For those of us in this hemisphere, we are in the last week of summer. In the US, the social summer ends with Labor Day.
So this weekend, and next weekend, you should spend at least some time on summer fun. Go to the beach, go boating on the river, have a picnic, go to a music festival. Do whatever used to make summer feel like summer. Sometimes this can be taking a ball and a bat to a park.
I also love this time of year for the back to school sales. I get some cheap, fun, office supplies to make me smile when I work during the dark days of winter. (I have been reading Regency Romances.)
It is really important to leave the house and meet new people. There are some new studies that show that loneliness can kill you.
GO HAVE FUN!
Friday, August 23, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
GRAVITAS AND THE FRB
When bankers say, "The candidate lacks gravitas," they actually mean, "She is not a man, or he is not 'one of us.'" Gravitas is actually the respect that someone is given, making the term easy to use as code for "only Harvard educated white men need apply."
Frankly, I have great respect for a woman who has become a member of the Federal Reserve Board. The glass ceiling in banking seems to be a steel reinforced ceiling.
If you think a woman used to debating other members of the FRB cannot also testify in front of Congress, you are wrong.
Recently I was reminded of why I am blogging. I want every person to be able to do anything their talent and education allows them to do. I do not want ANYONE to be told that they can not do something JUST because they are a woman, or because they are purple or old or fat or short or ugly or disabled.
However, men are going to have to accept the fact that they can not gestate a baby. %<)
Frankly, I have great respect for a woman who has become a member of the Federal Reserve Board. The glass ceiling in banking seems to be a steel reinforced ceiling.
If you think a woman used to debating other members of the FRB cannot also testify in front of Congress, you are wrong.
Recently I was reminded of why I am blogging. I want every person to be able to do anything their talent and education allows them to do. I do not want ANYONE to be told that they can not do something JUST because they are a woman, or because they are purple or old or fat or short or ugly or disabled.
However, men are going to have to accept the fact that they can not gestate a baby. %<)
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
GETTING MARRIED IN THE VALLEY
If you are getting married in Silicon Valley, please consider getting married in my friend's chapel. Pat cares about the people she marries and always holds a ceremony which has a positive emotional impact on the couple and their guests.
It is almost impossible to spend more than $500 getting married by Pat, even if you chose all of the fun add ons like the sand ceremony or jumping the broom. The least expensive wedding is only $80.
When Pat first started marrying people, I wrote and edited parts of her ceremonies.
You can find all of the information at www.siliconvalleyweddingchapel.com.
It is almost impossible to spend more than $500 getting married by Pat, even if you chose all of the fun add ons like the sand ceremony or jumping the broom. The least expensive wedding is only $80.
When Pat first started marrying people, I wrote and edited parts of her ceremonies.
You can find all of the information at www.siliconvalleyweddingchapel.com.
Monday, August 12, 2013
ORIGIN TOURS
Every US citizen, except for Cuban Americans, can go be a tourist in the land of their ancestors. Iranians, North Koreans, and Syrians, can be tourists in the land of their ancestors. But a Cuban American can only go to Cuba if they have a good reason and permission.
Newspapers tell us that this is because we are still punishing Castro. I hear rumors that it is actually the Miami hotels that fund the "no tourists in Cuba" campaigns.
If you are Cuban American, it is time for you to tell your Congressperson that you would like to have unrestricted travel to Cuba. And if you are a Silicon Valley engineer, do not forget to add that you would like to be able to bring back souvenirs, such as the perfectly maintained autos from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
It is time to stop punishing the people living in Cuba for their desire to have an education and health care for their children. It was easy to say that Castro was a villain unless you were poor and your child was dying because of lack of health care.
Cuba is a warning that if you do not take care of all of your people, your people may take care of you.
Newspapers tell us that this is because we are still punishing Castro. I hear rumors that it is actually the Miami hotels that fund the "no tourists in Cuba" campaigns.
If you are Cuban American, it is time for you to tell your Congressperson that you would like to have unrestricted travel to Cuba. And if you are a Silicon Valley engineer, do not forget to add that you would like to be able to bring back souvenirs, such as the perfectly maintained autos from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
It is time to stop punishing the people living in Cuba for their desire to have an education and health care for their children. It was easy to say that Castro was a villain unless you were poor and your child was dying because of lack of health care.
Cuba is a warning that if you do not take care of all of your people, your people may take care of you.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
Good people WAY outnumber bad people. All good people have to do to win is to refuse to cooperate with bad people. Bad people try to FORCE you to do something. Good people try to PERSUADE you to do something.
Often, people try to make a law against something that should actually be decided by each individual. Every time you attempt to force people to comply with your religious principles, you are being a bad person. Good people try to persuade others that their religious principles are worth respect.
If you are currently playing dirty tricks on someone, you should think about how you would feel if someone was playing the same dirty tricks on your grandson or your daughter. It is evil prejudice to try to annoy another person because the person is a woman or a minority or has another religious belief.
The world contains so much joy. We should celebrate the good things, not try to make bad things happen to good people.
Often, people try to make a law against something that should actually be decided by each individual. Every time you attempt to force people to comply with your religious principles, you are being a bad person. Good people try to persuade others that their religious principles are worth respect.
If you are currently playing dirty tricks on someone, you should think about how you would feel if someone was playing the same dirty tricks on your grandson or your daughter. It is evil prejudice to try to annoy another person because the person is a woman or a minority or has another religious belief.
The world contains so much joy. We should celebrate the good things, not try to make bad things happen to good people.
Monday, August 5, 2013
FINANCING POLICE BY LEGAL THEFT
Cash strapped local governments are using civil forfeiture laws to steal money from poor minorities and then use the money to finance police and prosecutors.
I could not write any better than the article in the New Yorker entitled "Taken".
Laws we were told would take profits from drug lords, are being used against the totally innocent, or against a person whose son sold $60 worth of marijuana.
I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. AND I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!
Drug dealers are not stupid. You civilly forfeiture one drug dealer's Maserati and soon all drug dealers with brains have their Mazeratis registered in the name of a Cayman Island Corporation and hordes of well trained, well paid lawyers show up to fight the forfeiture.
It is WAY easier to take all of the assets of a poor minority person who is too afraid to fight back. It is the same reason that the police tend to arrest more minorities for violation of drug laws. Most of them are too poor and too afraid to fight back. This is why over 50% of the drug arrests nationwide are for possession of marijuana. Since everyone is using marijuana, you just have to stop the nearest black kid to have an arrest and conviction to brag about when asking for more money from the DEA.
BTW, you did see that the DEA admits to routinely lying about the probable cause for an arrest? They think they are allowed to make up a story about how they saw a red light out and stopped the vehicle in order to cover up inadmissible info they got from the NSA.
We need to STOP THE WAR ON DRUGS. Because it is impossible to stop drug trafficking, our law enforcement officers are breaking the law under the pressure to make arrests. And the bribery money available would tempt the devil himself.
I could not write any better than the article in the New Yorker entitled "Taken".
Laws we were told would take profits from drug lords, are being used against the totally innocent, or against a person whose son sold $60 worth of marijuana.
I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. AND I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!
Drug dealers are not stupid. You civilly forfeiture one drug dealer's Maserati and soon all drug dealers with brains have their Mazeratis registered in the name of a Cayman Island Corporation and hordes of well trained, well paid lawyers show up to fight the forfeiture.
It is WAY easier to take all of the assets of a poor minority person who is too afraid to fight back. It is the same reason that the police tend to arrest more minorities for violation of drug laws. Most of them are too poor and too afraid to fight back. This is why over 50% of the drug arrests nationwide are for possession of marijuana. Since everyone is using marijuana, you just have to stop the nearest black kid to have an arrest and conviction to brag about when asking for more money from the DEA.
BTW, you did see that the DEA admits to routinely lying about the probable cause for an arrest? They think they are allowed to make up a story about how they saw a red light out and stopped the vehicle in order to cover up inadmissible info they got from the NSA.
We need to STOP THE WAR ON DRUGS. Because it is impossible to stop drug trafficking, our law enforcement officers are breaking the law under the pressure to make arrests. And the bribery money available would tempt the devil himself.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
ECONOMIC TERRORISM
The US security services allow billions of dollars to be stolen from individuals and credit card companies. Nigerian scammers, Russian mobsters, almost everyone is allowed to defraud Americans with absolutely NO consequences.
The entire world wide economy almost collapsed in 2008 because the feds ignored warnings about the mortgage industry. I believe that the warnings were ignored because each individual mortgage transaction was too small to get the notice of the federal government. However, as we painfully learned, the internet can turn small, relatively unimportant scams into a large scam that can bring down governments.
I am tired of hearing how business and banks are being defrauded by stealing credit cards. I am tired of listening to clients explain how they needed money so badly that they fell for a sophisticated version of the Nigerian email scam. (A large law firm was stung by a check cashing scam.)
The internet has made these small scams into big business.
As we have recently learned, the NSA has the capabilities to track down these international thieves and prove the theft. Since we can not stop the NSA from collecting the data, the NSA might as well use the data to protect the American people from economic terrorism.
Who knows, maybe some of the thieves are buying bombs with their ill gotten gains.
The entire world wide economy almost collapsed in 2008 because the feds ignored warnings about the mortgage industry. I believe that the warnings were ignored because each individual mortgage transaction was too small to get the notice of the federal government. However, as we painfully learned, the internet can turn small, relatively unimportant scams into a large scam that can bring down governments.
I am tired of hearing how business and banks are being defrauded by stealing credit cards. I am tired of listening to clients explain how they needed money so badly that they fell for a sophisticated version of the Nigerian email scam. (A large law firm was stung by a check cashing scam.)
The internet has made these small scams into big business.
As we have recently learned, the NSA has the capabilities to track down these international thieves and prove the theft. Since we can not stop the NSA from collecting the data, the NSA might as well use the data to protect the American people from economic terrorism.
Who knows, maybe some of the thieves are buying bombs with their ill gotten gains.
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