Full Moon

The average American probably doesn't have a clue about how many days it takes for a full moon to come around in the night sky. Probably something about the lack of interest in the natural world in the age of the internet.

This morning, out for my morning jaunt in the dark, it was truly spectacular.

The air was clear. The air was dry. Mars twinkled overhead with the reddish tint it is known for.

The moon hung to the west. Like the days of old when I would come up over LaJolla Village Drive to head into 875 Prospect in LaJolla and go to work at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Heading into work when the world was asleep and sleepy LaJolla was slumbering, the moon hanging over the ocean and casting a beautiful MOON GLOW on the expansive Pacific. Calming. It was my friend. It was always special. I tried always to never take it for granted.

This morning in the moonlight were migrating birds. Hundreds if not thousands chirping as they moved south. The migration is here. One can set their watch by those migrating birds almost to the week. And by the moon, almost to the day.

I wear a EEE/EEEE.......................

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.

The Beaverton-based company says the Air Native N7 is designed with a larger fit for the distinct foot shape of American Indians, and has a culturally specific look. It will be distributed solely to American Indians; tribal wellness programs and tribal schools nationwide will be able to purchase the shoe at wholesale price and then pass it along to individuals, often at no cost.

"Nike is aware of the growing health issues facing Native Americans," said Sam McCracken, manager of Nike's Native American Business program. "We are stepping up our commitment ... to elevate the issue of Native American health and wellness."

Nike said it is the first time it has designed a shoe for a specific race or ethnicity. It said all profits from the sale of the shoe will be reinvested in health programs for tribal lands, where problems with obesity, diabetes and related conditions are near epidemic levels in some tribes.

Nike designers and researchers looked at the feet of more than 200 people from more than 70 tribes nationwide and found that in general, American Indians have a much wider and taller foot than the average shoe accommodates. The average shoe width of men and women measured was three width sizes larger than the standard Nike shoe.

Mike Gundy.......

This guy is a coach. He exemplifies everything that is right about college football today. If you haven't read the sports page recently I suggest you go to YouTube.com and type in his name and see what comes up. His tirade is beautiful.

Yes, it's just another media person trying to go from hicksville to the limelight.

The wrong way.

Upside down world...............

I grew up in the Great Plains region of the United States. My family lived on several Indian Reservations. Fairly remote, poverty-stricken areas with little focus on higher education, lots of addiction issues and few role models for "success", whatever that term conjures in your mind and the minds of those I grew up with. Racism was alive and well for reservation residents who ventured off the reservation. If I had a dollar for every time I heard the term "prairie nigger" I would be a much wealthier man. My late mother always made it a point to teach me to never worry about what people said about me, only about how I conducted myself and my actions that would make me either a good person or a bad person. That's maybe why I always questioned authority and not to worry about it. Maybe that had more to do with growing up in a family where the head man, my Dad, always had a loaded .357 near the door. His career in law enforcement probably required that as he had more shots fired at him than most soldiers in Iraq will ever have.

Now, I don't understand the major fuss of the dreaded word "nigger" in the black community. The fuss should be on getting out of poverty, getting an education, living clean without addictions and achieving success. All things that Native American reservations still struggle with today. Whether you are "urban" or "prairie" you best let those words roll off you like water off a duck.

To worry about what someone says about you is a great waste of time. Wasting time is what I worry about. I need to sleep less and live more every day. The best is yet to come.

From the Bible Belt..............

"Jesus said heaven is a place for people of all nations. So if you don’t like Clarkston, you won’t like heaven."
THE REV. PHIL KITCHIN, on the immigrants who have transformed the Clarkston International Bible Church in Georgia.

Morgan Stanley recruiting.......

Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal there was an ad by Morgan Stanley looking to recruit some more salesmen to their stockbroker ranks.

Think there's any relationship to the loss of over $480,000,000 of Morgan Stanley shareholder assets by their quantitative stock trading strategies unit in the last 90 days? Just kidding on the relationship, it takes time to generate that kind of loss by a retail broker pitching the latest product de jour that emanates from their marketing department that has nothing to do with making clients money and everything to do with generating flow, commissions and hidden fees.


Mr. Mack has enough skeletons in his closet with the SEC and Pequot. How that story has been hushed is enough for a book.

Wall Street wants your money folks..........invest with them at your own risk.

Rather farcical.........

Dan Rather suing the hand that fed him is a joke. It's over Dan, get a grip. Toast. So is Katie. Americans have figured it out. Thank you internet!!!

On another note, these political hacks haven't mentioned criminal immigration in so long it defies common sense. They and the media won't mention a thing for the next 55 days until the election is over. Is there anyone left that really wants to do the right thing for this country or do the special interests now control the purse strings and minds of America? The older I get the more I realize how great this nation truly is and how resilient it is against such giant assholes running it and making laws. They won't abolish the AMT, they won't change the tax code and they won't even mention the words "social security reform" in an election year.


Truly gutless wonders.

New York Times............

In case you missed it, as of yesterday you do NOT need a paid subscription to access the paper online. They finally figured it out after Rupert said so.