Hi,
Once in a while there is a news story that fascinates the public that isn't about some political charlatanism, depravity, or ill advised policy. Not often! However, this week the disappearance of a 777 jet liner is just such a tale.
We all feel badly for the relatives and friends awaiting some news of how a huge airliner could just disappear off the radar screens. It seems almost other worldly that in this demanding technological age that we could lose something that big in a moment's time. My Mom used to always warn me that if I got careless, things I value would disappear. Obviously, she was right !!!!!!! LOSING A 777 JET IS BEYOND CARELESS AND INTO UNTHINKABLE. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, THE CARELESS ACTIONS TOWARD THESE LARGE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES MAY HAVE ULTIMATELY BEEN THEIR UNDOING. THERE IS ENOUGH TECHNOLOGY INTACT TO HAVE OUR SATELLITES DO A BETTER JOB OF TRACKING THAT MONSTER PLANE AND NAILING DOWN ANY DEVIATIONS. HOWEVER, THOSE IN CHARGE EVIDENTLY DID NOT CONSIDER THE COST OF SUCH OVER THE TOP TECHNOLOGY NECESSARY. THE 777 WAS OBVIOUSLY JUDGED TO HAVE HAD ENOUGH TRACKING DEVICES FOR MOST SITUATIONS.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT "MOST SITUATIONS" ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES AT STAKE -- IT IS THE ODD SITUATION THAT TECHNOLOGY CAN COVER LIKE THIS MAVERICK DISASTER CREATED BY SOMEONE OR SOMETHING. THE LACKS IN TECHNOLOGY WERE EVIDENTLY OBVIOUS IF THIS WAS DONE BY SOMEONE IN THE PLANE. AN OVERSIGHT THAT IF REPORTED MIGHT HAVE BEEN CORRECTED. ALL OF THE 269 PASSENGERS WHO DISAPPEARED LEAVE BEHIND 3 TO 5 TIMES THAT MANY TO GRIEVE AND SUFFER. IN ESSENCE SOMEWHERE OVER A THOUSAND FOLKS ARE SUFFERING FROM THIS CATASTROPHE.
THERE HAVE BEEN LOTS OF THEORIES AND PERHAPS BY THE TIME THIS IS PUBLISHED THERE WILL BE AN ANSWER BUT IT HAS BEEN A LONG HAUL. ONE OF THE GUESSES HAS INCLUDED A CAPTURE BY ALIENS WHO TOOK THE PLANE TO OZ TO CAPTURE THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AIRCRAFT AND THE PEOPLE ABOARD. WHAT AN AWFUL THEORY. PUH...............LEEZE IF THEY WERE YOUR RELATIVES WOULD YOU WANT THEM SUBJECT TO BEING TREATED LIKE ANIMALS, TESTED, PROBED AND MUTILATED. THAT'S JUST NOT A GOOD SUGGESTION FOR ANYONE TO ENTERTAIN.
IF INDEED THE SUGGESTION OF PILOT SUICIDE IS A PRIMARY GUESS THEN WHAT IS AN EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGED PERSON DOING SITTING IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT OF A BIG 777 AND IN CHARGE OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE'S SAFETY ???????? I THINK THE AIRLINE HAS TO ANSWER FOR THAT ONE. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FLYING WITH HIGHLY TRAINED, SOBER, AND EMOTIONALLY FIT INDIVIDUALS MANEUVERING THESE MIGHTY GIANTS ACROSS THE SKY OR AT LEAST SO WE'VE BEEN TOLD. OF COURSE, YOU CAN'T BANK ON EVERYTHING YOU'RE TOLD THESE DAYS OR EVER FOR THAT MATTER.
COULD IT HAVE BEEN A BUNDLE OF ERRORS? FROM PILOT ERROR TO TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN IN THE AIRPLANE SYSTEMS. SHOULDN'T THAT SHOW UP ON SOME TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICE ON LAND ?????????? IF THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE THEN WHAT FAIL SAFE MEASURE WOULD HAVE HELPED??????????
WHATEVER THEORIES OR POSSIBLE CONCLUSIONS THE NEWS MEDIA AND PUBLIC ARE FANTASIZING, IT IS STILL A REALITY THAT TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION.
WITH ALL OUR GADGETS AND INFORMATION STORAGE AND ELECTRONIC PEEPING TOMS, WE ARE STILL AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN THE MYSTERIES THAT SURROUND US CONSTANTLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE CAN LOSE A JET !!!!!!!!!!!!!
E SHOW HUBRIS ABOUT OUR ABILITIES BUT FRANKLY WE ARE NOT MUCH BETTER THAN THE HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS, JUST DIFFERENT IN LIGHT OF THE DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY. AS IT ADVANCES, WE KEEP RUNNING TO CATCH UP SO WE CAN EXPLAIN THE LOSS OF SOMETHING SO BIG IT CAN HOLD ALMOST 300 PEOPLE. WHAT CAN THIS BLOGGER SAY ?????????? EXCEPT IF WE ARE AS DAMN SMART AS WE THINK WE ARE THEN THE "UNTHINKABLE" SHOULD NOT EXIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE SENSE TO YOU ????????? DOES TO ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUBRIS ENCOURAGES PEOPLE LIKE VLADAMIR PUTIN TO STROLL INTO A TERRITORY HE FEELS BELONGS TO RUSSIA AND USE STRATEGIC MANEUVERS TO TAKE IT BACK. IS THAT THE END OF IT ????????? THIS BLOGGER DOUBTS IT !!!!!!!!!! NOTHING LIKE SUCCESS AND WEAK SISTERS TO ENCOURAGE THE THOUGHT OF WORLD DOMINATION !!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS INDEED THIS BLOGGER'S HOPE THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD THE FIRST SABER RATTLING SOUND OF WORLD WAR III .............AS PUTIN EYES THE TERRITORIES RUSSIA CONTROLLED DURING STALIN. AFTER ALL HE APPEARS TO ADMIRE STALIN TACTICS.
ANOTHER CASE OF OUR POOR SURVEILLANCE AND HUBRIS BELIEVING THAT OUR MANY TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS AND PEACE YAPPING CAN KEEP THE WORST FROM OUR DOORS. LONG AGO IN OUR HISTORY WHEN THE TRUTH GLARED AT EARLY AMERICANS WE WERE SURPRISED TO FIND OURSELVES FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES IN A REVOLUTION CAUSED BY YAPPING POLITICIANS AND CARELESS TRUTH SEEKING.
OUR TRACK RECORD IS NOT THE BEST BUT THE EASTERN WORLD WITH THIS 777 TRAGEDY IS FINDING OUT THAT CAREFULNESS IS NOT SO EASY WHEN YOU INVOLVE THE REST OF THE WORLD IN YOUR ACTIVITIES. THEY HAVE BEEN ENJOYING THE NEW HUBRIS OF SURGING ECONOMIES, MANY WELL TO DO FOLKS, AND THE ADDITIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL WONDERS SO THAT THEY FEEL NO HARM CAN COME TO THEIR ENDEAVORS.
FUNNY THAT !!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU STUDY NATURE AND ITS CATACLYSMIC PROCLIVITIES, MAN SHOULD ALWAYS APPROACH LIFE WITH THE HUMBLENESS OF THE CONDEMNED AWAITING SENTENCE. NO MATTER HOW WE APPROACH THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS, WE ARE FAR FROM BEING IN CHARGE OF WHAT ULTIMATELY HAPPENS IN OUR WORLD, OUR COUNTRY OR OUR LIVES. SHOULD WE SHOULD TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND RECONSIDER OUR SITUATION AND EVERY FACET OF OUR BELIEFS WHILE WALKING CAREFULLY IN OUR OWN FOOTSTEPS.
PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHO IS SO SURE HE IS CORRECT IN HIS ASSUMPTIONS, WILL ONE DAY COME TO REALIZE HIS FOLLY IN TAKING SUCH A RIGHTEOUS STAND. BUT OUR CARELESSNESS IN ELECTING HIM AS PRESIDENT IS THE REAL HEART OF THE PROBLEM AND THAT CARELESS ACTION CARRIES WITH IT A PENALTY.
A FULL CIRCLE OF CARELESS ACTIONS THAT AFFECT OUR LIVES DAILY. A LOST 777, A LOST TERRITORY, AND PERHAPS A LOST COUNTRY. ALL LOST TO MAN'S EGO, HIS HUBRIS. HIS BELIEF THAT HE IS THE GREATEST !!!!!!!!!!!! SO THAT EVEN NATURE SEEMS DEFEATABLE WITH THE DESIGN OF PROPER CARE AND CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NATURE'S OUTLOOK AGAINST THIS STINGING ANT-LIKE CREATURE ???????????
HAH..... IN FACT,,,,,,,,,,HA............HA..........HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
3/15/14
THE VOLCANIC FORCE OF CHANGE POST 192
Hi,
When this blogger reads the headlines of the troubles in our world and beyond, it seems too immense to contemplate.
What empowers man and his ego to continually spread problems across the world ????????????? MOST CERTAINLY, POWER; MOST LIKELY, WEALTH; MOST PROBABLY EGO. HOWEVER beyond all that is OPPORTUNISM.
IF YOU READ ANY HISTORY AT ALL, YOU KNOW NO ONE GETS TO KEEP THE POWER AND THE MONEY FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT MOVES ON !!!!!!!!!!!! MAN IS DESTROYED BY DEATH, HIS EGO DIES WITH HIM AND LITTLE IS REMEMBERED OF HIS DEEDS, DASTARDLY OR BLESSED.
WHAT THEN IS IT ALL ABOUT ?????????? WHY DOES IT KEEP HAPPENING ???????????? HITLER MARCHED ACROSS WESTERN EUROPE AND FEW OUTSIDE OF THOSE WHO WERE AWARE IN THE 1930S AND 40S REALLY REMEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STALIN MARCHED ACROSS THE UKRAINE, POLAND, HUNGARY AND OTHER NATIONS FOR WHAT REAL, LONG TERM GAIN ????????????? DO OTHERS OUTSIDE THOSE AFFECTED AREAS REALLY RECALL WHY ????????
IT WILL BE THE SAME WITH VLADAMIR PUTIN'S TRAMPLING OF THE UKRAINE IN A VERY FEW YEARS. NO ONE WILL KNOW WHY AND MOSTLY UKRAINIANS WILL REALLY CARE.
IT APPEARS TO CONTINUE WITHOUT REASON, GAIN, OR UNDERSTANDING OUTSIDE OF THE IMMEDIATE MOMENT IN TIME.
WHY ????????????? THIS BLOGGER CAN'T REALLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION OF WHAT MEN THINK THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH DASTARDLY ACTIONS !!!!!!!!! BUT THE PATTERN OF TIMING IN EACH EVENT IS FUELED BY CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING OR IMMINENT.
ECONOMIC CHANGE , WEAKNESS IN GOVERNMENT, OR NATION OR WORLD CHANGE ARE ALL CREATERS OF TROUBLE . TROUBLE, THAT IS, EXCEPT TO AN OPPORTUNIST, WHO CAN SEE THE BENEFIT TO HIMSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!
A DROP IN FINANCIAL SUCCESS BY COUNTRIES THAT IS CAUSED BY A SUDDEN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS UPROOTS AND FORCES PEOPLE TO FIND A NEW WAY TO LIVE, TO WORK, TO EAT, TO MANAGE THEIR AFFAIRS. MOST PEOPLE MOURN THE LOSS OF A GOOD AND PROSPEROUS WAY OF LIFE.
THE OPPORTUNIST SEES THE CHANCE TO CHANGE HIS LIFE INTO HIS GRANDEST DREAMS.
HITLER COULD MARCH OVER HIS CHOSEN TERRAIN BECAUSE THE WORLD WAS CHANGING FROM A FARM BASED ECONOMY TO AN INDUSTRIAL VENTURE. STALIN CHOSE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE HIS GOALS. ASIA SUFFERED IN WARS BROUGHT ON BY THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES. ECONOMIC REVOLUTIONS HAVE BEGUN WITH AS SIMPLE A CHANGE AS WEAPONRY-THUS THE BOW AND ARROW TO THE GUN.
SO, WHY NOW ?????????????? WELL, WE'VE TALKED OFTEN ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION, WHICH HAS BECOME THE MOST UNSETTLING FEATURE OF OUR LIVES AND WE HAVE SEEN THE INCREASE IN ECONOMIC CHAOS IN RECENT YEARS. THE RECOGNITION OF RESULTING POVERTY DRIVES MEN AND IT PARTICULARLY AFFECTS THE POWERFUL EGOTISTS, WHO REALLY BELIEVE THEY KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT OR WRONG FOR THEIR PEOPLE OR HAVE LONG LUSTED AFTER MORE TERRITORY, A GREATER EMPIRE, OR JUST FAME AND FORTUNE.
THOSE ENDEAVORS HAVE TO BE UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE IT IS THEIR PROMISE THAT FUELS THE EGO OF LEADERS. THE OPPORUNTISTS OF THE WORLD FEEL THEY HAVE THE ANSWERS TO WHATEVER PROBLEMS AIL THEIR LANDS. AND IF THE SOLUTION TO THOSE PROBLEMS IS ANOTHER LEADER'S TERRITORY, THEY WILL TAKE IT. THEY BELIEVE THEIR POWER AND MIGHT REQUIRES TAKING TERRITORY TO FIX WHATEVER THEY FEEL AILS THEIR LANDS. THEY ARE HARD TO DISSUADE BECAUSE THEY HAVE CHOSEN THE WRONG REASON, THE WRONG SOLUTION, AND THE WRONG PATH WITH THE BELIEF THAT THEY AND THEY ALONE ARE RIGHT. SADLY, IT'S ALWAYS A PATH THAT LEADS TO EITHER TEMPORARY OR LONG TERM ENSLAVEMENT.
IF YOU WERE TO HAVE ASKED ANY OF THE NOTORIOUS MEN WHY THEY DID NOT SEE THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF THEIR PROBLEMS AND GO AFTER THAT CHALLENGE, THEY'D LOOK AT YOU AS NAIVE, CRAZY, OR STUPID FOR MENTIONING INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS OR TECHNOLOGICAL ONES. WHAT HAVE THEY TO DO WITH THE HERE AND NOW OF MARGIN AND ERROR?
UNFORTUNATELY, ONLY EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT CHANGE REQUIRES MINOR CHANGE EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!! IT IS LIKE A THISTLE FLUTTERING IN THE WIND AND SPREADING ITS SEEDS IN EVERY DIRECTION !!!!!!!!!!! IT CAUSES ALL OF THE POPULATIONS TO SHIFT AND MOVE AND ECONOMIES TO FLY AND CRASH, FLUTTER AND HOVER, AND CHANGE POSITIONS. CHANGE BECOMES AN INEVITABLE FORCE AND NOW IT IS CAUSED BY THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION REACTING THE SAME WAY AS ALL THE CHANGE BEFORE IT.
STUDY AMERICA'S INDUSTRIES. AUTOMOBILES COME FROM EVERYWHERE NOT JUST AMERICA. WE MAKE VERY FEW OF OUR PRODUCTS NOW. THE INDUSTRIES ARE ELSEWHERE. WE CRY "BUY AMERICAN!" !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMERICAN WHAT??????????? OUR INDUSTRIAL DOMINANCE IS OVER. THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION TOOK CARE OF THAT. OBAMA KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!! OR IS IT TRUE YOU WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA ???????????? WE NEED OUR TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION AT LEAST FOR A WHILE.
ONCE ANY REVOLUTION IS IN PROGRESS, IT'S LIKE A BALL ROLLING DOWNHILL !!!!!!!! IT PICKS UP SPEED AND MOMENTUM IN ITS TRAJECTORY AND NO ONE IS ABLE TO GUESS WHEN OR WHERE IT WILL STOP. IT IS UNSETTLING, RELENTLESS, AND UNNERVING AND GIVES MEN WITH EGO, A THIRST FOR THE POWER AND WEALTH AS WELL AS THE TERRITORY THAT GOES WITH ALL OF THAT MOTION AND CHANGE. IT'S LIKE THE EARTH HAS MOVED AND LEFT LANDS BARREN AND OPEN FOR A DESPOT'S OPPORTUNITY.
OPPORTUNISTS DRIVE CHANGE AND SENSATIONALISM BEFORE THEM AS THEY STRIKE AT THE HEART OF WEAKNESS CAUSED BY IRREVOCABLE CHANGE. WANT AN EXAMPLE, WATCH VLADAMIR PUTIN'S PATH INTO UKRAINE AND WATCH AN OPPORTUNIST IN ACTION PLUS SOME OF THE RESULTS AND TRAGEDY OF A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE.
THIS IS THE DARK SIDE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION BUT LIKE ALL CATACLYSMIC EVENTS JUST AS THOSE CAUSED BY VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, THERE IS ANOTHER SIDE AND THAT WILL EMERGE ULTIMATELY AS OUR WORLD SETTLES INTO A NEW AGE.
UNFORTUNATELY MANY EVENTS AND DISASTERS LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE UKRAINE MAY CONTINUE BEFORE TECHNOLOGY BEGINS TO TAKE ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.
WE HAVE HEARD IT MANY TIMES. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. OPPORTUNISTS FORCE THE FORWARD MOTION OF CHANGE FOR GOOD OR BAD SINCE THEY RECOGNIZE EARLY ON THAT THERE IS NO GOING "BACK". HATE THEM OR LOVE THEM, THE OPPORTUNISTS ARE AS INEVITABLE AS THE CHANGE.
WE'VE CERTAINLY BEEN EXPERIENCING THAT IN AMERICA.
CHEERS, CONNIE
When this blogger reads the headlines of the troubles in our world and beyond, it seems too immense to contemplate.
What empowers man and his ego to continually spread problems across the world ????????????? MOST CERTAINLY, POWER; MOST LIKELY, WEALTH; MOST PROBABLY EGO. HOWEVER beyond all that is OPPORTUNISM.
IF YOU READ ANY HISTORY AT ALL, YOU KNOW NO ONE GETS TO KEEP THE POWER AND THE MONEY FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT MOVES ON !!!!!!!!!!!! MAN IS DESTROYED BY DEATH, HIS EGO DIES WITH HIM AND LITTLE IS REMEMBERED OF HIS DEEDS, DASTARDLY OR BLESSED.
WHAT THEN IS IT ALL ABOUT ?????????? WHY DOES IT KEEP HAPPENING ???????????? HITLER MARCHED ACROSS WESTERN EUROPE AND FEW OUTSIDE OF THOSE WHO WERE AWARE IN THE 1930S AND 40S REALLY REMEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STALIN MARCHED ACROSS THE UKRAINE, POLAND, HUNGARY AND OTHER NATIONS FOR WHAT REAL, LONG TERM GAIN ????????????? DO OTHERS OUTSIDE THOSE AFFECTED AREAS REALLY RECALL WHY ????????
IT WILL BE THE SAME WITH VLADAMIR PUTIN'S TRAMPLING OF THE UKRAINE IN A VERY FEW YEARS. NO ONE WILL KNOW WHY AND MOSTLY UKRAINIANS WILL REALLY CARE.
IT APPEARS TO CONTINUE WITHOUT REASON, GAIN, OR UNDERSTANDING OUTSIDE OF THE IMMEDIATE MOMENT IN TIME.
WHY ????????????? THIS BLOGGER CAN'T REALLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION OF WHAT MEN THINK THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH DASTARDLY ACTIONS !!!!!!!!! BUT THE PATTERN OF TIMING IN EACH EVENT IS FUELED BY CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING OR IMMINENT.
ECONOMIC CHANGE , WEAKNESS IN GOVERNMENT, OR NATION OR WORLD CHANGE ARE ALL CREATERS OF TROUBLE . TROUBLE, THAT IS, EXCEPT TO AN OPPORTUNIST, WHO CAN SEE THE BENEFIT TO HIMSELF !!!!!!!!!!!!
A DROP IN FINANCIAL SUCCESS BY COUNTRIES THAT IS CAUSED BY A SUDDEN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS UPROOTS AND FORCES PEOPLE TO FIND A NEW WAY TO LIVE, TO WORK, TO EAT, TO MANAGE THEIR AFFAIRS. MOST PEOPLE MOURN THE LOSS OF A GOOD AND PROSPEROUS WAY OF LIFE.
THE OPPORTUNIST SEES THE CHANCE TO CHANGE HIS LIFE INTO HIS GRANDEST DREAMS.
HITLER COULD MARCH OVER HIS CHOSEN TERRAIN BECAUSE THE WORLD WAS CHANGING FROM A FARM BASED ECONOMY TO AN INDUSTRIAL VENTURE. STALIN CHOSE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE HIS GOALS. ASIA SUFFERED IN WARS BROUGHT ON BY THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES. ECONOMIC REVOLUTIONS HAVE BEGUN WITH AS SIMPLE A CHANGE AS WEAPONRY-THUS THE BOW AND ARROW TO THE GUN.
SO, WHY NOW ?????????????? WELL, WE'VE TALKED OFTEN ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION, WHICH HAS BECOME THE MOST UNSETTLING FEATURE OF OUR LIVES AND WE HAVE SEEN THE INCREASE IN ECONOMIC CHAOS IN RECENT YEARS. THE RECOGNITION OF RESULTING POVERTY DRIVES MEN AND IT PARTICULARLY AFFECTS THE POWERFUL EGOTISTS, WHO REALLY BELIEVE THEY KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT OR WRONG FOR THEIR PEOPLE OR HAVE LONG LUSTED AFTER MORE TERRITORY, A GREATER EMPIRE, OR JUST FAME AND FORTUNE.
THOSE ENDEAVORS HAVE TO BE UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE IT IS THEIR PROMISE THAT FUELS THE EGO OF LEADERS. THE OPPORUNTISTS OF THE WORLD FEEL THEY HAVE THE ANSWERS TO WHATEVER PROBLEMS AIL THEIR LANDS. AND IF THE SOLUTION TO THOSE PROBLEMS IS ANOTHER LEADER'S TERRITORY, THEY WILL TAKE IT. THEY BELIEVE THEIR POWER AND MIGHT REQUIRES TAKING TERRITORY TO FIX WHATEVER THEY FEEL AILS THEIR LANDS. THEY ARE HARD TO DISSUADE BECAUSE THEY HAVE CHOSEN THE WRONG REASON, THE WRONG SOLUTION, AND THE WRONG PATH WITH THE BELIEF THAT THEY AND THEY ALONE ARE RIGHT. SADLY, IT'S ALWAYS A PATH THAT LEADS TO EITHER TEMPORARY OR LONG TERM ENSLAVEMENT.
IF YOU WERE TO HAVE ASKED ANY OF THE NOTORIOUS MEN WHY THEY DID NOT SEE THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF THEIR PROBLEMS AND GO AFTER THAT CHALLENGE, THEY'D LOOK AT YOU AS NAIVE, CRAZY, OR STUPID FOR MENTIONING INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS OR TECHNOLOGICAL ONES. WHAT HAVE THEY TO DO WITH THE HERE AND NOW OF MARGIN AND ERROR?
UNFORTUNATELY, ONLY EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT CHANGE REQUIRES MINOR CHANGE EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!! IT IS LIKE A THISTLE FLUTTERING IN THE WIND AND SPREADING ITS SEEDS IN EVERY DIRECTION !!!!!!!!!!! IT CAUSES ALL OF THE POPULATIONS TO SHIFT AND MOVE AND ECONOMIES TO FLY AND CRASH, FLUTTER AND HOVER, AND CHANGE POSITIONS. CHANGE BECOMES AN INEVITABLE FORCE AND NOW IT IS CAUSED BY THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION REACTING THE SAME WAY AS ALL THE CHANGE BEFORE IT.
STUDY AMERICA'S INDUSTRIES. AUTOMOBILES COME FROM EVERYWHERE NOT JUST AMERICA. WE MAKE VERY FEW OF OUR PRODUCTS NOW. THE INDUSTRIES ARE ELSEWHERE. WE CRY "BUY AMERICAN!" !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMERICAN WHAT??????????? OUR INDUSTRIAL DOMINANCE IS OVER. THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION TOOK CARE OF THAT. OBAMA KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!! OR IS IT TRUE YOU WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA ???????????? WE NEED OUR TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION AT LEAST FOR A WHILE.
ONCE ANY REVOLUTION IS IN PROGRESS, IT'S LIKE A BALL ROLLING DOWNHILL !!!!!!!! IT PICKS UP SPEED AND MOMENTUM IN ITS TRAJECTORY AND NO ONE IS ABLE TO GUESS WHEN OR WHERE IT WILL STOP. IT IS UNSETTLING, RELENTLESS, AND UNNERVING AND GIVES MEN WITH EGO, A THIRST FOR THE POWER AND WEALTH AS WELL AS THE TERRITORY THAT GOES WITH ALL OF THAT MOTION AND CHANGE. IT'S LIKE THE EARTH HAS MOVED AND LEFT LANDS BARREN AND OPEN FOR A DESPOT'S OPPORTUNITY.
OPPORTUNISTS DRIVE CHANGE AND SENSATIONALISM BEFORE THEM AS THEY STRIKE AT THE HEART OF WEAKNESS CAUSED BY IRREVOCABLE CHANGE. WANT AN EXAMPLE, WATCH VLADAMIR PUTIN'S PATH INTO UKRAINE AND WATCH AN OPPORTUNIST IN ACTION PLUS SOME OF THE RESULTS AND TRAGEDY OF A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE.
THIS IS THE DARK SIDE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION BUT LIKE ALL CATACLYSMIC EVENTS JUST AS THOSE CAUSED BY VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, THERE IS ANOTHER SIDE AND THAT WILL EMERGE ULTIMATELY AS OUR WORLD SETTLES INTO A NEW AGE.
UNFORTUNATELY MANY EVENTS AND DISASTERS LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE UKRAINE MAY CONTINUE BEFORE TECHNOLOGY BEGINS TO TAKE ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.
WE HAVE HEARD IT MANY TIMES. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. OPPORTUNISTS FORCE THE FORWARD MOTION OF CHANGE FOR GOOD OR BAD SINCE THEY RECOGNIZE EARLY ON THAT THERE IS NO GOING "BACK". HATE THEM OR LOVE THEM, THE OPPORTUNISTS ARE AS INEVITABLE AS THE CHANGE.
WE'VE CERTAINLY BEEN EXPERIENCING THAT IN AMERICA.
CHEERS, CONNIE
3/7/14
CONFLICTS in the UKRAINE POST 191
Hi,
Whatever palliatives and diplomacy threats made to Russia after its damning move into the Crimea in Ukraine offers the kind of weak sister approach that Obama applies to all political confrontation. This blogger is assured that is exactly what Putin expected from us when he weighed the pros and cons of his military move.
And it is a military move, uniforms or not, that must have been anticipated by our politicians if they knew nothing but what has been on their controlled media. Ukraine has been under threat of Russian interference for some years now and we have made no move to mediate the situation. This blogger is not an expert on Russian-Ukraine affairs but certainly the number of Russian residents grew when Russia invaded the country along with Poland etc. Ukraine's strategic position has always been attractive to Putin. Circumstances there offered him a mental excuse to occupy Crimea for Russia's protection and an opportunity while Ukraine's government is under siege and weakened. The recent former despotic head of Ukraine's government, who was pro-Russian, signed an agreement that called for early elections and loss of some of Ukraine's personal power which Putin now seems intent on enforcing.
There certainly seems to be a division in Ukraine between the newer Russian population and the original Ukrainians about how free of Russia the Ukraine should become. It's a division in the population Putin's BIG BROTHER-ISM appears to be exploiting to favor the Russian state. It is certainly a reminder of Hitler's moves into the small countries surrounding Germany prior to World War II and in his case as well his reasoning was rational sounding, however, as it turned out, he was testing out just how much he could get away with which led to the forward march on Europe.
This blogger feels this event points up a serious lack now existing in the United States thanks to Obama and his entourage. We have lost our position as diplomatic mediator in situations such as these that are always in progress across the world. We have announced our lack of funds, reduction in arms, and general step down from power in the world abdicating it to the U.N. which has always been a Namby-Pamby group who talk big and act little. It is a rather tragic loss to world peace. As our long ago President Teddy Roosevelt pointed out "speak softly and carry a big stick". DIPLOMACY MEANS CARRYING A BIG STICK AND BEING WILLING TO WHACK.
WHACKING DOES NOT MEAN WAR. IT SIMPLY MEANS STEP DOWN FRIEND OR MORE WHACKS ARE ABOUT TO FALL. WE ARE IN AN AGE WHERE WE SEND A SINGLE DRONE TO DO OUR BUSINESS OF WHACKING AND IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE AND KEEPS US OUT OF WAR. IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO KILL ANYONE BUT SIMPLY SEND THE MESSAGE OF "BACK OFF, FRIEND!" OR SUFFER TH E CONSEQUENCES. AND IF IT ESCALATES FURTHER, IT IS POSSIBLE WITH DRONES TO JUST SWAT THE PERPETRATOR AT THE HEAD OF WHATEVER GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY CAUSING THE PROBLEM !!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS BLOGGER IS NOT ADVOCATING THIS BUT SIMPLY POINTING OUT THE OPTIONS OPEN TO A GOVERNMENT TO STAND AGAINST PERPETRATORS. THE EGOS AND POWER DRIVES OF CERTAIN LEADERS WOULD CERTAINLY BE STILLED BY AN IDEA THAT THEY ALONE COULD BE HELD TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!THE GOVERNMENT IS VERY QUIET ABOUT DRONE WHACKING BUT IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TOO BAD WE ARE UNWILLING TO SUPPORT A WEAKENED UKRAINE WITH A FEW GOOD DRONE WHACKS OR THE THREAT OF SUCH.
UNFORTUNATELY, HISTORY SHOWS THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A SOURCE OF CONFLICT. COMMUNISM APPEARS TO BELIEVE THAT IF ALL THE WORLD WERE RULED BY ONE TYPE OF GOVERNMENT, THERE WOULD BE LITTLE CONFLICT. BULL..........ONY. AS LONG AS THERE ARE EGOS, POWER AND WEALTH TO BE HAD, IT STANDS TO REASON THAT WHEN OPPORTUNITY ARISES, THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO WILL USE SOME EXCUSE TO CREATE WAR-LIKE SITUATIONS TO GAIN THAT BENEFIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEING WEAKENED DOESN'T ELICIT GENEROSITY IN RIVALS BUT RATHER SETS THE CLIMATE FOR A POWER MOVE. TOO BAD OUR PRESENT LEADER IS PERHAPS NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THIS RATHER IMPORTANT CONCEPT
This blogger's sympathies are with the Ukraine and the problems they are facing. It is a sad day when a country is faced with choices that affect all the population but are dictated by an outside force that represents only a faction within that structure. Our United States of America faced just such problems when it first sought to form a Union free from European influences. It resulted in a bloody Revolutionary War that had to convince the outsiders that we really did know what we were doing. It was not easy but it was worth while, however, we have had to keep those same forces within and without, from destroying it ever since. A conflict that continues today.
GOOD LUCK UKRAINE. May you find a way to ensure your future as a FREE NATION and treat ALL YOUR CITIZENS ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE ASSURANCES OF FREEDOM THAT STABILIZES AND KEEPS THOSE WHO WOULD DEFEAT YOU AT BAY. IT WILL BE A HISTORY-LONG EFFORT.
CHEERS, CONNIE
Whatever palliatives and diplomacy threats made to Russia after its damning move into the Crimea in Ukraine offers the kind of weak sister approach that Obama applies to all political confrontation. This blogger is assured that is exactly what Putin expected from us when he weighed the pros and cons of his military move.
And it is a military move, uniforms or not, that must have been anticipated by our politicians if they knew nothing but what has been on their controlled media. Ukraine has been under threat of Russian interference for some years now and we have made no move to mediate the situation. This blogger is not an expert on Russian-Ukraine affairs but certainly the number of Russian residents grew when Russia invaded the country along with Poland etc. Ukraine's strategic position has always been attractive to Putin. Circumstances there offered him a mental excuse to occupy Crimea for Russia's protection and an opportunity while Ukraine's government is under siege and weakened. The recent former despotic head of Ukraine's government, who was pro-Russian, signed an agreement that called for early elections and loss of some of Ukraine's personal power which Putin now seems intent on enforcing.
There certainly seems to be a division in Ukraine between the newer Russian population and the original Ukrainians about how free of Russia the Ukraine should become. It's a division in the population Putin's BIG BROTHER-ISM appears to be exploiting to favor the Russian state. It is certainly a reminder of Hitler's moves into the small countries surrounding Germany prior to World War II and in his case as well his reasoning was rational sounding, however, as it turned out, he was testing out just how much he could get away with which led to the forward march on Europe.
This blogger feels this event points up a serious lack now existing in the United States thanks to Obama and his entourage. We have lost our position as diplomatic mediator in situations such as these that are always in progress across the world. We have announced our lack of funds, reduction in arms, and general step down from power in the world abdicating it to the U.N. which has always been a Namby-Pamby group who talk big and act little. It is a rather tragic loss to world peace. As our long ago President Teddy Roosevelt pointed out "speak softly and carry a big stick". DIPLOMACY MEANS CARRYING A BIG STICK AND BEING WILLING TO WHACK.
WHACKING DOES NOT MEAN WAR. IT SIMPLY MEANS STEP DOWN FRIEND OR MORE WHACKS ARE ABOUT TO FALL. WE ARE IN AN AGE WHERE WE SEND A SINGLE DRONE TO DO OUR BUSINESS OF WHACKING AND IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE AND KEEPS US OUT OF WAR. IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO KILL ANYONE BUT SIMPLY SEND THE MESSAGE OF "BACK OFF, FRIEND!" OR SUFFER TH E CONSEQUENCES. AND IF IT ESCALATES FURTHER, IT IS POSSIBLE WITH DRONES TO JUST SWAT THE PERPETRATOR AT THE HEAD OF WHATEVER GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY CAUSING THE PROBLEM !!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS BLOGGER IS NOT ADVOCATING THIS BUT SIMPLY POINTING OUT THE OPTIONS OPEN TO A GOVERNMENT TO STAND AGAINST PERPETRATORS. THE EGOS AND POWER DRIVES OF CERTAIN LEADERS WOULD CERTAINLY BE STILLED BY AN IDEA THAT THEY ALONE COULD BE HELD TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!THE GOVERNMENT IS VERY QUIET ABOUT DRONE WHACKING BUT IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TOO BAD WE ARE UNWILLING TO SUPPORT A WEAKENED UKRAINE WITH A FEW GOOD DRONE WHACKS OR THE THREAT OF SUCH.
UNFORTUNATELY, HISTORY SHOWS THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A SOURCE OF CONFLICT. COMMUNISM APPEARS TO BELIEVE THAT IF ALL THE WORLD WERE RULED BY ONE TYPE OF GOVERNMENT, THERE WOULD BE LITTLE CONFLICT. BULL..........ONY. AS LONG AS THERE ARE EGOS, POWER AND WEALTH TO BE HAD, IT STANDS TO REASON THAT WHEN OPPORTUNITY ARISES, THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO WILL USE SOME EXCUSE TO CREATE WAR-LIKE SITUATIONS TO GAIN THAT BENEFIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEING WEAKENED DOESN'T ELICIT GENEROSITY IN RIVALS BUT RATHER SETS THE CLIMATE FOR A POWER MOVE. TOO BAD OUR PRESENT LEADER IS PERHAPS NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THIS RATHER IMPORTANT CONCEPT
This blogger's sympathies are with the Ukraine and the problems they are facing. It is a sad day when a country is faced with choices that affect all the population but are dictated by an outside force that represents only a faction within that structure. Our United States of America faced just such problems when it first sought to form a Union free from European influences. It resulted in a bloody Revolutionary War that had to convince the outsiders that we really did know what we were doing. It was not easy but it was worth while, however, we have had to keep those same forces within and without, from destroying it ever since. A conflict that continues today.
GOOD LUCK UKRAINE. May you find a way to ensure your future as a FREE NATION and treat ALL YOUR CITIZENS ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE ASSURANCES OF FREEDOM THAT STABILIZES AND KEEPS THOSE WHO WOULD DEFEAT YOU AT BAY. IT WILL BE A HISTORY-LONG EFFORT.
CHEERS, CONNIE
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVENTURES POST 190
HI,
Today was a big day and it was because the technological revolution was in full force in my studio and almost blew me away like a dratted storm!!!!!!!!!!!
As many of you know I write and publish books and Kindle carries my two novels, "Absolute Power" and "The Drone Solution" as well as an e-book copy of "The Letters, Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser" and a hard copy version. I have 25 books all together at different venues and I wanted to include about 10-15 of them on my Kindle bookshelf for sale on that erstwhile e-book outlet. Kindle was more than willing and I started the process last week of transferring them to Kindle. Or not transferring them because TECHNOLOGY STILLED MY EFFORTS AT THE COMPLEX PUBLISHING BUSINESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HERE I SIT BROKENHEARTED, I TRIED TO TRANSFER AND ONLY FAILED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, I've been using TECHNOLOGY SINCE 1982 WHEN I STARTED WITH MY FIRST COMPUTER AND COULDN'T MAKE IT DO ANYTHING BUT BLINK AT ME FOR THREE WEEKS AND COMPLAINED SO VOCIFEROUSLY THAT MY SPOUSE THREATENED TO THROW IT OUT WITH THE TRASH. I FINALLY DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE A SMALL PROGRAM THAT ALLOWED ME TO OPEN IT UP AND USE IT LIKE A TYPEWRITER AND THAT SATISFIED ME FOR AWHILE. IT WAS CALLED RADIO SHACK TS80 AND WE USED TO RUDELY REFER TO IT AS TRASH 80.
Finally, in the late 80s-EARLY 90'S I took the plunge and bought into the new equipment which BY THEN HAD BROWSERS TO GET YOU GOING AND FINALLY INTO THE INTERNET. IT WAS A WONDER AFTER TRASH 80 AND I NAIVELY BELIEVED ALL WAS WELL.
Okay, it was for awhile, until I decided to become my own Publisher. At first, that was no problem since there were companies very tech-wise that could do things for me that made my life fairly easy. Then being a "GOOD CAPITALIST", I branched out--not a good money maker but certainly all the instincts for one. I began to write in various venues like my Blog on Google, in Blurb for mostly color for my photo books and art, then Kindle and Nook. It's a lot to keep up with if everything goes right. BUT WITH TECHNOLOGY THAT'S A BIG---------BIG---------IF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE THAT EVERYONE ON THE WEB IS A "GOOD CAPITALIST" EVEN WHEN THEY CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING OTHER THAN THAT. THE COMPANIES WANT TO COME OUT WITH THE LATEST, THE BEST, THE MOST ADVANCED, THE PRICIEST WHATEVER STARTING WITH ADOBE THAT NOW SELLS CLOUDS ON A MONTHLY BASIS SO THAT THEY CAN BE IN YOUR WALLET AD INFINITUM.
OK. ALL THIS CHANGE TO SOFTWARE CREATES SOFTWARE GLITCHES. IF YOU UPDATE ONE SOFTWARE PROGRAM USUALLY IT AFFECTS THE USE OF TWO OR THREE OTHERS THAT USED TO WORK JUST FINE BUT NOW CAN'T MEET THE NEW STANDARDS SET BY THE FIRST PROGRAM. THAT MEANS.............YOU GUESSED IT............MORE CHANGE. THAT CHANGE WILL THEN MEAN YEP...............MORE CHANGE BECAUSE THREE OTHER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS REQUIRE UPDATING OR BECOME OBSOLETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAT !!!!!!!!!!!!
COMPANIES TRY TO COMPENSATE BY AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING PROGRAMS TO KEEP UP WITH THE CONSTANTLY MOVING TECHNOLOGY BUT THEY CAN'T OUTGUESS THE MARKET AND SO SOME AREAS GET LEFT BEHIND.
TODAY, I TALKED TO THE TECH GENIUSES AND THEY RECOMMENDED SEVERAL SHIFTS IN THE FORMATTING, AND NEW FILES FOR THE DOWNLOADS AND IT ALL SOUNDED SO SIMPLE-----------SO EASY---------WHY DIDN'T I SEE IT BEFORE ???????????? THEN..........YOU GUESSED IT. iT DIDN'T WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I TOOK ALL THE RIGHT STEPS, PROCEEDED DOWN THE STEEP SLOPE, TAKING CARE NOT TO TRIP UP, CHECKED EVERYTHING TWICE AND FELT SMUGLY CONFIDENT. ..................and it failed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't tell you how many OF MY WRITING HOURS.......... hours!!!!!!!!!! are wasted on this medium (technology)that is supposed to be so much faster, because it's like a fine tooled motor. All the little bits have got to work together and you can't put a new part in an old program without a glitch. I PROBABLY COULD HAVE WRITTEN 10 MORE BOOKS IN THOSE HOURS WHICH IS WHY I AM ALWAYS HARPING ON THE NEW GENERATIONS LEARNING TECHNOLOGY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT LEAST THEY'LL HAVE A HEAD START ALTHOUGH I HAVE TO WARN THEM THAT CHANGES WILL CONSTANTLY OCCUR THAT WILL FORCE THEM TO REEDUCATE THEMSELVES BUT THAT WILL CERTAINLY BE EASIER WITH GOOD TRAINING.
I TRAINED TO BE A WRITER AND AN ARTIST. I KNEW I'D HAVE TO STRUGGLE BUT I NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD BE AGAINST MACHINES THAT HAVE THE UPPER HAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, I'LL PLAY THROUGH. I ALWAYS DO BECAUSE I'M TENACIOUS BUT IT WILL BE A STRUGGLE THAT I WON'T ALWAYS WIN LIKE TODAY AND FINDING THE ASSISTANCE I NEED IS GETTING TOUGHER AND TOUGHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TOO MANY OF THE CURRENT CROP OF TECHNICIANS HAVE POORER TRAINING THAN BEFORE OR DO NOT HAVE THE SAME WONDER AND WILL TO CONQUER THE NEW MEDIUMS OR HAVE MET DEFEAT TOO MANY TIMES TO CONTINUE THE HARD STRUGGLE TO HELP OTHERS.
As well, too often these days the REALLY GOOD TECHNICIANS ARE IN A MINORITY AND OFTEN BECOME SO IMPORTANT TO A COMPANY THAT THEY TAKE OVER THE DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THEY REALLY CONTROL THE IMAGE OF THE COMPANY AND ITS WORKINGS. IF LIKE ADOBE THEY PUT SYSTEMS IN PLACE THAT ONLY THE MOST SOPHISTICATED CAN COMPREHEND OR USE, THEY LOST CUSTOMERS. THAT ATTITUDE CATCHES UP EVENTUALLY.
IT BECOMES A LOSE-LOSE SITUATION FOR THE COMPANY AND ITS CLIENTS. TOO OFTEN THE COMPANY CHOOSES THE ARROGANT TECHNICIANS TO MAKE THEIR COMPANY MORE TECHNICALLY WORKABLE ONLY TO FIND THEMSELVES DICTATED TO BY FINANCIAL IMBECILES WHO DON'T REALIZE THEY ARE DESTROYING THE PRODUCT.
KILLING THE PATIENT WITH THE CURE, SO TO SPEAK.
All this will right itself with time. Technology will like other industries slow some progress to refine others and the whole process will become more comfortable.. BUT..MEANWHILE I HAVE TO GET BACK TO MY TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF TRANSFERRING MY WRITING TO A NEW VENUE.
SEE YOU LATER.
CHEERS, CONNIE
Today was a big day and it was because the technological revolution was in full force in my studio and almost blew me away like a dratted storm!!!!!!!!!!!
As many of you know I write and publish books and Kindle carries my two novels, "Absolute Power" and "The Drone Solution" as well as an e-book copy of "The Letters, Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser" and a hard copy version. I have 25 books all together at different venues and I wanted to include about 10-15 of them on my Kindle bookshelf for sale on that erstwhile e-book outlet. Kindle was more than willing and I started the process last week of transferring them to Kindle. Or not transferring them because TECHNOLOGY STILLED MY EFFORTS AT THE COMPLEX PUBLISHING BUSINESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HERE I SIT BROKENHEARTED, I TRIED TO TRANSFER AND ONLY FAILED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, I've been using TECHNOLOGY SINCE 1982 WHEN I STARTED WITH MY FIRST COMPUTER AND COULDN'T MAKE IT DO ANYTHING BUT BLINK AT ME FOR THREE WEEKS AND COMPLAINED SO VOCIFEROUSLY THAT MY SPOUSE THREATENED TO THROW IT OUT WITH THE TRASH. I FINALLY DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE A SMALL PROGRAM THAT ALLOWED ME TO OPEN IT UP AND USE IT LIKE A TYPEWRITER AND THAT SATISFIED ME FOR AWHILE. IT WAS CALLED RADIO SHACK TS80 AND WE USED TO RUDELY REFER TO IT AS TRASH 80.
Finally, in the late 80s-EARLY 90'S I took the plunge and bought into the new equipment which BY THEN HAD BROWSERS TO GET YOU GOING AND FINALLY INTO THE INTERNET. IT WAS A WONDER AFTER TRASH 80 AND I NAIVELY BELIEVED ALL WAS WELL.
Okay, it was for awhile, until I decided to become my own Publisher. At first, that was no problem since there were companies very tech-wise that could do things for me that made my life fairly easy. Then being a "GOOD CAPITALIST", I branched out--not a good money maker but certainly all the instincts for one. I began to write in various venues like my Blog on Google, in Blurb for mostly color for my photo books and art, then Kindle and Nook. It's a lot to keep up with if everything goes right. BUT WITH TECHNOLOGY THAT'S A BIG---------BIG---------IF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE THAT EVERYONE ON THE WEB IS A "GOOD CAPITALIST" EVEN WHEN THEY CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING OTHER THAN THAT. THE COMPANIES WANT TO COME OUT WITH THE LATEST, THE BEST, THE MOST ADVANCED, THE PRICIEST WHATEVER STARTING WITH ADOBE THAT NOW SELLS CLOUDS ON A MONTHLY BASIS SO THAT THEY CAN BE IN YOUR WALLET AD INFINITUM.
OK. ALL THIS CHANGE TO SOFTWARE CREATES SOFTWARE GLITCHES. IF YOU UPDATE ONE SOFTWARE PROGRAM USUALLY IT AFFECTS THE USE OF TWO OR THREE OTHERS THAT USED TO WORK JUST FINE BUT NOW CAN'T MEET THE NEW STANDARDS SET BY THE FIRST PROGRAM. THAT MEANS.............YOU GUESSED IT............MORE CHANGE. THAT CHANGE WILL THEN MEAN YEP...............MORE CHANGE BECAUSE THREE OTHER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS REQUIRE UPDATING OR BECOME OBSOLETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAT !!!!!!!!!!!!
COMPANIES TRY TO COMPENSATE BY AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING PROGRAMS TO KEEP UP WITH THE CONSTANTLY MOVING TECHNOLOGY BUT THEY CAN'T OUTGUESS THE MARKET AND SO SOME AREAS GET LEFT BEHIND.
TODAY, I TALKED TO THE TECH GENIUSES AND THEY RECOMMENDED SEVERAL SHIFTS IN THE FORMATTING, AND NEW FILES FOR THE DOWNLOADS AND IT ALL SOUNDED SO SIMPLE-----------SO EASY---------WHY DIDN'T I SEE IT BEFORE ???????????? THEN..........YOU GUESSED IT. iT DIDN'T WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I TOOK ALL THE RIGHT STEPS, PROCEEDED DOWN THE STEEP SLOPE, TAKING CARE NOT TO TRIP UP, CHECKED EVERYTHING TWICE AND FELT SMUGLY CONFIDENT. ..................and it failed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't tell you how many OF MY WRITING HOURS.......... hours!!!!!!!!!! are wasted on this medium (technology)that is supposed to be so much faster, because it's like a fine tooled motor. All the little bits have got to work together and you can't put a new part in an old program without a glitch. I PROBABLY COULD HAVE WRITTEN 10 MORE BOOKS IN THOSE HOURS WHICH IS WHY I AM ALWAYS HARPING ON THE NEW GENERATIONS LEARNING TECHNOLOGY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT LEAST THEY'LL HAVE A HEAD START ALTHOUGH I HAVE TO WARN THEM THAT CHANGES WILL CONSTANTLY OCCUR THAT WILL FORCE THEM TO REEDUCATE THEMSELVES BUT THAT WILL CERTAINLY BE EASIER WITH GOOD TRAINING.
I TRAINED TO BE A WRITER AND AN ARTIST. I KNEW I'D HAVE TO STRUGGLE BUT I NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD BE AGAINST MACHINES THAT HAVE THE UPPER HAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, I'LL PLAY THROUGH. I ALWAYS DO BECAUSE I'M TENACIOUS BUT IT WILL BE A STRUGGLE THAT I WON'T ALWAYS WIN LIKE TODAY AND FINDING THE ASSISTANCE I NEED IS GETTING TOUGHER AND TOUGHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TOO MANY OF THE CURRENT CROP OF TECHNICIANS HAVE POORER TRAINING THAN BEFORE OR DO NOT HAVE THE SAME WONDER AND WILL TO CONQUER THE NEW MEDIUMS OR HAVE MET DEFEAT TOO MANY TIMES TO CONTINUE THE HARD STRUGGLE TO HELP OTHERS.
As well, too often these days the REALLY GOOD TECHNICIANS ARE IN A MINORITY AND OFTEN BECOME SO IMPORTANT TO A COMPANY THAT THEY TAKE OVER THE DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THEY REALLY CONTROL THE IMAGE OF THE COMPANY AND ITS WORKINGS. IF LIKE ADOBE THEY PUT SYSTEMS IN PLACE THAT ONLY THE MOST SOPHISTICATED CAN COMPREHEND OR USE, THEY LOST CUSTOMERS. THAT ATTITUDE CATCHES UP EVENTUALLY.
IT BECOMES A LOSE-LOSE SITUATION FOR THE COMPANY AND ITS CLIENTS. TOO OFTEN THE COMPANY CHOOSES THE ARROGANT TECHNICIANS TO MAKE THEIR COMPANY MORE TECHNICALLY WORKABLE ONLY TO FIND THEMSELVES DICTATED TO BY FINANCIAL IMBECILES WHO DON'T REALIZE THEY ARE DESTROYING THE PRODUCT.
KILLING THE PATIENT WITH THE CURE, SO TO SPEAK.
All this will right itself with time. Technology will like other industries slow some progress to refine others and the whole process will become more comfortable.. BUT..MEANWHILE I HAVE TO GET BACK TO MY TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF TRANSFERRING MY WRITING TO A NEW VENUE.
SEE YOU LATER.
CHEERS, CONNIE
2/22/14
THIS TOO WILL PASS! POST 189
Hi,
This blogger is sure Washington is enjoying the Olympics. It's keeping them out of the newspaper these days. Just what they like with election 2016 looming on the horizon. Looming in Washington is a full two years away. Just time enough for citizens to forget all the problems happening in their bailiwick
Washington doesn't want Snowden in the headlines because it reminds people that he discovered and told the truth about what the NSA was doing and their PEEPING TOM ACT THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL WINDOWS INTO AMERICAN CITIZENS' LIVES. HE'S AT LEAST IN A WARMER CLIMATE IN SOUTH AMERICA NOW IN CASE YOU HADN'T HEARD.
THE POLITICOS DON'T WANT LIBYA BROUGHT UP ON THE NEWS SINCE HILLARY CLINTON IS CLINGING WITH ALL HER MIGHT TO HER POLITICAL LIFE THAT IS WANTED BY NEITHER SIDE, HER FRIENDS OR HER ENEMIES. "WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?" HILLARY MIGHT ASK AGAIN--WE DO REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE IN OUR EMBASSY DIED ON HER SHIFT AS SECRETARY OF STATE. NO MATTER WHO SHE CONJURES UP TO TAKE THE BLAME, THE "BUCK" STOPS WITH HER. IT WAS HER WATCH. DO WE WANT SOMEONE SO CARELESS OF HUMAN LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE ????????????? THIS BLOGGER SURE HOPES NOT !!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON HAS SO MUCH HIDDEN UNDER THE STACKS OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS PUT OUT BY THIS PRESIDENT THAT CANDIDATES ARE HOPING THAT NONE OF THE REAL PROBLEMS COME TO LIGHT. THIS PRESIDENT REMINDS ME OF A CONJURER WITH MAGIC TRICKS HERETOFORE UNKNOWN IN THE CAPITOL OF MAGIC THEATER. CAPITOL FANTASY IS A BIG TIME THEATRICAL GAME WHICH IS WHY ACTORS FIND IT SO FASCINATING TO MEDDLE WITH. MAKE NO MISTAKE OBAMA COULD HAVE A GREAT ACTING CAREER. TOO BAD HE DIDN'T CHOOSE THAT DIRECTION FOR HIS SKILLS !!!!!!!!!!!! IT WOULD HAVE ENTERTAINED WITHOUT MUCH HARM. THE CONSTANT LACK OF REAL EVIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT'S BACKGROUND WOULD HAVE SUITED AN ACTOR FAR BETTER AS WOULD HIS PERSONAL TENDENCIES TOWARD A MORE VARIED SEX LIFE AND USE OF DRUGS IN HIS YOUTH.
CAN WE FORGET OR FORGIVE ERIC HOLDER HIS FREE WHEELING ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS JOB ?????????? OR VALERIE JARRETT'S CONSTANT ADVICE AND THE PRESIDENT'S CONSENT ON PUSHING FOR MORE AND MORE RED CONTROL ??????????? OR THE CHICAGO POLITICAL TACTICS THAT HAVE CASTRATED WASHINGTON ????????????
CAN WE FORGET THAT THE NEWS MEDIA HAS BECOME THE WASHINGTON MEDIA AND THAT WE ARE SPOON-FED WHATEVER RECENT GARBAGE THAT WASHINGTON POLITICOS OF THE RED PERSUASION WANT TO DISH OUT OR THAT ACROSS AMERICA IS SEEN THE SPAWNING OF MORE AND MORE RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICA'S FREEDOMS WITH ONE TERROR INDUCED EXCUSE AFTER ANOTHER ??????????
IS IT EASY TO FORGET THAT WASHINGTON ENVISIONS A CONSENT ONLY ELECTORATE AND IS BASHING DEBATE OR ANY ADVICE FROM OUR CITIZENS OR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS STILL WILLING TO PRESENT A DIFFERENT VIEW OF WHAT A FREE LIFE SHOULD COMPRISE ????????????
Perhaps Washington pundits are right - WHOOPS I MEAN LEFT - and our memories for CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF THE POLITICAL GENDER is short and OUR MEMORY OF WHAT A FREE NATION TRULY REPRESENTS is even shorter. If so then the placebos that Washington is offering will stand citizens in good stead. They will believe that all the RESTRICTIONS ARE FOR THEIR OWN GOOD AND SAFETY RATHER THAN THE POLITICOS' GOOD AND SAFETY. IT WILL COME AS A GREAT SHOCK ONE DAY WHEN THEY AWAKEN TO THE SHACKLES AND CHAINS THAT REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT USES TO MAINTAIN ORDER.
THOSE WHO HAVE TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY REALIZE THAT OUR LIFE IN AMERICA HAS BEEN AS GOOD AS IT GETS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR RICH AND POOR ALIKE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN FACT THE POOR HAVE SUFFERED LESS IN AMERICA THAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD--BAR NONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE OUR RECORD OF CARING BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO ENSLAVE THE MAJORITY TO IMPROVE THE MINORITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR ALL AS FREE SOULS AND NOT ENSLAVE OR FORCE CHANGE AND GROWTH.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT MAN IS INHERENTLY GOOD AS OUR FOREFATHERS KNEW WHEN THEY GAVE US AS CITIZENS AS MUCH POLITICAL STRENGTH AS THEY COULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT MAN IS INHERENTLY BAD AND HAS TO BE FORCED TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO BELIEVE------------THEY KNOW BEST----------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND THAT'S THE KICKER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO DOES KNOW BEST ????????????
THAT'S WHY FREEDOM BECOMES A MATTER OF PERSONAL CHOICE SO THAT EACH CAN DEBATE AND DECIDE WHAT IDEAS AND BELIEFS ARE THE BEST. WITHOUT THAT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, A GOVERNMENT IS SIMPLY IMPOSING ITS WILL ON THE PEOPLE AND DESTROYING ANY HOPE OF THE RIGHTNESS OF THEIR ACTIONS BEING UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED FOR A LONG TERM.
SO IN A SENSE MAYBE WASHINGTON HAS THE RIGHT IDEA FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
BECAUSE "THIS TOO WILL PASS" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
This blogger is sure Washington is enjoying the Olympics. It's keeping them out of the newspaper these days. Just what they like with election 2016 looming on the horizon. Looming in Washington is a full two years away. Just time enough for citizens to forget all the problems happening in their bailiwick
Washington doesn't want Snowden in the headlines because it reminds people that he discovered and told the truth about what the NSA was doing and their PEEPING TOM ACT THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL WINDOWS INTO AMERICAN CITIZENS' LIVES. HE'S AT LEAST IN A WARMER CLIMATE IN SOUTH AMERICA NOW IN CASE YOU HADN'T HEARD.
THE POLITICOS DON'T WANT LIBYA BROUGHT UP ON THE NEWS SINCE HILLARY CLINTON IS CLINGING WITH ALL HER MIGHT TO HER POLITICAL LIFE THAT IS WANTED BY NEITHER SIDE, HER FRIENDS OR HER ENEMIES. "WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?" HILLARY MIGHT ASK AGAIN--WE DO REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE IN OUR EMBASSY DIED ON HER SHIFT AS SECRETARY OF STATE. NO MATTER WHO SHE CONJURES UP TO TAKE THE BLAME, THE "BUCK" STOPS WITH HER. IT WAS HER WATCH. DO WE WANT SOMEONE SO CARELESS OF HUMAN LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE ????????????? THIS BLOGGER SURE HOPES NOT !!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON HAS SO MUCH HIDDEN UNDER THE STACKS OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS PUT OUT BY THIS PRESIDENT THAT CANDIDATES ARE HOPING THAT NONE OF THE REAL PROBLEMS COME TO LIGHT. THIS PRESIDENT REMINDS ME OF A CONJURER WITH MAGIC TRICKS HERETOFORE UNKNOWN IN THE CAPITOL OF MAGIC THEATER. CAPITOL FANTASY IS A BIG TIME THEATRICAL GAME WHICH IS WHY ACTORS FIND IT SO FASCINATING TO MEDDLE WITH. MAKE NO MISTAKE OBAMA COULD HAVE A GREAT ACTING CAREER. TOO BAD HE DIDN'T CHOOSE THAT DIRECTION FOR HIS SKILLS !!!!!!!!!!!! IT WOULD HAVE ENTERTAINED WITHOUT MUCH HARM. THE CONSTANT LACK OF REAL EVIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT'S BACKGROUND WOULD HAVE SUITED AN ACTOR FAR BETTER AS WOULD HIS PERSONAL TENDENCIES TOWARD A MORE VARIED SEX LIFE AND USE OF DRUGS IN HIS YOUTH.
CAN WE FORGET OR FORGIVE ERIC HOLDER HIS FREE WHEELING ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS JOB ?????????? OR VALERIE JARRETT'S CONSTANT ADVICE AND THE PRESIDENT'S CONSENT ON PUSHING FOR MORE AND MORE RED CONTROL ??????????? OR THE CHICAGO POLITICAL TACTICS THAT HAVE CASTRATED WASHINGTON ????????????
CAN WE FORGET THAT THE NEWS MEDIA HAS BECOME THE WASHINGTON MEDIA AND THAT WE ARE SPOON-FED WHATEVER RECENT GARBAGE THAT WASHINGTON POLITICOS OF THE RED PERSUASION WANT TO DISH OUT OR THAT ACROSS AMERICA IS SEEN THE SPAWNING OF MORE AND MORE RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICA'S FREEDOMS WITH ONE TERROR INDUCED EXCUSE AFTER ANOTHER ??????????
IS IT EASY TO FORGET THAT WASHINGTON ENVISIONS A CONSENT ONLY ELECTORATE AND IS BASHING DEBATE OR ANY ADVICE FROM OUR CITIZENS OR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS STILL WILLING TO PRESENT A DIFFERENT VIEW OF WHAT A FREE LIFE SHOULD COMPRISE ????????????
Perhaps Washington pundits are right - WHOOPS I MEAN LEFT - and our memories for CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF THE POLITICAL GENDER is short and OUR MEMORY OF WHAT A FREE NATION TRULY REPRESENTS is even shorter. If so then the placebos that Washington is offering will stand citizens in good stead. They will believe that all the RESTRICTIONS ARE FOR THEIR OWN GOOD AND SAFETY RATHER THAN THE POLITICOS' GOOD AND SAFETY. IT WILL COME AS A GREAT SHOCK ONE DAY WHEN THEY AWAKEN TO THE SHACKLES AND CHAINS THAT REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT USES TO MAINTAIN ORDER.
THOSE WHO HAVE TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY REALIZE THAT OUR LIFE IN AMERICA HAS BEEN AS GOOD AS IT GETS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR RICH AND POOR ALIKE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN FACT THE POOR HAVE SUFFERED LESS IN AMERICA THAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD--BAR NONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE OUR RECORD OF CARING BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO ENSLAVE THE MAJORITY TO IMPROVE THE MINORITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR ALL AS FREE SOULS AND NOT ENSLAVE OR FORCE CHANGE AND GROWTH.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT MAN IS INHERENTLY GOOD AS OUR FOREFATHERS KNEW WHEN THEY GAVE US AS CITIZENS AS MUCH POLITICAL STRENGTH AS THEY COULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT MAN IS INHERENTLY BAD AND HAS TO BE FORCED TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO BELIEVE------------THEY KNOW BEST----------!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND THAT'S THE KICKER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO DOES KNOW BEST ????????????
THAT'S WHY FREEDOM BECOMES A MATTER OF PERSONAL CHOICE SO THAT EACH CAN DEBATE AND DECIDE WHAT IDEAS AND BELIEFS ARE THE BEST. WITHOUT THAT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, A GOVERNMENT IS SIMPLY IMPOSING ITS WILL ON THE PEOPLE AND DESTROYING ANY HOPE OF THE RIGHTNESS OF THEIR ACTIONS BEING UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED FOR A LONG TERM.
SO IN A SENSE MAYBE WASHINGTON HAS THE RIGHT IDEA FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
BECAUSE "THIS TOO WILL PASS" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
2/14/14
STOP THE RULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS POST 188
Hi,
GIVE THIS PRESIDENT 'AN INCH AND HE'LL TAKE A COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
EXECUTIVE ORDERS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE BUT MOST PRESIDENTS UNTIL THIS ONE HAVE REALIZED THEY WERE ONLY SET UP FOR IMMEDIATE EMERGENCIES. THIS PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED A VAST NUMBER OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS MORE EXCEPTING YOUNG BUSH AND FDR BUT A BOATLOAD MORE THAN ALL THE REST OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS !!!!!!!!! IT IS ALARMING THE WAY HE USES OUR HISTORY TO DEFEAT US !!!!!!! OR IS IT HIS SIDEKICK VALERIE JARRETT WHO POINTS THE WAY TO "GET HIS WAY".
WHEN THIS PRESIDENT IS HELD BACK BY CONGRESS, HE WRITES AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON ANOTHER ITEM ON HIS WISH LIST. AND IF YOU READ THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, THIS CONGRESS HAS DONE A REMARKABLE JOB DESPITE THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES TO THE CONTRARY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CONGRESS HAS STOPPED HIM ON MOST MAJOR ISSUES WHILE GETTING BLAMED AND ABUSED FOR THOSE THAT THEY COULDN'T CHANGE LIKE THE HEALTH BILL.
THOSE CONGRESSMEN (MANY NOW OUT OF OFFICE) WHO VOTED FOR THE HEALTH BILL CREATED THE MAIN MONSTER THAT OBAMA COULD NOT HAVE DONE WITH EXECUTIVE ORDERS. THE LAST FEW WHO CAVED SHOULD BE UNDER INVESTIGATION. WHO KNOWS WHAT THE SWEETENER WAS ??????????
UNFORTUNATELY THIS PRESIDENT HAS THE INSTINCTS OF A DICTATOR AND DOESN'T WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT CONGRESS IS THERE TO KEEP THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE FROM BECOMING A DICTATORSHIP BUT HE IS USING EXECUTIVE ORDERS TO CREATE JUST THAT. LIKE ALL DICTATORS HE 'THINKS' HE KNOWS WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR COUNTRY AND LIKE MOST DICTATORS, HE'LL BE PROVEN WRONG.
BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT???? UNFORTUNATELY, DURING THIS PRESIDENT'S REIGN, THERE'S NOT MUCH THAT CAN BE DONE. BUT, AND THIS IS A BIG BUTT, WHEN THIS CONGRESS HAS ITS ELECTIONS, THE NEW CONGRESS CAN START A PROCESS OF CANCELLING "UNNECESSARY EXECUTIVE ORDERS" AND TAKE THIS WET PEN TOOL AWAY FROM THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND GET THE BALANCE BETWEEN THAT OFFICE AND THE CONGRESS BACK IN ALIGNMENT.
NO, IT WON'T BE EASY BUT THE PROCESS CAN START AND BE IN PLACE FOR THE NEXT DICTATOR THAT COMES OUT OF THE WOOD WORK. BECAUSE, TRUST ME, THERE WILL BE MORE, AND EVEN WORSE TIMES COULD BE AHEAD. THE COMMUNISTS DO NOT QUIT AND UNTIL THE WORLD BEGINS TO SEE THE REAL HASH THEY'VE CREATED, WE'RE GOING TO BE UNDER SIEGE BY THEM FOLLOWED BY A SIEGE BY ISLAM. TOUGH TIMES ARE AHEAD IF OUR LEGISLATORS DO NOT START FACING UP AND ACTING OFFENSIVELY RATHER THAN DEFENSIVELY. BUT BEWARE THE "REDS" IN CONGRESS WAITING QUIETLY FOR A CHANCE TO ATTACK FROM INSIDE THAT AUGUST BODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know the framers of our Constitution were farsighted and created a document that recognized that if America was strong and rich, there would be enemies looking to overturn her government and loot the treasury like in the "olden" days.
The Founding Fathers recognized that we needed a FRAMEWORK THAT COULD THWART THAT KIND OF PLUNDER !!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS THE SETUP OF THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT: THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH (THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CRONIES); THE CONGRESS (WITH TWO BRANCHES WITHIN REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AND STATE); AND THE JUDICIAL (THAT MEANT THE SUPREME COURT, THE HIGHEST IN THE LAND).
It's a great set-up and worthy of a great mind but nothing is impervious to tinkering and ultimate destruction. THE FRAMERS FIGURED THAT IF FUTURE GENERATIONS COULD NOT KEEP THE SMUGGLERS AWAY FROM THE GOLD WITH THIS KIND OF SET-UP, THEY PROBABLY DESERVED WHAT THEY GOT WHEN THEY LET THE 'WOLF IN THE DOOR'. (HEY, I LIKE EUPHEMISMS--SAVE A LOT OF WORDS)
Well, if you haven't yet discerned that our present executive head is a "WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING' THEN YOU PROBABLY DON'T SEE 'THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL' EITHER AND YOU MIGHT AS WELL 'PREPARE YOURSELF FOR SACRIFICE' RIGHT NOW AND STOP READING THIS BLOG.
VOTE IN A STURDY AND SENSIBLE GROUP OF MEN FOR CONGRESS.
YOUNG IS NOT THE KEY WORD. SENSIBLE IS THE KEY WORD. THEY CAN BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND MOVE TO TAKE AWAY ENOUGH EXECUTIVE POWER TO KEEP A *****SENSIBLE****** BALANCE BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND THE CONGRESS AND SUPREME COURT !!!!!!!! THEREBY THWARTING IMMEDIATE FUTURE THREATS TO OUR GOVERNMENT. STOP THE EROSION OF TAKEOVER PROTECTION AT ITS SOURCE--THE OVAL OFFICE.
YOU KNOW THIS BLOGGER CAN BLAT UNTIL HER'FACE TURNS BLUE' BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT ON THE PART OF AMERICAN CITIZENS TO TURN THIS TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AROUND. CHOSE YOUR CANDIDATE WISELY, SUPPORT THEM WELL, GET THEM ELECTED AND THEN*********MAKE SURE THEY DO THE JOB BY REMINDING THEM WHAT THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO ****CONSTANTLY AND CLEARLY ********** THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!! FIGHT FOR IT AGAIN BUT THIS TIME WITH ALL THE LEGAL RESOURCES SET IN PLACE BY THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS.
LET'S ALL STOP WHINING AND GET TO WORK NOW. THE COMMIES ARE !!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
GIVE THIS PRESIDENT 'AN INCH AND HE'LL TAKE A COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
EXECUTIVE ORDERS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE BUT MOST PRESIDENTS UNTIL THIS ONE HAVE REALIZED THEY WERE ONLY SET UP FOR IMMEDIATE EMERGENCIES. THIS PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED A VAST NUMBER OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS MORE EXCEPTING YOUNG BUSH AND FDR BUT A BOATLOAD MORE THAN ALL THE REST OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS !!!!!!!!! IT IS ALARMING THE WAY HE USES OUR HISTORY TO DEFEAT US !!!!!!! OR IS IT HIS SIDEKICK VALERIE JARRETT WHO POINTS THE WAY TO "GET HIS WAY".
WHEN THIS PRESIDENT IS HELD BACK BY CONGRESS, HE WRITES AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON ANOTHER ITEM ON HIS WISH LIST. AND IF YOU READ THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, THIS CONGRESS HAS DONE A REMARKABLE JOB DESPITE THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES TO THE CONTRARY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CONGRESS HAS STOPPED HIM ON MOST MAJOR ISSUES WHILE GETTING BLAMED AND ABUSED FOR THOSE THAT THEY COULDN'T CHANGE LIKE THE HEALTH BILL.
THOSE CONGRESSMEN (MANY NOW OUT OF OFFICE) WHO VOTED FOR THE HEALTH BILL CREATED THE MAIN MONSTER THAT OBAMA COULD NOT HAVE DONE WITH EXECUTIVE ORDERS. THE LAST FEW WHO CAVED SHOULD BE UNDER INVESTIGATION. WHO KNOWS WHAT THE SWEETENER WAS ??????????
UNFORTUNATELY THIS PRESIDENT HAS THE INSTINCTS OF A DICTATOR AND DOESN'T WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT CONGRESS IS THERE TO KEEP THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE FROM BECOMING A DICTATORSHIP BUT HE IS USING EXECUTIVE ORDERS TO CREATE JUST THAT. LIKE ALL DICTATORS HE 'THINKS' HE KNOWS WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR COUNTRY AND LIKE MOST DICTATORS, HE'LL BE PROVEN WRONG.
BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT???? UNFORTUNATELY, DURING THIS PRESIDENT'S REIGN, THERE'S NOT MUCH THAT CAN BE DONE. BUT, AND THIS IS A BIG BUTT, WHEN THIS CONGRESS HAS ITS ELECTIONS, THE NEW CONGRESS CAN START A PROCESS OF CANCELLING "UNNECESSARY EXECUTIVE ORDERS" AND TAKE THIS WET PEN TOOL AWAY FROM THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND GET THE BALANCE BETWEEN THAT OFFICE AND THE CONGRESS BACK IN ALIGNMENT.
NO, IT WON'T BE EASY BUT THE PROCESS CAN START AND BE IN PLACE FOR THE NEXT DICTATOR THAT COMES OUT OF THE WOOD WORK. BECAUSE, TRUST ME, THERE WILL BE MORE, AND EVEN WORSE TIMES COULD BE AHEAD. THE COMMUNISTS DO NOT QUIT AND UNTIL THE WORLD BEGINS TO SEE THE REAL HASH THEY'VE CREATED, WE'RE GOING TO BE UNDER SIEGE BY THEM FOLLOWED BY A SIEGE BY ISLAM. TOUGH TIMES ARE AHEAD IF OUR LEGISLATORS DO NOT START FACING UP AND ACTING OFFENSIVELY RATHER THAN DEFENSIVELY. BUT BEWARE THE "REDS" IN CONGRESS WAITING QUIETLY FOR A CHANCE TO ATTACK FROM INSIDE THAT AUGUST BODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know the framers of our Constitution were farsighted and created a document that recognized that if America was strong and rich, there would be enemies looking to overturn her government and loot the treasury like in the "olden" days.
The Founding Fathers recognized that we needed a FRAMEWORK THAT COULD THWART THAT KIND OF PLUNDER !!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS THE SETUP OF THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT: THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH (THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CRONIES); THE CONGRESS (WITH TWO BRANCHES WITHIN REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AND STATE); AND THE JUDICIAL (THAT MEANT THE SUPREME COURT, THE HIGHEST IN THE LAND).
It's a great set-up and worthy of a great mind but nothing is impervious to tinkering and ultimate destruction. THE FRAMERS FIGURED THAT IF FUTURE GENERATIONS COULD NOT KEEP THE SMUGGLERS AWAY FROM THE GOLD WITH THIS KIND OF SET-UP, THEY PROBABLY DESERVED WHAT THEY GOT WHEN THEY LET THE 'WOLF IN THE DOOR'. (HEY, I LIKE EUPHEMISMS--SAVE A LOT OF WORDS)
Well, if you haven't yet discerned that our present executive head is a "WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING' THEN YOU PROBABLY DON'T SEE 'THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL' EITHER AND YOU MIGHT AS WELL 'PREPARE YOURSELF FOR SACRIFICE' RIGHT NOW AND STOP READING THIS BLOG.
VOTE IN A STURDY AND SENSIBLE GROUP OF MEN FOR CONGRESS.
YOUNG IS NOT THE KEY WORD. SENSIBLE IS THE KEY WORD. THEY CAN BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND MOVE TO TAKE AWAY ENOUGH EXECUTIVE POWER TO KEEP A *****SENSIBLE****** BALANCE BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND THE CONGRESS AND SUPREME COURT !!!!!!!! THEREBY THWARTING IMMEDIATE FUTURE THREATS TO OUR GOVERNMENT. STOP THE EROSION OF TAKEOVER PROTECTION AT ITS SOURCE--THE OVAL OFFICE.
YOU KNOW THIS BLOGGER CAN BLAT UNTIL HER'FACE TURNS BLUE' BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT ON THE PART OF AMERICAN CITIZENS TO TURN THIS TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AROUND. CHOSE YOUR CANDIDATE WISELY, SUPPORT THEM WELL, GET THEM ELECTED AND THEN*********MAKE SURE THEY DO THE JOB BY REMINDING THEM WHAT THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO ****CONSTANTLY AND CLEARLY ********** THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!! FIGHT FOR IT AGAIN BUT THIS TIME WITH ALL THE LEGAL RESOURCES SET IN PLACE BY THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS.
LET'S ALL STOP WHINING AND GET TO WORK NOW. THE COMMIES ARE !!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
2/7/14
WE'RE NOT OVER AS AMERICANS. WE'RE JUST BEGINNING! POST 1857
Hi,
A little history lesson that may clarify the movement of the technological
revolution. Evidently, history buffs have changed much of the history of both the technological revolution and the industrial revolution but the facts are still out there--just a bit harder to find.
What has happened is that the Industrial Revolution has been expanded into three parts, the last being the third part and it includes the Technological revolution that we are now experiencing.
The Second phase of the Industrial Revolution now covers most of the change from our country being an Agricultural producing nation with small farms and hand machinery to a country working with power, power machinery (mechanization) and massive transportation so that it became commercial , large farms as survivors. The seed drill and tractor were the tip of the iceberg.
The move from agricultural jobs to factory or production work was massive and at one time three point two million were out of work which led to the Great Depression of 1929 and relocation brought massive change to cities and urban areas as people moved to the available jobs. WHAT DID AMERICANS DO??????? A LOT SUFFERED BUT THE REST CLIMBED INTO THEIR CARS, MADE THE TRIP, YOU WATCH OUR DUST. WE TOOK THE EXISTING JOBS, CREATED A TREMENDOUS ECONOMY AND MOVED INTO LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!! HEY, THAT WAS US AND W PROVED OUR WORTH!!!!!!!!!!
Although this second phase is designated as 1870-1914, I believe we can see that the Great Depression of 1929 is certainly a product of the immense changes happening in the previous years.
The third phase which we are supposedly in today shows as part of its beginnings more efficient use of land, genetically engineered crops, and genetically modified organisms that were the outcrop of enlightened and expanded concern with science. Mechanical equipment became the toys. This was also the beginning of great expansion in needed technologies and medical exploration begun for two large wars and many small ones. A ride to the planets became a flagship of determination. Much of the research and expansion came at great cost and the invention of needed technological tools took off with the TV and the computer. That expansion is still going on today.
So, what does all this mean?
It means in the short term that we are part and parcel of a tremendous forward movement of the Earth's civilizations!!!!!!!!!!
AND LIKE A GIANT SNOWBALL, (APPROPRIATE WEATHER-WISE) IT KEEPS GAINING MORE MOMENTUM AND TAKING VICTIMS AS IT ROLLS.
WAS THE FIRST MASSIVE MOVEMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PAINFUL?????????? YOU BET YOUR ASS IT WAS!!!!!!!!!! BUT LIKE GROWING PAINS: ENDURED BY MANY WHO SURVIVED AND THOSE WHO FLOURISHED.
THERE'S AN OLD SAYING, "GO WITH THE FLOW," AND THOSE WHO DID CAME TO BETTER TIMES REASONABLY QUICKLY. THOSE WHO COULDN'T DO THAT TOOK THE BITTER BLOWS OF LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHEN FOLKS SAY THAT "CHANGE IS INEVITABLE"--THEY AIN'T JUST "WHISTLING DIXIE," FRIENDS. AS LIFE MOVES INEXORABLY INTO DEATH SO CHANGE MOVES INEXORABLY FORWARD.
THOSE WHO SEE THE CHANGE FOR WHAT IT IS--INEVITABLE--AND IN TURN CHANGE THEIR TRAINING OR TAKE MORE SCHOOLING OR WHATEVER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES, THE CHANGE WILL CREATE PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS.
FOR THOSE WHO IGNORE IT OR DENY ITS PROGRESS, AND STAY STATIC WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE NEW WORLD AHEAD, IT WILL BE AN EXTREMELY PAINFUL TRANSITION BECAUSE IT WILL CAUSE LOSS.
ANOTHER OLD SAYING: "TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN"!!!!!!!!!!
THINK MAYBE WE HAVE SO MANY "OLD SAWS" BECAUSE THEY CAME OUT OF JUST SUCH ADVERSITY??????????
I REALLY BELIEVE WE ARE BETTER PREPARED TO BE RETRAINED THIS TIME AROUND!!!!!!!!!!! WHY??????????
OUR TECHNOLOGY "TOYS" HAVE BEEN A REAL STEP TOWARD RETRAINING THE MAJOR POPULATION AND GENIUS AT WORK!!!!!!!!!! THINK ABOUT YOUR PHONE, YOUR COMPUTER, YOUR E-READERS, YOUR TABLETS. ALL OF THEM HAVE HELPED RETRAIN YOU TO USE TECHNOLOGY, AND HELP YOU TO WANT TO WORK WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S ALL BEEN OUT THERE SHOWING US THE WAY WE WERE GOING. THE TRAINS, THE JETS, THE TV, THE CRUISE SHIPS, THE SECURITY SYSTEMS, THE FUNNY LITTLE COOKING TOYS LIKE THE MICROWAVE. WHEREVER WE LOOKED, THE NEW TECHNOLOGY HAD BECOME PART OF OUR LIVES AND MOST OF US EMBRACED IT.
NOW, WE'VE REACHED THE POINT THAT HAS BEEN STARING US IN THE FACE. THE BIG CHANGES THAT TECHNOLOGY WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE IN OUR LIVES ARE AHEAD. YOU KNOW WE CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!! WE'VE DONE THE REST OF IT. WE CAN MAKE THE CHANGES NECESSARY TO MAKE LIFE EVEN BETTER AND FIND THE NEW PATH TO LEARNING THE SKILLS NECESSARY "TO KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER." WE CAN EMBRACE THIS NEW WORLD AND MAKE IT OUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN AMERICA ACCEPTS THE TERMS OF CHANGE, OUR GREATNESS WILL AGAIN EMERGE AND ENLARGE. WE'[RE NOT OVER AS AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE JUST BEGINNING.
SO LOOK OUT, ENEMIES OF AMERICA, WE'RE GOING TO RIDE THIS CREST OF REVOLUTION ON OUR BOOGIE BOARDS AND DUCK THE BIG SURF CRASHERS UNTIL WE ARE ON TOP OF THE WAVE AGAIN. THEN WATCH OUR RIDE BECAUSE IT WILL BE LONG AND SURE AND SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!
AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE IS HERE TO STAY!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
A little history lesson that may clarify the movement of the technological
revolution. Evidently, history buffs have changed much of the history of both the technological revolution and the industrial revolution but the facts are still out there--just a bit harder to find.
What has happened is that the Industrial Revolution has been expanded into three parts, the last being the third part and it includes the Technological revolution that we are now experiencing.
The Second phase of the Industrial Revolution now covers most of the change from our country being an Agricultural producing nation with small farms and hand machinery to a country working with power, power machinery (mechanization) and massive transportation so that it became commercial , large farms as survivors. The seed drill and tractor were the tip of the iceberg.
The move from agricultural jobs to factory or production work was massive and at one time three point two million were out of work which led to the Great Depression of 1929 and relocation brought massive change to cities and urban areas as people moved to the available jobs. WHAT DID AMERICANS DO??????? A LOT SUFFERED BUT THE REST CLIMBED INTO THEIR CARS, MADE THE TRIP, YOU WATCH OUR DUST. WE TOOK THE EXISTING JOBS, CREATED A TREMENDOUS ECONOMY AND MOVED INTO LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!! HEY, THAT WAS US AND W PROVED OUR WORTH!!!!!!!!!!
Although this second phase is designated as 1870-1914, I believe we can see that the Great Depression of 1929 is certainly a product of the immense changes happening in the previous years.
The third phase which we are supposedly in today shows as part of its beginnings more efficient use of land, genetically engineered crops, and genetically modified organisms that were the outcrop of enlightened and expanded concern with science. Mechanical equipment became the toys. This was also the beginning of great expansion in needed technologies and medical exploration begun for two large wars and many small ones. A ride to the planets became a flagship of determination. Much of the research and expansion came at great cost and the invention of needed technological tools took off with the TV and the computer. That expansion is still going on today.
So, what does all this mean?
It means in the short term that we are part and parcel of a tremendous forward movement of the Earth's civilizations!!!!!!!!!!
AND LIKE A GIANT SNOWBALL, (APPROPRIATE WEATHER-WISE) IT KEEPS GAINING MORE MOMENTUM AND TAKING VICTIMS AS IT ROLLS.
WAS THE FIRST MASSIVE MOVEMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PAINFUL?????????? YOU BET YOUR ASS IT WAS!!!!!!!!!! BUT LIKE GROWING PAINS: ENDURED BY MANY WHO SURVIVED AND THOSE WHO FLOURISHED.
THERE'S AN OLD SAYING, "GO WITH THE FLOW," AND THOSE WHO DID CAME TO BETTER TIMES REASONABLY QUICKLY. THOSE WHO COULDN'T DO THAT TOOK THE BITTER BLOWS OF LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHEN FOLKS SAY THAT "CHANGE IS INEVITABLE"--THEY AIN'T JUST "WHISTLING DIXIE," FRIENDS. AS LIFE MOVES INEXORABLY INTO DEATH SO CHANGE MOVES INEXORABLY FORWARD.
THOSE WHO SEE THE CHANGE FOR WHAT IT IS--INEVITABLE--AND IN TURN CHANGE THEIR TRAINING OR TAKE MORE SCHOOLING OR WHATEVER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES, THE CHANGE WILL CREATE PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS.
FOR THOSE WHO IGNORE IT OR DENY ITS PROGRESS, AND STAY STATIC WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE NEW WORLD AHEAD, IT WILL BE AN EXTREMELY PAINFUL TRANSITION BECAUSE IT WILL CAUSE LOSS.
ANOTHER OLD SAYING: "TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN"!!!!!!!!!!
THINK MAYBE WE HAVE SO MANY "OLD SAWS" BECAUSE THEY CAME OUT OF JUST SUCH ADVERSITY??????????
I REALLY BELIEVE WE ARE BETTER PREPARED TO BE RETRAINED THIS TIME AROUND!!!!!!!!!!! WHY??????????
OUR TECHNOLOGY "TOYS" HAVE BEEN A REAL STEP TOWARD RETRAINING THE MAJOR POPULATION AND GENIUS AT WORK!!!!!!!!!! THINK ABOUT YOUR PHONE, YOUR COMPUTER, YOUR E-READERS, YOUR TABLETS. ALL OF THEM HAVE HELPED RETRAIN YOU TO USE TECHNOLOGY, AND HELP YOU TO WANT TO WORK WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S ALL BEEN OUT THERE SHOWING US THE WAY WE WERE GOING. THE TRAINS, THE JETS, THE TV, THE CRUISE SHIPS, THE SECURITY SYSTEMS, THE FUNNY LITTLE COOKING TOYS LIKE THE MICROWAVE. WHEREVER WE LOOKED, THE NEW TECHNOLOGY HAD BECOME PART OF OUR LIVES AND MOST OF US EMBRACED IT.
NOW, WE'VE REACHED THE POINT THAT HAS BEEN STARING US IN THE FACE. THE BIG CHANGES THAT TECHNOLOGY WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE IN OUR LIVES ARE AHEAD. YOU KNOW WE CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!! WE'VE DONE THE REST OF IT. WE CAN MAKE THE CHANGES NECESSARY TO MAKE LIFE EVEN BETTER AND FIND THE NEW PATH TO LEARNING THE SKILLS NECESSARY "TO KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER." WE CAN EMBRACE THIS NEW WORLD AND MAKE IT OUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN AMERICA ACCEPTS THE TERMS OF CHANGE, OUR GREATNESS WILL AGAIN EMERGE AND ENLARGE. WE'[RE NOT OVER AS AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE JUST BEGINNING.
SO LOOK OUT, ENEMIES OF AMERICA, WE'RE GOING TO RIDE THIS CREST OF REVOLUTION ON OUR BOOGIE BOARDS AND DUCK THE BIG SURF CRASHERS UNTIL WE ARE ON TOP OF THE WAVE AGAIN. THEN WATCH OUR RIDE BECAUSE IT WILL BE LONG AND SURE AND SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!
AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE IS HERE TO STAY!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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