We thank those of you who have commented on our blog. Keep it coming as this is the perfect open forum for public discourse and community discussion.
For you who commented on Nov. 15th -
Global Warming Responsibility
There are green projects currently going in, although our firm has not yet begun the projects that we are to be undertaking. You can stay abreast via our company website at http://www.bdgroupllc.com or our email there, or the Blog will be releasing that information when the time is there.
Michelle from Nov. 16th -
Dog Dogma For Freedom
Only time will tell as to our benefit of another great orator and social leader. Is there faith from those of you out there in someone now that will fill those shoes? We, here, would love to know who.
Anonymous from Oct. 29th -
Dealing in Todays Market - Bay Area
Check back as our blogs deal with numerous areas around the United States. We will do year end or New Year projections and such as well, so stay tuned.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 2007
What is right and what is not right...
“The man who, knowing the right, fails to do it, loses the power to know what is right; and the man who, having the power to do right, is unwilling, loses the power to do what he wills.” St. Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio
We have had responses regarding setting a political tone to our Blog. We, our writing staff, don't feel as if we are holding a political tone one way or another to any political party. If there are responses to counter anything we have to say we welcome comments as this is a perfect forum to do just that.
With the St. Augustine quote it should be noted that we stand behind our convictions. As human beings, our views are created through the actions and reactions we receive through the lives and circumstances we encounter. This is what life is about. How we deal with and handle those circumstances and lives we encounter, in relation to the words of St. Augustine, is what we hold true as to our character.
Our firm, Boggs Development Group, has chosen to build Eco-Green efficient homes due to our knowledge of the amount of construction waste in the building business, the typical energetic waste in a less efficient structure, the stress being instilled on our planet due to the energy needs of less efficient buildings, the overall longterm financial gains a more efficient home holds for the homeowner (as well as our society), the quality of health and life the homeowner benefits from by having these better houses, and the fact that there is less overall maintenance, great insurance and tax advantages...do we need to go on?
When we all feel we know that something is the right thing to do, should we, and do we not move forward and do that? By doing what we feel is right the overall benefits will be felt throughout our lives and society in the long run.
If there are opinions that differ, and knowledge that is counter to what we are doing here at Boggs Development Group, we encourage a discourse in order to enlighten us all so that we can all learn from each other and make the world and our lives better and brighter.
With this said, our title for this entry as "what is right and what is not right..." is simply to show that "right" is also a relative term. Obviously there are opposing views to anything. There are some that feel that the human experience is not a participatory factor in the escalating global CO2 problem and some that do, there are some that feel that democracy and capitalism are not the overall socially benefiting means of political and economic policy and some that do, there are some that feel that our drinking water, or mercury levels, or childhood vaccines do not have direct relation to childhood autism and some that do.
This is where the power of freedom of thought in the human experience shines. If we partake in the public discourse and allow people to research, feel and express themselves openly and honestly we, as a society, can reach a higher level of interaction with each other. We will all reach a higher level of knowledge and decision making power.
Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation. Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realization of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. As Mark Twain said "never let school interfere with your education", throughout life we learn and learn again as to what is right and what is not right...
We have had responses regarding setting a political tone to our Blog. We, our writing staff, don't feel as if we are holding a political tone one way or another to any political party. If there are responses to counter anything we have to say we welcome comments as this is a perfect forum to do just that.
With the St. Augustine quote it should be noted that we stand behind our convictions. As human beings, our views are created through the actions and reactions we receive through the lives and circumstances we encounter. This is what life is about. How we deal with and handle those circumstances and lives we encounter, in relation to the words of St. Augustine, is what we hold true as to our character.
Our firm, Boggs Development Group, has chosen to build Eco-Green efficient homes due to our knowledge of the amount of construction waste in the building business, the typical energetic waste in a less efficient structure, the stress being instilled on our planet due to the energy needs of less efficient buildings, the overall longterm financial gains a more efficient home holds for the homeowner (as well as our society), the quality of health and life the homeowner benefits from by having these better houses, and the fact that there is less overall maintenance, great insurance and tax advantages...do we need to go on?
When we all feel we know that something is the right thing to do, should we, and do we not move forward and do that? By doing what we feel is right the overall benefits will be felt throughout our lives and society in the long run.
If there are opinions that differ, and knowledge that is counter to what we are doing here at Boggs Development Group, we encourage a discourse in order to enlighten us all so that we can all learn from each other and make the world and our lives better and brighter.
With this said, our title for this entry as "what is right and what is not right..." is simply to show that "right" is also a relative term. Obviously there are opposing views to anything. There are some that feel that the human experience is not a participatory factor in the escalating global CO2 problem and some that do, there are some that feel that democracy and capitalism are not the overall socially benefiting means of political and economic policy and some that do, there are some that feel that our drinking water, or mercury levels, or childhood vaccines do not have direct relation to childhood autism and some that do.
This is where the power of freedom of thought in the human experience shines. If we partake in the public discourse and allow people to research, feel and express themselves openly and honestly we, as a society, can reach a higher level of interaction with each other. We will all reach a higher level of knowledge and decision making power.
Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation. Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realization of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. As Mark Twain said "never let school interfere with your education", throughout life we learn and learn again as to what is right and what is not right...
Friday, November 16, 2007
Dog Dogma for freedom!
Philosopher, Simone Weil said that,"the idea of the dignity of labor is the only idea we have not borrowed from the ancient Greeks. But it is from such an idea that we can begin again to construct a notion of the labor of being and of a new form of participation."
Is Being found in labor? Is participation found in labor? Perhaps this is a modern and more civilized process of mass manipulation. As our societies of today strive to be "free" and "democratic" in nature, we also find that over time in this new revolution our "freedom" is quietly taken away through the manipulation of the trust of economic intrinsic value. Our trust that our participation is working towards a better future or reality for us as a participant. As our elected officials help to evolve our global economic strategies we find that our measured quality of life is reduced over time creating a necessity of labor, rather than the desire of it, for participation. This necessity rather than desire helps to slowly dissolve the inherent dignity Weil refers to. There is no such thing as a free lunch! The fact that the Greeks held labor for the slaves and not as a desired wish of the commoner is no different today than it was then. Only today we are, much of the time, able to choose how we wish to spend our labor hours slaving for our participatory cause. We are still slaves to the economic system to which has devalued itself over time, thus devaluing our participation in our modern society. This is where the "haves and have yachts" comes into effect.
Caryl Johnson's most recent blog entry, found at Mind Body Politic stated that "it is only the sheer weight of the so-called masses that provides the countervailing force against the giddy spin of this occult transgression of the mental elites. Whether the masses will in time gain the ability to think, and I mean along the lines that I am suggesting – thinking accompanied with thanking and ‘thinging’ — a new whole and fully participated thinking – on that the future of the world depends."
Well said. It is the mis and dis-information on a mass global scale, from the have yachts, that has left a paralysis to our conscious selves. It seems that the masses have lost the belief in themselves, and placed it into the elites. These same elites that slowly erode our quality of life we all strive so diligently to create.
Ghandi marched with quiet cause to show the masses that the masses do have force without the use of force. Martin Luther King marched to show the masses that the masses do have mass without the use of force. It starts with a dream. We can show the world there is mass participation in the common thread of desire for, what Caryl says as thinking, thanking and 'thinging'. It is apparent today that what is needed is the true belief that it all begins with a dream. Have we collectively stopped dreaming? First we must imagine it for it to be able to begin. Our have yachts know this, and successfully attain this continually. Yet through the combined manipulation of the distribution of fear and mis and dis-information their strangle hold helps keep their dream intact.
We must all realize that this existence, our own individual existence, is a reality of a dream of unlimited possibilities. We must believe in this before it is to be for us as individual participants. By participation in our own personal development of thought, and not that of dogma and the structured masses of Sunday Mass, or the daily dogma of social mass through the press, etc. will we become free to be a true participant in this cosmic twist called life.
Is Being found in labor? Is participation found in labor? Perhaps this is a modern and more civilized process of mass manipulation. As our societies of today strive to be "free" and "democratic" in nature, we also find that over time in this new revolution our "freedom" is quietly taken away through the manipulation of the trust of economic intrinsic value. Our trust that our participation is working towards a better future or reality for us as a participant. As our elected officials help to evolve our global economic strategies we find that our measured quality of life is reduced over time creating a necessity of labor, rather than the desire of it, for participation. This necessity rather than desire helps to slowly dissolve the inherent dignity Weil refers to. There is no such thing as a free lunch! The fact that the Greeks held labor for the slaves and not as a desired wish of the commoner is no different today than it was then. Only today we are, much of the time, able to choose how we wish to spend our labor hours slaving for our participatory cause. We are still slaves to the economic system to which has devalued itself over time, thus devaluing our participation in our modern society. This is where the "haves and have yachts" comes into effect.
Caryl Johnson's most recent blog entry, found at Mind Body Politic stated that "it is only the sheer weight of the so-called masses that provides the countervailing force against the giddy spin of this occult transgression of the mental elites. Whether the masses will in time gain the ability to think, and I mean along the lines that I am suggesting – thinking accompanied with thanking and ‘thinging’ — a new whole and fully participated thinking – on that the future of the world depends."
Well said. It is the mis and dis-information on a mass global scale, from the have yachts, that has left a paralysis to our conscious selves. It seems that the masses have lost the belief in themselves, and placed it into the elites. These same elites that slowly erode our quality of life we all strive so diligently to create.
Ghandi marched with quiet cause to show the masses that the masses do have force without the use of force. Martin Luther King marched to show the masses that the masses do have mass without the use of force. It starts with a dream. We can show the world there is mass participation in the common thread of desire for, what Caryl says as thinking, thanking and 'thinging'. It is apparent today that what is needed is the true belief that it all begins with a dream. Have we collectively stopped dreaming? First we must imagine it for it to be able to begin. Our have yachts know this, and successfully attain this continually. Yet through the combined manipulation of the distribution of fear and mis and dis-information their strangle hold helps keep their dream intact.
We must all realize that this existence, our own individual existence, is a reality of a dream of unlimited possibilities. We must believe in this before it is to be for us as individual participants. By participation in our own personal development of thought, and not that of dogma and the structured masses of Sunday Mass, or the daily dogma of social mass through the press, etc. will we become free to be a true participant in this cosmic twist called life.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Global warming responsibility
We are in a very delicate time for our planet. It has become a consensus of common knowledge that there is a global problem with CO2 emissions, and global warming. There are a variety of issues pertaining to this and not simply Big Oil. I do agree that Big Oil is a large player in this situation and must take responsibility for their part as well as their future part in this challenge. Although, we all must take individual responsibility for our own lives and how we use and abuse power and its waste. This problem we face, is a global problem. We, in the industrialized countries, must hold ourselves accountable before we continue to point to everyone else as the culprits, or to try to teach or tell the rising economies of China or India how to live. We each must help set an example for the world to learn by.
We must learn to live life differently and drive less, buy more local and organic farm products, plant trees through organizations to help offset our carbon footprints, drive more efficient and/or alternative fueled vehicles, build and remodel better and more efficient housing.
Housing is the largest end user global green house emitter. Between the building industry and the efficiency of housing we must keep in mind that with a growing planet population that continually needs more housing it is our responsibility to build and remodel housing to help eliminate the overall carbon footprint of the building industry on through to the home consumption and waste of energy.
We must learn to live life differently and drive less, buy more local and organic farm products, plant trees through organizations to help offset our carbon footprints, drive more efficient and/or alternative fueled vehicles, build and remodel better and more efficient housing.
Housing is the largest end user global green house emitter. Between the building industry and the efficiency of housing we must keep in mind that with a growing planet population that continually needs more housing it is our responsibility to build and remodel housing to help eliminate the overall carbon footprint of the building industry on through to the home consumption and waste of energy.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Have and have Yachts!
Through the last six years our country has gone down a very dangerous financial path. (Actually, longer, but for ease let's just start there.) That of financial demise and a massive spreading of the distance between the "have's and have yachts"!
As a society we are certainly not poor by any global means, however, the earning capacity of the dollar for the hourly worker of today, based on inflation, is close to that of the early 1970's, but were in 2007! There has been no increase in living wage? This also means that the spending potential, based on inflation is reduced as well. Through the high cost of living, education, gasoline pricing, along with reduced benefits for working adults there seems to be a reduction in our quality of life. Can that really be maintained while we are continually wanting to purchase the lowest priced products from emerging global markets while keeping the people of our country employed? Can this happen?
If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find your answer.
Previously, through the Clinton Administration, our feelings of prosperity were everywhere. That is not to say that we did not go further into debt as a country. We did get a budget balanced, however, we maintained a level of debt and continue to do so. (Only today it is much worse.) Due to this mis-information to our public by our government this was a time of celebration as tens of millions of people saw their savings and retirement plans reach plateaus they never thought possible before. Perhaps much of this came from the belief of abundance vs. scarcity.
Prior to the advent of the internet, in the late 80's early 90's, there was only a mere 10% of people that even had a stock holding portfolio. With the internet and online stock trading and investment information, various investment derivatives, mutual funds, and a high flying boom of IPO's and corporate spending throughout the 90's to today we have now been spoiled and left ill prepared.
Ill prepared by which I mean that we have never had an administration teach our country how to save. We have had, and continue to have, administrations that put programs together to aid in the proliferation of economic stagnation rather that education to teach the majority of our next generation the benefits of global economics and prosperity for all. In our basic public education system we don't even teach our children how to balance a checkbook, let alone, the basic principles of finance. It is suggested that the average person in our society is better left to work and trust the "experts" in how to spend or invest their money. yet, it is easier to make money in the stock market by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal for stock, mutual fund, option, hedge fund, etc. picks than to listen to the experts.
If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find your answer. Through this belief system one is able to see that it is not necessary to conduct a war to transact business, but that war is a business that is transacted. This distinction is primary to come to terms with our never ending defense budget spending. If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find that answers lie in questions and not statements to countries. Understanding what the needs are of the other global participants rather than attempting to control the global masses. There is a common thread to all that reside on this planet despite all of our differences. That is that we all reside on this planet. With no other option, and our current means of survival is just that, survival, it is best to change our thinking. The time has come for a revolution of thought and not power.
Some say that if we were to stop spending only one of our years budget on defense in America we would be able to rebuild our schools, cure numerous diseases, revamp our elderly assistance programs, and develop new technologies for power. We would still have enough defense technology to destroy the earth over 1000 times. We would still have the largest fleet of air, water, and land technology to maintain the planet's police state. However, this one year would change the world by we could become the world leader in alternative fuels. Thereby infusing the development of alternative energies and technologies that could be packaged and distributed throughout the world. By maintaining and taking care of our people in our own country would allow us a greater opportunity to help others. I could go on, and will...
If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find your answer.
As a society we are certainly not poor by any global means, however, the earning capacity of the dollar for the hourly worker of today, based on inflation, is close to that of the early 1970's, but were in 2007! There has been no increase in living wage? This also means that the spending potential, based on inflation is reduced as well. Through the high cost of living, education, gasoline pricing, along with reduced benefits for working adults there seems to be a reduction in our quality of life. Can that really be maintained while we are continually wanting to purchase the lowest priced products from emerging global markets while keeping the people of our country employed? Can this happen?
If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find your answer.
Previously, through the Clinton Administration, our feelings of prosperity were everywhere. That is not to say that we did not go further into debt as a country. We did get a budget balanced, however, we maintained a level of debt and continue to do so. (Only today it is much worse.) Due to this mis-information to our public by our government this was a time of celebration as tens of millions of people saw their savings and retirement plans reach plateaus they never thought possible before. Perhaps much of this came from the belief of abundance vs. scarcity.
Prior to the advent of the internet, in the late 80's early 90's, there was only a mere 10% of people that even had a stock holding portfolio. With the internet and online stock trading and investment information, various investment derivatives, mutual funds, and a high flying boom of IPO's and corporate spending throughout the 90's to today we have now been spoiled and left ill prepared.
Ill prepared by which I mean that we have never had an administration teach our country how to save. We have had, and continue to have, administrations that put programs together to aid in the proliferation of economic stagnation rather that education to teach the majority of our next generation the benefits of global economics and prosperity for all. In our basic public education system we don't even teach our children how to balance a checkbook, let alone, the basic principles of finance. It is suggested that the average person in our society is better left to work and trust the "experts" in how to spend or invest their money. yet, it is easier to make money in the stock market by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal for stock, mutual fund, option, hedge fund, etc. picks than to listen to the experts.
If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find your answer. Through this belief system one is able to see that it is not necessary to conduct a war to transact business, but that war is a business that is transacted. This distinction is primary to come to terms with our never ending defense budget spending. If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find that answers lie in questions and not statements to countries. Understanding what the needs are of the other global participants rather than attempting to control the global masses. There is a common thread to all that reside on this planet despite all of our differences. That is that we all reside on this planet. With no other option, and our current means of survival is just that, survival, it is best to change our thinking. The time has come for a revolution of thought and not power.
Some say that if we were to stop spending only one of our years budget on defense in America we would be able to rebuild our schools, cure numerous diseases, revamp our elderly assistance programs, and develop new technologies for power. We would still have enough defense technology to destroy the earth over 1000 times. We would still have the largest fleet of air, water, and land technology to maintain the planet's police state. However, this one year would change the world by we could become the world leader in alternative fuels. Thereby infusing the development of alternative energies and technologies that could be packaged and distributed throughout the world. By maintaining and taking care of our people in our own country would allow us a greater opportunity to help others. I could go on, and will...
If you believe in a world of plenty and not scarcity you will find your answer.
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