A milestone

1500 posts!

Wow, I still can't imagine I have put 1500 posts up in such a short time. I started this Blog because a very close friend started one and my brother also has a Blog in which he posts items occasionally. I was just going to put up a store once in a while about what I was doing, then I decided to post my experience in Greece for the Olympics, which is getting close to ten years ago. That was a very challenging yet fun time for me, though it destroyed my faith in the company I worked for.

In any case I decided to continue to post, mostly on what I was doing around town or a story I thought was interesting. But lately I am posting a lot of stories on political topics, environmental issues, and space. I studied Astronomy and am still fascinated by our universe, though I do not work in the field any more, I do follow current events and discoveries on space exploration and research.

My political views are more keyed on the inequality of our country and the corruption that permeates the government. Since the American media will not come out and say that our government is corrupt, it is true and a lot of people are seeing that, I feel I need to put stories out that show how our government has been corrupted. The sad thing is that many others refuse to open their eyes and see the world for what it is. There was a silent Coupe and American is now controlled and run by a Plutocracy.

Also the sad state of Americans world awareness compels me to speak up. At one time the people of this country cared about and studied foreign relations and were interested in world events. But the education system of this country has been dumbed down so far that most people just can't understand that they are being used. I use as an analogy that Americans are like cattle. The cattle seem happy, they get to eat all they want until the day the are harvested. Even up to that point they don't understand what is happening. The sad thing is that this is happening in other countries, in some cases in worse conditions. The Chinese are now seeming what capitalism can do, you may get the car and TV, but you also get pollution, sickness, corruption and a loss of self identity.

Since the time I started this Blog, I have had some incredibly wonderful events happen in my life and some incredible terrible events as well. I have gone from the high to the low and back. I have not put everything in this Blog, but I see the flow and that is all that matters to me. Life is short and the end will come faster than we like, but while we are here we need to live and explore our world and universe. I hope that you as a reader have gotten something out of what I post. It is what I find interesting and may or may not be a mainstream view but it is part of our world.