Monday, August 29, 2011

Mahmoud should be careful

While certain factions, on both sides, are trying to establish a Palestinian state....certain other factions are simply trying to create havoc.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can't stop the bullshit rhetoric and all it does is cause tension. His latest quote regarding Israel was...."You have no place in our region and among our nations, and you will not be able to continue your ignominious life on even a small part of the Palestinian territories."

To say something like that is simply proof that he has no concept of history.

Jews have been a part of that region since......well, since the beginning of recorded history.


The Qur'an acknowledges Abraham and Moses as great Prophets.....where does Ahmandinejad think they lived......Miami Beach? Judaism was the first monotheistic religion and if not for that concept, Allah would be just be another of the multiple others worshiped by homo sapiens.


To say that Jews don't belong in that region is pretty much like saying Meatloaf isn't one of the greatest rock and roll singers of all time.


What doesn't belong in that region is ignorance and intolerance....and the President of Iran seems to the leader of those two traits.


By the way the Qur'an limits the amount of wives a man can have to......four.


I don't know why I brought that up other than the fact that it just seems very odd....and is probably a fact that most people don't know.


I can't imagine how much information in the Qur'an is not known by the average Christian.


Maybe both sides should be required to read each other's books of fantasy.


In the meantime...the President of Iran should try taking a vow of silence....and let people who know what's going on reach an accord that will offer some semblance of peace to a region where everybody seems to belong.


Michael Timothy McAlevey












Sunday, August 28, 2011









My mom, Meredith Ann Mathews, would turn 89 today if she was still involved in a physical reality. That reality ended, as far as I know, in 1980. One always has to assume that reincarnation might happen instantly for some beings. There are so many options available when one considers the reality of reincarnation. In truth....the varied options of how non-physical reality might work is simply......... infinite.


I'd like to think she figured out how to try again but I also realize that each of us has our own contract and perhaps she just got tired of physical reality.


It can happen. And it can happen fast.


Kind of like a small wind blowing over the ocean and then suddenly elements combine and a new woman is created.


The new woman in town has a name and they call her..........IRENE.


She lives on the East Coast.


IRENE is about four days old and has managed to completely shut down New York City. Now that's a powerful chick with an extreme attitude.


It turns out that a few minutes ago at 10 AM EST....on Meredith Ann Mathew's birth date.....she has been downgraded to a storm. Hurricane Irene is now Storm Irene.


I hope that doesn't piss her off and give her impetus to re-energize herself.


Irene the storm just has a nicer ring to it.....but one has to remember storms don't get named, so in truth.....we must say goodbye to IRENE.


Lots of damage has been left behind...but for now NYC has seen the worst and survived.


My mom, as far as I know, had a physical reality from 1922 to 1980. She created some storms in her life and some storms found her but she managed to raise 3 children and hundreds of animals and people who knew her will always remember a very beautiful woman who liked to have a good time and also was President of the 4-H club when I was 8, 9 and 10 years old. And she might have been the biggest Frank Sinatra fan on the planet. She loved antiques and she loved her Boxer dogs........but mostly I think she just loved us....and when it comes to moms....what beter thing to think and say.


Happy Birthday Mom........say hi to Frank....and tell Irene to keep breathing.....in and out....in and out......relax.....keep getting calmer and calmer.


Michael Timothy McAlevey











Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Maybe tooooooo much

I need to stop swearing on the golf course. The sound travels across the grass and kids and the religious right don't need to hear some freaking loud "F..K" interrupting their back swing or breaking their concentration while trying to putt.

The game's hard enough without crazy distractions.

On the other hand, I think there should be tournaments where people are allowed to yell during a back swing. Concentration is concentration and if done properly then no outside sound should interfere with the swing thought.

I only swear loudly four or five times during a round, but those moments, in which the harsh words come out, are simply a alternative to throwing my club in the lake.

One of the problems is that the course we play at is frequented by senior ladies and junior kids.

I suppose if I was playing Bel-Air I would receive a verbal reprimand from the President.....unless of course he was also a swearer.

Certain words have become regular parts of our daily language but I do realize that a large contingent of our population still cringes when they hear MotherF..ker and other commonly used dock worker and pro football terms.

Yesterday I was playing consistent golf until the 7th hole and then three huge F..ks bombs popped out on three consecutive shots.....I looked up after the last one and a gentleman I knew was on an enjoining tee and he was simply shaking his head.

I wonder why my father never says anything? He's 92 and has strong opinions on most subjects and I've never heard him swear. I think the Marine Corp trains you how to control that area of your brain.

I, on the other hand, only had the nuns making sure I toed the line and by the time I broke away from their control I was a swearing motherf..ker.

The game of golf demands a certain level of control...both mental and physically....that I obviously do not possess, even though yesterday I might have had the best shot of my life. A beautiful, extremely high, 110 yard lob wedge that landed one-half inch from the cup.

I think I said motherf..ker....but I think I whispered it.

From this day on I promise to make my verbal reactions on the extremely quiet side....or not at all. Which in turn means a six iron might end up wrapped around a certain pine tree on the 5th hole.

With my luck it might boomerang off the tree and hit me in the head.....or worst....hit my dad.

I'm working on some things.....ok?

Michael Timothy McAlevey









Monday, August 22, 2011

The mall not attended






I've been to a lot of malls in my life but for some strange reason I've missed the only one that really counts.




The National Mall doesn't have a department store or a jewelry store or 16 movie theaters but it does have the one thing which truly matters.....




IT HAS THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.




I feel rather silly for not having made the ultimate mall trip.





Thanks to Google Earth I can virtually take the trip.




My recommendation to you......if indeed you haven't done it yet.......is take the actual trip and make sure you spend plenty of time in the various museums.




And then stop by the Capitol Building and tell them to wake the f..k up!




I hear the best time to go is in late September or early October.




Have a nice trip.




Michael Timothy McAlevey










Saturday, August 20, 2011

The new Texas good ole boy

It looks like the 2012 election might be between a sitting President and a good ole boy from Texas named Rick Perry. We haven't seen one debate between Rick and Mitt but I have a feeling that the mood of the conservative voter in this country....will be wanting to elect a good looking right wing white Christian politician from the state of Texas.

It seems we've been down that road before....and Rick Perry might make GW look like a Rhodes Scholar.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's a lot more fun to be on the offense than on the defense.....as we've noticed by all the varied attacks on Mr. Obama......so I'll start the ball rolling by repeating something Mr. Perry said the other day.

"Global Warming is a contrived phony mess that is failing apart under its own weight."

I have a strange feeling that this is just the first of many things Mr. Perry will say that in turn will cause us to say......HUH?

This next presidential election will probably be one of the most contentious in the history of our great country.

I can't wait.

Let the games begin......

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Monday, August 15, 2011

My guess is that your guess is way wrong

Stop for a second and take a guess on the percentage of how much money you spend on goods and services from China.

Your guess?

************


I asked someone earlier today and they said 80%.

That would be 77.5% WRONG.

Your consumption, as a United States consumer, of goods and services from China ads up to a whopping........
2.7%

2.7!

Obviously if you spend all your time buying toys and socks from Wal-Mart and shopping at the .99 Store, than you might have a higher percentage in your household. But in reality when you consider what you spend your money on....then indeed Chinese items are pretty far down the list of importance.

Think about your mortgage, rent, car payment, auto and health insurance, food, mechanics, haircuts, ball games, gasoline, utilities and entertainment......and it's easy to see why it's only 2.7% Chinese.

We then sell our Treasury notes to China and thus there is an imbalance on how much debt is incurred. China holds 26% of all foreign held U.S. Treasury securities....which has grown considerably from the 6% they held in 2000.

WE ARE OBVIOUSLY A GREAT INVESTMENT FOR CHINA.....I think.

If they decide to cash those Treasury notes then a different problem might arise. A problem that I don't wish to think about at the present moment. Selling them to Japan or Great Britain or Brazil might be ok but I truly don't know enough to offer a reasonable answer.

It just makes me want to play more golf.

Anyway.....2.7% of Made-in-China is all that we have floating around our lives....and yes that adds up to a tidy sum of money but nowhere near your original guess.

Am I right?

Michael Timothy McAlevey






Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Where's the GOLD ceiling?

With all the recent volatile stock market activity one thing appears constant. Stocks go down, Gold goes up. Stocks go up, Gold goes down. I think I could buck that trend by simply purchasing some gold bullion. At that point it would tumble back to reality, which might be in the $1000 an ounce range, and life would be back to normal.

With everything going on in the world financial markets I guess the real question is.......Is there a normal and is there a proven structure that creates harmony and calm for most of the 6 billion inhabitants of our beautiful planet?

AT THIS POINT IN TIME.........PROBABLY NOT!

Today Gold is $1773.00 an ounce. That Rolex watch your granddad left you 20 years ago is now worth 80% more than it was one year ago. On August 10 2010 Gold was $1200. In 2007 it was $600. The gold filings inside your mouth are now part of your portfolio.

Jewelry stores are suddenly becoming buyers and not sellers.
Watch stores are busy for the wrong reasons.

I think there needs to be a consistent value of Gold for calmness to exist....and that consistent value should be around $1000 an ounce.

Of course Gold fever is one of the oldest known fever's on the market and history clearly shows that people have truly gone nuts over the chance to possess the shinning mineral.

Would you rather own five ounces of Gold or five shares of Apple stock?

The pundits say.....get 2 ounces of gold, 2 shares of Apple, a few Muni's, one Treasury note and keep the rest in cash.

I think most people are just trying to pay their mortgages and their rent and keep food on the table. The optimum word is MOST. It's obviously a numbers game and when you have 300 million people in a country than most likely 30 million are going to be doing extremely well during any period of time.

The problem appears to be that 1% seems to have accumulated 90% of the wealth. That's 3 million not 30 million.....and those 3 million people are laughing and looking for second homes and trying to figure out how to avoid any tax liability.

The statistics on this problem are extremely close to the statistics of 1928. An imbalance of have and have not's is a bad thing for a free enterprize system.......actually it's a bad thing for any system.

Let's get something straight.....I think wealth is good and in our scio-economic political system...it's the thing that drives the bus. But the bus is full of passengers and those passengers can't all drive their own bus. The wealthiest people tell you that it's possible for everyone to drive their own bus but that's because they discovered some method that helped them buy a bus.

Not everyone can figure out how to own their own bus so they end up with a nice used car that holds four or five family members. And each one of those family members wishes they were driving the car......except of course for great grandma and grandpa who just don't like to drive anymore because people just won't get out of the way.

Of course then there's the people who are riding the bus because that's the only way to get around.

Do you think any of those people riding the bus give a rat's ass that Gold is $1733 an ounce?

270 Million people have no ability to buy gold at $1733 an ounce.

30 million can get a few ounces and 3 million people can do whatever the fuck they want.

If you are one of those 3 million people than you need to realize that Gold should be around $800 to $1000 an ounce. And you need to realize that people should not be starving anywhere on the Planet and you need to realize that it can all go away if more people don't participate in learning how to drive the bus....even if they can't own one.

The Middle Class appears to be shrinking and that's the worst thing that can happen to the United States of America.

An imbalance of wealth and a reduction of the Middle Class is a formula for disaster.

I think America has the fortitude and the moxie to figure out the solution. I think America will discover how to reintroduce manufacturing and service sector jobs to the American public....and do it within our borders.

I just thing it's who we are.

But I think Gold needs to calm way down......just like oil needs to be around $60 a barrel....Gold needs to be under a $1000.

Everything seems chaotic when oil is over a $100 and Gold is approaching $2000.......

Maybe everything is just basically chaotic in and of itself. In that case.......ouch!

Stock prices are based on human successes and failures.........Gold prices are based on ???????

How far is ???????? going to take Gold?

$5000?

God help us if that happens!

Michael Timothy McAlevey






Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Cost, cutting and THE REAL PROBLEM

Now that the Debt Ceiling has been raised and both parties have agreed to some form of compromise.....we can begin to learn what they did and didn't do. It will take time to sort out all the details but it appears that the wealthy and corporuptions are once again protected. The raising of additional revenue through tax increases appears to be off the table. I'll repeat it one more time. GENERAL ELECTRIC PAID NO FEDERAL INCOME TAXES IN 2010.

There will be cuts in the Military Budget but how much is still to be determined.

In 2010 the military budget was $685 BILLION. That does not include the cost of operating two military events in Iraq and Afghanistan. That separate expenditure cost $171 BILLION in 2010.

The estimate of the two war fronts since 2001 is $1,291 TRILLION.

The question being put forth by those who support American Wyatt Earp operations around the globe is......

WHO DO YOU WANT POLICING THE PLANET OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

The answer from the opposite side of the fence is.....

AREN'T THERE ENOUGH CONSCIENTIOUS COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET TO SHARE THAT INTENSE RESPONSIBILITY?

I realize that conscientious countries might be a vague term but if you apply freedom, logic, compassion, harmony, charity and wealth than you can easily name multiple players that fall under the heading of possessing a higher level of conscientiousness. Obviously there are some countries that have wealth but appear to be lacking in the other categories.

What WE seem to be doing with our current budget fiasco is attacking the less fortunate...which goes against the grain of why we are one of the good guys.

WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT 12 MILLION PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN REFUGE CAMPS IN SOMALIA AND NOBODY SEEMS INTERESTED, THEN YOU START TO QUESTION THE BASIC MORAL FIBER OF ALL COUNTRIES.

Why can't we drop sacks of grain and rice right in the middle of those camps? Why can't we deliver millions of bottles of water to those camps?

WHY CAN'T MASSIVE LARGE CORPORATIONS PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAX?
WHY CAN'T PENSIONS BE CONSTRUCTED SENSIBLY?
WHY CAN'T PROSPEROUS COUNTRIES SHARE IN THE COST OF FIGHTING TERRORISM?
HOW DO POLITICANS MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WHILE IN PUBLIC OFFICE?
WHY CAN'T WELFARE FRAUD BE CONTROLLED?
WHY CAN'T OIL RICH DESERT COUNTRIES DO GREAT THINGS FOR HUMANITY INSTEAD OF JUST BUILDING RIDICULOUS TOURIST ATTRACTIONS AND BUYING RACE HORSES.

There are so many questions to be asked and so many not to be answered, and if I were to make a wild guess I would think all the current Budget Bullshit is simply a ploy by two similar political parties to take our focus off the target.

THE REAL TARGET THAT IS PREVENTING AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY FROM TAKING PLACE......

HOW DO YOU REPLACE MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE SECTOR JOBS THAT HAVE SHIPPED TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO REDUCE EXPENDITURES AND INCREASE PROFITS?

It's like a slight of hand card trick and nobody seems to have an answer on how it's suppose to work.

In the meantime....The Global Community (and that means everyone) needs to focus on 12 million starving and dying people in Africa....and they need to focus
TODAY!

A REAL TIME EFFORT TO HELP REPAIR A PLANET THAT SEEMS TO HAVE LOST IT'S WAY ON THE ROAD TO THE NEXT HIGHER STAGE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. (it will happen with or without you and me but it's nice to be involved in the process don't you think?)

BUT INSTEAD WE HAVE BUDGET BULLSHIT TO DIVERT OUR FOCUS!

JUST TAKE A SMALL PORTION OF THAT MILITARY BUDGET AND SEND RICE, GRAN AND WATER TO AFRICA...AND THEN USE OUR WYATT EARP GLOBAL MENTALITY TO MAKE OTHER WEALTHY COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE IN THE ENDEAVOR.

EVERYONE WILL FEEL BETTER!

TODAY WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO START

NOW
WOULD BE
EVEN
BETTER!


Michael Timothy McAlevey