What I Learned about People Today...

"The Democrats don't have a single white male running for president, I have to vote Republican." - A Good (Educated) Friend of Mine

There are plenty intelligent folk in this world that are simply racist. That pains me. It shows me exactly where we are limited in this world. I shows that I am a human being and I am flawed, and I will always be ignorant and irreverent of my flaws, so much to the point, that I will celebrate my ideas associated with said faults.

I am going to vote for Barack Obama I think. It seems the most intelligent choice given my options. It even seems to be an intelligent choice with all options I could conceive. Mr. Obama feels like a strong, morally bound man. Someone with inner integrity independent of anyone he knows and anyone who needs and wants something of him. Of course, it is his job to sell me that picture of himself and he might be successful, but I feel it about him.

Hillary Clinton has one thing going against her, Hillary feels like the rest of the Senate to me - slimy. I can't put my finger on it, I just don't trust it. And those feelings have proven me well over and over. Too smooth, too polished, too accepting of the status quo. Mr. McCain...Thank you for serving. Thank you for giving to our country. We love you. We appreciate you. But you have been in it too long, you are one of 'them' and I don't trust you. Neither you Mitt...especially you Mitt. Giuliani, you and Huckabee remind me of Bush, folksy cowboys with Charisma and Charm with no substance.

Speak strong Mr. Obama. Believe.

The Economics of Now

I read an article recently, it was titled, "Why the debt crisis is now the greatest threat to the American Republic."

There was one particularly sobering paragraph...it finished with this:

"The historian Thomas E. Woods, Jr., observes that, during the 1950s and 1960s, between one-third and two-thirds of all American research talent was siphoned off into the military sector. It is, of course, impossible to know what innovations never appeared as a result of this diversion of resources and brainpower into the service of the military, but it was during the 1960s that we first began to notice Japan was outpacing us in the design and quality of a range of consumer goods, including household electronics and automobiles."

This is an interesting paragraph...and one VERY large rebuttal is that there are quite a few things that have come from that un economically thought out spending that went on and is going on.

But is must be understood that we have sold off the long term in exchange for military might. Our education and infrastructure has crumbled.

Our lack of focus is causing the world significant harm.

OLPC and Kiva - Small business technology revolution at the bulging end of the long tail

Kiva.org allows me to lend to small businesses throughout the world. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has created the ultra-efficient and clean computer for children around the world. Why not combine these program allowing private persons the ability the give loans for purpose of buying laptops? Edit the default install to be tailored for small business all using open source FREE software. Maybe even build potential evolutionary/revolution producing software and allow the fundamental programming languages and abilities spread around the world like math does today. I guess that last point is already being done via the OLPC program, but this would be a business related development (evolutionary) versus the kids learning with their minds in this world. Good lord. Revolution. The business program could be made to drop the price on the laptops going to the kids via a direct tax (gotta make sure the kids benefit to win this battle) and by increasing the demand leading to all those economies of scales equations.

Well...that's all folk.