" LIFE "

Just another beautiful day in the woodlands of North Adams. Autumn is most people's favorite time of the year, at least up in our hills. A time of the year that everyone should get away from the humdrum of everyday and pack up the family and venture out into our pristine woods. A day hike with the family to our "Cascade Falls" or just meandering on one of our gazillion trails to nowhere. A basket lunch while sitting among natures brilliancy and breathing in the crisp Autumn air is about as close to Heaven that some of us will get.

For the more hardy, a sleep over in the woods at this time of the year is like being allowed to romp with the Angels. You can't find anything on this Earth more peaceful and restful, than wakening up to a fresh brewing pot of coffee, wafting through the quiet morning Autumn air with aromatic delight, and add this to a cast iron skillet full of sizzling smoked bacon and fresh potatoes and eggs, fried just to perfection over a camp fire.....You truly do have Heaven on Earth! (Guys... this is where you shine as the chief extraordinaire!...and give the little lady a break.)
So..... when we leaving? Kids welcome, the more the merrier.....after all if we don't show them the wonders of nature...Who Will?

" WHERE IS IT ALL COMING FROM? "

I was browsing on over to the Huffington Site this mornin, as I do every mornin at 3AM, for my first injection of news. That will define my mood for the rest of the day. Later on I will watch the muse/news on Faux. That reaffirms my belief that brain washing is alive and well. Did I say brain? Sorry, I didn't mean to infer that anyone on Faux muse/news has one.
An interesting little article by Larry Beinhart, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-beinhart talks about the monies spent on the invasion of IRAQ. I won't get into the numbers here, we can talk about them in the thread. My point here is ......and the purpose of the blog..........Where is all this money coming from? We were told by Bush that there was no money to fix Social Security, no money for Health Care, no money for research into alternate energy, no money,no money,no money! We have to privatize everything because the Federal Coffers are bare. So it begs the question.....WHERE IS ALL THE BILLIONS COMING FROM, and if they can find this amount of money for the invasion, why couldn't they find any money for use on the people of America?

" HOW ABOUT THIS? "

With all the weird (art...?) (and I use that term very, very loosely) displayed at Moca, wouldn't a WINDMILL or two or three fit in ever so nicely? And the hub of a WiFi System? After all they were sold to us as not only as a progressive art center but also as a technology center. The latter of which we have yet to see. This would be a great way to fill that void! Hell... with all their financial backing and influence in the money machine the cost would be nothing to us. The arts community could gather their collective talents together and make the windmills look like the worlds tallest trees, and the WiFi look like metal spiders. Wow.....maybe I should become an TECH-NO ar-tist myself after coming up with this one? Of course the Artisans (the real artists) would have to do all the real work, all I have to do is come up with the idea..... and take the credit!

"BARBEQUE ANYONE?"

I held back any comment on the Generals report till I had listened to his and the Ambassadors testimony yesterday. Being very sceptical of anything involving the Bush Administration, I was hoping deep down that some resemblance of sane truthfulness would be forth coming from the General. I was not surprised when all that was put forth was a rosy White House influenced report, so full of contrary facts that it was bordering on downright lies. The General and the Ambassador didn't cook the books.....they barbequed them.

This is the TRUTH

http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html

9/11 Coincidences (Part Ten - 2nd Cut)

The Real Story!

" LET'S GET EDUCATED "

All in the fray should maybe start here first.....http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/municipal-wifi.htm .....Then get back into the fight! The more I read the better I like it!

" WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE COME TO TOWN? "

I'm floating three hundred feet above the center of town in my time capsule phone booth, slowly rotating, observing what is transpiring with the town below. The time is around the nineteen twenties, thirties, forties.....The Town is a vibrant bustling metropolis full of smoke stacks belching coal smoke and steam high into the air. Church Steeples, lots of automobiles, and most noticeable of all is the amount of people on Main Street and it's side streets. All busy moving to and fro here and there, out of this store and into that one, scurrying around like so many ants building an ant hill. Some just standing in small groups making small talk, some standing around the depot waiting for the train to arrive, with the baggage handlers preparing the wooden wheeled carts for the next load of merchandise that will be arriving soon and those loaded with our manufactured products destined to parts unknown. Looks like a busy time for the town, a place of destination, not departure.

I push the control stick forward, into the sixties. As I look up from the control stick and gaze out onto the town, I'm astonished to see a virtual desert, where just moments ago was a thriving metropolis, now stands a barren wasteland of wind blown dirt. Gone are the buildings, and the smoke stacks that remain are all but silent. The most disheartening view of all is the lack of people to be seen. Was there a war? Were we destroyed by some magic bomb? I can see that most of the store fronts are empty and the cars have all but disappeared. Oh waite...J.J. Newberry is still there, so all wasn't lost. I have to press further into the future.

Nineteen Seventy, Eighty, Ninety.... What has happened? Still more devastation. More empty store fronts, even less people on what is left to Main Street. Even the benches that use to dot the landscape are gone. I must continue on.

Surely the new millennium will bring changes! Into the future I go, slowly the years slide by but still no changes...holdit...what is that I see? A rock hanging on a string? Trees growing upside down? Cubes of crushed beer cans stacked together? What has happened? Was there some sort of stupid gas disseminated by the bomb that destroyed the Town, to work its sinister deed on the brains of future generations? Surely everyone has gone mad? What's this?... There are tables and chairs on the sidewalk with umbrellas. Looks like the BENCHES have been replaced by these. A sign of progress. Now the old and or the disabled or just anyone will have a place to sit and eat their "Jacks Hotdogs" shaded from the sun. A step in the right direction. Someone must be thinking of the Town Folk.

I proceeded into the near future and didn't find any real positive changes. Mostly less housing and local people and more strangers and passing through folks. I guess the Town has now become a place of DEPARTURE... not a DESTINATION !

So..... If you could change the trend, what would you do and who would you encourage to locate here and put us on the road "Back To The Future"?

" WHAT AM I, AND WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR? "

OK People, Today I am asking for your help. In this season of political wrangling for all sorts of jobs in the Government, I have become very confused. In elections past (before Nixon) it was simple and straight forward.....if you were for the workin stiff, you voted Democrat..... if you were a business man, you voted Republican. Their platforms were simple and straight forward. Today however things ain't so simple. The Democrats have shown themselves to be Nannycrats to the extreme and also seem to be leaning away from their core beliefs. (Clinton NAFTA) The Republicans on the other hand seem to have takin the direction of complete dismantling of the Government for the sole benefit of the very rich and placed themselves on a pedestal with lies and make believe as their foundation.
SO...Help me out here. Who should I throw away my vote on?