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I have been hearing many speaking of gloom and doom; for our immediate future and our long term outlook. It is times like these that I know the best way is to deal with some of the ugly things coming at us with a dose of kindness. First thing is think of getting your things in order. Get rid of the things you are not using by giving it to someone who can use it. This will help bring more into your world. Organize and prepare every needful thing, for your family and yourself. This is the time to use the good part of selfish. Second, with the economy taking a nose dive things at home get stressful. Domestic crimes due tend to rise, theft and violence always bubble up when desperation sneaks in into our lives. Keep an eye on coworkers, friends and associates. This is the time to expand who we know and who knows you. The signs will be just as evident of their crisis as it will be with your situation. Your open ear and friendly shoulder will comfort depression and victims of violence. Make...

The only thing I really see going is more Terrorism. There really is no crisis, no real threat to the common person. The value of your money is good. The value of your home is fine. All of the fear that is being touted about, by the media and politicians, concerning the financial situation is just fear; not fact. Fear is the best salesman. Who has lost their life savings? Who has lost their money? Unemployment is at 6% and going down. If you go and pull money out of your Money Market, or Roth IRA, who does it hurt? No one, but the real question is who profits? The politicians need to slow down and think this through. The great depression as was worse than what we have going on now. Here listen and think about what our politician, media and economists need to be doing.

Right now I see lots of young people knowing how text message on their phone, upload music, photos to websites and computers. They know how to do all kinds of neat things and even know how to work complex technology. They do not know the basic things of life. Register to Vote is a big one. Knowing the issues on the table of politics and the future of the nation I will save for a differant time. Here is a primer. Vote deadline by state . Procedures to sign up and vote. Now if you have recently moved you have got to get checked that you can vote or how you can do a absentee vote .

Get out there and register to vote if you have done so. Also, take the time to learn the issues and use your intuition, intelligence and insight to cast your vote.

Cut the pork! First of all, find out if your Rep voted against this crazy bail out. If they gave it a Yay, treat them kindly and then threaten this idoit with treason. On the Nay, treat them kindly with respect and then remind them Wall Street still has a gun to their head but at home there are a ton of voters with guns. These are the things that need to happen with any kind of bail out before it should even become acceptable. 1.) There needs to be an oversight group with a badge and a gun to watch Wall Street spending. 2.) Penalties, Fines, Imprisonment for any Executive who might steal any of the people's money. Death is still a good idea, too. 3.) Force the idiots at the bank and lending institutions to rewrite people's mortgages to avoid foreclosures. 4.) The Legislation has got to have some teeth. Get rid of weak language. Make the language clear and concise. That is just the Legislation. Next will be the Media and Press.

This is actually old news, but David M. Walker calls it quit before he is to finish the 15 year term of office. Mr. Walker has since started on a nationwide series of town hall forums speaking on America's long-term fiscal challenges. He will be reporting on the following: * Long term exposure grew more than $30 Trillion between 2000 and 2006 * Each person will owe in Tax Debt $170,000 per person, $400,000 per Fulltime worker, and $440,000 per household This is of great interest to every person, legal citizen or illegal alien, in America or out of the Union. The younger you are the more you want to know what this man has to say. HardTalk interview Here is an example of his Town Hall meeting: Listen How to get out? He does have the answers. You will not like it.

Iain, my son, had the oppurtunity to ride a champion American Quarter Horse. David Avery the International Representive for the AQHA invited us to come and enjoy an afternoon with his horse. Iain helped prepare the horse for the saddle, brushing the coat, putting on the saddle blanket. He stood next to David and learned the tips to cinch the saddle, tightening as the horse breathed. The stir-ups had to really be brought up for Iain's height. Wally, just a nickname, is a champion Western Pleasure and Rodeo horse. He is a regular working horse too. He has such a great temperment and it was a great lesson for Iain to ride this horse. Even though Wally knew he had a new rider, he let Iain take control and ride the property at his leisure.

Adventures of an eBay writer, instructor and educator This is the blog for Janelle Elms of Ebay University, Ebay Stores, etc... She is an awesome person who has things going in the right direction. After reading her blog, from what she reveals about herself, I find her to be honest, outgoing, and self assured. Plus she like 4x4'in! If you are an ebay person, looking for some marketing direction she has the keys to those doors. The only thing that I think could be improved in her class, would be more emphisis upon the social marketing aspects. But then again I think this would take a whole day for those discussions. After the classes, most of the people where coming to me to ask about the social marketing, thanks to her comment about me being a social marketing guru. I wish! For those who do not want to be a ebay seller, there are plenty of work for you if you can get in with these power sellers. One member of the class sold film, 16mm - 70mm. He did not have a newsletter about his ...

In LA this a church that is podcasting with great success. Thier podcasts are great, leaving quit an impact upon the soul. Mind you, I am not one to go lightly on the subject of these kind of ministries. Nor are these kinds of churches or Godcasts part of my spiritual travels. But it did leave this idea in my head. Have podcasts of sermons, so that people can sample what attending the church would be like. Larger churches already have a Sunday morning service on local channels and even cable. For the local church, the one down the street, what is it like? What kind of preaching goes on in the walls? What kind of worship is played out by the congregation? This just shows even more that the smaller churches have got to have a website, RSS feeds, podcasts and more. It should never be considered that listening to a Godcast would make up for going to church, no more than watching Church on TV counts for attendence. Finally, I found the link to the iTunes Stanford page. I had been trying to...

Brandon Carpenter Originally uploaded by Carpenter_B . I do need to post an image of me, so that everyone know me and can maybe get a handle on my personality. Iain took this picture, while I was in my office working. He went camera button nuts and took lots of pictures. Since he is six, I have been working with him about where to aim the camera to take a picture. I have been teaching him the "Rule of Thirds" and about how to hold the camera. He likes to smash the camera button and then move the camera right after pushing the button. So lots images are blurred or smeared. I have been thinking of researching for a blogging app for my Palm T|T. This would be handy to do more than make notes with it. But to get all the notes together and then make the post. Then when I sync the T|T a post is made.

I have a planned trip to Dallas this weekend and have plans of hitting the new Apple Store in NorthPark. I have no idea where this is, so I will be getting my local guide to get me there. Maybe I will be able to get Jessica, my step-daughter and Chelsea, Clint's wife to do things with Bailey, for a few hours so I can get in some me time. As a longtime user and advocate of the Mac platform, I have yet to make it to a Apple Store. I look forward to this, though I don't think I will have much cash for anything worthwhile. I might pick a book or two. I came across a great contest site, cdcovers.cc, for CD Covers. But they do not do music covers, and would also want more than just the Front Cover. They want the booklets too. I do a lot scanning, and this would be annoying and time consuming to do this kind of scanning at the quality they want. 300dpi scan would still take some time to scan, open the image in a graphics editor and then to do any post processing of the image. Still t...

Greetings, The Vocal Velocity Blog is going to my voice for the things I have an insterest in, and what are the most important issues going on in my world. This will include family stuff. Always interesting to read what others are doing in thier family. Technologies, hardware and software, will be discussed. I am a avid fan of the Macintosh Platform and Applescript. I also enjoy tech gadgets and the fun things you do with them. Photography will be used, both still and video. I like the podcast thing, and may do something with that medium. So be warned, I will not be timely, or even efficient at this, like others. I am, more than anything, just trying out the technology and figuring out how it will fit into my current lifestyle.