Thursday, July 26, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Salute to Hef
In 1958 I was 12 years old and Playboy was five. Even though it was five years younger than I, it proved to be a guiding parental shaped influence none the less. Moral issues were absorbed by osmosis of close content with the writing. Between the ages of 12 and 30 I was a regular reader although never a subscriber. Between 1977 and 1987 I was married and on some occasions, while out of town on business, would select Playboy as my evening companion. From 1988 to 1994 I would entertain a Playboy edition once in awhile.
Since 1994 I've only seen a few issues and that's strictly because I have issues which I don't care to discuss at this particular time. They aren't secret issues just issues not relevant to this article....and they are issues that can't be rectified by pictures of women with large breasts. I've always preferred a smaller mammary gland look, so Playboy's centerfolds always were a bit over the top for me. Of course when I was 13-20 I just liked looking at any beautiful woman without her clothes on....and Playboy had a style and a texture that fulfilled that desire in a most complete manner. The actual layouts were always done with extreme class and elegance. Picking up the other competitive magazines from time to time was generally disappointing. Playboy was crisp and clean. Penthouse was crude and Hustler was like a bad "B" movie.
Playboy separated itself with it's content....both in the arenas of humor and political issues.
The interviews during the 60's and the 70's were extremely important on so many different levels.
Hugh Hefner always appeared to be on the sensible and honest side of issues. I'm fairly certain that his stand on racial equality was equal in importance to white America as was Martin Luther King's importance to black America.
I realize that statement needs to be absorbed for a few minutes.
In retrospect I think a very strong case could be made for Hugh Hefner's importance in the awareness of racial injustice in America.....and how that injustice was softly introduced through a literary publication that also showed beautiful young women with their clothes off.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ONLY WAY TO INTRODUCE THE SUBJECT TO A VERY LARGE PORTION OF THE YOUNG WHITE AMERICAN MALE POPULATION.
I'm not certain that his original intentions were to wake up America to racial injustices, but after awhile he had to see that it truly was part of the Playboy agenda.
I also realize that today we have a very large segment of our white adult male population ( mostly Republicans) that will do anything to assure that our African American President is a one term President. Playboy needs to make a circulation comeback like in 1972 when it sold 7 million copies a month....or expand to uptight foreign markets. Currently the circulation in the U.S is 1 and 1/2 million.
There are many countries that ban the sale of Playboy including India and China. I think it's interesting to equate America in the 60's to those countries today. Most Muslim countries forbid the sale, except Lebanon and Turkey.
There were extreme condemnations of Playboy by woman's groups throughout the years....but I believe that woman's rights and their position in business and politics owes a large thank you to Mr. Hefner and his magazine.
Religious organizations are usually at the heart of the protests and if you think of women's rights in Muslim countries then it's easy to see why Playboy India, Playboy China, Playboy Saudi Arabia, Playboy Pakistan, Playboy Iran and Playboy Thailand SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE PUBLISHED.....on a weekly basis.
SOMETHING IS GOOFY IN THOSE COUNTRIES AND A HUGE PART OF THAT SOMETHING HAS TO DO WITH THE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
HUGH....WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER ..........ON A GLOBAL BASIS.
I realize that you are 86 but maybe you've got 14 years left to keep the ball rolling.....or in your case.....the balls.
I salute you sir.....but keep your hands off my daughter.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Friday, July 20, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
John Conner needed in the board room
The SINGULARITY was named by the gentleman shown above....Ray Kerzweil.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/
From Lev Grossman TIME MAGAZINE SCIENCE 2011
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that Kurzweil was hiding an unusual fact and the panelists — they included a comedian and a former Miss America — had to guess what it was.
On the show (see the clip on YouTube), the beauty queen did a good job of grilling Kurzweil, but the comedian got the win: the music was composed by a computer. Kurzweil got $200.
(Watch TIME's video "Singularity: How Scared Should We Be?")
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html#ixzz20coU733t
The difficult thing to keep sight of when you're talking about the Singularity is that even though it sounds like science fiction, it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction. It's not a fringe idea; it's a serious hypothesis about the future of life on Earth. There's an intellectual gag reflex that kicks in anytime you try to swallow an idea that involves super-intelligent immortal cyborgs, but suppress it if you can, because while the Singularity appears to be, on the face of it, preposterous, it's an idea that rewards sober, careful evaluation.
In October there will be a SINGULARITY CONFERENCE in San Francisco.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/singularity-summit-2012
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS CONFERENCE BROADCAST ON PBS.....but I realize that won't happen so why not Pay Per View?
THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT NEEDS TO BE RESEARCHED AND ANY SHORT ARTICLE THAT I CAN WRITE WOULD BE SENSELESS.
READ ABOUT SINGULARITY AND MR. KURZWEIL
I've been looking into Ray and I'm not sure he will be attending the conference and in fact I can't find anything about his current activities. If you have more current info on him please let me know.
I'd like to see a movie with Tesla and Kurzweil meeting in a time wrapped created pub.
And then they both go back to 1901 and design everything for the 20th and 21st century
Ok....I guess I'll start writing it after I get back from the Dodger game.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Communists Countries and different results
Imagine it's 1958 and the Cold War is in full swing.
Russia decides to build thousands of factories to make cheap versions of everything we need; socks, shoes, anything plastic, furniture, dog food and on and on and on.....by 1962 America is pouring billions of dollars into the Russia economy so that our consumers can buy cheaper goods. That billions and billions of dollars that Russia has, now goes to building what? Think hard!
WEAPONS
Russia was spending billions and billions on weapons and there was one problem......they didn't have any money and lo and behold by 1980 the country was virtually broke. They sure couldn't compete any more in the arms race and slowly they realized that the theory of Stalin's communism doesn't really work if the crowd is larger than a commune in southern Oregon.
UNLESS OF COURSE revenue can be raised in a different manner.
China observed the problem and decided that we could build their weapons for them by selling us everything we need.
A major difference in the two situations is that in 1958 there weren't giant warehouse stores in America to handle the influx of product....even if product was being produced.
I'm really not sure who is more to blame for the current situation. China or Wal-Mart. I do remember when Sam Walton insisted that everything sold at his stores was Made in the USA. Not so much any more.
I've talked to people in the furniture industry who have their products manufactured in China and they simply say....."it's not really a communist country. The government leaves businesses alone so they can do business without interference from the communists leaders."
YEAH STUPID.......THAT'S THE F..KING PLAN.
SIMPLY GOOGLE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY CHINA SPEND ON THE MILITARY 25 YEARS AGO AND WHAT THEY SPENT IN 2011 AND WHAT THEY WILL SPEND IN 2012.
It's really not rocket science....oh but what a minute, it is rocket science that they are buying and building.
I fully realize that the United States spends 10 times what China spends on military but our job is to maintain planetary peace and to protect any democracy that needs help. We also lend a hand in areas where they don't know how to spell democrcy and the cost of those aid situations is staggering...thus our large military expenditures.
When China gets involved in another country it's never to protect the ideals of freedom.
I'm not being naive by ignoring the oil drilling that takes place in or near many of the theaters that America engages itself in.....I'm just saying that we always attempt to leave our goal of freedom and democracy on the place mat when we leave.
Let's face it....We are the Wyatt Earp of planet Earth.
I don't know when we got elected to that post but it was somewhere around 1776.
China, on the other hand, is ????????...........we don't really know what there intentions are, but they seem to be a cross between the Claytons and sheriff Johnny Behan with a pinch of Doc Holiday thrown in just to confuse the matter.
I just think the same people doing business with China today.....would have found it reprehensible to have done business with Russia in the 50's, 60's and 70's. I realize that we probably always bought Vodka from them, but we are a beer drinking society and had they made $1.00 six packs of an amber ale.....then we might be talking Russian by now.
I like to look ahead ten years and just wonder how many people will be saying........
.....huh! I had no idea China was planning to take over the world.
WE SHOULD HAVE CHINA AND ISLAM SQUARE OFF and get that shit settled once and for all.
Nobody ever said being Wyatt Earp would be easy, but I guarantee Wyatt was not buying his boots from the Clayton family so that they could use the money to buy guns and ammunition.
I'd like to hear the two Presidential candidates discuss this issue with Bill Moyers....but instead we'll get them on Leno, Letterman and Ellen talking about their high school reunions.
Hope you all had a great 4th of July!
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Russia decides to build thousands of factories to make cheap versions of everything we need; socks, shoes, anything plastic, furniture, dog food and on and on and on.....by 1962 America is pouring billions of dollars into the Russia economy so that our consumers can buy cheaper goods. That billions and billions of dollars that Russia has, now goes to building what? Think hard!
WEAPONS
Russia was spending billions and billions on weapons and there was one problem......they didn't have any money and lo and behold by 1980 the country was virtually broke. They sure couldn't compete any more in the arms race and slowly they realized that the theory of Stalin's communism doesn't really work if the crowd is larger than a commune in southern Oregon.
UNLESS OF COURSE revenue can be raised in a different manner.
China observed the problem and decided that we could build their weapons for them by selling us everything we need.
A major difference in the two situations is that in 1958 there weren't giant warehouse stores in America to handle the influx of product....even if product was being produced.
I'm really not sure who is more to blame for the current situation. China or Wal-Mart. I do remember when Sam Walton insisted that everything sold at his stores was Made in the USA. Not so much any more.
I've talked to people in the furniture industry who have their products manufactured in China and they simply say....."it's not really a communist country. The government leaves businesses alone so they can do business without interference from the communists leaders."
YEAH STUPID.......THAT'S THE F..KING PLAN.
SIMPLY GOOGLE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY CHINA SPEND ON THE MILITARY 25 YEARS AGO AND WHAT THEY SPENT IN 2011 AND WHAT THEY WILL SPEND IN 2012.
It's really not rocket science....oh but what a minute, it is rocket science that they are buying and building.
I fully realize that the United States spends 10 times what China spends on military but our job is to maintain planetary peace and to protect any democracy that needs help. We also lend a hand in areas where they don't know how to spell democrcy and the cost of those aid situations is staggering...thus our large military expenditures.
When China gets involved in another country it's never to protect the ideals of freedom.
I'm not being naive by ignoring the oil drilling that takes place in or near many of the theaters that America engages itself in.....I'm just saying that we always attempt to leave our goal of freedom and democracy on the place mat when we leave.
Let's face it....We are the Wyatt Earp of planet Earth.
I don't know when we got elected to that post but it was somewhere around 1776.
China, on the other hand, is ????????...........we don't really know what there intentions are, but they seem to be a cross between the Claytons and sheriff Johnny Behan with a pinch of Doc Holiday thrown in just to confuse the matter.
I just think the same people doing business with China today.....would have found it reprehensible to have done business with Russia in the 50's, 60's and 70's. I realize that we probably always bought Vodka from them, but we are a beer drinking society and had they made $1.00 six packs of an amber ale.....then we might be talking Russian by now.
I like to look ahead ten years and just wonder how many people will be saying........
.....huh! I had no idea China was planning to take over the world.
WE SHOULD HAVE CHINA AND ISLAM SQUARE OFF and get that shit settled once and for all.
Nobody ever said being Wyatt Earp would be easy, but I guarantee Wyatt was not buying his boots from the Clayton family so that they could use the money to buy guns and ammunition.
I'd like to hear the two Presidential candidates discuss this issue with Bill Moyers....but instead we'll get them on Leno, Letterman and Ellen talking about their high school reunions.
Hope you all had a great 4th of July!
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Monday, July 2, 2012
CERN once again on the lookout.
FROM ABC NEWS
After decades of careful experiment, physicists say they have found the "strongest indication to date" to prove the existence of the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle so important to the understanding of space, time and matter that the physicist Leon Lederman nicknamed it "the God particle."
The announcement today, based on experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermilab near Chicago and other institutions, is not the final word, but it's very close. And it comes just before a major meeting this week in Australia, where more findings will be announced from the giant underground particle accelerator at CERN, the great physics lab in the Alps on the French-Swiss border.
Physicists say the Higgs boson would help explain why we, and the rest of the universe, exist. It would explain why the matter created in the Big Bang has mass, and is able to coalesce. Without it, as CERN explained in a background paper, "the universe would be a very different place…. no ordinary matter as we know it, no chemistry, no biology, and no people."
All this on the same day that Anderson Cooper admitted he was gay.
After decades of careful experiment, physicists say they have found the "strongest indication to date" to prove the existence of the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle so important to the understanding of space, time and matter that the physicist Leon Lederman nicknamed it "the God particle."
The announcement today, based on experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermilab near Chicago and other institutions, is not the final word, but it's very close. And it comes just before a major meeting this week in Australia, where more findings will be announced from the giant underground particle accelerator at CERN, the great physics lab in the Alps on the French-Swiss border.
Physicists say the Higgs boson would help explain why we, and the rest of the universe, exist. It would explain why the matter created in the Big Bang has mass, and is able to coalesce. Without it, as CERN explained in a background paper, "the universe would be a very different place…. no ordinary matter as we know it, no chemistry, no biology, and no people."
All this on the same day that Anderson Cooper admitted he was gay.
Like it was some big secret.
Now the secret behind
the
God Particle
might be
the real
secret
STAY TUNED
Friday, June 29, 2012
Health Care
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare, I think it's about time that we all read what the entire bill includes. I've been listening to both sides of the issue for nine months and I'm pretty sure that nobody read the entire bill.
Sound bites rule.
Now let's read the reality and learn what it really has to offer.
No more excuses.
It's the law!
Live with it, you actually have no choice,but mainly learn what it says.
The truth is........America now has a national health bill in place.
It only took 236 years.
I would think that the insurance companies would have supported this bill from the beginning. I hope the new law has certain provisions for the discrepancies between cash payments and credit payments and between medicare charges and non medicare charges.
Does Barnes and Noble carry a copy of the law?
Sound bites rule.
Now let's read the reality and learn what it really has to offer.
No more excuses.
It's the law!
Live with it, you actually have no choice,but mainly learn what it says.
The truth is........America now has a national health bill in place.
It only took 236 years.
I would think that the insurance companies would have supported this bill from the beginning. I hope the new law has certain provisions for the discrepancies between cash payments and credit payments and between medicare charges and non medicare charges.
Does Barnes and Noble carry a copy of the law?
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Probably messing with the wrong neighbor
It was reported yesterday that Syria shot down a Turkey fighter jet that, apparently, violated their air space over the Mediterranean.
Syria is a volcano getting ready to explode and bringing Turkey into the explosion is only going to create a much larger crater.
Syria has 21 million people. Turkey has 76 million.
Turkey has the second largest military force in NATO.
Syria has the second largest military in the Arab world behind Egypt.
Syria gets it's weapons from Russia (East)
Turkey gets it's weapons from the United States (West)
Syria is 75% Sunni Muslim
Turkey is 99% Sunni Muslim
These two countries used to be allies.
Thousands of people from Syria have taken refuge inside the Turkey border (500 miles) trying to avoid the chaos in their country. Some of the refugees have formed their own anti-Assad organizations and are openly calling for his overthrow. So within the country of Turkey there are groups such as the Syrian National Council and others, who while being Sunni Muslims, are battling other Sunni Muslims in Syria.
Seriously, if the Muslims can't get along with other Muslims, and we all know that Sunni and Shi'a problems are fundamental to the very core of their belief systems, what's the chance of Christians and Muslims sitting down and having tea. And somehow 7 million Jews in Israel sit on a powder keg right in the middle of the mess...saying "it's not our problem."
AFTER 9/11, I SUGGESTED THAT A COUNCIL OF FAITH BE ESTABLISHED AND LET THE WORLD OBSERVE AN ONGOING TRIAL ON TELEVISION AND RADIO.
PUT RELIGION ON TRIAL!
ANY ORGANIZATION WHOSE BASIC CODE OF BELIEF IS THE DESTRUCTION OF ANOTHER ORGANIZATION IS FOUND GUILTY
AND
SENT
TO
THE
CORNER
The middle east is seriously out of control and as the Muslims move further into Africa, and it's not the same type of missionary work done by Christians because the Muslim's are carrying AK-47's, the problems for the rest of the globe will intensify.
In the meantime a huge rock, 340 tons, named "Levitated Mass" will be able to be viewed, for $15.00, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A ROCK!
$15.00!
Michael Heizer....artist extraordinaire. (try to find his city in Nevada on Google Earth)
A ROCK!
$15.00!
SYRIA, TURKEY, WAR PLANES, AFGHAN RESORT BOMBING, EGYPTIAN MILITARY THREATS TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND
A
ROCK
Big news day.
Is America the most wonderful place on earth....or what?
We are Disneyland to the rest of the world.
By the way, the entrance to the Museum might be a little more than 15 but I'm sure you get my point. Student and Senior discounts probably apply....but parking will be another 10 bucks....at least.
I think I'll go see Brave and forget everything for two hours. Once more Disney helps quiet the storm.
Hope I don't run into any Sunni's on the Promenade.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Syria is a volcano getting ready to explode and bringing Turkey into the explosion is only going to create a much larger crater.
Syria has 21 million people. Turkey has 76 million.
Turkey has the second largest military force in NATO.
Syria has the second largest military in the Arab world behind Egypt.
Syria gets it's weapons from Russia (East)
Turkey gets it's weapons from the United States (West)
Syria is 75% Sunni Muslim
Turkey is 99% Sunni Muslim
These two countries used to be allies.
Thousands of people from Syria have taken refuge inside the Turkey border (500 miles) trying to avoid the chaos in their country. Some of the refugees have formed their own anti-Assad organizations and are openly calling for his overthrow. So within the country of Turkey there are groups such as the Syrian National Council and others, who while being Sunni Muslims, are battling other Sunni Muslims in Syria.
Seriously, if the Muslims can't get along with other Muslims, and we all know that Sunni and Shi'a problems are fundamental to the very core of their belief systems, what's the chance of Christians and Muslims sitting down and having tea. And somehow 7 million Jews in Israel sit on a powder keg right in the middle of the mess...saying "it's not our problem."
AFTER 9/11, I SUGGESTED THAT A COUNCIL OF FAITH BE ESTABLISHED AND LET THE WORLD OBSERVE AN ONGOING TRIAL ON TELEVISION AND RADIO.
PUT RELIGION ON TRIAL!
ANY ORGANIZATION WHOSE BASIC CODE OF BELIEF IS THE DESTRUCTION OF ANOTHER ORGANIZATION IS FOUND GUILTY
AND
SENT
TO
THE
CORNER
The middle east is seriously out of control and as the Muslims move further into Africa, and it's not the same type of missionary work done by Christians because the Muslim's are carrying AK-47's, the problems for the rest of the globe will intensify.
In the meantime a huge rock, 340 tons, named "Levitated Mass" will be able to be viewed, for $15.00, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A ROCK!
$15.00!
Michael Heizer....artist extraordinaire. (try to find his city in Nevada on Google Earth)
A ROCK!
$15.00!
SYRIA, TURKEY, WAR PLANES, AFGHAN RESORT BOMBING, EGYPTIAN MILITARY THREATS TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND
A
ROCK
Big news day.
Is America the most wonderful place on earth....or what?
We are Disneyland to the rest of the world.
By the way, the entrance to the Museum might be a little more than 15 but I'm sure you get my point. Student and Senior discounts probably apply....but parking will be another 10 bucks....at least.
I think I'll go see Brave and forget everything for two hours. Once more Disney helps quiet the storm.
Hope I don't run into any Sunni's on the Promenade.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Thursday, June 21, 2012
I'm just not sure how this works
Larry Ellison of Oracle, the third richest man in America, just bought one of the small islands in Hawaii.
Lanai is 141 square miles and sets to the west of Maui. There are 3,000 residents.
Just a sidebar thought.....what Super Pac does Mr. Ellison support?
The island sold for 600 million dollars and was purchased from a company called Castle & Cooke. Dole apparently had an interest because of their pineapple development, but didn't actually own the property.
Here's my thinking. Can I actually buy San Francisco or Chicago? Of course I realize that in my present financial situations I have trouble figuring out what to buy at the 99 cent store but that's not really the point.
Lanai is part of the Hawaiian Island chain and does that mean that only Oahu is the 50th state of the Union? Can Bill Gates buy Maui? And Warren Buffet.....Kauai? Is the Big Island in Mark Zukerburg's future plans?
Now I fully understand the concept of buying property in any state of the Union but this seems different.
There's not a lot going on in South Dakota.....I wonder how much it would cost?
Now thinking on a bigger scale. Maybe Castro would sell Cuba. Hopefully one of the American icons could beat the Saudis to the punch. Has anyone asked Syria if they want to turn over their property to someone who can run the company a bit better.
Of course, as usual, I've gotten off track but I'm really confused how an island, which is part of our Union, could be sold....lock, stock and barrel. Those 3,000 residents are going to be pissed when their eviction notice comes through. Larry is getting ready to open a new NOBU restaurant in Malibu so
why not own part of the Hawaiian Islands. With the prices they will charge at NOBU he could probably afford to build a tunnel from Lanai to Malibu. A super conductor underwater transport system that moves around 1000 miles per hour.
Come on Larry.....step it up!
It would be nice to see Mr. Ellison apply some of this amazing buying power to ideas that could benefit the planet. Large solar, wind and other such projects.
Just a silly thought.....
What if he's trying to corner the market on pineapples?
Two years from now a pineapple could cost $30. Quick, get out and start buying them while you can.
We each buy two pineapples and Larry buys part of Hawaii.
The real question here is.....how often do we use Oracle's products?
Obviously way more than we thought.
Well, off to the 99 cent store to get some more sunglasses.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Lanai is 141 square miles and sets to the west of Maui. There are 3,000 residents.
Just a sidebar thought.....what Super Pac does Mr. Ellison support?
The island sold for 600 million dollars and was purchased from a company called Castle & Cooke. Dole apparently had an interest because of their pineapple development, but didn't actually own the property.
Here's my thinking. Can I actually buy San Francisco or Chicago? Of course I realize that in my present financial situations I have trouble figuring out what to buy at the 99 cent store but that's not really the point.
Lanai is part of the Hawaiian Island chain and does that mean that only Oahu is the 50th state of the Union? Can Bill Gates buy Maui? And Warren Buffet.....Kauai? Is the Big Island in Mark Zukerburg's future plans?
Now I fully understand the concept of buying property in any state of the Union but this seems different.
There's not a lot going on in South Dakota.....I wonder how much it would cost?
Now thinking on a bigger scale. Maybe Castro would sell Cuba. Hopefully one of the American icons could beat the Saudis to the punch. Has anyone asked Syria if they want to turn over their property to someone who can run the company a bit better.
Of course, as usual, I've gotten off track but I'm really confused how an island, which is part of our Union, could be sold....lock, stock and barrel. Those 3,000 residents are going to be pissed when their eviction notice comes through. Larry is getting ready to open a new NOBU restaurant in Malibu so
why not own part of the Hawaiian Islands. With the prices they will charge at NOBU he could probably afford to build a tunnel from Lanai to Malibu. A super conductor underwater transport system that moves around 1000 miles per hour.
Come on Larry.....step it up!
It would be nice to see Mr. Ellison apply some of this amazing buying power to ideas that could benefit the planet. Large solar, wind and other such projects.
Just a silly thought.....
What if he's trying to corner the market on pineapples?
Two years from now a pineapple could cost $30. Quick, get out and start buying them while you can.
We each buy two pineapples and Larry buys part of Hawaii.
The real question here is.....how often do we use Oracle's products?
Obviously way more than we thought.
Well, off to the 99 cent store to get some more sunglasses.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
First time in my life
It's not a sad thought..............it's just a realistic thought.
I'm so very fortunate that I believe in the existence of the Soul because when I say Happy Father's Day I'm 99.9% sure that he gets the message.
Maybe it's just a basic electrical surge merging into a translucent energy field of light, but I'm quite fine with any sort of connection.
Keep in mind that believing something is not knowing something, and there's always a small chance that I'm totally out of my mind and non-physical reality hallucinations are just part of my mo.
What does concern me.......is the small chance might be much larger than I think.
But in the meantime.....
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY........DAD!
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Quotes
Go chase down the sun
God will not care
perhaps you're the one
for whom it is there
I know I can't live without love
and I know I can't live without pain
but sometime in my life
I would like to know
that they aren't just one and the same
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;
it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;
it is the finest of the fine arts.
You can't please everyone so you've got to please yourself
Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not one bit simpler.
All you need to do to be my friend is like me
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail
These quotes are from the following people:
Thomas Jefferson, Bob Dylan, Mother Theresa, Taylor Swift, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael Timothy McAlevey, Ben Franklin, Hoyt Axton, Albert Einstein and Ricky Nelson.
Obviously they are not in order.....can you put the quotes with the mouths?
Michael Timothy McAlevey
God will not care
perhaps you're the one
for whom it is there
I know I can't live without love
and I know I can't live without pain
but sometime in my life
I would like to know
that they aren't just one and the same
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;
it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;
it is the finest of the fine arts.
You can't please everyone so you've got to please yourself
Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not one bit simpler.
All you need to do to be my friend is like me
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail
These quotes are from the following people:
Thomas Jefferson, Bob Dylan, Mother Theresa, Taylor Swift, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael Timothy McAlevey, Ben Franklin, Hoyt Axton, Albert Einstein and Ricky Nelson.
Obviously they are not in order.....can you put the quotes with the mouths?
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Friday, June 15, 2012
A CLASSIC
This song is used so often that it we should be tired of it......but we are not.
I would love to book the film at the
Aero Theater on Montana Avenue
and let everybody
sing along.
That would be a fun night at the movies.
In the meantime....this song is easily one of the great rock anthems of all time.
It was used on the first show of Glee and it ends the "Rock of Ages" film.
Tom Cruise actually does his own singing in the film and if you possess a sense of humor you will
enjoy yourself.
I would love to book the film at the
Aero Theater on Montana Avenue
and let everybody
sing along.
That would be a fun night at the movies.
In the meantime....this song is easily one of the great rock anthems of all time.
And it doesn't matter who sings it.
And this video
and this song
are
timeless
Saturday, June 9, 2012
From one extreme to another
The Big Bang is thought to have kick-started the universe about 13.7 billion years ago. At first, the universe was too hot and dense for particles to be stable, but then the first quarks formed, which then grouped together to make protons and neutrons, and eventually the first atoms were created. After about 500 million years, the first stars, galaxies and black holes began to take shape.
( word for word from http://www.space.com/)
Today scientists announced that they think they might be able to see those early moments.
Right after The Big Bang........... the comma was invented.
golf
grammar
prayer
meditation
baseball
script writing
color blending
Universal truths
I realize I should be directing thought processes toward the acquisition of increased monetary substance, but once one reaches a certain age, and that problem hasn't been alleviated, then one has a tendency to doubt its existence within the said personal universe. It's not that I wouldn't like to have financial security, it's just that it doesn't appear to be part of my physical DNA. Of course I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to how it might be achieved, so that clearly is.....part of the problem.
AND THE SIMPLE FACT THAT COMMA USAGE BOTHERS ME MORE THAN BEING BROKE COULD POSSIBLY INDICATE A SMALL BRAIN TUMOR.
Of course, as you have clearly noticed, I like to play with the structure of a sentence (AND THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE, FOR THAT MATTER).......and the repeated use of these little spots......also known a Periods, when used alone, and called Ellipsis when used in sets of three.
I believe that names should be applied when using two,four, five, six, seven or eight of them.
I like using...........to separate my ideas and since I'm not being paid for any of my literary endeavors I feel that I have the right to do whatever the fuck I want.
You pretty much get the point I'm trying to make, when I'm trying to make a point......I think.
But I must confess that the use of a comma has always baffled me. Not the obvious separation of dates and years and towns and states and names, but when using it with coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences.......I have a predisposition to, let's softly say, create errors.
I don't really care, but you probably do.
Let me state right here.....when I complete a script, I'm fairly certain that most of my grammatical errors have been corrected before binding.
Of course, I could be flat out mistaken in that particular observation.
The true beauty of the Internet, and there are a supreme number of beautiful tangents that one can state, when one is thinking about the Internet, is that you can type in the word comma and within 10 seconds there will appear 10,000 explanations on how, when and where to properly use the little freak.
I've noticed when using the grammar button that often times it doesn't know that I'm trying to say something, which might not be grammatically correct, but is substantively.........spot on.
At this moment you might be asking yourself.....didn't this piece start off about the beginning of the Universe?
Of course, you would be correct.
I needed a ploy to suck you in to the real, and much more important, problems of the Universe.
Two very important problems are as follows; the comma placement and the simple fact that when they seperated the two gay lovers at Belmont Race Track, for security reasons, the mojo was broken and the Triple Crown attempt was sadly ended.
Of course, you won't hear that story anyplace else.....but a few years from now when I'll Have Another keeps firing blanks, you will recall that I had the inside information.
On the very same day that scientist might have seen the beginning of The Universe, and I reminded you about comma usage.
What a day!
June 9, 2012
Have a great weekend.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
( word for word from http://www.space.com/)
Today scientists announced that they think they might be able to see those early moments.
Right after The Big Bang........... the comma was invented.
I realize this is going to appear ridiculous from someone who blatantly abuses the grammatical infrastructure of the English language, on a very consistent basis I might add, but have you thought lately on much information you don't remember about the use of a comma. I doubt very much that this issue has caused you sleepless nights. I, on the other hand, lay awake contemplating the rules of many endeavors, including, but not limited to, the following physical and mental exercises:
golf
grammar
prayer
meditation
baseball
script writing
color blending
Universal truths
I realize I should be directing thought processes toward the acquisition of increased monetary substance, but once one reaches a certain age, and that problem hasn't been alleviated, then one has a tendency to doubt its existence within the said personal universe. It's not that I wouldn't like to have financial security, it's just that it doesn't appear to be part of my physical DNA. Of course I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to how it might be achieved, so that clearly is.....part of the problem.
AND THE SIMPLE FACT THAT COMMA USAGE BOTHERS ME MORE THAN BEING BROKE COULD POSSIBLY INDICATE A SMALL BRAIN TUMOR.
Of course, as you have clearly noticed, I like to play with the structure of a sentence (AND THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE, FOR THAT MATTER).......and the repeated use of these little spots......also known a Periods, when used alone, and called Ellipsis when used in sets of three.
I believe that names should be applied when using two,four, five, six, seven or eight of them.
I like using...........to separate my ideas and since I'm not being paid for any of my literary endeavors I feel that I have the right to do whatever the fuck I want.
You pretty much get the point I'm trying to make, when I'm trying to make a point......I think.
But I must confess that the use of a comma has always baffled me. Not the obvious separation of dates and years and towns and states and names, but when using it with coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences.......I have a predisposition to, let's softly say, create errors.
I don't really care, but you probably do.
Let me state right here.....when I complete a script, I'm fairly certain that most of my grammatical errors have been corrected before binding.
Of course, I could be flat out mistaken in that particular observation.
The true beauty of the Internet, and there are a supreme number of beautiful tangents that one can state, when one is thinking about the Internet, is that you can type in the word comma and within 10 seconds there will appear 10,000 explanations on how, when and where to properly use the little freak.
I've noticed when using the grammar button that often times it doesn't know that I'm trying to say something, which might not be grammatically correct, but is substantively.........spot on.
At this moment you might be asking yourself.....didn't this piece start off about the beginning of the Universe?
Of course, you would be correct.
I needed a ploy to suck you in to the real, and much more important, problems of the Universe.
Two very important problems are as follows; the comma placement and the simple fact that when they seperated the two gay lovers at Belmont Race Track, for security reasons, the mojo was broken and the Triple Crown attempt was sadly ended.
Very few people, other than the owner and the trainer, realize that I'll Have Another and Lava Man are gay....and only time will tell if being a gay horse prevents one from performing their studly duties. Lava Man had his manhood removed as a three year old and went on to win $5,268,706. He has been the non-stop companion for I'll Have Another until this last week when the officals at Belmont Park made all the contestants move to a seperate facility, without their pony companions. It broke his heart and then, trying to kick his way out of the new stall, he damaged his leg.
Of course, you won't hear that story anyplace else.....but a few years from now when I'll Have Another keeps firing blanks, you will recall that I had the inside information.
On the very same day that scientist might have seen the beginning of The Universe, and I reminded you about comma usage.
What a day!
June 9, 2012
Have a great weekend.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Friday, June 8, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The silly campaign is about to get under way
Among the many conservative friends and family that I know (I'm not naming names at this point but you know who they are and they might be you) there are some who focus on topics regarding the current President of the United States, that have nothing to do with the issues.
Photographs of President Obama not saluting or holding his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem is not an issue. I can show fifty thousand pictures of him holding his hand over his heart.
Does anyone realize how many times a President must hear that song?
AND UNLESS ONE IS WATCHING A COMPLETE VIDEO OF THE TIME FRAME IN QUESTION, ONE CANNOT ASSUME THAT A STILL PICTURE IS ACCURATE.
Do you stand up and salute or put your hand over your heart every time you hear the song?
The fact that a photograph is going viral, showing him not doing either gesture, is simply a sign of the times.
The fact that certain people are still insisting that he wasn't born in Hawaii is a silly tool to attempt misdirection away from reality.
Fantasy is a large part of all elections.....espeically Presidential elections.
If in fact he wasn't born in Hawaii, then that might make him the smartest man who ever lived.
ISSUES such as unemployment, job creation, health care and military involvement in other countries ARE IMPORTANT and so far those issues have not entered the arena.
And by the way.....JOB CREATION......might be the most important.
But first we have the silly campaign where both sides start flooding the media with odd propaganda like where people were born and do they actually wear magic underwear?
Usually after the conventions......the real campaign begins. I suspect that we might have three Presidential debates and one VP debate and I can guarantee you that birth issues and underwear will not be a part of those debates.
I'm looking forward to the real campaign but I dread the silly one that is about to get underway. Actually the anti-Obama people have been acting silly for the last three years.
And Democrats need to remember the Bush era.....IT'S ALWAYS MORE FUN TO BE ON THE OFFENSE THAN THE DEFENSE.
It would be extremely beneficial to the sanity of the American voter if all e-mails, and postings on Facebook and Twitter, where limited to issues that matter.
WHAT ARE THE ISSUES THAT MATTER TO YOU?
Over the next few weeks I will list the issues that matter to me.....but in the meantime let's get silly.
Does Mitt really wear magic underwear....and has he seen the Golden Tablets? Did Barack Obama use a different name when he applied to college?
Actually the MAGIC UNDERWEAR story might have legs.
Hummmm
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Photographs of President Obama not saluting or holding his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem is not an issue. I can show fifty thousand pictures of him holding his hand over his heart.
Does anyone realize how many times a President must hear that song?
AND UNLESS ONE IS WATCHING A COMPLETE VIDEO OF THE TIME FRAME IN QUESTION, ONE CANNOT ASSUME THAT A STILL PICTURE IS ACCURATE.
Do you stand up and salute or put your hand over your heart every time you hear the song?
The fact that a photograph is going viral, showing him not doing either gesture, is simply a sign of the times.
The fact that certain people are still insisting that he wasn't born in Hawaii is a silly tool to attempt misdirection away from reality.
Fantasy is a large part of all elections.....espeically Presidential elections.
If in fact he wasn't born in Hawaii, then that might make him the smartest man who ever lived.
ISSUES such as unemployment, job creation, health care and military involvement in other countries ARE IMPORTANT and so far those issues have not entered the arena.
And by the way.....JOB CREATION......might be the most important.
But first we have the silly campaign where both sides start flooding the media with odd propaganda like where people were born and do they actually wear magic underwear?
Usually after the conventions......the real campaign begins. I suspect that we might have three Presidential debates and one VP debate and I can guarantee you that birth issues and underwear will not be a part of those debates.
I'm looking forward to the real campaign but I dread the silly one that is about to get underway. Actually the anti-Obama people have been acting silly for the last three years.
And Democrats need to remember the Bush era.....IT'S ALWAYS MORE FUN TO BE ON THE OFFENSE THAN THE DEFENSE.
It would be extremely beneficial to the sanity of the American voter if all e-mails, and postings on Facebook and Twitter, where limited to issues that matter.
WHAT ARE THE ISSUES THAT MATTER TO YOU?
Over the next few weeks I will list the issues that matter to me.....but in the meantime let's get silly.
Does Mitt really wear magic underwear....and has he seen the Golden Tablets? Did Barack Obama use a different name when he applied to college?
Actually the MAGIC UNDERWEAR story might have legs.
Hummmm
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
My teeth start feeling numb when I hear this
And then they start getting loose when this plays
and then they simply fall out
when
this
comes
on
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Sunday afternoon easy
Kick back and let the rhythm move
around
inside
your
head
when that happens it then travels to your heart
and
fills
your
soul
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Prop 29
A few years ago the oil companies spent millions to fight the oil extraction tax, Prop 87, and they succeeded.
Once again we have a similar situation, different product of course, taking place and once again it looks like the winner will be.....
TOBACCO COMPANIES
So far they have spend close to $30 million to defeat Prop 29...which is an additional $1.00 tax per pack.
WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONEY BEING SPENT ON PROBLEMS CREATED BY TOBACCO
EACH PACK OF CIGARETTES SHOULD BE......
$25.00and all the extra tax should go to education.
IF YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELF THEN IT SHOULD COST YOU A PRETTY PENNY.
IF SECOND HAND SMOKE IS GOING TO HARM OTHER PEOPLE THAN THE COST SHOULD BE ENORMOUS.
I suppose we can't make tobacco illegal just like we can't make alcohol illegal but when one considers the amount of health cost related to those two issues, not to mention flat out deaths, than one really has to wonder about the morality and the basic principles of our regulators and lawmakers.
Alcohol and tobacco companies maintain huge lobby positions within the government.
Everybody knows that to be true.
The fact that they can spend millions of dollars to defeat any bill that increases taxes on their product and make you think they are acting on your behalf.......is absolutely scary.
I listen to people that are going to vote no on Prop 29, and I realize that all the information informing people that smoking can kill you.....has not reached the part of their brain that makes sensible decisions.
I think if you want to drink a galleon of Jack Daniels then it should cost you $150 or more.
It should be the same as buying an ounce of high potency marijuana.
Now I understand that many, maybe most, people can regulate their intake of dangerous drugs, of which alcohol and tobacco are the worst because they are legal and therefore the most easily obtained, but it's quite apparent that a very large number of people can't control their addictions to these two products.
So increasing taxes on those items, called a sin tax, should be an act of simple common sense.
Pot should be legal and it should be taxed just like tobacco and alcohol.
If government is looking for increased revenue streams then it would seem very logical that they limit the power and control of alcohol and tobacco lobbyist, and allow marijuana lobbyist to joined the show.
I hope everyone can see that alcohol and tobacco companies do not want marijuana to be legal.
THAT'S QUITE CLEAR.....ISN'T IT?
BUT WITH THE COST OF OPERATING A GOVERNMENT, BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL BEING EXTREMELY HIGH......SHOULDN'T INCREASED REVENUE GENERATING BE A PRIMARY GOAL.
INCREASED REVENUE GENERATING IS ALSO KNOWN AS......TAXES.
I would like someone to explain how a government raises revenue....without taxing?
The main problem we have, we being the average taxpayer, is that we don't seem to understand where the money goes when we do vote for increased taxes or alternative revenue generators such as......a lottery or bonds.
AND THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM BECAUSE I HEAR IT FROM ALL SIDES....BOTH THE 1% AND THE 99%.
NOBODY SEEMS TO TRUST THE MONETARY ALLOCATIONS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS.
If you do trust that the spending, by state and federal officials, is being done correctly than you need to step up and start talking because you belong to a very small minority.
Because of instant information sources now available to us.....the level of distrust might be at an all time high.
IF PROPOSITION 29 FAILS IT WILL BE ONE MORE INSTANCE OF THE VOTING PUBLIC BEING MANIPULATED BY A VERY LARGE INDUSTRY THAT MAKES A PRODUCT WHICH IS EXTREMELY UNHEALTHY.
DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN
AND IN FACT
MAKE A PHONE CALL TO YOUR ASSEMBLY PERSON, CONGRESS PERSON AND SENATOR TELLING THEM THAT YOU WANT
MORE TAXES ON CIGARETTES
AND LESS TAXES ON INCOME THAT YOU GENERATE BY WORKING.
LET'S START TAXING THE SHIT OUT OF PRODUCTS THAT HARM US AND STOP TAXING FOR HARD WORK AND LABOR.
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND COLLECT TAXES ON IT AND STOP TAXING THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER WHO IS FIGHTING TO MAKE ENDS MEET.
But in the meantime....please vote
Yes on Prop 29.
Don't let those Vote No on Prop 29 commercials influence what you know in your heart to be a correct decision.
Please!
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Once again we have a similar situation, different product of course, taking place and once again it looks like the winner will be.....
TOBACCO COMPANIES
So far they have spend close to $30 million to defeat Prop 29...which is an additional $1.00 tax per pack.
WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONEY BEING SPENT ON PROBLEMS CREATED BY TOBACCO
EACH PACK OF CIGARETTES SHOULD BE......
$25.00and all the extra tax should go to education.
IF YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELF THEN IT SHOULD COST YOU A PRETTY PENNY.
IF SECOND HAND SMOKE IS GOING TO HARM OTHER PEOPLE THAN THE COST SHOULD BE ENORMOUS.
I suppose we can't make tobacco illegal just like we can't make alcohol illegal but when one considers the amount of health cost related to those two issues, not to mention flat out deaths, than one really has to wonder about the morality and the basic principles of our regulators and lawmakers.
Alcohol and tobacco companies maintain huge lobby positions within the government.
Everybody knows that to be true.
The fact that they can spend millions of dollars to defeat any bill that increases taxes on their product and make you think they are acting on your behalf.......is absolutely scary.
I listen to people that are going to vote no on Prop 29, and I realize that all the information informing people that smoking can kill you.....has not reached the part of their brain that makes sensible decisions.
I think if you want to drink a galleon of Jack Daniels then it should cost you $150 or more.
It should be the same as buying an ounce of high potency marijuana.
Now I understand that many, maybe most, people can regulate their intake of dangerous drugs, of which alcohol and tobacco are the worst because they are legal and therefore the most easily obtained, but it's quite apparent that a very large number of people can't control their addictions to these two products.
So increasing taxes on those items, called a sin tax, should be an act of simple common sense.
Pot should be legal and it should be taxed just like tobacco and alcohol.
If government is looking for increased revenue streams then it would seem very logical that they limit the power and control of alcohol and tobacco lobbyist, and allow marijuana lobbyist to joined the show.
I hope everyone can see that alcohol and tobacco companies do not want marijuana to be legal.
THAT'S QUITE CLEAR.....ISN'T IT?
BUT WITH THE COST OF OPERATING A GOVERNMENT, BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL BEING EXTREMELY HIGH......SHOULDN'T INCREASED REVENUE GENERATING BE A PRIMARY GOAL.
INCREASED REVENUE GENERATING IS ALSO KNOWN AS......TAXES.
I would like someone to explain how a government raises revenue....without taxing?
The main problem we have, we being the average taxpayer, is that we don't seem to understand where the money goes when we do vote for increased taxes or alternative revenue generators such as......a lottery or bonds.
AND THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM BECAUSE I HEAR IT FROM ALL SIDES....BOTH THE 1% AND THE 99%.
NOBODY SEEMS TO TRUST THE MONETARY ALLOCATIONS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS.
If you do trust that the spending, by state and federal officials, is being done correctly than you need to step up and start talking because you belong to a very small minority.
Because of instant information sources now available to us.....the level of distrust might be at an all time high.
IF PROPOSITION 29 FAILS IT WILL BE ONE MORE INSTANCE OF THE VOTING PUBLIC BEING MANIPULATED BY A VERY LARGE INDUSTRY THAT MAKES A PRODUCT WHICH IS EXTREMELY UNHEALTHY.
DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN
AND IN FACT
MAKE A PHONE CALL TO YOUR ASSEMBLY PERSON, CONGRESS PERSON AND SENATOR TELLING THEM THAT YOU WANT
MORE TAXES ON CIGARETTES
AND LESS TAXES ON INCOME THAT YOU GENERATE BY WORKING.
LET'S START TAXING THE SHIT OUT OF PRODUCTS THAT HARM US AND STOP TAXING FOR HARD WORK AND LABOR.
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND COLLECT TAXES ON IT AND STOP TAXING THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER WHO IS FIGHTING TO MAKE ENDS MEET.
But in the meantime....please vote
Yes on Prop 29.
Don't let those Vote No on Prop 29 commercials influence what you know in your heart to be a correct decision.
Please!
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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