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

http://www.hubblespacephotos.com

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%????????????

?????????????????

??????????????

?????????????????????

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

Faster than the speed of light?

A few years ago I was reading about neutrinos and their existence in relationship to what contributes to the laws of quantum physics. I did a small colored pencil drawing of what a neutrino would look like and it is a pleasant image to observe.

The latest news from CERN seems to imply that neutrinos are faster than the speed of light.

FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT!

THAT, SIMPLY PUT......CHANGES EVERYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY....AND IF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS INCORRECT THAN I SUGGEST YOU HOLD ON BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.

ONE CAVEAT......even though it's been three years since scientist first acknowledged the possibility of something being faster than light...they still need to do some additional testing.

But IF it turns out to be a reality than such silly things as time travel and space wrap movement throughout the universe.....will no longer be silly. It would instantly explain how beings from other galaxies come and go without being detected.

Molecular deconstruction followed by molecular reconstruction is the big one and if something is faster than light than the BIG ONE might actually be a possibility.

THE POSSIBILITIES BECOME ENDLESS IF ANYTHING IS FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Right now in Jamaica.....Mr. Bolt is trying to figure out to make a neutrino milk shake.

Albert Einstein, on the other hand, is calling bulls..t!

I'm just simply trying to watch it all unfold....but it's so damn quick.....I don't know where to look.......

here....there....everywhere.........faster than the speed of light!

WOW!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

You know someone or you are someone

A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that drugs have now officially replaced auto accidents as a cause of death in the United States.

37,485 people died in 2009 from drug deaths compared to 36,284 caused by traffic accidents.

PRESCRIPTION DRUG DEATHS OUTNUMBER HEROIN AND COCAINE DEATHS COMBINED.

PRESCRIPTION DRUG DEATHS OUTNUMBER HEROIN AND COCAINE DEATHS.....COMBINED.



XANAX, VALIUM, ATIVAN, KLONOPIN, OXY CONTIN, PERCOCET, VICODIN, NORCO,DILAUDID, METHADONE are various forms of prescription drugs that are being consumed by someone you know or by you.

These drugs are being prescribed by doctors for various forms of insomnia, anxiety and whatever.

DEATHS CAUSED BY THE USE OF MARIJUANA ARE PROBABLY WAY DOWN THE LIST OF CAUSES......ACTUALLY IT IS PROBABLY THE LEAST DEATH CAUSING DRUG ON THE PLANET........and yet the voting majority seems to be hell bent on making sure pot is not legalized. I wonder how many people who vote against legalizing pot are actually taking one of the prescription drugs listed above?

Please keep in mind that alcohol and nicotine, which are both legal, cause more deaths than all the prescription and illegal drugs ever invented.

Alcohol causes around 75,000 deaths a year and estimates for deaths caused by smoking range from 250,00 to 650,000.....

2.5 million people die every year in America. Heart disease is the leader with around 700,000 and it's hard to determine how much heart damage is done by the use of alcohol and nicotine but all indications point to those two factors being huge contributors to troubles with the heart. Of course pot smoking cannot be good for the heart, or the lungs, but one usually does a lot less when toking out....usually.

Prescription drugs are another entire story. People are given these drugs by the most trusted person in their life......their family doctor.

You probably know and love someone who abuses their patient doctor relationship.

A secondary market of buying and trading prescription drugs is another entire part of this story that needs to be addressed. I'm not sure how one could ever determine the numbers involved....but I suspect it's a large percentage of the problem.

Pot seems so much less abusive than everything mentioned above....and even though I don't smoke pot anymore....I do remember how little it took to achieve a feeling of altered consciousness....and altering the consciousness seems to be the goal of any drug use.

It's amazing that extreme exercise, meditation and laughter can create the same affects and then afterwards all you want to do is drink some fresh cool water and have a nice meal.

Exercise, diet and prayer........can replace any type of drug.....but it takes a desire and an effort and popping a pill is a whole lot easier.

Easier seems to be the optimum word here. It might be the American way and if that's the case then a change must be addressed that focuses on altering a group consciousness........ a consciousness that is not working.

Good luck on that one pilgrim!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Lots of reminders and some football too

Yesterday was a abundance of remembering something most of us would like to forget but of course that's like trying to forget your own birthday. The older one gets.....the more one tries to ignore the inevitable. Of course there is an entire generation that doesn't have the images stuck in their mind except for what we feed them.

Some of the things we feed them include comparisons to Pearl Harbor, but when that happens it gives much too much credence to a band of extremists. Islamic suicide squads cannot be linked to a well armed country that was hell bent on controlling half of the world. I wonder how Germany and Japan would have gone about sharing the world if they had been victorious. I'm sure a war between those two would have taken place fairly soon after the end of WW ll. Talk about two crazy entities.

I'm pretty sure it was predetermined in the heavens that both those countries would get their asses kicked.

I'm really hoping that the same ass kicking will apply to any group of extremists who think that murder and suicide is an honorable experience.

And then after all the ceremonies were complete......... there were professional football games played where each and every one of the participants tried to knock the heads off of anybody not wearing their same uniform.

My team (RAMS) started off perfect and then everything went downhill. Not only did they lose but six of their most important players got hurt. Maybe they were just honoring the victims of 9/11 by becoming victims themselves.

I love it when professional athletes are giving and responsible.

Anyway....9/11 is behind us for another year, unless of course we had a family member taken that day....and then it's a forever hole that just sits there and hopefully gets slowly filled with love and wonderful human interactions. Some times the hole never gets any smaller and wonderful human interaction just doesn't take place.

And sometimes that's even sadder than the actual event which created the hole.

The American people seem to be a people that appear very capable of filling the hole....and for that I'm really thankful to be part of the experience....and again I feel very lucky to have been born in just such a place.

Now the real question is.......did I pick it or am I just a random accident?

I'd like to believe my true nature has something to do with where I am and who I want to be.

My true nature being.....the non-physical reality that has no time clock.

And that is really another subject for another day.

For now......have a nice 9/12....9/13......9/14....and on and on and on.......

Michael Timothy McAlevey

A moment of silence

CHECK THIS OUT

NASA just released a web site that lets you travel with their toys as those toys explore the solar system.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/

And while you are traveling make a note to contact your local, state and federal officals about the possible funding halt to the James Webb telescope that was intented to replace the Hubble and which is a 100 times more powerful.

Your quick simple letter, e-mail, text or twitter should read........

DO NOT LET THE FUNDING LASPE ON THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE.

In the meantime....have a nice trip with NASA.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Ten years and we've learned ???????

On September 11 2001 a group of Saudi nationals flew commercial jets into three different buildings. Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility on behalf of Al-Qaeda. It seems odd that we haven't even figured out the correct spelling for those crazy son's of bitches. Sometimes it's spelled Al-Qaida or al-queda and sometimes it's just spelled....nutcases.

I think we've learned a few things about Dick Cheney and George W. Bush but we really haven't learned why Islamic radicals have literally misinterpreted their sacred book....the Koran. Which by the way, can also be spelled Qur'an or Coran or Kuran or al-Qur'an. How are they suppose to interpret the content correctly when they can't even figure out one spelling?

The bible is spelled....B I B L E........

Now please don't interpret this as some better than thou religious comparison because when it comes organized religions I'm pretty sure controlling massive amounts of people is the main goal and when the main goal is to control massive amounts of people, then the true individual relationship with the creator becomes lost in the translation.

I reckon this piece I'm writing will cause some idiot to claim that I'm demeaning the prophet Muhammad.....which is another name that seems to have ten spellings.....and put a fatwa out on my head. I was thinking of buying a fatwa at the .99 store but they currently are sold out.

The real difference between the two big religions......one stopped killing people about 800 years ago. The other seems to be hell bent on killing anyone who doesn't accept Islam as the one true religion.

Christianity's history most definitely has some major character flaws....and Catholic priests have taken those flaws to a new level in the last 50 years. If the Pope simply reversed the no-marriage rule, which was established around 800 AD, then those goofy priest, who like little boys, would simply fade away like Frank McCourt should. Martin Luther tried to make it right for the home team in Rome but was forced to start his own branch of Christianity.

I keep wondering why Jews, the Christians and Islamic scholars all think that God only conversed with their organizations. That is the problem isn't it? Each one of them thinks that God stopped publishing with each of their books. Of course the Mormons and various other splinter groups disagree with that limited publishing theory, but who really cares what the Mormons think? Now that Mitt Romney will be seriously running for President maybe some questions can be answered regarding the history of his goofy religion. The Rick Perry televangelist campaign should also prove to be interesting if the reporters ask the right questions.

Somewhere during the next 12 months one of the religious right wing candidates will make a statement that truly puts the Holy War into proper perspective. Because no matter what you think....the radical Islamic players on the other side....totally believe this is the big one......

The Holy War....or Jihad

If one simply pauses for a second and imagines that An Entity exist that has managed to create an ever expanding universe that contains billions and billions of creatures, planets, suns, galaxies and one Reeese Witherspoon than it's fairly easy to see that love is at the core.....not war.

I can't understand why any human being would underestimate the very nature of such An Entity.

It doesn't make sense.

Logic and reason must not exist in the heart and mind of anyone who thinks GOD condones violence....but that's just my crazy observation.

A Creator is a Creator.

And the fact that A Creator exist....should simply be enough reason to say thank you and

I

Love

You

There is no place for thank you, I love you and now I want to kill you if you don't agree with me.

The moderate Islamic leaders and scholars need to become extremely vocal and they need to do it now! They need to talk about misinterpretations of certain written words.

If they don't...then the HOLY WAR will become a true reality.

I'm almost worried that there are too many people on both sides who want a Holy War to take place.

And that's what I've learned since 9/11/2001.

How about you?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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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

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