http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com The life and times of Alan Bleiweiss Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:39:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's really sad how so many people on both sides of the health care debate refuse to discuss the issues in an intelligent, truthful manner.  It's worse that these same people refuse to listen to the truth when it's staring them in the face, and instead, resort to cave-man like ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/09/health-care-debate-deceptive-tactics/ I'm not a firefighter, nor did I work in the World Trade Center. None of my immediate family members perished that day. Yet my ties to the firefighter family, and to my own friends who worked at and immediately around ground zero, as well as my own personal ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/09/september-eleventh-one-persons-experience/ When most people talk about problems with privacy due to the Google Maps system where Google contracted cars drive up and down roads snapping photos, they talk about being seen in places they don't want to be seen (like walking out of their secret lover's condo).  Well, those people may ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/05/butt-crack-caught-on-google-map-cam/ Today was the 22nd annual May Madness Classic Car Show in downtown San Rafael.  I enjoy seeing the classic muscle cars of my youth from time to time, but it's not something I care so much about that I had paid any attention to the date of the event.  I ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/05/may-madness-classic-car-show-san-rafael/ Look.  I'm not perfect.  By any stretch of the imagination.  I've got flaws so deep they're like the grand canyon of my soul.  Yet I do the best I can okay?  And so I understand that no politician is perfect.   Yet I care about more than my own self interests.  ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/04/barbara-boxer-us-senate-2010/ I love working from home.  It allows me to shut out distractions whenever I choose, I can take entire day-long breaks or work late into the night yet at my pace.  All the creature comforts of home.  And since the advent of the digital world, I can remain connected, thanks ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/03/views-from-my-sausalito-office/ I just love taking nature photos! [nggallery id=1] http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/03/i-love-taking-nature-photos/ Alan’s Insights™ MARCH 2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now at its lowest point in the past 12 years. Except its still 275% higher than it was just 20 years ago, which was about 280% higher than it was 20 years before that.   So from the long term perspective, the Dow is ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/03/perspective-on-the-current-economy/ The room looks like any other prison cell. Cold. Dank. Musty... The walls are lit only by the shadowy light filtering in from that very small and too high up barred opening in the 18 inch thick centuries old pock-marked concrete... Slowly, grudgingly, yet with a sense of accomplishment for just being ... http://blog.alanbleiweiss.com/2009/03/nicotine-withdrawal/