In honor of the WGA…Writer’s Guild of America
strike…we have been holding our water….until today when the
official negotiations resume in earnest. Since we know this may
be a short-lived respite from the enmity sure to come…so we
will use this time wisely…to hit as many issues as we can.
Recently, one of our OC Juice co-bloggers sent out a “Rules of
Conduct” which might be followed to make “This Blog” cogent and
effective in the eyes of the public. Although a kind and caring
thought….the realities differ greatly when it comes to the art
of communication. If you think that writing a 10,000 word thesis
for your Doctorate and PhD in Space Science is communication –
you are purely listening to your inner child. No one is going
to either read that stuff or care after they have read it. You
might get two people in your peer group to slap you on the back
as you get that “You Passed” sneer from your college professor
…but other than that….”forget about it”!
Writing is an “Art”…no pun intended. If you actually have
an idea and someone gets that idea and changes their behavior
because of your efforts…..”You have communication!” As a
Cryptographic Teletype Operator in the US Army back in 1968
….each day we had to change our “codes”…we had to then get
up on our network …and write: “CQ,CQ,CQ……”Seek You!
…for you civilian types! The other members of the network
would respond….”Read you 5×5 …..” Loud and clear..get it?
We had communications and confirmation! Each person would ring
in and it was fun to see that others were listening. Sometimes,
when someone didn’t change their codes or had some glitch…we
would get: “Garbled…in transmission!” with a whole bunch of
chicken scratches and mixed alphanumerica…untidy…which we
then had to tear off with impunity. The Point? Oh yeah
….this is where “being on the same page – comes from!” So,
when it comes to “Rules for Bloggers” is concerned: “Garbled..
partner..we don’t get it!” The power of each person’s words
need to be strong enough…no matter the format – to get their
message across and change attitudes, inform or change behavior.
Next: While we are at it…..as the World Hedge Fund crisis
now affects all the credit markets…..one little guy in Santa
Monica has made a quick $12 Billion bucks literally overnight
by betting short on the Sub-Prime Mortgage market. See, even
if world markets lose $6 Trillion bucks….there are little
guys out there that can profit. So far Lahde Capital has
netted his investors 1000 percent return, after fees. This
Hedge Fund has made $20 billion bucks in just a few months.
Think you can get into this gig? Not likely, Lahde is now
returning cash to investors and telling them..he cannot assure
them that those returns are going to be as big in the future.
He has also put together a Hedge Fund betting short on most
Commercial Real Estate ..which has so far netted investors
a 42 percent return in a few weeks. Lahde states: Our entire
banking system is a complete disaster,” he wrote. “In my
opinion, nearly every major bank would be insolvent if
they marked their assets to market!” Lahde said he is
taking some of his profits and putting them into gold or
other precious metals.
Finally, what are all the local and great State politios
of the day doing to solve all these problems? Not much,
just asking for higher wages for what they do, asking for
extended term limits, asking for more money for their very
self important re-election campaigns, asking for more power
to knock other electeds out of office, asking, asking ….
It is getting so bad…how bad is it? Well, six Republican
United States Senators including; Trent Lott, Kay Bailey
Hutchinson Chuck Hagel, John Warner and Larry Craig are
all leaving at the end of next year. It must be so stinky
…even they can’t take it any more. Guess they figure
with Hillary as the President….why bother?
As far as the Writer’s Strike is concerned: Every paid
transaction for video rental will be done on the web in
five years. No more DVD’s….just go to the Blockbuster
site and download whatever movie you want. No more DVD’s
to return..no more Blockbuster locations…all on the web.
Everyone will buy their DVD’s on Amazon or the Google store.
You will also be able to get them at Target or WalMart.
Should Writer’s get a piece of all this action? Yep!
If this Blog entry by the way..didn’t meet the proscribed
rules of Good Blogging Communication…sorrrrrry!
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