Why No Posts
October 2nd, 2009
I started my MBA schooling this last month. I started my own consulting business (LLC Business Analytics). I work full time.
Nuff Said.
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Getting Screwed
August 3rd, 2009
Music Thoughts
April 7th, 2009
I’m loving Post Rock right now, and am playing my Pandora radio station dedicated to the genre…
Let me tell you though, talk about a type of music that quickly covers the range for brilliant to crap…come on guys, one riff repeated for 7 minutes doesn’t work unless you mix it up! Take an Example from Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky!
I Just Don’t Know
April 2nd, 2009
I used to be a registered Independent. I didn’t want to buy into the system MANNNNN…sigh…I was a kid.
So here’s the question if you’re willing to ponder along with me: At what point do you actually tap out, give up, and say, “That’s it, you can have the R back.” The reason I joined the Republican party was because of some sort of magic idea of the way things should be. I never have agreed with the Republican talking points 100% and have fancied myself as having a libertarian crazy streak in me (without the other naive libertarian proclivities), but figured the best model for change was within a structure that mostly resembled my own belief structure, one that centers around personal responsibility, personal choice, freedom of speech, and freedom of self. As I sit here now, I can’t find a semblance that any more in my party.
Yes, I crossed out the line “Republican” and Microsoft paint, and scribbled in “Conservative” in a fit of uninspired “art”, to throw up in defiance at the selection of McCain, then I broke down, and took it back…didn’t matter in the long run. I thought, “how could my part pick McCain?” Here’s the deal though…this isn’t my part any more. I don’t know what this party has become.
Maybe the Democrats have really done it. Maybe they’ve convinced the “have-nots” that merely existing is reason enough to be taken care of in every way possible. Maybe they managed to suck the independent self reliance right out of the sails of this country, sending it spiraling downward in a forever repeating pattern of:
- ________ is broken.
- Let’s put money into ______.
- _________ doesn’t get better.
- Let’s put more money into __________.
- Repeat
I’ve been clicking through my site recently, from post numero uno – to when I had a tangible sense of humor – to now…I think I’m a bit more bitter now. I’m not usually one for melodramatics, or sensationalism, but the Republican party is dying…somewhere along they way they became those guys, the guys more concerned with staying in office than doing the right thing for the American public.
I’ve said it before, but we’ve all seen how that spoiled brat that gets everything he wants from his parents without any discipline, guidance, or oversight? That’s what we’ve become, a coddled nation full of over-indulged babies who feel we’re entitled to things our parents used to have to earn. Good Lord, I’m 27 and I feel this way…I can’t imagine how defeated those who share my beliefs a generation ahead of me must feel. I think it’s time to consider that third party. I haven’t given to the Republicans in quite a few months now, and the mailers go straight into the trash. My Rep Rohrabacher just voted to give the Treasury department the oversight to control executive pay they deem “unreasonable”! Good luck getting anyone to define unreasonable. Independent is looking pretty good right now.
To wind down (as this is now a long post for me), if you make people feel like it doesn’t matter how hard, or smart they work they’ll continue to be punished at a greater degree in the form of taxes and contempt, many won’t work as hard; if you keep giving money to those who don’t work hard, what makes people think they’ll work harder? It seems like such common sense…
And So I Said
March 25th, 2009
9.3 trillion dollar deficit over the next 10 years on my new budget? Well the Republicans gave me a 3.4 trillion deficit first! [paraphrased]
~Barack Obama
I’m really liking the “hopechange” tag on “To Which I Replied” right now.
Oh Where Oh Where
February 24th, 2009
So the last month has been hectic needless to say.
January was a long month at work, with lots of late nights, which segued into later January which was long days and late nights as I crammed for my GMAT. I’ve been putting it off long enough…and figured it was time to pull the trigger. Situations will never be “perfect” (financial, time, etc), but sometimes you need to give yourself a firm kick in the ass, suck it up, and just do it. So, now that it’s done, time to apply to schools. On the top of my list is UCI (it’s a good school, and it’s local)…but, here’s the current conundrum that I’m facing with regards to UCI. It’s a fantastic school, but there’s also this.
On January 31, 2009, a conference took place at UC Irvine (UCI) titled, “Whither the Levant? The Crisis of the Nation State: Lebanon, Israel, Palestine.” Organized by the Levantine Cultural Center of Los Angeles and the Middle East Studies Student Initiative, the conference featured two documentaries about the 2006 war in southern Lebanon, three panel discussions, and a number of Middle East studies academics. In spite of the neutral sounding title, the conference was a one-sided exercise in bashing Israel and America.
Joy of joys.
Hmmmmm….
A Jewish pal of mine got me this shirt back in the day…I’ve been looking for an appropriate situation to wear it. I’m thinking pretty much every day. Let’s see how their free speech reacts to my free speech. Intolerance with a touch of violence perhaps? It’s amazing to see what higher education has become. I remember the good ‘ol days where the communist organization would acost me as I tried to keep my head down while navigating past Brotman Hall at Cal State Long Beach on the way to class. Sorry ANSWER, my answer is no. “I’m so angry at the government, man, that sent me here at 0% interest, and my parents man, who hold me down but pay for my dorm. I don’t need a job man, that’s what they want, for me to conform…you know, if everyone smoked weed, there’d be no war.” Ohhh, I can’t wait to get back on campus.
So, next phase, applications done by the end of the week, shortly followed by FAFSA (sigh), then interviews.
Irony is…
February 19th, 2009
Taking a Break
December 9th, 2008
Not a several month long one, but a “it’s the holidays, work is kicking my ass, and none of y’all give me money.” So take that.
Main Stream Media 1 Step Program, aka Begging
November 24th, 2008
SOOooooo the MSM is publicly self flagellating in search of our forgiveness, aka begging for readers/$. Forgiveness for…CONTENT WARNING… Read more…
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