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Under 'Interests' above, I said 'socalled alternative energy' - I don't like to hear solar and wind and hydro and geothermal forms of energy designated as 'alternative' - that's like saying that these things are 'out of the mainstream' or 'unusual' or in some way 'not normal'. I object to that whole slant of thought. Seems to me the better way is to describe these forms of energy as the 'right' ones, and what is now supposedly the 'normal' way to get energy ought to be described as 'wrong' - nay, 'criminal' would not go too far. You might be getting the impression that I take this stuff pretty seriously. I do.
In my mind, the next couple of items I mentioned in 'Interests' above, justice, human rights, reform, are not separate from the energy question but they all together form one bag of concern. Why do we have a lot of the injustice and human rights violation and corruption? Why do we have climate change, massive unemployment or underemployment, lack of health care, lack of good education, a dismal future for our grandchildren? Hence arises the next statement in the list of my interests: Reform. Complete, top down reform. Why do I say 'top down' and not 'bottom up'? Because the real problem is at the top. In the USA and worldwide, we have allowed criminals to lie and cheat and steal elections and hoodwink national governments into joining criminal organizations like the WTO and the IMF and the World Bank. Hugo Chavez has it exactly right. Every nation that is a victim of the WTO ought to just simply quit (which is to say, practically every nation that belongs to it with the exception of US and the UK and maybe Germany). And those few would very soon get tired of only trading with each other and would ask the others what they were so displeased about. Then maybe a discussion could begin about the real stuff rather than bogus non-issues.
In the US, reform could start with the coming election cycle, in which, if we have any brains left at all, we will reduce the Republican Party to the small fourth party that it really ought to be, given that it represents such a small fraction of the people (say, somewhat less than one percent). If we have any brains or sense, when the dust settles we will have a liberal-environmental coalition of Greens and Democrats in control, with a few of the more sensible Libertarians to balance the scales, and the Republicans, having been recognized as the extremists and liars that they are, relegated to a very small minority of Congressional seats. Ideally, we ought to elect Dennis Kucinich or Al Gore president; but if we give firm control of both the Senate and the House to reformers, who occupies the White House doesn't matter a great deal.
Okay, this is getting very long. I like a lot of kinds of music, getting old and it shows, I guess. If it has been done in about the last twenty years I probably don't like it as well as the music of the 1890s thru 1980s; and especially I loathe rap and hiphop and their whole culture. Someone will shout, "Racist", to which I will respond "Idiot, did you not hear me say I love reggae and old school ska and rocksteady - 'oo yuh tink mek dot stuff, mon?"
I collect models of old cars, say those of the late 'teens, 20s, and 30s. If I could I would build a very accurate reproduction of a 1929 Model A Ford, with one big change - it would run on electricity, and its batteries would be charged by the wind, the sun, and the power of moving water.

Interests
socalled ' alternative' energy; social( and judicial) justice, human rights, complete reform of the way things are done in the USA; rock, reggae music and' old school' ska and rocksteady, blues, jazz, baroque, classical music; antique car models

Location
Gulf coast of Florida

Gender: BLOKE