Are you ready for some change?

I hate to be the bearer of perceived bad news. But because everyone I talk to thinks that Barack Hussein Obama is going to change their lives, I must deliver some. Basically everyone I know voted for him. And I can totally understand being passionate about your candidate. But when I hear the aspirations and beliefs of devout Obama followers, and see that just drank the poisoned Jones town kool-aid look in their eye, I want to slap them. But I'm not a slapper, I'm a blogger.

You honestly think you voted for change. And I cannot for one second hate on that. You really think that you helped yourself and your country. And that is an admirable quality. To bestow your hopes and dreams into yet another politician is what I don't understand though.

I seem to remember another president elect that was suppose to change America, reform Washington and leave no child behind. His compassionate conservatism and executive experience were destined to lead us into the new frontier and make us a bolder better country than we had ever been before. What was his name again? George W. something.

You were standing there at the rally pledging your allegiance and shouting those three little words yes we can. And it was this big swirl of emotions and deep feelings and tears. Did anyone stop and ask the important question? Can we? Can we really bring about the social reformation that we all deserve? I doubt it.

I'm sorry but I seriously doubt it. Every election cycle we basically elect the same government. The faces change, and so do the issues. But the greed, power, and bureaucracy still exists. And I don't for one second think that America has changed at all. It still smells like a rat. It still looks like a rat. So it must be America.

Let us not forget that Barack Obama is a politician. And beyond that he belongs to a political party. You didn't vote for change. You voted for a Democrat. A Democrat who exists within a political system that is only interested in self preservation.

As long as we keep electing these life long politicians to elected office we will never rid ourselves of the problem. I'm fearful that you're expecting a new America, and all we're going to get is a fresh coat of paint. When what we really need is a brand new house.

Do you even know what kind of change you want? Change is such an ambiguous term.



I'm not all gloom and doom. I want the new president to succeed. I hope he is the man that you really thought you voted for. In fact I have high hopes. I presume innocence like a good citizen is supposed to.

I think it's important to know what kind of change you want though. Most Obama supporters who voted so fervently for it, don't have an answer to this question. Here are some changes that I want.

1) A return to the gold standard of monetary policy, as dictated by the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.

2) An end to entitlement programs such as Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Department of Education.

3) A return to Free Trade policies.

4) The disbandment of the Federal Reserve System.

5) The abolition of the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Income Tax amendment. As it was never legally ratified, and is unconstitutional because it is an un-apportioned tax.

I don't know if the changes I listed above would fix America. But I didn't claim they would. Those would be real changes though.

I will let Barack Obama take office and put things in motion before I judge his Presidency. I will give the alleged changes a fair amount of time to work. But so far the only changes I see on the horizon are the following.

1) The color of the skin of the president.

2) A $1,000 tax cut for couples, and a $500 dollar tax cut for individuals. However because an income tax in the first place is unconstitutional this change is mute.

3) Some minor tweaks in health care.

4) Talking to Iran.

Did I miss anything?

I do sincerely wish you the best Mr. President Elect. Our country is broken. Would you please fix it? We don't need band-aids anymore. We need drastic surgery. And I'm concerned that the status-quot will win because of greed, money and corrupt able power....just like it always does.

Help me people!

It's a new year. So I thought I'd change the look up here. Before I go changing anything else, I need to ask you some questions.

Why do you read this blog?

Was I doing something in the past, that I have now stopped doing that you would like to see more of?

I hoped to start this site so that my friends would have something to look at when they were bored. But I feel it has drastically been evolving. Help me construct this site into what it should or could be.

I think a good start would be a name for the site. "Lately I've been Thinking..." was just something I put in without any thought a long time ago. What should the name of this blog be?

My audience has been steadily growing and expanding. I now have recurrent readers from Australia, China and Canada.

What can I do in the future to keep you coming back?

I've been thinking about splitting up the content of this blog into a more organized structure. Perhaps moving all of my politically minded and esoteric posts on one venue, and having another one for the more mainstream posts.

I understand that not everyone wants to read about the Federal Reserve System, and International Bankers when they've only got a few minutes of time to zip in. It must be a real turn off when you come on this site looking for my latest herpes joke and I've got you watching videos about why God doesn't exist.

I've also been thinking about doing some audio blogs. Taking some of my most popular posts from the past and turning them into an audio format. It might blow chunks, but it may be very entertaining. Because your internal reading voice might use different key words than I would. It might make some of the jokes or wordplay more colorful. Then again it may just inflate my ego.

Thanks for making my first 8 months on blogspot.com a real success. I'm looking forward to really delivering for you the reader in 2009.

Thanks for coming back.

Why I don't believe in god.

In the future when people ask me why I don't believe in god, I'm going to refer them to this video. I've been doing research along these same lines for years. But here you go. Make sure to watch all three parts. I am not posting this to make you question your own religious beliefs but so that you will understand them in the context of secular logic. I understand that faith is a serious hatchet to bury. I once like you, did believe in God. After knowing what I now know, I can no longer do that. I would never judge someone for having faith in something though. Faith is a fantastic human trait that you should wear on your sleeve. With that in mind, here's why I don't believe in God, and especially Jesus.

After realizing that my own faith in god stemmed only from a fear of hell, it was easy for me to stop believing. I would seriously love to discuss this with any/everyone.

A very useless product.

I love when I'm up late at night watching television, and I see a commercial like this one.



Listen to the marketing points for the Snuggie:



-Blankets can slip and slide!
-Use your hands!
-Use the remote!
-Use your laptop!
-Enjoy a snack!

Who was having these issues? Who was like... "If only there was a better way!" I'm very fond of using a blanket on the couch, and I've never once thought to myself that it was inconvenient. It's really easy to read a book while using my blanket. This product is useless. They make it seem like you couldn't enjoy a snack without one. Classic.

I don't know if this next one is real or not, but it's funny stuff.

Doing the Ipod Scuttle and how does myspace know who I know?

Myspace.com the international phenomenon and scourge of the earth now has a feature called "people you may know." Which is a direct rip off from facebook.com. But my facebook account is only 1 friend deep. I never use it. My Myspace account is a little deeper. And when I click on "people you may know." I know all of them. There are like 50-60 people there who I know. I don't may know them, I absolutely know them. I'm just not friends with these people on Myspace. How does Myspace know who I know? It's convenient but scary.

I got an Ipod Shuffle today. It's the first product I've ever owned from Apple. And I'm really impressed. I'm impressed with the fact that with just the click of a button it is automatically filled up. I am not however impressed that the product was assembled in China. I think it's going to change my life. I'm going to be able to patch it into the sound board at work when I'm working. It's going to make me jog around the park, I just know it.

Its got this neat little clip on it, and it really holds up well. It took a little mustard to get it off of my sweater today. I was testing to see how fragile the clip is, and it's not fragile at all. I was the one who was fragile.

I don't really like how it forces you to use the Itunes program. I've never been a big fan of that program. It took my computer about an hour to "import" all 15,000 of my mp3s. I wish it would just let me view the directory without using Itunes, but that's a marketing firm for you. I bet I could hack it, but it's not really a priority.

I know I'm so behind the times. I'm probably the last person to get an Ipod. You're probably reading this thinking to yourself... "welcome to the year 2004."

At work tonight while using the little tiny device, we started calling it a scuttle, and it sort of stuck. So now it's called the Ipod Scuttle. :)

I got a raise. I got a 7% raise. Which in this economy is huge. I still make slightly more than a homeless person, but it's getting better. I think I'm going to have to relocate to advance with this company. Which is kind of exciting, because I could use a new scene. But it's kind of scary because while I'm not thriving in Sacramento, I am nice and safe here.

Every time when I think about moving, I think about all of these reasons not to do it. But honestly the more I process it, it's not that bad of an idea. My company is world wide. I could move to any state I wanted to. I've really just got to make a decision and go for it. And be open to it, and jump off the cliff and fall.

I want to move somewhere where they do a lot of lighting. Corporate lighting, stage and theater lighting and everything else. Every time I get my hands on an opportunity with some lights and some creative license I come through huge.

I wish someone like a really good friend, or one of my parents, or one of my mentors would just tell me where to go. That would make it so much easier. Then there would be a reason to pick a place.

It's going to be so weird being the boss. I guess it's all pretty weird anyway. Putting on these suits and ties everyday, and coming back. So if it's going to be weird, and I'm going to be doing it anyway I might as well go ahead and get paid.

That's enough rambling for one night. I haven't written a funny blog in a while have I? It's coming soon I can feel it in my funny bones.

Profit, and Scarcity

My new found zeal for economic discussion stems not from a sense of patriotism but a sense of dispossession of my own inherent value. This mercantile monetary system that rules the globe did not come about overnight. It has been passed generation by generation over the ages through deceit deception and disorder. My own intrinsic interest in the cosmos and generation of the galaxy guides my logic to understand that everything and everyone is inter-connected. We all came from the stars, and we're all here. That should mean something.

So when I discuss the theft of my own value, I symbiotically address the value of existence. Religion, money, institutions and self worth de-value the world and existence. The world could be full of unconditional love if the weight of these conditions and their determination to preserve themselves were lifted from our reality.

But instead of being able to have full possession of our own time, we are enslaved by these apocalyptic horsemen to our own demise. We are devoid of a truer human existence and are forced into sheepdom by these irrelevant forces.

The universe is emergent. That is to say that it is constantly changing and expanding. As we are all part of the universe should we not be emergent as well? Instead we are forced into a static existence. Instead we are taught to chisel away at others, compete against them in the work place, and in the most extreme cases hate and damage them. Because we were given a name, taught how to be humanistic and infused with a belief system all by the age of 4.

The maximization of profits is the manifesto of any monetary system. To sustain the enterprise and value the enterprise over all other commodities either inanimate, automated or human.

This is the main reason why all financial systems fail. Because to maximize profitability you have to suppress abundance and productivity.

When you let profits rule judgments you get scarcity. It's that simple. There is no happy medium. That's not what the enterprise wants. It doesn't want a happy medium, it wants maximum profits.

The more goods and services there are, the less profit is made. That's a basic economic principle. You can learn that in any high school economics class. The more scarce something is the more profitable it is. So what benefit would there be in finding better ways to produce these things? There wouldn't unless it would increase profits. So instead of investing in technologies that make their products better they invest in those that automate the current process. Because a machine will work forever for free. Where as a slave er I mean man will not.

So you would think that corporations would strive to find better ways to make products, and better ways to engineer them. But instead they spend most of their time figuring out how to make their product more scarce. Diamond mines burn diamonds. Lumber companies don't plant as many trees, gasoline companies don't refine as much fuel as they did last year.

And everyone just accepts it. And it's really easy to accept the world as it is. There are a lot of great things about the current world. Route 44 Cherry Lime Aids, Roller Coasters, Race Cars, and Super Sonic Jets to name a few. But it's a tad scary to even imagine the un-corrupt un-inhibited world that we have been robbed of. The one where equality and un-division rule not because they're powerful but because they are the emergent ways to exist.

Maybe in that world, I could grow a beard.

Alex Jones Zeitgeist together at last

This is Alex Jones reviewing clips from Zeitgeist Addendum which is not a movie he made. Alex Jones has been fighting the war against International Bankers for decades. I don't believe in all of his theories, but he's a pretty even keel conspiracy theorist when you compare him to the likes of David Icke.

What I want you to do, is watch this, and don't believe a word of it. Just sit back and take it in. Then if you're motivated I want you to go out and discover for yourself how International Bankers such as the Rothchilds run the world. My research in this area has lead me to believe that nobody really knows the real story.



For more info on Alex Jones visit http://infowars.com
For more information on Zeitgeist Addendum a great movie I recommed despite what Alex Jones thinks of it go buy it, or search for it on YouTube. I believe you can watch the entire movie on Youtube.com

For more information on International Bankers, and the Federal Reserve System there is a great movie called "The Money Masters" which is also availiable on Youtube.com

You can also look up the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, The Income Tax Amendment to the US Constitution of 1913, or the financial crisis of 1907.

The Federal Reserve System is neither federal, or a reserve system. It is a group of International Bankers that run the US economy, through enslavement of our financial system.

Write your congressman. Get some bullets. :) Have a nice day.