the field.

NOW FOR THE PREDICTIONS OF POST SEASON PLAY.

My favorite World Series would be ARIZONA VS DETROIT. Since Arizona is managed by Kirk Gibson, who happens to have created the greatest moment in LA Dodger history, I see no reason not to root for them.....and since he was a star for Detroit then the whole thing makes sense.

In reality......Phillies vs. Yankees probably makes more sense.

I see something different than the obvious but then again I see a lot of things differently than most people.

Prediction.....

Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia

Phillies win in 6 games.......with Chase Utley MVP

Play Ball!

Michael Timothy McAlevey