What do you do for money...

There seems to be an uproar about changing our money because they may or may not pull Andrew Jackson off the twenty dollar note and replace him with Harriet Tubman. First who gives a fig? Seriously, there are more important things in your life, let alone the world for anyone to give more than a passing thought to this. Even this is time possibly ill spent. Secondly, if you do find it to be a concern to you, ask yourself a few questions. Will make the bill worth less, in the economy not for some esthetic reason you have in your mind. Will you be paid less money because of the change in how the money looks? Do you work for the Treasury Department? If you have answered no to all those questions, not including the esthetic reasons, then you should probably find some other thing to concern yourself with and no I don’t think what restroom transgendered people are using qualifies as a better place to focus your concern. If you want to be pissed off about something in the economy, specifically the treasury. How about the millions the US government wastes on making one cent coinage, there is something to come up in arms about… well maybe not guns but certainly protest worthy, writing your representatives about kinds of action. The penny is a waste of money, time and it does not facilitate use in the economy. The five and ten cent coins should also be killed off as well but that isn’t the point today. Another thing bills are not practical as currency. The guy on the twenty dollar note which many seem to be so fond of keeping on the twenty dollar note, thought that paper currency was not a good idea. So let’s put him on paper money as a way to remember his Presidency? From what I read he would have rather had a whiskey named after him or a casino … as in he drank and gambled …like a lot, no I mean a lot. As in Jackson lost some stuff in the White House on a bet drinking and gambling. Not sure if he is the guy we want on any money really. Jackson wasn’t such a fan of banking either and felt the power of banks should be very limited and not centralized or be involved in politics. In fact, Jackson made it a personal mission to ruin, not just professionally but on a personal level too, one banker because of his involvement in, what he believed to be corruption. Which may have been misuse of presidential power and in which Jackson was censured by Congress as well. The only President to have that happen. If you want to honor Jackson as President, fighting to dismantle the mega banks would be a better place to start than arguing about if he is on money or not and again a type of money he didn’t like at all. The thing is, while we haven’t seen much change in what our money looks like in the last two generations there have been a lot of changes to our money. Like adding the words, “in god we trust” in the 1950’s. We have had all kinds of things on paper money and coins which are not presidents. Even today the Ten and the One Hundred both have non presidents on the notes. Hamilton was a secretary of the treasury and Franklin was …well was Franklin but never a President. We’ve had Greek gods on the money, buffalo, women, other animals, buildings, and whatever else you like to put on money it’s been on there. Just because we haven’t seen much of it in our lives doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. Harriet Tubman was kind of an awesome person, not that she was any less or more awesome than Andrew Jackson but a very interesting person in our history as a nation. The bottom line is that it doesn’t matter whose face is on the money it will still spend the same. Putting Harriet Tubman on the twenty no more disrespects Andrew Jackson, than putting him on the money which he would have objected to in the first place. Why not honor more people than just the select few who become President? Seems like we would be better than this. Find something worthwhile to be pissed off about or better yet a reason to smile Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards

National Sibling Day

National Sibling Day As an older sibling with younger siblings, on National Sibling day I suppose it is time to say that younger siblings don’t really understand or appreciate all that we, older siblings, did for them. Yes, little bothers and shit-sters, no those aren’t misspellings, that includes all the rough handling at times too, these were important life lessons, we can’t help it if you needed remedial lessons to pick up what we were putting down. As the older sibling we were the trailblazers who molded the parents to the easier going much more pliable people you grew up with. It was our blood, sweat and tears that made your life what it was as much as it was our parents efforts. Our trial and errors were met with stern unyielding sentencing and uncompassionate punishments; where as your adventures were met with compromise and fair negotiations and probation or even nolle prosequi at the bench of parental authority We seasoned and tempered the parents from bumbling inept and oft times clueless simpletons to the full of reason, good advice giving, folksy people you know as mum and dad. Think back to these happy days of your youth and I’m sure can recall the exasperated sighs, confused looks, and trudging away by your older sibling. This was because the jailer and warden, AKA mom and dad to you, had just let you off with some reasonable punishment or none at all for something if had we done it would have landed us in solitary confinement, AKA grounded, for many a moon, or the speech before the lashings, this hurts me more than it hurts you; pretty sure heart hurt, feels much different than spankings… just saying. So younger sibs, your fond memories of fair and understanding, even compassionate parents is due largely to our efforts. However, as mom and dad, would not clue you into the harsh realities of life and the world, we felt obligated, compelled even, to pick up their slack and prepare you for life. Which, we know you did not appreciate because you would report us to the authorities and of course we were punished as you should have been for your prior transgressions. Come to think of it we were probably punished for your screw ups more times than we can remember. However even then, when we were placed on the rack or locked away, we were showing you that there is a harsh world out there and if you don’t toe the line there will be pain. So you learned, from all of our missteps. We aren’t saying, that mom and dad didn’t do their part in raising you but we were the real artist who sculpted them. We didn’t just stop with the parents. We also didn’t let anyone else kill you either, little siblings have an uncanny ability to overload their ass with their mouth which makes other people want to kill them. To which we, older siblings, had to respond, to those who meant you harm, “No, if anyone is going to kick the ever living snot out of this kid, it is going to be me not you”. Pain in our ass you may be, but you were our pain in the ass and come hell and be damned, if we were going to let anyone do our job. So we stood in the way of bullies and punches, kicks and threats. Sometimes you saw this, other times you were clueless that you nearly had your ass beat for some dumb shit you said or did. So if you were confused about some random slap in the head you got, it may have been you needed to know pain, just not from someone else. So on this national sibling’s day, make sure you thank your older sibling for all the effort they put in to make sure your childhood was happy and healthy and try as we might, we didn’t actually kill you. All that said, we are happy now to have brothers and sisters who shared our lives, you were our compatriots in ill-conceived and even more poorly executed plans, to have someone to complain to about life, even if you did rat us out from time to time. We had good times a plenty, adventures in the woods, playgrounds, and parks beyond remembering. While we may not have said it much when you were snot nosed pains in the ass, we loved you then. Here is to all the siblings everywhere, some of the best stories in my life involve you guys. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards

Eye in the Sky -movie

Eye in the Sky not review This is a very intense film which looks at how the industrial world conducts war with drones. In this particular examination the war is against terror, but could easily be substituted with any group and the questions posed would still be relevant. The important thing to keep in mind when watching this film is to listen to the arguments as they are proposed. I don’t know that this film is likely to change the mind of anyone and where they stand on the use of drones. I do think that it does at least start the mental dialogue and perhaps actual discussion of now that these weapons exist how, when, and where, do we use them. They are not going away, they are too valuable and provide real time information so that missions can be adjusted to meet the ever changing circumstances of operations in the field. Yet while the create options there are limitations and with those limitations come dilemmas. With increasing and up to the minute intelligence many questions are answered which allow for better decisions and also ethical and moral dilemmas. There are many questions posed and many dilemmas brought to the scenario without making it seem like a quagmire of what ifs being posed just of the sake of making the arguments. The questions and problems fit to the story and feel like they are realistic for our world today. This film does not pull punches while it is not gory, it is a realistic look at what happens in war. As we become much smaller as a world and allied nations will have common opponents on the world stage and military operations will become and have become combined and with that come other questions of different political and other ideological concerns when it comes to war and warfare. The film explores the combatants in this film who are in very different environments some are in harm’s way in the operational zone and others are not and the face of warfare can be conducted without even being in the same time zone. I do not think the purpose of this film is to direct anyone to a specific point of view but rather to get the people thinking and talking about the modern face of war and peace. Peace is always the better option, no matter what, it is always better to live and let live but we are not always given an option for Peace in the world. All in all, this is a great film, well worth the hour and forty-five minutes. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards