James Holmes–My Take on Him

James Holmes (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)

I am writing this in both of my blogs as I feel this is important enough for both of them. It is a game-changer of society and thus is needed to be discussed in both places.

It is no surprise that James Holmes has now become the most infamous villain of society of late. His actions in the movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado is nothing short of devastating, but I believe that this is a wake-up call to society.

The reason is quite simple: He was fed-up. Fed-up with a society where the haves got too much and the have-nots suffer. Consider the fact that this college honor student could only get a job at McDonald’s and you realize where society has failed him. In his position, who would not be angry?

The fact that the rich are spending millions of dollars wanting to put their candidate into the White House (or keeping the opponent out), when these same millions of dollars could be used to hire quite a few employees. It’s bad that the rich can take tax deductions on their campaign spending, yet can’t write off anything to hire new people. The rich would rather spend money foolishly rather than helping real people. This is the problem with society today.

James Holmes is not crazy, mentally ill, or some sort of weird loner that the news media is portraying him as, but instead someone who wants to wake up society to the problems that keep him and hundreds of others from succeeding. Sadly, the media has already executed his future, which means he will never get a fair trial and nobody could ever serve on a jury as too much information has been distributed about him and his victims. It would have been better if he hadn’t booby-trapped his apartment and went to court today with orange hair. Certainly, both of these have killed any credibility he may have had. His best defense now would be to say “I was just fed-up with the rich bastards once and for all”.

Now, because of him, we have introduced more paranoia in the world as theatres, once considered a safe place, no longer as such. However, I think this paranoia is unjustified and should be considered an isolated incident. Sadly, many don’t believe that 9/11 was this way even though realistically it really was. The copycats happened just because they wanted to test the U.S. and our ability to find out the perpetrators. We are paranoid society whose isolation is hurt by the technology that surrounds us and the isolation we wrap ourselves in.

Just an example is this was a woman who was talking on her cell phone the other day. I was walking behind her going into a store not more than 3 feet behind and twice she NEVER held the door open for me and let the door slam in my face. I continued to follow this woman around the store and notice how she never paid attention to the people she ran into or the counters she ran into as she was on her phone and acted like she was drunken by the person on the other end. Sadly, it is this type of social isolation that we have created by having people believe in false security.

As soon as we can separate technology from reality, then people can get real and see things the way they should be seen. We shouldn’t rely on fake profiles on twitter, Facebook, or even going back to the hardly used MySpace. Stop believing the fakeness and only believe the real person. Everybody will be better off for it.

As I will be discussing in a future posting in my Staples blog, sometimes a profile can cause problems even when no problem exists. It is when a company like Staples decides to make more out of something that it is when things go so wrong as I will explain in full details.

WMTW restored to Time Warner Cable

Finally after over a week being off the air, WMTW is back and it is reported that it will be back for a while as a long term agreement has been reached between the parites.  Let's hope we don't have to deal with it for awhile.

Catching a Breather Sort of…

This week has not been a fun week for me.  The wonderful world of Time Warner and their continued blockage of WMTW Channel 8 seems to dominate the problems with their service.  To top that off, much of my cable has been out for the last couple of days.  Most of the problem can be attributed to the fact that since the last cable box update a couple of weeks ago, nothing seems to work anymore like it should.  Even my trusty (or not so trusty) Road Runner service decided it was going to poop out on me for many hours leaving me stranded offline and just a small handful of cable channels.

The problems with my system has pretty much been fixed now accept my primary computer has forgotten what a cd drive is.  That’s right all 3 of my cd drives have become invisible to my computer.  Granted my primary machine is going on 10 years old and is running Windows XP Pro meaning that its future is not bright.  I use a family laptop to do these postings along with other important things, but this machine is tied into the primary machine for printing, networking, etc.

I am hoping by next week things will return to normal and I can resume this blog to its fullest potential, but humidity hurts the primary machine and when that happens, I am stuck not even being able to use the laptop since it relies on the other machine.  Isn't life grand?. I didn’t think so either.

I am also hoping to get this blog to a more regular schedule in the future.  Right now, that hasn’t been possible because of my underlying factors, many of which were mentioned above.  I will continue, though, to stray off-topic when I feel the need to as there are things that are important to mention.  As always, I desire your continued support on this blog and please continue to spread the word about this blog..the more who get interested in the cause the more hatred can be spread faster.

Thanks to all and hopefully be back next week.

TV Blackouts = No Solution

Yesterday, Time Warner Cable decided to blackout the channels hosted by Hearst TV.  Locally, this effected WMTW-TV channel 8 (the ABC affiliate in the Portland Maine area.  The problem with this is that is happened with ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING!!

Apparently, the local channel was either unaware of what was going to happen or else they thought that a solution would be found before the company’s owners went dark.  Both of these companies are pointing to the other in why contract negotiations broke down.  Each blame the corporate greed of the other as the reason for the problem.  Neither side seems willing to give in so it looks like the ABC shows along with local syndicated programs like “Access Hollywood” and “Jeopardy!” won’t be airing locally for some time.

It seems also that TWC doesn’t have any plans of bringing in another station into the area to air programs to replace the missing network programs.  Yet, TWC won’t give refunds for time lost due to the missing channel.

It seems like every year some station ends up in this mess and at the last minute (or slightly later), the station resumes like nothing really happened.  It just becomes a HUGE unnecessary inconvenience.

Don’t think, however, that satellite television is the solution as it was just reported today that DIRECTV has put the Viacom channels in the dark.  For those who don’t know what the Viacom channels are, they are stations like MTV, Nickelodeon, and all their associated off springs. 

So here we have 4 companies all finger-pointing as being greedy companies and dead-locked to bringing their respective programming back to their respective providers.  Ironically with all the millions of dollars that all these companies make that they would quibble over such contracts.

Sort of reminds me of a certain office supply company who decided that a certain employee wasn’t worth keeping because that person was too expensive to keep.  Unfortunately, there was no negotiations with them and thus I ended up on the street.  Too bad, we all could toss all these greedy providers and channel owners to the curb as well.

Holiday for Me–Not By Choice

Because of some technical difficulties in the program that I use, there will be no posting this week as much as I would love there to be.  Apparently, the program I use just decided not to work properly and I spent some time to get it working again to some extent.  It is always wonderful when things don’t go as planned, but that is life no matter how bad it gets at times.  However, my Wordpress blog has a new post because I write directly in that program.  So join me again next week for a new post (hopefully—internet willing)!  Thanks for your continued support as I work through the issues that I have with this f#&^$ program.