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I am 35, divorced, 1 son 7 years old. I live with my family. I lead a spiritual life within a Native American Medicine and Shamanism realm. I am an active solo musician as well as a part of "The Baghdad String Benders". I currently live and work in Baghdad, Iraq as a civilian contractor. I am versed in Middle Eastern, West African and Native American rhythms etc. I am also a "Trance Dancer" Perhaps also referred to as Totem Dancing, (not affiliated with Traditional Pow Wow dancing.) I also love the outdoors, camping, hiking, chasing storms (not for profit, more for personal pleasure). I am a diverse character to be sure.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Hello all you bloggers! Today is July 30, 2007. We're almost done with the month. On to August! With the summer nearing a close (doesn't feel like it) we have a few things to remember before the end of the sun's reign. It's almost time to gather in the last of the crops, before they burn up. Remember to store up now for the autumn and winter, it seems we will see quite a winter this year. After all of the rains and hot weather in parts of the USA....Does anyone catch the change in climate? Has anyone else thought about the subsequent difference in weather patterns this year? I am just wondering if I'm the only one that has noticed...

Anyways.

I went to Virginia on July 16th for a job interview and came back on the 17th. I got to fly into Washington DC via Denver from OKC. I was only there long enough to stay in an overpriced hotel for one night (Holiday Inn Rosslyn, I will not patronize your establishment again) You were overpriced, snobby and otherwise down right rude! I realized this information all too late, not that I was in control of my reservations mind you, the company interviewing me was the arrangement side of things. Alas, they paid for my flight there and back, which went rather smoothly all things considered. I was slightly worried about all of the checkpoints and TSA, but everything went off without a hitch. Surprisingly enough, they did not tell me to remove my tube of toothpaste, even though it was over the 3 oz maximum, nor did they ask about my over sized bottle of contact lens solution (12 oz) go figure. ;)

Well, I signed the contract with a good company, referred by a good friend of mine. I will be flying back out next month to train and go from there.

More on that topic later.

Peaceful Monday!

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Today is July 8, 2007. The day after "Live Earth" 7-7-07. I see most of us are still alive and kicking. That's good, but, I'll let you in on a theory I've been pondering lately...
I've griped about all the rain in the first of the summer months. Well, I may have been hasty in griping. Seems to me, in theory, all the water that has been poured into Texas and Oklahoma and some of the neighboring states has been preparing us for warmer climates. I see it this way...The sun has been playing havoc with our climate since 20 years ago. Now, more than ever, we should pay attention to the tell tale signs of sunspots. I believe that, in time, we will see sunspot activity so intense, it will cause flash fires across the USA. In doing so, all the Pacific and East coasts (the ones in drought) will burn significantly. This puts the central USA in the way, or as I call it "the fire break". If and when this happens, I believe that the areas curently in drought, will burn or start burning almost spontaneously. When this takes place, I believe that the central states will provide a sort of oasis that casues the fires to stop. Thus securing the east and west coasts, to a point. I don't believe that global warming is all natural, I do know that we as humans, should take responsibility for our actions as a whole. Yes, we are to blame for some of the damageas to our world. I don't think we can begin to repair them either.

I think that the ideas presented by Al Gore are promising steps to make us all aware of the issues, but, I don't think we can alter our past mistakes. What I think we should do as humans, is, reduce the amount of gasoline we use on a daily, weekely, monthly and yearly basis. I think we should reduce our importing from Oil rich nations. I think we should stop burning coal, start using more hydroelectric power and possibly hydrogen power. Fossil fuels WILL run out! This is not a looming possibility any longer, it is a looming likelyhood in our day and age. There are many things we can do to make our world nicer. We can never reverse what has already been done, that much is apparent. Consider all the oil corporations, both domestic and foreign. How do you think they are going to take a drop or complete drop off of business if we outlaw oil usage? First of, we have to come up with a replacement RENEWABLE energy concept. Once this has been successfully done, we can move on to furthering the repairs to our climate. For right now, just suffice it to say, we are in for one heck of a ride with the coming climate roller coaster. I for one, am glad that the warming trend has brought many to their senses. I am only sad that it took so long for many to realize the damage we are inflicting upon ourselves. Hindsight is 20/20. Go figure...

I wish peace upon all, prosperity, love and happiness. But above all, I wish upon our planet, health and well being.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Howdy there folks in Blogger land!

If you all watch any form of news media, you may or may not have heard or seen anything about "Hamas Mouse".

I watched and have a couple of comments to the news media in the USA, as well as the government that allows this to get out into mainstream USA media resources. ARE YOU STUPID? That's the number one comment thus far. #2 ARE YOU STUPID? Sounds a bit redundant eh? The reason I ask are you stupid is this. Why in the hell would you allow propaganda into our mainstream news feeds anyway? Who decided to interpret this crazy crap and put it out so that everyone, America, and our Muslim immigrants can see? I am not a supporter of Palestine or Hamas, or Al Quaeda, or any other radical group against freedom. I AM against seeing this crap posted for all the free world to get their eyes on! To be fair, if you saw an Anarchist website posted with propaganda, it would be called freedom of speech, but it would be quieted or removed. Yes? What if Texans started posting Propaganda regarding Seceding from the rest of America? Would ou government stand for that? I highly doubt it. People would be outraged! Putting these children up to recording this crap and then putting it on the air in the Middle East just fuels the fire of war and destruction. Not only to the Muslim radicals, but it's like their crowning glory to see it posted all over the WORLD WIDE WEB. BILLIONS of people can come into contact with this CRAP! Just like several can come across these blogs and call it crap! Whatever, but, shouldn't we be concerned with pasting this all over to be seen?

Am I the only one with this opinion? First of all, the idea of Martyrdom in a cause such as Al Quaeda, Islam, Al Hamas, or whoever the hell these people are, is ridiculous! If you die in a cause that promised you 72 Virgins, well, that's for the Creator to decide. I doubt you will see Allah in the same light when the CREATOR boots your sorry asses back to wherever you climbed out of. I am disgusted with the bariers not in place to filter out this garbage from our Media. And outraged at the people that cross post from Youtube into Myspace for MILLIONS perhaps BILLIONS to see everyday.

There, I'll step down from my soapbox for a while.