Libertarianism imagery

Libertarianism is the orchard that only grows stones.

Under God, One Nation, Indivisible with Blogs for all

Justice and Liberty for all. 
Such is the presence of the internet.
The fact is that today, any person on this planet in a free society can find a way to start one's own blog, twitter or other internet media type venue.
It is a miraculous time that today, any person on this planet can be his or her own media mogul.
The media moguls of the past have been the people who drive the spin of the world on this planet.
In fact, today, any person in the right place and time, can influence current events and if they are skilled, put their information, their concerns and their words on the screens of any eyes in this planet.

Whats wrong with the LEFT

Clearly being a liberal minded blogger, I despise most of the concoctions of the right wing agenda today in politics. 
That does not mean that I soup up every moment of MSNBC.
In truth, there are few television media personalities that today I regard as the voice of freedom and liberty in America.
I was watching MSNBC tonight and their new host Melissa Harris-Perry was decalaring foul play (of course and no big problem there) with Mr. Romney as to his commentary on another interview.  In effect, I agree what his commentary is relevant to discuss is wrong, but the pundit Harris-Perry goes at it to the extent that she Snubs Liberty.  I tuned out.
I also can comment on a few others.
Rachel Maddow who is usually concise in her documnetation of many problems on the right does in fact do a good job at a good level, but in truth, she loves distance and does the worst to outstage the right on all matters of any concern at all.  In effect, she is ratcheting the divide between the conservative and liberal minded voter. 
Occasionaly Ed Schultz does a good job, but in effect, he really is sort of a blow hard and I rarely find his show to be overly informative overall. I do not know.  I'll still be watching, but yet, where are the true liberal voices such as a Ben Franklin or a Thomas Jefferson of our Era.  I am waiting.

Wizard of Impropriety and ignorance

From Vos Iz Neias:
http://www.vosizneias.com/97330/2011/12/20/washington-house-wont-criticize-nazi-remarks-by-gop-lawmaker

Allen West continues to make assertations and allegations which in my social action justice system seem to oppress the weak, stigmatize the innocent and assault the dignified in the day of political discourse today.

My reply to this story:

Allen West is a pervasive exceptional rhetoric system of arrogance and ignorance.  This is the third time I have found his rhetoric to be without dignity or respectablity.

The story:
Washington - The House has defeated a resolution to criticize a Florida Republican who compared Democrats’ political messaging to the work of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels (GUR’-buhls).

Maryland Democrat Donna Edwards introduced the resolution to disapprove the remarks of Rep. Allen West. A Republican motion to kill the resolution was approved Tuesday on a nearly party-line, 231-188, vote.
West made the reference earlier this month when asked about Congress’ low approval ratings and blame that has been directed toward Republicans.
The freshman Republican was quoted as saying, “If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine.”
Edwards said West later made similar comments in a letter to Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan.

Keeping Religious records in Congress?

Curious,
I just got a Happy Hannukah Greeting by email from Ohio Senator Rob Portman.  I have not in any recollected memory recall that I informed the office of my religious beliefs and have not sent much communication on issues to his office.
Does this mean that some of congress might have records as to "who is jewish".  Quite a consideration and perhaps even a concern. 
Just curious as I was surprised to get a letter by any method from a senator or anyone in the government regarding my own religious affiliation and it does make me wonder what the purpose of any such record might be.  Unless this letter went to every constituent, I am concerned.

Constituent Services Issues& Legislation Newsroom About Ohio About Rob Connect Happy Hanukkah From The Portman Family Jane and I want to wish you and your family a very Happy Hanukkah. We remember the rededication that this festival commemorates, as today we rededicate ourselves to the important work we have yet to complete both here and abroad. We also remember the miracles of this holiday, as we renew our commitment to our friends in Israel, and to their security and safety. All best, Rob Portman

Identity Fraud in Broad Daylight

Identity Fraud in Broad Daylight: Insidious revisionism against the Jewish people December 19 , 2011

Dear Craig, We celebrate Chanukah today because 2,200 years ago the Maccabees restored the temple in Jerusalem and beat back an attempt from the Greek Hellenists to rob them of their history. But today an insidious revisionism is taking place, not by the “lunatic fringe”, but by the President of the Palestinian Authority. That’s what I stressed to the French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe (pictured top, right) when I met with him in Paris two weeks ago, and the point I also made to UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova (pictured bottom, right) on the day the Palestinians were admitted to UNESCO. “How can you grant the Palestinians full membership without protesting the remarks of their President before the General Assembly when he said, ‘I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the birthplace of Jesus Christ peace be upon him, to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people…’?” Excluding any connection of the Jews to the Land of Israel? No Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, no Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. I told them that, “Usually identity theft takes place without the victim’s knowledge, but Abbas robbed Jews of their heritage before millions in broad daylight -- and no one protested!” That’s why your support is crucial especially now, at the end of the year, so that we can carry on our important work to stand up to revisionism, to confront anti-Semitism, to make the case before the court of public opinion, to the White House, in Europe’s Parliaments, in Congress, and at the United Nations. Keep the menorah burning by lighting a candle with us. Happy Chanukah! Rabbi Marvin Hier Founder and Dean Support the Work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Tribute to Newt

Newt and Arafat sitting in a tree
One hates Jews the other kicks the kids in the knee
First came friendship then came war
Now arafat is buried and Newt Wants some More.  

Surviving the Storm only to be beaten by a rain cloud

http://www.vosizneias.com/96694/2011/12/11/seoul-korea-s-korean-towers-spark-outrage-for-evoking-world-trade-center-on-911

This is pretty self explanitory.

Governor Perry and his war on Gays in the Military and The Colbert Report

http://gawker.com/5866582/stephen-colbert-defends-rick-perrys-anti+gay-campaign-ad

This was so funny!!!!!

Governor Perry reminds me of a basket of cream pie from Boston that likes to stick its own tongue into its own cream filling!

Still feeling sick after over a year.....

I was just on twitter and I came across Lebron James's twitter subscription.  I hedged left and right and then I decided I might follow him.  I must say that after a few moments, I really came to grips with my feelings on my hometown's own, LBJ.  Mr. James is simply put on a Bag of Roses tour of the world.  I mean, this guy had a good place to work and a team that loved him.   There is really no reason that anyone would pass up a franchise that is build around the talents that he was given.
Simply put, I am sickened and continue to feel sick.  In fact, the sickness is so obvious and clear to me that its not an acute insult.  I thought that perhaps it was acute and that in time, I might think of Mr. James as a true sports legendary world renowned and of course loved player. 
I must say he really is not that loved. 
I can simply no longer feel any positive emotions in regard to his prosperity and basketball successes.
I would like to be a fan, but its impossible.
I cancelled the twitter subscription.

Lebron, nothing you can do from now on would make me interested in you overall, save for a major dispersement of 90% or more of your entire wealth to the animal shelters as well as perhaps a homeless shelter in maybe quite a bit of American Cities.

If you give to the homeless and if you take care of the animals, I will feel that you are acceptably orthodox and I will be impressed with your activities.  I really think that 90% is not a lot to part with. You likely will still have a multimillion dollar home and anything else you want in the world.

I do realize that being the elite today has its obligations in your own mind and thoughts to be a major enterprise of financial opulence and belonging.  I assure you that if you want to move ahead in this universe, its time for you to rethink your prosperity in terms of your own association with uber wealth.

I only say this becuase you have entirely lost the element of selfless respectablity that once was yours in so many ways.  I was your FAN!!!!!!!   I was hoping and cheering for YOU!!!!!!!

You let the world of many fans DOWN!!!!!!

So there is hope.  I read that you consulted a famous rabbi about your image and your future.   I can only wonder what he would tell you.

I am a physician and I am jewish. I keep the same laws as all of the rabbis.  I am a Jew.  And I will tell you this.... I can help you HEAL YOUR WORLD.
So take my advice,
Think about it a bit.
With the discretion of our G-d and creator who is VERY REAL, you might have the few futures of a truly successful and magnificent star in the views of all True Success Expecting and Loving Sports Fans.

And for the sake of G-d himself, Get yourself a very large Cleveland Browns Flag and proudly display it in front of your Bath, Ohio Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jon Stewart Combats Fox News' War On Christmas By Declaring His Own (VIDEO)

Good one Jon. America needs a christmas tree in every square. Its about all those pretty lights, right? I do not have a real issue with the christmas time. I even listen to christmas music a bit myself. I do however, have some concern about the wahoos on fox news who believe that America needs to dance in the lime light of the Jesus celebratio­n and of course, obey the wishes in and out of our town squares of the christian right evangelica­l sects who will only have the wishes given to them their way and no other way. I like the holiday. I might even go drive around tonight and see the displays. But spare me the illigitima­te excuse for your own demigoguer­y by telling me that there is a war against your holiness of your own walk of life. Noone is taking christmas off this planet and noone has a G-dlessnes­s about them if they wish you a happy holidays or happy season. This is Capitalism and we do.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Israel approaching a brink of citizenship terror

More and more today, there are postings on the internet describing events in the religious confines of Eretz Yisrael which go beyond simple uniformed challenges to the social norm of the era.  There is violence and terror and it is going to either continue indefinately or else The Land of Israel must indeed put up a new citizenship examination that involves military and police and thus the forces of the orderly to subdue the elements of the rancid acidic hatred and disjointed Israelis who seek to find reform through the practice of thuggery and vandalism that orders itself today as the most concentrated expression of Jewish outrageous anger in the history of the Jewish People to the best of my beliefs.

http://www.vosizneias.com/95933/2011/11/29/mea-shearim-bookstore-accedes-to-charedi-vandalist-demands-2

Israel is clearly not America.  America stands for trust and benevolence. Israel today begins a chapter of rage and acidic hatred.  True that Israel is homeland to the nation of Jacob whose own blessing is the guidepost to human relations today, the fact is that Jacob never envisioned his own children eating out of the troughs of neglect and disorder.  What has Israel come to that we no longer activate the powers of the voice and instead blow through town like the very same Nazis who destroyed all of our peoples lives in the holocaust?
Curses upon curses can not do justice to the inhumanity that walked the streets of Nazi Germany and today, and today the same indignified hatred and indoctrination of evil suffuses even Eretz Yisrael consuming a culture around its very core of existence.

Describing Modified Plenitude

Facts are that today there are people who are sailing on the oceans of everything while there are too many who are shipwrecked on the rocks of interest and fees as well as the whirlpool of poverty and inequality.
In fact, that these people continue among their losses and inopportunity while there are houses built upon foundations of overrealizing personal and private gain and surplus that surpasses all that perhaps is lost to the human beings that really do not have the future of a prosperous fortunate individual few.

Outcries of socialism sound in the light that someone wants to save the shipwrecks, as the old adage is that if you are shipwrecked, you can dig yourself out and nail your boat together and get on with your life by working and doing everything you can do as a productive and hard working American citizen who ascribes to prosperity and the American "way" of bringing home the bacon your own way and without the courtesy any any other man or womans hand lifted to give you a superficial edge on the poverty that sinks the boats of human endeavor and rights into the sinking abysses of unremarkable, loser, fool, imbecile, slob, louse, failure to plan and failure to save. 

In fact, this has become so rampant that today, we have the anarchist movement of the "99%" running around the villages and streets of this entire North American Continent.

So what is the future and what is our nation as a station of justice and peace to pursue in the remedy that perhaps we can indeed suffuse trust and blessings back into our citizenship and economy.

I will suggest to you that the idea of socialism is a ruse.  No true contributor to social justice can have a socialist way of life.  This is simply impossible.  True there are the socialists who bring about disorder and cravings for simple satisfaction from the masses of the well and healthy and righteous and rightminded and rightencompassed and rich.  But in fact, there are other ways that winning societies can address save and protect their own futures and ensure that the future is prosperous for not just those who are sailing the high seas of human experiences, but also those who have smaller boats and may stay in the shallow section of the social and political and financial reaches of human existence.
Thus perhaps there will be fewer ship wrecks and simply a boat festival of all the good children who really deserved some sort of home of the values of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness as that is in our view G-d given and proscribed through the blessings of all mankind.

So let us pursue the True American Way. 
Thus I describe here that the idea of increasing taxation upon the upper tiers of the earning hierarchy would simply be a method of a Modified Plenitude. 
Thus creating economy and wealth in places where the shipwrecked society is usually high and dry and deep in debt and deep in poverty.
This can be done and I am quite sure that with a Modified Plenitude there is still of course plenty and plenty and plenty for all who are in the city of making a higher living in America.

Revoluton of the mind and knob of a hand in the sky

The fact is simple, Twitter is the absolute indefinate and newly placed grassroots movement that supplants all grassroots movements that ever were and ever will be.

The new adage was one "I think therefore I am".

Modified today,  It is now "I twitter therefore I belong".

The war against honor

True to the fact, America has a war waged by a faithless sort that is waged against a simple concept of humanity that we extol in all of our venues, namely Honor.
True we are attacking the honor of humanity today.
The News Station on Fox Television is the leader of heresy and foolish total insincere inhumane dissertation that is bent upon yielding the form and wanting preferences of the ultimately well off Americans from being tempted by a sinister named true honorable way of life, that of a liberal minded thinker whose existence is to allow for liberty and the pursuit of happiness.   This is fleeting and foolish.
True you may not politically be aligned with those who are liberally minded on all of the issues today, but in fact, the facts are that liberalism once acheived does not in any way want to be dismantled.
Do we go back to slavery?
Do we disallow women to vote?
Do we recourse back to times where we have a monarch over the days of American Colonists?
Clearly we do not.  The constitution is a liberal acheivement and if you want to attack the way of life for the liberally minded aptitudes of today, that is your perogative.
But to wage war and stigmatize liberalism and stigmatize "liberals", you have basically signed your own death warrant from a G-d that believes that Honor is dignified and that pride is wholesome.
G-d is true and so too is the force of liberalism in the development of human ideals.

Conservatism is good too. It is not the ying and yang of the liberal conservative array of human accomplishent.
The fact is that conservative values endure as well and making the world a better place is when you can decide between what is a true conservative value and what is really just antiliberal bias and inhumane indiscretion.
Conservatism is championed in things like energy conservation,
Conservatism is championed in things like buiding a better steel industry.
Conservatism is championed in the documentation of works and interests so that we do not spin into a spiral of forgotten leadership and knowledge and go about rebuilding the bridges that we already have in place.
But of course, conservatism is not the true value of the codifying of a system of regular stations of human existence that is to be challenged in terms of its true right to exist or its inherent merit.
Conservatism builds bridges.
Conservatism builds bonds.
Conservatism does not argue with our G-d as to if the idea of abortion is in G-ds plan, I assert that it is indeed a stay of human discretion and human strengthening and if you want to argue whether that is G-ds true plan or not, be wise and speak your debate.  But to disavow the liberal advances, you are going to instill a dread in human intellect that there are going to be those who stigmatize and castigate the intelligent and sophisticated leaders of today and the future.
And stigmatization is not a conservative axiom, it is a heretics wand of joy and impropriety.

Discussing liberal and conservative minded beings

I must remark that the fact is very simple that a liberal is not a designation for a human being. The fact is that they are liberal minded and not a liberal anything. They are not liberals in the same sense that you are not a screwer of light bulbs. You are a person who may screw in a light bulb.
So if I can detract from the ingrained heresy of the especially radical right of our towns and vicinity, the real way to talk about liberalism is to denote that someone is liberal minded rather than a liberal.
And the same goes for the conservative minded Americans. You can be quaint and say they are conservatives, but in truth they are conservative minded.
So if you want to give to the radical destructive minds on the right, keep calling people liberals. You will not be a proper spoken person and you will simply be in fact endorsing a system which does in fact offer itself to a radical way of patronizing the established proper order of mankind by segregating it into one group or another. In effect, we all can be both conservative and liberal minded in many of the situations we encounter and one modality does not in fact negate or trump the other.

Another reason to like Jon Huntsman

Calling all progressive Rock Fans, I hear that Mr. Huntsman is one of us!!!!!
Posted on twitter today, his favorite RUSH album is 2112.  Great news!

Internet posting and anonymity

I read an article in the NY times dated 11/27/11 today that was discussing the idea of making all postings on the internet subject to an identification.  Here is a blog entry from an ACLU lawyer addressing this comment:

Sunday Dialog on Anonymity and Incivility

The Times chose Anonymity and Incivility as the topic for one of its Sunday Dialog pieces, and included a letter from me as one of the responses. 

If I'd had more space, I would also have pointed out that unless you are a computer whiz, there is no such thing as anonymous speech on the Internet. While you may choose to adopt the screen name Mark Twain, anyone with a court order can force the company that provides you with internet access to reveal that your real name is Samuel Gompers—and thereby hold you accountable for any libelous speech you may have uttered.

Moreover, the Internet is the greatest and most democratic medium for free expression available to us. The ability to use a pseudonym has been an American value since the Federalist Papers were penned under the name Publius. Much will be lost if the powerful companies that moderate most online discourse eradicate the ability to engage in anonymous speech.

Of the letters that were published, I found myself particularly moved by those from people who comment frequently online, and yet say they would not feel comfortable doing so if they were required to use their real names in all cases.

http://catherinecrump.blogspot.com/2011/11/sunday-dialog-on-anonymity-and.html#comment-form

Posting on the internet is both a personal matter as well as a candid example of what you are able to acheive with some sense of alter ego anonymity.  For political commentary, it is your voice rather than your pen that is important. 

I enjoy blogging on many sites that have a political nature and by using a screenname, I enjoy that I can build a reputation and a consideration and yet no family identification or other personal matter is considered in my sharing of discussion and writing. 

It is important that we do not assign a manditory identity on every thing that we do online.  Of couse, I am absolutely sure that there will be no 1984 moment of big brother that takes over internet rights today.  It would be very hard to change the direction that the Internet has existed since its inception as far as commentary in some venues is tasted.

From the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-anonymity-and-incivility-on-the-internet.html?ref=opinion
Sunday Dialogue: Anonymity and Incivility on the Internet

The Letter
To the Editor:
Facebook has 800 million users who are required to use their real names (“Naming Names: Rushdie Wins Facebook Fight,” front page, Nov. 15), and, as a result, are identified with and accountable for what they post. It is time to consider Facebook’s real-name policy as an Internet norm because online identification demonstrably leads to accountability and promotes civility.
People who are able to post anonymously (or pseudonymously) are far more likely to say awful things, sometimes with awful consequences, such as the suicides of cyberbullied young people. The abuse extends to hate-filled and inflammatory comments appended to the online versions of newspaper articles — comments that hijack legitimate discussions of current events and discourage people from participating.
Anonymity also facilitates the posting of anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic content across the Web.
To be sure, there is value in someone being able to use the Internet without being identified. Online privacy is a major issue today. And in the United States, we have had a great tradition of anonymous political speech. Elsewhere, dissidents in oppressive regimes have felt free to speak up precisely because they believe (perhaps erroneously) that they cannot be identified.
This is not a matter for government, given the strictures of the First Amendment. But it is time for Internet intermediaries voluntarily to consider requiring either the use of real names (or registration with the online service) in circumstances, such as the comments section for news articles, where the benefits of anonymous posting are outweighed by the need for greater online civility.
There is no bright-line test, but Internet sites permitting user-generated postings can make a judgment that in some instances the use of real names benefits society.
CHRISTOPHER WOLF
Washington, Nov. 20, 2011
The writer is an Internet and privacy attorney and leads the Internet Task Force of the Anti-Defamation League.
Readers React
When striking down a law prohibiting anonymous distribution of leaflets, the Supreme Court wrote that anonymity serves “to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation — and their ideas from suppression — at the hand of an intolerant society.”
It’s no secret that some people use anonymity to say vile things about others. But before urging the likes of Facebook and Google to banish such speech, think about the gay person who isn’t in a position to come out in the “real world,” but feels comfortable doing so online. Those who need help with personal problems. Those with political opinions they don’t want their bosses to hear.
Or think about your younger self, and whether you’d want everything you said as a teenager to be permanently linked to your real name.
Ugly insults are just one small part of all the free speech that anonymity makes possible, and it’s not worth closing the door on all that speech to make the world more polite.
CATHERINE CRUMP
New York, Nov. 23, 2011
The writer is a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union.

Cigar Rights

I am unhappy to know that there are bills being considered for the abolition of some cigar smokers rights here in America.  Here are the details. 
If you want to visit the site for Cigar Rights, the web address is:
www.cigarrights.org
There is a place to sign to petition your legislators.

Here is the bills details per the cigar rights site and then I have 2 responses from a congresswoman's office as well as a form letter response from Sherrod Brown's Senatorial Office.


Help Exempt Premium Cigars From FDA Regulation! H.R. 1639 / S. 1461 - Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act
Did you know that on April 26, 2010, December 20, 2010, and July 7, 2011 the U.S. Food & Drug Administration publicly posted their intent to regulate cigars in the Federal Register?

Some of the measures FDA could consider, as we believe they are, include:

• Ban on walk-in humidors, self serve cigar displays, and mail-order cigar sales;
• Ban on all flavored cigars, that are enjoyed by legal-age adults;
• Deface ornate, decorative cigar boxes, often considered an art form with grotesque images;
• Ban on cigar events where free cigars (samples) could be available to legal-age adults;
• Limits on cigar marketing and advertising;
• Imposition of new 'user fees' [tax] on cigars, to finance regulations;
• Limits on special release and small-batch cigars, due to mandates that cigar blends be submitted to FDA for pre-approval before release;
• Limits on nicotine levels on cigars to near zero, severely impacting the flavor of cigars;
• Ban on marketing cigar merchandise.

RE: Favor appreciated‏

10:05 AM

To craig brenner

From:	Breck, Catherine (Catherine.Breck@mail.house.gov)
Sent:	Mon 11/28/11 10:05 AM
To:	craig brenner (craigbrenner@live.com)

Hi Craig – Thank you for your email. I was able to look up the bill – H.R. 1639 was introduced by Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL-15] on April 15, 2011. It was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee - Subcommittee on Health on April 25, 2011. You research the information and track the bill on the website, www.lis.gov.

Senator Bill Nelson [D-FL] introduced the companion bill, S. 1461, on August 1, 2011. This bill was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. There are only two cosponsors – Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Pat Toomey. Senator Sherrod Brown is not listed as a cosponsor. You can also access this information using LIS.

Again, please do not hesitate to contact me should you need additional assistance.

Thanks.

Catherine Breck

Office of Congresswoman Betty Sutton (OH-13)

2 South Main Street, Suite 380

Akron, OH 44308

(330) 865-8450

(330) 865-8470 FAX

Catherine.Breck@mail.house.gov

From: craig brenner [mailto:craigbrenner@live.com]
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:29 AM
To: Breck, Catherine
Subject: Favor appreciated

Dear Catey,

Thank you for visiting with Congresswoman Betty Sutton and sharing with us at the JCC last week.
I mentioned to you the legislation against the Cigar Industry.

The actual bills are the following:
H.R. 1639 / S. 1461 - Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act

More information can be found at Cigar Rights of America at www.cigarrights.org

Please consider the interests of many cigar enjoying Americans!

Of note I have been told that Mr. Sherrod Brown may be a leading endorser of this legislation.


You asked me recently how I was able to promote my blog.

Another very important way to promote blogs you may want to consider is by twitter.
I can twitter the blog entry on my account, but more importantly:
I can use hash tags to denote the importance of the entry and advertise to a select audience.

For example, if I was to twitter this letters contents on twitter, I would use the hash tag #cigars and #congress.

This way anyone who goes to that hash tag will find your blog entry.
Thus I can get readers for specific entrys on the blog.

Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,

Craig Brenner

LETTER FROM SHERROD BROWN:

Reply from Senator Sherrod Brown‏

10/03/11

To craigbrenner@live.com

From:	Sherrod Brown (Senator_Brown@brown.senate.gov)
Sent:	Mon 10/03/11 8:48 AM
To:	craigbrenner@live.com

<><><><><><>

<><><><><><> Dear Dr. Brenner: Thank you for getting in touch with me regarding S.1461, the Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act. The Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act would exempt premium and traditional cigars from regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). I appreciate your concern that FDA regulation could hurt small businesses and that these types of cigars are a niche product in the tobacco market. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act — passed with strong bipartisan support in 2009 — is intended to address the serious economic and public health issue tobacco use causes for Ohio and the nation. Tobacco-related illnesses kill approximately 20,000 Ohioans every year, according to the Ohio Department of Health. One out of every six Ohio Medicaid dollars goes toward treatment of tobacco-related diseases, effectively imposing an annual tax of over $500 on every Ohio household. While cigars are considered to be tobacco products, the legislation does not specifically apply to cigars. As the FDA determines the treatment of premium cigars under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, I will keep your concerns in mind. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts with me. Sincerely, Sherrod Brown United States Senator

Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Lets talk about the rights of Americans.  Today, there are many who want to limit the taxation of the rich and the higher income earners.  The higher income earners feel that they are entitled to the finances that they encrue under the flag of the United States of America.
In truth the only real entitlement in America is the right to have Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. 
In fact, if we continue to limit the taxation of the higher income wage earners and continue to deny benefits of the unemployed and the under served populations in America, we are denying the very freedoms that we stand for as a democracy and as a patriotic nation.

Here is a story I wrote today.  See if you can decipher the reality of the American Way of Life in this little story:
http://sirwaltersbackgammontable.blogspot.com/2011/11/story-of-goats-and-ducks.html

America: a pavement touching nation

I just read an article in the NY Times today about a 41 year old female who was unable to continue to find work. She faces eviction and has to spend much of her time on web sites looking for jobs and work.  Her abilities are as reported to be somewhat above average and she can not even find work as a cashier at a Retail Store.
Is this the way that our nation is to proceed?  Persons who can not pay rent?  Persons who lose their outlets to find enjoyment and pursue the ideal of happiness? 
I realize that we have restrictions on our conditions of employment and of course, there is diffraction of the wealthy when it comes to offering "hand outs" to those who are impoverished.

But lets sit back here for a moment....  Hopes are dashed today and the ultra elite go on challenging the very foundations of democracy by instituting tax breaks and cutting benefits for the most challenged and distrubed and troubled Americans. 

How can being an elite statue involve challenge and troubles when your rent is paid for years and your niceties are plentiful?

Are we a nation of persons touching other people who are touching pavement?
It seems that out nation is on a pathway of distemperate and oblivitating reticule of a purse for the promotion of the American Way of Life.

Learning about Nietzsche....

I am not a big reader of this quaint and dissertive fellow, but I must remark that upon reading the following web site, I have a flavor of his value to the world and his own status as a writer and in some ways a poet with words that eat eachother up....

Here is my comment that I wrote to this web site:

I read a few comments and though I have not been into Mr. Nietzsche in the past, I must avow that the man himself is a bag of sardines that simply wants someone to pet it rather than eat it.  Nietzsche is a wonder and he has a knack for writing a slogan or statement that negates its own worth.  I like the guy and might read a few more quotes, but in truth; Mr. Nietzsche is like a boat full of cuban refugees that instead of wanting to sail to Miami are intent to turn the boat around when they get to the South Beach and return to Havana with a boat filled with more Cuban Refugees.   Funny huh?

Blog entry of interest:
www.raptitude.com/2010/03/40-belief-shaking-remarks-from-a-ruthless-nonconformist/

Who is the voice of contrition?

I must remark that I just wrote this commentary on another blog and it seems like a good particular item to read and consider in todays challenging and changing political landscape.

http://tinyurl.com/79dqtq2
Contrition is about favoring our G-d so that we continue in most favored status. 
I am a big fan of Mr. Barack Obama and he is a great leader with hope and challenge and change that is positive and right for America.

Today, Mr. Jon Huntsman is running for election in the United States.  I can not know if Mr. Huntsman will win the GOP nomination, but I will tell you that America is on the course that we need to be contrite and we need to make a contrition exactment with the human experience.

The reason for this is detailed in the above blog entry.

G-d is not angry at the USA at all for the work that was done in the world for the Iraq war and Afghanistan involvement. 
But in truth, there are plenty of people who likely question and are angry that G-d would let some thing like this happen and those people do have voices that our G-d is aware exist and G-d is not going to let their own hatred go that easily.

So I suggest to you that there is a time ahead that perhaps America will need to choose a voice of contrition for its president.

I absolutely endorse Mr. Jon Huntsman for this role as he is clearly a man who has indeed made a contribution for our future that involves an act of contrition.

What was Jon Huntsman's act of contrition?  This is tricky, but it is clear as day when you realize what he is credited.

Simply put, Mr. Huntsman was the Ambassador of China and he knows the language of Mandarin Chinese.  I would say that from listening to Mr. Huntsman speak, his level of understanding and ability far surpasses almost every American Chinese student in the history of our nation.

This is in fact contrition.  The fact is that China is not a particularly positive ally and is in fact ideologically situated against Democratic Western Values.

So herein, I endorse Mr. Huntsman today as I think that his future is the future of America in terms of its spiritual health and prosperity. 

Mr. Obama can wait perhaps 4-8 years and rerun for president and thus continue his positive experience as the leader of Western Values and America.

Creationism vs Evolution

I am a guy who reads the bible and has a G-d.  Good for me.  Good for humanity!!!!!!
G-d is very real and thus you might want to consider that he does indeed have some powers.  Quite a lot if you ask me.  Too much. 
Way too much.

But of course.  If you want to think that the world is from a Big Bang and that we all evolved from slime molds, you have that right to think that way. 
I personally do not get too offended either way.  We are really not going to start a compendium on whether the world was created on a Sunday or whether it was something that evolved from an infinite amount of something else that is here in the form of a pretty orderly and organized planet.

So suffice to say that if Mr. Huntsman is big on his Evolutionary "science" beliefs, I am just fine with that.  Because I do like Mr. Huntsman, I am certainly going to support his work as he does the good of the planet at large.
But don't fret folks. There is a G-d... and if there is a Huntsman too, I think we can all pretty much co-exist.  

Insanity Grover Cleveland Style

Well, listen up here folks.
I am a democrat and I fully have supported Mr. Obama.
I do even have an Obama 2012 Magnet on my vehicle.
But as of recently, I have been surfacing near Mr. Huntsman's campaign and I do feel that Mr. Huntsman has the best plan and conceptualized solutions for the next near decade.
I like Mr. Huntsman and I anticipate that if he gets the nomination, I will vote for him over Mr. Obama.
That said, no other candidate can win the White House from Mr. Obama and I am sure that Mr. Obama is a major influence at the highest level that deserves a good amount of discretion and ability in the United States.
So I propose this idea:
Consider 1-2 terms of Mr. Hunstman now.
Then in maybe 8 years, lets give Mr. Obama his 2nd term.
Grover Cleveland did it. 
Why not let history conduct itself in a pattern of success.

I am certain that Mr. Obama's success would be without a dispute and I am clear that I am ready for Mr. Huntsman at the present day.

The GOP debates are a mockery of justice

Again I watch the GOP debates and again, it is the same 3-4 persons who get center stage as well as median placement in the line of candidates on stage. 
What is the role of the media in playing through an election cycle. 
There are candidates who are now marginalized and have only 2-3 speaking experiences in this entire debate at each calling. 
True there are popular candidates and we should be able to scrutinize these persons at a higher level, but still all in all, the fact that there is an uneven distribution of questions and a constant marginalization of candidates on the stage is an example of sworn in jurisdiction manipulation.
I am not sure if there will be a true favorite that is liked because of his or her true policy or if this is a marked amount of media manipulation of the debate.
Considering that most of the forerunners are in no way or chance able to touch the Democrat Incumbant in this years election, it decries foul and manipulation that the ones who perhaps favored by the polls are offered the highest amount of coverage where candidates like Jon Huntsman whom in my opinion has the greatest chances of an intelligent and productive debate with Mr. Obama is left essentially dormant on the far election lost side of the stage of the debate.
If you want to ask me, this is exactly the opposite of true democracy. 
Just my 2 cents on the issue today.

Whats for sale on the 2012 matress of combat in the debates?

I have to say that Mr. Obama almost entirely has the 2012 election in the bag.  Obama is selling dignity.  He is selling honor.  He is selling precision.  He is selling intelligent rhetoric.

But the fact is, there is one commodity that Mr. Obama is not offering for sale.
Starlight.
Starlight is the commercial value of running a good campaign and understanding the usefulness of American business. 
I am certain that the only real person selling starlight in the 2012 election is Mr. Huntsman. 
That is for certain and if he is the nominee, I think that Selling Starlight will be bought out over all of that which Mr. Obama has for sale.
Mr. Huntsman also has esteem, intelligence and trust for sale. 
A good trade off.

Mr. Romney who is preferred by many today has little that I am going to be buying.
He is selling statesmanship of the rudimentary kind, he is selling potions for your exterior smile which really is not that dysaffected since Mr. Obama sells integrity.
He is selling conceptions that will build your bridges.  Ok.  But I already have those.

So Romney has little to sell on the national stage except a return to some level of corruption. I will most definately not be interested in that commodity.

So when its all done, Romeny is their nominee perhaps, but his offerings are less than that of Mr. Obama.
If you want a GOP guy to win, vote for Huntsman.  He can sell us starlight and I will be buying that indeed.  Thanks.

Moslems in the military: A congressman wants to change that. Not a good call.

This is a story on VIN this week.
I thought I'd add a few remarks:  I wrote the following talk back to this article. 

http://www.vosizneias.com/94860/2011/11/15/murfreesboro-tn-tennessee-lawmaker-all-muslims-serving-in-the-u-s-military-should-be-removed-video

This thread stinks of ignorance!!!
There is no ban on muslims in the service and never should be...
Get to know your troops.  If someone seems off kelter, use administrative action to either move him or her to another division or work him or her up as a person who is guilty of a crime or has other concerns.  Maybe its a psychiatric situation that can be addressed. 
There are plenty of options and limiting who can serve based on where we go to war is asinine.  Will we be putting them in internment camps too?  If we had a war with another nation like China (c'v) would we take all asians out of the service corps? 
Asinine asinine asinine.
Moslems can serve and can be fine Americans.
Conscientious objectors can be dealt with on an indivitual basis.  Some people can be kept states side and jobs can be switched.
Lets not start another act of division in our nation.

They changed my words....

I wrote into a jewish news site to discuss my beleifs regarding Mr. Santorum today. 
They printed my comment... mostly .

I made a comment about him being anti-gay.  The site changed it to anti-"toeiva".   This means things that are completely forbidden and an abomination.  Clearly in this day and age, we must have sensitivity for others.  If Mr. Santorum is anti-gay that is a clear concern.  But of couse, if they print anti-toeiva instead, it implies that Mr. Santorum is a true warrior of the real faith.  He really is not.  But I digress. Here is the comment as printed:

Comment from beethoven’s friend
Time November 16, 2011 at 11:55 AM
I am surprised that the GOP has not already embraced Mr. Santorum. Afterall, he is the quinessential republican candidate being pro-life, anti-toeivah and of course a nice little christian ‘warrior’ huh? But of course, if you ask me, Santorum belongs in a sanatorium. This guy is no progressive thinker and I do not anticipate it would be good for jews or any person in this nation to elect a farce like Santorum.
But of course, where are all the voices to speak of Mr. Huntsman who has foreign policy experience, intense experience with China, conservative values and a more focused approach to industry in America and the economy. Huntsman is a smart person’s choice for the GOP nod and I will tell you this, lots of the liberal left likes him a lot. Translation: he can win.


I felt that the word anti-gay was more relevant here as I am discussing a group whose rights are at stake under the constitution and not the idea as to whether the situation is truly right in a moral and religious sense.   That is a different discussion.

Article at:
http://matzav.com/analysis-its-time-to-give-santorum-a-chance

Considering a positive element of OWS

I must confer that I may have to marginally change my posture on the idea of the Occupy Wall Street Movement today. 
Here is an editorial from a professor whom I have known during my medical schooling that was published in the Akron Beacon Journal today. 
This is a sharp fellow who was with great admiration in all of his work in the field of neurobiology at my medical school.

I realize that my stance on Occupy Wall Street has been that the methods and abrasiveness of the crowds are akin to a movement of anarchy in our nation's commerce thoroughfares and business districts.
I do agree that there is inequity and that the future must be one in which provisions and consideration are given to those who are unable to attain great wealth and high occupational service or roles; but that said, I must admit that the movement in its shape and form has little expression other than its wild array of presence in our towns and districts.
The article written by Theodore Voneida (Ph.D) in today's paper makes me consider that perhaps this OWS is a good catalyst for further discussions on disparity. 
That said, I must still defer from my support of a movement in the shape and form it exists today.
I probably learned more detail of some concerns from Dr. Voneida's article today including concerns of fracking and other environmental concerns than I have heard of any of the 2 months of news concerning the "99%".

So with that I am going to copy and paste Dr. Voneida's article here for you to enjoy.

Occupy movement
 is all about inequity
Citizens have been gathering at the capitalist core of this country to express their very serious concerns about economic injustices and the misappropriation of public money by the bankers and the gamblers of Wall Street and about environmental destruction resulting from mountain-top removals for coal, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for gas, oil spills in the Gulf and elsewhere and possible construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.The Occupy Wall Street protests have grown significantly, and similar gatherings are now taking place in over 1,400 communities across the country, with rapidly growing crowds joining each group. I attended such a rally in Cleveland recently, not only to express my support, but also to gain some insight into the meaning of what is taking place. Numerous issues are being raised, including a concern that the middle class may be disappearing and that we are devolving into a two-class system: the working (and non-working) poor and the wealthy.
Another concern is that those with incomes over $1 million a year still pay a much lower rate of taxes than those earning less. Related to this is the concern about the tremendous size (too big to fail?) and power of the giant corporations. A recent Supreme Court decision empowers them to make unlimited anonymous contributions to legislators and judges (who are elected in 39 states).
While these concerns may seem to differ in detail from what we, as a nation, have witnessed before, they are surprisingly similar in substance. One century ago, Clarence Darrow, known for his untiring work for the poor and downtrodden, said: “There can never be any proper distribution of wealth in the world while a few own the earth – a few men own the mines, the railroads, the forests, while the great mass of men are bound to compete with each other for a chance to toil. These few [wealthy] men have reached out their hands and taken possession of all the wealth of the world; it is the owners of the great railroad systems, it is the Rockefellers, it is the Morgans, it is the Goulds, it is that paralyzing hand of wealth which has reached out and destroyed all the opportunities of the poor.”
This is what those at the Occupy Wall Street rallies are saying; only the owners’ names have changed – to Goldman Sachs, Enron, Lehman Brothers, the Koch brothers, Massey Coal, Chesapeake Energy. This is why I urge everyone who cares about the health, and yes, the very survival of our democracy to support the protesters in whatever manner he or she sees fit.
Theodore J. Voneida
Kent

Referring to the right people in our day and age

I must remark here that I find that the discussion of the "1%" and "we are the 99%" to be asinine and uneducated and worthless to discuss social issues.  The fact is that although the numbers of persons who are among the owners of the commodity that you desire can be fractioned out, there is a higher way of realizing their place in our lives.   To call them a percentage is like offering a cookie to a wombat.  The wombat will take the cookie and it will never know who it came from, who baked it or what the ingredients are in that cookie. 
Facts are that one in a society are part of a tiered system of existence.
There is an upper tier and this is the way that one should address the "1%". 

Ohio Issue 3, 2011- Unconstitutional

http://www.onntv.com/content/stories/2011/11/4/story-issue-3.html

Issue 3 of Ohio 2011 passed today.  This is a shame.
I had not heard much about it prior to going to the ballots.  Reading the issue, I realized quickly that this amendment which causes us to be unable to make laws to dictate health care is clearly against the constitution of the United States.

So I voted against it, but sadly the wording was confusing and I am certain that it influenced the voters to vote in its favor.

I hope that this goes to a legislative and judicial parity and that it does not succeed.  But of course, I do believe our constitution is going to be safe.

Controlling your affairs

This is a day and age where the media is always called the liberal media.
Is it liberal? I suggest it is liberal and conservative.
The fact is that the ratcheted up right wing part of our society wants only conservativism and shuns liberal workings of our news cycles.
The fact is, liberalism and conservativism exist in the same positive plane of existence.
Liberalism is your capacity to eat your steak.
Conservativism is your capacity to sip your coffee.
True you likely wont drink coffee when you eat steak, but still there is a time and place for everything.

The radical right would like to throw your steak on the floor.
And the radical left (socialists) would like to spill your coffee.

Adding confusion to insanity

The liberals are confused today. OWS is a socialist cause. It is not liberal. But to see so many people who mostly vote democrat out in the streets protesting, the liberal who often only votes democrats is perplexed as to why this is happening and what his or her role is in the mess.
This is the evil of anarchy and socialism.
It is there to confuse the righteous and just and make them sympathetic to the ways of the evil and deceitful.
We must not support OWS.
There are many ills in our society and with Torah, these ills can be worked out.
We must not alleviate our minds and purses to justify the use of ignorance and twisted logic to attain our goals.
No thanks Occupy.
With Prudence Trust Billows.

Learning about ideology

Do you know the difference between socialism and liberalism?
It is the same as the difference between garbage that smells good and dinner that is fresh.

What about the difference between conservative values and radical pluralism (radical right)?
That is the difference between opening a box of candies versus farting on your own baklavah.

Comment on Socialists

They will eat your hand off before they hold it in their own.

Revitalizing the Cause

I must say that the Occupy Wall Street Movement seems to have its forces in place.
They are proud. They are busy.
They are "occupy".  Right?
I think that they should be so proud of their selves that they offer to list all of their names on an internet web page dedicated to documenting those at the protest. 
I think that if you are going to have the audacity to occupy and obstruct commerce, you should be documented.
I do not think this should be a criminal record in any way.  Just a public record.
Thus I would report your name and height.

The reason I say this is that any employment office should be able to find out later if you are someone who is subversive towards proper order in the work place.  The occupy forces are such that they stand for changing the face of American Business and Banking.  This may sound good and fine and in fact it does in fact have its rights in of itself; but the fact that they are using public places of commerce and employment locations to indicate their greivance, I suggest that these persons are not a protest that is with liberty and priviledge but rather they are an anarchy movement that seeks some form of destruction in the idea that they may create a better society.

So if you are on that list, be advised an employer can find this out during your employment or before and make a decision.

This may sound like a radical plan, but I assure you that it is liberal thinking.  I imagine most of the people in this nation would oppose this including the OWS movement. 
This is liberal because it allows for justification of decisions on your future based on your conduct and actions.  If you believe you are not doing anything wrong, so be it.  Be not afraid to protest by signing your name to a web site.
If you think that you are doing something wrong, then you are guilty of conduct that indeed an employer may indeed have a right to know. Perhaps it is not a criminal violation; though you can certainly be arrested.  You are taking your own chances.

And to those who might mistakenly be on the list; I suggest that if someone shares your name that you can indeed add to the list under their name your own name and address and a comment that you deny being a part of the protest.   This should not be a black list in any way. Just a list of participants. 
Makes sense to me.
And after all, you are in the public.  You can be photographed and identified.

Fires in the Den

Today there are 2 opposing forces and they are not orthodox.   In fact they are not opposing each other in as much as they oppose the constructs of the individual coupled spirits of their normal 'counterparts'.
Namely there are two major values in America.  Conservative Values and Liberal Values.
In fact they do not diametrically oppose each other when you begin to understand them.  Liberalism hires Conservatism and Conservatism hires Liberalism.  Thus they are coupled together.

The scary fact though is that each of these spirits of conservatism and liberalism both have an evil counterpart.  Their counterparts are each of these spirits turned into an aggressive and destructive force.  The Forces seek to decouple the liberal and conservative spirits which hire one another and work fine in a good coupling.

Liberalism when destabilized becomes socialism.
Conservatism when destabilized becomes radical pluralism.
These are a bad thing.  Socialism tries to destroy conservative values.
Radical Pluralism tries to destroy liberal values.

We must work together today to ensure that socialism and radical pluralism do not succeed in destroying the values that we as Americans hold dear.  
Liberalism and Conservatism are not diametrically opposite one another.
Its the Evil Counterpart of each of these forces that is the force that diametrically opposes the true American Value.

This is scary because today, both of these things are on the rise.
We must fight radical pluralism such as what is found on Fox news today and we must find ways to promote true Conservative values.
We must also oppose the socialist agenda and design a future where true liberalism promotes the common good.

All is well though, I think that the forces of prosperity and affluence acknowledge that these 2 evil counterpart forces are held in check.

Socialism in the USA

I never realized it until tonight, but the idea of socialism is alive and well and quite particularly scary here in America.  I had not heard of any major socialist movements in years gone by, but I must remark that I realize today that upon watching some of the news that Socialism is the force egging on the Occupy Wall Street Movement.  The OWS is a group of anarchists.  They hide behind the banner of liberalism and liberal politics and they appeal to the angry people on the left.  The fact is that the left is right some of the time, but not all of the time.  I am a Democrat today and I side with the left on political issues for the most part.  But today, I am watching Michael Moore on Television.  He is egging on the protestors.  I had recently seen him in a CNN interview and thought he was quite intelligent.  But I must profess, I have never wanted or ventured to adjust to his demagoguery in terms of watching his films and considering the permissive-pacifist bias that he has in filming evils and trying to exploit public opinion to reshape society.  I have decided that I will not indeed choose to watch his films.  But I will listen to him in an interview and try to decide what he has to offer. 
To me, Mr. Moore is a socialist.  I had hoped he was a liberal as there was some liberal inclination in his speech and thoughts.  But in truth, Michael Moore is a leading socialist and he thrives in the dilemmas of bringing pain and suffering to those who are in higher places of priviledge in today's society.
Michael Moore is wealthy and influential.  Yet I think that today he is quite unpopular for good reason.  I do worry that his message will result in his own demise and likely that would be at the hands of persons who are bent to do evil to him and bring about a life threatening situation or murder.   I have heard him report that he gets many death threats. 
Sometimes you get death threats because you are doing the right thing and it infuriates an element that is filled with hatred.
Sometimes you do the wrong thing and you get death threats because you infiltrate the community of persons filled with hatred with a new sense of audacity and that they can not cope with the combined hatred and other ways of destruction in their minds and being.
I suspect that Mr. Moore is a combination of both of these types of assessments.

Watching the OWS crowds today, I am simply amazed at the sheer numbers of mostly youth who would go to the lengths to make this sit in upstaging of Usual Industry and Business in America.
I do realize that of course there is corruption and discord in todays society; yet I am perplexed thinking that so many people are so inflamed that they must indeed show their presence in a public way. 
This scares me in a sense as I think that it ruins the cleaner image of American society in the eyes of the international community. I do think that America is a mostly clean place in terms of ideology overall; especially among the democrats and some of the conservatives (radical pluralists are far from clean in my eyes).
So to watch these protests, I must wonder what horrible forces are pushing them on and on.  These children are pawns in the hands of the socialists.  And I think that the socialists are indeed quite dangerous.

Jon Huntsman: 'I Was Totally Embarrassed' By Republican Debate

I believe that Jon Huntsman is the voice of Contrition in America and I decided that being a liberal democrat, he is up to par with my own ideals and vision for solutions. I do not know that I will be voting for him in 2012 as I feel firmly committed to Obama, but I do think Mr. Hunstman has a very important voice for the days ahead in our Nation. So I gave him a small campaign contributi­on today. I want to know more about his platform.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost