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?

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


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

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

2012 Olympics are just one year away

The 2012 London Olympic time table............ begins now.

The United States swim team with Michael, Ryan and Missy just won 16 Gold Medals at the World Championships in Shanghai.

The interesting side note is that Michael Phelps wasn't the ultimate star of the meet....that belonged to Ryan Lochte. What it probably did is make Michael want to prove one last time that he is the greatest swimmer of all time. It's not like he didn't win a bunch of medals but he didn't break any world records, which is going to be harder since the magical swim suit ban went into affect a few months ago.

Ryan could do what Michael did three years ago but he will have to go through Michael to do it and that will not prove to be an easy task.

Missy Franklin is the new female star and she's only 19.

The London Olympics 2012 should prove to be a great event.....but then again I've never met an Olympics that I didn't love.

The track stars are next up for the World Championships in South Korea in late August.

Good time to make your reservations for London. Surprise someone you love and sail across the pond for the Summer Olympics. I just saw a Louis Vuitton trunk for $20,000 at the Santa Monica Place. Order yours and plan the trip of a lifetime.

I could actually stow away in the trunk.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

From Space.com

Artist renderings by humans at www.Space.com are extremely important.

EXPLANATIONS on how things work in the universe.

Spend some time and learn about where you really live and it helps put everything in perspective.

The bottom line to this is.......you've got to love it.

"Our Father whose art is heaven.......

...................The Perfect Moment Now"

Micahel Timothy McAlevey

Wrong groupings

Medicare and Social Security are not entitlement programs and they should not be linked with welfare and other social programs when talking about giveaways.

The abuse of the welfare system is legendary and yet no one in public office ever tries to expose the abuse or point out exactly how much money is being wasted. The layers are so excessive that the programs within the programs have become firewalls of abuse...... Apparently impenetrable from the outside.

I just heard a story this morning from a neighbor about a young white couple from Santa Monica. The story was a personal one because the girl is my neighbors niece. They are expecting their third child in a few months. Neither one of them works and they are both healthy. He is 22 and she is 21. They live with their grandmother in a home that is owned by grandma.

They receive $2400 a month from the welfare office and $700 worth of food stamps. There is a program within a program that sends them a $150 gift card from Target every month. They also receive an hour of free couple's therapy each week.

I fully understand the concept of social programs to help the needy and disenfranchised. What I don't understand is why investigations are not done on a regular basis and why, when somebody is receiving welfare benefits, they aren't also receiving free mandatory job training.

The 22 year man just bought an X-box with his Target card.

My neighbor has decided to write a book about the welfare programs and the programs within the programs that completely discourage young healthy people from seeking employment.

How hard would it be to employ young social workers to investigate cases in person instead of sitting in an office and writing down whatever an applicant tells them? It doesn't make any sense if the answer is .....we can't afford it. Hiring 5000 state social workers to investigate fraud would eventually save the state billions of dollars....every year.

And I'm only talking about California........multiple that by 49 more states and the problem becomes egregious and enormous.

Social Security and Medicare always get poured into the debate concerning entitlements. Again they are not entitlements and they should be left out of any debate concerning the welfare system problems. I can see restructuring the Social Security guidelines and perhaps offering young people a chance to control their own money but that's an entirely different matter.

I read the other day that Federal revenue, as a share of the overall economy, is at it's lowest level since 1950. The article was by Ronald Brownstein, senior editor at the National Journal.

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

I will investigate that point and get back to you later.

In the meantime...let's find out why abuse of the welfare system is not a focus of political interest....and let's stop grouping Social Security and Medicare together with programs that are freebies.

Social Security and Medicare are not handouts.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Debt Ceiling and Deficit

Yesterday I referred to the deficit in a way that made it seem the same as the debt ceiling. After researching the subject a bit further it appears, in truth, that the debt ceiling has nothing to do with the budget and our massive deficit.

The two issues are separate and Republicans are using the budget expenditures to negotiate an increase in the debt ceiling....and Obama is participating in the negotiation by offering future cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

And then there are 87 freshman Republicans, many who claim to be in office because of The Tea Party, who claim not to be interested in being re-elected. That puts a group of people in political offices who don't really care about their political future....and while that might prove worthwhile in the long run, it also might prove disastrous in the short term. Many, if not all of those 87, say that will not vote for a increase in the debt ceiling unless the Obama Care health plan is eliminated. Actually that might be Michele Bachmann who said that, but she is a Tea Party leader....is she not?

Much of the debate also seems to be centered on increased taxation for the wealthy. What I don't hear enough about is how to close loop holes for Corporruptions. Just a reminder/ General Electric paid no corporate taxes in 2010......ZERO!

I suspect that wealthy individuals don't want their taxes raised....but at least they can deal with it.....without missing a rent or mortgage payment, forfeiting a meal or missing a doctor's appointment.

THE IDEA OF PENALIZING PEOPLE WHO ARE RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE AND MEDICAID IS SIMPLY RIDICULOUS.

GENERALLY THESE PEOPLE ARE OLDER, POORER AND UNHEALTHIER.

I fully agree that spending is out of control but I keep looking toward our involvement in other parts of the world and can't understand why the cost of participating in nation building in places where we don't belong......never becomes part of the budget dialogue.

I suspect that the debt ceiling issue will dominate our news in the next 30 days.

I hope the American public takes an interest in the battle and I hope we all learn a bit more about political maneuvering and political bullshit.

IT'S QUITE HARD TO TELL ONE FROM THE OTHER.

But taking money away from the disenfranchised , the elderly and the sickly people of this country is not a solution to over spending....and if you think it is then you are most likely a proud member of the Republican Party.

IS IT REALLY A PARTY WHEN THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE TARGETED ARE THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY? Sounds more like a slow execution.

There shall be more on the DEBT CEILING because it will get uglier and uglier before August 2nd.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Deficit and other strange occurances

I read somewhere that the war costs are not part of the deficit numbers....which means that the spending has really gotten crazy since Bill Clinton left office.

Social Security recipients have not had a cost of living increase in two years.....which is odd because gas, food and energy costs have spiked in the last two years.

The debt ceiling is such a strange term when you know that it can be adjusted according to who has the most votes.

I think the American public has lost confidence in both parties and that's why groups like the Tea Party can get representation in the House and the Senate. It's important to know that they don't have multiple seats in either chamber.

We give $2 billion dollars a year to Pakistan for their military operations. HUH?

Republicans failed yesterday to overturn the LIGHT BULB ACT which would eliminate 100 watt incandescent bulbs by next January.

The problem is everybody wants to replace them with mercury filled fluorescent bulbs and they never mention LIGHT EMITTING DIODES or LEDs.

A special shout out to the American babes running around in Germany trying to win another World Cup.

Peaches are currently 77 cents a pound. It won't last long. Enjoy.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

PRIORITIES

THE TOTAL COST OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM SINCE 1981
$192 BILLION

THE TOTAL COST OF THE WAR PROGRAM IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN SINCE 1991
$3.7 TRILLION

THE POWERS TO BE HAVE DECIDED TO END THE PROGRAM THAT LIFTS OUR SPIRITS AND KEEPS US DREAMING OF A BIGGER AND BRIGHTER FUTURE.

THOSE SAME POWERS ARE KEEPING THE PROGRAM THAT MAKES MANY OF US FEEL LIKE
??????????????

I think it makes me feel like the planet is still inhabited by a large contingent of Cro-Magnum and Neanderthals...................................but that's just me.

I'd love to hear how the wars make you feel.

But 3.7 Trillion vs 3.7 Billion
somethings wrong with this picture

Michael Timothy McAlevey

First step is ending with Atlantis

In 1962 a young vibrant President of the United States made a pledge that lifted our eyes toward the heavens in ways that we never considered. Not only did he say that America would go to the moon within the decade but he opened space travel for the first time.

Space Travel........leads to planet hopping which leads to alternative places to live long after our sun ceases to exist....which means the human species will forever be a part of the universe.

THE JUMP FROM ONE TRIP TO THE MOON TO LIVING IN ANOTHER GALAXY, ON ANOTHER PLANET, IS A HUGE JUMP.....BUT IT'S THE JUMP THAT OUR IMAGINATIONS TOOK WHEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY MADE THAT PROMISE.

Every single person that has worked on the space program since 1962 has had a larger goal than simply going to the moon and circling the earth.

The goal of making sure the human species survives is a goal that should exist inside every human being on the planet. Maybe it just sits quietly inside a small chamber of a portion of the brain not being used on a regular basis. It's part of us and although practical matters, such as food, rent, sunblock and love take a much larger role in our awareness.....IT IS THERE.

THE SPACE SHUTTLE has been intricate to feeding that goal even though most of us have never had anything to do with it and 90% of the population has never even seen a launch in person.

Tomorrow at 7:26 PST, weather permitting, the last United States sponsored Space Shuttle......ATLANTIS....will blast off and an era will end.

Private enterprise will assume the responsibility of taking mankind to destinations far beyond our present reach. It might take 20 or 30 years but we will resume our quest to make sure that we have another place to call home before our sun literally bakes all of our liquid. By all practical matters we only have about a billion years left so we better keep busy.

I realize that as you try to figure out where to make dinner reservations all of this seems rather silly.

Which brings this thought process around to

NEO-ILLUMINATION # 22

"the universe has a system of order and chaos

the human experience is a tangent of that system

which both

establishes order

and

creates chaos

belief systems directly lead to chaos

acceptance with investigation and introspection creates more order

the mysteries of the universe will always outnumber the known realities

and chaos will forever exist

our job simply might be

to avoid

extinction"

ALL HAIL

ATLANTIS.......

Michael Timothy McAlevey on 7/7/11

Back in Black

I haven't written an "article" since the 23rd because that subject is so important I wanted it to have front page status for as long as possible.

It was reported yesterday that after three years of losing money, The Vatican turned a profit in 2010. Donations were down $15 million which is 18% of their normal take....but with cost cutting maneuvers they were able to move back into black.

Some of the cost cutting maneuvers consisted of turning over thousands of customers in Northern Africa to Islam and refusing to participate in the Haiti recovery which just happens to be 90% Catholic.

Pope John Paul II started the revealing of profit and loss statements in 1981 to debunk the rumor that the Vatican was wealthy.

In 2010 The Vatican only made a profit of $14.3 million.

The Catholic Church continues to be one of the largest land owners in the world and I would venture to guess that the value of relics and antiquities owned by the church might total in the billions of dollars.

I'm fairly certain that the Catholic Church is wealthy. Healthy is another question.

If a new Crusade isn't in the works than I will assume that all of Africa will eventually be Islamic and all those years of missionary work on that continent will be for naught.

I still think THEY could recover some grace by deciding to build 100 churches in Haiti and put every single person to work on that side of the island.....WITH THE END RESULT BEING A CATHOLIC CHURCH TOURIST ATTRACTION.

CALL IT......................THE ISLE OF CHURCHES

IMAGINE BUILDING 100 CHURCHES WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT STYLES EVER CONCEIVED IN THE PAST AND NEW CONTEMPORARY STYLES.

The people of the island, men, women and children, could be employed for the next 25 years. ...and it could all be financed by the sale of church BLING.

Within a few months donations would pour into the confers because people would see the upside potential for rebuilding Haiti and helping those people create a new future.

THE ISLE OF CHURCHES would be such a big tourist attraction that they might have to build another airport......not to mention hundreds of hotels and restaurants.

THE PRESENT POPE COULD GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE MODERN RELIGIOUS WALT DISNEY.

I first came up with this idea over a year ago....but so far nothing has taken hold. I need to call the Pope. Does anybody have his cell phone number?

Have a safe and Happy Birthday America.

There is no excuse

It's no secret that I am against war as a problem solving solution. That puts me in a position of being anti-military....which I would say is an accurate assumption. I believe much too much money is spent on military endeavors around the world but I accept the current level of our human evolution and realize that while in the relatively near future (100 - 200 years) problems will be solved with compromise and diplomacy....currently asses need to be kicked from time to time. I choose not to be part of that ass-kicking but I understand that sometimes when training the puppy it needs to have its nose rubbed in the poop. Homo-sapien evolution is not that far along and while we have truly invented some cool toys we have yet to expand the extra senses that are available to our species.

Being anti-military does not mean I am anti-people who participate in the process. Obviously the military is an important employer for millions of people and in our current retro evolutionary stage there are times when power must be exerted....and protection must be provided.

WHAT I FIND TOTALLY INTOLERABLE IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS EVEN ONE HOMELESS VETERAN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

In Santa Monica we have a council member named Bobby Shriver who is fighting to have the Veterans Administration in West Los Angeles use their empty buildings to shelter homeless vets. The fact that a vet can't simply walk up to a VA building, anywhere in the US, and find a place to sleep anytime that want is totally unacceptable!

When a soldier loses his life in combat we always hear how a family should be extremely proud that their child gave their life for our country.

Why should it be any different throughout the entire life of any veteran who signed the papers to be part of the military complex?

"TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN" should be the optimum phrase.

It's appalling how much money we spend on military endeavors throughout the world.

IT'S DISGUSTING THAT ANY PERSON WHO JOINED THE MILITARY SHOULD EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN SLEEP AND USE A BATHROOM.

The real question is......HOW MANY ARE THERE?

It shouldn't be that hard to find out.

Between the closed military bases and the Veterans Administration buildings every single one of those homeless vets should be immediately housed.

"TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN"

THAT PHRASE SHOULD BE USED ON EVERY RECRUITING ADVERTISEMENT.

LET EVERY YOUNG PERSON KNOW THAT IF THEY DO JOIN THE MILITARY THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING HOMELESS.

The amount of money that will be saved by reducing our military actions around the globe can be used to solve this stupid problem.

And by not taking care of the people who risked their lives to join the military....the military proves once again that they are most definitely at a lower level of the human evolutionary chain.

WE NEED THEIR STUPID TOYS AND BAD ASS ATTITUDES BECAUSE WE ARE ONLY ABOUT 100,000 YEARS OLD....AND WE'VE ONLY BEEN RECORDING OUR DEVELOPMENT FOR ABOUT 25,000 YEARS AND WE'VE ONLY BEEN ABLE TO CREATE MULTIPLE COPIES SINCE AROUND 1439.

And although that's an explanation for our general stupidity, it is no excuse for allowing a member of the armed forces to sleep under a stack of newspapers.

In my advanced evolutionary future reality of the human species....no one will be homeless but that's an entirely different story.

THE PROBLEM OF HOMELESS VETS NEEDS TO BE FIXED TODAY.

I'm going to call the President and the Vice-President....but I need their cell phone numbers......does anyone have those numbers?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I expected more and that makes me angrier than before

Under GW's watch from 2001 to 2009 I never expected much, so I wasn't that disappointed by the actions and the behavior....and thus I was never pissed off during those eight years when the White House was being occupied by the GOP. Of course there were many times I was nervous that somebody in the White House could say such goofy things, but now looking back I realize that he never made me angry. Constantly questioning intelligence quota's to be sure....but never really angry.

I voted for Barack Obama because I thought that certain PROGRAMS would be adjusted.

PROGRAMS consist of global military action, corporation favoritism, tax loop holes for the wealthy and corporations and environmental issues. I never really thought Universal Health Care would take hold so I didn't consider that a viable PROGRAM. I'm not convinced that mandating health care can withstand the road blocks which will be established by the courts. In fact, I anticipate the Supreme Court will end up ruling against mandated health care.

President Obama has had two great opportunities in the last few months to reassure his voters ( 2008 and 2012) that he brought a different agenda to the party. The first being a response to Japan's horrible disaster and the second being the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

First: After the Japanese Nuclear problem he should have come out and stated unequivocally that Nuclear Power was not an option for the United States and the natural renewable forms of energy; wind, solar and geothermal, would be the primary focus of our energy program.

Second: The day after Bin Laden was killed he should have announced that our mission in Afghanistan was over and troop withdrawal would begin immediately. That was our mission wasn't it.....to capture or kill the man responsible for 9/11? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

ANY TYPE OF DEMOCRATIC NATION BUILDING THAT MIGHT BE ON THE AGENDA FOR AFGHANISTAN IS NOT A RATIONAL OPTION! IT'S A TRIBAL MENTALITY AND WITHOUT AN EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE THERE IS NO CHANCE IN HELL FOR CONVERTING THOSE PEOPLE TO A DEMOCRATIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT. TRYING TO HALT THE TALIBAN IS FUTILE BECAUSE THERE ARE NUMEROUS FACTIONS OF THAT SPECIFIC ISLAMIC MILITIA THAT CANNOT AGREE WITH ONE ANOTHER....SO ANY TYPE OF HARMONY WITH AN OUTSIDE INFLUENCE IS.....NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.

MAYBE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE CAN GET EVERYBODY TO SIT DOWN AND REALIZE THAT 8TH CENTURY MORALITY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS....DO NOT BELONG IN THE 21ST CENTURY......BUT I DON'T THINK I KNOW ANYBODY WHO CAN DO THAT WITHOUT HAVING A SABRE STUCK UP THEIR ASS.

The only positive thing to say about the Taliban is that......they aren't Al-qaeda....and they seem to be focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan whereas Al-qaeda seems hell bent on fucking with everybody on the planet.

I'm not unaware of the fact that I started talking about President Obama and now I'm ranting on about the Taliban and Al-qaeda.

This might all be related to the fact that I'm extremely upset with BO's focus and his lack of alternative behavior patterns......patterns that seem to parallel the previous administration.

Ron Paul is the only guy who seems to be telling America to wake up and stop nation building in places where it can't happen.

I'm not kidding when I say that Ralph Nader and Ron Paul need to join forces for the 2012 election. Maybe they could just handle the debates and create the questions.

I really don't want to hear Barack make promises that he has no intention of keeping and I REALLY don't want to hear some GOP goofball talk about what he will do different and how he or she will bring America back to the golden age of Reaganomics.

Maybe I'll just go into the mountains for the next 18 months and come back after the dust settles....or maybe I'll just work on a few of my paintings and pretend I went to the mountains.

Whatever I choose to do.....I'm a little upset with the result of my 2008 vote....and I really didn't see that happening.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

What would they think?

I've lived on the corner of Washington and Lincoln since 1986 and yesterday I read an article in the LA TIMES that got me wondering what those two American Icons would think of the United States selling $46 BILLION worth of military hardware to FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS....in one year. That follows the $31.6 BILLION that the US sold in 2010.

The article by W.J. Hennigan brought up some very curious statistics. Mr. Hennigan wasn't able to call bullsh.t but it's quite often that I find myself as the one who needs to do that much needed job.

In October of last year Saudi Arabia ordered $60 BILLION (multiyear deal)of weapons from the following "great" American companies; Boeing, Raytheon and Sikorsky. The order from Raytheon focused on 2,000 pound bunker-busting bombs and from Boeing they needed some F-15 fighter jets.

Who exactly is Saudi Arabia's arch enemy? I remember that 17 of the 19 9/11 terrorists were nationalized citizens of Saudi Arabia....so MAYBE we are them????????

Egypt apparently is one of the largest customers for United States weaponry. It turns out that our toys are being used in Egypt, Baharin and Tunsia to squelch the pro-democracy protesters.

Pakistan, India and Indonesia were on a blacklist along with China and Iran, but recently were taken off of that list. If we sell weapons to Pakistan it really proves that we have lost touch with reality.

President Obama's marketing plan for weapons is making George W. Bush look like a pacifist.

It turns out that one of the major justifications for selling death toys to foreign governments is that it helps with the unemployment problem.

If you are BFF's with the US you get an even better deal. We give you the money to buy our weapons. Israel got $2.78 BILLION in aid from us...to spend on arms.

I HONESTLY FELT THAT WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS ELECTED THAT WE WOULD BE MOVING TOWARD A NON-MILITARY GLOBAL APPROACH TO SOLVING PROBLEMS. I DON'T REMEMBER VOTING FOR A F..KING FIVE STAR GENERAL.

THE "ENTIRE" PLANET IS QUICKLY BECOMING A WELL ARMED GLOBE and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.

Why do I have a feeling that Canada doesn't participate in this deadly game?

The United States, China, Russia, Great Britain and France seem to be spiraling out of control toward who can win the weapons manufacturing award. The United States is currently the big kahuna but those other boys are busting their butts to catch up.

Is there no global vocal advocate who rejects this military consciousness???????

At this point I'd take anyone with mass appeal.....maybe Justin Beiber or Lady Gaga. Does anyone have their cell phone numbers?

Obviously politicians are part of the problem and religious leaders seem to be having their own issues....sport stars think it's all a game and my voice is limited to a very small area....on the corner of Washington and Lincoln.

I can't get anyone to even buy my artwork so there's not much chance I'll be able to alter the global weapons craze that obviously appears to be the main course on every countries plate.

Maybe I'll go to the Paris Air Show next week and order some drones and some F-15's.

INSANITY!!!!!!!!!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Bundled after long debate

We are all being presented with the same dilemma.....bundle our telephone, Internet and TV connections and save money. The three major players appear to be Verizon, Time Warner and AT&T. I have not been approached by AT&T because of logistics in my immediate area....even though you would think Santa Monica could not be considered rural by any stretch of the imagination. Time Warner and Verizon have sent monthly flyer's regarding their bundle packages. Verizon's service, FIOS, was not available north of Wilshire for almost two years while they laid the foundation of their network.

Last week I finally made the decision and selected FIOS to handle my various connection and entertainment distractions. Anything that takes me away from my art is a distraction, but also a necessary part of staying informed and somewhat social. FIOS was installed in about two hours and now I am saving almost $100 a month.

The best part of the decision is that I now have a NEW television experience. The remote is new and the format of programing is new and while I still haven't entered the flat screen world I now have new channels and different ways of interacting with the boob tube.

I highly recommend when making your decision to bundle (and you will eventually do it if you haven't already) that you wheel and deal until you get everything you want. There are no term contracts and if they try to make you sign something or pay for the installation then you are not being due diligent. The more you ask for the more you will get. I didn't ask for a two year price on the promotion but I should have.

My Internet speed is faster with FIOS then it was with Time Warner and I was always under the impression that Time Warner's Roadrunner connection was one of the fastest methods other than T1 connections. Then I realized that FIOS stands for Fiber Optic Service and.......duh! Light is usually faster than MOST EVERYTHING and that's what fiber optic means.....transmitting information by eletromagnetic carrier waves through the optical fibers.

The two year delay in my area of Santa Monica was simply due to the time it took to lay the fiber optic cable. The odd part is that when they did the installation they used the Time Warner cable that was already here. Obviously outside of my building is a different connection but I was told that Time Warner and Verizon use each other's cable whenever necessary. I'm not sure how the fiber optics work with existing cable but it is working quite nicely. Of course I'm going to learn more about it, but for now it is what it is and I can see cable jockeying being a problem in the future....but for now they seem to be sharing.

One of the things about Time Warner that always bothered me is that promotions for new customers were constantly arriving in my mail and I saw that if I wanted a better deal on my cable it would behove me to not be an existing customer. It actually doesn't make any sense not to offer your customers an occasional deal just to keep them happy. I was a Time Warner customer since they took over Aldephia and now I'm not.

As soon as AT&T gets their U-Verse service up and running in my neighborhood maybe I'll give them a try. I will use FIOS for a year because that's how long I get free HBO. I will be interested to see what their price will be after the year promotion is up. At that time maybe Time Warner will be offering free dinners and Dodger tickets.

For now I'm bundled and feeling warm and cozy with FIOS.

Is anything else going on in the world?

Michael Timothy McAlevey