I attended a dinner at a fine Italian restaurant with a group of older mostly retired people who made their money by long term stock market investments.  They seemed totally upbeat and enthusiastic about "the market".  Little do they know, I think.
I was sort of an outsider,having zero money and only attending because of my parents. We took our assigned seats as I met "John", a regional sales manager for an investment firm.  His mannerisms were, well, rehearsed but my first impression was so powerful I will remember it until I die.  The black emptyness of this man's soul literally shook me.  God, this man needs more joy in his life.  Two young children he has, yet the mundane conventional conversation topics prevailed.  As dinner progressed I sensed he knew not what to make of me, an engineer eating pollo continental style but talking about horses.  I didn't watch that "big football game", I was with the horses.

Horses are prey animals so in learning about them one learns also the ways of the predator, that's us, in their eyes.  After a solid year of untrained horse and untrained rider the joy of accomplished man horse communication far and away beats the black soul of a money manager.  

Since the dinner though the thoughts of money have even gone to my mother's head.  You see in this country having money simply means you are married to it.  It is actually not yours.  It belongs to those you hire to manage it, the lawyers you pay to craft documents you have no chance of understanding to protect "assets" that will change next year due to new laws and tax implications.  It is literally an entire industry of bullshit.

The real deal though is that even with an entire lifetime of saving, not spending and even my father collecting cans for the deposit, here in America, land of the free and home of the brave you get squat from government.  All of this lifetime of savings is for the possibility of nursing home care.  The land of the free and home of the brave is searching through seven years of detailed financial transactions of its' senior citizens in order to enter the nursing home.

Now even if I croak, a penniless homeless person I intend petition the Lord himself one last return to earth to mount my Apoalyptic horse, snicker at all the soon to be smitten and say, "I told you so".

The term Illuminati starts with Adam Weishaupt, a Bavarian who founded and organization in 1776 called the Perfectibilists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt

The original intent was to form a New World Order free of monachies and to shape the future of political thought in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt

Debates about Weishaupt and his organization's continued survival continue to this day.  Most people who know about it place it dutifully the term in the conspiracy theory category of tin foil hattery.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

The basis of the word Illuminati means the belief that world events, governments, businesses, medicine and science are influenced by a myriad of organizations working in a co-ordinated effort.  Kind of like the Matrix movie series "normal" people simply dismiss the matter as something far too grandious a scheme to ever be real.  Well I refer again to my tin foil hat link and thousands of easily searchable web pages on the subjects.  Webster Tarpley, John Coleman and Wes Penre are several authors on New World Order and the Illuminati.

http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html

My observations were only arrived at by an ex-pat assignement and the completion of a business degree.
Embrace the concept, even the possibilty that an organized elite bunch of powerful men organized over generations might affect world events.  Have we not moved to a more globalized world?  Are organizations like the CFR, world bank, WTO gaining power which superceeds nations?  Has John Edwards not spent much of his time sucking up to organizations with global agendas?

http://www.cremationofcare.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Message.htm

The subject is even in German.
http://www.das-gibts-doch-nicht.info/frame1.php

So in short I look above left and right politically.  The Olberman's and the Bill OReilley's of the world are all foolish, merely puppets dancing on the strings of their masters.

The last six years though I think has and will continue to garner interest in the subject as the US decends further into someplace more in line with Communist China.

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Ya, hi Bill.  When I was much younger the effects of NAFTA on a close to retirement age solid American whom I admired greatly shaped my life.  Don went to Mexico to supervise the transfer of American machines to the new cheaper labor plants in Mexico.  When he returned to the States he put in the immediate desire to take his pension and retire.  He flat out refused any further association with the company even to the point of not attending traditional retirement dinnners.  I take it he saw things  completely alien to Americans well schooled in things like human rights.

Well it's 2007, and the flight of industry from Mexico to China continues as do the lead painted children's toys.

Why does everything political have to be scripted, geared towards a mental age of twelve.

As an older engineer I have finally convinced my younger protege the value of islandization.
Islandization is the process by which experimental industrial computing stations are cut off from their respective corporate crap intranets.

Numerous times now the typical security sweeps, intranet address changes, corporate policy changes have wiped out the industrial functionality of realtively stupid embedded computers connected to the internet.  It is something as an engineer in charge of the control of experimental industrial processes I will never, ever in my lifetime recommend again, the connectivity to the internet as a benefit.

 An "operating system" which requires damned near daily "updates" is by any definition a piece of crap.  Once I, as an engineer have certified that the software does indeed do what I think I have programmed it to do I refuse to take the blame when is ceases to function simply because it "updated" itself.  Yes, I am talking about the great Satan, Microsoft.

It seemed to be a slow "news" weekend so on Sunday my daughter and I took the horses for a trail ride.  It was a summer like clear day and the winding trail was a tunnel through vibrant fall foliage.

A good day with the horse is a day when horse and rider become one.  Sometimes this is difficult as I am actually a novice rider and this handsome 16.1 hand quarterhorse four year old still has the tendency to trip over his own feet.  He can be sort of a wise guy and decides to avoid the rocks in the trail by going to one side or the other.  This puts me in the low tree branches.  I can't get mad at him because part of it is my not paying attention.

Farther down the trail we get more relaxed and he actually starts listening to me and I him.  The short section of road and traffic scares him.  I sense he wants to take off into the woods to check out something he finds interesting.  The stumps and fallen trees make this not a good idea.  I give him left reign and he does respond.  With the trail now clear of rocks I signal and he slips into his best lope.  We now have a warm fall day, a tunnel of color at high speed and a happy horse.

Now why do I post this here?  Well whatever you do for simple enjoyment take it all in, savor it and renew your creative soul side.  The outrage of the day will still be there but your mind will be in a better place.

Massachusetts now requires health insurance.  If this is not unconstitutional it should be.  People without insurance of course don't do their patriotic fair share in supporting the big pharma industry. Watch for the national plan based upon the Assachusetts model. All this is going to mean though is a rapid downslide of an ever increasing list of not covered "procedures".

It's "open enrollment" time at work.  In the past representatives of the prospective health insurers would come to the workplace to explain their benefits.  This year it's down to a read the intranet page and then click on the black hole of computing benefit selctions page.  We are down to Guido's health care.
http://www.zwire.com...

This year I found the company benefit selection page most profane and offensive.  They tout your "opportunity" to set up an account, which you have no control over, in order to pay for medical expenses.
The second part goes on to extoll the virtues of preventive medicine and actually states "only 1/3 went to the doctors for annual checkups".
Yes, I did save the pdf file.  Let me illustrate the point here clearly.  The company said only 1/3 of you went to the doctor for an annual checkup.
In general with every word in this health brochure I can envision the focus group of evil HR minions agonizing over each and every word trying to make a turd look like a silver spoon.

Oh, I see, that must mean this is total bullshit right?
http://www.hhs.gov/o...
Privacy of medical records?  I didn't authorized the company to ask my doctor if I went last year.  The marriage of the most Satanic memes in business are now going to be coupled to and reinforced through government.
You will buy our crappy insurance, take our unproven drugs and if you go blind as a side effect tough shit.
http://www.commondre...

Now when I get fired for being a Deek, I'll post the entire pdf and more here.
http://www.surfingth...

How's your health "insurance", watch as in time it's going to wither away into corporate nothingness, kind of like dealing with the IRS or your cell phone "plan".

How about little and big microwave ovens.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=482560&i n_page_id=1965

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/v-mads.htm

How about airport scanners.  Hell, why limit it just to airports.
http://www.thznetwork.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/445
Note the marketing points here, big guy heavily armed, why didn't the use a 18 year old woman.

What else does Orwell have up his sleeve.  Let's ask Battelle, one of the large defense contractors.

http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/terror.stm
http://www.battelle.org/forecasts/defense.stm

Note the inoculation part, you get your drugs, like it or not.

Oh, and just for convienience they are working on the wireless models.

http://tech.propeller.com/story/2007/07/12/wireless-tazer-will-drop-you-from-100-feet/

So I will close with this one.  I don't think it can be said enough.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/15/mccain-moveon-%e2%80%9cought-to-be-thrown-out-of-this-count ry/#comments

At first thought this struck me as a statement of a man as totally in touch with today as the Leave it to Beaver show.

The subject at hand of course is the now "old news" of moveon.org's pun of Gen Be-tray-us.  Well first off I think moveon to be far too kind.
I prefer to frame the entire affair in this manner.

General Petraus...do all of humanity a favor..be a man of honor, be "all you can be", and do a Col. Theodore S. Westhusing.

Disclaimers
The above statements in no way reflect the Lasthorseman's endorsement of the policies and or platforms conventionally known as American "left wing" politics.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=950
http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/
http://www.911blogger.com/node/11295
I know, check your sources but even then there is this Biblical passage.
"There will be wars, and rumors of wars".

God has yet to call for that last Apocalyptic horse ride, let's hope He knows better than I do.

Me, I'm still a born here, Boy Scout, American who most times considers himself a man without a country.

I can't even enjoy my first coffee in the morning anymore without being subject to the Satanic memes of mainstream American "media".  "Bush plans to announce 30,000 troop withdrawal from Iraq", yeah, plans to announce, and withdraw when.  Note the Orwellian doublespeak here, the planting in the minds of simpletons still half awake that there is some slight glimmer of hope.
After that "announcement" appeared I had a followup discussion with my son about marketing techniques and memes, he is a senior in high school.

My problem is that things have been so f**$ed up for so f#&%ing long that it has become institutionalized into every area of life.  United Health Care, one of the largest health insurance providers regularly scams people by denying benenfits causing the "insured" people to then fight back.  The company was sued under the RICO status several years ago but United with boatloads of money for legal fees has it buried in the courts for years.  And that is only one example of such widespread governmental non-functioning hubris which has spread from the federal all the way down to state and local governments.

My thought of the day is that some major disaster might well be the thing to wish for to bring relief from the torturous bullshit marketing points of TV.

Consider this my last of the trade magazine series.  This one comes from Military & Areospace Electronics, one of the magazines catering to the military-industrial complex handsomely profiting from our current Iraq catastrophy.

"The US can still win the war on terror and the war in Iraq, but needs to be more a networked force to do so, retired Gen. John Abizaid told the Transformation Warfare Conference last month."

"The enemy is more networked than we are and his commander's intent more broadly known than ours" said the former Commander of U.S. Central Command during his address at the conference sponsored by the U.S. Naval Institute, AFCEA International and the AFCEA Hampton Roads and Tidewater Chapters."

All of this marketing bullshit continues but the main quote I truely take exception with is this one.

"The enemy has that capability, he continued, its version of command and control is the individual cell phone, Abizaid says it's that simple."

Ok, first off I highly doubt that people getting perhaps maybe an hour of electricity per day have four bars of cell phone service.

And as a political activist who has dilligently looked into "anonymous" cell phones, the ones which could be used to either contact Congress critters or trigger the release of the ebola virus do not in fact exist.  The company bills you for their "text messages" and when you actually have to make the call to "detonate" the bomb at the "secure" location they tell you your "minutes" have expired.  Yup, the Jihad has been canceled in favor or corporate scamming.

Let us not mention here the bazzilions of dollars spent on assuring the US dominance of the total electronic spectrum of a war theater.

Am I missing some point here or is it just the aroma of the horsemanure pile on a hot summers day.
Even last year I said "Last Summer before Armageddon" and to this day I can't understand why masses of people are not surrounding 1600 with pitchforks and kerosene soaked torches.  We get what we deserve I guess and in light of this
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece
I have to regret taking all of the stuff out of the camper which would take me and my loved ones to the secure location way back in the woods for a chance at survival.

http://www.freedomswatch.org/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom%27s_Watch

I saw one just this morning,barf bags not optional BTW, on our very own Boston TV station.  A wheelchair bound vet says he would go back to Iraq if he could.  He believes in "the cause" that much.

I do have to question why these people chose to waste money on ads when most of the world refers to Cambridge Mass as the people's republic of Cambridge.

I have to ask if there is a scam list in which the email address of thine enemy can be sendeth to the wolves.  Here are two of my latest emails.  I also declined the Bank of America request for information, simply because I don't have an account with Bank of America.

SECRETARY OFFICE. COUNSELORS AT LAW)
06 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN

.
Dear Friend

Have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your
Bank Draft but did not heard from you since that time ,then I
went and deposited the Draft with UPS Express Courier company here
in Benin Republic , because I travelled to Iraq to see my boss
and will not come back till next month ending. You have to contact
the UPSExpress Courier company to know when they will
deliver your package .I have paid for the delivering charges and
insurance fee.

The only money you have to send to them is there security
keeping fee which is $125. to received your package.Don't be
deceived by any body This is there Contact Address Contact Dr.
REV DR LARRY Director UPSExpress Courier company Benin
Republic. E-mail;(servicecenterexpresscompany@gmail.com)
Phone number +22997 49 87 45

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the
security keeping fee.I gave them your delivering address but you
have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake in the
delivering.

Let me know as soon as you receive your Draft .

Thanks
Secretary

MERCY OMABA

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And there was also that nice guy from Nigeria who wanted to repay his debt to me.
How can one take the internet seriously?  The complexity of the software is approaching the complexity of a space shuttle mission while the functionality of it actually goes down.
Net neutrality is the least of our problems, the entire system being crap in the first place is.

http://www.strike911.org/

I hope so but I fear the viral marketing techniques only reach the small percentage of the population with computers and some interest in politics.  It is a subject MSM fights to coverup and is their highest priority.
www.projectcensored.org
One of the more mainstream sites tackling the issue of consistent omissions from American "news".

I won't be working on 9-11, I won't be shopping and I urge all Americans to do the same.

My mother-in-law asked if I had heard about the North American Union. She heard this news on the local Boston talk radio station WRKO.

The death of America is bad enough news but I have yet another personal story of the erosion to trust, deliberate deception and jailable fraud, something perhaps becoming a typical American suburban norm.

My daughter married into a tradesman type family. My first impressions of my new mother-in-law was that she was a Satanic bitch, and I was right on. She has handled all of this family's financial dealings since day one. The "men" worked hard and the woman did the books.  This woman has proven to be totally psychotic.

Since it is so easy to refinance a piece of property these parents did, to the tune of half million dollars. Three large campers, trucks, tractors, a new car and winters in Florida later this "mother" has attached her son's name to a mortgage of $490,000 for the house my daughter is living in.

End result? My daughter gets to be a single mom living alone plus dealing with the prospect of never collecting even child support.

God, don't America suck.