NWO and other things out-worldly

Once a newspaper (read MSM) touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonist.

– Norman Mailer

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Ok…. Here’s a picture of the tank and boat that every one’s been asking for…..

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“It must be Thursday…. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.”

– Author Dent Hitcher hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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We’ll see how this goes…. here’s the link to the new forum…..

New Forum

Have fun…. I will add a link in the link box too…..

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But not to worry. I’m keeping an……….

on things………..

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Ugh……. It’s Tuesday morning after the time change……. I hate the time change, I wish we could change back to DST and leave it there.

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Well it has been a while since I posted. Seems like everyone wants to hear about…… 1)The fish tank… 2) The new boat.

Well let’s take these in order. The fish tank is doing great. We have acquired a few new fish. I have replaced the twin (Clown Fish) with a new set of twins. They have taken to the Anemone. What that means is that they are hosting the Anemone, which is really cool to watch. They swim in and out of his tentacles all day. Really cool. We also got a Lawn Mower Blenny. He is aalge picker. He stays mostly hidden. All the rest of the tank is growing great. I tried to take pictures last night but they didn’t come out very good, real blurry. I will try to get some later this afternoon.

The new boat is pretty cool. It’s a 17 foot Starcraft Fish & Ski with a 120 hp outboard motor. With me and Teresa it will max out at around 40 miles an hour, which is pretty fast fro a boat. We have had it out several times before it has gotten too cool to use. Mostly we just cruise around the lake, but we do have a set of skies and tubes to drag people around the lake.

Well that’s it mostly other than that all I’ve been doing is studying Nostradamus and working.

Later

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Thought I’d take some time and post to say that now that I have my laptop I may start writing again.

This could be fun……

Later

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Tonight I thought I’d just post some random musing as it were. I discover over the past few days that some of the blogs I enjoy reading are not the thoughts of random common everyday folks. They are indeed posted by people that do journalism of some type for a living. They may not be in the fore front of the MSM, they may not even be in the fore front of the alternative media, however they are journalist none-the-less. So I feel very tiny in this blog-a-sphere. Noting that I myself am usually the only one that browses my blog.

So I began to wonder why do this? Why spend any time at all writing here for no one to read but myself? I suppose it could be therapeutic in some way. Possibly a way to ensure that I get all this random traffic out of my head. Maybe I just like the sound of my own keyboard. Or maybe I am fooling myself into thinking that if I write stuff (and mostly I don’t “WRITE” anything I just post what other people write that I think is of some interest) because I think someone will get something out of it. Maybe some one will read this and have a life changing moment. Or at least stop to consider what I have to say. By the way, the more I type I do like the sound of my keyboard.

But, I digress. What we all do in the blog-a-sphere is hope to enlighten people to what we believe is the truth of the matter. And than can be just about any topic of discussion. Mostly in my tiny part of this world it has been political and cultural in nature. Which all of this horribly long introduction leads me to my topic: Why do people do what they do?

That is a question that I have studied for a several years. Not so much in a clinical way but in a real world way. I have discovered in my short life (45 yrs) that people always have a motive behind their actions even if they are unaware of the motive at the time of the action.

I have a friend who gives to charity. Now you may say to yourself, that is a very nice thing to do, and I would agree, however I know the truth behind the giving. My friend gives because he feels guilty for being able to take care of himself. He not only feels guilty for himself but he also feels guilty for every one else. Our company has a charity drive each year. My friend feels so guilty for being born into a comfortable lifestyle that he believes that ALL of us should give as well. He works very hard to make the rest of us feel as guilty as he does, and mostly it works. So a thing that on the outside seems like a wonderful gesture of humanity is really a drug for a guilt ridden soul.

I guess my point in all this is motives. My friend’s actions are very generous however his motives are very selfish. To some motives don’t count for much as long as the outcome fits their needs or works towards their goal(s). I feel that motives are the important factor. To me an action is nice, but if the intentions and motives don’t match the action, then the action is disingenuous. I for one would much rather have honesty. Honesty would cure a guilt ridden soul where an action is only a temporary fix.

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I was thinking about the news media and how it’s perceived today. We think the news that we ingest is so much different than it was 5 years ago or even 50 years ago. I say to you that the news hasn’t changed any over the years, only the landscape of how we actually get our news.

Before the advent of the radio, everyone that wanted to know what was going on in the world read a news paper. If you couldn’t read it was pretty tough to get the news. When the radio came along we could get our fix daily by listening to the broadcaster tell us the news. Now more people had access to the news. Then came television and now not only could we hear the news but we could also see it, an even bigger audience. Now we have this marvelous device called a computer and we have the world at our finger tips.

But has the news really changed? I was having a discussion today with one of my liberal friends. He is not happy with the Republican Right Wingers. He believes that there religious ideology is getting in the way of their ability to make decisions objectively. This is really getting him in a tizzy. He believes that every one should be able to compartmentalize each aspect of their lives. He believes that a person should be able to form opinions and make decisions without any influence from each of our different compartments.

Now you maybe asking yourself, what does this have to do with the news? I’m glad you asked that question. But first some more setup. I believe that we, as human beings, cannot separate our different ideologies. We have social ideologies, religious ideologies, political ideologies, and any other ideology you can think of all swirling around in our conscious and un-conscious. These all coalesce, through our experiences, to become our ideology. We use what we believe about society, religion, and politics to form opinions and make decisions about everything we do.

Now with all that being said let’s think about the news. We tend to think that a news reporter would report the news, and a columnist, let’s say, would write about the news. I think that news is not this way at all and has never been this way. This is why I say that the news hasn’t changed much since the first time someone told somebody else what just happened. Our inability to separate ourselves from our ideas of the what the world should be gets in the way.

Let’s look at an example. Today in the New York Times an article was written about Michelle Malkin. (Here is Michelle’s article about it.) The writer Virginia Heffernan used these words: “Filipina Firecracker Michelle Malkin has taken aim at YouTube.” This was later changed to “Fox Firecracker” but that’s not really relevant to this article. If she had truly been reporting the news she would have just written: “Michelle Malkin has taken aim at YouTube.” By using the adjectives Filipina and Firecracker she was inserting some of her own ideology into the story. And I might add, she was also trying to stir an emotional response from the reader.

Let’s look at another example to further beat this point to death. Your local news paper is reporting on a car accident in your home town. Someone that is reporting the news might write something like this. “Today there was a two car accident at the intersection of A street and B street. Two people were killed in the accident.” Now there you have the simple facts of the incident. However add few more details of the story and we can invoke an emotional response. “A women and her child were killed today when they were involved in a two car accident at the intersection of A street and B street.” Now we have your attention and you are saddened by the news. I can add just a few more details to the report and get an entirely different response. “A woman and her child were killed today when the car they were driving was hit by a drunk driver at the intersection of A street and B street.” See, now you’re mad. All three of the articles are factually correct, however the presentation made all the difference.

To sum all this non-sense up, we have to very careful about the news we hear or read. It is my suggestion that you know something of the person telling you the news. It’s not too difficult to find out enough about that person to help you get to the facts of the matter. It also helps for you to know something about yourself. It’s very easy for news media of all types to try and sway public opinion. It’s all in what facts they decide to tell you, and what facts they choose not to tell.

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