WHAT IF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HAD WORN GOOGLE GLASSES?



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283380/Googles-long-awaited-smart-glasses-sale-year-hefty-1-500.html

 

 

 

Hey, Columbus, what did you really see?

If Mr. Columbus had not gotten lost, and he had worn Google glasses, what would have become of---No, what would the New World have become?

Or would it have been or become anything?

To see clearly is a benefit to be sure---and to have fun and be entertained are also good things---but would inventions, discoveries, or adventures ever have existed if apps and Google glasses had ruled people then as they seem to do now?

Technology is pouring endless gifts into our laps as if we were gods…or maybe these electron-silicon things have become our gods.

Magical, electronic gadgets have flooded our gates.

In the long run will our electronic tinker toys make us wiser?

Or are they just mass-produced, titillating, and temporal distractions?

Are they merely beloved and little luxuries that inure us to (and hide us from) existential realities that are too hard to bear?

Is our ethical awareness diminished or increased by all of these new-fangled gadgets?

Do we really need them like we need food and water?

Will the human race come together more quickly the more we buy and use our electrified, robotic gewgaws?

Is too much of our time frittered away on these brilliant baubles?

Will our beguiling, electronic bagatelles make the world a better place?

Where would we go, or what would we BE or BECOME if all of our amusing and addictive playthings vanished?

Google that!

P.S. Do we ever really know where we are…what we are…where we’re going...or what we see?

IT’S THE OIL STUPID!

UH OH REDUX

NOTE: This was originally posted
August 20, 2008.


It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
R.E.M.



This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end
My only friend,
The endOf our elaborate plans,
The endOf everything that stands,
The end No safety or surprise,
The end
I'll never look into your eyes...again

THE DOORS

"You're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident." But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."
George W. Bush

NOTE: THERE WAS NO LIVE VIDEO COVERAGE OF THE FIRST PLANE HITTING THE TOWER.

THERE COULDN'T BE.

VIDEO OF THAT FIRST PLANE HITTING THE TOWER DID NOT SURFACE UNTIL THE NEXT DAY!

"It is obvious that American foreign policy, with its goal of ringing Russia with US military bases, is leading directly to nuclear war. Every American needs to realize this fact. The US government's insane hegemonic foreign policy is a direct threat to life on the planet. Russia has made no threats against America. The post-Soviet Russian government has sought to cooperate with the US and Europe. Russia has made it clear over and over that it is prepared to obey international law and treaties. It is the Americans who have thrown international law and treaties into the trash can, not the Russians. In order to keep the billions of dollars in profits flowing to its contributors in the US military-security complex, the Bush Regime has rekindled the cold war. As American living standards decline and the prospects for university graduates deteriorate, 'our' leaders in Washington commit us to a hundred years of war. If you desire to be poor, oppressed, and eventually vaporized in a nuclear war, vote Republican."

Paul Craig Roberts

“At some point, we may be the only ones left. That’s okay with me. We are America.”
George W. Bush


“The document ‘Project for the New American Century’ envisioned the United States as a colossus astride the world, imposing its will and keeping world peace through military and economic power. The defense secretary in 1992 was Richard Cheney; the document was drafted by Paul Wolfowitz, who at the time was defense under-secretary for policy.”
Jay Bookman


“PNAC acknowledged that the ‘revolutionary’ changes it envisaged could take decades to bring about – unless, that is, the United States was struck by ‘some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.’ That ‘new Pearl Harbor’ did come, of course, in the thunderclap of September 11, 2001. And the PNAC alumni now in government were quick to capitalize on this ‘catalyzing event.’”
Chris Floyd


“The Dominators dream of empire. Not only will it extend their temporal power, they believe it will also give them immortality. Indeed, one of their chief gurus, Reaganite firebreather Michael Ledeen, says that if the Dominators have the courage to reject ‘clever diplomacy’ and ‘just wage total war’ to subjugate the Middle East, ‘our children will sing great songs about us years from now.’ This madness, this bin Laden-like megalomania is now driving the hijacked American republic – and the world – to murderous upheaval.”

Chris Floyd


“It has made it very difficult for the U.S. to take the moral or political high ground against Russia when just six years ago our country invaded and occupied another nation that had not attacked or immediately threatened us -- and didn't have the weapons of mass destruction that were used to argue that they might 'potentially' threaten our security.”
Robert Creamer


***



If one man (or group of men) destroyed the World it would be recorded inside every history book as the most evil deed ever committed.

(If there were any books left.)

The Electronic Memory of the Internet would most likely survive, and this horrific act would have been recorded.

Humans would not entirely disappear.

(Stragglers and survivors would keep bowling, playing cards, making pizza…whatever.)

Call me a nut---a big paranoid nut---but what else have George W. Bush and his Regime been doing for the last eight years except destroying the World?

He who named others as evil was himself evil, while seeming to be good.


Norman Mailer wrote, 
“When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.”

Mailer also said,

“Evil…is to have a pretty good idea of the irreparable damage you’re going to do and then proceed to do it. In that sense…terrorism is evil.”


THE NEW WORLD DISORDER OF PRE-MEDITATED TERROR AND PRE-EMPTIVE WARS.


Whether it is Bush’s illegal and immoral Iraq war---or his
Regime’s devious secrecy and his own extreme hubris---or his actions and inactions on the
Environment---or the complicity of his Regime before and after September 11, 2001---
He has shown a deep disregard and contempt for America and the World.

What a way for the most powerful man in the world and his minions to “act”.

What a legacy!
The most evil men of all time!
They brought the world to an end.


THE WORST PERSONS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.


Daddy would be proud.

Well, I guess he wouldn’t be proud.

Maybe Mommy would be.

What a Cast of Characters!

(Where are you Dante, Milton, Shakespeare?)

Maybe what has been done by George W. Bush and his minions is only the prelude to more gruesome things to come.

Again, this is extreme paranoia---hyper phobia---and I should be ashamed of my thoughts.
(“If my thought dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”
Bob Dylan)

Here, however, are some more thoughts and opinions:

Michael Chertoff’s last name means “son of the Devil”.

His face sure fits the bill.

Condoleeza Rice has no evil etymology---but she sure has demonic-looking eyeballs!

(Chertoff’s are even scarier!)

Paul Wolfowitz (just his name is a dead give-away) and Donald Rumsfeld are both pretty scary “characters” to look at.

Rumsfeld even has a disease named after him.

(Google Rumsfeld’s Disease. It ain’t too sweet to read about what this means.)

And who can forget when Wolfowitz (with a grin) put a comb in his mouth and smeared it with his spit, then ran the saliva-covered comb through his hair.

Bush has that “devilish” grin.

Dick Cheney has that writhing mouth.

I guess he’s twisting and turning his mouth a lot because he has told so many lies.

If George W. Bush doesn’t end the World before he leaves office , he definitely has given us his (Skull and Bones) best to do so.

Let‘s hope that the Decider doesn’t receive a call from his God at 3:00 A.M. telling him to start Armageddon.


John McCain or Barack Obama will have the “play’s” plot and props waiting for each to use.



IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND THE END OF THE WORLD

BATTERY BATS AND 411 TRILLION WATTS OF POWER

Two items in the news caught my eye on this Good Friday.

OMG, I just remembered: I shouldn’t have eaten one-half of a pastrami sandwich from yesterday's lunch.

It’s a good thing that I’m not a good Catholic.

Does the Bible…did Christ ever say not to eat beef on the eve of his murder?

Oh well, back to the news.

One article that was interesting in and of itself (isn’t this juxtaposition of pronouns a curious one? IN AND OF ITSELF. I’ll look up its etymology later.).

The article, which is actually just an ASSOCIATED PRESS item read as follows:

“Girlfriend ran over man, hit him with bat, authorities say”

No, it wasn’t a flying rodent that the girlfriend used to hit the man, but I guess you figured this out.

No, it was one of those bats that Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth swung.

Here is the opening sentence in the news report:

“A New Mexico woman is facing battery charges after authorities say she ran over her boyfriend with a pickup, then him with a baseball bat after an argument over a shirt”

I guess the man refused to give to his girlfriend the shirt off of his back, or whatever, then she rolled over him with a pickup, and then hit him with a baseball bat.

Therefore, she should be facing bat charges, but not battery charges.

A battery was not involved.

A bat was.

A baseball bat was.

And a pickup.

And, of course, that shirt.

The other less mundane news item was titled:

“World’s largest laser fired, displays record-breaking power: Potential for laser technology to produce power could be huge” 

[http://www2.electronicproducts.com/World_s_largest_laser_fired_displays_record_breaking_power-article-fajb_NIF_laser_march2012-html.aspx]

And, of course, what is more important than this laser?

World Peace?

Global Green Energy?

Affordable health care?

Of course not.

The world needs the biggest, damn laser that can be made!

Just think of how many hot dogs and hamburgers (without pink slime) this dandy laser will barbecue!

I know, it’s for Progress.

For the Good of Mankind.

Because it’s there to be invented!

Then why do I feel like I need a pickup and bat right now?

IT’S THE OIL STUPID!

YOU ARE UNDER ARREST!

O.K.

You’ve been Arrested!

O.K.

You’ve been Strip-Searched!

O.K.

No…

It’s not O.K.!

First, they came for your computers, and you didn’t say anything.

Then they came for your health care, and you didn’t say anything.

Then they came for your body, and

They stripped you…

of your clothes…

of your dignity…

and your

FREEDOM!

O.K.

You finally said something!

IT’S THE OIL STUPID!