The real problem is with the conservative movement and the some of the tea party crowd. I for one don’t view them as what was classified as a conservative, using Kirk’s six canons of Conservatism but rather more or less left of center group who seems to be dictatorial in the same manner as liberals who are far left of center.

I have to ask why would anyone want to change the constitution like this on a trivial matter?

But it isn’t just that.

I see nothing in the way of helping the country get back on its feet, or at least stop stooping down. I read their positions and outside of Ron Paul and Herman Cain, no one has any real good ideas and it seems they are all talking like a typical politician.

Pretty much most of them are trying to beat Obama by trying to be Obama.

Maybe as a nation, we should look at Ron Paul or Herman Cain or look for someone who is appealing with the right message that is consistent and not fluffed.

This morning I read without too much amazement that the Germans may be a bit upset with the rest of the EU, seeing that they may be carrying the ball for Greece and Spain by helping them out with injecting some 400 euros into the EU debt crisis but you know I have this gut feeling that like our own debacle and government created recession, they may not be so lucky and we may be right there with them.

So our government, which I’m not too proud of at this moment, is thinking about another round of Quantitative Easing (can anyone say QE 3?) and another round of money to inject into our economy to spur job growth. At the same time we keep hearing the mantra of the Republican party repeated and repeated over and over – we can’t get jobs because of the “high” taxes and the regulations. In reality it isn’t that at all, it really is the same thing driving the EU into the ground, a lack of confidence in those who governor by the people.

The sad thing for many will be a worsening situation and no jobs because what ever is done, it is stepping in the wrong direction as it was since Hoover started to try to “fix” the depression – it didn’t work then and it won’t work now.

Not that I’m in denial but rather I want to remember the fallen with the lessons we learned for the tragic day and morn those lessons as forgotten.

What am I talking about?

Well I feel the terrorist won, they didn’t break our spirit but they won by making us fearful of things that we should be determined to beat as individuals and as a nation alike.

From the expansion of our government to “protect us” to the ‘freedom towers’ or what ever they are called, we collapsed and became what they set us up to do.

It isn’t that we need the addition effort to be safe, we don’t need the additional overkill to make us feel safe. From the expansion of the TSA to the Gestapo like questioning of US citizens at the border to the restrictions at airports – it all trashes those real lessons from the tragedy.

What are those lessons?

Well that’s easy.

The first one is our job as citizens is not to be complacent. That is the hardest thing not to do.

The second one is to bring our elected officials to task, we had a 9/11 commission formed and a few of those members were the same people who set in motion the problems that caused 9/11 but we didn’t care. We even had one person commit treason (my opinion) and he should have been sent to prison for life, nothing less than that but he is out and about with another security clearance.

The last one is we need to stop acting as victims and act as a nation that has been attacked. This is the one that gave the winning point to the terrorists, because we acted as if this was the worst thing that could ever happen when it isn’t. Sure it is a tragedy, and yes people died which is bad – very bad but we face things that cause as much damage every day and have thousands of people affected by it without acting as if we were a victim.

So let’s pray for those who lost their lives and those who suffer because of that day but let’s not forget others who stepped up in the past when we needed them and gave their all for our country.

This weekend was spent helping a few out and they are Bible thumping people who are clear on their beliefs and their position about the country. In order to help them, I had to sit through an hour of Bible discussion and a closed minded lecture on how evil other religions are – from Buddhism to Islam.

Now it isn’t I don’t like Bible thumpers, they are passionate in their beliefs and I love to see that in people on different levels but you know as a recovering Catholic, I get the message more often than I need to … or want. What bugs me is the same problem with some religions, interpretation is sometimes bent and twisted to the benefit of those speaking, be it a preacher or an Imam or a Holy Man.

But I digress …

I sat through the rendition of Revelations and John and Luke for that hour, with the follow up to the up and coming 9/11 anniversary by hearing how horrible Muslim people are. So I had to open my mouth and ask “have you ever met a Muslim?” I got a great response, “Yep … sure did … at the 7/11”

Umm… right.

I had to explain the difference between a person from India and a person from the Middle East, then had to explain what I see as a Muslim, pretty much trying to pry the door open for them. It took me about 30 minutes to tell them they are wrong and that it wasn’t a religion that attacked our country, but people.

These are the same type of people who are not Muslim that attacked us in 1941, the same type of people who we fought in Korea and Vietnam, people.

I know I’m making this out as a simplistic view of things but I can’t help that because if I went into what I know about Islam, I would be here all day long.

I think what bugged me is the blanket idea that we as a nation have to reject people for not what they are but who they believe in. I see many make Obama out as a religious figure, and some may be really offended by my opinion that he is same as other people on this earth but really shouldn’t we stop with the single short sighted view and ask about others what their world is like just to make sure we are not the real haters in the world?

I listened or tried to listen to the trial of the Goldman-Sachs execs by the congress, more specifically tried to listen to Levin repeat the words allegedly used by the execs in a memo which was just an annoying beep.

I could not figure out what they were getting at until I listened to CBC this morning and it wasn’t bleeped.

I realized that some in our society think God doesn’t think that some words exist so we must not hear them in public, on radio or on tv while other try to shield their children from bad mean words like shit and fuck and mother fucker and what ever but they hear it at school and among their friends. Maybe the learn them in some classes with teachers complaining about the budget cuts.

I see it extends to other things, cable shows for instance. South Park which is not a kids show (and it seems that anyone who thinks the show is for kids because it is animated should be locked up) does just that – let’s not offend anyone with those bad words even though it is 10 at night and we are a cable channel.

BBC America which I like to watch becomes really frustrating when they bleep everything being just mildly offensive. I thought the brits had the right idea, fuck the bleep. BUT they consider us vulgar so I can’t see the use of the bleep button by anyone who works for the BBC.  I have a lot of unedited shows from across the pond, I seldom heard bleeping out shit or fuck if at all.

Canada, to may amazement also is like the brits, I sat watching a movie on Channel 9 Windsor Ontario (CBC) one night and was floored to hear all kinds of nasty words coming from some girls and then the nudity – oh my tits and ass.

So I wonder why are we so afraid of words?

I mean if people think that not bleeping them out would offend anyone, then it would mean that they offend at any and all things in life. We don’t live in the fairy tale disney world, but even then, disney wasn’t about the kids but the adults. His world was the same as anyone elses, and society has to expose things to change them, not hide them as people want to do. Maybe without the bleep, people will hear how stupid it sounds and it will change … but then again we are a bunch of prudes to begin with.

I can’t afford gold, it is not on my list of needed items to survive life after a crash.

• Food – yes
• Things to trade – yes
• Talent to do something someone else can’t – yes
• Gold – not really

There hasn’t or at least I know of a time when gold mattered after a country collapsed. I think the nearest we have come to that is Germany in the 1920’s but that’s about it.

See I think it is all about the Benjamin’s … that is about how to get your money out of your pocket into the pocket of the person who has the gold to sell.

Big deal it is over a $1000 an ounce, that is a reflection of two things – the value of the dollar and the emotion within the market but nothing else. The former is a given, with dropped interest rates, the economy in the crapper and the present administration mortgaging our future, the price should be five times as much. Now the latter is simple, with the hype of the “better buy now” crowd, they pushed the market emotion up, hence the price goes up.

Here’s why I think it would be a bit better to put money into things that have a better value than metal.

I have a chicken.

My chicken produces eggs.

You have gold in one ounce ingots.

You need my eggs.

You can’t split up the gold but need eggs to eat.

So my eggs cost one egg per ounce.

Now many will not let go of the gold because of the value you put it on when you bought it, be it $600, $800, $1200 an ounce but with the eggs in my basket in one hand and the 357 in the other to make sure you don’t steal the eggs, what you paid for the gold is irrelevant at this time.

The real value is what it is traded for when you need to trade it, not what you paid for it.

It is far far better to have things to trade, like a butter churn or some tools but things that don’t really need to be recharged – I will give you the shell of one egg for that useless iPhone.

Advice?

Yea learn a skill.

Take Africa, a place where there are people who live outside most of their lives and only own their clothes and a few other possessions.

Or Rio, where there is a whole city within a city made up of impoverished people who barely eat let alone make any money to live more than an animals.

Nope I still can’t find it here.

I been all over the place we call America and I don’t see it.

Instead I see how we define the poor as people without cell phones or cars. Where if I was on welfare, I can get beer, snack food and other luxuries that real poor people can’t even imagine.

I see one thing that makes the poor better off than a lot of middle class people, they have an income. It seems odd to say this but for 6 years we have been recovering from a horrible job loss and we have to deal with a lack of access to programs because we either make too much money or actually don’t have the need according to some who are there to judge us.

Well let’s look at this a bit differently, our rights are put into the Consitutition, which is a very simple and amazing document. I could not find the right to vote in it anywhere, I mean an absolute right.

How can others make millions or alleged millions from a few websites?

My father ask how does one make money and I had to explain the way people make money with their blogs. I failed to mention that people do need to go to these sites and read the blog and keep coming back.

I stopped posting at this site, it is one of seven I had at the time all because my workload was high enough that making money was more important than posting my rants and opinions on this site, the work won out. I never made enough money, actually the stats show I didn’t make much to cover expenses but I am going to try again.

I hope that people will come here because it is exhausting going through  hundreds of pages of notes, printouts and excerpts on how to run a blog, how to write and how to make money.