What is is about having an automobile and parking in this town? I’m still stuck in bicycle land as a pedestrian. New York is a pedestrian town. One needs a full time job just to afford a car here. I realize the troubles of having a car in New York from hearing horror stories from friends and by riding around with them in their cars sometimes. Between looking for parking spaces and driving around in circles for hours at a time and then when you finally do find a parking space, half of the parking meters are broken, and then you are subject to parking tickets and having your car towed just for parking and the towing of cars and parking tickets is the biggest money racket I have ever seen in New York. And the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us can be your worst nightmare. One can consider renting monthly parking garages for parking space but their monthly rent costs more than the rent for my apartment. And then one has to arrange their life around their car with these off the side of the street parking rules, another money racket, by having to get up at insanely early hours every day just to move you car across the street. And the insurance rates here are one of the highest in the nation to where one considers getting out of town license plates just to save money. And that’s not even including the cost of maintainence. Cars are great, they are helpful, but if I ever got one, I would need to find a job just to support it. Have a great day.
Free Online Dating
Sometimes I need a date, sometimes I need a friend, and at True.com and http://www.justsayhi.com/vs/true I can find the person I am looking to meet. JustSayHi.com is a free online dating service, which sounds great to me, the whole idea of free and no credit card required, so that’s the biggest incentive for me to try them right now. And their site looks really kool and easy to use. JustSayHi.com has communities in all the U.S. cities and states and you can meet singles by joining their active message boards, posting in forums or participate in polls and surveys. Their site sounds like a great site for online dating and matchmaking and a great way to browse online personals of single men and women in your area. This is a sponsored review. Have a great day.
Army Recruiting in a No Police State World
Yesterday I received a mass email asking for jail support in a call for solidarity for 23 people arrested at a recruiting station. Apparently nearly 100 students from area universities marched to the armed forces recruiting station on 157 Chambers Street. Twenty-three members of Students for a Democratic Society entered and occupied the recruiting station shutting down recruitment activity for nearly two hours. Outside dozens more protesters supported those being arrested with chants including, “Troops out now,” “No justice, no peace. U.S. out of the Middle East,” and “Stop the war. I noticed the recruitment office is located next to the College I once attended, BMCC, a predominantly low income minority school. Military recruitment offices seem to thrive around poor and low income neighborhoods. Would these poverty pimps send their own children to the war? Why can’t there be a better financial support base , more income and retirement opportunities and free education for individuals of a recruitment age so that they will not have to consider being fodder for the canon as their only option? And what does this have to do with the No Police State?
Homeless in the World
So I was riding the New York City subway train the other day going my way, listening to those prerecorded messages of the MTA terrorizing its riders with the “If you see a suspicious package say something” message and I see a seemingly homeless woman sitting across from me with a big shopping bag, a garbage bag, wearing no socks in the middle of winter and sleeping. The rest of the subway car is full and the immediate seats around her are emply. I walk past homeless persons everyday in my whereabouts of this town and every city must have this problem. Will the poor we have always with us? Whose land is it anyway? Whose right is it to own the land that was supposed to be given to us free anyway? That the basic necessity of life, shelter is not free. I believe New York City has the highest concentration of poverty in America. As a former squatter in the Lower East Side, I believe in utopian ideas. If you need a home, take one. And you don’t even have to pay taxes. I believe developers or individuals should work with the market place on how to formalize squatters rights, that the world housing crisis will give rise to the squatters struggle as a vision of a world freed from bankers, bosses, and landlords who currently claim ownership and by freeing the land from the oppressors and creating zones of resistance and saying no to concentrated landlord and government ownership; to create a viable alternative for people of neighborhoods to restore homes through their own efforts. It is my utopian vision of seeing the earth as a liberated zone one day. And what does this have to do with the No Police State?
Random Thoughts
So I’ve been on my myspace page a lot in the past few days and many random thoughts have been coming to mind as I look at the friends on my pages and the current events in real life. It looks like my artwork isn’t going back into my closet after all for the next month. I just put up artwork in a group show as part of an art and music event in Queens and I hope that event rocks. My friend the musician plays music in the New York City subway sometimes as part of the MTA Arts for Transit, Music Under New York program http://www.mta.info , and the police shut them down sometimes with policies.. My question of the day is: “Since when is art a crime, and what does this have to do with an MTA No Police State?”
Mind, Body and Spirit
I need a Guru, Krishna, Buddah, Ghandi, The Dali Lama, a Shaman, some mystical figure, anyone. Is there a full moon today? I need spiritual healing and awareness to destress from the stress of city life in the masses of humanity here in New York. I could use a bunch of yoga classes, some meditation courses, a yoga retreat, a good spa or some other relaxation technique to raise my consciousness; free of course. Maybe I can chant a mantra toward my way to stress free living. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel, a new awakening? Peace of mind is the way to go. Well I can’t afford a membership at the gym and I’ve used up all of my free trial memberships everywhere. I may have to resort to paying twenty dollars now for a Two-Week Trial Membership at New York Sports Club http://www.nysc.com oh well. Todays question of the day: What about that topic in the news today about banning the use of the “N” word? Isn’t that an issue of free speech? A social ethics question? And what does that have to do with the No Police State?
Stock Market Crash in a No Police State World
Hey Bloggers, the news says the stock market took a dive yesterday, the biggest drop since 911. Maybe the real estate prices in this town will fall right along with it. Is there a correlation between the two because this Quality of Life campaign is doing me in and there is a housing crisis in New York right now.
In regards to the Stock Market and the Federal Reserve: It is time to learn the truth about the powers that control our nation by controlling our money supply. “In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Script. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one.”
We had learned that the people’s confidence in the currency was all they needed, and they could be free of borrowing debts. That would mean being free of the Bank of England. In Response the world’s most powerful independent bank used it’s influence on the British Parliment to press for the passing of the Currency Act of 1764. This act made it illegal for the colonies to print their own money, and forced them to pay all future taxes to Britain in silver or gold. “In one year, the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed.
“The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War.
Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography
The Bible says: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
I Timothy 6:10
And what do these things have to do with the No Police State? Have a great day.
I’m in debt
And while I was on this Web 2.0 topic for today, let me take a break for another thought that just came to mind. I’m in debt, credit card debt. I’m in so much debt that the credit card collectors have been ringing my phone off the hook on a nonstop basis. Maybe Seasoned Credit, http://seasonedcredit.org can help me. Maybe they can help repair my credit, and believe me my credit can sure use some repairing; emergency resuscitation. Maybe http://seasonedcredit.org can help me raise my credit score and get out of debt. They say they can uncover the one secret that the Credit Bureaus are terrified of you knowing, and believe me I sure wish I knew the secret of how to get out of debt, raise my credit score, collect more interest and get more credit cause I’m pretty sure my credit record is keeping those credit bureaus busy so I may give http://seasonedcredit.org a try.
Blogging in a Web 2.0 World
Hey Bloggers, what’s everyone writing about these days? Again I’m sitting here twiddling my thumbs wondering what to write about. I’ve always had an interest in journalism so it’s great this new web 2.0 format has enabled independent wanna be journalists like me to write about whatever random thoughts that come to mind. And now that I’ve discovered that linking to other websites helps to promote your website, I’ll probably be mentioning topics and websites just for the purpose of adding a link. Wow! Some subjects that come to mind are some of the great websites and companies of the web 2.0 internet information age; Youtube, MySpace, CD Baby, Napster, EBAY, Wikipedia, Diggs, WordPress, Opensource, Craigslist to which I am also addicted to, Blogger and a host of others. So if anyone knows of any other great topics to write about, let me know. This new social media, user generated content thing has really got me going. Todays question of the day: Why doesn’t more of the world use Biodiesel fuel? And what does that have to do with the No Police State? Have a great day.
Hey Bloggers
So I’ve discovered there are a million ways a blogger can blog for bucks. Wow! And todays question of the day is “Why do schools have you say the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag everyday you are in school?” And what does that have to do with the No Police State? Hey Bloggers, I have a few pieces of artwork up in a group show at XES Lounge as part of their monthly Galore parties. Stop by and check out the artwork if you are in the neighborhood. This months show is up until March 4th, after that my artwork goes back into the closet.
XES Lounge
157 W. 24 btw 6-7 Ave
212-604-0212
New York, New York
http://www.xesnyc.com/
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