WE MUST BECOME THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD

Happy birthday Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi 10.2.1869-1.30.1948

INSPIRATION CONTINUED-LED ZEPPELIN: KASHMIR, SEATTLE JULY 1977

Peace and much love-

Mike

BLOWN AWAY BY WORLD-WIDE INTEREST

As time goes by and the world transitions from print to electronic media, I am so amazed by the countries that stop by this little blog every day. I love to check out other blogs from Spain to Lithuania, to Argentina, South Africa and beyond. I love this media, I am grateful for it, and as I am a young man, I look forward to years of commentary and reporting to you, world, via this medium. Click on the map and check out some of the places... Peace-



Mike

OBAMA IN EUROPE, EUROPEANS SWOON

I've been watching the news lately, big surprise, and I've been paying attention to the G20 summit it London. The G20 is the group of the 20 most powerful economies in the world coming together to yap at each other, form policy, etc.


And, the protesters are out in force, in London protesters have been smashing windows in banks, trying to set fire to banks, etc. In France, and I love this, pissed off workers are taking their supervisors and managers hostage in factories because they are sick of getting screwed as workers while management makes the big bucks. Enough is enough! Ya basta!

I watched video of some of the hostage takers, and they are average normal people. When one of the managers was released to freedom after 24 hours as a hostage, he was released to boos and catcalls.


Can you imagine the overreaction of the American police if workers did that here? They would kill people.


Another thing I noticed about the protesters in England. For all of the thousands and thousands of people that hit the streets, I did not see a single effigy of the United States President burned.

Not one. The anger was rightly directed at bankers, insurance execs, and the wretched idea of failed American capitalism.


Not one time was Obama hanged in effigy (that just happens here in the U.S.) or burned in effigy. As a child of the 70's and 80's this is almost unheard of. When Reagan went to Europe it was on. Same with the Bushes. (somebody really should have shaved that Bush a long time ago...)


So today the Obamas are in France and Germany. Obama's crazy ass even had a town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France. They absolutely love him over there.

From a personal standpoint, as a citizen of the United States, it is very refreshing to not see the rest of the world want to kill everyone in the US because of our hateful policies.

Face it, Americans, we have a shitty reputation in the rest of the world because of our arrogance and policies, period. Latin America and South America still have not gotten over the Reagan years, rightly so.

I'm glad we elected Obama, at least he has the good sense to keep his fucking hands off of the Chancellor of Germany:



Scary image, huh? The United States elected this doofus. Twice...CRINGE!


BTW, I am beginning to like Sarkozy of France, that's him in the top pic with Obama, largely because he favors tough regulations for the banking and insurance companies, to ensure this doesn't happen again. He is for an international body to oversee regulations in every country, even (especially) the United States. I am down with that.
I am no longer under the illusion of the "God-Given Greatness Of The United States."

A nation that rapes continents and performs forced hysterectomies on poor and Native Women is not deserving of my respect, and my children are being raised in the full knowledge of what their government has done in the past. Rectify and heal the past United States, then maybe you can be allowed a shred of respect...we'll see.
Onward!

IT'S ST. VALENTINE'S DAY

Some thoughts: Feb 14, 1937, the year my adoptive mother, Barbara, was born.
Feb. 14, 1929, the Saint Valentines Day Massacre occured. Poignant b/c of my Chicago roots.
Feb. 14, 2009, on the menu: Veggie Moussaka, Greek salad, Muhammara, and berry crisp. Good shit!

I'm grateful for my beautiful Lady and children. Life is good...Peace and much love on this most commercial holiday!

Onward!

SWEET PIC COURTESY OF CHELSEA

MUSINGS

I want a Congressional bailout so I can profit like Wall Street...

If you didn't catch The Colbert Report on Tues 9.23.08 you missed a great show...when I figure out how to put a video in I suppose I will...

However, I suspect you Searchers would rather just have my amazing commentary...

Peace...