Why the name Ranch Chimp? it was in humour because, science says that humans have similar DNA to a chimpanzee,so I felt some way related biologically to a chimpanzee. 2nd, everytime I was out of Texas on a vacation or for whatever reason I’m always asked things like, do I live on a ranch?,or have cattle? so I commonly call Dallas the Ranch. "Politically Depressed" was also humour inspired by the 1993- 2002 Bill Maher TV/ tele show "Politically Incorrect".
This posting will serve as Part 11 of the "Black History Month" (february) series for this journal/ blog, to highlight the life of Jack Johnson (aka "The Galveston Giant"), the first black world heavyweight boxing champion. This posting in particular is for Harmon (aka "Red" to friends), who told me about Jack when I was a kid, in particular, that Jack started the venue, originally at 142nd & Lenox up in Harlem, that later became the well known "Cotton Club". As a kid, I had no idea who Jack Johnson was ... but Harmon loved telling stories about folks and events that made black history to everyone, so I learned alot from him ... just listening to Harmon run his mouth about stuff {:-) But there is more than just highlighting the life of Jack Johnson here ... this is a man who lived life to the fullest, and frankly is a perfect portrait of living the American dream, and utilizing free speech and thought, pursuing his goals ... and very importantly, opening the door for equal opportunity for those who were oppressed and denied opportunity, and especially, the many talented young athletes, who faced so many obstacles due to their skin colour or gender even, trying for the chance to compete and stand their ground and continue to fight, a man who set an example, a man who defeated the undefeated. When this man defeated the undefeated world heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries, outdoors at that, in 110 degree heat, riots broke out across America. Jack is not just a boxer ... he is an entertainer, entrepreneur and businessman, a motivational speaker, a champion of civil rights before any such movement, creative thinking, and even in his dark moments during a short prison stretch, inspired, organized and led, and even invented a wrench that he patented, you can look at him as actually "elite" for example, since we loosely use that term so much ... in a time today, where we praise and bow to worthless cowardly parasites, mistakenly calling them elites, who dont do a goddamn thing of worth, except ripping off vulnerable people in my view.
Jack earned everything he had, he didnt inherit it, a poor kid out of Galveston, Texas (Houston area) ... as a kid even working to help take care of his siblings, learning to make tough decisions at a young age, his parents were former slaves at that. He didnt ever seem to grasp the race thing much, even though he lived in a society of racial divide and extreme hatred based on such, and being black, was at the rock bottom level of this society ... he faced everything and obstacles head on, and was bold in doing such. Lived among and befriended many folks as a kid, many were white working class, didnt bother him, even dating women that were white, without feeling any shame ... because, why in Hell should he? He also received criticism in his day, from some black people, because his celebrity type lifestyle, money, the way he dressed, etc ... but he earned what he had, worked damn hard, and wanted to live the best he could, pursuing his dreams, and making the most of it. I actually thought, that President Obama would have granted this man a pardon of his conviction, so that surprised me, looking at what Jack was convicted of and how. This push for a pardon for this man, has went on for years ... even Senators, congressional representatives and many others not in government have been pushing for a President for years to pardon this man. The "Mann Act"(wikipedia) that he was convicted of, was a law made because of him and folks like him, in particular of colour/ race ... it is clear as day why he was convicted. Some say that there is rumor of how he treated women badly, where is the cases though?, show of evidence? ... and believe me, in those dayz, if there was such case, he would have been hung in a heartbeat, for just being black, and his wife or girlfriend being white at that, they would do anything they could to attack and condemn a man like him. It doesnt matter if he dated a woman that was white or black, or one that was a sex worker, or married them, or how many times he married, or how many women he dated ... and it must have been Hell on him in his time, I dated more than one woman as well, and dated black women, or whatever nationality/ race of women I wanted ... I'm white, and got criticism in the 1970's for such ... I can only imagine him in the early 1900's being black and having to go through it.
Some say that his family shouldnt even accept a pardon that has had so much controversy, and is so long past due ... and looking at the kind of man Jack was ... I figure he would tell them to take their pardon and shove it. President G.W Bush or President Obama wouldnt touch it, maybe President Trump will, it certainly wouldnt hurt if he did, and it is a bipartisan push. The way I see it though, is why in Hell should he need their approval or forgiveness? ... for what? ... what in Hell did he do wrong?, I'm a little like Jack ... for me ... fuck your approval or forgiveness ... but many look at it as needed for healing in society. Jack's life or reputation cant be tarnished the way I see it, whether he gets a pardon or not ... and if he dont, it is a clear reminder of what this country once was, and still is to a degree, despite the progress on some avenues that had been made. Enough from me, and on to some read links and video below ... the last video highlights the "fight of the century", and the 'great white hope' folks that tried to maintain their white American supremacy status, that Jack fought to change, and open the gates for equal opportunity for all.
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muhammad ali 1978 says 'jack johnson' the GREATEST ... Thanx to Robert Sevier
Trump's infrastructure plan: $40 billion in private funding already lined up ... Thanx to Fox Business
This posting will be Part 12 of the "How to Privatize America" series of this journal/ blog ... to look at some of the infrastructure talk that been getting alot of play on Capitalism Hill (Capitol Hill). I wanted to open with the above video with Norman Anderson, informal adviser for the Trump infrastructure task force, to show how hungry investors are to a deal, and been waiting with anticipation for a moment like this ... again, these folks are ready to roll at the drop of a hat ... and I would bet, that there are more informal advisers to this administration and President, than you can shake a stick at. But it's importante to slow down a minute before we all jump ... jumping too fast into this, can be more like an "art of the con" ... than an "art of the deal", that even the President himself wont have much control over ... any more than President Obama had as far as creating the ACA/ Obamacare ... a plan that was not created by Obama, and against his proposed idea and vision, for a partial public option ... the people who helped "create and draft" ObamaCare ... are the same people in the GOP/ Republican side right now at high speed, ready to condemn it and abolish it, as their No#1 priority at that, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) ... just to show an example of how fucked up politics can be when applied without thinking of nothing besides corporate interests ... and Obama's fellow key Democrats, just trashed what President Obama proposed as well. Yeah, I could come up with an even quicker way to pay for infrastructure while still giving some tax incentives to wealthy folks, I'd cut half the damn defense budget, paying that shit off in less than 5 years, by winding down our policing and asskissing for the Saudi's and Middle East, and cut a bunch of unnecessary subsidizing to overbloated corporations and banks, that dont even need it. For me, we need public funded infrastructure more, that EVERY American OWNS, not just a handful of profiteers. I chose a few pieces to highlight below out of several I read, to get to the point of questioning ... after below, I'll add a few views of my own.
First of all, what's going on in Washington with this big hot- rush Trumphrastucture gig is getting about as ridiculous as that bloody damn "Great Wall of Trump" on the southern U.S. border. Dont misread me here, I been whining about infrastructure upgrades for years, we damn sure need some, but we also need to think before we act, this is as nonsensical as the trillion dollar war to nowhere we jumped into back in 2003, the bailouts, and other overspending failures. I'm glad at least the Democrats with Schumer and Sanders jumped in right away and proposed their trillion dollar plan to ask Trump to work with them, just to create a left/ right obstacle over who's paying for it ... sure, it was political, but needed, someone needs to throw a wrench into the gears right away, or else it will be a one way street, or some grand bipartisan bargain, with faults all through it, while the majority Republicans will let all their informal advisers ONLY orchestrate this, and tell the Democrats "it's this way or no way". Infrastructure plans were even key topics and proposals in the Obama administration ... and they all opposed him on every step ... now ya'll are all for it? ... and many Republicans dont even want any of it, regardless if Trump wants it or not ... they want to know how were going to pay for it? ... no, Trump's not a politician, but he's a builder, hustler and businessman, who wants to put his name on everything. Well, if it wasnt for all you in Washington wasting money for years on both sides, we would have already done and paid for all we been in need of, so dont highside now about, what you're gonna do, when you havent done a goddamn thing to begin with in the past except drain our budget for your special interests ... then tried to blame that shit on food stamps or whatever. But what I see happening here with this new infrastructure plan, frankly, I hope it runs into every obstacle in the book, despite how bad we need infrastructure upgrades. All I see here is another spending rush of desperation with too much politics and too many people hungry to get what they can get ... like a bunch of sweating dope fiends in a dry area waiting for a fix/ bump, and will settle for watered down dope, stepped on 10x times. Another thing we need to be cautious of, is with the extended deregulation coming, added to the deregulation from every administration left and right since Ronald Reagan, we will be very vulnerable to another major financial crisis, whether it come from the banking, mortgage, insurance, defense/ corporate manufactured war, technology, or energies sectors ... Americans will get tagged with the bill of losses, due to the legislation already in place before the Trump administration, forcing us the American taxpayers to bail out those at fault, and driving us into way more debt even.
Robert Reich: Trump's infrastructure scam ... Thanx to MoveOn
Whether a scam is intentional on President Trump's part or not, isnt the issue here, it will end up a scam looking at what we have going into this ... because everyone else on the playing field out of extreme greed, and will shut Trump out if they have to. Yeah, it will create jobs, and probably a good majority of minimal wage contracting jobs too ... which we have plenty of those jobs now being created as it is, despite increases in recent jobless claims. I dont feel, regardless of how long this planning been in the worx, we are at the right time and place to rush through an infrastructure plan like this, using this way proposed to pay for it ... nor do I feel because of political and social desperation, that we have a level headed Washington politics to jump into this, without screwing the American people out of something again. I also dont feel like there is a one way approach to this, or think that simply taxing the shit out of the rich will pay for it, without outright robbing them, the same way many of them rob us ... and you know that aint gonna happen while they control a large portion of our legislation as it is. This damn border wall, that been priority is another big waste of money, and stupid to think that Mexico cant wait to please us and pay us back for it ... that's about as dumb as asking them to pay for our Medicare programme ... what does it have to do with them and their interests? ... are they asking for a damn wall? ... it's our move, they didnt ask for it. Even more stupidity and hypocrisy, is having to hear Washington politicians from Trump on down and their wealthy constituents bitch about border security and stopping illegal immigration flow (and this wall wont stop it), they made a fortune off illegal and legal immigration, whether it's for your privatized detention centers, your share holders, or your businesses ... many of these corporate establishment politicians in Washington, never even go to the border, live there, or anything related, what in Hell would you know about wetbacks/ border jumpers using your property as a hangover squat stop for rest, or degrading your property in the process? Besides, all ya'll's buddies, when doing this infrastructure boom, will be contracting to 3rd parties to cut costs, and paying bonuses to them that will be using these immigrants for work.
This grand infrastructure plan as is, is more like a grand illusion ... some folks are comparing this to what President Eisenhower done a half century ago (Federal Highway Administration) ... this is NOT the economic climate of a half century ago, and damn sure is not like Ike. Slowly over the last few decades we been losing our country piece by piece, not just our rights, at the rate were going, it will be pointless to even invest in a damn house in the near future, we dont even own as much as we think now. This is nothing but more privatization, and this time for critical infrastructure ... it's bad enough damn near every major sports and entertainment facility coast to coast has some sorry ass name on it, like "Quicken Loans", "AT&T", "Staples", "Bank of America", "NRG", etc ... a damn NFL football team these dayz cant even kick a damn field goal hardly, without the radio sports announcer yelling something like "... it's GOOD!!, a 53 yard CitiGroup field goal!! ... ". Look around your local towns, the increase in things like toll roads all over America ... back in the past, when a toll road paid itself off with tolls, it went to a freeway, like the old DFW Turnpike here in the Metroplex (I-30, now the Landry Freeway) ... these public/ private partnerships, you will never get paid off, the investments will turn it off the minute their profits decline, or not invest in what doesnt look worthy to them, whether it's needed or not, nor will they want to keep up with maintenance ... and will only try to soak more local/ state and federal revenues whenever they feel a pinch, their goal is to make a profit, not to serve the public. What's next? ... libraries?, Post Office? (lord knows they want that as much as Social Security) ... what is left for the majority of citizens/ public? ... what kind of damn partnership is that? ... that's not a business partnership, that's a fools partnership. Folks like Trump or politicians that say they want to cut taxes ... for who? ... do you think were gonna get any cuts, when we have to constantly subsidize them? What about all the interstate highway repairs that need to get done, or roads and water worx across American towns and cities, large and medium size? ... projects that are not priority to these investors or their pre- paid politicians.
The priority private infrastructure investments for most of these entities in this era of neoliberalism ... (still a democracy by Constitutional law, and in the hearts/ minds of 10's of millions, but, much overshadowed, from being invaded by corporate communism and neoliberalism), the focus is in large metro areas, to also use eminent domain and gentrification where needed, to where they can only make a buck with sky high real estate and costs of living off the "new" middle classes, keeping them in the central part of the cities instead of their previous suburban environments ... and moving out working classes, because of real estate increases, to the suburbs or rural areas, making the suburbs and rural areas, the new poverty areas of the future, while milking money from the new middle classes in the urban areas of software engineers, IT specialists, Wall Street crowd, or whoever with enough to get milked for. Do you Trump supporters in small city middle America think that these investors want to do any damn thing for your areas? ... well, you can wait and hope, but from what I see now, dont look like it much ... if it wasnt for the taxpayers and federal government, that ya'll hate, you'd still be using dirt roads in some of your towns as major thoroughfares. Look, in all fairness, I'll give President Trump the benefit of the doubt on his intentions for change or whatever, but, regardless of what his intentions are, if he gives a green light for folks in Washington and Wall Street to take advantage of, they damn sure will, especially the crew he been choosing for key positions, and they will not give a shit in how they have to do it. Jumping head on into this out of desperation will alwayz backfire on you someway ... in time ... so it may look good now, but, may bring us more misery in the future without careful review. Look at China as an example, they invested (their government at that) so much in infrastructure, much past due, and really the top of the line, looks absolutely great too what they done, but look how many bridges to nowhere they have now, or how many vacant areas of new real estate that didnt sell too. From milking our tax money, to pushing austerity, to ripping off homeowners, and you name it, this has been in the worx for years, as I point out all through these series on related issues, to make us more desperate and depending on them in the major corporate/ banking world to save us from the damages they contributed to creating. Taking your time on some things this critical is better ... desperation can burn you ... and I hope that the bitching breaks out across America on how this is being orchestrated and planned.
This posting will serve 3 series of this journal/ blog ... "RT/ Russia Today", "Abby Martin" & "American Exceptionalism" ... the "American Exceptionalism" series will simply be a new series name to replace "America's Stupidity", to of course be more fashionable and politically correct ... after all, America's stupidity and paranoia is somewhat exceptional, is it not?, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) Actually, 2017 seems already like it will be more fun and hilarious to me than I first anticipated, full of a new batch of surprises and treats to get handed to us by our corporate political tyrants who represent our interests ... such as the other night, when they were filling us with "Tweety Bird" (Trump) tweets via media, and new Russian bear scare talk about "Poo- Poo" (Putin), to scare and entertain Americans while drinking their favourite fake beer (near beer), or viewing favourite tele series, playing video games, etc ... They were in late night sessions on Capitalism Hill (Capitol Hill) screwing us on a number of health care issues, such as eliminating the chance that we can get better prescription drug prices or choices, of course, a bipartisan effort. You can certainly bet these dayz, that whenever they are filling us full of corporate/ political manufactured fake news to enhance our paranoia, blues and mental prison miseries ... their other hand is in our pockets, screwing us out of something. It appears that 2017 will be the "year of the bear" (bear being a symbol of Russia) as far as scare tactics ... and of course they still have the ISIS scare going on as a back up ... either way you go, someone's gonna get us, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) ... While these folks in Washington chop away at our liberties, choices, money, social and public services, and whatever else they can get their paws on, all of which we work and pay for ourselves, and get us even more scared to conform to their neoliberal and puritanical utopian fantasies ... and of course our new saviours will be corporations/ banks, to get us past all the evil of the world, etc. Russia is accused of manipulating our election, hacking the DNC, etc ... if America's political parties werent so damn manipulative and corrupt, or just even halfway honest on anything, we wouldnt have a damn thing to worry about, eh?
There is also plenty of scare that "Tweety Bird" (Trump) will bring us into a new war that will be bigger and better than ever ... sending out intercontinental nuclear missiles around the world, and I reckon ole "Poo- Poo" (Putin) will send some our way, and we will all be killed, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) maybe North Korea will jump in, eh? ... maybe ISIS or affiliated homies? ... maybe they'll target what many despise most ... the Pentagon, Washington (Capitalism Hill), and Wall Street ... I mean, if you're gonna clean up shit, you may as well start in the cesspool {:-) ... who knows? But the idea that "Tweety Bird" or "Poo-Poo" would set off a nuclear apocalypse is unlikely the way I see it ... 2 billionaires with big power wanting to destroy all they have? ... uhhh ... I dont think so {:-) ... I doubt either think they will go to Heaven and get a reward, or care to be martyrs ... their Heaven is right here on Earth. Not even corporations who love conventional wars and make billions off it, would want nuclear war, all these folks make a shitload of money and have power because of our existence ... wipe out that many folks at once and disrupt their financial casino playgrounds? ... uhhh ... I dont think so {:-) But, there are still many Americans that love getting the shit scared out of them, whether it's in the movies or media ... and the thought of doom and gloom is exciting to them ... so, it's all in good fun I guess. This cleverly orchestrated new scare is just the same ole shit in new packaging is all, to buy some more time to distract and fuck us out of something. What Americans should really be doing, is not worrying about this nonsense with Russia or other foreign crap, but getting out here ourselves in our own streets and at the voting polls, and raising Hell against this corporate/ banking American vermin that is destroying us from within our own country. As far as all this fake news and propaganda talk we get about Russia or RT ... what the Hell do you think we get and do in our own country? ... meddling in elections? ... what do you think that America been doing for decades? ... the bloody fucken hypocrisy of America is enormous ... and runs second to none on a global level. In America ... any NON- CORPORATE NEWS today, is "fake news" we are told. I like RT News, and other alternative media myself ... freedom of the press, eh? More below of this hysteria from folks at RT, as well as Abby Martin, who I alwayz love to hear her input/ views.
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RT programming interrupts C- SPAN for 10 minutes, everyone freaks out ... Thanx to RT America
***** "AMERICA'S STUPIDITY" PART'S 4 THRU 1 .... "America's Stupidity" is the former name of this series, which will be updated and now called "American Exceptionalism"
This posting will serve as Part 10 of the "Defensive Driving Course?" series of this journal/ blog ... to take a look at how folks in Dallas (and I assume some other towns), try not getting caught in a traffic jam from a wreck or whatever on a freeway ... in this case, they blamed it on the cops, but some of these folks do this if there are cops or not. I wanted to post this, because I see folks all across Dallas- Fort Worth, that just cant stand getting in a traffic jam ... folks will do anything to just get off the freeway, they will drive down grassy hills, embankments, drive over medians and curbs, or sidewalks ... some with cars that are low to the ground, unlike a pick- up, SUV, 4x4, will even chance damaging their alignment, etc. I have experienced cars driving off freeways on various freeways across the Metroplex though, when back ups occur. This particular one was over in my part of town, North Dallas by N.E. (I live about 8 miles west on this freeway N.W.), about 15 miles or so north from downtown on LBJ Frwy ... geeezz, what's wrong with ya'll ... this one is crazy, and makes me think it's some kind of "all way" drive, going north, east, south, and west, even though it was supposed to be eastbound LBJ ... or them damn roundabouts like they have in London, which seemed twisted to me as an American {:-) You know though, we should feel blessed here in Dallas, because I've drove some of the biggest and worst freewayz coast to coast over the years, in Dallas- Fort Worth, we really have an abundant, up to date, and fairly good flowing freeway system here ... which spoils us, and traffic usually moves quick. Sure, it's common to get pissed or want to get out of a jam, but that's life ... play with your phone, many are on their damn phones when they're driving anywayz, listen to some tunes, or just bitch like I do and get it over with.
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Driver Mayhem On Interstate 635 LBJ In Dallas << CBS Dallas Fort Worth ... Thanx to Accidents
Corporatist Dems Vote AGAINST Bernie's Cheap Prescription Drug Amendment ... Thanx to The Ring of Fire
This posting will serve as Part 7 of the "Pharmaceutical Cash Cows" series of this journal/ blog ... which I wanted to record in here, because of the lack of atencion this is getting in Democrat media, and I opened at top with the video from Farron Cousins, because it is straight up (yes, Farron IS a Democrat ... a real one though). It is very importante in these times, if you are a supporter of Democrats, to bring this into the light, not try to hide and shy away from it out of fear, or for whatever reason. The only damn thing mostly I hear in the daily news, is what "Tweety Bird" (Donald Trump) tweeted, or fellow Democrat media and supporters talking about how evil he is, etc. The Democratic Party has been losing their asses big time all over the country, besides in a handful of blue metro havens, so you end up with no strong enough party/ presence to counter GOP policies/ moves. You need to TALK about this, question EVERYTHING, apply pressure to your representation, and work on it, if you want to try to rebuild a party that Americans will strongly embrace and put their faith back in, and at least have some leverage against this neoliberalism and the GOP agenda ... otherwise, all you will be able to do is kiss more ass and give in to whatever the corporations/ banks and GOP demands through some "grand bargain" garbage. Geeezz ... I dont know what in Hell it takes to wake some of these folks up? ... it's bad enough taking 12"inches up your ass, what do you need to wake up and address the problems in the party and really make changes ... a grenade up your ass? As a Democratic supporter/ voter myself, it's shameful and embarrassing at this amount of cowardice, and is exactly why these corporations and the GOP take advantage of you, your fears, and generosity. Pharma companies are doing what they are ONLY ALLOWED to do ... this came so close to passing, those 13 Democratic votes against it, basically buried it ... we could have been on the way to better prescription costs in this country! Most of these politicians on BOTH sides, run their damn mouths endlessly about how they want to give you "choice", such as in the insurance market, "shop around", be global in trade, or related corporate sponsored related political sales pitch nonsense ... yet are responsible for restricting you from all they say they want for you to be able to do ... what does that tell you, eh?
This is a lousy way to start off 2017 on the Democrats part too ... you already lost, and have nothing to lose ... as far as the corporate money from pharma is concerned, some who also got money from them voted "for it", even a number of Republicans voted "for it" ... and mostly all Americans want it. This bill, which democrats argue later, after they got made, that this was a "resolution", not a "bill"? Sen.Cory Booker opposed it, because he said it lacked safety and quality wording. Sen.Cory Booker is also one of the top senators for getting pharma money (maplight.org) ... does that kind of money sway votes? ... you decide. But, the bottom line is, if they would have voted for it, it may become a law, eh? ... politicians are really clever how they twist shit. It was a very importante bill/ resolution/ rule too, yet no coverage in mainstream media either, a bill that people on both sides have been asking for, for years! Being able to negotiate better prices on whatever consumers need is pro- capitalism, pro- business and free market even ... those who cant meet the demands of the consumers, go under and liquidate, etc ... even the most staunch pro capitalism conservative would agree to that. Politically speaking campaign- wise, it's already been proven, that with public support and campaign financing alone, you can be a winner in politics ... just look at what Bernie Sanders done as an example. The sooner these things and flaws within the Democratic Party get addressed, the sooner you can get on to rebuilding and being prepared for the 2018 and 2020 elections, and come out swinging this time .... dont just go along with the GOP, let them nail their own coffin shut, and you will come out ahead. Basically, what this would look like to the average hustler, is a con- job, where you have a ruling corporate sector, that owns a majority of both parties, who play these back and forth taking turns flip- flopping, good/ evil games year after year, to keep these 2 parties and their supporters/ voters, at war with each other in an unending battle, as they chip away your rights, liberties, and rob us ... and it's just a matter of time, before most Americans will think this, unless there is actual action trying to stop this. With these kinds of moves/ actions, you wont be able to hide it in todayz diversified media, and this time, you wont be able to blame these things on the "Russians" ... you will have to come up with some new twisted scapegoat bullshit ... which you may as well just say "Racist Transsexuals from Mars" are the blame next time ... because it's only a matter of time, before all your support views you as having not an ounce of credibility or backbone and leadership qualities. More below from "Common Dreams" on this, and Thanx to them as well as Bernie Sanders.
This posting will serve as Part 46 of the "Global War'n'ing" series of this journal/ blog, to hear out Dr. Patrick Moore, who is a self labeled "sensible environmentalist" and co- founder of Greenpeace, who has left Greenpeace, and explains today ... why we should be celebrating carbon dioxide. I wanted to highlight Dr.Moore in this series though, because much of what he sayz makes sense, and to be fair as well to folks like Moore, and this debate over global warming, and whether it is caused by humans, a debate I wont engage much in with most folks I've talked to that deny it, but write plenty about my views on the subject obviously in this series. Folks like myself that talk over and over about ditching fossil fuels and investing much more in renewable energy, are often looked at as left- wing nuts, that want to drive oil companies out of business, and increase poverty by doing such, with no consideration for jobs and the growing demand for energy. I'm not against oil companies (just some of the practices), and realize the importance of oil, coal, natural gas, etc in these times ... from what I read, Moore has ties to things like nuclear and geothermal as his thing ... I'm not a scientist like Moore, but believe that there is a big future in renewable energies, and other things to come through science and technology, that are not even known yet, that will make the use of fossil fuel extraction and burning old history, and frowned upon by even mega investors in the future. I also believe that we are naturally getting warmer, since the Earth has a long history of these warming and cooling trends, and even when certain species may become extinct that cannot adapt to such, new species replace those that die off. At the same time, science and common sense tell me that because of our actions, we accelerate this warming we currently have, and I think we as a species have done plenty of damage to the Earth as it is ... carbon dioxide for life on Earth is one thing, polluting all the land, waters and air is another. I dont think we are going to reverse the massive damage we have already done by going totally green tomorrow, and dont have time to debate for decades now, who's right or wrong ... whatever we done, we done, it's over, and time to change our filthy ways ... there are other wayz to improve the economy, energy, and create wealth, without tearing up and polluting everything we touch. This "Celebrate CO2" thing is another corporate marketing gimmick, the same as calling coal use as "Clean Coal", or in past, changing "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" talk, or "Public/ Private Partnership" gimmicks, all cleverly worded, designed and sugar coated to sell you the acceptance of their monopolies/ empires and limited and stringent ideas.
What Dr.Moore sayz below is enough to make every fossil fuel provider and investor go hogwild, especially with this new White House crowd and administration we have coming into office this month, with an unbalanced representation of interests, basically of a handful of millionaire/ billionaire hustlers that are thinking of the quick buck ($$) instead of the future, not caring a damn thing about things like carbon footprints, as much as they care about bootlicking a handful of these corporations ... they are so excited ... like a bunch of heroin addicts that just found a few pounds of heroin, and in a rush to tear up everything they can, as well as any regulations that keeps them in line, and keeps our existing life halfway safe. Listening to Moore, or a number of oil company rent- a- scientists, will make these fossil fuel giants and investors think, that they are some new kind of environmentalists, humanitarians, and greenery machines, as long as they keep pumping as much carbon dioxide into the air as possible, they will be saving the planet ... their new pop- culture slogan is "celebrate CO2 --- is a celebration of life"! The fracking, extraction and the rest are already on steroids as it is, and is only getting worse, even without this new Washington, the old Washington alone done enough to grow and feed this frenzy fuel race, as well as other corporate controlled governments and politics of the globe. There is accident after accident, whether it is offshore or onshore, because of the lack of regulatory oversight and accountability as it is, which causes a slippery slope of damages, and we sure as Hell dont need more deregulation ... again, regulation is pro- business, it helps all interests and business in the long run and reduces accidents and/ or intentional neglect and negative results of such. It's understandable that we need very large energy providers, to meet the demands of hundreds of millions of people on various continents ... I mean, it is more easy to have some control over what they are doing as well ... but there is also no need to have just a handful controlling everything. What folks like I say, is not extreme, or going to put oil companies out of business, but diversify supply, demand and business more, and competitive thinking is healthy for business ... cleaning up things is pro- business, and keeps business "in business" ... where in Hell would we be if we never made gasoline unleaded? ... where would we be without waste and dumping regulations and oversight? They want to destroy the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)? ... that's the same as destroying business and yourselves ... protections of the environment, protects your investments as well, eh? Enough from me, and more below with a 20 page PDF read link and a 20 minute video from Dr.Moore.
This posting will serve as Part 19 of the "Above & Below" series of this journal/ blog ... I wanted to have this in here, after viewing so many pieces of photography/ film that was put together from a picture perfect place in space, just beautiful work from these folks at NASA and the ISS, and personal work from astronaut Jeff Williams, far enough above to get an overall view of our planet, but low enough to catch all the awesome details. The view from up there seems so tranquil, and doesnt even make me remotely think of all that is down here, and our lives, cities, and the activities of people, and shows just how huge this planet really is, yet just a tiny speck in such a vast universe, that has made it possible for the evolution of life and us ... which explains why we should show appreciation for it as well. These pieces of photgraphy/ film will also be included in the "RCJ Music/ Arts Honour Roll Society" as well, and Thanx to all at NASA ... Enjoy!
Top 16 Earth Images of 2016 ... Thanx to NASA Johnson
