Bob Dylan is horrible and looks like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

On Tuesday Oct 27th Barak Obama stood in front of a field of solar panels and talked about change. The energy of this country has a long history, from the cutting down of forests to the mining of coal to power steam engines. Thomas Edison changed the game when he made energy transferable through electricity, and the country made great steps to implement electricity to all of it's citizens throughout this past century.
Obama now wants to change the game again, making electricity and the grid on which it flows more efficient. The smoke and mirrors of the American media focus on the handful of issues that tend to attract viewers, such as health-care, War, Money, Taxes, and the budget allocation.
The president declared that he would get rid of the red tape that makes it timely and slow to update the infrastructure that transports the energy in this country. He declared the CHANGE we must have creates apprehension in many people. There was even a joke in the speech regarding the CEO of FPL Group, the owner of the solar panels behind him, saying that companies and CEO's tend to feel uneasy about change.
Who wouldn't feel uneasy about risking the present model where profits are almost assured? The president did mention the FPL company several times in the speech, the company will no doubt be given some of the money that the government is spitting out into the economy. The reasons given is that this new technology will not only lower the carbon usage and dependance upon fossil fuels but also create jobs that are well paying, meaning that the workers will be able to consume more goods.
The issue I have with such a speech is that it fails to point out the obvious need we have to consume less and less energy. The president mentioned home energy monitors being installed so that consumers could be the deciders of their own usage, and realize that when energy is expensive, like arrival at home around 4 to 8 O'Clock is a good time to cut down consumption, but the comforts of air conditioning are just to precious for many of Americans. The energy consumption is much higher in the summer when it should be much lower as the environment offers great weather for us to be outside and enjoying the beautiful land this earth offers.

No politician wants to lecture, instead they let us go on paying taxes and then allocate the funds where they say it is most necessary. The lecturing risks re-election and politicians like any other person today cares about job security as much as they do the American people. I mean think if politicians had to live in small houses or not wear hundred dollar suits all the time?!?!? THE HORROR...
A true straight talking politician in the vein of Henry A Wallace would tell the american people that we consume too much, that our behavior of commuting to work in our cars from the suburbs and then watching our big screen TV's after eating out corn and soybeans filled pre packaged dinner is not sustainable and a drain upon our economy. Our health is at risk with such behavior where sitting and eating are the two most constant habits of our population. Sit in a car, sit in a office, sit on your couch and watch the TV (a device that only exists because of commercials to sell you things to consumer more), sit at the table and eat meat corn soybeans.

And when you don't feel good about your life, either drink/do drugs or if you can afford it go to the doctor for pills. There are many ails to our lifestyle that no politician wants to lecture on. The fact that the sports that consumer our media and idle water cooler chatter is a vehicle for advertisement of goods that are typically unhealthy, like Beer and Junk food. The biggest buildings in a society tend to reflect the priorities of that society, therefore our sports stadiums are our modern day acropolis's.

But the need to fix the problems our lifestyles cause are on the tongues of politicians. Patrick Kennedy, the Rhode Island congressman and son of the late Ted Kennedy, got all riled up about Health Care for treatment of Alcoholism and Drug addiction being included in Health Care reform. He pointed out that over half of all emergency medicine (the most expensive kind) is related to drugs and alcohol. Spousal Abuse also has a high correlation to drug and alcohol abuse, and has a high rate of victimization of women. That is why many women groups of the early century were involved in the temperance movement. There is nothing that leads to productive citizens like growing up in a home where violence and over indulgence in alcohol exist.

I could go on but I must cut it short... remember to drink responsibly, ingesting a poison like alcohol into your body should be done in times of great celebration and socialization as it was done in the past, not as a means to relax on the weekends and allow you to speak about emotional issues you otherwise hold deep inside you.

Ideas from C-Span is back, whoo hoo.

Some might ask, what was it? why did you return?

Perhaps the evil force that lurks out there in the body of the turncoat emperor, or the 2012 prophecy that even people like the Hopi are said to have predicted.
Ironic that the phonetic pronunciation of the people like the hopi is connected to the end of the world. The audacity of the Hopi may well be the next book from the current president.

The need to write is a self fulfilling one for myself, the thought that people might read is irrelevant. As a history major I can think of this as a primary source in reference to my past.

Also last night I was inspired, I watched a Town Hall Meeting with Timothy Geithner, He is the man who's signature will appear on bottom right of all the currency printed during his term. His message is much more articulated then that of the president. He speaks with honesty and much more clarity then the president who is tied to campaigning, monied interests and convincing the american people. His straight talk isn't harpooned by media pundits the way politicians are, this man is a self proclaimed academic desk jockey, he can say things like "Americans need to save more." Without pissing off all those companies who donated to Obama, who want people to save less and buy their goods/services more.

The ideas of economics shouldn't be so foreign to the average citizen, for instance supply and demand happen in the natural world everyday as root systems fight over soil, as squirrels scrounge for nuts, and as men as a party will arrange themselves around the women there so as not to promote the gathering as a "sausage fest".
Resources are scarce, and the price of those resources fluctuates depending on demand. Things that are a necessity of life tend to have a strong demand. Water, food, and shelter tend to be the most basic, yet the United States has led its people to believe that Oil should also be seen as a necessity of our life, like our esteems former leader said at the Earth Summit in 1992 "The American way of life is not negotiable."

The problem is that it is negotiable, and the entity that does much of the negotiation is OPEC, our way of life is found in the phrase "plastics make it possible", so does OPEC who controls the resources that make plastics
Oils are the energy of hundred of thousands of years of fauna. These plants have combined their energy when broken down together under the earth and coalesced into the black gold we know today, a liquid made of powerful atomic bonds that can be released through heat. We love the ease of energy, letting the natural world and foreign workers do the labor for us.

Geithner understands all of this, he knows that the resources we have are rich, that water and arable land to produce food is scarce. He also knows that trouble looms ahead, that the dollar will fall when china asks for its money back, hopefully that will be after water becomes a financial commodity like grain and oil. Legislation is being put in place to stop that but it may not be able to hold its own against the financial needs of the country.
Right now if you believe like I do that water is the most precious resource, one of the only ways to invest in it as a commodity is through the Claymore S&P Global Water Index (ETF) under the symbol CGW.

The negligence of unchecked water usage has led to the lowering of the water table throughout the globe, and our own Ogalala aquifer is in future danger of being sucked dry by our need to water our sensual nutritious crops of corn and soybeans.

Try typing Sinking Water Table into google and see all the hits you get or for an interesting read check out this blog post
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-end-of-cheap-water/

after hiatus I have changed my blog name, while I have been enjoying cspan it no longer rocks but rather just jams.
here I am
http://freeculturereader.blogspot.com/

I have pondered as of late the possibility of living in the country, as I tire of the traffic, the noise the polluted air of the city. Polluted air, just stare at the horizon while biking down franklin during bumper to bumper traffic. Noise, there is a machine shop near my house and I can hear them grinding metal if I listen closely, hmong immigrants living the american dream on the overnight shift, I don't know if the american dream comes in a nocturnal version but if not then they were sold a rotten bag of goods. Traffic, I hate it to the core, I even have been getting less of a satisfaction passing cars now worried that some jerk will switch lanes without signaling as I try and weave past him, or the red lights as I run them i think constantly what I will do if accosted by the police.

I want some dark nights without street lights, and no proper window shades will not do. I want a place where the moons brightness will drastically effect the night landscape. I want the song birds in the morning to be singing from a tree of a canopy, not a powerline. sappy like a vermont tree running thick. I want a place where the incline of biking drives fire into the thighs.

I used to work at a sub shop late at night and even driving home at 3 in the morning was different from minneapolis, Only a hand full of occasions during heavy snow have I been out at night and felt alone, felt that the other stragglers I saw were of the same cloth as me, who were observers in the night not participants of anything. How do you get back to it, to being in a world filled with more observers than perticipants. Watch, Clock, Look, Time, Stare, when?

I was at work when the 35IW went down, an hour and a half later I was cut from work, and thought I should scout the area, most of which to see the circus of gawker. The technology was out in full swing, nothing says tragedy like mass technology, cell phones with cameras, cameras with cameras. There weren't enough people crying to make it feel like a movie, actually I only saw one or two people with tears, I'm sure all the cryers stayed home to silently sob to the voice of Don Shelby. I walked the stone arch bridge crammed with people like there was going to be a fireworks show. Families students bums, everyone loves mayhem, fuck Raymond. Then a quick route up university ave also crammed with people who were sidestepping police attendants like they were lepers.
I can imagine many a suburban police officers blood was pumping this being their chance to be a hero rather then the slightly overweight guy who hassles impoverished and young people hanging around the city. sweat dripping off their perfectly trimmed crew cut.
Many gawker on the phone a man exclaiming "yeah I'm right here in the heart of it!"
I split to the nearest southern walking bridge on the U of M campus. There I saw a handful of familiar faces, hundreds of people gazing into the river the river they get their drink from, that allows them to flush, the river of mark twain now swallowing up vehicles that tried to conquer nature with technology.I imagine they hope to see a body somewhere. Reassuring me that we are just all curious animals with a little bit bigger brain then the rest.
On a brighter side, many more bikes in the city, business is booming in that industry, minneapolis will become a biketropolis without it's interstate. But I've chosen a helmet in these tumultuous times. Zooming through the lanes of slowed cars I fear the door creeping out in front of me or the non-existent signaling lane change.

Crisis Precipitate Change

Alberto Gonzales his testimony, now the commentary is lame but just watch it's fairly insane.