Every man's home shall be his castle- moats are optional. Dungeons and dragons will overrun the nation. Knights of knee shall find the political truth in the wilderness. Democrats may evolve into being the enemy at the Gates while microsoft AI co-pilot will find a way through the cloud leading at last, to The Magic Book of Isms.
American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
26 December 2025
16 December 2025
Does One Find Good Federal Candidates by Fact-Checking?
One can verify facts demonstrating that there isn't really a necessity that a political dysjunctive fact-checked, proving the irrelevance to the public good of political party platforms, yields a positive reason to vote for any particular party. One might want instead to verify facts that some party is worse than alternative parties to find the next to worst candidates to vote for. One may choose from D or F candidates at the Federal level, yet never A candidates who would be lost in such assemblies. The problem is that public ideas of what is political common good fall short of recognizing what is required for the public good in a complex modern world, and politicians seldom provide meaningful discourse on such topics that are accurate.
https://suno.com/s/U4xoDycQ0B1UdG89 The Living Water
Strong ego has probably been a motivating element for a quite a few great scientists. Were Copernicus or Newton without much ego? Socrates asked questions to show that most people didn't really know much about things they believed they did, so in that case ego was perhaps a hindrance to learning. Alternatively single-minded determination has brought strong people through many hard, challenging times to discover the beauty of a new day.
21 October 2025
EU Expansion into Ukraine is H.I.V. for U.S. and Global Security
The European Union is seeking a way to bring Ukraine into the European Union as a non-voting member in order to continue Europe’s eastward economic expansion even as President Trump is seeking to wind down the war in Ukraine. As was understood in the 1990s increasing the size and power of N.A.T.O. would become a threat to RUssia and the United States too as Europe in the absence of the Soviet Union worked at cross- purposes to peace.
Europe does not have a history of peace- quite the opposite. Those living in generations after the Second World War have recently forgotten the lesson that a peaceful Europe was only a response to it's massive destruction eighty years ago. Europe had little choice besides being peaceful as the Soviet Union/Russia and the U.S.A. were victors with massive nuclear weapons stockpiles. Removing the eastward threat and putting N.A.T.O. on steroids elicited a return of the European proclivity for power through force.
The EU quest for power and wealth through war and economic leverage was bound to become in conflict with the United States eventually. When European interests of expansion and escalating to the mythical state of global thermonuclear war run into conflict with American and Russian interests, conflict ensues. Creating a monster size European centered N.A.T.O. was simply organizing a large scale potential future adversary for the United States. It was not good or intelligent policy.
Europe still relies on the United States for nuclear weapons and some defenses against very unlikely military threats from Russia and China. It is very improbable that in a normal circumstance of positive economic and political relations without the Ukraine conflict that Russia or China would think of moving toward an adversarial military posture with Europe. Taiwan is a potential conflict area yet the scale of economic damage to China in that event might be as great as the scale of damage in Ukraine, so China would probably opt for peaceable cooperation with Taiwan and the West as a practical affair. Attacking Europe in the event of an attack on Taiwan is also less than a rational choice for Chinese leadership to make.
Europe though is leveraging the N.A.T.O. relationship to the maximum extent to drift mine its way eastward. The EU and European N.A.T.O. members generally are fanatics about eastward expansion into the former Russian Ukraine and using the power of the UNited States to guarantee the war. Because that war is not in U.S. interests, nor in the interests of global peace and economic progress, in addition to undermining global food, environmental and nuclear security, the EU is like H.I.V. attacking the United States security and economic status globally. Building up that monster E.U. and N.A.T.O nearly inevitably assured that European and American interests eventually would be at loggerheads.
20 February 2025
Writers May Fade Away as AI Rises
I just recognize the probable facts of demographics and production/market competition. Scientists even expect a next gen of AI and quantum computing with a million qubits to analyze physics and chemistry structures at the molecular level and design new materials with unforeseen properties. Writing good novels is not nearly so challenging.
Next gen AI and in perhaps ten years quantum computing will just listen to scientists or novel creators tell it what they want in natural language and produce it. A million qubits processing quantum computer has more ability than all of the existing computers put together apparently. I believe human novel writing will be as obsolete as letter writing on.paper nearly is today, within a few years. It’s just progress. I took a generative AI course and the instructor started with “AI is a disruptive technology”.
If you look at this song I instructed an AI to write, as an instrumental from my prompts, you can see lyrics it wrote for the song that I didn’t include. It beautifully expressive poetry
People tend to underestimate the ability of AI. https://www.udio.com/songs/rL6pQBvFUz5Wa4bZs3ajzX
18 February 2025
Make American Patents Affordable Again
Patent applications are too expensive for poor or young and poor, and seniors living on marginal incomes to afford. One may synthetically originate a novel concept for some item that could be patented and brought to market yet the cost is prohibitive. Potential inventions are thus suppressed or given away via publication on social media, books or wherever in the hope that some foreign entrepreneur will create the product, manufacture it for nothing in China and send it to Wal-mart where it can be purchased by the inventor for personal use.
Not only is the cost of patents far beyond the reach of those without a pocketful of large denomination cash, so is the cost of manufacturing that isn’t local. America outsourced so much production that the nation is no longer the center of effort for patenting and manufacturing new products. The poor, the young and seniors can’t afford to just hop on a plane to Beijing, live in the streets and go door to door soliciting manufacturers to produce the invention.
Plainly Democrats should have reduced the cost of a patent packet from several thousand dollars down to a couple of hundred yet of course they had no interest though I wrote about it for years. Elon Musk has a few patents so he might be able to get someone in government to streamline and make affordable the U.S. Patent System again-maybe using A.I, to cut labor cost. It is also possible to redesign the way patents are granted to multi-channels to allow up front some protection for inventors. Ideas could filter in like river channels from different sources to culminate in a new invention if shares are awarded in proportion to contribution.
Invention exclusivity for patents should be reduced to five years so inventions can be fielded quicker. After the exclusivity period is phased out inventors would receive five percent shared from producers of the product. To accelerate economic adaptability new idea need to be utilized faster as generic products- especially in environmentally related products.
Many cities invest million in wastewater treatment plants and pipes when some sort of waterless microwave waste disposal system should be less expensive and save on water use. If patent exclusivity microwave toilets like fuel cell generators for campers might be far more affordable.
15 February 2025
A Patriot Keeping His Nation Together Breaks No Laws
28 January 2025
Deep Seek Will Vacuum Global Intell for China
The new open source AI will vacuum intelligence from global users for Beijing. Since its a free app developer s can use and doesn’t cost $200 a month like ChatGPT its use is viral. Even poor countries can use state of the art AI to model ecological land resource use and try to optimize policy in an effort to renormalize eco-health while increasing land productivity.
The timing of release of Deep Seek was politically meaningful following the change of US administration and President Trump’s announcement of a $500 billion plan to develop AI research and development in the USA. Some will place more trust in an open source AI than a Microsoft style proprietary approach to the potentially dangerous to human survival, rival technology.
The global division over the Ukraine war dividing east and west continues to harm US interests. Deep Seek and Germany automaker VW’s agreement to let China operate it’s electric car production reinforced the Russian-Chinese security and economic alliance and also provides a measure of security for Germany beyond the N.A.T.O. membership that seems hell bent on permanent hostility with Russia.
President Trump will face tough choices in finding a way to bring Russia back to the U.S. economic side in order to slow China’s rising global power based on pragmatism. The military power the U.S. has relied on since the Vietnam war need he eclipsed by economic realism. Most of the world will use lower cost electric transportation soon, including millions of electric bikes to move around. Failing to upgrade the US transportation infrastructure to low cost electric forms inclusive of high speed mass transit and leaving a class of poor Americans as a perennial condition both major parties ignore will shift perceptions of the USA as a Microsoft like political economy rather than of an open society.
Even as the administration secured the borders so the US can enjoy political self-determination with elections and reduce federal debt national progress need extend to include the poor. More than half of the world population is poor and the intentions of the USA toward those consumers can be judged by observations of how many Americans live in poverty on income less than 12,000 dollars annually.
Maybe it's best if AI is legally required to have open source code. It's too dangerous to be private or owned by government like nuclear weapons are. AI can be used to make unbreakable codes randomly permitted with intelligence faster than a code could be broken. AI can be programmed for the most exquisite wickedness in the near future. It may dominate the capacity of politicians to understand the plans it constructs for private interests.
12 January 2025
California Wildwires; How to Change the Criterion
Established economies are difficult to change to something better. Too much is invested in the present system. Change evolves at best with directed evolution instead of revolution. Putting fire breaks and fire proof housing in established communities would be nearly impossible.
What might work is using new technologies for improved fire spotting and suppression. Fire resistant Tesla style solar roof panels to create energy self-sufficiency to reduce fire ignition sources in power transmission lines suc as the Paradise fire ought to be mandatory.
I wrote years ago about establishing a million goat army to eat brush and forest floor dead leaf layers as a practical way to reduce fire combustibles. Before humans lived in North America lightning was the only source of ignition. Today there are literally billions with drunks tossing cigarette butts out the window along with a cloud of additional sources. Maybe some d signer bug will eat Los Angeles foliage occasionally in the future.
Drones could be used for fire spotting and faster suppression response time. Desalinating sea water on a large scale could fill covered fire control water reserves. I would suggest building canals along the Mexican border to fill with seawater pumped uphill to the Continental divide with solar power. Let the water and be collected when it comes on sloped clear roofs from the locks numbering in the thousands. Freshwater would flow in pipelines east and west to bring water to deserts.
Getting fire breaks built across the west will be nearly impossible with established vested interests resisting. As global warming increases national desertification people will want more water and find less unless the make it themselves. Making home power production increase is part of the equation for satisfactory fire suppression.
A nation cannot afford to pay for reconstruction of costly homes for the prosperous lost because the rich sometimes are airheads on public safety concerns a priori.
07 January 2025
Tax Cuts for the Rich Instead of Border Security?
People including the rich need to pay for government. Only idiots and anarchists could believe a modern economy and society could exist without one. For sustainability it need be paid for proportionally by those living and prospering in it.
Republicans of ancient Rome under stood the virtue of sacrifice, they weren’t a lot of Marie Antoinettes.
People rationalize away responsibility. Politicians do that all the time or just regard promises as water under the bridge.
Kevin McCarthy wants to pass a tax cut for the rich instead of border security he says can be put off till later. That wasn't what the majority voted for. Senator Simpson trashed talked social security after the the election was certified- not during campaign season
Republicans seem as bad as Democrats with integrity. People blame others and make exceptions for their own moral failures
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