8/24/10

Invent a New Class of Eco-Housing to Build & Sell/Housing Classification Standards

Smaller, better homes-geo domes and concrete monlithic domes with less than 1500 square feet and costing less than 50,000 dollars coould be a new source of employment given special federal zoning and taxation support. Creating a new class of homes in a way similar to creating a new class of war ships could drive energy self-reliance in American homes.

Instead of suporting the construction of any possible kind of war ship from punt size to aircraft carrier, the government should reign in its existential housing support approach and concentrate on the production of small, low cost, low maint, homes with space for garden growing that are ecologically friendly on building materials. Those with lots of cash can build larger things for-themselves.

These newer energy efficient homes should ncollect rainwater, produce electricity wiith wind, solar and fuel cells and ought to be 100% super-insulated. The new eco-class of housing should not have mortgages that can be sold outside the United States alienating economic proximity values. The Government needs some legislation for packaged eco-efficient housing production and probably needs to spend little taxpayer money to encourage conservation of biosphere in home lots and reduction of contemporary housing materials inefficiency standards.

Political Party of Plutocracy vs. Party of Depravity- Election Menu; Good and Evil

Some would justify evil with evil, or deny an objective difference between good and evil--yet that won't work with God. Religious traditions of all sorts have ideas about good and evil, and the Bible too sets forth ideas about good and evil.

Remember the Garden? Eve ate of the tree of knowledge and learned the difference between good and evil. It is an ancient topic.

Of course we do not judge God when we follow God's instructions. From Cicero to Paul we have an idea of good and of evil. We are not of a disposition such as Nietzsche to move /Beyond Good and Evil'. Nietzsche was quite influenced by Zoroastrianism and the division of the world into a battle between good and evil.

God is perfect. Those that argue the God is less than perfect do some perhaps from disingenuous grounds.

In the United States today we have two imperfect political parties; one is a party of plutocracy and the other a party of depravity. We can say quite readily that within the limits of our humble concepts God is better than anything such as is merely temporal and imperfect. We do not imply thereby that God is merely a perfected realization of a temporal vision.

8/22/10

WTC & The Twelver's Progression; Ali, Hosein and the Twelth Emam

A word about the myopia of U.S. foreign policy is in order. For some of us have not invested sufficient time in learning about waves of current affairs overtaking our time like waves of nomads from the high Eurasian steppe of yore annihilating resistance.

Our President’s middle name, Hussein, is that of the grandson of Muhammad of Mecca. Hosein was a grandson of the false prophet Muhammad. He was killed by thousands of warriors outside Baghdad along with his son and retinue at the order of the Caliph. Caliph means successor in Arabic. Sunni means the orthodox way. The successor to Muhammad was Sunni and the killing of Hosein began the alternative Mohammedan sect of Shi’ism.

The problem of the construction of a twelve-story mega mosque near ground zero—an egregious appearance of conflict of political ethical interest that creates substantial strain amongst New Yorkers and concerns across the United States, brings us to wonder about any symbolism in this profit upon the World Trade Center destruction by Mohammedan fundamentalists nine years ago.

Some have said that the mega-mosque is a project of a Shi’a sect rather than the Sunni sect of the Al Qa’eda suicide hijackers. Some have said that they reflect a more quietist brand of Mohammadanism.

What is the Shi’a? Shi means party. The ‘a’ is an abbreviation for Ali-a cousin of Muhammad and the fourth Caliph who was murdered. The Shi’a is the party of Ali.

One historically significant Shi’a sect was known as The Twelver’s after the legendary Twelfth Imam. One group of Sufi Twelver’s roasted captured rivals as shish kabobs in the 1500s. Some Sunni are also Sufi.

The Shi’a believe that the rightful rule of Muhamadanism is through the false prophet and Ali his cousin who married a daughter of Mohammad who bore a son named Hosein-also murdered. The Ummayad were the non-relatives of Muhammad who ruled Mohammadanism instead of the blood line that the Party of Ali-the Shi’a, followed as a separate branch of Mohammadanism. It was a large Shi'a mosque of the eleventh Imam that was bombed in Samara Iraq in 2006 by Al Qa'eda bombers. Politics for Mohammadans may be religion through other means. Establishing internicine targets and boones of contention in N.Y.C. near ground zero may increase the challenges for security if not political self-determination

The Shi’a began their own tradition of heads of Mohammadanism called Emams. The eleventh Imam was the last-he had no son, except perhaps for a hidden son that was set to return one day. The mysterious 12th Imam of the Shi’a gives us pause to wonder about the 12 story mega-mosque planned for construction near ground zero. Is this an end of time symbolism?

The Shi’a developed a policy of lying to deceive enemies and avoid persecution during the time of the sixth Emam. Ja’far al Sadiq called this political and social innovation of dissimulation taqiyeh. With President Obama bearing a name of that of the grandson of the false prophet, we are given more reason to wonder if the quietist policy of political lying has served to conceal the actual motives for building a twelve story mega-mosque near ground zero? In reading a History of Iran (Empire of the Mind) by the British writer Michael Axworthy I encountered several ideas (ref. page 127-128) to add to the mix of confusion regarding foreign policy of the United States in the globalist era. There is a reverse indoctrination and control phenomena in which the interests of actual U.S. citizens at home are significantly degraded and those of foreign interests preferred.

Shi’ists believe that Mohammedans ought to be led by a blood descendent of Muhammad. I protest the use of the phrase ‘submission to God’ or Islam to describe followers of Muhammad. I believe they submit in error to Satan and the powers of worldliness—so I would hardly call them Islamic. That aside, we might wonder if our President being named after Hosein is a change for America’s destiny drawing us further into the middle Eurasian snares set for us by Bin Ladin—the wizard of Os.

Iran is a cognate of Aryan. Long ago the Aryan nation was in Iran. Eventually it became Persia. Persia sprawled down-slope into Mesopotamia and shared a common history with the people of the Tigris and Euphrates for the past three or four thousand years. Before that there was also wandering contact along the high plateau of Iran as it was a crossroads for all points. That makes Iran today and important locale in the junction between India, Russia, China and the Middle East. The United States wants to be careful about bungling over-much into the midst of these peoples.

A kind of romanticism exists based upon ecstatic experience. From the Cult of Dionysious to the Sufism of the 12th century and mystics such as Rumi there are those that have sought a kind of unification with god through love or wine. Sometimes that romanticism is opposed to the insiders ruling in orthodoxy at court or in religious priestly classes sharing social power with nobles. Occasionally the transcending power of liberation existentially through worship of love is a revolutionary political expression. Sometimes romanticism inspires movements such as German fascism to return to the noble spirit of the heart. Romanticism as an irrational movement may produce math death, yet so does the orderly beheadings of the swords of men like Tamarlane who made piles of hundreds of thousands of skulls as a warning to those contemplating civil disobedience.

Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ as fully man and fully God is the only direct way to God. Worldly approaches to God intentionally though ecstatic mysticism such as Sufism or the heyschasm of neo-Platonism would bring one to experience a fervor without grace. Faith in Jesus Christ is a coincidentally rationally supportable way to the non-contingent Being of God.

The underlying worldliness of scientific theory and personal experience may be interpreted as evil, or as fallen and changed into temporality from timeless eternal forms yet one cannot transcend it through bowing to Mecca, calling it illusory, searching for a multi-verse to neutralizing anthropic principle constants fine-tuned to support the existence of life or a search for the spiritual within the worldly. We may find sham (sun) men leaders of orthodoxy that mislead in order to avoid the errors of romanticism or to liberate, yet the only way to avoid moksha, sin, and bondage to a world of sorrows is the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is a popular trend toward belief in a Hegelian kind of secularized god as the Universe evolving to realize itself that might be acceptable to evolutionary atheists for a natural explanation. Ancient Sufi mystics of the 13th century personify some of that intellectual effort in effete U.S. circles to renormalize religious beliefs with the natural world of experience; at the heart of physical being is a transcending spiritual encounter with god. Without approaching God through the narrow gate of faith in Jesus Christ, the broad road leading to destruction lay in the choice to sample a sector of the Universe of experience in a mystical way and call that god.

The United States finds itself heavily invested in Iraq and Afghanistan attempting to transfer an ideal democratic reformation upon those nations while simultaneously running vast current accounts deficits at home with a great divide between the visions of the two major political parties for the right course for the nation to take on economic development and taxation. Each party has a wrong idea for macro-economic policy yet that is outside the scope of this essay. In Iraq and Afghanistan we face a disconformity between our ideas for development of those nations and the actual historical and political forces that exist within and without those nations. Such an inconsistent appraisal doesn’t add up to likelihood for successful actualization of policy.

Abu Abbas started the Abbasid Caliphate. The President of the P.L.O. Mahmoud Abbas was invited to talks with Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu by the Obama administration. Since we have withdrawn all but 50,000 troops from Iraq and a zillion contractors spending billions and billions, this seems like a propitious time to move toward establishing a peace without cooperation of Hamas (means violence) in the Palestinian areas of former Israeli possessions on the West Bank and the Gaza. Is this a meaningful movement toward substantial stabilization with security for Israel and a deescalation of Palestinian violence?

In Iraq the two major parties cannot agree on who the Prime Minister should be. Maliki was one of the major schools of Mohammedanism. Prime Minister Maliki is a Shi’a unwilling to leave office for a rival with more votes but not enough to form a majority. After six months the Presidential election is still unsettled and so is the course of Iraqi history sort of balanced before a phase transition.

We cannot foresee what such a phase transition will bring. U.S. interests there complicate things as the oil contracts for Exxon-Mobil require our presence to reinforce whatever government guarantees the oil. Oil in the U.S.A. perpetuates an anachronistic transportation mode of fossil fuel engines and a misfiring economic engine replete with import deficits. Because of our enmity with Iran we do not want to see the natural rapprochement between the Persian peoples of Iran and the Shia of Iraq develop, and neither would several Arabic elements including Al Qa’eda a radical Sunni reform party opposed to royal Saudi rule perhaps.

The millennial old problem of Shi’a and Sunni fighting over Baghdad or control of a Caliphate will not be solved in a week or two. Some advocate that the Sunni demolition of the World Trade Center should be followed up with construction of a Shi’a mega mosque near ground zero in New York. A more romanticist version of Mohammedanism (Tamarlane was a Mohammadanist) such as Sufi and the popular ancient poet Rumi aka Mawlani (from the 13th century-not Donald Rumsfeld) may connote is more palatable for those lay atheists waiting succor from a religious expression of Darwinianism or at least an organic evolutionary political ethic. A procreative urge of explosive organic union in politics in which salvation may develop through a direct worldliness without concern for an anthropic principle with metaphysical implications seems to be a driving desire of actualizing sublimation in U.S. politics. If only natural impulses worked effectively for political utopia today, such as might exist in a happy bee hive, the troubles requiring constructions of intelligent abstract thought would not be required to overcome immanent environmental and behavioral challenges.

If we believe the lost are leading the lost, perhaps that is so. Like a centipede or Chinese dragon the political evolution of investment abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan occurs in variegated advances and withdrawals turning and twisting with borrowed money and levered funds. Patriotism sparks the engines of military industrial investment now and then though many citizens find it difficult to determine how American interests are secured with the ‘fighting’ over there. Occasional terrorist plots narrowly thwarted by intelligence or dumb luck like when the guys underwear failed to detonate in a plane over Detroit remind us that more should be spent on intelligence and secure and fewer billions on war abroad.

What to do with Iran and Afghanistan and the other stans of Central Asia? We learn that historically invaders tended to take the entire region at once from Ctesiphon and Baghdad to Persepolis and Merv. The United States is rather modest in its invasion plans, yet we spend a lot more than the generations of invaders of the past. We seek security yet haven’t a clue about how to establish peaceful and prosperous societies in the Middle East and on the High Plains of Central Asia. What is worse; our state Department is worth a damn as an ecological economic planner in a hard political environment so they must pursue the econo-phenomenalism of baksheesh or bribery and intimidation to try to put puppets in power.

So in the absence of a known public plan for either Afghanistan or Iraq we have relied upon military and counter-insurgency strengths that would allow a default democratic society to coalesce with our reinforcement. That abstraction is supposed to become so desirable that it will continue after America withdraws its military forces having squandered as many trillions as the public is willing to relinquish to those earning a living spending the trillions. We are skeptical that the entire mission is planned better than the Bush Ii administrations plan for reconstructing Iraq for 5 billion dollars.

8/18/10

Speaker Pelosi Returned from Cygma Galaxy Wants Investigation of Critics of Mosque Near Ground Zero

Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants investigation of funding of critics of the mosque 'build it and they will come' strategy near ground zero.

The Democrat Speaker of the House is so completely aloof that she has no concept why the mosque is a political issue or concerns Americans all over the United States.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014003-503544.html

She also doesn't recognize that its not 'just Republicans' and pros criticizing the onerous plan to build a mega-mosque near ground zero. Some of us are broke and homeless people hoping for a new congress and new President that know how to create jobs right away rather than 'step by step, inch by inch, slowly' until halted by the next crisis and economic crash. We don't want politicians that kow tow to Mecca whenever oil goes up in price.

We have no faith in the Democrat economic plan for jobless recovery, as the approach of freezing weather is over the edge of space-time a month or two. Some believe that the Democrat sucking up to a victorious encroachment of a Muslim presentation of power near ground zero--the swollen bully's temple of doom is more of a silk-stocking kind of bureaucracy and corporate security with its head up the direction of national decline.

This is not an issue about religious freedom Speaker Pelosi. Muslims are free to build Mosques in New Jersey with the Giants and other sports franchises. This is simply an issue about political and economic power, war and peace, decency and justice, respect for those devastated by Muslim killers from abroad and even future security of New York and the United States.

This is not a local issue only as you have offered as you opinion. New York is not just local. Many Americans have interests in N.Y.C. The three trillion dollars spent to invest in two protracted wars to hunt Muslim terrorists that destroyed the WTC has cascaded poverty for many of us American self-employed house repainters. We wonder what planet you really are from Speaker Nancy Pelosi. An investigation should be made on your source funding for transportation to Earth from that distant galaxy so far away.

Some of us would criticize the construction of a mosque so long as we had internet access of wireless providers or public libraries even if we avoided starvation living on bannock bread. One can get recurrent food poisoning from eating unrefrigerated baloney, yet that is not more sickening that the House Speaker's blatant ignorance of the sentiments of the people of the United States on building a mosque near ground zero.

What You See is What You Get in Presidential Candidates

U.S.A. Electing Underqualified Presidents Deserves What it Gets (Debt, Crisis, Eco-Decline etc.)

Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan were the last two fully qualified nationally integrated Presidents. Each was well known and their political ideas published before taking office. The nation knew what to expect from each individual. In recent years the nation has elected local governors or state politicians promoted too rapidly.

Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton or Carter hadn't a well-developed public economic and environmental platform in which they worked for several years before running for office. If the public simply elects any modestly articulate candidate able to read a teleprompter, a candidate that has not given serious though to development of actual economic and ecological policy that works for many years—they get an unknown untested President happy just to be President. Such Presidents may not really be up to the task of national leadership.

George H.W. Bush was a phi beta kappa in economics and famous for calling Reaganomics 'voodoo economics'. We find other flaws in President Bush I besides economics, that might have faded in to history without too much problem if not followed up with Clintonomics as the actualizer of 'The New World Order'. The protracted rush to concentrate wealth for global financial elites and to liquidate U.S. nationalism and home owning security led down disastrous courses that have yet to play out.

Richard Nixon was brilliant yet flawed—and could not get elected to the U.S. Senate in California. Though he levered his way onto the Eisenhower administration with that Checker’s speech, he was far less public and known over time before taking office Ronald Regan who as a Democrat supported Eisenhower in the 1952 and 1956 Presidential campaigns.

The nation knew much about Ronald Reagan before he took office, and his job performance was basically as expected. Even the Ayatollah Khomeini had an idea what to expect and released the U.S. hostages inauguration day.

I write this article to point out that in the 2012 election the nation is again likely to elect an underqualified candidate without a history of experience in ecological economic affairs of a national and global level, nor of military experience. The next President at best will be another under qualified MBA or governor seeking to promote themselves to the top job—while the nation expects nothing new from their next President except vaguely that he or she would do better in economics. We the people would expect pompous speeches about taxation levels and various kinds of spending, lots of blame and nothing in the way of proven macro-economic competence by the candidate.

It would be a fine thing if several PhDs in economics and ecology with a background as an LT or Captain in the military fought for the nomination every four years. We would like to see candidates run that aren’t simply maximally over-promoted as examples of the American way of perpetual revolution against the citizens that have lived here for a generation or three as if they all were old money and inertially supporters of globalism. Americans expect little and get little from its Presidents. Like the military, a President will perform as they train. If a candidate hasn’t got a real competent plan for reforming and correcting the economy before the campaign, it isn’t likely to be effective if actualized.

As in testing scientific theories, political theories of how to reconstruct or change the economy should be tested substantially before being implemented. That was a major flaw of the Bush II plan to reconstruct Iraq post war for approximately 5 billion dollars. President Obama is confident that his Frankenstinean resuscitation of the Clinton era economy policy with reforms will get the economy going in the right direction under supervision of Clintonista economic advisers, yet some of us believe that a non-sustainable, ad hoc globalist based economic policy is implicitly harmful and likely to crash the economy worse that presently at some point in the future.

8/16/10

Defense Secretary Gates Plans His Own Exit Strategy from Pentagon

Defense Sect. Gates said he is leaving January of next year. Respecting his service we are thankful he has decided to leave.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/0816/Why-would-Defense-Secretary-Robert-Gates-want-to-retire

Often if one announces a plan to leave an employer on a schedule one finds oneself out the door the next day or two. Could this happen to Secretary Gates?

Without 3000 rich people dying each year through terrorism it is hard to say that the perennial occupation of Afghanistan is a necessary policy. If a WTC were being trashed every year then most Americans would support the wastage of a generation of prosperity assuring the rich that the pea under the mattress can be fixed. That might be easier than arresting Osama Bin Ladin and Mullah Omar of course, yet if we leave the area they will probably come out of their caves to gloat and swell thus presenting higher target sillohettes than at present.

Secretary Gates and Chairman of the joint Chiefs Mullins have each made eyes at one another at Senate hearings in support of gaying up the military. We hope that Sect Gates 'coming out' of the Pentagon does not follow a swilling off ending of 'don't ask don't tell' foisting an openly gay policy on the nation as an agent of socialization.

We prefer he take General Petraeus with him. Those of us poor in the civilian sector without jobs do not all desire unelected mouthy generals commenting on political policy for United States military deployments abroad. A good General is one with his mouth shut before the media.

Americans like to have a competent professional military cadre, yet they also want them to support democracy rather than Banana Republic. The 10 years war of Afghanistan is not against the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, but against shoeless Taliban getting richer perhaps along with the Muslim OPEC world and contributors while the counter-insurgency guru is limited to strategies that spend money like water.

Ike had a right to comment on war policy and economics--yet he seldom troubled Roosevelt. Patton had a loose tongue, yet he was also a winner rather than a bureaucrat deciding to McClellanize U.S. policy with interminable requests for more and more money and troops. Non-sustainable war economics are as much of an attack on the people of the United States as economic damage caused by the Taliban.

Though the Halliburtons and KBRs got rich during these protracted, incompetently designed neo-war/nation rebuilding efforts it does not follow that it is beneficial to U.S. interests. I do not regard General Petaeus as competent for designing a sustainable political or economic system for Afghanistan. I believe the skill set required is more of an anthropological, sociological, political philosopher, historian range rather than that of military though military competence is also required. The President and Secretaries of State are responsible for the lack of intelligent design in their Afghanistan policy and there is little prospect that competence from the U.S. Government is forthcoming.

We hope the next SecDef has creative thought about containment and de frapping of terrorist assault potential from that region while simultaneously cutting back on the cost of such necessities. Without a far higher ratio of ecologically renewable economic development to war personnel in the U.S .Afghanistan budget there is little reason to expect a sustainable post-American Afghanistan with a benign modern government.

8/14/10

Uncle Hussein Offers Support for Mosque Near Ground Zero

At the White House at a feast celebrating the end of Ramadan (not the Hotel chain) President B. Hussein Obama declared support for construction of a twelve story mosque near ground zero.

The American author Ambrose Bierce famous for writing science fiction like neo-horror epics in the 19th century was attached to the civil war Union army of the Cumberland who fought confederates in places such as Chicamaugua and Nashville. Bierce commented that Muhmammadans prosyletize with the sword. The muslim mission to New York at the World Trade Center began with the 9-11 plane urban renewal team authorized of Osama Bin Ladin. President Obama speaking at the dinner said that 'this is America'- perhaps meaning stupid, weak and decadent, and that it is religious freedom that is the issue of a mega-mosque planned to go up near ground zero as the next phase of the Muhammadan mission to America.

If Boston were vaporized by a terrorist from New York, wouldn't it be insensitive if ten years later a group wanted to build a religious temple at Harvard Yard to Worship the 1930's Yankees and the Babe? It may be true that the 714 figure was a number never meant to be broken by an honest player, and no one shall again bat .400, yet worshiping the memory of The Babe at a place devastated by terrorists would be unAmerican rather than an expression of religious tolerance not only because Boston does not deserve any image of Ruth within its swamp of globalism.

Actually the issue is not about religious freedom at all. If the Muslims had wanted to build a Mosque somewhere else no one would have cared, its just about the conflict of interest, the gain and follow up to the sword that the 'moderate' muslims are taking advantage of.

Ulysses Grant actually didn't have a middle name, but took the letter S in order to meet some federal requirement for service. The name was changed to Simpson from another invention, and people called him 'Sam'. U.S. Grant recognized the aggression of the confederate armies as a matter of style. Grant never had his head up his ass on Lee's fighting style or those of confederates generally which was to attack. To attack the dar al harb that be us is also the fundamentalist Muslim style though they are not all so skilled as the Wizard of Os improvisationally. President Obama may find it political correct to shoehorn in a twelve story mega-mosque to reward a crack Muslim urban renewal victory, yet many of us find it dopie if not treasonous. Its not about religious freedom--its about war.

Maybe the Democrat party felt safer electing a President named for the Uncle of the False Prophet. Since 9-11 that party has been fundamentally spineless on resisting spending money in Iraq and Afghanistan or for security. If some Texan former spook had planned to Butch up the military and enrich select oil related military industrial complex corporations through clandestine help in crashing 9-11, he couldn't have done more to harm the U.S. economy than the Democrat Party.

It would be a good thing to elect a President who does not celebrate the Ramadan every year in the White House. Its disorienting to have a guy who grew up down in Indonesia telling New Yorkers and the nation to f themselvesso they can bow five times a day to Saudi Arabia and the real oily world trade center. .

8/13/10

Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker Is Just Bent On Veto-ing Calif. Prop 8

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker in his attack on Proposition 8 offers reasoning that the people of California who passed the measure to change the definition of marriage from heterosexual have no standing to appeal his veto to the 9th circuit court since they aren't homos affected by his ruling.

The Judge seems to believe that the citizens of a state have no interest implicitly in how their social institutions exist or what they are, and that a Judge can expropriate their fundamental rights and design society, language and truth in accord with their personal will, whims, Lewis Carrolian fantasies of reality and what is good for the gays of San Francisco.

http://ap.juneauempire.com/pstories/20100813/694425170.shtml

Judge Walker is becoming something of a legendary farce for judicial activism in the U.S.A.

The entire human social history of heterosexual marriage joining families together with new births, of exchanging family members of blood to tie together royal dynasties, the value of marriage as a way of tracing bloodlines and ancestry is all at stake as the judge seeks to change the core meaning of marriage to cohabitation with non-reproductive sex of any sorts of beings in whatever numbers. Judge Walker is simply bent and should not try to substitute for social will and legislative action with judicial corruption of law and language. He is perhaps a deep-water Bush-Bohemian Grove Gay putcher himself who does substantial harm to the integrity of the United States.

There are innumerable legal remedies for the things homosexuals desire in seeking a cargo cultists approach to being like heterosexuals. If they want health care benefits or special tax breaks available to heterosexual couples that are married, or inheritance rights there are other means to make such things available for those not heterosexual and married. If is an unfortunate fact that homosexuals seem to wish to attack and destroy heterosexual social norms and institutions because they dissent with heterosexuality. It is a sad fact that Judge Walker as a homosexual advocate in California makes a globalist, corporatist, atheistic perverted putsch to annihilate human decency at its most cherished core values such as the social institution of marriage and a joke of the prose-poem Footprints simultaneously. The corrupting power of the U.S. Judiciary and the California Federal Judiciary in particular is threatening to the security of the United States at times, and definitely not a friend of democracy on this occasion.

There is no need for homosexuals to directly attack and annihilate the heterosexual historical institution of marriage of society in order to secure whatever interests they seek socially as equal citizens. Forcing through Judicial activism the end of marriage as a heterosexual institution upon society would traditionally open the door to destabilizing social remedies through other means than government, when government is corrupted. That has happened more than once in history, and in this challenging era the need for society to defend itself from an attack from within by foreign and domestic homosexual activists is distracting.

Early Universe, Consciousness, Phase Transitions and Hot Tub Heart Attacks

Reading 'The Cosmic Jackpot’ the idea of variable constants in the low temperature range of physics amidst different pocket universes of an eternal inflaton seems a reasonable enough idea. At the trillion trillion degrees range near the very start of time before a Higgs field extended much with inflation there would be no proximal profusion of fundamental force pluralism. Such a regime would be inhospitable to the being of consciousness of a physically supported sort.

Davies seems to suggest that at lower temperature range more 'fancy' aggregation of matter can form, such as life and consciousness. Complexity in matter forms toward low temperature rather than high. Initial values of ratios such as protons to neutrons were formed early in the high temperature era, there is much fine-tuning of constants.

One of the most interesting is dark energy--if it were slightly more matter would be blown apart by a seeming anti-gravity, and slightly less would create a powerful collapsing force such as ultra-gravity. No one knows what dark energy is or if it exists as a particle of some sort getting power from a Higgs or anti-Higgs field in some way. Interesting stuff to think about--including phase transition of water into an ordered crystal lattice at 0 degrees centigrade. Phase transitions of matter may be somewhat like that of consciousness emerging from matter. At some point through the construction of complexity mass is able to transition into consciousness thank God.

Davies mentioned the very low temperature range at which D.N.A. dissociates. It breaks down entirely at 200 some degrees C and is harmed substantially before that. Obviously I regarded hot tub heart attacks and other problems affected by temperature increase--perhaps global warming will affect consciousness too making some fail to support a substantial extra-terrestrial moon base project or California proposition 8-2010.

More Reasons Why Art Is Useful and Important

Computer art is useful and sometimes important for education as well an entertainment .From sketches of synthetic extra-terrestrial planets to some really excellent civil war drawings of Lee's army of Virginia crossing the Potomac on their way to forage for food and war in Pennsylvania in which Taoist water, wood and mist settings with a few fuzzy logic soldiers leaning on muskets as if they were staffs for a long journey while they waited on a small boat amidst the reeds along the shore, art may inform us of history and brief us on philosophical or scientific concepts. Symbolism in art works may be very fine today including presentation of imaginary portrayals of the big bang and inflation.

Such cosmological art would have been exploited by the pre-Socratic philosophers if they had time away from interminable war with the Persians, Spartans or whomever was taxing their time. Word art in writing is also helpful for illustrating points. The art of logic and the art of chess are skills, yet they are also developed with singular styles as one's ability allows. 'The Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man' by Joyce leads us toward 'Finnegan's Wake' and a wealth of comparative linguistic and historical ideas regarding the potential for word construction and meaning.

Wittgenstein, Sartre and Quine were all probably aware of Joyce, Lewis Carrol was a linguist and something of a logician who invented his own language as well as an alternate fiction reality. The creative mind of the artist may even find its way like three quarks for muster mork into naming the constituent units from the Higgs field at the smallest level providing the strong force to hold things together so far as we know or guess.
Some of the good artists educate as well entertain. The use of symbols to convey meaning has few arbitrary limits.

Alternative Courses to Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian targets. Truman had different courses to take yet he was a Democrat. Perhaps he could have nuked just o...