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.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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.
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 new adage was one "I think therefore I am".
Modified today, It is now "I twitter therefore I belong".
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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.
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.
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!
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:
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.
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.
Monday, November 28, 2011
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:
RE: Favor appreciated
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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
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
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 |
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
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
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.
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/
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/
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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.
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
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
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
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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%".
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.
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.
Friday, November 4, 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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.
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.
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