Preserving Privacy, Sanity and The Individual

An interesting mp3 discussing the effect of Project Paper Clip and more

2012-02-07T10:04:00.000-08:00

The mp3 link can be copied as follows below:

http://www.files.hoza.me/Information-on-Iraqi-Dinar-etc-2Feb2011.mp3

Canadian fluoride expert recants fluoride dogma.

2011-09-22T00:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fluoride-expert.htmhttp://www.fluoride.com/abstracts.htm

Fluoride. Have you heard, (despite massive and overpowering influence) about just how toxic this mineral is?

2011-09-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

"http://www.apfnClarence Dember http:/ /www.fluoridation .com/abstract .htm •

More on mandatory drug screening for government clients

2011-08-24T09:51:00.001-07:00

OK, from my previous postings, you already know I pass an annual drug screen to provide for myself. What taxes can be collected under contract are collected and redistributed when and wherever the government and it's banking system see fit (to sustain porous boarders, provide welfare to drug addicts, give cheap loans and kick backs to corporations that are killing people, provide questionable narratives to fund bogus non-scientific studies to explain catastrophic planned skyscraper demolitions and other failed fema and nist and cfr and extrogovernmental escapades.) My point: since my drug free dollars are supporting drug addled entitlements let them stop right now until everybody accepting these setasides gets screened annually. An E-mail I got has suggested the new federal drug screens can be called "Urine or your out"! Oh you take drugs? I don't, so your not my constituency. Kick everyone off the Dole that fails a drug screen since keeping them only fosters denial and law breaking. You just screen them and drop the dirty ones. This is good public policy because it will save billions of budget dollars. Oh yeah, and it's what I want to happen to double standard hypocrites. Ah, your FHA MORTGAGE SHOULD REQUIRE AN ANNUAL DRUG SCREEN. Congressional franking privilages and write-offs on transportation; annual drug screen. Just been awarded a government contract? Here's your cup, annual mandatory pee test for the duration of each contract. Kidney trouble? Blood and hair. Mortgage tax give backs; a drug screen for each year of eligibility. Drop every dirty government client and see who's left standing. Since you took the money, take the urine, tyrants!

Shall we quantify the National Debt for our Youth

2011-07-30T11:16:00.000-07:00

My attempt goes something simple like this:The wealth discribed by the word billionaire = one thousand millions of dollars.There are in the world 1210 people who have at least this much money. When we add the wealth of these few people together, the least we can realize as a sum (given that there are those who have more than one billion) would therefore be 1210 billions of dollars.The wealth described in one trillion dollars = 1000 billions of dollars. The wealth represented by the national debt exceeds the wealth of all the (solitary) billionaires in the world by a factor of 11.8181818182 x. Stated another way, to pay off the National debt would require 11.8181818182 thousand. (solitary) billionaires to each pony up a thousand million or one billion.The world does not contain this many people who have become at least (1) billionaires. In the words of one of the James Bond movies: "The world is not enough".How can sane people ( we represent ourselves as such) contemplate such grandure while ignoring the slip towards tyranny servicing such a staggering debt imposes?

The movies.

2011-07-27T02:17:00.001-07:00

I just saw Captain America. It reminded me of Max Payne. I liked my own stint in the service better. This is not a substitute for spending a few years in the military. Everything that happens there can not be reduced to good versus insanity. The process of human growth from inexperience is not found in laboratory test tubes, failed scientific experiments or stoic exploits. Good training is more than inspiration and for the most part, less than heroic. War seems to teach only the wise.

U.S.A.= Bartertown 8/15/11...,?

2011-07-22T03:28:00.001-07:00

From the movie "Beyond Thunder Dome"Master Blaster to AuntieEntity : "Who runs Barter Town?"Auntie Entity to Master Blaster: "Master Blasterruns Barter Town!"Master Blaster: "Release (methane) embargo!"Will the United States end it's tenure as a super power as Rome did at the end of the Roman empire, (sacked by the Visigoths ) or as England did after the American Revolution? Will we devolve into a low energy profile barter town as portrayed in the movie "Beyond Thunderdome"?Does any of this affect Congress or the Federal Reserve at all?

Can Federal debt ever be retired?

2011-07-19T16:00:00.000-07:00

There are 1210 billionaires in the world as of march 2011 accordimg to the World billionaires list of Forbes.To retire the U.S.A. debt. you would need 14.3 thousand billionaires to pony up$1000 million each (1 billion dollars).Put another way there are over 310,000,000 people in the USA. For them to retire our 14.3 trillion in debt each would have to give over $46,000.Isn't it easier to quit budgetary over runs?

Value reversal and negation re: workplace size and conditions.

2011-07-13T13:13:00.001-07:00

My work history has illustrated in a small company, what you know is valued to the point where it eventually runs up against what other people know. For example, in a small company where the drug free workplace is NOT enforced at the administrative level but only at the work site; the drug addled supervisor wants subordinates to be knowledgeable. S(he) has to do less work when subordinates know what is going on. Yet when a sober compliant subordinate (scs) realizes an administrator or supervisor is drug dependant and blatantly addled by it, it becomes difficult for the (scs) worker to lend support to a work situation that is being demonstratably sabotaged from above. In a large company with more thorough compliance on the drug free workplace human resource management front what the (scs) worker knows is often discounted against what administration does not know about the work process. To the degree administrative competancies (a/c) fail to comprise real work processes a/c will act towards defacilitation of scs workers in Lew of micromanagement. Management itself only happens in requisite knowledge / competency pools (k/cp), and not in knowledge / competency vacuums (k/cv). K/cv is experienced in the often pejorative MBA influence on work places lacking engineering and regulatory k/cp (and personnel). The (scs) worker who has been thus defacilitated, soon run out of challenges to stimulate growth and any sense of accomplishment in their work place. The challenge of good human resources management is traded off for efficiency where it can be justified / quantified on a spread sheet. The "I don't have to know your job to manage your job" white collar myth is thus empowered. At this point, if the (scs) worker(s) don't need to face this kind of scale down without the input engineering and training can add to administration; (scs) workers leave in droves for new challenges found on the nearest horizon or cubicle farm. So "married with a mortgage" in an scs worker looks better to administration than single with talent in an scs worker who may be lured away. This creates a restaffing, retraining management crisis which may lead to mission impossible at the work site since economic conditions vary. It can only be resolved by k/cp in engineering.

The New York State Prison Expansion.

2011-07-04T21:13:00.001-07:00

In New York after passage of the Rockefeller drug laws 38 years ago; a large part of gubernatorial politics consisted of prison building to hold vast numbers of illegal narcotics criminals who became over night felons. Movies like "the French Connection" and other exploitation flicks helped desensitize the public to the incarnation of this new class of criminals. Prison jobs became a kind of social welfare for economically blighted upstate New York. (Although Cannabis is still classified in law as a dangerous and useless narcotic, alcohol poisoning kills people. Cannabis can not equal the toxicity of any narcotic while alcohol is classified as a beverage that kills.) Carcinogenic materials in foods are prohibited by the Delaney clause. Some foods contain natural substances which are carcinogenic, such as safrole, which occurs in sassafras and sweet basil. Such substances are covered by the Delaney clause, so that safrole may not be added to root beer in the USA.Had the Governors and legislatures in New York (and U.S.A. at large) instead reverted to one of their namesakes (Hempstead) and grown hemp, they could have ended the dearth of jobs and gained needed tax revenue without wasting all of that money on prisons for Cannabis users which they conflated with other opium based & synthetic narcotics traffickers.The point of the inner party members in the book and the movie "1984" WAS to waste money!They could then remain in control while everybody else had the boot heel of an oppressive and canniving state stepping on their faces forever.Aspartame is many ways toxic to humans. European flight crews comming to the U.S.A. are warned not to use soda fountains incase aspartame canasters get switched with the regular soft drink canisters. Among it's effects Aspartame effects fitness for piloting aircraft . Yet, it holds the coveted GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status among food additives; a blatant violation of the FDA Delaney clause. This food additive / chemical compound of 50% phenylalanine, 40% aspartic acid and 10% methyl ester is in the class known among neurologists as exciter toxins + a poisonous methyl ester. The first 2 ingredients are present in amounts well beyond that found in foods (4%). They excite and then kill neurons. The last ingredient with it's weakly bound (and absent pectin) so called methyl ester becomes wood alcohol above 86° Fahrenheit. Methanol is then made into formaldehyde (embalming fluid) when digested.See www.dorway.com for more on aspartame. Since alcohol and aspartame are each more toxic than cannabis and it's complete food the hemp seed; why don't lawyers make an equivalent legal class for the cannabis leaf equal to "alcoholic beverage" only call it a "psychoactive herb class"?? Hemp seeds themselves are not psychoactive and are legal as a complete food. Plenty of potential revenue can be had from the remaining leaves and cordage and unlike the neurotoxin alcohol, or the carcinogenic diketopiperazine- a break down product from aspartame; Cannabis kills no one. Put warnings on tins and pouches not to mix anti-nausiants with alcohol and tax the growers. Lets dispense with one law that has bred contempt for the law for about 40 years. Again, we should not allow Aspartame in food or pop as it is a blatant violation of the Delaney clause which prohibits the secretary of the FDA from allowing things in foods that cause cancer in humans or have caused cancer in animal studies. What is clearly wrong with the minds of the people who have allowed this mess to proliferate is they don't follow their own laws or rational self interest.

Who says science has nothing to say about morality?

2011-06-29T13:43:00.001-07:00

Perhaps we should change our politics.

2011-06-29T03:30:00.001-07:00

In his book Nemesis the late professor of Asian studies Chalmers Johnson stated the United States has over 700 military bases world wide. He further states that the military base is how our (the United States) empire is propagated. He asserts that to maintain an empire or to preserve our individual freedoms and culture without slipping into fascist dictatorship is the crossroad which all empires ultimately face. He represents in the case of England how this was accomplished successfully while in the case of Rome the divestiture of empire came in the form of collapse. Think of the power requirements of each one of those military bases. Think of the fuel costs to operate all of the vehicles in the air on land and at sea and the fuel for emergency power back up generators each base has or more regularly the monitary costs to receive that power from commercial grids in host countries. Factor in the cost of personnel and household goods in storage and the cost of accommodations for military families living over seas. Factor in the costs of readiness exercises and standard evaluation teams traveling around the globe to maintain the quality of that military presence. There are plenty of estimates how much all of this costs. It's going to cost even more now that our 10 year treasury bonds are not triple A rated. The same old politics needs more time and revenues for more military strategic planning.

Where is the road to sustainable energy?

2011-06-28T07:57:00.001-07:00

I think we need to ask if innovation is only possible during a political crisis.Politics effects outcomes in technology all the time.Take the power grid for instance. When we had a coherent immigration policy,(substitute "more racist" here if you wish) it was thought that given time we'dneed fewer power generation stations. Not only was there the foreseeablerealization of zero population growth to limit power consumption; improvementsin insulation and solid state transisters replaced older tube technology as controlelements for relays, motor control and switchgear. Computers made furtherautomation possible using less and less power until the winds in politics allowedmore open (less discrimination at the ) borders. With population growth, (pent updemand for housing, education, healthcare, employment oh yeah- a spike inpower consumption by the ever growing number of house holds and population) should have been challenge sufficient for innovation if the money was less debt loaded by war borrowing. However, the boom and bust cycles of economic tides always wash away large amounts of savings in debt service thanks to the innovation of war for profit by Neo-cons as well as financial malfeasance in finantial and public office. Constant wars edify politicians who want the larger budgets war always affords and also the financial sectors loaning monies for that economic process so as to extract the interest on those treasury bonds held as collateral. It now seems the resultant weak dollar policy has backfired, leading to a drop in manufacturing and the standard of living, an unaffordable infrastructure in our cities and on our roads, bridges and tunnels. This breakdown has been joined by risingunemployment and youth gang violence. Drug addicted criminals whose hard working parents (spending longer hours at work to store up money which buys less and less)failed to make time for imparting more recognized and legal work ethics in their offspring. While our racist preconceptions also got us into war after war, politicians enlisted corporate media in actually changing thegrammatical useage & meaning of the word war so that it could be waged against conditions instead of armies. War on fear, poverty, drugs, prejudice andnow terrorism,... perpetually! Technological advances in energy production have therefore been channeled into ever more efficient means of prosecuting these wars as our main export. I have no doubt that ending war & living within some multiple of accounts receivable will restorepurchasing power to the dollar, allowing r&d money to go further. Such behaviorcan foster the development of sustainable energy production and greater selfdetermined outcomes merely due to social rather than antisocial imperatives. Once our money gives each working citizen deserved breathing room as an entitlement, think of it -the actual prospect of social harmony! But, to get there we have to want this alternative to incessantwars and the profits we extract from the development, sales and deployment of killing machines. We have to want freedom enough to change our politics.

Religion and politics mixed with policy in government

2011-06-27T17:23:00.000-07:00

An outstanding example of religion and politics mixing with policy was when thereligion of Lord John Maynard Keynes ( expand markets without controls on debt )evolved into the weak dollar policy we have today. Dr Alan Greenspanembellished this religion with an additional item of faith (removal of the GlassSteagal act of 1933) which then allowed banks brokerages and insurance entities (corporationsbeing persons legally ) to: 1). relax criterion on real estate loans for greater sales.2). bundle bad mortgages into adjustable rate mortgage backed securities. 3).insure these cash pipes as though they were low risk derivatives and sell them toclients with an appetite for unknown risk. Without even mentioning the word war one need not look hard to find instance after instance where policy is run off offaith based beliefs. The road to fascist dictatorship is riddled with such beliefdriven policy orchestrated by a true believers trade off of the rights of individuals for religious or nonreligious collectivism.

My letter to N.Y. Senator Owen Johnson

2011-06-26T17:02:00.001-07:00

Hi your honor.Congratulations on yours and your colleagues success at grappling with some of the most thorny issues on the contemporary horizon.I have always maintained that human behaviors found to exist before and during all recorded history must be faced up to cogently and responsibly, as they are part and parcel of our lot here in this life as people. Also it is known far and wide that to successfully tax a population requires both contract and jurisdiction which are at once agreeable to each of the parties as well as enforceable from an authoritarian perspective. When ever laws don't stand the test of time, it is these premises that have been given short shrift. Onward and upward then!Clarence Dember jr

Do we need better drug store security?

2011-06-26T16:27:00.001-07:00

The recent tragedy of the brutal and mindless Medford Drug store shooting on Long Island calls into question whether any security measures can stem the flow of this kind of violence involving murder by gun, addiction and theft of merchandise (in particular pain killing narcotic medication.)It has been said in the media that the victims: pharmacist Raymond Ferguson- Family and friends (f&f), mother of two Jaime Taccetta. (f&f), Student Jennifer Mejia (f&f) and loving husband Byron Sheffield (f&f) all died at the hands of a pain killer prescription addict and his get away car driver wife.The medicine they were after-a form of synthetic opiate. The one question in my mind is could these senseless killings have been avoided if counseling and treatment had been available to the alledged killers who clearly had run out alternatives visible to drug addicted chemically addled criminal mentalities. If the answer is no; I'll ask what about if medical marijuana were available? If the answer is still no, then maybe we should pass laws requiring armed guards at all such drug markets. Drug companies whose drugs are marketed under these tightly controlled conditions may pool resources and purchase contracts with any number of armed security firms so as to improve the safe and regular dispense of these trademarked and patented as well as generic compounds. This slaughter must not be repeated!

Are there Manchurian candidate look alikes ?

2011-06-26T16:26:00.001-07:00

The 2 versions of this movie beggars the question. Are there forms of criminal behavior that smacks of mind control and agents of chaos? Or is this violence in contemporary society just the effect of every day conditioning?

2011-06-22T19:50:00.003-07:00

2011-06-22T19:50:00.001-07:00

I have been using the internet from 2 computers. Both of these are sharing a wireless network. One is a tower I've built and the other is an imac I've purchased. Approximately 3 months now I've found it impossible to get online with the imac without login. The tower can go on line but is severely limited. Gone are the days when login was unassociated with EULA. For that kind of a journey, literacy and books are better.

Gilgo murders point to failure of prostitution prohibition

2011-03-31T11:03:00.001-07:00

At this point there have been 5 bodies found within the same 1mile section of Long Island's Gilgo beach. All of the press coverage is pounding readers about the apparent failure of any measures to stem the flow of these violent and tragic deaths.
Folk like me (who saw the solution to this social dilemma years ago, ) are completely ignored by the religiously cowed journalists. They attempt to represent that it is sensible, moral and alttruistic to live with the horror of anonymous serial murder and the costly police overtime to crack these difficult cases. More sensible than mandating a log be kept of all sex worker client transactions such that the perpetrator of violent interaction be among the suspects immediately at hand should the events arrize to require it. For example; such a log is required of all licensed taxi drivers to cover each working shift. the driver works. Sex workers are no less worthy of this orderly requirement and evidence than Taxi drivers. I'm sure they will be subjected to the same drug screens when they apply for a sex worker license. The time has come to license this group of workers. The drug screen for the license would keep junkies from tricking for drugs. As in Taxi work, it is a waste of both valuable life and precious resources to search for an anonymous serial murderer of sex workers (or Taxi drivers) when the licensing and regulation of this type of work would help prevent anonymous murder of workers or clients and all the serial murders beyond it. The self justified pundits promoting prohibition of prostitution are actually Xenophobes unable to tolerate any lifestyle different from their own. They only wish to promote the very chaos and tragedy we currently have!
Before they can continue with the ruse of setting themselves up as self imposed despotic standard bearers for the wrest of us, there is a word they need to add to their stunted self fulfilling lexicon. Volition! Xenophobes are not templates for the wrest of humanity. Such a brittle approach to the life and times of one's fellows always ends in human suffering. One big mob can not be allowed to trump the rights of all other individuals in society. Riot is not a rule of law.As of 4-5-11 there have been 8 bodies found.

Getting rid of expensive petroleum.

2011-03-06T16:35:00.001-08:00

From a historical perspective, oil as Fuel used to be cheaper than coal.

The old ways of heating your home still work quite well in fact.

The wood burning stove is taunted as making a come back as heating oil and natural gas prices reach new record levels.

At present, there a number of ways to use coal more cleanly. A process of turning it into natural gas as well as scrubbing the stack at the cogeneration plant spring to mind. If it's greenhouse gasses your concerned about; burning fuel at a central location is both more efficient and less costly to the consumer and the environment.

Trading energy futures with it's inherent parade of middlemen is not the most cost effective way to bring energy to market. This holds fuel off of the market until a favorable number for it's sale (pick a number) arrizes.

When the wages of working people no longer command such necessary resources, it's time to retool the means of conditioning the living space.

Geothermal is not only for places like Iceland. The Earth is like a solar energy battery as well as a heat generator. It simply depends where you look and how deep. Preheating or precooling conditioning mediums - according to seasonal imperatives saves on the cost of conditioning without these resources.

These kinds of savings rely on the proper building codes to implement them in energy conscious designs.

Like solar strategies for energy conservation, geothermal strategies produce no greenhouse gasses.

Complaining about failed wealth redistribution social programs won't build any such imperatives of energy conservation into current and future architecture.

Let's eliminate Legislating under the Influence (LUI)!

2011-02-25T09:04:00.000-08:00

Have you ever run across a bad law, ordinance or policy in your state, municipality or country at large?

Since everyone from the bank teller to the hospital worker to the cab driver gets yearly drug screens as a condition of employment, why not apply the same standard to ALL our federal and state workers? Is sobriety any less important in the legislature? If me and my cohorts can't carry on torn down or hopped up, neither can our representatives in ANY legislature.

The time has come for Annual drug screening in ALL legislative bodies rank and file with treatment or job jeopardy if treatment is refused for ALL offenders!

Loss of productive capacity in drug manufacturing.

2011-02-21T02:15:00.000-08:00

Loss of productive capacity in manufacturing
drugs is a valid medical crisis . I can see why the
legislators would require the notification they are now seeking.
It is also apparent that hospitals are
consolidating resources for patient care . How
they can avoid medical practices which reflect
this loss of staff and facilities would be found in
an increase in billable services beyond patients
needs . Look for medical services outside the
rhelm of any therapeutic context for those more
costly proceedures .

What does god need with a starship- concept.mpg

2011-01-30T22:09:00.000-08:00

DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay

2010-11-26T19:58:00.000-08:00

Chapter 27

2010-10-10T18:02:00.000-07:00

I found out about and watched this attempt to paraphrase the deranged mental condition of Mark David Chapman that allowed him to do what he will always be known for instead of what he "thought" he could accomplish by the unforgivable & insane attack on Mr. John Lennon which caused Mr. Lennon's untimely and tragic death. It seems the prism of media fed an aspect of the polarized message filtering down to the masses who are for the most part sane. That Mr Lennon was a parent of a young child never figured into the calculus of the murderer. Most people in society can digest rationally the likes of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair well enough. Most never act out like the insane folks who go postal after conflating what they read in fictionalized novels ("Catcher in the Rye"- for instance) with "entertainment media" about recording artists, actors and musicians. It's the few lunatics among us that are killing the artists, producers and TV sitcom personalities (murdered "My Sister Sam" star Rebecca Schaeffer comes to mind). This goads the wrest of us to live in gated communities. In this sense we are now learning about the security imperatives politicians and religious icons the world over have learned about and put into practice since these tragedies have begun to proliferate in modern times.

What Congress is supposed to be doing

2010-09-28T09:08:00.000-07:00

The lawyers, the bankers and the politicians and some fascist business persons have been carving an empire for themselves while the wrest of us have been following non-apportioned tax law and code.

The good news is the Constitution states Representation and Direct Tax shall be Apportioned.

Congress is supposed to take a census, determine how many people there are in a state, set up a federal budget and divide it equally amongst the people there. THIS is what apportionment means IN A LAW DICTIONARY. You can't have an apportioned census for representation and then implement a non-apportioned method of taxing everyone. Unless, you are operating the wreaking ball with a crane!

700 foreign military bases run by the United States is not apportionment in taxation.

The key to this SUBJECT is seeing the Federal Reserve System as alien to our Constitution which is based on the Apportionment of BOTH REPRESENTATION AND TAXATION.

So, Presidents, Congress Persons, Lawyers, Bankers and fascist business persons are running things into the ground around here by a lopsided application of the Constitutional mandate of apportionment.

GET IT?

In restoring apportionment, the danger is, calling it a Fair Tax or a retrograde tax or some thing other than apportioned leaves the door open for riders on the bill before it's ratified and even radical changes, which are an anathema to Constitutionally prescribed apportionment. If apportionment is being restored, it should be called that, plainly.

Need funds? Pass a balanced budget amendment and eliminate entitlements.

Bag pipe Biz.

2010-09-24T13:24:00.000-07:00

Given all that independant people must contend with in 2010, the bag pipe biz is a particularly peculiar animal.
Gone are the standards of customer service normally associated with business. In their place we find any number of confusing agendas designed to provide overhead for more profitable enterprizes. At times these agendas are an anathema towards resonsible and knowledgeable workers since they would drive business into the bag pipe.
The business owner in this case wants "drone" tones like the bag pipe- which although sympathetic to the melody sound hole key the pipe player plays, the drones have no registry to articulate "notes" themselves.
If the business owner has become folded into a contempt for the survival of their associates and customers it is all too likely that the venue for productivity at the bag pipe biz is itself at cross puroses with both customer and the full gamut of customer and busineess constituency associations. The only remedy at that point is exidus and disassociation from the bag pipe prorprietor.

Crushed by Maple Trees

2010-09-18T00:17:00.000-07:00

by Clarence Dember on Saturday, September 18, 2010
Every now and then I have to go to IHop for some pancakes with real maple syrup. (i actually don't have time to make my own syrup if you can believe it!)
So, back in the day, maple syrup really came from a kind of Maple tree: from the Sugar Maple /acer saccharum and black maple /acer nigrum. These trees were cultivated in orchards for this purpose or found in the wild.
They were not near any power lines, houses, parkways or other places frequented by vehicles or people.
Elm trees though slow growing were used for neighborhood beautification. Thanks in large part to the Dutch Elm disease, the Elms are mostly gone. In their place the quick growing and picturesque Silver Maple has taken up residence. This is why any time there is a significant storm on Long Island or in New York City you can find these giant surface root behemoths toppled over onto highways, houses and cars. People who have Oaks in their yards or near their side walks avoid this seasonal havoc.
Now that I think of it, with all of the variations of Franken foods and Franken- seeds available now-a-days why are there no Franken-Elm-trees or Franken-Maple trees? There's "Roundup Ready" Soybeans and Fish genes in our tomatoes; so why are there no hybrid Silver Maples with deep going roots or Elm Trees impervious to Dutch Elm disease?
Why does the city of New York keep planting these menaces to society in close proximity to dwellings, roadways and places of business? Why don't universities clamor to design a more durable Elm or a more stable Maple? This would be more compassionate and cost effective than the loss of life and property year after year!

Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the US Constitution (1 of 6)

2010-09-13T12:17:00.000-07:00

Stepping to the High Command

2010-09-05T06:08:00.001-07:00

At Jamaica station I was unable to read the electronic sign for my train after a group of 3 males (different from my own ethnic group) noticed me and stepped in front of the sign with a certain menace which surprised me.

I said "You need to step away from the sign so I can read it."

The Biggest one of them stepped to me and said "You should walk on; We're army."

I said "I was in the Air Force. You need to step away from the sign."

The leader rephrased:
"You were in the service 10 years ago!" "We're Army and we've been to Afghanistan."
(I was actually 1977-1981 Active Air Force Enlisted and 1983-84 NJ Air Reserve. (29 & 27 years ago respectively.)

I said: "It doesn't matter". And, for emphasis I looked him in the eye and said "You shouldn't be blocking the sign. What your doing here is ungodly." (This is my short hand for "Grow up and be your own gods.") The leader's jaw dropped and then he denied he was acting in discord to godly (sock puppet) lore and comportment. I repeated the accusation.

Just then, an individual fully 3 times as wide as me stepped up behind me and said "Just let it go..., they are on something- can't you see? Just let it go." I having finally succeeded in reading the sign I needed to select my train- heeded this reasonable advise. For me, reasonable advise is actionable, whomever it comes from. As I went down the stairs to the train platform, I heard the "double big man" voice a direct exchange with the leader of the military trio as he attempted to shout after me to "walk on!" The Guy who's advice I'd heeded cut in with a firm: "You need to shut up because you're messed up!" I overheard some petty grumbling and then silence as I reached my train platform.

I always suspected and now believe there is good security in Jamaica terminal, for all who pass through this busy station. Also, I'm always happy to receive reasoned advice. Although, herein lies a warning: I am not the first civilian that returning military service members have conflated with the enemy. Given the political popularity of wars, I certainly won't be the last.

It was 06: 25 in the morning Sunday 9-5-10

What matters in politics.

2010-08-27T06:06:00.000-07:00

Tell me human lives matter in politics & I'll agree, with reservations. In particular "Indian Reservations" would be an important exception these days it seems.
Dispite dire warnings from N.Y.State Troopers that attempting to collect N.Y. State tax on cigarettes sold (to non tribe members buying) from Native American stores could result in "violence and death" N.Y. Governor David A.Patterson has vowed to enforce $4.50 per pack NYS sales tax on cigs sold to non- Indian customers as soon as September 1st, Wednesday 2010.
All Tribes have refused to collect what appears to them to be an Out of Jurisdiction tax.
The western idea that United States citizens who are under bank, municipal, state, federal, corporate, jurisdiction and can therefore not act in free commerce with Indian Merchants is as foreign today to Native American Life and thinking as the private, state and federal ownership of property was in 1794 when they first signed treaties with the Great White Father and his minions.
But, can we say that Ethno-centrism is the reason Governor Patterson is stepping up the kind of rhetoric which can only be percieved as bellicose to Tribespersons state wide, even nationwide?
There was a saying I read on a noted educator's wall back when I worked as a civil servant for the State University of Old Westbury in Long Island N.Y. It said "A lack of proper planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part".
It can be said that New York, & the United States are experiencing an economic down turn, the likes of which have not been seen since the great depression.
After making ethanol out of corn instead of hemp & allowing the drugs in Alcohol & tobacco to excape regulation by the FDA dispite their lethal hazards for so many years, and after living under a system of Aportionment re: the U.S.Constitution yet implementing systems of non- aportioned taxation on wages and income alike for decades & devolving from a Constitutionally prescribed specie of money to fiat currency & debt; does this now warrant war?

Mosque near Ground Zero

2010-08-25T18:18:00.000-07:00

What people build on their property is ordinarily up to the property owner and the zoning board.
This particular proposal has created a firestorm. When have matters driven by faith done otherwize?
Not only has the narrative of how the World Trade Center was destroyed come under credentialed question (Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth), putting a Masque where it is not wanted is an invitation for vandalism and lawlessness similar to that experienced on other religiously contested holy sites.
If anything religious is built there it should be an all faiths chapel.
Secular folks have got to teach all religious to get along and share the planet, starting with just such a proposed religious space as this near ground zero.

1984 is here again for 2nd Handers!

2010-08-04T07:31:00.000-07:00

Getting harder for the Sports Dude / Dudette to correlate sports team victories to anything at all. So, remember those sports figures are like Hercules and Achilles- Demi-Gods all. Rooting for them is the next best thing to actually being kin to Hera, Gaea, Athena, Aphrodite, Rhea, Psyche, Hestia, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo..., or Zeus himself !

"With the strength of ten men he slew 1,ooo of the enemy wielding only the jawbone of an ass." Yeah, that's some legacy Mr Samson.. (...for the Bible followers among us). We use Tomahawks that spew fire and travel at 550 mph nowadays.

With all of the U.S. military bases around the world, you'd run out of States before you could assign our fighting and support forces (offense & defense) a State to sponsor and root for each of them, (600+ over seas U.S. Military bases) even if we assigned each (of our 50) State(s) SIX Military Base "fighting forces" exclusively.

What detail those large screen TVs could show as our modern day Gladiators operate in their respective theaters of conflict.
But now we're told the entertainment is winding down at Oceania. The forces in Eurasia and East Asia are our Allies. Has it not always been so? In honor of our victory Chocolate rations are up 1/4 percent. That's double plus good isn't it Brothers and Sisters? Those inner party members really have a grip on things! When were trends ever better?

With the anti-sex leagues pulling out all the stops in the UAE, and Asia, our Military and corporate foot prints are going to have to get the latest newspeak dictionary from the inner party soon. Too much use of un-words and your cashiered as an un-person, like Winston and Julia! ...Agents of Goldstein! Failing to perfect your language means soon you'll be spending a stint in room 101, for thought crime.

" Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head".

Some new U.S. Patent laws are heading our way.

2010-07-27T16:47:00.000-07:00

Phone App not certified? Take your best shot!
Per the U.S. Patent office new rules.

The days of skimpy bandwidth, proprietary network exclusions of perfectly good software apps and Goat Footed Balloon Men are nearly over in the U.S.A. !!

"Charge it to my smart phone, please!!"

Credit card plastic? Hold the petroleum- I'll pay by tricorder.

My phone company is about to expand it's accounts billable to me. Could the "Bank writ be a thing of the past?
We'll be agreeing to abide by "all the rules of our phones" instead...!

Yeah, Not for nothing- Hewlett Packard has swallowed up PALM. I still have my Palm Treo 700P; the banks wish they owned phone companies ....

The Book of Eli; my own evaluation of the movie by C. Dember

2010-07-19T08:47:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed the movie for it's action.

It's narrative reminded me of scenes from the movie Equilibrium (gun Katas of the priests) as well as a scene from the book and movie series "Dune" (The character Muad'Dib is blinded by a Stone Burner / tactical nuke- yet continues to move cogently about thanks to vision within prophesy.)

Herein lies the problem. As a work of fiction the way this book (a King James version of the Bible written in Braille) is narrated from memory by Eli- a resolute blind traveler at the end of his days is one thing. Such fiction should be compared to reality on this occasion to detect it's import.

Benjamin Banneker memorized the parts of a clock so as to reconstruct them in the new world. This is a fact. The technology of clock building was advanced and proliferated in this manner by a man who was a noun.

Nicola Tesla designed the alternating current power grid, the 3 phase a/c motor and the 3 phase a/c power station at Niagara Falls, Frank Lloyd Wright the Guggenheim Museum, patterned after the Nautilus shell.

Joan of Arc, as good as any man in battle, was done in by bankers and burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.

Adolf Hitler built the Third Reich while destroying the Jewish middle class and then took it to Ruin. Joseph Stalin killed millions in his quest for the ideal state.

Napoleon Bonaparte built an empire only to loose it.

There is always an I.D. bearing noun performing the executive functioning of creativity or destruction no matter if we're talking about the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs or the Emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicaea.

The notion that persons or things act because they are directed by an I.D. lacking perfect being which is not therefore a noun- attempts to place such a theatrical device at cause over all outcomes when it is always a noun wielding the tools in plain sight!

The virtue such a device uses to attain it's value is always the faith in it possessed by a human being (noun). God(s), anthropomorphic, identity-less, parasitic software devices are a treason to humanity and all nouns at large! Any God(s) should therefore be rejected as impossible, specious & backward, a fictitious enterprise!

Tech Talk: Revisiting Oil Well Pressures and Blowout Preventers after BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

2010-06-19T22:44:00.000-07:00

Tech Talk: Revisiting Oil Well Pressures and Blowout Preventers after BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

60 Minutes - BP disaster - Deepwater Horizon survivor Mike Williams pt 1

2010-06-19T22:24:00.000-07:00

Piper Alpha: Spiral to Disaster - Part 1

2010-06-16T09:22:00.001-07:00

Piper Alpha: Spiral to Disaster - Part 2

2010-06-16T09:22:00.000-07:00

Piper Alpha: Spiral to Disaster - Part 3

2010-06-16T09:21:00.000-07:00

Non-Toxic Hemp Oil is Better than Petroleum!

2010-06-15T22:36:00.000-07:00

Reason and choice from volition

2010-06-09T04:11:00.000-07:00

Reason is the process whereby we may use logic to plan for life enhancing or cogent experiences. Emotions are merely outcomes of experiences. You may have noticed that some experiences and the processes that mitigate them are within our control, and some are not.

For instance, if my ancestral home in place X is over run by some unfriendly neighboring tribes, without warning, when I am as yet a child, THIS IS BEYOND MY CONTROL.

When I grow up, I may choose to slaughter those peoples who have captured the ground where my ancestors were living, or I can choose to find another place to revere as significant in such a context. It need not be on land as such. It could in fact be on the keyboard, fretboard or register of a musical instrument. Such a place could be found in the instrumentality of some as yet undiscovered technology or within the orthodoxy of an existing group of practices.

The point being, do I choose to fashion my own identity or is it bound to the victimization of my ancestors as I seek to find conquest in the succeeding victimization of future generations of children as yet unborn? Do I resolve my personal conflict by killing and subjugating others or by reevaluating and reinventing my own place in the sun? The bellicose choice or that of the pacifist both deserve careful consideration as the former and the latter choices both tend to perpetuate themselves over time.

The biggest rights in the gulf of Mexico

2010-06-02T09:02:00.000-07:00

The entities with the biggest rights in the Gulf of Mexico are the nations who have delegated off shore drilling rights to multi-national corporations.
The amount of money which can be had for such drilling privilages dwarfs even the billions of dollars now required for cleaning up the Deep Sea Horizon oil spill there.

But the losses of food from this catastrophy is going to cause problems deemed of lesser importance by these same powerful nations. This great loss to the peoples of the United States and Mexico comes at a time when climate change is already putting cost increases on the oil based food production methods employed here.

Can it be wise to drill so deep beneath the oceans that only robots can do the work? In the face of new forms of energy technology is such risk to both human life and our food supply necessary? At what price does the cost of energy from deep sea oil deposits become too high. We are getting a clearer picture of these things presently!

BP 'junk shot' attempts to plug leak don't succeed - TwinCities.com

2010-05-29T03:48:00.000-07:00

BP 'junk shot' attempts to plug leak don't succeed - TwinCities.com

So, is a corporate Gulf of Mexico better? Will it provide more bio-available food sources? Is the government of the United States gearing up the "Soylent Green" factory as we speak? Do you want your share?

Fuel / Ani DiFranco

2010-05-09T06:55:00.000-07:00

Understand Objectivism for values.

2010-04-14T09:59:00.000-07:00

Because Laissez Faire Capitalism is not based on duty (altruism) as is the forced backed politics of political pull and influence prevalent in the U.S.A., philanthropy can come from those with means, inclination and volition absent religious duty instead of the altruistic duty which forced backed government props up as the norm in human discourse. Self sacrifice for non-value is not normal, it is anti-survival. Man is NOT a sacrificial animal, but he is scripted as such, branded as a slave to any need or authoritative force backed whim- by altruism.

Financial Zombies

2010-04-07T10:04:00.001-07:00

I heard today on NPR that Dr. Greenspan was not against the sub prime mortgages that became a means of entrance for many into the real estate market. He said it was the ARM backed securities that were insured to have higher ratings than they should have which were the cause of the Wall Street breakdown.

Of course, having worked long and hard for the repeal of the Glass Stiegal act would place Dr. Greenspan somewhere on the high road which lead to the dangerous financial deregulation that allowed banks and insurance companies to form one stop shop financial institutions in the first place. In his book " A Turbulent Age", Dr. Greenspan states that he did this because computer models indicated it would make the present financial institutions resistant to economic down turns. They would then be in line with the robust survivors of the great depression.

The clients repaying these bridge loans defaulted, this collapsed the ARM backed cash pipes (securities) which wiped out AIG who insured the securities, which caused exposed institutions to default on loans from international banks who then had no operating capital. Baling out the domestic institutions merely allowed them to pay back foreign banks. More money was then required to shore up the surviving institutions- a bail out of main street was not part of the Wall Street rescue package.

Therefore, domestic financial institutions were more interested in meeting their quarterly earnings forecasts than underwriting products with enduring values. So, they moved financial instruments quicker than anybody else. Dr. Greenspan and his too big to fail financial Zombie group are more responsible for the Wall Street breakdown than any body on main street.

The Amish have found the following to be true:

2010-03-22T09:30:00.001-07:00

"If a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person by definition is not engaging in commerce," Cuccinelli said in recorded comments. "If you are not engaging in commerce, how can the federal government regulate you?" (From Reuters)

National Health Care you pay for by jurisdiction.

2010-03-18T00:10:00.000-07:00

As long as I can't be forced to join a national health care plan, or pay for it fine. Majority rule is a bit like "2 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for lunch". I am not going to live forever. In time I will loose biological viability as a life form. Constitutionally, there is an apportioned tax on income. The 16th amendment allows for non-apportionment in these regards, and without regards to the origin of the income (your wages for instance). So, the old age and disability government insurance program (Social Security) is a non-apportioned tax assessed on your wages as though your wage was a corporate profit (unless you are an Old Order Amish, then your exempt because the Amish rely on the "providence of deity" for such things as old age and disability, and they don't make contracts with Federally entangled agencies such as banks, phone companies, the insurance industry, etc,etc.). The Supreme court granted them this exemption, but it did so to protect it's mandate that the wrest of us must pay. The problem with force backed compliance with respect to who will be covered and who will pay is more than a geriatric consideration or related to some terminal course of disease we will all eventually succumb to. It is a problem of Jurisdiction for the courts ruling on such measures. In the case of "Valentine Byler" and his Amish kinfolk, there was no jurisdiction. I have the knowledge and the inclination to opt out. I reason Government is not responsible for my well being as some type of entitlement, only for providing an environment where I can earn my way without threat, duress or coercion. Well being is a philosophical choice like philanthropy based in means (knowledge is more valuable than money here), inclination and volition. Right now, Duty has no part in this. If I get sick, it may be that I will go to the Veterans Administration Hospital for help, as I have served during the Lebanon Crisis. Presently, I will try to be responsible for my health.

Chinese Petitioners Committed to Mental Hospitals, Given Shock Treatments

2010-03-12T10:31:00.001-08:00

Is this a beta testing of mental health policies for the western world or growing pains of the Chinese government as it moves to advance it's economic aspirations amid calls for human rights advances in China.

Economic and market Narcissism.

2010-03-08T17:27:00.000-08:00

I think (once a person reaches adulthood) a robust sense of entitlement with no product, service or good is a kind of economic and market Narcissism. The latest Wall Street melt down exemplifies this! These financial officers assembled, marketed and sold fully insured cash pipes composed of soon to be in foreclosure adjustable rate mortgages which in turn were poorly granted to 1st time home buyers unable to qualify for fixed rate mortgages.

If they cared about anything more than the sales necessary to beat market analyst forecasts for their financial sector, to justify FAT sales commissions, I need to be shown WHERE that caring was in practice. The term of the fixed rate mortgages could have been increased to lower payments and boost sales that were sustainable to 1st time home buyers. 100 year fixed rate mortgages are common in Japan. They are secured by social security payments. If social security was an apportioned tax this could be done legally here in the United States. Instead, rewarding such lopsided behavior (investment fraud) with a bail out (protecting the wrest of us) needs to be balanced by fines and jail time for the perpetrators of this destructive loose witted practice and prospectus. Because there shall be no ex post facto laws here (retroactive punishment for things which were not crimes at the time but are now), it needs to be put into practice going forward that such unethical, destructive and rash economic and marketing behavior by financial officers will be quickly and costly punished.

Do you agree?

Hierarchy of value in entertainment for audience and artist.

2010-01-21T02:48:00.001-08:00

Apparently the intrinsic value of music must resonate with particular value experiences the listener brings to be taken as value in entertainment while to those who create it, the music is the value and the experience!

It would follow that every form of art is this way, with regards to it's hierarchy of value to audience and artist.

For the artist, practice is the virtue that attains the value of art. The performance and or exhibition of this value is called entertainment by the audience.

CCSVI and Multiple Sclerosis (ENGLISH AUDIO)

2010-01-13T06:43:00.001-08:00

Paradigm shift: Research into a vascular cause of Multiple Sclerosis.

2010-01-12T02:15:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to learn more about CCSVI, the vascular defect being studied as a possible cause of multiple sclerosis.
Links don't work here, so copy and paste the link below to search Buffalo University's press release on this important matter.

www.buffalo.edu/news/10562

REST, A value which need not be financed or taxed.

2009-12-26T02:26:00.000-08:00

A great value to us all, individually and collectively yet its free, it can't be taxed, stopped, regulated micromanaged, blocked, weakened, or metered. It's always as close as volition. It's REST!

The 1975 book Midworld, by Alan Dean Foster and the current movie AVATAR.

2009-12-20T19:24:00.000-08:00

I had the pleasure of reading A.D. Fosters book Midworld when I was a soldier, stationed on Guam for 15 months. I remember longing for nothing as I paged through the grand megalithic descriptive language of the flora, fauna, peoples and levels which comprised survival on that distant orb. I recall the hostile intent of the would be despoilers of it's botanical secrets, their means and their ultimate fate. I recall the heroes, heroines antiheroes and shills. At once I knew that watching a movie of these components interact could never be as exhilarating as the images I could conjure up in my minds eye of this dangerous and wondrous place A.D. Foster had described so vividly in Midworld.After seeing the movie Avatar, I was required to recall these rich impressions. Read the book, then see the movie. You may appreciate Mr. James Cameron's film work and achievement in the new film Avatar even more fully.

Eating as concatenation.

2009-12-17T14:21:00.000-08:00

I've reached this conclusion via the realization that I alone am responsible for the process that has the potential to restore or retard my tenure on the planet.Since this is about eating, I'll leave the philosophy on the shelf along with any anecdotes about the motivations of modern food merchants. Cogent relevant process is key to avoiding the pejorative drama of mal-absorption of nutrients and the re-absorption of waste and toxins.What is the basis in formal training I bring to this information?With the exception of S.U.N.Y. EAP Programs run state wide and Rutgers University- both of the other "training institutions" I affiliated myself with are now defunct. The process and product the defunct institutions (a primary alcohol detox inpatient facility in Freeport NY and the mail order school of fitness and nutrition in Scranton PA.) instilled and produced were both non-addictive and relevant. So, I took a mail order course in fitness and nutritional counseling, and I have taken seminars on the psycho-pharmacology of alcohol, trends in employee assistance programs at Rutgers University, as well as volunteer work as leader of an addicted men's group (with clinical oversight present) and co-coordinator of a state run employee assistance program at a State University in New York. Additionally I am coming at this target of eating as concatenation with nearly 55 years on the planet without a gastrointestinal medical intervention.What I have to say about healthful considerations and process with regards to eating will be curtly summed up right now.Fermentation and decay don't belong in or near living tissues of the body. To allow this is to invite disease in substance and process.Such things are avoided in vivo in 3 ways. 1). To split proteins into amino acids requires the acid found in the stomach. This must happen for assimilation to take place in the gastrointestinal trac. If you mix starches which require amylase from the saliva to digest with proteins, these activities work against each other. The protein will rot as carrion and become spoiled without digesting properly, and the starch will ferment. The fats which are handled by bile secretion will become rancid if they are not assimilated properly. These must not be poly-saturated trans-fats or the membranes of all of the cells in the body will be constructed of such material which is impervious to insulin. That leads to diabetes. Plant fiber gives exercise to the smooth muscle of the intestines which keeps the parastalsis muscular contractions strong enough to power the assimilation and excretion processes. Drink clean, pure water to keep urea crystals from forming in the kidneys from urine that is too concentrated. Urea is the by-product of protein synthesis. Do not abuse pain killers or central nervous system depressants or prescription medications or street drugs. Drug abuse robs the body of nutrients by requiring tissues to expend them to metabolize and excrete the abused drug. 2). There are some foods which are either detrimental to processes of your immune system, the villi of the intestines or the proper flow of blood to your body's tissues. You may learn the science of eating the right foods for your ABO blood group which protect and renew these resources by reading and watching material published by Peter J. D'Adamo ND.3). Learn about and practice juicing raw vegetables for their nutrients. (Check my complete profile for my youtube channel web site where a video on basic juicing is listed in my favorite videos.) PLEASE NOTE:In his book "Garry Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet" PH.D. Garry Null recommends on page 270 That "... if you have diabetes, or another health condition, are pregnant, or on medication, consult your health care professional before you start a new dietary routine such as juicing, because you don't want to be using foods that are contraindicated."

Know your allies.

2009-12-13T11:52:00.000-08:00

The difference between survival and death is often the simple act of identifying and knowing your allies in this world. If you know any friends who keep pets and treat them humanely, make it a point to observe the animals around their benefactors. In every part of the animal kingdom, the creatures who know and can identify their benefactors prosper accordingly. Why should human kind be any different?

Working hard?

2009-11-29T22:41:00.000-08:00

Working hard? Unlike municipalities, you may be thinking about living within some quotient of accounts recieveable. All businesses must think about balancing what is earned against what is spent on costs. Yet value extraction is a threat to business.Now, witness value extraction as Hispanic family taxi businesses in Suffolk county are fined by Nassau officials for operating ground transportation services across Suffolk County lines. These legitimate businesses maintain Suffolk County Brick and Mortar so as to receive legal service, they consequently pay Suffolk County property taxes under commercial property zoning regulations in Suffolk County. Are Nassau County Operators required to conform to Suffolk County Taxi Regulations? Interstate truckers have always been aware that there is an apportioned road tax that heavy commercial vehicles must pay, assessed through the amount of fuel burned over distance traveled in a given state while hauling goods. This tax ostensibly helps pay for damage on principal highways where these heavy trucks operate. Such businesses are also taxed corporately at state and federal levels. Taxis are not heavy commercial vehicles however. Taxis use parkways where traffic and time permits.Some years ago Nassau County taxi cabs were impounded for operating ground conveyance without NYC medallions in New York City limits (namely Laguardia and JFK airports). When this occurred the blindsided Nassau County operators (who maintained Brick and Mortar for legal service in Nassau County) sought a legal remedy in the courts. Because of the monetary damage incurred (fines and impoundings in NYC) by these Nassau Operators (NOs) at that time a stop gap method of transporting inter county fares (customers) was devised. NOs stopped the impounding and fining of their inter-county commerce by operating D.O.T. Regulated heavy vans across county lines where the borders were Nassau County and New York City. The New York City TLC or taxi and limousine commission was forced to leave those intrastate operated vans alone as they are regulated by the New York State Department of Transportation. Ultimately, an agreement was hammered out in which NYC taxis doing business in Nassau County are required to buy a Nassau County sticker showing they have paid Nassau County tax. Failure to display a current sticker will get the NYC taxi or limo fined and impounded should they be found doing business in Nassau County without a sticker. Having their own medallion is as far as Nassau County Operators have to go, provided drivers maintain a trip sheet of all assigned work (including NYC pick ups and drop offs.) Additionally, Nassau County operators are forbidden to pick up flags (hails from the side walk) when operating in NYC. Nassau County also has no soliciting laws to stop harassment of patrons in it's own communities. If you are licensed to pick up in a specific area this rule is waivered. Now, the largely Hispanic Suffolk operators face a similar application of Nassau County enforcement. As a patron of the largely Hispanic taxi operators in both Suffolk County and Nassau County, such bureaucratic inter-county Municipal tax requirements between non-New York City jurisdictions seems arbitrary, misplaced and somewhat less than congenial. Nassau TLC now impounds and fines operators licensed in counties (Suffolk) other than it's own for both pick ups and drop offs. While such conduct may pass the corporate municipal sniff test, it illustrates how corporations and municipalities manipulate citizens prerogatives and the larger legal question of jurisdiction over the citizens right to travel and the workers right to contract so as to fulfill this right under corporate rather than Constitutional jurisdiction. Do corporations have a conflict of interest with the Constitution where citizens rights to travel are concerned? It seems the municipalities do.

Squared Away gate keeper.

2009-11-07T08:21:00.000-08:00

My experience in the military comprises one full term of enlistment as a non-commissioned airman, as well as time spent in the New Jersey Air National Guard during the Lebanon crisis as a result of the U.S. Marine Barracks Bombing there.

The recent carnage at Fort Hood is truly an unbearable sorrow. My thoughts and condolences go out to the victims and the bereaved.

My feeling is that when a mission fails, senior ranking personnel (in this case Base commander on down) has failed to properly ascertain the readiness of it's subordinate ranks and failed to maintain the process and procedures which address the mission objectives.

This principal never changes no matter how high up the command chain it is realized. The Oath of office (always part of the contract as such), Time in RANK + credential + any special and on the job training is observed to comprise the skill set of command at any part in the chain of command. In the possible event that some part of the rank is broken or incapacitated, it is filled in promotions with the best qualified personnel on hand. In the field promotion comes with subsequent training to hold the position. No one in the service skips the contract and oath.

In the command structure, the top of each installation is the base commander. Such a command is usually reserved for academy graduates, I believe. That person is accountable for mission success or failure on that base. There are technical orders for procedures which have been tailored to the respective mission(s) at hand. These orders must be followed to preserve the integrity of said mission. When they are not followed process fails to address mission objectives and the mission fails.

Any competent review (standard evaluation from HQ) of the mission status at Fort Hood will proceed to examine the facts on that basis.

The event in question: It looks like the person alleged to have committed the shooting assaults and murders at Fort Hood was some sort of squared away gate keeper. (Gate keeper: A person in a position of authority and trust who is put there to do a job, but who only gives the appearances of manning the position.) He was at least 2 promotions away from a stint as base commander. As such, He held a position in the chain of command in a manner that was less than the prescribed duty. His web transgressions, moral and attempts to remove himself from duty roster indicate his readiness for duty and competence at his post were not foremost in his mind. He was not a Chaplin. According to the news in print, He was a military trained psychiatrist, a MD who could prescribe psychotropic drugs and run a clinical practice.

He gave away his things before he went on the rogue killing mission he orchestrated. FBI and BATF agents who went to his home after he was shot, found little left there to indicate the cause of his homicidal rampage. We are told the rogue attacker saw to it there was little left there beforehand. The alleged shooter seems like a really squared away gate keeper in this regard.

While it is certainly true that a narrowing of options is one of the hallmarks of mental illness, this individual never resigned his commission or raised doubts about his fitness to serve within the capacity he held in the minds of his superiors. Fact is he had been promoted to Major and was going to be shipped into battle. Not only is resigning always an option, he seemed perfectly at home in the acts of violating every cannon of ethics and tenet of the profession (any) medical practitioners would have had a name for.

You can get out of the service in less than 2 weeks if you really want to get out. I don't have sympathy for the alleged shooter. He could have refused to man his post. He could have signed papers that he was experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs such as Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. They would have kicked his butt out of the military faster than Comet Haley travels in a day. He would have had to pay back the bill for his training though, and been barred from any similar work for life. But, he could have REALLY been "the worlds smartest Garbage man" and not done the harm that he did! If at trial it is found that he did this, IT is treason. As he has sworn fidelity to The Constitution of the United States and has acknowledged the President is his commander in chief, he has acted (the shooter) as the enemy of the United States.

This would make him more of a home styled Manchurian Candidate. A sleeper agent of chaos and horrible mayhem.

How About a Block Party?

2009-10-11T09:47:00.000-07:00

I block people from responding to my postings if they demonstrate they do not understand that steel frame buildings can not collapse when torched by fancy kerosene fires (jet fuel). Kerosene can't melt steel. That's why kerosene heaters aren't made of plastic or wood, or some fool's b.s.! Load bearing Steel framing in a steel frame building must be cut to remove it. You can use Oxyacetylene torches or Lasers (too slow) or explosives, or cutter charges, but you must cut the steel, or blow it up to remove it.
What about resonance? We've all seen the videos of bridges collapsing when the wind itself created resonance in the structure that tore it apart. Could such a wind resonance tear down the world trade center towers once they were opened up to the wind by plane strikes, since it has torn down bridges open to the wind? Building 7 was never hit by a plane and it fell any way. Also, there are plenty of bridges and buildings still standing which haven't succumbed to wind resonance one might notice.
Believers in the hypothesis that this type of building can collapse into it's own foot print with no credible diminution of the load bearing capacities in supportive framing on the floors beneath the points of an airplane strike is part of the end meme "walls of Jericho" screed in the biblical fables. Zealots who rest their mentalities on such castles made of sand internalized these fables during mitigating circumstance of their socialization- when they were raised! As a result, they will carp and gather like zombies savoring the flesh (your time and effort) of any one who attempts to show them their moribund poorly concealed biblical foundation has crumbled to dust beneath a veneer of sociability and credential, even as they seek to relive that end meme again and again. Go to their pages and Block them as I have! Don't honor their insane babbling, insults and calumny with rational counsel. Block them and their pejorative drama! This act of omission will conserve your energy for cogent rational endeavor. Providing free therapy for the insane is never free. The insane are institutionalized at great cost, so they can not harm themselves and others.

U.S. Unemployment graphics from Reuters

2009-10-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

Please click on the following hot link to view the page:
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The Movie: Surrogates

2009-09-28T20:09:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed the plot detail. However, like "The Matrix', "Aeon Flux", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Equilibrium", "Forbidden Planet", "Terminator" and many other Science Fiction movies you know these things always end with the destruction of dystopia causing technology gone horribly wrong. These are different than movies like "Alien" or "Predator" and "AVP" in the sense that in the latter type it is a malevolent life form being eliminated to restore balance among humanity, not a technology. In the movies "Forbidden Planet" "The Matrix", "The Golden Compass" and "Equilibrium" both boxes would be checked. The point of "Surrogates" seems to be that while real technological surrogates (androids networked to our brains with hardware, firmware and software) could provide a kind of second life in real life for society's handicapped and physically challenged members when they needed it (to go to places physically the challenged found no access), it would ultimately be abused by everybody just like the prescription anti-anxiety / anti-pain medications we're familiar with in real life. Here abuse happens because those seeking fantasy once enabled would soon choose to never leave their apartments sober and as themselves. To reclaim the human condition for humanity, the hero ( Bruce Willis) must unplug real people from the surrogate network. (I thought that was Morpheus's job.) So working your way to responsibility and adulthood in this flick would not guarantee you could do what you wanted with your life because someone else would judge the efficacy of your paradigms and adjust the game accordingly. Any way you splice it, that's a lot of lines of code to corrupt, edit, or debug. Seems that for something with that much effort and money behind it there would be better safeguards and the location of the mainframe would not allow access to the general population (like in "Aeon Flux", "Resident Evil" and The Matrix). Yet, TV still exists here and there while our own World Trade center complex faced premature demolition in 2001.
Basing an entire society on surrogate activity as a primary living circumstance is where this screen play becomes utter fantasy, although like Wall Street trading, it would seem to be one of the ultimate RPGs (Role Playing Games) this life could offer.

Philanthropy is an act of volition, not coersion.

2009-09-22T11:44:00.000-07:00

The idea of philanthropy is a prerogative you may wield if you have the means and the inclination. It is not the government's job to extract charity or sacrifice from you by means of force, even if they are democratic or arbitrary about it.

The laws are not as plain.

The constitution says representation and income tax shall be apportioned, not collected according non-apportionment (democracy or political whim or statist mandate or bank fiat).

Apportionment means Congress is supposed to take a census, set up a budget and divide it equally amongst the inhabitants (excluding slaves taxed as 3/5 of a person and Indians not taxed as they are of foreign nations). The 13th amendment abolished slavery.
The 14th amendment gave free non-inhabitants the right to attain citizenship under residency, and the right to due process under the law although not the same dejure status of the FREE BORN OF STATES.
15th amendment gave voting rights to resident citizens which could no longer be withheld due to race, color or previous conditions of servitude.(Women were excluded from sufferage till 19th amendment).

The 16th amendment said "Congress shall have the power to tax all incomes without regards to the origin of the income." It is assessed in a non-apportioned manner on residents (everybody treated as a resident for tax purposes) by jurisdiction and contract where they either never were free born of one of the states or have submitted knowing and intelligent waivers to such inhabitant status (such as by agreeing under residency rules to: "abide by all the rules of the bank" when getting a bank account or receiving some benefit under residency or by having their mail sent to their "residence" instead of a post office box). Prima Fascia proof of residency along with contract to a bank under residency rules places one under the 16th amendment arrangement for non-apportioned tax obligations...... in MY VIEW.

In law, excluding some influence of contract or jurisdiction or both, the words income and wage are separate with separate meanings and so are the words resident (debtor- owing their citizenship to 14th amendment, an act of Congress) and inhabitant (creditor, someone to whom a debt is owed- a peer of any in political power who took such a vocation by volition- to serve the people as representatives.)

Is China getting ahead of the curve in mental health?

2009-09-18T06:16:00.000-07:00

Will trends practiced there be perfected and exported?

www.pbs.org
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec09/china_09-11.html

Search China, mental health. in the pbs.org search field.

The transcript (Originally Aired: September 11, 2009} and audio download of this video which showed the disturbing trend to diagnosis many of the political dissidents in china as psychotic is still available if you go to pbs.org and search the topic "China Mental Health".

The theory of Divine Command as it applies to Government provided Health Care.

2009-09-17T13:37:00.000-07:00

What if God handed down through prophecy and revelation
that government provided health care was a sacred
imperative after all?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine command theory)

Divine command theory is an attempt to cover a lapse
in judging whether "God" spake a just command or not
with the "Fig leaf of belief" that following any such
"Divine Utterance" would bode well for for the devotee(s)
even at the expense of everything related to considering
the epistemological origins of such purportedly divine
utterances.

The Divine Command theory is therefore a valueless
irrational canard and can only represent the most blatant
foray into illogical nonsence.

Loss of value storage in the alien welfare state

2009-09-14T00:39:00.000-07:00

Gold is trading at over $1000/ ounce as of 9-9-09. Value storage in dollars is slipping rapidly as federal debt increases beyond any reasonable ability to service that debt. In such a milieu, the (woman/man) who fails to establish and protect his autonomy among fellows on some viable socioeconomic footing is clearly heading towards extinction as as individual. Such a condition, with it's attendant diminution of privacy, is not going to meet the standard for adult resources and prerogatives in a western context. This is the insidious goal of any alien welfare state's direction, legislation or agenda. The alien welfare state is well rooted in American soil today, no matter the Framer's intent.

The case for employing a sence of perportion

2009-09-11T19:01:00.000-07:00

The problem with data.
There is a large trail of information indicating the practice of governance over known history. This information is not accessable to functionally illiterate people. Add to this a loss of all sence of perportion and you have tubes of tooth paste knocking down telephone poles and no one questioning the mass and energy impossibility.

Health care is man made.

2009-09-01T21:03:00.000-07:00

The health care system is broken , you may have heard. Although some may agree our health care should be considered a basic human right, such an idea would need to draw it's funds and mandate from the corporeal rhealm. This differentiates health care from those other "God given" human rights requiring both faith to discern and belief to sustain them. Additionally, any right to health care would need to be planned for in a coherent manner, a jurisdiction such that it can't be undone by poor purse strings, poor boilerplate or poor ethics, any of which are abundant human resources currently.
A constitutional convention could be convened for this purpose, concurrent with a balanced budget amendment therein, so that we don't go redundant on this mandate or hobble an otherwise noble sentiment with lesser corporeal types of spending on further wars to nowhere. This could begin to face the task at hand, if there were a Ryder to legalize all forms of hemp to act as a "health welfare check" revenue stream for health care. Such a right, which is not the correct word, (lets call it health welfare checks for U.S. Citizens instead) enumerated in the bill of rights would be formidable. This would be less assailable except by a further Constitutional convention to undo it, like alcohol prohibition. It would be more honest also, to call it a health welfare check amendment. And while we're busy adding government welfare fiats to our bill of rights, there's that Pesky notion of apportionment in matters of representation (just redact it to read any corporate or bank officer may serve) and income tax (redacted to read monies from any origin become taxes as banks shall dictate). Also, that slope to hell on Earth needs signage.
Cla.

Jaycee Dugard reunited with family after 18 year ordeal

2009-08-28T07:10:00.000-07:00

I had read about it in 1991.
When she was kidnapped from her
neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe,
California she was just 11
years old.
Jaycee Dugard, the first victim
of this crime was taken 6/10/1991
as she walked to her school bus
stop, (police have confirmed) by
registered sex offender and
convicted kidnapper Phillip Craig
Garrido and his wife Nancy using
a gray sedan.

Garrido ran a printing business
as his means of support and kept
his victims in sheds and tents
behind his home near Antioch,
California. Mr. Garrido admits he
brought 2 daughters into the world
with his (at the time under aged)
victim, Miss Dugard, while living
at the same residence, with his
actual wife, the possible
accomplice in this case.

Mr. Garrido was brought under
suspicion after a routine back
round check by Officer Allison
Jacobs flagged him as a prior
sex offender on Federal parole
when he attempted to pass out
religious fliers accompanied by
2 female children on the University
Campus at Berkley in California.
His parole officer was notified
at that time. When Garrido went
to meet with his parole officer
with his wife Nancy and his victims
present, Mr. and Mrs. Garrido were
arrested by police. The sheds
and tents where his victims had
lived along with a gray sedan which
had long been in storage there
were discovered when police searched
the Garrido back yard.

Miss Dugard, now 29 (and her daughters)
have since been reunited with Her
original family.
I hope they are granted the long and
joyous lives together from this moment
forward which they so deserve.

The N.Y. recent Taconic State Parkway tragedy in perspective.

2009-08-20T05:26:00.000-07:00

The driver who has been sited as the primary cause of the recent Taconic State parkway wrong way head on collision and deaths certainly behaved in a manner uncharacteristic of any conscientious adult this side of sanity. Which points to some facets of the psycho-pharmacology of alcohol which differ markedly from Cannabis. At the level of non-therapeutic etoh (ethyl alcohol) dosage discovered, black outs may ensue with severe impairment in judgment as a direct consequence. The brain of a binge drinker may also begin to manufacture endorphin like molecules to mitigate the abundance of the alcohol in their systems while at the same time ending manufacture of the body's regular endorphins. These new Tetra-hydra-quinalines or thq's are highly addictive in and of themselves and similar to Morphine. They will lead to the addict's further dosing themselves with etoh to get more. Addicts do protect their supply of their drug of choice and are often expert manipulators to keep those doses coming when the urge presents itself. This person likely died before the unmanaged etoh use was detected and or confronted. It's not such a reach when one considers that ethyl alcohol is revered and used in major religious practices (the blood of christ) in some Christian quarters, in particular that of Roman Catholic religious service. Also with respect to significant others being cast as enablers by the surviving bereaved, I would ask that we honor the dead by remembering their contributions to the lives they touched. The Constitutional admonition to avoid the transference of blame to inculpable parties also seems relevant. "Attainders of treason shall not work corruption of blood."

The philosophical idea that value is a goal and virtue is the means is easily employable.

2009-08-18T09:46:00.000-07:00

The old bromide that states "there's no accounting for taste" is actually an attempt at misdirection. You can account for your personal tastes in movies, people or anything else. Once you have understood the philosophical necessity that the things which you value are served and brought about by the virtues congruent to their achievement, you then can at once see the reason you are drawn to (have a taste for) certain activities instead of others.
With this knowledge, I have stopped buying into the idea that I don't know my own mind or my life's direction. I have stopped dissipating my hopes on values or goals which have no virtues to master but depend on chance or a welfare state for the pay out. I'm much happier and self assured as a result!

I am hoping that you my reader find this information useful. Leave a comment.

The value of concurrent war

2009-08-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

May 1 2003 began the U.S. Led invasion of Iraq.
We're still there. That's 6 years of current war in the 21 st century. Add to that the time we've been in Afghanistan, since 2001.
That's concurrent war. Why have one when we can have 2 for twice the price?
Should we be pauperized by wars, our business and prerogatives become everybody else's business as it will be they and not us calling the shots going forward from such an event.
Is there any way Canada or The United Kingdom would spend down hard won assets that have accrued the last quarter century in such a manner as we have done since the end of our last big war's wind down in Viet Nam? How about Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, pick a likely country, please? We're told there exists a "Just war theory" which is interesting and can be found on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. For the benefit of those who've never heard of it depending on who you talk to Just war theory consists of two to three parts.
Is the war cause the defense of greater human values? (War would become the virtue here.)
Can it be waged without the cost of greater losses than gains in these regards?
Can it be ended with a restoration of the values imperiled which caused the war in the first place? Notice how in the opening, mid game and end game the values and virtues change criteria. There's no denying this. This realization leads to an all important question.
If the values and virtues in a just war keep changing, how do we know by the end of the war if the war accomplished what we set out to do in the first place? In other words how is war different from any other task which comes to the awareness of the human being? For instance, suppose next weekend we all decide to have a barbecue. The goal is a cook out with friends and family. That's the value. The virtue to accomplish the desired thing, would be the tasks leading up to the cook out. If in the middle of the week we find that the weekend is going to be raining, it's decided that we'd all rather spend the weekend in Las Vegas. This new value brings with it a different means or virtue to make it so involving air travel due to the time window we have chosen to get out of town, party and arrive back for business by Monday morning. (Presidential administrations also have a 2 term limitation to fight a Just... let us say well defined or definitive war. Beyond that they will be viewed historically as having promulgated at best an ill conceived war, at worst an unjust war.) Back to our little trip- We'll end up spending much more money for the Las Vegas trip (potentially ill conceived) than the cook out, due both to the change of venue as well as the virtue or means to realize the value, our trip- unless one of us can get some cheap air line tickets.
Well, it could be similarly argued Mr. Richard Cheney got the Bush Administration some expedited no bid Haliburton contracts ("time is money" after all) to rebuild infrastructure in the Persian Gulf theater of war.
The problem with this barbecue / Las Vegas trip vs. war analogy would be that while having a barbecue or a Las Vegas trip or both would depend on private funds, war spends public funds out of future earnings which pretty much ends any rational aspirations towards a peace dividend for Americans now, and in the foreseeable future . The hole we have dug operating-... that is to say- the virtue of fighting 2 concurrent war venues with multiple fronts has created it's own economic itinerary which entails the value or goal; pauperization of the United States!

Value storage; the individual's privacy buffer

2009-08-16T11:25:00.000-07:00

These days becoming unemployed is about as bad as becoming UNDER employed . Either way you won't be able to afford the confidentiality of your own group of professional service providers that run the gamut of human needs and occupations. As the dollar shrinks in value storage capacity people are coming up against frontiers our ancestors could hardly imagine or recognize.
The value storage of money is a prime concern.
There is a simple illustration for this and it does not require a dissertation or graduate school.

In the 1950's gold was available to buy at $32.00 per ounce. Today it's over $900. per ounce.

32 x X = 900

X = 900/32

X = 28.125

32 x 28.125 = 900

So, you'd need 28x the money today to buy the same gold, dug out of the ground or panned out of a stream as you did 59 years ago. Has the value storage of your money diminished, or is the same gold getting better with age, like an antique or a fine wine?

As the dollar continues to loose value, your privacy and your very survival on the planet is adversely affected. It's important to remember that this outcome or value was set in place by a congruent virtue or activity which has been eroding your dollar for some time now.

The constant deficit spending by the Federal Government is that action or virtue, leading to this outcome or value in todays de-valuated dollars. Virtue is ever the hand maiden of value.

Well, if the federal government stopped their deficit spending, a new virtue, or action could stop and reverse the dollar's slide (a new value).

But how could Congress do it?

By the actions (virtues) of 1). convening a Constitutional Convention and 2). ratifying a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with a 3). Ryder that legalizes industrial Hemp for biomass ethanol production, the train of this Great Republic could be put back on solid serviceable rail (the goal, value or outcome of fiscal solvency is met). 4). All, every, each and every entitlement goes unfunded till they are repealed or money accrues to fund them. 5). A 25 year tax moratorium on all electricity generated from burning hydrogen.

Such virtues practiced in the halls of Congress are necessary to insure the value of economic growth and value storage in the Dollar which is the individual's privacy buffer.

Who's body is it, anyway?

2009-08-16T02:09:00.000-07:00

Life in all it's grandeur is a kind of lease which ".....hath all too short a date. " (from Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet)
Death's shadows can bring tragedy to the most well managed and carefully planned set of living circumstances. The facts show we are at best in control of only part of what may eventually work it's way into our respective outcomes. Adding children multiplies this, not in a bad way.
Lack of health insurance in such circumstances can be bad, but not as bad as a carcinogen.

Medical practitioners will tell you "cancer runs in families, cancer screening can detect cancer early enough to treat it, health insurance can pay for the screening and treatment." Yet, remissions of cancer have been known to occur on their own, with out radiation, chemo-therapy or surgery. A bad health prognosis can improve. A person's intake of nutrients is only part of the total health profile.
What is the proximity of their ideas to a behavior that results in a life enhancing outcome? What toxins are contributing to the toxic loading of the organism? How effective are these toxins being removed from the organism? How are the stresses found in modern living being handled by the organism. What is the immune system of the organism occupying itself with? Are they spending large blocks of time under high tension power feeder lines? There are a myriad of relevant considerations to place into the strategy of survival each of us must operate to continue productive life. We are limited, and yet we are responsible as adults.
Let us not waiver this autonomy, this equanimity, this sovereign birth right of ours by instead employing or defaulting to some theocratic, fascist, jurisdiction or fiat of the health care provider, practitioner or the government at large, before we have fully considered what we stand to gain for any such trade off.

Campaign spoils or entitlement programs?

2009-08-16T02:03:00.000-07:00

There is of course a democratic (majority rule) aspect to this health care agenda. Because the media has worked tirelessly to portray this nation and the citizens in it as part and parcel of democracy, the affluent individuals in the United States now find themselves at long last without a powerful leader to champion their property rights.
They have sat on the sidelines, knowing that wealth has guaranteed them an inside track while the spoils of eminent domain legislation were carved out of the middle class, for wealthy business exploits and regional economic fiats. The mighty affluent speculated with questionable financial instruments backed by what amounted to bridge loans, and when it all collapsed the world economy, they got in line for their too big to fail government bail out and bonus checks. The empowered affluent have changed the headquarters of their corporations to Dubai, to escape a strict accounting of their no bid contracts here in the United States.
All the while the millennium generation has been learning that "might makes right". That the U.S. Constitution was less of a guide for domestic and international policy than the record profits multinational financial, energy, oil, and drug conglomerates could realize as the worlds energy and resources are bought up corporately and metered back to each person on the planet through the filters and valves and spigots of technology irrespective of the collateral cost on families and the tax base in our own shrinking middle class. The young have been watching, conditioned to reject the idea that to protect the rights of an individual, a republic with borders was established. They reject that for additional rights to be enumerated among the bill of rights they must be ratified at a constitutional convention.They reject that the Constitution and not the transnational corporation provided for a system of representative government formed under democratic principles with a division of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. They reject that the Constitution sets forth that attainders of treason shall not work corruption of blood, that a relevant system of apportionment for representation and taxation is within the U.S. Constitution and that there shall be no ex post facto law and that there shall be a right to a speedy trial by your peers and the separation of church and state with freedom of assembly and freedom of religious practice.
Although transnational banks, oil and drug companies granted no such contract to the citizens of the United States they own media.
The framers of the United States Constitution who grew Hemp for cloth and parchment had planned for citizens rights within a strong republic. The media ignores them.
We don't even use Hemp for biomass ethanol production today! Should our Constitution and Bill of Rights share a different fate?
So now, the carefully cultivated majority wants their part of the pie. The pundits call it "spoils". Looks like just another garden variety entitlement program to me.
What's the point?
I am highlighting the mob rule our gang political pressure groups who could care less about the rights of the individual and the users of dysfunctional concepts such as reward for non- productivity and virtue attaining a value which works against the lives that ultimately furnish the virtue.

In Philosophy Virtue is ever the hand maiden of Value.

2009-08-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

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Sadly, it points back to the flawed idea that President Barack Obama could somehow fix the problems of Wall street without separating the speculative church of high priest lawyers and accountants from the state of collapsing businesses and virtue driven workers (many honest lawyers and acountants and business persons) who's value was that they alone create the goods and services which form the currencies of all true markets.

Barack Obama simply chose to support non-value derivative producing Wall Street with a bail out and true value goods and services Main Street with an unemployment line. But to get to this reasoned hypothesis we must comprehend the philosophical necessity that "virtue is the action that attains the value"; what ever the value chosen- the congruent virtue must fulfill it.
VIRTUE is the hand maiden of VALUE.
Horribly, the value chosen here was not Main Street with it's goods and services, but that of Wall Street, the producer of the empty toxic debt derivatives which collapsed the world financial markets and with it the promised and undeliverable welfare state.
The congruent virtue used to fulfill the value sought in the Wall Street bail out is Congress's Constitutional power to print money, mint coin and assign the value thereof.
Clarence R. Dember jr.

The Federation will be limiting your pay...

2009-02-05T17:11:00.000-08:00

Wait, before the hand basket to hell leaves the station, consider this:

Is limiting the pay of executives (lets start with those whose companies accept TARP and other government bail out strategies) ever a good thing?
Probably not.

One of the most blatant ways this has ever previously been done was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. That law was purported to do away with rampant fraud in the railroad industry at the time of our Nations tax payer financed Transcontinental railroad construction.
(note: The Great Northern Railroad was privately financed by James J. Hill.)
The anti-trust act collapsed an ongoing non-conflict of interest attempt by James J. Hill to open trade with China by sea.

It did punish railroads who had defrauded our government (they employed bad land surveying to lay more track than required to gain greater tax payer monies- A CONFLICT OF INTEREST- for the fraudulent expenses of more & substandard track sold by shell corporations the rail roads controlled) The new law broke these companies up. It was worded to ALSO BREAK UP the businesses of entrepreneurs who used their OWN MONEY- NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST- to spearhead international trade. I ASK WHY?

Poorly run uncompetitive government sponsored and or facilitated monopolies are the REAL problem, the real DYSTOPIA in business, NOT regulating the salaries of the executives in these moribund firms.

Additionally, when your profit margins are shrinking due to currency devaluation from too much borrowing, creating bigger corporations which use the same broken means of exchange (nearly worthless paper money AND SECURITIES) hardly goes to the root of the problem. It spreads the problem around and requires insider lobbyists to escape accountability. Smaller more responsible businesses are squeezed out of such a marketplace by political pull, rather than market competition. The aristocracy of competency is lost!

All such artificially propped up enterprises eventually collapse and lay waste to labor markets globally.

To sum up, RUINING an economy is like mating elephants; it's done on a high level while making a whole lot of noise.
Cla

Hemp Haiku

2008-10-23T00:03:00.000-07:00

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"Galileo's free,
from the Vatican's decree.
Free Hemp D.E.A.!"

There's no carcinogens in a brownie.There's no toxicity associated with the ingestion of cannabis.There are vaporizers which heat the cannabis to extract the THC without burning it; thereby eliminating the fumes associated with combustion.The human brain has receptors for THC.The hemp plant seeds have very little THC but are a complete protein.The hemp plant has served human needs for centuries until it was outlawed corporately. The federal government is a corporation. Virtue attains Value!

Primacy of Consciousness Melt Down

2008-10-10T09:15:00.000-07:00

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By now the wall street wizards along with their political soul mates have discovered whim is not equal to that which truly exists. The perception that wall street is fleecing the share holder won't go away. The fleecers have been too blatant for too long. Derivatives made of adjustable rate mortgages which defaulted collapsed the whole shell game, and now there's no propping it up.

Fiat money monopolists must ultimately fail to provide values.

2008-08-08T21:43:00.000-07:00

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So, being only Objectivists have the appropriate philosophical decks placed on the right philosophical supports (Objectivists standing on politics resting on ethics supported by epistemology on a proper metaphysical foundation) how can the scatter-shot macroeconomic plans of the fiat money monopolists (fmm) succeed?

It may be in the rational self interest of the fmm not to over (debt)load the Euro or the Amero and any other currency they come to control, or it may be in their "interest" to eviscerate these value storage metaphors as they have the Dollar (using their legions of altruistic minions). They (the fmm) don't speak our language. They are not motivated by objectivist decision trees. How can they provide us with a ... more cogent outcome, a value to our lives in the absence of this essential orientation? I don't think they (the fmm) have the philosophical framework to succeed in doing anything beyond "1984" the book, or World War II, the history.

Roman Catholics ban Ron Howard shoot in churches

2008-06-17T19:10:00.000-07:00

After 12 years of "Roman Catholic Education" I'm thankful to read anything Dan Brown is connected with. The movie turned out just fine in my opinion.
In my youth I was encouraged by my mother to become an altar boy. In the 1960's, it was still very much a male dominated function. At that time all of the responses we as altar boys were obligated to give back to the priest during mass were in Latin. When I went down for my orientation, in the cafeteria of my Grammar school, these responses were given further discussion. When the altar boy speaker at the orientation had a break for questions, mine was the first to be heard. "But what does it all mean?!!" I asked in my most earnest demeanor. "Just memorize it!" he exclaimed, in an exasperated tone.

There is No political solution for Medical Marijuana or Industrial Hemp.

2008-05-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

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The wrong Ideas get no results. Medical Marijuana for one.
Current mood: aggravated
Category: Life

I don't think there is a political solution to help implement medical Marijuana. Politicians, have made everything illegal that takes away their power. Everything!
FDR made owning gold illegal for a time, William Randolph Hearst and his political patent hungry friends made Marijuana cultivation illegal in 1937. No amount of science or economics will resurrect industrial hemp if politicians have their way!

Richard Nixon signed the law that made real money unusable for legal tender in the United States.

Allodial rights to property has been removed in favor of eminent domain ready Real Estate.

I saw a film about how the tide was turned which allowed legislation to pass for suffrage of women in the United States. At the Kentucky Derby women threw themselves in front of the entertainment, and were trampled to death. This became the political embarrassment that lead to quick FEDERAL ratification of women's suffrage. Such an act couldn't be spun into terrorism or mental illness by the politicians. I do not advocate such altruism for the cause of Cannabis. I am merely pointing out how that problematic intransigence of the political mindset in those times was addressed. Have politicians changed since then? Has there been any incentive to?

Politicians will retain as much power as the people concede to them! Also because bank charters have allowed banks to finance both sides of a war; strange and criminal financial deals have proliferated in our history. For instance, Prescott Bush was vice president of a bank that was seized for supporting the Nazis.

During alcohol prohibition in America Al Capone wasn't the only alcohol smuggler.

Donald Rumsfeld was instrumental in powering Aspartame through the FDA investigations to it's current worldwide status among food additives, although dorway.com will show you why it's so toxic.

Europeans are renowned gastronomes, but did you know that they don't gain as much weight as Americans because they don't suppress the activity of their thyroid glands by fluoridation of their water supplies??!!

Politicians! Live long enough and it becomes apparent who is causing you to catch hell.

Where in Tarnation is The American Industrial Revolution

2008-05-05T18:33:00.000-07:00

This country is in possession of some of the greatest coal reserves in the world. Cheap Coal and Steam power drove the American Industrial Revolution. What we use for energy today is much much more expensive. This is what government sponsored monopolies in a mixed economy do; corner the market with specially designated territories and inflate prices. This is the opposite of innovation & competition folks!

By calculating war as part of the gross national product and by never living within some quotient of accounts receivable, the paradigm challenged hominids we call politicians can squander all that the productive sector of the economy will ever produce now and forever!

Preserving Privacy

2008-03-12T10:31:00.000-07:00

In the time that Eliot Spitzer held the Governor's post he was talented, insightful and productive. I am particularly fond of his attempt to eliminate payola in the music broadcast industry. Here is a man who understood that performance art should exist and gain patrons on it's own merits- not through bribery. To preserve an individuals privacy, certain human behaviors among consenting adults should have been regulated, not prohibited. To the degree that we have failed to regulate these human behaviors, we have failed to preserve and protect the privacy of those who are criminalized for participating in these private human behaviors among consenting adults. It is regrettable.
Going forward, we may avoid visiting the same fate on future citizens by ending the prohibition of adult patronage of Prostitution, adult use of Cannabis, Casino Gambling. Regulating and taxing these adult behaviors will provide revenue to enhance public safety and return us to a dynamic in society where the privacy of our citizens is preserved and protected by our laws.