Reflections on Change as the First Half Century of My Life Starts its Final Year

In this next week or so I am going to publish some reflections and ideas on what has happened during my so brief life and what awaits and looms down the road. This will be the beginnings of the foundation for another blog which I will embark on in the comings months which will be an autobiography of my life. The internet gives us the opportunity to record personal histories of ourselves for all of time in cyberspace. As long as technology survives, these writings will survive, and I also plan to print them so they can be preserved for future generations to read. I do not pretend to be of any importance or to have any amazing revelations to make or note, but personal oral histories are the basic foundation of sharing and understanding lives and would not it be so great to have had these available for those living ordinarily in the past. I think I will name my new blog "THE_BIG_J_autobiography" or something to that effect. But before I begin to work on that, I will make a few posts here with some of my observations and insights about what I have seen, witnessed, and experienced in my life on a more macrolevel.

On another note, I had hoped to get my property out of CO this weekend or next, but I believe it is more rational and logical to do it farther into June, perhaps on Sunday the 17th or 24th. Incredibly, U-haul charges an extra $55 to rent vehicles on Fridays and Saturdays and also within 10 days of a planned date so it behooves one to look a little farther out timewise even though there is a strong likelihood gasoline prices will go up another 20 to 25 cents. I do, however, plan to get the 10-15 items that HBL has been so generously been storing for me in his garage these past six months and perhaps as soon as Monday, 28 May, and certainly before this week ends accomplish that.

Poignant Thoughts and Words for Memorial Day 2007

The true Memorial Day is this coming Wednesday, 30 May, but government treachery moved it (this year on 28 May) to be part of a three day weekend for government and upper income workers which has resulted in a steady loss in the importance and significance of this day for many, if not most, Americans. Most younger Americans under age 40 have no relevant or meaningful understanding or appreciation for this day, as well as many high level corporate and government officials who merely view it as a day to go make thoughtles purchases of consumer goods and market and hype it as such.

The words in the link below are very stirring and give cause for one to pause to think and reflect on the sacrifices by so many in the past, today, and in the near future that allows so many to live so well in a prosperous nation and not dwell on how and why we are where we are as individuals, families, neighborhoods, communities, regions, and a nation.


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1444/

Sunday 27 May News Articles and Observations

Here are some news articles from Sunday 27 May 2007 and my brief observations on them.





A. Further Information about the Consequences of Globalization on Democracy



The bottom line is that international corporate capitalism is imperiling and endangering democracy, not only in the US, but in other nations as well. This rapidly growing menace and threat must be addressed, brought under control, and moved towards elimination and extinction.





http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1439/





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B. US Housing Market Continues to Tank



This development is only intensifying across the nation and will contribute to the looming recession along with several other factors. The housing market slump and collapse is only going to get worse, although here in the Central Rockies and High Plains the impact will be somewhat less.





http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2584331.ece





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C. Democrats Capitulate and Concede to Bush Agenda





They were elected to stand up to Bush and force a change in policy, in particular Iraq, and they have waffled and failed. The voters will remember this, and anti-incumbent Democrats will take advantage of this in caucuses and primaries in Spring '08.





http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/05/we_gave_them_our_hearts_they_g.html





http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/137





http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1440/


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D. The Legacy of Rachel Carson

Carson was one of the planet's most influential people in history. Can anyone imagine what our world would be like if environmentalism never took off in the consciousness of so many people ?
We have come so far, yet we have so, so far to go, and most of us will not be around to see if we can ever reclaim the ideal again.


http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1180146338297390.xml&coll=7


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E. Detailed Information on Impact and Future of Energy Industry in and on Wyoming

Today, Sunday, 27 May, the local Cheyenne paper ran a special 18 page section on the energy industry in Wyoming. Unless one lives in the state, one cannot fully grasp the size, scope, and impact this economic sector has across the board here. Basically, it is all this state has in terms of economic development and the economic impact has been and will continue to be enormous. It is why this state ranks number six in per capita income nationally and why state and local governments are swimming in money from tax revenues, allowing for sizeable investments in infrastructure and social services. With a population of just over 500,000, there is plenty to go around.


http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2007/05/27/featured_story/01top_05-27-07.txt


http://www.buyorsellcheyenne.com/news/projects/energy_project/introduction.html


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