Tuesday, October 23, 2012


Too Much Data

It is apparent in today’s world that we have too much data and information available to the common man.  Everyone is too lazy or too busy to take the time to understand the data so they rely on someone else to interpret it for them.  That is where our problems begin.  The interpreter has an agenda, because everyone has an agenda, usually relevant to what makes them the most money or gives them the biggest ego boost.   So the bias interpreter tells the common man what the data means with his or her spin on the conclusions that are made.  The common man then runs out and parrots this conclusion to all of his friends and relatives as though it was his original interpretation of the data.  With the abundance of data and the abundance of interpreters, you seldom get any valid information from the vast amount of data.

Much time is spent in useless analysis and our productivity goes down and down.  We know the greatest detail about insignificant things, but details about important matters are lost in the quagmire of useless information.  As a result the common man “tweets”  his friends and posts something on Facebook and he is ambivalent to the crashing world around him.

More and more Americans are really clueless as to the situation that exists in the world today because it is beyond their desire or capability to sift through the data and come to a conclusion themselves.   This is a very dangerous situation in terms of the survival of our society.  We are “ripe for the pickens” and there are plenty of evil people trying to pick the fruit of the United States.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

A letter to the Editor

Captain Pugwash would approve of this "letter to the editor"!!!  It says what so many of us have been feeling....



Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Who is really running the Government

We should blame all of the Politicians for not having the capability to control things, but they have very little influence on the day to day annoyances of big government.  The government is run by the bureaucrats that control what the politicians see and are told.  This would be OK if the "crats" were intelligent, non political, individuals.  But of course they aren't  .....  the government was the first employer to change the hiring requirements from the "best qualified for the job" to hire "to fill the quota" qualified or not.  This began in the '60's and has been expanding since.  We now have quotas for race, gender, sexual preferance, size, to name but a few.  There is no quota for "best for the job". 
The unfortunate thing is that these people write all of the laws, set up and enforce all of the regulations, and perpetuate their species.  They have written laws that inept politicians have passed to give themselves premium retirement programs, heathcare exempted from their own buracracy, and a " I can't be fired or laid off" program that is second to none.
The sad part of all of this is that they have spread the disease.  Most of our large corporations now have similar hiring laws as they are afraid of litigation or are required by law to hire base on the same quota system.
It will take several generations of dedicated and bright politicans to fix the system, and I am afraid that we don't have the will or the time to do what needs to be done.