Heating up and is there a timeline for recovery?

I sometimes wonder if John McCain didn't intentionally pick Sarah Palin so as to guarantee his defeat.  I personally don't think he wanted any part of being President following the 2008 financial meltdown.

Obviously that's too simplistic for the average American to digest but it's not a freakin fact, just my opinion...but if you stop to think about everything John McCain knew in his position as one of the truly elite Senators in Congress, it's not hard to imagine.  The selection of Sarah Palin was one of the most incompetent political decisions ever made on the national Presidential stage and in truth if it wasn't a mistake then it becomes one of the most brilliant decisions by a person attempting to protect a wonderful legacy of public service.

If John McCain was President right now......a Republican might not be elected for the next 25 years.

Imagine President McCain trying to lead the recovery of the 2008 recession and trying to be reelected.

Most likely he'd be in the same position as President Obama......trying to explain why the recovery is taking so long.....and he would have to be validating the Republican administration from 2000 to 2008.

Republicans keep saying that Obama simply blames Bush and doesn't do anything to improve the present situation.  Republicans latest verbiage goes something like the following, when talking to a Democrat....."I don't want to hear all that crap about Bush; that's over...talk about why unemployment is still high and the economy hasn't recovered."

CAN A LEGITIMATE RECESSION BE FIXED IN 4 YEARS?......6 YEARS?......8 YEARS?

2008 WAS A LEGITIMATE RECESSION!

Is there a true time frame for recovery?

I'd like to clear up something from the liberal democratic point of view.

IT'S NOT GEORGE W. BUSH THAT WE KEEP BRINGING UP.

IT'S THE WALL STREET AND BANKING BIG BUSINESS GREED THAT WAS OVERLOOKED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WHICH ALLOWED EXCESSIVE GAMBLING ON THE PART OF MORTGAGE LENDERS AND BROKERS.

Now everybody knows that deregulation of the financial institutions is a prime reason for the fast and loose behavior.

Ronald Reagan was a champion of deregulation and Bush 41 and Clinton simply added fuel to the fire.

George W. was simply in position as it all came to a head, and his intellectual foundation just wasn't strong enough to stop the floodgates of greed and reckless behavior.

TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS SHOULD NOT BE A PRIORITY OVER HELPING THE DISENFRANCHISED.
and
ANYBODY WHO BECAME PRESIDENT ON JANUARY 21st 2009 WAS GOING TO BE FACING A HUGE
PROBLEM

I personally think that President Obama has given us stabilized foundation on which to progress forward.

I don't think we should still be in Afghanistan but that's another issue.

THE REPUBLICANS ARE ATTACKING HIM BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY....of which he truly inherited AND WHICH BY ALL ACCOUNTS SEEMS TO BE GETTING BETTER.

Of course it's all based on who you listen to and what you read.

REPUBLICANS WANT US TO THINK WE ARE IN HORRIBLE SHAPE AND THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE US IS ELECTING MITT ROMNEY.

We've been down the path of BIG BUSINESS CONQUERS ALL MENTALITY and we are trying to recover from the damage.

WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD WE WANT TO RE-ESTABLISH THAT PATH?

We needed health care reform and we got it....we needed to be  done in Iraq and we are almost there....we needed a leader who made the rest of the world respect our intelligence and we got that........we needed to catch Osama bin Laden and we did that.

I think we need to leave things alone and see if the economic recovery continues to take place, on a time table that nobody knows for sure, under the leadership of someone who appears to be morally and ethically honorable.

THE ELECTION IS NOW OFFICALLY HEATING UP AND TONIGHT MITT ROMNEY WILL SHARE THE MAGICAL UNDERWEAR AND REVEAL THE GOLDEN TABLETS
AND WE
SHALL
BE SAVED

or not

By the way......Please do not point out the poll jump after tonight...it always happens after every convention

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Seriously

This might be the best song I've heard in 20 years. 
Fills gaps in taste that I didn't think possible.

Did you get your share yet?

I just read an article this morning in the LA Times that had these exact words.........

"The Federal Reserve said that taxpayers ended up earning $17.7 billion from the central bank's role in bailing out insurance giant American International Group Inc."

TAXPAYERS
EARNED
$17.7 BILLION

TAXPAYERS
EARNED!

So, that earned money goes into the Federal Reserve balance statement and they turn around and issue payments to taxpayers of the United States?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Seriously having problems being able to stop laughing

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Congress had set up a law which allows for ELECTED officials to receive a bonus from any government bailout that turns a profit....but of course that's just my personal paranoia prancing proudly down the highway.

TAXPAYER'S EARNED $17.7 BILLION

That's about as realistic as Todd Akin from Missouri getting elected to the House of Representatives for three consecutive terms.  OMG!

The other strange comment from that goofball was when he said...."There should be SOME penalty for legitimate rape." 

SOME?

THREE CONSECUTIVE TERMS STARTING IN 2000 FROM THE 2ND DISTRICT OF MISSOURI!

SOME?

TAXPAYERS EARNED $17.7 BILLION
and
SOME PENALTIES FOR RAPE

HUH?
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Michael Timothy McAlevey

Nice to know FUN is still possible

I admit I don't listen to a lot of indie and alternative music but that's mainly due to the simple fact that it lacks a sensible rhythm that works in my frontal lobe where music gets processed into toe-tapping and ultimately..............dancing.

ALL INDIE, ALTERNATIVE AND HOUSE MUSIC HAS A BEAT....AND THAT BEAT IS REPEATED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND ONANDONANDONANDONANDON.....

RHYTHM IS GENERALLY MISSING

I heard a group last night, from that genre, that absolutely got me toe-tapping and then dancing.......without being intoxicated or high.

These guys are  great and I'm probably way behind the eight ball on this discovery but I talked to four people last night that didn't know about them, so I'm ahead of some curve.  Of course I didn't talk to anybody under 40 so it wasn't a perfect sampling.

 Listen to a few songs. 

IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO KNOW THAT fun IS STILL POSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE CROSSED THE BRIDGE OF TIME.......

Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost

fun
fun
fun
fun
fun

and a soft side bar......Happy 93rd Dad.....first time in my life I can't say it to your face.

MIchael Timothy McAlevey

Last few Olympic thoughts

On the Friday night before closing weekend Tom Brokaw did a one hour feature segment, as part of the Olympic coverage, called "OUR FINEST HOURS."

In my humble opinion it was the best ONE HOUR explanationsof how, why and when the United States decided to help Great Britain in their battle against fuckhead Hitler.  The Churchill/Roosevelt interplay was concise and poignant and while I've read and seen hundreds of hours on the subject, this was the best limited interpretation I've ever witnessed.

I was reminded quite deeply on how intertwined our two countries have been......and will continue to be..... as long as liberty and individual freedoms are treasured.

The royalty thing is bit over the top but that's another story.

Monday morning after the Olympics I was listened to Dan Patrick and he had Mr. Brokaw on as a guest.
It turns out the reason Tom was in London, working for NBC as a feature commentator, was in case a terrorists attack occurred he would be there to cover it.  They had a separate studio all set up and ready to go if something happened.

It's so nice to think that no one was needed for that type of story.

The Olympics and the Olympics alone stole the show and sometimes things do work out exactly as they were intended.

Thank God

Michael Timothy McAlevey

It just simply feels good

The sign of the times....I was going to write my Olympic wrap up during the final day of competition but decided I needed to wait until after the closing ceremonies just in case something got blown up.

It's now Monday morning and I'm still waiting for The Who to perform so maybe that's who got blown up.

The London 2012 Olympic experience ended yesterday and while I can name multiple moments that rocked my world, the main thing I will remember is....

IT SIMPLY FEELS GOOD TO WATCH COUNTRIES OF THE PLANET EARTH COME TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.

The physical attributes are obvious....the mental attributes relate to the dedication and discipline it takes to achieve those physical levels of excellence.

By the way.......I'm wondering if Elton John feels snubbed......he is a Knight  and his record sales have to be larger than George Michaels.  

I'm still having problems figuring out why Argentina only got 4 medals.  The country has 40 million people and obviously no political commitment to athletic excellence.  Maybe they play too much polo.

Jamaica ,on the other hand, has 2.5 million people and they won 12 medals.

So I'm let to believe that smoking a ton a weed and running from the sheriff is much more conducive to winning Olympic medals than I would have previously thought.

Somehow I think Argentina's lack of medals is related to their harboring of German officers after World War 11 but that's just my twisted mental circuitry reaching for answers.

I have many favorite moments but if I had to choose one for best of show I would select the women's 4 x 100 relay.  They set a world record and they beat those Rastafarian chicks from Jamaica.

Usian Bolt seems to get the same reaction that Cassius Clay first got when he started mouthing off about how great he was.  Lots of people can't stand it when someone toots their own horn about being the greatest of all time........turns out that they were both right.  Now how funny would it be if Usian Bolt changed his name to Bob Smith.

Four more years to Rio and two more years to Soi????/ Russia.  As one gets older one simply thinks that it would be nice to be around for the next Olympics. 

Actually, looking at the world tension, I guess that hope could be a thought for any age.

And then we've got that December 21, 2012 fiasco to deal with.......

Sorry to end this Olympic experience on a downer note but truthfully I didn't create the paranoia. I'm just reporting the facts.......or am I reporting goofy perceptions by a group of highly intelligent animals that can't figure out how to live in peace?

At least the Olympics shows that lots of different people can spend two weeks competing without someone killing someone.

I'll take that reality to the medal stand and salute the human species for a job well done.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

First 7 days and Michael's world

Today is Saturday and the 2012 Olympic experience is half over. Of course my Olympic experience is limited to a 32 inch old style television that weighs about 100 lbs....and the Los Angeles Times. 

Attempting to avoid  news flashes throughout the day, so that I can watch the events on NBC's prime time telecast, is also a sport in its own right. Bobbing and weaving and turning the ears off has left me exhausted on certain days.  It's a contest every time I start a day trying to avoid the multiple people, both professional and personal, who want to tell me exactly what happened before the 8 PM broadcast.

Why NBC can't broadcast the glamour events live in the morning and then re-broadcast in Prime Time is the big question. It only last for two weeks and probably most viewers that would watch in the daytime would turn around and watch it again at night....but of course that's another entire story.

Back to the avoidance game I play everyday.....I lost the battle big time on the day that the Fab Five won gold in Gymnastics.  I avoided everything all day and at 7:45 pm I was watching the Dodger game....and suddenly my favorite voice in the world, Vin Scully, says the following....."it's a low outside fast ball for strike two and the crowd roars as the gold medal winning gymnastics team picture is flashed on the big screen in left field."

Seriously!

The girls were great but my only question is related to the night where they were all trying to qualify for the overall and Jordan Weiber lost by a slight margin and one of the things they pointed out was she stepped out of bounds by 6 inches on the floor exercise.  Gabby, on her floor exercise, almost went into the parking lot of Windsor Castle and nobody seemed that concerned.  Scoring was a bit harsh against Jordan and a bit soft for Gabby....but obviously this was Gabby's moment as we would discover two nights later when she became the third USA winner in a row to capture the all-around Gold.

GABBY

We've only had one previous famous Gabby and Hayes was his last name and unless one watches old western movies this Gabby is the first Gabby to shine in the arena of public adulation....and she will shine.

Gabby will be a one word explanation for kids all over the world.  A  two year old in Atlanta, Georgia will do a flip in the sand box and mom will yell..."that's a great Gabby honey, do it again."

If she gets caught smoking a bong in the next few months then she will learn how Michael Phelps felt after being the darling of the sports world following his Beijing EXPLOSION.

THE ATHLETE CREATES AN IMAGE BY PERFORMANCE AND THEN THE MEDIA JUST SITS AND WAITS FOR A MOMENT TO POUNCE.

There's actually a group of media employee's who help create the bad vibes from the very first minute of success.  When someone asks a person, who just won a Silver medal, what went wrong they are labeling them a loser.  I call it the Jim Gray syndrome. A few Olympics ago Jim Gray asked an American runner who finished second..."why didn't you run faster?"  The runner looked at him and walked away.

The woman doing the interviews at the swimming competition has the Jim Gray disease.

Dan Patrick should be the Interview Commissioner of SPORTS.  Anybody wanting to question an athlete should have to first be vetted by Dan. 

But in the meantime the London 2012 Olympics has allowed us another chance to see the greatest Olympian of all time.

I don't know what Michael Phelps did tonight in London, during his final swim on the relay team, but he could actually fall backwards off the starting blocks and probably recover fast enough to get another medal.

In our lifetime and in our children's children's lifetime we will never see another
Michael Phelps.

It's so amazing that at the beginning of this Olympics there were groups of people who claimed they didn't like him.......for whatever reason, including the fact that he won too much.  The personal attacks make no sense because he's a very private person so unless you hang out with him in Baltimore and have real time experiences then not liking him is completely nonsensical.

Anybody who follows any sport has to pause and acknowledge the simple fact that
Michael Phelps
might be
the greatest athelte who has ever lived.

That makes the London 2012 Olympics a true milestome event.

And we still have Track and Field....and I've heard rumors that Michael might anchor
the 1600 meter relay.



Michael Timothy McAlevey

It's only 12 days of your life.......and some memories that will last forever

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

Just a summer song

Live at Leeds is still one of the greatest albums ever recorded. 

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

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

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.

Like it was some big secret.

Now the secret behind

the

God Particle

might be

the real

secret

STAY TUNED

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?

Fun band

Up beat stuff for a Sunday morning workout.

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

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

I just feel like dancing

Cardio's over.

If you didn't get up and dance

Shame

on

you!

First time in my life

For the first time in my life my father won't be able to physically hear me say....."Happy Father's Day.....Dad." 

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

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