Web Blah Garza

I want to start with saying in the past couple of years, it has been great reconnecting with old friends and making new ones on the social sites that I’m on. Now let me get on with the gist of this post. Over the years I have done many things in many areas of life, I have always been somewhat of a political activist ever since the Viet Nam war and have a very strong opinion about injustice and carelesness. For the most part I’ve always kept my personal life and politics apart as much as possible. With the advent of social sites, I have walked a careful path and occasionally voiced an opinion here and ther but recently the events of our world and the advent of many natural and man made disasters has brought out much of my strong feelings against injustice. We as a people, I think, like to find happiness and frolic in the flowers so to speak, but with the state of the world as it is I personally find that difficult. So my feelings have been more blatant and outspoken. and it is reflected on my social site profiles.

Soo, what are social sites for? The reconnecting of old friends, the voicing of opinons, the promoting of our buisness’s and art, music etc… As friends come and go and I become more myself on these sites I find that many people just don’t want to hear it or know about the truth. Are we destined to play among the daisies and frolic in the flowers of socil sites, as our world collapses around us?? I for one look to the future for my children, I want a better world for them and in that I know that it’s up to me to make one. If I can’t fight the good fight for justice and truth, then in my world I fail them. If I sit back and watch the greedy destroy our planet and maintain a system of poor and rich, then I fail the world. If I can’t point out the ludicrous behaviour of my fellow humans who tend to lead us astray from a good life then I fail my self.

Social sites are wonderful things and the internet is a treasure trove of information. Sharing that info is something I love to do. Yes much like the TV you can’t believe everything you see on the internet, but common sense and a little research can always prevail.

I will continue to voice my feelings and share my opinion. people may not always agree with it, but that’s the beauty of our freedom. If we let that be taken away out of fear, in other words what someone else may think or the policing of the internet then we have failed our country and the world. Don’t let the illusion of the internet or social sites water down who you really are, my friends are who they are and no matter what you may believe or think, what we have shared and what we can share will always be first and foremost. Life is not a social site, and social sites are not life, what I share on them is my life and being able to see the lives of others I have known over the years is a wonderful thing.

The Spill in the Gulf Of Mexico is a wake up call. The worlds love affaire with HydroCarbons needs to end! Our dependence on the cumbustion engine is arcane and antiquated, all based on two industries that have taken us by the nads and squeezed every penny they can get to make themselves multibillion dollar corporations. Now we have bailed out the auto industry on one hand and have been lied to and royaly screwed by the other side of the coin, the oil industry! Isn’t it enough, have we come so far only to be so blind! I grew up in an oil family with a grandfather who worked for Exxon’s refinery for 49 years. He never drove to work, in all those years rain or shine, he rode a bicycle. I remember cars that would run on anything but water disappearing on the shelf of the Oil industry never to be seen again, because of greedy oil men, those who doubt this, I actually saw the car in a news story in the early 60’s on television it was a lengthy story on a science show . It’s time, who will stand up and once and for all demand change!! The era of an economy doomed to fail based on hydrocarbons is at an end. We must accept it’s fate and move on to better things!

Over 3500 oil rigs in the Gulf, yet no one asks, “why is the price of gas so high?” Don’t let them tell you there is no other way or that nothing better exists. They have lied for years, and they will lie again. There’s talk about skimming the oil from the surface with super tankers, this from an executive from Shell Oil, yet they fail to tell you that what’s on the surface is a small portion of the oil, because of the highly toxic dispersent that has been banned in other places in the world for ten years that they’ve used. The real problem is under the water and it’s growing bigger than what we see on top!

Yet, that’s how it always is in deception. It’s not what’s on top you have to worry about, it’s the underlying implications that we never see till it’s too late! That has been the nature of the Oil industry and the Auto industry. What was good for General Motors was absoulutely not good for America, and a tiger in your tank will only eat you alive!