MetaText RANT

Well, few people read this blog, which is okay by me, it's become more of a journal than anything. Unfortunately, with Homeland Security sending out spyware to spy on us..any headline that shouts out at them will be grabbed..Marshall McCluhan used to call them "Hot Messages"..the sort of headline that is used in advertising and yellow journalism to grab attention..now emailers and bloggers must be mindful of their phraselogy, lest they become followed around by 'men in black"...Actually, the CIA seems more humane, and less scarey nowadays..what with their intelligence gathering being ignored...makes me think that they are just like us regular citizens, whose needs are being ignored...I look at the Verrazano bridge rusting away..and think of all the money poured into Halliburton's coffers..I look at schools where I sub, without textbooks, and think of all the 2 million young Americans wallowing away their uneducated lives in jail..those kids didn't need to supplement mom's welfare check with selling drugs...high school kids could get a stipend to attend class, and more kids would make it thru high school and hopefully college..where are the trade schools where kids learn to be plumbers, and dental technicians, and tilers and roofers?...how come these things aren't taught in school? My mom came out of high school with a beautician's license, and had a decent paying gig at 19.....Now you come out of high school and you're prepared for a minimum wage job..the skilled gigs, roofing, paving..go to the 12 million "illegal aliens"....the CEOs of Exxon Mobil earn record profits, and gas prices go up 5c per day....and the 6 billion dollars gone missing in Iraq..and the PNAC plan to take over the Middle East...Homeland security, what a laugh..12 million people come tumbling across the border, and they don't notice it? What did we hire them for?? To spy on the Quakers? That's who they're spying on...

Arrest Exxon Mobil CEOs for TREASON

IN WWII, there was gas rationing. We are in a war. Prices should be fixed. The Exxon Mobil has no right to make excess profits during wartime. The CEOs of big oil and their high level management should give back their bonuses, or be arrested for treason during wartime. Sincerely, Joy Whelan, Yellow Dog Democrat.

America is beautiful.

Well I was going to meet Alex for coffee, but instead, after seeing a zillion Latinos/as on the SI Ferry, I asked him if he wanted to document this social event. He did, so instead of coffee, we ran around the demonstration, me looking for angles, and Alex snapping away. Thats why I love NY, no time to be bored, there's always a whirlpool forming...Alex loves experience..his idea of a fun Friday night is standing in the middle of Times Square and photographing the oncoming traffic...