Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Woo! Hoo! No Station in South Florida for Dobson!
Doctor James Dobson's new radio comedy show starts on May 3rd. Here is the link to his new website. http://myfamilytalk.com. Alas, there is no radio station in Dade, Broward or Palm Beach counties that will be carrying it.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Why 2010 sucks at the movies
This is what we have to look forward to for the rest of 2010 :-
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Babies
Iron Man 2
Robin Hood
Shrek For Ever After
Sex and the City 2
Prince of Persia
The A-Team
The Karate Kid
Toy Story 3
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Predators
Hairspray 2
Step Up 3D
The Expendables
Nanny McPhee 2
The Lottery Ticket
Piranha 3-D
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Jackass 3D
Paranormal Activity 2
Saw VII
The Howling: Reborn
Hairy Pooter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Red Dawn
Tron Legacy
The Green Hornet
True Grit
Sequels. Remakes. Comic Books. Hollywood truly is an industry bereft of ideas.
A remake of Red Freaking Dawn??? That's got to be a joke right? And True Grit too?
Only two upcoming Hollywood movies hold any interest for me in 2010.
One is "Salt" with Angelina Jolie. The other is "Knight and Day" with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
And alas I have to say this knowing that Olivia Wilde is in "Tron Legacy".
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Babies
Iron Man 2
Robin Hood
Shrek For Ever After
Sex and the City 2
Prince of Persia
The A-Team
The Karate Kid
Toy Story 3
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Predators
Hairspray 2
Step Up 3D
The Expendables
Nanny McPhee 2
The Lottery Ticket
Piranha 3-D
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Jackass 3D
Paranormal Activity 2
Saw VII
The Howling: Reborn
Hairy Pooter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Red Dawn
Tron Legacy
The Green Hornet
True Grit
Sequels. Remakes. Comic Books. Hollywood truly is an industry bereft of ideas.
A remake of Red Freaking Dawn??? That's got to be a joke right? And True Grit too?
Only two upcoming Hollywood movies hold any interest for me in 2010.
One is "Salt" with Angelina Jolie. The other is "Knight and Day" with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
And alas I have to say this knowing that Olivia Wilde is in "Tron Legacy".
Time to Talk Globalization
Experts say globalization has lifted millions out of poverty and so it must be a good thing.
The middle class in the US have seen their way of life forever altered and this is a bad thing. It is no coincidence that the children of today's parents will most assuredly not have a better life than their moms and dads - something that was unthinkable only one generation ago.
Where you stand on the whole globalization issue in the US depends on just one thing - whether you are in the middle class or whether you are not.
We've all seen them, "economists", "trade experts" and talking heads from rightwing think tanks like The Heritage Foundation on channels like CNBC and Bloomberg TV telling us that globalization is inevitable and we can't stop it. The kicker always for me, is when they say "In the future people will have 7 different careers in their lifetime".
Woah! Hold on Bald Eagle. No one and I mean NO ONE ever questions that statement - a statement always made by some "expert" safely ensconced in a job-for-life post in academia or by a career politician ( code word for lawyer ) who also isn't getting a new job in his lifetime. What is that percentage of re-elected encumbents again? Over 90% I think. These guys won't be changing careers a whopping 7 times. Of that we can be damn sure.
Now another number we always hear is that 70% of the US economy is consumer spending.
What would it mean for the US economy if the middle class don't spend anything? I think we've just had a glimpse of that in this last recession. I'll answer my own question. It means a future of economic stagnation stretching away as far as the eye can see. It means a US decline foreseen by our masters and sanctioned as "good for us" by them. It means lower wages until we can compete with the most poorest exploited persons in the world. It means our rulers are following policies to keep the mass of the American people in fear and economic bondage.
People won't spend money if their economic future is uncertain. Who can pay a mortgage if their wages crash every few years when they have to go out and get that 4th, 5th and 6th new career off the ground?
In the last few years as globalization has taken hold, CEOs have been encouraged to outsource perfectly legitimate middle class jobs from the US to "low cost" countries and the devil take the consequences. Well the consequences will eventually come home to roost when the middle class raises up and says "Enough! No more of this crap" and we will see such a swing to protectionism and isolationism it will make the 1930's look like a global lovefest.
And why are jobs outsourced? To maintain profits. To raise share prices. To give the CEO his bonus. And to hell with any effects this has on the US or its citizens. It's an attitude of "I'm all right Jack. Sod the workers, they'll never get into this club and affect MY life like I've screwed with theirs."
And then this sentence will be reapplied again by expoited and frustrated US citizens :-
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to the separation.
And that declared cause will be that our rulers have destroyed what it means to be an American. They have destroyed our economy, our way of life and more crucially they have destroyed the American middle class' hope for a better future for themselves and their families.
And with that declaration, the middle class of the United States will dissolve the government of it's elected rulers and throw off the serfdom and poverty into which those leaders have forced them. The only difference will be that this time the middle class with throw off the rule of Washington elites, lobbyists, CEOs and Academia. It is not going to be pretty.
The only way to avoid the coming storm is to change from the disastrous economic course on which we have been set and for the government of these United States to realize the depth of middle class resentment that they are creating.
The middle class in the US have seen their way of life forever altered and this is a bad thing. It is no coincidence that the children of today's parents will most assuredly not have a better life than their moms and dads - something that was unthinkable only one generation ago.
Where you stand on the whole globalization issue in the US depends on just one thing - whether you are in the middle class or whether you are not.
We've all seen them, "economists", "trade experts" and talking heads from rightwing think tanks like The Heritage Foundation on channels like CNBC and Bloomberg TV telling us that globalization is inevitable and we can't stop it. The kicker always for me, is when they say "In the future people will have 7 different careers in their lifetime".
Woah! Hold on Bald Eagle. No one and I mean NO ONE ever questions that statement - a statement always made by some "expert" safely ensconced in a job-for-life post in academia or by a career politician ( code word for lawyer ) who also isn't getting a new job in his lifetime. What is that percentage of re-elected encumbents again? Over 90% I think. These guys won't be changing careers a whopping 7 times. Of that we can be damn sure.
Now another number we always hear is that 70% of the US economy is consumer spending.
What would it mean for the US economy if the middle class don't spend anything? I think we've just had a glimpse of that in this last recession. I'll answer my own question. It means a future of economic stagnation stretching away as far as the eye can see. It means a US decline foreseen by our masters and sanctioned as "good for us" by them. It means lower wages until we can compete with the most poorest exploited persons in the world. It means our rulers are following policies to keep the mass of the American people in fear and economic bondage.
People won't spend money if their economic future is uncertain. Who can pay a mortgage if their wages crash every few years when they have to go out and get that 4th, 5th and 6th new career off the ground?
In the last few years as globalization has taken hold, CEOs have been encouraged to outsource perfectly legitimate middle class jobs from the US to "low cost" countries and the devil take the consequences. Well the consequences will eventually come home to roost when the middle class raises up and says "Enough! No more of this crap" and we will see such a swing to protectionism and isolationism it will make the 1930's look like a global lovefest.
And why are jobs outsourced? To maintain profits. To raise share prices. To give the CEO his bonus. And to hell with any effects this has on the US or its citizens. It's an attitude of "I'm all right Jack. Sod the workers, they'll never get into this club and affect MY life like I've screwed with theirs."
And then this sentence will be reapplied again by expoited and frustrated US citizens :-
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to the separation.
And that declared cause will be that our rulers have destroyed what it means to be an American. They have destroyed our economy, our way of life and more crucially they have destroyed the American middle class' hope for a better future for themselves and their families.
And with that declaration, the middle class of the United States will dissolve the government of it's elected rulers and throw off the serfdom and poverty into which those leaders have forced them. The only difference will be that this time the middle class with throw off the rule of Washington elites, lobbyists, CEOs and Academia. It is not going to be pretty.
The only way to avoid the coming storm is to change from the disastrous economic course on which we have been set and for the government of these United States to realize the depth of middle class resentment that they are creating.
And don't get me started what are leaders are doing to manufacturing jobs.
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