bad blogger! badblogger...

I can't seem to get the knack of writing regularly.

It's like watching a train go by and there went my thoughts.

So here's some website copy to be parked till who knows when.



And then on the senseless war on drugs.....or let's call it outsourcing our war on drugs. Stupid stupid stupid. I was listening on c-span to Jonathan Junger talking about supporting the Afghan poppy growers and of course thought about the billions spent on trying to attack the drug problem by attempting to control the supply. This seems like such an odd approach for a free market society; attacking the free market; thinking that you can somehow limit the supply of something that has been around forever and is in endless supply. Drugs, I imagine, have been around longer than money and do literally grow on trees. What if those dollars were spent on say healthcare? and the demand side of that equation. You know, the side that we actually can control. The one of personal responsibility. That would probably be considered too socialist, unlike trying to attack an endless free market by interfering with international markets, which is capitalist?




"I am not a simple man", he said. But the complexity had simply driven him simple. And the world does not handle complexity well. And nature takes care of all that. The Taouch, by Lao Te Winged



"New Orleans is, or should be, the graveyard of the conservative ideology that government is useless. An American city is reduced to Third World desperation as people who own nothing scrounge for necessities in a sea of waste and federal officials offer lame excuses about how their disaster plans would have worked fine had there not been, you know, a disaster." -- Michael Hitzik

The corner building at 102 and 104 E. Main St. in El Cajon has been rehabilitated nd is now occupied by the Corner Store and a new Shop called Not Too Shabby. A lot of people are pleased to see the building done. I wonder if the mural they've been talking about for 10 years is going to happen. I noticed there's a beautiful Olaf Wieghorst (or after Olaf Wieghorst) mural on Rea St. whichj is quite impressive. I do wonder about the wrought iron work on the west side of 102 E. Main. Can't really tell what they were trying to do there. Maybe they should do a mural of a jail, and the wrought iron can be the bars.

And there's a new bank going in, in what used to be The Crossroads, which was a bold move coffee house which tried to improve El Cajon.

From El Cajon to the Middle East I wonder if we've figured out who the enemy is.

Something I found interesting

"Market Fundamentalism has ruled the country for close to twenty-five years. It has produced weak economic performance, corporate crime waves, government corruption and a coarsening of the culture. But the amazing thing is that efforts to hold the Market Fundamentalists accountable have gained so little traction." I recently found this article in The Nation


Which so well sums up what I have been trying to express, for oh so long, that I thought I'd pass it along.

and from the Scotsman.


http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=609&id=272942006

Let's sell the ports!
I know no one's selling the ports.

I do not recall so many republicans crying about racial profiling, or racism. Oh my. Oh my.

HERE'S the problem with THAT.

THERE ARE NO VICTIMS. Get a grip. This is about the extent of Republican understanding of racism.

When somebody is denied a job because of racism somebody gets hurt. Somebody can't eat.

Deny somebody the contract of a port, who get's hurt? Rich Arabs? Americans who invest in wealthy Arab countries? Wealthy money goes where it needs to to make more money.

When you're poor, money goes to where it has to go to survive. That's a much different thing.

Here's another example. Say your black and poor. You get stopped by a cop because your black or maybe you look poor. You loose time that's used to make a living, to survive. Say you're rich and you get profiled and delayed for an hour. You loose nothing, except an hour, because your money is still making money while you're being delayed. That's capitalism.

So remember kids. Let's not victimize any wealthy Arabs over such a trivial thing as national security. Racism is very important in these business deals. Somebody could be denied a port.

So.
I ride my bike. almost every day. I love riding my bike. I can't afford a car. I can't afford the blood, the oil.
I love cars and drive them when I can. But their better for recreation. We are crazy about our cars.
I own two cars. A homeless crazy guy hangs out in one of them in my back yard. I don't want him there. I don't think he's wanted anywhere else. He yells at the top of his voice inside my car. He needs to yell. I don't think he can control it.

So I'm winding up my late afternoon errands. Post office...hunt for books..storage..hunt for books.....store.. and so close to home. Every once in a while I get home in time to spend some time....... so I check for cardboard at my local liqour store. Winding it up to cross the street. I'm actually on private (not the public road) property and getting ready to cross the street and sometimes I circle around and drift on the open space getting ready to dodge across the street.
Under my breath I curse at all the fools in cars. While I drift around, waiting for the perfect spiritual moment to cross the street.

The Nation
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/opinion/main1302806.shtml

I heard the leader, and I believe the founder, of the Minuteman Project on CSPANN, Feb. 8th. It's quite a face he puts on that organization. I must say I like his approach, and the story of why he decided to start it.

It's a very inflammatory subject right now as are most things in the body politic today.

I believe if we are ever going to resolve this we need to take a look at the bigger picture, which includes our relationships with the rest of the world, and particularly our relationship with Latin America, and "Free trade". But then a few weeks later I heard that a middle east company was going to run port security, for large ports here in the U.S. I thought it was science fiction. The truth and more information has since come out, and it ....science fiction or.. a good plot for a novel.

Once upon a time we were on a good path.