I made a few calls for Cw this morning, just to test the waters. I spoke to a business and got a reception and I got a couple of answering machines. Nothing serious. All the good stuff has been picked over long before we got the files. If there’s a future in Cw telemarketing it’s going to have to be in the cold calling market and I’m a few days way from getting into that.

An interesting stat (received with the Cw pitch) as it seems countries like the US and Canada export our electronic waste such as cell phones, computer monitors, printers and even old TV’s, refrigerators and air conditioners to countries like China, Pakistan and India. These products manufactured at home and abroad contain levels of lead. It seems these countries in turn sort out all the lead in our e-waste, melt it down and mix it with the finish coat of paint used in everything from children’s toys to our big screen television sets and other everyday products. These countries then in turn export the lead in products built there and send it back to us in the finished product. So before we all get on the bandwagon and blame China for children’s toys containing lead, consider where the lead came from in the first place. Some of the lead comes from our own back yard and some from countries like China. Chances are we are-unknowingly, being exposed to lead everyday in the products around our house. I heard that in older homes such as even our apartment walls contain lead in the paint in our suite. It’s highly unlikely that a child licking the surface of a big screen television is going to get poisoned. It’s what happens to this waste in third world countries tha bugs me. Much of it is found loitering in alleys an backyards where children play. We need to come up with a better solution to e waste and part of it to ban lead from these products in the first place. I think the US FDA is in the process of a ban on products that contain lead. It’s these kinds of environmental issues that concern me. Over fishing for example. Plastic bags that litter our streets bloated landfill use. The issues I raised might not be as sexy as “global warming” but I refuse to get on any bandwagon. When the heard moves right I move left.

Bandwagon jumping serves more of a political agendas then they are about an honest approach to any kind of real change. If even we need change at all. For example despite the IPPC’s findings there is really no proof that C02 drives climate change. No matter how much they fudge the numbers. Now the IPPC are using words like “maybe” and “could” be. I refuse to get on the bandwagon. So when there is an anti racism movement going around. I won’t jump on that bandwagon either. Does that mean I’m racist? You’ll have to decide that for yourself. So when I’m not on the “global warming” bandwagon it does it mean I’m not in favor of helping the environment? I hope you get what I’m driving at. “Global warming” is a sexy issue and another bandwagon I refuse to get on. The bandwagon is for the heard.

So this afternoon Anne is riding into work with me. Right now, it’s -20C out there. This is the coldest day we’ve had of the 2007-’08 winter season. Despite that we didn’t get a big dump of snow on the ground over night not like our first snow last October 2006-’07. This snow never stuck to the streets but we’re going to get more. It’s winter out there for God’s sake quite your whining.

Monday nights are great because of Raw. Nothing better then Monday night wrestling. I also like watching TNA Impact wrestling as well on Saturday nights. Good stuff.

Another thing I wanted to mention is the price of movie theater tickets. In reading Dennis Hurd's Blog the other day he had a photo showing two movie ticket stubs for the recent movie Beowolf. I couldn't believe the price he paid. Of course the movie was shown on an Imax screen. Still $14 for a ticket? Pretty amazing. I recall seeing Return of the Jedi for $4.50 back in 1983. I haven't seen a first run movie in the theaters since I think The Scorpian King and that was on the Imax for $12. WAtch within 5 years first run movies will be $20 on the Imax  

Last night’s Coast wasn‘t bad, talking about alien abduction. They use a technique called repressed memory regression. Now past life regression is an interesting technique to extract information buried within the clients memory of a past life. I believe it can be used for recent past memory and there have been cases where this has been convincingly used. But for memory of a past life? I don’t buy it. However hypnosis has been used to bring about memories in adults remembering things like what happened at an early age to find closure. In this case it's a useful tool. But hypnosis being used for alien abduction? It’s interesting but still kind of out there. Tonight on Coast, Comparative mythologist Dave Talbott & physicist specializing in plasma and electricity in space and in the first hour Wallace Thornhill will discuss the astonishing outburst of Comet Holmes. I like shows like these. Fuels my creative fiction muse as well. I like George Noory because he’s down to earth but occasionally gets on the bandwagon as well. He’s a big proponent of products coming out of China. Maybe we should stop having our products built in China and other third world countries that use lead and make these products ourselves here at home. The thing is the cost would probably be much higher. That's enough giberish for today.

Anyway, that’s all for now

e. Jim