You know when youth is, right? That’s when you make fun of people who aren’t bright enough to remember when the time change happens. And so our story begins.
On the recommendation of my commodity guy JB, I decided to take Elaine to see a movie Sunday (“Law Abiding Citizen“). We showed up at the right time only to discover a nearly empty parking lot and a theater staff that looked as us (mainly me) funny when we asked about seating.
“Oh, they’ll be seating in lemme see here….an hour and 20-minutes.”
“Naw, that cain’t be right! I thought the movie started at 2:05?”
“It does sir…”
“Well, what time is now?”
“12:37″
“You sure about that?
“Here, it’s on the cash register and look on my cell phone…”
Crap. It started dawning on me. “oh oh…shoot, I thought it was next weekend, but that’s the opening of deer season…damn it…got ‘em confused…”
After a discussion with Elaine about what to do we decided to try the local bowling alley which has a half-dozen pool tables and so some munchies, bottled water (and hand sanitizers later) we were back and saw the movie – a little more violent that I had expected and the good guy wasn’t so good but I suppose the message was Law Abiding Citizens aren’t necessarily so – or something like that.
After so, after half a century of making fun of people who didn’t have the presence of mind to reset their clocks he4re I’d gone and done it. I am terribly disappointed in our kids, though. Not one of them called me at 2AM to remind me to reset my clocks to 1 AM in the middle of the night Saturday.
Just as well, I suppose. They’d probably have called collect.
Surreality
We’re getting into a time when the word ‘surreal’ is due to be wandering through. Noticed that Sprott Asset Management’s October newsletter was titled “Surreality Check part Two: Dead government walking…”
A Google News search on the term “surreal” finds the concept popping up in stories about president bashing, some tinsel town filler and a couple of car racing events.
Another place to look for it is at the workplace. This is probably the day with the best odds of the whole year to make it to work on time.
Roads to Isfahan and Lincoln
You will be able to follow who’s up on things – and who’s not – when the net makes the transition from Tehran being to capitol of Iran to something else.
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I’ve long advocated moving the capitol of the USA, too, come to think of it. I always thought that something a lot more central would be dandy. Somewhere in one of the square states, for example. Why, just consider the huge boost it would give to the economy of the Midwest.
Besides creating a huge land speculation boom – just what we need for a change – moving out of Washington would give us a chance use more modern positioning techniques which in turn suggest that a self-descriptive name would be awesome.
And instead of the District of Columbia, how about we call the governmental environs something like “America”.
Some examples of the new naming protocol: Tomorrow, America or my favorite Forever, America.
The new seat of governance should have different quarters, eights, or sixteenths for the different major lobbying groups. You’d know where you were just by knowing which quarter you’re in. We’d put the booze lobby in Tipsy, America while the petroleum lobby would be in Greased, America. Won’t go into all the diplomatic quarters – those would be after country names like China, America or Israel, America, or Russia, America. The partnering nature of foreign relations would become more apparent.
It could also focus on some underlying disconnects between industry and purpose. For example, instead of having a quarter called Pharmaceutical, America, we should maybe goal set it as Healthy, America. The financial services lobbyists might be placed in Value, America, while the gun lobby and defense industries could share Defend, America.
Yeah, no chance in hell. But to my way of thinking, no one should live in this country without reading THE definitive book by Trout & Ries Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition
One of the central points of the book is that a business or entity becomes what it says it is. So if after 20-years of saying “Quality is Job 1″ should anyone be surprised that Ford just reported a billion dollars in earnings today and didn’t take any public dough from trough to do it?
Of course not: Institutions become what they say they are, so it makes elegant sense that if we were to describe our capitol as “America” that’s a word with positioning power several orders of magnitude more distinct than “District of Columbia”…
And wouldn’t it fix a lot of our ills if instead of am amorphous conglomeration of inferences that go with the world “Washington” that we call it something more descriptive like “Freedom, America” or ‘Tomorrow, America”? Forever, America sure has a nice ring to it. So does Integrity, America.
Maybe if reporters of all nations had to report from Integrity or Tomorrow benchmarking national progress and goals would be clearer.
Since we can’t change the world, though, I guess I’ll have to be satisfied for now calling our ranch Uretopia…and Washington the District of Confusion. I just thought it was a capital idea. How about Lincoln, Nebraska as a possible location….
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Think you have a handle on 2012? Ha! Not hardly! On Tuesday night of this week, Cliff High will be rolling out his research – along with some spiffy graphics on his site www.halfpasthuman.com as part of an interview on the Jeff Rense show. We will hold off on “the Single Person’s Marketing Plan” until next week because I wanted to spend some time this weekend bridging the gap between the historical basis of 2012 – and the critical issues of survival of possible events in that timeframe. What do the Dogon People and their stories about Sirius (Later Osiris in Egyptology) have to do with the breakdown of the former Soviet Union? And what does that have to do with economics? Get ready to grab your blinders firmly…you ain’t gonna like this at all.
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“Live on $10,000″ Updated
With another round of layoffs due to start later this month…a round which will start to axe many of the middle managers who have managed to avoid the HR grenades…might I suggest a preemptive tactical move? Voluntarily dropping your lifestyle back a bit, since we’re all being marched down that road by either circumstances or some out-of-control-PTB types who write checks to Washington lobby and to anti-reformers in California! A good starting point, at least if you’ve still got $10-bucks is my e-book “How to Live on #10,000 a Year…or less!”
It’s an automatic download. It’s written in an information dense style: The whole thing runs about 65 pages, but it gives you a vision of how to not only live on the cheap, but also how to migrate up the economic foodchain if you have a little hustle left… Click here for the index and details.
MyGroPonics
My commodity broker JB Slear and I have written a simple book to get you started on high density hydroponics. It’s an example of how someone with a little creativity, access to a few ‘dollar stores’ and willing to try out some new farming techniques can grow an amazing amount of produce sin a very small space – like even an apartment balcony (if it gets some sunlight). Sound interesting? It’s just $10 bucks here…
No, when you tell your browser to ‘empty your cookies’ of web sites you’ve visited, it probably won’t get them all. Why? Because there is a whole class of ‘browser-independent’ cookies that will gobble up space on your hard drive, but more important is they will sneak out information about you without you being aware of it. Ever week I get emails like this one:
“Thanks again for the Maxa Tools recommendation, I never knew how much additional garbage gets attached every time I browse. “
Test drive it free by downloading it. To upgrade to full functionality will be $35 bucks. Is your privacy worth it?
Once you try it out, click the upgrade button (!) on the upper right hand side for the $35 unlock to get it to remove even those nasty and highly intrusive ‘non-browser specific’ cookies. Bonus: You computer may run faster. I’ve taken 1,000 37,970 41,837 cookies off my machine now. It’s just amazing. (I might ask their CTO to add one more digit to the “Total deleted till now” window…)
Attn: Mac Drivers: MCM does support the Safari Browser, but that does not mean it is compatible with Mac OS. Maxa-Tools only support the Windows world….so far. Given Jens and the other engineers time…
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