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The Top Ten Movies of the 1960s

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1. Thunderball 1965– Perhaps the best James Bond Movie of the 60s. I could go on to say that we could fill all ten slots with Bond movies but so I just picked one to represent the genre. The other Bond Movie, which could have been in this spot would have been “Goldfinger”. Many die hard Bond fans claim Sean Connery is the one and only true James Bond agent 007.

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2. Planet of the Apes – This was the original POA starring Charlton Heston. Not only was it the highest rated movie of the 60s, but it brought in 26 Million at the U.S. box office. The story of Re-evolution where man time travels forward into time only to find that Apes are at the top of the food chain while humans are still subspecies has been done three times now. (To the best of my knowledge) The original has yet to be outdone. Perhaps the novelty of Apes being in charge only works once.

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3. Bonnie and Clyde 1967 – This was one of the first movies that I watched more than twice. In the 60s, the counter culture was making its’ mark in Hollywood. Bad was good and Good was boring and “Not Cool”, so we will find a few anti-establishment movies on this list. The first of them is a story about Bonnie and Clyde Barrows. The two were real bank robbers that used a B.A.R. military weapon to shoot it out with the police. It was no contest.

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The Browning Automatic Rifle was used in WWII to save the squad’s ass when they were “Pinned down”. The 20 round magazine could not only go through a car fender, but it could go through the engine as well. After this movie came out, every kid in junior high use to recreate the final scene. I’ll not spoil the ending for you, however it is the best part of the movie. This put Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway on the A list of Actors in Hollywood.

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4. 2001 A Space Odyssey 1968 – Where’s my Jet Pack Damn It? It’s funny how much of the technology has come to fruition in this Sci-Fi movie about the future. This movie was written by Stanley Kubrick about life 34 years in the future. But the movie is more about “Theosophy” than it is “Technology”. It’s about aliens, but not as we expected. There are no little green men and the ending has spawned endless college essays. One interesting bit of trivia is that the computer used in the movie is named HAL. (The letters that precede IBM)

Elvis    Elvis FTD

 

5. Follow that Dream 1962 – also include, Blue Hawaii, Roustabout, Viva Las Vegas, Kissing Cousins, Fun in Acapulco, Kid Gallahad, It happened at the world’s fair, The 68 Comeback Special and 24 other Elvis Movies that the King did in the 60s. While Elvis was trying to merge his music career with crappy movies, the Music Charts would be dominated by the group that is next on the list.

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6. A Hard Day’s Night 1964 – This was a stupid movie that introduced the Beatles to the World. There’s no real plot. It’s more of a fictional documentary of what it was like being a Beatle amidst “Beatlemania”. As with Elvis, you can add the movie “Help” (In Color) to this list as well as “Yellow Submarine”. I happen to think A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles’ best album. (With all due respect to the White Album and Let it be) In fairness, The Dave Clark Five had a movie released in the 60s called “Have a wild weekend” but you would have never known had I not just told you.

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7. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane 1962 – I only have one comment: “Betty Davis scared the fuck out of me”.

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8. *All of the 60s counter culture classics – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Guess who’s coming to dinner, To kill a Mocking Bird, Easy Rider, To Sir with Love, Midnight Cowboy, etc…. Towards the end of the 60s, we started getting movies that made us root for the bad guys. After all, bad guys are cool right? Just look at the White house.

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9. The Longest Day 1962 – Simply the ultimate movie about WWII. You need patients and lots of time to watch it. It has a star studded cast that starts with John Wayne. I could fill a whole page with A list actors in this Movie.

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10. The Graduate 1967 – The movie that made Dustin Hoffman a household word as in: “Mrs. Robinson you’re seducing me”. This movie was filmed in Berkeley CA during the midst of the summer of Love as well as the People’s park riots. One great blooper is a shot of Hoffman racing in his MG to Berkeley on the top deck of the Bay Bridge. Sorry, that takes you to the San Francisco Peninsula. Berkeley is the other way. The movie was spoofed three times. Once in the 80s in Greg Kihn’s video “Jeopardy”, again in Weird Al’s video “I lost at Jeopardy” (Greg Kihn drives the MG in Weird Al’s video at the end) then finally, in the 90s at the end of “Wayne’s World” II

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Notable Mentions. I would put all of the Disney Hits that dominated the box office. I believe the top grossing film in the 60s was “The Sound of Music”. The list of Disney movies out numbers the list of Elvis movies.

Producers    The Producers

Best Sleeper of the 60s – The Producers 1967 produced by Mel Brooks starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. Best part of the Movie: “Springtime for Hitler and Germany”.

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CM Best Cult Movie – Without a doubt, the best Cult movie of the 60s was “The Batman Movie”. It’s a timeless classis with a star studded cast that includes the TV cast.

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Personal Favorite – The Blue Max 1966 – This was the first movie that I watched 3 times in one day. It’s a WWI movie with bi-planes and Ursula Andress’ breasts. I was just entering puberty when I saw this movie and fell in love with it. The movie features George Peppard and James Mason.  It also stars the beautiful Ms. Ursula Andress.

The Successful Narrow minded

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The Successful Narrow Minded

 I recall the first time I was called a true Renaissance man.  I had no Idea if I had just been insulted or complimented.  The person I was talking to was quite successful so I figured since it was just him, his wife and myself, it was probably the latter.  I was saying to myself: “Isn’t a Renaissance man the guy that use to fly over the enemy territory and report the location of the enemy troops?

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No that would be a Reconnaissance Man.  The fact that I knew what a reconnaissance man was should have given me some indication of what a Renaissance man was.  I think my father used a simpler version when he would call me a “Jack of all trades and a master of none”.   That was usually followed up with the question: “What are you going to do with your life”?  50 years later; I’m still asking myself that question.

I wish had I a real passion and was focused.  But we live in a society where, as Greg Gutfeld says: “You can order anything”.  The age of the Renaissance man seems to have come and gone. (A person who has done it all).  This is no shit.  I can speak 5 languages. (3.5 fluently) I’ve taken out a woman’s ovary (endoscopically) in surgery and I’ve changed two engines and 3 transmissions.

I’ve also recorded 4 albums.  Three of them were released on Urban Camo records.

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But this story is about narrow minded success.  If you ask anyone in almost any Industry how to be successful, they’ll say: “Find what you enjoy and become an authority on the subject.  Hell, you can be known as the world’s authority on the best ways to attach erasers to wooden pencils.

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But how fucking pathetic is that?  Narrow minded success has a fancy name; it’s called branding.  I’ll give an example.  Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy and Johnny fell in love with Iggy Pop’s music.  They went into the garage and made history.  With the exception of blues music, you would be hard pressed to find anything narrower in musical existence.  But when someone says: “Name a Punk Band” 9 times out of ten times, someone will say: “The Ramones” or even “Los Ramones”.

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In the entertainment industry they have a name for that, it’s called: “A Handle”.  It’s so impossible for a Renaissance man to be successful because he or she is never content doing the same fucking thing over and over.  This is why I have so much appreciation for the Band Queen.  What genre do you put them under?  Freddie ended up doing Opera, yet this band gained its’ following playing punk and rockabilly.  In the DVD Queen live at Wembley, the band goes from a rockabilly medley playing Ricky Nelson and Little Richard covers to playing “Bohemian Rhapsody”.  The eclectic shift brought tears to my eyes when I first saw it.  And a band that can go from Tutti Frutti to Bohemian Rhapsody is incredible. (To me)

Foreve2r Fred and Brin FreddiePower

I have three commercial albums.  The first was a Blues/pop album designed to showcase my guitar prowess.  The second was a metal version of Rockabilly.  Finally I did an album that was written for the sequel to the cult movie “The Secret”.  Unfortunately, there never was a sequel.  But my musical talent is at its’ best on this album.  In almost every interview people say: “It sounds like you’re having so much fun”.  It was fun because I wasn’t tied down to one genre on the album.  I did power punk, rap, prog rock and a power ballad.  That pretty much describes my life.

I like it all.  I could never be the authority on all things politically conservative.  I love Baseball and would love to converse on the topic with Charles Krauthammer.  But I could never be a Baseball writer or announcer.  I’d love to write about how Bobby Flay got interested in Southwestern cuisine.  But my love for the BF-109G is even more attractive to me.

Baseball    Bobby Flay at the UncorkÕd MastersÕ Series Dinner The MESA Grill at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada May 7, 2009. © RD / Kabik / Retna Digital  K1squad

I was offered a chance to audition as a sports announcer for a TV station on the Monterey Peninsula and I was honest with the station manager.  I said, ya know, it’s an honor, but it’s not my passion.  I’d get tired of it in 6 months and shoot myself.

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I just don’t know how people can devote their ever so short lives to being an authority on taking out tonsils or writing a blog on N scale model trains.

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I enjoy the various gifts that life has to offer to much to be known as the Carl Sagan of Astronomy or the Susan Miller of Astrology.  I like nasty burritos in Mexican restaurants condemned by the health department as well as Sashimi or Veal picata.  I’ll never be successful as defined by this culture.

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 In a sentence: “My brain contains more crap than I ever wanted to know”.

 

 

KILLERS PART II

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PART II

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THE BODY COUNT

We’ve discussed the 6 million Jewish Germans that were put to death in the Nazi Death Camps.  (An Idea put into action by Heinrich Himmler).  As for culpability, the German people had two choices, remain silent or join those in the death camps.

There used to be an old saying in the Wild West of the United States: “An armed society is a polite society”. 

In WWII Germany, rumors could get you and your whole family sent to one of Himmler’s concentration camps.  And yes; Himmler was crazy.  Just as Obama had a “Hate” line (E-mail line) that went to Valarie Jarret’s white house, The SS or Hitler’s Secret Security, would investigate claims that someone’s neighbor was harboring Jews.  Or if a person didn’t like someone, I could simply say: “I overheard a plot to kill “Der Führer”.  More times than not a Gestapo agent would not ask questions.  So you said very little and you had to know who you were talking to.  Once again, an armed society is a polite society.  In other words, don’t piss off your neighbor.

So we know about the 6 million Jews, deformed or genetically undesirable that died in concentration camps as well as alleged traitors.   I might add that at the end of the war, Russia took 10 million German Troops as POWs (Or what was left of them) and over the duration of 10 years, they had managed to kill off 8 million of them. (Most by starvation; a stereotypical communist technique)  Hitler’s regime killed less than a thousand German “Aryan” nationals.  (Including those who were victims of the “Night of the long knifes” or the night Hitler had all of his suspected internal enemies killed off, mainly Ernst Röhm who was one of Hitler’s Beer Hall friends in the 1920s and co-founder of the Nazi party. (Yet he was the brown shirt leader of the S.A. which was 5 Million strong and Himmler was intimidated by Rohm’s power)  But if you include the deaths of those in the Alliance, Hitler is directly responsible for another “estimated” 15 million deaths bringing the third Reich’s total kill number to an estimated 21 Million.  This is small change compared to the people you didn’t learn about in your history class.  In fact, the faculties of Universities like to speak of the next two Killers as though they were the Mayans offering sacrifices.  You’ll see how some in this administration praises the most egregious killer.

Flag of the People's Republic of China                                     USSR

Although it may seem like a religion to many professors, Communism is responsible for the death of well over a hundred Million innocent victims in the 20th Century.  It happened while many of you reading this were playing little league baseball, cooking with your easy bake oven or protesting the Vietnam War.

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 JOSEPH STALIN

 In February 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a research paper by Georgian historian Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev was published in Argumenti i Fakti.  ”It’s important that they published it, although the numbers themselves are horrible,” Medvedev told the New York Times at the time.

”Those numbers include my father.”

Medevedev’s bookkeeping included the following episodes: 1 million imprisoned or exiled between 1927 to 1929; 9 to 11 million peasants forced off their lands and another 2  to 3 million peasants arrested or exiled in the mass collectivization program; 6 to 7 million killed by an artificial famine in 1932-1934; 1 million exiled from Moscow and Leningrad in 1935; 1 million executed during the ”Great Terror” of 1937-1938; 4 to 6 million dispatched to forced labor camps; 10 to 12 million people forcibly relocated during World War II; and at least 1 million arrested for various “political crimes” from 1946 to 1953.

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In his book, “Unnatural Deaths in the U.S.S.R.: 1928-1954,” I.G. Dyadkin estimated that the USSR suffered 56 to 62 million “unnatural deaths” during that period, with 34 to 49 million directly linked to Stalin.  Remember this is the same Stalin that gave the Red Army orders to Rape, loot and murder in Berlin in April of 1945.

In his book “Europe A History,” British historian Norman Davies counted 50 million killed between 1924-53, excluding wartime casualties.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the literary giant who wrote about the Soviet gulag system, claimed the true number of Stalin’s victims might have been as high as 60 million.  Not exactly chump change; but a distant second place/runner up compared to the killer of all killers.

AND THE WINNER IS………………

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 MAO ZEDONG

With all of these estimates having an error factor of 5 to 10 million,  the Chairman comes in around 76 Million.  Remember, these are not Chinese who died from a Japanese bayonet.

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After 4 years of research, author Frank Dikötter writes in his best seller “Mao’s Great Famine” that 45 million Chinese died prematurely from the result of an artificial famine induced by Mao’s restriction of water to the nationalists.  The Chinese cultural revolution caused the death of 30 million that were gunned down (according to the current Chinese government), but most died of hunger.

76M Dead                 Genecide China

It was genocide pure and simple.  (Ironically, genocide is a term commonly used by the media in conjunction with the Jewish holocaust).  Once again, blame Hitler.  But Hitler was a fascist.  (A right wing dictator)  Whereas Stalin and Mao were straight out leftist communists.  The school system and modern politics including the media give Mao and Stalin a pass while Hitler makes for great Television.  The History Channel use to be nicknamed the “Hitler Channel”.

Now that you know the truth, please watch this speech given by Anita Dunn of the Obama administration given to a High School class.

 

 

And this was photographed on the Obama White House Christmas Tree.

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The Pathetic 71%

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A recent report came out in the U.S. that claims that 71% of teens old enough to join the military would not qualify.  Which only makes one wonder what criteria was used for qualifying an individual for the Presidency of the United States.

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

When I was a teen, I joined the military because my family had fallen apart.  I was basically a 17 year old albatross around my father.  (Who had zero parenting skills) I use to have to enroll myself in school.  I use to have to cook my own meals. Plus, I grew up in the 60’s watching TV Shows that glorified War Heroes.  (This was before the Bill Ayers went around telling anti-war fools that it was cool to spit on America’s finest) When I was 6 years old, I can remember trying to stay awake to watch the greatest TV show of all time.  Combat.  In my neighborhood you fought over who got to be Sgt. Saunders or Lt. Hanley.  For some reason I never had a problem playing the nasty German. 🙂

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Sadly, Patriotism has been simulated in Video Games. Combat the TV show

has now been replaced by:

GAME: six days in fallujah

The reason for disqualifications are far from surprising.  The major obstruction for America’s would be finest teens is…………. wait on it……………….Obesity.

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Then next is substance abuse.

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After that there’s a plethora of conditions that create the undesirables.

A record of Felonies

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Tattoos.  In the military, you can only have ink on (Less than) 25% of a body part and must not show with your uniform on.  This why you see old “Sea Dogs” in the Navy with their chest and shoulders only inked up.

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Another reason, sadly, yet not surprising, was the result of the public school system.

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Our country will be in a big hurt should we have an urgent and sudden “Call to arms”.  The fat Cheetos eating 19 year olds who live in their parents basement browsing porn and playing “Call to Arms” would not qualify to answer the call.

 

Marriage – The Paradox

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I was thinking back on my 1st marriage. I married at the very young age of 23. Like I said in previous posts;my parents both died before I was 21. One of the things you really want (and I quote Kurt Cobaine) is that security of a normal family. Many times Kurt references “Not being this happy since I was 7”.(the age he was when his parents divorced). So I will go on record as saying that I really missed the comfort and security of having undeserved love. But what I didn’t realize was that it takes an adult to give undeserved love.

A close friend of mine told me that when she divorced her first husband, she had no children and it was boyfriend and girlfriend breaking up.

When you marry in your early years (before 30) you are still carrying your sibling thoughts and motives with you. Even worse, if you’re an only child, god help your spouse. I’ve noticed many things that I do now in my mid-life years that I couldn’t dream of doing 30 years ago. I mean I just wasn’t that thoughtful. And my ex-spouse was even less thoughtful. I was a sucker and she knew it. I don’t know at what point it is in a relationship when you start worrying about wanting to make the relationship work. Until you do, most young couples are like sexual siblings running a household with mom and dad gone on vacation. Simple things like wondering “who’s turn it is to clean the cat litter”. At some point of maturity, you just do it and don’t worry about the last time your partner did it.

Young marriages can’t see the big picture. Most aren’t ready to raise children let alone themselves, and think that marriage is a “sexathon”. Well until one or the other gets tired of it. The sex is mostly physical. I know some readers are reading this thinking:”what else is there?” ……….pssst “spiritual”

The concept of marriage and procreation is so ironic. It’s a downright paradox. The younger you are, the more energy you have for pursuing your goals. You also have the ability to work a job while being up all night with a child with a stuffy nose. On the other hand you don’t know crap about raising kids. Hopefully you’ll have well intending parents that can teach you the importance of creating wealth.

The older you are when you marry, the more respectful you become of your spouse. You see this other person as someone that demands respect and not a sibling you can try and get one over on. Raising children takes on a different demeanor as you have more patience and can predict behavioral responses. On the other hand, If you have children much past 45, you’re going to orphan them sooner than had you gotten married at 25. This also is not fair to your children.

It reminds me of an old Mark Twain quote: “Youth is wasted on the young”.

Birth Divorce Dignity & Death

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From the first breath we take, to the last beat of our heart; everything we buy, build, receive as a gift or do is simply to occupy our time.  To quote the great Dr. Allen Owyang: “You don’t think you’re going to make it out of this alive do you”?

So that collection you started on 30 years ago (Whatever it may be) will go to someone who will keep it only because they knew it meant something to you, but as soon as “hard times” hit (and you can bet they will) the love bond between your collection and your survivor will end up on EBAY.

I honestly believe in being the best at everything I do.  Not for the sake of impressing others or because you want to assemble an empire, but because you need to be the best version of yourself you can be.  A half assed job is indicative of a half assed person.

Remember, you came into this life with no possessions and you’ll leave it the same way.

I figured out early in life that happiness comes from within and if you can’t be happy poor, you’ll never be happy rich.  You also don’t need a reason to be happy or unhappy.  Dr. Laura once said (and I hate to quote her) that: “If you are bored, it’s because you are a boring person”.  We are what we choose to be.  We can become what we want to be.

I learned a valuable verse in the midst of one of my greatest low points in life.  The Apostle Paul wrote: “I’ve learned to live with abundance and I’ve learned to survive with very little.  (I’m paraphrasing).  I had just gone through the divorce from hell.  I would eventually become a single fulltime father.  There were times when I had next to nothing left of my paycheck.  But eventually, I kept what faith I had in God and tried my best not to play the pity party.  In time, I got back on my feet and things got back to normal.

One thing they can’t take from you, even if you have to sleep on the sidewalk, is your dignity.  So in the darkest hour, keep your head up and never give up.

To those of you who are going through that awful post-divorce period, let me share a million dollars’ worth of free advice.  Do not date until you’ve been alone for 2 months for every year you were in the relationship.  If you were married for 10 years, wait 20 months before you go out and ruin someone else’s life.  Use the time to read self-help books.  Take time to HEAL your emotional wounds.  Take the time to become the person you want to meet. (That was always one of my favorite mantras when I was single) You have to become the person you want to attract.  Because as you may have learned from the Secret or law of attraction, likeness attracts likeness.  If you have two tuning forks that are tuned to 512 Hz (Middle C) and you strike one, the other fork will pick up the vibration and start singing with no physical contact.  They are the same wave length.  The same works for potential partners.  If you’re a self-medicating basket case, guess what’s coming your way?  A self-medicating basket case! So do things that will make you a better person or you’re bound to repeat your past.

And DON’T date anyone who’s not waited the 2 months times X years formula.  You’ll only deceive yourself and the relationship will be short lived.  I passed on many a wonderful recently separated partners only because I knew it would never work.  They can’t understand it and it’s almost cruel but you are doing them a favor.  They will see it as rejection and that will hurt, but trust me, it’s better that you pass on a delicious meal that is not fully cooked, than to gobble it down and end up with food poisoning later that night.  Only in this case, another divorce.

I hope that made sense.

My point is, Pretty girls and hot guys end up getting old, often over weight and wrinkled.  Character however; will always be there.   Your Mickey Mantle autographed Baseball that you cherished will go to someone that doesn’t even know who the Mick was.  Your house will be the big prize.  Are your off-spring circling your house like vultures waiting for you to die?  I wonder who will be playing my Les Paul Custom, or my patent pending Wolfgang. (An extremely rare guitar).  The only thing that will survive me, (hopefully) are my songs and perhaps my cover versions.  On the other hand; should I live to witness an apocalyptical explosion that would take all of our electronic devices with it, perhaps all of my CDs or Downloads will be demolished by the blast.

In short: “You’re going to die. So don’t sweat the petty stuff and don’t pet the sweaty stuff”.

Just enjoy what you’ve been blessed with.  Take care of everything you’ve been given.  (Consider it all a rental because you will not be able to take it with you) And last but most importantly, in everything you do, try and do your best as it will bring you one step closer to the best version of yourself.

TRUST IS A LUXURY

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Times they are a changin’

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We’ve gone through about five major stages in technology in regards to the field of information. (The Computer)

1. The introductory stage.  This was when PC’s were only being used to keep a phone number/address data base as well as your favorite recipes.

2. The discovery of the World Wide Web.  The internet use to exist on the corporate level probably 15 years before the WWW.  This new ability to communicate instantly without a stamp or a phone actually hurt the USPS.  As for the phone and cable companies, it was a gold rush windfall.  In the early 90’s companies were racing to buy up what were at the time, local cable TV companies.  Most of the computers in the early to late 90s had what we would call primitive motherboards by today’s standards, but tech heads drooled over the 450 megabyte chip.

3.  Then about the time everyone was buying PCs or Macs; sound files were being compacted into the Mp3.  I predicted (as I’m sure many did) that the next big thing would be the Mp3 player.  Meet the IPod.  Why Apple was the first to jump on this amazes me.  Apple couldn’t even play Mp3 formatted files.  They had to be apple converted files.  But they sold a lot of IPods.

4.  Soon everything had to be “Wireless”.  And I was told by a silicon valley CEO that the future of computers (at the time) was to push email, then, Wireless, then finally the marketing of storage.  We now call it “Back up”.  But external memory drives were also being marketed around the turn of the century.

5.  Finally MULTI-MEDIA.  Here’s where Apple made their comeback.  The IPhone.  It did it all.  They say there is more technology in an I4 than all the technology that went into the Apollo space missions.

But in the old days when new “Updates” came out for a product or software you had installed, you could trust the company that supported your Mp3 or Mp4 player.  In the first 10 years of the 21st century, we got in the bad habit of hitting the next button until we either had to find a folder to file the update in, or hit the finish button.  Believe it or not, companies we use to trust have crossed over to the dark side.  Recently, Real Player which was a desk top Icon on my screen for 17 years, sold its’ soul to Satan.  In the last update, it bundled a ………. A VIRUS.  There I said it.  It was bundled in the update under the name Re-Markable.  I wasted 10 hours yesterday finding the culprit.  What sucked is, it manifested its’ self, two weeks after an install.  That made it really hard to find.  And to make matters worse, they will even offer a nefarious fix on line when you go to a search engine.  But the only way you will find it is to look for the “NAME” of the company that is on the “Pop-ups”.  Then say a prayer before searching for a removal fix on-line.

If I had a company that dealt with removing computer viruses; I would say that rule number one would be: “Have your I.T. guy look at the update then, read every word of every page before you click next or even worse “Agree”.

It’s a new day and a new time and cyberspace is now full of cyber villains.  Take your time so you don’t install a virus under the guise of a “Tool bar”.  By the way, Real Player, (Which is now Real Cloud) whom I trusted for so long, has been rated amongst the top 5 worst software companies in recent years.

 

Survival of the Fittest

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Survival of the Fittest

There is little doubt that America has become a nation of undisciplined zombies that cannot live without some form of daily medication.  30 years ago, insulin and water pills with a supplement of Potassium Chloride were the only daily medications needed to stay alive.

Today we have an industry that, I believe has earned the name, “Big Pharma”.  Instead of searching for a cure to eradicate the disease, they see the disease as an opportunity to get man addicted to a pill.  Daily pills equal daily profits.  Patients, although living longer, are being exploited by the companies that enable patients to continue living on fast food and snacks.

 “JUST TAKE A PILL”

I’m sure that some of the daily medications that are driving up the price of medicine are prolonging life, but in a bad way.  If you take an obese person and put them in jail for a year, you will get them off of their statin drug.  You’ll probably get them off of their beta blocker as well.  Simply because they’re no longer at will or free to live a liberal self-destructive lifestyle. 

My point is, we’ve found ways to replace “will power”.  We’ve found ways to allow sick people to live sick lives without dying.  Worst of all, we’ve aloud people to go through life without experiencing feelings.  Many who have not learned to “Cope” with their feeling are put on an “Anti-depressant”.  These drugs put you into a mental jail.  They enable you to walk around without having to actually deal with society in a healthy way.

 IT’S ALL LINKED TOGETHER

Do you have any Idea how many health issues are caused by a “Liberal” lifestyle?  The liberal, (meaning an abundance) paradigm means nobody is going to tell you what to do, say and of course eat.  The paradigm lets you ignore rules or good advice that is meant to help you.  Simple ideas such as moderation is no longer seen as good common sense, but rather an infringement on your civil rights.  Yes you do have a right to eat a whole bag of Cheetos or even a whole quart of Ice Cream.  Many drink a whole six pack of beer on a nightly basis.  Why?  Because nobody can tell them they can’t.  Then they wonder why they’ve gotten fat.  Why do people smoke cigarettes?  Because they can.  Then they act surprised when they are diagnosed with emphysema.  Now in many states, people will be replacing tobacco with marijuana.  Soon they’ll be wondering why they are fat AND stupid.  (Probably REALLY FAT)

What happens when you get fat?  You feel bad about your appearance.  What happens when you look in the mirror and you no longer see the guy that was 140 pounds in high school or the girl that was a cheer leader?   You get depressed. Then……… You do one of two things, and rarely a third one. 

  1. 1.     You self-medicate with either legal or illegal substance.  These medications could range from Krispy Crème donuts to heroin.  But because we live in such an “Animal House” society; Beer is a common self-medication.  This results in making the problem worse.  It creates a cycle of poor self-esteem motivating the  urge to self-medicate.  Either with food, cigarettes or drugs.
  2. 2.     You learn to live with it.  You continue your poor nutritional program which could in its’ self be a form of self-medication.  However that’s not always true.  In today’s society we have very unhealthy food outlets that will sell you a small box of food that is full of artery clogging chemicals as well as weight gaining calories.  It may appear small, but the damage from a “Big Mac” is another nail in your coffin.  Eating normally is not what it was 30 years ago.  We’ve gone from 8” dinner plates to 12” or even 14” dinner plates.  The portions we eat are unnecessarily large.  Many of us were conditioned as children to eat everything on our plate.  Unfortunately, in the 70s, the term: “All you can eat” became a popular marketing strategy.  If you couple this with kids no longer taking physical education, because they would have to get naked and shower. (Which is hypocritical considering what they’re being taught in the class room).  And no sport can be played without the proper safety gear, (helmets, pads etc…) so kids become virtual bio-bots in front of a computer of some sort.  So response #2 is not helpful even though the person feels they are doing the correct thing.
  3. 3.     Change from within.  You decide you’re tired of being fat and tired of taking pills.  This has led to another industry that is just as bad as “Big Pharma”.  It’s the fad diet industry.  What’s hilarious is many of the diets that work simply instruct you to cut down on the size of your meals and get sufficient exercise.  This was something Americans didn’t have to think about before “Fast Food” and “Food Additives”.  So the fad diets lead to disappointment which often leads to the rebound depression from gaining back more weight than you loss and one finds themselves’ back on statins (Anti-Cholesterol drugs) and Beta Blockers (Blood pressure lowering drugs).  And then if uncontrolled; insulin as obesity often leads to a new disease called type II diabetes.  It’s a self-induced form of diabetes.    If a person wants that high school body back; they need to understand that it will take time.  Unfortunately, the microwave and McDonald’s has turned us into a society of instant self-gratification.  We want to lose weight and we want it now.  What’s great about losing weight at a healthy pace (2.5 pounds a month) is that it takes a serious approach and you will respect the work you went through to shed the weight.  Losing weight over a long period of time also makes it harder to put the weight back on because your stomach becomes atrophic like any other muscle that doesn’t get stretched.  And by all means, leave surgery as a last resort.  Surgery is becoming far too acceptable as a form of losing weight.  I think it’s like using abortion as a form of birth control.

Once you’ve lost weight the correct way, (Ask your doctor what is best for you) your self-esteem will increase.  Even if you don’t look like Brad or Angelina, a slimmer/healthier version of yourself will work wonders for your self-esteem.  Maybe even enough to get off of Effexor or whatever anti-depressant you’ve been taking like candy.

Here’s another surprise; your blood pressure will decrease as will your cholesterol.  So you will not need those daily pills. 

Are you beginning to understand how this is all linked together?  And what’s sad is, the subtle truth is: you have the power to get rid of the pills.  My doctor once said, you need to learn to shut your mouth.  That’s easier said than done.  But losing weight takes more than talking about it.   It takes coming to the realization that you’re fat.  Many think they can dress in black and their weight will not show.  But if you’re taking statins and Beta-blockers, you’ve probably got a weight problem. Some can be thin as a rail and have sky rocketing cholesterol levels. (a condition called hyperlipidemia) but for most of America, we see beautiful people on T.V. and become depressed because we don’t look like that.  So many give up on self-control.  The more you can get off of daily pills, the less dependent you become on your pharmacist.  And in this unstable world, you have to ask yourself what you are going to do if all the pharmacies close down?  Don’t think it can’t happen.  Then everyone will understand the term: “Survival of the fittest”.

 

 

OBAMA’S AMERIKA not mine.

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Something’s happened to America, and it isn’t good. It’s become easier to get into trouble. We’ve become a nation of a million rules. Not the kind of bottom-up rules that people generate through voluntary associations. Those are fine. I mean imposed, top-down rules formed in the brains of meddling bureaucrats who think they know better than we how to manage our lives.

Cross them, and we are in trouble.

The National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) received an anonymous fax that a seafood shipment to Alabama from David McNab contained “undersized lobster tails” and was improperly packed in clear plastic bags, rather than the cardboard boxes allegedly required under Honduran law. When the $4 million shipment arrived, NMFS agents seized it. McNab served eight years in prison, even though the Honduran government informed the court that the regulation requiring cardboard boxes had been repealed.

How about this one? Four kindergartners — yes, 5-year-old boys — played cops and robbers at Wilson Elementary in New Jersey. One yelled: “Boom! I have a bazooka, and I want to shoot you.” He did not, of course, have a bazooka. Nevertheless, all four boys were suspended from school for three days for “making threats,” a violation of their school district’s zero-tolerance policy. School Principal Georgia Baumann said, “We cannot take any of these statements in a light manner.” District Superintendent William Bauer said: “This is a no-tolerance policy. We’re very firm on weapons and threats.”

Give me a break. These are just some of the stories featured in a new book, “One Nation Under Arrest”.

Here’s another: Ansche Hedgepeth, 12, committed this heinous crime: She left school in Washington, D.C., entered a Metrorail station to head home and ate a French fry. An undercover officer arrested her, confiscating her jacket, backpack and shoelaces. She was handcuffed and taken to the Juvenile Processing Center. Only after three hours in custody was the 12-year-old released into her mother’s custody. The chief of Metro Transit Police said: “We really do believe in zero-tolerance. Anyone taken into custody has to be handcuffed for officer safety.” She was sentenced to community service and now carries an arrest record. Washington’s Metro has since rescinded its zero-tolerance policy.

Keith John Sampson, a student-employee at Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis, had the temerity to read “Notre Dame Versus the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan” during breaks on the job. One student complained because the book’s cover depicted the Klan. The university then found Sampson guilty of racial harassment! Thankfully, a great organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), came to his defense and got his school record cleared.

Palo Alto, Calif., ordered Kay Leibrand, a grandmother, to lower her carefully trimmed hedges. Leibrand argued that no one’s vision was obstructed and asked the code officer to take a look. He refused. Then the city dispatched two police officers. They arrested her, loaded her into a patrol car in front of her neighbors and hauled her down to the station.

In 2001, honor student Lindsay Brown parked her car in the wrong spot at her high school. A county police officer looked inside and saw a kitchen knife — a butter knife with a rounded tip. Because Lindsay was on school property, she had violated the zero-tolerance policy for knives. She was arrested, handcuffed and hauled off to county jail where she spent nine hours on a felony weapons possession charge. School Principal Fred Bode told a local paper, “A weapon is a weapon.”

Congress creates, on average, one new crime every week. Federal agencies create thousands more — so many, in fact that the Congressional Research Service itself said that merely counting them would be impossible.

This is a bad trend. As Lao Tsu said, “The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”

THE OBAMA PR MACHINE

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The Obama Crime Family

Sometimes I wonder if Agenda 21 is just a liberal fantasy designed to cover for the left’s “Communist surge”.  Sure George Soros has been quoted as saying it was fun crashing the Bank of England in 1982.

It appears he has no love for America either.   This picture of what would appear to be a political crime family was merely a massive PR campaign to put a fox in the henhouse.  They took a “nobody” and put him in a suit.

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This is a person who refused to place his hand over his heart when they played the national anthem.

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In 1968, 2 black Athletes, Tommy Smith and John Carlos, were stripped of their medals for standing on the winner’s platform and giving the “Black Power” salute during the playing of the national anthem. Both were expelled from competition and banned from the 68 Olympics. (They could have at least got the correct arms)

Obama displays the same disrespect and gets elected to the highest office in the land.

CULT OF PERSONALITY

A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and at times, god-like public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Sociologist Max Weber developed a tripartite classification of authority; the cult of personality holds parallels with what Weber defined as “charismatic authority”. A cult of personality is similar to hero worship, except that it is established by mass media and propaganda.

The only evidence that might support the “Conspiracy Theory” of Agenda 21 is that both Republican presidents whose last name are “Bush” spoke of a “New World Order”.  The younger engaged in a war with Iraq to stop the devaluation of the dollar as Saddam Hussein was selling barrels of oil for Euros.

Another piece to the Agenda 21 puzzle is that Democrats were forced to commit political suicide by pushing through the tragedy known as Obamacare.  You see; the Obama PR Machine was not concerned with the DNC, it was only concerned about its’ own financial interest and the United States is the biggest threat to “The Rich”.  So from that aspect, it makes sense that every president starting with the older Bush has been put into office by those who could afford to buy the votes and or hide the fraud.  The same founders of agenda could care less about throwing the DNC “UNDER THE BUS”

I would not say that either Bush presidents were conservatives.  But they were both rich.  In fact; immediately after the 2004 re-election of GW Bush, oil prices sky rocketed.

UNITED WE STAND

The Media has done a great job of dividing the people and Obama has been pushing the message of “financial inequality”.  Well yeah.  If you sit on your ass playing X-box while Chad uses his skills in economics to invest in the stock market, there should be economic inequality.  There always has been and there always will be.

Raising the level of minimum wage is equivalent to financial masturbation.  Those who are comfortable in their poverty belong in poverty.  The greatest amongst us is never content with any amount of income.  Jesus said: “You will always have the poor”.  I’ve never gotten a job from a poor person.  I can’t help the poor if  I myself am poor.  The government can’t help raise the poor out of their indigence and destitution.  They can only make them more comfortable and addicted to it.

I consider that a crime to humanity.  If a person has a safety net, they will not care about falling.  After a while; it’s no longer worth the climb.