Tweetle Dee and Tweetle Dumb

The thought occurred, inspired by two Tweets. I had, for a moment, thought to include links to these tweets, which really are not bad links at all, but, if the picture that was included with one of the tweets, on TwitPic, was of me, I would not want it retweeted, nor posted here. The thought that occurred to me was Twitter could become a nasty tool for revenge, or thoughtlessly cause hurt to others, almost too easily.

Have you ever had an argument or fight with someone, and said, or even done something you wish you could take back? Things can happen in a moment of anger. We've all heard stories about passionate loves and lost loves on myspace. We've heard of revenge blogs and retaliatory pictures posted on myspace. And it occurred to me, with myspace, you'd have to sign in, and upload the picture. You'd have to click 'edit' to write anything into your profile, or click the blog icon and post there. It takes at least a minute or two.

With Twitter, people can stay on and signed in 24/7. People can tweet anytime, anywhere, instantly. People can tweet from their mobile devices, Blackberries. Pictures can be loaded to Twit Pic with a click. Mental diarrhea can pour forth from the brain, down the arms, to the fingertips, onto the keyboard, to arrive on the Internet in a flash. Vengeful, knee jerk, angry reactions can suddenly spill over onto Twitter, unguarded and thoughtlessly, before you even have a chance to digest your reactions and think before tweeting.

Just as easily, things we think are funny can now instantly become fodder for the world. It's all to easy to say or do something for the sake of a laugh, (think of the President on Leno) and be sorry for it later. Or even immediately sorry. Twitter provides that same venue for letting the world in on a gaffe, some momentary brain fart, some idiotic faux paus, be it mildly distasteful, slightly more stupid, or horrifically nasty.

I guess, what I'm trying to say is, it's become too easy to hurt someones feelings, and on a much larger scale then just verbally responding to that someone. I guess what I'm trying to say, is let us all be careful of what we post, and about whom we Tweet.

We all remember the old adage, 'Think before you speak'; let us now apply it to this 21st century technology. 'Think before you Tweet'.

Peace, love and light,
LaSal

Bailouts or Bullshit?

Question: If this government can give over a trillion dollars, OK?, over a TRILLION! dollars to big companies, who then use millions of said money to give bonuses to already rich employees and bosses, OK?, BONUSES!, because this will solve the problem of how to boost our economy, why can't they just divide that money up between each American, and let us boost the economy?

Seriously, if I had a nice chunk of change, I assure you, I'd pay off any debt I had and I'd certainly be spending a lot more money than I am now. Isn't that the problem as defined by the government in the first place? Didn't WE get blamed for this problem? We, the people, got ourselves into debt and then stopped spending any money and that's what caused this problem. Didn't I hear somewhere that it's all our fault? The fault of all us little, average, everyman Americans? All the biggies failed without our little guy support? Isn't that what I heard? Did I not hear it right? It's OUR fault?

Answer: Well then, it seems ridiculously, fantastically obvious, at least to me, that if we created this problem, we should be the ones receiving said bailout money! This way we can undo the problem which we, the people, have created. We, the people can bail us all out of said problem. Once we have these 'bonuses' in OUR hands, we would create the perfect jump start to the economy . We'd be paying off loans and mortgages so the banks and lending institutions wouldn't fail. We'd be paying and spending and buying and investing and paying it all with all that lovely bail out money. Doesn't it seem that if the opposite situation created this problem, then this is the only real viable solution? I do.

Hey, Gov, pass a trillion dollars this way, thank you very much.

Signed,
We, The People.
(OK, just me for now.)

PS: In case you don't know what one trillion dollars looks like, check it out.

One TRILLION dollars.

Start with a$100 dollar bill.

This is a packet of one hundred $100 bills. It's less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000.

This is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could carry it around in a grocery bag.

$100 million fits on a standard pallet.

And $1 BILLION dollars is quite a bit more, but look at the comparison of human to money.

Look at ONE TRILLION dollars. The bail out money the government is giving away is MORE that this! Can you even see the little human at the corner of the money? Realize that a trillion dollars is a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

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Notice these pallets are double stacked.

Are you shocked?

Do you want a piece of that?

Do you think if you got a piece of that, you could help start the economy moving?

Twitter and UFO's and The Space Shuttle

As usual, I got up this morning, brewed my tea, and headed for my email and Twitter. Twitter is a very interesting phenomenon, and if you don't know what it is, click my Twitter link and discover something cool. However, I'm not posting this to teach about Twitter. I'm posting this because of someone else's Tweet. Apparently the Space Shuttle has taken video of a UFO.

"What?" you ask.

A UFO! Unidentified Flying Object.

Seems this was an unidentified, flying in outer space near the shuttle object, so the smart, quick, and ever resourceful astronauts on board the shuttle took some video of the unidentified object, and it's now on YouTube. Now, I realize there are an astronomical amount of UFO video's out there, but one taken from the shuttle? I don't know if there are many of those. I haven't investigated beyond watching this video and posting it here.

It's listed on YouTube as the 'Mar 17 2009 Nasa TV:STS-119 encounters big UFO' video. When I saw this video, I thought to myself, self, you should post this video on your blog to see if anyone else is actually interested enough to watch it. To see if anyone else finds this even remotely interesting. To see if anyone is interested enough to click 'interesting', or leave a comment, even. Self thought it was good idea, so here it is, along with a news article that was Tweeted with it.






UFO News Article ~ http://www.unknowncountry.com/

Now, did you watch it? What is your opinion? Do you even have an opinion? If you do, let us know by either clicking on one of the options, or leaving a comment.

Yeah, you!

(I'm still in that snarky mood... can you tell?)

Peace, love and light
LaSal

More TV Show Stuff

OK, so I guess I'm in one of those pissy little moods where everything annoys me. And today what's annoying me is another TV show. Ghostwhisperer.

Well, for crying out loud! What have they done to this show? Another bunch of lunatics sitting around a back room writing crap! Are they all high?

In case you're not familiar, Ghostwhisperer is a show about a woman who sees dead people. (Yeah, hard to believe, I know.) Anyway, the show had a great character ensemble that included Jim Clancy, the Ghostwhisperer's husband. Mostly, at first, this show was about seeing and helping ghosts. You know, ghostwhispering. The relationship between Melinda and her husband Jim was great, supportive, caring, and fun to watch and secondary to the main theme. That started to change after a few seasons, where they started making the relationship more prominent. At first it was good, but then they started having differences over whether or not to have a baby. What did that have to do with seeing ghosts? Nothing. Somehow writers thought this would be really interesting. Take a great relationship, with well loved characters, and give them some problems that would change the theme of the show. They even had to bring on board another 'ghostwhisperer' to take over the theme so they could focus on Melinda and Jim's problems.

Well, to add to those problems, they decided to kill off Jim. Take a beloved character, that added great depth and love to the show, and kill him off! Everyone who watched the show, as far as I could tell, HATED that he was killed. But, not to worry, this show is about ghosts, so what did they do? They decided to have Jim, now a ghost, 'jump' into the body of someone who had just died. That would be Sam.

So, Sam suddenly wakes up on the gurney where he's been pronounced dead. We all know it's not really Sam, but Jim in there, follow? But Jim, now called a 'step-in', has amnesia. So now the main theme of the show revolves around Melinda getting Sam/Jim to remember being Jim and not Sam. Poor Sam/Jim doesn't remember his Sam family or life, nor his Jim life. Meanwhile, we keep seeing the same actor who plays Jim, playing Sam/Jim, except in reflections. You know, like a car window, a mirror, anything shiny. In those places we see another actor playing the role of Sam's body. The body Jim 'stepped' into.


Last week, while trying to rescue Melinda, Sam/Jim almost drowns, has a 'life flashes before your eyes' moment, and suddenly remembers he's Jim. He remembers it so well that when Melinda calls him 'Sam', he has to ask why. She realizes he finally remembers being Jim and hugs, kisses, tears, and laughter ensue.

Well, they're so happy to be re-united, that all it takes is a mirror, a small yell of shock from Sam/Jim (which we hear but don't see) and all is well. Everyone is laughing, smiling and thrilled about how romantic it is to have Jim back. Everyone except me.

He's not Jim. He's Sam/Jim. And how is it romantic to find yourself loving a ghost in someone else's body? And how do they explain this to Sam's family? Does anyone think it's romantic for Sam's family to not know that their son and brother is dead. How is it romantic to have Jim walking around in someone else's dead body? I'm not finding any of this romantic. I'm finding it a bit gross. I'm even finding it a bit horrific. I'm even finding it hard to think about watching the show anymore, knowing they've decided it's a great idea to have a beloved character gone, but not forgotten because he's walking around in someone else's dead body. Isn't that like body snatching? One step up from grave robbing; call it 'gurney robbing'? I'm completely creeped out and coming from me, that's saying a lot!

Burn(ing) Notice

OK, this just HAD to be said!

WHY can't Burn Notice be a weekly show throughout the year???? I mean seriously, a couple of shows in the winter, then back to waiting. A couple of shows in the summer, then back to waiting. WHY? Seriously, who's in charge of this programming schedule? Are you insane? Seriously.

This show is great. It's about a spy (Jeffrey Donvan) who got burned. He's worked loyally and successfully for our country until being burned. Now, with his identity taken from him, he's stuck in Miami trying to find out who burned him while not getting himself killed. And he balances his own problems with helping desperate people solve some really unusual, and usually unsolvable problems in a way that only a spy with a repertoire of awesome knowledge and experience can. The supporting cast (including Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, and Sharon Gless) are all awesome! And this past week was yet ANOTHER SEASON FINALE! Come on! It just started! So now we have to wait 4 months before seeing another new show? I want more NOW! I am (along with a lot of other people) suffering some severe withdrawal (in case you couldn't tell)!

Meanwhile, every time I turn on the TV I can't avoid seeing this show called House. House? Really? A show about a rude, incompetent, drug addicted doctor, who consistently misdiagnoses his patients to the point of death, before accidentally stumbling upon the real problem and way to save said patient. Yeah. That's the doc I'd want. NOT.

Here's a thought. Replace every House show with a Burn Notice. Maybe it's just me, but I would WAY rather watch an exciting, action/adventure show about a good guy helping out the underdog, rather than a nasty, drug addict doctor nearly killing every patient. We are the viewers, shouldn't we have a say in the programming?

And in case you've been off world and are unfamiliar with the show, here's a link: Burn Notice

Note to the programming powers that be on USA: Give us more Burn Notice. And give us more NEW Burn Notice!

What are your thoughts? Do you agree? Disagree? What's your favorite show? Let me know!