WAR!!! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it again...WAR!!

So we gave peace a little bit of a chance but no we have to back and fight in a nation that has absolutely nothing to do with us.  I understand that every president wants a war so that they lead the people to a robust type defense based economy.  But the hard and fast truth is that we are hated by pretty much the whole world.  We stick our noses into other countries businesses as the world cops.  Now is this a bad thing?  We are one of the super powers.  But Thomas Jefferson wanted us to be more isolated and agrarian I think we have lost that model to something more perverse in this whole flattening of the world crap.

I was for it as a kid.  it seemed like a good Idea to help out suffering countries but look what it has done to our nation itself we produce almost nothing all we have are big box stores that people flock to because it is cheaper and comes from china.  They work for slave wages while we rest on our laurels and raise the minimum wage to over $10.00 in some states.  the only thing that does is inflate a dollar that is already worth next to nothing.  Pretty soon we are going to have the same problem that they did in Mexico in the 80's and 90's  inflation will grow so much that you will be paying over $40.00 for a watermelon and then we have to at some point devalue the dollar.

The solution I know you don't like it but we have to start paying off our debt raising taxes but for a better economy.  Yes the rich should pay more than the poor thats just right.  you have the money they don't that will help to stabilize the economy and start bring the debt down a bit take the jobs back from overseas and put people to work for a good wage that will see them into a stable home environ.

We don't need to go to war.  if we just stopped and looked at ourselves our enemies eyes we might see a different perspective on life and it's fragility.

That brings me to Ebola.  Ebola is scary if you have read the books about it you know that it is the perfect virus.  It kills indiscriminately which in itself to a biologist like me is kind of beautiful in a way.  I know that sounds creepy but think about it a virus that does not see race, color, blood type, genetics, etc.  only a handful of people have survived it and it due to their blood that we have that concoction at the CDC that they gave the first American that came back from it.  I can understand Donald Trumps freak out, But we are different in culture than the Africans when it comes to burials and I don't think the news is doing a good job of explaining that.

In Africa the family takes care of the body and prepares it for burial that is why the virus is so deadly it jumps from the blood of the dead to the living.  Bad juju.  So yes it will be better quarantined here in America because we have better facilities.  Although, the human factor is always a factor.  Nuff said.

Thanks for reading my little rants every now and then I see that we have over 1400 reads so that makes me kind of happy I hope that together we can get through this coming winter I think it is going to be interesting to say the least.

Rooming with Judas Iscariot

I have a reputation of telling the truth.  People may not like it but if you ask me a question straight on I will always tell you the truth.  Granted it has been a downer for me sometimes especially when it involves the police.  It is no secret that I have spent some time in the slammer for bad decisions on my part (stealing food when I was homeless and had no money).  I paid my debt to society and I have to do it one more time for my fight against Wal-Mart.  That's OK I can deal with it.  But that is not what I am ranting about.

I was invited to stay with a so-called friend Russel Fitzgerald for the summer until school started back up again.  The deal was that I would help by groceries and when I could give him some money for gas.  A good deal.  Little did I know the living hell this guy would put me through.  Right away he gets a puppy from a friend of mine in the valley.  No worries I love puppies and dogs if I didn't I wouldn't have spent two weeks looking for Halley when she disappeared from an accident we had back in 2005.  Little did I know that he was abusive towards animals beating the dog for peeing in the house and kenneling him for 24 hours at a time screaming at him for barking and so on.  His method of training is to put on the local Christian station so his puppy can hear it at night and accept Jesus.  What a freak. 

Anyways back to MY story, don't worry about the dog if you catch my drift.  So last week he brings some tweeker/prostitute to the house and wakes me by shouting that I have to vacate the room because she is going to pay him rent.  He then leaves with her and her boyfriend and comes back stoned out of his mind and they are doing IV drugs and he tells me he doesn't want her there and ask me to help get her out.  The next day I am told that Health and human services are coming to the house to check up on something?  And I have to leave for a while, I am taken to the library dropped off and he answers his phone on speaker and I here this Michelle chick tell him I am the devil and she loves him and coffee is waiting for him at home. Blah, blah.  So he proceeds to kick me out of the trailer and lots of words and facebook things are said and I leave for a couple of days til he calls me and says that I can come back and that he was sorry for all of the problems.

So I go back, knowing full well no to trust the bastard.  So he we are as if nothing happened we go out to a couple of bars things are cool we go see a band the other night.  I get rather inebriated and end up sleeping most of the day because I couldn't get to sleep.  Anyone that knows me knows I have horrible Insomnia and I stay a wake for days and then crash.  Well he bought us some Mac and Cheese the whole wheat kind that really sucks I got us some pizzas and some soda. 
This AM he is pissed off that I ate some mac and cheese I tell him I will gladly replace said Items and he flips out hitting walls and slams the door and leaves.  I go back to sleep, my kidney is bothering me so I am trying to rest with it.  he returns and asks if I want to go to Palmer?  No I tell him my kidney is hurting.  He returns busting through the door, I should mention he would always just open the door with out knocking at times because he said "It's my house."  This time he says that I need to leave and that the State troopers are there.  The trooper comes in to the room and I am getting dressed he asks me some questions, he is one that I know form years past.  I have not always been a bad guy you should know I kind of walk the line between good and bad more on the good side I would hope.
So anyways the trooper does his job runs my background and such and then asks me to leave because he talked to the homeowner, Russ' Mom, BTW Russ lives off of mommies tit.  So, here I am once again homeless nothing new but an interesting study in social lives of a predator. 

I have seen this man bring over 5 different women that he meets on the internet.  Some will stay for a few days and then some are smart enough to realize what he is doing.  As a public notice I have to warn any women about him and the things he does.  No Bueno

So right now I am homeless once again, I would be ever so humbled to crash at some ones place.   I do have money coming in and would gladly pay you once it comes in but til them I can help with groceries and odd jobs around the house.

GordyC

How to get yourself booted off of campus

So last night I posted a little thing about the Chuitna Citizens Coalition victory party and meeting a good man who is running for Lt gov..  Well within 10-20 minutes of my posting said post I was escorted off of the campus by some very nice university police officers and delivered to the nearby homeless shelter.  It is amazing that a venue of academia would be be so willy nilly and maybe I am over blowing the whole thing although the new structures are blatantly benefactor'd by big oil companies that may lean on a twist for the states premium university...NOT!!!

I am sorry it was this universities "scientists" that took forever to determine that a village had a Red Tide weeks after I posted it and any marine biology student would have known that.  come on.  This university nickels and dimes their students to death over small stupid things $60.00 for an application fee.  Come on if you are that insecure that you need student to pay to have you tell them whether they are good enough to come into your fold.  Give me a break.  Plus the fact that you over charge the student for conveniences $7.00 for a POM drink come on, really!!!

I understand that the school has to pay for its new super stadium that has destroyed many trees as well as other buildings on there footprint.  I voted against the smoke-free campus.  The reason was that, I smoke once in a while and I don't think you have the right to tell me I can't.  The problem is the butts.  they are everywhere.  if you stepped up your game on places where people can dispose of their cigarette butts properly than you would not have such a problem.  Kids are gonna smoke get over it.

Last but not least the dragging on of my application that was finally withdrawn due to some mysterious thingamajig.  Thank you for that I appreciate it I look forward to spending my real money at APU next year.

Schools will be schools but when they are undermined by businesses it is not beneficial to the student it only creates a sense of dread and unknowing.  You create plasticine creatures that go out into the world and make beige subdivisions like Phoenix, AZ.  Take a good look at them they are ready to implode as a city and it makes me sad.  Furnace as I used to call it was a fun city and then it went nuclear and Boom you have what we have today.  I don't think Anchorage will go like PHX but we need to keep our priorities straight we are the Last Frontier we need to respect the nature of it and the people of it.

Enuff  Said.  I am off to bigger and better things that will bide my time and make me happy.

Up the Irons!!

A perspective on planet earth.

I think of the as this...The entire planet is a living breathing organism with many systems to sustain it.  We have tapped into one of the most vital systems that being oil.  If oil were the blood of the earth we have let it bleed out quite enough.  We know ho oil and other natural resources are created and we are quickly running them low.  If the human body runs low of blood what happens?  it dies, well look at what we are doing.  If the earth is a living organism than we are the cells that flourish throughout doing things not unlike viruses/bacteria and helper cells that create good things as well as bad.  Somethings we do improve our planet while others tend to destroy the vital systems that are in place.  And like any body some times certain things fail and die off.

Whether you like or not we are children of this planet and we need to be the stewards of it.  We can look to religion for some sort of understanding but it will tell you the same.  If we don't stop and look around and truly take account of what is going on than we have condemned our children and theirs to  fate far worse than than ours.  Legacy has to be written in our stories and actions as citizens of the world not as festering infections that leave foul tasting and smelling environs for others to clean up.

What I ask of the world is to take responsibility and accountability.  Clean up your own messes don't leave it for others to do.  If we all pull together and just take responsibility for ourselves we can make things a lot better and be more productive.  I know that I have committed many transgressions against our planet and am willing to do my best to create a better planet for my children.

Just some observations that I have come to relate to my own life and world bubble.

  

State vs private

I have to rant about this.  I am sick of seeing students going to a state school and being abused not by other students but by the system.  Administrators that make so much money and left in positions of power that they can manipulate the system to create an air of control over students lives.  Tracking sucks it has never worked and will never work.  I understand where the money comes from and you are the paid individuals by your students to provide a service. get off your stupid fucking lofty chairs and do us a service.  create more tutors run better programs hire better teachers just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know how to teach.  it's bullshit you know and I know it.  So you want to know how to fix the system listen to your students walk in their shoes live their lives for a little bit.  a little bit of understanding goes a long fucking way.

I am out of this school and moving on to a different one to fulfill my life's dream but what I have seen here is pitiful you need to clean up your act and quick you are doing a dis-service to the people who pay your salaries.

Peace out

Strange things are afoot at the Uaa

I have been going to school here this semester and I have had some difficult medical problems arise as I go through said semester.  while I am to blame for my faults and misdemeanors, I still have a strange feeling that something is amiss. I started out fine with conversations with my advisory but it wasn't until I sent a certain e-mail that everything erupted.  Then I received strange emails from my adviser that supposedly had received before but was sent to a different email address that does not exist.  Leaving me to wonder if the powers that be and I know you are watching every move and turn would stoop to such a level in academia.

I am uncertain as to what will come of this but it is intriguing to say the least.

That's all,

Happy Spring Break.

Pussy Riot in Sochi

I met a lady once that said that she liked music and bands that did not involve politics.  I can see that, we need that part of music but in the end music has always been used one way or another in the political and social arenas.  I think it is the responsibility of the artist to make the decision whether to be political or not and allowing their music to be used for such things.  Now when we have bands like Pussy Riot which are primarily for political gain we still need to look to them for representation of part of the community and state.

I just saw that the band was beaten up by Russian police while they were filming a video outside of the Olympics.  Vladimir Putin had said that the Olympics should seperate sport from politics but they go hand in hand as does the music.  I realize that it is a different country and culture from ours but still we need to be aware of human rights when these actions are taking place.  Does the band push the envelope to getting into these problems, yes they do but we need people like this to force change in giant political machines that tend to crush the individual.

What I say is don't stop, fight the power and always question authority!!!  I stand with you !!!