Green Jobs – Teaching my Offspring about Capitalism

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Times are tough for teenagers to get a job.  I’ve heard that unemployment is more that 20 +% for teenagers.  My son has struck out getting a job, although he has put more effort into video games than looking for a job, so we started an eBay business.

It’s name is Neon Deal, Click on the name and see what he is selling, vintage fishing lures.   The one in the picture is worth a few hundred dollars.  Of course, I know something about it, but he built the blog and the Twitter account which you should follow and see what he is selling. He sold and shipped his first lures last week and made more money in one night than he would in a month at McDonald’s.  He’s learned a valuable lesson, work for yourself and it’s good to be the boss.  Michael Dell started a company called PC’s Limited out of his dorm room….It’s now call Dell Computers.  Hope my son gets that kind of  taste for the real green.  So he’s self employed for the summer and is understanding inventory, shipping, logistics, marketing, sales, blogging and if you don’t work…you don’t get paid.

Now, when I said green jobs in the title, I mean in terms of Money. If you thought I meant Green jobs in terms of saving the planet, they just don’t exist in real life.   One thing I learned is that if they really were a better solution, they would have succeeded on their own already.  That is the way business works.  After I spent a year working in Sustainability, I learned that the only way we still have any green jobs is because they are legislated or subsidized currently at $355,55.56 per job, not because they are better or really work or could stand on their own.  If you’ve bought into the globull warming hoax, I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona I’d like to sell, and as George Straight says, “I’ll throw the Golden Gate in for Free”.  Read more on what’s really happening in this space.  The facts are all here: Watts up with That?

Memorial Day 2011

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I am so proud of our country and honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.  It peeves me to no end when some who have been our allies take shots at our country just because we are not like them.  We are not.  We are our own country, based on a Judeo Christian set of principles that have made the exeptionalism of our country great.  It peeves me worse when it is internal. America has been more benevolent, contributed more to the welfare of mankind in it’s short history than any other country in history.  The USA is the only country that built itself rather than conquer another.   We have made sacrifices for the freedom of others our mission.  We have joined with some countries and fought against the same either with bullets or words.

So on this Memorial Day, we remember those who fought the fight for freedom that others trample and don’t appreciate.  I for one, honor them and understand how tough it must have been to go where you didn’t want to go, fight with and on behalf of others who wanted to take freedom from the world.

America has been a uniquely productive nation: a font of invention, creativity and economic dynamism. In America, tens of millions of people have risen from poverty. The United States has been a singularly generous, if not always effective, provider of assistance to other countries including those where Americans are not popular.

My father saw Europe tear itself apart in the 40′s, a continent that has been at each others throats for hundreds of years.  My uncle saw the atrocities of the Pacific Theater as a B-29 bomber Captain.  We now face attack from radical terrorist Muslims from the outside and socialism attacking Capitalism or those who invent faux issues like Anthropogenic Global Warming from the inside.  Now, other religions are trying to take our holiday from us.

We must stand on the principles that made this country great, honor the memory of those who gave their lives to make us free and stand up to those who wish to defeat us now, or tear us down because we are not like them or are able, willing and ready to defend ourselves  and our freedoms This is unlike the pacifistic and appeasers and even some of our current deleterious leaders who didn’t understand what Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley and others knew.  You fight to win, then you negotiate the terms of surrender and how business will be conducted.  Even on my blog, there are some that just have no clue as to what we are about as demonstrated in the absurd comments of this entry.

Others feel this way also like Ricky Gilleland, quoting from this article:

Quiet, soft-spoken 17- year-old Ricky Gilleland spends most weekends surrounded by tombstones, as he walks through Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D.C. looking for the burial sites of those individuals who have died in the line of duty since September 11, 2001. Gilleland has taken on the job that the historic cemetery has not been able to do itself.

Through his website, preserveandhonor.com, Gilleland has cataloged the thousands who are laid to rest in Section 60 of Arlington Cemetery. With a camera in hand, Gilleland shoots a photo of both the front and back of the headstone, “to provide a virtual place for loved ones and friends to both locate the graves of the fallen and reflect on the memory of their sacrifice.”

Or these great American’s who realize why we have Memorial Day:
 GM’s Place The Last Battle
So I don’t wish a happy Memorial Day, although I hope you enjoy the hot dogs and family celebration.  Rather, remember those who fought so that you could live free

When Science Triumphs Over Propaganda

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After spending a year with the great minds of sustainability, I finally found a Global Warming Scientist that is correct and has some facts to back it up.

Piers Corbyn got laughed at when he made this prediction in November:

While he was laughed at and was told that the science was settled, he was proven right and called out why it is the Sun that is the correct predictor of the weather.

His Website shows how the facts are manipulated and as usual, follow the money….except that the carbon trading exchange has now been closed.

As always, history proves the truth.

I wonder what the next inconvenient truth will be?

 

It’s Not Easy Being Green

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I took on a stretch assignment for Green IT at IBM this year.   I’m hoping it’s because they think I can do the job.  I have a lot ahead of me, thus the title.

During the Major Analyst Conference we did in November, I had to get all the Smarter Planet materials, most of which included sustainability or green IT.

The net of it is that IBM is in the game and is a player.  We are about to have an Eco Jam with the top contributors to the subject matter.

The results will be posted in the Economist and the Institute for Business Value.

I’m looking for a good year and some really smart people who know about this.

PS – my favorite subject is Bio Diesel from algae….

The world is
SMALLER.

The world is
FLATTER.

The world is about to get a whole lot
SMARTER.

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