Fourth Blog: The Vision & Design to come!!

Me: Oh, guess what?

You: What?

Me: I got a new blog.

You: Really...

Me (effusively): I hope to address the world's problems, show individuality, while caring for others ,and.. it will be the most entertaining place on the net.

You (bored): Sure.

This is how most blogs are started - oh, not the whole convo, and high ideals expressed out loud - but the hidden intent we put forth into the ether, hoping, hell, praying (for those without corporeal relationships) that someone will find what we think - palatable.

I may be the most guilty in this endeavor. It has its charms. No one sets out to create boredom - or run of the mill - even if, we are (maybe I am) indeed, a bore.

Or things aren't jumping off like they are daily in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, Zimbabwe or name your troubled, developing and psychopathically-lead military arena where gladiators fighting are just a way of life in the Circus Maximus. And the normal, educated and democratically-prone persons are hiding, struggling to find a way to express their voice without becoming the next meal for the lions in said arena. Women: better be kung fu master and martial art whiz banger like Bruce Lee - else - I pity the fool that messes with the govs in these places.

In hoping to express opinions, make money, entertain, or scoop the scribblers at 20th century media conglomerate incorporated - now, learning to adapt, change and otherwise, get off their a-s-s-es and do their job - report the facts, ma'am - blogging is personal, social and well, democratic and sometimes, capitalistic.

In the world, you got your vapid players: Carrie Prejean took a stance, now she got her legs (gorgeous as they are) taken out from under her.

You got your rapid and repressive players: China will require software to block websites it doesn't like (and of course, monitor their country folk) while continuing to support, even if tacitly, the regime in North Korea, who is just itching for a fight - and the old, red, white and blue, might have to put their money and arms where the North Korean a-s-s is.

You got the movers and shakers of money: China now has the largest reserves of gold. Japan holds $634 Billion of our U.S. Debt. But China directly holds $739.6 Billion of Uncle Sam's bills.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Citicorp, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC are so large and complex, yet, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, ICBC (China) is now the largest by market capitalization -June 2008, also, China Construction (China) and Bank of China (China) make up this top ten. If any bank fails, of this size, the Great Recession will indeed become a Great Depression. Any of these banks is as large as a G20 nation.

Meanwhile, GM, the 9th largest company in the world by revenues in 2008 ($182 Billion) is no longer itself. It went to a home - an institution, for rehab - and well, it will be back. A little thinner, a bit more humble and definitely, a whole lot more in need of support from us Americans.

Other Titans of Wealth: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, that Mexico guy -Carlos Slim Helú and Lakshmi Mittal, who has a nice chuck of where I live under his control, but be damned if I see it being put to good use.

And their are many more categories, but you get the continental drift of this blogger. Or maybe its Climate Change that needs to be discussed???

Or maybe change in general.

We all need change - some have done this so often, so suddenly, it seems crazy to those that never see them or talk to them for months or years, at a crack - but, we definitely need perspective too. To see the good (and not so much), as discussed here today.

While I can't entertain too much longer in this diatribe, I hope the point in the future is clear as the vision, design and topics become more concrete.

You: So, are you going to post often?

Me: As often as my ho-hum life allows. And when the news is exciting...Or I need more space than twitter. Or Facebook doesn't do it justice..

You: Oh Boy...(sounding like Dr. Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap)

Now is the time when we dance... on Anything Written Too!

Jes-Ghost a favorite out of Chicago!