10/6/13

President Obama's Half-Brother on Egypt's Terrorism Watch List?

Much has been made in recent weeks of the possible relationship of President Obama's half-brother to middle-east and North African terrorists organizations. Because the Muslim Brotherhood has been proscribed in Egypt recently, and they are Malik Obama's Sudan-based I.D.O. Islamic Dawa Organization parent organization, Egypt is contemplating putting Malik Obama on the terrorist watch list. I.D.O. may provide financial support to the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/09/egypt-eyes-obamas-brother-for-terror-list/

President Obama apparently has a cousin off concern for terrorist support as well, yet there are a several references to Malik Obama's support for terrorism references on the Internet. One wonders if President Obama is entirely neutral on the topic of Middle East politics or if he is a little partisan?:

These kinds of Middle East data are a little far-flung for many Americans including myself. Its not exactly an implication of Billy Carter drinking beer behind the gas station or something. These might be weird right-wing claims that aren't true of course. I do not know if the somewhat less than useful regular broadcast media has looked into the issue.

http://shoebat.com/2013/09/27/president-obamas-brother-attacks-walid-shoebat/

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58060


10/2/13

President Obama Will Not Share Budget/Debt Ceiling Negotiation Says in Effect 'My Way or the Highway!'

President Obama failing to realize that the legislative branch was divided in half between his party and the Republicans last elections is adamantly unwilling to support Senate negotiations with House Republicans over the budget and debt ceiling issues. Senator Harry Reed of Nevada, the Senate majority leader is unwilling to work at all with House Republicans to resolve the government funding issue. President Obama has developed a propaganda putsch to blame Republicans for a potential government debt default yet everyone knows that its the guy in the White House and his party that get the blame eventually; the buck stops there.



The President is an odd negotiator. He threw in the towel to give the rich their Bush II era tax cuts permanently without getting anything in return, and he agitated for that. He has support Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's electronic printing of 85 billion dollars a month of interest free loans to favorite bank, and yet he refuses to negotiate even partial funding for Veteran's education after returning from battle as well as other services for elderly and injured former service members and that is inexplicable. House Speaker Boehner has said he is willing to sign off on V.A. funding.

The President has chosen to make debt ceiling negotiations a turf war with a demand that Republicans sign off completely on what he and Senator Reed want. I have news for the President; financial negotiations are the traditional strength of Republicans, it was an ill advised tactic to choose that battle at this particular time to try to win. Republicans could easily let the thing drag out 60 days or more and let the Buffalo chips fall where they may.

Compromise is on budget requests is requisite for a divided legislature. One can't just refuse to play unless the other side throws in the towel first as the Democratic Party seems to expect in the debt ceiling mess. The President is appears willing to let the U.S. Government debt slide toward default unless he gets his way. It just may, and that crash would perhaps limit deficit spending in the future too. It would be a messy way to correct the history of twenty years of bad federal policy development. 

The bright spot in the dark economic cloud is that the economy needs to be reformed anyway to an ecological sustainable basis. Today a mink or a weasel with nearly white fur stood on my foot looking plaintively at me as if asking- "Why is it so warm in Juneau Alaska October 2nd without any snow even on the top of the area mountains?" If the creature understood English better than Republicans and Democrats communicate on debt ceiling negotiations I would have told it that bad federal economic policy has helped exacerbate global warming. And that's just the way it is.


Publication of "A Universal Widget - In the Realm of Forms"" (science fiction)

  I have published a philosophical science fiction novel named A Universal Widget - In the Realm of Forms. Basically it is an investigation of philosophical, cosmological and theological relationships.


  If given the chance to learn of the shape of things and why they are, wouldn't anyone? What is the realm of forms? What is a Universal form? Is every widget an imperfect reflection of a perfect widget, an image of the original? These are questions Socrates asked or some that he might have asked. There are answers that might change the way we think about reality.

  The Martian philosopher Patrick Voevoda and his xenopologist traveling mate are taken up in a quest to find a missing Universal widget.

9/29/13

A Free Download for October: Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis 2nd Edition

For the month of October 2013 a free EPUB download of the second edition of my book Creation and Cosmos; The Literal Values of Genesis is available at
 Many people haven't a good idea of the relationship between the Bible and scientific knowledge in a very substantive way. Philosophers like considering questions of larger issues that many haven't given enough thought to as well as to reconsider issues ossified with time. For the past century individuals have contemplated the rich field of the cosmos and its creation analytically. These are my thoughts on the topic.


A Free Download for October - A Place for Faith (poetry)

A free EPUB download of my book of poems A Place for Faith  is available through October 2013 at

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A Free Download for October - St. Novilistricka - Dimensions (science fiction)

A free EPUB download of my philosophical novel St. Novilistricka - Dimensions is available through October 30, 2013 at;




9/27/13

Globalists Joust Over U.S. Budget In Debt Ceiling Clash

Where the Republicans and Democrats went wrong after the end of the cold war was in going entirely global while applying deregulation domestically to its financial markets letting the best laid scams of mice and Wall Street elites run roughshod over national democracy. As is the case when select conflicts are resolved Gresham's law of bad money following good developed. The intellectually deficient applied their half-baked concepts about capitalism in a global political environment without substantial resistance.

As when hubris strikes a cruise ship captain taking his vessel to fast and to close to a tourist sight running aground, or when a oil super tanker captain sleeps off some booze and let's his 3rd mate run onto a reef, and even when a hot shot pilot flies an aircraft under a wire to only catch it and crash America's financial and Wall Street elites supported by politicians of the second rank swell with theory and practiced basic incompetent political economy. So the world today at least in the West is somewhat worse off and of course the self-righteous gospel of unregulated capital is undiminished though the consequence of that is no more than bankruptcy of the United States and consolidation of wealth unto global plutocracy.

In the present amusing Congressional clash over Obamacare and federal default the inability of either Democrats or Republicans to work for the good of the nation is evident. Since the left to the Democrats through a workers of the world unite phase of a third Internationale or Comintern conditioning the effort to go global and belittle nationalism has gone forward. Paradoxically the capitalist elite side is even more global than the Democrats now, although some Republican followers of the rich make noises about nationalism, there is no national party. Republicans and Democrats make unpleasant Nazi noises about anything like a nationalist party that concentrates on making all of the citizens of the nation prosperous or being national debt free.


It is an insult to posit straight white American men as Nazis for being nationalist especially so since they are the group that defeated the Nazis in war as well as the confederates. In each case they were fighting against the emergence of global elites, oligarchies, dictators or monarchs to power in order to defend the principles of national democracy and true egalitarianism. That system still works best, in spite of the sophism, propaganda and power in support to global capitalism or collectivism transcending borders.

9/26/13

People Need Borders-Mammals Don't (They Die Off in Fragmented Forests)

An interesting article in New Scientist today noted that mammals die off in fragmented forests. The process takes only 25 years.

The U.S.A.'s forests are mostly fragmented. Divide and conquer and defeating the enemy in detail works in war as well as against wild mammals. Mammals are having a tough time of it. I would think especially so when there are a lot of people venturing in and through via highways. Mammals tend to become road kills and stew meat themselves with easy human access.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24273-mammals-in-fragmented-forests-die-out-within-25-years.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news#.UkSlAdKsg6Y

The good news is that the pace of deforestation in the Amazon has slowed down a little.


Obama, Cruz and the Birther Challenge; Revolution and Reversible Errors

Presidential candidate Barrack Obama encountered heavy political resistance by opponents claiming young Barrack was foreign born. So far Senator and possible Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz has experienced the phenomena. A birther movement hasn't yet surfaced to challenge his foreign birth (product du Canada). Ted Cruz was born in Canada and hence is technically most likely a British subject (in the fine print Canada didn't sever all relationship to the British Empire). If elected President Ted Cruz would be the first British subject President leading the United States since King George III (not a brother of George W. or H.W. Bush) and the British colonial status ended.

The American Revolution against foreign princes and powers embodied in the form of the British Empire in particular developed a constitution that excluded non-native born citizens from serving as President. That was just a practical matter to prevent America from lapsing back into colonial status. With Wall Street quite global, and Barrack Obama's father born in a British colony (Kenya) it is possible that America already has its first British subject President after the colonial revolution occurred even if Barrack Obama was born in Jakarta and provided with a Hawaiian birth certificate. If he is a native Hawaiian then at least he is native born although possibly a British subject.

Senator Cruz could go into the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. to denounce his Canadian citizenship in front of the Canadian Ambassador then step outside and burn his Canadian Maple Leaf diaper yet he would still remain foreign born. That initial foot in the door of attack upon the native born requirement can be first significant crack in the hull of national sovereignty. The boundaries and borders issues are the foundation of a free society with citizens not subject to foreign powers. Political self-determination only occurs with real territorial sovereignty and rulers from the same polity as oneself.

Reversing the principles of the Constitution a little bit at a time has been a developing trend one since the end of the cold was. The left is too happy to denounce nationalism and secure borders. Yet the founding revolutionaries were all about boundaries and sovereign borders issues and paid with blood to secure the rights and privileges too may Americans are ready to relinquish. Never let it be said that any cat is spoilt, never spit into the wind nor fail to defend one's borders and economic sovereignty so far as possible.

Wall Street's globalism and the outsourcing of jobs have made concentrating wealth more interesting than improving the well being of the U.S. economy for all citizens in this generation. The trend has been for long-term downgrading of the earnings and employment prospects for a generation or two while the influential find better investments abroad. America's poor and middle class haven't been well served by their political leaders. Putting a foreign-born President in office and one that is even a British subject would be a sort of cherry on top to those globalists more allegiant to a Plutocracy than the United States.

Senator Cruz may be able to learn enough advanced economic theory given enough time and investment of effort to understand something of why the economy and environment is all f'd up and getting worse for so many Americans off Wall Street. I wish the Senator well in the effort. Participation in civic affairs is a good thing.

The Republican Party ought not follow up on the Democrat Party's selection of a candidate of dubious national origin with one of their own confirmed and immeasurably worse. It is important to defend the principal of the healthy forest and not lose track for the trees. Making the American Revolution a reversible error corrected by electing the foreign born and or subjects of her majesty the Queen to the highest office is just not the way things are supposed to be. The Republic has attacks and erosion from a world of political and economic avenues that sap the will of the people of the United States to be free and prosperous. The propaganda in support of their own worst interests is relentless. They may be persuaded by degrees to give up their special status and become ruled by oppressive foreign or domestic elites making them just another collection of numbers amidst a planetful of proles.


9/25/13

Sen. Cruz's About Obamacare and 1950's Style Free Enterprise

Canadian and U.S. citizen U.S. Senator Ted Cruz gave a rambling Castro-style never-ending discourse the evils of Obamacare and it's deleterious impact upon free enterprise overnight in something of a filibuster that isn't a filibuster with a vote scheduled to take place. Obamacare certainly has a lot of wickedness to it, yet it is impossible to want to take medical coverage from expanded Medicare for those poor living in 26 states that are slated to get it. Regardless of the merits or lack thereof of Obamacare I wanted to write something about the sophomoric ideas of Senator Cruz on the topic of how free enterprise works and how the middle class becomes prosperous.

If the Senator wants to become the next puppet President (an American tradition since Bill Clinton) he needs to develop more mature palaver about free enterprise and how it is the engine that makes wealth concentrate best yet still making it seem as if the permissible support businesses owned by the middle class are in some way actually the main stream of things today rather than the tail following the 1% around.

In the 1950's the ideas of the Senator actually were closer to coinciding with reality. In that largely before-the-computer era networking and defacto insider networking were not the prevalent kickback loops dominating the economy as they are today. Individual effort and character actually mattered. It was still possible inn America to invent something and afford to patent it as contrasted to here and now. Today invention patents  and profits trickle up  to the global corporations that employ most of the inventors or at least lawyers that can make multi-million dollar patent defenses beyond the means of America's poor and middle class.

The poor and middle-class in America today are far less able to upscale their individual enterprises before running in to the ubiquitous corporate ownership of everything and every existing financial transaction skimming or taking over about everything that might make a buck. Character is of lesser value now than the 1950s; at least virtue is in disrepute and raving collectivist characteristics and role modelling is what promotes individuals in the collectives and networks totalizing the global economy and outsourcing American independence to a plutocracy. I wish that Senator Cruz had addressed the real economic challenges facing America today instead of presenting a 1950s vision of a free enterprise utopia that is continuously under assault by Wall Street and Harvard University.

Harvard University affiliation seems necessary for a modern puppet President who can exploit its vast global networking alumni to kick back and control about everything. Harvard alumni are America's Rhodes  scholars reinforcing the global power of corrupt elites that care virtually nothing about individual American interests or national independence.

Senator Cruz was born in Canada and is the son of a Cuban immigrant.  A first generation political class immigrant he has joined the alternative way to move up to the middle class and beyond through government employment. Government jobs are some of the best existing in America regarding job security, pay and benefits. It is the lifeboat of security while the poor and formerly middle class jump overboard into the economic waters dominated by global and Harvard Wall Street sharks smelling for economic blood wherever it may be in the dark pool ocean of networked enterprise.

One can applaud Senator Cruz's effort to repeal Obamacare through the game of economic chicken that would crash the car of state into the wall of federal spending limits due to take effect October 17th of this year. Americans are good at criticizing and posturing. He is all-American in that regard and deficient like most in accurate economic and historical logic. Without ideas about how the economy actually functions these days and the way in which networking and the ad hoc collectivism of concentrated wealth dominates economic development it would be difficult to correct that situation to the advantages of poor and middle class Americans.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/us-usa-fiscal-cruz-idUSBRE98O02K20130925

Some Want Scientific Proof of God

The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God ( a paraphrase). I suppose confirmation bias works for atheists in seeing no evidence. Jurors...