Genealogy

Guys like Paul and Felix Warburg are mostly forgotten in history by most Americans - but these men are as important and influential as any other in bringing about our recent economic collapse.
Why is it that one cannot distinguish the policies and practices of Republicans and Democrats?
Because most are just following orders given by today's modern Sadducee and Pharisees.
The Fed owes much of it's influence to these German-born Jewish brothers who would play both sides during the first World War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Kuhn_Loeb_%26_Co
America was bought and sold decades fore Obama came into office - just keep clicking the references on each page to trace your own genealogy of debt.

Ka-Boom

 That Gorge Jakubec could amass weapons on such a large scale in Escondido, California is not surprising.
(Being surrounded by military bases filled with young and poorly paid people in a glamorous environment makes it easy to get almost anything on the black market. Sometimes the temptation is too great to resist for the young and impressionable.)
What is surprising is that the guy lived in the building with these explosives.

Judging by police photos -the guy could have used the help of Niecy Nash and her Clean House crew.

Even Down Under?

 Sure she can get the best of the Texas Beef Producers, make billions of dollars and buy her OWN network, and even help get a Black guy elected as POTUS.

But when shop keepers in Australia recently decided to remove their popular Golly dolls from the shelves as not to offend her on her walkabout down-under (Do they look too much like her character in The Color Purple?) - the girl's got power.

(Now... if she could only get through the doors of Hermes....)

Useless Luxury

Isn't a truck supposed to be a utilitarian tool and not a luxury.
The funniest thing is a tool which is too pretty to use,
has a bed that is too short to carry anything,
and whose owner is just pretending to be a working man.

Now this is a TRUCK.

"Be" The Impossible

 In swimming,

Or NASCAR,

 Or cycling - riding in the wake created by the leader is always the easiest path to follow.

I know this - everyone knows this.
But why do we always try to turn followers into leaders?
Maybe we should change the focus to turning leaders into better leaders.

Using the 'push' model isn't working.
The load is to heavy for one man, one group or one philosophy to carry.
Maybe Gordon Gecko was correct in his "Greed is good" soliloquy.
Maybe the masses do benefit from one person or group being better than the rest.
(As long as that person or group doesn't become oppressive.)
Maybe the masses need someone to take the lead in order to see which direction they should follow.
Maybe inspiration is as important as preparation.

"See" The Impossible

Apparently we're just lazy.
http://io9.com/5710434/train-yourself-to-see-impossible-colors
In an effort to save energy, the human eye can only see the differences between receptors instead of assigning a value to each receptor.

Maybe this is true with other aspects of our lives as well.
I know a woman who'd been to my home several times.
To her - it was just a house.
One day we went to Houston so I could check out a few shops and galleries.
Again, to her, these shops were just stores.
But upon returning to my house she noticed that most of the furnishings were expensive vintage Mid-Cent-Mod pieces.
She noticed that my closets were filled with more high-end designer clothing than they were declasse popular labels.
She had never noticed this before - her eyes weren't trained to see these things.

I wonder if this is true for many who suffer from the results of a racist culture as well.
Are the poor and undereducated that way because they have yet to train their eyes (and mind) to see what is right before their eyes?
Have they focused on being the victim for so long that they cannot see (or even imagine) the rainbow of opportunities available to them?

Suicide

Sometimes I can't think - sometimes I just do.
Sometimes this is a good thing because helping people has been so ingrained in my personality that I will help someone without thinking.
Sometimes it's a bad thing because I have problems code-switching and I often get stuck making the wrong choices to fit the corresponding environment.

Running these clubs is killing me.
The vapidity of most patrons leaves me in a mindset where I have problems processing any information which requires deep thought.
I can do popularity with my eyes closed and both hands tied behind my back but this is merely performance.
I find no real pleasure in 'spitting game'.

But being cool has it's price.
By being cool I have problems shifting back and forth with being a thinking man.
When I read the posts of SeeNew (at Subrealism) I now find myself months (not the usual weeks) behind in the topics being discussed.
I think my environment may be affecting my I.Q..
I think that is why I'm having so much trouble coming up with a plausible theory explaining why a death of the ego, or a death of the old ways, is needed to ensure progress.

Evolution, stigmergy, game theory, whatever... .
It seems that most of our actions can be predicted by the observance of bacteria.
The Tea Party, Sarah Palin, (most on) Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh seem to be suffering from stress.
Their actions are not their own but most are just reactions due to stress.
Beings who have reached the apex of their evolutionary cycle realize that if the world changes their likelihood of survival will diminish.
When this is the case, one fights such change.
Whatever is causing this change must be assimilated or eliminated.

If one accepted this fate he would be committing a suicide of self (consciousness, ego, tradition,...).
And as we all know, suicide is shunned by most cultures.
If Ms Palin, the Tea Party or most of those on Fox News readily accepted the current change they would be creating an environment in which their progeny had little chance for survival.
(Or at the very least, one in which they had less power or influence.)
By creating an environment where they would suffer, they would be seen as killing themselves.

Obsolete Luxury - Filofax

And Mont Blanc pens.
While I enjoy the more tactile experiences of listening to music on vinyl instead of on i-Pods, opening stamped and mailed letters instead of e-mail, and reading hard backed books not i-Pads - something must be said of modern technology.

Back in the day, one bought a Filofax (Or the cheaper DayRunner).
These things aren't cheap - today, the crocodile skin model costs about $2300.00.
But why spend this when one can do more on his $200.00 phone?
And why spend $200.00 on a Mont Blanc pen when no one even writes anymore?

Nothing New Under the Sun

Whether it's Roxanne Shante v. The Real Roxanne or Nitty Scott v. Nicki Minaj...
Someone is always trying to make money from another person's shine.
(But at least Ms. Scott is cute and has the skillz of Monie Love or M.C. Lyte or Jean Grae.)