At 59: He's still got it!

Tom Watson(left), Tiger Woods(right)

59...well it must be the new 20 the way Tom Watson is playing in the 138th Open Championship held in Turnberry, Scotland. Just shy of the big 60, Tom Watson a player who has won this major title 5 other times in his huge career as a professional golfer, the only player to actually win a PGA British Open, and Senior British Open at the same venue, has still got the goods to go out and show up the 20-somethings on the tour now. After going out yesterday on a day that was what the Scottish call "grand" and shooting a bogey free 65, and then to follow it up with an even par round of 70 has bested even the number one player in the world Tiger Woods, who missed the cut for only the second time in a major.

Watson and Woods finished their rounds on two different notes. Watson finished his round making a 40ft birdie putt on the 18th green to get himself into the last group for tomorrows round 3, while Woods missed a 30ft birdie chip to even give himself a chance to make the weekend, woods would go on to make par and miss the cut by 1 shot. "It's as if the spirits are on my side," said Watson. For Woods, not so much "Kept making mistake after mistake," said Woods.

With Woods most likely on the G5 heading back to his lovely home on Jupiter Island, you can bet that he is frustrated to say the least. Watson now has a chance to become the oldest person to win a Major, and to tie the record of 6 Open titles held by Harry Vardon.

Even though I'm a huge Tiger Woods fan......GO TOM!!!!!!

Humans:The Earths Cancer

After the G8 meetings that were held just over a week ago, there is still little that was resolved that had to do with the state of the planet. The lovely planet that we live on, the one that provides us with everything we need to stay alive, we haven't figured out a way to protect it, as it has protected us for so long.

While discussing these problems with a few of my friends, and talking about the "global warming" and "2012" pending disasters. I have come to the conclusion that no matter what happeneds to the planet, it was our fault. Take a look at the world now as it is, and look back into our past, i mean way back during the first settlers. Look at the difference in landscape, overall appeal of this once thriving world. I honestly think if i was from another planet looking in, i would pass and try finding another planet to live on.

The Human race has become a cancer to this planet we call our own now, the truth is: there are more people living on this planet now, than have ever died. Over population has become a new epidemic and a serious problem for many countries, and governments think to solve the problem is to destroy more rainforest's to build more homes. Anything that is on this planet had been claimed by someone, and they have either somehow destroyed it, or plan on doing so. By putting up new homes, luxury hotels, or theme parks, or resorts. Just like cancer we have spread throughout earth and have taken over, and its our nature. For some reason, when we see something newly discovered we feel we have to exploit it, and essentially destroy its beauty.

In the final moments, we will be the reason for the end. We have taken something that was so pure and so rich with life, and we threw it away.

"That you don't know what you got till it's gone,They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot" ~Counting Crows

WWIII-North Korea

Well it has been a while since i last blogged. But this one topic got my brain turning, and i have been thinking about it for a while, but not really reading to much into it. you know kind of like when your on the highway and you see someone pulled over and they have their hood open and looking inside, sure you care enough to look, but not enough to stop and ask if they need help. This is one of those things, i cared enough to read the headlines, but not enough to read the articles. That was until i came upon this new headline, which made me stop in my tracks.

"North Korea says " we will wipe the united states off the map".

After seeing that as a headline and pausing for a second i couldn't help but click on the link that led to the article. And after reading the one article i could help but read the past few that have mentioned North Korea threatening the U.S. and other neighboring countries. It seems that N. Korea is mad at the U.S. because it is in talks with S. Korea about sanctions with the United Nations on putting a hold or pause on the nuclear activity that N. Korea is clearly working on. With the recent news of N. Korea test firing short, and long range missile's, this had got all countries around the world look to the UN for some explanations. And so far the UN has said nothing, almost like they are keeping out of it, or maybe they are keeping their fingers crossed that it will just play itself out. The N.Korean ruler Kim Jong-il, is nothing short of crazy. This man has declared so many wars on so many countries, and then done nothing. This is the same man that wanted to bring the moon closer to earth with rockets that pull it towards us. Nobody has really seen him in person in a while, and there was some speculation about a photo released last year by their dept. of defense that looked like he was photo shopped into. Either way he has threatened many times and said that if the U.S. sits outside Korea with its military ships that he will take it as a sign of war.

My Thoughts: This guy is clearly crazy and has some screws loose, so how about we don't mess with him. I really don't think he has a problem with not only blowing other countries up with nukes, but I'm sure he doesn't care about blowing himself up. N.Korea has stated many times that they are able and willing to go to war with the U.S. and with this latest quotes from the military threatening to wipe our county off the map is again a sign that he either needs to be taken out of power by a secret force, or by his own people. If we keep on taunting a man like that, we are going to end up with another Adolf Hitler. That certainly is the last thing that we need right now.

In My Life...

Just the other day i was sitting at my computer reading the news on MSNBC.com and all the bad stuff going on in the world today, and it clicked into my head. I'm 26 years old and i have seen some crazy stuff already.

I was 7 years old when The Desert Storm was started, i was 18 when the tragedy of September 11Th hit, and I'm 26 now with the swine flu, a minor depression, major automakers going under, and a impending nuclear war with North Korea. All of this stuff going on in the world right now, not just America is pretty intense. Granted we haven't been through "the great depression" or WWII or anything like that, but i honestly believe that what our generation has been through so far is just as tough to deal with and as emotionally and mentally straining.

Everywhere we turn there are new things to watch out for, new flu's, new diseases, new computer viruses and in the past 5 years of actually watching the news on t.v. i maybe have seen 15 good stories. There are good stories out there to be told, granted the bad totally outweighs the good, but if you want people to change their attitude in this world, you have to start showing them good things.

I realized in tough times like this, its always good to have a strong foundation(Example: Friends, Family)to keep you grounded and in reality, if we let each other get to far off track there is a good possibility we can never come back. All I'm saying is, look no further than your most recent call on your cell phone for a good person to talk to if you down, or a family member to email. Don't lose touch. Coming together is what makes us human, and what makes us stronger, so lets come together and overcome these problems, because in the end they are just speed bumps in a long highway we call life.

When Was The Last Time?

This is a good question for anyone that lives outside of a smog filled city like LA. When was the last time you looked up into the sky and didn't see one darn cloud? Sure more people go "wow not a cloud in the sky today" but they are exaggerating. I have maybe seen a total for 200 days without a cloud my whole life that i can remember, most of which when i was a young big mikey. And if you think about it, 200 days out of 9,490 is not that good of a percentage.

It has been happening more and more lately over the past 10 years, more and more days with a cloud filled sky. Sure in the morning sometimes its less, but by noontime or late afternoon the sky is just littered with Contrails. That's right airplane contrails.

I was never a skeptic of the reasons behind some of these contrails,I've always been drawn to them. When I see one above, I like to run my eye along its length until I find the plane, a tiny silver toy. I like to wonder at the blank space between the plane and the start of the contrail—emptiness full of potential—and then to see the churning new cloud as it forms, a tumbling cascade. When the roiling slows and the newborn cloud settles into a contrail proper, I admire its perfection: a straight white line sharply etched against the blue. Even when numerous contrails made fat by the wind crisscross the sky, I didn't mind.

Well, I might now. After a lifetime of enjoying contrails, it came as a surprise to me to learn recently that something so ephemeral may not be a harmless by-product of the jet age but may in fact impact the climate. This is of particular concern in well-traveled air corridors, where contrails by the hundreds can spread into man-made cirrus clouds that can both block sunlight from reaching the Earth and trap radiated heat from escaping to space. Many believe that the government is putting Air Force Jets into the sky's with microscopic aluminum based particles in their contrails. And have been ever since they discovered that's the earth might be heating up. The theory is that the reflective particles in the contrails would bounce some of the radiation and harmful sunlight back into space so is to not heat the planet anymore.

My Opinion: I for one would like to see a blue sky every once and a while again. And its estimated that the air traffic will double by 2050, which means it doesn't matter what i want. I find it hard to believe that the government is doing this, if they were i think they would do something that at least has an effect and clearly running a program like this has failed horribly. I just think its good old fashioned pollution, its funny because all talk about how our cars exhaust goes into the atmosphere, but yet our planes are right there doing the same, and if not more. So next time you see a perfect blue sky sit back and enjoy, chances are in 5 mins a jet is going to come by laughing and ruin your day. haha

The Dollar Bill Is So Overrated

With all the markets and world economies on a downward slop, some have pointed towards drastic and perhaps some outrageous ideas to turn things around, some even had the idea of a world currency, although highly unlikely it would be something to marvel at and it would raise the worth of the American dollar bill. The most realistic idea is the Amero. The idea for a North American currency union was first proposed in 1999 by Canadian economist Herbert G. Grubel. The idea of a common currency has historically been unpopular in English-speaking Canada, in comparison to the French-speaking province of Quebec where it has received more support. A 2001 opinion poll found that in Quebec over 50 percent of respondents favored the idea of a shared currency, while in the rest of Canada a majority of respondents opposed the idea.

THE TRADE OFF:

The United States simply has too many advantages from the status quo to move toward a single currency. The United States dollar already acts as a global currency, meaning any transition to a 'new' currency would risk compromising this position and could cause a shift toward the euro, yen or yuan. The U.S. dollar is currently being used in over half of all the world's exports, double the total United States foreign trade. The adoption of the Amero could threaten the seigniorage that the U.S. currently gains from its dollar. While seignorage would still be gained from the Amero, this would be shared among the Bank of Canada, the Federal Reserve, and the Banco de México. Therefore, even if the Amero were used just as much as the U.S. dollar, the advantages would be shared among two or more countries, and not exclusively earned by the United States.

My Opinion:

This idea of a world currency is crazy, although i would love to see it, and maybe see what would happened with its worth, i just don't think its economically sound. But the Amero on the other hand is actually a good idea, to bring in two or more countries is worth it, not only would it expand our range with trading, but also the ability to stabilize the economy in times of a recession. The idea of having more than countries involved in a single currency is always a better option. Of course traditionalist would disagree saying something like "that un-American like" or " Get-r-done" haha Some times change is a good thing, with the way the world is going, i would say....lets keep and open mind OK.

Amero should have President Obama's face on it. Don't argue, we have Benjamin Franklin on a bill, and he was a dirty man who wasn't even president.

Its A Little Religulous

With quotes from major figureheads like Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden, Bill Maher, with a Jewish-Catholic background, sets out to prove that having faith and seeking directions from God is basically ridiculous and may be due to a neurotic disorder. Interviewing Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, scientists, gays, and atheists, he cites that the number of non-believers is increasing in North America. He attempts to prove his point by citing inconsistencies in the Bible, the controversial birth of Lord Jesus, the inability of religious heads to account for His absence for over 18 years, as well as the absence of any concrete evidence that disproves the theory of evolution.

I first saw this trailer almost 2 years ago and was immediately drawn to it. Others in the past have put together films and documentaries about whether Jesus was the son of god, or if he had risen from the dead. But this film doesn't do either, it questions people faith in GOD and Jesus Christ and The Bible. When it came out on DVD i got it and watched it, and it was everything i thought it would be, he asked people questions they couldn't answer, and it was funny to see people buckle under the pressure of the truth. His whole thing was to go around and promote doubt, and he did just that, and before i had watched his film i myself was in a little doubt and now am in even more doubt. He asked the question like "where is the actually proof that Jesus Christ existed, and if he did why did they write about him 18 years after he was crucified?" Wow that's a great question, and you know what....nobody could answer it.

The thing that caught my mind and attention was when he mentioned all the wars of the world past and present, and how 90% were caused directly by religion. That's ridiculous, something that was supposed to bring people together in a holy state has done nothing but pull people apart, using weapons and hateful words. Also do you think when Jesus was spreading his word of GOD, that he has imagined in the year 2009 the pope would live better than 70% of the people in this world? Living in a gaudy mansion with more rooms than a Vegas hotel, and more gold than Donald Trump's penthouse in Manhattan. I'm pretty sure that was not part of his message.

I'm not going around myself and putting down religion and beliefs and what standards people live by, all I'm asking is this....

How peaceful would our world be if there was not a shade of religion in it?