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Date Line May 24, 2009
Ah the consistency of the GOP. Don’t you just love it?
Consider that the GOP is now threatening a filibuster – should President Barack Obama seek a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based on "emotions or feelings or preconceived ideas."
The general reason for their actions appears to be the one that controlled their votes under Bush – they oppose any preconceived ideas that aren’t theirs, and will vote affirmatively for any which are theirs. Preconceived notion – you attack civilians and destroy nations because of the act of a few hundred criminals ... who they decide to call terrorists. Hum. Think about it – has Bin laden done that much more (allowing for changes in technology) than Al Capone, Bonny & Clyde, or any of those criminals who were created by Right Wing fundamentalist policies in the 1920's & 30's?
Criminals are criminals and criminal nations house them. Iraq opposed them – so we attacked it. How many Americans died in the World Trade Center (Americans, not people) and how many American soldiers died in Iraq? The GOP or Al Qaeda – which killed more? How many Iraq men, women and children died from our invasion (preconceived by Bush et al before they were even elected) verses how many from Terrorists?
OK ... OK ... The terrorists love to murder Islamic believers and so target Mosques and Bazaars. If the followers of Islam don’t want to stop them, why should we get involved? Just because Bin Laden said we should? Just because he declared he wanted Bush & the GOP to take a Budget Surplus and turn it in to a Trillion dollar deficit? Is that why the GOP dislikes preconceived ideas? Because they are preconceived by true Americans rather than preconceived by foreign terrorist leaders?
YEP! That must be it.
Enjoy the fun and Games ... if the GOP has its way, this nation will not recover from the fiscal collapse it tookl the GOP eight years to create.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Seeking Data on Ben Lipton (Performer)
Interesting area of inquiry concerning:
Benjamin Leipshitz 26 Jul 1895-Apr 1964
1. He is reputed to have been a song & dance man who appeared in the original Broadway production of “No No Nanette.”
2. It is believed that he never married, and had no children – but this might be incorrect.
3. It is possible that he used the stage name of Stanley Lipton – whose name appears in the cast of:
a) “No, No, Nanette” opened at Globe Theatre, (9/16/1925 - 6/19/1926) Performances: 321
b) “The Dubarry” opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre, (11/22/1932 - 2/4/1933) Performances: 87 – where he would have worked with Vincente Minnelli – father of Liza Minnelli.
Here are the matches for LIPTON in the people category.
People Found: 21 ( 1 Page(s) )
1 Miss Lipton [Performer]
2 Albert Lipton [Stage Manager]
3 Ann Lipton [Performer]
4 Bill Lipton [Performer]
5 Blanche Lipton [Performer]
6 Bronna Lipton [Performer]
7 Celia Lipton [Performer, Producer] ( b. Dec 25, 1923 )
8 Clair Lipton [Performer]
9 Dan Lipton [Composer]
10 Dan Lipton [Musician, Musical Director, Composer]
11 George Lipton [Performer] ( b. circa.1917 - d. Mar 9, 1962 )
12 James Lipton [Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Performer] ( b. Sep 19, 1926 )
13 Logan Lipton [Performer]
14 Lynne Lipton [Performer]
15 Martha Lipton [Performer]
16 Michael Lipton [Performer]
17 Rose Lipton [Performer]
18 Sondra Lipton [Performer]
19 Stanley Lipton [Performer]
20 Celia Lipton Productions, Inc. [Producer]
21 James Lipton Productions [Producer]
© 2001-2009, The Broadway League, All Rights R
The curiosity, Stanley Lipton was also the name of the character in “No, No, Nanette” – and the family name was legally changed to Lipton in 1926/27.
When Ben died, intestate (in 1962), he apparently had amassed an after tax estate approximating a quarter million dollars – which was divided among the family. In today’s dollars, that amount comfortably exceeds one million – how did he amass that money; what other productions was he involved with?
ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE APPRECIATED
Benjamin Leipshitz 26 Jul 1895-Apr 1964
1. He is reputed to have been a song & dance man who appeared in the original Broadway production of “No No Nanette.”
2. It is believed that he never married, and had no children – but this might be incorrect.
3. It is possible that he used the stage name of Stanley Lipton – whose name appears in the cast of:
a) “No, No, Nanette” opened at Globe Theatre, (9/16/1925 - 6/19/1926) Performances: 321
b) “The Dubarry” opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre, (11/22/1932 - 2/4/1933) Performances: 87 – where he would have worked with Vincente Minnelli – father of Liza Minnelli.
Here are the matches for LIPTON in the people category.
People Found: 21 ( 1 Page(s) )
1 Miss Lipton [Performer]
2 Albert Lipton [Stage Manager]
3 Ann Lipton [Performer]
4 Bill Lipton [Performer]
5 Blanche Lipton [Performer]
6 Bronna Lipton [Performer]
7 Celia Lipton [Performer, Producer] ( b. Dec 25, 1923 )
8 Clair Lipton [Performer]
9 Dan Lipton [Composer]
10 Dan Lipton [Musician, Musical Director, Composer]
11 George Lipton [Performer] ( b. circa.1917 - d. Mar 9, 1962 )
12 James Lipton [Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Performer] ( b. Sep 19, 1926 )
13 Logan Lipton [Performer]
14 Lynne Lipton [Performer]
15 Martha Lipton [Performer]
16 Michael Lipton [Performer]
17 Rose Lipton [Performer]
18 Sondra Lipton [Performer]
19 Stanley Lipton [Performer]
20 Celia Lipton Productions, Inc. [Producer]
21 James Lipton Productions [Producer]
© 2001-2009, The Broadway League, All Rights R
The curiosity, Stanley Lipton was also the name of the character in “No, No, Nanette” – and the family name was legally changed to Lipton in 1926/27.
When Ben died, intestate (in 1962), he apparently had amassed an after tax estate approximating a quarter million dollars – which was divided among the family. In today’s dollars, that amount comfortably exceeds one million – how did he amass that money; what other productions was he involved with?
ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE APPRECIATED
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Augustine Was Right - his theology was wrong
Augustine was an ecclesiastical theologian who wrote letters, and delivered his North African sermons, in the years around 400CE. He is generally recognized to be one of the most intellectual religious thinker of his day. His Sermons and writings also reveal him to be one of the most devout Catholic Anti-Semites of his day. It is same to say, where he not such a great rhetorician, the Inquisitions and Holocaust might never have happened.
Once we get past racist stupidity, and blatant misrepresentation of fact, upon which he premised his oration – once we get past that – theologically his “defense” of the Jews was right. What was his defense of this race he branded as evil, as of the earth and therefore not worthy, and too stupid to comprehend their own scripture? What was his defense? THEY WERE NECESSARY for the spiritual to exist.
Those who aren’t familiar with Augustine should read the book – “Augustine and the Jews”. It certainly beats going through the millions of words which comprise his know letters and transcribed sermons (recorded by a church scribe as they were delivered). Catholic anti-Semitism of the second to forth century is abundantly clear – to the point where it was the basis of their, and the competing Christian, theology. With the exception of Judeo-Christians who followed the Laws of Moses, anti-Semitism was the order of the day – and, as we know, succeeding generations.
Where was Augustine right ... what did he get correct? Augustine, basing his views on Paul, focused on two elements of religion: Faith and Law. In his canon, Augustine identified these as Earth and Spirit. The Jews were of the Earth, the followers of his version of Christ were of Spirit. If we view it in spiritual terms defined by physical, or mathematical laws, he was right.
Consider Einstein’s famous formula where energy is equal to the square of the speed of light times matter. This is the basic law of atomic energy – and probably all of reality. And it is on that premise – that Einstein’s formula is the basic reality, thus the basis of theology as well as physiology – that I now see the truth which Augustine had, though actually blind to the real teachings, produced in his thinking.
Consider: Zero and infinity are the same point. Mathematicians know this without question. Multiply anything by zero and you get zero. Divide anything by zero and you get infinity. Divide anything by infinity and you have zero, Multiply anything by infinity and the result is a new order of the infinite. Now do the math with zero and infinity as the two functions. Zero time infinity is both infinite and zero. Mathematically that appears to be the very definition of G-d. The ancients viewed it as the serpent eating its own tail – no beginning and no end.
It is only in the realm of Mathematical Practicality that zero and infinity exist. In reality – our realm of existence – because neither can ever be achieved, neither zero nor infinity exist. Those who are there is such a thing as nothing cannot establish its existence without reference to something and therefore are actually saying that the something is not in a specific location (though, obviously, something else must be).
What we have is a universe which has either mass (matter) or energy. The universe – our reality – is measured, or defined, by the degree of the two as determined by their motion or speed. That’s what Einstein realized and codified. It is also the reality of Augustine’s arguments. The Spiritual is Pure Energy, and the Earth is Pure (stagnant) Mass. As the mass is slowed the energy decreases. Thus, as we are increasingly part of the theological earth, we too are of lessened motion and thus decreased energy (spiritual).
There must always be some motion and some mass. Without it – if nothing really existed – there could be no spirituality. The deity is the point where zero meets infinity – like the Kline Bottle of Topographic Theory, the deity has no inside of outside, but everything is relative to it as a constant surface.
If we think of the concept of Heaven and Hell. Heaven brings us closer to the deity because our energy increases and our mass declines. Hell is a torment where our energy is decreased to consciousness without the power of motion. There are no demons torturing those in Hell – those people have effectively become rock. Native Americans and others were correct – there is a spirit within the inanimate; it is the spirit of those who were sufficiently “sinful” as to lose their energy. Ghosts would be those whose energy levels have moved them beyond the physical, but not sufficiently to the spiritual – the accepted concept behind the mythology is correct.
All things can be explained in terms of Einstein’s simple formulation demanding motion and mass to produce energy. Augustine was on the right path. Of course, this than argues that there are rules which must be followed – laws to increase the energy levels – and those laws should be the theology which we follow. Those whose theology cannot demonstrably establish there is an increase in energy are, thus, students of a false theology.
Once we get past racist stupidity, and blatant misrepresentation of fact, upon which he premised his oration – once we get past that – theologically his “defense” of the Jews was right. What was his defense of this race he branded as evil, as of the earth and therefore not worthy, and too stupid to comprehend their own scripture? What was his defense? THEY WERE NECESSARY for the spiritual to exist.
Those who aren’t familiar with Augustine should read the book – “Augustine and the Jews”. It certainly beats going through the millions of words which comprise his know letters and transcribed sermons (recorded by a church scribe as they were delivered). Catholic anti-Semitism of the second to forth century is abundantly clear – to the point where it was the basis of their, and the competing Christian, theology. With the exception of Judeo-Christians who followed the Laws of Moses, anti-Semitism was the order of the day – and, as we know, succeeding generations.
Where was Augustine right ... what did he get correct? Augustine, basing his views on Paul, focused on two elements of religion: Faith and Law. In his canon, Augustine identified these as Earth and Spirit. The Jews were of the Earth, the followers of his version of Christ were of Spirit. If we view it in spiritual terms defined by physical, or mathematical laws, he was right.
Consider Einstein’s famous formula where energy is equal to the square of the speed of light times matter. This is the basic law of atomic energy – and probably all of reality. And it is on that premise – that Einstein’s formula is the basic reality, thus the basis of theology as well as physiology – that I now see the truth which Augustine had, though actually blind to the real teachings, produced in his thinking.
Consider: Zero and infinity are the same point. Mathematicians know this without question. Multiply anything by zero and you get zero. Divide anything by zero and you get infinity. Divide anything by infinity and you have zero, Multiply anything by infinity and the result is a new order of the infinite. Now do the math with zero and infinity as the two functions. Zero time infinity is both infinite and zero. Mathematically that appears to be the very definition of G-d. The ancients viewed it as the serpent eating its own tail – no beginning and no end.
It is only in the realm of Mathematical Practicality that zero and infinity exist. In reality – our realm of existence – because neither can ever be achieved, neither zero nor infinity exist. Those who are there is such a thing as nothing cannot establish its existence without reference to something and therefore are actually saying that the something is not in a specific location (though, obviously, something else must be).
What we have is a universe which has either mass (matter) or energy. The universe – our reality – is measured, or defined, by the degree of the two as determined by their motion or speed. That’s what Einstein realized and codified. It is also the reality of Augustine’s arguments. The Spiritual is Pure Energy, and the Earth is Pure (stagnant) Mass. As the mass is slowed the energy decreases. Thus, as we are increasingly part of the theological earth, we too are of lessened motion and thus decreased energy (spiritual).
There must always be some motion and some mass. Without it – if nothing really existed – there could be no spirituality. The deity is the point where zero meets infinity – like the Kline Bottle of Topographic Theory, the deity has no inside of outside, but everything is relative to it as a constant surface.
If we think of the concept of Heaven and Hell. Heaven brings us closer to the deity because our energy increases and our mass declines. Hell is a torment where our energy is decreased to consciousness without the power of motion. There are no demons torturing those in Hell – those people have effectively become rock. Native Americans and others were correct – there is a spirit within the inanimate; it is the spirit of those who were sufficiently “sinful” as to lose their energy. Ghosts would be those whose energy levels have moved them beyond the physical, but not sufficiently to the spiritual – the accepted concept behind the mythology is correct.
All things can be explained in terms of Einstein’s simple formulation demanding motion and mass to produce energy. Augustine was on the right path. Of course, this than argues that there are rules which must be followed – laws to increase the energy levels – and those laws should be the theology which we follow. Those whose theology cannot demonstrably establish there is an increase in energy are, thus, students of a false theology.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
STATE OF THE STATE
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STATE OF THE STATE
STATE OF THE NATION
Well, our governor is finally unencumbered by the Right-wing economics which brought us into the worst economy since the Arab oil embargo set the stage for initiating the Reagan-Bush voodoo economic policies. Finally, there is the possibility that we shall return to real economics – beginning with the proposals as put forth by Governor Baldacci in this month’s State-of-the-State address.
The governor has seen the wisdom of Wind Power as a means of making Maine both energy self-sufficient, and as a means of turning Maine into the energy source for New England. Can the average Mainer grasp the idea of being a Wind-OPEC? Or being masters of a an endless renewable power source? We in Washington County envisioned in nearly four years ago (MVNO July & Aug ‘05) when we understood these words:
“Wind is a sustainable economic force – the electric generated can replace oil, coal and natural gas. So why not capitalize on an abundant, safe and environmentally friendly natural resource?
“Wind power would not only contribute to our economic growth; it would enhance Downeast ‘quality of life’ in a manner which is environmentally friendly. Quality of life is something we can promote in a way which will both stabilize our population, and attract new
resources.”
Isn’t this very similar to what the governor – free of the pro-Saudi Bush Administration – is now proposing? Isn’t this also what the Obama administration wants, but Bush opposed?
The Governor has proposed expanding the laptop program – making the machines available to every child, teacher, and parent; allowing the parents instant access to schools related data by insuring there is pre-installed software for that purpose. We know the political forces which opposed the internet and laptop program – and though they are still on the attack, still trying to disrupt lives and families in the name of THEIR idea of ‘family values’ they are now discredited by all who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
If you listened to the comments after the Governor’s Address, you would have heard our Republicans denouncing ‘Borrow & Spend’ governance – and using that exact phrase which we in Washington County, and across major segments of Maine, years ago recognized as the essence of Reagan-Bush "want-a-be-poor" Voodoo Economics (MVNO, Jul’05, May/Oct/Nov’06, Oct’08).
We have even noticed that Washington and Maine have both recognized the failings of No Child Left Behind and its insistence on punishing both teachers and schools for the failures of their predecessors, rather than rewarding them for overcoming the limitations imposed by diverting the nation’s wealth and human resources into the pockets of those who would see this nation fail.
Demographically, we all knew this day would come. We knew that there would be a flood of people leaving the work forces – we will, over the course of the next few years come to recognize that the high unemployment numbers were both transient and distorted. Why will we come to believe this? The one thing Bush got right – the baby boomers are at retirement age. Firms have announced they are going to terminate such-and-so many jobs over the next whatever period of time.
Sounds bad.
For those who are honestly laid off, it is bad. But many of those ‘to-be-terminated’ positions belong to people who were going to retire within the stated time frame anyway. Bush told us about it eight years ago – even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Reality check – as the Dow passed 12,000, you knew the market was topping. You also knew it had to periodically return to certain levels – we are now at those levels. If the Rush Limbaugh’s of the world get their wish that Obama’s programs fail – we could see 4,000 to 4,500. But by 2012 we will be heading up and surpassing where we were three years ago.
Regardless of what Rush and his Dittoheads want and hope for – we are at the greatest buying opportunity in history. We will see our schools improve; wind and solar will provide abundant energy for a shrinking population (shrinking because we are globally approaching zero population growth and the baby-boomers are beyond reproduction); all we need is an alternative fuel to power our aircraft – and the promised age will have arrived.
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STATE OF THE STATE
STATE OF THE NATION
Well, our governor is finally unencumbered by the Right-wing economics which brought us into the worst economy since the Arab oil embargo set the stage for initiating the Reagan-Bush voodoo economic policies. Finally, there is the possibility that we shall return to real economics – beginning with the proposals as put forth by Governor Baldacci in this month’s State-of-the-State address.
The governor has seen the wisdom of Wind Power as a means of making Maine both energy self-sufficient, and as a means of turning Maine into the energy source for New England. Can the average Mainer grasp the idea of being a Wind-OPEC? Or being masters of a an endless renewable power source? We in Washington County envisioned in nearly four years ago (MVNO July & Aug ‘05) when we understood these words:
“Wind is a sustainable economic force – the electric generated can replace oil, coal and natural gas. So why not capitalize on an abundant, safe and environmentally friendly natural resource?
“Wind power would not only contribute to our economic growth; it would enhance Downeast ‘quality of life’ in a manner which is environmentally friendly. Quality of life is something we can promote in a way which will both stabilize our population, and attract new
resources.”
Isn’t this very similar to what the governor – free of the pro-Saudi Bush Administration – is now proposing? Isn’t this also what the Obama administration wants, but Bush opposed?
The Governor has proposed expanding the laptop program – making the machines available to every child, teacher, and parent; allowing the parents instant access to schools related data by insuring there is pre-installed software for that purpose. We know the political forces which opposed the internet and laptop program – and though they are still on the attack, still trying to disrupt lives and families in the name of THEIR idea of ‘family values’ they are now discredited by all who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
If you listened to the comments after the Governor’s Address, you would have heard our Republicans denouncing ‘Borrow & Spend’ governance – and using that exact phrase which we in Washington County, and across major segments of Maine, years ago recognized as the essence of Reagan-Bush "want-a-be-poor" Voodoo Economics (MVNO, Jul’05, May/Oct/Nov’06, Oct’08).
We have even noticed that Washington and Maine have both recognized the failings of No Child Left Behind and its insistence on punishing both teachers and schools for the failures of their predecessors, rather than rewarding them for overcoming the limitations imposed by diverting the nation’s wealth and human resources into the pockets of those who would see this nation fail.
Demographically, we all knew this day would come. We knew that there would be a flood of people leaving the work forces – we will, over the course of the next few years come to recognize that the high unemployment numbers were both transient and distorted. Why will we come to believe this? The one thing Bush got right – the baby boomers are at retirement age. Firms have announced they are going to terminate such-and-so many jobs over the next whatever period of time.
Sounds bad.
For those who are honestly laid off, it is bad. But many of those ‘to-be-terminated’ positions belong to people who were going to retire within the stated time frame anyway. Bush told us about it eight years ago – even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Reality check – as the Dow passed 12,000, you knew the market was topping. You also knew it had to periodically return to certain levels – we are now at those levels. If the Rush Limbaugh’s of the world get their wish that Obama’s programs fail – we could see 4,000 to 4,500. But by 2012 we will be heading up and surpassing where we were three years ago.
Regardless of what Rush and his Dittoheads want and hope for – we are at the greatest buying opportunity in history. We will see our schools improve; wind and solar will provide abundant energy for a shrinking population (shrinking because we are globally approaching zero population growth and the baby-boomers are beyond reproduction); all we need is an alternative fuel to power our aircraft – and the promised age will have arrived.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Is there HOPE of CHANGE
Do you realize how many self-destruct after they achieve the fame and fortune we are told we should seek?
Life is curious. Once achieved, success is run from. Those we see self-destruct are running into themselves, into drugs, into an unreal state in which the viewers, those who give the adulation, are the ones who eventually destroy them.
Those who are comfortable with success are quiet about its power and authority. They live lives of comfort which most ‘normal people’ do not understand. But ‘normal people’ tend to be dull witted and ill-informed. They also tend to be easily insulted ... especially when confronted by reality. The last thin people want is reality – they prefer magic, superstition, mirror and denial.
Look to Washington.
Look to leadership.
Look toward religion
Deny creation, reality, and the true power.
Enjoy ...
Life is curious. Once achieved, success is run from. Those we see self-destruct are running into themselves, into drugs, into an unreal state in which the viewers, those who give the adulation, are the ones who eventually destroy them.
Those who are comfortable with success are quiet about its power and authority. They live lives of comfort which most ‘normal people’ do not understand. But ‘normal people’ tend to be dull witted and ill-informed. They also tend to be easily insulted ... especially when confronted by reality. The last thin people want is reality – they prefer magic, superstition, mirror and denial.
Look to Washington.
Look to leadership.
Look toward religion
Deny creation, reality, and the true power.
Enjoy ...
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Yea Dixie Chicks --
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Date Line December 20, 2008
In 2003, during their “Top of the World Tour” a statement was mad denouncing Bush’s war on Iraq and the lies he and his people were making about Saddam Hussein and his government. Bush, siding with Bin Laden and his terrorist Al-Qaeda organization, was determined to remove Hussein and plunge Iraq into disaster.
The statement was: “Just to let you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
For that that the Dixie Chicks were vilified by right wing idiots bent on the destruction of the United States. More idiots took up the challenge and destroyed their CD’s.
Well, I was one of the people denouncing the war, and the effect it would have on the nation and economy. I was doing this – in print – when Bush first started his lies, and continued throughout the Bush administration.
When the Dow was passing 12000 I warned of the need for an immediate correction ... and called for one ... when it did not happen, and the Dow went to 14000, I warned of disaster. Now we are in a recession. It is a Bush Recession. It is a Republican Recession.
It is a Recession which 33 percent of the states (based on Electoral College count) not only wanted, but wanted to see worsen. It is a Recession which 40 percent of the voters (those living in the Electoral College States) wants. It is what the Right-wing Christians and Republicans want and are fighting for.
The end of the United States is a real possibility ... not now ... not necessarily under Obama ... but it is something which they will fight for. It is something the Rush Limbaugh types want; it is what the ditto-heads want – they have no brains, just say ditto – It is what the Right-wing Christians and Republicans want .
Well ... they are not going to have it. The Dow will stabilize where it is ... there will be another small downturn ... not as bad as we have seen ... and then the markets will run. The economy will refocus – if we want it to run far – and we will see a boom in solar and wind power. We will see troops coming home. We will see a move toward balanced budgets and national health insurance – nobody can afford $500 a month coverage with 20 percent co-pay and a requirement for prior approal of emergency and necessary treatments. The nation cannot afford to pay double the real cost of medical treatment. The nation cannot afford to take money out of the economy to feed Insurance Company greed and dishonesty. More important, the nation cannot afford the cost of sick workers – made sicker by the obstacles placed before them by what amounts to high-school dropout insurance clerks.
YES ... four in ten of your neighbors want the nation gone, want you sick, and want your children hungry or dead. Four in ten hate you – they worship a divinity who hates you. They call upon that divity to interfere with your life and the lives of your children ...
Funny thing ... history tells us they will – eventually – win. Evil always does – especially when it invokes divine evil. Watch, learn, and be silent ... it will ensure their victory ... mostly be silent when people like Bush tell you to kill those who have done you no harm ... and, as Bush did with Bin Laden, declare those who have harmed you irrelevant.
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Date Line December 20, 2008
In 2003, during their “Top of the World Tour” a statement was mad denouncing Bush’s war on Iraq and the lies he and his people were making about Saddam Hussein and his government. Bush, siding with Bin Laden and his terrorist Al-Qaeda organization, was determined to remove Hussein and plunge Iraq into disaster.
The statement was: “Just to let you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
For that that the Dixie Chicks were vilified by right wing idiots bent on the destruction of the United States. More idiots took up the challenge and destroyed their CD’s.
Well, I was one of the people denouncing the war, and the effect it would have on the nation and economy. I was doing this – in print – when Bush first started his lies, and continued throughout the Bush administration.
When the Dow was passing 12000 I warned of the need for an immediate correction ... and called for one ... when it did not happen, and the Dow went to 14000, I warned of disaster. Now we are in a recession. It is a Bush Recession. It is a Republican Recession.
It is a Recession which 33 percent of the states (based on Electoral College count) not only wanted, but wanted to see worsen. It is a Recession which 40 percent of the voters (those living in the Electoral College States) wants. It is what the Right-wing Christians and Republicans want and are fighting for.
The end of the United States is a real possibility ... not now ... not necessarily under Obama ... but it is something which they will fight for. It is something the Rush Limbaugh types want; it is what the ditto-heads want – they have no brains, just say ditto – It is what the Right-wing Christians and Republicans want .
Well ... they are not going to have it. The Dow will stabilize where it is ... there will be another small downturn ... not as bad as we have seen ... and then the markets will run. The economy will refocus – if we want it to run far – and we will see a boom in solar and wind power. We will see troops coming home. We will see a move toward balanced budgets and national health insurance – nobody can afford $500 a month coverage with 20 percent co-pay and a requirement for prior approal of emergency and necessary treatments. The nation cannot afford to pay double the real cost of medical treatment. The nation cannot afford to take money out of the economy to feed Insurance Company greed and dishonesty. More important, the nation cannot afford the cost of sick workers – made sicker by the obstacles placed before them by what amounts to high-school dropout insurance clerks.
YES ... four in ten of your neighbors want the nation gone, want you sick, and want your children hungry or dead. Four in ten hate you – they worship a divinity who hates you. They call upon that divity to interfere with your life and the lives of your children ...
Funny thing ... history tells us they will – eventually – win. Evil always does – especially when it invokes divine evil. Watch, learn, and be silent ... it will ensure their victory ... mostly be silent when people like Bush tell you to kill those who have done you no harm ... and, as Bush did with Bin Laden, declare those who have harmed you irrelevant.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Last Comment Before the VOTE
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Date Line October 24, 2008
The bailout was needed to provide "confidence" ... but it is short term ... the money will need to be paid via taxes.in the future. Ideally, inflation will give it less value. But the whole thing was a reward to scam artists who made the NINJA loans which had no honest expectation of being repaid and were unsecured.
On the good side ... the market has reached a support I called for, two years ago, in my newspaper column. The bottom is holding solid (as of noon Friday 24 October) if it breaks, the next support is a DOW 4000 and all the horrors that accompany such a further decline.
We are less than two weeks from ... our children and grandchildren have been saddled with a debt (their futures mortgaged) by poilicies which Greenspan now admits were wrong ... but which known wrong when he proclaimed reduced deficits and debt to be bad.
Greenspan now claims he thought banks would work in their self-interest. They did ... banks are people and people make money independent of the corporate employer ... GOLDEN PARACHUTE and retirement building were the order of the day for aging baby-boom chief executives. They functioned in their own self-interest withing the full knowledge that the corporate entity was expendable.
We have a warped and unrealistic mind-set which grants intellect to entities and ignores the people. IE – Government does not do anything ... the people in Government do the stuff ... they make the decisions and impose the constraints on freedoms, education and health. People, not entities, work in their own interest. Just as Nazi soldiers did what they were told because it meant their promotion, our Government employees and elected leaders do what is in their interest.
Note that the GOP pundits who challenged investigations into rising energy costs are now, like Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, loudly bemoaning the lack of investigation into falling costs. If they really understood economics – or were not really people who understood and lie about things – Limbaugh would be pointing out market forces at work and cheering the propriety of the GOP free market.
But the GOP Right-wing does not believe in market forces – at least not those forces which it can’t manipulate to defraud the public.
We are days from electing a new set of people. Or days from declaring we like people who have taken a growing economy with a budget surplus and reducing national debt and turning it into a society deep in debt. The GOP has built its whole policy structure on BORROW & SPEND ... BORROW & SPEND ... that’s a short term ripoff of people who must pay to fix – replace – that which was ripped off.
We need to reduce debt – if that means (as people understand it, “working more” and government sees as) increasing taxes, we need to do so. The only place to increase taxes is where the money is, and that means tax the wealthiest – those making four times the average family wage. Gee. Is it really that much of a hardship to make only three times the average wage and have a strong nation to protect your assets?
We need to rethink our past. We need to vote for the deeds and not the words. Granted, that is a very “Christian” viewpoint – for it was Christ himself who warned you would know them by their deeds. It is also a worldly realistic viewpoint. Words are meaningless unless backed by actions. The GOP has claimed fiscal responsibility with words, and spendthrift polices with actions.
If your labor is sick, hungry, or homeless, they leave for places where they can improve their lives. Note that immigrants come here from poorer nations – but also that they are choosing, in greater numbers, Europe over America. If you really want to do the lowest of basic jobs, keep attacking, as the GOP would have you attack, immigrants. Become a third world nation. Be worthy of naught but sending your children to die in foreign lands so the Sheiks and despots can live securely in their palaces.
We need to keep our children home and in school. We need to pay them to become the best of the brightest. We cannot keep turning to other nations for our doctors and engineers.
We need to pay for universal healthcare – we need healthy workers to pay the debts the GOP has amassed. To do less is to kill the goose which lays the golden eggs. Labor is, after all, the foundation upon which profits and wealth are built.
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Of course, the majority might decide race and gender trump the survival of America. In that case, let them have that which they wish for themselves and their posterity – they can begin by converting to Islam and then move on to learning to speak Chinese.
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Date Line October 24, 2008
The bailout was needed to provide "confidence" ... but it is short term ... the money will need to be paid via taxes.in the future. Ideally, inflation will give it less value. But the whole thing was a reward to scam artists who made the NINJA loans which had no honest expectation of being repaid and were unsecured.
On the good side ... the market has reached a support I called for, two years ago, in my newspaper column. The bottom is holding solid (as of noon Friday 24 October) if it breaks, the next support is a DOW 4000 and all the horrors that accompany such a further decline.
We are less than two weeks from ... our children and grandchildren have been saddled with a debt (their futures mortgaged) by poilicies which Greenspan now admits were wrong ... but which known wrong when he proclaimed reduced deficits and debt to be bad.
Greenspan now claims he thought banks would work in their self-interest. They did ... banks are people and people make money independent of the corporate employer ... GOLDEN PARACHUTE and retirement building were the order of the day for aging baby-boom chief executives. They functioned in their own self-interest withing the full knowledge that the corporate entity was expendable.
We have a warped and unrealistic mind-set which grants intellect to entities and ignores the people. IE – Government does not do anything ... the people in Government do the stuff ... they make the decisions and impose the constraints on freedoms, education and health. People, not entities, work in their own interest. Just as Nazi soldiers did what they were told because it meant their promotion, our Government employees and elected leaders do what is in their interest.
Note that the GOP pundits who challenged investigations into rising energy costs are now, like Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, loudly bemoaning the lack of investigation into falling costs. If they really understood economics – or were not really people who understood and lie about things – Limbaugh would be pointing out market forces at work and cheering the propriety of the GOP free market.
But the GOP Right-wing does not believe in market forces – at least not those forces which it can’t manipulate to defraud the public.
We are days from electing a new set of people. Or days from declaring we like people who have taken a growing economy with a budget surplus and reducing national debt and turning it into a society deep in debt. The GOP has built its whole policy structure on BORROW & SPEND ... BORROW & SPEND ... that’s a short term ripoff of people who must pay to fix – replace – that which was ripped off.
We need to reduce debt – if that means (as people understand it, “working more” and government sees as) increasing taxes, we need to do so. The only place to increase taxes is where the money is, and that means tax the wealthiest – those making four times the average family wage. Gee. Is it really that much of a hardship to make only three times the average wage and have a strong nation to protect your assets?
We need to rethink our past. We need to vote for the deeds and not the words. Granted, that is a very “Christian” viewpoint – for it was Christ himself who warned you would know them by their deeds. It is also a worldly realistic viewpoint. Words are meaningless unless backed by actions. The GOP has claimed fiscal responsibility with words, and spendthrift polices with actions.
If your labor is sick, hungry, or homeless, they leave for places where they can improve their lives. Note that immigrants come here from poorer nations – but also that they are choosing, in greater numbers, Europe over America. If you really want to do the lowest of basic jobs, keep attacking, as the GOP would have you attack, immigrants. Become a third world nation. Be worthy of naught but sending your children to die in foreign lands so the Sheiks and despots can live securely in their palaces.
We need to keep our children home and in school. We need to pay them to become the best of the brightest. We cannot keep turning to other nations for our doctors and engineers.
We need to pay for universal healthcare – we need healthy workers to pay the debts the GOP has amassed. To do less is to kill the goose which lays the golden eggs. Labor is, after all, the foundation upon which profits and wealth are built.
_____________________________________________________
Of course, the majority might decide race and gender trump the survival of America. In that case, let them have that which they wish for themselves and their posterity – they can begin by converting to Islam and then move on to learning to speak Chinese.
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