Some Stock Picks

We each have a moral obligation to learn and to utilize whatever knowledge we have gained in our daily lives.

Knowledge not used is lost. People choose to perceive only that which serves to confirm an already existing preconception.

Mankind creates twelve hundred exabytes of new data each and every year.

That data has to be archived and stored in order to be accessed for analysis to spot patterns and find useful information for future decisions in all fields of human endeavor.  But there is a problem:  terrorism!

Ignorance and stupidity cannot be overcome by education or by mentoring. No!

Attitudes, priorities, behaviors, habits and beliefs are all epigenetic-based permanent characteristics.

Change itself changes, but most men lack any capacity for change in themselves.  They are born static, not dynamic. This is especially true for what men believe.  The smaller the man, the more narrow is his belief.

This is because human evolution is based upon sexual selection and that selection discriminates against those who cannot follow the predominant cultural norms of whichever society in which they happen to be residing.

After several generations then, cultural norms become the most important factor in gene selection.  People in different cultures not only think differently, dress differently, speak differently and act differently; they really are different at their basic genetic level. They have been adapted to blend into society so they can reproduce.

This is why one never argues with ignorance; one simply shuns and tries to ignore those who are ignorant, for they will always be so. Cardiovascular health is greatly damaged by extended association with boring persons. Men are very, very different biologically; so they'll have essentially different aspirations, beliefs, faiths, needs and wants. This difference results from evolution:  People come in many varieties, many shapes and sizes.

Genomes are everything.  Nature has made sub-species of humanity.  There are real differences in cultures.

The many varieties of humanity have different talents also.  Most men can't see far into the future; they're blind.

They can't scree.  As The Druid of The Conchobhair of The Old Belief, I'm expected to know something about the far future.  Druids believe that the multi-verse, that's the universe of universes, actively quests to increase its state of consciousness, and that their assigned task by The She is to foster that Quest. Any action assisting this is good.

Priests of The Faith of Old Europe are all adept precognitives, as it's our sole requirement for priesthood.  In addition, we're trained to be polymaths and poets. We're expected to know the Way. To scree the future. To be the navigators for humanity. Where it's going.

And. Also. Why!

We do. Luckily I do! Let's now be practical. Any company dealing in data-base-media-visualization-servers and/or with visualization-technology-software-services looks great for purchase; so buy each of these listed stocks [Stock Ticker Symbols are Attached]:

A123SystemsInc[AONE];Hologic[HOLX];Google[GOOG];IBM[IBM];EMC[EMC];Hitachi[HIT];3PAR[PAR];SAP[SAP];Medtronic[MDT];WatsonPharmaceuticals[WPI];Deckers[DECK];HJHeinz's[HNZ];Yahoo[YHOO];DrPepperSnappleGroup[DPS];Imax[IMAX];KansasCitySouthern[KSU];Boeing[BA];CareerEducation[CECO];NektarTherapeutics[NKTR];SiliconStorage[SSTI];MicrochipTechnology[MCHP];Xyratex[XRTX];AppliedMaterials[AMAT];ResearchInMotion[RIMM];Tivo[TIVO];AKSteel[AKS];WaltDisney[DIS];
AT&T[T];HewlettPackard[HPQ];Dell[DELL];Oracle[ORCL];CiscoSystems[CSCO];Riverbed[RVBD];VMware[VMW];JuniperNetworks[JNPR];BlueCoat[BCSI];CatalystHealth[CHSI];Biovail[BVF];Carter's[CRI];Comcast[CMCSA];VerizonCommunications[VZ];Globalstar[GSAT];ICOGlobal[ICOG];TerreStar[TSTR];NextWaveWireless[WAVE];CrownCastleInternational[CCI];AmericanTower[AMT];Windstream[WIN];Microsoft[MSFT];CitrixSystems[CTXS];FordMotor[F];AmazonCom[AMZN];HondaMotor[HMC];InfosysTechnologies[INFY];Conceptus[CPTS];TeradataCorp[TDC];NCR[NCR];ActivisionBlizzard[ATVI];CompellentTechnologies[CML];LongtopFinancial[LFT];Apple[AAPL];AlcatelLucent[ALU];LMEricsson[ERIC];Nissan[NSANY];StevenMadden[SHOO];Kohl's[KSS];WalMart[WMT];Mylan[MYL];JohnDeere[DE];SuperMicroComputer[SMCI];

Why these? These companies are heavily involved in data storage warehousing or they soon shall be.

Why is data storage so important? Storage is necessary for the future of civilization.

Terrorists are the one true danger to humanity's future (all terrorists are really religious anarchists---as they greatly fear technology, as technological use eventually exposes the lack of any actual, real, factual foundation for their beliefs---terrorists' religions [the three Abraham faiths] lack all logic and reason---the three Abraham religions are suicidal by their very nature, both by their subjugation of women and by their insistent demanding and commanding obsessive-compulsive submission to a non-existent, moronic, evil deity; their appeal being solely to those persons with abnormal CDH2 gene malfunctions...half of mankind. The vast emotional and moral discrepancies caused by such absurd beliefs, the division that must result between thought and emotion, eventually will lead to irrational self-destructive socially damaging actions).

For those of us, such as myself, who don't share the same ethnicity or religious persuasion as those professing the three Abrahamic faiths, such false beliefs appear to be grossly delusional and frankly, idiotic; as from a purely pragmatic view, these faiths can't ever modify men's behavior for the better--they can only make men even worse.

Bad beliefs make bad behaviors. Bad men profess bad faiths. Evil men impose their evil commandments upon others. All commandments are corrupt for Nature has no commandments.

Religion is horrific when it seeks to control the minds of adherents.  Evil often wears the mask of revelation.  Revelation is real as every poet knows (I'm one), but revelation comes from inside oneself and never from outside. Nature triggers revelation, and that is why it's so important to study the subtle workings of Nature.

Nature is our only sacred book! To we Druids, the Abrahamic religions are detestable due to their emphasis on abject servility to a demented deity, which doesn't actually exist; but to the adherents of the Abrahamic faiths, Druids are feared due to their knowledge of the essential gnostic pan-psychic nature of reality; their tendency to integrate with Nature to utilize its power, and their trained ability to shape and to consequently control reality using this esoteric knowledge. This is why there has been so much persistent persecution in the past. There has even been: "DRUID DENIAL," the intentional refusal by the three Abrahamic faiths to acknowledge our existence, and to deny us our religious rights; most certainly a subtle, perverse, pernicious form of genocide.

Terrorists (radical adherents of Abrahamic religions) will be attacking many more corporate and government installations in the coming years. So then, preserving and protecting media data held by these entities will become increasingly a priority; especially now, as medical, corporate and governmental records are in the process of digitalization.

Twelve billion terabytes of data are now stored world-wide. This media storage shall substantially increase as all medical records have to be digitalized. The terrorists' identities and histories are stored and are kept within these records: their forensic DNA profiles. There are over a half-million people who are potential terrorists; those who are both fully mentally and physically capable of expressing violence through intentional overt acts of murder-suicide.

Terrorists are known: They're in data bases. Media data identifying them has to be protected and secured.

It's where these companies are involved n some way or other; by providing servers and/or services, or by extensively using such data warehousing services.

New Lights for Old Characters

In the Old Belief, the lights on trees represent the spirits of the dear dead departed, who are brought back for a visitation at the time of the Sun's Solstice.  Hence, the origin of Christmas trees.  It's interesting to note that the same thing happens with fictional characters at the same time of year, as that is when film makers release new films with old characters.  As characters change in accordance with audience tastes, they are reflections of their changing audiences, just as sports reflect national character.  What one sees depicted on screens are the psyches of those publics for which these films were made. Note then the great increase in depictions of brutal physical violence.

The Future Population of America

Under the Health Care Bill recently passed, sixty percent of those to be newly enrolled are eligible for coverage under Medicaid, the publicly funded health plan for the poor. The majority of that increase is due to the fact that new immigrants to the United States, almost all of them Latinos, are immediately eligible for enrollment in Medicaid without a waiting period.  Many of these immigrants lack higher formal education.  Most speak English, the global language of business, extremely poorly.  Most are young.  In the USA, four percent of Latino and Black youths, those who failed to finish an equivalent of a normal high school curriculum, are actively employed.  Ninety-six percent of such youths, fifteen million in total, are not now employed. Why?  They are not employable. They are not employed because they lack basic numerate and literate skills: They can't count or read and both these basic skills are absolutely necessary for gainful employment.  There are similar deficiencies in White and Asian youths also, but not on the same large scale.  Youth who don't find work in their early years are unable to develop the necessary social skills in their adult years that can make them employable.  Even if they can find a job, they simply won't be able to stay employed.  They don't get along with others. They are disconnected from society.  They can't be engaged within normal social frameworks, since they are unable to write with any minimal competence, nor can they understand common cultural references. They become social service welfare recipients. By doing so, they drain society of its tax funds.  And since the Health Bill passed by Congress specifically prohibits funding for abortions and for sterilizations under Medicaid (to which they are now legally entitled as they now meet the Health Bill's defined definition of indigence), their numbers should begin increasing substantially.  This is because the Health Bill mandates free maternity and newborn baby care, as well as free pediatric services, for all those eligible for Medicaid, but the Bill does not mandate any preventive birth control consultative services; instead, it severely restricts them. They'll constitute, these indigents, by far, the fastest growing portion of America's population. In effect then, what the Health Bill actually makes probable is:  Since they will be lacking requisite basic job skill-sets for fruitful labor, the Bill authorizes granting a future guarantee to all those, the least productive members in society, that they shall always be the very ones who will be bearing the most offspring.  

Nature and Natural Law

Laws are natural in nature:  there are physical, chemical and biological laws.  Laws are natural to humanity.  Governments make laws for their citizens to follow.  But there is no such thing as Natural Law.  People do have an innate moral sense that comes with their inherited genes that has evolved for many eons, but that is something purely heritable---no moral or ethical rules exist within Nature as such.  Nature may seem at times vicious and harsh; but it's really indifferent, neither benign nor malign.  Nature doesn't care.  We care.

Those Who Govern

There will always be governments and governments shall always be bad. Because they are bad, no government can last; but it will always be replaced by another bad one.  Men have the drive and the need to be in positions of power so that they are able to decide what others ought to do, and once decided, impose their decisions.  This is the perverse nature of bureaucracy.  Bureaucracy exists everywhere and it is always incompetent.  Those who govern deserve no respect simply because of their public office.  Never bend the knee to any man.  The truly creative have far better things to do with their lives than to rule.  They make.  They do.  They live.

The Necessity for Choice

What one is is what one is and since one is always changing; what one is, is changing too.  Everyone changes.  Change can be directed towards a destiny and that's what religion is all about---choosing the destiny and choosing the methodology for change needed to accomplish that destiny.  Any religion or philosophy that does not allow choice isn't really a religion or a philosophy---it's simply slavery.  Of course, one can choose to be a slave and so many do.  Being a slave means that someone else is choosing one's destiny and one's manner of changing.  In the case of most religions, that someone else is long dead or perhaps never even existed.  If one adheres to such a belief system, one is not only a slave---one is also stupid.  Stupidity inhibits change, and all those who can't change are already dead: Suicide of the Soul.  For only the dead cannot change. 

Experience and Intelligence

Experience is worthless without the intelligence to interpret it.  Everyone has had experiences; but very few have intelligence.  It's why so many American administrations persist in performing exactly the same errors over and over.  Instead of realizing that a particular methodology or approach to a problem doesn't work; and that something far different ought to be tried instead, the government's response to any failed strategy is to add money and head count and then to try the same approach again.  This is the way of the U.S. military---to still spend yet more lives and yet more money:  Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...and Iran?.  Stupidity is performing the same action in expectation of a different outcome...idiocy is paying for it.

Freedom and Belief

Freedom of expression is just fine provided persons who possess this freedom have something worthwhile to express, and the political, patriotic and religious belief systems are specifically designed to curtail the ability to have something, anything at all, new to express.   Belief systems were made to retard expression.  What can be expressed under such systems is the banal and mundane; the dulling repetition of the commonly accepted belief.  Belief is not liberty, but tyranny: Belief is a tyranny forcing its adherent to reign as tyrant over his own expression.

The Fruits of Experience

Knowledge must be earned and the price of it is experience. There is no substitute for having done the thing rather than merely heard that it was done. Too many are merely auditors of life, not practitioners themselves. Learn to play the instrument and not just hear it played.

Reality and Illusion: Three Vehicles

If we know through our senses, then it shall pay to sharpen our senses. If we know through our minds, then it shall pay to sharpen our minds. If we know through our bodies, then it shall pay to sharpen our bodies. Since we know that we know through all three (senses, minds, bodies), it should pay to sharpen all three. Whichever vehicle we have for knowing, that vehicle must be exercised, trained and developed. We all have three vehicles for knowing (three chariots). We know that each vehicle must be used daily; or else the vehicle will fall into disuse and won't work.