July 15, 2009 by rambalog
Where have I heard that before…. hmmm?
What a sure fire way to get reelected… tax the rich to pay for free programs for those that cannot afford them, and I dare say, that would be a pretty big chunk of the nations voters…. not even counting those who are here illegally… can they vote yet? It is after all, only a matter of time… and is yet another huge, no make that a humongous sure fire way to get reelected, but that is fodder for another time.
But I have to ask the sanity in running a team, business or government where you penalize those that are successful to reward those who are not. Seems to me fundamentally flawed… and a simply superior way to raise, or train a nation of individual who desire not to excel or even work.
I mean why should anyone work, it is a democratic society and we can keep electing officials who will steal from the rich and give to the poor… a nation of self imposed Robin Hoods, if you will.
I don’t know is it just me, or does anyone else think that sooner or later it is a system that will simply collapse on itself because there won’t be enough entrepreneurial individuals coming up through the ranks who want to succeed only to have the fruits of their endeavors taken away and given to those who have learned only to stick their hand out…
I don’t know… maybe I am just missing something… am I missing something?
Posted in Just a Thought | Tagged aliens, democratic, elections, entrepreneurial, illegal, liberal, right, rights, Robin Hood, succeed, voting, work, wrong | Leave a Comment »
Fellow seeker of infinite,
temptatious heavenly bodies,
there for us to edify our primordial simple souls.
Stand with me between opposing poles
igniting passion,
power and control.
It is in the greatness of disparity,
the bridging of the gap
that makes this
electrifying joy so immense,
so absolutely irresistible, seductive
and intense.
You and I, we share
unquenchable a thirst
for spikes of epicurean ecstasy,
being the junkies that we are
we’ll do anything…
anything just to reach yet one last star.
G. Thomas Edwards
© Copyright 2009, Gary Thomas Edwards, all rights reserved.
Posted in Poetry | Tagged bodies, control, ecstasy, epicurean, heavenly, igniting, infinite, intense, irresistible, passion, power, primordial, seductive, soul, temptation | Leave a Comment »
April 19, 2009 by rambalog
What I think is important to remember is man, woman, okay humans today, the “2009 models” if you will, come with their original factory settings. That is our minds are still set at pre Neanderthal design specifications. This means our dip switches or preferences are set so that we desire to eat as much as we can whenever we can because we have no idea when or where our next leg-o-dinosaur meal is coming from. This in turn meant that exercise was set so every second you are awake, every muscle in your body is on 100 percent, full blown cardio, run to catch that next meal mode… or simply to fight off something that was trying to make you it’s next meal. There of course is one other factory setting, the procreation setting, which again was set on the original models to procreate with damn near anything that moves, as it was all a statistical numbers game to produce more then would die or be eaten so the species survives s and proliferates… but we will save that discussion for another time.
Now fast forward back to now. There is an endless supply of ready available food almost everywhere. Forget that it is super sized with everything your body does not need, and minimized of what you do, the real problem is with all that food out there, our natural desire is to consume all of it… at once, before anyone or anything else can. Couple this with the little or no exercise, sedimentary lifestyle of working at a desk all day, watching TV for hours and then finally going to bed, and you have a disaster of Tsunami proportions occurring.
There is and never will be a magic pill or diet… it is a quite simply a matter of physics and self-discipline. If your current regiment has you gaining weight, there are but two controls to adjust. Decrease intake, increase the furnace temperature… eat less exercise more. The marvel is you can adjust these through self-discipline to maintain your girth or decrease it simply by adjusting your personal settings, and no manual is needed… it is automatic, think it, do it!
Posted in Just a Thought | Tagged decrease, Diet, dinosaur, disciplline, Exercise, gain, lose, meal, metabolic, Neanderthal, preferences, self, settings, weight | Leave a Comment »
April 12, 2009 by rambalog
Maybe it is time to give commercial ships the right to bear arms. This has to be the the greatest no-brainer ever…I mean come on, how quick would this piracy nonsense end if every time those loser, wannabe buccaneers tried to catch up, in one of their old, beat-up, semi-sea worthy skiffs, so as to come along side threatening to fire grenades if they can’t board and take over, if first, they were met, before they even got close, with long range high caliber machine guns… or a maybe a couple of medium-sized, artillery pieces port and starboard … end of problem! (How was that for a run on and on and on sentence?)
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April 5, 2009 by rambalog
I was sitting sipping my coffee reading an invitation to a friends baby shower… at the end it said: boy or girl… it is a surprise. I thought that was nice they wanted it to be a surprise and then I thought about the fact they did not get to see the amazing live video of a sonogram that I found so fascinating with my own daughter.
Then, It really was a lot like one of those cartoon light bulbs going off in my head… all the pieces just came together from different parts of my gray matter, ideas learned over the last couple of months and years siimply clicked like a jigsaw puzzle into one giant obvious picture. Is it possible the rise in Autism might correspond with something we are doing… but what? What if Autisim is connected to the increased technology and use of Sonograms.
Even more amazing was how quickly my suspicions were confirmed by checking on Google. To give you an idea, here is what I found in mere minutes…
Autism
People with autism have found abnormalities in several regions of the brain which suggest that autism results from a disruption of early fetal brain development.
What is a Sonogram
A sonogram, also known as an ultrasound, is a computerized picture taken by bouncing sound waves off organs and other interior body parts.
Active Sonar
Active sonar emits pulses of sound that travel through the water, reflect off objects, and return as an echo to an underwater acoustic receiver. It uses an underwater speaker to generate sound waves. The sound waves travel until they strike an object and are reflected in various directions.
Military Sonar May Give Whales the Bends, Study Says
John Roach, for National Geographic News
A team from the UK Marine Mammals Stranding Project found gas bubbles in their blood vessels, and haemorrhages in internal organs, characteristic indications of DCS.
“Tests on these whales proved that they had died from brain cavity, ear, and other tissue explosion.”
A study to determine the statistics of countries that use Sonograms a great deal, sometimes, or not at all against their rate of Autism would pretty quickly prove or disprove my the idea… don’t you think?
Posted in Just a Thought | Tagged abnormalities, Autism, brain, development, fetal, Mammals, Marine, sonogram, sound, ultrasound, waves, Whales | Leave a Comment »
March 29, 2009 by rambalog
This is a very old painting I did in the 70’s of Dave Aldana racing the “Mile Event”. It was an early experiment in fauvism. I added this today after spending the day at Brad Lackey’s Vintage Motocross Race in California… it was like stepping back 30 years… too much fun!
Posted in Art | Tagged Art, Brad Lackey, Dave Aldana, Fauve, Mile, motocross, motorcycles, oil, paint | Leave a Comment »
March 25, 2009 by rambalog
It was the closet thing to Magical I believe I have ever experienced. It was a worldwide species changing event, an unsolicited, unplanned experiment toward our collective enlightenment. We were trying to learn how to love everything, to appreciate to absorb all the beauty the world, the universe has to offer, to question all that had come before, to look behind the curtain to see if the Great and Powerful Oz was real or not. The people, the music, the learning was in short beautiful… but there was a dark side… we had to learn the hard way the balance of nature, the Yin and Yang are real and unavoidable. To have light you must have equal parts of dark, to have beauty there must be a repugnant side as well. The downfall of the experiment… drugs, greed and coveting what our neighbors had. I think like a baby taking it’s first steps we started a journey for which there is no turning back. We fell down, humankind will get back up and try again, and gain a little more on the elusive enlightenment we seek. I want to be there for the next step…
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March 20, 2009 by rambalog
I have no idea if you have ever played Backgammon long enough to have learned the basic premise and logic of the game. It is my favorite game as it parallels and explains life better than most college courses on the subject. It really is beautiful in its simplicity. For those of you who are not familiar with the game, let me give you a brief introduction. After the men, the pieces, are placed on the board, both players, on their turn, move their pieces in opposite directions, passing each other along the way. The idea is to carefully travel to the other side in pairs because if one of your pieces is found alone it can be knocked off. Your travels to the other side is an attempt to gather your pieces into a “Gate” or fort, if you will, in hopes of making it near impossible for your opponent to gain entrance back into the game should he or she have a piece knocked off. This of course allows you the time to systematically take your pieces off the board each turn until you win. Seems simple enough: stay in pairs, build a gate on the other side––like the rules of life: go to school, get a job, be honest and faithful and everything will be perfect…
Oh yea, did I forgot to mention in Backgammon, “the dice”… It is when the dice hit the board things get interesting. So to in life, and as such, we cannot ignore this simple but very real, extremely vital piece of the game… that is of course “chance,” the element of randomness, of chaos––the “Shit Happens” portion of life’s equation.
You see in Backgammon if you do everything right––staying in pairs, building the perfect gate–– you can still have your game go south because the dice do not go your way. And vice-versa, you can screw up over and over, chancing to travel in singles, not bothering with a proper gate and, because the dice favor you, you win. So what’s the point, you ask? Is life, like Backgammon, simply a numbers game? More likely it is simply odds and statistics with the bottom line being––if you try to do everything correctly, you may not always win, but, you will by increasing your odds, win a higher percentage of the time over the long haul… one of those “Big Picture” concepts.
Posted in Just a Thought | Tagged game, life, dice, backgammon, shit happens, chaos, chance, percentage, big picture, gate, fort | 2 Comments »
March 14, 2009 by rambalog
Posted in Art | Tagged betrayal, drawing, illustration, love, ocean, Orca, pencil, story, tail, tale | Leave a Comment »
March 12, 2009 by rambalog
The two recent mass murders in Germany and Alabama are without question appalling and disheartening beyond rational comprehension… it is a sad day for the entire human race.
And again I hear the calls, the demands for stronger gun control, or better yet making guns totally illegal. There are the cries of parents that this is a result of the violence on television and from the hundreds of violent video games… is it?
Violence is a natural occurrence of this journey we call life… one only need watch a lion take down a hapless young gazelle or zebra on the plains of the Serengeti, eating it while it is still alive to realize this. But gunning down innocent people, this is not a natural course of life… it is a perversion spawned by something gone wrong in how our society raises and teaches its young.
Maybe we have lost, through over protection, Madison Avenue marketing and packaging what the true meaning of life is. Let me ask a question… How many kids, teenagers, even adults know or even think about the fact that the neatly packaged piece of food they are consuming for lunch was once a calf raised to a young adult cow and then led off to be slaughtered, butchered and ground up so it could become that very same convenient meal they now hold in their innocent hands?
They have no concept that it was, only days before, a breathing living being with a life, a history, a family. It is no more real then a plastic toy or a character on a video game. It is just there… and you can buy them anywhere without guilt or remorse for the animal that gave its life that they might eat and be sustained.
Personally, I am of the mind that if you made it mandatory for all children to spend several summers working on farms and ranches that prepare the nations food supply, they might have a much greater appreciation of the reality of life and death… not to mention the would develop an old fashioned concept, a thing called “work ethic.” Oh, and did If forget to mention the might develop something else… a love of the outdoors, of wildlife, mountains, streams, sunrises, sunsets, birds chirping, sunlight shinning through dew on the grass… They would learn there is another way of life far away from the depressing concrete and electric world that seems to be creating these monsters that have no regard of life, on a far to regular basis.
I don’t know… just a thought!
Posted in Just a Thought | Tagged alabama, control, death, game, germany, gun, human, life, murder, race, video, violence | 2 Comments »
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