Nov
17th
Yep! Apparently they’ve joined forces to bring us:
Should be a good thing for us all! 
Nov
11th
There’s a new Project in town and this one is very interesting. You see, most of the “Money Challenge” Websites popping up are Men…actually, I don’t think I’ve seen a Female on ANY of them?
Well, good news! SixFigureWriters.com is 4 Women and 1 man! Their goal is to earn Six Figures (hence the title) in One Year (duh). Can they do it? Anything is possible…I’m definately rooting for them!
Good Luck Girls! (and a guy) 
http://www.sixfigurewriters.com/
Nov
4th
A Great looking new movie: “We are…Marshall” based on the 1971 Marshall football team that was pieced together after 75 people (Coaches, Players and fans) died on a Plane Crash in 1970. You can read more on the true story, which the movie is based on, at this link [click here].
The Movie looks great and seems to keep close to the Truth, unlike so many movies that claim to be “based on a True Story” or “Based on True Events”.
Oct
9th
As the rumors were circulating all last week - the “Experts” were dismissing them one by one… but as of today: Google is the proud new owner of YouTube.com! A very nice price for the founders of Youtube, I might add.
A purchase of $1.65 Billion Dollars to be exact. While some rumors were indicating $1 Billion and others were indicating closer to $2 Billion, the price was “just right” in between, although a little north of half.
I’m not sure why some believe the deal is not worth it. I mean the traffic is some of the best online (top 5, right?) and what could be better than Owning another piece of Internet History? The price is definately alot of money but c’mon… it’s Google and they own AdSense! Now they can crush the competition, once again. As Microsoft continues to make attempts at picking up new Online Companies for their Ad Network - Google just offers more money…sounds like Microsoft is losing at their own game.
Bandwidth you say? Think again… Google can cope with that.
Things just continue to thrive for the Internet Giant.
Sep
29th
OUCH! That’s what I’m talkin’ about….
Oliver Stone has attacked Bush and his Administration and stated that he’s “Ashamed for his Country”.
This is a GREAT Article and I applaud Mr. Stone for his stand up actions. It’s great to see people using their own powers to stand up for what they believe (and know) is right. I’ve been against the Bush Administration since late 2001 when I seen where they were REALLY going with the entire 9/11 aftermath. An excuse for war was an excuse for Oil… I knew the Iraq war was right around the corner and I knew it would be a waste of time and a strain on our economy - mostly Gas Prices. But the fact is - we’re now TRILLIONS IN DEBT after Clinton pulled Bush’s daddy and America out of this debt.
I’ve recently noticed that Clinton is finally stepping up to the plate as well. I commend him for that also… he was probably one of the best Presidents we’ve ever had. Right near Thomas Jefferson, in my opinion.
What I’m most embarassed about is when Clinton was busted for Adultry - they wanted him impeached and barely escaped. Yet Bush has broken the Constitution, become a Mass Murderer, Liar and basically the worst President/Leader not only in our Country (ever) but possibly in the world by the time his term is over. His past seems so screwed up people in the future will not understand how we was even a president… then again - I believe they will finally TELL THE TRUTH on HOW he became president and the History Channel will create a Similar story on 9/11 much like the truth behind Pearl Harbor.
You can read the Oliver Stone Article/Interview here [Click Here]
Sep
25th
I can hear it now “innocent?”. Yes, innocent. They’re creatures like me and you. They are not killers to kill or murderers that murder to do it…they hunt for food. They are some of the smartest animals on this planet but of course they cannot protect themselves from Bullets, Traps, etc. - much like we cannot do the same. If you took the time to learn about Wolves - you would see how beautiful these animals are. There are so many myths about Wolves - good and bad that need to go un-noticed and researched for yourself………
Sep
12th
So I’ve been reading alot about Microsofts attempt to compete with the Internet’s new biggest toy: YouTube.com … So what will it take for another attempt to compete with this company? MySpace, the biggest Social Networking Community online, couldn’t compete with YouTube - so what makes a Company like Microsoft who seems to fail while trying to compete with the big web-dogs - want to compete?
Well…
Sep
4th
According to the news, Steve Irwin who is better known as “The Crocodile Hunter” has died from a Stingray wound. Apparently Mr. Irwin was filming off The Great Barrier Reef, shooting a segment of the series “Oceans Deadliest” when he swam too close to a Stingray. Sources say he was swimming on top of the Stingray which carries a poisonous barb. The Stingray moved upwards and stuck it’s barb into Irwin’s chest and poked a hole in his heart.
“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time.
Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
Sep
1st
I find the stories interesting… especially the responses the stories get regarding “support” for the Soldiers. My view would be very 1-sided as I am not at all for the war and was against it months before was even spoken about within the media.The responses on some of the stories are always great… people saying things like “un-american”, yada yada. I bet..no I KNOW for a fact NONE of these people who speak about the war and being un-american in these ways would EVER go to war. I know alot of people who support Bush and talk about being “un-american” yet they couldn’t tell you ANYTHING about the war, besides the fact that it’s taking place in Iraq.
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You can read a story on AOL regarding the latest soldier who turned himself in after going AWOL. I support this guy and any other guy who goes awol to keep out of this war. I won’t even express my true feelings about this war besides the fact that I CANNOT WAIT until next election! I just gotta sit and wait… and to all of you “true americans” — keep your comments to yourselves and go to Iraq with your overalls and 30/30’s.
Aug
29th
So most of you know by now about the AOL Search Data Leak… I was reading a blog today (I would link to it but I accidently closed the tab and can’t remember the link - sorry to the guy/girl who owns that blog!) and I found a link to this result showing a guy searching for some rather “unusual” information. I hope it didn’t turn out to be as bad as it looks!???
Aug
9th
For a while Google seemed to be at the top of the net and then came MySpace… Google even has their own Social Networking Community called Orkut.com which sucks since you have to be invited (who was the moron who came up with that?). But apparently Google has teamed up with MySpace for a Search and Ad Campaign worth … hold the phone… $900 MILLION DOLLARS!!! Yes, $900 Million Dollars. Of course that’s over 3 years but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMNNNNNNNNN News Corp. got their moneys worth for the $549 Million they purchased MySpace for!
I could use $900 Million Dollars.
Aug
9th
It’s funny… I’ve used some of these as my own arguments, prior to even seeing this list. I love this list because it makes those close-minded people who used to talk their crap about getting a job seem so contradictive. Life isn’t about worrying about someone elses money… Steve Pavlina says it perfectly in his blog post.
You can read his post below:
Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me, and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
Here are some free resources to help you get started:
- The Courage To Live Consciously (article on how to transition to more meaningful work)
- Podcast #006 - How to Make Money Without a Job (audio)
- Podcast #009 - Kick-start Your Own Business (audio)
- Podcast #014 - Embracing Your Passion (audio)
- 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed (article)
- How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) (article)
- How to Make Money From Your Blog (article)
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
Check out Steve Pavlina’s Blog here
Aug
6th
I found an interesting article on coasttocoast.fm right now. I figured I’d post it for the few readers of my blog.
http://www.coasttocoast.fm/article/apollo-11-followed-by-ufo.html
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin will be appearing tonight on the Coast to Coast AM program. As such I felt a need to write an article about him and the content of tonight’s program with Richard C. Hoagland and Buzz Aldrin.
According to a new documentary, Buzz Aldrin admits that a unidentified flying object followed the first manned mission to the Lunar surface in 1969. “There was definitely something out there, close enough for us to observe,” Aldrin said in the new documentary entitled “Apollo 11: The Untold Story” the documentary was broadcasted on July 25, of this year, by Britain’s Channel Five.
“Now, it was quite obvious the three of us weren’t going to blurt out, “Hey, Houston, we’ve got something moving alongside of us, and we don’t know what it is” you know? We were not about to do that, because we knew those transmissions would be heard by all sorts of people, and somebody might have demanded that we turn back, because of aliens or whatever the reason may have been… they would have thought of something to make us return.”
Buzz Aldrin goes so far to state that NASA has indeed covered up the UFO encounter. The Apollo 11 mission of July 1969 remains the golden highlight of manned space exploration, 37 years after it first occurred.
Editors note: That is a sad statement to make, but it is true. Since Apollo 11, we have not achieved anything near as exciting as landing on the Moon – that was our golden moment. Nothing has happened in 37 years to even compare to what we did in 1967. Some may claim the moon landing was faked, and it may well have been – after all, why else have we never returned? We landed on the moon in what could be described as nothing more then a high-tech washing machine (by today’s standards) yet, we can’t even accomplish such a goal with today’s technologies at our disposal. Makes one wonder, doesn’t it?
Earlier in the Month of July, 2006 - it was publicly revealed that 698 out of approximately 700 boxes of Apollo 11 videotapes were missing. These 700 boxes held high quality recordings of the landing, all but two of these Boxes, out of the 700 Box set mysteriously vanished from the United States National Archives – and no one knows exactly when they went missing.
The super high definition “slow scan” mission footage was recorded to a special 1 inch magnetic tape. The only machines able to play these tapes are at Goddard Space Flight Center’s Data Evaluation Lab, which is closing its doors and being dismantled by the U.S. Government in October. This is not to say that someone with enough knowledge couldn’t build a machine capable of playing these tapes.
Astronauts of Apollo 11 have been pleading with NASA to locate the tapes & digitally transfer them so historians and scientists could study the high definition footage. What the world saw on Television was a heavily compressed and degraded version of the real video. The television version hides a lot of detail.
Buzz Aldrin’s UFO revelation is the latest in what appears to be a never ending stream of information which points finger after finger at NASA for covering up the truth on these unidentified craft for decades.
Aldrin is certain not the first to admit UFOs have been following or shall I say “Haunting” both American and Russian space missions. In fact Mercury and Gemini Astronaut Col. Gordon Cooper had his first experience with a UFO while he was an air force pilot, flying over West Germany in the 1950’s. He later clamed a UFO actually landed at Edwards air force base in the Mojave desert.
“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth,” Cooper testified before the United Nations in 1985, according to CNN.
“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.”
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell — the MIT scientist, Navy captain and NASA’s sixth man to walk on the Moon — is also a firm believer in UFOs. Dozens of retired defense contractors, Air Force and Navy pilots, FAA officials and even NASA administrators came forward in the summer of 2001 to tell their incredible UFO stories to the Washington press corps and demand Congressional hearings.
But the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 buried the “Disclosure Project” in the memory hole of the “pre-9/11 world.”
Also of note is (As some, if not most of us are aware) there is a British hacker who is currently facing expedition to the United States for hacking into the governments computer systems. He is facing life imprisonment if he is convicted on all charges. He claims to have found evidence in the form of Photographs from NASA’s current missions and said they are being “fixed” to fully remove any unidentified flying object, before the images were released to the public.
