February 22, 2011 PBS Program on Wild Life

Is this the reason why conservative crazy males want to do away with PBS? Does PBS give us too much information? Information is power!!!

The study of male cheetahs is the study of homo sapiens. The male cheetah lives to mate. The male cheetah will mate with a female cheetah at night and by morning the male cheetah leaves and he does not return. The female cheetah will give birth to her cubs without the male cheetah to help. The female cheetah will have to hunt and feed her cubs alone. At eighteen months she will leave her cubs and not return. By eighteen months the female cheetah has prepared her cubs to hunt, to feed, and to watch for enemies on the plains of Africa. There are men, maybe too many men, who behave like male cheetahs. Are the conservative crazy men in Congress and on the Supreme Court similar to male cheetahs?

Do you mean The Guess Who - "Share The Land"?

Personally, I see the United States of Mortal Sin commencing a nuclear holocaust by 2020. Sixty percent of the people will be vaporized. In another twenty years thirty percent of Earth's popuation will die of radiation poisoning. By this time in another twenty years the westerly winds, saturated with radiation, will be upon our country in the Western Hemisphere and the final twenty percent of Earth's population will die off. I believe destruction and death await us through a nuclear holocaust. By 2060 or 2070 planet, Earth, will be a wasteland.

The United States is a plutocracy wearing the garments of a democracy. We have elections. We have a strong civil society. We take the freedoms of speech, assembly, press and religion for granted. However, our government is run by the rich for the rich. Fiscal and monetary policy are made by legislators and appointed officials whose primary concern is pleasing the people who finance their election campaigns. Their policies serve the rich, and they make either/or arguments to persuade the demos, the ordinary people.

I blame Religion. Christianity has taught people that god gave man dominion over the earth and it's ours to do as we wish. It has taught people that man is external to the earth -- that man has not evolved in this environment but was instead placed here by some magical being in the sky. The reality is quite different than the fantasy many religions teach. Ignoring the reality that we need to work towards sustainability rather than dominance will be to the detriment of us all.

Combined with the rapture fantatics that are themselves 100% certain that the world will end soon, it's clear to me that relgion is one of the most destructive forces man has ever conceived. For any creativity it has inspired, it has inspired destruction 100-fold. Working to undue that destruction involves ending religion through reason and logic. And in these times, that seems quite impossible.

Despite that, I am actually optimistic. The influence if religion in the US is actually on the decline. We need another Age of Reason to save this world.

A person's past is germaine. It shapes who that person has become and can be an effective indicator of that person's motives and ethics, or the lack thereof. In the sea of corruption that has polluted the Republican Party and threatens to pollute America, he truly stand out and needs to be pointed to as an example. A bad example. A really !@#$%& bad example.

Playing nice; fair; "by the rules" is only getting our butts kicked. Sure, in the end progress may out, but do we really want to wait several generations for the corruption to rot itself into collapse from the inside like the Soviet Union did so that we can say, "We played fair"? There is such a thing as too high a price.

Perhaps this is just the conservative that still lies within that would like to see them lined up against the wall, but these traitors will exact too high a price from which America will never recover because when the aforementioned collapse does come, it will be in a vastly different world, and America's chance will likely have long been gone and that may ultimately be the greatest tragedy of all for what was once a great nation.

The conservative that lies within likes to think it remembers a great America and that's the country I want back: the one with hope and promise and maybe a greater sense of ethics than we've seen in our lifetimes because without progress, I can't see what there would be left to conserve.

A bit rambly, perhaps, but that's how I feel. I love this country like a parent and want only what's best for it and when I see it making bad decisions... well I get sad. Damn.

"Freedom" by Amos Lee. It's one of the few anti-Iraq-war songs written in 2006.

http://s0.ilike.com/play#Amos+Lee:Freedom:742755:s24765571.9642005.1528640.0.2.11%2Cstd_e1f7528830dc4eeeb25a7e5db45e7a76

Here is an interesting view by Shell of the next fifty years of the energy market--warning consumption will outpace supply, which pretty much agrees with the assesment of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Shell's analysis are dire, here are their bullet points:

"We believe that the world is entering an era of volatile transitions and intensified economic cycles.

We are seeing a step change in energy use.

In broad-brush terms, natural innovation and competition could spur improvements in energy efficiency to moderate underlying demand by about 20% over this time.

Supply will struggle to keep pace with demand.

Smart urban development, sustained policy encouragement and commercial and technological innovation can all result in some demand moderation.

The global economic crisis has coincided with a shift in geopolitical and economic power from west to east.

Environmental stresses are increasing."

Read the article here.

It just never ceases to amaze me that even though major oil companies like Shell are begining to get it, Republicons and those on the right still deny the handwriting on the wall. Glen Beck and his mononic minions would find a way to interpret the above as a Marxist plot to take over the world. And perhaps a world take over is just what we need, taken over by sane people working together with a commitment to save the planet and the people.

NO PROBLEM

BY 2050

WE WILL ALL BE EATING

SOYLENT GREEN

It is already upon us - visit any poor country! If you don't see the children and the poor eating in dumps, you are willfully blind! If you do see, then this is a small picture compared to what will be the fact 50 years from now if there is no 'Trying to Fix it"!

And the new Plutocrats, fascists and repugs have no intention to make this happen. Unfortunately, one can only have their heads in the sand for so long. And unfortunately they also have no consideration for their children and grandchildren as they themselves will be long gone by then!

Any Farmer with any modicum of brain cells knows that trying to raise a hundred head of cattle on 1 acre of land is quickly doomed to failure. He or she learns quickly - it has to be managed and cared for, for any sort of success.

Maybe we should all become farmers!

I expect a war of epic proportions, reducing the world to essentially ashes. Reason, according to Jay Forrester's predictions, converting available land to food production at maximun level and optimum delivery of equal food calories to rhe world population of slightly over 9B would be required.

Considering the massive gluttinous capitalists, and the starvation psychology of humans, it is more likely to result in massive killings than the result predicted to peacefully get 9V population by 2050. I predict we have about fifteen more years!