Prophecy and Oracle on the History Channel

Generally I like the presentation of ideas on the History Channel.

They recently had a special on Prophecy, Oracle and the 2012 date.

Plenty of input from around the world across many ages speak to the
year 2012.

They could have easily fit everything they said into a half hour and
still had time for commercials but the thing that really put me off
this particular episode is that every time they mentioned the Maya
calendar they showed a picture of the Aztec calendar.

Here now is another special called Decoding the Past and goes deep
into the aspects of the Mayan calendar technology.

Apparently there are three calendar systems working together with
stunningly unbelievable accuracy.

Worth a little more study I think.

Bill Moyers Journal

There were several wonderful segments on last night.

Craig Unger on the House of Bush the House of Saud.
On American interests, Saudi interests and our mis-guided bumblings
in the desert.

Time for a little Common Sense? Revitalizing Tom Paine, by Harvey J.
Kaye

Who gets all the money ... On the New Gilded Age.
"There's one party in Washington. The party of money."
David Cay Johnston

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/

And after that I watched the BBC World News.
It's overwhelming not having seen real news in awhile.

No wonder we go for the feel-good, info-tainment news programming.

Cutting Corners

A couple nights ago on the ABC news there were several unconnected
items that feel awfully connected to me.

First, the final report on the Minneapolis bridge collapse indicated
that the steel gusset plates that hold the beams to the deck were
only half as thick as what was called for in the design. One half
inch vs. one inch thick.

The report on the tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo finds that
the concrete barrier between the tigers and the humans was four feet
short of the recommended design height. Four feet too short. I wonder
why it took so long for the tiger to get out.

I have the odd feeling that the statue of limitations just ran out on
all responsible parties.

In the same news cycle the FDA approves the sale of cloned meat,
dairy and who knows what else for consumption by humans and does not
require the providers to label their products as such.

Well, it can hardly be any worse for you than what you're already
eating.

And, the night after that, the FDA says that drug companies must
publish the bad reports along with the good reports on all their
clinical studies but that they have up to two years to do so.

Does it seem like there is less and less responsibility being offered
up by those we entrust with our care?

Cold

-4°F
RealFeel®
-30°F
Winds: WNW
at 16mph

Partly Sunny

Yep. It looks pretty out there. Might venture out in it, too.

Went looking through the offerings at meetup.com recently.
Signed up for a freelance writer thing.

More meetups to sign up for; graphic designers, web folks, etc.
Need to engage more effectively and more often.
A new 8 chamber luncheon will take place next Tuesday.
I hope to be there.

I went to a meeting a week ago with a long-time friend.
He has a user-consultant group that he put together to enhance his
own business offerings.
He got the idea from the Master Mind groups mentioned in Think and
Grow Rich. Pulled it off the shelf to give it a reading.

I was sitting between him and a gal that had recently had an
opportunity to hear a motivational talk by Jane Stewart aka
pubilictyhound.com.

I signed up for her email tip sheet press releases and have been
reading right along. She's a monster.

Also, recently got a book about being on purpose. Title is in another
room right now.

So, that's pretty much my deal lately.

Worked with a guy about his message. Refined it just fine until we/he
realized that there was no explicit offer in it.
The Action blog by Robert Middleton says that this is something that
frequently happens to independent creatives.
http://www.actionplan.blogs.com/

More later.

Stay warm.