Who am I? - Not a typical American according to the polls - So who am I?

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One would think, after the reasonably long life I have lived, I might have some idea of who am I.  How little we know.

Unbelievably, someone out there in cyberspace is compiling our history.  They do it by tracking, listening to, spying on, profiling, analyzing, dissecting, and brain washing us.

Somewhere in those monster computers that rule the world, everything there is to know about us exists.  Thanks to the Internet, they know our finances, interests, buying patterns, secret friends, appetite, both culinary and sexual, crimes, incomes, taxes and you name it.

Nothing is sacred.

I find it to be quite an annoyance and a bit unsettling.  However, as a realist, what else do we expect from our governments and corporate benefactors.  About the only thing they are good at is collecting all that personal stuff and having no idea what to do with it.

Because I have a tough time dealing with intangible things like the Internet or cyber space, we should have a name for that monster computer system.

Once when I was involved in the Society of the Mind, a group at the MIT Media Lab involved in artificial intelligence, I got to meet the great science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.  Clarke was about as far out as humans could be and he wrote the inspiration and screen play for an Oscar winning movie.

In the movie, 2001 Space Odyssey, HAL was the computer name, the same as the first name of a Congressman I worked for, but the movie gang used the letters because they preceded the initials of the largest computer company at the time, IBM.  That is clever.

Today we need a new name to reflect the proliferation of computer companies and the way our identity and every move is under scrutiny and monitored.

I say we call it, hum, how about "Alice" - in honor of Alice in Wonderland where nothing is as it seems.  I love Lewis Carroll.  Hardcore Geeks can relate to Alice's world.  But no, I think not.

On the other hand, J.R.R. Tolkein, another of my favorite authors, once posed a riddle and the answer is my name for the sinister clump of computers controlling the world, as we know it.  How can you not like an author with three first names?

Here is the riddle:

“This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.”

                        -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The answer:

TIME...

Therefore, we shall call our master computer "TIME," an acronym for "The Intelligent Mind Enigma," which I guess means the only place to find intelligence is in a computer, stupid humans no longer count.

What does TIME tell me about me?

Every day a variety of emails arrive from somewhere out there in cyber space so these must certainly be the results of the TIME analysis of the subject, me.

First, I must be undersexed to a substantial degree, or sexually impotent, because there are Viagra and Cialis offers nearly every day to treat my erectile dysfunction.  How does TIME know about what I do or do not do in bed?

Second, and what might support my undersexed condition, is the array of choices for a partner in life.  Some days TIME thinks I need to Mingle with Christian women, some days Jewish women,  some days Russian, Black, Asian, and European women, all in the interest of finding me the perfect match.

With such an amazing variety of women available to me, I must be classified as some kind of new kaleidoscope in the color spectrum when it comes to race and color as my choices go beyond the rainbow.

Russian Women

Okay, so each day I receive TIME generated instructions on my sexual inadequacies and my choices in female companionship.

Israeli Women

Other daily occurrences are the executive job offers, the stories matched to my interests, which include everything from politics to nature, environment to hunger, GMO to pharmaceutical drugs, Republican to Democrat, and about a dozen stock tips to become an overnight Bill Gates.

Because I am a journalist and choose to write about everything, TIME is confused about my interests.  The computer does not believe humans can have such a varied interest as I indicate but humans may not be the only thing that is stupid.

Every screen I get on the Internet with the sole exception of The Coltons Point Times, which I write and still control, every other screen has virtually layers of virtual ads from the virtual warehouse of TIME.

Note; The Coltons Point Times does not allow ads of any kind, does not collect any email or other personal information on you, and does not participate in any collection of info other than basic data telling me where my readers live and what they read.  All readers are autonomous.

TIME, that monster computer in cyberspace, is nothing more than a computer that collects everything, converts it to a digital electrical impulse, identifies everything there is to know about us, and has no clue what it means to be human.

TIME decides what is in our best interest based on our digital profile and probability analysis.  Guess what, I am neither predictable nor probable.  I live my life to disrupt all settled ideas while TIME functions as if all information is already settled.

Today I intend to disrupt TIME.  I shall disallow system upgrades (no one really knows where upgrades come from), turn off the Internet, cut off power to my computer, and go listen to music.  Let TIME try to analyze how that affects my profile.

I suppose, tomorrow I will have spam instructions on Mental Institutions if TIME works.

By the way, the TIME master computer is in all probability, a slave to more master computers of the intelligence agencies, corporations, churches, and all the other information parasites.

Stop digital domination.  Break digital dependence.  Do not be a digit eejit!

Be free - control technology, or be controlled by technology!

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Obamaville - April 23 - The Clinton Legacy - Public Service or Public Con Job - and who is being conned?

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With Bill and Hillary Clinton continuing to soar in popularity in the minds of some Democrats, although not in the eyes of liberal and progressive Democratic institutions like The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post, the stunning article today in The New York Times raises more questions.

The newspaper disclosure about the manipulation of hundreds of millions of foreign dollars in the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State probably explains better than any other explanation why Hillary erased tens of thousands of emails from her personal server covering that period.

Of course, Clinton apologists say it was just the Clintons being the Clinton's and they are just targets of a Right Wing conspiracy.  However, no one would label the Times or Post right wing radicals.

Bill Clinton is almost certainly the most popular person in American politics. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed that 56 percent of people have a positive view of the former president while just 26 percent hold a negative one.  It makes him more popular than his wife; 44 percent of Americans have a positive view of Hillary Clinton while 36 percent have a negative one.

Most Clinton fans point to the lead Hillary holds in the choice to be Democrat nominee for president, a number that wavers around 60%.  Running against Joe Biden who has not said he is in the race, nor campaigned, he sits at about 10% of the Democrat votes, Clinton has already lost 40% of the Democrats with no opposition.

People may be tired of the Clinton love of walking the tightrope when it comes to federal laws and regulations.  Bill Clinton spent over $7 million on legal fees to avoid impeachment and settlements for lawsuits against him by women.

Of course, he smoked pot but did not inhale and had oral sex with an intern but did not actually have sex, so one must adjust to the Clinton definitions.

We are yet to open the book on the changes Clinton made in the twilight of his presidency, which may have directly led to the collapse of our economy.

In addition, there is Goldman Sachs and their relationship with both Clintons in bailing out his legal expenses.  They also arranged for $500,000 speaker fees, and channeled tens of millions of foreign, and somewhat illegal dollars, into the Clinton Foundation of which she was a director, even while Secretary of State.

Did I mention their relationship to former Goldman Sachs executive Rahm Emanuel, Clinton's chief fundraiser, and Obama's Chief of Staff?

You get the idea, if Hillary runs unopposed as it now looks she may spend far more money defending herself against the acts of her husband, their family foundation, the $200 plus million dollars in their bank accounts, and their very strange relationship with the richest people throughout the world, some from countries whose money is banned.

Just what transpired to lift the Clinton couple from being broke according to Hillary in 2000 when Bill left office millions of dollars of debt from legal fees and lawsuit settlements, to being worth up to $200 million along with the assets of the Clinton Foundation 14 years later.

Most disappointing if I were a Democrat is how they continually sucker in the progressive wing of the party with promises of helping the little people, as they rocket up the ladder of former politicians who got rich manipulating the power of government.

Not only are they the classic politicians who have run Washington for far too long, but they show  no signs of stopping their efforts to convert public service to personal gain.

Ironically, Obama seemed to have been wary of the wily Clinton clan.  The White House said when he made Hillary Secretary of State she signed an agreement to publicly report all Clinton Foundation sources of money, and she was subject to preserving a permanent email record of all her dealings as Secretary.  Both promises seem to have been broken.

This might raise the question did the Clinton's tell Obama they would support him in the elections if she became secretary of State?  It could be the appointment was a bribe or a payoff but not being a right wing Republican I have no grounds to pursue such an abuse of power.

Hillary's biggest fear should be not having an opponent and having to spend the next 15 months before the general election explaining the Clinton actions over the past two decades.

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Why do you stand alone in trying to be healthy - American Health Care does not Really Care

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Well here is the answer why.

• Pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars when you are on prescription drugs

• Local drug stores and pharmacies make money when you fill prescriptions

• Obamacare makes sure you get subsidies and assistance if the drugs are too expensive

• Big Pharma pays a kickback to your doctor for prescribing their drugs to you

• The President and Congress refuse to change the law so you can get off the drugs

Call it what you like, there is no such thing as health care improvement in our system of health care.  Through doctors, clinics, and emergency rooms, drug companies treat your diseases and disorders with drugs that help manage the disease.

No one pays for you to get you well.

No one pays for a nutritional evaluation so you know the cause of the problem.

No one pays for proven herbal treatments used for thousands of years to eliminate the problem that caused the disease in the first place.

No one pays for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment including herbs, acupuncture, physical training, and working knowledge of the Five Elements.

The Five Elements are a comprehensive template that organizes all natural phenomena into five master groups or patterns in nature. Each of the five groups—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—include categories such as a season, a direction, climate, stage of growth and development, internal organ, body tissue, emotion, aspect of the soul, taste, color, sound . . . the categories are seemingly limitless. The Five Elements reflect a deep understanding of natural law, the Universal order underlying all things in our world.

Traditional Chinese Medicine reflects a principle unknown in America, the principle of healing patients rather than maintaining and managing illness and disease.

Ironically, ignoring thousands of years of TCM experience, our health care system refuses to recognize the body of TCM work and refuses to make insurance companies pay to heal you using these techniques.

Maybe there is hope however.  Take the case of the use of a banned drug, cannabis, for medical purposes.  Over half the states in America have ignored the pressures from pharmaceutical companies to prohibit using marijuana to treat many illnesses.

These states have ignored the pressure from the politicians owned by these companies through campaign contributions and outrageous speaker fees.  The states have even ignored the federal government regulatory laws from the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by legalizing the use of the herb cannabis, better know as marijuana, for medicinal purposes.

That is a start toward meaningful health care reform.  You see, marijuana works, is not addictive, has never resulted in a death from an overdose, is substantially less expensive than Big Pharma drugs, and is not controlled by the richest corporations in America.

Of course, marijuana should be decriminalized; release the tens of thousands of people in prison for using it and save hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer costs.  It deserves approval nationwide for medicinal use and states should continue to approve it for recreational use since it has none of the deadly effects our legal drugs called alcohol and tobacco have wreaked on the public.

Far less controversial, and far more significant to improving health, would be to have the federal government require the insurance companies to pay for nutritional examines for all individuals and treatment for nutritional deficiencies.

At the same time, the federal government must approve the use of TCM by certified practitioners and order the insurance companies to cover it.

If the administration and congress can act in the public interest and do this, America will rapidly become a far healthier nation and lead the work in making use of all possible techniques to manage nutrition and get well.

Demand this action from your representatives in Washington, D.C. as they have demonstrated no ability to help you get well.

Besides, for the first time in our history our last three presidents all admit to smoking marijuana.  It must not be that bad.

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Abraham Lincoln died 150 years ago today, April 15 - A Man for the Ages.

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The most beloved and popular president in the history of America, Abraham Lincoln, died 150 years ago today after being gunned down in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.

His legacy will live forever as the President who reunited the union after the only Civil War in our history, against all odds, and in a nation nearly bankrupt from the Revolutionary war.

In the process he became the greatest emancipator in the world when he freed the slaves.

If only all presidents could live by the code of ethics, sense of justice, and fierce loyalty of our 16th president.
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