I know this is really off topic but... I see from CNN that Exxon is posting record profits again this year. Just like all the major banks had done for a number of the past years.(except this one year) I guess that means we will be bailing them out financially also by spring also. I am sure someone in government knows that they need a bit more of our cash, just like those banks. Otherwise who is going to pay all of those CEO's.  Now, it shouldn't come out of those record profits  should it? I tell you, I am finding it harder and harder to sit down. My butt starting to get a little sore.

Here's a thought. Gas prices have gone down. Could this be because some of the oil companies are concerned about people talking about alternative energy sources as much as they have been, and the oil companies want them to become disinterested? They don't want the people to control how energy is procurred, they want to control how it is procurred.

  Well, I don't "pregnant dog" that much at all anymore, but I also still don't vote. 

  It's not that I actively dislike Obama, or what not, but I realize that the overall system is so rotting and corrupt at its core, that partial, temporal patchings with duct tape aren't going to really help. 

How much power and influence does a President truly have, if its not backed by the Corporations, World Banks, and money powers of the world?  Bush and cronies had a lot of power/influence only because he was an out and out puppet of these Plutonian/Saturnian influences, and he was actually popular to many people for awhile--especially people of certain mindsets and attitudes. 

  Also, I am innately skeptical of the sincerity and depth of integrity of politicians who get high enough in politics to possibly become President.

  Probably the only person I know of that I would vote for, would be Dennis Kucinich.

  Either way, one of two things needs to happen for this country to fully heal.  Either another revolution, or a near total collapse and rebuilding, and in some senses these are pretty much the same thing except that one is consciously collectively chosen, and the latter is unconsciouslly collectively chosen. 

  But more than anything that needs to happen for this country and this world to heal, is for a purer and more universal Love to flower in the Hearts and in the mental Ideals of the majority of people in this country and world and much, much less emphasis on materialism in all its forms.  Plenty of people are well intentioned and kind enough, but even many of these are far too attached to the things of the world. 

Tis possible for the former to happen right now, though highly unlikely and non probable.

  It seems on average, that on a state level, that an individual does actually have more say and influence, if enough band together. 

So yes, such things as the Cali propositions are very worthwhile to try to change. 

  I'm not advocating total passiveness by any means, but perspective about the larger picture.  Grassroots stuff is very important, and locally we can change things politically more so.  Grassroots stuff is probably in the end, much more important than voting for a Presidential candidate.  But as long as certain groups are in power, and of the mindset they are in, things will not collectively change.

  Either way, I'm not worried about or fearful of collapse, and I believe that in the long run it will be a very positive catalyst and we will rebuild a MUCH, MUCH better system, for many who will participate will have gone through a reorienting, a readjustment, and a transformation within self and collectively within first small groups reaching out into ever larger groups.  When one is tried by fire, they are either burned up, or come out much purer in nature. 

  Did it have to be this way?  Nah, it didn't.  I'm just an idealistic realist, or is it the other way around..

Hi My dad would never vote when he was alive because he said it didn't matter what goverment gets in ,they all take you down the road and rob you,so i don't vote either because i think my dad was right.

Love and God bless   love juditha