General Hayden's Calls, Small Worlds Theory/Himmler-Stalin-Corporatists

Gen. Hayden (Lake) if made the C.I.A.’s main spook would provide his boss Negroponte with valuable experience at forming vast databases to categorically violate the privacy of the American public and business too, although the rich may be exempted from the minimum tracking and surveillance structure’s of their phone calls such as perhaps 200 million other American’s reportedly experienced under General Hayden’s direction at the N.S.A.

The internet and small world network mathematical graphing theory had its very first start toward today’s sophistication in an Air Force funded research program in 1962 aimed toward creating nuclear attack survivable communications structure’s from various defense nodes. It was discovered that random computer routing of communications through the network was implicitly more survivable than dedicated hierarchical formal channels; in the formal and bound network a break in the chain blocks communication and requires formal rerouting, while in the small worlds random association alternative communications like a flow of water than can go through any channel at will instead of just downstream would easily avoid blocked or destroyed nodes. Small worlds modeling of the U.S.A.’s phone calls into networks are a dictator’s dream than even Stalin would have drooled to possess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network

http://www.coseti.org/osetimap.htm small worlds graphs may be used iin the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence too

“Social networks showing the links of acquaintance between” Americans and anyone else through phone records permit the complete comprehension and manipulation of business and family contacts with probabilistic knowledge of who and how to affect networks of suppliers, implement disruptions to weaken targets of takeover, or distribute disinformation about through ancillary broadcast media tools for whatever authoritarian purpose is deemed useful. In the 2002 book ‘Nexus’ on small worlds theory Mark Buchanan wrote on page 31 (the quotation above is from the same source) “Is it possible, and if so, how is it possible, to draw a graph of six billion dots in such a way that one could link any two dots by traveling along just six line?” The answer was yes, and General Hayden may not have had much difficulty in placing the phone records of some 200 million Americans into such a small worlds paradigm-the equivalent of placing a tracking device on everyone’s auto for life and keeping all that information and graphed concurrent locations into a database.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=7&u=/usatoday/20060512/ts_usatoday/gatheringdatamaynotviolateprivacyrightsbutitcouldbeillegal

Perhaps Americans won’t care, nor believe it a fundamental violation of the constitution intent of the founders for the government to have a real-time and historical database of the phone records of 2/3rds of the citizens and the ability to leak that data to foreign governments or global corporations to subdue and manipulate national independence. President Bush will talk to the nation tonight about why some illegal aliens should be given amnesty and flood the U.S. workforce while assuring the public that new security measures of 20 Toyota Land cruisers and new agents will help stem the tide of Mexicans annexing the nation for globalists. The 5.15 and hour U.S. minimum wage hasn’t gone up in decades, and real wages after inflation of Americans during the Bush tenure have decreased by more than 3.5%. The President’s true goal of flooding the nation with millions and millions of Mexicans is probably to reduce the minimum wage to 3 dollars an hour without insurance or other benefits the norm.

... commentators have already thrown much darkness. on this subject, and it is probable that, if they continue, we shall soon know. nothing at all about it." - Mark Twain

One would expect an authoritarian government such as the Communist Chinese have or had, the Soviet Union’s Second Directorate, Himmler’s Gestapo, etc historically to use a tracking and association tool of phone calls or physical vehicles if possible, yet it is unthinkable that such corporatist approaches (invented by Mussolini) should become usual for Americans, if they weren’t already trained to rave by broadcast corporations with immeasurable disrespect for the privacy and civil rights of Americans. For civil rights in a marketing strategy of corporatism would mean merely race or gender rights instead of universal human rights in order to divide and conquer the public with ongoing perennial social conflict.

General Hayden at the N.S.A. has implemented egregious violations of American privacy and freedom to conduct business without federal surveillance and corruption of privacy. Without privacy and proprietary contact data it is quite impossible to do any competitive business at all. If the government knows whatever anyone is doing at any given time it has the power to exploit whatever data, promote or degrade whatever social elements though numerous means, it cares to for the aggrandizement of its own will to absolute power. General Hayden should be safely retired and left to draw his full salary as Generals are wont to do with free air travel around the globe as retired military personnel enjoy. Some Americans merely struggle to have food and shelter, or enjoy the first amendment while the glorious federals piss on their life opportunities to better their physical, spiritual, economic and political status.

In the Absence of Post Cold War Political Philosophy

In the post cold-war world the change of political polities, political leadership and business, economic and military did not allow for much time for new political philosophies to emerge that would exist alongside the usual social criticisms of in the free west that influenced government policy formation to a certain extent. Instead the ‘new world order’ ideas of President George H.W. Bush (41) described the advantage certain global businesses would have in interacting with the security of American military insurance policies of constructive engagement with the communist entity in China and with the moderated chaos in the former Soviet Union. In time the political philosophy of corporatism united with a Chinese socialist move toward corporatist business would dominate de facto along with all the negative consequences that implies.

Globalists attempting to dominate world politics by design and corporatists seeking to compile political power and influence simultaneously with market domination may attack nationalism and democracy as obstacles to the eradication of democratic nationalism rooted within proprietary borders. Corporatists and authoritarians of all sorts prefer a global polity without real local self-determination or capacity to resist their will to absolute power.

In the modern world ad hoc global networks replace any need for the elimination of the security of local national political control. Global ad hoc networks assure that human and civil rights violations will be discovered and opposed by the global majority that in theory would still have some independence from corporatist, socialist, authoritarian or fascist global powers.

Border Barrier Control/Patrol Elevated Highway on Mex Edge Sole Way of Halting Inflow of Revolutionary Internal Proletariat Next 30 Years for U.S.A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee The late (d. 1974) Arnold Toynbee described in his 'A Study of History' the way a civilization may allow an internal proletariat to grow exemplified with such as the mass relocation of Mexican workers illegally to the United States which eventually becomes a revolutionary class replacing the prior formerly creative majority that dwindles into becoming a repressive minority in power.

The wikepedia has a brief article on Toynee that has a paragraph describing the phenomenality of this one method of national self-destruction (it arises through greed and bad political leadership obviously). Toynbee believed that challenge-response was the fundamental nature of the social structure of civilization...

"When a civilization responds to challenges, it grows. When it fails to respond to a challenge, it enters its period of decline. Toynbee argued that "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
For Toynbee, civilizations were not intangible or unalterable machines but a network of social relationships within the border and therefore subject to both wise and unwise decisions they made. If leaders of the civilization did not appease or shut down the internal proletariat or muster an effective miliatary or diplomatic defense against potential invading outside forces, it would fall.'

For the United States globalist forces politically overreaching advantage on borrowed money following the end of the post-world war two economic advantages have followed up the end of the bankrupt Soviet Union with an effort to de facto create a Toynbean version of a universal phase of a U.S. led civilization.

The Universal phase of a civilization is its last before decline. The process can be arrested however, and a standing waveform can be made to exist with a self-sustaing yet progressive independent economoy environmentally and socially interacting still with the global economic forces. Instead of leaving it in abstract forms what the government myust do is this...

1)Halt all illegal immigration into the U.S.A. peaceably, focus federal policy upon stimulating and supporting non-trade deficit producing policies through a cornucopia of national invention in macro-social energy and transport technology that allow citizens to become independent from centralized power and transport global controllers.
2)Immediately promote electric cars, home fuel ells for recharging, power lines in freeways for metered recharging, strong environmental zoning promoting zero net loss of biota.

Electric Car Reaches 112 M.P.H. in 11.1 Seconds/Galbraith Dies/Generators

Defeating a Ferrari and a Porche, an electric powered vehicle won a 2005 Infineon Performance Test accellerating to 112 m.p.h. in 11.1 seconds. http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=4122234

ETS and World Class Exotics have built electric cars that achieve 85 miles per hour, more than enough speed for a variety of commuter and urban applications.

http://www.electrictransport.net/shop/category.asp?catid=11

The Porche 959 style car ETS markets sells for a little more than 32,000 dollars and reaches top speeds of around 100 m.p.h. ETS has kit cars as well. FUll performance electric powered vehicles are available to day, and with electric power lines installed into selected freeways for metered electric draws by consumer vehicles direct power recharging would become possible permitting a larger range of partially battery-powered electric vehicles converted from fossil fueled vehicles.

http://www.eaaev.org/eaalinks.html The Electric Auto Association

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith has died. Galbraith was a student of John Maynard Keyenes and headed a federal Economic Agency during the second world war for President Roosevelt. Galbraith was a brilliant popularizer of economic history with analytical-explanatory books, and said that this is the era of bureaucratic corporations. Galbraith recognized implicitly the deleterious impact of corporatism on the prospects for global capitalism and its inability to adapt to changing environmental and social-economic needs. Fossil fueled vehicles and the social reality that reifies the dominance of global oil companies are generally responsible for the malaise of the nation's economy mired in maintainance economic policy. Exxon mobils profits for this last quarter were nine billion dollars. It is a global corporation.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/12/toyota_affirms_.html Toyota home fuel cell plans for 2008/Japan

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invgenerator.html coleman fuel cell story

http://www.fuelcellstore.com/cgi-bin/fuelweb/view=NavPage/cat=32 a residential fuel cell system for under $10,000

http://www.ballard.com/be_a_customer/fuel_cellshttp://www.ballard.com/be_a_customer/fuel_cells/airgen 1000 watt portable generator

http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.html advice about building a wind generator

http://www.nbizz.com/thorhamy/listings/8.html 1000 watt wind generator complete system with batteries and tower

Retrograde Inefficiencies of Mass Distribution Networks Within Concentrated Capitalism Paradigms

Corporatism permits a global infrastructure of informal monopoly to exist over political liberty to invent and successfully market items that would replace existing heavy capital investment infrastructure. Adam Smith probably did not anticipate global stock exchanges and a pervasive ossification of the salutary effects of capitalism at discovering new markets, discovering and promoting new methods of production as well as rewarding inventiveness.

Neither would Smith have foreseen that formerly efficient mass distribution networks of commodities such as oil would impare the ability of a society to quickly adapt to changing financial and environmental conditions. I am not at all certain that Smith was aware of the potential for mass distribution networks with such pervasive effects as exist today, as his era was far more decentralized and independently situated.

The retrograde inefficiency of mass market distribution of fuel supply to consumers in the commodity of oil-petroleum products(gasoline) exists because of the pervasive existing infrastructure and governmental dependence upon maintainence of the status quo in fuel phenomenality when another paradigm would be desirable in a number of ways.Gasoline mass market, mass distribution power is overwhelmingly repressive socially so far as to retard technological and sociological paradigm shift to new energy sources such as electricity for electric powered cars with consumers becoming produces of their own energy supply through wind-generators, solar voltaic cells and in-home fuel cells.

While the government should be encouraging home-electricity production to produce personal vehicle energy supply in order to avoid the 'tribute' to globally owned power or fuel companies that deleteriously effects the national debt, trade balance, and consumer savings and capital build-up it accepts the paradigm of mass distribution from global energy companies as normal.As an American citizen with an awareness of the history of the nation it is easy to realize that the founders would have been revolted by such political brain-death, dependence and political sloth.

On the Hierarchical Priesthood Error

Jesus Christ is the only high priest, humanity of faith are simply believers associated with Jesus through a priesthood of believers. Jesus ended the era of temple worship, and foretold the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem. Because no temple worship is to exist, naturally the anti-Christ will appear at a reconstructed temple at Jerusalem.

A priesthood of believers have entered into God's rest of faith and the seventh day sabbath on Earth ended with the era of temple priesthoods. Perhaps a better way to describe the sabbath is that all times are holy unto the saving work of Jesus Christ.

Most Protestant Churches and the Catholic Church too have erred in believing that a hierarchical priesthood is the right way when in fact it misses out on creating an ecclesiastical organization of peer believers in common worship together able to reinforce the secular and soteriological efforts of the faithful.

Too many hierachical temple priesthood structures are tithing temples dedicated to supporting one individual 'superior' Christian and his or her family as a 'priest'. Because the hierarchical priesthood is in error, in may be opportunistically allied with worldly, secular forces of business an political power dedicated to elevating its own fiduciary and power goals.

Certainly honest intellectual believers can err on right forms of church organization, yet Paul in the book of Henrews admonishes the beleievers to get on from the milk of nursing Christianity onto the strong meat of maturity. Right ecclesiastic structure of a priesthood of believers is need to renormalize faith-in-God on Earth unto the narrow path leading to salvation through Jesus Christ.

It is undesrable to have a Temple of Mike, or a Temple of Bill, or a Temple of Prissy to lead a collection of weekend worshippers to faith in God and the GOP, or faith in devilwood and the extreme homo, or extreme illegal alien immigration agenda, even if the point is a common worldly struggle to get rid of nations and individual civil liberties in order to bring every soul under the mark of the beast in a global dictatorship of corporatism. A priesthood of believers would train citizens in democracy and responsibility, church leadership and social justice, while freeing up tithing funds for right allocations where they are most useful even if it means that the 'priests' need to get regular work.

Of course there is a role for commercial Christian work perhaps in scholarship, counciling and such on an external contractual basis. It is amazing that two millenia after Christ nearly have passed Christian church organization is mostly not cognizant of the error of continuing a hierarchical temple worship model instead of an association or 'priesthood' of believers.

Oil Prices $75 barrel and Up/Electric Engine Conversions of Used Classic Cars

http://www.evconvert.com/

http://www.evadc.org/build_an_ev.html

http://www.acterra.org/ev/ Electric engine conversion of classic used cars

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html U.S. Oil Import Data

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Usa/Oil.html U.S. Oil Reserves Save it for U.S. industry in the future when America goes to electric engines solar powered and Chinese industry drives up prices with inflationary oil consumption

Electric cars or hydrogen now? A more creative Chief Executive of the United States would use the opportunities of mass illegal immigration and the energy failures of administration policy the past six years to synergize and innovate a high-tech border barrier highway along the Mexican border using federal highway funds (perhaps some pork exists such as The Murkowsky/Young Bridge to an island with 300 people for millions and millions) that would exemplify federal commitment to honesty and integrity in government and managaement of public funds (only joking).

President Bush could ask congress to develop funding and project guidelines for a zero tolerance of illegal immigration border patrol highway that would have as much solar collection and electric vehicle technology as is rasonably possible. President Bush choose to hide a lack of interest in real competiton for fossil fuels by advocating hydrogen fuel that would not be available through fossil fuel outlets until a decade or so after he leaves office while there are billions and billions of electrical outlets not owned by global oil companies.

The control highway should be elevated on rip rap rock with a smooth wall facing Mexico, a 20 foot deep trench should be constriucted along the U.S. side. Laser and other motion sensor devices should monitor illegal movement and offer intercept coordinates. President Bush of course offers surrender to Mexico policies in his push to foist globalist conquest of the political future of the United States.

During the federalist era of the United States there was much striving to form the future of the country politically that resembles the way things are today politically to a remarkable extent. Deviationist domestic policies such as that of President Bush were defeated, while constructive foreign policies such as that of President Bush were successful paradoxically.

Phase in Variegated Electric Engine Cars instead of waiting for another Stalinist Five Year Plan to profit Globalist New World Order Auto Producers

The administration should be out talking up electric engine conversions of classic used cars...take a chassis and add the electric motor to a vehicle wiith a standard transmission. Create rental fleets or sell the used electric engine classics. Costs to make-over a gas guzzler into a sleek rechargeable electric car run 7000 to 20,000 dollars.Solar power panels, fuel cells, and a variety of sources allow low cost refueling.

The better the car one selects the better the mileage-which can be 150 miles per charge-up at a speed as high as 80 m.p.h. That is a useful around town or commuter tool.U.S. oil prices should drop significantly before the 2008 election in order to help the Republican candidate become elected, while the prices may drop only slightly before the 2006 congressional election.

The House voted patriotically to tighten up the Mexican border to halt the flood of illegal aliens into the United States while it’s still possible, and globalists will punish the Republican members that voted for the bill by taking enormous profits until the 2008 election. Secretary of Exxon Rice is organizing U.S. politics moderately toward oil profit conducing positions, and President Bush will not by a used 65 corvette and begin converting it to run on batteries during his spare-time for C-Span as a way to lead the people toward energy independence.

President Bush's 1950's Era Economic Philosophy

The straw man arguments president G.W. Bush defends his failed economic policy with that builds a vast federal debt, outsources modernization of manufacturing and floods the nation with illegal aliens might have had a solid rationale in the 1950’s amidst a minority of economists. The President’s policy belief is that isolation and globalism are the only choices available; as if it were actually possible for America to be isolated in the 3rd millennium with present transport and communications technology, or as if the Federal Government had an authority to restrict global business to its own liking…the President has signed away through trade agreements that sort of somewhat obsolete opportunity and should know better.

The federal government should serve the people of the United States within the global community first and maybe help out global corporations too. Federalists began government policy with Hamilton choosing to create corporate welfare in order to pump prime manufacturing, and the premise that the federal government had a right to promote the general welfare of the people in road building, schools and all manner of previously non-governmental areas was off and running.

Today the federal government should promote national business inventions that liberate the nation from reliance on foreign trade-deficits or ecological destruction. Simply pointing to a potemkin unemployment rate that finds many Americans not reporting, underemployment and cheap labor work for foreign corporations is as harmful as claiming the no child left behind school policy that has 1/3/rd of students failing to graduate from high school and 50% of blacks failing to walk down the aisle to jive with the teach-tech is a successful policy (Newsweek or Time article recently).

The Tongass Forest policies of the President are equally obsolete slaughtering valuable stands of old growth and cedar for quick cheap profits for his timber felling supporting corporate types in Alaska. Once gone the old growth never returns…sycophants at Department of the Interior lamely claim it does no harm to wildlife (they didn’t add that the wildlife are vacationing on the moon).President Bush has raised the federal debt to an all-time global high along with oil prices for his oil compadres.

A recent magazine article describes how electric cars can be made at home or for hire from 8000 to 20,000 dollars that get maybe 150 miles per charge up. With solar panels one can charge an electric car in a parking lot and drive around Texas or wherever without paying a dime for fuel…why not accentuate then positive a little? One converts a chassis from an old car with a new electric motor, and some tech changes could make them much more efficient…save that second ‘car’-the SUV or truck for gas guzzling heavy payloads not mall-hopping.

Thomas Jefferson wrote presciently about President G.W. Bush’s federal deficit planning…that deficits are made by federal officials so ‘it never (can) be paid, but always (is) to be a thing with which to corrupt and manage the legislature”. My interpolations for clarity, in parenthesis.

Plato's Realm of Forms

Neo-Platonists such as Plotinus who wrote seven hundred years after Plato understood Plato's thinking about as well as possible I would guess. I am not being too technical here with a reply; philosophy has so many books and topics, and life has so many diversions that it isn't possible to be continually immersed in one particular philosophical subject.

Plotinus read Plato and studied at Alexandria Egypt amongst other places, and wrote a group of tractates called 'The Enneads' or groups of essays in six books of nine each. A free version of the enneads by McKenna and Page is available on the internet.

Plato's realm of forms is an abstract aspect of the Universe or beyond the Universe. One might consider Plotinus' explanation and development of the realm of forms like Dante’s trilogy about the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio in that it is a sort of cosmogony or cosmological map of how things are.

Interestingly Plotinus' ideas fit in rather well for modal logic deliberations on Christianity and Quantum Cosmology...I wrote a little book of essays that just tried to survey some of the Genesis/Cosmology/Physics issues in 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal Values of Genesis'.

Plotinus had a belief that God or 'The One' is absolutely perfect and contains everything that could ever be sort of non-spatially, non-developed if one might imagine a Shannon entropy totality like a black hole of all knowledge compacted to a singularity yet without dimension at all. The One is absolutely perfect and can't be described very well.

The One in some way (here is the tough part for physicists) emanates 'ideas' effortlessly outward, perhaps one can imagine 'radiation' of knowledge and reality into a new extension of God called 'The Intellect'. The Intellect is the realm of forms. It has everything that could every be throughout all time, and everything that ever was sort of as an abstract and non-material idea. Plotinus' 'The Intellect' or Plato's realm of forms has virtue, goodness and every sort of quality too. Maybe one could think of it as the realm of perfect blueprints.

'The Soul' is the next or third stage of 'The One'. The Soul is equivalent to the Universe, perhaps that created by a big bang or the Spirit in Genesis with the 'let there be light' command.

Plato's allegory of the cave is about mankind living in the material world of The Soul and unable to see the true light higher up beyond the cave (the cave is the Universe). Plato probably developed the theory of the realm of forms to explain and relate particulars and universals, time and change, and of course built upon the pre-Socratic philosophical ideas. Plato's realm of forms was a concept of pure genius that hasn't been surpassed or made obsolete today.

If one reads the April 2006 Scientific American book review on page 100 of 'Beyond the Standard Model', or reads Green's 'the Fabric of the Cosmos' multi-dimensional universe theory as a consequence of M-Theory can be considered briefly with books like Adam's 'The Five Ages of the Universe'?. Plotinus would have the material world as the farthest from 'The One', and of course Satan and other created or even agnostic or atheist beings in the imperfect and broken material world/universe that chose to not return to The One would quite naturally have a long cruel time on their own in a way as far from order and reason as possible. Jesus Christ is the expressway to The One through his atoning sacrifice (I just had to write that...it will be helpful eventually for believers anyway).

The material universe may have a big bang or a big crunch, but for immortal souls being in the wrong protocol will be quite difficult.

Souls too are of The One, it’s simply a matter of being in the right theo-space-time coordinate relationship that the difficulties and progress arise. Trying to understand the realm of forms with referring to it within a theistic and spiritual context is de trop...It’s all about spirit.

Mexican Marchers Softening Up Senate 'Hankies' For Knock-Out

Mass Illegal Invasion Attacks U.S. Civil Liberties

Stopping the Mexican volkerwanderrung across the border to anarchize capital build-up and rational expectations in economics of America’s poor to middle classes will take more than a scalable wall easily surmounted by grappling hook and knotted rope that prevents border patrolmen from seeing whom is on the other side digging a tunnel. It will take an elevated border patrol barrier highway that allows quick response time and a highway with a berm wall on the south slope.

Mexican workers seeking lebensraum have arrived at a national border that isn’t located in the twilight zone’s frontier show of the 19th century. The nation is environmentally and economically full, and any invasive input bumps out someone or something including U.S. political civil rights which are more than a right to invade, plunder and export.

A Simple Plan for Border Control

1)Build an elevated border patrol highway (the G.W. Bush Hover way) to keep aliens out.

Three Years After the Border is Secure

The U.S. Senate could begin to consider the labor and legality status of all U.S. workers. At some point when immigration is controlled and limited to 250,000 annually from all input every American worker would need to be documented and made a legal resident if congressional needs for foreign workers in specific occupations and personal background checks determine it feasible. No leverage by bum-rushing illegals for citizenship should ever be considered. The ‘Hankies’ of the traitor branch of the Senate may be well meaning or operant conditioned (Sen. McCain graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Advanced School for Non-Theoretical Captivity and Torture and may be conditioned to admit aliens that will agreeably paint his toes pink) and in a position of leveraged weakness will give up U.S. border sovereignty, legalize illegals sine die, flood the nation with another 30 million illegals the next twenty years, make citizens of illegal entrants of dubious loyalty and a farce of Ellis Island’s precedent when the nation had a frontier and needed millions of people to populate it.

Toynbean analysis indicates that the external proletariat of the fine second world nation of Mexico combining with the internal proletariat of illegal aliens are a drafted phenomena of a non-creative majority entering a global phase before burnout and decline within the broader flow of an interregnum of civilized global structures. Typically the formerly creative majority becomes a non-creative minority and somewhat repressive perhaps through fossil fueled corporatism and neo-authoritarianism.

Unfortunately the global environment is in a dwindling phase, and the chance of the largest advanced temperate climate nation on Earth becoming managed by advanced environmental governance will likely be lost with the corporatist preference for a nation of cheap disposable workers of low political and environmental skill. The issue of border control is a fork in the road perhaps even for global survival of the human population. Presently the nation has an imbecility level of political leadership on environmental issues, and if the United States has ongoing millions of immigrants from second world nations the health of the planet will decline too as the U.S.A. becomes a drag upon insinuations input of ecological rationality into the bought and paid for corporatist box of hankies that tends to advance straw man issues to deflect political criticisms as one wishing to keep a bucket empty might punch in five new holes for each one patched with chewing gum.