After sitting around a courthouse yesterday, waiting to be asked questions to be a Juror, I am free of Jury Duty because they did not need us. Four individuals sat around for 8 hours doing absolutely nothing waiting to be questioned by attorneys. Another day wasted away!.

       Our Justice system is not the best nor is it the worst, but there has to be a better way to choose a Jury then to subpena people in to sit around all day for nothing.I  don’t have a solution for it myself, but I know from waiting and wasting my day to me it was not worth it at all.

       Onward to the next subject, Politics. Obama says he will do what ever he can to boost the economy with his executive powers as President. I remind all, that even by those powers we the people invested in him, there is not much he can really do. Congress needs to get off it’s collective  asses and find a way to make this economy go. Sadly, our Senators, our Representatives are not working or even looking for a solution. I say you want to find a way to make the economy go and expand, fire all the Senators and Representative you can this November and the next. Put them on the unemployment lines and on the streets begging for a place to live and a meal. That will change it fast, I guarantee it, as an old friend would say, with onions on it!.

       Next, talking justice and cases, back to Conrad Murray. As I see it so far they are going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that he made big mistakes in his care, or lack of care in this Michael Jackson Case. Plus on top of his mistakes, lack of actions and reactions in the death of this man, he made the biggest mistake of all, he allowed Jackson to buy his services. Jackson bought Conrad Murray’s services to obtain the drugs he wanted and said he needed and to administer them to him safely. The only place Conrad Murray did not fail Jackson in was the obtaining of the drugs, as far as administrating them safely, well we see the result, with Michael dead at age 50. Murray’s trial will continue now with character witnesses on his behalf, and people saying how good a Doctor he was, and how nice a person he was. But those comments and statements will not save Conrad Murray from being convicted in this case. The deck as they say is stacked wholly against this man. Plus you have the strength and dynasty of the Jackson Family and public opinion pressing on it all. In the end there really can only be one result. If Murray’s attorneys stop and think about this they will make a plea agreement saving Murray a full-out conviction and his medical license before it goes to the Jury. But we all know that won’t happen, because the cry for Murray’s blood and life is too loud   and clear by Jackson family and fans.

      Final subject for today folks. Internet Social Medias. While it is fun and playful to socialize, chat, play games and have fun on the internet, in Social Media programs and chat programs of all kinds these day, be carefull. What or who is on the other end is not always clear, nor, are they always normal people or average people. People prey on the internet looking for children and victims of all ages to hurt physically, mentally and financially too. Each day reports grow of people being abused, stalked, killed, damaged, traced and stalked and more through the internet. Do yourselves a favor and your children too, do not release your location, phone numbers, credit card information or anything else over the internet. Be sure who you are dealing with when making purchases and more ok. Danger comes in many forms online and off.

 

         

Jury Duty call.

     I have been called to Jury Duty at least for one day. Each time they pull my number and call me to court they end up sending me home. Now I know serving on a jury can be a pain in the ass, and interesting, but why call to Jury a Disabled Veteran who is retired? I don’t even know if i could sit through hours of testimony in a courtroom box. Besides in my book, most who are arrested for major crimes are guilty anyway, but listening to hours of evidence will bore me too. Civic duties sometimes you just have no choice do you? At least they pay for the parking and validate the tickets lol.

      While I believe in doing your duty as a citizen of America I do not believe people should be forced to do so.But the Jury selection process is made the way it is for reasons beyond me. All I know is, if they make me serve on this Jury, I hope the defensive team is good, cause I tend to believe most are guilty, not all but most. Times shall tell today.

       Hard to believe they would want a Disabled Veteran, with PTSD, 6 herniated Discs, sleep apnea and on depression medication to be a juror. Ah, well I will go and more than likely get booted anyway.

 

Social Networking and Adult sites.

     Social Networks as well as communication programs work well, except when you do what you want and they don’t want. Take programs like Yahoo chat they used to allow you to chat and have fun, now they restrict things you say and the rooms you can get to. Then there is Second Life, you enter one landmark and all is ok, you enter another and don’t do what they like or say what they like and it’s oh we shall ban you. That is not being sociable, that’s being foolish. Anyway I am finding social programs and chat rooms boring these days anyway.

       That subject now covered lets talk about the ability of too many lonely people hanging out on the internet and the expansion of it all. The internet is one hell of an invention and it is good for research, chat, communication, reading, writing and more. Shopping occurs on it daily, people chat daily and people shop daily using it all. It has put the world into people’s homes through a computer monitor and speakers. It is the coolest thing ever really. Though it does have its downfalls too. The biggest downfall is the availability of adult sites to just anyone who can get online. There needs to be a program or process by which age verification  is assured. Naked bodies flashing themselves across the internet or outright sex scenes should be blocked and some form of age verification enforced. Explicit sex between adults should not be available for download or viewing by children, period.

     

         

        

Technological Advances thru Writing/Writers.

      As I age and watch the world change around me with technological devices that no one ever thought about before, I wonder how many realize where many of the new ideas for these devices came from?. Ladies and Gentlemen, technological was not always what it is today, computers, cell phones, tablets, HDTV and medical equipment and machines that do almost anything someone wants done!. This all came from visionary people, people who dreamed of how to get things done quicker, better, and in a more reliable fashion.

         Among these great minds we always talk about we have Franklin, Edison, Bell, and of course many forgien inventors also. We do tend to forget the visionaries who weren’t inventors but had the visions.For one the mind is a terrible thing to waste as someone said, and it is in the imagination of writers, producers, actors, and more that imagination becomes reality. Stop and think about it now, it is in the movies and films and books we find some of the basis for the technology we have today.

         We all know Steve Jobs who died recently, brought us the ideas and motivation and innovations of today. The computers and tablets, and I-pods, I-pads and more. He was a walking genius.

           But before Jobs and others who now rule the computer, cell phone and technological world were the visionaries who thought it all up. Gene Rodenberry, writer, producer, and genius in his own right. He had the vision that gave us handheld cell phones=communicators, talking computers, on the bridge of the Enterprise and other ships, hand-held medical scanners of different types and much more.Yes writers, producer, innovators, thinkers and more. Rodenberry thought up things in Star Trek books and movies that are now reality today and working their way into helping humanity survive and co-exist. Amazingly few think of Rodenberry this way, but stop and look back, when he brought Star Trek he brought all these things into the minds and visions of inventors and more. So it is the writers in many cases, who have the most vivid imaginations and abilities to flesh out the ideas on paper, in books and on the big screen and small screen too.

        As we go further into the 22nd century, we have to look back at the mysteries, miracles, and fathom what could not be without those who came before us all. The visions of writers like Rodenberry is what made the world a better place today. What one could do with electronics and computers and chips and circuit boards was never a vision before writers like Rodenberry in the Sc-Fi world of books. So when we stop and think back on people like Franklin, Bell,Edison, the Wright Brothers and more, we best also think back on the great writers of the world and their abilities with words, thoughts and bringing it all to life in a book or magazine article or on the tv or movie screen. They produced many of the ideas that fuel the technological progress of the world today, and they are now dead and gone of course, but their contributions continue to affect every living being on the planet in one way or another. When someone tells you they are a writer, and they do a blog, stories, poems, scripts, and whatever genre they write, stop and think of the inner workings of a person with that talent to convey such imagination in such vivid color and perception that another  can read it, and go, I can make it real and they do.The writers who put the emotions into characters or the feelings in a story, or poem or article, all are blessings few us truly understand, but should. God Bless the writers, the thinkers the technological wizards who take what writers produce and bring it all to life.

 

      I have spent many blogs on the  economic problems and lack of jobs problems  in the USA. I have spent a few more on the political races, and lack of concern and work of our current politicians in office.I know, I know I can rant, and rave, complain and bitch and it goes unheard and no one listens to a complainer anyway. BUT, FOR GOD SAKE! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE KICK OUR POLITICIANS IN THEIR ASSES  AND MAKE THEM DO THEIR WORK!.

       Now with that said and out-of-the-way, maybe we can talk of somethings like dreams and hopes, cares and sharing, or even just fun. Too many people grow up here in America with dreams of what and who they want to be and never reach them. The reasons normally are economic conditions, financial non-support, or they just give up too easily. America sorry to say is a society and country spoiled in many ways, by what we had for so long, prosperity. Now we face the sad fact of that being gone and us having to struggle harder to survive and move along. No where else  in the world though can you find the same climate, conditions or chances to advance yourself than here. 

      American society and America as a country is not really done even through it is on a decline like so many great empires in the past. Historically, the Egyptians, The Romans, The Peruvians, The Aztecs in the early days were all great too. But their ultimate demise and collapse all hinged on the type of government they were right? Wrong folks, they all failed to appease the people, they all failed to keep profit rolling along and financial stability!. The same can be said today of America as we slowly slip from power and hand it over to China and others. Sadly as much as we all love our country and what we stand for and the pride we have in it, we are slowly beginning to understand, we have prevented ourselves from competing properly in the global economy. We are a country that undercut its own efforts with what we thought was progress, and are called Trade Agreements. We are hurting because we sacrificed to help others. Believe you me they would never do that to help us. So, while we took the moral and ethical high ground and burned ourselves, they take the lower ground, benefit and run over and around us. We need to fix it for sure,  back on out of the damn Trade Agreements, charge them all higher tariffs and taxes on their products.

        A Positive point today to see, finally America is pulling back from wars and countries we can not continue to support or fight, or police for others. Our leaving Iraq by the end of 2011 is a great sign. We should also get out of Afghanistan and end our commitments to countries that don’t care about what we do or provide and still hate us anyway. None of these countries we are fighting in today, would ever bother to lend America a hand in bad times, yet we do it because we have a leadership role right?. Well, I say now let China do it and we can come home, save the funding, and our troops lives and repair our own country.

        

Economy, Jobs and Justice!.

      Friday has arrived again and another work week is coming to an end, As American’s of all nationalities and races, scurry about earning the money with which to pay for living. Isn’t it amazing how we all do this, and now days, more than a quarter of working americans  are out of work. Why is that Congress?

       Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Economy, Economy, Economy stupid!. Politicians ya need to listen now and come up with a workable package that can turn the damn job market around and the American Economy, We have gone from number one to number ten now and will drop more unless our elected officials do something soon.

       Places of business are closing on a daily basis. Manufacturing has disappeared and gone over seas. The middle American and lower income American can’t survive and some now live  on the streets in cardboard boxes, and beg for food!. How much worse can it get, well we are nearing the stages of recession where it can just as easily fall into a major depression. If that happens it will be bread lines again and worse. America needs to find a way to create jobs, create businesses and gainful employment as soon as possible.

        Congress this is a message for you, Americans can not wait for November of 2012, we need action now. We need you elected officials in Washington running around in your business suits and dresses and pants suits to wake up. Maybe we should just fire you all, but we can’t and Americans aren’t stupid enough to think we can, at least not all at once.

       Occupy is a movement of protest and concern it is also a way to approach those elected, who are not working for the betterment of the American people. As the protests and movement grows, the Occupy Protest needs to take place in Washington, DC our Capital. The Occupy Protest and movement should gather as many as humanly possible and Occupy Washington, DC and march and protest Congress, both sides, Senate and House of Representatives. Circle their work environments, make them see it daily, the signs, the anger, the helpness feeling of the lower and middle class. Then, in the end if they don’t still do their jobs, we need to lower their benefits, their paychecks and see if they can live on a retail wage like the rest who are struggling are trying to do. And those are the lucky ones.

       So, when I see President Obama struggling to help the economy, then his political opponents struggling to stop him and it becomes a pitiful little child like war, I tire of the crap.I will not say President Obama is 100 percent correct in all he has done so far, or that what he is proposing is 100 percent correct, but at least he is propsing something in the Jobs Bill he came up with. And ladies and gents of all colors, nationalities, anything is better than nothing and begging for food and living in cardboard boxes.

       One last comment before I close my blog today. It is a thought for all who now sit home and watch the wheels of Justice roll forward on HLNtv and in the Conrad Murray Trial for the Death of Micheal Jackson. When you consider the quilt or innocence of the Doctor, please stop and think of the guilt of the man who died also. Remember, Micheal Jackson wanted the drug that killed him, he even hired Murray not as a physican really but as a supplier and administrator of the drugs for him. The amount of a monthly paycheck of $150,000 dollars alone should tell you Jackson wanted this. Jackson I believe convinced Murray to take the position as his employee just so he could control him and he did. So when you point the finger at Conrad Murray who did break every medical ethic there was in giving in to Jackson’s wants and whims, stop and think who pays  a Doctor not to be a Doctor but a supplier and administrator of drugs for them, someone who wants it bad enough to keep at it and kill himself by doing so.