LEARNING h 1

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE LEARNING h 1 I write a lot, on many topics, with some education, some experience,( military and civilian), running two businesses for over thirty years, a stable marriage that has lasted 36 years, raising 3 kids and putting them through college (out of pocket and with no student loans), and with 70 years of living, on three continents, and learning five languages, I think I know a little. Not bragging on myself here, just letting you know a bit about me. No you don't need college or a degree to know a lot. But you do need to have a sense of logic, sound reasoning, and know you may not know everything and should be willing to learn. A bull or a mule may be really determined, but he is not "right", we can both agree. Nothing in this world is the "final word" yet, no matter how right I may believe myself to be. Everyday we learn something new in science, in medicine, in computers, even in farming and making armaments. If refused to change our thinking, our ways, we would not have made any progress over the years. What we have, what you and I see today is the result of change, some over thousands of years, some just over the past few days, months or years. Time to time, we recognize that we are doing something wrong and change our "traditions" , heck we use to have out houses and now we just "use the bathroom" right inside our pretty home. It is different, it is totally against tradition also. Fact! I have titled this post as "LEARNING h 1" I plan to write more as a continuation of this post, I hope you will follow along. We have a strong tradition in this country, we buy older homes and remodel them, we buy older cars and spend money, time and great effort to restore them, we like to keep the original parts, I love that. We also used to take cars, in the older days and souped them up, I have never seen any one trying to tear down a souped car or a refurbished and remodeled home. When we talk about "taking over country back", what arr we talking about. We used to be great country, what made us great is that we made life better for ALL our citizens, we had strong families, we had great work ethic. We helped our neighbors, we built strong communities, we gave more rights and more freedoms to all our citizens, we had a great middle class, we had jobs with guarantees, and retirement and healthcare. We had companies that were made to care for the workers, they were forced to clean up their operations and clean up the environment. If that is where we want to take #America back, let's go. Yes there are serious problems in certain communities, those needs to be pointed out and addressed, right now the politicians are not solving problems, heck have no ideas about how to solve the problems. They know they all are the cause, left, right and center, open your eyes and see the truth, don't listen to them, tell them you need to see their plans and their actions. I WILL WRITE MORE M. N. R. 16 MAY 2022

INTO THE ABYSS 179 b

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 179 b We have to be really smart, to understand and to know. By definition we are not and that in itself is a hard pill to swallow. We like to think of ourselves as smart, really really smart. We are all above average. There are concepts that we fail to grasp, so our default position is to reject the concept out hand as either false or just not "right". Think about this, even the best scientists can vagus grasp the vastness of universe even though the can tell you that it 13.5 billion years old or that it is 93 billion light years across. They can give you the numbers but surely they can not in simple terms explain how big that is. But here are a couple of other things, we do not know for sure that the space is infinite. If the space is infinite indeed the the billions of galaxies or not it is mostly empty, to the point so that it is more than 99% nothing. Think of another thing, if we take into account the dark energy and the "anti- matter", it is all zero, nothing. Of course a human body is 99.9999999% empty space, really. So, in other words the space is empty, human body is ??? You decide! Is it not all than just our imagination? And we think we are so good/bad! What do we really know, what makes us so confident, we have created a reality, based upon stories we have been told, who we are, what we are, what is our role in the scheme of things, in this universe that we seem to believe that we exist in (which is an empty space full of nothing). Yes we are special, as long as we don't think about it. Of course there is something, if you like to think that way, look for some simple explanation, that may not be true, but it is palatable, we can add some salt, some spices, or just hold our noses and swallow hard. I WILL WRITE MORE M. N. R. 15 MAY 2022

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LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 179 a We think we know, we know a lot, most of us do anyway, it is one of the benefits of being a human I believe, especially in the "modren" society. We are supposed to know and thus we are supposed to have opinions, whether we know anything or not. We have no idea, in reality we really do not. WHT is your name Bob or Bettey and not Jack or Jill, can you give me a good reason? May be you were named after one of your relatives, so what does that mean, do you become "them"? Why? Ask, what does Bob mean anyway, can you define a "Bob", if I "Just" happen to know that your name is Bob, what does that tell me? We are not who we "ARE", we are born and we get a random name, if you were called Jim instead of Bob, you would have never known, you would have accepted the "fact" that you are Jim, and would be, probably" upset if I kept calling you Bob. You did not choose to be white or black, rich or poor, nor did you choose to be born in America, or the 20th/21st century, so there is that. What are we so proud of? Our stories are just that, a series of random "coincidences" over which we had no control over, none, zero, zilch. Yes, so much for all your great accomplishments. Our opinions also greatly depend upon our upbringing and circumstances, not our choices, the fact that you can even read this, is because you happen to have money, for whatever reason, that you can read English, for whatever reason, that you have eyes for whatever reason, and also maybe you can read this because you didn't die in a airplane crash at the age of whatever, or that your great grandfather didn't die in the 2WW and was able to procreate. We like to say that life is choices, we are wrong, life is chances, all of it, the electron on the oxygen atom that you just breathed in was across the universe somewhere just the instant prior, deal with it. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 12 MAY 2022

LEARNING f

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE LEARNING f Of course, like I said , we all have an ego, and ego doesn't work the way we think it does, not the way that we think. More that I say that I am humble, I am only stoking my ego, I become "proud" even of my "humility". And pride is a deadly sin. Proverbs 16:18 says, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” I like your comments, all of them, they teach me so much about myself, sometimes what I should do or think, and sometimes they also expose my own faults to myself, how I may be not thinking right, as I see how others think what I don't like. I forget. How is it that we can twist things to fit our own way of thinking, I have said many times that I am neither religious nor pious, and I don't delude myself, I know if my behavior is against the basic tenets of my belief system, there is nothing I can do to not have to pay for my indiscretions. It is true the absolution is offered to us all, but it is all said that I can not sin in the hope of being forgiven, it says so. Hebrews 10:26-31 KJV For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Tonight as I lie down to sleep, I will again review my life, and look at my deeds and judge myself and make amends before I am judged. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 09 MAY 2022

LEARNING e

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE LEARNING e We no longer are interested in what is right or wrong, we twist laws, #Constitution , the truth and even the #Scriptures to suit our purpose. Bothsides are guilty of it, I am guilty of it too (probably). It is not just as persons, as a society we all want to win, but it has nothing to with our lives. Most of us fail as basic human beings, at all levels. Just watch the news, and look at our society. We point fingers at "those others" we make fun of "them", but we are them. I was on the #foxnews blog, an item about sending signals to aliens, and the comments were about "LGBTQ", about gender dysphoria, what are you talking about, is that all you are worried about? Is that all you can think of, grow up. I said this much afew years back. We have been told that we must have screwed up lives, we must learn to adjust to dysfunction, that the society must be dysfunctional, that we must learn to adapt. I don't know what came first. The chicken or the egg. Was it predicted that the society doesn't know how to operate, what a family is or should be. Or that we, #conservative and #liberal just gave up trying, just to have a good time at the expense of the future generations and a peaceful existence as human beings. It is true that the "psychology" has been pushing "self" above all else, but where is the evidence that the conservative didn't fall in the same trap. Breakdown of society has had immense cost, and now it is too late to back up and regroup. It always go back to the same thing, both the left and the right claim to be doing "the right thing", but they are both the same. Maybe I will repost the articles I wrote back 12-13 years ago, a series " there are two paths" showing how the end result of the policies of the left and the right is always the same. For a quick and simple example, bothsides today want to censor the other side, both sides want the other side to shut up and be quiet, get out of the way, there is a simple reason for it. Our country is ruled by the extremely rich, they select the "representatives" they select the senators and they select the presidential candidates, yes they selected Trump also. So much the better to divide the people. Bothsides have a base of about 30%percent if the population that are ill educated, I'll informed and easily swayed, easy manipulated, and they will stick to their party regardless how they maybe harmed. Both the #liberal and the #conservative polices keep the working class in their place, and the longer these policies are in force, the poor will keep getting poorer, their numbers only expanding. I WILL WRITE MORE SOON YOUR COMMENTS ARE MOST WELCOME M. N. R. 07 MAY 2022

LEARNING d

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE LEARNING d all paradoxes may be reconciled." The Kybalion But have to see and know and understand the paradox, if not you are just lost, dazed and confused. We live in a society that is at war with itself. It is like where a family is fueding at home and someone breaks in an steals everything in the house. We have a society where everyone is stressed because we all want to do everything, have everything, be like everyone else and have no cost. We are a society where therapy is offered on line. Therapy is offered on Facebook, Google and on YouTube and the therapists need therapy themselves. We are a society where everyone is losing and everyone is winning all at the same time. Not what the phrase actually meant when it was coined, but in a very literal sense though our while life has become a "theater of the absurd", our lives our wants and needs, our wins and losses are absurd. Over two years ago, I had predicted the aftermath of the current "healthcrises", the stock market crash, the employment loses, the inflation, the run away spending, the supply chain problems and the shortages. We were actually set up for the fall, the healthcrises was just an excuse, just as Ukraine is. We are losing as country, we are losing our freedoms, we are losing our future, but we are told that we are winning. The new world order continues, the population control agenda continues, the lower standard of living for the general population is at hand, but we are winning, by losing our rights. We are celebrating the death of Roe V Wade, like it will put bread on our table and the chicken in our pot. What we used to know as freedom has lost any meaning or relevance. But, we are winning. Life is all about "in your face", there is no decorum, none required. Our politicians, our justices, our police and our judges , our teachers and our leaders behave exactly the same as those we so "lovingly" call thugs. Strip off any titles and our congress people, our senators, our presidents and governors behave exactly the same as some shoplifters and petty thugs, or big thugs. Watch, observe the manners of any one person and try to judge what class or category they are from. At least in that much we are truly democratic now. Are you sure you have won? Whatever you think you did, whatever you wanted to win, you think you are right, and that is why you won. I always come back to the "self", Maybe this has been a bit confusing, I meant it to be so, make one think, Galatians 6:4 But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another I WILL WRITE MORE, SOON M. N. R. 06 MAY 2022

RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY 161 a

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY 161 a Maybe you are new to this page, or maybe you have been along for while, I thank you. I was recently barred from the page for a week, as I posted below it was a mistake of "the platform" itself but! I have bolgged for many years, as the intro says, "it is a personal blog and not a news site" I do, however, post many articles of news each day, the ones that I find of interest myself and hope you will find something of interest in tem also. That is not the point either. The title says "RANDOM PSYCHOLOGY " so let's talk psychology, a little. I have stated that in today's world one needs an IQ of say 115 to stay afloat. Mind you the average IQ is a hundred, so easily over half the population of any "set" is below average and can be manipulated if one so desires. Stay with me. If I gave you a blank page and asked you to tell me the story on that page, you would rightfully think that I have lost my marbles. So I hand you a book, and ask you to tell me the story, (without reading the book) could you? Say we open the book and look at the words on the pages, can we now know the story? Of course no, we must read the words, in order and continously, page by page, still we don't know, not really, because if ten people read the same book, the same story, each person will have a different understanding, oh they may agree basically, but the story will mean different things to different people, depending upon their own understanding of the world. Or it should. Then we could have a hundred people write the same basic story and we will have different ways of how the story is written, who comes as the hero or the villain, how the scenes are ordered, what words are used to manipulate emotions.and so on. Once again, how one perceives the story will depend upon the readers own social status, values, upbringing, education, and so on. The adage say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", it is also true that what we observe in life, what we feel about life, what we think of a situation or think of people per se is totally subjective, whether true or not. Sadly, we all think of ourselves as both "informed and open minded", nothing is further than the truth . To say that you have "found the truth" is to admit that you have stopped searching. I will write more BTW if I am blocked again or worse 1tombstone2.wordpress.com tombstone001.blogspot.com @tombstone001 M. N. R. 30 APRIL 2022

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FINAL THOUGHTS d I haven't written anything for the last couple of days, frustrated I the word. We in America are proud of our "free speech", limited as it is. As if you didn't know, in recent years protesting has become more limited, not just due to the government restrictions alone either. Protesting against political ideas has restrictions, protesting against major corporations is always limited by local governments, as we in cases of Amazon and Wal-Mart unionization efforts, and the coal mines in Alabama. Political protests are limited, and many times, in our polarized country, opposite sides are more than willing to shut eachother down. And "I am holding on for a hero". And Elon #Musk is not it. Our country is no longer a functioning #Democracy, Politicians and the media are owned by the oligarchs and if you believe that they are interested in listening to you or I , or that they care what the "average citizen" thinks you are a fool. I haven't been on Facebook for two days, I haven't missed it, but that is not even the point. I have had a "blog" since 2006, where I write my personal thoughts about different things, the politics, the society and the economy, for some reason #Facebook has decided to shut me down, accuse of posting things I didn't and there is no recourse, no on to talk to, and the decisions of their bots is final, screw your free speech. Of course it is a private company that is not obliged to. But what is free speech, and what is the future of free speech? Everything you say or do is monitored, every phone call, every text, every keystroke is recorded, don't believe me ask Kevin #McCarthy, the leader of the #Republicans in the house. But I am not as shameless or dishonorable as he is. When the message is controlled, when the media is controlled by billionaires, your freedom of speech doesn't matter, if you are on #Facebook or #Twitter, if you watch any news channel, if you read any papers, the message is controlled, your news feed is manipulated, your thoughts are controlled, you are brainwashed, with your permission of course. Luckily I have other outlets, I have a blog on WordPress, and I will revive my blog on blogspot, may be, in time, I will get back on Facebook again, do also have Twitter account, join me, let's talk. 1tombstone2.wordpress.com tombstone001.blogspot.com @tombstone001 M. N. R. 26 APRIL 2022

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE

life in a new way

Life in a new way


LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE

A third world country

A proud but a third world nation page 1

We are turning in to a third world country. I know I rant a lot about the economy and the political discord among those we have chosen to run this country.
We also choose these to protect our constitutional rights and protect us from injustice. So much for that ideal. Time and again, over the last fifteen years I posted and wrote about corruption and abuse of our judicial system. Now, on the internet, you can see the police brutality even murder of our innocent ( until proven guilty, right) and innocent (not suspected or involved in a crime) countrymen.
One thing I also taken note of is that those that consider themselves involved are doing no better than sitting at a computer ( including cell phones now) and clicking away at links.
It's a joke, on us! No one cares how many pictures you take, post or share, those in the law enforcement know you are not going do any more than sit on your butt and wring your hands.
Law enforcement is not just your local police and sherif , it is your city council, your county commission, your district judge, your state house, your state senate, your governor, your congress person, senator, justice department, the FBI, your Supreme Court and the president, and the juries that are selected at all levels.

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Iran the new best friend

A friend indeed
We must not be ashamed at all when we screw people over until we need them. That is what our common culture has become, has it not. We have friends, then we have "friends with benefits", we have marriages with prenuptials , so it goes.

Did we not try to create unrest in Iran in 2009 after their elections,
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2009/06/as-iran-burns.html?m=0
Luckily Iran did not end up in same place as say Syria, Iraq or Egypt, we tried.
We tried to implicate Iran in various terror plots against the US, no matter how far fetched and improbable, we tried.

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2011/10/fix-is-in.html?m=0

We said that Iranians were helping Bashar in Syria while McCain was out there "hamming it up" with our favorite terrorists.

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2012/03/fix-is-in-ii.html?m=0
Of course we were supporting the terrorists in Syria , still are, we trained them and paid for their equipment but mow the snakes are biting, did I not talk about snake handlers a year ago?
So here we are asking for help from Iran, can they be trusted? Can Iranians be trusted? What of the give the terrorist a free passage to the gulf, then?

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Israel’s New Abyss » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

It Sounds so much like our own free and democratic United States,  only that we are not yet occupied by a foreign power but by our own elec ed government.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/24/israels-new-abyss/

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To: LETTERS DOTHAN EAGLE

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From: mohammed52@yahoo.com
Date: June 21, 2014 at 10:02:12 PM CDT
To: LETTERS DOTHAN EAGLE <letters@dothaneagle.com>
Subject: Poor

I am often accused of being a liberal, I am not. Just because I am a bit learned and like to study subjects and only then form my own opinions instead of listening to some one else and parroting what I hear does not mean that I am some kind of lefty.
I have previously written that we have too many poor and they keep reproducing more poor. That we should offer young girls a stipend until they have a child and then it stops. I have also proposed that the poor should be put up in barracks, separated by gender and then fed in a mess hall, so when it comes to this I am not so far away from the main stream of the Republican Party.

Indiana GOP candidate: 'No one has the guts' to let poor people 'wither and die'
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/11/indiana-gop-candidate-no-one-has-the-guts-to-let-poor-people-wither-and-die/

There are, however, two side to a ledger, if we go through with my proposals, Walmart and Dollar stores will lose customers, not only that, pawn shops, furniture rental stores and such will go out of business. The police will write fewer tickets and face layoffs, no drug dealers to bust, no prostitutes to pay the DA and the court system, or lawyers and bondsmen. Lot of people will complain that their rentals properties are vacant and worthless, cable company, power company, phone company may increase rates due  to fewer customers. Of course used car maker will be dead too, and so on.
Some of the things to think over!

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A Case for a Higher Minimum Wage

Let's talk real money, 3

A Case for a Higher Minimum Wage

I use examples with which most readers may be familiar, movies, ordinary books and sometimes the scriptures. 

In the movie "The Hunger Games" each of the defeated states are made to live in poverty and squalor and also required to offer "tributes" from among their population. Luckily our leaders are not handing us over to our masters to be killed, yet!

While we complain about the government spending and deficits and social spending, we fail to improve the lot of if our ordinary people. One of the bigger scams is called " bringing good paying jobs", this works because most of our people can't do simple math, don't understand money, can't budget, and have no idea that our leaders are really crooks, ( May be they are just ignorant and calling them crooks is giving them way too much credit).

I have lived in Alabama since 1979, that means I have lived here longer than more than half the people of the state. 

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Let's talk real money, 2

Let's talk real money, 2

If you are poor, middle class or even upper middle class, I have a question. 

Our government is in debt, government spending is out of control, and you and I and everyone else owes a part of this debt, equally! Government has spent money on student loans, housing and also welfare, but as we know the money is spent.  We here our leaders complain about the national debt, complain about social spending, defense spending and all the rest, but the question is, where is YOUR money? Why are yo not rich? When you complain about spending why not ask where is my money and who has it!

Ask Obama sure, but he has only been in the office five years, ask your senator, ask your congress person, Obama is a creation of Wall Street, he is a sell out, but what about the Republicans, in the last 33 years the country has had a republican president for 20, ask all politicians, don't blame the other guy and sleep. 

Since the close if Vietnam the country has run deficits, every single year, every year larger than the last. Clinton's surplus was a sham and I have shown that, it was partially created by using social security deposits as income and partially because the fed was printing money to create the internet bubble, we the poor and the middle class paid for it dearly!

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You are not a fool

 

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Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine  This Is A Must Watch Video A brief and crucial history of the United States Please send this video to your contact list and tweet often, so that we send it viral. Let us remember "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President - 1797 - 1801 Now is the first day of a new beginning. Each one - Reach One- Each One - Teach One Posted February 23, 2012 - Class War Films   Transcript Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening. Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era. For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry. America began with the invasion of a populated continent and the genocide of its native people. Once solidly established, it grafted enslavement of another race onto that base. With those two pillars of state firmly in place it declared itself an independent nation in a document that nobly proclaimed the equality of all mankind. In that act of monumental hypocrisy America's myth had its beginning. * * * A Constitution was written that came to be regarded as American Holy Writ. Its central purposes were to defend private property and suppress mass democracy. It has fulfilled both those mandates beyond the wildest dreams of its creators. Once the existing oligarchy was secure in law and native people largely exterminated, the ruling class increased its wealth and power fantastically in the 19th century, using the government as its enabler, exploiting to the limit the device of chartered corporations. With its phenomenal money power, the financial elite began to use the military to expand its sway beyond the continent. Regions, territories, islands, and whole countries were annexed, invaded, and possessed outright, their peoples crushed, suppressed, and ruled. Because ordinary Americans, like any people, need to believe that whatever the ruling elite undertakes in their nation's name must be essentially benevolent, noble in purpose and justified in fact, the myth had to be radically modified for imperial expansion. The foundational story was that Americans had come to a howling wilderness teeming with godless savages and, through invincible strength of character and purity of purpose, had tamed the land and honorably earned the right to possess their bountiful home. In the era of extra-territorial expansion that version was polished to justify and ennoble imperialism. The new corollary was that America could not ignore colonialist brutality but was obliged, by the Manifest Destiny that led us to civilize our own continent, to carry our mission into barbaric darkness wherever tyranny created abuse and suffering. A national myth that absolutely binds the loyalty of a people to its government must be a subtle and powerful elixir that elevates and aggrandizes that people's self-regard. National policy will then appear to be an extension of its superior citizenry's inchoate will, and the basis for a justified arrogance toward the lesser world. The simple, powerful myth of America's altruistic and heroic benevolence, shaped and maintained by the financial/political power elite, infused Americans with a deep and outrageously hubristic sense of racial superiority that, mobilized behind various imperial enterprises, has given all such adventures the character of a quasi-religious crusade. In this way insatiable imperialism acquires the apparent moral perfection of a syllogism. * * * With WWII, the world was reconfigured. American Capitalism emerged supreme from the horror that had virtually wrecked its capitalist partners. The Soviet Union, though, having absorbed by far the greatest devastation from Nazi Germany, had astonishingly risen above its ruin to become the leading challenger to America as a world power. This challenge was not competitive, it was systemic: Soviet Communism was a direct threat to American hegemony in that it categorically refuted the philosophical basis of Predatory Capitalism. Grounded in Marx and Lenin, it attacked Capitalism's inherent evils, monstrous inequities and flagrant injustices that, exacerbated by speculation, exploitation and fraud, would destroy it. And it promoted world revolution to that end. This face-off of giants in the Cold War necessitated further refinement of the American myth. Now, instead of simply intervening in situations where despotism or tyranny required America to forcefully implant our just and ethical democracy, America had to become the shield and bulwark of the sacred capitalist system in which "free enterprise" was magically and increasingly identified with democracy and equally to be defended. This version prevailed through many surrogate confrontations around the globe in the era of Mutually Assured Destruction and survived even the debacle of Vietnam, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union, as the propaganda stream became ever more intense and pervasive. On radio and television Americans were subjected to an unrelenting barrage of hyper-patriotism in which American moral superiority was a given, and America's self-touted courage, generosity and decency were its unchallengeable proofs. The implosion of the Soviet Union left America, in its own terminology, the "Sole Superpower in a Unipolar World". This, however, did not result in diminution of the myth. The practical effect of having no doomsday enemy--China couldn't plausibly be cast in that role then--was to supercharge it by increasing its element of pure, hubristic ego. America was no longer just called upon to defend the "Free World" from monstrous heresy; it was now, by virtue of its universally acknowledged, beatific "exceptionalism", required to oversee and police it in the interests, and for the benefit, of lesser nations. * * * "Power corrupts", said Lord Mahan, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely." When the only rival and counterweight to American power disintegrated there was a sense within the American power elite that the opportunity existed, for the first time in history, for one country to absolutely dominate and effectively control the entire world. This consensus was expressed in a policy statement composed by a cadre of major right-wing political players representing massive corporate capitalist interests called the Project for a New American Century. This triumphalist manifesto laid out a plan for absolute American access and control of essential resources and raw materials worldwide, to be guaranteed by the military which would enforce Full Spectrum Dominance. The American Myth, which had seemed to have lost momentum and its animating principle in the totally unexpected so-called Cold War "victory", was now re-energized with a less defensive and reactive essence, and given the glowing radiance and patina of a true and, for the first time, self-professed and articulated, imperial mission. The attack on the Towers, an unimaginable provocation, was the trigger mechanism for the explosive launch of the effort to impose that imperial model in practice on the world. * * * It has been without question the most spectacular failure in the history of American misadventure. After a decade marked by the waste of trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives, the stunning bankruptcy of our internally burglarized nation, and a consequent recession more fundamentally damaging than the Great One, Imperial America has nothing to show for the botched folly of its arrogant overreach but unequivocal disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with no end of madness in sight. An impartial observer would have to say that the hypnotic hold of the American Myth on the loyalty of the people has led only to disgrace and disaster, and set a direct course to inevitable imperial decline and ruin. That would be inarguable on any rational basis, but it entirely mistakes the motive for, and the purpose of, the myth. The American Myth was never intended to serve the interests either of our country or of our people: it was created solely to buttress, shield, and exalt the ruling financial class. It has done that with astonishing and unbroken success that staggers the imagination from our earliest days. The massive looting of Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan war funding to enrich the Corporate Tyranny—for that is what it has become—is on an unique scale of its own, without anything remotely comparable to its flagrant obscenity in the whole long history of war. Neither the Pentagon nor any branch of the U.S. government can give any accounting whatever of the many billions of tax-generated dollars that have vanished, evaporated. There is no doubt but that beyond the outrageously inflated, no-bid contracts handed to giant corporate favorites with their preposterous guaranteed profits, much of the money was simply stolen in bulk by, through, or in spite of the military, and distributed among thieves and accomplices, some of it on huge pallets… for convenience, presumably. * * * While this wholesale robbery was going on under the oversight of the military abroad, the Corporate Tyranny had evolved a whole set of impenetrably complex devices for the generation of money without any economically productive source or result at home. The sole driving force and purpose of Capitalism is the realization of profit. According to that calculus, reducing production costs increases profit margin. This leads to the obvious conclusion that as production costs near zero, profit is maximized.    There is no provision for social good in Capitalist theory. Corporations, created to optimize business opportunity through efficient specialization, were originally required to operate for public benefit but that provision was quickly finessed and forgotten. American law courts have always favored corporate concentrations of wealth since they, like the Congress, exist to serve the moneyed interests. The American Myth was created to provide cover for the financial oligarchy to exploit the country and the citizenry, and the judiciary has consistently cooperated in ruling for corporations against the people. Indeed, without ever considering the question in law, the Supreme Court long ago endowed corporations with "personhood", that is with all rights of human beings under our Constitution. The way this travesty occurred--the slipshod by-product of an obliquely related case--shows that the court preferred to incorporate this perversion of the plain intent of the 14th amendment as an unexamined assumption rather than risk an eventual test which would unquestionably have created violent public outrage. Given the collusion of Congress and the courts in securing legal invulnerability for the Corporate Tyranny and the principle that the only duty of corporations is maximization of profit, it was not surprising that megabanks, huge brokerage houses, giant insurance conglomerates, gilded hedge funds and the credit agencies pretending to certify their work, all engaged in massive and systemic fraud and deception for just that purpose. The result was the crash of '08, the recession, and the stunning and unprecedented rescue and bailout of the biggest banks, investment houses, and insurance and credit conglomerates with taxpayer dollars. So much for the hallowed Invisible Hand of the Free Market… * * * The last decades have seen two related megatrends in American geopolitical mechanics, both with dire effects on the power of the American Myth. First, what belief the world at large had in it has been shattered by a catastrophic series of imbecile and irretrievable military failures and disasters, which has caused erosion of its efficacy at home. Second, in response to this, the State has made increasingly crude efforts to boost the Myth's waning power by the imposition of totalitarian methods of surveillance, intimidation and coercion on the American people to a degree unprecedented in scope and scale. The whole clanking, medieval apparatus of Homeland Security that has sprouted like an enormous poison fungus since 9/11 with its brutal police state mindset; the odious Patriot Act with its flagrant subversions of the Bill of Rights; the endless, fantasy-based terror-peddling of the prostitute corporate media with its clowns and harpies churning irrational fear and anger in the uninformed: all this grim, repressive endeavor is a concerted attempt to distract Americans from the real causes of their injury, abuse, and oppression. And yet, even with the American Myth now totally and irreparably blown full of holes and exposed demonstrably for the tissue of lies, deceptions and frauds that it has always been, it somehow keeps its phenomenal hold on the great mass of the American people. The tragic reality is that, for the majority, their own identities have been so deeply and thoroughly infused with the myth that to disbelieve it is to disbelieve in themselves. * * * So the American Myth is dead, and yet it lives on in its deadness, horribly masking our crapshot economy, our bankrupt debtors prison of a society, our Ghost Dance charade of kabuki democracy, while typhoons of impending social, economic and ecological disaster build their enormous, lightning-charged thunderheads above the dark future before us. And what is it that the dead Myth still imperfectly obscures for Americans? What is outside and beyond the opaque wall of faltering, failing dishonesty and deception? What is the horror that the shoddy, tattered Myth has so long and so effectively concealed? It is the world that has suffered unrelieved exploitation by the violence of our imperialist mania. It is the many wrecked and pillaged economies financially looted by our imposed predatory capitalist austerity regimes. It is the teeming hundreds of millions of starved, deprived and dying children sacrificed to Wall Street commodities gaming. It is the multitudes of humble, innocent, ignorant people, barely surviving in absolutist and dictatorial regimes propped up in their barbaric cruelty by our military while our banks siphon off the profits left after arming their brutal police and armies and bribing their ruling Kings, Sheikhs or Generals. It is the millions of dead and maimed in the raped populations of simple tribal people whom our indiscriminately murderous juggernaut has left in its bloody wake in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is the appalling legacy of hate and repulsion, disdain and fear, that America has earned with its appalling hegemonist villainy in every corner of the world. And at home, what is it we Americans have been so complicit in hiding from ourselves in our devotion to the perverse legend that has come to inhabit our souls like a succubus? It is the millions of us with no work and no hope in middle age whose jobs and homes have been devoured by the heartless fraud machine of Wall Street. It is the trashed and demolished weedlots of our major cities eroding in crumbling, fire-gutted ruin. It is the many towns and cities with industries shut down and factories deserted or dismantled and shipped overseas. It is our decaying, disintegrating public schools, our bankrupt states and counties, our overtaxed, antiquated public transportation systems, our obsolete, dissolving infrastructure, our bloated, irrational prisons complex, our punishing and inadequate health care disaster, and over it all, the repressive mechanism of our police state, armed and empowered, ready for use against the American people themselves. * * * This is where we are. The great question now is whether we as a nation can awaken from this long historic nightmare and face the terrifying and exhilarating prospect of living in the full light of reality without the false props and dishonest constructs of a hoodwinked, herded and dishonored people or, whether we have internalized the falsity and disease to such an extent that it has become an organic, overmastering form of insanity? In 1846, Henry David Thoreau, offended to his soul by the injustice of the American government's invasion of Mexico, protested it and went to jail for his convictions. Later, in his essay On Civil Disobedience, he said this: "If injustice is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine." To attempt to break the hold of the American Myth will be a titanic, daunting challenge. To even begin to openly rebel against the might of the National Security State will require the courage to face much more than official disapproval and denunciation. Imperial America will not respond to even the most peaceful and orderly protest with anything less than hard police repression and the level of punishment will rise in relation to the scope and seriousness of the action undertaken. Small protests will have no effect and will be meaningless. Organized mass events, when they occur, will draw the whole fiercely and brutally motivated National Security State apparatus down upon themselves. Americans, excepting those of our underclass who have felt it, have no experience with violent police or military repression. Those who commit peaceful civil disobedience, a first and innocent tactic of serious protest, will swiftly find out to their cost how it works. In a National Security State that has excised and eradicated all defensive laws and regulations intended to prevent abuse of the public, whatever the State does is legal. To such a pass have we in America come as a result of our long historic indoctrination in serving our financial elite, our Ruling Class. To achieve any redemption for Americans, to make possible any more just, humane and life-honoring society, will require complete abandonment of the system of Predatory Capitalism. If offers no prospect of reform or improvement and we have all been witness to the idiocy of the so-called "democratic process" in action for generations now. America is nearing the greatest crisis point in its history and the terrific cataclysm, when it happens, will determine the future our country is to have. If we cannot, in dominating numbers, rise to reject the heartless, mindless, soulless machine of Imperial Predatory Capitalism, we will be condemned to a fascistic command and control horror in which human beings are mere possessions of the State, units of production or service, and then perhaps not even that, as excess population in that brave, new world nay be eliminated. That end is not inevitable. We are not lost. We are not even defeated because to this moment we have not engaged. We have not honored our responsibility as human beings. We have not risen to defend our humanity. We have let ourselves be ruled. All around the world the thunder of vast and immeasurable discontent can be heard and felt. In Egypt and Spain, Jordan and Greece, Iraq and Sudan, Afghanistan and Ireland, Latin America, the Far East and Africa, the legitimate anger of humanity is expressing itself against the dead and killing hand of Predatory Capitalism and its agencies of violence. And here, in America, so long trapped and encapsulated, frozen like a fly in amber in a false religion of state idolatry, the anger is deep, widespread, and growing. It is up to those who know and care to lead. As Thomas Paine said, "These are the times that try men's souls." Nothing is guaranteed us. That can't matter. We cannot be concerned with odds or outcomes. We cannot let the Machine of Injustice grind on. We must oppose it with all the moral force we own. We must act with quiet courage to confront a vicious tyrannical system that is destroying the earth, its life, and its people. We must put our lives on the line to oppose it. The Nightmare Machine of rapacious exploitation has overthrown humanity's decency and reason and its bloody inhuman treason flourishes over us. This must be ended. Let your life be a friction now to stop the Machine.  See also -  The Century of the Self - How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

The Whole World Is My (Third World) Country! 2

The Whole World Is My (Third World) Country! 2
There are million important things to talk about, and there are million reasons why you should be paying attention. Yet you are busy, busy talking about BenGhazi, you are busy talking about starvation, you are busy talking about Obama's passport while your kids are making they can support.

Not to worry though, if you are a believer in any of the monotheistic faiths, your "sins" are already forgiven and soon a Messiah will come to deliver you.
But wait, what if you are not a believer or the Messiah will not come soon enough, the stuffing of humanity is weak.
I wrote about the "event horizon" that the humanity is facing. It is not science fiction and it does not have to be a conspiracy theory, but the most of humanity, the end is near, you could even see it from a Sarah Palin's house.
We have lost the battle, because we have lost our everlovin minds.

Ever see that card that one side says, " how to keep and idiot busy, look on the other side, on the "other side" the same phrase is repeated. In America today, and in the rest of the world too, billions of people are kept busy flipping the same card over and over and over.
In congress the right keeps holding hearings on Benghazi, captivating millions and the left is blaming the other side for all that may be wrong with the other side, but never mind folks, stay tuned, it will get exciting one day when our leader get something meaningful accomplished. Please, I beg you do not hold your breath, or may be I wish that you would.
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The Whole World Is My (Third World) Country

The Whole World Is My (Third World) Country!

This is sad. I am told that (sometimes) my writings can be depressing, you are too kind, don't worry though, I will only commit suicide when I am declared terminally ill. Many people I know have Already killed themselves while they are still living.

Earlier today I posted about John Kerry saying that "it is not Islam but poverty that is giving rise to terrorism, we'll Kerry, welcome to my world.
It has been long acknowledged that poverty gives rise to radicalism. I have noted that Russian revolution, the French Revolution and the Arab spring all had basis in income disparity and ( relative) poverty. The breakdown of the Mexican society, the Syrian instability exploited by outsiders, all have similar upbringing. Actually what is keeping peace in many places, even like China, is social spending and spending on infrastructure, to keep the masses busy.
Around the world, the third world countries have somethings in common, the poverty, the disparity between the rich and poor, corruption, power of big money ( corrupting influence of rich on country's policies).
The rich buy politicians, the politicians manipulate the policies to suit the rich, the rich pay off the politicians, the police and even the military to stay in power. You see where I am going with this?
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_25730092/obama-at-walmart-hundreds-gather-outside-mountain-view
But I will speak to this point later, not tonight.

There are two things happening in "broad day light" and in your face that you have failed to see.
World wide the poor are getting poorer, the wages are being lowered and the countries, states and towns are begging industries to come to "their place" and they will gladly screw their poor and cater to the whims of big money. Chinese are moving factories to Vietnam and USA corporations are moving production from "high wage" Columbia to Bangladesh, isn't globalism just peachy, screw our American brothers, please.
It is funny, no it is NOT damn funny, idiots. New York and Texas ( and all the rest ) vying to see who can bend over more and take it deeper.
Read here for even more.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=782744978403412&id=337495259595055

That's not even all, the rich have declared that they own you and they don't have to pay any taxes either, tax us and we will take our money and go some where else, and the cities, the states and the countries are wiling to kiss their asses too, so how different are we from say Nigeria or Pakistan any way?
More to follow!

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United We Stand? 3

United We Stand? 3

IF. When small children don't get their way, or are otherwise disappointed, they throw a tamper tantrum, grown ups are expected not to!
If true, then we must be a nation of little children. From the left and the right, the tantrums ever grow louder and no one wants to hear the other side, no one wants to budge an inch, no where is it more evident then in our own esteemed Washington, DC.
Hey, why not? We are a nation if whiners and complainers, left and right everyone wants everything and wants it right now, without having to sacrifice anything, obviously.
We want tax cuts for the rich, or unlimited welfare, we want clean environment and drinking water just don't ask us to stop using fertilizers, growth hormones, or to stop driving our cars, big homes and whatever. We want to ban abortion and birth control, but do not dare ask us to stop screwing around or having babies we can not afford. We want school prayer, but don't ask us how some many that HAD school prayer became hippies, druggies and had babies out of wedlock. And that is just for starters.



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The Whole World Is My (third world) Country

The Whole World Is My (Third World) Country!

This is sad. I am told that (sometimes) my writings can be depressing, you are too kind, don't worry though, I will only commit suicide when I am declared terminally ill. Many people I know have Already killed themselves while they are still living.  

Earlier today I posted about John Kerry saying that "it is not Islam but poverty that is giving rise to terrorism, we'll Kerry, welcome to my world. 

It has been long acknowledged that poverty gives rise to radicalism. I have noted that Russian revolution, the French Revolution and the Arab spring all had basis in income disparity and ( relative) poverty. The breakdown of the Mexican society, the Syrian instability exploited by outsiders, all have similar upbringing. Actually what is keeping peace in many places, even like China, is social spending and spending on infrastructure, to keep the masses busy.

Around the world, the third world countries have somethings in common, the poverty, the disparity between the rich and poor, corruption, power of big money ( corrupting influence of rich on country's policies).

The rich buy politicians, the politicians manipulate the policies to suit the rich, the rich pay off the politicians, the police and even the military to stay in power. You see where I am going with this?

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_25730092/obama-at-walmart-hundreds-gather-outside-mountain-view

But I will speak to this point later, not tonight.

There are two things happening in "broad day light" and in your face that you have failed to see. 

World wide the poor are getting poorer, the wages are being lowered and the countries, states and towns are begging industries to come to "their place" and they will gladly screw their poor and cater to the whims of big money. Chinese are moving factories to Vietnam and USA corporations are moving production from "high wage" Columbia to Bangladesh, isn't globalism just peachy, screw our American  brothers, please.

It is funny, no it is NOT damn funny, idiots. New York  and Texas ( and all the rest ) vying to see who can bend over more and take it deeper.

Read here for even more.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=782744978403412&id=337495259595055

That's not even all, the rich have declared that they own you and they don't have to pay any taxes either, tax us and we will take our money and go some where else, and the cities, the states and the countries are wiling to kiss their asses too, so how different are we from say Nigeria or Pakistan any way?

More to follow! 

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United We Stand? 3

United We Stand? 3

IF. When small children don't get their way, or are otherwise disappointed, they throw a tamper tantrum, grown ups are expected not to!
If true, then we must be a nation of little children. From the left and the right, the tantrums ever grow louder and no one wants to hear the other side, no one wants to budge an inch, no where is it more evident then in our own esteemed Washington, DC.
Hey, why not? We are a nation if whiners and complainers, left and right everyone wants everything and wants it right now, without having to sacrifice anything, obviously.
We want tax cuts for the rich, or unlimited welfare, we want clean environment and drinking water just don't ask us to stop using fertilizers, growth hormones, or to stop driving our cars, big homes and whatever. We want to ban abortion and birth control, but do not dare ask us to stop screwing around or having babies we can not afford. We want school prayer, but don't ask us how some many that HAD school prayer became hippies, druggies and had babies out of wedlock. And that is just for starters.


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United We Stand? 2

United We Stand? 2.

We are enamored by our media, we love our news, we have free media, wrong!
Freedom and democracy require a free and open media as well as free and open discussion of issues of the country.

First of all it is difficult to have an open discussion and exchange of ideas in a nation where so much information is kept under wraps for reasons of "state security". We have no idea what our government is doing on our behalf and in our names.
Worse, what we call an open and free media is all owned by big corporations and billionaires, do you really think they are looking out for your interests over their owner's?
The media create ideas, implant ideas in your head and nurture these, encouraging you to believe no one else but them, your favorite channel of course. So if CNN or MSNBC make you depressed or disgusted you can turn to FOX any channel any show and soon you are raging homicidal, suicidal maniac, no depression here.
Media are used to separate the populous, to divide the country and to reinforce negative feelings towards each other. Any idea that will separate one from the other will do. And while the people fight each other, are ready to harm each other, the thieves are looting the country blind, don't you wish the Russians had it this easy?

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-are-we-so-damn-stupid.html?m=0

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United We Stand

United We Stand? Most Americans are a proud people. But actually I could have used any nation and any flag to represent the title statement, short and sweet. But in reality it is a meaningless phrase, it does not represent the reality of humanity. Americans, as most people of the world, anywhere in the world are deeply divided lot, factionalism reigns supreme. Our leaders laud the unity of the country when in reality they can barely talk to each other, can not get along and holding back the country fro the true progress needed to advance the country. We are torn along the political lines, policy lines, social lines, and yes I will say it, along the religious and ethnic lines. Our so called leaders might as well be Nigerians or Ukrainians, they are using these divides only to promote and project their own political power and agendas to the real detriment of the country at large. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Thoughtless Minds, page 4

The Eternal Sunshine of a "Thoughtless Mind" page 4


@neiltyson: Our Common Sense is not derived from what's true in Nature but from what our senses perceive to be true in Nature.

Serendipity or dumb luck, many times when I write or talk about some things, I have no problem to find supporting and contemporary examples.

As it was with this local strike. Governor Bentley came here, ten miles down the road to talk about " high paying jobs", ironically or just stupidly he did not come by to support the strike, so much for good paying jobs. My story continues after you please read the warning below, it is important. Just so you know what I am about to say may in fact not be true.

You may call me a hypocrite, I have already admitted that I am, you know me as a conservative, as a gun toting, constitution quoting anti big government type, you know me. But then I had my reasons, as a human, to support the strike and the workers rights, and that makes me a communist.

Bentley reminded me of an experience, once, it may also apply to those in strike as people, like myself, that grew up in sixties or seventies. Read Warning!

Bentley talked about high paying jobs, Bentley is a moral and upstanding person, Bentley is conservative too, like me.

Back many years ago I got a date late one night, we went to my place, she told me she was married, she did not want the lights on, next morning she had to leave early before her husband was up so she could be ready for the service.

We may go on strike for higher pay or better benefits, we may may tell lies about high paying jobs that we are creating,
Somethings never change.
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Thoughtless Minds, page 3

The Eternal Sunshine of a "Thoughtless Mind" page 3
Does one have to be thinking to be a hypocrite? I think it is automatic, we tend to do it so naturally that we don't even notice ourselves. I am a smoker, I have heard some horror stories about the behaviors of ex-smokers, worse than a bad mother in law they say. ( not being sexist, thank you for noticing.
We have people with great health care plans begrudging those that don't have one. Those opposing the affordable care act are the ones that scare us about death panels, but without insurance you don't even get a death panel, you just get death.
I have heard that the government can't make you buy services, yet we buy car insurance if we wish to drive shouldn't we also buy healthcare if we want to live?
Then if one gets sick the government makes the doctors and hospitals treat us, why can't the government just make the builders just build us a new home if ours gets destroyed. Don't you think that forcing the doctors and hospitals treating the uninsured is communism of the worst kind ?

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Thoughtless Minds, page2

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It is not just that our leaders, our politicians, bankers and industrialists can not recall the political and financial policy failures of the past, it seems that at all levels of humanity the standard practice is, to get out of hole, dig deeper.

How can we blame these, they are from among us, like us, may be bit more money or connections, but still. If they borrow money to reduce the deficit then who among us does not do the same in their home.

BTW why does John Boehnor always has that look of a third wife that did not have a turn last night, I know what I am talking about.

We should have a "jackass" or "Ridiculous" show for politicians too.
Oh well, I was talking of people in general, just like our politicians we make bad alliances too. Look at Iraq, Panama and others, we loved them one day and hate them the next, then you know how much a divorce costs these days.
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Thoughtless Minds, page 1

The Eternal Sunshine of a "Thoughtless Mind" page 1

Pardon me for stealing and paraphrasing the old movie title. The comedy about having the ability to have your brain cleansed of off all painful thoughts would obviously be a bliss but who needs that.
In most instances many people cannot only not recall a thing about their past let alone, it would appear, learn from it.
Evolutionists and creationist will both agree that human memory had a lot to do with the human advancement. But here, at the start of the 21st century, there is ample evidence that we have lost the capacity to remember, there are strong indications that we are regressing.

I will be back soon, please come back and follow my line, it may just only entertain you, I will make sure of that. Do not be shy, comment and share.

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A True Statement

A true statement
Warning! What you read here May or may not be true or my personal experience, if asked, I have the right to disclaim and disavow any knowledge or any part of it, I have the right to perjure myself even in the face of any evidence, facts or witnesses. I should always be presumed to be innocent, always, just like a politician, or an officer of law.

Now I will tell you some stories.

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The Eternal Sunshine

The Eternal Sunshine of a "Thoughtless Mind" page 4

 @neiltyson: Our Common Sense is not derived from what's true in Nature but from what our senses perceive to be true in Nature.

Serendipity or dumb luck, many times when I write or talk about some things, I have no problem to find supporting and contemporary examples. 

As it was with this local strike. Governor Bentley came here, ten miles down the road to talk about " high paying jobs", ironically or just stupidly he did not come by to support the strike, so much for good paying jobs. My story continues after you please read the warning below, it is important. Just so you know what I am about to say  may in fact not be true.

You may call me a hypocrite, I have already admitted that I am, you know me as a conservative, as a gun toting, constitution quoting anti big government type, you know me. But then I had my reasons, as a human, to support the strike and the workers rights, and that makes me a communist.

Bentley reminded me of an experience, once, it may also apply to those in strike as people, like myself, that grew up in sixties or seventies. Read Warning! 

Bentley talked about high paying jobs, Bentley is a moral and upstanding person, Bentley is conservative too, like me.

Back many years ago I got a date late one night, we went to my place, she told me she was married, she did not want the lights on, next morning she had to leave early before her husband was up so she could be ready for the service.

We may go on strike for higher pay or better benefits,  we may may tell lies about high paying jobs that we are creating, 

 Somethings never change.

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A true story

A true statement 

Warning! What you read here May or may not be true or my personal experience, if asked, I have the right to disclaim and disavow any knowledge or any part of it, I have the right to perjure myself even in the face of any evidence, facts or witnesses. I should always be presumed to be innocent, always, just like a politician, or an officer of law.

Now I will tell you some stories.

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The Eternal Sunshine, page 2

The Eternal Sunshine of a "Thoughtless Mind" page 2

It is not just that our leaders, our politicians, bankers and industrialists can not recall the political and financial policy failures of the past, it seems that at all levels of humanity the standard practice is, to get out of hole, dig deeper. 

How can we blame these, they are from among us, like us, may be bit more money or connections, but still. If they borrow money to reduce the deficit then who among us does not do the same in their home. 

BTW why does John Boehnor always has that look of a third wife that did not have a turn last night, I know what I am talking about.

We should have a "jackass" or "Ridiculous" show for politicians too.

Oh well, I was talking of people in general, just like our politicians we make bad alliances too. Look at Iraq, Panama and others, we loved them one day and hate them the next, then you know how much a divorce costs these days. 

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The Eternal Sunshine

The Eternal Sunshine of a "Thoughtless Mind" page 1

Pardon me for stealing and paraphrasing the old movie title. The comedy about having the ability to have your brain cleansed of off all painful thoughts would obviously be a bliss but who needs that.

In most instances many people cannot only not recall a thing about their past let alone, it would appear, learn from it.

Evolutionists and creationist will both agree that human memory had a lot to do with the human advancement. But here, at the start of the 21st century, there is ample evidence that we have lost the capacity to remember, there are strong indications that we are regressing.

I will be back soon, please come back and follow my line, it may just only entertain you, I will make sure of that. Do not be shy, comment and share.

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Cannibalism Redefined, part 11

Cannibalism Redefined, part 11

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..."I
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities

I did not start writing this series, two weeks ago, to address the current strike. The strike just fell in my lap as I was on a certain topic. Irony is not lost on me that I defend higher wages, more benefits and better treatment for many that may not be as fair to those that are less fortunate than them. I know there are those on picket lines that shop at box stores to save a few pennies rather than support local small businesses. Like I said there may even be some die hard republicans their that are against minimum wage increase or want lower corporate taxes. I respect your feelings, I do not agree with your opinions.

Humans always do the same things expecting that they are smarter than previous generations, able to produce better results while they repeat the same mistakes of the past.
We read history and old books that carry all warnings and we say then, "we believe" and proceed to do different.
The book above was a warning also to the English. The French Revolution preceded the Russian, and the Chinese followed the Russian, were there no warnings?Before the Egyptian uprising against Hosni I had asked, " what if the public lost the fear of dying?"
Workers in America are being oppressed at all levels, the true unemployment is near thirty percent if you take away the "safety net" payments. It is a good time to read "The Tale of Two Cities".






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Cannibalism Redefined, part 10

Cannibalism Redefined, part 10 A few thoughts on eating your kids. We are all guilty, we were admonished to take care of our own, to be kind to poor, widows and orphans, and take care of them, etc. "For a man that was once a clot of blood soon forgets from whence he became, and says where is the proof". I am not religious and din't even pretend, there are messages in the ancient texts, however, that still are true if the human condition. I am sure there are many out in rain standing up for better treatment and humane condition that may have, more than once, look down upon the less fortunate, I do not fault you. From the age of about five till nine I was raised in abject poverty. With my father away at college, my mother, a school teacher struggled to feed us three kids and a brother that was also a student in college, school teacher in poor countries don't make a lot, five of us in that house, a half pound of meat a week was luxury we could seldom afford. Many nights our dinner was scraps of bread. I have no life, few friends, I do not drink, do not go to visit people, I have three kids, I want them to live in world that does not look down at them, I do not want them to suffer in poverty. If we keep tearing down each other for this reason or that we will not end up in a good place. How low can we go? We were told not to worship money, but we do. Not just our own money, but the money that the others have, America was not supposed to have lords and barons, we have them now. At the same time while we begrudge each other over a few dollars, our political leaders are selling out our country, our states, counties and townships, with tax abatements, free services, employment services, free training and yes welfare and medicaid for the workers for the low low wage for low low prices, while the smaller business people fall by the wayside. Thanks to our politicians, our social security is broke, our 401ks are stolen or lost, our sick pay and holidays and pay raises keep disappearing, If this downhill slide of wages, and benefits keeps going what will our kids live like, our grand kids, what kind of country will we leave them in, what will our country look like. As some fight for a decent life, lets stand with them, they are fighting for us, for our freedoms, our way of living, just as the soldiers on any front line, it IS the American thing to do, It Is the right thing to do! Lets not feed our kids to the monsters, let leave our kids a future, a good future, there are consequence to selling your soul. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone