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Snapfish Has Snapped Up Flickr, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

Flickr, a so called "Photo Sharing Site" has now introduced an exclusive "service" to flickr members. Formerly, flickr Pro members could opt out of printing services and were not subject to advertising. Now we have it staring at us on all our pages. We have the stupid little shopping cart right next to our flickr mailbox. One of these days I'm going to click on that accidentally and "buy" a few of my photos.

Flickr does not allow its members to sell their photos prominently from their photo pages. I've been fortunate in having a few works considered by buyers but that's a hit or miss scenario. Yet, Flickr will allow service providers and commercial interests to invade flickr with subliminal advertising, drop down ads and other gimmickry. It has become another internet store where the members are nothing more than consumers and hobbyists to feed the maw of the big corporate "Fish".

Obama Puzzle Pieces 14, originally uploaded by PayPaul.

There are still more pieces to fill the picture. Some clues can be gleaned from his Inaugural speech. He definitely understands what needs to be done and how to enlist the American Public in doing it. The question is that are we up to the challenge?

Wal-Mart: The Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse, originally uploaded by PayPaul.

Have some of us prematurely assumed the apocalypse? Shoppers at a Valley Stream, NY Wal-Mart must have believed the world was coming to an end. After being allowed to wait in front of the store from 9pm the previous evening, Black Friday customers broke down the glass doors at 5am, swept away the store employees trying to ensure an orderly entry and stomped to death a temporary employee, Jdimytai Damour. Mr. Damour was hired as a floor cleaner. He ended up dead on the floor.
How is it that this store allowed these people to wait there all night long. Why was it that the atmosphere was so heated and confrontational? When local sports teams make the Championship Game and the lines are set up for tickets, most sports fans treat the whole experience as one big tailgate party. The mood is convivial and even though these people wait probably for the same amount of time or longer as those that waited at the Vally Stream Wal-Mart I can not recall ever learning of such travesties.
The Economy is tanking as most people know. According to the latest publicized statistics, Black Friday shoppers generated a 2% increase in sales for retailers over the previous year. Looking over the circular online for the Valley Stream store I did not see anything that was worth stomping, maiming and crushing someone to death over. There are stories of others in Wal-Marts across the nation being overly aggressive. Either these shoppers are grabbing the last of the sales items out of others carts or defending their booty with considerable fire power. Is Wal-Mart to blame? Partly. Most of the blame though, falls upon us. These "shoppers" were the aggressors here. The culmination of 50 years of a consumer oriented economy is the death of an average Joe trying to eke out a living.
This story reminds of me of one of the Mad Max movies where all these crazies loot abandoned stores and business, defend their chosen derelict territories with the discards of a long faded technological civilization. Is this the end of the World as we know it? Has panic already set in that people will kill over that 97 cent box Chocolate Covered Cherries? Is there someone right now in one of the five boroughs and Long Island with a house full of the things as a result of stomping all over Mr Damour's broken body?

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Palinidal, originally uploaded by PayPaul.

Unlike Underdog, who took a pill from his magic ring and became a Superhero and fought evildoers, Sarah Palin took a pill and became super crazy. Oh what those Saturday Morning Cartoons have wrought. All that drug taking has produced generations of addicts you think?

John McCain: Miss Congeniality Still Can't Win The Election, originally uploaded by PayPaul.

McCain is anything but Congenial. He's a two dollar bill phony with a right wing looney for a running mate. He should be labeled Miss Disingenuous. He's also dangerous. It'll four years of McPain if a small segment of the American Population have their way. It's time for people to understand their power and vote for some real change. Obama, I believe, is our best hope for it.

Financial Meltdown, originally uploaded by PayPaul.

Before one single lower echelon job is cut or removed, the highly overpaid, under worked and incompetent corporate executives need to have their compensation vastly reduced. I'm glad to hear that Treasury Secretary has finally acknowledged this disparity and injustice. Too many times company stocks have risen on the news of major layoffs at big corporations. This must stop. The Stock Exchange should have those big neon lights such as found at Las Vegas Casinos as everybody knows who works on The Street, that it is nothing more than one big Gambling House. The Fat Cats have been gambling with other people lives for far too long.

On the other hand so many people who work for these firms are very young and are allowed to rise to the top way too fast. These people benefit to the discrimination of older people who can never seem to get their foot in the door as a result of such things as classified ads desiring those who are "recent College Grads". That's a code word for "Young" and is discriminatory. These young people get to make all the mistakes and be incompetent and I find that incompetency is rewarded and when you do a good job there is no respect accorded to you. Mistakes have been made in the name of expediency and greed. Budgets get cut and jobs for those who are the least connected are the ones to be axed and those young people are still eating in those outdoor cafes, sipping on their mocha lattes, walking around Manhattan with their $500 I-Phones and looking down their noses at people who have been blocked by their rise to power.

How Many Houses Does John McCain Have?, originally uploaded by PayPaul.

How foolish is John McCain? Just how out of touch is he with the problems of average Americans? He can't remember how many houses he owns. Some of us can surely remember the house we just lost due to the mortgage crisis allowed to happen by both Democrites And Repukelicans.

Spin Cycle, originally uploaded by PayPaul(Leader Of The WW Tribe).

Yes. The economy is spinning out of control. We are engaged in Fast Food Economics with Fannie Macs, Freddie Macs and Indy Macs giving us a bellyache. Meanwhile the Rich Fat Cats still get to feed at the trough, take money out of our wallets and food out of our mouths. Time they posted Calorie Counts on these companies and make them lose some of these heavyweights.

The Price Of Gas, originally uploaded by PayPaul(Leader Of The WW Tribe).

It's time for a change.
Or this Earth we live on will no longer be inhabitable. NASA freely admitted political shenanigans in their reporting on Global Warming signs. The automobile is a major contributor. I also may add the difference between the 1970's "Energy Crisis" and this one is that there are no gas lines. There, strangely enough, isn't a gas shortage nor a glut. What's going on here. Is a balance of product supply being manipulated here between the oil suppliers such as the OPEC "nations" and the oil companies, their refineries and agents?