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Re: Same here. Not to worry. It's all just a phase.
Yeah, I tend to get involved with blogging in cycles. When things are very busy at work, or if I'm traveling a lot, it's hard to focus on the blogging. I figure when I retire, I'll have PLENTY of time to blog;-)
(just thought I'd toss an emoticon at you..it's a first for me, I've tried to avoid it but I succumbed)
posted by
Cynthia
on November 27, 2007 at 3:37 AM
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Same here. Not to worry. It's all just a phase.
posted by
majroj
on November 26, 2007 at 4:21 PM
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Re: One of our fellow bloggers, works in surveying?...
Maj, I tend to just write and post here on blogit...I have so little time that I have no idea who else is writing here anymore, except the folks, like you make comments on my articles...guess I'm not a real player in this arena...
posted by
Cynthia
on November 21, 2007 at 4:49 AM
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One of our fellow bloggers, works in surveying?...
the former BillyCargo?
posted by
majroj
on November 20, 2007 at 9:02 PM
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Re: Re: Good outlet Cynthia!
There aren't any native links in my background..that part I dreamt...but I was raised Catholic so a lot of what I've written comes from personal experience. I spent time in Arizona with Hopi and Navajo families earlier this year but have travelled there 4 times in all. The book was originally going to be based on west coast Canadian natives but somehow...and I have no idea how..it shifted to Arizona tribes!
posted by
ginnieb
on November 18, 2007 at 3:55 PM
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Re: Cynthia, I wonder about FreeManWalking 's take on this?
Maj, as often happens, I get confused by your comments and the meaning behind them. Who is FreeManWalking??? Hope I don't sound too stupid.
posted by
Cynthia
on November 18, 2007 at 7:45 AM
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Cynthia, I wonder about FreeManWalking 's take on this?
Maybe there's an Iraqi "Tom Clancy" out there writing his version of "Red Storm Rising" or Sir Hackett, et al's, "World War Three" with ius as the bad guys?
And where in all this have Putin, and, independent of him, the Chinese been?
posted by
majroj
on November 14, 2007 at 8:49 PM
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Re: Don't know if it's good medicine, but it's inevitable.
Maj, that was eloquent. I had never thought about that analysis you mentioned in your last sentence. Food for thought: "
Ironically, the Cold War scenario of WWIII being ignited by the USSR making a grab for middle eastern oil has been spun backwards and we, as well as other oil-indebted countries, have become the horde at the gates."
posted by
Cynthia
on November 14, 2007 at 4:18 AM
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Re: Good outlet Cynthia!
Ginnieb, Wow, I'm impressed. A complicated story that required a ton of research I'm sure...Are there elements in your own family history that led you back to this story???
posted by
Cynthia
on November 14, 2007 at 4:13 AM
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Don't know if it's good medicine, but it's inevitable.
But those who weather the depressions best are those with the most liquidity (or liquid lenders) and the least debt. The poor and the credit-card poor (including companies) crash, and crash the hardest.
Our economy is based on selling one another things often made overseas. Not even Mexico anymore. As someone once said, we're like two castaways who have set up shop doing one anothers' laundry, at discount, but at a fat profit. Someday the rescue ship's going to lower ladder but they won't take coconuts for the ticket home.
The teetering hippo I sense is in the form of Chinese-held American dollars. Both out of retributive warning and desire to keep on making money, all those Walmart bucks are starting to slide back into the market. They may buy US real property since it is becoming such a bargain and will someday appreciate greatly, but a lot is going to be (some is already) being sold for more solid currencies.
The result is that, unless we want to (or, eventually, even can) spend more and more for foreign oil, we will have to take it. And we've seen how well that works so far, haven't we? But it is an inevitability; without a magical intervention, we are too dependent upon the current situation and its extensions. And as the demand increases while supply cannot keep up, competition for remaining reserves and the potential power one could accrue controllling them will escalate. Ironically, the Cold War scenario of WWIII being ignited by the USSR making a grab for middle eastern oil has been spun backwards and we, as well as other oil-indebted countries, have become the horde at the gates .
posted by
majroj
on November 12, 2007 at 7:11 AM
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Good outlet Cynthia!
It only gets worse with him.
My book is based is based on the relationships between a Hopi family, Navajo family and white Catholic family. It takes place over four decades...pre-WWII up to the 1980s. I am going to begin sending a query to agents and see what happens!
posted by
ginnieb
on November 10, 2007 at 10:19 PM
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Re: Wow Cynthia...
Hi Ginnie, Good to hear from you...yes I'm still writing away, I have to or I'll expolde with my hatred of Bush and what he has done to this country...
posted by
Cynthia
on November 10, 2007 at 6:17 AM
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Re: I hope a new leadership will lead the US to a Zen inspired future !
Afzal not if Rudi Giuliani gets elected. He's a Bush clone...
posted by
Cynthia
on November 10, 2007 at 6:16 AM
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Wow Cynthia...
...powerful! And all too true.
I was barely breathing by the time I finished your piece...excellent writing!
posted by
ginnieb
on November 9, 2007 at 2:05 PM
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cynthia
posted by
richinstore
on November 9, 2007 at 7:47 AM
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I hope a new leadership will lead the US to a Zen inspired future !
posted by
afzal50
on November 9, 2007 at 5:34 AM
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