jamie gray's personal blog, featuring his always unique perspectives on life, love, politics, corruption, traffic...and whatever else makes him rant. and rant he will. count on it.
If Ben Franklin had his way, we’d be eating the national bird ? every Thanksgiving. Or maybe we’d eat bald eagle, because Turkeys would be a protected symbol of America’s deliciousness? #YouTellMe ~jg
America’s love-hate relationship with the bald eagle https://bit.ly/3hszvBi
The Bald Eagle is protected in the US, but I bet it tastes just like Turkey.
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
Capitalism is survival of the fittest. Dog eat dog. Caveat emptor. Profits and power are the cornerstone of the elite class, a self made royalty in a society that measures value and worth by the dollar and acre.
In contrast, most of us ordinary people see the importance of the common good. We recognize the inherent value in taking care of everyone, not just the ones who would kill and eat everyone else in order to ensure their own survival. As human beings, adopting degrees of Socialism is the acknowledgement that we’ve transcended to those higher places. It’s evolution of the species, to a new place, where we learn take care of our own. ALL of them, even if they don’t look like us or speak our tongue.
Socialism doesn’t mean everyone gets an equal share, like in communism. Instead, socialism seeks to ensure that everyone gets an equal chance, and less lives are wasted. Even a capitalist should be able to grok the concept of less waste. Isn’t prevention of wasted human potential just as important as protecting human life itself?
Our society should be made up of haves and have-mores, instead of haves and have-nots. The rich can still get richer. They just can’t do it by exploiting people to the point of sickness, starvation and homelessness. THAT sounds like Humanism to me…and shouldn’t we ALL be humanists? #HumanityFirst ~jg
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
I grew up with a bunch of religious taboos and social rules to follow. My parents were consumed with appearances and fitting in. By the time I got to high school, I was pretty messed up. Confused. Ignorant. A normal teen, growing up, without Internet, back in the day.
Apparently, I’m one of the last boomers. My parents were part of the Silent Generation. I guess the silent part was for realz because I never even heard of the Silent Generation until I looked up the folks to see where they fit in. Silence is golden I guess.
I miss my parents. Maybe they helped mess me up in the head. They caused some pain, but they didn’t do it on purpose. By and large, they did a pretty good job for their day. I mean, people didn’t really have a clue back then about parenting. You just did what your parents did. Funny how once you become a parent, you can see it from your parent’s perspective, and it suddenly makes a lot more sense. You know, all that shit that didn’t make sense back then, it’s pretty clearly stupid as fuck now.
I tried really hard to blame mom and dad for a lot of pain that was clearly my own fault. It took time to grow up and own the responsibility. It’s fine to acknowledge the damage that others cause us. But ultimately it’s up to us what we do with that pain. We do best when we own it and choose not to be defined by it, but rather defined by how we overcame it. Own the pain by owning the triumph.
The pain just keeps coming, and as you get older, each day gets a bit more full of pain. But also more full of joy. I find more joy in everything I do. Peeling through the skin of bitter pain to savor the joyous fruits, makes the fruit all the more sweet. ~jg
Jamie Gray
Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.
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August Update: From Jamie Gray #JamieGray
Extreme Hashtag Edition #Hashtag
Hey everybody…hope your summer is going great! #summer I haven’t done this update thing in awhile…so don’t be surprised if this is the last you hear for another couple years (kidding…i hope…seriously…#HopefulWink ) #lol
So things are pretty fucking awesome here, in the middle of nowhere #goodlife. Shelly #BestGFEver and I have been spending a lot of time working at the radio station #IndieBrew, and that project is really taking off. Lots of new music is being added all the time, and we just partnered with DemocracyNow to carry their 1 hour daily independent news every night at 10pm EDT #DemocracyNow. Good stuff. You can find Indie Brew Radio at http://indiebrew.net and in iTunes Internet Radio (they hid it…look under the 3 dots)…among other places. #HugeInEurope #iTunes So…yeah, Indie Brew has been taking up a lot of time…but it’s totally worth it. It’s all about the music. #music
On that note, #MusicPun if you haven’t heard, I’ve finally been busy in the studio #ItsTotallyLikeWorkDude. The track below is the first of several new songs I’ve been working on. These are all rough drafts, and I’m still working on my studio chops in terms of mixing and mastering #IStillSuck…but they are also the earliest glimpses of what these songs will grow into as they teach themselves to me…as I play them #SongCubs. Believe it or not, I can play a song over and over thru the recording process and STILL not learn the lyrics #WORKITellYou #FourLetterWords. I pen them, but I’m pretty sure I don’t write a lot of these songs of mine. The words come from my mind and pen, but they are put there…from somewhere #Aliens?. I just pick them up. When I’m paying attention, anyway.
But I have been paying attention recently. #BongHits And there’s more to come my friends. Please enjoy this track and those that will soon follow. #NewMusic #ThanksForListening Download them freely and share them with anyone you like! #SharingIsExcellent…just talk to me before using for any political event, purpose or propaganda. #TV #CrookedHillary #NotTrump We can talk about a distribution deal later #KaChing!
all the best
~jg
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#Musicians [If you’re a musician and your music isn’t being played in Indie Brew Radio #IBR, make sure you submit it! #SUBMIT I’ll make sure you get reviewed…I’ve got some pull at the station. You won’t get paid per play, but you will get heard! Indie Brew is all about promoting new sounds and bands who NEED airplay.]#Airplay
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