I am sorry for beginning my state of the Union piece and then abandoning it for the moment. I had made plans to attend the Protest of the Olympics when the Torch relay arrives in San Fran tomorrow. It's been very chaotic since I arrived. I would like to comment on the recent events in London and Paris yesterday. The message that I hoped would be in the forefront about the atrocities carried out by China in Darfur and Tibet have been overshadowed by the few who attend the protest with the intention of violence. They are destroying the hopes of many here that know if those scenes are all that is shown on the news it defeats the entire thing! Protesting violence with violence makes no sense. As Ghandi said, "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind!" Those that are carrying out these acts are a very very small percentage of who attends. I know of no one or group that has come to San Fran to do anything but to take one of the only public chances Americans have of voicing outrage of China and it's actions! I will finish my SOTU(state of the union) piece soon. ALSO- I would like to start a campaign to have Pres. Bush arrested, yes, I said arrested, for crimes against humanity, if he attends (he has all ready RSVP)and sits next to a Chinese leader that has been directly involved in the massacre of 1oo's of thousands in Darfur and continues that at this moment along with his oppression of peoples in Tibet. IF he goes he should not be allowed back or should taken into custody to stand trial when Air-force one touches back down on American soil. Soil that was saturated with the blood of individuals who died so we could be free of those types of horrors that China is carrying out!

The olympic torch will make only one stop in the US. It arrives in SanFransico April 9th. If you have the capacity to attend it would be a worth while trip as it is a chance to show China(if you arent aware of the genocide in Darfur or of Chinas involvemrnt go to Savedarfur.com its one of many sites you can get info) that its actions are unexceptable! I have a couple of posts here that give some background. See you Sanfransico!!

This post will be the most important one I've written to date. It will be an Illuminating look at not just the current state of our Union, (It will not be the view seen through the rose colored glasses or heard spoken in lies by "Our" current President) But the actual place we are today. Not opinions or biases. Not exaggerated to cause panic. It will be a real look, based on the real facts of what we have done and what we've become. I wont make any unnecessary predictions on where it is going to take us. That will be left to the individual reader and his or her on understanding of the facts and how they will process them. I want to also take an opportunity to thank those who have supported me since I began to write. I hope I have improved enough, to not have the way I write detract from what I write. I am not sure if I will continue to post. I don't feel that I'm reaching enough people and of those I'm reaching, I'm not sure I'm getting through. I have strayed often on many posts from the main purpose here and I know that has diluted the seriousness of my message. I will have to post periodically here and then continue on this same post. This is because I have apparently collected some enemies along the way,( could be any number of reasons and people who would rather not have me be seen nor heard. They may just get their wish anyway)So, If I write too much before I submit it, it gets deleted right in the middle as I'm typing and I have to start all over again. It doesn't seem to matter if I use the work palette or not? I also have been made aware that my e-mails are being intercepted and re-routed somewhere into the abbis of cyberspace. If you have sent e-mails to me in the last month or so I may not have received them, nor has anyone received any from me. Enough on that. OK, I have posted many writings on many different topics, some are not relevant, but those that are will now be connected, to help give you a very clear picture. I will not be commenting about "conspiracy theories" or faith based predictions of Biblical prophecies nor that of the beliefs of ancient civilization or historical individuals. I'm going to state, "The whole truth and nothing but the truth"(New York Times) It is what it is.....First, I will cover our current environment and this one doesn't include the physical sciences such as weather, ecology and ecosystems but is, the more I have thought about it, the most important one because it dictates how we relate to all the other environments. Here are the definitions of Environment from the dictionary. The external conditions, resources, stimuli, etc with which an organism interacts. 1) the aggregate of surroundings things, conditions of influences surrounding 2)the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or population 3)ecology-the air, water, mineral, organism and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any one time. It was in reading these characteristic that a powerful illumination of our world came to me. You see it's these intangible aspects of our environment that have the power to create change in our actions, they are the foundations that structure our entire lives. It's called "milieu", those things you can't reach out and grasp, yet they have the ability to take hold of us. They allow us to make changes, or with equal strength, prevent us from making changes. They alter our moods and set the tone of our consciousness. It is how and why we act socially. It is the steering mechanism driving our culture. Those environmental intangibles have today created a culture of hate, fear, mistrust, apathy and hopelessness. They now have us positioned in the direct path of a "Perfect Storm". A Perfect Storm is one that increases it's strength and effect by the interactions of many smaller storms that all converge at one time and at one spot. We now stand directly in that spot and we have very little time to take cover. We have ignored so many signs of it's coming because of the environment we have all created. You've all heard, That's just fear mongering, it's a conspiracy theory, that will never happen, what am I to do about it, nothing is going to change anyway, its not my fault, it's not my responsibility, I have my own problems, what can I do, I'm only one person, wont happen in my life time.. and on and on... Well, I'm sorry to inform you that all those statements are incorrect and IT WILL HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFETIME! IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! Here are the variables that we are all aware of that have now gathered to create the biggest and baddest "Perfect Storm". Our country is free falling into the eye of that storm. We are now deeply entrenched in a Recession, no matter what lies you believe from Bush. The Dollar is falling in rapid devaluation, causing the US dollars to be sold off worldwide. The real estate crash will worsen because homes and condos were being hugely over built. The markets that had been boom are now bust. Some that have coast-lines with high priced properties wont be able to give them away, as the reality of rising sea levels and increased strength of hurricanes due to climate changes becomes evident. Drought and lack of available drinking water will also effect markets built in areas that should never have been built in the first place(Veges). The real killer of real estate will arrive soon, as gas prices rise out of sight and eventually we run out of it. We have built a society on movement, commuting from the suburbs to jobs in cities days are numbered. As those gas prices sky rocket the cost of living will hitch a ride. We buy apples from overseas? When they can and are grown in your neighborhood! The energy crunch has just now getting real attention, now when it's ALL MOST too late to make the changes to prevent a total breakdown of our transportation systems. Job losses from less travel will hit certain industries hard, but everyone will suffer. Now, jobs! You have heard the out cry of towns who have lost companies to oversea and now have entire populations that once depended on a single large employer, unemployed and no where to go. The reports of job losses are just beginning. In the first 3 months of 2008 we lost almost 250,00 jobs. But, it gets worse because what your not being told is that with our population growth, it requires that we add about 1.5 million new jobs a year just to keep employment rates at par. So, that's about 140,000 new jobs per month. Now, add that to the loss! So, reality in the first 3 months we've lost nearly 1 MILLION JOBS! This is going to begin to stress our all ready stressed unemployment services and gov assistance programs. The government has been financially run into the ground by wanton waste, misappropriations, failed contracts and outright fraud and theft.(ever wonder why no one is looking for or mentions the 12 billion, yes 12 BILLION in cash that was sent to Iraq to "stimulate the economy" and upon arrival in a cargo plane, the palettes of stacked 100 dollar bills disappeared!) That was your hard earned tax dollars well spent! Billions spent on programs that never get off the ground, are mismanaged or fail horribly. 12 Billion of your taxes being spent on earmarks, that's slang for kickbacks to friends of Senators and Congressmen who are "owed" for their "contributions" to help their elections. We spend 400 Billion a year on a military budget and still have to borrow 500 billion from China(of all countries) to fund a war In Iraq that has destroyed any chances of mending ties with a radical Muslim population that is hell bent on wiping both Israel and the USA of the map permanently. That war that cost 2 billion a week and will reach a trillion dollars before it's all said and done, has caused more damage to our citizens and raised the threat to our security, then all previous wars grouped together. We now have a foreign debt of 9 trillion dollars, once again more than all previous Presidents debt combined! The number of elected officials that have been caught(its just the tip of the iceberg that we are going crash into) breaking the very laws they themselves enacted has exploded to a pace higher than crime rates rise among the other Americans. With all that the local and state governments are now cutting the budgets of the single most important institution in America. SCHOOLS! Then we wonder why we can't attract teachers from the top 25% of colleges graduates but wind up with the lowest 25%. Last year the number of schools that were classified as "Dropout Factories" rose to over 1500 nationwide. On the average only 58% of our "hope for the future" will graduate from high school. Some urban cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh have a drop out rate of nearly 75% SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT DROP OUT! That is our future. BREAK IM SURE YOU NEED ONE RIGHT ABOUT NOW... MUCH MUCH MORE And I'm sorry for this tone but it must be understood..

You are not going to believe this!... I have double and triple checked, and I still come up with the same #S. I have to shake my head! I AM SHOCKED AND IN AWE! It's the five year anniversary of our Invasion and subsequent occupation of a country that we attached for one and only one reason. Operation Iraqi Liberation= OIL! Bush makes me sick every time he goes in front of a camera and all the world and tries to justify the blatant lies he used to drag us into a "Conflict" that now is just a quagmire by stating, Saddam was making weapons of mass destruction and consorting with Al-Qeda. Well, six years later there is not one shred of evidence of ether. Actually, Al-Qeda seems to have just been waiting for the US to over-throw Saddam to jump in and attempt to take a piece of the Iraqi pie. So, what did Bush do? He then broadens the scope by stating, "We removed a ruthless dictator who was a threat to the whole world and his own people". Yet, how much of a threat could Saddam and Iraq have been, if we were able to dethrone him and take over the entire country in less than one week? And done with only 5 casualties! Now, Hitler killed 6,000,000 million Jews by throwing them in furnaces alive. The war lasted 6 years and in the end over 400,000 American soldiers died. And a total of 60 million died on both sides during WWII! Now that was a threat! And as far as the human rights violations Saddam took out on his own people. Yes, They were atrocities, but 5,000 killed in the gassing of the Kurds, while the president of Sudan has orchestrated a genocide slaughtering over 400,000 and raping tens of thousands of women and young girls(some as young as 8 yrs old) and leaving 2.5 million refugees scrambling to get out of harms way. For them only to end up in Refugee camps with no food, water or shelter, in the middle of a desert! This took place during this same five years, and still continues today, yet WE DO NOTHING! ASK BUSH TO EXPLAIN, BECAUSE I FOR ONE JUST DON'T GET IT! We have spent over 600 billion dollars, much of it borrowed from China, and have only given, what would equate to LESS THAN 1% of that, to help end the horrors in Darfur!(www.savedarfur.com) Give me a break! Bush was also invited to this summers Olympics in Beijing, which he publicly excepted, to be the personal guest of a Chinese ruler that makes Saddam look like Gandi! WE HAVE ALLOWED AND STILL ALLOW IT! Now, for the frosting on the reality cake- 4,000 soldiers have died since the beginning of the war in Iraq(a senseless no. of good young men and women lost). BUT, Mortality rates in the US are at 816.5 per 100,000 per year. If you take 5 year times 816.5 you wind up with 4082.5 deaths per 100,000. (According to the natl center for health and statistics) OK now, we have over 150,000 troops serving in Iraq. Given the same numbers had they all not been deployed but instead remained in the country...........6134 of them would have died! DID YOU GET THAT! It appears that enlisting and serving in Iraq with all it's potential dangers is still safer than staying at home in America! Yes, I know other factors are not mentioned here like Age, gender, illnesses... but you get my point! Question everything! For, everything can be spun to make black look like white..Another little fact during the 5 yrs of "War". Back in America there were approx. 128,000 murders in that 5 yr period!(Natl center for crime statistics). Where is the war going on?

I'm going deviate from the normal theme of both my postings and choices of songs. This week I have chosen a Song that Luciano Pavarotti sings that stirs emotion in the soul when heard. It's also in his memory, since he passed away recently. He was more than just arguably the greatest Tenor that ever lived. He bridged the gap with many artists, and across many different styles of music.....enjoy. No one guessed it... maybe No one really cares... I must go find Misty or Whit now, Thanks Whit- Go to comments to hear and watch this weeks song. Next week I go back to the theme....HINT: You will get to watch/listen to Abraham Park...... raise the roof...? Once again I wonder if its a matter of difficulty or desire......anyone with atleast a guess? Does any know if Lincon could Drive?[ If not, It's probably what the police would say if they pulled him over?..