Dear Mom - Letters to Heaven

Friday, July 31, 2009

Doc Watson & David Holt Way To Be!



Doc and David are an example of what is good about this country, this world and people in general. Their thirst for knowledge, discovery, sharing of knowledge and pursuit of new experiences, vistas and vantage points, their positive outlook, their creativity and their ability to overcome obstacles, their good nature, their talent, their openness, kindness and their honesty is the root of real enlightenment and strength, and fulfillment. They are examples of how to be as people - let alone musicians.

Long live that spirit of cooperation, humbleness, kindness and strength. The strength in knowing you can let the other guy be number one. The strength in the confidence and integrity of your own being even if the other guy is singing lead is essential to collaboration both personally, musically, in business and among nations, and leads to a sum greater than it's separate parts. This is the lesson and the vision in which we all need to achieve our greater goals and live the lives our creator, any creator would want for their creation.

The chest thumping short sighted, short term, bravado of me first is a losers game that ends in destruction as aptly demonstrated time and again by nations, leaders and people from all walks of life.


Paul Burke
Author-Journey Home

Doc & David Interview

Friday, July 17, 2009

Energy is a National Security Issue - Bigger Than Oil, Coal and Nuclear's Self Interest

The hold out legislatures on Capital Hill need to get with the program. Big Oil had one hundred years of profit taking and subsidies and the last eight years of complete free reign to use our government, treasure, and troops any way they wanted. Their little free for all set us back mightily.

The talking heads on Fox (Fixed) News need to shut up, wake up and stop whoring themselves out to an old set of arcane ideas that have outlived their usefulness.

The Status Quo needs to get with the program or get out of our way.

Solar energy is coming and the leading proponent is the Pentagon!

Hey all you chicken hawk haters of the environment, haters of clean water, air and food, all of you greedy over fishers and spoilers of the planet, all of you extractors of minerals and polluters of drinking water, and all of you tree tearers and animal slaughterers I've got news for your thick skulls and damned souls - YOU COULDN'T BE MORE WRONG about everything.

You are looking at the world and yourself completely backwards.

You are destroying your own selves (along with the rest of us) by thinking you're above it all, and by all I mean what was put here not by your hand. You have no idea what you are doing or talking about because your premise is all wrong. Your starting position from your thought process is completely 180 degrees backwards. Me first is wrong. I'm just one person so what does it matter is WRONG.

I know, I know you are all so impressed with your manly accomplishments. The pyramids, big deal make a planet, your glass enclosed office buildings, make an Eco- system, your guns, create a sun.

Your ego is so out of whack you don't realize you barely control your own actions. Having trouble putting that drink down Mr. Big Shot? Cheating on your wife Senator enjoy the divorce? How's that cigarette taste want another one? What whacking off again, road rage, molesting children Bishop? You can not even control your own miserable little lives and behavior none of us are all that.

We need to dial it down quick and get some global humility in the face of the actual reality we live in, and the precarious nature of our existence. Our Earthly orbit goes off a degree or two, slows down, or moves slightly closer to the sun we are cooked, literally. We need to be walking around with a helluva a lot more respect for our place in the Universe and on this planet and with each other. We couldn't be farther off base with our attitudes than we are now today!

The premise you geniuses, you captains of industry should be operating from is that we are on a tiny speck of rock with a thin layer of air in an enormous and beyond vast, infinite universe, surrounded by billions and billions of universes with no other means of survival than this tiny, infinitely small and remote barely there planet.



You guys don't see the big picture at all. It's laughable if it wasn't so STUPID. Do you all still think we are the center of the Universe? Hell we aren't even the center of our solar system.

Look you morons think grain of sand, speck of dust. That's our Earth and that's what sustains us not your giant corporation, your bank account, your dick, or your dogma. How stupid do you have to be not to realize that any pollution is wrong, any pollution is a step towards self destruction through cancer and toxins in our water ways and then in our blood streams. If it pollutes our Earth it pollutes our bodies. Every action has repercussions. You idiots think you are separate from nature, lord dominion over the beasts, we don't operate in a vacuum. WAKE UP!

Oil, Coal, Nuclear are all archaic, outdated, and poisonous forms of dirty energy. Their by products are cancer, war, and global warming. If the phrase global warming sets you all a twitter try the concept called POLLUTION. Dirty energy sources do not mix well with our survival and health as a species or our survival as a Country or our regional survival dependent on tourism.

That's right tourism you idiots. It's a huge economic driver and generator.

So the idea of blasting mountain tops into streams that would be better used for fly fishing and drinking than a waste dump and a cesspool is a bad idea.

The idea of oil rigs spewing waste water, decimating fish populations and disrupting and poisoning our food chain is a bad idea.

Drill baby drill spilling oil onto our beaches and turning our water brown is a bad idea, ignorant, stupid and decidedly last century. Any further development and subsidies given to those industries is just hush money until we come online with solar thermal.

Hey idiots North America's largest solar thermal array is housed at Nellis Air Force Base. You would know that if you had clicked on the link you just skipped over.

Just like the government spearheaded the development of the internet by investing in it Solar Thermal and Soar Energy are finally, finally, finally on it's way thanks to the PENTAGON and the common sense of the hippies. Yes the hippies who know where they live (on a planet not a Country Club) and aren't driven to self destruction by a blown up malfunctioning ego and over sense of self.

That's right boys and girls your government realizes that corporations don't have our back or our best interest at heart. Unclogging the log jam of whores in Congress from big Texas Oil and the legacy of the Nazi money launderer Prescott Bush, the genius who not only gave us Nixon, but his retarded cowboy son the Pentagon has finally taken the bull by the horns because it's a national security issue you freakin' idiots.

We're going to have solar energy and it's coming to a town, orbit near you. Hey corporate geniuses and sycophants with your alarming lack of vision I'll throw you a bone. You might want to INVEST ... NOW...morons.

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7/15/2009 - BROOKS CITY-BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- By 2015, solar thermal energy will provide at least 30 percent of the hot water in new and heavily renovated federal buildings.

For the Air Force, it will be the job of officials at the Brooks Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, as managers of the service's military construction, or MILCON, program, to ensure that its facilities comply with the provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Read More

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Corporate Media Controls Your Opinions




You may think that you arrived at your own opinions on your own but with a land, sea, and air attack that rivals any science fiction novel big corporate media has got you by the (eye)balls.

Just FIVE COMPANIES control what we watch, hear and read EVERY DAY. Disney, Time Warner, News Corp, GE/NBC and CBS Viacom (Sumner Redstone).

It's not an accident and happened while you were ummm distracted by Brittney, Michael, and Dancing With The Stars. The Corporate game plan for your mind sprung into action a long time ago, and it's going to take a big effort to undo their consolidating, conglomerate monopoly on your opinions.

Don't get mad at yourself for being so gullible. Education has been dumbed down so far that you aren't even sure how your brain works. The marketers know. Remember when you were in kindergarten and you learned by repetition and memorization. Some called it the old boring method. Repeat slowly after me your opinions are not your own. They are repeated mantras seeped into your being by the wallpaper and noise that is our media outlets the TV, Radio and Newspapers going 24 hours a day.

Stop and think about that and imagine if the content was different, classical music, visual arts like Monet and Van Gogh and public forums like C-Span playing all the time - and all the other stuff disappeared. Imagine if movies were less violent in fact no guns at all. Imagine if meat wasn't whats for dinner. It's all advertising folks and what we absorb into our brains needs to be monitored by our own selves or we just become dupes and minions of the powers that be.

From CEO's huffing and puffing the latest RNC Fixed (FOX) news spin to Washington D.C. lawyers quoting the Heritage Foundation and Middle America repeating verbatim what they see and hear on TV - independent thought has gone out with independent media. Say it ain't so Joe!

The people clamoring for power (politicians) are whoring themselves out to the big money corporations who own the media, who control the content and greatly influence a very pliable, overstimulated and glued to the tube populace. Turn off the TV and go to a PTA meeting would be my advice.

It is the media fueled by a handful of Corporations who own media conglomerates who control the content of your newspaper, television, and radio. They promote their own interest to the detriment of the Country. Country First my ass!

Let's go over some facts:

The average american spends over 4 hours a day watching TV
93 percent of american adults listen to the radio every week
88 percent of online americans say the internet is a part of their daily routine
The average teenager spends more hours per year watching TV than in School
On average an american child will view 40,000 commercials per year

Those stats are quite frankly obscene.

And from Lowry Mays past CEO of Radio giant Clear Channel Communications I quote, "If anyone said we were in the radio business, it wouldn't be someone from our company. We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well- researched music. We're simply in the business of selling customers products."

It's pretty sad that our national public airways serve no greater purpose than to hawk the snuggie.

More facts:
1 billion dollars is the amount the communication industry has spent to lobby congress since 1998 ...100 million a year.
39 Million - the amount AT&T has given in campaign contributions to members of congress over the past ten years
453 Billion - the estimated worth of the publicly owned airwaves that are used by broadcasters for free - no cost - zero, zilch, nothing back to the american tax payers.

More facts
Since 1975 two thirds of independent newspaper owners have disappeared
99 percent of all residential broadband connections(99%)are provided by incumbent cable or telecom companies

When radio first began a third of all stations were run by nonprofit groups. Many others sold airtime to citizens for their own use. Less than 5 percent would be considered commercial but once the Federal Radio Commission was formed nonprofit stations have dropped to 2 percent and advertising went balistic from a marginal activity to being huge in just a few years.

Federal policies shaped the system and that's how it can change.

Do you want to help bring freedom of thought, independence and democracy back to the airwaves? Do you want a more thoughtful population bringing democracy and the people back to the "table" - that right now is a limited reserved seating affair for the wealthiest 1% who control our democracy and legislative process? Do you want America of the people, by the people, for the people?

If your answer is yes click here to visit the "Free Press" Home Page for more information and ways you - yes YOU can help.

Your Country Needs You - get active, participate today!


Paul Burke
Author - Journey Home