Religion and politics mixed with policy in government

An outstanding example of religion and politics mixing with policy was when the religion of Lord John Maynard Keynes ( expand markets without controls on debt ) evolved into the weak dollar policy we have today. Dr Alan Greenspan embellished this religion with an additional item of faith (removal of the Glass Steagal act of 1933) which then allowed banks brokerages and insurance entities (corporations being 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 to clients 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 of faith based beliefs. The road to fascist dictatorship is riddled with such belief driven 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

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?

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 ?

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?

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

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.