Awake

Tonight is a decent t.v viewing night. As an entrée, there is Big Bang Theory to open up your comic palette, which is a necessary preparation for the heavier dose of almost slapstick comedy Rules of Engagement that follows, their comedy tends to be a little heavy-handed at times, it does feature David Spade so it shouldn’t be surprising. I watch these two usually playing something on my Ipad, I save my attention for the two shows that follow at 9:00 and 10:00. The first is a new vehicle for Kiefer Sutherland, it’s called Touch and he plays a single father caring for his autistic son after losing his wife during the 9/11 attacks. His son, despite being autistic, tries to communicate through the language of numbers and Kiefer’s job as his father is to decipher his son’s message that day. The common thread during every show is that we are all connected and we would all be able to see it if we could recognize the pattern. I enjoy Kiefer’s work and I find the show’s premise to be interesting and uplifting. My next show, I usually have to watch again the next day because by 10:00 my little brain is tired and the show is a little out there. The main character lives in two dimensions/lives? When he falls asleep in one life, he wakes up to his other life which is the same, he has the same job, the same house, the same friends except in one life he lost his wife in the family car accident where his son and he survived and in the other life, his wife survives as well as he but their son is lost to them. He has two different psychiatrist, one for each life, to try to figure out which reality is the right one. Of course, each one says that it’s theirs that is real. I watch it twice because you really have to pay attention to the details in both of his lives if you want to figure out the latest crime that he has to solve since he is a detective in both lives and the crime might be different in both lives but there is overlap. I just got a little confused just writing about it. I love t.v.

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What’s the most you’d pay for a ticket to visit space?

April 26, 2012

A Ticket to Space

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I wouldn’t pay any price to go into space. The ride can’t be comfortable, when you get into space you can’t really get out and visit. I like it here on planet earth just fine. I don’t mind flying but I do like getting out of the plane much more than I like being in it.

Halfway Through the Lost Decade

A major issue that has also been ignored is that with the cessation of retirement pensions in the private and public sector, the decline of unions due to outsourcing of jobs and constant negative campaigning against the unions by corporations, the middle class was forced to look at their homes as more than simply homes, but as atm’s and retirement accounts. The reversal mortgage commercials are a testament of the deficit in retirement plans for the average worker. Since the late 70’s Wall Street and corporations in their quest for higher stock value and lucrative compensation packages applied as much financial pressure onto government to mold our economy into a finance dominant economy because the manufacturing economy wasn’t paying them out as well. That path to finance driving our economy has skewed it towards greater income inequality and heavy wage depreciation for the middle class. There are so many basic things that have become out-priced for average Americans, health care insurance, higher education and retirement, the GOP even wants to take social security away. I have to ask, does the GOP really want a Rand society in all of its bleakness?
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Timothy Geithner: ‘You Can’t Legislate Away Stupidity And Risk-Taking And Greed’

Mr. Geithner you can legislate against greed, the Glass-Steagal act was one such example. Until it was weakened and then finally repealed, we had almost 4 decades of bubble free economic activity. The stupidity part, there has to be a way somehow. Having persons such as yourself, Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson banned from being able to wheel and deal on behalf of your former cronies would be nice. How to keep the economic interests of the very few such as Jamie Dimon, from wrecking the economic interests of the many, is the fundamental question. The ways to keep C.E.O’s payouts high, conflict greatly with the interests of your average worker, individual corporate success depends on keeping labor costs deflated, but the low labor costs hinder a strong overall economy. So we are back to the needs of the few outweighing the needs of the many, a direct contradiction to most logical and philosophical views but that is what happens in pure capitalistic societies. The government ceases to exist for the greater good and operates to serve the wealthy thus transforming itself into a plutocracy.
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Can Mitt Romney Lead His Own Party?

McConnell already came out saying that he was in favor of keeping the interest rates at 3.4% but only if the spending is offset somewhere else in the budget, so that means cutting, what I don’t know, because as usual McConnell was deliberately vague. I am not sure if he came out with this before or after Romney; because the legislators have their own elections to worry about in 2012 so I can see certain legislators acting independently of either the President or the “nominee”. President Obama should follow “occupystudentloans” lead and start the dialogue about student loan forgiveness in this joblessness recovery on a national level. President Obama has the podium, it comes in handy during times such as these. The student loan debt bubble didn’t balloon overnight, just as the housing bubble didn’t explode without signs waiting to be deciphered by those who cared to look, the student debt bubble is looming for an explosion. President Obama would serve us and himself well if he would be more aggressive with his policy recommendations.
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