tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36422128518602226472024-03-08T05:36:30.047-08:00Amnesiac Americadeadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-50793283484369923162016-03-22T19:48:00.001-07:002016-03-22T19:57:46.274-07:00What Are We Forgeting and What Do We See Via Media NOWI don't remember how much gas I pumped in Aunt B's Chevy but I do know it only cost $35.00 to fill'er up. What are we forgetting and what is happening according to our media now? Gas is only about $1.77 per gallon where I live. (follow the analogy with me for a moment.) I know that and I know that I am only putting in as much gas as I can whenever I can to be sure I take advantage of the low price per gallon not seen since around 2006 or 7. We can't go back to the 50's when it was .15cents a gallon. Things are nothing like they were back then. But some things haven't changed at all. It is still best to spend wisely, Invest conservatively and thoughtfully. The media still puts out the message (and tampers with what we think should be important). We should try to manage our own house before we start advising and compelling others to think the way we do and do as we do. The unknown is still unknown. Not that we can't know more if we try to research and investigate. Schools still teach us how to learn rather than what we need learn according to a syllabus written by a disinterested bureaucrat removed from our kith, kin and starting point, we hope And although we shouldn't exclude any groups, we should neither push so violently against another's right to think and say whatever one would about those groups or for that matter any topic that anyone could think to put forward, no matter how complex or how simple, that one is able communicate. In this country, however, there are many who think their cause is of such incredible weight and need of concentrated effort that they will cast aside any other potentially clear headed approach other than the course they have constructed albeit with great diligence and sincerity. Thus they work too hard to wrest the reigns of power from all comers even if it means a complete abandonment of the principles that allowed them to have enough space to work in coming to their epiphany. Some of us are out their to seize the moment for themselves and many would do the seizing with balance and consideration and do as much good as they possibly can. We must remember that it is a rare breed who can do this in such a creative and novel way as to be what is the true mark of a revolutionary. Many however grasp with great ferocity but little ingenuity. Bringing nothing truly visionary they follow the paths already blazed using the apparatus of tradition reading from a script written before without the insight to see that they bring no new tool to a task before them because the world into which they were born had such bleak featureless and weak underpinnings that it could rarely foster someone who can see outside of the box. Just because we do not act in a violent manner does not mean that our behavior is not capable of achieving the complete shut down of another's right to have venue for their speech. At one time our free speech was easily noted as the right to say or publish what we wished as long as what we said did not infringe on the liberty of another's or likely, due to customs, family and cultural seclusion cause a person to be more than offended, but unhinged because of humiliation, extreme embarrassment, or given so little respect as a human being deserves they lose their innate capacity to defend themselves and their interests as well. These values are not difficult to understand but our idea of values has become a thing that hardly fit even the simplest of definitions. Unfortunately, I am guessing because of the emphasis on exclusively liberal ideology and freedoms to the point of derangement many have come to believe that values are only cultural, something only for the closed minded and worth having if they are only ideals that we move around in some ethereal before there was any need -for- values-land. Values still count. Why? Because as human beings whether we like it or not we are finite and none of us has a monopoly on knowledge or its use, and further we are moody, emotional at times, rational and logical at others. One of the most important things about us is that we can work together as groups. We can bring together forces of intelligent strategic and ever growing capacity, generative function, such as to convert ourselves into tools. For example, government apparatuses are made of people who follow specific roles. Combining these components allow the generation of civic institutions or branches of government. As we continue as a "short lived"species (homo sapiens sapiens has existed as a species for no more than 200,000 perhaps140,000 years). This is but a minuscule segment in the churning biological fervent that is earth. This flora and fauna is constantly manipulating and re-assorting its genetic plastic. We are by far the most intelligent, most violent, curious,verbal and self aware entity that has yet to appear on the face of the globe. We are capable of incredible self extension mechanistically and emotively. We are compassionate, but vindictive and blame casting. We hold great promise as well as potential for DEVALUING who and what we are. We deserve better than casting our prospective presidents as cliches. Those same candidates should care enough to speak beyond politics and find new speech that we can see ourselves becoming. Simple categorization is an insult to thought, to values and casting people who might hold the greatest office in the world as we know it as buzzwords like bigots, racists or liars is lazy living and if we don't get our brains out of the T.V. we will get one of those as president. Hold them to higher standards and just about anyone of them if we really value them can be a great president. Crazier things have happened. <br />
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deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-22437019875872161372016-03-18T12:17:00.000-07:002016-03-18T13:38:13.520-07:00Trump, Sanders, a new but Historical Perspective.<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our rage has finally been tapped. The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">American</span> people have f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>nally</span> had <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it with the political inaction<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and therefor<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e we all will pay the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">consequences when election time a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rrive<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To g<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ive an example that many have <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not been perceptive enough<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> fo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r or given the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mselves <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">time fo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r it to filter thro<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ugh al<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l of the noi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">se<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t</span>he democratic <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">party although <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">re</span> certain<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ty distinct this time from the platforms of the re<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">publican ca<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ndidates they suffer from th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e same <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wildly di<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ffere<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nt platforms even within the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r on party</span></span></span></span></span></span>, just as do the republicans. Wh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y is this so<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">? Because all <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A</span>mericans<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> republican and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">democrat</span> alike are feed up with the status qu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o. It is ta<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ntamo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unt to the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Isrealites beggi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">god for a kin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g. The frustration is so intense that we had r<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ather have a dictator o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r a communist for a leader than have what we have no<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">w. In le<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ss <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">exaggerated</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> terms we had rat<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her have a Trump or a Sanders than a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clinton or a Cru<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">z. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again why? The two thi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ngs that these t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wo different new com<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ers to have in co<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mmo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n is that for the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">right,</span> Trum<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, like his name, gives obvious overtones of power to ratt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">le loose the gridlock and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">demand the "right" (think ha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rd working meritocratic and wanting their values to be ens<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ned so that when they have <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a good ha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd, and the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y can, like Tru<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span> "trump" and win the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">jackpot)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">accountability <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for what they see as a betrayal of the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ir government to fi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t for them and their needs <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ra<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ther than th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ose of the rich<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the "not American" (thin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">k outside our<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> borders and the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">threats</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">perceived</span> coming th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rough them). On the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Democr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">atic side we have a far left candidate who wants to sweep away a tax code that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Americans see as full of holes <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whereby lawyers fo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r the rich can sit and anal<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yze ways to subvert and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">maneuver ways to get by <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even the most clear cut standards for paying tax, and take full advantage of the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">subt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">leties in the language cleverly <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">constructed</span> by the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ir <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Washington buddies (Think Ex<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">xon<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a few years ago)</span></span> all the while the little man finds f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ewer and fewer paths to social mobility and u<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ltimately a decent standard of living. H<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e will get them free education <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">post</span> secon<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dary school and free healthcare for all and "for all a good ni<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ght"! (Think <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Santa</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C</span>lause).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>hey can't produce these <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">results but hey anything but the status qu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o! Yes Sanders is a senator but he like Trump gives an air of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">runni<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ng r<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oughshod over the power structure in place. Think of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dore <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ro<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">osevelt wh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o Le<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ft the Grand Ole Par<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ty (<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GOP) <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to found</span>, the progressive<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s (The Bull Mo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ose) after his dissatis<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fact<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ion with Taft and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Republicans</span></span></span></span></span>. He was a "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">trust buster</span>" (Think <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ghost-buster</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> who will assuage o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur fear of having th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at ghos<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t of corrupted power)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. This plan <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">backfired a situation I would hope w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ould</span> be avoided in the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">future</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. We formed this nation with that very idea in mind<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yes it was revolutionary and was created especiall<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y to check any a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">buse of power should it rear its ugly h<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ead. An<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d ultimately that is what <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">American<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s are demanding to check the abuses of the wealthy and those corrupted by the power of the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ir pos<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">itions as a politician, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The</span> job of a pol<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">itician,</span> such<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as it is,</span> has become, if you can get there, a very cushy,<span style="background-color: red;"></span> plush p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lace wh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ere ev<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ery<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one w</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ants to b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uy y<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">u lunch and whisper words of power to power. So here is where we are <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ladies and gentlemen. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So vote caref<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ully. I am certain </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>more us will,.... tha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n</span> in a long long time. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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Maybe its the anger over what <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America seems <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">incapa<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ble of <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">addressing much less f<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ixing. To start much of the electorate like it or not is the p<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">roduct o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">f ou<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r media as much as it chooses the media that says what it wants to hear. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You media outlets <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">big<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and s<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mal<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">l<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, in wha<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t ever ratio the above denotes, <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in what eve<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r combination, have with virtual<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ly no fresh commentary about the how or why and if an a<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nswer exists for the the above mentioned crisis are as guilty as any for bringing us to this point. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The media bares its share of blame in bringing us <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to</span></span> a br<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eaking poi<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nt, as it were, <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">forming the stark </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>real<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ization that<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> what we once had and were, is no longer <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">true. We have awakened from a n<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ightmare only to realize we already live in one. I<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n a society that has been demanding <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">greater and greater saf<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ety in exchange for<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> freedom<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s, Here we sit locked in a <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">very roomy but no safer nation<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Our power truncated in measure wi<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th much of the liberty we have tr<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aded in on a promise of a<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">l<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ife secure f<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rom external<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and internal threats all the while drugs of eve<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ry kind and those that are <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">illegal are redesi<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gned expan<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ding the <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">range of int<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oxicants o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r entheogens if you may<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Ther<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e is strife being <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wrought <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">among many cate<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gor<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y hea<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ings</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">abo<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ve <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">long lists of <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">grievances<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> most of them valid. Un<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fortunately the level of education that involve the areas of any you pick are woefully i<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nadequate<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This is not sol<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ely a condemnation of our educational system. ( It angers us too) <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ha<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ve oursel<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ves to blame for allowing a </span></span></span>vast federal government that is bloated beyo<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nd comprehension to s<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quander our money<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, money <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the most part we still ow<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e</span> (a<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pile of dollars <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when p<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ut</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in numbers <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the st<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ring of zeros alone is so stag<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">g<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ering as to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> beggar belief</span></span></span></span></span></span>). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> And we do not know ho<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">w to fix it. This lack of knowledge is partly the fa<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ult of our elected leaders who offer us no expla<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nation of what is going on in <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W</span>ashingto<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n. Or si<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ce it is<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> unlikely any of us have time for investigative resea<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rch <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( m<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">any of us hav<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ing 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in a job market <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wh<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ere min<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">imum<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wage<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s have falle<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so far behind in<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">flation parity that many weren't born when it lost its con-currency</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>). Let us <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">first address the issu<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e of knowl<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">edge of what our <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">role g<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">overnment plays in our lives. It touches on almost all aspects <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the way we live travel raise our children pay taxes what <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kind of healt<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">h care we have<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Our rights as bu<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">siness ow<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ners, what intoxicants we may consume ( w<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here and how ) our manage<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ment of personal information, how we dis<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pose of our wa<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stes. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ow educ<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ation is <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">regulated. It also <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">via the media promotes the tone and tenor of how we can and c<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">annot treat<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> each<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> other in terms of r<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ace sex creed<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. How to manage external threats to o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ur way of life and which threats we are to <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be most con<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cerned with. Many more<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The list is endless as the level of spending on pro<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">grams that supposedly provi<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">de ser<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">v<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ices so <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inefficiently that they tax our time and provide us no value.</span> </span></span>Jud<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">icial <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">methods and practice are st<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">raight jacketed such<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> th<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at judges have minimal methods of despencing justice. Law inforce<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">me<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nt in a time where crime i<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s statistically less than at any time since the <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1960's is built and <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">funded in large part by i<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ts focus of drug laws that allow it to sei<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ze property to fu<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nd itself. Thi<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s in a supposedly <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free capitalistic <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">country yet we have more of our p<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">opulous inprisoned (per capita) than any county on earth</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span>here presence </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>is unprecedented and or media has lead us to believe <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that they s<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hould be called to media<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">te the tiniest of dispu<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tes where we no lo<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nger believe we can manage our personal methods of resolving them and the<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">re<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by give up our own capacity <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">learn how to <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reat o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ne another when we disagree o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> function as a pr<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ivate family units. These areas I hav<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e des<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cribed are only crust of <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unending losses in personal libert<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ies we have be<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">en duped into believ<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ing can be better admini<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">strated b<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y a gove<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nment that has so litt<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">le forsi<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ght in manag<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ing for<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ign affairs<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that is <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chases false en<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mie<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s, believes it can police the planet and has managed trade<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">li<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ke a <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">naive kindergartner who almost every da<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">g<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ets bullied into giving up his l<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unch. We feel hop<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">less frustr<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ated and angry because we have been betrayed. Our leaders pander to the <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rich and p<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">owerful spe<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cial interest. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bloated <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">appropriation</span> bills that contain hundreds of litt<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">le favors to big business<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. the <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pharm<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aceutical lobby<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and end<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">less supply of lo<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lly<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pop<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s to unknown entities that fund their <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">campaign <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">funds to maintain<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> th<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ei<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r c<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">onti<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nued<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> congressional re<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">election; 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If the <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">above were<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n't eno<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ugh to inflame <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">our fury then I can el<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ab<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rate on that above iss<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ue of our inability to understand what is happe<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ing to us</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Should the Edu<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cational system be blamed? In part yes. But slowly we have come to see that the o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nly<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> time anybo<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dy has given us the courtesy of discussing anything the government <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is up to is at election time <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">r after a mo<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ment<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ous bill is past.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. 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But I have left them as they are.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898 https://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-33314960712611004112014-12-13T06:19:00.001-08:002014-12-13T06:19:44.185-08:00GoogleGoogledeadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-66750755968193375912014-12-12T12:16:00.001-08:002014-12-12T16:45:50.431-08:00Updating my own amnesiac state and pushing to reform my own knowledge has resulted in changes: To whit I will illucidateI have left this blog in sort of disarray and hope to correct that. I have been lately in a state of depression and this has left deficits, and I am in the process of mental renovation. Here are a few topics that have attracted my interest.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">In the world of academia and its processes that have resulted in a tradition that is fixed. Dispute and controversy go through channels. Scientific progress and the review of methodologies has its detractors and its defects that have been noted by some objective observers. Thomas S. Kuhn in his introduction of the very familiar (to many book), "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Said "History , if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. [The aim of text written by those in their time is persuasive and pedagogic ] a concept drawn from them is more likely to fit the enterprise that produced them than the image of a national culture drawn from a tourist brochure or a language text." (paraphrase here) 'The result has been an image of science with profound implications about its nature and development where in upon overturning some long accepted iconography often beggars belief in the mind of many how the previously accepted facts stood firmly as virtual fact in the face of the new paradigm.' </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">To many, today it seems almost inconceivable that many of the theories, some relatively new, some now so long standing and well supported that it appears impossible that they could fall, ( for example darwinian natural selection ). But do not forget that newtonian mechanics held sway for 250 years until a man named Albert Einstein upset the apple cart. I concede that newton's prinkipia matematica still holds for much of the smaller range theater ( for example the forces played out in a football game need little refinement from general and special relativity.) But quantum mechanics was difficult for Einstein to accept. But egos grow large...(imagine 5 revolutionary papers in one year) 1. the photo-electric effect (noble prize) 2. Brownian motion and proof of the existence of atoms. 3. General Relativity. 4. Special Relativity. 5. Mass energy equivalence that included the E = m(c squared)</span></span></span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">So the pace of science and its acceptance is personal. That is, it has personal effects and responses. Also the scientific method has certain tenants that are considered a prerequisite for scientific research and progress to take place.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">What is phenomenal is that application of the last 50 to 75 years of science has lead to an avalanche of dazzle among the public without a commiserate evaluation of the what best applications in a post 80's (no growth for middle to lower income persons) would have been best for investment </span></b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>if anyone had been analyzing the cornucopia of novel discoveries that should have delivered an at least notable improvement in living standards universally as well as taxable income if not for those on the lower rungs if we accept that the wealth went to to 20% peoples. (Why hasn't the deficit been eroded significantly during the period say 92- 2006?)</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Lets add the fact that it takes no presupposition "personal dazzle in the form of incredulity" to reach such a conclusion ( by that I mean personal incredulity being subjective) economics 101 should bare this out.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">We can see that </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">also there was no palpable outrage at the obvious gain by the wealthy through their betting against a market that they obviously set </span></span><span style="color: blue;">up to fail and that this clear no brainer was made unnecessarily complex by the media as well as the congressional hearings. Ok maybe I have covered a little too much in this post. But there is more to say that does not fall in the category conspiracy theory. It is just corruption plain and clear. There are more, many more, topics to cover</span> <span style="color: red;">that question where, we as a nation, are being lead, and why no one seems to notice.</span>deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-30517318673152690552014-05-05T14:40:00.000-07:002014-12-12T10:21:46.792-08:00Our public schools, our curricula, and even our home-life (via generational exposure to the proto-curricula of the of the same sort of which I will explicate following) degenerates and has degenerated our capacity to remember. I taught middle school and high school Spanish and French beginning in 1985 through 1992. Significantly, I began to observe these deficits and subsequently I began to use my own form of curriculum unimpeded (due to an unusual freedom because of a principal who was very pro teacher, defending the good as well as the bad in some cases.) Almost immediately I began to see a prominent correlation between dramatic and novel presentations of new material and memory. For example I would try all sorts strange connections to other disciplines like biology history mathematics, and alphabetical comparisons to Greek Russian and Arabic. I started teaching entirely in Spanish and French after the first week i.e. before I was familiar with the names of the students, I spoke only in the language I was teaching.deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-89337952241852618522014-04-05T06:28:00.000-07:002014-12-12T10:21:46.807-08:00deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-69001443076143977742014-03-30T17:57:00.002-07:002014-12-12T10:21:46.797-08:00Contextual mathematics of direct contact with nature, emotion, explanatory grace, poetry and prose......<div class="leftAlignedImage">
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complexity of this order of magnitude can arise by darwinian mechanisms
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analysis by some great scientist such as dawkins, wilson, dennet or any
other. Because they simply dont have a rebuttal that makes sense in
the darwinian mechanism. maybe there is some other mechanism that can
be at work. I dont claim to be a creationist but scientists ought to
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You're right. Behe IS right, that when you look at certain
biochemical processes, some things don't make sense. There are some
things we don't know. There are some glaring things that science has
not yet figured out. BUT, where Behe makes his mistake is when he jumps
from "we don't know how this happens" to "it MUST BE Design." Sorry,
that's not how science works. If we threw up our hands every time we
didn't have an answer to something and said, "Oop, it must be God," we'd
never figure ANYTHING out. <br /><br />As I pointed out in my own review
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in the natural selection theory. If he had left it at that, I could
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knows this is crap). Not one can give a specific simple example of how
behe can be challenged. simply stated they have no such answer. They
can't. Because Behe is right. no matter whether you believe in
creationism or design or evolution or what ever your stance, there
simply is no well articulated answer to his argument. when someone
points one out. not with some footnote, but a real explanation for how
complexity of this order of magnitude can arise by darwinian mechanisms
then ,...hooray but i havent seen it anywhere in any review or any
analysis by some great scientist such as dawkins, wilson, dennet or any
other. Because they simply dont have a rebuttal that makes sense in
the darwinian mechanism. maybe there is some other mechanism that can
be at work. I dont claim to be a creationist but scientists ought to
look at their shortcomings with some guts, instead of just poo pooing
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we have not yet progressed to a level of being able to explain certain
things but will in the future. 20 years ago my particular specialty
within my field did not even exist. Now we have the human genome
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There is a very simple challenge to what Behe has come up with: it's a fallacy.<br /><br />Consider
the logic of claiming that designed objects exhibit irreducible
complexity, and we see irreducible complexity in biological organisms,
therefore biological organisms are designed. It's like claiming that
rain makes things wet, therefore when we see something that's wet we
know it was rained on. Given the fallacy at the heart of Behe's logic,
it doesn't matter how many examples of "IC systems" he comes up with,
because they can never warrant the conclusion of design.
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Stephen - I would recommend "Finding Darwin's God" by Kenneth
Miller for a direct answer to the questions Behe poses. They have not
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deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-25397514596420140502014-03-30T04:25:00.000-07:002014-03-30T04:25:12.428-07:00<span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: blue;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">The following link is to a blog with a fair amount of ideological congruency with my own, but has much more density of information and more visually useful in its impact.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://integralpraxis.blogspot.com/">http://integralpraxis.blogspot.com/</a>deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-81430748230266142872014-03-26T10:17:00.003-07:002014-03-26T10:17:49.391-07:00All cartigraphers be warned. Decarte's demon may have been real<b>THE OPERATIVE PARAMETERS: </b><br />
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<b>2. LOST HISTORICAL EPOCHS AND HISTORICAL INACCURACY.</b><br />
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<b>3. CHANGE TOO RAPID FOR USEFUL ASSIMILATION BY HUMAN BEINGS.</b><br />
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<b>4. DISTRACTION, SUGGESTIBILITY, CONSUMERISM.</b><br />
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<b>5. THE PREFABRICATED WORLD. </b><br />
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<b>6. CAN ANY OF THE ABOVE BE ALTERED? </b>deadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01011719426074300898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3642212851860222647.post-79226587570591530142014-03-26T10:07:00.000-07:002014-03-26T10:07:59.011-07:00My ComaIn May of 2007 I created this blog off the fly. All I did was give it a name. "Amnesiac America". Seven years later, I happened to be looking at the (usually dismal) stats on my blogs. It was then that I noticed the amazing fact that this blog ( the only one where I never wrote a single post ) had more page views by far than all my others combined many times over. I have a hypothesis as to why this happened. Nevertheless, I wondered what kind of stats might be attained if there were actual posts with content congruent with the title. This is the start of that trial.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>No amnesia is identical. It usually appears as a constellation of broad areas of no memory together with some idiosyncratic deficits. This syndrome is unique in each case. I use here the medical analogy; each person presenting a syndrome unique to the circumstances under which it occurred. It's cause is physical, psychological, or both. An analogy of course is always limited. I probably will be unable to relate any physical parallel. No literary device, that I know of, can be useful here, and if there were, I believe it would distract rather than clarify. Also, there remains the question of refering to the whole of America or to a typical American, a distinction would appear to serve no purpose. I would point out, however, that Americans are at this point in history more similar as a group than ever before. Some may disagree with this of course, yet this perspective facilitates my argument without removing any important individual character that we may possess. Individuality may be an American ideal we cherish, but I believe we have forgotten its function, moreover, whether we know it or not it has become more a liability than a virtue.</b></span></span></span><br />
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