A Long Month

The joy of living. The dog days of Summer. Knowing you loved something when you miss it. Remembering why, despite love, love is now loved. I miss my life in the mountains. I loved it much.

And the beat goes on. At A.T.& T. Park we watched the Giants lose to the Marlins yesterday. The view is spectacular there. It must be one of the premier stadiums in all of baseball. Made so, of course, by the surrounding Bay Area.

Doesn't one get the desire to be at the top of the heap when they visit the city? The Penthouse Life. The hustle. The bustle. All the things that come with metropolis. It would take a lot of money to insulate you from the anthill. I can dream of enough. I just can't dream of a way. Gotta go and buy my Lotto ticket ...and dream another dream finds Me.

The Faltering Middle Class/ Trivia for Cocktails

Source: The Business Insider ( I know nothing)

• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.

• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.

• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.

• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.

• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.

• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.

• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.

• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.

• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.

• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.

• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.

• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.

• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.

• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.

• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.

• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.

• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.

• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.

• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.

• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.

• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.

• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.

Happy Birthday Dangerous Dan

I spent the day at the State Fair. Cal Expo (short for California Exposition) hasn't changed much since the last time I attended; Bad food for exorbitant prices, $8 dollar beers, Hawkers selling everything from SHAM-wow to Health bracelets, Carnie's wanting you to toss a ball and win a prize. At five dollars a toss you could buy the prize and have money left over. Obviously the state fair is not set up for people whom are money minded and penny conscious. That might explain why so many of the fair goer's are young people in their teens and early twenties. It is a chance, however, to observe some young artist's work in the fine arts and crafts, see the farm animals, watch the next generation have their turn at being young, and generally reminisce about my many trips to the fair, in the days of hair (as when I had some).

There was a 9/11 exhi

bit. An I beam from the towers was there for people to look at. I guess people should see the metal that supposedly failed, in the only collapse of a steel framed building due to fire .....EVER. Absolute horse-shit. Only concentrated heat could have cut those beams. As in thermite. It has almost been ten years since 9/11. The US has now spent a trillion dollars on the war on terror. Half of the American people realize that the planes didin't bring down those towers. When is there going to be a stop to this Sham? And a trillion dollars later ............... What do we have to show for our money?,....a busted economy. Thousands of veterans with needs now, and in the future, whom have no where to bring their problems but home. A war in Afghanistan we'll soon be retreating from. An occupation in Iraq we'll soon be leaving, and be hated for. And a nation about to disintegrate in racial tension and religious civil war. No? Well then why all the uproar about a mosque three blocks from "ground zero" . ? ( Ground Zero is just further bullshit. The former Towers should be called the "Bush Bomb" Site.) And how can the war on terror not be Religious war when the targets are all Muslim? It is very slippery for the American people to say they're not targeting all Muslims, but then balk at the idea of a mosque too close to the Bush bomb site. Speaking of "dividing factors"...

At a time when we have

a " post race president" , meaning after race mattered, we also have the "New Black Panther" party, The Tea Party, and Shirley Sherrod , agricultural employee whom uses words like " his own kind", (referring to whites)............ and they're not racist. Yeah. Let me just call a spade a spade. They're all racist. And as times get harder, money gets tighter, and people look to "take care of our own" , racial tensions are going to heighten and be exploited. Why not? It would appear in the speeches of Reverend Wright to his black congregation, and Shirley Sherrod's speech at the NAACP, that racial division is privately acceptable when speaking to one's "own kind". I would bet the "new" Black Panther party isn't an equal opportunity employer, either, despite anything they might say.

In other words, ...It's all a bunch of Hypocritical Hollywood (as in act) Hot air. I admire the Panthers for at least being honest enough to declare what they're all about up front......being Black. That's more than Shirley Sherrod has done. And I saw her speech, full context or not, it was a black woman bragging about having power over a white man, and using racist terms.

Pure racist...... and I validate that statement by this one.....Shirley would have never given that speech to an audience with white listeners in it. Period. Therefore it was racist. Designed for an audience of Blacks. Racist. On a final note, we will see if Sherrod was as fair as she says in her job....Fox will have all the dirt on her tommorrow. I say,........( that's enough time and thought on the matter) FIRE HER! (But who am I ) . (see photo)

Motorhomes and Motorcycles

I had a nice Honda Goldwing 1200 Interstate. It made me nervous driving it anymore. I've been to Skip-Frame. I 'd been looking at motorhomes. I sold the motorcycle. I decided I didn't need a motorhome. I put the money in the safe. I kept looking for a motorhome though. Then I found a good one. Winnebago, original owner, 25 ft long, Dodge 440, 37,000 miles, Onan generator, overhead air, never lived in, new tires, new batteries. Like new but 32 years old. I met the original owner, she was 90. Her Grandson negotiated the deal and it was his labor of love for Grandma, and a bother for him. It was a great deal on a good motorhome. I made it a better deal with some negotiation. I bought a motorhome. I drove the motorhome from Woodland to West Sacramento, parked it, and began checking it out closely. It was Thursday. The rig ran smooth and cool in the 95 degree heat. The closer I looked, the better the deal looked. I had my motorhome.

On Friday I got up and realized I didn't need a damn motorhome. I didn't want to pay registration fees or insurance for it. I didn't want to smog it. I damn sure didn't want to buy gas for it. I'm an Oregon resident in California with an Oregon drivers license, address, etc. BIG Hassle. I don't really have anywhere to go. I decided my motorhomin' days are over . I'm too cheap to have fun anymore. I added three hundred dollars to the price I paid, put it back on Craigslist, and started worrying. There was a flurry of calls . Promises but no lookers. On Saturday a serious buyer showed up. We spent two hours going over the details of the home, How I came to own it for three days, etc. I demonstrated everything. I repeated the answers the grandson had given. They were sold until... We took it for a test drive. The engine ran smooth and cool. The buyer raced it between stops. He hit the brakes hard. It was all good. We were making the last corner home when my phone rang and I told the caller that I thought the motorhome was sold. Like a comedy, I no sooner finished the sentence and hung up the phone when strange noises started coming from the engine compartment. A-ring-a ding-ding,..it sounded like something was coming apart . We pulled in the driveway, we popped off the engine cover, it sounded terrible but there was no apparent problem. I shut the engine off.

The buyers freaked. The male started talking about some main dampener being bad and the engine needing a major overhaul. I was sick. SICK. The buyers left. I wanted to hurt the male for driving my motorhome hard. I was there though and I couldn't blame him. What the hell could the noise be? I went back out and turned the key. The dash air was blowing . When I bought the motorhome the seller told me the dash air didn't work. When my buyer showed up I told him that too,.. but when he turned it on it was blowing cold air so we left it on. I turned it off. I started the engine. Smooth and Cool. It had not changed in performance or temperature at all. No noise. I drove the motorhome the same route again. No problems. I parked it and turned on the dash air. At first it was a small pinging, but it got louder and I recognized the sound. It was the compressor for the dash air that sounded like it was unraveling , not the engine. I called the buyer back and tried to explain. They thought I was nuts , trying to talk them into coming back to buy a motorhome with a bad engine.When they didn't come back, I wanted to hurt the guy again for scaring me into thinking my engine was bad and I had lost two G!

Saturday the first couple to come and look at the motorhome bought it. I was careful to make sure they understood what a good deal it was. Never count your chickens in the egg. The herd ain't in 'til it's in ! And a good deal is a good deal, even if the guy before you makes a profit ! I proudly owned this motorhome for four days.

Skip Frame

Humans, the organic computer, are about to be re-programmed. After much discussion with people whom don't know better, it is our decision that humans are organic computers. Computers left here on the planet Earth to multiply, evolve, and give the Higher Power a glimpse of their potential for original thought. Original thought, being outside the box, is very dangerous to the Status Quo, and should be studied for dangers to the powers that be. Higher Powers see it that way. That's about the only purpose I can see to the experiment of humanity, thus.... The Skip Frame Theory, .... LIFE is broken down into NANO-seconds, a time frame so small that it encapsulates every impulse in the brain, cumulative which is your life. But under extreme circumstances the brain can process impulses\NANO-seconds at a rate the puts existence on another time plane ,,, ie,....I was driving down the road on my motorcycle. A car pulled out in front of me. I knew I was going to hit the car, I hit the foot-brake, the motorcycle started to skid, and then it happened,......the world stopped around me. Literally stopped. LIFE was no longer a movie, passing by in NANO-seconds of smooth brain impulse. LIFE miraculously had become a slide show, instantaneously impulse process increased in speed until each NANO-second became a frame in it self. A frame of time expanded 100 times in relation to it's normal process time.. As each frame passed to the next, I was a little closer to hitting the car, skipping ahead slightly but slowing also, but I suddenly had plenty of "frames" to assess the situation, slightly turn the motorcycle, step off , spin around, and still standing, watch as the world went from SKIP-FRAME to NANO-seconds and the motorcycle crashed into the car. I had jumped time dimensions. In SKIP-FRAME I had become a Super computer. Able to process NANO's so fast that TIME DIMENSIONS and capabilities changed. SKIP FRAME is when your mental state jumps to a speed so in excess of NANO that fractions of a second become lengthy, and you exist in a different dimension of time then the world as you know it. Only on occasion of great danger has my own life jumped to SKIP-FRAME. It is not something that I can consciously do. It could be harmful to oneself, I don't know. I do know that the dimension exists. I've been there and it is to exist in the same world on a different plane.

The Skip-Frame theory is this: As man evolves and his brain is able to process impulses "naturally" at speeds that only seem possible now under abnormal conditions , Time will elongate, as well as life spans. Why? If one could live in SKIP-FRAME where NANO's are seconds, than seconds would be hours, hours weeks, a lifetime forever. One would age in reverse; live an hour, age a second. Not that I understand Einstein, but according to his theory of relativity, as speed increases doesn't time slow down? If the mind suddenly can process impulse 100 times quicker than a NANO -second earlier, doesn't a second become a hundred times longer? Stepping off a moving motorcycle 100 times easier? (yes) Living a hundred times longer the norm? Einstein's relativity was a time/space thing I think, but mine is the relation of impulse to existence. The end result the same, time slows down as we process quicker/ travel faster. When a second is plenty of time, than a lifetime can be enough. (Enough being forever)

I was kidding about the re-programing part. Without great fear involved, I have no idea how to naturally stimulate a body into a state of SKIP-FRAME. I do like the idea of being able to go there at will though. One can achieve so much when minutes become days. No doubt another dimension of time exists, I've been there. We just haven't evolved enough to get there for more than a moment. Not yet. Some re-programming may be in order.