Here I'm at Berlin's  Reichstag Earth —This planet we inhabit is quickly getting incredibly smaller.  We travel where we please easier than ever despite the thieves and thugs of the TSA.  When we can’t travel we make wonderful free video calls to our friends even internationally via Skype.com and can send e-mail. I’m blessed with incredibly wonderful friends here in the USA, Europe and even India.  All of my friendships are threatened simply because because life itself is fragile.  Many of my friends have left me for the hereafter. Many died way too young.   I’m in reasonably good health despite the reality that time is marching and I can’t reverse the aging process.  I’ve been both blessed and cursed with more excitement in my life than most people will ever see.  Surviving a life changing shooting in 1987 and a career that brought me face to face with horrible violence, injustice, tyranny and some really wonderful expe...

New York, NY—NBC put on two projects, the making of this project and then a week later the live play. This was a classic film with Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews .   It was based on a great World War Two inspired story of the von Trapp family.   Okay I much preferred the show about making the show better than the show itself.   The first problem was ridicules miscasting of the talented singer Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess.   It was beyond dopy to cast an African-American woman as the Austrian Catholic Mother Superior.   Was this some sick idea of political correctness?   This was distracting to say the least.    Carrie Underwood was wonderful as was Stephen Moyer .   Underwood is a versatile performer.   The cameras all loved her and she delivered.  This despite her pure American persona rather than being a European like the real deal.  The Children were adorable and I can only imagine how ...

Chicago, IL —Officials here are saying that the murder rate has suddenly declined to 1965 levels.   The same is happening all across the nation. However having anti-gun or self-defense zealot Barack Obama in the Whitehouse has brought on a huge surge of never before seen levels of civilian gun buying.   Wow! Those that think that more guns in the hands of civilians would create massive bloodbaths or worse with the considerably relaxed laws on possessing or carrying them have been proven wrong.       Chicago went from a total gun ban to “shall issue” carry permits for the law-abiding.   The program has not yet been implemented but prosecutors cannot enforce the bans on gun carrying by the large population of people possessing state firearm ID cards. The George Zimmerman  shooting and trial was the greatest PR event against crime ever by sending a highly publicized message to thugs everywhere.   That message is that doing ...

Phoenix, AZ —I just had to have one of these things when I learned they could carry my wildly popular high definition GoPro cameras to new heights capturing previously impossible video. I now have the Blade 350 quadcopter that I obtained from B&H   Photo .   I also now have two GoPro cameras and a large box of accessories including lots of clever camera mounts.   Two GoPro cameras are not enough for filmmakers that need to cover every angle.   I think I need three more. Amazon.com just announced their plan to utilize drones to deliver packages less than five pounds in 30 minutes to our homes.    There are some huge hurdles that may prevent that from ever happening.   However the free publicity for Amazon at the beginning of the Christmas season obviously motivated that announcement. A drone was recently discovered being used to deliver drugs and cell phones to prison inmates.   One drone owner friend said using his dro...

Arizona/Mexico Border —Our nuclear-armed enemies have had five solid years of deliberate and well publicized, near non-protection of our borders.  Instead of protecting our borders the Obama Administration instead beefed up the senseless fondling, groping and outright molesting of old American grandmothers and their little grandchildren by TSA goons at our airports. The first and so far only use of the Atomic Bomb was by us against Hiroshima and Nagasaki , Japan in August of 1945. Soon thereafter Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and others stole the manufacturing secret passing that technology to the Soviet Union. The couple was executed in the eclectic chair for their dastardly acts.  From there the stolen secret has armed numerous nations some of which are rogue.   In the almost 70 years since we’d be really naïve to think building such a device is beyond that of any reasonably financed nation.  We really don’t know who has them or no...