Don’t forget to come by to Johnny’s Bar-B-Que (Weds, 8pm, Pharr) to catch George Keen jamming with The Hardtimes Blues Band!

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This next year, I’d like to see the college electoral abolished and see the people respond respectively to the presidential candidate that works best for them.  I’d also like for the feds to recognize the corporation as small governments within our government and that they are not people…respectively.  Enough of politics.

This next year, I’d also like to see the internal combustion engine obsolete.  How?  Simple.  Replace the juice with magnets.  Then, it’s all self powered.  Batteries would still be involved but capitalism wants the car to be hooked up to something so they can measure usage and so this topic is now obsolete.

There are a million things I would like to see this next year take place but I think I covered the few most important for me as an US citizen.  After that, we can get back to innovation and we can cultivate an attitude of brotherhood among the people.

I suppose this is enough for me today, I have a party to get to after all and I need to get ready but all in all, I wish for that same thing that has been told year after year.  Happy New Year and good-will toward all man!

To be honest, I don’t see this social craze going on for too long.

Sure, there will always be networks — just think about the old school BBS (or Bulletin Boards) and even now, the old forums haven’t been fazed-out. They are simply methods of communication…and that’s all we want. To be heard and communicate.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because of some recent complaint on G+ by a user that uploaded a profile pic of him throwing the middle finger. Long story short, Tom Anderson responded to it and anyone that was noticing left comments regarding said actions. I pinged in and posted a comment that stated, in short, that on any private network, there’s a difference between “rights” and “privileges”.  (Oh, and the dramatic conclusion.)

Getting back to my point about blogging. There’s a big difference between blogging and posting content on a social network. For one, on your blog, you can post ANYTHING! On any social network, your posts’ content is governed by the rule of said network’s law and by the vox populi.  Case in point for the vox populi: Kelly Clarkson’s view on Ron Paul and the Twitter backlash.

I don’t say “it” on social networking site because each site has it’s own group of thought and so the things I say on FB don’t translate well into G+ or any tweet for that matter. However, on blogs, it’s different. Everything fits here. From a pointless “Hello world” post to “I need to get something off my chest” full-on post. It’s OK to post what I want to here. It’s my home!

As for our desire to share, to be seen and heard, to feel that we are secretly wanted by others en masse will pass as our society continues to grow with these tools of mass communication at our disposal.  Not all people will want to be famous and I’m one of those few.

Yes, I am a musician, however, I’m not a musician to be famous but to I perform for people who want to hear what I play and the same with blogging – I write for a few people that want to read.  In summary, 3-rd party censorship is there, it’s going to happen but as for my blog… no, thank-you, I’m better saving the pigeon hole for the pigeons.

We officially petition our Congress and the Senate to throw away these bills in the garbage.  There are laws already in place that respect the individual’s right to Due Process.

Bring an end to the robbery of the public treasury.

Sincerely,
Jorge Saldivar