I was listening to couple of his songs tonight of Bob Marleys,

Them belly full(but we hungry), 

Pimper’s Paradise,

Concrete Jungle.

Three great songs. real pick you up when your feeling tired.

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The guitar solo in Concrete Jungle has to be one of my favorite guitar leads in rock of all time.
Right up there with Jimmy Page’s intro the the song the Rover off of the Album Physical Graffiti

Whether these mob reactions in the Arab world are engineered or spontaneous, the ramifications of what is happening has the potential for major Geo-Political shifts involving, Israel, Suez Canal (energy that flows through there to Europe) , Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Western Europe(if big exodus of people starts trying to migrate to Europe due to upheavals in North Africa).

Be interesting to see what unfolds..

From Tunisia to Egypt, to Yemen, to where next ? Big doings over in that region of the world.

The four best 140 pound fighters in the world are in my estimation.

In order

1-Timothy Bradley USA
2-Amir Kahn UK
3-Devon Alexander USA
4-Marcos Rene Maidana Argentina

Amir Khan beat Maidana in a close fight a few months back, and I if the winner of the Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander fight then takes on Khan . The winner of the Khan vs Bradley/Alexander bout would be considered the best 140 pound fighter in the world.

Sometimes while driving my cab near the end of my shift around 3:20 PM I will be down in the Financial District of San Francisco looking for one last ride to the airport I will see one particular street artist singing and think wow that guy is good.
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The guy is around 38 years old and I never have a chance to stop and ask his name or if he has a website were I can find out about or buy his music.
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Well today on my day off while walking around the Pacific Heights section of San Francisco near Union Street I see this street artist singing just him , his guitar and his amp.
I walked over to him, told him I loved his music and bought a CD for $10.
I found out his name was Kent Craig.

In our most primitive thoughts Democracy means something like if you have 3 people in a boat and two say lets go left and 1 says lets go right. The two override the 1 and the boat goes left.
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In real life in the governance of Nation states Democracy seldom works this way.
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Same thing with Free Trade. Everything from senior citizens in the United States ability or inability to buy their drugs from Canada, to China’s subsidization of industries , competing against non state subsidized industries in other countries, or the undervaluing of the Chinese currency to the US dollar point to arbitrariness of the term Free Trade.

Started taking night classes again this semester taking two classes this time, while slowly looking for a new job that will feather into my schooling schedule.
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probably be driving a cab three months from now..
but slowly trying to work my way out of this job…

The true believer was an American woman who studied business at a college in Moscow for the last 18 months, and she felt that America still had the advantages to beat off all comers…I hope she is right and we will see..

I knew that United States was in deep trouble and might collapse when I saw The Front Line (PBS) Documentary “Is Walmart good for America”
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In this video it showed the de-industrilzation of the American Midwest, the last Rubbermaid factory being disassembled in the US and being sent to China.
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It showed the things the US sent to China from the port of Long Beach to China things like scrap metal , scrap paper and animal hides and it showed an area of Southern China with mountains of containers(conex) ready to be shipped to the US and I knew the US was done, Decadent life style of consumerism based on credit and two major wars going on the US system did not look sustainable.
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This was in around 2005 before the bailouts.
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I thought though the collapse would come in about 20-30 years not as fast as it did.
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Got to wonder way the US government would allow the trade policies it did, stupidity, greed. I suppose. The political system was unable to defend itself from the moneyed interests that benefited from the de- industrialization of the country.

All time stopped as I swatted flies in the restroom with my fly swatter..felt the primal hunter come out in me as I stalked these annoying pests…