Finally what?

Finally someone with credentials ( a soldier ) says we should get out of Iraq. Well it's about time but it's not nearly enough. Maybe it's a start but it doesn't address the complete failure of the current administration. Someone (With credentials) should admit that the government has failed the American people and call for a change of GOVERNMENT. (see previous post)
Hay Ed. Edward Kennedy. Do you care about America enough to give up your seat for the good of our country?
Adaven

Change of Government

Things are really rotten in Washington. Look! Criminal charges, deceit, obvious incompetence, gross conduct all around. Even the wheatfield farmers are shaking their heads. Our government is sick. It has heart disease. It needs a transplant.
I'm talking revolution.
No blood, no guns just democracy.
I call for a change of government. An election to replace the House, the Senate, the President and vice President, all of the federal government with new people.
No incumbents allow to run. Let's face it. These people have failed us.

Here's how to do it. Each incumbent will be allowed to suggest a replacement and they will be on the ballot.
A quick primary will be held in every state, with candidates limited to publishing a statement of their quafilcations. No change in eligibility. The primary vote on Presidents day. The election on Easter. AND no TV campaining. Print and radio only with free and equal time to each candidate.

A change would be assured. It is possible if enough Americans demanded it with email and letters and phone calls and marching in the street.
A change in staffing could not help but improve our government.
Adaven

Our Government

I read the NY York Times online everyday. My email spits out headlines form them everyday.
Sometimes a editorial blows my mind . Here is one
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/opinion/26wed2.html?th&emc=th
If true, what does it say about the born again Christian Whitehouse?
adaven

change address

For more on this vacation use this link. http://www.adaven21.blogspot.com

Vacation Time

Occasional ya got to leave Las Vegas, so were off to Mexico. Actually were going to lodge in Yuma and hop down to the border. Algodonis is a small town just over the border and it is a favorite of the sunbirds. The big thing here is pharmacia (drug stores), and a lot of older folk who need regular meds come to buy at big discount. Were not really in that position but have shopping lists from relatives and want to check out the prices. We also like real Mexican food and it is not too soon for some Christmas shopping.
So we'll check out what sites Yuma has to offer and jump the border to shop. Gizmo is coming along and that will present "interesting (in the Arabic sense) possibilities. We don't know if we can take him with us into Mexico or more importantly, bring him back out. Caution will be the mandate.
Anyway, interesting comment and pictures will appear here soon. Stay tuned.
Adaven

Fw: [review] More on MP3

 

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From: Adaven

To: adaven@adaven.net

Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 9:53 PM

Subject: [review] More on MP3

It occurred to me while reading an article about hearing loss among IPod users that the medium may be the malice. Audiologist are concerned about a increase in hearing loss in younger people. They think the personal music machines we use could be a factor.
It makes sense. Several hour's a day with ear buds blasting away is like being on a flight deck to our ears. Too high sound levels will cause ear damage. Take it from a rock musician. I don't hear so well in noisy places, conversation is hard to follow, and I'm sure it is from all that time playing rock clubs.
As I sit listing to Itunes Radio, when a good tune comes on, something with good production, I want to hear it right so I press the headphones tight or turn up the level. The good stuff is hard to hear.
Well I return to my idea that the problem is missing music. MP3 compresses the sound and the little nuance that producers spend so much time on get shrunk and hard to pick up. So what do we do? We turn up the volume cause were trying to hear.
Even at 128kb, internet radio is no match for CD or WAV. The sound is good but somehow incomplete, and our ears know the difference, so we turn it up to try to compensate, and it is going to make us deaf.
Analog, I miss you so!
Adaven

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Posted by Adaven to review at 9/18/2006 09:24:00 PM

Some Things Should Be illegal

Hip huger jeans should not be sold in plus sizes!
That goes for crop tops and mini skirts too!
I don't want to have fashion police, but,
a compassionate society should protect the ignorant.
And the rest of us.

Adaven

Fw: [Living Las Vegas] No! That's Not Right.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Adaven

To: adaven@adaven.net

Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:43 PM

Subject: [Living Las Vegas] No! That's Not Right.

As I listen to the president talk I kept waiting for one of the south park kids to stand up and say.

NO that's not right. You can't change your story in the middle.You told us a lot of lies to start a war and now you are telling more lies and think we will believe you?
Dud, the terroists are there to get at us not Iraq. You tore apart a country and let a civil war start. You put us there and set up the perfict situtation for the bad guys to hurt us and waist our money and kill our people. What are you thinking?
Bush you are the biggest doush ever.

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Posted by Adaven to Living Las Vegas at 6/28/2005 05:29:00 PM

Slowly I turned

I note the latest opinion poles show declining support for the policies of the current administration. People are coming down from the high of fax patriotism, generated by the media post 911, and shamelessly exploited by the president to promote his agenda.
Real patriotism is a respect for the ideas America is founded upon, and a commitment to uphold them. The fog of panic is starting to thin, and America is realizing ever so slowly how political fear has been used to take us places we would never have gone without a catastrophe to blind us.
Face it. There is no possibility that congress would have allowed us to attack Iraq, a not threat, with out the mind numbing panic induced by the 911 tragedy, and the ensuing smoke and mirror lies of the white house, and the political fear of being unpatriotic that gripped congress.
Just possibly, we are now beginning to see how thoroughly our emotions have been used strangle us. The reality of what has been going on is is something to fear. And change.
Adaven

Current thoughts

I'm still not ready to write about the war, but at last count 1602 Americans lost. That doesn't include civies and the wounded numbers are not reported.
You will notice how little news time (national) is devoted to Iraq.
1602 Deaths is not a lot for a WAR. Remember Nam. Still, with the untold wounded and the 6 figure estimated total casualties, human suffering in this is staggering.
What hurts the most is that no matter what Bush or the media says, this war is not about democratilization or stabilization or any other highminded idea. It is ultimately only about money.
Real history will remember Bush as a stupid crony, used buy the huge money guys to exploit the tragedy of 9/11 for their profit.
Cut through the crap and think about it. This is the truth.
Adaven

Pres Press

I listened to the president's press conference. The entire boring event. It must be awful to be a whitehouse correspondent these days. I can't say I have ever heard Bush give a direct honest answer to any question. But here is what I got.
To gasoline prices he said there's nothing he can do about them. Well that's right. He's already done all he can to induce oil producing countries to curb production and stress the industry. I don't know if pump prices have increased in Europe as much as in America. That would be interesting.
Social sercurity reform is dying under Bush's proposals. Nobody want's to trust their money to brokers. Who could blame. And this thing about reducing benefits on a sliding scale is not going to get anywhere. The truth is the whole thing (SOS) is flawed in it's original conception and should have been properly funded to start, or fixed in the 50s. Now it's going to take some serious economic restructing to support it's future.

Adaven

Spelling

I was trying out the new Microsoft search engine and I think it is a good alternative to google and yahoo. I use them all, even Ask Jeeves, cause they all come up with different links for any search phrase. Now being as self interested as anyone I typed adaven into Ms search and was surprised to fine this blog the second entry after a real estate outfit. I have tried this with yahoo and google and found it on the n*the page maybe. What does this say about Ms search? Maybe it's engine crawls more blogs than the others? Maybe it is less commercial in it's search criteria? I don't know but it is interesting to consider how there search sites really work. And really, who would actually type a word like adaven into a search engine.
Oh, I was going to write about spelling. My mother made me learn multiplication tables and later to touch type (kinda), but she gave up in making me learn to spell well. So I consider the spell checker to be the greatest invention since the zipper.
Well, clicking on the ms search link to this blog I looked back to some of the previous posts and noticed a few errors in spelling and grammar. I generally spell check these posts with the blogger spell checker so I'm going to say perfection costs a lot more than free. As for grammar, it is a blog, and I can use the language however I want.
Now I am going to run the spell checker on this post and see what it reports.

Ok it found six spelling errors in common words. Interestingly it choked on blog and blogger?

A rerun found two more errors. You may find more but the point is. Previous posts may contain spelling errors, so may future posts, don't worry , your brain will figure it out.

Adaven

Random observations

The new Pope is a place holder. The conclave clearly didn't want to allow any radical thought to upset the status quo, which is a conservative interpretation of the doctrine that John Paul II upheld. There will be nothing new from the Vatican for a while and it it too bad as the church could do much more good for the world with a progressive agenda.

Iran is being seen as a gold mind by European countries who are investing there big time. US santions there are not supported by other countries and it seems that economic forces will better lead this country to a western type of government than any military threat. Iran is a big and potentially rich country so it might be better to invite them in to the western economy than try to hold them back.

Adaven

The Pope is dead the Church is well.

Pope John-Paul II was more than a man. He was an institution. Kind of a living Icon. And He was one smart dude. Using 20th century tech He reached out to the world and kept the church an equal to any world power. Traveling everywhere, His message of peace was heard but sadly ignored.
It is said He helped to topple the Berlin wall and communism but I think economics had more to do with it. While His techniques were today, His philosophy was conservative and very yesterday.

He was a great man but it's not rude to think that the Vatican may be relieved to feel that a more progressive Pope might take the helm.

Let's face it, the Catholic Church has problems. It has lost followers in America and other western nations due to it's conservative teachings, but is still doing well in developing nations. But these nations are developing at a rapid rate and if Rome wants to keep it's role it is going to have to change it's tune.

The conclave is going to be an interesting place.

Adaven

Random thought

Is it a coincidence that women and wine begin with the same letter?
The American Dream. What is it?
On the second anniversary of the Iraq war with 1500 coalition deaths and unknown Iraqi deaths, the major news is about a marine charged with the murder of two Iraqis?
Will drilling for oil in Alaska's formally protected wilderness lower the price of gasoline?

And importantly. What would it take to join politics and intelligence?

No News

Congraulate me. I haven't paid any attension to news from Iraq for a week
I feel a lot calmer and less stressed, and I have the media to thank. They haven't been paying much attension to Iraq either. Is it strange. Lots of other news. Iran says they don't want weapons. Israel is pulling out. Syria will let Lebanon alone. Happy happy happy.
I'm not buying it.
Adaven

Random

Israel is backing off, that's good.
Iran wants in to world trade.
Iraq is a continuing disaster.
That about does it for the "I's"

Global warming

India is emergining as a gobal power power, nucular that is. they have the most argressive atomic power program in the world. Plans are underway for a fast breeder system that will create more fule than it uses. India is under sanctions that keeps it from buying tech from other countries so it has developed it's own. There is uranium in India but not a lot, so they have a plan to use it frugel. They plan to build a system of reactors that will strech there resources for a long time. They have light water. Next is fast breeder. Then high capacity light water using the fule from the breeders, and even a different kind of reactor using U233. They are thinking it out. A system that creates less waste material. I hope they have factored in how to deal with what waste is left.
Adaven

SOS

I am heartened to read that there is little support ( so far) for the changes Bush wants to make in the social security system. Not that it doesn't need reform, but GWB's plan is garbage.
Maybe it would be a good idea to have a real social security trust fund. I mean really banking the money instead of spending it and writing IOU's.
We might be better off investing in India, the fastest growing economy in the world.
Adaven

Trends

I've noticed a trend developing in Iraq. MORE DEATHS EVERY DAY.
Since a day after the elections the violence has increased every day. Face it. This kind of stuff takes planning. There must be a well organized department of suicide bombers over there. It is really scary. How do they get so many human beings to kill them selves for such a stupid cause.
I can't believe the majority of Sunie could support this kind of action just because they have lost power. They are thought to be the more sophisticated Iraqies. They should be trying to join the emerging government, but instead they seem to be freaked and frightened.
I think the insurgents are another group entirely.
I can't figure it out but it is an evil thing that is happening.
It is well funded, and well orginized and will be very hard to stop.
Adaven

Much Ado

There are many interesting things in the news lately.
A new report about 911. It seems the FAA dropped the ball on securing the sky. They were more interested in keeping the airlines in the air than watching for terror, but that is because they are a big bloated outfit that doesn't know it's ass from a hole in the ground, just like the FBI, CIA, and NSA, as has been clearly reviled since 911.
What is more interesting is that this report was withheld from the 911 commission, and not released until after the elections. How do these thing happen. I just can't figure where to place the blame. Who is holding up disclosure? The whitehouse? The commission, did they overlook or fail to demand full disclosure, is that big thick book anything at all?
Moving on. North Korea has an A-bomb program, Duh. They want to talk to the US about it, but we want nothing to do with that. It is a global problem and should be addressed with the globe. Well not really, just the countries that could be reached with missiles from N. Korea.
Why don't we just talk to them? Their King is a wacko. Can't we be smarter?
Could it be that our king is a wacko too?
Adaven

The Presidents agenda

I was relieved to hear from Rice that attacking Iran is not on the agenda. So what is?
It seems to me that the white house wants to rewind America about 100 years. They want to wipe out the social reform of the New Deal and every thing it became. Like social security and civil rights. Poverty programs and just about anything that helps to equalize the distribution of wealth.
But they have much more in mind. Evolution has to get out of education for as Bush stated "on the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the earth". Now that presidential opinion is having far reaching consequences for students in public schools. Science is becoming a tricky subject for educators who fear protests from bible brained school boards. Creationist dogma that Genesis has the "answers" threatens geology and ; well, every discipline. You can't have real science under that constraint.
There's more. The white house has no use for any environmental conservation. Restrictions on pollution have already been repealed or ignored. Wildlife be dammed we want to sell oil is almost a motto.
They don't care about people that much either. Women should worry. Roe vs Wade is a corner stone of the entire women's right movement and the white house wants to repeal it. They also challenge the first amendment with FCC indecency rulings. How far back do they want to pull that line. And don't forget the administrations all out war on alternate life styles.
There is more than war on the Presidents mind.
Adaven

State of the Union

It been a while since I've heard so much bullshit in such a short length of time.
Not just the State speech but also the rebutals that followed.
Speech writing is a craft. Great speech writing is an art.
No art tonight.
Our leaders clearly think that we are idots with no real understanding of the workings of government.
Maybe most of us are.
Nothing spoken tonight has any real relationship to what will happen.
Adaven

After the elections

I'm relieved that more people died on the highway than died voting in Iraq. Isn't it strange that we accept so many deaths from driving accidents so easily?
It is common to read how few Americans have lost there lives in our military endeavors compared the the death toll on American roads. We mourned the astronauts who died in the challenger and it stopped our manned space program cold, but more die every day from cars. Just an observation.
There will be a new government in Iraq, and staying alive will be part of their job. The insurgents will not stop violently opposing democracy and the Sunni , the former ruling class, will be angry at their fall from power, but there is hope.
Whatever happens it will not be easy or safe to be a politician in Iraq.
There is a unique opportunity here for a people to rise to the challenge of creating a brand new society, a clean slate upon which to build a new government for, and of it's citizens.
I don't think it will happen. And I remain opposed to our starting this war. But it is the reality and I will hope for the best
Adaven

Elections?

Disregard the previous post. I will not waist words condemning the war. That's a no brainer, but I cannot be uninterested in the aftermath. The elections in Iraq today are unique in that a population has never before been asked to risk their lives to cast a vote. That is the real situation, and I fear what news I will hear tomorrow.
It would be great if a elected congress could join together, disregarding past conflict, and craft a constitution for a twenty-first century country. There are plenty of smart well educated people in Iraq who could create a genially democratic government, that avoids the problems that plague most western nations. ( The list of problems with capitalistic systems is long but it is the best yet developed, and could be refined with a well thought constitution, and realistic body of law.)
It sure would be terrific, but the reality of the times deals it a hearty blow.
I don't know what will happen and there is no one who knows , but the bets are large and least we forget: The world runs on oil. Iraq sits on an ocean of oil.
That is the bottom line.
Adaven

No news better news

I can't stand to watch the news anymore. Everyday bombs in Iraq. Have we become numb to the events? I guess so because the rest of the news is devoted to the show in Washington. The glory of a presidential return. Yes it's going to be four more wonderful years of war, rape, and pillage.
I am too disgusted to continue writing about politics.
If I post to this blog again it will be about things that might be interesting to human beings.
As a parting shot, George Bush should be impeached for crimes against the citizens of America.
Adaven

Big Easy n Bush

When he finally spoke I was apalled at the lack of human compasson. He said it was a mess that we had to clean up.
Thousands of human beings in the most dire of circumstanish and he calls it a MESS. What is with thi guy?
Let's back up a bit. When Kat hit and passed over Florida leaving distruction it was a sure thing that it was a big storm and wasn't going to fade when it got over the warm gulf. And storm tracking is getting pertty good so it was a fair bet that it would hit NOL. I didn't miss the early warnings from news media running stories about NOL being under sea level. ( a duh stupid ya) But the powers that be didn't seem to pick up on the possibilities. I guess they were counting on luck. Well they lucked out.
Any decent government would have, in the early days of hurricand Kat looked at to possibility that it would be a threat in the gulf and watched closely. The vacationing president was not watching. It seems that anyone that was watching was crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. Best was not what happened. Worst was.
Was our President or whoever should be watching over these things paying attension? No.
It was evident a full day before the evdent that Kat would hit the NOL area with cat 5 force.
Nothing was done. It hit. Nothing was done. A full day and nothing was done.
What should have been done?
About 10 times what has been done.
adaven

New Years

I find that I can't be happy new year ish.
The disaster in the Indian ocean is the biggest event of the century.
Think about it. One hundred fifty thousand dead. My guess, could be more or less, but that's only part of the problem. Mr Bush offered 35 million aid. The world said WHAT? Now it is 350 million, ten times the original. His totally failed war has cost 100 billion with no end in sight. This is madness.
Adaven would support a recall of the Bush administration.