tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52404884505834772612024-02-06T21:29:24.633-05:00FodderSight Which Way at the Fork. Views from those fed, who question the feed.Roots of issues: Explore beyond current horizons. Culture, persuasion, religion, politics. Entitlements ensure that reason will not interferes with use of force by traditional hierarchies. Photos. By Dint. Hub for conflict issues: <a href="https://www.studyingwar.com">Studying War</a>.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-74378849871019311022020-09-28T11:08:00.005-04:002020-10-01T03:59:51.022-04:00Say No to the Stepford Judge. You will lose, but raise the issues.<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Delve into what shapes thought. What groups, affiliations, individuals, education, produce a mindset. Can the mindset be set aside to consider new circumstances. For Amy Coney Barrett, little attention has been given to her adoption of tenets of People of Praise, and that sect's site is now scrubbed, see <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/people-of-praise-amy-coney-barrett-website">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/people-of-praise-amy-coney-barrett-website</a>. It is referenced here. Missing pieces. Cobble information together.</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XfINCLmSg9ZBVyDjeTg-rK1VBBaBpEeBeYisHU3CHPFW0gkfPpWql5DU9WBp5YnxT8ghNaJnuP8XebwSXUJ6DlSdQD9pLFswGlhbJE331TOIyosERHTuqPj9Sl9ebFSfFbz5HtitH2s/s1280/100_0817.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XfINCLmSg9ZBVyDjeTg-rK1VBBaBpEeBeYisHU3CHPFW0gkfPpWql5DU9WBp5YnxT8ghNaJnuP8XebwSXUJ6DlSdQD9pLFswGlhbJE331TOIyosERHTuqPj9Sl9ebFSfFbz5HtitH2s/s320/100_0817.JPG" width="320" />Where the Constitution is ambiguous or silent, the Right has high hopes: That Amy Barrett's superior genes guide her to continue to parrot man-serving deologies. Is that so?</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Purpose: Assess a judge's capacity for autonomous analysis . What does she do where the teaching within the doctrines that she has adopted, the "authority," shows gaps and "original" intent fails. </li><li>Six points here. The function here is no mere rant, but to heighten our concerns so she may consider them on her own. </li><ul><li>Does she retain the capacity for autonomous thought, about individual rights to decide matters of one's own life, where the Constitution is ambiguous or silent. That includes access to basic health care, no concern of the slave-owning framers. Their successors today perpetuate conditions of control of people's opportunities, uncomfortably similar. She is apparently inculcated, by her resume. And has advanced thanks to it. </li><li>Can she broaden, ahem. Will she continue t adopt man-serving hierarchies.</li></ul></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><p class="MsoNormal">Amy Barrett and the People of Praise. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Q. Your background is broadly Catholic, but specifically in an offshoot not fully adopted or recognized by it: The People of Praise.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">The </span><a href="https://peopleofpraise.org/" style="font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">People of Praise</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">. One of many religious traditions. This one can be is a hopeful sign for growth beyond The Federalist Society man-constraints: The issue will be, who is to be included in this "community" and who is to be excluded. Oh, my. Is this the dreaded socialism, that we share so there will be no needy?? Amy, go back to your socialist roots. The People of Praise are private and not a government, but the precepts can serve government well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">From the website for People of Praise: Fair use --</span></p><h2 style="background-color: #eff0df; border: 0px none; font-family: MrEavesXLSanRRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.075em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="color: #004261;">WHO WE ARE</span></h2><span style="background-color: #eff0df; color: #004261; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px;">People of Praise is a charismatic Christian community. We admire the first Christians who were led by the Holy Spirit to form a community. Those early believers put their lives and their possessions in common, and "there were no needy persons among them."</span></li><li>Has this affiliation quelched original thought? What if there is no "literal" originalism to be found in a text. Based on her history. s</li><ul><li>She has risen in and absorbed the "rightness" of man-serving hierarchies in religious ideologies, from her private institutional religious schooling, and in obedience to their interests as a token in higher education, and employments. People of Praise. </li><li>Covenant. What was it? Her longstanding membership in a covenant community, the People of Praise, raises issues of preconceived ideas reliant on unquestioned authority. See <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/24/supreme-courtreligious-beliefs-420863.">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/24/supreme-courtreligious-beliefs-420863.</a> That orientation served her well as she moved in their show windows -- </li><li>Genes are disarming. Her "right" genes opened doors so long as she conformed to male interests. </li><li>Prove this wrong. So far, it appears right. Abuses of power? Complicit and parroting.</li></ul></ol><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Does objection to authority here mean anarchy. What is that? </p><p class="MsoNormal">1. Anarchy does not mean violence unless some choose it. They can and must be weeded out.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Anarchy is only absence of controlling leader -- "An" -- "without" -- from the Greek. "Archos" -- leader -- also from the Greek. Wikipedia: find that anarchy in the 19th century <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">appeared when philosophers used rationality to question traditional fundamentals. Anarchy begins with questioning traditional authority, but it is only a stage, not a destination, and does not necessarily involve violence. Here, however, uprooting the man-serving hierarachies of clubs and universities and big law firms will take persistence. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">During periods of no controlling leader, the good news is that</span></span> people help each other, finds this researcher. Amazing. See <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opinion/anarchist-jurisdiction-new-york.htmlNYT"><span class="result__url__domain" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #20692b; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">https://www.nytimes.com</span><span class="result__url__full" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #20692b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; white-space: nowrap;">/2020/09/24/opinion/anarchist-jurisdiction-new-york.html</span>NYT</a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal">2. Avoid violence during a change in leadership by solving the problems fostering it: Deprivations, injustice, conditions promoting revolts, including religious man-made justifications for asserting control over others. </p><p class="MsoNormal">3. Anarchy as stage, not destination. It is step in changing leadership., a move from one hierarchy with unacceptable tenets and results, to another down the road. It does not mean violence, unless it is rigid and self-serving. </p><p class="MsoNormal">5. Amy. A Karen. Or a Patsy. Who else is she behind the decades of conformity. Is there any fertile ground left for independent, autonomous analysis when the "authority" shows chinks.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Parroting has its advantages. She continues to avoid the physical and other assaults that come with assertion of strength against the tide. Nonetheless, it is devoutly to be wished that a drive to analyze and fill in interpretation gaps in the Constitution with a mind freed of male dominance and her need for their approval. </p><p class="MsoNormal">6. Productive anarchy. Mutual help. Make room for new growth. Fail in that and the Constitution is unmasked as a crutch for advancement of the few, white propertied males with others virtually enslaved still. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju43V4TL5FMZdDspQOkVU5ht9vbn3zdjlN-E4jhHAzhjyvVMACoqwb0q5nxjiu_xXagg6KgOtqHAl-xrbA-uElhVrGUBOXpBGWTIXKzWWBQkawxUCkgSqS_TqKrVCI_0gTfMWE9BtS9A4/s2048/roots.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju43V4TL5FMZdDspQOkVU5ht9vbn3zdjlN-E4jhHAzhjyvVMACoqwb0q5nxjiu_xXagg6KgOtqHAl-xrbA-uElhVrGUBOXpBGWTIXKzWWBQkawxUCkgSqS_TqKrVCI_0gTfMWE9BtS9A4/s320/roots.jpg" width="320" />Anarchy in the forest. Uprooting a dysfunctioning leader leads to new growth. </a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Watch: The posed figure in the display rises, and then turns, as told. Again. Say no to all that.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-61412982389109839282020-08-21T18:33:00.000-04:002020-08-21T18:33:28.682-04:00Praise the Lord and Tax the Ammunition. History of the NRA. Update 2020. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">History of the National Rifle Association</div><div style="text-align: center;">The NRA. Update 2020. New reference: Josh Powell, <i>Inside the NRA </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><ul><li><span style="text-align: left;">A new book by Josh Powell, Wayne LaPierre's former chief of staff, reinforces the grounds for criticism reflected in this p beginning 2012, updated several times. Read </span><i style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/nra-lawsuit-book-wayne-lapierre.html" target="_blank">"Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed and Paranoia Within the Most Powerful Political Group in America." </a> </i><span style="text-align: left;">to be </span><span style="text-align: left;"> published on September 8, 2020, with advance release material at the cite here.</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The history of the NRA is no secret. Scroll down to what was obvious to even amateur sleuths in 2012. We need robots that search blogs of the common person because, even from behind, may lead the way to someone else's professional progress. Let us in. The author </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Carol, who is not re-editing this, just asking that the obvious misdeeds and exploitations of the NRA have been apparent for years.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Tax the Ammunition</b></div>
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<b>The Guns are Already Beyond Us and Never Die</b></div>
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Finding consistency in ideology, when that ideology is something that has been long-held and now must change for the common good, is difficult. The perceived lack of consistency may keep some from changing. It may require acting out of assumed character. It adds a requirement of objective rationality to belief.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />The dichotomy of role and belief is foremost in the old WWII song about <i>Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition,. </i>See<a href="http://my.execpc.com/%7Edschaaf/praise.html"> http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/praise.html</a>. There, with a gunner dead on the plane, according to some stories, the chaplain took over. Read the song's background there, execpc.com/.<br />
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Now, the need is equally an emergency -- for vastly <i>more</i> revenue when any additional revenue at all is resisted by the self-proclaimed "right". That need extends not only for existing societal and infrastructure need, but also the will to meet the neurological, dispositional and other differential functionality needs of all components of our population. If we don't do that last one, we die. Or our children do.<br />
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Or untold gifted but non-traditionally socially or sexually or mentally oriented persons and intellects, are lost to us as human resources, for solutions we vitally need to survive in a new, heterogenous world.. <br />
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So, go ahead and praise the Lord, if you are of that bent, and then join with everyone tax the ammunition for our cultural and children's survival.<br />
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There is no inconsistency between idealistic, artificial dogma, as institutions foster dogma to persuade masses for the institution's own survival reasons (not necessarily textual, historical truth), in times of exigency for all them, and the rest of us.<br />
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Why tax the ammunition?<br />
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Tax it because too many guns are already out there, including assault weapons. Morning Joe, however, noted that the supplies of ammunition are limited. And taxing the remaining ammunition, or any ammunition, is more efficient. Tax that. Start there. Pull millions of assault weapons triggers and nary a bullet chamber-clip? Fine. Act out, and then go home. Please.<br />
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A. While the debate accelerates on measures to protect public safety as to guns, think of this as background: Statistics at <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/guns-in-america-a-statistical-look/">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/guns-in-america-a-statistical-look/</a><br />
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1. Gun dealers in America: .......nearly 130,000 as of 2011<br />
2. Grocery stores: ...................some 36,000<br />
3. McDonald's eateries: ............some 14,000 <br />
4. New guns manufactured in US.......... some 5,400,000 in 2010 (yes, five million and counting)[and about 95% was for the American market]; and additional imported guns? some 3,200,000<br />
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Go to the site for stats on 16,000,000 background checks, where only .48% [point four-eight percent] were denied purchase. .48%? Everybody passed! Point 48 of one percent. Go back to 4th grade.<br />
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Pass a law that there can be no more gun dealers in a state than that state offers grocery stores. <br />
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B. How did we get here, where gun profits that to the top and offshore, control our decisions here?<br />
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History of the NRA and the siren song of marketing. America the profit-seeker supersedes ideology of democracy, the common good..<br />
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Read carefully the whole site at <a href="http://sassafrastree.blogspot.com/2011/01/guns-nra-growth-timeline-summary.html">http://sassafrastree.blogspot.com/2011/01/guns-nra-growth-timeline-summary.html</a>. The poster at that site finally gave up keeping track of the mayhem, at an earlier point in 2012. The information got too big for one topic where it originated in history and added illustrative events, but she had a life to live outside and just stopped. There were too many illustrative events. She quit. Will she resume? Other timelines are on line. Go there.<br />
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B.1 History of the NRA<br />
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Unpolished as it is, the NRA Growth Timeline collects in one place basic research on the history of the NRA, how the NRA originally began, its predecessor organization at that time, in a patriotic way: train soldiers -- in the Civil War, soldiers were sent out there with a weapon and no training, so it seems. </div>
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<li>From that, the NRA group tried to sell the Brits on arming themselves against the German blitz -- the Brits were not interested. They were content unarmed. Who needs everybody with guns in the bomb shelters? </li>
<li>And that effort moved to more marketing after WWII -- expand from sustenance shooting, for your dinner, or to survive in the war field, and market guns as family fun. Then, when you do that, you develop the market to teach <i>safety </i>to the blokes in the woods, and that means whole orange outfits, and camo,</li>
<li>Then, the NRA moved into more lucrative markets: it established itself as the place to go to training anybody who needs gunners (including police), then start younger and younger with the market, kids' groups and camps, foster a whole culture, wardrobe and like Mary Poppins, ride those gun-barrels to offshore accounts. See <a href="http://sassafrastree.blogspot.com/2011/01/guns-nra-growth-timeline-summary.html">http://sassafrastree.blogspot.com/2011/01/guns-nra-growth-timeline-summary.html. </a></li>
<li>The private sector. Looking to the bottom line. Surely this is an area to be kept out of profits.</li>
<li>Watch the NRA arise now, with public opinion wafting <i>against</i> the status quo of no-regulation, after Newtown, and the NRA -- just you watch -- seeking to be the ones to train more of us to make us safer against their creation. </li>
<li>Profits and triggers. Did we say offshore accounts? Follow CEO Bankers. Follow the sites.</li>
<li>Find early photos of Wayne LaPierre, early 2000's. I can find none now online, but recall from 2005 or so, a rather nice-appearing Wayney nerdy guy, far more convincing than the large-jawed verison I see today. Is my recollection faulty, or have the PR Photo-Opps taken over and done some work there. If the product can't sell, sell the purveyor of the product?</li>
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C. Roots of Westen culture. How did we evolve into intolerance, empire, forced conformity.<br />
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Western culture's flaw: that forced conformity.<br />
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Can tolerance be revived, once the culture has already killed off all found dissenters. Think of the <a href="http://worldwar1worldwar2.blogspot.com/2011/06/heresy-wars-timeline-cathars-religion.html">Cathars, </a>people of other interpretations of scripture. <a href="http://worldwar1worldwar2.blogspot.com/2011/06/heresy-wars-timeline-cathars-religion.html">Paratge</a> in that area of the southwest of France, the Languedoc. <a href="http://worldwar1worldwar2.blogspot.com/2011/06/heresy-wars-timeline-cathars-religion.html">Malama, </a>that accused "socialist mop" approach to balance, among the Pacific Islanders. Does someone raised in Hawaii, the islands there, absorb wisdom we killed off. <a href="http://sassafrasthicket.blogspot.com/2009/12/malama-paratge-obamas-collage-obamas.html">Malama. </a><br />
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Knowledge, tradition, killed. by western white males. Is that an identifiable subset yet? Are we proud yet? <br />
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Have western white males bred themselves out of the running when it comes to long term human survival. Whoa!<br />
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Does Western culture ever value dissenters, or is our history from the earliest Christian centuries dominated by the extremists, the excluders, the dogmatists, the crusades and crusaders, inquisitions, might is right. Then did the funneling emerge into empire, the colonizer against the colonized, slaver against enslaved, indigenous hoodwinked so others get something for nothing. Fast forward: How do we restrict blossoming because of difference, how a person who is different, who perceives the world in other ways, function. Is medication needed. Develop it. Is social support, periodic time with similar individuals for support, adult life in a supported environment, an answer. Many of the different are brilliant. <br />
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School experience can be psychological murder, as we all know to one degree or another. Who has not been pushed down the stairs. Look at differing gender attraction. Why not let it be?<br />
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Can we adjust how we embrace and value difference, newcomers. Can we create an environment of acceptance and tolerance. So far, no. My child is "normal". Yours is not, and yours is in a special classroom That proves it. Gotcha. <br />
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What if my child is a normal ____________ name-your-difference. Where do we or our child get affirmation, so productivity can follow for us and the child? Allow difference. Meet it. See what enrichment, and not anger and acting-out, can follow.<br />
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D. Differing functionality needs.<br />
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What environment is needed for that person to function to the max. That is a broad definition of all persons whose being is devalued because they are different. Same gender, spectrum and affectional disorders, social dysfunction in the mainstream, as well as the traditional mental and physical illness or handicap.<br />
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Can we foster a place of value, acknowledge community where all persons can be productive without approbation, judgment of the conforming against the nonconforming. <br />
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No longer can we ignore, leave to parents where professional training is needed, to try to force behavioral conformity upon those unable to comply. Boom. Everyman's Child. Without affirmation in community, how to foster productivity, a life full, not judged.<br />
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Praise the Lord and tax the ammunition. How else to bridge the gap between a) punitive ideology against those who are different; and b) human sense and fostering community. <a href="http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/praise.html"></a></div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-20741313125026548952020-06-17T11:41:00.000-04:002020-07-04T18:38:00.286-04:00The Wall against treating anxiety and depression in the elderly. Now: Some dementias: corona related.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-claims-that-wall-around-white-house-is-to-prevent-staff-from-quitting-en-masse?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Humor_060520&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5db3c87124c17c23c36d1b2c&cndid=60449089&hasha=88d78b8f8708b12edca1c64d56f56e84&hashb=584881f1f3f3706482b9494adcc8dcc9102e59ba&hashc=bd7d22a5bc4ddd8b26cb56de15812486ff4302c97b0f874e2e3c50c91b2ff9e2&esrc=Humor_NL_page&utm_term=TNY_Humor">New Yorker </a>reports 6/5/2020 on the wall now surrounding the White House, that it is designed to keep people in, not people out. Trump loves walls. Some things else do not love a wall, that want it down. Robert Frost and <u><a href="https://poets.org/poem/mending-wall">Mending Wall</a></u>. Firm adherence to accepted diagnostic methods is such a wall. There will be more to the issue, we can be sure; and change will result as the ideology crumbles. <br />
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<img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOdaGR9LQJQAEUrE4Jv60wmQ8U69fktPpCU5h4BlmeVpjhdDtd2fnnNix37EFwpPWkyjY5VrlKvDOUkXfZnvbwLgPvvv5g1SJ2v-eCMct8EPPNLC2MpD-aIC_P8yUKb2AwNlNuHEI0kV8/s320/100_4053.JPG" style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;" width="320" /><span style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;">The privilege wall of white, against mobility and health of underclasses, powerless groups. Here, Esbjerg, Denmark: Men face the sea.</span><br />
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Minds do not change easily, particularly when it comes to justifying ignoring the elderly. We now see that a symptom of Corona-19 is dementia, that catch-all for ordinarily writing off people. See impacts on the brain, not just breathing and so on. <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-06-25/stroke-confusion-covid-19-often-impacts-the-brain-study-shows">https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-06-25/stroke-confusion-covid-19-often-impacts-the-brain-study-shows</a><br />
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We can no longer write off the elderly as being merely demented. If corona is a large part, or any pert of the problem, then it is corona that is the cause and not aging.<br />
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1. The elderly. Data. Data drives funding. Who inputs the data? To trust or not to trust. Current data lists preexisting conditions that increase likelihood of death by COVID 19. among the elderly, those with named preexisting conditions. See <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/cdc-coronavirus-demographics-report/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/cdc-coronavirus-demographics-report/index.html</a><br />
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These conditions are listed: dementia, eating disorders, obesity, have heart conditions and so on,. Or you reside in certain zip codes. Fill in the blank, and the implication is that the condition is the fault of the person. You are old, or you should have been able to get yourself out of it.<br />
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2. Missing is the critical factor of the individual's response to the wall against his full living -- depression, anxiety.<br />
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Instead, the elderly are more apt, it appears, to be classified as demented and the file closed. Get access to a confidential death certificate and see if any, any, designate anxiety and depression, with its similar symptoms to dementias that show up in autopsies like Alzheimer's. But the label gets affixed without autopsy, and without putting in "other conditions" clearly observable depression and anxiety disorders. DSM 5 recognizes those, but do COVID death certificates?<br />
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Go deeper into why this is important if we care. We can fix much of what causes depression and anxiety, and if we did that, would the health and ability of the person to withstand disease improve.<br />
A preexisting condition without depression and anxiety disorders is a different matter from a preexisting condition with depression and anxiety disorders. Address the disorder.<br />
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<li>It is an insult to the person to disregard the disorder that the care home context may produce -- dependence, perhaps disregard, deprivation of life's anchors, human fungibility; and simply say, dementia, and move on without treatment.</li>
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3. Research this. Are mindsets, depression and anxiety disorders <i>ever l</i>isted on death certificates so data will actually show and funding and treatment may result. If not, why not. Is everybody demented, or could some be diagnosed and treated for depression and anxiety and recover a reasonable quality of life, even if old. And survive the COVID because their will is back. Even without a vaccine, no cure for accumulating years, we have the ability to ease the mind and coax back more health. We can do a lot for deprivation contexts, ease dislocations and loss.<br />
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<li>Privilege is happily entrenched with existing costs and rules and will not budge because that means loss of power and profits. Is that too harsh? No.</li>
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Go fund this. Somebody check the death certificates (need court order because of HIPAA) to find out if any medical examiner lists depressive disorder or anxiety disorder as a contributing cause to the mortality.<br />
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<li>Thesis: That the disadvantaged flooding hospitals recently, reflecting at-risk demographics, are seen as somehow at fault for their context -- overcrowding, resource deprivation, and so on. With that mindset, are facilities motivated to look into the etiology of their anxiety and depression. Hardly. That costs money. And they aren't the president's voters. And the hospital is too busy with its billing to look into who a relative of this person is who was brought in after a fall on hard concrete, and instead put him to bed for 10 days so muscles atrophied and all got worse? Go fund that.</li>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-90710461330616575882020-04-12T05:34:00.001-04:002020-04-12T05:34:35.983-04:00Name Change. District of Columbia to State of Musth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mahouts in Washington have expressed private concern that their political image, the benign pachyderm capable of moving great weights, of synchronized dance at the direction of the ringmaster, is diminished by the setting in which it shows off its training: A District. "The American People have no idea what a 'district' is, other than a place of red light, or a slum that could enrich our keepers if only it were emptied," complained the Drum Major of the supportive band. "That requires a public relations name change, No more District of Columbia. Hereafter our State of Play shall be called the State of Musth.<br />
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America. Fifty-two independent States and One State of Musth. There is a ring to that. It calls to mind a Ringmaster.<br />
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The name change from District of Columbia to State of Musth is appropriate because the cruel secret of elephant training, called elephant "crushing," <a href="https://www.intrepidtravel.com/adventures/mahout-elephants-tourism-industry/">https://www.intrepidtravel.com/adventures/mahout-elephants-tourism-industry/</a>, has revealed the secret of elephant supporter recruitment and management. <br />
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<li>They already see meanness, dogged brutality repeated often, to create a settiing where the image of the elephant itself is changed: from its natural independence and intelligence, social consciousness, the role it can exercise as leader and teacher, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141101-male-elephants-have-a-sweet-side">http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141101-male-elephants-have-a-sweet-side</a>, into the wild-eared, no, say windblown, brute needed to crush any who stand in the way of fuller coffers for the keepers and mahouts.</li>
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State of Musth. Embrace the reality. Let it be so. The rheumy eyes, the anti-social, hormonal rampages, Male elephants enter into "musth periods" on no schedule but resulting in erratic and uncontrollable behavior, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/musth">https://www.britannica.com/science/musth</a> that is not necesarily synchronized with the rutting season. Overview: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkQiD426SU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkQiD426SU</a>. Not a matter of rut, says <a href="https://en.upali.ch/musth/">https://en.upali.ch/musth/</a>, but a "condition of poisoning." A Persian word. Persia is modern-day Iran, roughly. <br />
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Watch the attack and the chase. Is this also musth or just the character formation? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkQiD426SU,">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkQiD426SU,</a> Flee, families, flee!<br />
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To an observer, this is musth is much like the bear seen in this New England yard emerged from hibernation where no weaker being is safe. There be eggs and little tapas for me! Let me at 'em! Demands the bear. The photographer bravely or foolishly had scrunched close on elbows an inner flats of feed, head to the side, no eye contact, watchful but a neighbor called by phone, "WHAT IS YOUR HUSBAND DOING OUT THERE!"<br />
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Biography missing for Peter Drexler, whose essay, <i>How To Think About Trump</i>, is helpful for these times. I am searching for the original, the only version I have is one received attached to an email. Use the internet to find someone for permission for broader use of intellectual property, and if the email is accurate.<br />
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Location so far: That fine essay is presented with some added paragraphing for myself, <a href="https://germanyroadways.blogspot.com/2018/10/essay-peter-drexler-historian-on-trump-in-2016-think.html">Germany Road Ways</a>: The site seemed appropriate because of the focus on the German experience.<br />
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1. I see you have published other material on Germany, and at <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3657948?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">JSTOR</a>, ee JOURNAL ARTICLE, <i>The German Courtroom Film during the Nazi Period: Ideology, Aesthetics, Historical Context,, </i>Peter Drexler, Journal of Law and Society Vol. 28, No. 1, Law and Film (Mar., 2001), pp. 64-78<br />
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3. I have tried searching for the title, "How to Think About Trump," and no results. I can only refer anyone to the <i>Germany Road Ways</i> post, above, part of <a href="https://europeroadways.com/">Europe Road Ways</a>. If Mr. Drexler gives permission for broader use, excellent, but that one post is all I think I can do.<br />
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4. There is a scientist P. Drexler (Peter Drexler) at a publication site, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/10241397_P_Drexler">https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/10241397_P_Drexler</a> -- Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.<br />
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5, Another wth theater interests, see Peter Drexler and Lawrence Guntner, eds. Negotiations with Hal: Multi-Media Perceptions of Henry the Fifth, Braunschweig, 1995. 132 p. ISBN 3-00-000018-6.<br />
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/search?filters%5BauthorTerms%5D=Bill%20Naismith&eventCode=SE-AU">Bill Naismith</a>, a collaboration with German researchers, half in German, half English (here, Cambridge Press). See <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00010071">https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00010071</a><br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-65229009489836790722018-09-24T10:34:00.002-04:002018-09-26T06:52:44.925-04:00Omerta of the wealthy. The shunning. Entitled kids can act in entitled ways for free. Learning supremacism takes practice. it is worth it, to them.. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kavanaugh. Had enough? The topics will go on. Why we do not report? Look at the background.<br />
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I. Entitlements. Open a dialogue, in retrospect, where teen and young adult choices were made. and there was no report, or report late made when some safety was offered. Does entitlement affect delay.<br />
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Q. <i> Just how entitled am I?</i> Asks the wealthy student, surrounded by the trappings of his class. What can I get away with, how far can I go to use others without negative consequence to me, the great Me.<br />
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A. <i>Very entitled. Try us. Go ahead. </i>Try out the forms as you grow. We will protect. The cause is good: You will learn that you can control. The others will learn their subservience.<br />
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How is secrecy self-imposed. From that class protectionism, buttressed by the financial and cultural resources to see all intrusions into power are minimized, kept private, comes <i>Omerta, the rat, the shunning. </i>No wonder so few report, and often well after the event(s). Alternative? Minimize what the entitled are entitled to get: <a href="https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/">Andrew Carnegie and his Gospel of Wealth.</a> See below.<br />
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A. <i>Omerta</i> of the wealthy. <i>Omerta'.</i> From the Italian. This began as a concept of humility, submitting to the interests of the group, see <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/omerta">https://www.etymonline.com/word/omerta</a>. It became a watchword for protecting criminal interests, see <a href="http://www.memidex.com/omerta">http://www.memidex.com/omerta</a><br />
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B. You better not <i>squeal.</i> To <a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23430/what-does-it-mean-to-squeal-on-someone">squeal,</a> to inform on someone else, was an old Norse word, <i>skvala </i>sound-alike, from the 1300's, sounds like squall, that emerged in about 1865 with the new meaning, see <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/squeal">https://www.etymonline.com/word/squeal </a>-- to rat somebody out.<br />
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To squeal. Perhaps to <i>rat.</i> What dreams may come?<br />
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C. <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MkIPGKdAk">You dirty rat</a>. </i> No, it wasn't that. It was, "<i>You yellow-bellied rat</i>," Go back to Cagney in 1932. Either way, who, who will risk that label, defining them ever after, if they want a future.<br />
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<i>To rat: </i> not just the rodent, but also what the rodent does in adverse circumstances: the rat abandons the leaky ship, which leads to leaving one's fellows in the lurch, the self-saving traitor. See all this at <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/rat">https://www.etymonline.com/word/rat</a><br />
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What happens to the teen or others not yet fully formed (anyone, really) who breaks omerta, even thinking it a jest to call the police when a drinking party is going on among elites? Ask one. Is there a shunning, a heart breaking, a taint imposed, denial of all social normalcy to the one who broke the code. Apparently so, and we disrsegard it at our own peril in assessing context, see <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-bullying/201309/the-silence-shunning-conversation-kipling-william">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-bullying/201309/the-silence-shunning-conversation-kipling-william</a><br />
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<li>Kava-gnawing. Kavanaughing. Chew on the facts some more. What is known, uncorroborated, does absence of corroboration mean absence of act? and what if lack of corroboration was part of the plan. A hundred others later working with this fine person, who never saw an errant act. Is that enough? Are the rest of us dark and light at once, and not this one? </li>
<li>Yet we expect women who have been abused, humiliated and devalued particularly in front of others, but more often where there are no witnesses at all, to come out and report, and to whom? </li>
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<li>Purpose emerges: To control an identifiable group by race or gender or other stigmata, that, if given opportunity, could challenge the rulers on merit.</li>
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1. . Opportunity and merit. How can they be allowed to flourish where that challenges the entitled to their entitlements? The <a href="https://worldwar1worldwar2.blogspot.com/2018/09/gender-weaponry-taught-early-class.html">battlefield</a> emerges. 'How to keep the challengers, potential challengers, down. Opportunnity and merit in theory, 'tis an outcome devoutly to be wished, say those kept out; but reality shows it is dangerous to those who coast on entitlement -- particularly based on gender and patriarchy -- and will be fought to the psychological death.<br />
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2. <a href="http://pipedream./">Pipedream.</a> Originally, a context with opium.<br />
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3.. Is it a mere <i>pipedream</i> to be able to cage the trappings of entitlement, counter the heavy foot of birth, by fostering opportunity and merit in all people.<br />
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<li> His heirs have managed with their private lives.<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2014/07/08/whats-become-of-them-the-carnegie-family/#5a31b5847b55">https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2014/07/08/whats-become-of-them-the-carnegie-family/#5a31b5847b55 </a></li>
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Senator John McCain, now that He Who Trumpets Himself has raised the same issues as were raised back in 2008. Do a search for <i>McCain military service</i>. Why should anyone pillory the Trumpeter? Why not vet facts instead, and only then draw conclusions.<br />
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<li>Compare to the similarly situated Vice Admiral James Stockdale, now deceased, see <a href="http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/bios/stockdale.php">http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/bios/stockdale.php</a> Did either or both move beyond endurance and duty in captivity, to the level of altruism. What choices did each have, or make possible. What choices were chosen, and for whose sake. </li>
<li>Sometimes choices depend on character, personality, and does a person control elements of that.ndurance with limited choice is also heroism, like the heroism of the person battling disease, for example. </li>
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Compare the choices and records of John McCain and the now deceased Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, for example, both captive, both in Vietnam, same era, both endured great hardship. See <a href="http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sto0bio-1">http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sto0bio-1</a>.<br />
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So far, McCain: McCain is Hero by the common measure. He enlisted, he served, he endured. Stockdale, however, is Hero by the exceptional measure. He accepted what was on the duty plate, was steadfast in it and lived even with such wounds; but also <i>risked self and survival for the sake of others</i>.<br />
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With that view, is Trump right in his inartful, blustering way, in acknowledging the endurance and Duty Heroism of Senator McCain; but also right in not attributing the X factor of altruistic Heroism to McCain as well. That higher honor goes to people like John Stockdale, see discussion of this same topic several years ago, at <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/09/john-mccain-and-pow-tortured-hero-vice.html?q=john+mccain">http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/09/john-mccain-and-pow-tortured-hero-vice.html?q=john+mccain</a><br />
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Did the serviceperson risk self to act to improve conditions for or save lives of companions, others similarly situated. Did the serviceperson receive special treatment, ameliorating initial harsh conditions.<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.newtotalitarians.com/index_files/JohnMcCainAsPOW.htm">John McCain as a POW</a>. Author: Gerald L. Atkinson, April 15, 2008. Note that McCain's father was an admiral, not a general, as I had earlier understood. This is not to endorse the group sponsoring the post; it instead is to emphasize that facts are to be vetted whoever raises them.<br />
2. Issues of comparison of forms of heroism first raised in 2008: as to <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/09/john-mccain-and-pow-tortured-hero-vice.html?q=john+mccain">James Stockdale</a>; <br />
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<li>Earlier updates. Occasional. Think Myers-Briggs Type Inventories, for example, and if ear shape also suggests introversion, judging, and the like. Strongly doubtful, but the latest affirmation that ears are indeed individual comes from Smithsonian Magazine, article <i>Up to Their Ears</i>, March 2015, see<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/were-terracotta-warriors-based-on-actual-people-180954321/"> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/were-terracotta-warriors-based-on-actual-people-180954321/ </a></li>
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Past updates: Ear-reading Update 4/6/2012. Earily, the topic persists. Here, a crease in the lobe and heart issues, see <a href="http://www.webmd.com/heart/news/20121106/4-signs-aging-heart-risk">http://www.webmd.com/heart/news/20121106/4-signs-aging-heart-risk</a><br />
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Earlier update, a fashionista approach. Surgery to achieve the Star Trak Pointy. April 7, 2011 ABC News. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/video/odd-15749658/surgery-for-elfin-ears-newest-trend-24822809">Surgery for Elfin Ears Newest Trend.</a> Oh? Not newest trend at all. Been around a long time. Surgery for the pointies? <br />
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Here looks like an ideal ear: A Joe Citizen Slovakian, a real unknown since this possessor of The Ear was in line for the tickets for a festival at Bojnice SK. He is probably unrelated to Joe the Plumber whose ears are small but piggy. Joe the Slovakian was present at a festival event with his small son, whose ears were concealed under a hoodie, so excluded here.Fear enters through the eyes (surpr-<i>eyes</i>-ed at first). But reliance on eyes means you have to be there. Fear comes through ears without your being in sight; fear enters by way of 24/7 Fear TV, for example.</div>
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Then there is fun. Fun first enters through the ears. Hear that chuckle, are you drawn to find out what's up? And then the eyes - but the drawback of having to be there to see it. Telling a funny joke about an event is not the same as seeing it -- thus the success of YouTube. You, too, can see it.</div>
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Read <i>PC vs. Mac</i> byJoey Yap and Tee Lin Say. Mian Xiang: see Joey Yap in a long comment from 2008 at ://www.fengshuilogy.com/?cat=9/ He has a book at ://www.masteryacademy.com/estore/itemdetail.asp?iid=41/<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Otoplasty. Ear work. What would Mian Xiang do with cosmetically created (or even natural) Spock ears. </span><br />
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Did you know that you can create Spock ears cosmetically? Elfin. Puckish. Spockish. Magic. Surgeons can give you Spock ears, a recent trend - see <a href="http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/11/01/pointy_spockear_modification_i.html">http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/11/01/pointy_spockear_modification_i.html</a>; <a href="http://www.nodium.com/articles/500_pointy-ears-with-cosmetic-surgery/">http://www.nodium.com/articles/500_pointy-ears-with-cosmetic-surgery/</a><br />
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Do it yourself elf-ears. This is a self-help elf-ear article: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/05/how-to-give-yourself.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/05/how-to-give-yourself.html</a> Why? Why?<br />
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The term is "otoplasty" for ear work. See ://www.entauckland.co.nz/Prominent%20ears%20surgery.htm; outpatient basis at this site, India - make it part of your tour - ://www.tour2india4health.com/ear-surgery-india.htm. FN 2<br />
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Libraries report overruns on the computers, with fans of various mythological cultural-origin constructs, seeking resource material on elvish shapes. See://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Ears.html. Visit this site and scroll down to Galadriel in "Lord of the Rings," at ://www.skinema.com/SpotLOTR2.html.<br />
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<li>Phrenology used to be in vogue in this regard, but lately has been probably discredited. This is the ersatz science of head bumps, see <a href="http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10855">http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10855</a> /It may </li>
<li>Palmistry. But the market for fortune tellers remains hot. Show me your palms! One in every town. See <a href="http://www.ofesite.com/spirit/palm/lines.htm">http://www.ofesite.com/spirit/palm/lines.htm</a>/</li>
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The power of the ear, the eye. The ear sends to the brain and carries more persuasion capability than mere rationality once the brain is hit. Is that the point? HIghjack the ear with rhetoric, spin, slogans, scapegoating, all the techniques at //www.propagandacritic.com, before facts are in. The ear exceeds the power of the brain, the written word. The power of the ear in taking in persuasion. Persuasion by ear is stronger then persuasion by the written word <br />
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Information received through ears multiplies in effect because the hearer has no immediate access to<i> vetting</i> what is heard. Fox on all day, all night, Fox is watchin' over me, my Lord. Keep the pretty pictures on, get the sounds right as the lady irons, and she absorbs it all.<br />
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A viewer on a computer can do some clicks to a fact check and go check out what is viewed. Not so the listener, barely paying attention. Remember your last house-interior painter listening to loud people for two hours each day at lunch while they paint your house. Background ear virus.<br />
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It gets to the point where the homeowner can't wait for the guy to Leave! Leave! When will you be done! Once the inflammatory stuff is in there, it stays. Never hire him again.<br />
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"In the porches of mine ear" .... bemoans Hamlet's father's ghost.... and the poison did its work. See ://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/hamlet/6/<br />
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Ears. We pay too little attention to what gets in there. We try to analyze only the outsides, and that does not get us far. See <a href="http://hellofodderhellobuyer.blogspot.com/2008/10/asymmetrical-tv-aural-structure.html">Aural Structure - Lobes</a>,<br />
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<b>Ears as Facilitating Media Ponzi Schemes</b><br />
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Our lack of attention, to the potency of what comes in by ear, helps explain the radio and TV Audio Ponzi Schemers. It explains the vulnerability of at least some of their followers.Get one person to believe, that person repeats to another person, who then believes, and the Ponzi grows.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">5.1 Red Ear Blue Ear</span><br />
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Ears, as outward, visible signs of inward spiritual grace or lack of it. Can ears be outward and visible signs of inward political leaning, or other characteristics?<br />
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Upon first tallies, there appeared to be no difference between Red Ears and Blue Ears, classified by state of origin; but this is being reassessed with new data.<br />
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However, of interest to researchers: do larger, relatively thicker ears, with pendulous fattier lobes, signify conservative viewpoints and financial success? Step up, Warren Buffett. Give us a look.<br />
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For wacky research: Is fear of the <i>different or new</i>, or fear of loss or challenge, stored in the lobes such that more swingy, fatty round lobes relate to conservatism; while modest-sized thin. even if long, lobes indicate overall tolerance.<br />
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Although Alfred E. Newman was brights-challenged, was he a good <span style="font-style: italic;">listener </span>as indicated by ears sticking out, aiming carefully at the speaker speaking? Obama, with generous sized ears, that tilt toward the speaker. A good listener. And he is.<br />
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Animals with ears aiming forward are good at catching prey? Is that so? Does that mean that Obama may take his time to listen, but has all the predator instincts we know and love in heads of state when appropriate.<br />
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Prey: Then it follows that prey have ears that swivel back and around, to hear what is coming?<br />
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We have heard that tendency to fear or tolerance are hard-wired, see CNN report at ://scoog.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/19/1884407-study-conservative-fear-liberal-tolerance-may-be-hard-wired. Next study: tolerance as seen in lobes and whorls. Add this to your voter talking points.<br />
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Ears display racial-ethnic differences. Maybe race correlates with shape of lobes more than political leanings. If that is what the research shows so be it.<br />
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Caucasians and Japanese have larger lobes generally than India Indians. In India, a study showed lobes growing up to age 15, then being quiet for a while, and increasing in size after age 45. This can be an issue for biometrics, identifying people by ear shape. Less reliably identifiable as they age.<br />
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Researchers hope to have some answers by February 2009, so stay tuned. Use our Lobe Hotline to report sightings of interest. There does seem to be a connection in common lore - now for Science.<br />
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In owls, the tufts are not ears, but are used for communication. Perk up when inquisitive. See http://ruralchatter.blogspot.com/ Some humans can wiggle ears. Learned or hard-wired? We learned.<br />
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The RAPPP. The Single Knob Bump. This is a subgroup of elfin or elvin. Observers note a common phenomenon long documented by this researcher: known as the the Right Appendage Perimeter Pointy Place (RAPPP). This is different from an overall elfin shape - it is a distinct point or bump, not as often on the left ear?<br />
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This is a little angled, upper outer ear point, and it may signify great intelligence. Wits, as in elves? Or, perhaps, it serves as a tolerance repository, pointing to new directions. Exit pollsters will be at the polls with little cameras to correlate voter statements of candidate voting with ear quirks.<br />
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Update. News Flash. November 5, 2008 - President-Elect Obama has a little right ear point, external angling to leadership. Note similarity, but not much, to ear pointy are of Stephen Colbert. Is that so? Then we have Will Smith the Actor - oh, dear, we are addicted. Fox has fatty lobes? Dobbs? Distrust! Distrust!<br />
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Also, it has been posited that ear to nose-tip distance and large ear size may indicate that the person has "energy to be alert, inventive, and stick his nose out." See "Face to Face with Facts," a Google book at http://books.google.com/books?id=boX_nBruUngC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=large+ears+and+personality&source=web&ots=piUutGxtYa&sig=U1AzJ4CTjiz1ZparwdwEQMW00Ss&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result/.<br />
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Our own ears at this site, for example, are not at all symmetrical, with lobes of different sizes and even angle to the Main Tete, so, when pierced (ultimately abandoned) never looked as though the earrings balanced. One harked east, and the other harked west. This is a common community of the afflicted. Was that the doorbell or the microwave?<br />
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For those interested in developing observational expertise in this esoteric subject, we recommend the following enrichment activities:<br />
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1. Habitat. Specimens, for Auro-Watchers: TV Cable or Network people substituting themselves and their opinions for what the candidates themselves directly say, which footage is locked in the vault.<br />
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2. Equipment. Get a sketch pad and charcoal from a hobby store and begin your own collection. For use on buses, small pads are best.<br />
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3. Camera. Begin a photographic record. Keep near TV and in car.<br />
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4. Catalogue shapes, uniqueness in sound receptor areas: Do an Images search for ears.<br />
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5. Self-diagnosis. Sketch your own. Get a mirror and view yourself from behind.<br />
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6. Home decor. Ink them and press along chair rail areas; or create a stencil.<br />
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5. Fine Arts. Chorale: Turn up sound. //kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/doyourears.htm<br />
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Begin your own photographic collection of talking heads to isolate the most common individuations, with attention focused on the RAPPP. Those do seem to appear on the heads of highly intelligent persons, is that so?<br />
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When people pursue ears instead of issues, the real thing you know is that it is time to end the agony.<br />
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Did Marx have big ears? See "McCain Suggests Obama Tax Policies are Socialist," at ://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iE2JCSH5p9r2GBkQWS9TWAMzmuvQD93T0HGO0; and unfairly depriving the comfortable of their entitlements and unjust enrichments. See <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/10/tax-restitution-reallocation-or-reward.html">Joy of Equivocating, Tax and Funding</a>.<br />
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Is McCain a big lober? Yes, so far. Do an Images search and look at blog,kir.com.<br />
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<b>FN 2 Curious </b>- Can Medicare patients choose treatment services, including for ears, that are more than the standard included in Medicare. Just saw this site, from some time ago, when personal payment for additional services from a Dr doing Medicare was not allowed, see ://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba243.html.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-61248842768407293922017-06-03T10:04:00.001-04:002017-06-04T03:22:30.553-04:00No divine right of Trump. No foundation for blanket immunity or privilege, including conflict of interest, or personal enrichment. All have consequences. Time, place, manner..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/367/367-04.htm">Divine right of kings</a>. Originally balanced by a contract with the deity:<br />
Power bestowed, in exchange for the requirement of a just and merciful rule.</div>
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Later came kings claiming 'blanket privilege or immunity.' Autocrats.<br />
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right. Mircea the Old, Right to rule balanced by contract with the deity for justice and
mercy. Wallachia, Romania. Follow history: no such blanket right for Trump, or in any democracy.</a><br />
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History of divine right: Who claims that rough equivalent of "divine-like" right based on statistics, not justice or mercy or merit of policy. Who seeks the power of office to shield, get privilege, immunity, even for personal acts. Save privilege and immunity for preservation of legitimate state secrets, state exigent circumstances, and always subject to review: not to be used to condone a power-abuser in using office to self-enrich.</div>
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History and divine right. </div>
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1. Mircea the Old 1330-1352</div>
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1. Mircea the Old, 14th century. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Walachia#ref207201">Wallachia</a>. Romania now. Ask<i> </i>about the limits of power of a prince. <i>Mircea the Old, Mircea I</i>, <i>Basarab I</i>,<i> Mircea I Basarab</i>.* </div>
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The grandson of Mircea I was was <i>Mircea II</i>, if this first identification is correct; another king of the House of Basarab, thus the first Mircea is given the<i> elder </i>designation. </div>
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<li> The grant of power is by "the grace of God <i>in accordance with a
contract,</i> which obligated the prince to be a just and merciful ruler
under the will of God who granted him a vicarship over his people." (emphasis supplied). See <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=j1ytAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=divine+right+of+kings+in+romania&source=bl&ots=g0UvDnPbIE&sig=kIz0gvGJ29_vz_rFc5DaLwVJfiE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJyL_QwKHUAhUBciYKHcc2DyoQ6AEIVzAG#v=onepage&q=divine%20right%20of%20kings%20in%20romania&f=false">A Concise History of Romania</a>
by Keith Hitchins 2014 at pp.38ff, tracking various rulers and their
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Accordingly, you, as a believer, can trust the
foundation. You do not need to see it. Vicarship over his people: a
right-thinking interpretation of the meaning of<a href="https://martinlutherstove.blogspot.com/search/label/dominion"> dominion</a>, for those interested in secular as well as culture-religious applications from roots. </div>
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2. <a href="http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2014/02/the-kaiser-and-the-first-world-war/">Kaiser Wilhelm</a>. Middle modern times. Regression.</div>
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Move to later centuries, and find manipulation of rights of rulers away from association with the obligation to right and just rule; to, in effect, blanket privilege and immunity by virtue of "divine right," but without the countervailing<i> contract</i> idea: The French Revolution, of course, but even afterwards -- Emperor William of Germany in 1910, Wilhelm before WWI. He claimed to be King of Prussia by divine right, and that was stoutly denied and rejected by the Catholic Church, see <a href="http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/editorials/35251219/divine-right-kings">http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/editorials/35251219/divine-right-kings,</a> reference dated 1910. </div>
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"*** [T]he restoration under Kaiser Wilhelm II of a genuinely functioning monarchy claiming legitimation by Divine Right one hundred years after the French Revolution was even more forced, artificial, anachronistic [and] grotesque" (than the government of Germany had been under Bismarck.) Rohl proves this by examining not merely the character of the Kaiser and his court, but by analysing the roles of the higher civil service, the armed forces, the diplomatic service and the "kingship mechanism" which held the whole system together." </blockquote>
See <a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/47">The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany</a>Middl by John Rohl 2017.<br />
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There is no privilege or immunity except broadly to protect state secrets; none as to personal interests. No modern ruler gets the equivalent of divine-like right to rule and make all decisions based primarily on fact of election. We have an evolved sense of the foundation of power: articulation along the lines of Mircea the Old, and old Biblical grant of dominion and "vicarship". Great concept. <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vicar">Vicar</a>. Subject to higher considerations. Accordingly, what remains -- these three. Removal or containment for abuse of office, a) use of that office for personal enrichment; b) setting public policy not for the public, the nation's interest long term; but c) setting policy to benefit one's financial and political friends/ Allow no blanket shield against investigation of abuse of office, as for personal enrichment.</div>
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<li>Search for absolutism in a presidency: as in "divine right of Trump." Refresh your own recollection about that old divine right, its foundations deeply entrenched in history. Cultural belief in it enabled a ruler based on his position to do and conceal as he wished. Those ancient justifications have no legitimate place here. Media, do your jobs and begin drawing parallels pro and con and address what is left of 'divine right' and its modern applications. Protecting state secrets? May be a legitimate claim for immunity, privilege. Maybe not. Discuss. What is fair game in this new show in Washington.</li>
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The princes said, trust the foundation: God gave us power, God wants it where it is. Obey. Obey. Elected leader says, trust this new foundation. You elected me, do as I say. The people say, no. You are accountable for justice and mercy to all.<br />
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Conclusion: Oppose absolute exercise of any alleged right. All are subject to time, place and manner restrictions. Expression through possessions, displays, speech. See <a href="http://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/time-place-or-manner-restriction.html">http://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/time-place-or-manner-restriction.html </a>. Rights to guns, speech, demonstrations, anything. Time, place and manner overlay. Let investigations of actions that install kleptocracy instead of democracy begin. No divine right to do it. Divine or not, no blanket privilege or right <br />
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* Here, <i>Mircea the Old</i>. <i>Mircea I.</i> <i>Mircea Basarab</i>. I think. Is it instead <i>Mircea II?</i> This a drive-by, fast shot in Wallachia, Romania. Vet. Do an <i>Images </i>search. Or, see him directly at <a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/sv/Mircea_cel_B%C4%83tr%C3%A2n">http://www.wikiwand.com/sv/Mircea_cel_B%C4%83tr%C3%A2n</a>. Copy text and go to a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=translator&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8">translator. </a>Find, according to this translation, that Mircea the Old is "Mircea cel Bătrân, Mircea the Great / the old, born 1355, was ruler (vojvod) in Valakia from 1386 until his death in 1418. He was the father of Vlad II Dracul."<br />
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Now to the roots of power: had a solid cultural foundation for his status, however. Trump just has, on a good day, perhaps 1/3 of us out there who like his playing roles for ratings. Not enough to Trump common sense.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-51512637789912061862017-02-05T04:58:00.000-05:002017-03-22T16:52:32.522-04:00Mar-a-Lago. The ghost of Marjorie Merriwether Post. History of uses.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago was once the US Mar-a-Lago.</div>
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It was a gift to be used as a Winter White House. None of them did; so it was sold.</div>
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Economy of use of public money, more important. Sold under President Carter.</div>
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Update: See the NYT article, on contemporary issues, members on list, other presidents with seasonal-use alternate White Houses. NYT, however, omits the history. See <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/mar-a-lago-trump-ethics-winter-white-house.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/mar-a-lago-trump-ethics-winter-white-house.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0</a>. Find that history here, </div>
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Mar-a-Lago. Between sea and lake -- or inland waterway.</div>
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Also between ethical and unethical: </div>
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What enriching, business-enhancing, and other connections, does this place offer?</div>
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Worth it to the nation?</div>
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Study Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate and private club belonging to President Trump. It has with high entry fees and much luxe, on some 17 acres on an elongated 16 mile island at Palm Beach. Mar-a-Lago is greatly altered from its prior privacy-oriented uses, as is allowed for private owners.<br />
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Ask -- What are its pitfalls for conflicts of interest, now that we have us a President: emoluments, etc. It gets little attention in that regard. Could he use it as outlined? How to prepare, respond. Moscow in the photo, see text below, relates only to an unexplored business opportunity for Mr. Trump there, related to his ownership of Mar-a-Lago. Combining presidential residence with commercial club-resort offers multiple opportunities for just happening to bump up with persons otherwise required to sign in, please. <br />
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Meanwhile, enjoy the history. Visionary: Marjorie Merriwether Post.<br />
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Background. History. The location is the name: <i>Mar-a-Lago</i>, from sea to lake, from the Atlantic Ocean to the IntraCoastal Waterway. See<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mar-a-Lago+Club/@26.6770665,-80.0391743,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88d8d71e9a5c409d:0x71bb1222105e5650!8m2!3d26.6770665!4d-80.0369802"> map</a>. Read its 2016 <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/look-inside-mar-lago-donald-trump-palm-beach-estate/sCIe7q5aA1RVPLmfXXLfCO/">social history.</a> And wonder at and admire the philanthropy, dignity, of its originator, Marjorie Merriwether Post.<br />
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<li>What does the graceful ghost of Ms. Post think, as she returns to see her bequest, its reversion, and its new incarnation as over-gilded money-maker attracting wannabes? Is that accurate? President Trump makes 15.6 million dollars a year from it, see <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128">http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128</a>, </li>
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<li>To join the club? Fees doubled after the Trump election from $100,000 per year to $200,000, see <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-doubles-membership-fee-to-200000-2017-1)">http://www.businessinsider.com/mar-a-lago-doubles-membership-fee-to-200000-2017-1)</a>. . </li>
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Trump bought Mar-a-Lago long after the fact of earlier-owner glories and dreams -- Marjorie Merriwether Post and family, see timeline below. He has no obligation to honor tradition, its creation by others, in any way. It's his. In summary, Marjorie Merriwether Post left it by will in 1973 to the United States Government for a winter White House, but it was costly to maintain and was not used for that. President Jimmy Carter saw that it reverted to the heirs, including Post's daughter Dina Merrill, see below, and the property was put on the market, Trump bought it in 1985, all legal.<br />
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1. Did he "save" it by buying it? Hardly. He kept up bricks and mortar; but to "save" it would be to preserve it for its intended government private use. Trump does plans to use a wing as a southern White house, as he also intends to continue using his NYC residence and the DC White House, but the point is not that partial use. <br />
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Instead of preserving, which is an integral part of "saving" (and he had absolutely no obligation to preserve anything). he had the choice and people's choices define them. No philanthropist, he has transformed it into a lucrative commercial venture. He <i>converted</i> it for his own aggrandizement, but did not "save" it. Just use the wording that conveys the reality, is all.<br />
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<li>Mar-a-Lago was at the time and still is on the National Register of Historic Places, see <a href="http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/fl/palm+beach/state.html?)">http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/fl/palm+beach/state.html?)</a> </li>
<li>That listing, however, imposes no limitation or obligation on owners. It is an ego-boost: see my wonderful plaque. All that's legal is not admirable. Do those in the know who like these places prefer <a href="https://www.thebreakers.com/">The Breakers</a>?</li>
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So, no, he did not "save" it. Instead, he worsened it in terms of its original use. Anybody care? Not as long as the money flows and all the soft little hands outstretched get refilled, and refilled. The <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/betsy-devos-lobbying-senators/">DeVos</a> rule, to add to the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tmmOvqV4MboC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false">Greene 48.</a><br />
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2. Emoluments? All so far is legal? money-making?. Who cares? People in this country value money first. That's what they do. Nonetheless, inquiry is appropriate. Is there a tangle of emoluments here? Should parameters be set? Somebody explore.<br />
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3. Now: secret proposal to Mr. T. Preparation for four more years; How about yet another, and hereby patented, business opportunity. Can I do that? Either way, Mr. Trump, if and when you all do this, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXDonUxBxig">think of me.</a> In case I haz any rightz here, do whatz right. Not just what is legal.<br />
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3.1 Secret business opportunity: Mr. Trump has an "in" with Russia in ways yet unexplored. The <i>Russian Art Collection.</i> See <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/russian-collection">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/russian-collection</a>. Said there to be the most comprehensive Russian collection outside Russia. If you like Catherine the Great, do you like the Orlov service? see <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/collection/search?f_p=38">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/collection/search?f_p=38</a><br />
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3.2 Secret details<br />
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<li>Mar-a-Lago is the brainchild-dream of Marjorie Merriwether Post, who accrued a vast <i>Russian art collection</i>, in the Stalin years, now at her museum-home at Hillwood, outside Washington DC. </li>
<li>Mr. Trump has a business opportunity here: Sell an arts and access package. Did you know your predecessor had such an art collection? Now you do. </li>
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<li>Have people stay at the Trump hotel in DC, </li>
<li>\Whiz them (helicopter would be nice. Does the hotel have a pad?) over for a private showing and glitz meal with the butlers and butlesses at the Hillwood Museum, and see the Russian art (all apparently with provenance aceptable)/</li>
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<li>To see the art, scroll down at <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/about-hillwood/marjorie-merriweather-post/family">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/about-hillwood/marjorie-merriweather-post/family</a>. Then </li>
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<li>Fly on the Trumpjet, with the requisite lubrication to stay at the southern estate of Marjorie Merriwether Post in Palm Beach. </li>
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<li>Nice swag bags by Ivanka of things like the Met Museum of NY sells, T shirts, gewgaws. </li>
<li>Network. Sell access by letting people know when the Trumps will be there, in case there is an access opportunity, let foreign dignitaries know in case a Putin vacation may match up, because he may want the art back, see<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-hotel-mar-a-lago-president-elect-new-years-eve-party-selling-access-a7505226.html"> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-hotel-mar-a-lago-president-elect-new-years-eve-party-selling-access-a7505226.html</a></li>
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<li>Advertising space: Here, the Moscow subway</li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4ecPi8jPpSFXeH7ygp1mrc5iFNjx28F99h8o1g6w6gp0bjVYtlgWDJ2MybFnn3j6DMSYE8AjvRmpLZK-ExgbNoJPvzaJj9RuD8cYIoyxPYz5DGpDMwbbhNThdlWQE-VHHFjG6KfirsA/s1600/102_5270.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4ecPi8jPpSFXeH7ygp1mrc5iFNjx28F99h8o1g6w6gp0bjVYtlgWDJ2MybFnn3j6DMSYE8AjvRmpLZK-ExgbNoJPvzaJj9RuD8cYIoyxPYz5DGpDMwbbhNThdlWQE-VHHFjG6KfirsA/s320/102_5270.JPG" width="320" />Mar-a-Lago business opportunity. Tie in Russian Art Collection of Marjorie Merriwether Post at Hillwood with a stay at the Trump place in DC, then flap down to Palm Beach, Russia, and see where the Collection's originator lived.</a><br />
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Make money. Ads in Russia. See their art in the US with access opportunities.<br />
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<li>Just happen to have Russian President Putin staying at the club at the same time, with entourage, and prepared to <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hobnob">hobnob</a> with the wannabes. Treaties in process can be kept in another room. Mr. Putin could respond to recent books, see <a href="https://zfreeebookdownloadspdfz.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/putin-s-kleptocracy-who-owns-russia-unabridged-audible/">https://zfreeebookdownloadspdfz.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/putin-s-kleptocracy-who-owns-russia-unabridged-audible/</a></li>
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4. Credit roll. <br />
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No-one has to give credit where credit is due, see that at Law 7 and other admonitions in Robert Greene's <a href="https://www.tke.org/files/file/The_48_Laws_of_Power.pdf">Rules of Power</a>. Noone legally has to honor a predecessor whose vision and love of place made it possible for another to leapfrog into higher status, even if not <i>acceptance</i> by those who came before, see <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128">http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128</a>. This is not a required "attribution" of source, no plagiarism of real estate. Would a truly great person extend credits instead of simply self-promote? This is the Post estate, not the Trump's in vision.<br />
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1920 -- Marriage of Marjorie Merriwether Post, who inherited the fortune accrued by her parents in Post cereals, evolve to General Mills I think; and E. F. Hutton, founder of the Wall Street stock firm -- when it talks, people listen, etc.<br />
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In all, she was married four times, just go to <a href="http://wiki./">Wiki</a>, issues not relevant here. E. F. Hutton: later fell on hard times, now working to get up off the mat again, see <a href="http://riabiz.com/a/2015/3/26/why-ef-huttons-rebooters-took-the-arse-backward-tack-of-selling-public-shares-and-buying-a-brand-before-developing-a-product">http://riabiz.com/a/2015/3/26/why-ef-huttons-rebooters-took-the-arse-backward-tack-of-selling-public-shares-and-buying-a-brand-before-developing-a-product</a><br />
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1923 -- Birth of daughter of Marjorie Merriwether Post and E. F. Hutton, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581277/bio">Dina Merrill</a>: actress, philanthropist, businesswoman, socialite. See site for biography, husbands and their resources. I see no obituary, do a search for other life details not relevant here. She dealt with Mar-a-Lago and other issues upon the death of her mother.<br />
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<li>A moderate Republican. </li>
<li>Surely she could be remembered at Mar-a-Lago. Which bedroom was hers? </li>
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<li>Dina Merrill grew into many roles, including that of a moderate in Republican circles, and advocate for issues in women's health, supporting the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, see <i>Pro Choice Republicans Condemn Platform</i> (opposing abortion, campaign era of George W. Bush 1996) <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123139&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123139&page=1</a>.</li>
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1924-1927 -- Heiress and socialite, bright person and visionary, this Marjorie Merriwether Post found the site for and had built this magnificent ocean-front estate, some 128 acres at the time? at Palm Beach, Florida. See <a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-decor/a7144/mar-a-lago-history/">http://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-decor/a7144/mar-a-lago-history/</a> It has 128 rooms.<br />
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1930's -- Acquisition of Russia Art Collection, see <i>Hillwood</i> at Washington DC, above. Explore. There are 384 pages like this one, see <a href="http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/collection/search?filter=Place%20made:Russia">http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/collection/search?filter=Place%20made:Russia</a>. For a less formal look, see <a href="https://www2.gmu.edu/news/258">https://www2.gmu.edu/news/258</a><br />
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1973 -- Death of Marjorie Merriwether Post. By will, she left the property to the United States Government (now the untied states government), see <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/look-inside-mar-lago-donald-trump-palm-beach-estate/sCIe7q5aA1RVPLmfXXLfCO/">Palm Beach Post</a>, for use as a retreat, like a winter White House, for presidents. See <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128">http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128 </a> None used the property. Maintenance costs were about a million dollars a year.<br />
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1985 -- Trump and wife Ivana bought the property. Purchase price: Ten million. See <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/look-inside-mar-lago-donald-trump-palm-beach-estate/sCIe7q5aA1RVPLmfXXLfCO/">http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/look-inside-mar-lago-donald-trump-palm-beach-estate/sCIe7q5aA1RVPLmfXXLfCO/</a>. <br />
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This site says five million. See<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/donald-trump-mar-a/2011/01/20/id/383396/"> http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/donald-trump-mar-a/2011/01/20/id/383396/</a><br />
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And from then on, it was fight, fight. See <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128">http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/inside-mar-a-lago-trumps-palm-beach-castle-and-his-30-year-fight-to-win/2254128</a></div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-1143053870314643472017-01-17T06:38:00.000-05:002017-01-17T06:38:17.272-05:00Legitimacy of a presidency. Support special commission. Determine legitimacy of FBI processes. Partisan or not?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-russian-interference-commission_us_5873f785e4b02b5f858a9392">Progress</a> appears. Traction emerging. Appoint special counsel, independent commission, special commission, to investigate the processes of the 2016 election: Foreign intervention and agency partisanship.<br />
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Learn the process: see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1</a>. See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/77uuu">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/77uuu</a>. See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/part-7/subpart-C">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/part-7/subpart-C</a>. Legitimacy of a presidency is a greater issue than liking a president or not. Legitimacy in achieving office is not a matter of opinion, floating on
who got which votes. Legitimacy depends on process, whether the law was
followed, no matter what the topic. Illegitimacy: in elections: did a
government agency act or omit to act with the intent of fostering one
candidacy over another. Legitimacy is like <a href="http://www.rulesonline.com/">Robert's Rules of Order </a>in elections. <br />
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The means are available. An independent commission. People also can help: Read <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Washington_s_Rules_of_Civility_and_Decen.html?id=AXMBAAAAMAAJ">George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior</a>: at page 31 -- "When another speaks be attentive yourself, and disturb not the audience. If any hesitate in his words, help him not, nor prompt him without being desired; interrupt him not, nor answer him, till his speech be ended."<br />
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Support an independent commission. Trump's election legitimacy depends on it; and with it, whether he can serve in a positive way, without that distraction. Why should anyone pay attention to someone in office thanks to foreign intervention and partisan misdeeds in a government agency. No reason. Give us a break, Trump. Put this issue to rest. People, do not be quiet about the issue that John Lewis has properly raised, even though Morning Joe just advocated that people just be quiet. <br />
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Legitimacy is a foundational issue. Explore the FBI. Don't be quiet. Accountability counts.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-45837760161847944632017-01-10T12:52:00.001-05:002017-01-10T13:26:58.835-05:00Trevor Noah for Secretary of Education. Reject Betsy DeVos. Unregulated capitalism exploits.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. Choose Trevor Noah.<br />
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This is a wise, seasoned man, with black mother, white father, raised in South Africa, who now is running interference on late night TV. He knows legions about the broad aspirations and barriers to accomplishment that people of color experience. That is a universal issue. He also has the perspective, humor, and articulation skills to have figured out what is needed in criminal justice and to make education work (both fields blend). He lays out the problems, and solution ideas, better than any proposal for progress that nominee Trump has come up with to date.<br />
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Hey, Trump. Why not. Education and Justice under Trevor Noah and the United States may begin to grow its democracy again, if that is indeed your goal. As it is, we see your current nominees fostering the demise of democracy -- even its failure, in favor of entrenching the elite. Meanwhile, the autocrats, oligarchs, kleptocrats, those whose control we used to deride in Russia, succeed here as well. Our people (your people) are taking a page out of the Russian playbook. Can we get back to our own roots.<br />
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<li>No! comes the voice from offstage right. Your so-called roots don't count. You didn't get your turn at bat before because we hid the bat; but now we get it all, so sit down.</li>
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Did we say the issues of Trevor Noah's life are universals?<br />
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Yet he can deal with them without making enemies. Begin reading his memoir, <i>Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,</i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/books/review-born-a-crime-trevor-noahs-raw-account-of-life-under-apartheid.html?_r=0"> https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/books/review-born-a-crime-trevor-noahs-raw-account-of-life-under-apartheid.html?_r=0</a>. Find a brilliant organization: a) A serious overview, in one form of typeface throughout; that b) precedes each chapter's memoir section related to it, and in another typeface throughout.<br />
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To read the history-informational-philosophy sections first:<br />
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<li>The contents list the chapter headings, so go to the immediately preceding pages for the short course in issues first. The overview may offers history, differences between ethnic and racial groups in South Africa; or the differing townships, and who lives there; or insights into a parent's reasons for behavior, as in how the child is raised; and why actions are taken to instill what life-lessons.</li>
<li>For your own short course, go to the the introduction to the jail episode: what jail is like, that precedes Chapter 17 -- the chapter about Trevor Noah ending up there, and why, and what happened and what he learned. Hooked, go on to Chapter 18, about his mother's life.</li>
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2. Reject Betsy DeVos.</div>
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Betsy DeVos. Did we say no loudly enough? That Trevor-Noah perspective of experience, wisdom, ability to articulate, all foster a working-together ability to see many sides to issues. This is lacking in the billionaire-blinders-wearing ideological candidate for Education Secretary now: a Betsy DeVos. <br />
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DeVos? Of Vos? From Vos? Why the capital V? De Vos is middle Dutch for "the fox" -- a nickname, say, for someone with red hair; or a "crafty man." See Everyman's experts at<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=devos"> http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=devossomebody hammed that up but good.</a> Apt.<br />
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This fox's adulation of unregulated capitalism, totally free market, is a ticket to ongoing exploitation. As Trevor Noah says, it's fine to say we'll teach people to fish, but not if we withhold access to the poles. </div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-989899495894787862016-12-24T12:34:00.002-05:002016-12-25T06:55:45.124-05:00Trump status. Time to call off the marriage. Betrothal is only a contract. Break it any time.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Break this contract. Please, pleads the bride-to-be.</div>
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Betrothal to the electorate: Leave it.</div>
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Russia would agree that the present pre-political-marriage status of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCoNtro4BKo">This Mr. T</a> to the US electorate is not sacramentally complete, and unconsummated, of course. There has only been a betrothal contract that can be broken off. Historically, such an arrangement, as interim, can be cancelled. Make the injured party whole again, and money u$ually work$ to $alve hurt feeling$. See "Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia," <i>The State of the Modern Russian Family, and Particularly that of the Joint or Household Community of Great Russia </i>(modern as 1891, at <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/kovalm.asp">http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/kovalm.asp</a>), This is Lecture II by historian Maxime Kovalevsky at <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/koval2.asp">http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/koval2.asp</a>, see <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xn8VAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA459&lpg=PA459&dq=Maxime+Kovalevsky+bio&source=bl&ots=X34IK0KCVI&sig=PtwpZcjscJVHFvJXQHPaNCfMgg4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV972zq43RAhWF5oMKHV3JD5sQ6AEIRDAH#v=onepage&q=Maxime%20Kovalevsky%20bio&f=false">bio</a>.<br />
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This business of breaking (or unilaterally modifying contracts) can be a way to get rich, so there should be little resistance. See <i>Contents</i> at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pDD1LABH1dYC&pg=PR9&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false">How to Get Rich</a>, by Donald Trump and Meredith McIver, 2004. Just say, Donald, we tried, we really did, but you are the wrong man for this marriage. As you say in the book: Big mistake is to marry the wrong person. And, don't equivocate.<br />
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The people have long had their say in how to manage these long-term relationship matters, often in addition to the rule-makers, usually a church whose approval has long not been needed for common or other types of civil marriage. Let the people speak and either call this one quits, or renegotiate the contract more to their advantage. This Mr. T who generates so much enthusiasm has already violated the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/953">Logan Act</a>, see also <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/topn/logan_act_foreign_relations">https://www.law.cornell.edu/topn/logan_act_foreign_relations</a>; and there must be punishment. Of course. So, this Mr. T must do what is required to walk those missteps back; and otherwise MHOB until oath is over, if he persuades the regretting electorate to stick with him. Why the premature and off-base request for how women are faring in the rights department, see <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/12/23/Trump-team-seeks-info-from-State-Dept-on-womens-rights-efforts/7321482475347/">http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/12/23/Trump-team-seeks-info-from-State-Dept-on-womens-rights-efforts/7321482475347/</a> Women's lives matter.<br />
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Best course for the long term: Let the people break off this ill-entered-into engagement to Mr. Trump before he fully ripens. Reconvene the Electors, unshackled. Or just write in the runner-up. After all, this is only a contract and contracts are made to be broken to get a better deal, and there will be someone else, fear not those who muddy waters, etc.<br />
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We know that, dear. Go ahead. Find another life. You'll forget him. This Mr. T hasn't even earned a title yet. He is just the presumptuous Mr. Trump.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-20540707218676142482016-11-29T18:56:00.002-05:002016-11-29T18:56:31.155-05:00Leak. GOP to rename DC. Contact Mitch in support. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1. The GOP plans to rename the postal service abbreviation for the District of Columbia.<br />
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2. This is part of the first-100-day push of the new Administration. New legislation effectuating the rename is based on the GOP objecting to the postal service. The postal service abbreviates District of lColumbia as DC.<br />
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3. The abbreviation DC is objectionable to the GOP because DC resembles the common nickname for a routine internal medical maintenance procedure, dilation and curettage (sounds like ballet, a pas de deux perhaps), or D&C. See <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/dilation-and-curettage/home/ovc-20259331">http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/dilation-and-curettage/home/ovc-20259331</a><br />
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4. The D&C is also known colloquially as a Dusting and Cleaning.<br />
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5. The D&C also happens to be a simple and safe means for abortion, where that may be an issue.<br />
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6.. In order to avoid obliterating the postal service (that is set for 2017), the GOP is planning to rename the District of Columbia.<br />
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7. To avoid promoting abortion, the GOP will rename the District of Columbia to new name: Gentrified Overseers' Plantation. GOP.<br />
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The postal service is grateful for the reprieve. GOP. Acronym for the Gentrified Overseers' Plantation. Get it? Fine with the postal service.<br />
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8. Use it. Write to Mitch McConnell in support at 317 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington GOP 20150. See phone, email and fax at <a href="http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/">http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/</a><br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-35081958293680177362016-11-21T09:35:00.000-05:002016-11-22T07:41:12.430-05:00Immigrants, resident others. Dhimmi in moderation. Reasonable non vengeful administration without humiliation or brutality.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">DHIMMI FOR THE WEST</span></div>
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<b>How to deal with The Conquered; the Immigrant; the Other.</b></div>
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<b>Alt-solution without deportation. </b><br />
<b>The stay-with-burden solution by <i>Dhimmi. </i></b></div>
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Historically, Islamic conquerors took a hard line in control. Consequences flowed from a legal system without quarter: objective, impersonal, minimal equity intervention to soften the result. That worked in Spain for centuries. <a href="http://www.dhimmitude.org/">Dhimmitude</a> applied. Muslim and Jew and Christian under the Caliphate each knew what could and could not be done. As to laws for the non-Muslim, the <i>dhimmi, </i>those laws provided that<i> dhimmi </i>could remain in the land, but the <i>dhimmi </i>had to pay a special tax,<i> </i>could not own land, had no say in governance. With the humiliation of those burdens, and the threat of persecution if the individual disobeyed, the dhimmi could live a life with that reduced financial reward and status, but otherwise undisturbed. This was, in effect, a harsh gangster-type protection system, not a gauzy happy time for all. But it provided a way to stay, a reason to go if the humiliation became too intolerable, and without slaughter, expulsions. See <i>Life as a Dhimmi in Medieval Islamic Spain</i>, <a href="https://world.wng.org/2016/09/life_as_a_dhimmi_in_medieval_islamic_spain">https://world.wng.org/2016/09/life_as_a_dhimmi_in_medieval_islamic_spain</a><br />
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There was another way out. If the<i> dhimmi</i> converted, then the status rose to that of the other Muslims. This was no utopian solution for multiculturalism, because the hierarchy of who was right was fixed (Islam was right). A balance was struck however. That is the key. And it lasted until the punitive-vengeful Christians took over: Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 took the expulsion-death approach as to the Jews after retaking Spain.<br />
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<li>And now the US may choose to expend some<a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-personnel-and-infrastructure-needed-to-remove-all-undocumented-immigrants-in-two-years/"> 300 billion</a> in funds to be diverted from other needs (see also <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/us/politics/donald-trump-immigration.html">NYT article</a>) to deport say 2/3 of the 11,000,000 undocumented persons now in the US. Their entry has been condoned for decades as evidenced by noone bothering to address the issue. The equities are on their side, not the punitive, vengeful ones. Shaming: asking for trouble, see <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201104/shame-concealed-contagious-and-dangerous-emotion">https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201104/shame-concealed-contagious-and-dangerous-emotion</a></li>
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We know that a <i>moderately administered</i> dhimmitude works. That is probably why certain government leaders here propose tracks to citizenship or guest worker status. How to get that back on track, when punishment and enforcement are so much more personally satisfying, from above.</div>
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South Africa as elsewhere, "immigrants are targets of xenophobia, harassment, intimidation, immigrant police sweeps, and even geopolitically motivated attacks." See <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2012/congolese-say-south-africas-congolese-immigrant-sweep-targeted-anti-kabila-refugees/">http://sfbayview.com/2012/congolese-say-south-africas-congolese-immigrant-sweep-targeted-anti-kabila-refugees/</a><br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-22884513063730838762016-11-16T06:30:00.000-05:002016-11-26T18:29:49.230-05:00Foundations of elections and voter exploitation. Update remedy: Elector limited vote on conscience without penalty. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Speak, O Peter Abelard. Speak, O Peter Lombard.<br />
Speak of truth and processes to arrive at it. Please.<br />
The media needs you.<br />
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Option for Electors: Free to vote conscience under given circumstances.</div>
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Trials are looming as to a President-Elect, with continuances prior granted and now should be finished. Popular vote went the other way. Let Electors in those <i>two circumstances</i> vote conscience, if they choose.<br />
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Update to Foundations of Elections and Voter Exploitation:.<br />
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Address voter remorse when a re-election is not feasible, by providing an <i>option</i> to Electors to vote conscience without penalty, and as they see fit -- based on their own responses to events. This would occur under two circumstances. </div>
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This constructive rescission is <i>optional </i>for each Elector, and only triggered in two circumstances:</div>
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1. Where the <u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479307912547_4680" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">popular vote</u> went to the losing candidate in the national electoral count, as a check and balance to the resulting overall winner;</div>
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<li>Such trial outcomes may be relevant to the election, and in an abundance of caution must be settled or trial begun prior to the electoral college vote. </li>
<li>If trial has commenced and is ongoing, then the Electoral College vote shall be postponed until trial conclusion.</li>
<li>All trial proceedings shall be public. </li>
<li>In the interim, the current President shall serve until the electoral vote at the conclusion of the trial(s) and then until the Inauguration.</li>
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B. For other exigent circumstances, or just on whim, the Elector may as currently provided cast a rogue vote, but such Elector shall remain subject to the penalties and fines of the State or Party as are currently in effect, so long as the meet Constitutional muster. </div>
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Initial post: Foundations of elections as exploiting voters. </div>
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I. Overview. The trajectory of election 2016 is over. What did that election represent? Did 2016 represent overall position support, such as a) repudiation of an establishment; or b) rejection of current healthcare laws. Or did 2016 represent instead the perfection of spin creating a <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/techniques/miasmatheory">miasma</a> of negativity, just going in the wrong direction, all is terrible, without accountability for merits. What facts support those conclusions? Consider the endless reruns of film loops of speeches, interactions, the dogged reporting on polls, talking heads talking their heads off about what people merely thought, without vetting, as though bald beliefs count without vetting. <br />
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Foundations of statements matter. Or do they?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90koopIkYnQT1aJF_8fARuiiQ4tHiPPI3MYs0uSR-xUAkfdQkOSuSWSnrv-_DPGlubckZgANBlbiPKZ4XsBCZQjNG7PzI7yQWpDDJGpmr-zdVP4fbhSh_mdzz9NORju-whYI3vg5QcOE/s1600/mirceamaybe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90koopIkYnQT1aJF_8fARuiiQ4tHiPPI3MYs0uSR-xUAkfdQkOSuSWSnrv-_DPGlubckZgANBlbiPKZ4XsBCZQjNG7PzI7yQWpDDJGpmr-zdVP4fbhSh_mdzz9NORju-whYI3vg5QcOE/s320/mirceamaybe.jpg" width="303" />The king rules. On what foundation, however, do his feet rest. What conflicts lurk. Here, Romania. Mircea the Old?</a></div>
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<li>The media did not address much in 2016 that counted as to the functioning of democracy: a) veracity in issue presentation, b) cogency, and c) context of persuasion tactics, as a modern and old issue. </li>
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<li>Consider. The media <i>itself i</i>s used for exploitation, to present exploitations of others; why, then, should it not be used also for <i>countering </i>exploitation. Is that not a choice? See <a href="http://media%27s%20use%20of%20propaganda%20to%20persuade%20people%27s%20attitude,%20beliefs%20and%20behaviors%20johnnie%20manzaria%20&%20jonathon%20bruck/">Media's Use of Propaganda to Persuade People's Attitude, Beliefs and Behaviors</a>, by Johnnie Manzaria and Jonathon Bruck, at<br /><a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpropaganda.html"> https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpropaganda.html</a></li>
<li>Or does media make more money by fostering exploitation than the public service of information, self-defense for people. </li>
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<li>Those are our airwaves. Don't you have a public service obligation to us? Don't ask. Breitbart will say we do not, see <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2009/08/05/who-really-owns-the-airwaves/">http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2009/08/05/who-really-owns-the-airwaves/</a> Time for a big discussion on public interest and who looks out for it in a capitalist system. No money in it.</li>
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II. Tools for a reasonable degree of public service over the airwaves. Investigate the words.<br />
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A. Middle Ages to the rescue. Uses of logic and <a href="https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_rhet.html">rhetoric</a>. Go back to Peter Abelard 1079-1142 CE. <i>Sic et non.</i> <i>Yes and no</i>. See <a href="http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/Abelard-SicetNon-Prologue.asp">http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/Abelard-SicetNon-Prologue.asp</a>. Use established liberal arts for logic, analysis of rhetoric, in compiling arguments pro and con any issue, and in order to be able to resolve differences. <br />
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Go back to Peter Lombard 1095-116- CE, scholastic theologian, for dialectics in how to resolve disagreements in a rational way, see <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/lombard/">http://www.iep.utm.edu/lombard/</a>. There the focus is religion, but the process is what counts. Enable a person to vet an argument before committing to a result, before the tripwire trips and someone becomes a mere follower.<br />
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B. The science of spin in our culture: let the people in on the secret. Why should they be guinea pigs for free?<br />
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1. Start with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or4eVXSMzH4">Edward Bernays</a>, 1928 or so. A video. <a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1166/PersuasiveTechniques.pdf">http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1166/PersuasiveTechniques.pdf</a>.<br />
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2. Move to advertising psychological research and businesses that conduct it, see <a href="http://www.neuromarketing-labs.com/services/neuroadvertising/">http://www.neuromarketing-labs.com/services/neuroadvertising/</a>are now a science. What do advertisers of any product do (including a <i>presidential product</i>, because this is indeed a sales matter and probably should trigger veracity controls on speech as in any commercial matter)?<br />
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<li>See tactics: <a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1166/PersuasiveTechniques.pdf">http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1166/PersuasiveTechniques.pdf</a>. </li>
<li>Apply the tactics as prescribed, mask the motivation of the speaker to match the motivation of the audience, aim at the population targeted and not others, repeat over time, and the persuasion takes effect. </li>
<li>Move to microtargeting, example <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/10/us_senate_candidates_exploit_c.html">http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/10/us_senate_candidates_exploit_c.html</a>. </li>
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<li>Do voters have a right to know when they are being exploited? Or, as in finance, is it buyer beware, let the exploiting begin, let the next bubble poof. </li>
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3. Go back to the simple techniques Americans were warned against in WWII, and still effective. See <a href="http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1513">Institute for Propaganda Analysis. </a> Find the devices of persuasion, at <a href="http://www.mindivogel.com/uploads/1/1/3/9/11394148/how_to_detect_propaganda.pdf">http://www.mindivogel.com/uploads/1/1/3/9/11394148/how_to_detect_propaganda.pdf</a>.<br />
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<li> Propaganda defense: Spot the tactics. See how the techniques are even ready for mass understanding. For the pop summary of propaganda, see <a href="http://www.propagandacritic.com/">http://www.propagandacritic.com</a></li>
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4. See what techniques pass under the radar of many people. See 'false equivalence,' where merely equal time is given to speeches, regardless of the we<i>ight based on merit. </i>Where is investigative journalism when it comes to political speech? Surely we have crossed the line into commercial speech when people pay advertisers and buy time.<br />
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Meme alert. Repetition feeds the beast, in the currency of <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meme">memes</a>. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">Wiki</a> for Everyman's Memes. See <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/how-false-equivalence-is-distorting-the-2016-election-coverage/">https://www.thenation.com/article/how-false-equivalence-is-distorting-the-2016-election-coverage/</a>. <br />
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II. Note that none of these analyses of "propaganda" include in the category a discussion on the merits, the pros and cons of an issue where people can check the reliability, veracity of the claims made. That kind of methodology is a counter-force to propaganda, and also are longstanding in importance (now overshadowed).<br />
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Medieval times, whether religious topics then, or political now. Reboot logic, thinking, facts.<br />
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III. Role of Media. </div>
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Media has abdicated its information role, condones exploitation, perhaps to avoid charges of abridging free speech. That is misguided. It is only the government that is restricted from abridging free speech; private entities can use their own judgment for their own reasons, as they already do, and I would add, abridging or weighing political speech should require disclosure of what has been omitted, corrected, or should be. See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/first_amendment">https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/first_amendment</a></div>
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<li>Rant. Exploitation, whether by gutting Dodd Frank, or keeping people immobile, hungry, sick so they cannot compete, is inconsistent with longterm stable democracy. Education, if not in schools (no common core?), then by media can recalibrate justice for people who may well not have the educational background to assess, vet, critique candidates in their own interest. </li>
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Explore, before this election fades. Does media have any obligation to counter exploitation, or is politics just another used car-type transaction-with-talking points. Media itself is exploited by the exploiters. Media, then, also has the power -- and obligation -- as a baseline in all walks of life -- to promote fair dealing. Any less promotes instability, injustice that goes in circles. </div>
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Disclosure. I respect and honor the office of President of the United States. I do not, at this point, respect the <i>methods and mindset</i> of the man who has been elected, and I believe largely because media left those largely unquestioned, to hold that office. I have every hope I can come to respect the man who <i>chose </i>those methods, but if humilitation, bandwagon, fact concealment, disinformation, sexual exploitation, intimidation, name-calling and condoning violence continue, that respect will not arise. Will the manner of the man rise to a level worthy of the office.</div>
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<li>Media guidelines. For the future: Watch spin. The <a href="http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2013/10/28/the-science-of-spin">science of spin.</a> Rather than reporting only on what someone came to believe (polling), after years of hammering and pejoratives over the airwaves, report instead on what persuasion techniques were used by each side for the voter person to believe that way. </li>
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<li>This media can and should do as part of basic voter information, to enable voters to guard against their own exploitation. Do a timeline. When was the issue first raised. Who raised it. What facts. How did facts change. Bait and switch. Innuendo. Fair dealing. As important in politics as in commerce.</li>
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Why the need to counter voter exploitation? Because elections are, have become commercial in nature. The candidate, the seller, making sales pitches to close the deal. The voter, the buyer, choosing a candidate without effective means of testing the good faith and truth of the sales pitch. Even without cause, let the voter constructively rescind in a given time frame, constructively by giving the <i>electors </i>the option to do so under the given circumstances. Allow a path.<br />
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Where those circumstances do not exist, a vote against the rules, Party or State, shall be with civil consequence for usual faithless electors, as set by the party or state, so long as those are within Constitutional guidelines. </div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-92143774277845992082016-11-05T11:02:00.000-04:002016-11-15T14:31:13.941-05:00Faithless Elector rule. An elector may vote conscience, subject to State civil penalties that meet Constitutional standards.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I. Post-election update: Re: Workings of the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/roles.html#electors">Electoral College</a>. Are the following consistent; how to enact, if no current specific provision in effect for interpretation: Further background, see <a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/roles.html#electors">https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/roles.html#electors</a><br />
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A. An Elector may vote his or her conscience. The right of Electors to vote their conscience shall not be denied. The State may exercise its own options to ensure compliance with its rules, so long as those are Constitutional. Trigger point: See <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/faithless-electors-petition-change-org-fine-trump-hillary-clinton-by-state-crime-illegal-electoral-college-when-does-meet/">http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/faithless-electors-petition-change-org-fine-trump-hillary-clinton-by-state-crime-illegal-electoral-college-when-does-meet/</a> [Vet <i>heavy.com</i> for reliability in reporting, analysis -- I just found <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy.com">Wiki,</a> must be more]<br />
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B. State Recourse against Electoral College <i>rogue voting:</i> must pass Constitutional muster.<br />
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<li>There shall be no automatic penalty that is contrary to Constitutional rights. No <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_liability">strict liability</a> where the result is so onerous or arbitrary or punitive in this civil area as to violate the Constitution. </li>
<li>A State that is winner-take-all may forego a vote entirely on the first ballot, as a means of countering an effort by a Faithless Elector to vote conscience on the first ballot.</li>
<li>All other Electors, from States not winner-take-all, may vote conscience on the first ballot, subject to the fines or penalties as are permissible.</li>
<li>A rogue Elector shall not be subject to criminal investigation or criminal penalty, loss of liberty or property. Rogue voting is not a crime.</li>
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II. Pre-election interest: Still relevant. A State may forego an actual vote if it is a winner-take-all State, and such status was in effect and duly publicized at least 90 days prior to the Election.<br />
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<i>A. Overview:</i> The Electoral College faces the issue in a close election of the Faithless Elector.<br />
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How binding shall be a State's decision to consider itself <i>winner-take-all. </i>Does that entitlement to winner-take-all mean that Electors in such state do not <i>need</i> to vote at all, with their bound votes merely submitted for the count instead. In such case, can they then go off on a <a href="http://us.practicallaw.com/2-207-4045">frolic of their own</a>, liability-free for a second or later ballot, if neither candidate wins on the first ballot? Must Electors vote on a first ballot even where they later disagree with their own pledge to follow the State's rules?</div>
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"The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not require that Electors be completely free to act as they choose and therefore, political parties may extract pledges from electors to vote for the parties' nominees."</blockquote>
See<a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html"> https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html </a><br />
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<i>Conclusion:</i> Lawyers, prepare to argue that winner-take-all requires no actual vote on a first ballot; the winner iis entitled to all those votes by fiat, without additional step or objection by individual Faithless Electors. They have to wait until the second ballot.<br />
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I. Rules of the Electoral College:<br />
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It is useful to check the wording of the actual law or rule apparently applicable in any situation, before assuming a refusal of an elector to vote is a problem to anyone.<br />
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<img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZbuILGLQNbwGdI_BU5aNyHugj-O9JRFlKOfxvm7X7loVqH8SaCxqXzUPLxt6t58ShtfPzlVov6RYhDCfnfAIZrTDz4-nx4GAXENfwY4YsaLjRab4_jRMVobo9IV9jurnXM_U4d6JlRs/s320/scan0029.jpg" style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;" width="161" /><span style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;">Totem pole hearsay says the elector says he will not vote as an elector. Is he required to vote at all in a winner-take-all state? Photo: Off-road in Romania.</span><br />
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News says, I read, that some Washington State elector refuses, in advance, to vote for Hillary Clinton even if she wins his State of Washington. See <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d3a1c10593c44da58bb611ef09101214/washington-state-elector-says-he-wont-vote-clinton">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d3a1c10593c44da58bb611ef09101214/washington-state-elector-says-he-wont-vote-clinton</a>.<br />
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More news, informal: This elector says, says Rachel Maddow in finest<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/22/totem-pole-hearsay/"> totem-pole hearsay</a> tradition [from this morning, at rerun of her Friday evening show], that the recalcitrant elector plans to pay the $1,000 penalty (where is that? where are the rules?) rather than cast his vote Hillary's way.<br />
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III. Collect the information:<br />
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A. Where are the rules for the Electoral College? Start at <a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/faq.html">https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/faq.html</a><br />
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B. Is Washington a winner-take-all State? Yes. See site: <br />
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"48 states, including Washington, use a “winner-take-all” system; the presidential ticket that receives the most votes in the state are entitled to all of Washington’s electoral votes (emphasis supplied)."</blockquote>
C. If a candidate wins in winner-take-all, then there need be no act of voting by the individual electors of that state? Looks that way. <br />
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<li>That is what entitle should mean -- a <i>privilege</i>. See <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=entitle">http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=entitle</a>. No further act needed to qualify. The candidate is entitled. A<i> <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=right&allowed_in_frame=0">right</a>. </i>A <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=privilege">privilege</a>, and with no<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/condition_precedent"> condition precedent</a> such as a prior "vote."</li>
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If all that is so, then Yes. No need to take vote. The candidate is "entitled" with no further action specified.</div>
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A. Not so fast on strict construction of the meaning of a word. There are <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42891">miles to go</a> before we sleep, in this our own electoral forest. Keep this site handy: the <a href="http://www.nass.org/">National Association of Secretaries of State.</a> (NASS). An issue may return to roost at the State level. Be prepared.</div>
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<li>The Electoral College site suggests on its own a broader latitude, suggesting that a vote is indeed needed (despite the plain language otherwise). So, if that holds, is the obligation of an elector merely a matter of good faith??</li>
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B. The website indeed addresses what happens if an elector does not vote as pledged. Elector on a frolic of his own.</div>
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"Some state laws provide that so-called 'faithless Electors' may be subject to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and be replaced by a substitute elector. The Supreme Court has not specifically ruled on the question of whether pledges and penalties for failure to vote as pledged may be enforced under the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/provisions.html#provisions">Constitution</a>. No Elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged."</blockquote>
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C. The site even provides a tentative non-binding list of the kinds of fees and penalties a State may or may not exact from a Faithless Elector. See site, and its own disclaimer against itself. Perhaps there is no penalty at all?? In Washington, the stakes are merely a party pledge and a thousand bucks.</div>
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So an Elector can throw an election by ante-ing up $1,000.00 in Washington State. Could happen. .</div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-16354345821984164162016-10-31T10:30:00.000-04:002016-10-31T10:03:31.507-04:00Is Weiner Pix Texting Psychopathology, Update. Paraphilia is now Paraphilic Disorder DSM V. Comey. You messed up.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paraphilia in Politics. Weiner Pix-Texting. Sexting Psychopathology. </div>
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Anthony Weiner's behavior now arises to <i>Paraphilic Disorder. </i>Update October 2016. Consider <a href="http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Paraphilic%20Disorders%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf">DSM-V.</a> </div>
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Topic: The behavior of Anthony Weiner in <br />
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b) furthering that activity using a computer with others' material on it, <br />
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Effect: These behaviors arise to the level of <i>Paraphilic Disorder </i>according to DSM-V, suggests this Everyman's Observer. Anthony Weiner's disregard of the harsh negative effects of his storing his means of communication on computers where others' information is stored seems to require a strong diagnosis of pathology. </div>
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<li>It is predictable that his behavior would invite legal examination in drawing in a minor, if he did; it is predictable, then, that material of others on his means of communication would then be exposed. </li>
<li>Did he also back up the other's information there, or did Huma Abedin do that herself, and did she use that computer as a primary sender as to some or all? There is now a serious impact on voters, even if not Weiner's own voters any more. </li>
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Director Comey in mis-joining two separate investigations: Three fatal flaws. </div>
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1) A three-week delay in your learning from your staff of the emails on Mr. Weiner's computer(s) (possibly pertinent to another investigation, Clinton), and </div>
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2) The resulting three-week delay in getting the necessary additional warrant for examination of the other emails (is there really probable cause here, or did the dump put pressure on that issue as well?), displays incompetence as a non-partisan leader (<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7323">Hatchery</a>). </div>
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3) Your scantily clad Friday night news dump disclosing your late knowledge but before a warrant had even been issued, confirms it. People, vote fairness here. That is the only matter which is certain.</div>
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<b> Weiner Pix-Texting. Is it a Psychopathology?</b><br />
<b>Sexting diagnoses. What category?</b></div>
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<b>Is it mere Paraphilia (one example in a spectrum of non-normative sexual behavior),</b></div>
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Ask DSM-V.</div>
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Either way, the issue of identification of a situation-condition soon gets caught in technicalities. The important matter, however, with the new DSM-V is the nature of any harm caused by the behavior. As to Anthony Weiner, make a little list: These descriptions and consequences, and not categories of some manual, will decide a candidacy:</div>
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<li>Descriptive: To some, the Weiner Conundrum Syndrome is exploitive, foisting reasonably anticipated edgy visual and text on others without advance consent; it is a power play. You are worthless, I do what I want, is the communication. Can't catch me. I am beyond accusation. It disrespects women, is clueless, says the wise Pelosi. Keep going: Flawed candidate judgment, self-control, trust diminution. Can one who uses women in this way be trusted to represent their interests against other impositional behavior.</li>
<li>Pathology: Not necessarily, but with the negative impact by his behavior on his constituents' confidence in his judgment, trustworthiness, the harm he does to himself may tip the descriptive to the pathological.<b><br /></b></li>
<li>And so the media and chatter go on. My interest in what concrete diagnoses from the DSM-V might address Mr. Weiner's situation. The Pope says he will not judge one group of relationships, and Buddha proposes a similar non-judgmental approach: generosity, compassion, wisdom, see <a href="http://martinlutherstove.blogspot.com/2013/07/buddha-and-weiner-exposure-disorder-or.html">http://martinlutherstove.blogspot.com/2013/07/buddha-and-weiner-exposure-disorder-or.html</a></li>
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Update on possible diagnoses-from-news: Even the overview in the NYT, offering possible speculative diagnoses based on the news coverage, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/nyregion/weiners-behavior-prompts-a-question-why-did-he-do-it.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/nyregion/weiners-behavior-prompts-a-question-why-did-he-do-it.html?_r=0</a>; includes no reference by a mental health professional to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V, current). What cubby would <i>they</i> use in the DSM-V. They refer to an addiction with neurological roots possibility, but sexual addiction is not in the DSM-V, we think. Mere indiscretion blown big because of our own fears of the topic?</div>
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A. Meanwhile, fill in the gaps as to the categories, the professional angles seen by an amateur. So far, these seem to be so, and the good news is that we are beyond (in the DSM-V) trying to list what is normal and what is not. What matters is the impact, the consequence. There pathology enters in, not before.</div>
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1. Paraphilia in itself, a
non-normative sexual preference, is not necessarily
psychopathological. It only becomes psychopathological where it cannot
be contained or changed and there is danger or harm to others, or to the
person -- including his extreme distress, where the person becomes
virtually incapacitated. Such is the change in analysis in the new DSM-V. No longer are mere behaviors listed and called paraphilia, and so stigmatized. The added factors are needed to create the now stand-along paraphilic disorder.</div>
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2. Analysis of sexual behavior, and what to categorize as a pathology, has changed. Mere paraphilia, or non-normative sexual behavior, is now not a psychopathology in itself, requiring or suggesting clinical intervention. There must be more. The behavior must either cause distress or impairment to the individual, or bring on a likelihood of or actual harm to the person or others. Then the behavior qualifies as more than mere paraphilia, non-normative sexual behavior. It becomes paraphilic disorder. That is the new and only category in the new DSM V. See the changes in the DSM-V from DSM-IV. *</div>
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3. That means that the mental health professional community guided by the Diagnistic and Statistical Manual no longer list what is norm-al, and what is not. What individuals find rewarding and pleasurable vary, without a listing needed, and may be left alone. But if they overstep the harm category, to self or others, broadly, then pathology analysis may step in. </div>
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B. What harm in his displays? Can it be broadly drawn, where some are exploiting their receipt of pix-texts for their own financial gain, even now. Harm to them? They are making bundles. </div>
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Go past the ones riding his coat-tails, or jock-elastics.</div>
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Anthony Weiner: his behavior in finding pleasure in pix-texting is not enough in itself to disqualify him as a candidate on grounds of a pathology. Instead, what may disqualify this candidate in the view of an electorate are issues unrelated necessarily to any psychopathology -- a pattern of poor judgment and exploitation in doing it, repeating despite the public eye likely to follow. </div>
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1) Weiner's failure to disclose material facts in a timely way, before seeking supporters' support, </div>
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2) Weiner's flawed ability to analyze a totality, predict consequence, weigh, see his behavior as exploitive, and change his worldview if he really valued elective office, supposedly serving the public. </div>
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C. If he tried to change and failed this time, can we assume that the behavior will be an ongoing indulgence when he represents the City of New York. What does he propose to ensure, yes, ensure, he does not humiliate himself and exploit others in the future.</div>
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Impact on voters: Would he describe himself with the <i>diagnosis</i> of paraphilic disorder. Now, would even that disqualify him? What disorders disqualify a person from office? This one? Not necessarily. Wait and see. That's why we have voters. And why we need educated, informed voters.</div>
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I. Old DSM-IV.<br />
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A. Paraphilia is something like intense arousal to atypical objects or situations, with a spectrum range from the harmless to
the threatening. Nobody has found a bright line between unusual or merely out-of-norm sexual
tastes and paraphilia. Amateurs head to Wikipedia's Encyclopedia for a reasonable overview -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia</a>/ Learn that the behavior qualitatively may or may not be illegal-criminal. It may be a mere choice, something that pleases the person. To change the behavior (as when there is harm or other pressure to change), requires long term therapy, and there should be subject to immediate interventions if there is danger to self or others, or the activities may create legal problems for themselves, see <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/guide/paraphilias-overview?page=3">http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/guide/paraphilias-overview?page=3 </a><br />
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B. Paraphilic Disorder. The behavior-spectrum paraphilia rises to paraphilic disorder as a matter of consequences, not a description of the act itself: Tthe person experiences distress from it, or is impaired by it, or the behavior is or is likely to cause harm to others.<br />
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New DSM-V. These two categories, found in the old DSM IV and leading to different conclusions as to treatment, have been combined into one category where both the qualititative description (a place on the spectrum) and the consequences occur or are likely to. That is the new Paraphilic Disorder.<br />
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That, in the new DSM-V, leaves the first category, the mere paraphilia, as meaning simply not in the norm. There is no pejorative. A person may have non-normative sexual preferences, but no harm no foul. Paraphilia does not mean psychopathological. <br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-49328514562242227692016-10-08T01:36:00.000-04:002016-10-08T07:44:02.883-04:00Mike Pence. Personal opinion is no basis for legislation for all? Not for Pence. Government function expanded to include religious imposition.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Update October 2016. Mike Pence believes that his personal religious belief is a proper ground for legislation for all. Matters of reproduction for him are defined by his religious ideology. Imposing religious ideology instead of rational basis for legislation is a radical departure from constitutional governmental function. Hold him accountable. Explore. Educate voters. The Pence Stance. A stance that imposes his religion's views on others.</div>
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Which way at the fork? Stop governmental intrusion into the personal sphere. If the deity is displeased with a personal decision, the deity can do as the deity will. It is not up to Pence or those of the Pence Stance. The religious issue determining policy is not new: Former Senator Gordon Smith R-Oregon said (tape <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/mormon-videos-leaked.html?_r=0">NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/mormon-videos-leaked.html?_r=0</a>, that he voted for the Iraq War because if it worked, the result could be expansion of Mormon opportunities there).</div>
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Background. Proper, constitutional bounds of legislation has been debated. Government function excludes forcing religioius beliefs, but see how that is in in jeoparty. Overview of government function issue: See ABA at h<a href="ttp://apps.americanbar.org/tax/groups/tef/EssentialGovernmentalFunctions.pdf">ttp://apps.americanbar.org/tax/groups/tef/EssentialGovernmentalFunctions.pdf</a>; (taxation issues); and Dallas Learning Cloud, Dallas County Community College, at <a href="https://dlc.dcccd.edu/usgov1-1/functions-of-government"> https://dlc.dcccd.edu/usgov1-1/functions-of-government</a> (1. Preserve order. 2. Defense, external enemies (defense, internal enemies?); 3. Manage economics; 4. Redistribute resources; 5. Provide public goods, in areas where private interests cannot so provide; 6. Prevent indirect external costs and benefits)</div>
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Examine Mike Pence and his preoccupation with imposing his own religious views on religious significance of stages and loci of reproductive activities. Put those views down.</div>
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As his mindset gains traction, finally.</div>
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Politics. A VP hopeful: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/14/10-things-you-should-know-about-mike-pence-who-may-join-donald-trump-on-the-gop-ticket/">Pence</a> stance<br />
Deprives <i>others</i> of choices at life's forks,<br />
Pleased that he, himself, is not affected. Whew.<br />
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Personal 'epiphany" -- <i>I </i>see truth!<br />
No basis for legislation for all. <br />
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wRE0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT19&lpg=PT19&dq=De+Quincey+1840+epiphany&source=bl&ots=eMJlm2Wlj5&sig=OvxqxExkLdN0dnnE-eHEsrUvQ6I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy99Xx5PrNAhXJ2SYKHVyjAjEQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=De%20Quincey%201840%20epiphany&f=false">De Quincey's idea</a>, visions of me-right,<br />
Amok with politicians who impose.<br />
Personal epiphany, flawed basis for legislation<br />
Impacting autonomy within the wingspan.<br />
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Is this reasonable? Any who attempt to "fix" for me<br />
How I exercise my moral life within my <i>own</i> wingspan,<br />
Who enters and why, te he, will be disobeyed.<br />
Quoth she, I ponder and act upon the epiphany of my life.<br />
You do your own. Selah.<br />
As she clapt the window to.<br />
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* Charlie Chaplin ponders a food celebration fork at Lake Geneva, Vevey, Switzerland</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-90673459464020196282016-06-02T18:08:00.000-04:002016-06-03T09:25:47.966-04:00Effects of pain and stress on the brain: trauma, poverty and PTSD in children <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Adults operated upon as babies before 1986 without anesthetic:<br />
Do they show more fear, stress, anxiety, acting out, behaviors than others.</div>
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1. Poverty has joined the list of traumas, stresses that negatively impact on brain development, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/nyregion/studying-how-poverty-keeps-hurting-young-minds-and-what-to-do-about-it.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/nyregion/studying-how-poverty-keeps-hurting-young-minds-and-what-to-do-about-it.html?_r=0</a>. Brute force is not needed for the PTSD effect, is that so? The common theory looks at stress releasing the cortisol hormone, triggering fight-or-flight and changes in the prefrontal lobe, executive functioning in the brain; and the hippocampus, needed for fact memory, where there is chronic stress frequently found in poverty (and elsewhere): "neglect, abuse, maternal depression, parental discord". Genes also react to stress, see site. Needed: caring relationships with adults, consistency, in order for cortisol levels to decrease. <br />
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The brute force pain may be easier to study, but add the steady drumbeat of poverty where combined with stresses.<br />
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2. Follow the trails regarding preverbal physical pain:<br />
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Infants before about 1986 were subjected to even major surgery without anesthetic, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/opinion/l-why-infant-surgery-without-anesthesia-went-unchallenged-832387.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/opinion/l-why-infant-surgery-without-anesthesia-went-unchallenged-832387.html</a>/. Testimonials are increasing about the experience, by adults claiming PTSD because of it. Search for <i>no anesthetic before 1986 surgery infants</i>, for example. There is research now, but the information is not always generally available. Does the DMS IV or IV pending, address the preverbal trauma in PTSD, see <a href="http://allpsych.com/disorders/dsm/">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, IV, V Pending</a>. Without that authentication, any perceived disordered behavior in a child or adult claimed to be from trauma will be dismissed by professionals as a disembodied, cause-less personality trait, to be addressed as it is -- only as to the specific individual in therapies. And easily ignored as to accountability, or even changing any behavior of the adults surrounding. <br />
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1. Research. Some material on the topic, or that appears to be, is not available except for a charge, see <i>The Impact of Unintentional Pediatric Trauma: A Review of Pain, Acute Stress, and Posttraumatic Stress</i>, see <a href="http://www.pediatricnursing.org/article/S0882-5963%2807%2900297-7/abstract?cc=y=">http://www.pediatricnursing.org/article/S0882-5963%2807%2900297-7/abstract?cc=y=</a> Will someone read and review, preferably someone in the medical field. Note this is not intentional infliction of trauma -- or is it where the child has no clue -- a different issue of PTSD where caregiver, for example, is fear source as well as comfort source. <br />
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2. Breadth of topic. The issue is broader than whether adults should change how we deal with children, to avoid trauma to them in their interest. Some pain in medical care is unavoidable, with worse risks in not acting at all. At issue for any survivor is the dignity of the child in learning there are roots to his behavior, not just random fault on his part somehow. If his ADD, ADHD, ongoing flares of something, are symptoms and not flaws, is that easier to deal with. <br />
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<li>This causation supposition is not a leap from common sense. Where there is traumatic stress of very early childhood, even in a baby-infant, there already appears to be evidence that here is sufficient memory of that pain couched somewhere, that continues to shape and narrow the individual's thinking, judgment, safety, threat everywhere, perception of himself and his world. Is there ongoing anxiety, ADD, ADHD, flight and fight reactions triggered but more objectively to a present situation; and that does not reflect badly on the supposedly flawed child. </li>
<li>Noxious stress. Those old enough to be verbal are privileged. They talk. Their experience will get a name. Some experience no such durability of ill effect. They can snap out of
it. This is directed to the ones with shadow drivers at their wheel. </li>
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<li>Others who were preverbal and experience the shadow driver at their wheel will never know what hit them. Is that so? We do know that
anesthetics for babies was not routinely administered until about 1986,
and that there were competing reasons -- a greater harm to the brain
from the anesthetic, for example. What was the research? Was that
researched? So, begin with the pool of people with scars from baby
operations, as an easy start. Ask them. Ask their families. Then
explore their traits, if anything is a<i> dis</i>. Then comes the difficult part: cause and effect. Or is it all coincidence, random synchronicity. </li>
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<li>Issues of ability to relate appear to arise from infant-child fear and stress, affecting attachment patterns between child and caregiver. Secure relationship, anxious-ambivalent, anxious-avoidant, disorganized when the source of comfort is also the source of fear: See <i>Trauma, PTSD, and Attachment in Infants and Young Children</i> at <a href="http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treatment/children/trauma_ptsd_attachment.asp">http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treatment/children/trauma_ptsd_attachment.asp</a>. That article focuses on child abuse, child neglect, and in the nonverbal child.</li>
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4. The long view of how we see pain. The cultural entitlement to inflict pain hierarchy.<br />
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For the culture, what indeed does pain matter if noone hears or responds to its call? Traditionally, it matters not. Animals at slaughter mills, for example, or abused animals, children, adults. But we live by a hierarchy of privilege: we, the humans, are exceptional. We do as we want with animals, say some, because that is Biblical (wrong, misinterpretation and mistranslation of early texts, but not the issue here).<br />
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Slavery. Cultural entitlement to inflict pain. Gynophobia. Fear of women, so inflict pain on them, limit their autonomy, control them. Rape: inflict helplessness, pain, overwhelm an individual's autonomy, PTSD risk<br />
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5. Understanding affected adults, older populations, why they join what groups, for what safety. Find out. Do noxious experiences produce a muscle memory, a memory somewhere, that will be durable, shaping behavior into years that steer the person into a lifestyle designed to shield him from pain inflicted by others, as he may see it. Fear. <br />
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<li>In particular, does the population operated on as little children without anesthetic, big operations in particular, the abdominal invasions for example, show as a group a significantly higher incidence of ADD, ADHD, inability to focus, sudden rage (road rage?), or ongoing embedded fear and anxiety, low self-esteem despite abilities, and more fear. Do they seek out mentors, follow firm group requirements. Add to the list. </li>
<li>Does that translate to a predilection to political parties in that age group, born and operated on without anesthetic before 1986, fear of expansion, fear of the new, fear of losing a control, a supremacism. Ask. Find out. </li>
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6. Morality. Recognizing the autonomous right of any living being to live its life with a minimum of inflicted pain and trauma. No gratuitous imposition of suffering, no assertion of supremacism based on a doctrine in the Widening Gap world. <br />
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7. Action step, despite <i>The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths</i>, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/science/the-widening-world-of-hand-picked-truths.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0">NYTimes, Science, The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths, opinion </a>. Individuals and government: Pay
close attention to the environments and experiences of very little
children. Promote and fund the benign, the assurance, the welcoming, the expansive. Protect
against inflicted pain, blindfolding as to cause and effect of their condition, promote verbal understanding. What we do
and omit to do shapes their very brains. </div>
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How to explain that to the
spare-the-rod-spoil-the-child mentored groups? That is part of the conundrum, balancing issues, the Widening Gap. At least, identify the
issue, so some in those groups may consider, quietly. No attack, no abandonment, it can work to be with those you disagree with, as Atticus Finch's life attests, in <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062409850/go-set-a-watchman">Go Set a Watchman</a>, by Harper Lee. <br />
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DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. DSM V pending, I think. </div>
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<li>see <a href="http://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/dsm-5/online-assessment-measures">http://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/dsm-5/online-assessment-measures</a></li>
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Symptoms: Anxiety, pain, hormonal changes, cognitive impairment, disorientation, mental confusion, low concentration, anxiety, depression, something called hypercortalism, constant vigilance, recurrent fear, insomnia. See <i>nursingtimes</i> site above; and Wood, 2003. </div>
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The stress response:<br />
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The stress response itself is not a disorder. It is an ordered response to the absolute horror of the condition experienced: and has a history extending back to Herodotus, through experiences including war (the Herodotus topic), but also rape, genocide, and torture. How else do people survive? It only becomes a disorder if life after is narrowed, interrupted, the person involuntarily subjected to its recurrence and lapses in judgment, because of it.<br />
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<li>Expand the research more to include facets of child rape, and adult rape, where forcing oneself to stay still enhances survival, but then leads to the charge that she never fought, so wanted it; or the after-effects of centuries of skepticism re infant pain, that anesthetics were not used well into the 1980's, see The Infancy of Infant Pain, at <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23548489">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23548489</a>/. What now-adults experienced this near-death, non-verbal trauma, torture, really. What are they like now? Any commonalities from their PTS? </li>
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Sub issues:<br />
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1. Examination of trauma is expanding, but too slowly.<br />
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1.1 Research stirrings now include in the list of traumatizing stress an infant or toddler's experience of torture in un-anesthetized surgery as before 1986, see overview of that societal horror at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/opinion/l-why-infant-surgery-without-anesthesia-went-unchallenged-832387.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/opinion/l-why-infant-surgery-without-anesthesia-went-unchallenged-832387.html</a>/. <br />
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<li>How many who are now adults experienced post-traumatic stress related to that forced rigidity, unable to get away, flashbacks, droning fear, protect themselves from perceived annihilation, no options, terror unspoken; and what commonalities do those adults unknowingly share with older others whose trauma was conscious and responses later could be verbal. </li>
<li>How many operated on without anesthetic, including major abdominal surgery as infants, are ruled by fear, easily led or closing down when it is introduced, and this affects their political loyalty, other functioning. It is not safe not to follow, is that so. Who will study what happened to all those babes and toddlers operated on in those ways, to support or argue against positions now in blogs, see <a href="http://ltinnin.com/2010/12/30/infant-surgery-without-anesthesia">http://ltinnin.com/2010/12/30/infant-surgery-without-anesthesia</a>/; and <a href="https://myincision.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/doctor-starts-blog-about-infant-surgery-without-anesthesia/">https://myincision.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/doctor-starts-blog-about-infant-surgery-without-anesthesia/</a></li>
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1.2 Commonalities of trauma. Battle. For each group, with its unique setting, there is a reformatting of the brain beyond language. How else can the body respond, except to remain vigilant to danger. Some therapies try, but terror does not leave. Read Rachel Yehuda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, New England Journal of Medicine 2002 at<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200205093461913"> http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200205093461913</a>, cited at Notes FN 41, in <a href="http://theevilhours.com/David_Morris___The_Evil_Hours___Home.html">The Evil Hours, A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder</a>, by David J. Morris. In children, time to refocus on them, see the British Columbia Medical Journal, <a href="http://www.bcmj.org/article/posttraumatic-stress-disorder-infants-toddlers-and-preschoolers">http://www.bcmj.org/article/posttraumatic-stress-disorder-infants-toddlers-and-preschoolers</a><br />
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So: Vex of the psyche. Circumstances. Immobility, terror, followed by recalibration of the system. Sum many sources:<br />
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<li>dissociation from others,</li>
<li> a marking, a setting one apart, </li>
<li>a drive to wander, </li>
<li>belonging no longer, </li>
<li>not fully alive, not fully dead, each, both, neither. </li>
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2. What to do? Learning from it, deciding to grow, to snap out of it, is not enough. <br />
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Epictetus, Greek stoic, sounds like a modern evangelical stereotypical preacher -- and found some positives in traditional ways of thinking, such as: "On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use." Morris at page 256.<br />
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That mere growth "solution" is happy-happy, not a volitional as its advocates chirp, overused, the bar to following religious and philosophical geniuses for transformation too high, or off the mark for the individual. Growth, roses, rise sometimes, but growth as a catch-all is also demeaning as a total response idea: suggesting a flawed effort when the scarred person fails to turn around.<br />
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3. Literature. Count the wanderers, the sufferers:PTSD in the classics. Helplessness and PTSD.<br />
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<li>Ulysses took 20 years go get home, and during that time wandered with drugs, license; Gilgamesh, Civil War veterans heading west to wreak havoc, for some, and others rootless, see Morris at 74ff. War neuroses. Study the wars, the electric shock treatments: and wisdom. </li>
<li>One Dr. Rivers: "[T]he more helpless the patient felt, the more likely he was to be traumatized...." Morris at 97.</li>
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<li>That element echoes strongly in rape. </li>
<li>Morris focuses on battle stress in his history, but also touches on rape. Spend time with the Notes section, the footnotes.</li>
<li>In trauma, it is more often the powerless and disenfranchised who are
so traumatized, suggests Morris at page 159. Apply that to rape. What elements are
psychiatric, pre-existing vunlerabilities; what elements are responses
to situation. </li>
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4. Is rehashing helpful? Letting it all out, again and again? What happens to secrets.<br />
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Is wartime or rape stress, coming to grips with extreme exploitation, immobility, absolute threat, mere "apophenia" -- from events that gain meaning only by looking back at them? What is the role of the uncanny, the idea of the doppelganger, heightened awareness, at p.105 - retrospective analysis, a forging of meaning. Imagination, the forge, into the spiritual.How else to put the puzzle of the broken mind together.<br />
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It is not an equal playing field. Many have interests in finding rugs to cover issues.<br />
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Not surprisingly, there has been resistance to normalizing PTSD in the military, where propaganda efforts had to be made to try to turn soldiers' narratives away from tha basal, I had to survive! to the party-line, patriotic I defended and fought for my nation's values. That puts the push against the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, see <a href="http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/VVAW_Kerry_Senate.html">http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/VVAW_Kerry_Senate.html</a>, and to support instead the mainstream then-ostrichlike patriotic Veterans of Foreign Wars American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, see Morris at 147.<br />
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5. Military-related trauma, becoming accepted as its own field of study. It will only end when war ends. Expand the idea. Rape. It will only end when supremacist entitlement ends. Infant disregard. That may be the only PTS behind us. The others? No hope?<br />
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* Photographs: top, from Verona church, Italy; bottom, from exhibit, Juliet's house, Verona. </div>
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Update 2016. Why do I think current presidential candidates urging military force as default and spearhead, are wrong and ignorant of the strength of our military in new settings. Quiz your favorite candidate on knowledge of military operations manuals, and see how the candidate's proposed changes would produce "greater" results. <br />
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<li> The Army Field Ops Manual 3-0 as of 2011 is found at<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-0/index_2011.html"> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-0/index_2011.html</a>. The older version, 2008 that was originally used here, changed the military's long-standing focus on old era combat style</li>
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<li>Newly emphasized: operative goals of stability, consideration of the environment of the action, unified action, conflict as a spectrum from peace-tending to warfare, peacekeeping, counterinsurgency, tactical simultaneous interaction of offense-defense-civil support (includes "stability force assistance" in <i>stability</i>); emphasis on <i>mission</i> command, not battle command; long-term considerations in "sustained conflict.", <i>hybrid</i> threats, combat analyzed in 6 functions, all relying on not only leadership but information (is that a fluid concept?) with goals of combining supports, and "cyber-electronic activities". </li>
<li>See long list of other<i> </i>publications at<a href="http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/Active_FM.html"> http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/Active_FM.html.</a> Do these also elevate <i>stabilizing operations</i> to an equal position, or at least to be considered as part of the spectrum..</li>
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The new manual (I believe 2011 was the last?) continues to promote stability over traditional hit and run combat, what is the military assessment of whether to make further changes. What rethinking, if any, resulted from application of the stabilizing capacities of the military. Are current presidential contenders, seeking a return to blitzing, justified. <br />
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Iraq, surges, attitudes and implementation, have we given enough time for the new and long-term stability model to work. Can military type candidates, the old school, change with it; and will voters accept a different style?<br />
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<b>A. Old school </b>The Army watchword apparently used to be -- reward the bellicose, and pugilistic, sneering, and atrocious -- behavior that accompanies efforts to <i>beat down</i> the other side. Bellicoseandpugilisticsneeringandatrocious. Like <a href="http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mary-poppins%3Cbr%20/%3E/727503/">Saturday Night Live</a>. The words themselves become a caricature. See - this an update 10/5/08.</div>
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But the change leaves die-hards looking dysfunctional. The new 15th Edition of the Army Field Manual 3-0 ("Operations") was released February 2008.<br />
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<li> includes "cultural astuteness " - See DefenseLink News Article at ://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49097 <br />
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It requires no less than transformation to a new environment of wars of ideas, see Army Logistician article at against "non-state adversaries" - see <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAI/is_5_36/ai_n6355299">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAI/is_5_36/ai_n6355299</a><br />
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Bellicose. And pugilistic. Sneering. Leadership characteristics displayed by the military in the old era. These used to define strong militaristic-type leaders. Atrocious. No longer.<b> </b><br />
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<b>C. Needed leadership styles -- change</b><b> with the times, as they should.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Military Leadership has evolved different standards depending on the times and the need.</span> See the Air Force articulation at <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3719/is_199707/ai_n8776758.">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3719/is_199707/ai_n8776758.</a> The idea is not new - it just took too long to "take." The military does not move easily.<br />
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Back in 1997, the military examined the issue, see <i>A Charismatic Element of Military Leadership</i>, in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, by James J. Tritten and David M. Keithly.<br />
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W. Edwards Deming formulated the idea of TQM/TQL for Total Quality Management and Total Quality Leadership. This places "participatory" models of leadership over the older "transactional" models. The participatory, where ideas are recognized as multi-sourced.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Changing concepts: Good ideas, views, options can come from many levels of command </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">and</i> the rank and file, so encourage it. The participatory style is both positive and progressive.<br />
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This approach does not replace "authority." The military of course continues to recognize nuts and bolts consistent, predictable effectiveness, as a goal of military leadership training. It now adds, however, another cautious consideration of the value of personal "draw" in military effectiveness. It looks at this "charisma," not in itself, but as <i>another facet</i> of a good leader, now to be fostered with "selection, promotion and training."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Reliance on charisma </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">alone</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, or in </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">excess,</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> has not worked well in the long run in the military.</span> More trouble than worth, suggests the article.<br />
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Yet, the military now seeks to keep the <i>value</i> that charisma and include it - personal draw - in eliciting best performance under the command - and this is the military, remember. The article suggests it is time to recognize the need to foster ideas from many sources. Charismatic elements in leadership styles can be taught to do that in an optimal way.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">4. The military is finally moving beyond bluff and bluster roostering. </span>Moving to careful use of charisma as a personal draw quality in leaders, to enhance performance and productivity of those under the command.<br />
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Respect for the value of participation and climates for agreement are absolutely necessary for the 21st Century of global shrinkage.<br />
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And a degree of charisma<i> is needed</i>, even the military says. Personal draw. And this was back in 1997 - on the cusp of the 21st Century, to prepare for it. See also "Leadership in the Military Environment," 1999, including US Air Force, at ://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/ldmil/ldmil.htm Authoritarianism and force alone are not enough. Any more.<br />
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5. So the military is encouraged to develop the quality of personal draw to its useful degree, measured by long-term performance of those under the command; along with developing participation and the climate for agreement, and it is developing it. Train has left the station.<br />
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<b>D. But can old military-bred people change with it. Look at current politics, its reliance on bull and bluster and force, and candidates in the mix.</b><br />
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This is a position section. It so far is critical of Mr. McCain, but not carelessly so.<br />
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<b>1. Those considerations of the military and its change of mind, bring us to whether people can change with it. </b> We are concerned from what we see so far in watching Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama in terms of bellicosity or stabilization styles.<br />
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Mr. McCain, in his most formative years a man of the 20th Century. A military man of the old school. His style as shown in his record and the recent candidates' presidential debate (denigration attempts, attempts to diminish his opponent, condescension - none of which worked) with Barack Obama, is dysfunctional today. His style does not lend itself to participation by <i>anyone</i>. He imposes.<br />
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His style does not lend itself to a climate fostering possible "agreement" as an alternative to combativeness. He just goes directly to confrontation and stays there.Mr. McCain? Bellicose and pugilistic, sneering and atrocious. That no longer is acceptable, or functional.<br />
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<b>2. Will voters say, thanks but no thanks to combativeness? </b><br />
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Not all will - perhaps only those who identify as liberal will say no thanks.<br />
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This is an update - a recent study suggests that whether people are fearful, thus requiring force and certitude in their leaders to make them feel safe - is hard-wired to a degree. Others do not seem to respond fearfully, tolerate a range of responses, not necessarily the authoritarian. See "Political Attitudes Predicted by Physiological Traits, at ://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/political-attitudes-predicted-by-physiological-traits/ and "Conservative Fear, Liberal Tolerance May Be Hard-Wired," at ://scoog.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/19/1884407-study-conservative-fear-liberal-tolerance-may-be-hard-wired.<br />
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Regardless of the political use of fear - we are concerned that the military mindset, force, authoritarianism, that has bound his thinking for decades, is putting McCain at odds with even his beloved military mentors<br />
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<b>3. Needed instead of combativeness: Stabilizing factors. </b>There is nothing "stabilizing" about McCain's patterns. Update 10/5/08- it is even "erratic" says the Obama people. See <a href="http://hellofodderhellobuyer.blogspot.com/2008/07/ruminating.html">The Fodder Site, Ruminating: McCain Unfit Temperament to Lead</a>.<br />
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<b></b> We, too, in elections are in a battle of ideas, with non-state adversaries. Combat makes smoke and causes casualties, but is short-lived. Ideas return. McCain's attitudes, and sass as the dominant characteristic of a running mate, all are reversions to combat mode, and outmoded. Iraq?<br />
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<b>E. Does this distinction, this new thrust to working with people explain the "surge?" You betcha.<br />
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Even the military surge most recently in Iraq (too soon to evaluate - have to wait until we are back at pre-surge levels to see if anything "holds") the effort there was accompanied with equal cultural-sensitivity operations, not numbers of soldiers alone as was customary in McCain era warfare. Change, McCain. Can you? Will you?<br />
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Counter the idea that the ordinary citizen is fodder, to be led at establishment media's will. Update 2016: FCC supports expanding a low-income subsidy for internet use. This falls short of a freebie, but a move in the appropriate direction of computers in every home. How so? Examine freebies in American history, from inheritances, to homestead acts, and beyond. </div>
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A freebie, or a subsidy, can be a boost In time - Somethin' for near nuthin' means somethin' - Low-income citizens may be fodder not much longer. The FCC - How to turn all of us into more productive participants, citizens. Breaking down the access barrier: mobility through information, means.</div>
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Retrospective: Back in 2013, Thomas Friedman suggested a way that the President should promote the truth of today's world in globalization, what jobs are past and how to open opportunity for today's and tomorrow's jobs, reinvestments needed, and -- the best part -- to get and stay aspirational:<br />
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<li>Connect every household to the internet, at a gig per sec. Internet offers opportunity for education, ongoing learning, information about personal and national economic issues, help us invent how to become prosperous as a whole again. See <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/friedman-obamas-1-2-punch.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/friedman-obamas-1-2-punch.html?_r=0</a></li>
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Now the FCC is moving in that direction. No April Fool. See <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fcc-approves-plan-expand-low-income-subsidy-internet-use-n548971.">http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fcc-approves-plan-expand-low-income-subsidy-internet-use-n548971.</a><br />
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1. Freebies, such as internet equipment and access, even through subsidies, increase productivity. Internet access targets to long-term societal and personal productivity goals, not in job-seeking, mobility. Wire the nation. That is as true today as it was in 2008 when this post was first written, in 2013 when I updated it, and now in 2016 -- ditto and progress made.<br />
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2. Giveaways, like inheritances, homestead acts, subsidies including for child care, see <a href="http://spotlightonpoverty.org/spotlight-exclusives/child-care-assistance-meets-needs-poor-working-families/">http://spotlightonpoverty.org/spotlight-exclusives/child-care-assistance-meets-needs-poor-working-families/</a> boost opportunity and do not foster dependence. <br />
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3. At issue today is America's productivity, its ability to compete, its funding of essential functions. An approach: look at the role of a targeted boost, to individuals or groups. Look at a boost that helps address the inability of many to get easily online. That bar to the information highway, with all its potholes, hinders their productivity, access to resources for quality of life. The bar can be geographic, economic, ignorance. Lower that bar and let people come over. Is that possible or feasible? <br />
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A boost to online access is not problem-free. But it clearly has the capacity to improve literacy, education, and foster information exchange, unlimited by private ownership media filters. Do it with computers in storefronts in every urban and rural area. See it already in much of Eastern and Western Europe. Wire the country. Use of it for terrorism, porn? It already is used that way, rather freely. The benefit to the many outweighs that - and that has to be addressed anyway, and better. Get to it.<br />
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Boosts are part of our heritage - with both its positive and negative side. Time to accent-u-ate the positive. Give an ear at ://www.jibjab.com/view/158980/.<br />
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<b>I. The Place of the Freebie in Achievement. </b></div>
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<b>The Giveaway. </b><br />
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The essence of any economy's growth is targeted stimulus. Any individual life benefits from some targeted freebies.<br />
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Here, after a look at the history of our own freebies in this country, our heritage of giveaways; we propose a particular one: We lay out the idea of a freebie nationwide, to stimulate seven weaknesses in our productivity at one blow. Use computers.<br />
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With computers, we can foster literacy, self-education, provide coupons for food deals and access to where the best prices are, give kids something to do at home, even when stuck there on curfew, or in the neighborhood, help elder-brains, teach English, history, sanitation, culture, cooking, nutrition, and any other subject you want, offer information for health and politics.<br />
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Moguls, unite. Mr. Gates, please spearhead this great effort. For many of you, this would not even dent your holiday shopping.<br />
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We would benefit from a paradigm shift, see ://www.taketheleap.com/define.html/. Shall we finally move away from this cultural idea: That I have stuff out of merit; and the other guy has no stuff period; so obviously he has <i>no</i> merit because he doesn't have what<i> I</i> have, so rule of tough.<br />
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Internet joke last year: I have 1,000 cows. You have none. So?<br />
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<b>Linked to productivity, freebies work.</b><br />
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The theory here is that well-placed, intentioned freebies, are part of our heritage - our American heritage. Where freebies are targeted, and have an exit strategy and time-line, so the giveaways do not perpetuate without results, and the giveaways actually results in people becoming productive, they are effective.<br />
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The benefit of the freebie - it spreads to all those whose gears touch those of the now-oiled recipient.<br />
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But it must begin with those most in need - there, at the most needy levels, the lack of productivity pulls us all down. If you start at the stratosphere with boosts, however, no trickling down trickles to where it is needed most. Think of all the new skills and opportunities out there, open through the internet.<br />
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Do a hybrid - jobs in fixing infrastructure of course, and putting in place the surrounds needed for work, see <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/10/tax-restitution-reallocation-or-reward.html">Joy of Equivocating, Tax as Restitution? No. Funding and Productivity</a>. Leading to - scroll down - a computer in every house, or at least computers lined up in storefronts in every neighborhood, see below.<b><br />
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<b>Think of it. Think of the freebies in your own family. </b><br />
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Count the ways you received somethin' for nothin' - and it enabled you to exceed what you could have done on your own.<br />
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Sometimes a freebie is in getting off the hook for something you really should have been punished for. You got away. Free. Nothing publicized, nothing on your record. Did that help, or hurt? Did you repeat, or do better?<br />
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Did your parents pay for your college education? Did you inherit something at a strategic time, so you suddenly had the down payment for a house? Did you marry up, or otherwise receive gifts? Did you land on these shores and find opportunity, freedom and mobility - free of looking so different that you could not escape the stigma of having risen from a slave class somewhere in the world, or with features that identify you as non-European, the norm for assimilation. If your forebears landed that way, and bootstrapped up, should you then justify <i>your</i> headstart from where they left off, rather than having to start from scratch on your own as well?<br />
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<b>Freebies sometimes do backfire.</b><br />
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Some people flop - the too-big and too-quick stimulus of the lottery check may lead to waste and ruin, we hear. See ://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney/8lotteryWinnersWhoLostTheirMillions.aspx?page=all/ Reward with no work doesn't last long, however. Reward geared to enabling one to become productive, may well.<br />
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So, receipt of a stimulus takes preparation, planning, and lining up fiduciary-oriented advisors and barring the cash-suckers. Plan how to use it. There must be constant effort to fight off the sapping kudzu that will spring up all around. Or letting it go to waste.<br />
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<b>Others thrive with the freebies they get.</b><br />
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Luck helps, having a relative with means who leaves it to you, laws allowing property to pass to you, credits, refunds, deductions. None of that is merit based. How did freebies help thee? Let us count the ways: See the Faring Well listing, and definition of Welfare at <a href="http://posejuxta.blogspot.com/2008/10/welfare-redefined-statutory-definition.html">PoseJuxta: Welfare Redefined</a>.<br />
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<b>Most have nothing to do with merit.</b></div>
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<b>Many are ill-gotten -- the result of terrorizing other populations.<br />
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The giveaway regardless of merit is part of our foundation, our heritage.<br />
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<b>A. Exploitive, self-serving freebies</b>.<br />
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Giveaways to one group can also be unbearably cruel to others - to which some say, rule of tough, history happens. Look at our treatment of Native Americans, Blacks in centuries of forcing them to provide us freebies. See FN 1<br />
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<b>B. Bottom Line - Whether the freebie is with "merit" or by force, giveaways do benefit the recipients, and for the long term if targeted to productivity.</b><br />
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Freebies at the right time, at the right place, can mean getting out of the hole. Getting land and free labor - our heritage as Americans.<br />
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That is where we are bogged down now. People don't have that way of getting out of the holes they are in. People are in holes they can't get out of without serious giveaways, so let 's do it. It is better than carrying indefinitely an unproductive, restive, population.<br />
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Look at the idea of inheritances, by way of expanding the idea of what freebies really are. An inheritance is a total freebie, without merit, some tax attached, but most property passes - and the transfer is not connected to productivity at all. How many third or fourth generations down from the original moneymaker, the creative one, the pusher, have any creativity at all.<br />
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Is it true that a life of managing an inherited portfolio creates a sense of entitlement, not a drive to <i>produce</i> in exchange.<br />
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Go back to the longer Boosts discussion at <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/10/tax-restitution-reallocation-or-reward.html">Joy of Equivocating, Tax as Restitution? No. Funding and Productivity</a>. Here we focus more on where to begin this era's need for freebies. We all benefit when everyone can be productive, has subsistence, education, is healthy, with backups at home or elsewhere for care-taking. We all get pulled in the hole when we let people stagnate, deep, at the bottom and in the hole, not even on a stable, bottom level of our success "stairs." <br />
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<b>But, we do think that freebies have to be in a context, for productivity. </b><br />
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What good is "opportunity," Dear Candidate (the one Who Married Up), if it is across town, the person doesn't know about it, has no way to get there, and the baby is sick.<br />
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<b>Computers, baby, computers.<br />
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We put the first freebie on the list, the one with the most impact in education, jobs, health, political participation, at literacy and jobs. Including the Reservations. Especially the Reservations.<br />
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Wire the country.<br />
<br />Computers for everyone everywhere. How else to pull us all in, to a united effort, to a common source of information apart from propaganda.<br />
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On a practical level, the internet helps find the jobs near you. Print out the coupons. Find the best deals on groceries even. Check out candidates. Learn about issues, away from propaganda. Find facts. Learn English. Learn history on your own. Get literate if you speak English. Learn computer skills - it even helps Grand-Dad's brain. Kids learn how to fix them, local swap centers, repair shops. Come on, you with "disposable incomes" far beyond what you can spend on yourself and your reasonable (?) lifestyle. Invest in your children's future, by stabilizing the culture.<br />
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However, doing that will increase competition. Sometimes we think we keep our fellow folks down because that means we can batten down our own hatches without challenge. Keep the bottom ones so busy keeping body and soul together, that they can't apply for our jobs. The American Way of those already arrived?<br />
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Of course, put in whatever safeguards we can on cyberbullying, and predatory behavior - the same things the upper level kids deal with. But the dangers of the internet are no reason to keep an entire segment of the population ignorant of the tools they need to get ahead. You doubt the increase in productivity if people have access to information? Go to Dubrovnik, and see the kids, and adults, at the computer banks, for amusement, for business, a hub of opportunity. Europe and other global areas are exceeding us in student education, productivity. Change the paradigm - that we automatically are best. Is it UnAmerican to say we need to catch up? No. It is the ultimate in being American to want the <i>best ability</i> for our country to contribute positively to the world.<br />
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<b>We need to catch up.</b> Catch up? Catsup? Ketchup? Teresa Heinz, see ://www.heinz.org/about_board_bio.aspx?BoardID=2/, would you contribute a percentage of the Heinz 57 to computerizing the country? We used to take school field trips to the pickle factory and get a free pickle pin. How about a computer instead of the pin? <br />
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A. The source of our "freebies" in land. We gave ourselves lotteries.<br />
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Recall the forcible removal of the Cherokee, arrested, dragged, as other Indians before (some 90,000 Native Americans forcibly "relocated), see nu na hi du na tlo hi lu i, at http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/history/trail.htm; "the trail where they cried," ://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/LegendOfTheCherokeeRose-Cherokee.html/.<br />
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If this is unfamiliar to you as an American, and you think it is UnAmerican to raise it, do take a few minutes. Read about it, the expulsions, here from parts of Georgia in the 1830's, the 'Trail of Tears" killing so many, and the <i>lottery </i>following divvying up the gold and farm land for the whites. See ://ourgeorgiahistory.com/indians/cherokee/trail_of_tears.html. <br />
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No difference. We still gave ourselves freebies. at others' expense. Look how we filled the land up, say with over two centuries of blacks giving us freebies, forced labor, blacks at work, whites building family fortunes.While their own cultures and families and sense of worth was shattered.<br />
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Part of those issues, are behind this proposal -- to give back to others as part of national policy ongoing. We ought to.We owe it. To these <i>particular</i> individuals? Tenuous, because this is now generations away, say some. So do it because we did <i>other</i> people in, whenever we did it, in order to get ourselves ahead, and we need to.<br />
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More on our history - Colonies needed boosts when altruism failed, as it does. The hale and hearty in Plymouth got tired of working the common plots so the weaker could be fed - so the good governor (Bradford was it?) re-thought the economy going on/ Instead of just a household plot and an acre for one's own, he upped the ante. He gave 20 acres for each person in the household - people could barter, work for each other, work out their own way of addressing all their needs, and they did. Famine, farewell. The stimulus of something for nothing - but it took giving enough away that everyone could get out of the hole. See the Joy of Equivocating site above.<br />
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Look up General Sherman's short-lived but significant 40 acres and a mule on the coastal areas of Georgia after the Civil War - the rest of the slaves now free were free to flounder. Land rushes, the Oklahoma land allocation plan that let people line up in their buggies or whatever and take off - claim what you can, stake it out, and it's yours. Free. The "Sooners" they were called - whoever got there soonest won. Or was it those who jumped the gun? See discussion at <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/10/tax-restitution-reallocation-or-reward.html">Joy of Equivocating, Tax as Restitution? No. Funding and Productivity</a>. The GI Bill? That was really earned, but the form it took - education rather than $10 more per week - looked to productivity in the future.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-74041689132200930582016-03-18T09:08:00.000-04:002016-03-18T09:08:06.543-04:00GOP rejects Scalia Originalism in its first post mortem test: Nominations? Constitution to the winds.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With jaw-dropping speed, the GOP leaders in Senate and House now reject their earlier touted <br />
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That Originalism dry-run on Constitutional interpretation is over, buried after the death of its proponent on February 13, 2016, and by its own earlier-supporting party. Originalism is now below ground, abruptly come <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFyAqLtHq8">down-to-earth</a>, driven to ground, and forbidden for use, especially as to the procedures mandated by the Constitution for Scalia's own succession.<br />
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How so? Read the original constitution. Apply plain meaning. Dry run of Originalism has ended.<br />
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Constitution Article II, Section 2, as to the President in pertinent part:<br />
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He<i> [the president, this president, there is one at any point in time, so the president at the time, not the next president, not some other preferred hypothetical president]</i> shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; <u>and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court,</u> and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. [<u><i>all emphases added</i></u>]</blockquote>
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See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii">https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii</a><br />
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Originalism indeed has its limits. It is a starting point, not an end point. Its demise is timely. Thank you, Mitch. You have indeed made the Constitution a living document, even as to the dead.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240488450583477261.post-82071277809198622572016-02-14T10:00:00.003-05:002016-02-15T20:23:54.210-05:00Literalism defines the Republican Party. Scalia's contribution.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Justice Antonin Scalia and a Legacy of Literalism.<br />
Literalism defines and confines. <br />
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Respect for any life lost is appropriate, even where fissures remain in its wake, or regrets based on one's personal or political interests color death's choice of time, place, manner. Here, the loss of the life of Justice Scalia is especially poignant
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publicly, and over the long term to what
he believed was the correct legal path for his job, but there is more.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_igDoESdjlu2_LIFchPMtWB77IEkAATMI0x7m8m9gENtkx7Jy3bMGuO16Lktr1XcFAm2lDFpUttqXa0MpUr6t0JMVT1adZeuwJHHOl6C55arwk0gNXDJoH7UMxTpT3FrDqT2aSX78MM/s1600/custod.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_igDoESdjlu2_LIFchPMtWB77IEkAATMI0x7m8m9gENtkx7Jy3bMGuO16Lktr1XcFAm2lDFpUttqXa0MpUr6t0JMVT1adZeuwJHHOl6C55arwk0gNXDJoH7UMxTpT3FrDqT2aSX78MM/s320/custod.jpg" width="150" />Justice Scalia. Tribute, and comment, with disagreements on the value of literalism as dispositive of anything.</a><br />
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He also was fun, apparently: and a good, comfortable friend, even with those who opposed his formal views. He lived his beliefs, with one marriage, nine children, and some 36 grandchildren (and counting?), see <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/13/justice-scalia-found-dead-texas-ranch/80347474/#">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/13/justice-scalia-found-dead-texas-ranch/80347474/#</a><br />
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Notwithstanding: <br />
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1. Regret for his unbending literalism. Loss of the deep world of the figurative. Originalism to describe the mindset is inadequate, as evoking too much the specifically tricornered hat approach to history. <br />
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Formal grief, however, can include disagreement with choices made.<br />
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Here, disagree with Scalia's choice of literalism as the best tool for implementing the Constitution. Literalism anywhere, as with religious texts, political texts, ordinary communications among people, excludes too much of what communication can communicate. Recall the response recently to Madeleine Albright noting a special place in hell for women who do not support women, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/opinion/madeleine-albright-my-undiplomatic-moment.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/opinion/madeleine-albright-my-undiplomatic-moment.html</a>. I suggest that a decade or two ago, those words would have been heard as intended, as figurative, a simple rhetorical exaggeration for effect, and not suggesting real damnation. <a href="http://literary-devices.com/content/hyperbole"><i>Hyperbole</i></a>, covered in most English courses at some time back then, was recognizable and appreciated. Dusting it off now, however, is met with horror by a population inundated with literalism as the One True Way to experience, express the world.<br />
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Consider: <br />
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<li>Who with a current basic education sees what is really said in these old examples: </li>
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<li>My love is a red, red rose. </li>
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<li>No, your love isn't, says the literalist. You are a liar. Your love is flesh and blood. The literalist is unaware of metaphor.</li>
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<li>We left the White House dead broke, says the figurative speaker. </li>
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<li> No such thing, says the literalist. You had money so you weren't broke. You lie, says the literalist, unaware of hyperbole.</li>
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<li>Is it loss of education in our public, that makes the literal approach the default, the only tool for understanding and expression recognized out there. </li>
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<li>There is a more fully-dimensioned world of figurative
approaches that add depth and nuance to meaning, and is worth exploring: a tradition stemming from our culture as far back as <a href="https://mcl.as.uky.edu/glossary-rhetorical-terms">Greece and Rome </a>and probably before. </li>
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<li>Alliteration in the<i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60kC9WUne08">wascally wabbit</a></i>; onomatopeia in the <i><a href="http://kngdv.blogspot.com/2015/09/date-of-eden-and-the-snake-does-literalism-pan-out.html">Nchsh</a></i> sound of the creature in Eden up to no good. The figure of speech adds to the meaning. </li>
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<li>And who in the broad electorate can go further to identify the many more subtle uses of language, all valid, all traditional, see <a href="http://www.enkivillage.com/figure-of-speech.html">http://www.enkivillage.com/figure-of-speech.html </a></li>
<li>Those who cannot recognize figures of speech for themselves are open to manipulation by the literalists, who coax them to cry <i>lie</i> instead of think; and so fall in line.</li>
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2. Unbending literalism now defines the far right, <a href="http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2006/11/10/scalia-urges-literalism/">fostered by Justice Scalia</a>, who erred in this regard. It has shoved aside the compromise that makes a harmonious living together more possible.<br />
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Justice is not literalism to be applied in any text or case with no recourse to equity or intent and purpose to solve a problem, not just punish; any more than a thinking religion is mere literalism as to old texts. A generation of over-incarcerating in the criminal justice system exemplifies the damage of over-literalism.<br />
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Literalism does not always work for the literalist, however. <br />
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<li>Literal nomination power: Literalism works against the literalists sometimes, when they do not like the result. Then they turn figurative, but not saying so.</li>
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<li>Where the Constitution is truly unambiguous, and the language provides for the president to<i> nominate</i> a successor to the supreme court, then it honors the memory of Justice Scalia to stand back while the President does so: The literalists cannot plausibly object. The President shall nominate, as President Obama has indicated he will pursuant to Constitutional authority; and whatever other branches do next in terms of confirmation or not is their Constitutionally answerable path. </li>
<li>See Constitutional wording at FN 1. </li>
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Are we here, where the clash of cultures so touted as blooming overseas (so far) may mainly be a clash of literalists and supremacists; with a heavy overlay of moderates continuing to benefit from colonial-type exploitation in the history. Does the intractability mean there may well be no eradicating ISIS, for example (one of the competing literalists), by force without killing everyone else in the bathwater, and even then the ideas will remain. Contain, contain the fire. <br />
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3. Literalism and unbending definitions and labels.<br />
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Adherence to literalism dumbs down the electorate and foster dysfunctions in government.<br />
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Justice Scalia, did you see that? That literalism prevents effective governance, hinders solving of problems creatively, and fosters instead jockeying for power. Is that so, as well, in home and employment life where roles are made rigid. How many literalists dance on the head of a fixed role pin. Fixed rolling pin?<br />
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The trend ot literalism as to Scalia started years ago, see <a href="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september152009/republican_literalism_kr_9-15-09.php">http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september152009/republican_literalism_kr_9-15-09.php</a><br />
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Start keeping track.See the effort to downplay and denigrate the non-literal. Yet, there are always <a href="http://definitions.uslegal.com/l/latent-ambiguity/">ambiguities, latent and patent</a>, that require interpretation, and those literalism would have us ignore, and interpret on mere belief that suits the interpreter.. <br />
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4. Explore the impact of political Literalism v Figurativism.<br />
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The end result is a chasm within the Republican party, a fissure fostered by Justice Scalia that is more than mere benign-sounding originalism. The gap, the identity crisis resulting, is <u>Literalism vs. Figurativism;</u> and so far, presidential candidates (as do many conservative religions) define their "conservatism" by how <i>literal</i> they are in defining words.</div>
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Expand to include the figurative, to allows for intent, changes in experience of a nation, its circumstances, including what a boundary or term (marriage is a recent one) <i>signifies</i> for humans, the issue to be addressed, rather than where it was defined at some other point in time. To do otherwise makes us feudal, stuck in hierarchies, adhering to customs and mindsets appropriate to earlier wanderers.<br />
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5. The fissure between literal and figurative breeds odd bedfellows. </div>
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<li> A literalist says the right to bear arms is absolute; but then goes on to define arms other than as in effect at the time written. So, literal gun rights depend on the<i> figurative</i> to make its case for arm everybody everywhere without restriction, mostly. </li>
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<li>A literalist says human life is sacred, but finds no text so stating. So the literalist has to turn to the <i>figurative</i>, to avoid these conundra:</li>
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<li>The same word, ruach, or breath, breath of life, is applied to the furred, finny and winged in creation, as well as the human. So is not all life sacred, partaking of ruach? </li>
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<li>And what <i>makes </i>human life sacred? Making something in the image of something else does not convey sacred attributes. I can make a pot in the shape of a shoe, but that step no shoe makes. Etc. </li>
<li>Before there is breath, looking back to "life," what is it? </li>
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<li>There is no literal answer. Old ensoulment ideas recognized that. </li>
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<li>Ideology's problems are best addressed instead by making the desired behavior so positive an experience in all respects, that those of us capable of birth, for example, will indeed choose it. Period. No force, no compelling </li>
<li>What? No punishments? no shaming? no destroying financial independence, or preventing it because she conceived? horrors, says the literalist, who nonetheless can find no rational basis for doing so. </li>
<li>Just ease the path, make it desirable. </li>
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6. So, see how the fissure in the Republican party that was fostered by Justice Scalia, is now embraced by apparently all the candidates for highest office.<br />
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Literalism reduces the intelligence quotient, by limiting what is permissible to ask, is that so? How to test? The political landscape is become<br />
a) an imagined unyielding principled far-right conservatism against <br />
b) an imagined weak compromising gang of moderates.<br />
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The split divides the literates themselves in degree of literalism, with Justice Scalia's brand staking out an absolute stance for literalism against any non-literal, figurative interpretation of a communication, including the Constitution.<br />
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<li>Democrats? It appears that Democrats are mostly Figuratives. Consider a spectrum of possibilities before committing to one or another.</li>
<li>There is room for figurative Republicans, then, kicked out of their own mainstream ranks, those capable of compromise, historic venerating the process of problem-solving rather than imposing Win for Me, to join in. Watch this space.</li>
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6. Recommended reading for figuring out America: <i> </i><br />
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<i>a. The Nine Nations of North America</i>, by Joel Garreau 1981, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-borders-need-to-be-redrawn/nine-nations-of-north-america-30-years-later">http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-borders-need-to-be-redrawn/nine-nations-of-north-america-30-years-later;</a><br />
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<i>b. American Nations,</i> by Colin Woodard 2011, see <a href="http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations.html">http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations.html</a><br />
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c. <i>The Accidental Superpower</i>, by Peter Zeihan, <a href="http://zeihan.com/the-accidental-superpower/">http://zeihan.com/the-accidental-superpower/;</a><br />
Add geopolitics to the mix, for optimism for a small portion of the planet, undeserved (we just happen to live where these resources are) but readily available, but can this happenstance withstand the turmoil globally. <br />
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FN 1: *** He [the President] shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. *** [emphasis supplied]<br />
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See<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii#section3"> https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii#section3</a><br />
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