President Obama Doesn't Have a Budget Negotiating Game; Appoint a Czar

Shouldn't Pres. Obama Appoint A Budget Czar For Negotiations?

America has a surfeit of Nobel Prize winning economists such as Joseph Stiglitz. Isn't it possible that some of them might have ideas about budget reform that the President does not? One wonders if the President refuses to negotiate on the budget spending cap and Obamacare because he doesn't know what is in the Federal budget being a lawyer rather than an economist?

It should be possible for a good economist made budget czar to easily cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal budget of wasteful programs that Republicans like and want funded. Are new carpets installed in U.S. Senate offices-cut that out? Do subsidies exist or federal spending occur that benefits Republicans-then be responsible and stop it.

Sometimes it is necessary to steer the ship of state toward the safe harbor of reduction of national debt. The better way to accomplish that is to improve the efficiency of existing programmatic spending structures through reform rather than the inaccuracy of generic cuts. It should for example be possible to reform Obamacare even before it's fully implemented by cutting out the part about increasing Medicaid spending that only works in half the states and replacing that with an expanded V.A. hospital system that will include treatment for the poor. New construction of hospital and clinics in remote sites could provide jobs for documented construction workers. All of the nation's poor would be included and the nation would have a better public treatment structure in the event of national emergency such as could occur in event of nuclear, chemical or biological war.

Plainly the serious threats to national security collectively and to individuals are in the sort of harm to health the poor may experience any or even every day while the prosperous are aloof. They may experience the threats for real only in times of mass disaster when they run to the Federal government like Republican Gov. Chris Christie did pleading for billions and billions of money when hurricane Sandy splashed New Jersey with storm waves or change their minds about public medical provisioning such as Republican Governor Schwarzenneger had after suffering a compound fracture of a leg skiing at Sun Valley Idaho.

Negotiating with Republicans on the federal budget ought to be fun. More fun even that playing bullet chess. What's up with the President anyway; too much time on the golf course?

Federal Failures at Old Navy Yard and V.A. Hospitals

The Federal government failed to provide adequate security at the Washington Naval Yard that would screen out unauthorized guns with metal detectors and failed to adequately council a former active duty naval reservist that twice sought help at V.A. Hospitals. President Obama at a memorial criticized civil gun ownership instead of Federal failures in security and V.A. service. The public is not really at fault-who else can they vote for besides Republicans and Democrats that aren't very accurate at budget balancing or border security?

Psychiatric counseling should be decriminalized if people are to be free to seek that sort of medical help if they want it without needing to be concerned about picks up the legal ticks from a plethora of sources that attach themselves to undermine his or her civil liberty. In fact it would be opportune to reform the historical legal context for criminal trials in order to remove the prospect for psychiatric opinion developing as force of law.

A new trial format would have three parts instead of two as at present wherein guilt or innocence is determined followed by sentencing. Phase one is a structure inappropriate for using psychiatric opinion.

1) Findings of fact

2) Conclusion of law

3) Public response

A finding of fact phase would determine if the person charged did the deed or not. Phase two would determine if those convicted in phase one should be held responsible or discharged. Phase three would act as the sentencing phase for those found convicted and responsible.

Is there subjective software of logic an individual develops in response to the experience of hearing voices? The political dialectical evolution of dysfunction of the Congress at managing the nation's public affairs might be an analogy for the internal dialectical evolution of plausible explanations an individual might develop to account for the anomaly of unattributable internal voices. No one believes it's possibly anything besides holistic organic dysfunction, yet there are other possibilities...

The Veteran Hears Voices, Buys a Gun and Visits The Old Navy Yard

The veteran lives in a room alone

in a white room with black curtains

he hears the call of duty

traffic and the world passes outside

while inside is another room with an open door

someone else he doesn't know is in it

a ventriloquist, a cell phone left behind, an alien from someplace beyond

gently, mockingly, relentlessly giving words of impossible distraction

that he overhears incredulously before incredulity turns to despair

Troubled by constant distraction from the unknown twit

-no one is in the spare room hidden behind a door that can't be found

the veteran considers the possibilities of who and what the enemy is

an enemy that deceives and confounds, tricks and provides news

an extra-sensory invader

beating a punitive sunchopated tinnitus on eardrums when better incentives are needed to stop his impermissible political thought

Hearing voices, the vet visits a Veteran's Hospital for help

an emergency room gut specialist looks around at the sick and injured

wondering what goes on in the meathead before him

The Doc doesn't enumerate a list of logically possible source of voices that haven't got a corresponding credible source

1) Extra-terrestrial super-real communiqués

2) Covert government or criminal tech assaults

3) Demons

4) Silent focused sound waves audible only to the ears they are beamed at by an unknown foe

5) An implanted transmitter too small to detect

6) Short-circuiting or malfunctioning brain neurons that generate audible words independently of one's will

7) A fib in a jihadist plan to disarm Americans

A list of possibilities that would inform the vet of possible existential explanations wasn't given

neither was a chemical remedy offered to work on possibility six

looking at the vet he said nothing, it's just audio hallucinations

A threatening condemnation -the veteran hears voices in the real world that don't exist- asserting his mind wrongly exists

it's an epistemological insult

of the first kind

if there ever was

Although the traduction

might be a little inaccurate

even the vet knows his mysterious voices don't correspond to regular embodied leprechauns in his brain

-he knows he isn't the King of France

rich as Bill Gates or an N.B.A. star

His use of the word voices was confused the issue

an example of the indeterminacy of translation

what else could he say?

what would the inexperienced understand of his lexicon without sharing

since voices in the mind differ substantially from voices with a normal cause

With the fundamental attack on the integrity of his mind said

it was just one of many possibilities

he contemplates his mind as a homeroom

into which voices enter from outside the curtain

mostly adverse opinions

a foe says his mind is not real

that he doesn't know himself

The voice of the gut doc and that of the voice in the spare room are different

yet equal in some respects

neither is self

one has a visible corporeal, well-paid body

maybe it worked at Ft. Hood

or was a trainee neuroscientist in Denver

while the voice of the other has a hidden entry to the brain

like a virus preying upon the host, at best

each spoofs the integrity of self, the veteran self

who perceives the attacks of the others as phenomena?

In less than utopia, in civil society

experiencing the enemy as something necessarily tolerated

from the spare, vacant room from where the voices enter his mind-room

there are no claims of reality

the fiat of simple fact and power overcomes doubt

- real secret voices enter his mind

Voices from an source unknown

maybe echoes of federal training

with strengthened skepticism he soldiers on

following his own lead

-to thine own self be true

master of his fate, captain of his soul

conforming to war

A better prayer would have been 'Jesus savior pilot me

over life's tempestuous seas'

the V.A. Doc never explained

there is no MNR mapping of the source of the voices in the spare room

nothing would be fixed

even with expensive chemical carpet bombing of his brain with drugs

besides, if the veteran waited a hundred years the voices would never occur in a Veteran's hospital for study

With sympathy from the emergency room guy, a sleeping pill and a Band-Aid

the frustrated, bewildered sailor wanders off into the night

thinking about buying a gun for self-defense

against a bulletproof enemy

too difficult to stop

that might have infiltrated the Old Navy Yard.

Unemployment Rate for U.S. Poor at 20%, Repubs Vote to Cut Food for Poor

It is remarkable how terrible the present U.S. government is. People have noticed-especially the long-term jobless. The Republican majority in the U.S. House voted to cut four billion a year from the food stamp program recently, and though that won't pass through the Democrat controlled Senate it is a confirmation that the privileged invariably victimize the poor in order to swill up as much wealth as they possibly can. The Democrats have generally been aiding and abetting the trend toward kicking back wealth to the richest through deregulation and tax cuts.

Republicans also seek to cut medical benefits for the poor by non-funding Obamacare until it can be buried. While Obamacare was never really designed for the poor-in about half of the states Medicaid won't expand to cover the poor without insurance, in 25 states the poor might have been able to get medical relief and saved for a lot to build a shack on if they didn't have to go to an emergency room and become indebted for the remainder of their lives.

The continuing electronic printing of free money to give the rich on Wall Street provides doubling down benefits for the ultra-fast dark pool stock traders using supercomputers to harvest millions and billions from speed of light skimming on global currency changes and other financial facts. It is probable that those Wall Street insiders producing nothing material for the public-just profits for-themselves and maybe excess capitol to invest in Chinese industrial development and more anywhere on the planet cheap profits can be had. The poor in the United States undoubtedly would prefer to earn $17,000 a year instead of relying on a hundred dollars or two of food stamps to stay alive each month yet to the most rich they are just lint in a colony of the plutocracy to be marginalized rather than promoted.

The certainty about the U.S. Government these days is that they will never, ever fix anything or rationally balance the nation's accounts and interests. While the national debt is nearly $17 trillion dollars they will do vast deficit spending and have the Federal Reserve issue new crisp electronic currency to globalists at the rate of 809 billion per month. One month of that free money could fund the food stamp gap republicans want to force for the next 20 years. It is certain that the military-industrial complex will seek new foreign wars and that the Democrats will not stop illegal immigration even while the U6 unemployment rate is 15%. Republican and Democrat politicians agree in effect that the 49 million poor Americans can be set aside and trashed with so much cheap foreign labor available to replace them illegally as well as legally. Government works for the rich best with the middle class kissing ass on the global corporate employers to timid or incompetent to restore adequate taxation, a balanced federal budget or eliminate of public debt. 

The national media pundits when not raving brainwashing programming the public are bought and paid for by the rich. One never hears the words of the middle class or poor on their own broadcast time segments. U.S. politics are controlled by corporate leverage on free speech and the atheist agenda let's the public be degraded from the insiders without moral troubles into malleable swine. The U.S. Government has no intention of creating full employment or expanding V.A. Hospitals nationally to provide treatment for the poor that aren't veterans instead of ineffective Obamacare. Republicans seeking to cut Obamacare have no rational, practical alternative medical provisioning for the poor. It seems that the servants of wealth actually believe they are better human beings or that anyone really could experience the American Dream without selling his or her soul to the Devil-silly twits.

It is absolutely certain that their isn't a snowball's chance in hell that the U.S. Government leadership of the next decade will become world leaders on eliminating greenhouse gases, eliminating pollution of the oceans, halt loss of wild and restorable ecospheric habitat or create full employment within a sustainable natural resource foundation. The reason for the bad things is the bad social philosophy that has made this an age of greed. With a legacy of good national achievement from prior generations the present generation can be full of self-delusion about their moral and social worth today as they kick the poor around and prefer foreign conflicts instead of foreign admiration for excellence in renewable economic policy and procedures with liberty and justice for all.

Fundamentally it is original sin that dooms the present generation of politicians to incompetence. Remarkable political incompetence as if they were blind.

New Aircraft Carrier To Cost About $13 Billion Before Cost Overruns

Thirteen billion dollars is quite a chunk of change to pay for a Ford-class aircraft carrier that is also the biggest target on the ocean. It seems more of a global policing for the plutocracy kind of expense rather than a 3rd world war sort of investment. Starting a scientific and production facility on the moon might have been started with that as a down payment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/06/huntington-carrier-idUSL2N0H201C20130906

One wonders about the cost of clouds of miniature stealth flying fish anti-ship vehicles able to draw fuel for fuel cells from sea water that could loiter around waiting to detonate themselves on the very large boats. There must be a trillion sorts of anti-ship weapons delivery systems that could be innovated to crater an aircraft carrier deck. Are aircraft carriers still relevant? What about making fighter and bomber aircraft that can land on or in the water and refuel themselves?

art credit of Ford Class aircraft carrier U.S. Navy (via wikipedia)

Global Warming in 2013 Is Like the Terminator Saying-"I'll be back"

Global warming land surface temperatures this year stabilized yet that halt in the measurable advance may be just temporary. Perhaps all the ice melt cooled things down a little, yet the ocean temperature is said to have increased even so. 

What is evident is that Co2 concentration in the ocean is a long-term problem that hasn't halted at all and the rate of it's increase is still going up. The ocean has a limited capacity to absorb atmospheric Co2  and ocean acidity is increasing meaning that the fishing may get very bad on the waves ahead.

A fair report on global warming in 2013 was put together by a writer at Mother Jones.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/global-warming-slowdown-ipcc

New Alaska State Library & Museum Construction Advances

With construction of a new Alaska State Library and Museum scheduled for completion early in 2016 a grant has been awarded to start movement of pieces from 12 museums and cultural centers as well as from several individuals that will merge to form a 32,000 piece collection. One hopes global warming sea level rise will not require a reverse flow some day.

It might be interesting if the state natural history museum began a global warming collection to document the changes in the state from the past to the present era. 

http://www.adn.com/2013/09/10/3067451/state-museum-receives-grant-to.html

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/global-warming-slowdown-ipcc

Spaced Security at Washington Naval Yard

 Incredible as it seems the Washington Naval Yard security had no screening for guns of employees and contractors walking in to the building each day. Instead they relied on the honor system with the assumption that having passed an initial security check no one ever again required screening for weapons on site. The Naval Academy itself dropped the honor system decades ago.

Unfortunately the security lapse in the nation's capitol left twelve civilians dead. The President mentioned that another mass shooting had occurred, and it is tragic when mass is shot, yet that shouldn't be an excuse for the government to further disarm American citizens or substitute psychological profiling for common sense security measures that wouldn't let any contract employee take his shotgun and pistols t'work.

At least Starbucks has upgraded their security measures in response to the mass shooting and banned policemen with guns from troubling those slurping up coffee who don't like policemen or others legally carrying a weapon. Policemen will have to go to that Guns, Donuts and Coffee shop down the street it seems where the defense contractors go.

The politicians are familiar with mass markets, mass political opinion and mass shootings and so know how to go for the juggler politically speaking. Tossing a lot of postures into the broadcast air while classified work at the Washington Naval Yard continues on next wave ships with electro-magnetohydrodynamic drives (e.m.h.d's) that have fuel cells to power them when traveling ashore as hovercraft, or maybe e.m.h.d. spaceships exploiting charged electro-magnetic fields instead of water to flit about the solar system and to Alpha Centauri B doesn't need to develop as an excuse to attack civilians for the fault of government worker's lack of creative thought on security issues-such as don't let people take shotguns to work.

One wonders if security is any better at the Naval Yard than the N.S.A.? The naval yard probably doesn't let people take a cell phone into classified areas yet one can take in a shotgun properly bagged as a large loaf of French bread? While they are going to stick something in their computer thumb drives to stop downloading of government secrets will they let them take pictures of computer screens with cell phones or tiny fiber optic lapel camera lenses?

Making life easy for Wikileaks and hard for sailors with visits to government neuroscientists for screening may be a good bureaucratic way to posture up security. Physical security that prevents access to government facilities with a weapon cannot be replaced by psychological testing in a nation of 300 million souls. Even rational people may hate the government and seek to replace it with a better country ruled by a dictator of one.