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AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cool thing

...Is that it's still light out. It seems like just last week we still had our coats and gloves on.
Wait a minute, we did.
SUMMER!

YAY!

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Monitomecium

Here's a little thing I saw out of the corner of my eye on the monitor while I wasn't looking directly at it. So I had to make a video to describe what I saw.

Some links to some numbers

5
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473
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987
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13056
5762237

Mt. Redoubt volcano update

Here's today's Mt Redoubt volcano update:

It's blowing up. The sky is fully black, half the Alaska peninsula has
been obliterated. A big crack formed in the base of the Cook inlet and drained it. The resulting tsunami from the ocean just south of the inlet in an effort to refill it caused a great erosion which took all but 37 sq miles of the Kenai peninsula and washed it into Prince William sound. The moon fell and hit northern Alaska because it lost it's way in all the blackness but Anchorage hasn't been affected as yet.

Wonder what's going to happen tomorrow?

How to get a government bailout

First you must put aside any and all morals you've ever had. Then form a corporation and make all kinds of promises you never plan on keeping. Then, when things get a little tough tell them that you meant to do all those things but your hands were tied because you didn't pay someone enough money to overlook your lack of morals. They'll then start to feel sorry for you, give you another chance, give you a comforting pat on the top of your head and shell out a bunch of money into your bank account without asking you what you're going to do with it.


Now you have plenty of money to hand out to yourself for all kinds of parties, spas, bonuses, etc. to keep your conscience masked so you don't get depressed.

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Out of the mouths of babes

Or in this case my 7 yr old.

"I like horses"
I know you do
"They're animals and I like animals."
yep
"And we're animals too"
um, yes, we're human animals.
"And we're chickens too"
huh?
"We're chickens"
No, we're humans.
"Then we're human chickens."
Hmm, how's that?
"Because when the bears cook us we taste like chicken"
whew, well, laugh, ok.
"See?"
I Love you.
"I love you too"
"Gute Nacht"
Gute Nacht
"träum was Schönes."
träum was Schönes auch.

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Open letter to all those economic manipulators

Something about all this bailout and stimulus stuff has me concerned. Duh! Right!?
But anyway, I have been noticing something recently and if I didn't still feel secure with my job I'd just go into business right now. I can't think of a better time in the last 20 years to go into business for yourself. I did it once before during a recession in the early Clinton years and had a pretty good run at it for over a decade before life changed. No, I won't get into that series of events. Lets just get to the meat of this post:


This is a correction. Yeah yeah, statistics say recession and/or teetering depression but in reality it should be a correction. How so? because all that irresponsible crap that has been going on more and more has finally come home to roost. What's a correction supposed to do? Weed out the bad, reconfigure pricing structures, get rid of the Ponzi scheme economics, send a lot of people to jail, and Spur innovative thinking etc etc..
Basic survival of the fittest.
Instead, what are they doing?
Bailing out those that have done wrong with a bankers bailout.
Subsidizing those that can't compete.
Stifling innovation and small business by offering a "Stimulus package" to essentially prop up the large companies who do work via dinosaur-like non-competitive methodology and special interest anyway.

I am in the construction field. I have noticed recently that the amount of offers I get to be involved in, asked to personally bid on, or do, have been goodly quality commercial and residential jobs/projects.
Why is this? Because of the bottom line. Companies and individuals would still like to or need to get work done but guess what? Money is in short supply.
This is where it should be a great time to start a business. By the pricing I have done recently on these "side" projects I can easily triple my hourly wage even given the added expenses I would need to take into account to do this thing legitimately while at the same time saving the company that needs the work done just flat hoards of cash by not having to pay those larger companies with huge overhead and labor costs for the same work. And, I know I can do at least as good a job if not better.
Then why don't I do this? I didn't say I'm not but I'm taking baby steps at it.
Why again? If I'm so positive this is the right move.
Because of 2 things I have mentioned earlier in this letter:

Bailout and stimulus package.

They are feeding money, socialistic entitlements, and special interest into a failed system to keep that same failed, unproductive, non-visionary, special interest laden corporations and government created flawed fiat money system afloat and with work.
Thereby potentially stifling the creativity and innovation that we need so badly to not just prop ourselves up but to rise again as the leading technological and manufacturing country in the world.
Band aids don't cure the wound.
It needs to fall, sorry, it needs to CORRECT that the creative and innovative can bring us back.
Let the collapse take my retirement(or what's left of it) It's all fake money anyway backed by nothing.
All we're doing here is supporting a system to build yet another bubble. And we all know what happens to bubbles.

And yes, both parties are to be chastised equally for a lot of this. Tax us or rob from future generations. They are one in the same with different language.
"Drill baby drill" = a continuation of a dinosaur business ideology that stifles the technological innovation that once took us to the moon.
and "Change we can believe in" = false hope for the sheeple masses who have been duped enough by that same failed, bloated bureaucracy of a government who brought us here in the 1st place to thinking that they are the answer. Dare I get deeper into this one? You get the point.

Wake up nation. Tell the government to...

...JUST GO AWAY! We will be stronger for it if you just let things happen as they need too!

And STOP manipulating our money!

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
- Thomas Jefferson

If they would only allow us to leave

I can't believe that the whole thing just went away. The whole of everything was replaced by a scattered myriad of holes of nothing. Where did it come from? We had no clue. But it took blocks of land. literally perfectly carved square blocks of varying size. Some places the blocks of stuff replaced by nothing were carved just under the surface of the ground. This caused a number of sinkholes as pressure or disruption of one sort or the other applied sooner or later. Throughout the city there were strange configurations as squares of great towers were opened up. But the buildings stood as if nothing was gone.
I was in a tower when it happened. Not a single warning, nothing. If you weren't staring in the exact direction you would have never known it happened except for a few screams. The block lost was oh probably 40'sq. in all directions. We could see through it but we knew there was nothing there. The surface area of the block was cut so perfectly. Like the sharpest of razor knifes sliced out a block of the universe in perfect o mil accuracy. The offices cubicles were sliced through on a diagonal. some lost their lives as only part of their bodies remained. perfectly sheared where they were when it appeared. Only that which was not in the area of the block "survived" or rather still existed. Someone tried to reach into it's void and lost a small part of their hand. Again, perfectly sheared and catheterized to the exact furthest point of entry. It was horrendous as those above yet not aware of the severity and danger attempted to look over to communicate with us a floor below. We could see them above as one leaned too far and fell into it and down at us. But they didn't fall at us. They were just gone. It got quiet. And no one moved.
This would be the 4th time in as many months that it's happened. Each time another segment of the city gets "taken".
Where?
Or anywhere?
If they would only allow us to leave.Or remember. But each time we are made to forget. How? And why not me?
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Way Below zero degrees rules !

No Really! freakin' way below zero degrees and such just flippin' rules. Other than the utility costs of course.
But really. It's f-ing beautiful out there!
As long as you're geared up with the proper attire you can't beat it for being outside.
Clear days and nights. And when it's not the ice fog has a whole beauty of it's own, especially during sunrise or sunset.
The kids and myself have been gearing up and hitting the trails for some hikes and stuff. It's just simply beautifully serene out there.
A true winter wonderland it is.

And few or no other peeps out there either!

LOVE IT !

But I think I might need a new battery for the car now.
And the alternator might be getting a little weary.
I can't keep the correct air pressure in the tires either.
The wood glue in the shop is pretty much history.
But that's ok.
Damn it's pretty out there !

:)

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