If you live in Washington you need to know about this. Monsanto is now backing the No on 522 campaign. All total detractors have raised $22 million against 522, while its backers, real organic farmers among others (not the fake ones you see in the TV ads) have only raised $6.8 million. Other companies backing No on 522 include ConAgra Foods Inc., PesiCo Inc., Coca Cola Co., Nestle SA, General Mills Inc. and Hershey Co. This is according to today's issue of The Columbian.
It's very simple. When huge corporations back a No, vote Yes. If they back a Yes, vote No. The interests of all these companies are not in alignment with your own. They only care about profit, not your health and well-being. That is why they Monsanto has forced farmers to use GMO seeds that have to be purchased each year, driving them into debt. That's why they purchased Blackwater, their own private military contractors.
Monsanto now has its own military to help enforce its militaristic control of the food industry, INCLUDING the FDA. You read that correctly. The FDA is in league with these same companies I have just listed. They are a corrupt agency, no better than the mafia in their practices, and I mean that literally.
It's time for us to draw a line in the sand, now. Let's stand united and vote Yes on 522. Measure 522 does only one thing, making it the clearest measure I have ever seen. It requires genetically modified food to be labeled as containing GMO. Passing Measure 522 sets a precedent that other states will follow, and its hits these big corporations right where it hurts, in their profit line.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Stand with me to repeal Obamacare!
From a recent White House email:
"Less than a cable bill
It's no secret that the health care website hasn't worked as well as it's supposed to. But Obamacare is giving millions of Americans across the country access to quality, affordable coverage for the first time.
Today there's some great news from a Department of Health and Human Services report: Nearly half of single, uninsured Americans between 18 and 34 will be able to get health coverage for $50 a month or less.
$50 or less. That's less than a cell phone bill. It's less than a cable bill. And it means that young Americans who want coverage will be able to afford it.
Deputy Senior Advisor David Simas sat down to talk about the news -- and why it's so important that more Americans are getting the coverage they need, at a price they can afford."
I find it hilarious that whoever wrote this is comparing Health Care to a cable or cellphone bill. It's not much of a recommendation, considering the last time I saw either, for a basic package, it was over $100.00. Which, by the way, is closer to what you will actually pay for healthcare in this so-called "affordable healthcare act." I know of at least one person who looked into this and it was something like a $400.00 bill.
But how expensive, or purportedly cheap, this may is not what it is important. even $50.00 is more than the homeless person living under your bridge can afford, likewise the single man living in an apartment working at a minimum wage job.
This is extortion, plain and simple. It is essentially another tax, another fee, another charge on your bill of freedom. That same document was paid for in blood by some of your forefathers. America is no longer a free country. You are not truly free if you have to constantly pay money simply for the apparent privilege of living here, outside of your normal living expenses.
If we allow this to continue instead of taking a stand we are no better than sheep allowing the few to herd us, the many, together towards whatever fate they have in mind for us. The president works for us, the American people, as does our military and police force. But the way our politicians have acted is not in our best interest. If you had an employee stepping out of line like that you would fire them! So it is time to fire our politicians, and unfortunately Mr. Obama. It is time to throw out this ridiculous idea of Obamacare and take back our country.
We are the ones who work here, who live here, who pay for what we have with our blood and sweat. Many of us are renting our lives instead of owning them. I don't know about you, but for me it is fast becoming too expensive to live here. When I was living alone, paying for my apartment, $50.00 towards a bill meant paying the bill or going without food. I know it is worse now, and at the time I didn't even have cable!
It's time to stop being a sheep and take back your right to live here in this country freely. We once had the balls to take a stand and threw an awesome tea party. Now if we tried that we would be assaulted by police officials in riot gear. Do you actually still believe you are free? It's time to wake up and face the facts. We can take a stand, now, on this issue of Obamacare.
All you have to do is sign my petition and pass it on. Even if it never amounts to anything, at least you took a stand, and that counts for a lot. But I truly believe that if enough of us sign and flood our representatives in government with requests to repeal Obamacare we can, in true Halloween tradition, drive a stake through this things heart and kill it once and for all. Here's the link:
Repeal Obamacare
"Less than a cable bill
It's no secret that the health care website hasn't worked as well as it's supposed to. But Obamacare is giving millions of Americans across the country access to quality, affordable coverage for the first time.
Today there's some great news from a Department of Health and Human Services report: Nearly half of single, uninsured Americans between 18 and 34 will be able to get health coverage for $50 a month or less.
$50 or less. That's less than a cell phone bill. It's less than a cable bill. And it means that young Americans who want coverage will be able to afford it.
Deputy Senior Advisor David Simas sat down to talk about the news -- and why it's so important that more Americans are getting the coverage they need, at a price they can afford."
I find it hilarious that whoever wrote this is comparing Health Care to a cable or cellphone bill. It's not much of a recommendation, considering the last time I saw either, for a basic package, it was over $100.00. Which, by the way, is closer to what you will actually pay for healthcare in this so-called "affordable healthcare act." I know of at least one person who looked into this and it was something like a $400.00 bill.
But how expensive, or purportedly cheap, this may is not what it is important. even $50.00 is more than the homeless person living under your bridge can afford, likewise the single man living in an apartment working at a minimum wage job.
This is extortion, plain and simple. It is essentially another tax, another fee, another charge on your bill of freedom. That same document was paid for in blood by some of your forefathers. America is no longer a free country. You are not truly free if you have to constantly pay money simply for the apparent privilege of living here, outside of your normal living expenses.
If we allow this to continue instead of taking a stand we are no better than sheep allowing the few to herd us, the many, together towards whatever fate they have in mind for us. The president works for us, the American people, as does our military and police force. But the way our politicians have acted is not in our best interest. If you had an employee stepping out of line like that you would fire them! So it is time to fire our politicians, and unfortunately Mr. Obama. It is time to throw out this ridiculous idea of Obamacare and take back our country.
We are the ones who work here, who live here, who pay for what we have with our blood and sweat. Many of us are renting our lives instead of owning them. I don't know about you, but for me it is fast becoming too expensive to live here. When I was living alone, paying for my apartment, $50.00 towards a bill meant paying the bill or going without food. I know it is worse now, and at the time I didn't even have cable!
It's time to stop being a sheep and take back your right to live here in this country freely. We once had the balls to take a stand and threw an awesome tea party. Now if we tried that we would be assaulted by police officials in riot gear. Do you actually still believe you are free? It's time to wake up and face the facts. We can take a stand, now, on this issue of Obamacare.
All you have to do is sign my petition and pass it on. Even if it never amounts to anything, at least you took a stand, and that counts for a lot. But I truly believe that if enough of us sign and flood our representatives in government with requests to repeal Obamacare we can, in true Halloween tradition, drive a stake through this things heart and kill it once and for all. Here's the link:
Repeal Obamacare
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Why License Plate Reading Squad Cars are A Bad Idea
Why license plate readers are worthless.
So let's say you are a criminal. Maybe just a thug working for someone, maybe a contract killer. Doesn't matter. The first thing you know as a criminal is that you don't want to be noticed by cops. So the first thing you do is learn what the cops are doing to find people like you. Inevitably you will discover that there are cruisers out there with license plate readers. So what do you do? Simple. Steal another car. Hell, stel a dozen cars or so and leave the police chasing them all over the city. Or perhaps you simply steal a license plate from someone else's car, and give them the license plate the reader will be looking for. Now you have caused a whole bunch of confusion. Switch plates a few more times and the cops will never find you. Or, if you are really hi-tech and professional, just manufacture a plate that looks real with real looking tags that would pass visual and electronic inspection. Whatever the case may be, the cops will never find you, the license plate readers have been nullified, and you will be in and out of the city, maybe even the country, before the police ever pick up your trail.
Even the dumbest of criminals can figure this out and use it to their advantage. So the taxpayers are wasting money on this, the same as they would be if we were to pass stricter gun control laws. License plate readers can only catch non-career criminals, or really, really stupid career criminals. That's all they can do. The cost then of violating the general public's right to privacy is too high. But it gets worse.
Maybe 99% of all cops are hard working, honest people. But there are still police officers who are, "on the take" as they say in the movies. There are also police officers emotionally invested in catching someone and they will do whatever it takes, at the expense of an individual's personal rights, to find whoever they are after. So these license plate readers are at serious risk of being abused. Sure, they are not supposed to drive by mosque's. But I'll bet you, especially with terrorist activity on the rise, that they have been, will be, and are. Even the good, honest hard working cops. Why?
Simple. To a police officer it's the same US VS THEM mentality. The brothers in blue against the criminals. Muslims VS Christians. As long as any sort of division mentality exists in the mind of a person, especially a police officer, they can not be unbiased. They can not simply enforce the law, they must also execute justice. The temptation will always be there, nagging in the back of even the most rule-book following public official. Give them things like license plate reading cars and the temptation becomes stronger. They are already carrying around guns, nightsticks, taser, perhaps a shotgun and vest in the trunk. How much more power do they need?
It is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the tendency in human beings, but it doesn't have to be the reality. I want to be clear on this. I am sure there are some officers who follow the rules, no matter what, never let emotions control them, never give in to that nagging in the back of their mind. And more officers could be like them if they wanted to. But the reality is that these truly honorable police officers are the minority.
When it comes down to it, based on past experience only, with no psychic powers telling me what the future holds, I can say that its too big a risk to give cops and others in positions of authority any more power. There should not be able to monitor us, to use cameras on us without our permission, or scan our license plates. These things can be used against us, both by the authority figures and the terrorists/criminals that they are supposedly protecting us against. It is a double-edged sword with no handle, only to cut even in defense.
Now I am not creating or investing energy into a reality where any of this happens. I live in the present moment. So all possibilities exist for the future. Which means that authority figures could all of a sudden become immune to corruptibility just as easily as they could succumb to it. Both possibilities exist. I invest my energy into a future society that is more spiritual and no longer in need of police officers or any authority figures. Where we are all so spiritually evolved that there just isn't any crime or any need to be led.
That said, at this present moment, the risk of corruption is too great, based solely on past experience, and I think these license plate reading devices should be disabled. Just as I think that gun control laws are worthless, because they only affect law-abiding citizens. A better solution needs to be found, more thought and intelligence should be put into these issues. We need to outsmart the criminal mind, not out-gun it.
So let's say you are a criminal. Maybe just a thug working for someone, maybe a contract killer. Doesn't matter. The first thing you know as a criminal is that you don't want to be noticed by cops. So the first thing you do is learn what the cops are doing to find people like you. Inevitably you will discover that there are cruisers out there with license plate readers. So what do you do? Simple. Steal another car. Hell, stel a dozen cars or so and leave the police chasing them all over the city. Or perhaps you simply steal a license plate from someone else's car, and give them the license plate the reader will be looking for. Now you have caused a whole bunch of confusion. Switch plates a few more times and the cops will never find you. Or, if you are really hi-tech and professional, just manufacture a plate that looks real with real looking tags that would pass visual and electronic inspection. Whatever the case may be, the cops will never find you, the license plate readers have been nullified, and you will be in and out of the city, maybe even the country, before the police ever pick up your trail.
Even the dumbest of criminals can figure this out and use it to their advantage. So the taxpayers are wasting money on this, the same as they would be if we were to pass stricter gun control laws. License plate readers can only catch non-career criminals, or really, really stupid career criminals. That's all they can do. The cost then of violating the general public's right to privacy is too high. But it gets worse.
Maybe 99% of all cops are hard working, honest people. But there are still police officers who are, "on the take" as they say in the movies. There are also police officers emotionally invested in catching someone and they will do whatever it takes, at the expense of an individual's personal rights, to find whoever they are after. So these license plate readers are at serious risk of being abused. Sure, they are not supposed to drive by mosque's. But I'll bet you, especially with terrorist activity on the rise, that they have been, will be, and are. Even the good, honest hard working cops. Why?
Simple. To a police officer it's the same US VS THEM mentality. The brothers in blue against the criminals. Muslims VS Christians. As long as any sort of division mentality exists in the mind of a person, especially a police officer, they can not be unbiased. They can not simply enforce the law, they must also execute justice. The temptation will always be there, nagging in the back of even the most rule-book following public official. Give them things like license plate reading cars and the temptation becomes stronger. They are already carrying around guns, nightsticks, taser, perhaps a shotgun and vest in the trunk. How much more power do they need?
It is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the tendency in human beings, but it doesn't have to be the reality. I want to be clear on this. I am sure there are some officers who follow the rules, no matter what, never let emotions control them, never give in to that nagging in the back of their mind. And more officers could be like them if they wanted to. But the reality is that these truly honorable police officers are the minority.
When it comes down to it, based on past experience only, with no psychic powers telling me what the future holds, I can say that its too big a risk to give cops and others in positions of authority any more power. There should not be able to monitor us, to use cameras on us without our permission, or scan our license plates. These things can be used against us, both by the authority figures and the terrorists/criminals that they are supposedly protecting us against. It is a double-edged sword with no handle, only to cut even in defense.
Now I am not creating or investing energy into a reality where any of this happens. I live in the present moment. So all possibilities exist for the future. Which means that authority figures could all of a sudden become immune to corruptibility just as easily as they could succumb to it. Both possibilities exist. I invest my energy into a future society that is more spiritual and no longer in need of police officers or any authority figures. Where we are all so spiritually evolved that there just isn't any crime or any need to be led.
That said, at this present moment, the risk of corruption is too great, based solely on past experience, and I think these license plate reading devices should be disabled. Just as I think that gun control laws are worthless, because they only affect law-abiding citizens. A better solution needs to be found, more thought and intelligence should be put into these issues. We need to outsmart the criminal mind, not out-gun it.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Another new series just started! Blender Age Builders.
In this series I show you how to make your own ages for Uru Complete Chronicles in Blender. You can see the videos and access all the necessary links here:
Blender Age Builders
Blender Age Builders
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Introducing a new series - Windows 7 Quick Tips!
A new video showing you how to play SWF files has been added to a brand new page where I will list some quick tips for Windows 7. Take a look!
Windows 7 Quick Tips
Windows 7 Quick Tips
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Troubles in 1080p? Here's a video with a few helpful tips for Windows 7 and Firefox!
Some time ago I had this brilliant idea to build a computer and use a 32" LCD LED TV as my monitor. It turns out that the TV works great as a TV, but not so good as a monitor. Not by any fault of its own. It has a nice bright and sharp screen. It turns out that when you use 1080p your screen real-estate gets bigger, and all your text shrinks. Unless you want to bring opera glasses back into fashion, the following video shows you a few things you can do that will help:
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