The clowns seem to have replaced the cowboys in this rodeo. Bring on the light bulb czar………
Aiming to keep the focus on climate change legislation, President Barack Obama put a plug in for administration efforts to make lamps and lighting equipment use less energy.
“I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses,” the president said, standing alongside Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the White House.
“Imagine you are on the Titanic, and the ship is sinking after sideswiping an iceberg. Does it matter if you need a haircut? Should you be worrying about your investments? Under life-and-death circumstances, only life seems to matter. The trivia that clogs our existence is swept away by the sudden realization of what is actually at stake. In this sense, true philosophy is found on the deck of the Titanic. It leads us to discover what really matters; that is to say, why most things actually do not matter.”
We all have hopes and dreams. And then there is reality, which demands our attention and our respect. America has been living in a dream world for almost twenty years, somehow managing to evade reality – social, economic and international. The process of economic unraveling is our pecuniary punishment for evading reality. Destructive war has been, and will be again, our national punishment.
On May 25th North Korea detonated a nuclear device. “I don’t believe that anybody in the administration thinks that there is a crisis,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. While the entire world sees a crisis, while North Korea threatens to re-ignite the Korean War, President Obama and Secretary Gates fall back on hopes and dreams. The President hopes that China will discipline its errant North Korean child. The situation will be contained. No need to worry. The Secretary of Defense talks of quarantine measures against North Korea. Everything will be handled quietly, through diplomacy – as before.
In response to this non-crisis on the Korean peninsula, South Korea has joined with the U.S. in something called the “Proliferation Security Initiative.” It involves an effort to intercept ships carrying weapons of mass destruction from North Korea to points unlisted. The North Korean government, in response, warned that any effort to search North Korean ships would lead directly to war. In fact, the North Koreans have placed a question-mark upon the 1953 armistices that ended the Korean War. “I don’t believe that anybody in the administration thinks that there is a crisis,” said U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. This is the same Robert Gates who publicly warned that unless the United States repairs its nuclear weapons infrastructure the U.S. nuclear deterrent could become “unreliable” by the end of this year.
My good friend Big Mac stopped in for a visit and we decided it was time to post this home grown video on YouTube. It’s something that was put together on VHS along time ago and then added to the Hot Iron Skillet archives at IOR with their permission. I’ll try to get some other stuff posted as time allows.
Anyhow, poking fun at the Meth-Heads was just part of the job I guess.
The music was the real story. More on that later.
Update: I’ve started uploading some of the music pics to Flickr at this link: Twisted Stickster
Update: I uploaded a different version to my account at youtube HERE
Coordinates being taken for every residence in nation!
“Why does the Obama administration need or want the latitude and longitude coordinates for every home in America? Why the rush to GPS paint
every home in the next 90 days? Why must the marker be within 40 feet of every front door? For what possible purpose does the Fed need GPS coordinates for every home, and under what authority do they have the right? Census workers, whom I asked, had the same holy-crap look on their faces that I had by then,”
Exodus returned to Hawaii from Afghanistan recently and then made a sojourn through Italy and Greece before returning stateside for a visit. It was a well deserved vacation on his part and another leg in his long journey home.
I’ll try to get some of his 3000 + pictures uploaded in a later post to bring it all into focus for ya.
Nice job my son, welcome home!
I guess the real question is how does this compare to the Obama System and the USA.
History is not something to be taken lightly folks. Words mean something alright, but it’s the action and reaction that really count.The physics never change, only the deceptions……….
I did this using a computer and a MIDI interface to trigger an Alesis D-4 16 bit drum module, then overlaid the guitar tracks on a Yamaha 4 track MD recorder. The bass line was a triggered Technics keyboard that Exodus (a long story) provided.
I like to refer to my MIDI drummer as the “electric monkey”. You can’t do it without one in real time if they don’t show up when you need one in the first place. So there you go. INeed2 is the file name. The Lyrics are HERE
Ya I know, I must have had way to much free time on my hands at some point in history. And yes, I have given up on trying to sing. But that’s a whole different story, and best left for another day.
Well the games up now and I guess as a Veteran-American I might as well accept the fact that I can no longer represent my country without being labeled as some sort of right wing kook clinging to God and my guns.
That’s bunk! I have faith for a reason and not as an excuse!
I call BS on the talking heads in your TV set spouting that kind of BS. Extreme? Ya right, but at least I’ve got something better to do with my time and it has nothing to do with a TV set.
[snip] Patriots is a novel about a socioeconomic collapse in the near future. It was described by one reviewer as a “survival manual fairly neatly dressed as fiction.” There are so many useful details included that most people find themselves taking notes as they read it.
A lot of common sense mixed with a real time scenario if we’re not careful. It’s not the matter of the state that counts, it’s the state of the matter in my opinion.
UPDATE:
Here’s a couple of followups you might want to check out:
So there you have it folks, evidently there is a difference between illusion and reality.
Creative Visualization 101
Self-help books have become popular in America. These books pose numerous questions. One such question asks, “Where do you want to be in three years, five years, or ten years?” The question immediately fixates on two things: (1) What you want (2) according to a timetable. Anything is possible. You can be whatever you want and do whatever you want. There is a problem with this approach to life, however. “Where do you want to be in ninety years?” Answer honestly, and everything comes into sharper focus.
How does a self-help guru deal with the most fundamental human limitation of all? Perhaps he would respond with something akin to the idea, “Whoever dies with the most toys wins.” This would be rephrased as, “Whoever dies having achieved the most goals wins.” The goals might be anything. Perhaps you’d like to be dictator, occupy the Rhineland, take Austria, break up Czechoslovakia, overrun Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, etc.
A good friend of mine lost his life in a freak accident involving car vs man on a roadway here in the old “oil patch” today. He’d stopped to retrieve something on the road and got hit by an incompetent fool on “meth” who hadn’t slept in a few days. It was on flat ground with good visibility and would never have happened if not for that. God rest your soul Larry Evans. Some things never change……………..
Update: Somebody welded up a flat iron cross and planted it on the corner with “we miss you L Evans” welded on it and a Cubs hat attached to one of the arms. I’ll be hanging an old horseshoe on the other one tomorrow.
Long story short. Exodus finished his tour in Afghanistan doing some IT work for the military. He’ll be joining us stateside in May, and then return to Hawaii and fix computers while enjoying the weather there for awhile. And the Exodus continues……
Nice job
Update 03-19-09:
His reflections on the trip through Kuwait and other stops along the way are quite interesting to say the least. Let’s just say civilian contractors aren’t exempt from the red tape involved when dealing with the military.
Update 03-28-09:
The plan is in place: Exodus is taking a well earned vacation to Greece and Italy (OVERKILL) before he stops by for a three week visit in May .
Some small farms and organic food growers could be placed under direct supervision of the federal government under new legislation making its way through Congress.
Food Safety Modernization Act
House Resolution 875, or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., in February. DeLauro’s husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto – the world’s leading producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seed.
DeLauro’s act has 39 co-sponsors and was referred to the House Agriculture Committee on Feb. 4. It calls for the creation of a Food Safety Administration
to allow the government to regulate food production at all levels – and even mandates property seizure, fines of up to $1 million per offense and criminal prosecution for producers, manufacturers and distributors who fail to comply with regulations.
Michael Olson, host of the Food Chain radio show and author of “Metro Farm,” told WND the government should focus on regulating food production in countries such as China and Mexico rather than burdening small and organic farmers in the U.S. with overreaching regulations.
“We need somebody to watch over us when we’re eating food that comes from thousands and thousands of miles away. We need some help there,” he said. “But when food comes from our neighbors or from farmers who we know, we don’t need all of those rules. If your neighbor sells you something that is bad and you get sick, you are going to get your hands on that farmer, and that will be the end of it. It regulates itself.”
June 29th, 2009 by 
Exspider
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