OK I get it people are pissed off about just about everything. Now we are all lamenting the death of another young person killed for no good reason but prejudice and contempt. No I'm not talking about Trayvon Martin who was shot because he looked suspicious wearing a hoodie while being black. No I'm talking about "the killing of an unarmed Bronx teen, Ramarley Graham, 19, by an undercover narcotics officer; the police beating of another 19-year-old Bronx teen, Jatiek Reed" (FINAL CALL).Or the 2007 shooting in Oakland, Ca of unarmed Oscar Grant. Shot in the back while being detained by BART police officer. Or the host of other shootings by BART, sherrifs and police officers seemingly out of control all in an effort to "protect the public".In fact you can bet that the nightly media in California will stop everything to feature and focus on a high or low speed chase. These usually end in death during prime time viewing. Instant justice. No trial. While the commentators suggest that the police have every right to execute you for resisting arrest or driving drunk or reaching for his waste or having a gun or whatever. It has become public policy among agencies and law enforcement since 9-11 to blatantly take ones life without due cause. There is no balance on any side. The law enforcement community must be ignorant to the fact that everybody has the same access to deep information. They seem not to realize that public perceptions matter more than department policies and accountability is like the slow wheels of justice. The media is not anyones friend unless you accept their spin. I cannot believe that it took one month for the Trayvon Martin incident to become a national outcry. That is insane. Meanwhile we all tuned in to the latest Hollywood drug case or fallen stars due to self drug indulgence. Again insane; where are the priorities? We have become at risk to ourselves and our contrived misinterpretations of what is actually real and how it affect each of us. The average person takes to long to get "outraged". I'm equally outraged at the amount of black on black and ever increasing black and Latino conflicts erupting like poisonous mushrooms all around the state. Time to think and wake the hell up and pay attention to all that affect our lives and our neighbors. Meanwhile, nobody really cares until death or abuse has come and gone and another one of our youth or any human have been senselessly marginalized without due cause.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Issue of RACE
Reprinted from Mother Jones:
POLITICAL MOJO FROM DAVID CORN, KEVIN DRUM, AND THE NEWS TEAM
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On the evening of February 26, Trayvon Martin—an unarmed 17-year-old African American student—was confronted, shot, and killed near his home by George Zimmerman, a Latino neighborhood watch captain in the Orlando, Florida suburb of Sanford. Zimmerman has not been charged with a crime. Since Martin's death and the release of more details, the case has garnered national media attention and sparked a host of public debates over racial tensions, vigilantism, police practices, and gun laws.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Reinventing the Wheel...& Deal...
RECYCLE REGREEN REUSE
Having a plan in the recycling game is key. I created a couple of relationships that have helped me develop a recycling program. Mind you, there is very little revenue in cardboard considering the massive amounts needed to make 20 dollars. It is around 300lbs to get to $20. And at lest a gallon a gas to collect material in my truck. Gas currently is averaging $4.35 or so in Los Angeles. So you can see that you got to move alot of card board to make $100. Last I checked it was $164 or so a ton for bulk cardboard.So this averages about 1500lbs to garner $100 more or less. This is my average give or take.
This may seem foolish to many, but the card board is free minus cost of gas.I am a full time thinker and doer in need of living resources. In my six cylinder Chevy that's about $25 or 5.5 gallons. So I get it, keep it up and then look back at three or four months. I recycle a $20 cardboard load 6\7 days. So far I've done this about 85 to 70 days since November 2011;Conservative estimate is 75 x $17 average = $1275 not a bad idea in retrospect. This is more than I last received in unemployment benefits.
Reminder that most recoverable matter is thrown away and create a benefit or reuse to know one but a corporate landfill.I actually have to let a considerable portion go to the dump or others, if they even catch it. I could benefit with additional trucks and like minded employees. I wish to expand the composting to create a line of fertilizing products and plants.
Furthermore, there are the fringe benefits to recycling anything and everything. I get a daily work out lifting, throwing and moving about $500lbs of total weight a day. People have stopped me and bought boxes directly for moving. Because I solicit a few food establishments, I get a lot of food waste mixed in. The reuse factor is the benefit to my vegetable garden and the new compost mixes I'm concocting. Literally I will pick up boxes of lettuce and organic cuttings or buckets of eggs shells and yolk matter. This is excellent for gardeners. I often get lettuce cores and onion stems that I've replanted adding four varieties of lettuces and onions in my garden. Green living is an actuality not a concept unattainable.
Having a plan in the recycling game is key. I created a couple of relationships that have helped me develop a recycling program. Mind you, there is very little revenue in cardboard considering the massive amounts needed to make 20 dollars. It is around 300lbs to get to $20. And at lest a gallon a gas to collect material in my truck. Gas currently is averaging $4.35 or so in Los Angeles. So you can see that you got to move alot of card board to make $100. Last I checked it was $164 or so a ton for bulk cardboard.So this averages about 1500lbs to garner $100 more or less. This is my average give or take.
This may seem foolish to many, but the card board is free minus cost of gas.I am a full time thinker and doer in need of living resources. In my six cylinder Chevy that's about $25 or 5.5 gallons. So I get it, keep it up and then look back at three or four months. I recycle a $20 cardboard load 6\7 days. So far I've done this about 85 to 70 days since November 2011;Conservative estimate is 75 x $17 average = $1275 not a bad idea in retrospect. This is more than I last received in unemployment benefits.
Reminder that most recoverable matter is thrown away and create a benefit or reuse to know one but a corporate landfill.I actually have to let a considerable portion go to the dump or others, if they even catch it. I could benefit with additional trucks and like minded employees. I wish to expand the composting to create a line of fertilizing products and plants.
Furthermore, there are the fringe benefits to recycling anything and everything. I get a daily work out lifting, throwing and moving about $500lbs of total weight a day. People have stopped me and bought boxes directly for moving. Because I solicit a few food establishments, I get a lot of food waste mixed in. The reuse factor is the benefit to my vegetable garden and the new compost mixes I'm concocting. Literally I will pick up boxes of lettuce and organic cuttings or buckets of eggs shells and yolk matter. This is excellent for gardeners. I often get lettuce cores and onion stems that I've replanted adding four varieties of lettuces and onions in my garden. Green living is an actuality not a concept unattainable.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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