Questions about Kamala Harris as a Secure, Comfortable Establishment Insider

 The nation faces quite a choice this election between the affirmative action legacy candidate seeking promotion to her level of incompetence potentially and Donald Trump, the last capitalist in a sense from the nation before the complete swamp of dopiness flooded it. I believe one question about Kamala Harris that is relevant is would she take a natural female receptive role if President and make the U.S.A. a bimbo of Europe and its rise with the EU and NATO expansion into potentially taking the leading role in the trans-Atlantic relationship.

Germany has less than a half trillion dollars of public debt. If one may use the term lem; in this case not used as a synonym for "nigger" as public radio use the depricative (I should clarify that because of the controversial nature of lem and nigger as hate speech. One might say 'don't hire that lem' instead of using the n word which is politically incorrect) then Germany's economy isn't a lem (meaning lemon) while that of the U.S.A. is nearing that stature with 33 trillion dollars of public debt. The U.S.A. need be somewhat more independent and self reliant and not just leave the public sector as a lem holding the bag on the massive debt that generate result with real austerity some day.

In his farewell address George Washington expressed concern about establishing permanent foreign alliances that would impact the sovereignty and security of the United States. N.A.T.O. is a prime example of the problem of a foreign alliance that has outlived its founding reason for being and seems to insist on a hostile relationship with Russia in order to have a reason to exist. The Ukraine issue should have been settled by diving the country in half and just moved on. Instead since the end of the Cold War 1.0 N.A.T.O. has increased in size and became an existential threat to invade Russia long before Russia took the Crimea back as it has owned it for hundreds of years- even before the Soviet Union captured Russian government for nearly 70 years.

One wonders is Democrats have forgotten world history and the violence and conflicts that occurred in Europe over the millennia. The U.S. should have been happy to let the original N.A.T.O. just continue as a kind of appendix that isn't used much, not a threat yet of actual deterrence value. Expanding it created a monster. It is a potential future rival to American military power sometime when the U.S.A. doesn't agree on some critical policy concern. It is also part of the Orwellian expansion into some kind of 1984 three global blocks at perennial enmity or war sort of circumstance...and such an egregious bit of idiocy without good sense or political aesthetic value.

Democrats were happy t bring about a conflict rather than rationally settling in without violence. They could have used the mostly non-violent transition from the Soviet Union to Russia in an albeit imperfect allocation of boundaries as an example. Instead the methodically increased the numbers of N.A.T.O. and the E.U and seemed to further try to marginalize Russia. Obviously the decision of the Democrat Party and EU members to prosecute Russia as an adversary building up military stores in the Ukraine to defend its western affiliation was a result of the founding of Ukraine at the end of the Cold War 1.0 as an independent state and unavoidable since Democrat Party leaders had no intention in any way to relinquish any part of Ukraine to Russia. Kamala Harris has expressed her full intent to continue the war until it is free of Russians; in other words until  the last Ukrainian is dead on the battlefield.

Is there really a substantial different orientation for American women concerning jobs, natural security and the deaths of foreigners in wars that could be prevented with U.S. leadership to settlement that bring people like Kamala Harris to feel entitled to have everything their own way? Do they take their position in life for granted- as if it were usual to have vast incomes without dirtying their hands? Should they when buying a ‘starter home’ with their $120,000 annual income and spouse’s $40,00 feel that is normal and usual- that they have some right to a higher standard of living than that of most of the world’s working men? Do they just want more of the same inertia of prosperity and ecological inefficiency moving forward without the slightest concern for the decline of natural resources ad the ecosphere? U.S. politicians that have their relatives getting government jobs are hardly inspirational to those that haven’t got relatives in high elected positions.

Do American women and politicians of the left believe that the crass consumerism, abortions, atheism and fossil fuel engines while the country has 33 trillion dollars of public debt is the best way to shape an economy? Economists may say that illegal migration doesn’t hurt the gross national product yet that is somewhat meaningless to the people without good income because wages were undermined by surplus labor. The G,N,P. Can be great and yet it can also mostly go to the 1% and the 10%. Of course their economists would say everything is wonderful.

Some wonder if flooding the nation with illegal migrants while expanding the conventional economy without ecological economic reform and while waging a economic and limited military global battle with Russia, China and the BRIC nations while concentrating wealth paying for government programs with public debt is likely to be sustainable. Others wonder if Kamala Harris has a clue.

Checking Out at Future-Mart

In the effort to imagine what a future massive grocery store would look like I imagined Future-Mart. Instead of picking items from store shelves a customer would wave a charge card over an item's shelf display scanner for instant purchase that a self-driving grocery cart would pick up. Items purchased could be gathered and delivered to a check stand with a robot arm with a scanner in the hand (distant cousin to the Canadian Arm from space shuttle times) for redundant checking or for those without a charge card and deliver them to the front of the store or electric car in the parking lot.

Rather than self-check out registers an alternative would be for a register robot arm with bar code scanner built into its hand to place items into a cart while tallying the costs  simultaneously.

Future-mart might be more practical though and simply let a customer place everything into a cart and at the register all of the items would be tally’d in the car instantly  because each item has a radio frequency transmitter or another form of very  short distance neo-RFT identifier that the register recognizes. A customer would initiate the process with a charge card and a receipt would print out with a list of all of the items purchased before the cart drove itself off to follow a customer outside. The cart would be made to have a box set in it that would lift up or slide out with the goods at delivery point.

On Ukraine-If You are in a Hole Stop Digging it Deeper

The Biden administration has proven the truth of the axiom of the First Law of Holes that says; “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging it deeper.” Digging a vast economic and political hole in Ukraine through several Democrat administration in order to conquer land historically belonging to Russia was a feat of historically illiterate, bureaucratically minded union leadership quality personal egoist sociopaths.

The pathetic cost in human lives physically, injuries of war physically and psychologically is vast and the numbers keep compiling. There never was a reasonable chance of the west defeating Russia militarily to keep all of Ukraine for itself. Russians tend to be tough fighting on their home turf, and if they were actually to have lost the conflict would probably swiftly escalate to battlefield nukes to defrappe western military forces. The west would have to accept that or upgrade to M.A.D. retaliation basically.

President Biden is the worst reasoning war mongering President in U.S. history. He again moved to provide Ukraine’s government with up to 72,000 artillery shells per month for the rest of 2024 assuring more deaths, more property destruction and more impossibility of developing or investing in peace for the remainder of his term of office. A Harris or Trump administration would have hard choices to make about where to go with that conflict. Trump has said he would move toward peace and Harris has said she would go for the Biden approach she has supported for several years. Voters would be happier if she would just stipulate that she would accept President Putin’s reasonable peace plan or just go for the Russia gets the east bank of the Dnepr River and West Ukraine the western side.

The costs of rebuilding Ukraine will be great- in the trillions, and Ukraine will probable expect Europe and the U.S. to pay for it. I am somewhat offended by the idea of paying trillions to rebuild a nation that could have had war avoided with a practical peace plan a priori to adjust the wrong settlement of the Cold War boundary of Russia and Ukraine.

The Biden-Harris war lunacy has done great harm to world opinion about the United States since many perceive it as the school yard bully that could intimidate small nations and overstepped its power with Russian Ukraine. Democrat leadership about Ukraine is like maladroit engineering that mistakes its estimates of how easy it would be to build a dam across the Bering Strait bud decided to invest a trillion dollars to get something started anyway just to discover that tide and currents wash away the work.

The Biden-Harris war plan has restored the unity of the remaining communist block and strengthened it by forcing Russia to turn to a much closer relationship with that mixed economy state and neglect developing free enterprise capitalism. The negative effects of the conflict for the United States are great and will contribute to future economic issues for Americans. The astounding stupidity of the approach is what is breathtaking. How did the United States fall to such a low level of leadership after Ronald Reagan for twenty years of Democrats?

I should make a disclaimer here concerning Ayn Rand Republicans. Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ followers don’t recognize that she wrote in favor of the 1% CEO and shareholder people and was in a sense against the 99% of the public that aren’t CEO and owners of big businesses. She should have written a sequel for labor that isn’t union and demonstrated why hard individual work counts, or should count if there was an actual meritocracy in the U.S.A. Piece work of an objective nature is the only way to have real meritocratic labor and that doesn’t form the primary structure of what labor works on.

In the U.S.A. the six guys leaning on their shovels chatting will go farther and get better pay than the individual who thinks working better than others competitively will win out. Life does not recognize that kind of individual effort. That kind of worker burns out while being ignored.

There are so many unfair labor values empirically that union labor does have a way of getting a substantial chunk of change for numerous workers, although obviously union labor does have an element of a pyramid scheme structure to it- not all workers could be in unions without the wages paid becoming nonsensical and uniform while business would be inflexible and maladaptive. One would develop a Soviet Union or sovereign union sort of structure with the main difference being that government leaders might be CEOs instead of Union executives. In short a Hitler-Mussolini corporatism rather than a Soviet corporatism.

Is $40 Billion XM-30 A Priori Obsolete?

 The Army plans to spend $40 billion to replace the Bradly with a next generation fighting vehicle yet in light of drone developments one must wonder if the entire concept of blocky, chunky armored vehicles will soon be obsolete.

Mechanized infantry combat vehicles are solid targets for a plethora of new drone designs that can fly at ground contour proximity routes and get under or attach to tanks with a lot of plastic explosives at reasonably high speed. The entire paradigm seems slow. Helicopters are another easy target for next gen mobile missile platforms. One could even put tow missiles type anti-tank weapons on drone flying platforms to hunt from camouflaged hides chunky opposition forces sacrifices.

  War is just to clever to avoid. Next generation Hatsfields and McCoys need better toys to kill one another with plainly. How can that be accomplished so both are satisfied?

Global Warming: The Error of Economic Expansion

 Since 1982 the United States federal government has run budget deficits. In just one year-1999 was there a balanced budget. That year Republicans in Congress had Bill Clinton by the short hairs because of fellatio in office with student intern challenges. Democrat politicians that came of age since the Reagan administration are normalized to running vast public debts as the new normal. Cutting taxes and piling up debt is believed to have no negative consequences.

The over-population of the world is an old political issue. The United States population has nearly doubled in my lifetime Economic expansion was the essential goal of classical economics in America, yet it has features of a Ponzi scheme to it environmentally speaking. Instead of concern about habitat loss or degradation and mass species extermination the political discourse about the environment has reduced to one of global warming. Fixing that by spending trillions and trillions of dollars on credit is thought to be the way to resolve ongoing existential environmental threats and that is wrong. I should stipulate that I don’t believe politicians will solve the world environmental over-use issue. Probably nature itself will be the hard limiting and correcting force.

China is a world leader and stopping its own population increase. Its historically draconian measures of forced abortion would not work in the U.S.A. China is a leader in green technology for practical reasons that its manufacturing costs are less than in the U.S.A., green tech is a solid export product and it has practical, massive local applications. Economic expansion can take the form of qualitative increase rather than quantitative increase and should if the ecosphere is to be recovered to a healthy condition eventually.

Illegal and legal immigration are ways to provide cheap labor for expansive economics. An economy over reliant on cheap new labor, housing booms, more low-skilled service jobs and public debt that is slow to move away from fossil fuel automobile infrastructure and heat absorbing asphalt streets is one that is not going to be a positive factor in reducing global warming. Simply the scalar increase of population would add more global warming with the economic methods of the present to sustain it than efficiency increases in nationally applied green tech efficiency would reduce it. With the help of classical, expansive economic policies global warming may overcome someday and the world become an anarchic, living hell.

There isn’t anything wrong about a stable national population with low immigration. Three hundred twenty million Americans with off road vehicles and chain saws and polluting substances already have a devastating effect on wildlife. There is a national homeless issue because of illegal migration, over-population and a housing shortage. Those collecting rents are probably happy with that.

Nations like Italy actually had negative population growth before African and Middle Eastern immigration. With negative population growth there isn’t a need for new housing. Especially in the U.S.A. with the aging baby boomer generation there would be a housing surplus soon without the flood of legal and illegal immigrants. No one would be without a home and rents would drop. With a change in transportation methodology to quit using fossil fuels and stop using low albedo, heat absorbing asphalt for streets the rate of global global warming increase would slow. That is a practical reality and one that neither Democrats or Republican can admit reliant as they are on the economics of expansion.

Without coercion to reduce population the United States population would would naturally drop to zero and negative turf. The Democrat Presidential candidate Pamela Harris hasn’t issued progeny herself. Women today want prosperity and power rather than kids. That is OK. Yet they also want cheap labor and wealth-even servants, and the need is probably for more people to maintain physical building infrastructure with increasing vacancies if negative population growth occurs.

Robots and A.I. have developed at a time when there may be a shortage of health care workers to take care of the aging population and that is fortunate. With proper design and manufacture the need to have humans changing bedpans and monitor meds with nursing aids will drop. Americans could survive and thrive with intelligent and adaptive green ecological economics and a decreasing population quite well. The nation should be a leader at bringing green technology and farming to poorer countries directly so they too could prosper in quality in a more sustainable way with low population growth and non-coercive population stabilization.

Americans will want to forge on with growth in scientific and technical knowledge while eliminating housing shortages and homelessness through population decrease and better use of existing resources even as it solves problems of ecospheric habitat degradation and atmospheric heating. It is often the case that conservative and restorative management of things is better than exploiting and overusing them leading to a crash. It is better to remain healthy for example, than to neglect one’s health and try to repair it after good health is lost. The ecosphere is not disposable as are many products. Neither should people be regarded as disposable as they have by various societies and economic circumstances in the past.

U.S. economics is in a sense in the wave of a vast bubble of non-sustainability environmentally. At some point it will crash unless it has the good sense to transition directly toward policies of population stability. Fisheries may crash, atmospheric heating difficulties may increase and water resources become inadequate among obvious phenomena. And each of those particular issues could be solved with right political actions synthesizing technological, demographic and economic applications

Colonel Ham's Franchise Lawyer Globes

 Colonel (ret.) Acronymous Ham disclosed his plan to conquer the courtroom legal business with Artificial Intelligence lawyer programs housed in glowing red and blue spheres a foot in diameter that could be rented and carried to courtrooms to represent the poor and downtrodden yearning for good legal representation.

Ham franchise lawyers would make speed-of-light legal motions and objections in the courtroom drawing on a vast legal database and with additional wireless access to a Ham law supercomputer supervisor. Each destitute client represented by a public defender would find more expedient assistance as Ham globes make their way into the public defender lawyer rotation

Apparently gaming computers with serial, parallel high speed processors can be repurposed with newer A.I. chips and software to become Perry Masons on steroids,and given high quality speech synthesizer voices with variable speeds,and in some cases, wonderful soundtracks that appear when they are in the midst of great, incisive, revelatory, exculpatory speeches to a jury.

The Colonel explained that globe lawyers would have a convenient carrying handle, high quality optical cameras, motion sensors and live data base dossiers on all relevant court personnel including case histories and decisions of judges

Colonel Ham said that he got his operations paradigm from Wal-mart automatic self-check out lines and it was his hope that Wal-mart was slow at stocking made-in China A.I. lawyers on its shelves. The Colonel felt that he would not be able to make a profit if A.I. lawyers were sold below his rental price of $19.95.

The Department of Environmental Health

 Realistically, the U.S. Government hasn’t got a philosophical grasp of how to bring the nation much less global ecosphere into a state of recovery. One shouldn’t expect the Dept. of Agriculture to manage national forests, wetlands, badlands, meadows, plans and tundra etc. Neither should the Depts of Energy, Health or E.P.A., nor N.O.A.A. or the C.D.C. be expected to cover national issues related to restoring verdancy to the national portion of the ecosphere and make a substantive effort to reverse anthropogenic heating of the atmosphere. A new federal department of environmental health should be legislated into being.

It isn’t that the E.P.A.- the Environmental Protection Agency has done a bad job. Their role is too narrow and limited to anti-pollution recovery and select conservation generally. That paradigm is not sufficient for developing environmental health for the nation in an era when North Slope Alaska temperature can reach 90 degrees in August (e.g. Deadhorse 89 f) with much warmer years ahead. Most politicians don’t understand the nature of the problem of habitat and species loss and the maladaptive mass effects of the tool kit used by 8 billion humans on the world environment. Envision 8 billion chimpanzees driving fossil fuel vehicles on the Earth, polluting sky and oceans with aircraft and ships, chemical wastes and sewage, flotsam, jetsam and forests cut, deserts paved with heat absorbing asphalt and exterminating inconvenient species that survived habitat loss and trophy hunting.

Philosophically speaking there are numerous approaches for tackling problems of environment habitat loss, pollution and atmospheric heating catalysis by human machines. The political economy matters; an equation concerning how to restore ecospheric health requires the political economy as an element. Plainly there are innumerable ways to change the nation’s political economy to one that supports restoration of environmental health. Perhaps a philosophy of political economy department could be made a part of a federal Department of Environmental Health.

Good political leadership can be difficult to discover and elect. Insiders may perpetuate their own interests and dominate important offices elbowing out competence. In 2024 the Democrat party had no competitive primaries and the presentation of new environmental ideas was thereby aborted. One insider-Joe Biden, selected his protege V.P. to run and party elites rubber stamped that. Candidate Kamala hasn’t significant classical or environmental economic experience A healthy, positive classical economy is required to afford upgrade to ecological economic policies. Once the classical economy and business are collapse choices are taken away, opportunities lost. That would mean the future of adaptive ecological economics would be bleak and destroyed. Demographics of all would experience downturns challenging to survive.

Government is not the only way to affect the condition of the ecosphere positively. Often of course government policy has affected the ecosphere negatively. In the present era private enterprise has sometimes been a leader in positive adaptation to ecospheric health of the political economy. An example was Tesla’s leadership in transitioning to electric cars away from internal combustion engines. Electric cars are becoming commonplace around the globe; yet of course the changes required for a well adapted to present environmental challenges political economic requires far more than the elimination of carbon monoxide emissions to the thin air humanity breathes.

The Democrat Party has no philosophy of ecospheric health restoration. They are instead spoilers exploiting environmental issues just enough to get environmental voters into their demographic based political agenda. I wanted to write something about that phenomenon.

The Democrat Party is not a party of ideas. It is instead a party of Demographics designed to appeal to a majority of voters. It is thus a party of pandering to special demographic interests to win elections bringing the main idea of Democrats to one of electing demographically approved politicians to prosperity. Joe Biden was a case in point. In 2016 he campaigned on a 3 trillion dollar environment recovery plan in order to low-ball the bid from rival Democrat primary candidates. Fixing the ecosphere for 3 trillion would have been super-efficient.

The Joe Biden environment plan was not ineffective to start with. It was eventually reduced to 1.5 trillion and much of that went to Demographic kick backs unrelated to ecospheric recovery. Kamala Harris has a little of a notion of how to bring about ecospheric recovery as did Joe Biden.

Democrats apparently have little prospect for winning both houses of the federal legislature again. When they had that in 2017 the first order of business should have been to pass a tax increase on the rich. Biden instead went in the opposite direction. There is no question that a vast 33 trillion dollar and increasing public debt can be the first stage of the breakup of the U.S.A.. Vast public debt is risky, yet Democrat plans to spend trillions-as high as 60 trillion dollars, to repair the ecosphere are especially dangerous for national security. A political economy designed to pay off public debt and restore the environment simultaneously is requisite. Is that even possible?

One of the troubles with Demographic based politics is that while focusing on special interests nearly exclusively it lets substantial public interests in macro-economic and environment fail. It leads to something like Aristotle’s political cycle for democracy degenerating in to tyranny. Some Democrat elites of course have a covert-overt approach to solving the overpopulation of the world demographic challenge made locally (nationally) worse via the vehicle of mass illegal migration to the U.S.A. The elite approach brings a method to the madness of actual voting booth party choices. Their idea is that the traditional family structure and way of living of billions of souls is mal-adaptive for the survival of humanity on earth. Sociological studies have shown that as poorer societies become prosperous and women prosper in those second and third world countries they have fewer children. Thus making those poorer nations prosperous is the theoretical solution to global over population when the maximum planetary sustainable population of humans in the present family unit structure is just 2 or 3 billion.

If world resources used in the present way of classical economics can sustain just 3 billion humans at maximum, and while the present classical economic way of living degrades the ecosphere and exhausts natural resources a change to new economic methods is requisite for human sustainability. Flooding the U.S.A. with illegal migrants in order to provide cheap domestic labor, keep wages down and concentrate wealth is believed by the elites as a way for poorer nations to increase their standard of living as illegals living and working in the U.S.A. send part of their earnings home. Remittances to poor countries purposed to cut down on population growth global seems a very inefficient way to make poor nations prosper rather than direct investment in poor countries with new ecological economic procedures. Yet as I may have mentioned, there are no comprehensive ecological economic policies or transitional methods in the Democrat or Republican parties. Democrats rely on the invisible hand of evolution guided by party elites and Republicans on the invisible kleptomaniac hand of Adam Smith’s capitalism as interpreted by a dark pool, dark matter Karl Marx.

A solid understanding of the discipline of environmental economics and classical economic are foundational for implementation of timely, innovative measure in government and the private sector to attack the challenges-related and interlocking challenges, of habit degradation, species extinction, human land use/zoning, oceanic acidification and warming and environmental heating. Plainly a lot of education is involved. Also plain is the capacity of contemporary information systems to bring that knowledge to the public. A Democrat Party focused on just getting politicians elected and rich who will kick back some support and pork for constituents hasn’t developed realistic ecospheric restoration paradigmata- while Republicans are more focused on business.

The best environmentalists might hope for is for Democrats to actually develop philosophical awareness of comprehensive approaches t restoration of ecospheric health before the 2028 Presidential election. Presently there is no Democrat philosophy of the political economy in regard to ecosphere restoration. Neither is there a snowball’s chance in hell of getting such an imaginary creatures through the political zoo of D.C. politics.

I remember during the Velvet Revolution era of a wish to receive a particular military service ribbon- a beautiful green and white one for being stationed in Antarctica. I was disappointed though, and could not even locate one in military surplus stores to wear on a Vietnam era field jacket in the forest of rural Alaska. A Department of Environmental Health would not be like a new federal Department of Imaginary Military Service and Imaginary Veteran’s affairs made to make people without military service feel good about themselves. Rather, it would provide the government’s part in developing a rational political economy to optimize resource use and to promote economic and lifestyle zeitgeist methodology for environmental health.

A philosophy of national and global environmental health has a large number of possible structures that might serve to restore the ecosphere to a salutary status. There are a lot of possible plans that might cost a lot (trillions) and be ineffective too. There is an opportunity cost for investing in plans that don’t work- like hanging a spacecraft up in space that can’t return to Earth, its better to have a plan that will work right the first time, and cheaper too.

So I believe its time to bring out a cliché and adapt it to the challenge of discovering or building the right approach to restoring the ecosphere to health; measure twice and cut once. For developing a righteous plan for restoring ecospheric health including a supporting political economy a comparable cliché would be to consider with philosophy a thousand plans for environment recovery and apply just one. Yet get it done with a purpose for the scale of the problems are increasing all the while.

On Synthetic Ethics

 I thought I would write something about ethical systems and the way one might combine four or five different ethical systems to aggregate a useful way of viewing the social world. I happened upon ethics while reviewing my contemporary philosophical fields of interest.

After reading classical Eastern and Western philosophy from Socrates, Sakyamuni and Confucius through to 20th century philosophers like Sartre, Wittgenstein, Russell, Husserl, Heidegger etc., I realized after reading Hegel and formal logical systems such as Quine, Strawson and Kripke described, along with epistemology, empiricism and French rationalism that much of philosophy is comprised of reasoning tools and methods for viewing the experience of life. Venerable philosophical explanations of or accounts of the Universe such as Hegel and even Marx and Pierre Telhard D’jardin provided seemed continuations of the way pre-Socratic philosophers such as Thales, Anaximenes, Parmenides and Heraclitus viewed the Universe. Modern physical cosmology continues along those lines of examining all of the Universe of experience, how and why it exists.

Philosophical cosmology differs somewhat from physical cosmology somewhat. It isn’t so technically rigorous and may consider massive quantitative relations between elements and structures theoretically. One may also involve God as part of those reflections if one is theologically inclined.

There is another field of philosophical interest- that of classical wisdom concerning experience, aging and meaning of life and death that may at least provide meat for writing verse on those topics. One thus has ethics, cosmology, wisdom and formal logic as of live philosophical interest, resting on the background of readings in Western and Eastern philosophy in the past. When philosophy is a support for reasoning rather than a provider of ultimate answers it welcomes theological speculation and respect for God and Jesus Christ.

Christian ethics are part of the synthetic ethical aggregation I mentioned. The others are classical ethics aka aretaic ethics, pragmatism and act and rule based utilitarianism. Yet utilitarianism rather than being a how to system for objectively quantifying and impersonalizing particular social relations might be better used as a mechanics with variables for good and bad effects in addition to objectives as variables too (such as greatest good for the greatest number one might use the greatest bad for the greatest number). One might also consider with Socrates the matter of what the good is in-itself.

Utilitarian as a way for abstract equations for addressing mass social quantification can be a useful tool within a synthetic ethical approach, yet a purely objective ethical system that need be completely impersonal runes the real risk of being unethical and inhuman. The ten commandments to love God first, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself are required elements in beginning a human ethical system to filter the inhuman element out of various utilitarian forms. Perhaps ethical synthesis is comparable to sailing and dead reckoning navigation points with pragmatism required in order not to miss the mark.

Most individuals haven’t much occasion to apply utilitarian criteria on a large scale. Plainly one might assume that politicians could possibly have occasion to use neo-utilitarian mechanics, though for a large number without either the ethics of virtue or Christian ethics as elements. Perhaps many feel that politicians have poor ethics and simply make decisions on what would bring them votes for election victories.

Perhaps ethical values are sublimated over time after research and help individuals better evaluate conduct of mass social behavior.

Secret Biden-Harris Plan? N.A.T.O. Invades Russia via Ukraine Sock Puppets

 The Armed Forces of Ukraine invaded Russia last week advancing several miles north and west with special force and F.P.V. drones to attack and destroy numerous Russian military vehicles while killing or capturing personnel. The action must have been disclosed before the attack to President Biden and Kamala Harris and of course their N.A.T.O. partners in war on Russia. The secret plan to invade Russia presented brilliant plausible deniability for the United States and N.A.T.O. Evidently the attack was waiting for N.A.T.O. F-16s to arrive in Ukraine to get advanced war rolling. The F-16s reportedly fly combat missions in Ukraine on Russian targets from bases in Romania-a N.A.T.O. country. If that is true the fiction that N.A.T.O. is not at war on Russia will be losing credibility especially as it coincides with the new invasion of Russian.

A danger of weak incompetent U.S. Presidential leadership is that the administration becomes a sort of tag-a-long of corrupt foreign gangs in Ukraine and N.A.T.O. The decision to invade Russia was a Gulf of Tonkin Resolution moment; seeming to declare that from now on N.A.T.O. can at any moment attack anywhere in Russia including Moscow when it deems it expedient The U.S.A. will just supply weapons, cash, logistics and intelligence support for now in addition to some military personnel helping out here and there. Foreign governments can and will exploit stupid U.S. leadership.

I have no confidence in Vice President Harris’ military strategy skills nor knowledge of world history. Probably if she were elected in November she would believe whatever the hidden advisers have told the president and herself so far in regard to the war. Unelected President Zelinsky and N.A.T.O. leadership assuredly had no respect for the administration when it invaded and kept them in the dark risking further nuclear war brinkmanship with the U.S.A. as a primary target of the wrath of Russia. The Harris-Waltz team may believe it can walk on water half of the year, yet for the rest of the year it would be bobble-the headed yes-persons agreeing with the sweet nothings justifying war on Russia from Ukraine and N.A.T.O.

The attack in Russia’s Kursk and Sumi area was symbolically bad; the largest tank battle in history happened their during World War Two between N.A.Z.I. and Russian forces. It’s a good place to get the third world war started, although most likely Russian will end Ukraine forces combat capability that don’t retreat within a week or two. Saturating the area with F.P.V. drones Russians will cut off Ukrainians even from retreat and isolate the Ukrainians in a kill zone.

Maybe the attack was purposed in part to draw in more Biden-Harris support for the war, if it wasn’t their idea for the invasion of Russia, farther into the rabbit hole toward nuclear conflict before the November election. The Myrny diamond pipes and unfracked Russian oil fields may be greatly attractive to N.A.T.O. leaders.

Plausible deniability is important to top Democrat working Ukraine’s armed forces like a sock puppet to expand Western European hegemony eastward toward the meat of vast natural resources in Russia. Ukraine was saturated with hundreds of billions of dollars of advanced weapons systems to attack Russian with. For the west, Ukraine is a primary tool for laundering taxpayer money, supplying the world with body parts for organ transplants and supplying weapons to guerrilla and terrorist movements in African nations. Democrat party methods of creating a continuum of attack on those regarded as dissidents to Democrat Party political agenda with money guns and lawyers may encounter a ripple on their tranquil sea of political empowerment though.

With the advance of drones and A.I. into the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia because of full U.S. and N.A.T.O. funding the potential exists for development of A.I. piloted drones on-board, and of hackers taking control of drones. Without humans attached to control weapons platforms and other military equipment blitz attacks and wars may start without anyone knowing who the warring device controllers are. That might be a problem for Democrats and N.A.T.O.

While the war continues weapons development and innovations accompanies the conflict. Given a few more years of advancing weapons tech civilian life globally may experience a sharp downturn in its prospects for a peaceful life. Like the slow build of the Vietnam war the Ukraine was too is experiencing a slow build toward what will likely be a dissatisfactory conclusion. While peace and restoration of normal diplomatic relations is the best possible outcome, with Democrat and N.A.T.O. leaders as they presently are a more likely outcome is for a settlement somewhat resembling the Korean War conflict followed by protracted Cold War and enmity between N.A.T.O., the Democrat Party, Russia and China.

The Biden-Harris administration have placed restoration of Union power and numbers at the center of their economic plans. Labor Unions in the 1970s were at their summit of success before the collapse of Detroit’s auto industry and a cascade of losses that followed. When the Cold War ended after the work of the Reagan-Bush administrative efforts the United States and other N.A.T.O. countries experienced a flood of cheap labor competition from the entire world that was moving toward a level labor field. It is possible that a Union labor planner like Joe Biden or Pamela Harris is to restore the labor ecosystem of the 1970s when Chinese factories produced nothing at all for Wal-mart. Labor protectionism using a new Cold War and sanctions to eliminate foreign labor competition would not be effective at raising Union numbers and wages in the U.S.A. Other areas like India for instance are increasingly productive and willing to be factories for U.S. consumers. A.I. and robotics may also be regarded as new 24-7 rivals to U.S. labor unions.

Vinyl Siding vs Repaints in S.E. Alaska Rainforest

The cost of maintaining an older home in the S.E. Alaska rain forest can be high. It is worse though to let water get to the wood. Plywood in a few years of water contact, unless it’s marine grade, can turn into something like soggy cardboard. Replacing rafters and studs costs even more. Let’s consider the options of using vinyl siding (or the costlier yet better choice of aluminum siding) against the cheaper painting. In either case the labor costs plus the recently inflated price of building materials make the selection meaningful and worth considering.

An average 4000 square foot exterior would require, nominally, about 10 gallons of self-priming, lifetime acrylic paint for coverage. With paint going for about $60 per gallon that would amount to $600. Vinyl siding to cover 4000 sq feet would run anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 or more.

Labor cost is the great unknown cost for repaints. Work installing vinyl siding before the recent inflation era ran about $4.00 per square foot. So about $16,000 for the nominal 4000 sq foot home. Painters per job have a vast range of prices and skill levels. Labor for a 4000 sq foot home could run from $3,000 to $15,000. The condition of the home is a factor in estimates. Painting has far more more subjective aspects than installing siding. For siding installation techniques are standard; not so for repainting buildings where contractor work experience and quality matter.

Installing vinyl siding produces a reliable product. True it can be difficult to repair broke siding down the road such as cable installers may precipitate. Some siding becomes discontinued and it won’t be possible to match the product installed on the home in the future.

Solar siding already exists so home owners with a sunny location would probably be better off paying a little more to produce electricity for their home. Considering the life of siding products those that produce free home power for two or three decades vs vinyl siding that is worthless for producing power is an easy choice.  https://shop.mitrex.com/collections/solar-siding/products/solar-siding-350w-black-wood-tile-landscape-1

 Painters on the other hand can produce great, high quality work or complete painting flops...one need look at the contractor’s prior work and references to have a clue what one would be buying. painting a home is far less expensive that installing vinyl or aluminum siding. It is also possible to cover portions of a home with solar power collecting siding as one elects. Tesla solar roofing should cover an entire roof while solar siding could be installed just on a sunny wall.

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The main problem with painting in the rain forest is the rain. One should think of it as if one were repainting a wood boat with all of the seams sealed with 20+ year caulking. If the building has water in the wood and one paints over that future bubbles and blisters in the paint will occur. Getting the building to be completely dry-especially after pressure washing, requires days in some case. Getting several days of good weather much less two weeks can be challenging. Paint contractors aren’t being paid for waiting for ideal weather so they can go out of business with not enough work done in the very short painting season in spring and summer.

If the homeowner does it themselves and accomplishes neat, tight lines the result may be satisfactory. Union labor produces acceptable quality although some of the prep work may be skimpy and the longevity of the job may be less with minor blistering that is an eyesore. Neither will unions necessarily use paint additives like EB (Emulsa Bind) that provides cohesion to chalky surfaces such as arise with undercoats of old paint exposed by pressure washing. Still they are the best best.

Contemporary acrylic paint is commonly of lifetime duration. There is a lot of resin in the paint. That means the paint if properly applied will last 15 or 20 years. Painting is a far better value for the homeowner if the work is well done. One cannot stress enough to know the contractor and not accept a pressure wash, some scraping, masking windows and quick spray job measuring the amount of paint applied in millimeters. That sort of work is common for new construction yet for repainting older exteriors great care is required.

There are fewer good home exterior repainters willing to take pride in producing a long-lasting paint job than there are vinyl siding installers willing to put on monkey proof product. If a painter uses EB in primer and in the body color as well as lots of mildew killer and takes great care in prep and finish work the paint job is a far better value than siding. The prosperous homeowner with deep pockets may opt for the siding however as it is less of a gamble. Fifty thousand plus or five thousand dollars; that is the question.

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