- U.S. security took away shaving cream and toothpaste at the airport
- never to fly SAS again (too cramped and I vomited everything I ate)
- Copenhagen airport: small, nice (wood floors), bathroom stinks
- Zagreb: hot; everybody smokes, everywhere!!! No a/c at the bus terminal; sandwich - one italian sub with one slice ham and cheese each...
- bus to Zavidovici: driver smokes; no a/c; kid behind me kept screaming; two old bitches talking loud non stop; Biljana and her son Nenad (said I looked like Harrison Ford) nice people.
- Bozo and Danica look good, very happy to see me
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Perpetuum Mobile
Short of discovering or creating one ourselves, we will have to get satisfied with this thing we call among other things universe, mother nature or simply life.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Wisconsin
Is this about the problems our government has with never ending budget balancing or is it about the government of the people, by the people and for the people having issues with those same people?
How difficult can it be to balance one's budget? We all do it. Everyday. All of us, individually. Regardless of our individual level of education and sophistication we all know that you can't spend more than you make, and that takes care of it. Our government, apparently is not capable of doing the job we gave them our confidence to do. They simply blame their predecessors and then, they just pass the ever growing imbalance onto their successors. And that's how we got here. And that's been going on for a long time now and nobody is willing to go back and find that "first guy" who started it all. And, honestly, it wouldn't matter one bit, at this point.
Or is it maybe that for political reasons, they saw it more profitable not to balance the budget? It is whole lot easier to just blame their constituents for it instead? Yes, constituents. Us. In a progressively speeding vicious tricycle of "of, by and for the people" we the people vote for our political representatives who are only on our side during the process of being elected. And as soon as they do (get elected), the tune gets changed and we the people become the most expendable part of the whole process. Now they want Wisconsin taxpayers to pay for their (politicians') mistakes. And it's not that they will have to pay financially, by increased taxes and their standard of living being lowered. They will pay for it by giving up (or loosing) some of their democratic rights: right to get and stay organized and keep the democracy alive.
Democracy is the rule of the people through it's representatives. Once those representatives turn against those they represent, democracy becomes dictatorship.
And that's not what America is all about.
How difficult can it be to balance one's budget? We all do it. Everyday. All of us, individually. Regardless of our individual level of education and sophistication we all know that you can't spend more than you make, and that takes care of it. Our government, apparently is not capable of doing the job we gave them our confidence to do. They simply blame their predecessors and then, they just pass the ever growing imbalance onto their successors. And that's how we got here. And that's been going on for a long time now and nobody is willing to go back and find that "first guy" who started it all. And, honestly, it wouldn't matter one bit, at this point.
Or is it maybe that for political reasons, they saw it more profitable not to balance the budget? It is whole lot easier to just blame their constituents for it instead? Yes, constituents. Us. In a progressively speeding vicious tricycle of "of, by and for the people" we the people vote for our political representatives who are only on our side during the process of being elected. And as soon as they do (get elected), the tune gets changed and we the people become the most expendable part of the whole process. Now they want Wisconsin taxpayers to pay for their (politicians') mistakes. And it's not that they will have to pay financially, by increased taxes and their standard of living being lowered. They will pay for it by giving up (or loosing) some of their democratic rights: right to get and stay organized and keep the democracy alive.
Democracy is the rule of the people through it's representatives. Once those representatives turn against those they represent, democracy becomes dictatorship.
And that's not what America is all about.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Fortune
"And when we come to examine their actions and lives, they do not seem to have had from fortune anything other than opportunity. Fortune, as it were, provided the matter but they gave it its form; without opportunity their prowess would have been extinguished, and without such prowess the opportunity would have come in vain."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince p.18
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince p.18
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Slavery in Europe!
"In order to obtain financial means for this trip, Mehmedbasic granted liberation to the last two kmets his family owned."
- Vladimir Dedijer, The road to Sarajevo p. 282
- Vladimir Dedijer, The road to Sarajevo p. 282
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