In the introduction to a soon to be published book by my friend Ken McAlpine, he explains the thinking that passed through his mind which led him to write Islands Apart, (A Year on the Edge of Civilization).  He describes spending time in his yard at the end of sundown, looking at the stars as well as feeling that he is “…missing something.  I doubt that I am alone.  Almost every day I encounter people who, like me, do not feel empowered by these abundant times.”
Ken sights Tennyson as well as the actions of Thoreau.  But more importantly, he shares a feeling that numerous of us feel but may not be able to describe.  Or are too distracted or shallow of thought to explore ourselves.
About this busy world we reside in he says “Some are mildly unsettled; others near to drowning.”
Wrote Tennyson, “The ghost in man as well as the ghost that was once man are calling to each other in a dawn stranger than the earth has ever seen.”<

   After seeing the film Who Killed the Electric Car, numerous suspects are presented, numerous are found guilty but in my mind, the an estimated all responsible party on behalf of its demise is me as well as you (the consumer).
Yes General Motors was evil to recall perfectly good vehicles, yes big oil tried to squash efficient battery technology, it’s true that at the end of Jimmy Carter declared that ‘America shall never import more foreign oil than we do today’  (1978), no president thereafter pursued that goal.  But when it comes down to it, it’s we the people that are to blame.
Now nearly 300 million strong, there's nothing that we as a group of people can't accomplish if we put our minds to it.  And the time has come on behalf of us to wrap our minds around zero emission, non fossil burning technology.  It exists today, it’s just not available to us today.  Unless we really desire it.Read more >>>

Today I learned what numerous knew last Friday - that Merrill Lynch executives  paid out billions in bonuses just before being absorbed into Bank of America, at the end of Merrill’s surprise $15 billion net loss in the fourth quarter and as the economy was deteriorating as well as the government was spending billions to bail out some of the nation’s an estimated all prominent financial institutions.
President Obama branded Wall Street bankers “shameful” yesterday on behalf of giving themselves these ridiculous over-payments.  It’s good to see a commander in chief become angry with the gluttony that has ruled some corners of corporate America.  As literally millions of people in this country are without jobs, these hyenas act as if they’re at the country club, redecorating their offices as well as buying the latest this as well as that.
As on behalf of me, I am sick as well as tired of the lions of American business ruling as they please.  It’s time on behalf of a sea modification in how things are done as well as by whom.Read more >>>

      There is a hierarchy of consciousness which states that as one gains awareness, one gains the tools to manufacture better decisions. 
Level 1 - Unconscious Incompetence - Not knowing that you don’t know slomething  Level 2 - Conscious Incompetence - Knowing that you don”t know something.  Level 3 -Unconscious Competence - Knowing how to do something, but not in a teachable way as well as ultimately Level 4 - Conscious Competence - Which is knowing something so well you can teach it to others.
Like the Peter Princsiple, President Geaorge W. Bush was elevated to a level of incompetence.  After eight years of watching his leadership, I firmly trust that not only was he incompetent in his job, but also oblivious to that fact.  ‘Often wrong but never in doubt’ comes to mind.
The signs of Unconscious Incompetence are:<

Society is in a funk as well as all of us hope that 2009 proves to be a pivital year to reverse that trend.  Submitted on behalf of your review:  Two suspects, presumably men, who walked into the Circle K on Main Street in Ventura the day at the end of Christmas as well as shot the clerk dead.  For no apparent reason.  While there may be more to the story, it appears by all accounts that the young man killed was a good, hard working person doing the right thing. 
The Circle K corporation has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who helps apprehend these monsters. 
It upsets me  that such callousness exists.  Then again, I don’t reside in a very dangerous area; much of the world is exposed to such brutality on a regular basis.  For that, I am grateful…